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not much is going to get done except the veto power. >> doris kearns goodwin. it were now. probably another year, year and a half. i'm always way behind the time. >> you're the best. doris kearns goodwin. >>> when we return, let me finish with why mitt romney is right to reject donald trump's circus show. >>> let me finish tonight with this. the republican party? the mirs midst of a convulsion. reasonable people are standing back watching as the party is being taken away from them. blame the tea party, blame the times. the fact is, we can see it happening, much of the political pposition to president obama is bamboozled to believing its only future lies in bowing to the dictate of the selection process leading it right now to the tender mercies of donald trump. for this not to happen, republicans of sound minded personal dignity must refuse to participate in trump's big night, refuse to make him the grand old party's brasier, to resist all the pr and new york hype and say, you're not going to let him play host, judge, moderator, whatever the word is, on the vit

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we have john hieland, mike barnacle, michael steele and also doris kearns goodwin in boston. >> newtonference at 2:00 p.m. yesterday. >> that was so interesting. >> he said he's watching "morning joe," he saw this and this is absolutely ridiculous. >> there are two things to be said about that. one is mitt romney is absolutely correct that if he were to engage in coordination with his super pacs, that would be a problem legally. as far as i know there's nothing that -- mitt romney could stand up any time he wants and criticize his super pac, denounce his super pac, distance himself, he can do any of those things and have no legal jeopardy. but newt's complaint may be fair but it's the kind of complaint made by someone who doesn't have a super pac of his own, so there's a self-interest. >> if you're newt, you've got seven people attacking you at the same time. >> yes. >> you can't go out swinging wildly against newt. and also, michael steele, there is the problem, and you and i have seen it because we've been around political campaigns. if somebody is branded an angry or mean candidat

and doris kearns goodwin says why civility in congress is worst today than in 50 years, and probablyt should you know for the week coming up? rick perry has been double-dipping on the taxpayer's dime. he officially retires from his job as governor back in january so he could pocket an extra $7700 a month in early pension benefits on top of the $150,000 he already draws in salary as governor, bringing his total compensation for the year to just under a quarter of a million dollars. and the war with iraq has ended and the last troops will be home in time for the holidays. we are leaving behind the largest u.s. embassy in the world, and between 3500 and 5500 armed security workers stay in the state, so it's not accurate to say we are leaving iraq. and saying bad things about your colleagues is a jerky thing to do. you should know that congresswoman sheila jackson lee responded by saying she had never known steve king as having a multitask capacity. and then it took detention before the government presented its charges against him on friday. there is much about ron paul's world view that

this is like a week or two off doris kearns goodwin had president obama should paint himself in the lines of teddy roosevelt, now what does he do? exactly that. the speech is -- his speech, teddy roosevelt's, called for a bigger government role in helping the underprivileged and similarly president obama, we are told, will talk about what he calls a make or break moment for the american middle class. roosevelt's critics labeled his speech socialistic, even communistic while others hailed it as the greatest oration ever given on american soil. lou dobbs with what to expect on the president's speech tomorrow and will it have the same effect as teddy roosevelt's remarks did? herman cain's camp is denying a report that he will endorse fellow republican newt gingrich for president later today. his spokesman says mr. cain will stick to his original schedule of appearances in oklahoma. cain, suspending his run for the white house over the weekend, as we get news on that, we'll bring it to you. >> speaking of newt gingrich, he is set to speak to the media in new york city later, following his sit

for "office politics" and this week we took our cameras to concord, massachusetts, to visit doris kearns goodwintzer prize winner, and now at work on a biography of president roosevelt. to get into the minds of her presidents, she surrounds herself with walls of books. >> this home has history to it. you have built history into the walls of this home. is that inspirational for you? is it just natural for you? >> what the house really became was a house of books. we moved from another house to this house because we had too many books and they were floef flowing the other house. once we got here we decided to build extra rooms on so that books could be sort of organized. so, the room that we're sitting in right now became the library for abraham lincoln, for history, for biography. and then there's another whole room that's justification. it's actually organized from "a" the author to "z" the auter and a baseball room for my other love. you're surrounded by books, which is part research. i have another room upstairs where teddy roosevelt is now housed. allows to you be surrounded by things my husb