newt gingrich, obviously, has a different role.t romney to have newt gingrich in the shadows, and to be calling in, theoretically, favors from him right now that ultimately he's going to have to pay for later. >> and that's the problem. this is a guy who obviously feels that he could be doing this better than mitt romney. and now mitt romney is opening the door for him to put on salon for mitt romney on how to appeal to conservatives. but pack to our original point, that is not mitt romney's job right now, appealing to the base. if he's still doing that, he's in deep, deep trouble with less than a month to go before his convention. this is not the time to be relearn how to talk about to your base. >> and we talk about wild surrogates, surrogates that go off-message, untamed surrogated -- >> are you implying -- >> i'm just saying. gingrich was asked about michele bachmann on cnn today and her comments about a conspiracy regarding the muslim brotherhood. inevitably, gingrich is almost his own worst enemy. he can't control himself and

gingrich actually said the candidate should be held accountable.he united states' ad. >> priorities usa action is responsible for the contents of this advertising. >> but mitt romney is personally responsible for the blatantly false welfare ad. responsible for the welfare ad. romney says so himself. >> i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. >> newt gingrich is right about one thing, the candidate should be held accountable. let's bring in democratic strategist chris kofinis tonight. good to have you with us, you've been down this road before, the mud slinging back and forth about what's true and what isn't. is there a difference between these two political ads? >> there's a huge difference, legally if nothing else. legally, you cannot coordinate between an independent group and a campaign. you'd be breaking the law if you did, so right there there's a difference. just in terms of the message, you know, the romney ad, that is their message. that is something that the romney campaign approved, that governor romney now owns. the ad that was put o

outside group that was backing gingrich. he had longstanding ties to gingrich and was hoping he would get the nomination. when gingrich withdrew, he threw his support, reluctantly initially, to romney. he felt romney was not as decisive as gingrich, and might not be quite as good on certain issues of particular importance to sheldon adelson. no. 1 on his agenda is strong support for the israeli government, in particular conservative wing of the israeli political parties. he has close ties to netanyahu, and generally considered a hawk on middle east issues. he opposes a two-day solution to the israeli-palestinian conflict. gingrich have been far more outspoken. romney is strong on these issues, too. now he is backing romney, overriding concern is to defeat president obama. he thinks obama is weak on israeli issues, middle east issues. he publicly has castigated him for his economic policies. i think he described them to forbes as socialist-style economic policies, which he is worried about continuing for another four years. h

not like newt gingrich does. which is why poor kids should be janitors at schools working under master janitors. newt gingrich was also the one who said on the campaign trail that president obama is the food stamps president. he once offered to go to the naacp and, quote, talk about why the african-american community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps. and here is what happened when he was asked about that rather plainly racist rhetoric at a republican debate back in january. watch the response. >> speaker gingrich, you recently said black americans should demand jobs, not food stamps. you also said poor kids lack a strong work ethic and proposed having them work as janitors in your schools. can you see that this is viewed as a minimum as insulting to all americans, but particularly to black americans? >> no. i don't see that. you could take one janitor and hire 30-some kids to work in the school for the price of one janitor. they would be getting money, which is a good thing if you're

former speaker of the house newt gingrich coming up right now. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only halfway to completely eliminating hunger and we have work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: it feels like deja vu all over again as yogi bear once said. four years ago when we kicked off our coverage, our guest, former house speaker newt gingrich and a hurricane was playing havoc with the convention scheduled then just as it is this year in tampa. i am always pleased to welcome the former speaker to this program. good to have you back, sir. >> is great to be back with you in there is an eerie parallel. >> if there is indeed. i am glad to have you tonight. but me start with the fact that you have releaser delegate -- released your delegate. what is the rationale having ru

. >>> before paul ryan, there was newt gingrich.995, then house speaker newt gingrich wanted to voucherize medicare. he wanted to privatize it. as the l.a. times reported it then, gingrich predicted congress would undertake a major reform of medicare. one alternative would be a voucher program where they would choose among several competing private health plans. so medicare goes away, grandma gets a coupon and a prayer and a visit to the private insurance market. before paul ryan ever proposed getting rid of medicare that way, newt gingrich did it en1995. that's an underappreciated part of why we got four more years of president clinton in 1996. the president tied newt gingrich and his voucher medicare stuff like a lead weight to bob dole's neck in the '96 election. >> against medicare again. dole/gingrich tried to cut $270 billion. bob dole, wrong in the past. wrong for our future. >> dole/gingrich then. romney/ryan this year. that's what the democrats were going to do anyway. now it's a lot easier. bill clinton won a second term i

newt gingrich is an error lobbyist -- uber lobbyist. barney frank talk about michele bachmann. he also called out newt gingrich and said he held him responsible for the demonization of opponents that has contributed to the atmosphere we live in today. i do think he came into the house. he slashed all of the caucasus and civility. we are seeing this. this is a man who a few days ago talked about education reform in the context of firing the janitors in schools and putting the kids to work. a lot of the media called that unconventional. [laughter] let's repeal child labor laws that we fought hard for in this country. bring in dickens to chronicle it. i do think there is the cruelty amidst the reality show debates we have been subjected to. who is running this, entertainment or news? there is a cruelty when people cheer that someone dies without health care or bbo a soldier that dies in iraq. >> i am joking about herman cain. he is a guy who cannot hide the truth well. that makes me more comfortable with the idea that i know who he is about so i can make a decision. >> are you tal

it's also kind of hipypocritical for gingrich because i covered gingrich in the 1990s as speaker of the house and to tell you the truth, he didn't challenge bill clinton much. there was a republican jesse % helms, who was challenging bill clinton left and right. that wasn't gingrich. i don't know where he is coming from on this. >> who knows? who knows what has happened in the interim. let's listen to a sound byte from mitt romney slamming president obama on foreign affairs. take a listen. >> in dealings with other nations, he has given trust where it is not earned insult and apology where it was not due. >> is it fair to paint president obama as an apologist? >> it's not fair. everyone who has looked at the record, we can take apologies in two senses. really referring to an actual apology, everyone who has looked at it says they can't find it in obama's record. okay. if he is taking the broader meaning of kind of expressing regret for specific things sure, i mean not only hasbol apologized but people tend to forget. i counted with george bush that he had apologized to the chinese over

with the gingrich-clinton welfare plan, child poverty went down. we had a work requirement and people went to school and work and their lives got better. my ad would have been tougher than this ad, but then it would have been a 60-second ad and i don't know if we could have afforded it. >> i think you could have afforded it. but i have to come back to this. it sounds like you were saying earlier and i just want to try to clarify this. you do think that the actual wording under obama's plan, you wouldn't have to work, you wouldn't have to train for a job, they just send you your welfare check, that is not factually correct? >> we have no proof today, but i would say under obama's ideology it's absolutely true thathe would be comfortable sending a lot of people checks under nothing. i believe that totally. >> speakeringrich, i appreciate you being on. >> i should point out that's an assumption when he says we have no facts today, no proof today. let us know what you think. we're on facebook, twitter and instagram. we'll talk to one of the people resp

i believe that totally. >> speaker gingrich, thank you for being on. i should point out that's an assumption we have no facts today, no proof today. let us know what you think. we're on facebook and twitter, also at insta gram. up next, the pro president obama ad made by a super pac supporting him.ki we'll talk to the people supporting that. i david gergen joins us to talk about the strategy behind both these commercials. why wouldn't you make that call? see, the only thing i can think of is that you can't get any... bars. ah, that's better. it's a beautiful view. i wonder if i can see mt. rushmore from here. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. [ female announcer ] weak, damaged hair needs new aveeno nourish+ strengthen. active naturals wheat formulas restore strength for up to 90% less breakage in three washes. for strong, healthy hair with life, new aveeno nourish+ strengthen. >> announcer: meet tom, a proud dad whose online friends all "like" the photos he's posting. oscar likes tom's photos, but he loves

newt gingrich, one of your chief conservatives saying this.that proposed the budget that eviscerates medicare, turns it into a voucher program. tells senior citizens you're on your own, and this is the guy republicans want to put up against barack obama and joe biden. i think it's a wonderful idea for democrats. >> i don't see people in politics saying this is a good idea. >> the weekly standard said that. >> i will tell you this, at least he put forward a budget unlike our democratic counter parts who haven't voted on a budget in over 1,000 days. and here's the point, and the exact point, my forewarning should not be on it, this conversation, that should not be what we're going to talk about in the presidential race. if that's the case, romney will lose. i understand why democrats want him on the ticket, but that's why i think it won't happen. >> there's a lot of bad ideas coming out of the romney campaign, one of which was to go to london and trash the olympics. i don't know what to expect, frankly, but as i said, we're dying for ryan. >> ro

newt gingrich has defended the ad, going beyond it in some respects. but as you'll see later on, speaker gingrich also makes a surprising admission. i spoke with former presidential candidate just a short time ago. mr. speaker, this ad says, and i quote, you wouldn't have to work and train for a job, they just send you your welfare check. president clinton assigned the law, which you worked on as well saying that's not true. even haskins said, quote, there's no plausible scenario under which this new policy constitutes any kind of serious attack on welfare reform. are they all wrong? >> well, robert recter, who was the original developer of welfare reform, worked with governor reagan and then president reagan, he was the first person to come out aggressively and say look, this will in the end gut welfare reform. his reasoning is pretty straightforward. once you start allowing states -- this is why, by the way, the law itself does not permit waivers. the president actually could not waive section 407 which says there can't be any waivers to the work env

>> stephanie: yeah it was more as newt gingrich would say this pyas bologna. >> newt gingrich we're allnt thinly veiled social darwinism. >> stephanie: yeah, it was right-wing social baloney. >> that's right. and david stockman saying that the entire budget plan is a phony. >> stephanie: yeah. i just -- i don't -- >> and rick scott who made his fortune scamming medicare doesn't want him to take part of his medicare plan. [ laughter ] >> maybe that's all of those drug kingpins who don't want legalization. >> yeah because business would dry up. >> rick scott doesn't want medicare because there won't be anything to steal. >> stephanie: yeah. i love that you started every piece with you'll forgive us with starting every piece with zombie-eyed granny starvers. >> yeah, i just can't stop. >> stephanie: were you surprised surprised. >> i was. maybe i was overwhelmed by the previously boring mitt romney that was previously the governor, i thought as far afield as he may go kelly piaot. i do feel bad for tim pawlenty though, because if there is any one political figure who is in the pet carry ev

gingrich's, i heard you speak a few years ago at a college. one of the speeches that you are being paid $60,000 an hour for. you told these kids in college that the rich do not pay taxes. they hire attorneys and they go around the irs. were you lying or were you telling the truth? we know you were telling the truth because the rich rich don't pay taxes. they collect taxes. number two, don't cut me off. i heard you say about the union janitor. you would fire all the union janitors because i suppose you think they are making $60,000 a year is too much. and you would hire children to do the work. and that you would appoint one master janitor. now my question to you is what is this masters name? simon the greek? thank you. >> host: a response from newt gingrich. >> guest: it's fascinating, first of all in taxes. clearly the wealthy pay much more taxes. my point was if you raise the marginal rates to a high number like they were before ronald reagan, what the french are doing, they just hire more cpas and more players and try to find ways to avoid

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host: newt gingrich. guest: i think you raise some interesting points, but they are in some ways very misleading. congress has a penchant plan that is much closer to a defined contribution plans the than a defined benefit plan and then it used to be. in lots of companies, people can earn a long-term benefits, and when they get older, members of congress are on medicare just like everybody else. i think that part of it is just not an accurate perception. the key difference is no corporation, including federal employees, is big enough to control medicine in america. there is a very wide range of choices pretty to look at the federal employee health benefit act, it is a good model for thinking about having a large number of choices. what worries that those of us who have looked at various national health system is putting power in the hands of bureaucrats so they start making decisions. there is a reasoned argument about whether or not you should have a particular test for men that relates to prostate cancer

it's fantastic. >> steve: newt gingrich having a horse in his stomach? gist. >> steve: fantastic. >> jimmy: this next one is from dr. oz. you know that guy. >> steve: i love dr. oz. >> jimmy: we love dr. oz. >> steve: he's right across the hall. >> jimmy: he hosts "the dr. oz show" right across the hall. we're neighbors. we're good buddies, love the guy. >> steve: i can't watch all of his shows. >> jimmy: no, i'm a busy dude. what i do is, i boiled it down to the parts that can't be missed. >> steve: perfect. it's like a serving. >> okay, this is tmi, but when i'm eating, i stick my chewing gum under my nuts. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: hold on, wait. >> jimmy: hold on, ready? [ laughter ] >> steve: wait, what? that's the show, boiled down? >> jimmy: i don't -- i haven't seen him in a while. i haven't seen him in a while. can we see that one more time. >> okay, this is tmi, but when i am eating, i stick my chewing gum under my nuts. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i don't know. i guess. it's a different season. he's going in a different directi

they ran ads like this against gingrich. let's see how romney got this far. >> why is this man smiling? because his plan is working. brutally attack mitt romney and hope newt gingrich is his opponent. why? mute has a ton of baggage like the fact that gingrich was fined $300,000 for ethics violations or that he took at least $1.6 million from freddie mac just before it helped cause the economic meltdown. then there's the $37 million gingrich took from health care and industry groups. >> cynthia, you know, i don't know where this guy claimed he's the umpire in this race where he will decide who is in and who is out in terms of ethics. but this guy got this far with an overwhelming expenditure of outside money to destroy first newt and santorum and anyone else that got in his way with blanketing of negative advertising. now he is saying biden is the bad guy because he used the word chains in some metaphor he was putting together. >> this is manufactured outrage. chris, you know, i would bet that mitt romney's staff had this hat

newt gingrich has suddenly become a romney spokes person. he claims that president obama is relaxing welfare to work requirements. the romney campaign camp has started running this ad in heavy rotation nationwide. the ad which we won't show because you -- look, it's untrue. it claims that president obama is gutting welfare and handing out checks to people who don't want to work. almost every major news outlet debunked the ad within hours of debut. here are the facts. republican governors have asked for more flexibility and power in handing out temporary assistance money in their states. romney was one of the governors who was asked for the reform. governors in utah and nevada planned to use this new waiver being offered by the obama administration. both governors poled greg sergeant that they would not reduce the welfare to work requirements in their states. the republicans are left with no substance to make the argument. they are just relying on pure politics. >> unless you made it a mandatory work requirement, it would get waived to a poin

newt gingrich defended the ad. but later on in this interview, speaker gingrich also makes a surprising admission. i spoke with the former candidate a short time ago. mr. speaker, this ad said, and i quote, under obama's plan you wouldn't have to work or train for a job. they just send you your welfare check. according to every nonpartisan fact-checking organization, that is not clue. president clinton signed a law that you worked on said it's not true. even ron haskins, who worked on the welfare law, served as george w. bush's welfare adviser, said there is no plausible scenario in which it constitutes a serious attack on welfare reform. are they all wrong? >> the original developer of welfare reform worked with governor and president reagan. he was the first person to come out and say look, this will end welfare reform. his reasoning is straight forward. once you start allowing states -- this is why the law itself does not permit waivers. the president actually could not waive section 407 which says there can't b

. >> and in a moment, you'll hear from newt gingrich who tries to defend that ad. it's pretty stunning about whether the ad he's speaking is true to the facts. i want to show you how mitt romney is campaigning on the claims made in that very ad. >> with a very careful executive action, he removed the requirement of work from welfare. it is wrong to make any change that would make america more of a nation of government depend si. we must restore it. i will restore work into welfare. >> now,istening to tnd watchinghe ad,ou would think that t whiteusesome manage undo all th your lekted representatives accomplished back i the late '90s in welfare reform. and in case you missed the implications, romney's surrogate, newt gingrich, today, spelled it all out. >> i think on the hard left, there is an unending desire to clean america. it's not just obama's a radical, the people he appoints are more radical. >> a string of fact checkers blasted the akt as false. the washington post-fat guy weighed in with four pinocchioes. what it's doing is giving more flexibility to their o

newt gingrich has defended the ad but as you'll see later on in this intersue, speaker gingrich makes aurprising admission. i spoke with him just a short time ago. mr. speaker, this ad says you wouldn't have to work or train for a job. they would just send you your welfare check. according to pretty much every fact checking organization that's not true. president clinton signed the law and says it's not true. even ron haskins said, quote, there's no plausible scenario under which this new policy constitutes a serious attack on reform. are they all wrong? >> the original developer of welfare reform worked with governor and then president rag on. he was the first person who come out agessively and say look, this one in the end got welfare reform. his reasoning is straightforward. once you start allowing states -- this is why, by the way, the law itself does not permit waivers. the president couldn't waive section 407, so he fudge nd and found a way to get around it which i suspect will turn out to be illegal. governor from virginia says he thinks this is clearly gutting welfare reform.