pledge, but their first oldest to the constitution and the security of the country and not to haley barbour. hopefully, you will see the people on the republican side who signed those pledges gradually recognizing that there can be no real deficit reduction and you cannot protect defense and other critically important parties of this country from sequestration without additional revenant. you cannot do it. it has been proven over and over it. that is the one tip that i would look for. maybe the candidates, presidential candidate on the republicans i will answer the question about the haley barbour pledged. he was asked that question at a debate and all the candidates were asked whether or not if they could trade $1 in additional revenue for $10 in spending cuts, would they accept that trade? raise your hand is what the moderator asked all the candidates including mitt romney. i think none of them raised their hand. that is an extreme position which no president that is serious about deficit reduction, including ronald reagan, has taken. that is what i will look for, that specific question.

their first oath is to the constitution and the security of the country, not to haley barbour. you're going to hopefully see people on the republican side who signed those pledges gradually recognizing that there can be no real deficit reduction and you cannot protect defense and other critically important priorities of this country from sequestration without additional revenues. you can't do it. it's been proven over and over again. that's the one tip that i would look for. maybe the candidate, the presidential candidate on the republican side will answer the question about the barbour pledge. remember, he was asked that question, by the way, in a debate when all the candidates were asked whether or not if they could trade one dollar in additional revenues for ten dollars in spending cuts, would they accept that trade. raise your hand is what the moderator asked all the candidates, including romney. i think none of them raised their hand. that is an extreme position which no president that has been serious about deficit reduction, including ronald reagan, has taken. that's wha

haley barbour differs with policy he says mitt romney has presented, but you have a lot of people who wonder where does romney assistant? and what is the exact language to even compare to what we've heard from the president. >> this is highlighting the differing opinions within the gop, and to see it pouring out now is fascinating. romney has to live with a lot of statements he made, especially in the primary that would -- that was pretty tough on the immigration issue. you hear rubio come in really as the voice of reason. >> but what is his voice of reasoning? what is the language from his proposed d.r.e.a.m. act. as wednesday it, we have the exact legislative language here, and romney would only say he would be well to review it, it's not as if there's something there to say yea or nay to. >> there's not that much difference with the proposals ever since it was proposed. it's always been about what can we do for this group of people? they were brought to america as kids, they didn't make an informed decision to break a law and to come here. >> they didn't enter the country under the

the first zero is to the constitution and the security of the country, not to haley barbour. you will see people on the republican side to sign those pledges gradually recognizing that there is no real deficit reduction and cannot push back defense another critically important priorities of this country from sequestration without additional revenue. cannot do it. has been proven over and over again. that is the one tip of would look for. maybe the presidential candidate on the republican side will answer the question about the barbour pledge. remember, he was asked that question in the debate, all the candidates were asked whether or not, if they could trade $1 in initial revenues for $10 in spending cuts, would they accept that trade? raise your hand, the moderator asked all the candidates. i think none of them raised their hand. that is an extreme position. no president who is serious about deficit reduction, including ronald reagan -- that is what i look for, that specific question. >> what realistically is your thought of what the defense cuts would look like? >> i could

but i was struck, haley barbour did a sit-down this morning, christian science monitor breakfast with reporters, where he talked about immigration. i will read what he said. i would just have a different policy than what he, meaning mitt romney, has espoused. i think the democrats on the left will try to make him sound like he's anti-immigrant which he is not. we're not going to deport 12 million people and we shouldn't. i want to focus on that. we're not going to deport 12 million people and we shouldn't. does mitt romney agree with that? >> governor romney believes we have to have a more aspirational policy and how it would affect the larger economic question we have in this country. how legal immigration helps sustain us as a country and our heritage as well as how it helps contribute to that, as well as how it helps sustain our economic growth in this country. i think the primary, when we litigate these differences in a primary, there does tend to be much more of an emphasis on enforcement. now i think again, we have to talk about what it is exactly that we would do to help grow t

did he take an oath, is he still bound by haley barbour's pledge that even though there's offshore tax havens that are soaking up tens of billions of dollars a year in revenue that belongs in our treasury, and that number comes from the permanent subcommittee on investigations study investigation which i chaired, but is he going to continue to defend a whole bunch of other tax loopholes such as the stock option tax loophole, the carried interest loophole which allows hedge fund managers to treat as capital gains income which everybody else has to treat as ordinary income. he needs to address the questions of revenue loopholes and he also, if he wants to increase defense spending, he's got to say well, if he doesn't go for revenue, where's he going to cut. and not be allowed to get away with some answer like he will go for efficiency and cutting waste. >> do you have a response? >> i think maybe taking it just in a slightly different direction, the question was kind of a voluntary person wants to do this, the reality is that one thing that we have been as a nation perfect at is we have

did he take an oath, is he still bound by haley barbour's pledge that even though there's offshore tax havens that are soaking up tens of billions of dollars a year in revenue that belongs in

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tomorrow's guest is former governor, haley barbour. we hope you'll come back. thank you so much. we appreciate it. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] asks core education secretary william bennett discusses the issues in the 2012 presidential campaign. brandywine garden, president of the american federation of teachers, talks about the role occur of teachers following the unsuccessful recall of governor scott walker. john mitchell, nixon, and water bed. "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> watergate was not a caper. it was about the fundamental attempt by the president of the united states to misuse and abuse the constitution, obstruct justice, and to try to undermine peace electoral process. texted has been 40 years since the watergate break-in. >> if you really look at it, they read or tampered with everyone's vote by saying this was not just something done, it was not just dirty tricks, it was a strategic plan aimed at

them are going to be coming into as potential voters, people like jeb bush, like marco rubio, haley barbour, understand republicans can't afford to simply say okay, we'll win 35% of the hispanic vote and find votes elsewhere because there eventually won't be enough of those votes. >> chris cillizza, thank you very much. see you later. >>> leaders of the world's top 20 economies are trying to present a united front today as they work to prevent the european debt crisis from triggering a global recession. but the headlines are all focusing on the first one-on-one meeting between president obama and russian president vladimir putin in his new role as president. >> we discussed syria, where we agreed that we need to see a cessation of the violence, that a political process has to be created to prevent civil war and the kind of horrific deaths that we've seen over the last several weeks. >> we have been able to find many commonalities. >> the body language alone. nbc news chief white house correspondent, chuck todd live from los cobos, mexico, where he is traveling with the president. chuck, tha

. >> haley barbour takes a different stance than john mccain, who is different from several years agoeports and we don't know if this is the actual number but they are saying with hispanic voters there is a surge now with support and enthusiasm as a result of this new deportation policy. >> yes. >> we'll see the real numbers come november but already it seems this decision has given the president according to some of the numbers out there a spike with latino voters. >> yes. it's actually quite amazing because over the weekend polling groups, latino decisions which is considered like the gold standard for polling among hispanics, they did a poll on this issue and they found among hispanics in the key battleground states enthusiasm for obama up 49% and when they presented mitt romney's position on immigration it presented disappointment or negative enthusiasm, 59% down. so you know you have the trajectory going away. >> what is mitt romney's policy on immigration? >> self-deportation in general or don't know yet about the students. you know, looking at this issue you have to think for t

jeb bush, marco rubio, haley barbour, who is no moderate, have said we cannot have this politically and they can't, so he knows those things. it's a very hard line for him to walk. >> maybe this was mitt romney's supermarket scanner moment, but i get the feeling, take a look at this, that mitt romney has not been in too many wawas along the roadside in pennsylvania. >> by the way, where do you get your hoagies here? do you get them at wawa? i went to a place today called wawa. you ever been to wawa? anybody been there? some people -- i'm sorry. i know it's a very big state. we went to wawa's. i was at wawa's. i wanted to order a sandwich. you press a little touch-tone keypad. you touch that and you know, the sandwich, touch this, touch this, touch this, go pay the cashier. there's your sandwich. it's amazing. >> it's amazing. when these candidates get out of their comfort zones -- >> yeah. that's when you don't freelance. >> you've got to be able to, you know, speak the language. >> yeah. look, first of all, let me say i've been on many trips to pennsylvania because my wife's a field ho

i had great support from haley barbour. legislature when haley had his term. i understand his process. i've known haley for as you 50 years. so we think alike. we believe in free market solutions to complex problems. that's our approach to this problem. it's an insurance problem. it's ironic that i, as a missioner, are dealing with health care benefits when i'm usually a regulator. i'm up for the challenge. >> you are. thank you for being with us. thank you, mr. cheney. >> what gadgets can we expect from google? maybe a tablet? we'll have a live report from google's developers conference. yes, that's going on in san francisco. and interesting things are coming out of it. we'll tell you. hey, the new guy is loaded with protein! really? 25 grams of protein. what do we have? all four of us, together? 24. he's low fat, too, and has 5 grams of sugars. i'll believe it when i--- [ both ] oooooh... what's shakin'? [ female announcer ] as you get older, protein is an important part of staying active and strong. ensure high protein..

. >> absolutely, and it's even caused some republicans to support it, as haley barbour, former governorf mississippi, but senator john mccain was critical of it yesterday. ari, another moment from this speech was a reporter from "the daily caller," neil monroe twice interrupted the president. the president responded. let me play a little clip of what happened. >> it is the right thing to do. [ inaudible ] excuse me, sir. it's not time for questions, sir. not while i'm speaking. and the answer to your question, sir, and the next time i prefer you let me finish my statements before you ask that question, is this is the right thing to do for the american people. >> ari, the blogosphere lit up minutes after that happened, people wondering what was going on and also questioning, are we seeing this kind of behavior at official events too many times, or is that just perception versus reality? what is it? >> well, i think it's reality. i think people don't like to see any president disrespected in this way. it was uncivil. i don't want to be rude on saturday morning, but this guy's a nobody and

. >> haley barbour said if they went down to three days, nobody would know the difference except some bar tenders and restaurateurs in the city. >> and meacham, you did say that it was good enough for jerusalem. >> yeah. >> i've got to say, though, and i know you're the theologian, doubts the very existence of god, but you really do have to start on palm sunday. this was a seven-day. this was a seven-day spread. >> it was. >> wasn't just three days. >> think about family vacations, your in-laws come, three days, they can stay. it's good enough for our lord. >> i'll use that. >> mike allen, thanks for looking inside the playbook. >> what do you say to that? >> happy health care day. >> coming up, a little sports for you. the san francisco giants tim lincecum throws his body in front of the plate. helps the giants sweep the dodgers. highlights around the league, next. a new poll commissioned by national geographic, the widely respected, the reverred national geographic asked the question that could decide the presidency, which candidate is best equipped to handle an alien invasion. the

the former governor, haley barbour will come back. thank you so much. he might appreciate it. [inaudible conversations] in >> american politics in the last century or so, moving less the closer you get. one is fascist, others racists, another us access to in some ways the best working definition is of a fascist is an argument. >> on thursday in "washington journal" he talked to policy professor and former labor secretary, robert's transport about the 2012 elections. this is 40 minutes. >> host: welcome back to c-span, professor robert reisch who teaches at you see berkeley and the author of a new e-book, which is not to speak. but the title? >> guest: "beyond outrage." >> host: what is the message? >> guest: if you don't like what is happening in washington, d. something about it. what i have always understood, really going back to my days from washington and three administrations is to matter how good the people in washington, the people outside washington are mobilized and energized and organized to put pressure on even good people in washington, very few good things happen