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

newt gingrich. before newt gingrich was known primarily as a salesman of many fine newt gingrich books, dvds and certificates of entrepreneurship, all 19.95, newt gingrich was famous before that for one really bold, really, really bad political move that he made almost 20 years ago now. how the united states government gingriched itself and made newt's mistake itself today. that's next. all business purchases. so you can capture your receipts, and manage them online with jot, the latest app from ink. so you can spend less time doing paperwork. and more time doing paperwork. ink from chase. are proven to be effective pain relievers tylenol works by blocking pain signals to your brain bayer back & body's dual action formula includes aspirin, which blocks pain at the site. try the power of bayer back & body. as soon as you feelon it, try miralax. it works differently than other laxatives. it draws water into your colon to unblock your system naturally. don't wait to feel great. miralax. >>> every year

you know i love newt gingrich. i love newt gingrich. i really do. i mean look. he's not the future of the republican party or anything like that. i just really find him so entertaining. i could watch him. i would watch him for hours just talk. in fact, he put up a video all about his love of the iphone but he doesn't know what to call it because it's not a cell phone. >> we are really puzzled. here at gingrich productions we spent weeks trying to figure out what do you call this? now, i know you probably think it's a cell phone. and if i say to audiences how many of you have a cell phone that takes a picture, 90% of the hands go up. thank about it. it's taking pictures. nots a cell phone. if it has a mcdonald's app to tell you where mcdonald's is based upon your gps location, that's not a cell phone. if you can get wikipedia or go to google, that's not a cell phone. if you can watch u tune tube or net flicks. think about it. >> how excited are you to learn newt gingrich has a mcdonald's appear on his iphone? >> the first one he goes to. it's not a phone because

our political panel, ron bro brownstein, clarence page and newt gingrich weighs in. and honoring the troops with a co-host actor joe montegna. you're looking right now at a live picture out of moore, oklahoma. the devastation even on a single home just really unbearable to look at. president obama is headed to oklahoma today. it's nearly been a week after the deadly tornado claimed lives and left the city of moore in ruins. the president is expected to meet with victims and first responders and take e then take a tour of damaged areas. joining me from moore is oklahoma governor mary fallin. i thank you so much, governor. let me ask you first, what do you need of the president? what do you need to ask him for? >> well, we have first of all appreciate the president coming to oklahoma to see the devastation. it is huge here. and a lot of need here. but basically what i need is the ability to get through red tape, the ability to get the fema funds in here quickly and to get the services that our citizens need to help them recover through this terrible disaster. >> what d

former speaker of the house and presidential candidate newt gingrich.former democratic congressman from tennessee, harold ford jr. editor of the national review rich lowry. managing editor of the grio.com and msnbc contributor joy reid. a lot to pick up on. speaker gingrich, the terror debate which can extend from benghazi now to syria to threats to the homeland after boston. how is the president doing? >> oh, i think in the long run not particularly well. i think mayor giuliani stated a good example. 42 months after ft. hood we are pretending that this is a workplace incident when somebody jumps up, yelling allah and kills a bunch of american soldiers clearly related to radical islam. on the fbi most wanted list, 30 -- for terrorism, 30 of the 31 are islamists. yet the coverage of the first two days after boston was, gee, i wonder what motivated these two chechens? now, we still refuse to come to grips with how serious and how long term this problem is going to be. i think it could be a 50 to 70 year problem. >> joy, it's a political question. it's a s

newt gingrich. before newt gingrich was known primarily as a salesman of many fine newt gingrich books, dvds and certificates of entrepreneurship, all $19.95, newt gingrich was famous before that for one really bold, really, really bad political move that he made almost 20 years ago now. how the united states government gingrich'd itself and made newt's mistake itself today. that's next. >> the most talked about phase of the act is the interstate highway system, a 41,000 mile network of our most important roads. most of these roads will be four, six, even eight-lane expressways, constructed for thru traffic. they will take the over-the-road driver from city to city, coast to coast, at highway speeds. even through large population centers. r business travelers. the act of soaring across an ocean in a three-hundred-ton rocket doesn't raise as much as an eyebrow for these veterans of the sky. however, seeing this little beauty over international waters is enough to bring a traveler to tears. we're putt

here at gingrich productions, we spent weeks trying to figure out what do you call this. it's taking pictures, it's not a cell phone. if you can get wikipedia, that's not a cell phone. think about it. this device is something new and different. i've been calling it a hand held computer. >> no, this is not some clever joke. the man who ran for the nation's highest office, the man who said he would challenge president obama to seven lincoln douglas style debates can't figure out what to call this device because it does so many other things. >> now, we've been here before. when we first developed it, it was called the horse less carriage and took a little while to get a new word for it. >> yes, newt, we've figured out a new word for it. the automobile. just as we have for years now called those things smart phones. for the man who seemed so tech savvy as speaker, is acknowledging smart phone in his nearly three minute por ten spiel. >> please leave a comment. what would you call this so that we could explain to people -- >> please stop it. you're killing me. also, you can us

. >>> coming up on the show, newt gingrich will joining us and tom brokaw will be with us, along withhomas pickering. you're watching "morning joe," brewed by starbucks. ♪ baby baby it's monday, a brand new start. with centurylink visionary cloud infrastructure, and custom communications solutions, your business is more reliable, secure, and agile. you get 5% back, on everything. everything. everything. everything. everything? [ all ] everything? everything. [ male announcer ] get free shipping and 5% back ♪ >>> it is 30 past the hour. willie, time for the morning papers. we start with "wall street journal." the editor in chief at blookberg news has apologized for actions taken by reporters who used client data to gain than unfair advantage over that competitors. they were made of the practices after executives at goldman sachs voiced concerns about bloomberg last week. >> boy, that is not good. >> not good. >> bloomberg is selling terminals and they, mark halpern, the report is that they were actually looking at the terminals? >> journalists on ad hoc. used the access to the terminal

we continue with speaker gingrich. brought in the narrative that it was spontaneous with benghazi, and it was in retaliation for a youtube video is? who is the one question you would like answered, or maybe you have a number of them? >> i think there's core question here. when the state department head of communication says my building's leadership doesn't like the cia's analysis, the question you have to ask is first of all, it's an interesting language. my building's leadership? is it she mean secretary clinton, who was the leader of the state department? secondly, what was it they didn't like about it? i think what's really frightening is much deeper than anybody has talked about it yet. i think this may not have been driven by obama's re-election. i think it may have been driven by the passion the state department has to avoid telling the truth about radical islamists and i think what they were afraid of is if people understood that this was, in fact, a radical islamic attack that killed an american ambassador and

newt gingrich and karl rove will be here. >> bill: the o'reilly factor is on. my counsel's advice and not testify or answer any of the questions today. >> bill: the irs scandal getting bigger. now some executives there think they may be in criminal territory. also, the link between the irs and the white house getting stronger. >> how many times did you go to the white house? >> bill: we'll have a full report on everything that happened today. >> the president said he was outraged last week by the irs scandal. is he outraged then that lois lerner is taking the fifth? >> bill: white house pounded over the irs scandal. we will show you what happened to jay carney. >> i don't think obama had anything to do with it you know, maybe he didn't. sometimes things go wrong. >> bi

won the republican primary famously twice divorced and gingrich still won. does that say about the changing electorate that americans are moving past, a more pure approach to what they expect from their candidates? >> i think we saw that in the impeachment process. the man who was impeached for this was made popular. i do think that is a technical -- i mean, a practical example of moving past politics of the bedroom. >> can i turn it around and ask if a woman in this position had run, would she have won? >> i don't think she would have come back to try to run. >> depends on how conservative she was. >> do you? >> you know what i found is both sides are willing to forgive just about anything, as long as their person is -- see it time and time again. remember how outraged my democrats were at john tower. not the john tower that works for us. he outrages them every day. john tower, a senator from texas and going to be secretary of defense and democrats would stand up on the senate floor and say this man is sixth in line to be president of the united states and

and leave it to newt gingrich to go even further, turning paranoid mole hill into scandal mountain.argued that the president was behind the irs investigations because of obamacare. at least he didn't blame the lame stream media. >> he has a huge problem because the obamacare relies very heavily on the irs. i think the president is going to demand that everybody meet with congress, go to the hearings, fire everybody he can legally fire who has been involved in this. >> michael: how does this guy still matter? it's not likely the president will do any of the things that he said, but he is taking action. today he called on those for accountability. >> obama: the irs as an independent agency requires absolute inthing grassy and people have to have confidence they are applying the laws in a non-partisan way. >> michael: congress seems to be taking this very seriously and there is bipartisan support for further action. so is -- but now some republicans are trying to use the issue a way to hit the president and protect the dark money that got them elected in the first place. mitch mcconnel

and i knew i made a mistake. >> newt gingrich? >> newt is brilliant in many respects. he is a kind of a guy that can lead the revolution but he can't lead after he succeeds. it was always what he did. what newt did. and i was a tax collector for the welfare state and i don't have any quarrel with him now, but -- >> but you have not forgotten either. >> i have not forgotten. and i'm glad he was not our nominee. >> one last person, the guy who beat you in 1996, bill clinton? >> good guy. i remember getting a handwritten 7-page letter, telling me all the race and the last paragraph was, if the economy is good, you cannot beat clinton. the th it was a factor. >> was world war ii the defining event in your life? >> well, no doubt about it, it . >> when you thi back to the terrible injury. you were 21 years old. put you in the hospital for three years. what do you think about that now? that experience? >> i think i learned a lot about patience. some things take a long time. and you got to be patient. and i like to get things done yesterday. but i learned in the hospital, it'

i listened very carefully to speaker gingrich.hink he had a great idea about bringing lerner back in and asking her questions to allow her to say fifth amendment 600 times. i hope another way they are going is very patiently interviewing all of these individual agents at the bottom of the food chain who were responsible for the face to face contact with the tea party groups who signed the letters and asked for the intrusive material and start with them in private interviews and government oversight committee staff and work their way up the food chain. i don't want to have a hearing in which we don't know the answers so let's start by asking questions and work your way up. i suspect we find that sydney thomas who illegally leaked the applications of cross roads gps and eight others that she plays an important role in this and her supervisor in washington is luis lerner. i suspect we will work our way to the top and find lots of interesting information that will give us some leverage over some of these people. >> that investigation

i knew i made a mistake. >> chris: newt gingrich? >> newt is brilliant in many respects. he is the kind of a guy that has been leading the revolution but he can't lead after he succeeds. he was always -- it was always what he did, what newt did. and i was a tax collector for the welfare state, i don't have quarrel with him now.wit >> chris: but you haven't foregotten? >> i haven't foregotten. and i'm glad he wasn't the nominee. >> chris: clinton. >> i remember him telling me about the race and it was telling me if the economy was good you can't beat clinton. that is probably not the only reason i didn't beat clinton but it was a factor. >> chris: was world war ii the defining event in your life? >> no doubt about it. it was -- changed my life. >> chris: when you think back be to the terrible injury, you were 21 years old. put you in the hospital for three years. what do you think about that now? that experience. >> i think i learned a lot about patience and some things take a long time and you got to be patient. and i like to get things done yesterday but i learned in the

i talked to dave weigel from slate magazine about covering newt gingrich and covering the republican primaries for president early last year. and he said newt gingrich won the south carolina primary right after running an ad that played up some to have attacks that he had been making against president obama that had some of those same themes where he called him the food stamp president, right? where he -- he had said earlier in that year, he said in january, newt gingrich had, that he was going to go to the naacp convention and show them why they should value paychecks instead of food stamps. right? like black folks need to be told that they want a job instead of food stamps. but those were dog whistle messages, right? meant to reach the people who might be predisposed to respond to them, and he won the south carolina primary, if you remember. so here's another question that you might want to answer. herman cain at one point was a front runner for the republican nomination for president. this despite the fact that he had never really been elected to an office before with. this despit

who were openly guy also is keeping it's ban on gay scout leaders for mother let's go to candace gingrich jones half sister of former republican speaker newt gringrich thank you for joining us. >> i'm happy to be here. please call me candace. >> john: thank you. according to a poll, 1% voted supported the president. >> i think there is a tendency to kind of pigeon pigeonhole all of us not taking into account as much as there are people across the spectrum that means they're going to be some people in that spectrum who are more conservative. whether it's fiscally consider or some other issues involved in the republican party. it shows the diversity of the whole community. >> john: of course and blanket assessments of any minority groups are dangerous. but one out of four voters would go for a party that has written in their platform that they should never be allowed to marry the people that they love. >> well, one can speculate about the reasons folks have for supporting the republican party. you know, i i know that personally long before i knew i was gay i knew that i was a woman and was

. >>> newt gingrich has something to say about what lois lerner did at the irs hearing. if irs can take the fifth and apologize, shouldn't we extend those rules to taxpayers, put i plead the fifth on your tax form, then apologize. interesting idea. we'll be sure to ask speaker gingrich about it tomorrow night. >>> and it is a sign of what is to come in 2016, the national review reporting paul ryan writing a book. you heard right. wisconsin congressman paul ryan adding author to his resume. he will reportedly release a new book next year. part autobiography and part political analysis. now, since presidential candidates all seem to write books before they run for president, we suspect this book is a hint about congressman ryan's political plans. just a suspicion. >>> and finally, the divine miss m taking on apple. bette midler tweeting, apple shields $24 billion in taxes. i have to pay tax on every nickel i make overseas. i need the name of their irish accountants. apple disputes that and now here to hash it out with us, do not forget to follow me on twitter. >>> and comi

here at gingrich production wes spent weeks trying to figure out what do you call this, if it has a mcdonald's app to tell where you mcdonald'ses is from-- based on your gps captioning sponsore >> stephen: tonight can congress reach a compromise on immigration reform? or is passing legislation just a job americans don't want to do? (laughter) then what's in the latest issue of maxim, same as every issue, pornography for people who can't take nudity. and my guest dan brown is the best selling author of the "da vinci code" and angels & demons. i wanted to interview him on the beach this summer. business networking sited linkedin is cracking down on prostitutes am now if they will just crack down on those people who keep inviting me to join linkedin. this is the colbert report. (cheers and applause) >> stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! >> stephen: welcome to the report, everybody. thank you for joining me in here, out there. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: thank you, folks, please, sit down. you know, nation, there's big news we have got to get to. thank you so much, folks.

gingrich proved to be a perfect foil for clinton, though.overed from the '94 drubing to win a second term in 1996. his coattails were limited. republicans still controlled the house and the senate. no one was expected another '94 tsunami in 1998. it is what opposition parties are supposed to do in midterm elections. which brings us to the lewinsky mess. it is not a scandal that came out of nowhere. it is a story that came to light through kenneth star. loud republican demands for an investigation to bill and hillary's business dealings back in arkansas. whitewater scandal was called. ways not called much of a scandal. that's the point. resistance on the right when bill clinton became president was just as immediate, just as over the top and just as unrelenting as the rights res t resistance to barack obama has been. i remember seeing a car in the spring a month after bill clinton took office, red bumper sticker declared impeach clinton. that was the mentality that animated and defined the right in the 1990s. an assumption the democratic pres

washington is represented by newt gingrich who i think history will say did more than maybe any othererson to create the pretty messed up politics. >> that we know today. >> jon: you have a gentleman joe co-- konoton who works with joe biden. >> yes. >> jon: and is very idealistic because he hears him speak in 1979 in delaware. that doesn't end well for him and it certainly puts vice president biden in a very difficult light. >> well, it's a portrait of a washington relationship which is to say a transaction am you do this for me, i'll do this for you. and as soon as someone ceases to be useful, the relationship kind of ends. so jeff konoton has attached his dreams to joe biden. he thinks of him like the kennedies. biden is a little bit more instrumental about the relationship. and it ends up being sort of an unrequieted ambition of konoton. he then becomes a lobbyist because it turns out not only can you make a lot more money will beeeing than working government but you can also actually do better. you can succeed in a way as a junior-- . >> jon: you could affect more change but i th

[laughter] >> 18 years ago after newt gingrich said republicans had tan over congress, president bill clinton famously said, the president is still relevant here. we were reminded of that moment this week at obama's news conference when an abc correspondent asked the president if he still had the juice to get the rest of it agenda through congress. the president paraphrase mark twain in saying that the rumors demise might be- exaggerated, and then added this. >> you seem to suggest somehow these folks over there have no responsibilities and that my job is to somehow get them to behave. that is their job. >> the president thought it was a gunss's job to pass control bill, the senate failed to do so. he is struggling to get something done and immigration. heat fromng republicans on everything from bed gauzy to syria and he cannot shut down guantanamo bay, but the voters still like him. and the unemployment rate, we learned at week's end, dropped to 7.5%, heat from republicans a seven-week low. charles krauthammer is off this week. in his column he says that the president is dead in the

already you're hearing people saying they're going to run the risk of doing what newt gingrich did duringe clinton impeachment. they took it a step beyond probably where it shouldn't have been, they wound up losing seats and gingrich had to go. >> i think what you saw this week, bob was a pulling back. there was a lot of hysteria early in the week, and everybody calling investigations. and if d got a little bit muted, and speaker boehner was saying let's just all take a deep breath and see what happens. even congressman issa was saying let's see what happens. but i still think that the republicans have to make a decision whether they want to spend the next two years on multiple levels doing investigations or are they going to try to separate eye little bit and do some legislating as part of their redesign, reinvention of themselves. >> schieffer: what about that, dan? >> the republicans clearly have some choices to make. on the one hand, what's happened over the last 10 days clearly fires up the republican base. and republicans will want a fired up base when they go into the 2014 midterms

serial adulterer newt gingrich. this time? mark sanford. he showed the sensitivity that any parent envies by bringing his 14-year-old son on stage on election night when he won the primary to meet his new stepmother, his mistress. i have to tell you, he is a jerk. welcome to the club. >> it sounded more like a soap opera the way that he was describing it. >> i am told they are revising the geography textbooks in state schools to show the most direct route from the appalachian trail to washington this through argentina. never been done before. have to love this guy. he calls his ex-wife and says, do you want to run the campaign for me? he was going to pay her. it is a republican state and he ran a challenger's campaign. he was there with the cutouts of nancy pelosi, and colbert-bush was in a little bubble. >> you have to hand it to him, he won the election. >> iad said on this program when we first talked about this that i thought sanford was a great position. he has held the district. that district has not gone democratic in decades. it is