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>> everybody was staying that te about a steelers. >> what time is it? >> it's "morning joe," we'll be back here next monday. stick around right now for the daily rundown with chuck. eight days to go before the south carolina primary. the stars are lining around mitt romney. in texas social conservatives gathering to see if they coalesce around an alternative. but is it worth the risk? and as a surprising group of conservatives rally around romney, his campaign is up with its first defensive ad on bain. meanwhile the rhetoric from newt is not stopping the attack on bain. international outrage after the videos of u.s. military desecrating -- this is the daily
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rundown. i'm chuck todd. don't see any black cats, ladders. we started with a full moon on monday, we end with a friday the 13th. this is 2012. it's going to be a crazy year. also for those complaining about the reality show nature of this year's campaign, it's going to get even more ridiculous. let's get right to my first reads of the morning. here comes the cavalry. as he hits, as the hits on mitt romney's career at bain continues, campaign is rolling out a new ad in south carolina this morning that defends his record on bain. >> this is a business mitt romney helped start. and this one. and this steel mill. mitt romney helped create and ran a company that invested in struggling businesses, grew new ones and rebuilt old ones, creating thousands of jobs. those are the facts. we expected the obama administration to put free markets on trial. but as "the wall street journal"
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said, mr. romney's gop opponents are embarrassing themselves by taking the obama line. >> this is the first defensive seminegative ad from the actual romney campaign. most of that stuff, all that other negative stuff had come from the super pac, but romney is softening his tome. romney tried to show that he can feel voters' pain. >> i think any time a job is lost, it's a tragedy. for the family, for the individual that loses a job, it's just devastating. >> unemployment is not just a statistic, being unemployed for a long period means families having a hard time making ends meet. it means in some cases people having trouble in their marriages, losing faith, becoming depressed. it's a real tragedy. my job is to get americans back to work. if i'm president of the united states i'll worry about your jobs, not my job. >> bottom line for this week
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from mitt romney, it's been a good week in the primary campaign, it's been a bad week for him when you think about the general election. so with conservatives rallying behind romney, his opponents are struggling with how to keep questions on his record alive after losing one prominent south carolina backer. texas governor rick perry who described bain earlier this week as a bunch of vulture capitalist. he's dropped the term from his speeches, so the vulture flies no more. >> listen, i love capitalism. i mean free market capitalism in the state of texas has created over a million jobs. but this corrupt and fraudulent activity that's been going on in washington, d.c. between them and wall street has to stop. >> and perry was put on the defense by conservative radio host laura ingram. >> since 2000, you have received more than $7 million from private firms. you guys aren't vultures?
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>> romney's ron for president. >> and you're running for president too and you have benefitted from these terms. >> and i don't have a problem with that. >> meanwhile with the super pac hammering away at romney, romney tried to turn the story to his critics and the media. >> are you attacking bain or just asking questions? >> i'm asking questions. i'm shocked at how defense they are. >> mr. speaker, do you think mitt romney could have saved those jobs? is there anything he could have done to save those jobs? >> you don't know, do you? >> newt was on the defensive again in florida where he raised money last night and he's campaigning in miami and orlando today. >> the overreaction of people to questioning a presidential candidate's record as though i was now engaged in a assault on free enterprise is one of the most absurd things i have ever seechb
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seen. he gets to ask about it, and we're supposed to trust him. this is like obama's stimulus package that magically created jobs that didn't exist. >> in texas social conservatives are meeting in what may be a last ditch effort to see if they can rally around either newt gingrich or rick santorum. >> ultimately aren't you looking for someone as president you can trust? what would give you the idea that someone who has changed his position on almost every single issue is someone you can trust, that when they get into the tempest, in washington, d.c., that they're going to stand by the principlesa they have never stood by before. my message is not driven by polls, it's driven by conviction. >> by the way, santorum is getting some big crowds, what does that mean? the romney super pac is
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making -- >> if we consolidate conservatives, we could beat romney by a big margin. my hope is the average south carolinian will decide they want to stop romney, not just cast a protest vote. >> we heard from richard land on this show yesterday, he technically doesn't confirm or deny that he's actually attending the meeting, but he sort of winks when he says that. you have to think about for the conservatives, is it worth the risk of alienating the most likely nominee of the party for months or potentially for years and that's what's going through the minds of some of these movement conservative leaders. attacks on romney's time at bain capital may be galvanizing conservatives and even activists and prompting this super pac ad against newt gingrich.
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>> newt gingrich's attacks are called foolish, out of bounds and disgusting. neil newt took 1.6 million from freddy macarthur, and signed a deal with nancy pelosi. don't be fooled by newt's desperate attacks. restore our future is responsible for the content of this message. >> reid wolfson is the journalist at the hotline. always important for me to point out hotline ties. reid wilson, let me start with you. i made the contention, good week for midromney as far as the primary is concerned, but that doesn't mean that he hasn't southeastern some general election problems introduced big-time this week. >> it was a great week for romney. he showed up after winning in new hampshire, he showed up in columbia. i was at that first rally.
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he had easily five times as many people as any other candidate as i saw over those first sort of three days where everybody descended on south carolina. but in the general election, it seemed like newt gingrich and rick perry and rick santorum were using the talking points. perry is going around talking about two south carolina businesses that bain closed and lost some jobs on. we're going to hear it in battleground states in october. >> and jessica, this is not the issue we thought we would be hearing in the run to the south carolina primaries, south carolina is usually about social issues and we'll be hearing more about that. given what the romney super pac is going to do, they're showing what my gut said was going to happen, either they're attacking romney more. >> santorum is being hit over his earmarks and everything, you have seen a sort of circular firing squad where all of them
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are attacking one another. and what you're starting to see is that romney is still beating in south carolina even though he may not be the most socially acceptable candidate they can't rally around a certain candidate. social conservatives couldn't pick one candidate. they were sort of split between mitt romney and mike huckabee there. >> you're seeing the conservative activist base seeing that romney's going to win. they're jumping off the bandwagon from rick perry to mitt romney. but some of those in the keep your powder dry for -- those who wanted to stay on the sidelines and wait for somebody else have decided there's nob else coming and they're going to go with the winner. >> the gains of south carolina politics, there really is sort of these different cables of
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people. there are four factions inside the party. but we're not seeing them, they're sort of the dirty tricks, or whatever it is, their reputation, we're not seeing that percolate this week. >> anything can happen, but i also think this time voters are very concerned with the economic message. south carolina while i think it is a very conservative evangelical state, it also does have some of these more fiscally moderate voters especially down in the low country and down on the coast, that's where you'll see mitt romney try to get his base in there and get those voters. if he can do that and if he can do strong in the low country, sort of break even, i think he can have a chance to get the plurality that he needs to win. >> at one point, south carolina isn't necessarily the free trade capital of the world and i think gingrich is trying to touch on this, listen to this comment. >> you go talk to folks whose mortgages are under water, they
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somehow don't get the same break as a multinational bank. you talk to the folks who are going to pay the taxes and pay off the -- let me tell you, the american people have the right to know and people who are going to run for high office have an obligation to be trance parent and available to the american people. >> reid, south carolina voters, not big fans of free trade, not big fans of globalization, in an odd way, as all of this defense of bain comes up in free markets may rouse some tea party voters in south carolina. >> one of the other sides of this, though, is as you mention off the top, south carolina's unemployment rate, 9.9%, well over the nashville averational
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and new hampshire were under the national average. mitt romney has won a greater share of those who say the economy is the most important issue to them than he has among the electorate at large. in south carolina, that segment of the electorate is just going to get bigger. >> that's the question, is it going to be bigger? i don't know, i don't any we know the answer to that. >> the segment of the electorate that cares about the economy. up next, the image problem. new fallout from that video of marines desecrating the bodies of dead taliban militants. and is the u.s. secretly meeting with iran leaders. and did a mississippi judge overstep his bounds by stopping the release of some prisoners that were pardoned by governor barber, the controversy deepens, we're going to tell you what to
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watch for in that story. first a look ahead at the president's schedule. he has some remarking this morning, he's going tuke about government reform, some sort of merging of agencies. they have been trying to do this, i can tell you, for 18 months, the rollout finally here on merging potentially commerce and the trade, all the various trade agencies, you're watching the daily rundown on msnbc. while some fiber ads use super models, metamucil uses super hard working psyllium fiber, which gels to remove unsexy waste and reduce cholesterol.
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visions of abu graebh all over again. the fallout could be the same in afghanistan as it was in iraq. but military investigators are looking into possible criminal charges against the four marines who appear in this offensive video and one that sent shockwaves afternoon the world. the video first posted on the internet sent the marine corps into a tail spin, four u.s. marines in full combat gear are seen urinating on the bodies of three dead militants. pentagon and military officials rushed to condemn the video, calling it appalling and outrageous. >> that kind of behavior is deplorable. and i condemn it. >> secretary of state hillary clinton blasted the video. >> it is absolutely inconsistent with american values, with the standards of behavior that we
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expect from our military personnel. >> the resulting backlash against the u.s. military came fast and hard. in kabul. president hamid karzai called the marines' actions insane and demanded that they be severely punished. >> this video could be used to valley enemy forces in afghanistan. >> it's like abbut abu graibh. certainly we are concerned about any backlash that might occur. >> but how could this happen? military investigators will try to determine if there was a breakdown in the marine command. >> as offensive as this video was, we have seen these kinds of things before in iraq and afghanistan and some far worse. but i have got to tell you, we haven't seen the kind of organized, strenuous response
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from so many military and pentagon officials that it's clear that these guys are in for a tough road ahead because it appears anyway, that the pentagon and the military want to throw the book at these guys. >> and this comes right when there's discussions of potentially starting to sit down and negotiate with the taliban. >> that's interesting because there were mixed signals out of the taliban this week. in one breath they said, oh, yes, this is terrible, how they desecrated our dead, but this should not derail the peace talks and then in another breath they said, but it will encourage us to launch more attacks against the u.s. the bottom line is you really can't trust anything that the taliban says publicly. >> jim miklaszewski at the pentagon this morning. our four star general barry mccaffrey, what i really want to
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talk about when it comes to iran and the growing tensions there, i just want to get your understanding of where this breakdown, and i know you talked to mic about there yesterday, this breakdown in command, cell phone video gets taken all the time. i understand this, but where did the discipline breakdown happen in your opinion? >> well, look, chuck, you know, the marines are the most disciplined effective fighting force on the face of the earth. this is not a in accordance with their own values, these are four marines acting like idiots in violation of the ucmj. i'm a little concerned about the national overreaction of our senior leadership. we ought to ask the battalion commander and the command sergeant major to explain how they're going to reinstill discipline to include in what was a squauz sized union. that was a lance corporal and three young marines acting in a primitive manner. so we can't tolerate that. we have had 17,000 killed and
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wounded in afghanistan. we spent $345 billion, so listening to karzai run out on tv and accentuate this is pretty hard to take. i think we have got to put it in context. this is not abu graibh. this was a policy that reached into the secretary of defense's office and general officers. this is four young marines who need their buns kicked and the battalion needs some retraining. >> when you're on a sniper team, you're an elite marine, are you not? >> sure, but life in a rifle company in combat is pretty darn brutal, particularly in afghanistan. so these marines are under fire or exposed to being ripped apart by ieds half the days they were in afghanistan. they had just killed these three people who i assume were
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shooting at them. this is primitive behavior. but this doesn't call for a national embracing of this as a failure of our system, never mind our proud, effective, courageous marine corps. >> let's talk about this showdown with iran. a lot of moving parts here, we have got this issue in the straits of hormuz. how concerned are you about iran not heeding the warnings of the u.s. military here about these actions in the straits? >> i think we ought to pay a lot of attention to it. it doesn't make any sense for a mill tire force been employed by anyone in the persian gulf. this is 20% of the world's global oil coming out through the straits of hormuz. i think widely people have discounted it, saying, oh, come on, they have no intention to do that. then i heard a disquieting observation, well they really can't do it either, they don't have the capability. i think they can close down the
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gulf. the revolutionary guard corps has a couple of thousands naval mines. they have short base cruise missile batteries and they have 26 minisubs and three soviet submarines. so we ought to take this as -- their backs are against the wall. congressm mandated and the president signed that may be start strangling their own experts. >> iran nmay decide they have t retaliate, the sanctions and another nuclear scientist assassinate assassinated. >> this administration is committed to preventing iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. >> is it fair to say that covert
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action would be on the table? >> i'm not going to discuss those kinds of things from here. >> but you can say definitively that it wouldn't be the policy of the united states to covertly assassinate people? >> well, look -- >> to be involved in an attempt like that. >> what we have said is that we deplore the violence, deplore the action. >> deplore it enough to -- >> it's a violation of the u.s. policy that you talk about and i'm not about to revise that from here. >> the administration saying, look, we had nothing to do with these assassinations, but that doesn't mean we're not trying to stop your programs. >> the existence of israel is at stake in the coming five years. the iranians are going nuclear, within 16 months, they'll have a dozen missiles, probably 150 now
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that can strike israel. the israelis are on edge. and the israelis have more than 150 nuclear weapons. so we are properly concerned. i don't think economic sanctions and tiny pin pricks of covert operations can dissuade them from what their goal is. so we're going to face a nuclear armed iran in the very near future and this is bad news for the region and for world peace. >> and you don't believe that -- do you believe the u.s. government would be involved in these little assassination, james bond-like episodes or is that really something the assaad would more likely be involved? >> thank god for the cia, they are the cleverest people on the face of the planet. i hope we're doing everything we can in covert operations to signal them that that is a real threat to the region. the saudis, the gulf coast
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states, the sunni arabs are properly horrified at the press pebl prospect of a nuclear armed iran in the near future. >> general, thanks for sharing your wisdom with us this morning. >> good to be with you chuck. well will wral street suffer from triskiadekaphobia on this friday the 13th? we'll tell you who's jumping into the race and who isn't. but first today's trivia question, there are 115 members of congress with military service including in in the national guard and reserves, among those, how many are women? the first correct answer gets an actual follow-up friday for us. the answer coming up on the daily rundown. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] how do you get your bounce?
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just over a week to go. these are live pictures here of rick myr rick perry. also stumping in the state today while newt gingrich is splitting his time between south carolina and there there. we'll be tracking all that as the snow moves on. opening bell just rang on wall street. becky quick is here, okay, friday the 13th. what is the history of friday the 13th? >> it's a spooky holiday, chuck. and it's been one that people are very concerned at around the markets. but they looked at the last 14 fridays the 13th, the markets actually went higher. but it may not happen today because, chuck, there's just some news that's hilting the wires that has the markets turning even lower right now as
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we're opening. those dow futures are down by about 95 points just as we got into this opening bell and that's because of a report that is just out on reuters saying that the s&p is getting ready to downgrade several euro zone countries. this is not including germany. we have seen stories like this float out there before, rumors that there's an imminent downgrade of france. standard and poors is set to downgrade several of those european countries. it's obviously having an impact on trading today. the other big story is jpmorgan. they came out with earnings per share of 90 credibility 0 corre. but they also talked about revenues lower than expected.
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all those things adding up together are making this look like this is going to be one of those friday the 13ths that we don't actual s the markets moving higher. >> my apologizes, on closer look by the way, i you're wearing navy blue. >> you have good eyes, it reads black on television, but it is navy blue. you're right. >> i got a little help. >> the daily rundown, we'll be back in 30 seconds.
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a few other stories making headlines, president obama wants congress to give him the power to merge six agencies into one. later this morning president obama will announce that he plans to ask congress for more power to merge several departments and agencies that focus on commerce and trade. this thing that has held this up for months has been congress because there's always a subcommittee on something in these trade and commerce agencies. some subcommittee chair doesn't want to give up his power to be subcommittee chair. according to "the wall street journal," federal reserve chairman ben bernanke and his colleagues missed the warning signs of the housing market's collapsed. the paper combed through transcripts predicting a soft landing when housing prices started to decline in 2006. i guess that's an oops. and the rates in south carolina just got a little more
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crowded. stephen colbert announced that he's forming an exploratory commission to be president of the united states of south carolina. >> i'm doing it! and with your help, and possibly the help of some sort of outside group, that i am not coordinating with, we can explore taking this country back. thank you, god bless you all and god bless citizens united. >> somewhere pat paulson is smiling. kolber also handed over control of his own supermac. actually you can't write in anybody's name on the republican -- there is fresh outrage in mississippi over the pardon of more than 200 convicts. official from the state's attorney general's office.
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former governor haley barbour reported last week. they were supposed to report back regardless of whether there was going to be some sort of stay on this, correct? >> that's right. a judge said that after they were already released. so their defense could be we didn't know that, that wasn't something they were told upon their release, that was something that was adjudicated later. according to the local newspaper, a one line reference in the pape, they can't find them yet. we have called the attorney general's office to see how many people are out there and what's going on and we'll get back to you when we know. what we do know is that there's an effort in south carolina to prevent what has happened here. there's a great sense in this state that mississippi has been given a black eye publicly because of what has happened, because of these pardoning and
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the outrage over it ch because of these pardons in the state capitol, there are a couple of efforts. the democrats are urging that there's a constitutional amendment that the governor will talk to law enforcement authorities and victim's families before pardoning any violent criminal. and there's another effort that's even more severe, and it's reported by the current governor phil bryant that says that there has to be clear evidence of some sort of wrong doi doing, that the conviction was wrongful, there was dna evidence that supports the conviction. >> where is haley barbour? >> we don't know where he is, we do know that he's not talking. at least publicly. there's a lot of efforts to get him to explain what he has done. he has given a written statement but he's not talking to us and
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to our knowledge not talking to anyone else publicly. >> mark potter in jackson, mississippi. as you know, haley barbour are a big part of republican politics. he is being relied upon to raise millions of dollars to be the front man for american crossroads, politically this is going to have an impact on whether he can raise money. i wa i. all right, so does the attorney general have a case here? >> yes, undoubtedly. here's the thing, chuck, the u.s. constitution gives the president of the united states extremely broad pardon power. he can pardon anybody they want any time. the states vary, some don't let their governors to pardon at all. >> in tennessee, it launched fred thompson's movie career.
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>> in the constitution the governor can't pardon anyone until their petition for pardon is published in the county newspaper, in the county where the crime was committed for at least 30 days before the pardon. that's the problem here. s that that is the legal -- this is right next to the governor's pardon power. it's part of that same photograph. it's in the constitution. it says no pardon shall be granted until the petition for a pardon has been published in the county newspaper for at least 30 days before the pardon is granted. now unquestionably, some of the folks that did get a pardon from governor barbour did not fulfill that request, including the ones that were getting the most attention, the ones who were trustees in the governor's mansion and the ones who had been convicted of killing people. what the judge did though is said everybody who's been pardon has to come in and explain to me
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that they actually did this. when the attorney general first went to court earlier this week, he said we think he didn't fulfill this requirement for everybody but they didn't have any specifics in his original request. and the judge's response was okay, without asking for much -- and i think it's sort of interesting that the judge is required, even the people who unquestionably did satisfy the rule to come? and prove that they did. so these pardons are all presumed improper until they come in and tell the judge that they were property. >> does governor barbour face any legal jeopardy here at all, it's just that some of his pardons will be invalid? >> they will be invalid. >> for sort of incorrectly granding the part. >> no pardon can be granted until the people asking for it fulfill these rules. if these people did get legal advice. if the people seeking pardons
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actually had lawyers helping them, i think they got some pretty bad advise. in terms of fulfilling the statute requirement that they do this. some of them asked for the ads to be run, but didn't pay the newspapers, so they haven't run yet. some of them missed the deadline by a couple of days, it's sort of sloppy on all side here. >> there's a political angle to this. >> without question. >> what role does haley barbour become politically radioactive for at least a period of time. it's been another wild week in the presidential campaigning. we're just eight days away from the first in the south primary. and sunday on "meet the press," don't miss republican candidate newt gingrich. and also a conversation with senate majority leader harry re reid. first before we go to break,
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joaquin phoenix. thank you in my ear. the hits on mitt romney just keep coming, the newest line of attack from nuewt gingrich. romney has the gal to speak french. >> what has massachusetts given us? a liberal governor who wanted us to believe he is strong on defense. a liberal senator who wanted us to believe he was a man of the people. and a massachusetts moderate who runs away in ronald reagan. massachusetts moderate mitt romney, he'll say anything to win, anything, and just like john kerry -- >> [ speaking french ] >> he speaks french too. >> democratic strategist jamaal simmons is the national democratic contributor for go vote.com. and erin mcpike, political
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reporter for real clear politics. okay, the stop romney forces are in full effect. jennifer, we know you're very supportive of mitt romney at this point. >> i'm supportive of rick s santor santorum, i think cream rises to the top. >> picking up on your massachusetts theme, it's something i'm surprised we haven't seen sooner. eric erickson is an influential blogger. only the dmc can lose twice and think they should nominate one. >> that was the guy who said rick perry was the savior of the republican party, so let's put his remarks in context. but i think what this shows is a realignment of a reconsideration of this very silly, very counter productive attack that went on all week, that essentially has belly flopped horribly for them, now you have rush limbaugh and
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club for growth, jim demeant coming to romney's rescue. >> the irony of this is that if there was a singular alternative, mitt romney would be in trouble. the reason he's not in trouble is there's no single alternative. >> there's no mitch daniel, there's no john boone. the expectations from romney now as a general election candidate are so low, he's got nine months to clean it up. everybody talks about him as bob dole, john kerry. >> what's their low? let's not get carried away here. >> people talk about how barack obama is so beatable. >> sure. >> but you look at how mitt romney is just a bad politician, and a bad kid. in that sense the expectations of him performing as a candidate are low. >> i want to get a few other elements in here. and i'm well aware that democrats feel like they have had a good week.
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that romney has had a good week in the primary, but they have had a good week in the general. but romney is, you know, blitzing, trying to make south carolina, trying to earn ing ti race early. he put out a robo call. >> romney and his business career created more jobs than the entire obama cabinet combined so he could actually talk about it. >> this kuehl is paid for by romney for president, inc. >> that was take from a debate back early on when we had good newt on the stage. when newt was running a positive campaign. >> i think the tough part for romney right now is his campaign is built on three legs, it's the republican desire to get rid of obama, it's the bad economy and his standing as a business leader. right now the economy seems to be turning around and his standing as a business leader is being called into question in
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front of the entire american public. >> those are the long-term issues. >> he's got a real problem on his hands. >> this is short-term and what's interesting here is that our future is up with an attack ad not on newt gingrich. but on santorum. here's a piece of it. >> barack obama knows four facts about rick santorum that you don't. santorum voted for the bridge to nowhere. a teapot museum. santorum voted to raise the debt limit five times and he even voted to let convicted felons vote. how will santorum beat obama? obama knows he can't. >> there you go. it has been my hunch that it's santorum that's the biggest threat to romney in south carolina, followed by newt. >> i think that newt has blown himself up this week, huntsman
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is a nonfactor in this, so that leaves one guy. he's been getting very big crowds there, they feel like they're in a very good place. they're very positive, very aggressive. >> the only two guys that can win in win south carolina, romney and santorum. real polling will start coming out in the next few days. stick around, got more to talk about including remember when guys were running for president in 2008? trivia time, we asked, there are 115 members of congress with the military service including the national guard and reserves. among those, how many are women. the answer is just one. florida congresswoman sandy adams grew up in a military family. at 17, she dropped out of high school and joined the air force. we'll be right back. you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus presents: the cold truth. i have a cold. and i took nyquil but i'm still stubbed up. [ male announcer ] sorry, buddy. truth is, nyquil doesn't un-stuff your nose. what? [ male announcer ] it doesn't have a decongestant. really?
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for him to say something like that, maybe it makes him feel better but it is not the truth. the fact is that fred thompson was viewed as a viable candidate. it is not necessarily so that he took all of huckabee's votes. all i can say to governor huckabee, good luck in your program on fox, but you're not telling the truth. >> well, there you go. let's bring back the panel. i couldn't help myself. this was yesterday. you had john mccain, mike huckabee talking about this issue of rallying around an alternati alternative. you heard richard land, the mistake they made was not rallying around huckabee in '08. john mccain convinced fred thompson to stay in the race. that sparked that outrage. but it gets to the issue of not rallying around one candidate. >> right. and i had a conversation with the santorum campaign and this is their pitch. they're saying, newt has blown himself up this week. huntsman has blown it. ron paul is unelectable. i'm it. now is the time. if you did what you did in '08, you'll have a divided
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conservative field and mitt romney will win the race. >> what happens in texas? do you think some of the conservatives say, you know what, do we want to alienate the leader of the republican party, potential leader of the republican party, not just for eight months but potentially for four years? >> they have been backing off it by not picking one and just not going after romney. maybe we need to do this, but they're just not endorsing him yet. but they're waiting. i don't think they'll rally around one. >> jamaal, there was one other development this week that we have pointed out that it has gone under the radar. the new hampshire result in the democratic primary. the turnout number that they drove, and, you know, clinton got a much bigger number in '96. bush got a slightly bigger number in '04. >> it is trending away. it is not good for the president. i think he even talked to people on the campaign, they'll say new hampshire will be a tough battle for them. they're not the kind of voters -- >> geographically, it is not near any other swing states, so
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do you end up sort of oddly, well, we'll find the four electoral votes somewhere else? >> they got much richer ground out west to try to plow. i think arizona is one of those states that you may see a lot more attention. >> shameless plug, general fore, i'll go with you. >> go to the thomas jefferson community center in the 4 by 200 boys jv and the 4 by 400 jv, fast freshmen. >> we'll be looking. all right. >> the real clear politics polling average on target in new hampshire, so -- >> there you go. that means even though my theory of the garbage polling, enough good polling at the end to get it right. suffolk, they were the ones that nailed it. >> mine say little sad. ofield dukes, one of the deans and media advisers for hubert humphrey, did the mlk announcement, the cbc launched, he passed away a few weeks ago. i'm leading a bunch of the current african-american political communicators to his
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memorial service after i leave here. so we're all going to pay homage to someone who helped pave the way for all of us to do our jobs. >> thank you, jamaal. that's it for this weekend edition of "the daily rundown." we'll see you on monday and on tuesday on the road again. coming up, "chris jansing and company" and then andrea mitchell. stick around all day today. bye-bye. [ male announcer ] feeling like a shadow of your former self? c'mon, michael! get in the game! [ male announcer ] don't have the hops for hoops with your buddies? lost your appetite for romance? and your mood is on its way down. you might not just be getting older. you might have a treatable condition called low testosterone or low t. millions of men, forty-five or older, may have low t. so talk to your doctor about low t. hey, michael! [ male announcer ] and step out of the shadows. hi! how are you? [ male announcer ] learn more at isitlowt.com. [ laughs ] hey! the two trains and a bus rider.
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