in december, employers adding 200,000 jobs pushing the unemployment rate down to 8.5%, the lowest level in nearly three years. it's undeniably good news unless you are a republican running for president. >> we are very, very long way from being a healthy economy and given this president, it's unlikely that he will solve it. >> the good news -- >> remember he was early in his administration and he said if you let me borrow $787 billion, i will be able to keep unemployment from going above 8%. it has gone above and hasn't been back since. >> good news is bad news in the magical hands of mitt and newt. as for rick santorum, it's good news thanks to the stellar field of course. >> i am gratified to see in spite of president obama's policies the job market is

beginning to pick up a little bit. i think it might be optimism that republicans are going to take the white house and that's spurring people to start taking risks. >> what? i guess mr. santorum does have a sense of humor. we all know there is much more work to be done and the president is not going to get any credit from rivals. if it's about the economy, why do we hear about race? take a listen to newt gingrich thursday in new hampshire. >> i'm prepared if the naacp invites me to go to the convention and talk about why the african-american community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps. >> in fact, people of all races get government assistance, most of them have a job and whites make up the largest proportion. why target after can americans? maybe it's something to do with the way newt repeatedly

describes mr. obama as the food stamp president as he did again on thursday. >> president obama is the most effective food stamp president in american history. >> i don't know, something tells me for newt it's not all about the economy stupid. let's get to the panel here in new york. contributor jonathan cape hart, opinion writer for "the washington post" and political analyst and communications director karen finney and dana mill bank. good afternoon to all of you. karen, i have to start with you. i'm sorry to confirm your power, but you warned us that there was no limit to newt's nastiness and now he confirmed it with his barely concealed jives against the president and african-americans. >> here's the thing with gingrich. i wrote about this a couple of weeks ago. he understands the code language

and if you go back to when he was speaker, he sat in front of a room full of black journalists and explained to them why black people don't do better is because they actually have a culture of suing rather than pursuing economic success. he knows exactly where what he is doing when he talks about the culture of poverty and the habits of black people. what he doesn't understand is while that may not hit the ears of certain white americans as being an odd thing to say because we have studies who show those comments with black people and calling the first black president a food stamp president when his own mother relied on food stamps at one point is beyond the pail. >> it is, isn't it? it's a bit rich for a man who charges $60,000 a speech and made millions off freddie mac and his wife condescends to people who may be reliant on

welfare at this time. >> martin, newt gingrich has been doing this for the better part of 20 years. he's a professional provok tour. >> these are repugnant disgusting comments that are thinly vailed and racist against the president of the united states. >> and he believes he can get away with it. it's a certain type and he believes chi get away with it because in iowa it's virtually entirely white population in the republican caucus and the same in new hampshire primaries and same in republican primaries across the land. leave aside the moral, it's an interesting political calculation because it said that the nominee will be saddled with this baggage regarding african-americans. as a political proposition, this

huge latino voting block. they have been alienating and offending at every opportunity most recently with mitt romney saying he would veto the dream act. these guys to rile up the population in the primaries are causing trouble down the road. >> look. here's the thing. keep in mind new hampshire is coming up where mitt romney has an extraordinary lead. 41%. all the other candidates, they are hoping to get double-digits. when you have newt gingrich saying what he said and rick santorum saying what he said, i don't think they are talking to the voters of new hampshire. they are voters of south carolina. >> why is south carolina so important? >> one, there is a heavy military presence and it's a strongly evangelical and culturally and socially conservative where the arguments might have resonance.

the other thing is in south carolina is where we have seen some of the ugliest campaigning and the ugliest racially tinged campaigning in american toll picks. it seems to happen right around in january and right around the time in south carolina going into south carolina and when you come out of south carolina, the language and the things that happen tend to go away. >> tend to dissipate. you wanted to interlude? >> your point is very important. this is a strategic tactical move on the part of newt gingrich to be racist and disgusting and to play into people's worst fears and stereotypes to gain votes. i think gingrich knows better. he does it to be provocative and santorum has done enough to actually believe it. >> that's the key point. santorum truly believes everything that he is saying. >> dane a the naacp responded with a statement and i'm

quoting, it's a chaim that the former speaker feels these types of inaccurate statements are in any way helpful to our country. the majority of people using food stamps are not african-american and most people using food stamps have a job. that's right, isn't it? >> sure, but why would we think he was attempting to do something helpful in the first place? >> i thought he was a historian and would attempt to be accurate. >> in a strategics adviser. i spent the day with him and is this about bringing romney down? what is this about? i came away with the conclusion that this was an ego trip for newt gingrich. he knows he's not going anywhere and wants to make the biggest possible explosion and wants to be on your show. >> i would love to get him on this show. isn't this the classic playbook to demonize the poor? isn't this how he managed to win

in the 90s by frankly demonizing poor people and making the benefits so difficult to actually win that he became a celebrity and a star because of it? >> yes. i have no other response, but yes. remember what he said a few weeks ago? really poor children in really poor neighborhoods and how they don't have a work ethic basically. >> they had a hopeful understanding of responsibility. no habits and no cultural commitment to work. >> exactly. that feeds into the larger discussion that we are having. what kind of coat language is that? my mother heard that and texted me and all she texted back was why is it that really poor means black? >> indeed. >> he doesn't even need to say it. we automatic think that. >> it's a trigger. >> right. >> here's the other thing. thankfully what we are seeing is what santorum is saying and what

gingrich is saying is out of the mainstream where most of the country truly is. that's why theyicater to i'm sorry, south carolina, that very conservative base. i don't think that new hampsh e hampshirite s are a reflection of the broader population. they have to go after obama on these ways. why? he had a lot of foreign policy success. we see we had six months of positive job growth in the private sector. there other arguments. >> osama bin laden is dead. >> that's right. >> there arguments against him faltering essentially. >> dana, i was going to put to you rick santorum. jonathan and karen said that rick santorum appears stupid enough to follow the lead to newt gives him. i was interested by what he said yesterday. when he criticized every culture as not holding up the value of every human life in the way that the american culture does. that's an incredible statement.

that every other culture in the world doesn't value human life in the way this country does. >> i would be more reassured if i agreed that rick santorum is dumb. he has a bit of that howdy doody look going on. this man spent a lot of time thinking about these things. he is basically a big government conservative that believe that is the government can and should shape morality across the spectrum of our life. that is what he has done over 15 years in the united states congress. i think that he won't be taken seriously by the electorate, but this man views things differently than the way they are written in the constitution. >> i'm sorry i wish we had more time, but thank all of you for joining us. you can see chris matthews's full interview on "hardball"

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will he get the support of the tea party he desperately craves

in either state when you consider his wealth, career as a venture capitalist and staunch refusal to release his tax returns. >> if you were president, it's not that hard to make a commitment if you are elected president of the united states that you would release the tax returns. every president does. >> for i become president, then i will consider that. it's a little premature to talk about this at this stage. >> people know you are wealthy. >> i understand. >> there is nothing to hide. >> i agree. >> not willing to release his tax returns. really? is mitt romney the man the tea party can support? the congressman is a republican from new hampshire and a freshman that came to washington on the 2010 wave of tea party support. thank you for joining us. 41% of your constituents say they will vote for mitt romney on tuesday.

you say that you are undecided. what is holding you back? >> i have remained undecided like i think many granite stater who is want to see the final two debates and are intrigued to see how people will campaign and deal with the last minute questions and issues that granite staters will pose. >> mitt romney has been running for president for about years. there is not much you need to know that you don't know. he has been the most controlled in every single of the debates. it's unlikely he will mick a mistake or say anything revealing. >> i enjoy looking at the entire field. we have quality candidates including mitt romney. i want to see how things shake out and we take here as i do our opportunity and responsibility seriously. i will continue to be an ambassador for the primary and see how things shake out. if i'm compelled to make my

decision known i may do that and maybe even with ow your show. >> i would be delighted. mitt romney owns property in your state. you know everything you need to know about him. is there another candidate you feel more prepared or more inclined or disposed to support? >> i think for the republican primary, republicans, myself included are trying to consider who is best equipped to be the best candidate against barack obama. i and others in new hampshire feel he has not led on the economy and jobs and on things that are important to granite staters. we have a group of candidates through this process who have risen and fallen and shown great poise through the process. i want to make that final decision over the next few days and i'm likely to do that and possibly make an announcement on monday. >> we would be delighted to have you, sir. since last summer, we haven't seen so much of the so-called movement since then.

you came into office as i said with the wind of the tea party at your back. where have the tea partiers gone? >> i think they are split amongst newt gingrich and ron paul and rick santorum and haven't coalesced around one candidate and that's good for democracy and the primary process that everyone has an opportunity to make their voice heard rather than through one voice. that's what it is about. >> when you say they are divided, you don't mention mitt romney. clearly he is not the most attractive candidate for tea partiers. >> there were some i know in new hampshire and the bulk of them are split. as you said earlier, mitt romney in polling is still in the lead. somewhat substantially. we will see if that tightens up. i suspect if mitt romney were the nominee, you would say support get behind him. tea partiers are more frustrated

with barack obama than anyone on the republican side. >> absolutely and much of the tea party was directed at the president. we had further good news on the jobs front with unemployment heading downward and manufacturing on the rise. is that not a sign that this president's policies are working. are you as a self-confessed tea partier prepared to give the president some credit? >> look, i will give anybody credit working towards the goal of creating jobs. >> so will you now give the president credit for these consistent improvements in unemployment over the last six months. >> i'm not sure how consistent it has been. >> unemployment is at the lowest rate in three years. that's how consistent it has been. >> except it's still 8.5%. >> i accept that, but these are the facts. will you give the president some credit? >> i will give the president for trying. i don't agree with the policies

he put in place. you will see ultimately more than just the unemployment number be the focus. we have people who are wurnd employed having to work two and three jobs to make the same wage they were making. that doesn't mean the economy is strong and vibrant. woo ve to get to the point where it's strong and vibrant. >> i do hope you will come back after the weekend and tell us who you will be endorsing. >> i look forward to it. >> a remind they're this sunday, david gregory will monitor the debate and the facebook debate will air on a special edition of nbc's "meet the press" and here on msnbc at 9:00 a.m. eastern and chris matthews will be hosting a post debate special. coming up, liar liar. it's the weeky top lines. you calling mitt romney a

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the president has a lot of reasons to lead a round of cheers for himself and a new appointee and the new job numbers out today. mike viquiera is at the white house. you are fast becoming the resident truth sayer. two weeks ago you told me the payroll tax cut holiday would be resolved on a thursday and it was. yesterday you anticipated better jobs numbers and here we are with the lowest level in almost three years. i think i will call you micah

viquiera from now on. do you think these numbers will affect the president's battle plan for 2012? >> they will play right into it if they improve. there was one figure we often hear when it comes to politics and the jobless numbers. no president has been reelected with a rate b above 8% since 1984. the reason that reagan was reelected is it's a question of relativity. it was as high as 11% or over 11% in the years proceeding. that 84 election. the trend was ronald reagan's friend and in this instance, the trend is personal president obama's friend. he is obliged through economic and political prudence to say we are not out of the woods and we don't know how this will work out and the federal reserve and his own economic apparatus forecasted that the rate come election time will be about where it is now. economics being an inexact science, you can't put faith in

where or how this is going. certainly with 200,000 jobs being added on net, the most since 2005, the unemployment rate being the lowest since 2009, plenty of reasons for the president to smile and plenty of reasons for the 13 million people out of work to have a little bit of hope into this weekend. >> indeed. mike viquiera, however describe yourself, thanks so much. next, put on your dancing shoes. the week's top lines are coming up. shazi: seven years ago, i had this idea.

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explode. grab your guns and bibles. here's our top lines week in review. >> a very happy new year to you. >> remember the name mitt romney. >> $3.5 million in negative ads, you tell me. you calling mitt romney a liar. >> yes. >> i understand the speaker is disappointed. he was well in the lead. >> i hear you know something about iowa. [ bleep ]. >> i decided to stand aside. >> those are the same people that president obama talked about who cling to their guns and bibles. thank god they do. >> turns out there is a god who has a great sense of humor. >> you see yourself in the oval office? >> not really. >> there is one thing i will not do and that is project myself into ron paul's dreams. >> let's get the job done. >> it's a joke for him to call himself a conservative. >> the best is not that great.

>> won't you buy a home -- >> i can't afford things like that. i'm not rich. >> i was charging $60,000 a speech. >> i don't want to make black people's lives better by giving themselves someone else's money. >> i don't know any blah people. >> here thinks we are on welfare anyway. >> the african-american community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps. >> we all need a jesus candidate. >> are we saying that everyone should have the right to marry? everyone? anybody can marry several people? >> with that let's get to it with this panel friday afternoon. jewel ran epstein and strategist and council to the house judiciary committee.

i would like to start with you. as you heard in top lines, he got into aative while speaking to a group of college students about same-sex marriage. here's a man who equates same-sex marriage with polygamy and believes that it may lead to man on dog relationships. can you explain that? >> well, no, i can't. santorum is the gift that really keeps on giving. at the end of the day, this kind of very right wing extremism will cost him the nomination and it will cost him any ability to have a pathway to this white house. when we begin to corner off people, african-americans and the gay and lesbian community, when you begin to ostracize people this early, we r one state out and he has a of block of people or a blah of people. his days are numbered. i'm proud to be blah.

>> you are? >> i'm a proud blah woman. >> rick santorum may have surged, but he found himself in hot water with his comments with african-americans and the same-sex marriage dispute. we are learning about his records. specifically making huge sums of money and legislated on behalf of a number of companies after losing his senate seat. given the scrutiny that is now coming to bear upon this man, his big government lobbying and so on, can he sustain his surge? >> i think not. not only because he can't with stand the scrutiny, but he doesn't have the money to perpetuate a campaign. we are seeing a kimulsimilar pa. you have president obama looking presidential and talking about the economy and more specifically about how he turned the economy around. on the other hand you have the anti-romney social conservatives in the party making these deals

with the social conservatives and litigating the culture wars which they lost. talking about race as goldie points out and talking about religion and talking about marriage. talking about contraception and all of these things which are catnip for the social conservatives. but they are toxic for the rest of the public. while you have the president looking extremely presidential, you have these other candidates trying to get the vote saying these things that may thousand them and hurt them because they are like vampires because they can't with stand more than 15 minutes of sunshine. you lose the independents in the general election and we find out the unsavory background. we know about newt gingrich and it turns out people like rick santorum was effectively a lobbyist. they don't get the social conservative vote either. it's implosion. >> we have seen santorum rising

in the polls. there was a poll that has him in south carolina behind romney. romney at 37 and santorum at 19% and newt gingrich at 18%. santorum is in second place and yet not with standing the fact that he's doing well in the polls, why do you think santorum is making these kind of comments about culture wars that date back to the 70s and the 80s. for example, i'm sorry to repeat this and i said it earlier, i'm staggered where he said other cultures do not hold up value for human life as american culture does. >> sure, sure. i think even the polls today some people were stunned by them. i wasn't. i think that the race in south carolina specifically will get tighter as the days go along. nicky haley got into a lot of trouble for out right endorsing mitt romney in the race. the complex of south carolina

will change a bit as we get a bis closer and it will be a light tighter because of the kind of things rick santorum is saying. it's playing to the base we enjoy here in the american south. i think he's saying just the right things. will it help him in new hampshire? probably not. will it help in northern florida and the panhandle? absolutely. he knows what he's talking about and about to them. he's not frankly talking to the rest of us. will he be able to win the nomination based on that? probably not. will he be able to segue with independence and win the white house. absolutely not. the only thing if there is going to be a race that rick santorum will win, maybe he can be mayor of lego land. >> stay with us. coming up, the neutron bomb set to explode this weekend. >> i am prepared if the naacp invites me, i will go to the

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newt as showed wants to play this extremist card. the point he was making about the invitation about personal responsibility and listening to him talk about that is like taking lessons of religious tolerance from the taliban. i think there is no question this was going to be an everybody beat up on mitt romney weekend. the question is, do any of these candidates have the capacity to go and pursue a campaign after south carolina. the story in the republican campaign is this. the question is who wants to marry a millionaire. the millionaire being mitt romney and that is nobody. this is a paradox for republicans and democrats continue to benefit. >> you combined the caged match fighting with another broadcast.

going to goldie for a moment. on the subject of negativity, my colleague has an interview with newt himself on "hardball" this evening where he asks him about the negative ads that bombarded him in iowa. >> he said i could have called off the dogs and could have made it less negative, but why should i? he backed him up. >> here's my answer. he has grandchildren. he ought to run a campaign worthy of his grandchildren. he ought to take the ads home and say grandpa did this. what do you think about this trash on television? what do you think about somebody being beaten up? we should run campaigns worthy of our best. not campaigns that demean us to our worst. >> that are coming from a man who calls the president of the united states a food stamps president. >> i have watched newt gingrich's career since he launched it in the early 70s as a child. i saw him grow and take over

georgia and run other candidates for congress here in this state. i have to tell you he has been one of the nastiest campaigners i have ever run into in my life. the only guy who explains about nasty ads is the guy who cannot raise the money to answer them f. he could, he darn sure would. he certainly is not holding back because he's afraid his grandchildren may not approve. he says what he wants when he wants to say it. >> do you agree with that? is that your assessment of newt? >> i saw him. >> sheer explaining and whining and suggesting that mitt should have regard for his future grandchildren? >> this is the guy who is crying because he has to get off the backdoor from air force one under the clinton administration while he is trying to shut the government down. this guy has more positions with ethics and decency than a game of twister.

situational ethics is what define this is guy. goldie is right. this is a guy who pouts and i think he knows he lost this race. for him to then perry about like a statesman when he says such obnoxious things and when he on one hand invokes the 11th commandment and gets as debased as the attacks that he explains about, this guy is kind of becoming a cartoon figure in american politics and anything but a statesman. >> goldie, julian said he is a cartoon figure. isn't it the case that his presence polluted the discourse of this republican nomination process? where newt goes, others follow. look at santorum. >> newt gingrich pollutes whatever room he walks into unfortunately. the kind of thing he inserts

into the public discourse is deplorable stuff. i would welcome him to join us at the naacp's convention. i wonder what reception he would get with the holier than thou attitude towards african-americans specifically. i don't know that he regards any god higher than himself. i'm not sure that there is a cure for this other than after the race is over, he lost and gone back home to virginia. maybe we won't hear from him again. that's doubtful. >> there is a good side of this. it unmasks the republican party as wanting to litigate the culture wars while the democrats are trying to fix the economy as we saw. >> and trying to deal with unemployment. thanks for joining us. i are special when we had you across two segments. coming up, the candidates take up the war on women, but first amanda drury has the market wrap.

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the gop loves a good bogey man. two guesses and two words on the favorite target this election cycle. >> they eliminate all finneds for planned parent hood. >> cut the funding for planned parent hood. >> planned parent hood in my administration will be zeroed out. >> planned parent hood is such explosive stuff, newt gingrich thinks it's a useful weapon to get his rival in chief, mitt romney. >> as governor, he put planned

parent hood in romney care by name and as governor romney care has tax-paid abortions. >> the president of planned parent hood,y is seal ciel richard. >> hi, martin. >> how do you react when virtually never every single republican candidate chasing the nomination takes the opportunity to attack your organization and indeed wish that it didn't exist? >> well, i just -- i actually think it's been extraordinary to see this republican presidential primary where the fight is not about who's bad for women and women's health, but really who could be worse. and this is all across the board. i know you showed some clips, but including governor romney, who has pledged to end the national family planning program, who has pledged to end access to planned parenthood, and who has pledged to end roe

versus wade. it's really quite extraordinary. >> one of the big buzz words from the gop this year, as you know, is a personhood amendment, which wouldn't just ban a woman's right to choice, it would effectively ban birth control and in vitro fertilization. it was so controversial, mississippi voted it down this year. so the majority of voters in mississippi appear to be too liberal for the gop candidates. >> that's correct. no, it's absolutely amazing. you see governor romney again supporting a personhood amendment, which would, could not only disallow and prohibit access to commonly used forms of birth control, but also as you say, prohibit in vitro fertilization, even threaten access to women to health care, women who have cancer, who need cancer treatments. that is why the mississippi voters overwhelmingly rejected this kind of amendment. and it's just incredible to see how extreme the republican primary has gotten in this race to see who could be worse for

women. i think what they're really forgetting, martin, is at the end of the day, in november 2012, the majority of voters in this country are going to be women. and they are likely going to determine who the next president is. and they're not going to protect the these kind of attacks on women's health care access. >> indeed. you're in new hampshire now, and as you know, new hampshire is the cite of the next gop contest, but your organization has been in founding fight in that state, i believe, since the middle of last year. how effective has the fight against planned parenthood funding been, do you think? >> actually, i think what we've seen is an enormous backlash, not only here in new hampshire, but across the country, when politicians have tried to use planned parenthood and women's health issues as a political issue. i was at an event last night. we had hundreds of new people, young people, there to support planned parenthood. and of course, we're providing forces here to many -- to thousands of folks every year. and what we saw nationally is

when the u.s. house of representatives tried to end access to preventative care at planned parenthood, more than a million new activists joined planned parenthood in support, and many of them young people. and they're all voters. >> just a final question, one of the things i can't understand, the hatred and opposition for an organization that spends 97% of its total assets, total resources and facilities, on basic standard health care for women, and 3%, 3% on this, you know, contentious issue of abortion. >> right. well, the incredible thing, of course, is planned parenthood, we see 3 million patients a year, one in five women have been to planned parenthood in the united states. we do more to prevent unintended pregnancy and the need for abortion than any other organization in america. i think this is a political calculation, i think it's a political calculation on the

republican party's side, and it has a very long-term detrimental -- it's going to have an impact on the party. and frankly, i think it's going to cost them votes of women in the november elections. >> cecile richards, as ever, thank you for joining us this afternoon. >> thanks for having me, martin. >> we'll be right back to clear the air. when bp made a commitment to the gulf, we knew it would take time, but we were determined to see it through. today, while our work continues, i want to update you on the progress: bp has set aside 20 billion dollars to fund economic and environmental recovery. we're paying for all spill- related clean-up costs. and we've established a 500 million dollar fund so independent scientists can study the gulf's wildlife and environment for ten years. thousands of environmental samples from across the gulf

have been analyzed by independent labs under the direction of the us coast guard. i'm glad to report all beaches and waters are open for everyone to enjoy. and the economy is showing progress with many areas on the gulf coast having their best tourism seasons in years. i was born here, i'm still here and so is bp. we're committed to the gulf for everyone who loves it, and everyone who calls it home.

it's time now to leclear th air. i wonder if you'll indulge me for just a moment. i want to focus our attention on the issue of race as it affects the 2012 campaign by starting overseas. the london's central criminal court, two men were found guilty on tuesday for the notorious killing of a black teenager called steven lawrence. steven was actually murdered in 1993 at the age of just 18, but

it has taken almost exactly the same amount of time to prosecute his killers. now, there were a number of early police investigations, but they were sloppy, badly handled, and unprofessional. as a result, the british government in 1999, ordered a public inquiry into why, despite all of the evidence the police had, they failed to secure a single prosecution. the inquiry produced a damning report, accusing the police and other agencies of being institutionally racist. it also showed how political leaders could be responsible for either encouraging better race relations or making matters a whole lot worse by using cheap and nasty slurs. now listen to some of the things that are being said by these republican candidates. >> president obama is the most effective food stamp president in american history. >> i don't want to make black

people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money, i want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money. >> there's nothing subtle about newt gingrich or mr. santorum, their comments are clearly targeted at the president, who's black, and at other members of society, who haven't made millions of dollars from lobbying. but while sticks and stones may break your bones, the public inquiry into the life and death of steven lawrence shows that words can and do cause irreparable damage to a culture and a society. newt gingrich is never going to win the republican nomination, but he could badly damage race relations in the process, so here is a simple plea. let's cut out the food stamps rhetoric right now before things get any worse. thanks so much for watching. dyl dylan's here. and if i'm right, dylan, i believe you may soon be going on the road? is that right?