>> i will in the acceptance speech challenge the president to seven, thrhree-hour debates. >> this week, newt gingrich soaring in the polls and brimming with a self-confidence. >> if i am president i will be true to my family, my faith, and to our cntry. >> mittneomney, family man targeting you know who. >> i did not think anyone has been a flawless. >> this is the defining issue of our time. this is a make or break moment for the middle clasass. >> president obama cnnels his inner teddy roosevelt and gives us a pview of his 2012 campaign. secretary of althnd h human seices overrules theda onn the after-r-sex appeal for young girls. if you are a republican money to be president, why must you seek

the blessing of donald trump? >> a great honoror to have newt gingrich up there. amazing howow welhe is doing. captioned the national captioning institute --www.w.ncic.org-- >> lets start by acknowledging that poles cannot predict the future, esciallyn places like iowa and new hampshire. however, i feel compelled to notehat accordi to a recent poll, newt gingrich has double- digit leads over mitt romney in flororida, pennsylvania, and ohio. he is well ahead of romney in iowa and getting closer in new hampshire and with out in front in south carolina. this is making a lot of democrats -- but happiss. they might want to be careful what they wish for. it has some mainstream republicans riddled with anxie but newt gingrich says he will take a high road a matter what anybody says about him. >> i am going to stay positive. i am going to talk about how we solve the countries problems and how to be barack obama.

>> i am not inclined to be a supporteof newt gingrich having served under him for four years and experience personally his leadership. >> i don't thinink newt gingch cares about conservativ principles, he cares about newutt gingrich. >> republican senator -- and a former new hampshire governor john sununu. what happened to ronald reagan's 11th commandment and thou shall not speak ill of another republican? >> i sort of applaud newt -- i think it is an object -- evitable -- he is using surrogate, but you have sunu and othersry to takeim down. newt has a trendous vulnerabilities and romney will try to exploithem. >> charles, what is going on? >> neewt says his only opponent is obama. that is not true. of the main opponent is the media. the reason why he was so popular and early debates is he took on

every question, every moderator. he is on rocket ride and we will see if he can sustain himself with out having an apollo 13 moment. >> lby? >> he will take " high road until the numbers are going do. he will get in there and mix it up with mitt romney if he has to. not only -- romney y even put out aa commercial that took a h hit at newt gingrich because of his iticism of the paaul ryan planned. >> richard n nixon came back from a political bone yard. why not new gingrich? >> he could. what we have seen this week is an explosion and pubc of what we heard in private, from republicans who know him and do not loveim. it is really across the board. it is the people who served with him, but who came in with h him

and congress who you would think would be grateful to him but are not. they donon't trust him they do not think he has the kind of - -- to be president today are worried he would take down the party with him. but t there is aeal question whether it can sell to the rest of the country that does not know when. been his positives -- he is a good debater, and entertaining debate. he is not afraid to take on the moderator, which everybody likes. he will attack any direction. you do not know where it is coming from. also he has a track record. now, he claims all of the credit -- he does not give any to bill clinton -- >> attacking the moderator is often an excellent tactic. to put it in the least invious way, people are worried abo him because he getseized enthusiasm. let's not talk about the motives.

but ithere is an intellectual fad, like global warming or a ne kind of management technique, he isis on board. people worried if he is president of the united states, who knows what side of that he will wake up on, and what way he would involve governmen he is a big government republican in the tradition of george w. bush and many others in the past. he is not sort out of the mainstream. but the party is nowmall government or at least the main elements and the thrust is small government. i think ultimately thatill be his problem. >> let's give him his due for a second. when he was speaker of the house,e, just getting there was an achievement. he actually got house t to vote to cut medicare inhe the summer of 199-- no, 1995. that was aact of leadership, a hard thing to do. he got his colleagues to cut entitlements and that will be the no. 1 job of the president to cut entitlements. he also knows a whole more

history than his colleagues -- itit is a lobar -- but relatatively smartethan the people he is debating. having said that, he is somebody who is a fabulous to who just cannot hp himself -- can make a lotf sense until the 59th minute and then he has to exaggerate. it is just in his dna. >> when i say the democrats should be careful of what they ask f -- i mean, this is a weird year. >> it is a very weird year and democrats, hard to remember, but they thought having ronald reagan as thstandard bearer would be good for them. that they could beat him. they could be wrong about this. but newt gingrich has a way of stepping in it. let's not forget he did essentially plead guilty to an ethics violation, in which he paid $300,000 when the republicans controlled the house. >> also, with ronald reagan newt gingrich is really going to

get it in the neck from his own party. you see the establishment and lining up to take shots at nhnhtsa gingrich. but if he got the nomination, the record against him would be handed to the democrats. >> as of the co-author of the new political online bobook "the right fights back" is this where they want to go, newt gingrich? >> i don't. and i think the right will eventually desoy him. it -- the right really does not like romney, either, and the right wing does notave an ideacandidate so they are flailing of around having flflavor of the month and having a hard me warming up to romney. >> the e ride it newt ginich is having now is the right perry was supposed to have any throwaway. >> charles? >> i think the anti-romney cents has be very strong and

constant. about 30% of the electorate. it h looked for a vassal each time. what i think is in newt's faber is he is the lastn the list. i am not sure there are plausible alternatives. he is also the most adept and the best on his feet, a lot of ideas. he mighte the one that does not actually come down. > the clock is in his favor. >> president freight rail delivered caterpillar to peoria more than 100 years ago. and they're still delivering cat machines today. you can find us on every continent. and the journey starts here on freight rail america's freight rail companies. helping deliver jobs across this country and goods around the world. reinvesting billions of their own money every year to build a rail network that powers our economy. nobody moves more dirt than caterpillllar.

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]hing ] >> teddy roosevelt came here and laid out his vision for what he called a new nationalism. for this, roosevelt was called a radical, he was called a socialist,ven a communist. >> in his kansas speech, the president said his political

opponents have been on the wrong side of history for a century. >> their philosophy is simple -- we are better off when everybody is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules. i am herere to say, they are wrong. >> robert reich, bill clinton that the secretary o of labor said president obama's speech in kansas was the most ifor an economic speech of his presidency the president seizes the fure of the middle-class is the defining issue because what is at stake is whether this will be a cotry where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build savings, on their home, secure retirement. 100 years ago, teddy roosevelt talked about income inequality. does it tell you? >> it lays out essentially philosophical differences between barack obama and republican opponents. don't think it was an ecomic speech that he gave because there were few economic prescriptionons, but he did discuss -- he put into

perspeive how we got here. he addressed the question of collective amnesia about our past and what we had to do as a country to geto where we are is completely different fromm what you would get from, say, a paul ryan, the way you look at america. >> charles, i read your column. he said he was not channeleling 10 rose about as much as hugo chavez -- not channeling teddy roosevelt as much as hugo chavez. >> he gave a nice historical -- except to let out a critical three years, his presidency. it was as if it did not exist. as if we jump from 2008 until today. if his speech was intended to say at everything that happened in the last three years has nothing to do with my admininistration or policies -- economomic stagnation, high unemployment -- it is a rult of the malice of the rich.

he talked about that length. it is a classic example of how little it takes to stirred the air erogenous zones of liberals. you give them a speech with social justice and little bit of class warfare, you wrap it up in the patina of intellectualism, and it is essentially a speech that exonerates anything he has done an obviously has not done. it says all our problems today are the result of the plutocrats. that is why he is more like hugo chavez than he is a teddy roosevelt in this speech. >> stirring the r rajahs the zones of lirals. >> not hard to do. >>ou got to love it. >> i thought this was, as a piece of rhetoric, or a piece of history, a really good speech. althgh the combination does not tell you what he wants to do next. having said that, the rhetoric of our country over the last 30 or 40 years is increasingly in

praise o wealth and agreed and not any swat -- kind of community values ogrear good. you have to remember, when fdr gave his famous inaugural, said an inaugur, he said something like, they hate me and i revel in their hatred. no democrat would say such a thing today. and yet far smile both things are called class warfare. >> but there is something going on- the tea party occupy,nd the polls showing h upset people are. >> a real tribute to occupy wall street that the presidents now using 99% 1% thing. but where is the beef? teddy roosevelt, when he gave his speech, had a real platrm -- progressive income tax, child labor laws, and all sts of progrsive legistion. ere is no of that.

the only substantive thing is let us taxax the very mitch to more by taking with a tax brereak they had. real befe would be tax reform something that addresses interest groups -- interest groups. i did not think it will be memorable unless he addsds substance. >> clearly it does not happen to your ride in his own. >> it left me cold, actually. >> you never been there.e. >> i am not going to go there, charleles. this is a familyhow. [laughter]r] he d something else and this speech that is important. he described the situation in which we f found ourselves in 2008. 2008, we wer facing this tremendous prospect of a financialollapse. gettg out from under that

takes time and he was too optimistic when he said things will get done in the first couple of years. it will take awhile to gett out -- we were in the deest since the great depression. people want to forget that. people want to fget dollars million jobs lost because of the collapse of the housing industry and the constrtion indusy. those are things that will take time. the fact of the matter is, he can't point to politics trends and it --e can n point to positive things in the economy as a result of t things that were done. the stimulus stopped the economy from falling further. >> the history in the first term, if es two, or his presidency, if he has won, ise spent the three years doing nothing abt the major drain on our economy and productivity -- entitlement reform, tax reform all of that that he wouldave

had support on the left and right, he left out. if which chose instead is a if you raise the incomes of the rich by 4.5 points, that would be a panacea -- the taxes on the rich. complete non sequitur. >> it was to stop the decline. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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>> this is a first in my memory, the secretary of health an human services overruled the the head of the fda who decided to make the contraceptive pill plan b available on drug store selllls to everyone without restrictions. fda administrator margaret hamburg said there is adequate reasonable, well-supporteted and science-based evidence that plan b one step is safe and effective and can be approved for non- prescription use of all females of tout bearing potential. not so fast, said kathleen

sebelius. girls under 16 will still ed a prescription. what is going on,, 6 -- politics or signs? >> it oks like politics to me. this is the sesecond time a panel, a board, fda board, has recommended this. a first in the bush administration and now this term. you can't really -- sin the first one, nonow the bill is really easy. it is not even complicated. you just take a pill a day after. if you say 15 or 13 or even 12 years old and need a prescription to get it tillhe of they may not understand ho to take it, which is what the secretary said you would have to say that about aspir, nose spray. i realize there is a lot of emotional freight t that goes with it, which why s did what she did. >> are the medical or health reasons? >> there don't have to be. it is not asf science determines policy. it informs i tells you what the safety is,

but you make a political syem. like stem cells mammograms did you make a decision. i would defendant as a political decision that ought to be made off with the valuess of the couny in mind. a lot of stuff is safe and we cannot allow -- marijuana drugs, and all of this other stuff. you ma a political decision and i think it is reasonable. it is an arbitrary age 16, but nonetheless, a 12-year-old essentially aborting herself as a big deal, anddults ought to be invnvolved. >> requiring a 12-year old girl to get a doctor before -- >> she would get her sister to do it. you guys are so unrealistic. >> let h finish. [laughter] >> a licy -- as a part,

wod you want that to happen? would you want your 11-year-old to be able to go and get a pill that aabort a child? >> the question is, the access to these bills, would increase promiscuity? that is the policy question. i doubt it. >> also, is a 12-year-old able to handle all of the consequences of such an event? regret -- apart from the increase, as you might expect, promiscuity, it is a more complicated issue. it is not an easy issue but the idea that somehow science will determine how we act on this is nonsense. >> let me ask another question unrelated to this about a payroll tax cut. ththe senate blocked it this week -- that is pure politics, right on both sides. >> that is potical. but it is also not the last word. we are going to do something

about t it because politically they cannot let the so-called tax increase take place. >> only 6% of the amerirican people on the gallup polls and i don't want members of congresss reelected -- when 60 percent of the american people on the gallup polls say i don' want members of congress reelected. >> in exchange for -- they want to get something out of the administration if they're going to do get the payroll tax cut. >> it sounds like it is going to be a last minute -- but in any normal year -- doing this show for a long time -- they are just so crazy and screwed up. >> they d it last year without big fan fail -- fanfare. >> i think t republicans are smart and tying it to the keystone pipeline which is a purerely political decision, meaning a dision abominate

that would help win in his reelection in which he postponed for a year approval of a pipeline t the state government had approved and studied for ree years. i think republicans hold onto it as a jobs action because it would crereate a lot of jobs, it putsts obama in a really tight spot. >> don't let the epa turn the lights

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and the donald trump -- >> he is also great businessman. we have to be open to new ways of doing things and approaching things. >> that apparently includes kissing donald trump's ring. he is the final on the celebrity c culture, but what interests me -- if you get an endorsement from him, what does it mean? for 18%, it actually hurts. actually two people will show up to the debate -- newt gingrich and robert santorum. >> the last one before the iowa

caucus. >> ron paul called it first, garlic, that it will be a show beneath the dignity of a republican debate to pay homage to donald trump. but what is the attraction? >> i don't know but i would like to say is new and innovative ways of doing business like donald trump, like declaring bankruptcy more than once, i believe. >> i understand that the next debate was g going to be hosted by the kardashian sisters and above all will be handled by lady gaga. exting bridge hand -- five no- trump. [laughter] >> nickie bridgette and rick santorum have agreed to appear -- newt gingrich and rick santorum have agreed to appear. all you bridge players.

>> i need another career -- >> that t is a possibility. >> it would be just before the iowa caucuses and we should remember one thing -- people say you need a big orgazation in iowa. it is true for the democra because it is s a complicated system but republicans just have to show what. >> thank you. we will show up next week.