that there's any opportunity out there. chase and these other companies are getting a great deal when they hire veterans. chase is proud to help 100,000 veterans find jobs at home. tonight he promised not to toe the de tow the democratic party line. >> they are nothing more than temporary fixes. >> why would we do this pbutton down a poll ee that doesn't work. >> why he is fighting the democrats on their failed plans. how many lynch mobs can president obama do? we have more on the report card. ireland's fate yacht son says europe and the rest of the world can learn from america. >> america is a contagious idea. >> u2's bono says no one is better at helping those out in need than the united states of

america. >> ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. >> welcome everybody. great audience we have here in new york. a lot of people from christmas. we want to say welcome to "huckabee". in another sameless attempt to show you recent photos of my five month old grandson chandler, i want to tell you about a recent conversation i will had with i am had. i asked him if he knew it was almost christmas he said he was getting ready already having gone to see santa. getting in early shopping at the famed fao schwartz toy store in new york. he mentioned he was ready to join president obama in ruined of guolf during the extended station in hawaii. he will enjoy the great seafood he will get there so he plans to take his lobster suit he had

from halloween so he can fit in with the locals. i asked if he understood why i was so compassionate about defending life after conception. he responded like a lot in the media do. i explained he is such a special life to me p and i can't image any one would not want him to be there. he was created as a reminder that god isn't finished with us because he keeps sending people along to keep the world going. i told him even though i wasn't running for president this year i wanted to vote for someone who would fight to protect little guys like him before and after they were born. i asked if he understood what might happen if president obama were re-elected. i think his face says it all. we had a great response to our presidential forum last week. i am going to be a part of another forum in des moines and

several of the presidential candidates will be there. we have rick santorum michelle bachmann and gingrich. it is a powerful film i helped produce. it's called the gift of life. the reason the sanctity of life matters. many communicators are combative. i think you will find this film refreshing and uplifting. being that it is in iowa and right before the caucus will remind candidates and voters while they are senter stage treating every human with dignity is he is shaenl. over the counter sales of a drug that kills a baby. they did make it so one has to be 17 to purchase what has been termed abortion in a bottle. think about this for a moment.

if you have a daughter, she has to have parental consent to take an aspirin at school. but government was on the brink that will allow her to kill her unborn child with neither your consent or approval. this is insane. the gift of life movie illustrates why each life matters by seeing things where their mother attempted to abort. they are going to get a copy of the movie "the gift of life." i think they will enjoy it. you can take it home if you want more information on getting one for yourself or maybe for christmas gifts go to the gift of life movie.com. you can also go to mike huckabee.com and follow a link. there you can comment on today's show. our special presidential forum featured 6 candidates who had equal ties to answer questions for a panel of state attorney's general. >> nothing wrong with the

president being a leader of the country but that's different than sitting with the governor. >> i support an amendment to ban apportion or stand up for the right to life. that involves the state. the patriot act if it would have been called the reveal of the 4th amendment it wouldn't have passed. >> you said block an implementation of the federal law. >> the executive order gives you that authority states should be putting in place the right to work laws to allow the people of their states to participate in the work force without having to join the union. >> they received greated reviews even from surprising sources. they said and i quote it was one of the most substantial television events of the republican contest so far.

we received thousands of comments and e-mails. one writes thank you for our refreshing q and a. tell me there is no teleprompters used even for the closing remarks. >> everyone said what they said right from their hearts. here's one from fred walker. he says it is being sent within 30 minutes of the airing of your show. this was the best substantive appreciation of the candidates so far. this is how it should be interviewing for the job. linda lane on facebook finally got to hear the candidates uninterrupted and without their digs at other candidates. he said this appointed newt gingrich subjected to almost hostile interrogation. he got the same kind of treatment that all of the candidates got. i think the attorneys general did a very fair and balanced job. robert and doreen said we thought the attorneys general

were excellent questioners he got a little off the answer. the last one is from george fontain from new york. the order of your guests you still hold a bruj against governor romney. shows a lack of impartiality. george, you must have missed it when this is what i said at the beginning of the forum. >> the order in which you will see them tonight was determined a drawing that was held prior to the event. did you get that, george? there was a drawing held. we picked them according to their own drawing. by the way they appeared at the end of the show same thing. they drew for the positions. had nothing to do. i have not endorsed any candidate but i attorneys the format because it worked very, very well. thank you for watching it last week. mitt romney focused on newt gingrich who surged ahead of the massachusetts governor. here to grade both frontrunners

with our report card editor of the legal news web site above the law.com political commentator sally kohn and comedian and star kevin mcdonalds. >> let's see how far we can get into the report card before our break. let's first start with newt gingrich. let's grade how well he's doing as a presidential candidate. use all over the news. a lot of things going on with newt gingrich. see what do you give it? >> i am giving newt gingrich an a. >> i am shocked. >> if you think about it he has been declared politically dead in flee decades. she he's like chucky from child's play. he's got a scowl. he's not going to win. that's not the point of the

movies. be there be menacing he's doing an a plus entertaining performance. >> i am going to go with c. as a candidate the fact that he is not dead in the water is a good sign. as a leader he says something idiotic every day of the campaign. >> what did he say? is>> for the past few days he said the palestinians are a made up people while immigrants he insulted. he is a weak leader has too much baggage in his past and no chance. >> i give him a b. >> what is it going to be? >> he gets a b because i think he has done well at the base and he has surprised us all. he came out of the woodwork. because of his past that i think

a lot of people my age and younger don't know the shady past he has before he found the love of his life number 3. not that number 3 isn't the best of the three but when you research it it is scary. it will be hard because one thing that everybody can agree on is obama is a good husband and a good father. we would have known by now if he was cheating. >> i have often said he has been a great role model and husband and a father. i applaud him for that. i think america needs good role models with that. when we come back our panel will grade mitt romney and take a look at president obama. has he done flip flopping himself? we will check that out when we come back.

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>> we are going to talk to mitt romney and give him a grade as to how he is doing. this time heather mcdonald. tell us what you think how question we are doing with mitt romney. >> give him a b. a b too. he's a very good speaker. he's not like perry or anything but he is flip flopping. my main concern about mitt is his hair. everyone thinks he has great hair. but it's a really bad die job. >> that's the best we have is his hair? >> i would love to have his hair. what are you talking about. >> you know what i like about your hair. it has a couple different shades going. he needs to work in chocolate brown and gray. he's a good looking guy. he's not fooling any one. we need to get not a gay hairdresser that will say i am mitt romney's hair guy.

>> incredible political insight. >> wow. >> i don't know how to follow that. i am giving hmitt a b for borin. the poor guy. steven colbert made the point not that the other kid has to keep surging heyed of them they are not mitt romney. the problem is mitt romney is mitt romney. he can't excite the mainstream political party. he want to change to get everywon to like him but he is a weak leader. he flip flops on every issue and incidentally this is a tough election. he doesn't have what it takes. >> i am giving him a z not just because i count mitt romneys while i am going to sleep at night. he's also a variable. you -- anything you say about this man could be true anything

you say about this man's presidential opportunities could be true. if you gave a robot a piece of chicken the robot would say it tastes like mitt romney. that's the kind of guy we are dealing with. wint to school in massachusetts mass. i was in massachusetts whieflz governor. he's a nice good looking man but it is hard to pin him down on anything. >> speaking of pinning down i want you to watch a videotape then we are going to grade president obama. >> i didn't run for office to be paying fat bonuses to bankers. the only ones that get fat bonuses are the ones that pay back the tarp money. >> knows americans including myself don't be grudge reasonable rewards for a job well done. >> the republican plan builds out a few ideas. they want to let wall street do

whatever it wants. that their plan says we should go back to the good old days. they want to real back the reforms put into place. >> you have been beating up on mitt romney for flip flopping. is there a little flip flopping going on? we are running out of time this time. sally i will start with you. does he get a grade on flip flopping? >> he didn't flip flop. i give him a b minus. others would have stopped the crisis from happening the president has done something. i wish i had a worse grade with his relationship with wall street on this. what we don't need a is president standing up for wall street. >> i hope he will stand up for working people in the middle class. >> the best way to do that is not to take the munoney.

>> we are going with a c. he gone to the mall with plate of milk and cookies only to find out the president is lactose intolerant. c for inefficiency. >> heather last word. what's the grade? >> i am going to do c as well. i don't think he's doing enough with occupy wall treat people. it is the most annoying thing. i thank god they found each other on facebook since they are unemployed. i am sorry let's move on and some problems and stop saying i feel for you, i feel for you, file for you, i feel for you. just do something. >> i am going to give you an a plus for being here and great comments. even if i didn't agree with them all. that's why you are here. ellie, sally great to have you here. he says democrats in washington are trying to pass a plan that has failed before. he is a democrat.

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>> since our next guest was campaigning he made it clear he was not going to be a lap dog for majority leader harry reid. >> i will cut federal spending and i will repeal the bad parts of obama care. i will take dead aim at the cap and trade bill. >> he is sticking to his guns literally. he's refusing to support the democratic plans that really may not work.

he is joining us from west virginia. i can attest to the fact that that ad with you holding the gun is real. you and i antelope hunted in wyoming. i know that was not just a political gain for you. welcome. good to have you here. >> mike, how are you? good to be with you. >> there was a very interesting moment. you went against your own party on the senate floor. >> why would we do that why would he double down on a policy that didn't work? the answer is simple for short term political gain. they are willing to fight over how we should pay for a failed program that jep arred ties d - jeopardizes the way we pay for retirement. >> i want to do everything i can to put money back into the pockets of hard-working middle class families. i am sure my colleagues democrats and republicans would wish for the same. the thing that i think is wrong

is de funding social security. that is the hallmark of franklin dell another roosevelt. when he put that in place he put a balance to where employers or employees would be paying into this and we would never touch it. last time we had a reduction of two percent. most people don't even know they got it. i don't know if they have done the job it was supposed to. but in seems like in washington if something doesn't work double doup and spend twice as much see if it works. i will look at anything they want to look at but don't touch social security. it's worse than a crack head on dope. >> you said what you were going to do you would vote with the democrats and vote when you didn't agree.

what are you geting from the leadership of your own party when you don't necessarily just fall in line? >> i am sure it is hard for them. we talked about this. i was canned kid with him. he was sent by the good people of migrate state of west virginia to hopefully make america strong and rebuilding america. we are going to do well. i am voting what i believe west skrir viriginians the core valus have. >> they are a do nothing congress he says they won't work with him. are you insulted by that as a member of congress? the president doesn't want to seem to work with you. >> it is not my style of leadership. you and i are both governors we have been friends for a long time. as a leader you had to drop the mark and put it together.

i never fixed things by blaming people when i was governor. i would define a problem, bring people together, look at everyone's concerns and then we had to put west virginia forward and move. this type of res rick back and forth i am not used to. >> that is called leadership. it's great to see you. i appreciate you goibeing on. you bring the kind of leadership we desperately need in this country that's about solving problems. good to see you. >> thank you, mike. god bless you. >> merry christmas to you, joe. >> when was the last time you heard a rock star friermzer president george w. bush? a long time? u2's bono gives them credit for leadership in fighting the poor leadership in fighting the poor he hopes it

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>> he is argue bly the world's biggest rock star. he is not your ftypical rock star. paul david husein. he is known to most of the world as bono. >> his band u2 has sold 150 million albums. last summer wrapped up a concert tour that set world records selling 7.2 million seats totalling $736 million in ticket sales. but the band's front man bono doesn't fit the mold of most celebrity musicians. he's not some spoiled star who thinks the world revolves around him. when it comes to politics he doesn't just cozy up with hot to trot liberal politicians. he was a genuine activist who uses the heat of his enormous spotlight for good causes. co founder of the one campaign.

he has been a leader in raising awareness in the fight against poverty and disease in the world's poorest places like africa. recently at a world aids day event in washington bono praised america's leadership in the global fight to combat the deadly disease. >> it is up to us now since we leave this building to make sure across the world that the leadership in the united states is following through on our respective countries. >> joining bono is r&b star alicia keyes and via satellite former presidents bill clinton and george w. bush. president obama pledged additional $50 million for prevention and treatment programs in the u.s. and vowed to help provide anti retro viral juts to 6 million people around the world. >> we have come so far and we have saved so many lives we might as well finish the fight. >> i have been involved in the

one campaign for the past four years. i have been to rwanda and seen first hand the difference a little can do. i had a chance to visit with bono and i asked him how he is able to get republicans and democrats in washington who can't agree on anything to work together on something so important. >> yeah, it's amazing. these xarns are the best in america. even in the last election, presidential election, which was another tough, tough time in america, i know that there was a decision made by both parties not to play politics with the poorest people. john mccain rolled in that president obama rolled in that. everybody decided it was too serious and too many lives at stake let's not go there. because it's such a tiny

fragment of spending. it's a -- i think it's less than one percent of government budget. millions and millions, 5 million lives in aids is what we are talking today. in terms of returns on investment, we will be punching the air i think for that one. i think there's a sense that it doesn't cost as much as people thought and it has this enormous effect of explaining to a cynical world what america is all about, the best of america. >> speaking of sinisters and people are afraid the money doesn't actually get to the people who need it that it will be confiscated into the hands of some corrupt government. what can we know to give us confidence the money that people give, i realize one is not money raising, but advocacy organization. but the money it advocates for these organizations, how do we know it is getting to those

people who need it the most? >> that's the most important question you can ask. corruption is a bigger killer than hiv/aids, malaria or tb put together. we don't ever campaign for aids if we can't see where it is being spent. one of the reasons i support red and the global fund is because when they find any corruption they out themselves demand the government of the host country give the money back or they leave the country. >> one of the things that really impressed me when i was on a trip three years ago to rwanda is you could see the impact in the hospital. you could see the impact with families and clean water. talk about some of the simple things that can be done with a very small amount of money that saves people's lives? >> oh, gosh. it is such a privilege to see

what america has done. i have witnessed it first hand. i remember going to hospitals and seeing three and four people to a bed, two on top, one underneath in a one sleeping up against the side, absolutely heartbreaking sight. people who would be diagnosed as hiv positive and there would be no treatment. now you see the faces -- not even their faces. the faces of the medical workers they are just different. because it was so hard for them. can you image line after line of people given a death sentence and what it doesn't id to the h workers. by america getting the drugs that has been a transformation. families are covered by bed nets they cost nothing yet they protect children largely from this mosquito. can you image mosquito kills 2

and a half thousand children every day. actually the intervention is relatively simple. it is simple technology we have. >> there are a lot of celebrities involved in causes but often it's a photo op doing a public service commercial. you have actually personally gone all over the world as an advocate for some of these causes. what got you interested in the first place? what was it that got to your heart that made you say, i am not just going to do a public service announcement, i am really going to immerse myself in some of these humanitarian causes? >> i don't -- i don't know. i mean i accept a rock star campaigning for the world's poor is an absurdity in many ways. it's an uncomfortable position. certainly as a photograph, i squirm. i get it. rock star, very vulnerable

child. i only do it because it's hard to get attention on these issues. so we use the spotlight that is on us to do something about this. it's a little ridiculous, celebrities. you might as well get some value out of it other than the nice table at a restaurant. >> i am sure that is but something inside of you has to tick true to say that matters to me. i care that there is some kid who is dying in africa right now. why does that matter to you as a human being? >> i really have no choice in the matter. the globalization that has benefited us brings with it some responsibility. we all agree. and you have to work for the many not just the few. we have to -- we ask ourselves these questions about how can it be just that an accident of geography. if i am born here and i get this disease i die.

if i am born there i just go around and i get two pills a day that will keep me alive. that made me question about our whole system and when i was in the united states, i particularly reached out to religious community because i felt this wasn't the right charity. i looked into the scriptures and the scriptures in 2003 verses as scripture about the world's poor and the way to treat them. in fact christ's only judgment in the way we deal with world which is anything and it is deeply ingrained in me the sacred value of human life, and if i have an opportunity or if we have as a community as a civilization and country an opportunity to follow through opportunity to follow through these principles than we must.

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>> your country is an idea. i come from a country i very much. america is an idea, a contagious idea bound up in equality, bound up in these thoughts. and it seems in a sense to those ideas, to let people who died 30

years on aids. that's just one thing. americans respond to i can tell you one story in a truck stop somewhere in the middle of nowhere. i can't remember. it was a strutruck stop. i was going on and on about this. a big trucker sitting up at the bar with tattoos over his eye kind of thing. everyone was giving them away. he called me and i went okay. hello, sir. did you just say half of the truck drivers on the continent of africa are going to die if they got this disease? half of them got the disease. 50 percent. if you need a driver, if you want to volunteer he said he would like to give you my name.

that is middle of america. you are great at beating yourself up. you are the best at it. americans, but that's what makes america great, that kind of leadership. it is there in the heart of regular people. >> it is nice to have an irish man remind us as americans we are a pretty dog on good country. it's refreshing. >> president bush's initiative was a turning point in the war against aids. >> tpetfar. >> it is a war. i would say the fight against that disease was the most extraordinary gathering of forces for good since america jumped into the war.

>> world aids day, huge international event brought together president obama, president bush, president clinton, alicia keyes. what a lineup. what is it that causes people who ordinarily are worlds apart on things to get together on something of significance? >> unusual. i remember president clinton very well. that's a big tent you got there. because you know you punk rockers hanging out with evangelicals, christian musicians who really enormous amount of good in this next to soccer moms and it is just quite a span. i think as america is get giving

itself black eyes if you don't mind me saying as well as receiving a few bruises from outside, it is very important. i know that america understands the value of life and that's the message is just i know things are going to get cut. we know these are desperate circumstances in the united states, but value for money which is what emerges in the time of recession. value of millions of lives owed to america. >> i want to ask a final question about the art of your music and what you have done with it. your music is often been filled with message of social consciousness. is that purposed or is that just who you are as a human being and do you think it's an important vehicle to help shape human thought is to use the art of your music as a tool of

communication? >> it certainly shaped me. i grew up listening to bob dillon, patty smith, bob marley, people whose -- john lennon. people where i got the idea the world doesn't have to be what it is. it can be whether kissed or kicked or -- it canning sent into a better shape. that's the message i got about the clash or whatever it was. i suppose that's part of u2. i am very proud of the band. they take a lot of hits for my involvement. this is pretty unhip work in lots of ways. but they stand by me and they believe in it. in fact their last tour i think

they gave 10 million to the global fund. they do a lot more than that. they are great people. they believe in this and there's no charter in u2. if there was we think that truthfulness is dramatic, and compelling. we try to write songs that are truthful. >> often when i was younger i was throwing stones at the enemy. as i got older i realized that the enemy was a lot closer to home in my own heart and the hypocrisy of my own heart. the strong started to turn more on us. >> you have done a remarkable job. i want to say thanks on behalf of all human beings around the world for advocacy that has led to the saving of literally millions of lives. i wish you the very best.

one other thing, you had a knack for getting people of wide political variances together i would nominate you for president. >> that would be a scary moment for the world. you on the other hand i think would bring the reagan like statesman ship that is missing. >> one of the most popular christmas songs of all times like you have never heard it before. they are back the sleepy man ban joe boys. three young brothers from new jersey with a world of talent. their version of "jingle bells." everyone in the nicu, all the nurses wanted to watch him when he was there 118 days. everything that you thought was important to you changes

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