guy who's run and been beaten before, it would be pry morial as a school of salmon heading upriver to spawn. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "politics nation" with al sharpton starts hight now. i.o. what? mitt romney saw soars in iowa. wait until you hear what is leading the party. teed off? the tea party promised to take washington by storm, but instead a total washout. now the gop is paying for their mistakes. and rick perry blasts the white house for not honoring the troops returning from iraq. wait a second, governor. aren't you the one who didn't want them to come home in the first place? >> the idea that a commander in chief would stand up and signal to the enemy a date certain of

which we're going to pull our troops out i think is irresponsible.ç well country to "politics nation." i'm al sharpton. tonight's lead, where there's a willard, there's a way. a brand-new poll out of iowa has willard mitt romney back at the top of the pack. and he's kicking newton leroy gingrich to the curb. look who is number three? santorum. it's a complete reversal of fortune. willard has risen five percentage points since early december, while knute plummeted 19 points in less than four weeks, and rick santorum is soaring up 11 points.

>> whether they got down to the time to seriously look at the candidates, they saw we had the right message, the bold plans, the consistent track record. >> rick santorum, direct message, rick santorum who worried president obama might go to indonesia and bow to muslims, who called elder education programs a government plot to indoctrinate your children, this is the new gop flavor of the month. the republicans have gone extreme and they're not turning back. joining me now, anybody elsç news political analyst ed rendell, former dnc chairman and pennsylvania governor, and live from des moines, iowa, where she's cover the race, erin mcpike from real clear pot tick. thank you both for joining me.

>> my pleasure. let me tart with you, governor. rick an tomorrow is up, but not -- >> a cautionary note, polls are always difficult to measure, even in regular elections, primaries or general elections, but in caucuses, they're particularly hard to measure, because the caucus voter has to show up, spend about 2 1/2, 3 hours there, so the people with the most passion and most organization are likely to do better than they're polls, which is why i think rick santorum will do better, because his followers are the evangelical voters, they're passionate about them. he's spoken well, he understands the issue. are some of his positions wacky? of course they are, but that's not a problem for the core voters. mitt romney has the thinking

republicans, saying i want the best person to vote obama, but they don't have the same passion. for newt it appears he's in free fall. it appears the negative attacks have work. it appears his stumbles in places like virginia are starting to come home to roost, but i wouldn't consider mitt romney home free by any means yesterday. >> erin, it is true that the caug and turnout, but you're beginning to see there are more firm decisions by some of the iowaen republican caucus-goers than before. look at this poll, december 6th, 55% of those polled said they may change their mind. 27th of december, yet, just 43%. so more and more we see people at least indicate their mind is made up. are you feeling that on the ground there in iowa?

yes, that's what i'm hearing and what the romney campaign is starting to see and say, that their supporters will come out for them again. if they can get up to 25% in the caucuses a week from now, then they think they can still win, because everyone is so fractured on the right. even if mitt romney wins iowa and new hampshire, some people are saying it's going to be over, but the polls in south carolina don't necessarily bear that out. as we start to see candidates drop out of the race after iowa, let's say or in new hampshire, we might not see very many candidates go to new hampshire, they may chalk it up as a romney victory and then they may go to south carolina and start campaigning there. if candidates start to drop out we could see with coa -- the electoral coalesce around someone on the right. >> that's true, governor rendell, if take that bloc that

is against mr. romney, it's like 34%, i was just reading. if you addç the santorum, bachmann, the whole far extreme right vote, that's actually 50%. so if that 50% coalesces around one candidate, if people start falling out after iowa, you could in south carolina have a very singular formidable anti-willard candidate and take some big south carolina victory into florida, and it could upset the whole thing, even if willard pulls out of iowa and new hampshire. >> it's possible, but remember number one he will get a bounce in south carolina. that's the way this thing always works. number two, if he wins iowa and new hampshire, he's going to have money -- a plethora of money, no one else will raise a dime. he'll be able to dominate the air waves in south carolina. you saw what happened when the

air waves were dominated in anti-newt gingrich rhetoric. he plummeted like a stone, so don't underestimate the power of money. erin, correct me if i'm wrong, i don't see anybody who has the ability to hang in there with mitt romney, particularly if hi wins iowa and new hampshire. >> erin, talking about money, let me show you this. willard played a very, very shrewd game, as far as i'm concerned. he himself spent in iowa, $402,000 in ads, all positive, but the super pac spent almost all of it on negative ads. the way they're dealing with this is spending almost twice more with their pacs to do the dirty work while they pose as pure as the driven snow.

>> as you know, that's the way a lot of campaign advertising is starting to go, whether it's the democratic national committee or the republican national committee or other other committees do a lot of the dirty work so the campaigns can claim that they're staying positive, staying on their own message, about you're right, newt gingrich has made an issue of that. he's starting to needle mitt romney on hi own, but also saying, mitt, you need to man up and come at me if you're going to attack me. do it to my face. there's a back and forth on that, but that's the way campaigns are working these days. >> kind of school-yard talk. but let me go back to you for a minute, governor rendell. when you look at the pins of the candidates, it goes to your point. 29% unfavorable, but let's go

down to willard. he has a 44% favorable, 47% unfavorable. gingrich, 37% favorable, 54% unfavorable. so if we're dealing in a caucus, where you go if your guy in the caucus doesn't win and he goes to the second guy, santorum is more likable and lessç unfavorable than anyone in this race, which could be dangerous. he could be everybody's second choice, because he's more likable. >> everyone talks about peaking at the right time. ron paul was peaking at the right time, no, santorum is peaking at the right time. it's close enough to the election that he's the only candidate that other candidates haven't run negatives about.

they're not going to have enough time, so santorum's timing might be absolutely perfect going into next tuesday. >> this comes out on wednesday, he gets the new year's weekend. they only have one or two days to get up that fast, but if santorum comes out soaring, the guy that can really releaks is barack obama. but that's my opinion. >> no question. what president obama wants, look, in the end, i think mitt romney will be the nominee. i can't close my eyes and picture anybody accepting the republican nomination in minneapolis/st. paul other than mitt romney, but if santorum or anybody else can keep this thing going, it's points for president obama day after day after day that this thing keeps going. >> governor ed rendell and erin mcpike, thanks for your time tonight. ahead, republicans meet your

candidates. when they're not trying to gut health care and attack women's rights, tl-qwell, just plain awkward. >> at least i'm not called ob a obama, right? >> they slam the president for not throwing troops a welcome home party. wait. aren't you the guys who said the troops shouldn't be stay the at home, they should be -- no health insurance, governor rick scott has found a new way not to help them. rick scott and the latest chap when republican governors do unpopular things. you're watching "politics nation" live on msnbc. [ coughs ] what is this shorty?

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rick perry loves states' rights so much that he's suing a state in federal court. he failed to qualify for virginia's primary ballot, so now he's filing a federal lawsuit against that state's election law. it's a texas-sized flip from the guy who once talked about secession. perry can't be serious. in fact, of the gop candidates are serious. we'll talk!qbout that next. lord. sovereign of the security line. you never take an upgrade for granted. and you rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. and go. you can even take a full-size or above. and still pay the mid-size price. i deserve this. [ male announcer ] you do, business pro. you do. go national. go like a pro.

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now. it seems like the more we get to know them, the scarier they get. here's willard mitt romney on the trail today. >> you eliminate programs, you just take some ofç them and say gone. even some you like. i not only cut programs, i take programs we need like caring for the poor with our medicaid program. instead of having the federal government run that program, i'm going to send it back to the states. >> hmm, i guess romney has bought into the paul ryan plan to kill medicaid by turning it over to the states. here's rick perry today also in iowa. simplgts i talked yesterday to a cancer patient. she said, governor, if you don't get rid of obama-care, i'm dead. she said they will never take care of me. that's a powerful testimony by that lady. >> the truth is the affordable care act takes care of everyone.

what's the whole point? that's what it is all about, and it's already working. i was also baffled today by michele bachmann. >> i don't know how to be a politici politician, i never want to know how to be a politician. i only want to be the iowa girl that my parents raised me to be. >> not a politician? you were elected to office a decade ago. and then there's newt gingrich, who thinks the greek cruise he took was a lesson in global economics. >> being in greece during the greek crisis was helpful, and gave me a much deeper perspective of how hard this is going to be. >> it's hard to believe he wasn't joking with that line, but again humor hasn't been too big with these folks. >> this is an extraordinary welcome in clinton. i thought when i was coming to a place called clinton, i was

going to have some difficulty. at least you're not called obama. >> sorry, willard, even your jokes are bad. it's enough to make you ask, are they really serious? but the scary thing is, they are. joining me now, joe madison, host of "mornings with madison" on sirius/xm radio, and maria tresso kumar, an msnbc contributor. thank you both for joining me. >> joe, let me start with you. these republicans would be laughable if it wasn't so scary. am i right on this? can you imagine any of them becoming president? >> i better wipe the smile off my face, because i just cracked up when i heard newt gingrich said on his greek cruise, it was a lesson in greek economies. i've said this before, reverend sharpton, and i'll keep saying

it. it's like watching the muppet show, except the muppets have more sense that these folks do. they are saying anything, and it's rather an insult, i think, to the people of iowa. but i keep asking myself, and i think i'm not the only one, where are the real republicans? the republicans that we used to know. you know, the bill cohens. when i live' michigan, there was a governor there that even the late coleman young voted for, because he understood what was good for michigan -- good for detroit was good for the state. i don't know when the adults in the republican party are going to come forward and say enough is enough, but now i think quite honestly it's too late. >> no, i think you're right. >> obama has to be the luckiest candidate for president i think we've had in a long time.

>> well, let me ask you this, maria. when you look at the fact that they are attacking the affordable health care act. i've had a lady on this show that talked about how she had questions about it, it saved her life, she had cancer. when you look at the polls of the affordable care act, 50% of americans say expand or keep it as it is. 50%. only 39% say repeal it, yet you see all the republicans agree on repealing it. let me show you this whole barrage of attacks from each one of these republican candidates, who seem like they are oblivious to what the american people are saying about this act. >> first on my list is obama-care. >> i'm going to repeal obama-care so we can end socialized medicine. >> i will ask the new congress on january 3rd, before i am sworn?

to stay in office and repeal obama-care. >> now, maria, let me surprise you. this is not during the ç"ebate. these statements, every one of them were today. every one of them are saying this today, given the poll i showed you, given all of what we've heard. they're running around like they're in another world. >> i think what they're in the business right now of mismanufacturing information. that's dangerous for the republican party. i think the only thing that's happening action what it shows is they are running very much an ifr sider game. it's not as diverse, and they consider skrobs a second-tier issue, because luckily for iowans they're enjoying a 5% plus unemployment rate. so i don't know what it says more than anything is iowa is

becoming increasingly irrelevant, but are they serious? unfortunately mitt romney make al gore look loose, and rick perry makes george w. bush look like a rhodes scholar. >> you also have to wonder who they are talking about. if you look at the economic plans from willard to gingrich to rick perry, all favorite the 1%, lower taxes for the rich, lower taxes for corporation, repeal financial reform. yet when you look at where the american people are, and you poll them on are think sick of a an economy, so why are they exacerbating the situation, you have to ask yourself, because democrats,ç 87% agree they're sick of that kind of economy favors the rich. 79% of independents, and you really need a large independent vote to win, and even 61% of

republicans feel they're sick of that kind of economy. who are these people talking to? >> well, i think they're also talking to, and we'll never know, but i bet you these attack ads, against, republicans ought to be very careful what they ask for. remember, they are the ones that wanted corporations are people, therefore they ought to have the right to buy these ads. well, now it's come to backfire on them, so they -- they ought to be careful for what they ask for, because they're destroying each other, and they're appealing to the people who are probably financing these ads. you know, this thing about these are the job creators, quite honestly doesn't play anymore. well, for example, sears isn't creating any jobs. >> they're closing stores. >> but they had enough money to buy k-mart, didn't they? so people are getting smart behind this.

let them keep going and keep going, because i think it will be different when think get to high unemployment states like south carolina, florida, ohio. they're going to have a really tough time trying to set that. maybe not to their base, but remember now, this is about the general election, and they're giving everybody on our side enough ammunition to destroy them in the fall. >> noç doubt about it. maria, let me come to you with something that just came out today. i'm breaking this. there was a poll that came out about hispanic voters from the pew hispanic center. it says that president obama leads with hispanic voters 68%, romney would only get 23%. so despite some of those that had misgivings on increased deportations, president obama is way ahead with hispanic voters,

which is a significant voting bloc in the general election. do you think this poll is correct and reflects what you've been getting in the hispanic community? >> i think that any republican candidate would be unfavorable right now in the eyes of a latino voter. i think where obama needs to concentrate on is spreading his message. he needs to talk locally about what he's done specifically to the latino community on health care. he has to change the tone of immigration and talk about job creation. the numbers are right in reflecting what folks feel, but there is an enthusiasm gap, number one. number two, we also have to start talking about the strict voter i.d. laws. it's not surprising that the republicans saw the writing on the wall it would be difficult to win the latino vote in 2012, so they've been pushing strict laws. again, texas, florida, arizona, nevada, and you go down the list

to north carolina. so what obama needs to do is talk about, one, the stuff çhe done locally, and two, we have to, and my hats off to eric holder who's been doing great stuff, but we have to look that the republicans don't have a shot unless they win at least 40%. the only way that mitt romney can do that. that's one of the reasons he's locked up the florida republican party with marco rubio, is because he recognizes he needs florida. with florida he has a shot. right now i don't see a clear path for the republicans. >> and it will be difficult when you have people booing their own candidates. there are people that have that take. if if they don't, i'll do, and i'll gladly play them. >> joe, maria, thank you for your time tonight.

>> thank you. >> and happy kwanzaa. >> happy kwanzaa, happy new year. >> happy kwanzaa. rick scott, the most unpopular governor in america, instead of helping the uninsured in florida, he's rejecting help. geez, i wonder why he's so unpopular. the tea party promised to bring change to washington. too bad the only change i've seen is their plummeting approval. stay with us. this new at&t 4g lte is fast.

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governor rick scott has pounced on every chance to chip away at the affordable care act. in fact, last month scott said the president's health care law wasn't the law of the land, but think progress reports that new numbers show h m reform. lastear, just 3.5 million florida residents had private health insurance, down -- in fact the number of people with private health insurance in the state has fallen for the last five years in a row. 21% of the state's residents are uninsured. that's the third highest rate of uninsured people in the country. but even with those staggers

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welcome back. the republican presidential candidates are pulling out all the stops to win over iowa, tea party conservatives. >> repeal obama-care. repeal dodd/frank. >> i will end the practice of chronnie capitalismisms the problem is too much debt. they try to raise taxes. >> i happen to think it's immoral for us to keep spending money we don't have and passing

on to our kids or obligations. >> but whileç the gop candidat are gulping down the tea on capitol hill, the strange brew may be destroying the brands. republicans in congress have just a 20% approval rating down 14 points since the spring. i'm joined now by tea party nation founder justin phillips. thank you for your time tonight. >> good even, al. >> now, in today's "the washington post," i'm quoting dan -- the political debacle that played out in congress before christmas is the clearest evident of a party city divided between tea party insurgents and the governing class, end of quote. is the tea party dragging down the gop? >> no, what we're seeing is the classic fight. you've got the washington

elites, and the grass-roots activists, and when the politician come home, they talk about how conservative they are, what they're trying to do, and then when they get to washington, they get potomac fever, and all this is is simply the latest incarnation of that fight. >> now, when you say that, let me ask you this. the whole ride that had you guys soaring was you came out with cut the deficit, cut the deficit. you seem to have lost the attention of the public, because people are now saying let's deal with economic inequality. so you're not only talking about the elite in your party, but the american public has seen, i mean, if you look at any of the polls, you've seen thatç the american public now disagrees, tea party is declining support, now 27% disagree. last year only 22%, now only 20%

agree, last year 27. it's almost like a turnaround. this is the public, this is the masses, this is the grassroots, this is not the elite. don't you see that you all are kind of turned around in terms of your approval standing? >> well, you remember what the british prime minister once said -- there's lies, damn lies, and then there's political polls. the tea party, if we look at history, in 2006, the republicans had gone moderate and got their heads handed to them. in 2008 they got their heads handed to them in. in 2010 they had the best victory in a generation. why? because of the tea party. this entire year, they basically ignored the tea party. they did a couple symbolic acts, and then that's been it. >> i think 2008 you might have had a little problem, and there was no weapons over there, and the banks failing and insurance companies.

a lot of things helped them lose. >> we lost in 2008 for one reason -- john mccain. >> you lost in 2008 for a lot of reasons, but let me say this, judson, you know, if you want to leave it to one, final, hold that that next year. if you think it's just one problem, you'll lose again. judson, won't you admit that in this battle in

>> actually, the answer is, e., none of the above. what we're trying to do is save america. what the congress under both boehner and pelosi and reid is doing is what they have done in europe, which is spend, spend, spend like crazy. guess what? you can see what happens to a country that spends beyond its means. insanity is trying the same thing over again and expecting a different result. the same thing has been tried over and over again in europe. we see what kind of basket case the european economies are, pelosi, reid, and throw him in there, too, they all want to do the same thing, keep spending and not put any fiscal sanity into government. so they're insane, because they're doing what europe has done, and we'll end up with the same resultsisms let me ask you this, then. do you support any of the present candidates running?

who do you consider not part of the elite and represents what's close to your politics? >> well, publicly i'veç endors newt gingrich. obviously i like him. i like michele bachmann, rick per rip, rick santorum. obviously because i've endorsed gingrich, he's my personal choice and favorite, but any of those guys are good. >> well, you know newt did about $1 million in lobbying in the last ten years, and had a big account at tiffany's. i don't know how much more grassroots you can get than that, judson. thanks for your time tonight. >> thank you, al. happy new year to you, too. even by republican standards, this hypocrisy on iraq is unbelievable. the same rpg who criticized obama are now criticizing him for not throwing them a parade when they were home. that's next. er ] when you're a coach in the nfl... ♪

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troops from iraq. of course, many republicans opposed it, and now they're ripping him for how these troops are coming home. today, both mitt romney and ricç perry criticized the president for not throwing iraqi troops a ticker tape parade. >> it disturbs me nearly after nine years, that the president wouldn't welcome home our heroes with a simple parade in their honor. >> a welcome home ceremony of some kind makes sense. >> am i hearing this correctly? aren't you the same candidates who didn't want the troops to come home? >> the idea that a commander in chief would stand up and signal to the enemy a date certain of which we were going to pull our troops out i think is irresponsible, more importantly it's putting our kids' lives in jeopardy. >> the president's failure to secure an agreement and maintain 10 to 30,000 troops in iraq has

to be one of the his signature failures. now if berry and romney had gotten their way, these troops would have gotten a parade already, but the parade would have been in baghdad. joining me is a leading anti-war voice, congressman from pennsylvania. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. i think the worst thing we have done is seen the military in our foreign -- our foreign policy, including the military has become politicized, but the public is not confused. 80% of the public support the president's decision. if the republicans want a parade, let's have a parade of jobs for our veterans, and decent health care andç educatn for them. let's make sure that the ones we have on the battlefield, and we get them home safely. the president was able to

execute a withdrawal from iraq with none of the troops being shot at our any of the other nonsense that was talked about. romney said today, when questioned about whether he would send them back into iraq, he said, absolutely not. on one days ago it's a single failure to bring them out, but of course he now agrees that it's good to be out. >> let me show you something else that helped to break my hypocrisy scale. let me show you who signed the status of forces agreement in 2008. the treaty that set december 31st, 2011, as a deadline for withdrawal. watch this. >> under this agreement, we will work together to bring greater stability to iraq and the region, pave the way for american force toss return home, as the war in iraq approaches a successful end. >> so it was george bush that had promised to bring them home

at the end of this month anyway, even though he was the one that wrongfully brought them there, in my opinion. for them to come with what the president ought to do for them when they come home s. when in fact they attacked the president as i've shown, for even bringing them home, the cynical manipulation of what we're doing with our troops is something i think is something that's way over the line"çcongressman. >> the ryan budget had a trillion in savings out of the what is called the overseas contingency account, timing the withdrawal of these troops. every republican voted for it. the idea that this was not something that was contemplated is nonsense. it's made up of political theater. we shouldn't politicize our military. these are young people being shot at, thousands were killed, bringing them home is not a political matter. they should not be politicizing

it. what the president has done is act as the commander in chief in a war that we shouldn't have been in. i voted against the iraq war. the president however said we need to bring them home responsibly, not recklessly, he followed through on that and got these young people home, and they're spending the holidays with their families. >> you're saying in the ryan budget the money was there, and every republican voted for it, and now they're acting all surprised and shocked? sanchts absolutely. they counted the savings for bringing our troops home from iraq as part of the savings they were delivering in their budget, so this is somewhat of a selective amnesia. one day they kind of remember half of it, the other day they can independence of forget the other half. >> because i wanted people to get that, that they actually put in the ryan budget, as part of the budget was the savings they had for bringing the troops home that they criticized the president for doing, even though they had budgeted that. >> absolutely, as a fact, they had it in there and counted it.

counter. about. o scored it as a savings for their budget. >> now,ç one of the things i might add as an important end to this, issed president has nothing to do with ticker tape parades. if you're going to run for office, gentlemen and lady, you ought to know what the office does. the president doesn't throw parades. if they want a parades in new york, that would come from the mayor or the governor of new york, principally the mayor, and then to show you this, the pentagon and the new york city back and forward, associated press reported today officials in new york and washington said they would be happy to help stage a big celebration, but pentagon officials say they haven't been asked to plan one. i think that this is going to take all the fun out of willard being president when he funds out parades have nothing to do with his duties. >> well, let's parade jobs and health care. we've got tens of thousands.

i was visiting at the brain repair center at bethesda. we have troops injured. if we want a parade, let's parade real respect for the sacrifices that these young people have made, provide jobs, and don't cut health care benefits to veterans and housing benefits. parade to congress and join ugh for protecting the veterans. congressman chaka fatah, happy new year. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] in blind taste tests, even ragu users chose prego.

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we're back to talk again about helping those in need. not just during the holidays, but year round. this weekend volunteers with the action national network spent time with hundreds of families in new york who needed extra help. but they're not alone. it's groups like give in to fill the gap. the site uses social media to

help people. joining me is andrew young iii, the ceo of çgivelocally.n. he's also the son of andrew judge, the civil rights icon who marched with martin luther king jr., and a personal hero of mine, and andrew newman. thank you both for joining mess. how does your group help folks in need? >> we get donations into the hands of the people directly. our site is set up so you can log on, register to being a user of our site, and pick the people that you want to help, knowing that you can give with confidence, because they have been prescreened by us. >> now, this is year round, brad, nous just a holiday thing? >> 24/7/365 days a year. poverty is a serious problem in this country, and we think we have the recipe to try to take a dent out of it. on our site you can select who you want to give to u. and our

recipients are prescreened, and we never give them cash. we pay rent, their utilities, their landlords, their doctor bills, prescriptions, work safety equipment. there's no limit to who we can help. >> andrew, you do direct help. a sing the mother with a teenage boy with developmental disabilities, the women in delaware, needs clothing, bed, foods, people have already donated to help her. you do that directly? >> what we'll do is give in-kind gifts. we'll pay landlords, utility companies, gift cards for her to go to the grocery store and help her with basic needs. one of the things i think will be exciting toç your listeners and viewers, is this is a new and fun way to help people directly via the internet. we're taking this plattism that is the internet and revolutionizing the way people give. if they read some of the stories

of the people that are in need in their communities or communities where they are from, or situations that resonate with them, they can choose specifically who they want to help and know that person has been prescreened. >> brad, the need is there. look at the rise in the number of school lunches. so the rise in poverty, the rise in need, let me quickly show this sound bite of a recipient of givelocally.net, a lady that talked about her needs. >> i'm a single bottom with four kids, a part-time substitute teacher, and it's just really rough raising them. >> so these are not people that are not lazy, that are not working. many of them are working part time, because that's all they can find. many of them are working poor, but need help.

>> many of our recipients are hard-working americans like you and i who go to work 40 hours a week, but just don't make enough to make ends meet. they need assistance, help to stay above the poverty line and keep that confidence they need to continue pushing forward. if your listeners and viewers are able to go onto our site, they'll have an exciting experience. it's givelocally.net. >> brad, have you been getting a good çresponse? >> amazing response. you know, americans are in the mood to help each other. these are working-class folks, helping other working-class folks, $20, $50, $100 at a time. we invite viewers to take a look at our site. >> givelocally.net. >> you've said it about seven times. you are your father's son. we'll show people helping people. you will not be defined in life by what you get. you will be defined by what you