staff host: congressman tom cole is our guest. he serves on the appropriation and budget committee, and is a deputy whip. surely, a republican in texas. good morning. caller: there are two really big problems in this country right now. anyone who as old as i am, and titled, those that for the last 30 years yet gone into this international trade, and i would love to hear the republicans say we are going to revisit every trade agreement, and if it is not beneficial, we are out of it. we is ratified the treaty with colombia, which is a failed state, still giving us drugs and fogs. -- thugs. all of these need to be revisited and changed. guest: i will disagree on columbia. i have been to columbia recently. it has been one of the great bipartisan success stories in the hemisphere, and one of the few places where americans are genuinely popular, and where we run a trade surplus. there is domestic opposition, having -- as there was in korea, because it thought it was too favorable to the united states. it was a heavy lift in south korea

tom cole, republican from oklahoma, member of congress.e. >> i achieved my objective. >> i'll try again next time. thank you, sir. >>> up next we're rounding out the week with our friday political panel. and a programming note this sunday's "meet the press." candidate ron paul. he's the guy in second place in iowa polls. also senators lindsay graham and dick durbin. check your local listings. >>> first, of course, it's the white house soup of the day. another good one. roasted fall vegetable. you're making everybody happy. you know, the no beef or chicken soups. can't have that. but not a fish soup either. roasted fall vegetable, i guess th that means a lot of squash. you've watching "the daily rundown." my doctor told me calcium is best absorbed in small continuous amounts. only one calcium supplement does that in one daily dose. citracal slow release... continuously releases calcium plus d for the efficient absorption my body needs. citracal. the same whitening ingredient as strips. but that mostly dilutes away within seconds of brushing

. >> reporter: oklahoma congressman tom cole, neutral in the gop race, explains the collective anxiety. >> the speaker, you know, is a pretty polarizing figure on occasion. not just in the broad political sense but personally. >> reporter: gingrich this week has responded to the attacks unapologetically. >> i wasn't there in a collegial job. i was there as the leader and my job was to drive-thru change on a scale washington wasn't comfortable with. >> reporter: rush limbaugh believes the more the party regulars attack, the stronger gingrich gets. >> republican primary voters are finally saying to the establishment, we're not doing it your way this time. >> reporter: you know, the challenge for gingrich of course, brian, is turning these insider attacks to his advantage. and there is some evidence that it might work. >> of course watch ron paul in iowa among other things. chuck todd starting us off in our washington bureau. chuck, thanks. >>> also in washington tonight, the moderator of "meet the press," nbc's david gregory. david, as the commercial says, newt gingrich does have a lot o

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guest: i spoke with tom cole from oklahoma, the state where the pipeline is supposed to end once it is built. he said he had the sense that senate leaders would vote for just about anything they brought, thinking it was a victory. the speaker of the conference call also paraphrase it as a victory. again, most republicans on the call had the sense it was not enough, that a two-month deal is taking it down the road. of course people will tell you in private that this is partly because they do not want this issue to be around again during an election year where democratic opponents can say republicans do not want to cut taxes on the middle class. host: you mentioned the speaker initially indicated he might have support for this. members of his conference did not. did this show the power of the bloc of republicans who are freshmen and newly elected and have said we're going to do business differently? guest: absolutely. without the block of republicans, i doubt this would be the case. also -- it is work both ways. when it comes down to the senate agreement they just passed, they had to pas

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