>> we are turning up the delegates for the convention and it looks good, and we are cocounting o the daysntil november and that looks betterer. >> this week on "inside washington," romney wins more than he loses on super tsday. >> the governor seems to think he is ordained by god to win. let's have a doubtbt. >> -- have it out. >> iran and talk of war. >> those whoreeating the drums of war should explain clrly what they think the costs and benefits would be. >> a visit by the israeli prime miminister. >> we are together.

>> the president of the ununited states is lobbying against american jobs. >> newt versus rick. >> i and the tortoise. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.n.ncicap.p.orp. >> it was not 8 knockout, but romney did win ohio, virginia, massachusetts, and it appearss unlike thatantorum or gingrich or certainly n pau can come up with the delegates to take the nomination away from hi accordingng to the leadlatest "wl street journal"/nbc news poll, the republican candidates have taken a beating in this campaign. romney -- peter hart says voters

arare not surwho the guy is or what his values arare. >> i want to know what you want to be remembered for. >> in my home, i want to be known as a very good father. >> all the evidencnce seems to be that mitt romney is a good father but what does he have to do to convince the blue-collar men and women and latinosand others that he would be a good president of the united states, charles? >> there was a question of how could a dog owner he is, but we will go into that. he needs to get this race over. --e will noto into that. he needs to get this race over. he has to do a knockout. he has missed every opportunity at a knockout. every time he w wins, he slips in the next round. then he turned his attentien to the presesidentnt. until then he will continue to damed and diminished. >> nina? >> one thing he should do and is

doing is have his wife with him all the time, in large part not just because sheeems like a regular persrson, but because he seems more at ease and more a real haneing when he is with her. mark tells me ththat is in contrast to most candidates. he does have a problem of high negatives now because of the negative campaign that he had to run. that is not somethihing you get rid of easily. >> colby? >> the rap is that he will say or do anything to get elected and he has done nothing to dispel that. worse than that, he ran the campaign so negativy against the other candidates wh the onslaught of negativ ads against gingrich and sanantorum. he is paying the price for that. >> mark,hat does s mitt rney have to do to rengthen his

game? >> he has to accept the exale and lesson of richard nixon in 1968. richard nixon in 1968 ran as a competent, experienced able alternative to the democrats in power. that i is what mitt romney has to be buried he has to forget the touchy-feeeely thihing. it does not work for him. i agree with my colleagues, the observations made about him, all of which are accurate. but the reality is that he is inauthenti when he tries to portray itself as anything other than a very successful turnaround artist, a good family man. that is fine but he is a turnararound died. that is the argumument, that is what it ought to be exclusively. >> i think it was joe biden who once said that you have to take a risk when you are running for president. the risisk he did not take this

week that he should have taken was to say something less than complimentary about rush limbaugh. it was a perfect opportunity for what was called in the political presre and a sister souljah moment to say i have e a realal values and you went over the line. bain capital owns clear channel, which is the rush network. he is no longer an active partner of bain but t topics are not good. >> i amurit is t the leralss dream, but when the president apologizes for what bill maher says aboutut women, or even acknowledge his or talks about it, when obama speaks about mamaher's misogyny as he takes $1 million for the campaign, you can expect from me to danc --

romney to denounce somebody else. drc on the left is -- the hypocrisy on the left is -- >> about what? >> rush limbaugh as the spokesman of t republican pay and misogyny is clusively the problem of conservatives and republilicans. it happens all the time with maher chris matthews, and th y louis ck at the coressional correspondents' dinner. >> we can waste time on rush limbaugh -- >> i didn't bring itp. >> the pointnt that mark made about mitt romomney and why this is different from mitt romney -- made about 1960 d might is different from mitt romney. 196868 was different.

the issues he thought he was going to have come to the economy -- he was going to have come at the economy, is not coming together like he thought. >> for thehe record, at wee's end,any jobs added. >>ichardixon in 1968 stayed within his game and he never tried to b fun or particularly engaging with widows and orphans and small children. he was who he was. that is what i am suggeing romney has to do. the problem that romney has is not unlike that of john kerry democrat john kerry was the dream candidate drawn up on a board to run in 2004 against the party that brought the country into war, and george bush with a spotty record andig cheney with no military record

skillflfully avoided it. john kerry did not turn out to be a natural candidate to engage people emotionally. mitt romney in many respects was drawn up as a challenge in tough economic times. if the economy improves, it is bad for romney's proscts. >> richard nixon went on "laugh in" and id "sock it to me." it is not as if he did not try to get out of chararacter. i think mark is right but what romney can also do asidide from saying "i am a turnaroround arst," is to make the case about, about liberal overreach. he is a moderate conservative, not of hard-line conservative, but eight moderate conservaveve

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>> at this stage it is my belief that we have a wiow of opportunity with t thican be resolved. >> when it comes to israel's is a good, is a real as the sovereigign right to make its own decisions. >> i do not have a policy of containment. i have a policy of preventing iran from geing a nuclear weapon. i take no optionff the table and i mean, i say. >> a sample of one wat -- of what went on this week with regard to iran and israel. >> israel has every right to say -- netanyahu has every right

to say that israel must be the master of its own fate.e. and president obama hasvery right to say "i wildo what i i have to do at a time and place of my choosing." the ininterests of the united states and israel are not synonymomous. as charles said a couple of wes ago the saudis, the jordananians, and the gulf statess woulbe happy tot see a s strik asas roger simon said last week, the problem goes beyond the arab countries and the muslim world. the united states' interests go

beyond our shores. if you are going to strike at iran, we have to be prepared to protect interests in africa asia europe. >> mitt romney had an op-ed inn tuesday's "washington post" whwhere he called president obama "america's most feckless president since jimmy carter." >> that is it preposterous and ought to know that. what is feckless about going agait al qaedada, the drone strikes? >> charles in hi column talks about the fact thate have agreed to go into talks with the iranians i, like charles they probay just stalling. when all of your allies want to do it, you have a tight

timeline.. you stilll have thee sanctions and the sanctions are really hurtg them. they may not stop the nuclclear effort, but ey are really hurtrting them. i think you really do have to contemplate the notion that this country at some point probably is going to get a nuclear bomb. a former chief f of the israeli intelligence says that iran is a rational actor. >> i saw the interview. he said it it is irrational act, bubut noin the way that -- the west bank -- a rational actor, but not in the wathat the west thihinks of rationaty. the question is w what was raised by colby. th question at stake in the nenegotiations between obama and bibibi are not the american strike

or america starting award. th is not what isis involved here. no one is expecting it, no one is asking. the question is, canan israel, feeling its of being e enclosed, feeling iran reachingng the zone of immunity after which israeael could never strike and ir will internally have e a bomb hanging over israel's had, as israel have the right to go out and defend itself? from every indication the inclination of the administration is to restrain israel. the reason i am concerned is because there was no limit set on the talk. they are open-ended, a and as long as they are open-ended, it will be like the previous seven years, and iwillive iran all the time it needto develop a bomb and finished the program. >> i if you accept the p premise as laid out by t the former head of mossad that it is a rational

regimeand theherefore interesteded in its own selelf preservation, talks make as much sense as they did with the soviet union. that is the first point. the secondoint is that missing in all of this debatete about the united statates and mitt romney rattling sabers he does not know even exist, what is the compelling national security interest of the united states that he sees? what is the last resort for going to military power? what is the popular support for it? what i is the consequences of our acting? what is the exit strategy? romney is making a terrible political mistake. obama is a flawed president with the political weakness. the streth he has is national serity and foreign policy.

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>> what we need is a serious sustained, all of theve the strategy for american-de energy american efficiency, american innovion, american fuel-efficient trucks, american fuel-efficient cars. we m not get there in one term. >> four more years. >> ok, "fo more years" they are chanting. does he have are real plan, ninar is this just campaigngn rhetoric? >> since he ran r president this has been one of his big things, to promote alternative energy. we all know -- andombibinet with existing energy.

we all know that presidents don't control gas prices. ththey are the prisoners of gas prices. hey go up exponentially barack obama will be arisoner of gas prices. he has a plalan -- whether it is but decent plan, i am agnostic. it is not going to get through congress anyway. >> why did he reject the pipeline? >> it is out isis that the political lalandscape has changed ever since he rejected the republican push foror it. gas prices are up, pushing a $4. if they go beyond $4, we know that that has the political implication an impact in this country. it changes people's buying habits. what they cannot stand ithat the consumer prices start to rise and threaten a recovering

economy with the new jobs announced this week. that is a real threat. you can see it in the fact that the bank lost 10 democratic senators -- that the bank lost 10 democratic senators -- they lost 10 demoatic senators. >> thehe thing with keystone that is unoken of -- they at fossett they had a deal to go throrough it nebraska. i have no doubt that the pipeline will go through but it may noto through nebraska, but it will go somewhere. >> it is not go here, it w will go through to china. >> that is why the it is and surd decision so obviously a political one, cave to his

left. the hyprisy of the president, when he says our strategy is all of thehe above -- to see imagine that americansre so stupid -- all the above excepept for canadian oil on a platter from keysne except oil off the florida golf coast except the drilling in the arctic, except the national petroleum reserve to set aside by harding in 1923? his ananswer -- alglgae. algae is the oil of the future, and we have a lot of algae. all the swimming pools in america -- alyou have to do is fire the pool men in american and algae wl grow like crazy. >> if i can lift this a little bit about the absurd, let's go

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because i believe it will be impossible for a moderate to in the general lection. >> santorum wins north dakota on tuesday, ron paul has not won anything yet. it does not seem like anyone of them will make it especially gingrich. >> with newt, it may be vanity. these campaigns had been totally taken over by sup pac's. newt gingrich's super pac's outspent his own campaign 70- one. hello, john roberts, sam of the dough. thank you very much for tang our system -- thankhello, john berts, sam alito. thank you very much for takg our system and screwing it up.

tiem to newt. >> i romney does the math, h is right, they cannot overtake him. the other hand, over the nenext several weeks, there are a number of states for gingrich and santorum. >> he still has the lead, and there isn't somebody else. he had to win ohio, where there would have been a lot of talk about somebody else and it open convention. as long as he keeps chugging along, and telegates don't have an organization, so they keep losing momore delegates, he is going to win. >> newt has to win mississippi and alabama. if he doesn't, he is gone. if he wins one, he will hang on and try to win in louisiana. but then wre does he go? >> texas.

>> he will talk about texas. he will hang in t there because it is a matter pride and sort of narcissism but in the end he does not have a path and he knows it. >> he has to win in mississippi and alabama to qualify as a regional candidate. >> he is gone but he hasn't been told. i told him twice. i am not going to tell him the third time. >> see you next week.