>> we did it again. >> this week on "inside washington," rick santorum's southern sweep. >> the elite media's effort to convince the nation that mitt romney is inevable just collapsed. >> if f am not a weak front runner, what does that make it newt gingrich? ---->> if you guygive these guys the key y to the white house, they will buy or the middle-class. -- bankrupt the middle-class. >> we women have a problem with

the republican pty. >> the massae in afghanistan. the hbo movie "game change." >> i never want to deal with at woman n again. >> how true to life? >> true enough to make me squirm. >> do you know what the fed is? captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> on super tuesday mitt romney pinchedd by rick santorum in io, a must-win state in thehe general election bid athe song goes, why didid mitt romney ever leave ohio? heid win the hawaii caucuses and picked up some and the bar and gririll caucus in american

sasamoa. ne gingrich chose to focus on mississippi and alabama. >> the conservrvative candidates got nearly 70% of the vote. if you are t front runner and you keep coming in third, you are not much of a front runner. >>y the waylast night i got more delegates than anybody else >> absolutely right. he got 43 on tuesday santorum, 26. does anything changed this week, evan, or does romney continueue to inch towards the nomination? >> i thinke does. there's an outside chance he does not get there but it is only an outside chance. >> mark? >> i think he remains the favorite. the problem for the republicans is that this campaign has been a corrosive, in the words of republican pollster, and he has the lowest it favorable numbers

of any potential nominee in the history of the partrty. >> nina? >> my guess, as a meer of the elite media, is that he will stagger to the finish line and get be nomination but i still don't understand the things he dies. the e elite media -- the things he does. the elite media was saying two weeks ago that this was going to be a bad period for mitt romney, and then he says he will win them so the loss looks even worse. >> charles? >> i object to your ironic tone. don't you know that as samoa goes so goes the nation? [laughter] mitt romney almost one alabama and mississippi. it was gingrich who lost alabama and mississippi, and at is the

ststory of the night. >> wh th gas prices going up in the president's numbers going down shouldn't this be easier for romney? >> it should be, but the polls are so over the map. obama's numbers a are tanking, 2 big polls and there are two others that don't show that. the republican should still at a real shot at winning. >> in our rush to analyze romney and gingrich, let's give it s santorum crededit. santorum went in there under finance,e, under man, and want. -- he w won. he won 49% of the vote of working women. that kind of froze all of our thinktank politicos into a twitter. it was a very impressive pair o

victories for santorum. give the guy credit for what he has done. >> let's go to ohio. the president won it in 2008. vice president joe biden went there this week and he attacked threpublicanandidates by name. >> g gingrich, romney, santorum -- we are about protecting the private sector, they arabout protecting the privileged sector. >> if you want to go after the rick santorum vote, that is the guy do itit, i guess. >> one of theeird tngs about this election is that the two principals president obama and romney, are both a cold fish from harvard law school. yet we are in a time when everybody, between the tea party and occupy wall street, there i

this big populist surge. it meaeans that joe biden, who has some connection to regular folks, is going to bfront and center. >> the president was out talking about gasoline prices and says that there is no quick fix. i paid $4.26 a gallon for regular this week. >> where are you going for your gas? >> how does heet away from thatat? >> hee dsn't. we all know that the president has no control over the prices. he has boasted that producti is up. it has notothing to do with him at. it has to do with the leasing rmitits issusued in the c clinton and bh yearars -- >> also iran and the eight chinese -- >> i i'm talking about production, not pricing. he has a record on energy, oil what he calls the fuels of the past, which is appalling.

america lives in the present, it depends on oil, and he a his secretary of energy, chu has said in the past that we want $8 $10 gasoline as a way to conserve. obama obviously is in that camp. the real problem is the keystone pipeline, because that is so open and shut case. there iso argument against it. everybody intrinsically understands that he is a guy who does not like oil, once a high not in an election year, but in e end,d, he believes in algae and that is not what amera believes and. >> could i say something about the president's cold fishiness? the president campaign and d at the dnc isot giving any money to the congression candididates. that is the ulultimate in selfishness and disloyalty, and it means that should he win reelection, nobody will owe himim

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that the republicans are wagaging a war on women with abortion contraception and a bill on domestic violence. is it working mark? >> depends on what numbers you are lookining at. they shoulde doi better, they a doioing better. democrats in 2008 cared women vote. the republicans sm determined to shoot themselves in the foot. i don't know if it is helping democrats, but it is hurting republicans. >> senator lisa murkowski warned republicans at a caucus luncheon this week that they were really hurting themselves with some of this stuff, and with the violence against women act -- >> it is not just the federal. in kansas, sam brownbackust sined a new law. in pennsylvania, arizona, there is -- they are working on a law that your employer is not required to give you health

insurance to cover birth control -- >>exas -- >> if he objects omoral or religious grounds, and if you want some, you have to show you needed for medical reaso. >> i'm sure they will cover viagra however. >> as well they should! it is n not the government paying. you pay for it, your employer pays for it as part of your employment contrac >> is this reflected at e polling place? >> it is in, and that is why all of your talk about the war on women is a classic example of liberal echo chamber deletelite cuckooing. in the "new york times" poll on this issue, 11% were against this idea that contraception

ought to be required in the medical plans the if it is against the consciencece of the employer, and if you ask the question whether a religious institution ought to be required to subsidize contraception, it is 21% againinst among women on the first, 2% against, and if it is a religious institution, a catholic hospital, at 10%. on every one of those in the "t"times" poll -- hardly a right- wing publication -- a majority of americans say you ought not compel anybody who has a religious objection particularly any institution like catholic church, to provide contraception. that is all your talk about hurting women at not reflectedd in the data. >> liberal at the chamber eli -- echo chamber elite cuckooing.

>> there is a disconnect because ththere is a perception put forward by democrats that they are turning against women and democrats are hoping to benefit from that. at the same time, my old competitor "time" magazine, pointed out that women are about to earned more than men. think about that. women are about tearn more money than men, because more women go to college than men and going to college is key to making money. on the one hand, you have e a retro politics about taking contraception from wom did on the other hand -- >> one of the ways you can go to college and do well is by controlling your own reproductive destiny. >> why would you oppose the of violence against women act? >> tt is absolutute stupidity on the part of republicans to oppose that act. you are going to be explaining that for the next six months.

to me, the war against women the war against religion debases our politics. tt whole language, carpet bombhe opposition, take no prisoners, thimock john waynene tough guy talk. on the sject of viaa, to the credit of the steve kane, arch consertive from iowa, andim moran, democrat from virginia, they o offered an amendment that medicare not cover it and they ought to be saluted. >> millions of elderlrly women in america are grateful as hell. >> another phrase to pigeonhole wh what women think. not so..

>> no question we are going to be tested in the months ahead. this is a war we will continue to, i'm se see incidents of violence of one kind or another. the key is how we respond. >> that is defense secretary leon panetta, who went to afghanistan visiting with the troops. afafter an army sergeant killed men, women, and children on sunday therinating on the corpses, the burning of the korans, and now this. for the record, this was not the my lai massacre, but i wonder what the next step is evan. >> countries still like to be occupied. imagine how we would feel if there re foreign troopo matter how benign. countries don't like to be

occupied. that is the basisic ground truth.h. having said that, a hasty retreat would not be in anybody's interest, particularly in afghanist's interest. i am not sure it is is going to workut well in the e but all indications are that the afghan security forces cannot hold it and the taliban will be back in charge. >> what dodo we do, stay ththe course? >> it is it clear that the president's policy is in collapse. the president t of afghanistan announced that he wants american troops out of the countryside and to hunker down in the barracks. the todd hea andthe talibiban declares they are no longer interested in negotiations. obama has handed them afghanistan on a platter. the secretary of defense gives a speech where soldiers

atteing disarm as a way of not offendingg the troops from afghanistan, who have to disarm, and the reason is because all trust bebetween american and afghan officials is gone. we have a president who escalated the war, it tripled the number of troops, then an ounce of his own political capital on the war. -- but did not spend an ounce of his own political capital on the war. he gave a speech in december 2009, did no speak about for two years, and is tn surprprise that americans are not for the war? >> thehe republicans showed themselv to the captains courageous this week. newt gingrich said tha afghananistan was not doable, rick santorum showed great leadership by sayingng we need to double down on our resources or get out sooner. the s same republicans who criticized president obama for saying date for withdrawal or mwere mute on president bush's

date for withdrawal from iraq. what are our objectives now, what is our mission now? is it worth the expenditure of mo american blood and treasure? i don't know anybody who can tell us what our mission and objective is at this point. >> should you have a president who escalated the war tell you that? >> charles, it seems that u are looking for all way to criticize obama, and this is much more serious issue than that. i debate with myself what is the apprpropriate crus, and obviously, nobody has a good answer here. the question is what do you value most? do we look like we cannot be dependent on if we leave relatively soon? what do we do about pakistan in the antime? those border areas are the countryside. >> the biden plan was not to surge --

>> the biden plan was the right plan. >> we need to have a negotiated peace with the taliban. >> they'll come back. >> what is the point for them to negotie at this point? evan is absolutely right about occupation. occupation leads to alienatio if the french had stayed here for six months, the country would have thrown them out. >> democrats argued r yea that the occupation of afghanistan was the good war the war r of necessity not the war of choice. all of a sudden it is not? >> eight years

>> he doesn't want t to deal withh her. i have not totold him if she doesn'know anything. >> you wouldn't listen tus.

>> you are overwheingly with too much information. >> "game change," a new hbo movie about the 2008 election. rah palin comes off as a woman who does not know much. was the movie and ir? -- unfair? >> the movie is known in journalism terms as a beat sweetener. somebody who is helpful to you as a source is described as savvy, knowledgeable insisightful. there is no question that nicole wallace and steve schmidt were enormously helpful to the authors of "game change," and it is reflected in the movie. >> i saw it twice. the first time i saw it, i felt sorry for her, beuse she was so clearly over her head and nobody seemed to want to know this before they picked her.

in the last fifth of the movie, she turns into a bit of a monster. the second time i saw it, i was less symetic because she was so super wremely confident. >> charles? >> i have not seen it, but i know it is unfair. [laughter] it is a tautoly. >> i did not see it, but i appreciate the beat sweetener because it makes consultants lookok better than they were. >> greg smith, employee of goldman sachs, at an op-ed this week in "the new york times" about why he left goldman sachs. what did you think of it? >> i was glad to see somebodody younger quit for moral reasons as opposed to somebody on the way ou is a 33-year-old guy.

i do not believe all the efforts to undermine him. i take him at hihis word that he thought that the pla was not what he had joined up to do. >> "i realized i could no loer looks students in the eye and tell them this was a great place to work." >> thihis was after lloyd blankfein told us that they to the lord'work. is is a coany that sold customers a product, a risky, complicated product, designed solely for a hedge fund manager who wanted to bet against it. how could you believe anything negative about goldman sachs? >> there is an ethos too much on wall street about being cocky and disdainful of your clients. to the extent that this s exposes that, this isseful. but like all things, it is more complicated. what happened at goldman sachs where they had a private equity trading where it was in their

long-term interest to be nice to clients. then the traders took over. the business actually changed. >> from the colleagues of my son who went into this, i don't get the idea that the work is immoral, just that it is pointless. you make a lot of money, but in the end, it is not like y go into it because you loved it. it is for other things like teaching or medicine. that is why it isather soulless. >> see y