it means middle america. middle america is not looking for an ideologue. middle america is looking for something that they can somehow relate to. it's my belief that santorum is that guy. the ranking democrats. >> even with his social views you believe rick santorum is middle america? >> it's infinitely more in keeping than the social views of the president or the people who work here at nbc or manhattan. our friends have social views that are very liberal. he's a solid man. he's a family man. >> why isn't he doing better in south carolina? >> first, it's almost funny how beginning rich, he gives the crowd, i mean, the fact that he opened up the debate attacking john king was hilarious. here was a perfectly -- >> but i don't think you're answering my question because before the debate with the hilarious opening, rick santorum was not ahead in the polls. why not? >> again, it's about winning the nomination. it's not about winning the polls. >> how do you win the nomination? >> i think he's a steady eddie. try this one, try that one. the question, is who wil

attacking romney's work as a venture capitalist paging hims agreed did and out of touch with middle -- america. >> i get it about job creation, i understand the difference between venture capital and vulture capitalism. >> reporter: perry, gingrich and santorum going after romney's past positions on abortion, gun control and health care, hoping to make him less desirable to the ultra conservative christians of south carolina. >> he signed government mandated health care with taxpayer funded abortions. >> reporter: ron paul placed second and seemed fire up in south carolina this morning. >> sometimes if you are in second place they talk about the first and the third place. last night it was a little bit different they had a little harder time avoiding the real conversation. >> reporter: of third. >> i say third place is a ticket to ride ladies and gentlemen! [ applause ] >> reporter: the front-runner called south carolina an uphill battle. the last time he competed in a primary there he came in fourth. his strategy is clear. he's pitting himself against not only his republican virals, but presi

iowa is the essence of middle america. hard-working, socially conservative. if the final call is right, this man may be the choice of the eye when republicans, mitt romney, multi millionaire businessman and former governor of massachusetts. >> i am encouraged by and got a positively by the people they called on the phone today. >> just like americans, the caucuses are bruising business. we dropped in on this new year's gathering of republican voters to find plenty of doubts about the front runner. >> i like ronnie lott. i think he's an incredible businessman. he has lots of experience. i'm just not sure if he can beat obama. >> i don't think he is very trustworthy. i just do not have a good sense of him. >> in what sense? >> i think he has flip flopped on some issues. i do not think would make a good president. >> so who else might prevail? running a close second in the polls a 76-year-old ron paul. champion of small government, often outspoken critics rick santorum is ready to take on barack obama. >> there is but a late surge for rick santorum and money eva

i asked you to find an actor from middle america, a real person. you're not going to find him in the people's gay-public of drug-ifornia. - jeez, relax. i'm also setting up auditions in toronto. - canada? [chuckling] why not just go to iraq? the television audience doesn't want your elitist east coast, alternative, intellectual, left-wing-- - jack, just say jewish. this is taking forever. - stop trying to amuse yourself and start thinking about what makes actual human beings laugh. - who wants-- my puddings! [laughter] - now that's what i'm talking about. - what a dumb-- oh, no, he's really hurt. - hey, tracy, did you hear? fred dawkins, the incredibly overweight guy that pac-man was based on died last night. - i will eat a bowl of cherries and some ghost meat in his honor. orange and black decorations? is this halloween or princeton parents' weekend? i don't know whether to be scared or proud of my cousin. - it's halloween, sir. - proud it is. - but this "almost all saints' day" isn't gonna be much of a celebration. i just heard that world-famous

attacking romney's work as a venture capitalist paging hims agreed did and out of touch with middle -- america. >> i get it about job creation, i understand the difference between venture capital and vulture capitalism. >> reporter: perry, gingrich and santorum going after romney's past positions on abortion, gun control and health care, hoping to make him less desirable to the ultra conservative christians of south carolina. >> he signed government mandated health care with taxpayer funded abortions. >> reporter: ron paul placed second and seemed fire up in south carolina this morning. >> sometimes if you are in second place they talk about the first and the third place. last night it was a little bit different they had a little harder time avoiding the real conversation. >> reporter: of third. >> i say third place is a ticket to ride ladies and gentlemen! [ applause ] >> reporter: the front-runner called south carolina an uphill battle. the last time he competed in a primary there he came in fourth. his strategy is clear. he's pitting himself against not only his republican virals, but presi

i grew up in an america that was still investing in the middle class. he principle function of washington and how it spent money. it said we're going to invest in america's middle class. the daughter of a guy who sold fencing. >> jon: you didn't know his name? [ laughter ] >> but what happened is that we changed from that world. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> jon: we're back now. >> all right we're back. >> jon: are you saying that -- why are you saying we don't invest anymore? has the government abdicated that responsibility? do we not have the money to do it? do we not think it's a priority? >> what happened is washington now works for those who can hire an army of lobbyists and lawyers. if you are in the drug business and you are selling prescriptions to seniors and you don't want to have to negotiate over the prices, washington works beautifully for you. if you want subsidies to drill for oil, washington is working for you. if you run a hedge fund and want to pay the lowest possible taxes, washington is working for you. there was a recent will you a st

middle america doesn't have any investments any more. we-- we don't have that benefit that we used to have. >> ifill: is anybody listening a flu to rick santorum who has been running here a lot? but hadn't really done well until iowa? >> yeah, i actually, rick was my second between newt and rick. what i like about rick is his principleses and his values. i spoke to him on several occasions and had a very good feel. >> ifill: does this election need or does the next president need to be an outsider, an insider or someone who has a little bit of outside inside cred? >> i would say outside inside cred. i this i that washington is an institution and if you don't have any experience, then you're going to spend part of your time there, your short time there just figuring out the lay of the land and how it works. but if you have someone who is too entrenched in the way things are working, then they're not working right now. so that's got to hurt you. >> i think one of the things besides the inside out is we need a collaborator. the president se

the other thing, i'm surprised christian, you, a man of the middle america, the populous person, hasn'tevy volt because basically this is a car for the 1 about percenters and everyone one of us is subsidize, this is a rich person's car and doesn't do one iota, you know as well as i do, to reduce carbon emissions. we could reduce all the gas guzzling cars off the road and it wouldn't make a .1% difference in our car upon footprint. i'm with amelia, this has got to go. >> brenda: i've got to get everyone in here. this car actually can drive for hundreds of miles a unique again rater system. unlike the leaf nissan. it does not have the government behind it and they're selling it, even though it's kind of ooh loser, only 10,000 in america, too, the bottom line prius, was not a huge success immediately and can take a little time and gm made plenty of flops that were costly without the government and aztec comes to mind among many others, and it has the potential to-- but not going to have to say they won't have to kill it, it might be ahead of its time. and oil prices may have to go higher.

pressure and an increasingly militarized opposition many syrians have been left trapped in the middle. america. i have only one question what did they kill my son for my son was the politician or a public figure various movements national and local exist in this country i don't understand when my son was killed. speaking the floor crowd many of whom were young supporters president this week once again repeated his promises of reform that was not with skepticism from the opposition meanwhile on all sides of this conflict young politically motivated syrians remain committed to fighting for their political future if they country despite the fact that so many like him and that fight could end up costing them their lives. well still ahead on the program sending iran's oil up in flames in iraq against attempts to block oil trade in the gulf threatening to respond with. the heat on tehran ahead of the shuttle visit by u.n. nuclear watchdog inspectors. i'm sorry u.s. intelligence reports cast doubt on the optimistic outlook on afghanistan by general saying corruption weak local government and militant

. >> his plan to bolster america's middle class. >> it looks like star wars, the sun pelts the earth.t a solar eruption means for us. >> i'm ken, san francisco's embattled sheriff says he can still do his job despite his legal troubles. >> ross mirkarimi met with the mayor telling him he has no plans to step aside. the sheriff was not eager to elaborate. >> dana king, consider this. we are talking about an elected official. as you just mentioned, ross mirkarimi was running for city supervie supervisor and recently, sheriff. mirkarimi is running from our news cameras and i mean that literally. >> as sheriff, he swore to uphold the law, now ross mirkarimi is on the wrong side of the law with a domestic case law led with a late afternoon meeting with the mayor. in fact, cbs 5 cameras were forced to run down a 4th floor city hall corridor in pursuit of mirkarimi, all because the newly elected sheriff dashed from mayor's lee's office up not one, but two flights of stairs. unable to outrun our camera man, a sweating breathless mirkarimi offered this account. >> we were both talking about th

and the middle class in america here's what tom had to say recently about the disappearance of the middle class. new numbers from the census bureau have just come out and they are grim and one in two americans half the nation are living in poverty or are and living in low income lifestyles basically half of this country is poor a survey of twenty nine mirrors around the country found that one in four americans who showed up in need of food assistance and by and large were eligible didn't receive any help since the banks to resurrect our economy for three years ago four million homes have been foreclosed on and each year more than one and a half million children end up homeless perman cain famously said a few months ago this statement and it's been echoed since in words and certainly in tone and intent by several prominent republicans. i don't have facts to back up but i happen to believe that these demonstrations are planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the obama administration don't blame wall street don't blame the big banks if you don't have a job a you're n

brands that appeal to middle america.at really aren't part of tim tebow's character. we'll find out more about him as a person. as we go through the next two or three years, that's the time we have to look at. >> prediction tonight? >> patriots. i think it will be similar to when they played in denver. >> thank you. >> see the entire interview with tim tebow on "nfl today," tonight at 7:30 eastern. huge game. followed by the broncos and patriots at 8:00, right here on cbs. >> we'll all be watching. >> yes, indeed. >>> up next, our favorite movie critics predict the big winners at tonight's golden globe awards. >> you're watching "cbs thnch morning saturday." new starbucks blonde roast is another way to look at the bean. another way that reveals the lighter, mellower side of our roast. being blonde is nothing new, but blonde roast is something new. something subtle. something soft. something with 40 years of roasting experience on its side. introducing delicious new starbucks blonde roast. the lighter roast perfected. come

they have a complete blind spot when it comes to social policy and the way people in middle america thinkrians that have worked with me at networks and that i've talked to in newsrooms before, i just haven't found any social conservatives that have worked in the mainstream media outside of fox news. and peggy, i think this is why there may be a blind spot in whether santorum can win or not. >> you know what, joe, let me throw something out and see if you agree. in the media, in the tops or the establishments "of both parties." the democrats and the republicans, there's a whole lot of libertarian going on. i think you may be suggesting that. when it comes to social issues, everybody, top dems, top reps, the media, it's just not an issue for them. they are very libertarian. america is not very libertarian. america has libertarian impulses. and thoughts. look, we'll see what rick santorum is bringing to the table now, joe. i'm very interested, by the way, in what your experience was with him. i think you were in the house with him. he was one of the young ones of '94. i'm very interested in

this is the disdain that the elites have for middle america.hey always have. >> sean: you know what? your critics say -- when people hear the words "critics say," the rap on iowa, say we elite liberal media say, that's how we ought to interpret that. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> sean: let not your heart be troubled. our great, great, great american panel is >> sean: and tonight on our great, great american panel, he serve as executive director of the black national caucus and is a principle in the modefta group, braght braght is here. he is known as trump's right-hand man, the executive vice-president and special counc toil donald trump. you will notice, that's a trump tie. vione on, too. yours is a trump tie. yours isn't? >> i am not wearing one tonight. >> on national television. i am sure mr. trump is watching. i am probably in trouble. >> your. >> sean: you deserve to be docked on monday morning. and she was miss america 2008 and is a community relations specialist with timberline knolls. and you just got engaged? >> sure. >>

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>> i like it that middle america gets to have a say and rather than just coast, getting to speak firstdea of a rotating super tuesday thing, like the olympics where there's a bid and there's five states and it rotates every year and i think that would actually be a healthier way to pick a president. >> you know, it used to be, what i did. jersey and california the same day, back and forth, coast to coast, greg, i hate to ask, what do you think? >> i love iowa and they don't call it the show me state for nothing. >> okay, fine. andrea? >> or missouri. if you look at it historically, it doesn't have that great of a record of picking candidates. only twice, in the last, i think, two decades or something, so, i don't put a lot of weight on iowa, i wish it wasn't put all on iowa, it's nice to have the midwest speak, but it isn't a lot of pressure on one state. south carolina is the one with the perfect record. >> greg, don't worry about it. because nobody is going to think about iowa tomorrow. believe me, it will be gone and-- what they have a history of doing is winnowing out the candidate

this is the disdain that the elites have for middle america. they always have. >> sean: you know what? your critics say -- when people hear the words "critics say," the rap on iowa, say we elite liberal media say, that's how we ought to interpret that. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> sean: let not your heart be troubled. our great, great, great american panel is next. [ male announcer ] when do you take 5-hour energy? when i'm on the night shift. when they have more energy than i do. when i don't feel like working out. when there isn't enough of me to go around. ♪ when i have school. and work. every morning. it's faster and easier than coffee. every afternoon when that 2:30 feeling hits. -every day. -every day. every day is a 5-hour energy day. [ male announcer ] 5-hour energy. every day. >> sean: and tonight on our great, great american panel, he serve as executive director of the black national caucus and is a principle in the modefta group, braght braght is here. he is known as trump's right-hand man, the executive vice-president

industry and that gm is now selling more cars than anybody else in the world again, has to reach middle america in that way. >> >> the president, they have a message, the good stuff. >> a lot of the news is what the republicans are saying about him every day. now he has something to say. that combined with good economic news is going to bring him back. >> let me talk about what the republicans are saying on the campaign trail. for example, this is mitt romney. >> if you really think that things are going well in this country, that we're on the right track and that his policies are working, you ought to vote for him. >> how many of you agree that america is largely on the wrong track? >> you've got to wonder as the polls begin to inch up that they're going to have to tweak that message a little bit, charles. >> here's the problem. you have the unemployment numbers going in the right direction for barack obama. you keep seeing it inch down just a little bit. you are getting close to the numbers that barack obama said that he was going to get. if you get close to, you know, 8 percentage unemployme

and i'm not sure that middle america is really ready for a president who's up for an open marriage. >> people are forgiving. this is a state, south carolina, where mark sanford had this incredible flameout, lied about where he said he was on the appalachia appalachia trail and flew down to have an affair. i think redemption is a big part of that evangelical culture. >> but i just think -- >> beating up newt over these things that happened years ago, a lot of people will say, people have complicated lives. >> john heilemann, i have word that you now have audio in your ear, which is great for our program. >> yes, i do. >> we're talking about the open marriage question. and i know gingrich, some of his surrogates on this have been his daughters. what's the feeling in the gingrich camp as far as how much the story has legs and whether or not it's going to wound him going into saturday's primary? >> well, look, alex, your question earlier was a little bit too broad. at some point if gingrich becomes the republican nominee, we'll have to ask the question about how americans feel about the n

middle class has to. as this chart shows as union membership has declined in america so too has the middle classes share of annual income we need to put an end to this war and unions just recently in wisconsin we saw the power actually let me just this is this is unionization and wages notice a correlation just recently in wisconsin we saw the power of the labor movement when it fought back against governor scott walker and collected over a million signatures to recall him from office we now need that same energy in indiana governor mitch daniels is a rising star in the republican party and we need to turn him into the next scott walker unions are literally democracies in the workplace and we have to save them if we want to restore a strong middle class to america. as the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our website to thom hartmann dot com free speech dot org and. also check out our two you tube channels or a link to tom hartman dot com this entire show is available as a free video podcast on i tunes and we have a free tom hartman i phone and a brand new i pad a

congress we also learned that texas oil barons who want to cut a dirty pipeline through the middle of america are no match for an energized environmental movement and twelve hundred american patriots willing to get arrested in front of the white house we learned that despite tens of millions of dollars in lobbying and television advertising despite blatant lies about job creation and lies about environmental effects in the face of all of them the nation's largest oil interest group the american petroleum institute did not get its way with the keystone x.l. pipeline we learned that ultimately the majority of americans were able to speak louder and put more pressure on the white house and this president to keep his promise when he said he would begin to heal the planet now the keystone pipeline is dead because the people of america said so. we learned that it was consing governor who was elected with money from millionaires and billionaires from mostly outside the state of wisconsin can't put his radical agenda to dismantle public unions through we learned that despite thirty years of constant

now, that plan again, and they got the bonuses, and everybody out in middle america is suffering. you've got 9% unemployment and 16% probably active unemployed and those searching for work. and so i share the exasperation and the anger and the rage at that inequity and injustice. but, again, when you come to an agenda, i think you will find they break down ideologically. and i think they will. and also, ralph, i think as winter comes they're not going to -- a lot of them are going to peel off. [laughter] they're not going to get the publicity they did, ralph, and what's going to happen, they're going to go and do things such as happened in atlanta, happened in oakland. and i think then the american people will turn them off because the american people, they don't like what happened in grant park when i was out there in 1968. >> host: or they'll move south in warmer weather. >> guest: right. we had a good group there, ralph nader, pat buchanan, jim hoffa was there, sweeney, and what happened? remember the guy -- first it was the sea turtles, and secondly it was the guy throwing can

and people on the other side of the rof the hudso river and vegas, middle america. >> sure, americay a good country. >> sure it is. >> and it's basically making the world a better place and that view of american intentionalism --- >> but there's things like slavery, and those things did happen, but you don't dwell on them. i agree with it. but it's the simplicity of this argument that's going to be its power. i worked with mormon, frank moss from utah, wayne owens, the congress that you knew. my wife works for bill mahrriot, it's a positive american thing. it's more unapologetic than you say. it's more like this is really great, let's stop the conversation. >> steve ratner, isn't that always the divide, i think, between conservatives and liberals, that liberals think conservatives look at this country with rose tinted glasses on and conservatives think liberals dwell on the negative far too much. ronald reagan was called a simple on the in 1980, but he delivered a very simple message, we are a city shining on a hill for the whole world to see and americans love that. >> i agree with

intensive job so how do you take the middle part of america that maybe didn't have that background thatome were fortunate to get and give them what they need in order to be able to do 21st century high and high value creating jobs. >> go ahead. >> first of all of read it to become majority of the research we do doesn't come this way. it comes by supporting people, labs, university, but longer-term support so folks who have a good idea to mauro have the money that they need to try to go and pursue it so i do think that the majority of our research does resolve the problem. the new ideas pop up quickly, and we've got a structure that addresses that. so, i wouldn't worry about that particular issue. islamic this is really important to. the reason this particular question is being asked is it isn't the money the innovation center is awarding that matters in fact i would argue it isn't relevant as much. it is the policy tools that say if what you experiment is needs to a new reimbursement methodology that proves the quality goes up and cost goes down you can change the regulation policies of

. >> you know, we built america's middle class coming out of the depression because we decided to invest in us, our children and our future. that's what locked in america's middle class. we did it by investing in education, and infrastructure, boring stuff like roads mass transit and rail. we built a power grid across this country and by investing in research. we built a pipeline of ideas in this country. basically what has happened is over the last 30 years we've just been cutting back and cutting back on those investments. so as i talk with people a lot about that, about what it took to build a middle class why the middle class is getting hammered so hard and what investments we need to make going forward. >> and if our nation is going to be competitive with our nations who are investing so well. >> you're exactly right on that. this is one of the things that i try to talk about a lot. you know this. but china right now is investing 9% of its gdp in infrastructure, so as their businesses get up and going, they can get there. europe is investing 5% of its gdp in infrom a structure infra