bret baier last night sat down with mitt. got testy at times. take a listen. >> do you think a mandate, mandating people to buy insurance is the right tool? >> bret, i don't know how many hundred times i said this, too. this is an unusual interview. let's do it again. absolutely. what we did in massachusetts was right for massachusetts. >> you did say on camera and other places that at times you thought it would be a model for the nation. >> you're wrong, bret. >> no. >> the tape out there -- continue to read the tape. the tape goes on to say for each state to be able to look at it. >> greg: i can't cross my legs because my feet wouldn't touch the ground. the thing with romney he is getting tired of asking america out for a date. everybody keeps saying no. he will turn in to an angry ex, he will hate america. >> kimberly: we don't want that to happen. >> eric: those are the questions he hasn't really been asked before. hasn't been put on the hot seat like that before. >> kimberly: it was good. bret was direct. you get angry or be upset with bret

bret baier i admire, i thought he did a very good job.7:00 is a first rate news organization. and if you want to maintain your credibility, you shouldn't blur the lines by going on o'reilly. all he did was throw romney's own words back at him. reminds me of one of my favorite political stories, used to be told about barry goldwater rally, old "new york times" report, used to tell the story. woman comes running out of the rally, tears streaming down her face, saying stop them! stop those reporters! they're writing down every word he's saying. throw his words back at him -- >> mitt romney and his wife on the cover of "parade" magazine, soft focus interview. you've talked around it. he hasn't been on a sunday show in a year and a half. why isn't the press calling him out on his lack of accessibility? >> i think they have, but it's interesting why he hasn't done it. if he did it more he probably would get used to it. he's been good in the debates. he can state his views with clarity and with flewensy. i think it's mistake as we saw in 2008 to

take a look at some of the more awkward moments, as i said, in this interview on fox with bret baier. it's yesterday. let's watch. >> climate change, abortion, immigration, gay rights. how can voters trust what they hear from you today is what you will believe if you win the white house? >> well, bret, your list is just not accurate. one, we'll have to be better informed about my view on issues. >> i'm sure you've seen these ads, using videotape of you in previous years speaking on various issues. >> mm-hmm. >> and it seems like it's in direct contrast to positions you take now. >> well, i -- i'm glad that the democratic ads are breaking through, and you got -- >> do you think a mandate mandating people to buy insurance is the right tool? >> bret, i don't know how many hundreds times i've said this, too. this is an unusual interview, let's do it again. >> did you not say on camera and other places that at times you thought it would be a model for the nation? >> you're wrong, bret. >> no, no. >> the tape out there, continue to read the tape. >> well, david, looks like he flip-flopped w

. >> bill: mitt romney getting a little teed off at our pal bret baier. let's show you what happened and our pal bret will be here. >> we have a president who doesn't give a damn about inconvenience yensing people. >> bill: donald trump teed off with president obama over christmas. we will tell you what happened there. >> talking about let them eat cake. barney frank makes marie antwon net look like a lawyer doing pro bono work. dennis miller wants to wish barney frank happy retirement kind of. >> a tough guy with sharp elbows. >> bill: caution. you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. less than five weeks until the iowa vote. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. as the republic party consolidates and absorb as new frontrunner newt gingrich, it is worth looking back four years ago from tonight. on november 30th, 2007, rudy giuliani was leading the republic pac, fred thompson second, john mccain third and

as demonstratorred by his interview with bret baier earlier this week. romney is rightly frustrated, every time he turns around, there is another surging candidate. first it was michelle bachmann, then rick perry and herman cain and now newt gingrich. he got a bit testy, which could be a good thing if he decides to become more aggressive. but if he comes across as petulant, that will hurt him. newt gingrich was right, he told us last summer that his campaign would not be traditional, that bringing his message directly to the folks through cable tv news mainly fox, would make him a contender, and that's exactly what has happened. also mr. gingrich has done well in the debate, hammering some moderators who are perceived as liberals and generally showing a mastery of public policy. romney has done well in debate, but not as conservative as newt gingrich and in the primaries that puts him at a disadvantage. puts him at a disadvantage. on the democratic side, president obama would rather run against newt gingrich than mitt romney because the governor is likel

let's bring in "special report" anchor bret baier. he is the moderator of that debate. s live from sioux city, iowa. let's get back to the president's speech there at fort bragg just a moment, bret. did you hear any politics or anything that speaks to his desire to win re-election as he was addressing the troops about the end of the gulf war? well, sure, the end of the war in iraq, i think just the mere speech itself was enveloped in what the administration wants to portray on foreign policy. that the then senator obama, candidate obama said they would responsibly end the war in iraq and he is saying he is delivering on that. the administration is saying that, that they are solid on foreign policy and they're trying to take any vulnerability about, you know, traditional vulnerabilities for a democratic administration, that they're not tough enough around the world and use that in speeches when he talks about foreign policy. it is all enveloped in politics when you get this late heading into 2012. jon: meantime we have a fractured country and maybe a fractured government

bret baier, the man who conducted the interview, talks about his exchange with romney when the cameras turned off. >> he said he thought it was overly aggressive. >> he did, he said that to you? he said he thought it was overly aggressive? >> he did. and as we were walking in the walk and talk. and after we finished, he went to his holding room and then came back and said he didn't like the interview and thought it was uncalled for. >> romney coming back later to call out bret baier on his line of questioning. mitt romney trying to put his focus on the economy, focusing on fiscally-conservative voters in new hampshire, with a new ad. >> i spent my life in the private sector, i've competed with companies around the world. i've learned something about how it is that economies grow. we're not going to balance the budget despite pretending that all you have to do is take out the waste. we're going to have to cut spending and i'm in favor of cutting spending, capping federal reserve spending as a percentage of gdp at 20% or less and having a balanced budget amendment. the right answer for a

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i don't think bret baier is an ideologue. >> smith: you don't think brit hume?ams: brit hume, i think, is a very strong conservative, but again i don't put him in the same category that i would put sean hannity, no i do not. >> smith: you don't. >> williams: i think brit hume is quite a good journalist. done the work.t say, he'' brit hume's been around washington >> smith: right. >> williams: .-nows thh players, knows the dynamic. thhre's a different kind of fox out of the roger ailes tradition, which is a lot of talk radio hosts. >> smith: right. >> williams: .who come and i.they're not.i would not3 label them as journalists. i would label brit hume as a very good journnlist. >> smith: do you consider chris matthews to be an ideologge? >> williams: yeah..3 >> smith: you do? >> williams: i do. >> smith: you put him in the >> williams: well, i think he's been around. you know his book hard baal i think is a classic but my feeling is that, so he's much more of an american politics. ideologue.arpton is an >> smith: right. >> williams::yeah. >> smith: i guess the po

a >>> i'm bret baier in sioux city, iowa, site of thursday's republican candidate debate here on fox.to you from sioux city convention center. a few feet away from the debate stage. we look at how some candidates are not waiting for the debate to throw bombs at each other. steve brown is here at sioux city to tell us how iowanss in the western part of the state have been taken for granted so far. the clock is ticking down for a government shutdown and rhetoric is flying. mike emanuel is on top of that. ed henry shows us what president obama said at fort bragg, north carolina, there to celebrate the coming end to the war in iraq. plus, in grapevine, the politician sends out an unusual holiday greeting card. "special report" from sioux city, iowa, starts at 6:00 eastern. now back to new york and "the five." ♪ ♪ ♪ >> greg: welcome back to "the five." becausevy no life, i read the "new york times" columnist bill keller's blog where he confessed that something horrible. he was mad because he called them illegals. the short-handed phrase is now considered a slur. why is that? keller's cohor

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." ♪ ♪ >> i'm bret baier. we'll talk politics in souse city in a moment. top story is back in washington. we take a live look at the house floor. the lawmakers are about to have a series of vote. one is a version of the payroll tax extension. mike emanuel on top of the late breaking action on capitol hill. >> good evening. this hour we expect the house to pass the g.o.p. plan for the payroll extension. a high stakes standoff is building as the democrats push back and the speaker holds firm. >> we have a reasonable, responsible bill to help the american people. it will help create jobs. i am glad we are where we are. >> the white house has issued a formal veto threat, adding to the political drama. that drew angry response from the senate republicans. >> the president needs to quit campaigning and needs to get back and start governing and stop blocking the keystone pipeline. >> the house and senate appropriators have been hammering out a deal to fund the government from friday night through september. the must pass legislation. the leading republicans are b

talking about the interview we showed you yesterday where mitt romney got upset with fox news' bret baiermany times i've said this, this is an unusual interview. >> can you say on camera and other places that at times you thought it would be a model for the nation. >> you're wrong, bret. bret, no, the tape out there, continue to read the tape. >> come on, bret. did you not read the tape? i bet you just watched the tape because that's how tape works. you got to read it -- i was going it read the hell out of that thing. the rule is, you stop grilling romney after he gives you the laugh. that's his safe word. he uses it all the time. ha ha ha. ha ha ha. ha ha ha. >> ha ha ha! available on dvd. >> you got to read the tape. >>> still ahead, why are you awake? you're checked out for the weekend. tweets, texts and emails are next and "morning joe" live this morning from washington, mark halpern giving it to us, just moments away. 2 o0 hey guys, what can i get for you? i'd like a decaf 360 calories please. i'll have a triple iced 410 calories please. you know what... i'll have this instead. [ fem

>> bret baier. >> i don't know him. is he on our network? >> that's fine. yes, he is. >> are you -- ♪ ♪ >> greg: hello, i'm the hobbitt-size host, greg gutfeld, andrea tantaros, suspenbobbeckel, eric bolling aa perino. it's 5:00 p.m. in new york. 2:00 p.m. in needles, callous. and this is "the five." the show is packed tighter than japanese subway. let's tack the truth. this show starts as soon as i stop thinking about unicorns. okay. done. ♪ ♪ >> greg: so i wanted last night's debate to get ugly. how ugly? really ugly. we're talking joy behar after an all-night bender ugly. no such luck. still, it served as cliff note for the campaign. mitt played it safe even his training wheels wore a helmet. smoother than a shorty robe made of gravy. ron paul proves again for everything sensible thing he says he ads something kookie. like opening steak topped with necco wafers. ron, it's 2011. you can't be an isolationist in crowded phone bull, especially if it's crowded with nuts holding handguns. then newt defend his profits claiming he was a private citizen back then

to be a giant go trip and anybody who thinks that donald trump is going to be the equivalent of bret baierany of the other moderates is kidding themselves. >> sure it's time do something presidential and stand up and say "we're not going to be hijacked and participate." >> well, i'm not going to kiss his ring and i'm not going to kiss any other part of his anatomy. (audience reacts). >> jon: aren't we a saucy mormon. (laughter) donald? >> a guy like karl rove, he's the one that gave us bush which ultimately gave us obama. he's a political hack. i've read george bill will over the years, he's third rate. huntsman who's upset. i mean, he's got such low polling numbers, i wouldn't feel too good if i had 1%. >> jon: hey, i wouldn't vote for that guy with mitt romney's (bleep). (laughter) i love this guy! trump can never, ever, ever let (bleep) slide. he can't let anything go. this is him yesterday doing a phone interview with chuck todd but first he wants to get one thing straight. >> i didn't call you, you called me about 40 times. >> i did. >> i didn't call you so your statement is false. is

we have team fox coverage with ed henry live at the white house and bret baier live in our washington newsroom. but, first to mike emanuel tracking developments on capitol hill. mike, so what happens now? >> well, lawmakers, jon are expected to try to pass this, what is known as unanimous consent. speaker jon boehner also talked about a broader effort to strike a full one-year deal. >> the senate will join the house in immediately appointing conferees with instructions to reach an agreement in the weeks ahead on a full one-year payroll tax deduction along with unemployment reforms and extension of unemployment and the so-called doc fix for two years. >> jon: if there is a snag tomorrow. if a member comes and objects. mr. boehner says he will not hesitate to bring the entire house back next week, jon? >> jon: what sort of political fallout can we expect? >> well, the speaker revealed this deal to members about two hours ago on a conference call. he did not ask for feedback. he did not take questions. and that really seemed to anger some of the republic members. a lot of grumbling about

i know, i know, i know you heard about chris wallace, and bret baier, hosting the whole thing, whatevere coming for. actually, it is part of a fox, it is really going to be good stuff with questions from all over, the most unique of any debate thus far, december 15th ill-be there starting with our shows next tuesday all through next week with the very biggest names from the world of politics and business, and my colleagues, and special report, and we hope to keep bret baier there late enough so he misses his show. so next week, in sioux city, we are told it is 12 degrees. 12 degrees. would says an people does not fall far from the tree? andrew cuomo became his father mario cuomo. [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition? ♪ [ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smoothie. could've had a v8. of course, neither do i. solution? . i can enter trades on the run. even futures and 4x. complex options, done. and advanced charts. look at that. all right here. wherever "here" happens to be. . plu

>>neil: take it to the extreme as bret baier and chris wallace were getting into along with megyn kellytake it to the extreme, it means you don't medal with iran that could get nuclear, that might invade israel. and take it to that extreme it scares people. >>guest: well, it scares me, too. but it also scares me the idea of going into iran and trying to pry a yet to be developed nuclear weapon from their happened. >>neil: we take it to the point that there is a nuclear weapon. well, we respect people with the bomb. >>guest: this is outside my area of expertise, foreign affairs. the job of the government is to protect our borders. they attack us, we will attack them back. ron paul said if we are attacked, the job of the government --. >>neil: i am not sidetracking the libertarian issue, but the cleanness of that point, is you don't interfere? >>guest: right, true. if iran attacks israel, israel can take care of herself, she has her own nuclear weapons, a much richer country and it is not our responsibility. >>neil: okay, john stossel, boy, you have a lost fans. >>guest: oh, good. >>neil:

for bret baier you get almost blai such e. you have been beyond patient.he microphones were on. that is a good thing to warn me about. you have done this a number of times, half a dozen times. what do you look for? this is the last one before the vote? do they take on any added importance? >>guest: well the tension is palpable because we are wait dog hear your questions. first. seriously, i think this is a different ballgame. because it is the final debate when all the candidates are on the stage together before the iowa caucus, and they have to make the closing arts and there are certain candidates who need to use this time really effectively to move the needle in the department days last before, or less, before the iowa caucus. >>neil: but, one thing, you have followed this more closely than i do but the loads change remarkably -- the leads change remarkably, gingrich was on fire and now under considerable heat, who, who, who is on top? >>guest: clearly, ron paul has made an organizational stand in iowa and he is very organized. he is very, he is moving