the weather is bad and it's real tough to get out ron paul where you don't really often meet undecided voters in iowa who are considering ron paul ron ron paul is not going to the nomination not to win the nomination and is not the president ron paul is going to go the way of many other primary candidates which is he looks good from a four but when you take a look at him up close here and so attractive anymore. well it appears the mainstream media is no fan of paul but as he surges in the polls could he be the change that americans longed for and if so why is there a campaign to silence him well tell me answer just that i spoke to director of grass roots political consulting danielle for oggi as ron paul continues to resonate with voters across the country asked daniel just why the mainstream media is choosing to focus on those old newsletters rather than his message there's a state. well i think there's a lot of it that is being fed to them by other campaigns and other candidates and so and that sensational to discuss that point in and try to bring another scandal to bear burden on another conservative in this race is it is being fed t

wikipedia which defines them as a child born to a non-citizen moth never a country that ron paul's-- 2012, ron paul 2012, ron paul 2012. but now, folks, after a complaint by the immigration policy center, a group that supports the far left radical idea of having immigrants, the dictionary has add the word offensive and redefined anchor baby as a disparaging term. which is why i'm giving a wag of my finger to the lexi-qou ards at the american heritage dictionary. folks there is nothing offensive about the term anchor baby. as illegal immigration opponents bob dain told fox news, what's offensive about anchor baby isn't the term, but the practice of having a baby on our soil to game the system. damn straight. it's not the word anchor baby that's offensive, it's the act. same thing with chinese fire drills. why are those orientals always trying to delay traffic at our intersections? well now-- i'm writing that down-- well now that anchor baby has been declared offensive i hold little hope for my submission grappling baby. known, the all too common o concerns of a pregnant woman in mexico aiming her birth canal

ron paul rolls. want to drain the swamp, ron paul, do it. >> i'm ron paul and i approve this message. >> ron paul do it. how about that. the xwaum administration is up with a revamped web page piling on the pressure for congress to pass an extension of the payroll tax cuts a key component of the president's jobs bill. a countdown crock is running on whitehouse gov. a tax hike for the middle class will take effect if not. middle class families could see taxes jump by $1,000 if the measure expires took aim at republicans for what he calls a shifting position on taxes. >> i know many republicans have sworn an oath never to raise taxes as long as they live. how can it be the only time there's a catch is when it comes to racing taxes on middle class families? how can you fight tooth and nail to protect high-end tax breaks for the wealthiest americans and yet barely lift a finger to prevent taxes going up for 160 million americans who really need the help? it doesn't make sense. >> during a tele town hall with iowa voters, mitt romney blasted mr. obama for planning his annual christmas vacation in hawaii

ron paul. do you see funnel the beer? i'm not. >> greg: what drink is that? ron paul drink. >> andrea: i wouldn't funnel ron paul. >> greg: shot of jagermeister. >> kimberly: speaking of ron t's take a listen to this. >> i think ron paul's views are totally outside the main stream. virtually every decent american. >> ron paul would make a very dangerous president because of his foreign policy. >> one of the people running for president thinks it's okay for iran to have a nuclear weapon. i don't. >> the second term with barack obama, i'm not sure it wasn't that different than ron paul administration when it comes to national security. >> kimberly: a lot of ron paul. what is going on? >> eric: here is what is going on. ron paul had great ideas regarding the fed and fiscal policy. but the other stuff is so big and so blatant, it is a chance to become a president and certainly, maybe even republican nominee. this whole controversy with ron paul hiring michele bachmann's campaign manager is huge. it's getting bigger. the campaign manager said he never told michele bachmann he was offered money from ron paul. if he was offered money from the ron paul camp, which they deny, a con

ron paul was everywhere. every video, it was someone sang you should vote for ron paul. it had thousands of people exchanging ideas. it was an exciting moment. bucks are you a ron paul online where? >> i'd like -- >> are you a ronpaul follower? >> i like ron paul. >> do you see ron paul as president of united states? >> i could. i would like to see that. >> he is close to 77 years old. that does not matter? >> no. >> he has not run anything but a medical office. >> he has been a congressman for 10 years. >> you say you have been more cynical. the closer you get to this, what is your reaction? >> by reaction to the election? reaction to the election? >> what condition did you find a country inn? what is a bad condition. -- find the country in? >> a bad condition. the sea is the only place where people feel things are getting better. it is so ridiculous. it is nothing like real america. >> what chances could ron paul at of having an impact? >> he could have a huge impact. his ideas, his passion, his record speaks to a lot of people. they enjoy it. >> what was your brother doing that he introduced you to all this? >> my brother and found out about libertarianism on the internet. i knew he was libertarian for a whi

ron paul. gingrich went very hard at ron paul, wouldn't vote for him, unelectable s there a benefit to newt gingrich from attacking ron paul? can he peel away ron paul's supporters six days out? >> unlikely. ron paul supporters, these respect movable people this is not a persuadable group of folks, they are pretty locked n poll after poll shows they are the most ardent backers of paul. his intense sit very deep. now, he may have a ceiling, paul himself, on whether or not he can get the nomination in a wider, you know, electoral fight whether it is in new hampshire, south carolina, his people can really organize around caucuses, around straw polls in particular and, you know, i just think it is going to be very cult, seems like newt gingrich has triing an lated out here, you think about iowa in the sense, like santorum set up yesterday, you have got these evangelical voters will are a key group who looks like santorum is getting a lot of the backing of from bob van der plats and other folks, now, newt gingrich now not get that establish vote, he doesn't have a third path. >> not a good moment i don't think for newt gingrich, amazing peaked too s

ron paul rolls. want to drain the swamp, ron paul, do it. >> i'm ron paul. i approve this message. >> that was republican presidential candidate rontes of iowa and new hampshire. ron paul is one of the few republican candidates who has not had his turn as front-runner, but he's now polling in second in iowa and third in new hampshire. ron paul, the only anti-war and anti-torture republican candidate, is now the most eloquent anti-trump candidate. he issued this statement in response to the announcement that donald trump would moderate a republican presidential candidates' debate. "the selection of a reality television personality to host a presidential debate that voters nationwide will be watching is beneath the office of the presidency and flies in the face of that office's history and dignity. to be sure, mr. trump's participation will contribute to an unwanted circus-like atmosphere." yesterday congressman paul added this observation about the constant stream of desperate republican candidates going to new york to meet donald trump. >> yeah, i don't quite understand it. i don't understand the marching to his office. i mean, i

ron paul who doesn't want to defend anyone. ron paul got more contributions from active duty military than the other republican candidates combined. >> look, ron paul won one southern county in the 2008 caucuses. 119,000 people showed up. if ronaul can enlarge the electorate, the x factor that night. >> we know that ron paul's caucus goers aren't going to be decision sueded in terms of other candidates. i want to go back to bachmann. but tying herself to cain did not help. >> is jon huntsman going to do well in new hampshire? >> it's going to be hard. >> bachmann needs come in fourth place. she doesn't have to win. >> this conversation will continue in the green room. we'll have that of course on abcnews.com/thisweek. >>> coming up next -- the sunday funnies and a look at what you can expect next week in politics. >>> and now, the sunday funnies. >>> they say that newt is tremendous negotiate toir, tremendous debater, of course he's got three ex-wives. >> herman cain defended his campaign. that is a shame. he touched so many people. >>> a reporter for fox news said that he saw the new muppet movie and he found it to be left-wing communist propaganda, i think he may have a point. >> well, all righty! ♪ >> animal. >> yeah? >> i

paul he is really by far the most liberal candidate of the bunch. nobody other than ron paul wants to dismantle our military. nobody other than ron paul wants to legalize heroin. nobody other than ron paul wants to repeal the patriot acted to leave us essentially without defenses against terrorism. nobody other than ron paul is willing to acquiesce in a nuclear iran. nobody other than ron paul says we are responsible for 9/11. of course, he scares me. >> every time i say that stuff about ron paul i get a ton of e-mail saying go back to canada. i think the ron paul guys put up with you. >> the other thing i was going say about paul is that if you have a situation where romney narrowly wins iowa and paul is second and gingrich a distant third, which polls are now reflecting or gingrich a distant third, you are going to have a situation very much like 1988 and 1992 in democratic primary. where the main candidate destroyed his main opponent and ran against somebody who couldn't win. mike dukakis win. bill clinton beat his opponent and coasted against jerry brown. john kerry beat john edwards and coasted against howard dean. you create a situation where they really won't be a incident g

ron paul and i'm sure they're go, ron, go! >> i don't think it's ron paul's intention, but he is serving the republican establishment that wants to slow or stop newt gingrich. if ron paul wins in iowa, everybody will say isn't that nice? but he won't be nominee. there are two things you can say about ron paul, though. he is consistent, and he is principled. and once you understand those principles, you understand how he can be for legalizing marijuana and for not doing everything possible to stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon. he believes in virtually no government. he would dismantle the current government by 80%. he is a libertarian. >> what about the conservatives establishment? we've heard about the republican establishment. you can speak to that. as a matter of fact, you could reflect on the cover of your magazine, which i'm putting on screen now. that's a caricatures of newt gingrich. >> it. >> what is he saying? >> marvin the martian. we think he's just such a high risk nominee, for not enough reward he would become president from a conservative per suspect if. if there's anyone in the field who might wake up as president and one day just decide he wil

ron paul rolls. want to drain the swamp? ron paul, do it. >>> ron paul, do it. is ron paul running to be president or a ford f-150 truck? take a look at this ad. >> so every truck out there is trying to pin, bend, slice the stats. they're claiming the best this, the highest that, the most of something else. blah blah blah. >> i'm not sure whether ford would like to do away with the department of energy, hurd and commerce, there is an uncanny resemblance there. >> blah blah blah. >> more to the point, ron paul. the guy who is consistently up in the polls yet nobody actually ever talks about. >> i think he's going to get talked about right now. you've had three polls in the last three weeks i think that have showed him at 17%. it's looking like a three way race going into aye iowa. newt gingrich, ron paul, mitt romney. ron paul has done something which we didn't think he could do. expand his base of the support. he has run the most professional campaign of the cycle. i'm saying that on the record. i've been very critical of ron paul at points on our blog. he has run an efficient effort. he had been much more tempered. of c

ron paul people. ron paul people are true blue and they love ron paul and his libertarianism. i know that ront only has the organization, but he has the money right now. he is running ads in iowa very strong attacks on gingrich for most part. i don't think it will impact the outcome in iowa. he was building momentum in new hampshire. i think it could have some kind of negative effect there among a different electorate where he is not as known and hasn't been works as hard. >> bret: we should point out there is retail campaigning going on. perry doing a bus tour. michele bachmann 99 counties and a bus tour and rick santorum has been in a lot of living rooms in iowa. next up, former fannie mae and freddie mac executives accused of fraud. >>> today the sec charged sention former top executives of fannie and freddie with violation of the federal security laws. in its annual report for 2006, we allege that freddie mac misrepresented to the public that the sub prime holdings were not significant. the actual exposure was between $141 billion and $244 bel. that is about 40 to 70 times greater than wh

ron paul who doesn't want to defend anyone. according to federal election commission, ron paul got more contributions from active duty military than the other republican candidates combined. >> well, look, ron paul won one southern county in the 2008 caucuses. 119,000 people showed up. if ronaul can enlarge the caucus electorate, that can be the x factor that night. >> we know that ron paul's caucus goers aren't going to be dissuaded in terms of other candidates. i want to go back to bachmann. but tying herself to cain so transparentally did not help her. >> is jon huntsman going to do well in new hampshire? >> it's going to be hard. the iowa results are going to be interesting in momentum. >> bachmann needs to come in fourth place. she doesn't have to win. >> this conversation will continue in the green room. we'll have that of course on abcnews.com/thisweek. >>> and coming up next -- the sunday funnies and a look at what you can expect next week in politics. don't let the epa turn the lights off on the american economy. the epa is finalizing the most expensive rule in history - threatening america's energy supply, costing jobs, even spiking rates for consumers and businesses - if implemented too fast. twenty-five states, organized labor, manufacturers and businesses are

ron paul's candidacy. anybody who reads my tweets knows i'm not a supporter or fan of ron paul. ron paul is a fringe candidate and i don't think ron paul represents the republicans' best foot forward. and so i'm beared by all this tremendously on the merits of it and on the impact his image could have coming out of iowa. also, four years ago, and i just looked this up, you have ten percentage points in iowa, 8% in iowa, 4% in south carolina and 3% in nor floor. iowa his torefully been the strongest state. he ran before. ron paul ran and iowa was his high water mark. he plunged from there on. >> gloria -- go ahea hedahead, . >> one of the things in the writing, the ron paul freedom report that had no bi-line was written in first person as if it was from ron paul that was gay men were trying to intentionally infect the american blood supply by giving blood donations while having aids to infect the heterosexual population. ron paul supporters frequently attacked barack obama for sitting in reverend jeremiah wright's church and he has denied hearing jeremiah wright's sermons. how is his defensemen of knowing these things any different

ron paul are at the top. >> mitt romney was losing by double digits and i was just a couple of weeks ago. now he is tied for the lead or slightly ahead of ron paul -- ron paul. >> do you think can be barack obama back to the think tank at the 1051 delegates to become the nominee? >> the fact of the matter is she was not going to win iowa. campaigne bachman's manager jumped ship and join ron paul. >> he told me he was offered a lot of money by the ron paul campaign. >> ron paul campaign denies any payment was made. >> in foreign policy that i want is the form policy of the american tradition. it conforms with the constitution. >> moving into third place behind ron paul is rick santorum. >> there is plenty of tender on the ground that will start burning and these other states. >> i made a mistake. >> newt gingrich plans negative ads it. >> iowa has a chance to change politics by saying we are not going to vote for people that run negative ads. most caucus goer said they are still undecided meeting this race is anything but subtle. -- anything but settled. >> in hampshire primary date is scheduled for january 10. >> what about the negative ads in iowa. how much is being spent and by whom? >> experts say about $12 million worth of negative ads have hit the airwaves in iowa. they say that this is mostly being spent and run by a slew of new independent groups that are backing

ron paul on january 3rd. they believe these people will show up and not only caucus for ron paul but will pick delegates to represent ron paul in the future. they believe this uneligibility argument about ronthat show head to head matchups with barack obama and ron paul. ron paul is consistentingly polling neck and neck with the president. so they don't think that the eligibility argument -- they don't believe that argument. they think their candidate can go on. >> he's facing heat from fellow candidates on foreign policy. some people even call him dangerous. what are they saying about that? >> right. ron paul has this golden rule foreign policy. he's telling his audience what will we think if a powerful nation did that to us? they think this is a strong message. it's getting huge krounds. last night over 700 people came out. every time ron paul talked about an anti-war message, they got a standing ovation. so he believes that message will carry him further. >> thank you for joining us this morning. good luck to you today. >> the new nbc poll shows texas republican rick perry fourth in the eyes of caucus goers in iowa. but he's pounding the pavement in iowa hoping to reach social conservat

ron paul's candidacy. as anybody who has read my tweets know, i'm not a supporter of ron paul, not a fan of ron paul. as much as i'm neutral in the primary ron paul is a fringe candidate and i don't think ron paul represents the republicans' best foot forward. and so i'm bothered by all this tremendously on the merits of it and on the impact his image could have coming out of iowa as a republican winner. also, four years ago, and i just looked this up, you have ten percentage points in iowa, 8% in new hampshire, 4% in south carolina and 3% in florida. iowa has historically been the strongest state. he ran before. remember not just mitt romney who ran, ron paul ran. and iowa was his high water mark. he plunged from there on. >> gloria -- go ahead, erick. go ahead. >> you know, i think there's another relevant point that needs to be asks of ron paul. if you go back to one of the writings, the ron paul freedom report that had no bi-line was written in first person as if it was from ron paul that was gay men were trying to intentionally infect the american blood supply by giving blood donations while having aids to infect the heterosexual popula

ron paul as president than newt gingrich. what you say about ron paul, just to clarify, he is fantastic on domestic policy but you want to keep him away from foreign policy. doing nothing like ron paul wants do is better than doing bad stuff like our current president is doing. so i'm thrilled that ron paul would catch up to gingrich in iowa. >> newt rocked the gary bussey endorsement. then he withdrew it? >> that demonstrated a lack of gravatas. i think that is made up word, greg. >> i did a lot of my political insight from gary bussey? >> he is not a flip-flopper. and it's not just a physical manifestation we describe him, he is flopping on the floor. >> wearing flip-flops and nothing else as he tumbles around the beach. i think that the thing that surprised me most was a witch was not voted for someone named newt. which we know is the key ingredient. >> then vote for him. >> mitt called him zany. where does it come from. >> it's a polite way of saying crazy. >> but he called him a great hois historian and he is zany he should have hair like albert einstein. >> or weird al yankovich. >> newt gingrich is crazy. but back to future was zany and great historian, too. >> i would like him as president. he would have the most awesome party. >> he would have had a landslide if he had the

paul -- reason -- ron paul campaign and he was thinking about going with the reason paul -- ron paul campaign. and i said it would be political suicide. >>eric: so now we have him leaving to go to ron paul and michele bachmann claims that ron paul offered him a substantial sum of money and ken comes on fox news saying michele bachmann is lying, and megyn wisely asks what about you who claims you said the same, and he calls you a liar. listen to this entrepreneur. >> i didn't have that conversation with her. it is unfortunate that we is come to this, in this particular race, we have come to this and i did not accept any money from the reason -- ron paul campaign. >>eric: do you have anything to gain by saying that he told you he was offered money by ron paul campaign? >>guest: no, and when i work with candidates they understand i am working with them because of their integrity, because of the changes they want to make and he clearly lacks integrity and i am sorry for the people who followed him for the constituents. i have been on the phone since 10:00 last night with call after call and e-mail after e-mail from people who are just heart broken that their senator doesn't appear do h

ron paul. because if the republican establishment including all of the other candidates never see ron paul as viable, they will never go negative on ron paul. if they never go negative on roners who are not part of the establishment, because they're just voters, may never see the downside of ron paul that the establishment assumes everybody knows. and he may be able to hang in there longer than people expect. >> ron paul could hang in there until the convention. i do think he most likely has a cap on his support, though. if you want to get past the 20% of true libertarians or true believers in ron paul, whatever you want to call it, he has a lot of positions not within the republican mainstream. he's basically not really a republican. he's probably more a republican than a democrat. his positions are different and unorthodoxed. >> voters have to know that. if none of the other candidates put out nasty attack ads against ron paul pointing that stuff up, it's up to fox news. >> the romney people can throw a few of the romney pacs i guess can throw a few elbows. if rick perry recovers, he loves to throw punches. if ron paul wins iowa, you'll see more negativity. if he wins ne