unlike foster friess i am not so modest. >>guest: thank you. >>neil: you said a couple of days back last weeks look, you were loyal to the party and the end it looked like romney would be it, he would be your guy, now he is since rick santorum stepped out, and do you do this begrudgingly? >>guest: i'm excited about rick santorum accomplished. it is his tock how he in 90 days became very close to grabbing the nomination and what he has accomplished ignite a whole group people would love this country, that maybe not been involved before, and, actually, will be critical to help romney win. if we don't harness the energy that rick santorum has created it will be harder for met -- mitt to do what he needs to do in november. we are grateful for what rick has contributed. it is just beginning. rick will continue to fight for the values that are so important to our country and get us back to the liberty that so many people fought and died for. >>neil: how will he do that? if he is not the running mate. >> he wants to rest right now. when you have a chi

guys like foster friess and sheldon adelson seem to enjoy the attention. >> they give out outrageous quotes on the air to people like andrea mitchell. i think there are these guys in the health business like frank van der sloot, another one named lund, that should be known, because they sell products that some people watching tonight may have bought. sometimes they've been questioned by regulatory agencies about their practices or the viability of some of their products. yeah, they're dealing in consumer goods in the way that a procter & gamble might, but they're much more tightly held and not famous. >> do you think that over time we are going to see the emergence of this kind of thing on the left? do you think that the ultimately, over time, even in this election cycle, we're going to see as much money emerging in pro-obama ways, from zillion narrows, as has emerged for mitt romney and for the other republicans trying to unseat mr. obama on the right. do you think it's just a democratic lag or do you think we'll never see parody? >> i don't think we'll see parody. i think there are

and instead, what we got is elections brought to you by sheldon adelson and foster friess, and theser than corporations, becoming overwhelmingly large players in terms of the money in elections. why is that? >> well, i think that i don't want to minimize, of coursing with the role of corporations, which you were just discussing, because they are big players, but there is a slight checks and balances on them. if they're a company like procter & gamble, which dropped out of alec, like you were talking about, they do have shareholders, they do have board members that might object to it. they also tend to give to both parties, to protect themselves so when a party that's out of power comes back in again, they can still fix everything. these sugar daddies, as i call them, these mainly billionaires, most of them republicans, don't have any of those obligations that someone running a fortune 500 company would. they can do whatever they want and because of citizens united but also other decisions and an they can give unlimited amount of money. one thing i found in this piece and we're added

within hours of santorum suspending his campaign his chief donor multimillionaire banks to foster friess told politico he is ready to jump aboard the romney bandwagon the last few months freeze pretty much single handedly kept the santorum campaign afloat with one point seven million dollars in donations to the santorum super pac but now as freeze told politico got some plans as to how i might be able to help bottom line is i'm going to be very supportive of romney for he's also said he may be donating to karl rove's super pac and that's pledged three hundred million dollars to defeat president obama in november meanwhile the one guy still left of the republican race aside from ron paul who hasn't yet won a single state is newt gingrich and he likely won't be around much longer either beginners campaign bounced a five hundred dollars check in utah and submitted paperwork to be on the utah primary ballot salt lake tribune is reporting that the deadbeat gingrich campaign isn't returning calls from the state after the bounced check actually be a sign again bridges top billionaire donor chin

him already so people are going to we can call it follow the money monday and take a look at foster friess seventy two years old today happy birthday foster freeze his super pac is the red white and blue fund which really helped to keep rick santorum in the race to become the republican nominee and then there's a sheldon adelson seventy eight years old his super pac is called winning our future and in his mind at least for a while he'll do newt gingrich would be a leader in that future he's been the single largest contributor to gingrich and also a major backer of israel. so as we said these wealthy candidate backers are very much alike most of them in their seventy's and eighty's and they seem to feel very entitled even though i mean let's be honest they're not going to be around for that much longer but they plan to see that the legacy that they leave is a strong foundation for the continuation of their ideologies but you may have noticed there's one candidate i have not yet mentioned ron paul he is still in the race and has some significant financial backing from this man peter teal he'

yes this is fun let's keep going on this follow the money monday foster friess seventy two years old today his super pac is the red white and blue fund which is really held to keep rick santorum in the race to become the republican nominee then there is a las vegas casino mogul sheldon adelson he's seventy eight years old his super pac is called winning the future reading our future and in his mind at least for a while he hoped newt gingrich would be a big leader in that future he's been the single single largest contributor to gingrich and also a major backer of israel so as we said these wealthy candidate backers that they look a lot alike they all have a whole lot of money most of them are in their sixty's or seventy's and they seem to feel entitled even though let's face it these are older gentlemen they won't be around for the next several decades but still they plan to see that the legacy they leave is a strong foundation for the continuation of their ideologies all right you may have noticed i have left one candidate out so far i haven't mentioned ron paul he's of course still

not just focusing on the foster friess or whoever was behind him. >> foster said he could support romney. >>guest: just show a picture of obama, high gas prices, and the jobless rate, and, now, the market taking a dive. >>neil: you said whatever their mixed feelings about romney, their sympathies to the president is greater. >>guest: i don't think money is the crisis. this has been a great day for romney as you said for two reasons. he now has a chance to really pivot for the general election, and this is all done. and now --. >>neil: you do not see newt gingrich picking backing? >>guest: romney is the inevitable candidate. i think santorum got out because he did not want to lose the home state and the last primary we saw evangelicals are moving. romney has a problem in the general election, the bleeding problem, the "washington post" numbers this morning, he has an engagement problem. there is a nearive against obama that is strong. and it is not being made but not just negative romney has to re-engage. and he is viewed as distant and very wealthy person with people who matter, the swin

. >> let's not forget that foster friesse is now hall offy fledged support he of mitt romney. >> where are the denials and the denouncements coming from the romney campaign the way you saw themselves from hillary's remarks even though she is not a paid adviser to the dnc or the obama campaign, as far as i know. >> i'm still waiting for those. hillary rosen has now formally apologized. and the form he first lady barbara bush says today that we should forget it. but that still leaves the problem for mitt of how does he win female voters? we know according to the latest polling, the very latest, that he concedes something like 18 to 19 points to the president when it comes to women. if that i had answer, i would hire myself to the mitt romney campaign. certainly they have the money to pay me for it. i think that's the only way they would get that advice from someone who is not already in the campaign. that campaign is full of people who are very bright, very well paid, and who have been working to get mitt romney elected president for years and years and years. for eight years if not more

. >> we're still waiting for mitt romney who now counts foster friess who made an appalling suggestionu don't joke about presidential assassinations. whether he was speaking metaphorically as lou dobbs tried to gamely help him out there or not, he knew he was crossing a line. and that naughty little chuckle there kind of gave it away. i don't know how knowing america's history, you could make that kind of comment. but honestly, allen west, you know, an elected official, talking to voters. i kind of more shocked by that than some rich guy who doesn't know which crazy candidate to back. and he is happy to be on tv. >> thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. >> coming up, the president and a charitable donation we should all try to emulate. are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule. the first technology of its kind... mom and dad, i have great news. is now providing answers families need. siemens. answers. ♪ spread a little love my way [ female announcer ] philadelphia cooking creme. a simple way to make dinner fresh and new again. creamy

. >> many things, foster friess. it's great to see you. >> coming up, we'll continue.m does look to pennsylvania, romney has his sights set on washington, using last night's victory speech to hone his attack on potential campaign rival barack obama. take a listen to romney last night. >> when you attack business and you vilify success, you're going to have less business and less success. out-of-touch liberals like barack obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. but the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses in the nation added together. so it's a bit like saying you like an omelette, but you don't like eggs. >> all right. so did romney sweep seal the deal and have the vip stakes begun? here we have former vice presidential candidate howard dean. we also have my pal rick lazio, who has been a romney supporter and former congressman from new york. the thing that looks to me, you have this confrontation from today, romney attacking barack obama, yesterday obama attacking ryan an

and you reference foster friess but there are many others who serve as an example. >> yet the presidentd said we have to level the playing field, and he's asked for donations to come in. and to jen's point, obviously, the situation we have, robert-s that after all of these months of rit momry often outspending rick santorum 10/1 in campaign cash barack obama is way ahead of mitt romney. and cash in the bank i think he's got as much as ten times what mitt romney does right now. are super pacs going to be the difference here? >> i think it depends on who you ask. i think super pacs will definitely help mitt romney at the end of the day. i'm just a little bit confused here. you talk about flip-flopping as it relates to mitt romney. president obama was obviously against super pacs but now he's for it. if you stand on principle one could make the argument that he shouldn't, quote unquote, level the playing field at all, that he should stick to his principle and that is to say super pacs are wrong. and those are his words, not mine. but back to your point, the point simply is that mitt romney

you talk about foster friess comments and people saying -- i don't want to butcher the quote, lawmakers> talking about the virginia -- >> the results of this are that women -- the least fortunate women are not getting basic screening and health care because the governor have turned back screening. >> which mitt romney says, after having donated to planned parenthood years ago, he wants to completely defund, that's a big thing. >> we're bringing in some of the nation's preeminent religious leaders for a special discussion on the state of faith in america. also about to get the much anticipated march jobs report. plus, he's the only knuckleball pitcher in the majors right now and he's starting saturday's game for the mets. r.a. dicky joins us in a few minutes. willie's week in review. first, bill karins with a check on the holiday weekend forecast. >> good morning, joe. it's a good friday in many ways. the weather pattern nearly perfect around the country. two travel trouble spots out friday morning. one light rain heading through the areas around wilmington, eastern north carolina, looks