gingrich and we hope he never fires the screeners for his fundraiser scam team.g this sign which we love. before we wrap the show tonight, and hand off to lawrence, there's one last thing.

and newt gingrich versus the dallas strip club continues.ter. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] some people just know how to build things well. give you and your loved ones an expertly engineered mercedes-benz... ho ho ho! [ male announcer ] ...at the winter event going on now. and stay connected with three years of mbrace service complimentary. >>> george w. bush's second term. his second term in office was dominated by broad dissatisfaction with him as a president and who would lead the republican party in his wake. that process characterized by all of the major candidates running away from him like winnie the pooh sprinting from a swarm of bees. what was the big issue na made everybody hate george bush in the second term, even republicans? pick your poison. the foundational issue with george w. bush in his sercond term was iraq. from 2006 to 2009, 60% of the country said the iraq war was not worth fighting. when you talk with bush administration veterans now, and some of them do talk to me, although never on tv, the public's hatred of the war in ira

>> well, i think there is kind of -- i do not blame this all on newt gingrich, but it is the new gingrich model of winning back a majority. rather than the bob michael model of a wedding party working with the minority party. -- of a winning party working with a minority party. the model was teardown confidence in government. now i think both parties take the new gingrich approach, that if we cooperate too much and accomplish too much, the majority party gets the benefit for that. and will be put forever resigned to being the minority party. i do not blame newt gingrich solely for that, but i think he set an effective model for how you win back a majority. you tear down the institution and obstruct the process whenever you can. both parties at think have been guilty of that. i was disappointed that when newt gingrich became speaker, that for the first time he canceled the trip that new members take with their families to harvard. that gave us our class of 1990 a week together with our family members. i always felt a special bond with that class. i might have had differences with republica

newt gingrich came in and everybody wanted change. it was a complete adrenaline rush. the first night we were here, the day we were sworn in, we worked until 3:00 in the morning. my family went on to the hotel i was there on the floor continuing to work. we were full of excitement and fall of the belief that we would in fact change the world. we did at that time have the house and the senate, unlike today. similar to today, we were elected in response to a reaction to an overreach or a perceived overreach by the clintons and hillary-care. the rise continued for another two years. we did some great things, i think. i was on the budget committee early on. we went around the country and talked to people about the fact the government was spending too much money and we need to cut back. interestingly, everyone said that my program is the most important program the government ever does. it might help the elderly . they would ask for more and more money, but if you cut the program, we will make it work. another person would get up and say they had the most important program.

i think newt gingrich probably will. sorry to break it to gingrich during break it to bill kristol, sorry, the leading governor candidates that everybody loves, mitch daniels and chris christie, my prediction is neither one of them will run. >> it's the christmas season, nina. >> chris: dana, it's fair to say that the big decision that everybody in the republican camp is waiting for is whether or not sarah palin is going to get in this race. one, do you think she will? i know this is an opinion. but do you think she will? secondly, do you think republicans would nominate somebody who is popular in their own party but has a time negative when it comes to general election? >> anything is possible at this point. i have talked to two people last week i trust very much in politics that know her. one says she is definitely running and one says she is definitely not running. >> chris: somebody is right. >> yeah, somebody is going to be right. i guess we have to wait and see. it's interesting how the other potential candidates t

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it's revisiting of what happened with gingrich and chin clin. clinton was way down and a lost mid-term election and it revived him. people are not going to go through the reasoning of the difference between omnibus and continuing resolution in explaining what happened. the blame will fall on republicans. they'll look at the television and see the bill read over 50 hours over republican request. they will see the government shut down. they will say it's republicans. why would you want to invite that and give yourself losing happened? >> bret: steve, some republicans would say this is what the election was about. they feel the wind is at their back. they could push hard for resolution to put it in their hands. >> absolutely. you can argue the public will blame republicans and i say there is equal evidence to suggest that the public would credit republicans at this point. given the levels of dissatisfaction with the congress. given levels of concern about the deficit spending. given the animosity toward washington in general. that is a big question

to take control of the house, we'll ask former speakerer and possible presidential candidate newt gingrich about the changing balance of power in washington. plus, president obama makes a surprise trip to afghanistan, as wikileaks revealed what u.s. officials really think of hamid karzai. we'll ask our sunday panel what happens next in the war there. and our power player of the week. a real-life dr. house trying to solve medical mysteries. all right now on "fox news sunday." and hello again from fox news in washington. with tax cuts and deficit reduction the hot topics in washington, we're joined by two members of the president debt commission. democrat kent conrad chairman of the senate budget committee, and from dallas, congressman jeb hensarling, one of the new house republican leaders. gentlemen, welcome back to "fox news sunday." senator conrad, let me start with you. you voted for the deficit commission plan which would cut $4 trillion by the year 2020 from the deficit. it didn't pass. but you are the chairman of the senate budget committee. how much of this do you intend to put in y

for example, newt gingrich and tom delay. but they were not censured and in fact newt gingrich continued to serve as speaker of the house. mr. rangel has cooperated fully with the ethics investigation acting with transparency and expressing regret and apologies for his actions. quite simply, mr. rangel's trance gregses and lapses in -- transgressions and lapses in judgment do not rise to the level of censure. fairness, my colleagues, demands that we vote no. the speaker pro tempore: who yields time? >> i yield one minute to the gentleman from tennessee, mr. tanner. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. tanner: thank you, mr. scott. i, too, have, as mr. king said, enormous respect for the ethics committee. it's a job none of us asked for and none of us want. it has to be done to protect the house of representatives. as a lawyer, i also believe in precedent and i have searched this record and find no activity involving moral turpitude or any activity that could be classified as one with crimin

gingrich was an ideologue; as a former businessman, boehner's more of an establishment republican.ng the campaign, he was lampooned in ads for playing too much golf with lobbyists. but he also has a record of reaching across the aisle to work on legislation with the democrats. ted kennedy. people are going to be surprised to find out that you and ted kennedy were good friends. >> boehner: we were really good friends. >> stahl: tell us about that. >> boehner: he may have been this big liberal lion publicly; privately, he was a regular guy. you could work with him, work things out. >> stahl: the question now is whether he can work things out with the president. at his news conference on tuesday, mr. obama threw out a challenge. >> president barack obama: once john boehner's sworn in as speaker, then he's going to have responsibilities to govern. you can't just stand on the sidelines and be a bomb thrower. >> boehner: we have to govern. that's what we were elected to do. >> stahl: but governing means compromising. >> boehner: it means working together. >> stahl: it also means compromi

gingrich's team said they didn't realize the nature of her business so they rescinded the award. contribution and disinvited her from the awards dinner. but catch this one year later gingrich's pact sends her a membership card and once again asked her for a political donation. in the show of goodwill she responded by sending a new vip membership to her strip club and now for tonight's big number, congressman patrick kennedy's retirement. next month will be the end of a huge era in american politics. how long has a member of the kennedy family been in federal office? 63 years, as long as i can remember. 63 years of history leave washington with patrick kennedy. tonight's incredible "big number." >>> up next the five biggest political whoppers of 2010. this is going to be great fun i think except those who committed them as we countdown the biggest ones of the year. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. don't forget mrs. collier. i won't. ♪ [ female announcer ] clear some snow. ♪ or spread a little warmth. [ cellphone rings ] [ wife ] honey, where are you? i have no idea. [ fem

plus, why would a strip club owner give newt gingrich a vip membership to her club? it's a weird case of mistaken identity, twice. and how the critics may have gotten it wrong about the president. let's beginning with president obama's big comeback. both are msnbc political analysts. gentlemen, before we proceed, i just got one of those flash news flashes and i have to report immediately upon getting it. congresswoman michele bachmann of minnesota has been named to the intelligence committee. what -- what genius, howard, thought this was the perfect match? >> i have no comeback. i just think that speaks for itself. >> it really does. >> let's to the president today in that signing ceremony. i thought it was interesting that speaker pelosi was absent. >> well, kind of interesting. >> low profile on purpose? >> maybe. she did after all, in the end, facilitate the passage of the compromise. >> sets the schedule. >> and if she -- >> didn't want her fingerprints on it. in 1984 when the democrats wiped out 49 states, remember mondale? speaker o'neal took a backseat for a c

palin, gingrich and huckabee, they are all the same thing. they are all well liked. well-known. staunch, good conservatives. but have baggage of one or another. voters in the republican primary are afraid to nominate them. they are saying if i nominate one of these three, i love 'em, i would love if they won, but they can't because of the bag grand jury. the question is, over the next year can one or more live down the baggage? frankly, sarah palin is doing a good job of it lately. and huckabee is on every week living it done. beginning rich may get vol -- gingrich may get in involved with the fight in congress. 15, 20 people who will come on this show and the other shows on fox and we'll fall in love with one. it will be like "american idol" >> sean: dick morris thanks for being with us. plenty more hannity, straight ahead. >> this deal is giving democrats some pause. >> sean: the future of the tax bill hangs in the balance. democrats vent their frustrations. >> federal judge deals obamacare a major blow. could this be the first step towards full repeal? the president forgets a

you paid visits to jesse helms, newt gingrich. was that time well invested? i do believe it was in the long run. jesse helms and i-- we must never forget that he's a courtly southern gentleman, and he's not an uncivil person at all in person. he's quite charming, in fact. he and i obviously were going differ on many, many things, but he was an important person and an important person to get to know, to pay attention to. i tried to understand what amendments he was going to bring up. of course, he would never tell me. he's a secretive man too. but i didn't want to alienate this person any more than he already felt alienated. he was disappointed in me, because i didn't do a lot of things that he wanted me to do. but at least we had a civil relationship. at one point, you get a list of concerns from jesse helms' office detailing a number of grants that are attributed to the n.e.a. and in some cases, the n.e.a. is not involved at all. but in a number of cases, it's extremely controversial art where there may have been some funds used in connection with the n.e.a.

people saw the more they like him and in the fall of 1995 the public blamed gingrich and in the bids for reelection tying feat unpopular speaker around an act but in 1995 as three strengths of the first note a. first, where is his well known flexibility? the standard is after two years clinton removed rate but i would say he lowered his ambitions. gone was the transformational leaders seeking to bring fundamental change to the nation but in his place was a fierce defender of the status quo admired not for things but as aggressive as the campaign was to demonize agenda but although he faltered the first two years he was masterful over the next two when he earned his reputation embargo third is his resilience. in 1994 he had been pronounced it twice and when he failed and in 1992 when no one thought he would survive the twin revelations of gennifer flowers just before the new hampshire primary, he was written off three times after 1994 and 1998 when monica lewinsky surfaced much of washington did think he would last a week. budget what would al gore think? finreg he didn't answer and i

in a situation where rush limbaugh and move on agree with each other and on the other side, newt gingrich and al franken agree. this makes no sense. >> behind the 20 yard lines, people are not going to go with an establishment deal. you're not an insurgent. by its nature, it's a compromise. a person on either end isn't going to like an end of the road compromise. >> newt gingrich and al franken. how did this happen? >> the great iron ay is going t be, according to conservatives, they think support among house republicans is eroding by the minute. the sands are shifting as we speak here, ironically and richard e lead eluded to this, if anybody's going to save this, it's the democrats in the house. in the end, it's probably going to be the democrats who are going to save it from a tax from republicans in t house. >> here, the house republicans. i'm going to list them for you and the reasons. darrell issa says it's an incomplete effort. jeff flake says he doesn't like extending unemployment benefits without paying for them. jeffrey chavis says the bill is loaded up the spending. john campbel

wasn't that turning the point against gingrich? >> it was the turning point against gingrich 15 years ago. i don't think democrats are as confident as back then. i think they worried they wouldn't necessarily win the ball game. although, it's got to be said that the reason why all this stuff is jammed up at the end like this, the reason why it's so dramatic and controversial right now, after the election, is that the republicans slow-walked all these spending bills. they threatened to completely slow-walk them so that the only altittive, which post election with the rise of the tea party they should the down. what the argument is going to be is how long to extend that continuing resolution for? democrats could have tried. i don't think they were confident they'd win the confrontation. >> i think you're right about confidence. i think they're less confident they can find their offices without assistance. back in the house. what was all this over the symbolic votes to register protests? if they could hold things up for that, why coul

now, remember newt gingrich? one who shut down the government, if i recall, when he was speaker of the house. some of us have longer memories. >> the end of the year and things hot and heated on capitol hill, despite all that snow falling down for you in washington it is getting interesting, isn't it? gloria borger, thank you so much for the latest on the tick iter and blackberry as well. folks, another political update in half an hour. you can always jump online, political fix, cnnpolitics.com or twitter at political ticker. and now, take a look at this. are we defeating al qaeda? we are now hearing those answers in that critical review in the war in afghanistan but does the next generation of terror live in pakistan? i'm brook baldwin, the news is now. >> very calm, very, like, there to hurt somebody. >> this customer thinks he is stopping a robbery. what he doesn't realize, the suspect is wanted with in a string of murders. the case of the so-called honeybee killer. >>> plus, a former college lacrosse player i

for example, newt gingrich and tom delay. but they were not censured and in fact newt gingrich continued to serve as speaker of the house. mr. rangel has cooperated fully with the ethics investigation acting with transparency and expressing regret and apologies for his actions. quite simply, mr. rangel's trance gregses and lapses in -- transgressions and lapses in judgment do not rise to the level of censure. fairness, my colleagues, demands that we vote no. the speaker pro tempore: who yields time? >> i yield one minute to the gentleman from tennessee, mr. tanner. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. tanner: thank you, mr. scott. i, too, have, as mr. king said, enormous respect for the ethics committee. it's a job none of us asked for and none of us want. it has to be done to protect the house of representatives. as a lawyer, i also believe in precedent and i have searched this record and find no activity involving moral turpitude or any activity that could be classified as one with crimin

for example, newt gingrich and tom delay. but they were not censured and in fact newt gingrich continued to serve as speaker of the house. mr. rangel has cooperated fully with the ethics investigation acting with transparency and expressing regret and apologies for his actions. quite simply, mr. rangel's trance gregses and lapses in -- transgressions and lapses in judgment do not rise to the level of censure. fairness, my colleagues, demands that we vote no. the speaker pro tempore: who yields time? >> i yield one minute to the gentleman from tennessee, mr. tanner. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. tanner: thank you, mr. scott. i, too, have, as mr. king said, enormous respect for the ethics committee. it's a job none of us asked for and none of us want. it has to be done to protect the house of representatives. as a lawyer, i also believe in precedent and i have searched this record and find no activity involving moral turpitude or any activity that could be classified as one with crimin

newt gingrich will be here with us.s have a reality show and germans love him. >> they do. so do the austrians and people throughout europe and meanwhile, donald trump will be joining us live along with father and son representative ron paul and his son, senator-elect rand paul. we got a busy two hours. thank you very much for joining us. let's talk first about what is going to happen later today. we understand according to our producers on capitol hill that today at 2:00, tim geitner and mr. lu are going to join with the fantastic four to continue to try to do something about those tax hikes that are supposed to go into effect at the end of this month. >> they met yesterday and everybody got along. they made progress and it was very cordial and then nothing happened. nothing happened yet but these are the guys that will make the decision. president will probably get the decision and say that's what's been handed to me. it will be a way on the left for him to say on the left, listen, i made the prestigious panel and thi

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a person on either end isn't going to like an end of the road compromise. >> newt gingrich and al franken. how did this happen? >> the great irony is going to be, according to the conservatives i've talked to today, they think support for this among house republicans is eroding by the moment. craig shirley said the sands are shifting as we speak here. ironically, richard alluded to this, if anybody's going to save this, it's going to be the democrats in the house. we've gone from a situation where we were focusing on the liberal democrats in the democratic party trying to undercut this deal to the fact that in the end it's probably going to be the democrats who are going to save it from a tax from the republicans in the house. >> we'll know that by the end of the week. here are the house republicans as you mentioned. i'm going to list themes who are against the tax -- and the reasons. darrell issa, of course, from california is head of the reform committee. he says it's an incomplete effort. arizona's jeff flake, a fiscal conservative says he doesn't like extending unemployment benefits w

newt gingrich is for it. he's maneuvering around the country. tim polente.st it rick santorum, mike pence, saerm and mitt romney. i guess that graphic is not ready. erick erickson, how rough is it you have an even divide? >> i think that reflects what's going on within the republican party right now as well. this is not going to be a hill to die on for anyone in 2012. i don't think you're going to start having sarah palin or mike pence or the others beating up on the guys who supported it. no one is going to remember what they're talking about. for right now, though, the most fascinating line is that by john thune in the senate with his barbs to mitt romney who had come out against it trying to lay the field there. he will have a very tough time, frankly, as an incumbent senator running on this. interestingly to me is a guy like mike huckabee supporting this when he didn't have to support this. newt gingrich maybe so but the dynamic here is mike huckabee on sarah palin is the one i'm keeping my eye on. >> i hate to use it because he is just, is he not, in th

gingrich, good to spend time with you, thank you. rick: a brand new government review of the war in afghanistan, it finds the taliban and al-qaeda militants have lost power and influence over the next year. that should allow president obama to stick with his plans to begin withdraw of the u.s. forces next july, but how many will leave and how quickly? that's still not clear. we expect the president to talk about it in just over half an hour from now. steve centanni is live at the pentagon. steve, good morning. what do we expect to hear from the president today? >> reporter: we already have the overview of the review so we know the basic points the president is going to be talking about as they unveil this strategy review. the strategy is not going to change. this review says it's still going to be to disrupt, dismantle and defeat the taliban and al-qaeda, and there have been notable operational gains, including the al-qaeda senior leadership is weaker, and under pressure now. so we're making some progress, they say, and we're on the

ben in the congress since 1990 part of the gingrich revolution, slipping and sliding and he has inherited the speakership and so far he has done a pretty good job, incorporating the new red hot tea party people, with the corporate republicans. >> monica? >> i will give it to the entire republican party. which was left for dead and called a desiccated relic after the 2008 elections but they have since made like obama care to tax increases. >> i will give it to bill clinton. looking better and better for his legacy and if he was out there selling obama's programs the last year, i think obama would have done better. >> the best politician of 2010, scott brown, a republican who won the vacant senate seat led by the beloved deceased ted kennedy. and beat coakley 52-47, a 120,000 vote margin. a stunning upset for the democrats. okay. worst politician. pat? >> i'm sorry to say it is one of ours, john, and monica. >> wait a minute. >> sal paladino. , a republican candidate for governor of new york and told the new york post, listen, buddy, i'm going to take you out. [ laughter ] >> worst politici

everybody felt good about his leadership. >> what about newt gingrich? >> i give him credit for being good on his feet. he was able to pick up on a metaphor and squeeze meaning out of it, but i think superficially, his understanding -- >> dennis hastert. >> a really decent guy, a nice guy, but while a good speaker and a solid speaker, no flair, nothing special stands him out amongst the crowd. i think he served longer than any other republican as speaker of the house, but he does not leave much in his wake. >> you already spoke about nancy pelosi is legislative accomplishments. what are your views of her as a leader? >> i remember when she first got to be majority leader -- no, she was speaker. the california delegation was meeting to pick a certain committee for people in that part of the country. i went by to ask her support for somebody else outside california. i said to nancy, why don't you just left the caucus make that decision for you? then you are not responsible for it. you cannot win and you are going to antagonize some people and alienate othe

he was there with newt gingrich. there was blood politically on the floor. people slept in their offices, the government was shut down. bill clinton, to his credit, balanced the budget. people to see that was the congress that made that happen in many ways. entitlements are throwing off basically surpluses. every bit of our debt fundamentally is overspending in the discretionary accounts. yes, the entitlements are going into deficit in the future big time. huge challenges. but we cannot go to our social security recipients, our medicare recipients and demand big cuts in what they are going to receive so congress can continue to spend its discretionary money. we've got to set an example. we have to start in the senate. we have to reduce our budget. the president is going to have to help us. we can't just... he runs the executive branch. he should be able to tell us what can be reduced without substantially damaging our economy. greece is having troubles, but they're going to be better for this. new jersey is having protests and objections, but they're going t

for example, newt gingrich and tom delay. but they were not censured and in fact newt gingrich continued to serve as speaker of the house. mr. rangel has cooperated fully with the ethics investigation acting with transparency and expressing regret and apologies for his actions. quite simply, mr. rangel's trance gregses and lapses in -- transgressions and lapses in judgment do not rise to the level of censure. fairness, my colleagues, demands that we vote no. the speaker pro tempore: who yields time? >> i yield one minute to the gentleman from tennessee, mr. tanner. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. tanner: thank you, mr. scott. i, too, have, as mr. king said, enormous respect for the ethics committee. it's a job none of us asked for and none of us want. it has to be done to protect the house of representatives. as a lawyer, i also believe in precedent and i have searched this record and find no activity involving moral turpitude or any activity that could be classified as one with crimin

including arizona florida louisiana south carolina tennessee and utah all have opposed similar laws newt gingrich is even pushing for a federal law that quote clearly and unequivocally states that we are not going to tolerate any imported law but is all this really a good idea or do we look at this as a sign of islamophobia continuing to sweep the nation or joining me to discuss it is to help on member of the board of these american conservative union and senior fellow at the institute for global engagement and also jordan secular he when rights attorney and director of international operations for the american center for law and justice gentlemen thank you so much for being here why are we even having this discussion first please somebody tell me. where there is evidence or you know where there are signs of shari'a law creeping into the u.s. or our system of tell you the first thing i was looking before the interview and i did a little google search there's an r two story from two summers ago that was on our team the headline of the story was sure real law conquers u.k. that was the headline of

also newt gingrich doing some campaigning, we'll explain.nues in washington as they're trying to figure out what to do about those bush era tax cuts. >>> there could be some conservative pay back for republicans out there who voted for t.a.r.p. cnn political producer peter hanby has that. >> the $1.1 trillion spending bill before congress right now, the new t.a.r.p., a lot of conservatives are really mad right now because included in that bill, $8 million in earmarks t club for growth, the conservative group, a number of tea party groups are furious about it and they are vowing to primary challenge republican who is vote for this bill. these guys had a big impact in the 2010 election cycle. they could play in some 2012 races and could swing the party against some incumbent republicans if they don't vote for this bill. and the governor of indiana is setting a deadline for himself about -- mitch daniels is a fiscal conservative, a lot of insiders really want him to run, but he's been really cagey about what he's going to do. and newt gingrich

when i thought the survors of the clinton administration and the new gingrich congress, but we got together, despite the fact that it seemed so ugly back in the 1990's, we talk about how we did not like each other, when the chips are down, we had to do the right thing. balance forbes -- balance the budget for first time for the first time in a generation. we grow the economy. we did a lot of very positive things together. that is before the hyper partisanship really got fuelled by the new media components. i am not saying that it ishe responsibility of bloggers to be more tactful. the responsibility falls, the responsibility lies and politicians being grown ups and knowing what to filter out. washington has not done a good job at distinguishing between ground noise and the signal. i think that it is beginning to change. i really do. there is no doubt that there is immediate compounded to this that we did not have during the clinton administration. >> be a found that -- we have found that our show has been a breakthrough in the national conversation. we did not attack each other. there is ul

gingrich, at the back of air force one.ran of those days, former representative mark frost predicted to fox news that any shutdown this time around would be brief because in the local district offices members of congress start receiving calls, hundreds and then thousands of them, from members in those crickets saying -- districts saying am i going to get my social security check? members have a hard time reacting to that kind of pressure. you mentioned, jenna, that the deadline is tomorrow midnight. so the house and the senate have their work cut out for them to pass a spending bill that they both agree on and get to president obama for signature so it becomes law by midnight tomorrow. jenna: we'll see if they can do it. as you said, no one's freeding miss air if they -- midair if they don't. >> reporter: exactly. except me. jenna: it's good imagery. james rosen in d.c. jon jon as the government nears a full stop, there's no slowdown in the senate. topping the agenda right now, a repeal on the ban on gays serving openly in

newt gingrich has been out there speaking.he things i noticed about this information, romney was asked a couple of key questions. he was asked about don't ask, don't tell, the tsa, and he tried to be funny and liable, which i totally understand, but didn't say how he felt about those issues. i think he's a top contender, but when you have sarah palin writing facebook notes that caused the whole country, our whole media empire to shake, i think he needs to let us know what he stands for. >> sean: who are the top contenders? >> too early to predict. i have personal favorites. i like mike pence a lot. he gave a tremendous speech this week to the detroit economic club, and gave a specie about a republican administration ought to be about to hillsdale college a few weeks ago. a real thinker. he resigned his leadership post to think about. hasn't made a decision. >> sean: cotop contenders? >> sarah palin. she could do it. obviously romney could be part of it, part of the mix, will be. newt certainly. there could be a fresh face. paw

later in the week, two men who may want to run for the house, former house speaker newt gingrich andsenator rick santorum speak to republicans in crucial early voting states. >> i'm poppy harlow in new york. wall street is preparing for a pretty busy week of news with a watch on november retail sales, followed by readings on consumer confidence, new home construction and also a report on leading economic indicators from last month, and on tuesday federal reserve officials will meet in washington for a one-day meeting on interest rates. also this week, we'll get earnings from best buy, general mills and fedex. we'll track it all for you on cnn money. >> and i'm "showbiz tonight's" a.j. hammer. here's what we're watching this week. golden globe nominations will be announced. you know what it means. it's the beginning of hollywood's blockbuster awards season so who will be the early favorites. "showbiz tonight" is going one-on-one with matt damon. "showbiz tonight" is live at 5:00 p.m. eastern on hln and still tv's most provocative entertainment and news show at 11:00 p.m. pacific. >> l

newt gingrich and mike huckabee just won't get there. johnm thune is a competent guy. he is potentially a vice president candidate in this election. that is a possibility. i would not be totally be surprised to have somebody come in from right field we have not heard about yet. >> all the names you mentioned, to me, are more conservative than you. >> they probably all are more conservative than i m. mitt romney has gone from being more moderate to a little more conservative in recent years. my sense is that the republican candidate for president will be more conservative than i am and he will get republican support and he or she will have to be more conservative than i am. i expect a person to be at least relatively conservative. the conservatives have good and sound ideas. you have to be thoughtful and sometimes flexible in terms of what you are doing and willing to work with other people. those individuals have that ability. >> some and the tea party movement of what republicans to work with the other side. can a republican candidate in 2012 ignore the tea party mome