joining me columnist e.j. "the washington post" and columnist david brooks of "the new yo times." if you are a country music fans, e.j. dionne. the famous cowboy. let's talk republican politics and lookat the republican field in the nbc poll. this is where we stood as the poll came out this week. romney and cain on top. gingrich impressively at 13%. ron paul hanging tough at 10%. perry, bachmann and santorum. now what we did this week, we recontacted some of the previous respondents based on the cain allegations and his denials and the perry debate moment, and w tried to gauge how it had chang the race some. and this is what we found and we can report this morning. an uptick for romney. slight erosion of support for cain. bi uptick for gingrich, who seems to be an emerging story. perry, down 4. some real trouble for his campaign. so, david, where are we now in this republican field? >> today the big news is cain not going down as much as i would have thought or most people would have thought. why is tt? peter

joining me columnist e.j.shington post" and columnist david brooks of "the new yo times." if you are a country music fans, e.j. dionne. the famous cowboy. let's talk republican politics and lookat the republican field in the nbc poll. this is where we stood as the poll came out this week. romney and cain on top. gingrich impressively at 13%. ron paul hanging tough at 10%. perry, bachmann and santorum. now what we did this week, we recontacted some of the previous respondents based on the cain allegations and his denials and the perry debate moment, and w tried to gauge how it had chang the race some. and this is what we found and we can report this morning. an uptick for romney. slight erosion of support for cain. bi uptick for gingrich, who seems to be an emerging story. perry, down 4. some real trouble for his campaign. so, david, where are we now in this republican field? >> today the big news is cain not going down as much as i would have thought or most people would have thought. why is tt? peter hart who

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hi, e.j. thanks very much for being here. >> good to be with you, rachel. >> does it say something important about the republican party that their current presidential front-runner has launched as part of his presidential platform that he will oppose child labor laws? >> well, i think it does. i do want to sort of pull out my favorite newt quote on this. he said that people should get any job that teaches you to stay all day, even if you're having a fight with your girlfriend. i don't know about you, but i never knew that fights with girlfriends were barriers to labor force participation. i think this is why everybody says newt is so brilliant. he thinks up things, he sees things the rest of us completely miss. it's really quite remarkable. this is actually very helpful what you're seeing here, because republicans have been arguing behind a screen using lumpy words like "deregulation." that doesn't mean much to anybody except maybe the government has too many rules. when you start talking abou

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>> is he done, e.j., do you think? >> i really think so. think that one of the things that people liked about him is he seemed refreshing, he seemed warm and open. he's just not looking good in that clip. that's exactly against the image he was projecting. i tell you who might be having second thoughts at this moment, it's tim pawlenty. as charles said, romney is stuck at 20% or thereabouts. there is an opening for a conservative. perry was the candidate and then he blew it in the debates. conservatives are still looking around. and if pawlenty could have hung around, he might be that guy now. there's got to be an opening here for gingrich and santorum somewhe somewhere. >> e.j., charles, great conversation. thanks, guys. >>> decisions are being made right now at the g-20 meeting in france that could determine whether the entire global economy goes back into recession. president obama got there this morning. right now he's in what's called the working session trying to keep the greek government and its economy from collapse. so here's the q

. >> e.j., just back to you, what did you make of the president's characterization of what's been accomplishedin iraq? >> i respectfully disagree with michelle here. >> jon: ((beep) oh, man. i hope they were at least naked in the studio. that's all i can say. see that? the republican conservative radio, they get people to go chase frankenstein. npr, they describe the hamlet, where there is a monster that's living. they incite the listeners to bring their torches and meet up at the windmill. maybe a travelogue, a charming restaurant where they serve artisanal cheeses. maybe a round table about the ethics of reanimating monsters. but i wasn't sure about any of this, the difference between npr and conservative radio until last summer. this is a true story. on a friday evening i was driving home in my private jet-- i like to take it out on the west side highway-- it was the day john boehner walked out of president obama's debt ceiling talks. tensions are high. nerves are trayed. you can imagine these two media mirror images and how they would handle this explosive moment. i wear to got, i'm in the

e.j. manual to jabbar is little. we're tied at 7 just like that.avaliers down 13-7. minute to play, first and goal, kevin parks gets the handoff. ten-yard touchdown, virginia retakes the lead 14-13. we have a ball game. 14 seconds to go now, seminoles down one with 3rd and 5. manual to reid, he doesn't get out of bounds, fsu with no time-out. it looks like uva wins. but the play's reviewed and it's called an incompletion. it's madness. he makes the catch, has control. i guess. and then somehow gets out of bounds. fsu still has life after a penalty. dustin hopkins for the 42-yard field goal and guess what? it's wide right or wide left. uva wins a wild one. 14-13 is the final. how about that? edsel taking on wake forest. the terps down until this. c.j. brown until a wide open justice picket. maryland ties it at 7. third quarter, it's 10-7. terps with the ball, handoff goes to david manning an up the gut. touchdown terps but not so fast. five-yard penalty on kevin dorsey. wipes out the touchdown, and to make matters worse, the score remains 10-7. >>>

with us, "washington post" columnist e.j.e and "the new york times" columnist david brooks. >>> good morning. on the subje of foreign policy, the republican presidential candidates met last night for their tenth debate, and leveled more attacks against president obama than against each other. >> look, one thing you can know, and that is if we re-elect barack obama, iran will have a nuclear weapon. and if we elect mitt romney, if you elect me as the next president, they will not have a nuclear weapon. >> and if there's anything that we know, president obama has been more than willing to stand with occupy wall street, but he hasn't been willing to stand with israel. >> there are a number of ways to be smart about iran, and relatively few ways to be dumb. and the administration skipped all the ways to be short. >> me on that in just a couple of moments. but first this morning, the child sexual abuse scandal at penn state. after 46 years on the sidelines, head coach joe paterno was not at yesterday's penn state/nebrka game. there

e.j. manuel, to reed. later in the second, same score now. manuel. nick o'leary. o'leary has it. and he goes 56 yards. the ball pops loose. it's on the floor. but o'leary's ruled down. evidence inconclusive. so, the 'noles end up keeping the ball. next play. devoevonte freeman, rushed for yards and 2 touchdowns. here's one of them. he scored there. a state, now th multile the florida state, now bowl-eligible. >>> to the ice. henrik sedin over 800 career games for him. the canucks taking on the wild. max cullen, one of his two gulls here. the wild is up 4-1. then, things get a little interesting as maxim lapierre, and kyle clutterbuck along the boards. you see the refs trying to be a peacemaker. the ref, oh, right in the kisser. and then, gets an even harder punch. oh, clutterbuck connects. the ref would be okay. the wild end up winning 5-1. the wild have won their last three games. >>> that will do it for this update. i'm will selva. >> refs have a tough job. >> ouch. >>> coming up next, "the pulse," and some amazing animals caught on tape. >> including the humpback whales that n

. >> e.j., nice to see you this morning.or a lot of people when people think these slip-ups are over, cain asked henry kissinger to be his secretary of state. take a listen to this. >> dr. kissinger turned my offer down to be secretary of state. he said he's perfectly happy doing what he's doing. >> did you ask dr. kissinger to be your secretary of state? >> no, i did not. dr. kissinger has retired and i expect that. i was not serious about asking him -- i know he's retired. >> have you ever seen anything like this month after month? and what do you think that republican voters watching at home think when they try to evaluate this current crop of candidates? >> well, they are clearly not happy. i've been thinking the democrats actually want to put up money to have a republican debate every other day just to have something like this go wrong.ç but there is actually a peculiar downside for the democrats in all this. i think president obama would like a republican primary where mitt romney, if he is going to emerge as the nomi

florida state quarterback e.j.or the seminoles with an eight-yard touchdown pass, and running back devontae freeman scored two touchdowns on the ground in a 38-7 win. that qualifies florida state for a bowl game for an ncaa best 30 years straight. >>> in the nhl, a third period fight between vancouver and minnesota got out of hand as one player tried to throw another over the side wall. a blind punch hit a referee right in the face. eventually, the officials broke up the fight and the wild beat the canucks 5-1. >>> finally the nba and its players union will resume contract talks tomorrow after a week off, but it's reported a group of 50 disgruntled players may seek to decertify their union if player union negotiators make any more concessions. >>> when we return, another look at this morning's top stories. >>> the spy is in the machine. how russia and china hack the internet to steal u.s. military secrets. that connected to our muscles are nerves that send messages through the body. my doctor diagnosed it as fibrom

also known as fox news have to do with domestic terrorism the answer later tonight still e.j. . for tonight's conversations of great minds i'm joined by none other than dick gregory to her is a comedian social activist writer and entrepreneur whose work has redefined how many americans including me perceive political comedy and african-american comedians he got his first big break when he was hired by hugh hefner reform stand up at the chicago playboy club in one nine hundred sixty one and he hasn't stopped since he began political activism by running against richard j. daley for the mayor's office in chicago and sixty seven followed that with a writing campaign for the oval office and sixty eight as the candidate of the freedom and peace party he's devoted himself to many causes throughout his career as an activist including civil rights women's rights anti-war campaigns and the international anti-apartheid movement and environmental protection issues i ran a community for abused kids in new england in the late seventy's early eighty's he was on our advisory board. fundraisers

e.j. manuel to little. wide open in the back of the end zone. touchdown, florida state. seven. fourth quarter, cavaliers down 13-7. 1:20 to play. first and goal. kevin parks gets the hand off. right up the gut. 10 yard touchdown. virginia retakes the lead, 14-13. what a game. 14 seconds to go now. seminoles down one. third and five. trying to get closer for a field goal. manuel to burt reed. makes the catch but doesn't get out of the bounds. the clock keeps running and the seminoles run out of time, right? looks like virginia wins the ball game. but, no, the play is reviewed and it's an incomplete pass. so fsu still has life. after a uva five yard penalty, dustin hopkins for the 42 yard field goal. huh-uh missed it. a wild one. 14-13 the final. virginia and virginia tech play for the acc coastal division crown. in north carolina, coast randy edsell and the terps taking on wake forest. end of the first half. terps down 7-0 until this. c.j. brown to picket. 31 yard touchdown. maryland ties at seven. demon deacons. handoff to david megan. up the middle. touchdown, terps. bu