. >> bill burton and joan walsh >> bill burton and joan walsh with the problem with the latino vote. >>> the fight for fairness headed to the floor of the senate. robert reich on today's big news for the buffet rule. >>> good to have you with us tonight, thanks for watching. newt gingrich is taking a pounding in florida. he's been outspent by mitt romney 5-to-1, poll numbers have taken a dive. but even gingrich knows what kind of red meat the conservative republican audience wants. >> something very, very important, something i want to take a minute to talk about. the obama administration is engaged in a war against religion. >> gingrich has no proof that president obama is waging a war against religion but proof with these guys is not necessary. the top two republican candidates have been saying all kind of extreme things about the president for the past two months. >> he wants to turn america into a european-style social welfare state. >> president obama has been historically the most effective food stamp president in american history. >> president obama has reversed john kennedy's

and former press secretary for president obama, bill burton. all right.nd of debate are we going to see this weekend? is it, jonathan, going to be a knockdown, drag-out? this is it. >> i hope so. this is first-class entertainment, ed. they've been good so far. the expectations are high for this weekend. because as the voting starts, a little sense of desperation sets in. and it's very, very hard to consistently take the high road in these events. they've got to score points. and then you have somebody like newt gingrich who's made no secret of the fact that he wants to deliver some roundhouse punches to mitt romney. so at a minimum we're going to see that. >> joy-ann, are the candidates going to pile on mitt romney? >> well, except for ron paul who seems to be going after newt gingrich. he called him a chicken hawk already. you're going to see a lot of cross fire in this debate. it's going to be interesting because each of them has a mission. mitt romney has to once again prove he's acceptable to conservatives. newt gingrich claims he owns the debate foru

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jonathan alter, joy-ann reid and bill burton weigh in on all of that.ell us what you want to pay, and we give you a range of coverages to choose from. who is she? that's flobot. she's this new robot we're trying out, mostly for, like, small stuff. wow! look at her go! she's pretty good. she's pretty good. hey, flobot, great job. oops. [ powers down ] uh-oh, flobot is broken. the "name your price" tool, only from progressive. call or click today. >>> and in "psycho talk" tonight, well, we say good-bye to the presidential candidacy of michele bachmann. darn it. in the last less than five months, i think it was, bachmann went from winning the iowa straw poll to coming in sixth in the iowa caucuses. but i think i know what happened. >> what i would like to do is have the win-win-win plan. ♪ oh, my, goodness. yes. i haven't had a gaffe. now, with the president, he put us in libya. he is now putting us in africa. because he has a lot of chutzpa. i'm a serious candidate for president of the united states, and my facts are accurate. what i love about new hampsh

i'm joined by bill burton of priorities, usa, and joan walsh of salon.com.oing to continue to massage, joan, his position on latino voters in the dream act and get away with it? i mean, can he win the presidency if he gets the nomination with such a low number of latino voters viewing him unfavorably? >> i think it's hard. bill knows better than i do in the key swing states the latino vote is a growing importance. the thing that is so tragic to me, ed, the dream act used to be the kind of no-brainer, everyone could agree and maybe people weren't sure about other pathways to citizenship and what to do about adults who came here illegally, but everybody for a while seemed to agree that we should educate people who lived here, the children who came here really it was no fault of their own, and we want the best and brightest and kids who have become american, to have a way to stay here that wasn't just about military service. that is one way. so the idea that this has become a divisive issue and they are demonnizing kids and saying they can't stay and go to coll

with bill burton of priorities usa and the washington post's e.j. dionne. on saturday i watched the debate with locals in new hampshire, to get their take on the gop field. >> i think the republicans are a bunch of phonies. >> john nichols of the nation magazine and huffington post jennifer donahue are here with full analysis. a hard-working american is calling out newt gingrich on his race problem. >> will you stop using blacks in general as a stepping stone or a punching bag? >> you don't want to miss newt's response. >>> good to have you with us tonight folks, thanks for watching. mitt romney is doing anything he can to run away from his history as a job killer. it could be the last chance for his opponents to stop him from winning the nomination. tomorrow night is a big one. during romney's final swing through new hampshire, he played the role of middle class mitt once again. >> these are experiences many of you that many of you know. i know what it's like to worry whether you'll get fired. there were a couple of times i wondered whether i would get a p

bill burton, e.j. dionne, thanks for your time, appreciate it. next up, rick perry wants to reinvade iraq because apparently he thinks iran has super powers, psycho talk is coming up. hillary clinton for vice president? a new york times op-ed makes the case. could it really happen? i'll ask jonathan alter and joan walsh. when you think about it -- we're right back. >>> in psycho talk tonight, we have more evidence rick perry is just another younger, crazier version version george bush. 75% of americans agreed to withdraw the troops last month. of course almost all of the republican presidential candidates were among the 25% who opposed the withdrawal. during saturday night's debate, rick perry he took it a step further. >> i would send troops back in to iraq. the idea that we allow the iranians to come back in iraq and take over that country with all the treasure both in blood and money we have spent in iraq because this president wants to cow tow to his liberal leftist base and move out those men and women. we're going to see iran, in my opinion

bill burton was one and charlie spies.h say they're following the rules, but say they will continue their super pac work even though each candidate has criticized the groups. number two, wikipedia will shut down for 24 hours on wednesday in protest of sopa. an online privacy act, a story a lot of people are passionate about. wikipedia is going to join redit and several other sites in protest of the antipiracy legislation being considered. the cofounder says the site averages 25 million visitors a day. number three, zappos has been hacked, compromising 24 million accounts. zappos is owned by amazon. it sent an e-mail the customers this afternoon telling them their passwords were compromised. the company insists the passwords were encoded, but we talked to an online security expert who says there's no question about this one. if you use a password or logon anywhere else, change them immediately. four, fewer americans describe the current economic conditions as poor, but the number calling it somewhat poor has gone up to 42%.

bill burton was one and charlie spies.th say they're following the rules, but say they will continue their super pac work even though each candidate has criticized the groups. number two, wikipedia will shut down for 24 hours on wednesday in protest of sopa. an online privacy act, a story a lot of people are passionate about. wikipedia is going to join redit and several other sites in protest of the antipiracy legislation being considered. the cofounder says the site averages 25 million visitors a day. number three, zappos has been hacked, compromising 24 million accounts. zappos is owned by amazon. it sent an e-mail the customers this afternoon telling them their passwords were compromised. the company insists the passwords were encoded, but we talked to an online security expert who says there's no question about this one. if you use a password or logon anywhere else, change them immediately. four, fewer americans describe the current economic conditions as poor, but the number calling it somewhat poor has gone up to 42%

bill burton, e.j.ionne, thanks for your time, appreciate it. >> thank you, ed. >>> up next, rick perry wants to reinvade iraq because apparently he thinks iran has super powers. "psycho talk" is coming up. >>> and hillary clinton for vice president? a "new york times" op-ped makes the case. could it really happen? i'll ask jonathan alter and joan walsh. i mean, when you think about it -- we're right back. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] entune mobile technology. ♪ stronger! ♪ stand a little taller [ male announcer ] stay seamlessly connected to your smart phone. available on the reinvented 2012 camry. from toyota. ♪ from toyota. living with the pain of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis... could mean living with joint damage. help stop the damage before it stops you with humira. for many adults with moderate to severe ra, humira's proven to help relieve pain and stop joint damage. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal events can occur, such

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. >>> next, burton and anita folsom contend that president franklin d.including the expansion of the executive branch and excessive spending that left the country financially ill prepared for the japanese attack on pearl harbor and the subsequent u.s. entry into world war ii. this is about an hour. >> good afternoon and welcome to the cato institute in exile. we're glad to have you folks here, and we're or very proud to say that in about two months the construction on our building will be complete, and we'll be back in the hayek auditorium. but for now we're glad to be here at the undercrofte. auditorium to discuss this book, "fdr goes to war."nder a long time ago i went to mayfield high school in mayfield, kentucky, and in my senior year i was the co-editor of the high school newspaper, "the cardinal." newspaper, the cardinal. i think the the features editor that year was my classmates any dab france to has gone on to bigger things and she got married to burton folsom and to history degrees, worked for president reagan and senator mitch mcconnell and ke

who are at -- per co-author and has been is a burton folsom, jr. ph.d. from pittsburg and i actually visited there for the first time last fall and saw something that i had never heard of, the cathedral of serving which is the second tallest university building in the world the tallest is in moscow they thought they we're doing something better than capitalism but it is a 42 story building the first few floors are built like a gothic cathedral. it is amazing. go spend some time in the cathedral of learning. but since then being a different colleges now holds the charros claims share of history and management at hillsdale and serves as senior historian at the foundation for economic education rican find some of his articles. he has published seven books and and when he explains the difference between political entrepreneurs which is a good text for the increasing discussion for the differences between crony capitalism and free enterprise. the work with the administration coming out in the fall 2008 as everybody said we need to emulate what fdr had done. a

burton told members of the indiana state house today that he'll serve out his term but not run again. he's 73 years old. he didn't elaborate on his decision. he told them beforehand that he's resigning because of health issues >>> finally in britain, former royal of bank scotland chief, fred goodwin is being stripped of his knighthood. the cabinet office said that the knighthood has been canceled because goodwin has brought the honor similar into disrepute. back with more of "washington today." >>> "washington today" is now available as a pod cast. download each program individually at c-span.org. or subscribe using itunes. access to "washington today" pod cast wherever you are with the app. >>> on friday, c-span radio, a conversation with the reporter for the atlanta joump-journal constitution. she'll be talking about her latest book, "wanted women." muslim women in the u.s. to explore two distinct perspectives on the war on terror. one woman somalia born fights against islam with her writing. while the other educated here in the u.s. is strong proponent of jihad. she discusses her b

still assuming it's going to be mitt romney as bill burton has openly admitted or not? >> i think most democrats believe that mitt romney will be the nominee. the hope is that gingrich continues to stay in there and santorum maybe has another win left in him so this fight will last a little bit longer. but it does look like romney's got what it takes to finish the nomination fight. lasting night when you watched him, he was clearly more confidence. the rumors, i guess he had a new debate coach. i think wolf blitzer with his feet planted in stone last night continuing that line of questioning. >> wolf blitzer was immovable. don't mess with wolf blitzer. >> his name is wolf. what are you going to do? >> your name is wolf blitzer. don't mess with him. before we go, i want to play a moment from the debate that stuck with me. i want to know whether it's possible mitt romney didn't know about this ad. here it is. >> i haven't seen the ad, so i' sorry, i don't get to see all the tv ads -- did he say that? i doubt that's my ad, but we'll take a look and find out. there are a bu

>> who likes firing people, bill burton? >> he doesn't know how to talk about the things that he is likes. >> coming up. pac men. super pacs were part of the debate. first, what do google searches tell us about the candidates. last night's trends next on "now." >>> political analysts are turning to the polls to see the impact of last night's debate but what can google tell us, we looked to see what was being searched during the gop showdown, it's a new thing that we are doing on this show. and the google folks tell us, they looked at real time searches during and after the debate. super pac, the phrase up 212% from previous daily highs and this one is curious, romney mexico up 180% and romney tax up 145% and colbert super pac up 76%. what do we take away from this? i would like to focus to romney mexico thing, personally, we talk about his background and whether it matters in the general election, mexico being the birthplace of his grandfather? >> father. >> his father, his grand father fled there there was a polygamy issue

bill burton, good numbers today. can you keep it going? what republicans today say about it. it is better but not good enough. >> joebs numbers are great news for the president politically but also for the country, economically. it means a lot to the american people. but it is interesting to watch what mitt romney has it say about this. he sides with the most extreme sides that are rooting for the american economy to fail. he is a guy who benefitted financially when people got laid off and now he is a person trying to benefit politically by seeing americans lose their jobs. this is very good for the president. and it helps to set up a contrast down the road. >> michael steele, we have the new numbers out of south carolina. and mitt romney doing so well. up to 37%. he is up 17 points. rick santorum up. newt gingrich down since the last time around. ron paul up six points to 12. that said, is this all coming together around mitt romney? >> i think it is starting to, absolutely. there's no doubt about that. that's always been a part of the ro

still assuming it's going to be mitt romney as bill burton has openly admitted or not?think most democrats believe that mitt romney will be the nominee. the hope is that gingrich continues to stay in there and santorum maybe has another win left in him so this fight will last a little bit longer. but it does look like romney's got what it takes to finish the nomination fight. lasting night when you watched him, he was clearly more confidence. the rumors, i guess he had a new debate coach. i think wolf blitzer with his feet planted in stone last night continuing that line of questioning. >> wolf blitzer was immovable. don't mess with wolf blitzer. >> his name is wolf. what are you going to do? >> your name is wolf blitzer. don't mess with him. before we go, i want to play a moment from the debate that stuck with me. i want to know whether it's possible mitt romney didn't know about this ad. here it is. >> i haven't seen the ad, so i' sorry, i don't get to see all the tv ads -- did he say that? i doubt that's my ad, but we'll take a look and find out. there are a bunch of

burton. [applause] >> thank you.it's my pleasure to welcome richard thompson ford to the revelle forum. he is the george e.al corn professor of law at stanford law school and is a regular contribute tore slate and has written for numerous newspapers including "the new york times" and washington post. his first book, "racial culture," published in 2005 critiques racial identity politics including multiculturalism while also strongly arguing for racial justice. in his second book, "the race card," published in 2008 and selected as a new york times notable book, professor ford argues that ubiquitous claims of discrimination or playing the race card are distracting attention away from serious racial injustice. he concludes that we need to, quote, begin by looking at racial injustice as a social problem to be solved collectively rather than as a series of discreet wrongs perpetuated by bad people. this year he has two books coming out. universal rights down to earth which analyzes human rights struggles around the world a

they don't know what they are talking about, bill burton. this is a defiant president obama. >> you know, it was a tough message and i think you saw two clear contrasts. first immediate one, what you could feel between the president and either mitt romney or newt gingrich, when he is talking about tax fairness and equality in our country and a different vision on regulation. those different things set up what the fall will look like and there's the less immediate one when you get mitch daniels to screen saying that the state of the union is, what did he say? not in decline. grave. >> grave. >> he said grave are. i said you know what that is not where america is right now. and that is the difference between the president and his hope for us being stronger and a republican party that -- >> this was like one foot, like one step, two step with mitt romney specifically. and we did a nice sound bites mix to show you how approximate president was responding to the things that romney has said over the course of the campaign. >> it's been envy and cl

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. >> bill burton, former press secretary for president obama and a founder of one of those dreaded supert with you. you cover this fight of the conservatives. does new hampshire impact where some of the movement conservatives, what are the movement conservatives thinking a day after new hampshire? >> i spoke to a lot of conservatives yesterday in new hampshire, they all talked about electability, they have to be able to beat barack obama. going into south carolina, it's batting practice for -- i think movement conservatives, they like a lot of the other contend contenders, but they're going do move towards romney. >> are they moving towards romney or settling for romney? >> that's going to be a problem for romney. there's not a lot of enthusiasm still on the trail. >> romney is calling conservative populous. >> romney's now the old guy in the tuxedo and the top hat. the suffering began, a group of corporate raiders. the left could not improve on this. you know, you could -- the newt pac, i got an idea for you guys, recut your ads on romney. and your tag line is, i am barack obama and i a

be in the classrooms working with young people, bringing resources to them, as we are now doing in burton high- school with a program we created for students having difficulty making a transition. we are seeing a truant students improve their attendance. this is meaningful for crime rates, but more importantly, these numbers are meaningful to the young person, their family, and our community. together with the school district and common sense media, we are helping young people understand what it means to be good citizens, informing them of the dangers of cyber bullying, and working with this new medium. this program will help young people to stay engaged in their education and away from our jails and prisons. also, i recognize we must continue to engage our community, and often, come to the hall of justice. every victim of a crime should be helped. to be sure that they are held, we have moved our offices into the community. people can now meet with us in chinatown, the mission, and bayview. by the end of this year, they will be able to do so in any other part of the city. to a woman strug

i want to give a big thank-you to linda brooks burton. [applause] because linda brooks britain last march invited me to plan this program, and i want to thank helen, who i work with in san francisco unified because she introduced me to bryonn bain, and she always introduces me to the various artists that come in to work in the school district. as i learned about bryonn and experienced his presence and i was thinking about putting together this program, it just clicked -- why not bring the two together to bring this link from the past unsegregated jim crow to what is happening in the 21st century and that has been happening? i think i was inspired by michele alexander's booke." >> it is my pleasure to say, ms. colvin, without you we would not be where we are. [applause] thank you for sharing your story, and keep telling your story because we need to know, and our children need to know, and our children's children need to know your story. and we want to thank our sponsors today. we have the san francisco unified school district. we have mar

negotiations to play elizabeth taylor in a lifetime tv movie chronicling her relationship with richard burtonhom she was married to twice. taylor died last year at the age of 79. she is now rolling in her grave. >> comeback, huh? maybe she will do a great job. >> you think so? lindsay lohan? >> who knows. >>> charlie sheen is not crazy any more, breaking news. didn't you hear that? >> really? i didn't know that. wow. >> whoa! >> different people have different opinion on that. >> you were just caught red-handed. i'll move on. >>> come channel 3 in cleveland, one boy was guaranteed to have an absolute blast making his dreams come true. michael has battled nerve tissue cancer the past two years and the 7-year-old had one request when the make a wish foundation came calling. he wanted to blow up a building. this weekend, michael did just that. he pushed the button to implode an old grain mill and, in the process, lived out one of every little boy's fantasies and big boys, too. >> yeah, i'd want to do it. >> i'm veronica de la cruz. this is "early today" your first stop of the day on your nbc sta