congressman calls it bigotry and hatred. unemployment benefits anyone? if you pass a drugs test. we begin as mitt takes manhattan and newt takes the high road as the battle for the republican nomination gets heated three weeks before the iowa caucuses and four weeks to the new hampshire primary. it's all about the benjamins. billed at mitt's multimillion-dollar day. she attending a trio of gangbuster fund-raisers here attracting top donors from the 1%. newt is tainted by the pesky negative attacks sending a letter saying we will run a positive campaign focused on the country's future with ronald reagan's 11th commandment in mind, we will ask our supporters

not to contribute to any so-called super pac that runs negative ads against any other republican contender. interesting. that letter came less than 24 hours after newt said this about mitt romney in new hampshire. >> the governor would like give back the money he earned from bankrupting something and laying off employees. i would be glad to listen to him. mr. nice guy and newt's letter came less than 48 hours after he said this to mitt romney in saturday night's debate. >> let's be candid. the only reason you department become a career politician is you lost to ted kennedy in 1994. >> that was nasty. the high road is a savvy move for a front-runner with virtually no money at all.

guess whose super pack put out an ad attacking newt gingrich? mr. millionaire. let's bring in our panel with us from washington. analyst and former rnc chairman and msnbc analyst david corn. chief for mother jones. good afternoon to both of you. i want to get to newt in a second. we have breaking news this afternoon. tragic news indeed. donald trump will not moderate his much-anticipated debate. this is a catastrophe and i'm close to tears. i'm dabbing my eyes. you might think this is because nobody wanted to tar 'tis pate. donald said i am not willing to give up my right to run as an independent candidate. so that there is no conflict of interest within the republican party i decided not to be the moderator of the news max debate. david corn, what is your

reaction to that? >> you know, martin, the car at the circus with the clowns, it just lost its driver. i think he fired himself. god love donald trump. he is doing it for the betterment and the security of the republic. there may come a time in june, july, or august when we need him to run for president. i think this is all a radios. it's face-saving. mitt romney showed an ounce of spine by saying no to him. i think this was a way to get out and keep those tv ratings high which is really the bottom line for donald trump. >> this is clearly a catastrophe for western democracy. >> it sets us back a bit, martin. it came across the twitter feet. i thought sanity at last. it's a reality we have to get

used to. we won't end the year as we began with donald trump. having said that, i think as david pointed out, the reality set in. we are in the serious part of this campaign. we can't mess around for those who think they want to be or may be in. we have men and women who are hunkering down for the vote and that debate coming five days before was not going to happen. no candidate really was going to step out there and take the chance in a broad area like that. >> in a broad circus. >> exactly. >> newt gingrich is now mr. ex-10uate the positive. is that the strategy of a front-runner who is woefully behind in the money race? i'm reminded of don drape wher he lost the could and decided to run anti-smoking ads. >> good one. >> that's how the politics work.

i think at one level that's the case and at another level it's consistent with what newt has been saying from the beginning. how he comported himself throughout the campaign. the response he gave to romney was a response. it wasn't initiated by him to respond back to mitt's broadside about his politics and his baggage. the reality is for the campaign for newt's campaign to take this position is consistent with what the base wants to hear from candidates what and what they want to see. it will be interesting to see if it holds up in the debates before the vote on the 15th. >> given that gingrich practiced poisonous behavior for decades, will anyone believe he is a changed man where the christmas season will spread peace and joy? >> it's like a scorpion saying hey, guys, let's stop stinging. it's not going to happen. if it lasts the end of the week,

i will be surprised. he is a bomb-thrower. it's how he got where he gets. it's what he wants to do. in fact i thought the interesting moment of the debate on saturday was the moment when mitt romney said newt, i'm like you. i am not a bomb-thrower. guess what. they want bomb-throwing. they end to want it to be aimed at barack obama and democrats and anybody who is reasonable, but yet nevertheless that is newt's nature and it will come out as it continues to be competitive and as mitt and more importantly don't forget ron paul. the ron paul ads are taken off. >> i wanted to put this to mike. i wonder if newt is hoping that the other candidates go positive, but ron paul has a new ad out. take a listen to this. >> do you think voters are going to warm up to you because you

are boast being getting $60,000 a speech? >> i was charging $60,000 a speech. celebrities leave and sell fewer speeches. we were selling more. >> he is the symbol of that corrupt system. >> this guy has not got skeletons in his closet. he has a whole grave yard in there. >> that was actually said on this broadcast by julian epstein. is that a preview of everything coming against newt and in a way, i wonder whether newt is trying to say let's be friendly because he knows he's the one that will be hammered. >> absolutely. you know where the charges are coming from and what the pounding will look and feel like. you want to try to get in front of that as much as possible. certainly that ad is a boone for someone like mitt romney. those votes if they do get peeled off are going to get peeled off of newt. they may go to someone else like santorum or ron paul, but that's

the goal is to take the allure and the luster off as much as possible. that is an effective ad and whether or not it resonates to the point where on election day on the 3rd of january, they go we can't pull that trigger remains to be seen. stuff like that will be the order of the day from the ron paul campaign who has a good chance who has a chance to maybe win iowa. >> david, let's move to mitt if we can and we retweeted your video on the campaign trail i believe in massachusetts in 2002. running for governor and props to you for uncovering this. let's play a clip to see how he describes himself. here's mitt romney. >> i think the old stand by definitions of who votes for which party have been blown away. people recognize that i'm not a partisan republican and i am moderate and my views are progressive.

>> moderate and progressive. wow! >> i am heesh endorsing mitt romney. martin, i have to say that video was dug up by andrew who is a free lance political truth digger. he posted it on you tube and got it out quickly. i think that about says it all. that was in 2002, five years before he began running for president the first time as a die-hard conservative. he said i'm a progressive and a moderate and not a partisan republican. would he say any of those things now before any audience and would he even explain what's happened between 2002 and now? it sums up his flip flops and he tries to run away from them and even bret bair trapped him with a few simple questions.

>> we saw he was in tears over that. while mitt and newt battle it out, i want you to look at a 78% republican primary field as average to weak. that's more than a quarter saying it's weak. you can't be very impressed yourself by this. >> look. i'm impressed from the standpoint that anyone decides to put their name out there to run for office, it's daunting. >> 78% think it's weak. >> that are 78% is made up of a lot of things and comes from a lot of perspectives. you can beat up on the field all day long. it's a moot point. one of the individuals will be the nominee. get over it. no one else is getting in the race right now. no one else will charge on their whitehorse with the shining armor to save the day or the gop. this is the field and it's set.

these folks are going to iowa. deal with it. deal with who is able to come through and rise above to take on obama in the fall. >> i do think there is a serious point. i agree it's moot because we will have a nominee. a lot of more serious candidates would better pedigrees in terms of experience and who maybe are even more thorough thinking in terms of policy ideas didn't go for the grass ring this time and chose to sit it out. one reason they did is because they looked at the republican primary electorate and said we can't win with this crowd. this is a crowd that wants bomb throwing and is more motivated by obama hatred than policy proposals and that's why they veered from michelle obama to newt gingrich with a stop in rick perryland for a night.

they want their anger expressed. it's limited in number of republicans who felt they had a chance at winning and that's why they didn't run. >> given that that's the case, is your advice to mitt romney, he has weeks to turn it around. does he go for the jugular and unleash the dogs of war on newt and ignore what he is saying about considerate and polite politics and hammer the guy? >> my advice is to really put a lot of money into the house in la jolla. >> he put about $12 million into it. >> make it as nice as you can. my other -- listen, she going to have to go after newt. he can't let newt get momentum. there is so much to go after with newt gingrich. without being demagoguic, i don't understand why others, at least ron paul and others haven't really lashed into newt gingrich for having called for a

congestionally enforced mandate a couple of years ago. he was for obama care. i don't think there is anything wrong with that, but it won't play well with the republican electorate and if the super packs come in and put out commercials, it will take a lot out of his support. >> in the all important endorsement race, newt gingrich claimed no less than hollywood wild man gary busey and racial slur tossing ex-baseballer john rocker. congratulations to newt and magnificent judgment calls there on personality. how can mitt romney matchup with that. what does he have to do? get the ku klux klan involved? >> the fact of the matter is endorsements are nice and they bring money and organization and fanfare. it's all about boots on the ground. that's an advantage that romney has going into iowa and new hampshire. no second-guessing the fact that newt has a lot of catching up to do and has a lot of ground

gaming to do and that's what they want to get in place now. that gets back to how we started the conversation. why you see him station we all have a rodney king moment here and get along and focus on obama ads as the target as opposed to each other. it gives him built in the time to get the organization in place and not spend resources meaning a response ad that he doesn't want to spend to bat back the noise he is hearing from the right. >> the final question to both of you. one word answers only please. donald trump hassing issed that he may indeed throw his had into the ring if he is dissatisfied with the field. we know that something like 78% of republican voters don't feel enamored by this. michael, does donald trump enter the race? >> no. >> david? >> i bet you $10,000 he doesn't. >> david doesn't have $10,000 so

that bet is rendered worthless. >> thanks very much indeed. >> next a critical vote on capitol hill and we are heading for the four-letter word, veto. stay with us. [ male announcer ] juice drink too watery? ♪ feel the power my young friend. mmm! [ male announcer ] for unsurpassed fruit and veggie nutrition... v8 v-fusion. could've had a v8. is best absorbed in small continuous amounts. only one calcium supplement does that in one daily dose. citracal slow release... continuously releases calcium plus d for the efficient absorption my body needs. citracal.

the gop plan to extend the tax holiday. while it is assumed that the bill will pass through the house and fail in the senate, that may not be entirely the case. for more i am joined by luke russert and cnbc's correspondent john harwood for the latest and if i can start with you, there is a bit of tension on capitol hill. is it possible that it will not pass because members of the

house gop are not satisfied with this bill? >> it was possible this morning, martin. i spoke to a member who was in the republican conference and they said the leadership said look, we may not have the votes we need and they may be the ones to come up on board. there is a lot of opposition from conservative republicans because they don't believe in unemployment benefits and extension of the payroll tax, calling it a sugar high. in the last few hours, the more resources i talked to and conservative members and aides say this bill will pass because the keystone pipeline in there is such a job creator that anyone votes against this would look foolish to oppose that job creation because they have an ideological opposition. >> approximate are as you total up the votes, do you think he got the 217? >> we are confident that he would have the 217. one caveat that he sold youç o

the programming and they had programs off the floor. you can never truly shut the door in this congress. >> the white house today is saying that the president will veto the bill if it were to make its way to the desk. why would they say that if it's not expected to make its way through the senate? >> they are trying to draw a hard line and establish the precondition that they are not going to accept a bill that's got the defunding of obama care and the keystone pipeline and other things unacceptable. they have the high cards because the public wants the payroll tax extending the leaders want it extended and republicans have been taking on water from this argument about income inequality and the middle class. that is say burden that republican leaders have to overcome and that's why they are squeezing their members so much

to get the bill through the house which i think it will. they will get the votes. >> the problem with this pipeline project is that i don't think there is anybody who knows anything about the environment who doesn't think that being careful and judicious about the matter is the right way to go. they are proposing 60 days to make a decision on a pipeline that goes from one country all wait through another. does the environmental issue not even arise with regard to mr. boehner? >> it does when it gets into the politics of not in my back yard. >> exactly. >> the state of nebraska which is a very red state, republicans have had a problemç with this pipeline because it goes through one of the main aqua fires that provides dranking water to thousands and they asked for a thorough review. all that being said if you put republicans in a room i would say the vast majority would be supportive because they viewed

it as a job creator and they long vied for less regulation on the energy industry. >> the problem is that the projections on job creation are very wide and republicansing is -- >> 2500 to 5,000. >> that as an argument is note particularly strong. >> you have a lot of unions that do see it as a job creator. you have the environmentalist versus the unions. the one thing i would throw in there is part of the strategy is not only to get the conservative votes to pass it, but it would go forward and puts a lot of moderate democrats in a difficult position. >> the other thing i think we need to acknowledge is that before the president stepped in and delayed the decision, it appeared that the state department was on track to green light this project. there is a le jatimate complaint that republicans make that the

white house was trying to duck a fight with environmentalists because members of their administration appear to be in the belief that this was imposing an environmental barrier. >> what's the next step for the president? we know he is publicly coming out and say he will send his family off on their holiday and he will not go with them unless the matter is resolved. do you see it as reaching a conclusion before the house conclusitáhr'to recess?ouse >> this is going to get worked out and i think it will pass the house and the senate not this bill, but my belief is they will extend the payroll and unemployment benefits and come up with other ways to pay that are not so unacceptable to democrats. everybody in the congress has an acute sense of how under the gun they are with voters. this is an extraordinarily unpopular congress.

leaders are going to skwequeeze get things done. >> do you agree? >> i do. we have a "wall street journal" poll that shows how unpopular congress is. you will have face-to-face negotiations between harry reid and john boehner like for every big spending bill here. it will take an 11th hour deal. all that being said, what gets lost in that process is that the american people see a congress that is just beset with dysfunction that can't even come up with an agreement on how to give middle class americans a tax cut. something that seemingly even months ago both sides would obviously agree to that heading into an election year. it's smart politics if nothing else. the culture is alive and well no matter what deal comes out of washington, d.c. >> this congress may have even succeeded in making themselves less popular than those of us in

the news media. >> that are is some achievement although you are not unpopular, john. luke russert and john harwood, coming up. the top lines. >> a mormonç gambling with an evangelical over who is the bigger liar. are there any commandments left?

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p par. >> no whiping in politics and no crying in baseball. >> i will release a letter to mç staff and any consultants and any service we have indicating determination to run a positive campaign. >> we are running any negative ads, but we may. this is after all politics.

there is no whining. >> for he would like to give back the money from laying off employees, i will bet you $10 he will take the offer. >> i will not under estimate. >> he was work for example a spokesman for freddie mac and he was there because because of political connections and freddie mac fails, i think the fair question is asked, why did he profit as freddie mac failed. >> let's be candid. the only reason you didn't become a career politician is you lost to teddy kennedy in 1994. >> wait a second. >> i wouldn't under estimate. >> saturday night? >> saturday night. >> i don't think so. no. >> it's a common thing to say. i bet you a million bucks that your car is slower than mine. >> a mormon gambling with an evangelical or who is the bigger

liar! are there any commandments left? >> if i were concerned about newt gingrich, i would be concerned about herman cain and michele bachmann and rick perry. >> is newt gingrich the front-runner? >> she right now. >> why is that? >> you got me. >> i wouldn't under estimate him. >> we will have more with our political panel in a moment. first, is the hardware giant low's a bigoted company? that is surrounding the show all americanç muslim for those who see muslims as antagonistic and extremists are in the minority. they focus on the lives of five lebanese americans living in michigan with a growing muslim population. groups like the florida family association have said the show is and i quote, propaganda that

hides the danger to american liberties and traditional values. that has angered many americans of all religious groups including keith ellison, democrat from minnesota. he joins us now. good afternoon. >> good to be here. thank you. >> what was your reaction to lowe's decision as a response to the campaigning of the florida family association? >> disappointment. i think lowe's is a great american company, but on this issue, they showed a distinct lack of backbone. they can correct this error by stepping up and doing the right thing and not capitulating to bigotry. on this one, i think they made a mistake. when you mess up, you can also fess up. when they do that, they will be fine and they will have a grateful customer base. if they persisted, it will sour and a lot of people won't want to go in anymore. a lot of people i know.

>> do you have sympathy with some americans who look at iraq and pakistan and see the expression of aspect western and anti-christian sentiments on a daily basis? >> i share their -- my fellow americans'sç disgust with the aspect american and anti-christian sentiments. the fact is that it's a very simple thing for an american to understand that you cannot generalize about an individual when it comes to a group they may have a connection to. this country went through a civil war, a momentous civil rights movement and women's rights movement, we know about bigotry, it is something our country struggled to overcome and how an american corporation in 2011 can't quite understand that a bad individual does not

generalize to a group. that is a little bit beyond and think the people at lowe's know better and should do better. i hope they do. >> you expressed a desire to change their position, but lowe's is standing by their decision and issued a statement that reads and i quote "individuals and groups have strong political and social views on this topic and this program became a lightning rod for many of those views. as a result we did pull our advertising and believe it is best to respectfully defer to communities, individuals and groups to discuss and consider such issues. from a purely economic perspective, the roughly 6 million americans spend over $33 billion each year on housing and housing services that includes people who shop at lowe's. what are they thinking here? >> i think they got themselves buffaloed and intimidated by a group that speaks lout, but is a

small minor fringe group. they allowed themselves to get intimidate and made aç big mistake. now they don't know quite how to get themselves out of it. there is no other way to say you know what, we didn't consider all the facts and try to figure out who david canton is and who the florida family association is and all the groups of people they tried to persecute like gays. we sort of let ourselves get buffaloed and intimidate and we made a dumb decision and we are going to make the right decision. companies make mistakes all the time, but good companies with integrity say look, we didn't do it right. here's what we are going to do. we will do it right this time. i hope they do. >> can i be presumptuous and assume in the past you probably shopped at lowe's for things. are. >> sure. >> would you do it again and buy things from that store? >> no. i think that i believe in

character for a corporation matters and i am not seeing that out of them. i could be persuaded to be a happy customer of lowe's again, but they have to demonstrate they are not so weak-kneed they will capitulate to bigotry. there a lot of options out there and hardware stores out there and home improvement places i can go to bring my dollar. i would hope that lowe's would be a good sentence and not capitulate to bigotry. >> as ever, thank you for joining us this afternoon. coming up, want unemployment benefits? pee in a cup first. coming up. with crest 3d white professional effects whitestrips. it penetrates below the enamel surface to whiten as well as a $500 dentist treatment. the secret's in the strip. crest 3d white professional effects whitestrips. life opens up when you do.

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along with strategist julian epstein. david axelrod went after the front-runner in the rise in the polls and i'm quoting, just remember to hire a monkey, the higher he climbs, the more you see his butt. he is more gorilla than bear, but can you explain what he means? >> in the ways of gingrich, we talk about the unfortunate and considerable under çbelly. clearly the more he rises in the polls, the more he comes you should attack. if you take two examples, he makes a pledge to marital fidelity, but he is flip flopping on the issue. he talks about being the genuine conservative with a tiffany's account of a million and a half, this guy has more bling, bling than the real housewives of atlanta. he is a walking contradiction and a volcano waiting to erupt and democrats couldn't be

happier about it. >> there is a piece of sound i would like to play from glen beck. listen to this. >> however i just said last week, i have a gun to my head, i will vote for mitt romney and if it's newt gingrich and there is a third party and it's ron paul and i don't agree with his middle eastern policy at all, i might consider ron paul as a third party. >> we are seeing cracks here. even glen beck is saying he wouldn't vote for newt. >> that's right. those are a lot of cracks if you are including glen beck in that statement. it's true. you are seeing not just a gop establishment which is the narrative we had in this cycle and their objections to newt gingrich, but non-establishment people too. i don't think glen peck can be considered. i am having doubts about him. he is a figure that makes some uncomfortable because he is so unpredictable and because his

ego is so enormous. it's enormous for a politician. as you know that's saying something. he believes he can do no wrong. he sees himself as a historical figure because he is making it. that's aç dangerous place for politician to be. it's a dangerous place for a person to be, but she running to be the most powerful person in the world. we want someone with more humility in that position. >> what does this tension in the republican party tell us about that party? >> it tells us a party that doesn't know what its identity is and the way the democrats were in the 1980s when they were so driven to the extremes of their bases that they forgot about the general election. look at the figure. obama got a nine-point bump in the poll when is he went after and got osama bin laden. since the beginning of the republican primary when it started in earnest in august, he had a 13-point bump in the

polls, a higher bump than even when he got osama bin laden. that tells you the general public is looking at this campaign, this campaign and they are saying the inmates are in charge. they don't like what they see and it makes it easier and easier for democrats. >> i wish we had more time, but thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having us. >> next the congressman who thinks unemployment benefits should come with a drug test. stay with us. the employee of the month isss... the new spark card from capital one. spark miles gives me the most rewards of any small business credit card. the spark card earns double miles... so we really had to up our game. with spark, the boss earns double miles on every purchase, every day. that's setting the bar pretty high. owning my own business has never been more rewarding. coming through! [ male announcer ] introducing spark the small business credit cards from capital one. get more by choosing unlimited double miles or 2% cash back on every purchase, every day. what's in your wallet?

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you save. >> now for an interesting twist in cause for smaller and less intrusive government. if you are unemployed and want to collect your benefits, you may be asked to drop your trousers and provide a urine sample. that's right. it's part of a movement to require the jobless to pass drug screenings if they want their checks. an alleged incentive that they

said makes sure they are preparing themselves to reenter the workforce. joining us now is jack kingston of georgia. live with us, good afternoon, sir. >> good to be with you. >> i'm sorry, but i can't understand the basis for why you believe that this is a worthwhile and valuable thing to do at this moment in time. >> because of our failed economic policies, unemployment is at a record high and we have to be careful about how we spend unemploymentç dollars. the employer and employee contribution does not cover the full cost of unemployment experience and general taxpayers are picking up the tab. i don't think it's really harsh or draconian to ask people who are unemployed to stay eligible to work in case there is a job. the least they can do is be eligible to fill that job and instead of voluntarily taking themselves out of eligibility by

taking illisit drugs. >> what are evidence do you have for this? south carolina governor once call for the same thing on the basis of a single anecdote and proved to be without foundation and soming issed she made it up. what evidence do you have that the 14 million americans currently out of work are abusing drugs? >> i certainly would not say it's $14 million and i didn't know it got that high under obama. i know it is high and the policies have been a problem, but when you consider for every dollar we spend, 40 sends is borrowed because of the obama deficits. while you spend the dollars -- >> you just made the point, sir, but the question is slightly different. i'm asking for the evidence you have that proves that unemployed people are using drugs. that's all i'm asking. >> i had six sessions in which i had sundays of employers and i

say to them no slide show and no speech. i don't tee it up. what would it take for to you hire somebody at the end of the day. as a republican i thought they were going to say epa is killing me and obama care is a horribleç thing. i found in meeting after meeting, town after town, unemployment insurance was a competitor to hiring new people. it came to many times the question of i test people because i have a job open and i test people on unemployment and they are taking drugs. all i'm saying is you know what, if you are an injured athlete, a football player on the sideline, the least you can do for your team is to go to your physical therapy. take your rehabilitation and get back on the playing field. as a taxpayer paying for unemployment insurance, i don't think it's draconian. >> what you articulated is ann

ek dote that you have experienced. fine. the evidence points in the absolute opposite direction. in florida where this approach was applied, just 2% of unemployed people failed drug tests as opposed to the overall population where the office found that 8% used illegal drugs. the unemployed, sir, were less likely to be using drugs. you want to introduce this measure at enormous costs. there is no evidence to support your imposition. >> we will have a hearing if there is no evidence. i have to say that the stories that i heard were confirmed by lots and lots. >> 2% in floater. >> 2% in floater. florida. >> that was welfare and i'm talking about unemployment insurance. if it is only 2%, great, we have no problem. i don't understand why you guys are afraid to have a discussion.

we are working untilç februaryr march and i don't think it's unusual. if there is a no bill or no problem at all, fine. i suspect what that number is skewed by is people who no is skewed by by people who no longer apply for the benefit because they know they're on drugs and they're making the choice between drugs or unemployment benefit and they have chosen to stay on drugs. >> i think, sir, the reason why people don't believe this is worth spending a second further on because the cost is exorbitant. but here's a question to you -- republicans will not support the nomination of richard cordray as head of the new consumer financial protection bureau, even though we know that mortgage brokers and financiers repeatedly conducted false and fraudulent trades that brought the global economy to its knees. yet there's no desire to intervene when it comes to the corruption and malfeasance on wall street. but when it comes to the unemployed, you feel obliged to intervene and drug test them.

would it no make more for you to issue those drug tests or morality on wall street, rather than on the unemployed? >> martin, as you know, i voted against the bailout. i voted against the fannie mae and the freddie mac bailout. i voted against the bush stimulus plan and the obama stimulus plan. i agree with you, it all needs more scrutiny. there's a lot of corruption on wall street. we have to crack down on it. fannie mae and freddie mac, no question about it, we have to crack down on it. but i'm saying in a civil society, can we not have a dialogue to say, you know, if you're going to get unemployment dollars from the general taxpayers' funds, let's find out if drug use is a common barrier for you getting a job, or maybe it's not. and you know what, if i'm totally wrong, martin, i hope i can come back on your show and tell theç folks that i don't think i'm going to find that out. i think these hearings are going to be productive. and i hope, taking it step by step, by the way, it's not a urine test, it's a drug screening test which is noninvasive. it's actually a written test. and if you fail that, it's got a 94% accuracy rate.

if you fail that, then you take a more invasive urine test. >> congressman jack kingston, i'd be delighted if you were to come back in the future. i'm afraid we've run out of time, but thank you so much for coming on. >> i look forward to it. >> thank you, sir. when we come back, another wild ride on wall street. stay with us. ♪ like so many great pioneers before me, guided only by a dream. i'm embarking on a journey of epic proportion. i will travel, from sea to shining sea, through amber waves of grain, and i won't stop until i've helped every driver in america save hundreds on car insurance. well i'm out of the parking lot. that's a good start. geico, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent, or more on car insurance. you know the good folks have asked yours truly to teach you about treating frequent heartburn. 'cause i know a thing or two about eatin'. if you're one of those folks who gets heartburn and then treats day after day...

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thanks so much for watching our broadcast this tuesday. dylan ratigan is here to take us forward. there you go, dylan. how are you? >> i'm very good. and yourself? with i was just reading through my twitter feed, and i couldn't help but notice here martin, a peculiar sensibility developing. it is becoming increasingly clear that dylan ratigan and martin bashir hate each other. i don't know exactly -- >> did you write that, dylan? >> you know, it may be my mother. she's watching. "i think martin and dylan were lovers and have since fallen