. >> haley barbour was the favorite son who pulled out. >> mississippi governor haley barbour is out. >> this, you know what that is? the brain power. i've never taken it seriously like this. >> trunp stands for taking reintroduction understanding massive power. >> steve forbes stated that i was one of the greatest entrepreneurs in the history of free trade. i will not be running for president, as much as i'd like to. >> dog gone it, trump is out? >> people are getting a little tired of the teasing. >> no savior is going to rise from these streets. >> huckabee's out, too. >> tim pawlenty, officially announcing -- >> i'm not running for entertainer in chief. >> pawlenty, the name itself is like polenta. >> president obama said that he designed obama care after romney care. and basically made it owe bombny care. >> there were some missed opportunities by him. >> the question, governor was by bamay care. >> the knock on you is that you're invisible and dull and you have the chance to be visible and sharp. >> breaking news, nbc can confirm that he is dropping out of the presidential race.

imagine what it would have looked like had haley barbour been there, paul ryan, governor chris christie, but they're not there. what gingrich also understood is that romney was fundamentally misaligned and mistimed with the actual party that will nominate the republican nominee. northeastern, eyed logically flexible, money'd, wall street, career politician. gingrich has some of those things, but the fundamental misalignment, idea logically always was there. chris: what gets you to the ticket to get the nomination? >> gingrich has, though a career politician, a record of the first o.s.u. majority in 40 years, balanced budget, the first tax cuts since reagan. >> wouldn't that be bill clinton? >> it was in the confines of a republican in-house conversation. that's what gingrich will say. when romney says you're a career politician, he'll say fine, that's my record. what's yours? >> they don't think gingrich is conservative enough. chris: they're not just -- they see substance. >> they see a history that elevated republicans, put them in a position of power. in the conversation, ideal logic

things that separated the situation in mississippi from the situation in louisiana was two words -- haley barbour. he was voted elected official of the year in 2006 for his role in that, and he will be speaking on how an elected official works with the military. we will also have a presentation by admiral walsh, the commander of the pacific fleet. he will talk about the united states military operations in japan during the catastrophic earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear issues that came about. we all know former mayor willie brown will introduce the panel, and they'll talk about regional cooperation. these will be bay area mayor's talking about regional cooperation during disasters and preparation in activities in which they cooperate. following that, we will have a discussion moderated by a former news anchor here in the area on the business role in disaster response. i think we all know that the private sector has a major role in disaster response. following that, we will have a little ship tour. friday, october 7, we will have a program with a discussion on social media's role in disaster respon

debate stage as he has been throughout, and mitch daniels, the governor of indiana was there, haley barbour, governor of mississippi, john thune, senator from south dakota was there, chris christie, governor of new jersey -- gwen: how do we know they wouldn't have blown up? >> what they would have had is something that gingrich didn't possess which is contrary political experience. -- contemporary political experience. and attachment to contemporary political challenges within their states and within the republican party at large. but they're not there. and this field, gingrich understood, even during the time his campaign was imploding in june and july, wasn't strong enough, and that there would be someone who would become the ultimate respository of the we can't stand mitt romney coalition of the republican party. gingrich always believed that romney was misaligned with the way the republican party as a nominating party is. he's northeastern. they're southern and western. he's ideological flexible, they're ideological rigid. he is christian, yes, but of the mormon faith that's not univers

i think haley barbour and tim pawlenty.hristie, they look at the field down to newt and mitt. man, i could do that. >> greg: kimberly, are we to blame for some of this? the cable news revolution means there is more hours of news to explore a candidate. where it never happened with nixon. never happened with reagan. >> kimberly: now we are more inclined to pick it apart. we get to know them really well. especially with the 24-hour news cycle, which i love. twitter and these things going on. you are constantly getting the influx of information. i also feel as a country in general, whether it's republicans or democrats we are still in a deep love affair with the iconic figures. ronald reagan for the right. or jfk to the left. we have can't get rid of the ideas. short of that we're out of luck. >> greg: you are tough on everybody that is not the most conservative candidate in your mind. do you throw the baby out with your bath water? >> eric: no. i have a problem with the conservative conundrum. we want a far right candidate. i

i watch those debates and say, what we do claim in my home state of mississippi is haley barbour, i sitere in tears going, where's mitch daniels? >> where's jeb bush, where's paul ryan, where are these conservatives -- >> smart guys. >> yeah, that don't insult your intelligence. i'm glad you said that, because i turned off the tv last night and i rarely get down about the state of american politics. i'm an optimistic guy. i'm serious. i'm an optimistic guy. but after last night's debate, i just -- i turned off the tv and i was like is that it? >> i know, it's like the peggy lee song. "is that all there is?" people aren't committing to anybody yet because they keep thinking somebody's going to ride in, haley's going to come in on a horse, somebody. >> there are no haley barbours or jeb bushes, or paul ryans, or mitch daniels. >> i want to ask you a question -- >> why don't you direct it to michael steele. >> michael, i don't mean this glibly. >> of course not. >> i don't. why is it -- explain to me from the political landscape, to a behavioral model, and please don't defend any of these

always been mitt romney's nomination to use, even when you found out some of the republicans like haley barbour weren't going to win. he had organizational support, had done this before. rick perry was someone seen as a threat, but his campaign has foundered and really hasn't taken off since that one brief time up in the polls. as for as what we needs to do, the campaign has had one simple message. they just want to do well and move on. at the end of the day it's getting all the delegates that are necessary to capture the nomination, butç make no mista. they are making a very big play in iowa right now. the campaign is starting to ramp enup their tv advertising. key staffers moving to the hawkeye state and that pro romney superpac has been running in iowa. they are doing everything they can to influence that contest, and they are playing to win. >> a big surge right now. earlier on for newt gingrich and now slipping in the polls, as you guys have been watching, but listen as he tells our own chuck todd that his real fortunes lie in south carolina. >> everyone who has won south carolina has bee

we know what i would call -- i don't want to say hsz haley barbour but people like him who have not endorsed and who are very concerned -- >> hanging back. >> they are concerned about newt. if romney can't do this, they have to find somebody else. >> the national review, we fear that to nominate former speaker newt gingrich the front-runner in the polls would be to blow this opportunity that they see with a vulnerable incoming president given the economy. >> if newt gingrich gets through this all the way till june. he will look like a different candidate in june having survived a gauntlet like that and proven to his except ti skeptics that he can be disciplined. if he gets to june, let's not assume what his poll numbers look like today are what they'll look like in june. >> his poll numbers may not be different but i recall what he said to david gregory all the way back then that he knows he's got a problem with his own lack of discipline. >> this is what he has to prove. mitt romney not getting out until newt gingrich actually has the 1,000 -- number will eventually be 1500 he'll need until

. >> just to follow up on that, there was -- haley barbour trying to put a good face on this on with -- the mainstream establishment republican party could easily get behind newt gingrich. do you sense that? what are you hearing? >> i think just look at the numbers. okay maybe we can have an argument over mainstream, there's not a lot of former members or current members who have signed on to his campaign. there is a concern from those of us who worked with him who will admit he is very smart, that he skates a little close to the edge sometimes. i think it's not only concerning in a presidential candidate but very concerning in a president. >> the obama force is sitting back and watching all of this with some delight but the president has his own problems, the changing demographic. there had been studies now of what has happened with minority voters and what has happened with married women. what are you seeing? >> this is the report that the center for american progress did and they are looking at what impact will the demographics play. i wrote a column for hill saying politics has b

john thune and haley barbour as well. if those three had been in the field it would be a more fulsome field right now. so, i think there's a sense of disappointment amongst republican those three opted out rather than in. >> do you think mitt romney, the sort of anyone but myth, is actually going to be the nominee? >> i don't know. it's been very fluid. the question right now is, is it a ceiling that he's facing? or is it at the end of the day, people are going to gravitate toward him? we saw this with john mccain in the last cycle. he was down and people resisted going to him. at the end of the day, they did. i don't know that that's going to be the case this time. >> didn't turn out so well for the republicans in the end. >> i agree with that. very tough environment. >> right. >> i think it's a tough environment for the president this go-round. >> jon, at this late date, all of this anxiety could result in a third-party candidate? >> well, look, the conditions are practically perfect for a third-party candidate, especia

a haley barbour of lobbyists? a gaggle of geese, a grovel of lobbyists? i don't know.ther funny exception to governor walker's new rules, these guys, the solidarity singers show up in the capitol in wisconsin every day at noon and sing. they sing for union rights and for economic justice. singers announced they would not seek this new permit that the governor said they had to be required to get. and governor walker caved. his administration said today that it will work with the solidarity singers and will not arrest them. that's mighty nice of them. 300 of these solidarity singers showed up today. governor walker apparently decided he will not endorse the law for these people. or for anybody else. he'd be too embarrassed to haul away for peaceably assembling. or for lobbyists. wisconsin is still stuck with new regulations on protests. the protests notably continue. that's because protests work. look, i have been to street protests in my day. i know everybody derides street protests, right? they laugh at demonstrations and at demonstrators and people chanting in groups.

i talked to governor haley barbour from mississippi last week and asked him, do you think this is now a two-person race for the republican nomination between gingrich and romney? he said, no, i would not say that. he said, i would not rule out the possibility that rick perry comes back. now governor perry has spent a considerable amount of money advertising in this state, more than anybody else. it has not helped him. he is still well down in these recent polls. so i think for governor perry, he's got to get out of this state and do what his campaign people think he's good at which is retail campaigning. but, you know, four weeks is a long time in iowa. iowa voters, i suspect, are not at all firmly decided. the history of these caucuses is if somebody is really hot late, they can get real mow men... momentum in the last ten days and show movement. we may have a surprise or two ahead. the fact that gingrich has risen at this late stage is very beneficial to him. >> woodruff: along those lines, ann selzer, i was reading that you found 60% of the people that you interviewed said they cou

a haley barbour of lobbyists? a gaggle of geese, a grovel of lobbyists?olidarity singers show up in the capitol in wisconsin every day at noon and sing. they sing for union rights and for economic justice. singers announced they would not seek this new permit that the governor said they had to be required to get. and governor walker caved. his administration said today that it will work with the solidarity singers and will not arrest them. that's mighty nice of them. 300 of these solidarity singers showed up today. governor walker apparently decided he will not endorse the law for these people. or for anybody else. he'd be too embarrassed to haul away for peaceably assembling. or for lobbyists. wisconsin is still stuck with new regulations on protests. the protests notably continue. that's because protests work. look, i have been to street protests in my day. i know everybody derides street protests, right? they laugh at demonstrations and at demonstrators and people chanting in groups. three-word chants! three-word chants! if protests did not do anything

. >> think about it this way, look -- imagine a debate stage with haley barbour, chris christie, johnhune, mitch daniels, governor of indiana. throw in paul ryan, congressman from wisconsin. all of whom to one degree or another thought seriously -- paul ryan probably least of them all, but all the others thought seriously about running. if they were running gingrich would not have any purchase on republican primary caucus voters. he's yesterday news. for whatever reason they decided not to. newt gingrich saw that mitt romney is essentially misaligned with where his party is. he's northeastern, ideologically flexible, very familiar with wall street. the grassroots of the republican party isn't any of those things right now. gingrich sees that romney is misaligned and he's trying to thread a needle. >> people can go to "the national journal" and read that column which was fascinating. >> thank you for having me. >>> the fda is deciding whether the morning after pill should be available to young teens without a prescription. right now anyone 17 or older can get it. now, the drugmaker say

governor haley barbour of mississippi tlooeds recognized he had a race problem during his exploratoryed the idea of giving a speech on race after revealing a blind spot as big as the confederate flag. but it is believed that barbour pulled the plug on a possible campaign because he couldn't figure out how to deliver such an address without hurting himself politically. and then there's herman cain, who used race as a hammer against his critics. those who dared criticize him for anything were stuck on the, quote, democrat plantation, or fearful of, quote, an accomplished, articulate, optimistic black man, or any of the other race-based excuses he used to get away from explaining his glaring deficiencies or his alleged moral lapses. here's what i predict. sooner or later, a major candidate for the republican nomination for president will have to give that party's equivalent of president obama's speech on race during the 2008 campaign. a frank assessment of the issue that discusses the party's role in exacerbating tensions and sewing division, the state of race relations from his or her p

. >> talk for a minute just about states and the fact that you are competing with haley barbour in mississippi and he was trying to pull out of jobs there and you were -- and mitch daniels backyard indiana trying to pull. or in california. it is a favorite place for governors to come. >> governors love to come to california. so here is the issue. no state has the opportunity or resources to compete against china or germany or other countries. the state, even a state as powerful as california because you have to balance our budget in the have no resources to be able to do it. but states do compete against one another all the time. whatever way we can, and the only way that we can often compete is by throwing tax incentives at businesses. and so luring businesses, and you're moving them around from one state to another. every governor call we are constantly competing with one another to set that run from you guys. there is a magazine that facilitates this cult site selection magazine. >> to doing? >> i did. you are does moving the jobs around from wednesday to another. when the real competition

look at haley barbour. he is too far in the south. they will look at and jeb bush. do not need another bush. mitch daniels would be terrific. his wife will not let him. who are we going to do? they will look and say, why don't we do check a gold -- do chuck hagel? strong on national security. host: you're going to leave it there -- we are going to leave it there. sarah, who is your political hero? caller: happy holiday to you. thank you for c-span. my political hero is president obama. the reason president obama is my hero is because he is a family man. he is smart, intelligent, represents family values. he came into office by the time when this treasury was about to go over the cliff. he has got a lot of things done in spite of opposition. the financial markets, the oil spill, the don't ask, don't the killing of bin laden and gaddafi -- he has gotten so many things done and he does not get credit. in spite of all the opposition, he has kept his cool. and i just love that he is a good family man in the midst of all this turmoil about adultery and everything else. he

. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome governor haley barbour.applause] >> good afternoon, y'all. welcome to our first plenary session where we will talk about politics of all things. i am joined by two great professionals in the politics business. frank luntz possibly the greatest a focus group conductor since mozart or some kind of conduct. [laughter] gunn bolger who has done tremendous work for the rga. he works for what the premier polling firms. thank you for the poll you presented this morning to the governors. maybe you can tell us something about politics. bobby jindal was held to 66% of the vote in his reelection campaign. you might think 66% and the other guy got 34% -- the person -- the person who finished second finished 48 points behind bobby. i think you will enjoy hearing from each one of them. i will not let them have an opening statement. we'll go straight to having a little bit of a discussion. i will start off with you because of the survey you did this morning. the 2010 election was the biggest impact on presidential policy in

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. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome governor haley barbour. [applause] >> good afternoon, y'all. good afternoon and welcome to our first recession, where we are going to talk about politics of all things. and i am joined by two great professionals in politics business, make lutz, maybe the best known focus group cannot tear since mozart or some kind of conductor. and glen bolger has done tremendous work for rga and glenn's public opinion strategies one of those premier public polling firms. want to say thanks for the work you've done, including what he presented to us this morning. and then maybe tell us a little something about politics. bobby jindal was held at 66% of the vote in his reelection campaign. you may think 66, the other guy got 34. actually the person who finished second finish 48 points behind bobby. so i think you're going to enjoy hearing from each one of them. and i'm not going to let them have an opening statement. we are going to straight out and regular discussion. i'll just start off with you, glenn, because of the survey

mississippi governor haley barbour, chairman of the republican governors association, wrote a letter on november 29, and i'd like to quote it. -- quote -- "in the early days of the internet, the complexities of collecting state sales taxes across thousands of state and local sales tax jurisdictions were major obstacles. the technology simply didn't exist to expect start-ups to comply with the various tax compliance rules in every part of the country, but today e-commerce has grown and there is simply no longer a compelling reason for government to continue giving online retailers special treatment over small businesses who reside on main streets in mississippi and the country." governor barbour continues -- "the time to level the playing field is now as there are no effective barriers to complying with state sales tax laws." here is what governor barbour is saying. 20 years ago, we didn't have the kind of software and information we do today, but if i want to know what the weather is in maryville, tennessee, where i live, i just without in weather and my zip code, 37786. under this n

. >> haley barbour. >> paul ryan, i don't think he wanted his family to go through it.when a party's trying to win back the white house, they look for a presidential candidate to define the party. part of why there's dissatisfaction with romney and gingrich is because a lot of republicans say i may like them or not, but i don't want them to represent the brand of the republican party. the people who didn't run, i think a lot of republicans would've loved to have chris christie as the face of the brand. >> the minute he steps into that limelight, then the turning inside out begins. then it's going to be the nitpicking at every little thing he says. his position on immigration, on abortion, his position on these issues that are litmus tests almost. the last year at the rnc, we had certain members talking about -- i made it clear, not on my watch is this going to happen, this going to become a litmus test party. >> a good friend of mine, thomas, who was also my chief of staff, we were -- we were actually doing relief efforts every day katrina, hour and a half away from us

. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome governor haley barbour. [applause] >> good afternoon, y'all. good afternoon and welcome to our first recession, where we are going to talk about politics of all things. and i am joined by two great professionals in politics business, make lutz, maybe the best known focus group cannot tear since mozart or some kind of conductor. and glen bolger has done tremendous work for rga and glenn's public opinion strategies one of those premier public polling firms. want to say thanks for the work you've done, including what he presented to us this morning. and then maybe tell us a little something about politics. bobby jindal was held at 66% of the vote in his reelection campaign. you may think 66, the other guy got 34. actually the person who finished second finish 48 points behind bobby. so i think you're going to enjoy hearing from each one of them. and i'm not going to let them have an opening statement. we are going to straight out and regular discussion. i'll just start off with you, glenn, because of the survey