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. >>> former baptist preacher and current host of "huckabee" on fox news, mike huckabee has added a 9 profiteer to his resume. >>> first, president obama is back home in chicago to celebrate his 50th birthday, raise reelection money and catch his breath before the next fight with republicans. arianna huffington from the "the huffington post" is here. >> the president loves to talk about the shiny balls of millionaires, billionaires. >>> today president obama reiterated his plan to turn his focus back to job now that the manufactured debt crisis is over. >> i'm meeting with my cabinet here to make sure that even as they have been throughout these last several weeks, they are redoubling their efforts to focus on what matters most to the american people, and that is how are we going to put people back to work, how are we going to raise their wages, increase their security, how are we going to make sure that they recover fully as families and as communities from the worst recession we've had since the great depression. >> when congress gets back from its well-earned month-long recess, rep

huckabee. ♪ >> mike: welcome to huckabee.onight what america's credit downgrade really means to you and what does it take for us to get upgraded again. charlie will be with us to explain it all . did congress and washington make that debt ceiling deal to avoid a downgrade or get reelected. democrat charlie rangel and republican david dryyer are here and much more on special edition of huckabee. glad you are with us tonight. plause plause >> mike: let me say after friday's view that standard and poor's downgraded the credit rating for the first time ever there is a scramble to understand and interpert. the news came out of the a tepid jobs report. even that was tained by revelations that it was largely because so many people simply quit looking for a jobb. maybe that is not the entire story. in a week of bleak economic news, president obama celebrated his 50th birthday with a 35,800 dinner in chicago and then blew out the candles on the cake and the walls of the white house with stevie wonder and tom hanks and a listers from h

up next, huckabee. ♪ >> mike: welcome to huckabee.onight what america's credit downgrade really means to you and what does it take for us to get upgraded again. charlie will be with us to explain it all . did congress and washington make that debt ceiling deal to avoid a downgrade or get reelected. democrat charlie rangel and republican david dryyer are here and much more on special edition of huckabee. glad you are with us tonight. plause plause >> mike: let me say after friday's view that standard and poor's downgraded the credit rating for the first time ever there is a scramble to understand and interpert. the news came out of the a tepid jobs report. even that was tained by revelations that it was largely because so many people simply quit looking for a jobb. maybe that is not the entire story. in a week of bleak economic news, president obama celebrated his 50th birthday with a 35,800 dinner in chicago and then blew out the candles on the cake and the walls of the white house with stevie wonder and tom hanks and a listers from h

(laughter) >> jon: huckabee you double booked the ames iowa straw poll? for rick santorum will be there. his tent boasts rick santorum summer dance party which, by the way, is the lowest testing bet pilot ever. (laughter) (cheers and applause) >> jon: hi, everybody, who here likes to cha-cha. remember leave room for jesus. (laughter) of course, if summer dance parties are not your thing, perhaps you would like some of rick santorum's homemade peach jelly. they're handing out samples of their peach jelly. wow. rick santorum must really be trying to change the search results that come up when people google santorum and jelly. now rick-- (applause) rick, it's the ames straw poll. it's all about the tent. please tell me you've got something different that's going to bring people to your tent. >> how about mike huckabee, remember him the former governor of arkansas, will also going to perform at rick santorum's tent. (laughter) (cheers and applause) >> jon: mike huck a bee, i never thought i would have to say this to you, you are a shut. (laughter) -- slut. so

>>governor huckabee: if i made mistakes but i didn't. if i did make mistakes i would acknowledge it. >>neil: i blame pat. we have had robs, so blame matt. he always takes the bullet. >>governor huckabee: i don't think president obama things he has made a mistake. >>neil: to your point because he is proposing more of the same that we is done. >>governor huckabee: it is the classic old definition that einstein gave of insanity when you keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. somehow there are people in the white house and people who believe in the idea of government intervention to fix the economy that we just did not intervene enough. i hear commentators all day who come in from the left on this network who say the problem wasn't that we spent a lost stimulus money but the problem was we didn't spend enough in stimulus money. and you scratch your head and say are you serious, we spent $1 trillion. >>neil: they say given the severity, the magazine -- magnitude of the progress. >>governor huckabee: if you a

do you remember four years ago when everybody was saying huckabee, huckabee, huckabee, huckabee, this, that and the other. and everybody said john mccain was dead. what did i say? i said i went home and talked to my dad recently departed. my dad said when nobody else on the face of the earth was saying it, watch out for john mccain, he's going to win this thing. you know why? he doesn't live in iowa. he doesn't go to straw polls, he doesn't look at the zain any bs these candidates say to win straw polls and sometimes to win iowa or come in second in iowa when you actually have pat robertson being the eventual nominee. this happens every four years. michele bachmann's first answer, mark halperin was, i wish the federal government had defaulted, had defaulted a week after americans lost, some of them perhaps lost half of their pensions, lost half of their 401(k)s, when trillions of dollars went down the drain with americans suffering, she said that and got applause. if anybody thinks that guys like my dad are going to be voting that way when this rolls out of iowa and new hampshire and

huckabee, a very special huckabee starts right now. don't move. it is up next. ♪ when is tim geithner going to get here. tee time is there in five minutes y. is there a fox news. >> you made a deal with governor huckabee. he agreed not to run against you. >> when did i agree to >> a few months ago. you put it off. all right. get it over with. i have tee time in five minutes. see who is on the huckabee show. danold trump. great. didn't huck say he would mack a better treasury secretary than my guy tim githe githe. what else report on. grading me on the economy, my vacation? they are going to kill me. deal - is off. let huckabee run. i am not doing it anymore. timmy, just in time. ♪ ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [applause] >> mike: thank you very much . what a great audience we have got and welcome to huckabee from the fox ews studio in new york city. i like music a whole lot and you know we use music on the show and so tonight, i thought i would give you the weekend news, but i am doing it from help with favorite songs if you though

huckabee. ♪ >> welcome to "huckabee" from the fox news studios in new york.hat the credit down grade really means to you and what is it going to take for us to get upgraded again? charlie gasparino will be with us to explain it all. and did congress in washington really make that debt ceiling deal to avoid a downgrade or was it to get re-elected? there's much more for you tonight on this special edition of "huckabee." glass you are with us tonight. let me say that after friday night's news that standard & poors had downgraded our credit rating for the first time ever, there had been a scramble to understand and interpret it. now the news came after the rather tepid jobs report that showed a slight down tick in the unemployment rate. gosh, even that was stained by revelations that it was largely because so many people have simply quit looking for a job. maybe that's not the entire story. i mean, in a week of bleak economic news, president obama celebrated his 50th birthday with a $35,800 a plate dinner in chicago. then he blew out the candles on the cake in th

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>>neil: huckabee says it is governor perry who should be concerned.e planned combination of at&t and t-mobile would deliver our next generation mobile broadband experience to 55 million more amecans, many in small towns and rural communities, giving them a new choice. we'll deliver better service, with thousands of new cell sites... f greater access to all the things you want, whenever you want them. it's the at&t network... and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say. >>neil: you didn't hear it from me but there is a big debate tonight. a republican who will not be there taking the spotlight, the office of next governor perry will run for the white house and he will announce saturday, the day of the straw polls and huckabee says that is a bad move. why, governor? >>governor huckabee: a blunder because the people of iowa work very hard to make the straw poll the biggest political moment in the summer. and if you have a candidate who says you know what i will not be there but i will be in south carolina trying to pull as much attention as p

>> mike huckabee, one-time presidential candidate and full-time fox news contributor profiting from 9/11. we ask a firefighter who lost his son on that tragic day. >>> moments ago, president obama signed into law a bill to raise the debt ceiling and stave off a historic default. and now the halls of congress are spilling out, and lawmakers heading home after a fractious race to reach an agreement. the senate signed off earlier this afternoon voting in favor of the measure by a count of 74-26. before the historic vote was cast, senate majority leader harry reid summed up what this fight may best be remembered for. >> the new senators and the new members of congress who came here, i welcome them all, but a result of the tea party direction of this congress in the last few months has been very, very disconcerting and very, very unfair to the american people. >> and the bill then headed to the desk of the president for his signature, but not before he stepped to them cameras in the rose gardenb and said it is time to move on, and that there is so much more work to be done. >> when congres

wheeler to rock the vote and it's mike huckabee as the candidates to send out i offer a big weekend huckabee will be on hand as well to lend his musical talents to the field. first huckabee will be jamming with gospel singer herman cain a duet that can discourage described as and is storage event then huckabee will go on stage with rick santorum later in the week for playing one last gig at an event for example and he's busy or the bottom number has a huckabee plans to release his i would g m's in an album soon titled the dark side of the g.o.p. jamming with those long haul folds and of course the mr rogers the republican party tim plenty. just fyi. it's the good the bad and the very crowed channel lee oddly good losing up yesterday in a single mother from st louis had a message for wall street you're all fired that's right when banks looked up at the sky yesterday in manhattan they saw a plane flying overhead with a banner thanks for the downgrade you should all be fired apparently now the first one to fly the plane over washington d.c. is a message to congress who couldn't do it because th

mike huckabee. let's welcome governor huckabee. >> great to be here sean.atch your show. what a weekend for politics. anybody who is a political junkie, this is the place to be. >> sean: iowa has been a very good state to you. >> yes. i did a chapter in a book the first chapter was called "i love iowa." >> sean: i'm not surprised. every state seems to have a different dynamic. iowa, family values, a big, big part of people's concerns in government. new hampshire, live free. you go to south carolina and move around the country. is there a certain -- for example, to win iowa, what does it take? >> first iowa people have an knowing when someone is real and authentic and when someone is not. one of the things that is of benefit to the rest of the country, people gripe how come iowa gets so many attention? the people of iowa do america a favor by filtering the candidates. star struck because somebody is running for president. you walk up and say i'm running for president they go oh my gosh. they say yeah i haven't met you six times yet. people here will ask toug

joining us from little rock, arkansas is governor huckabee.ere you surprised about the reaction and negative reaction on the left about these dvd's? >> bill, nothing surprises me anymore when we are talking about networks like bsmbc and others who go after conservatives. i'm disappointed in this fireman's son was exploited because my own father was a firefighter, who are heaven's sake. but, you know, the fact is these are videos that are written by a panel of experts, chen checked out by historians and teachers. i don't write these things. but, this is not the only one. there is up to 75 that are planned. there are several that will come out each month. it's to take kids through american history in a positive way. interesting enough though, bill, 91% of liberals who have actually watched them say they liked them and would get them for their kids. you know, it's, again, very frustrating that this network, who has fewer viewers than you have people going to the bathroom doing a break, go after us like this. >> bill: why behind it? i saw the vide

>>governor huckabee: he needs to go.ut if politics optics is everything and right now the president needs to show a sense of taking command, making changes, doing things differently. because what we have eastbound is a progressive state of decay in the economy and he has to stay, look, we will not do what we have been doing but will change the course. do something highly visible, change the leadership of the treasury department. does that mean we have a different policy? in. but it's the optics he needs. >>juliet: and changing the figures who would you be interested in seeing. there are rumblings former governor of new jersey, governor corzine. >>governor huckabee: i would like to see a true conservative. someone who has a, ask donald trump, go for someone who is completely unorthodox. have donald trump take the job for 90 days. >>juliet: please call us if you are watching mr. trump. >>governor huckabee: the president needs something that is a game changer and he does not have it in geithner. this morning, before he took

governor huckabee, your reaction to president obama's statement?e, i think it was short and sweet and it's sort of encapsulated all the things that we've been hearing today, not only about the bipartisan committee, but about the trigger, and the fact that this was in reality, a short-term effect. but bret one question that you or perhaps ed or someone that's been monitoring this today could answer. this bipartisan committee, who appoints it? who is likely to be on it? did they take the gang of six, a committee or brand new committee and do we have any confidence whatsoever, considering how bitterly divided these bodies have been, that a bipartisan committee could actually craft anything that would be passed by either and especially by both houses of congress? >> going through this power point presentation, which has many details, i'm going through it as we speak, it does not, governor, tell you exactly who, who appointed. it says each chamber would consider the joint committee. so, i guess, each chamber would nominate each party would nominate a ce

huckabee, i think the gauntlet has been laid down. for the sake of jimmy jr.n the darkest of days, it's now your play, sir. >>> thanks very much for watching. dylan ratigan is here to pick things up. for a man who had, i understand,

former alaska governor mike huckabee won the iowa caucuses. now he is playing a very different role in this year's iowa straw poll. that of entertainer, not candidate. he also, of course, hosts a weekend show on this network. governor huckabee joins us live from little rock. >> good to be with you, bret. i look forward to get back to iowa and i understand it's nice weather so we have a lot to look toward to and politics with the straw poll. >> bret: governor, it's great already. you can feel the excitement here. listen, you not running this year. but there is a new fox news poll out, just today. 3% of respondents to our fox news poll volunteered your name as their choice for president. more support than tim pawlenty, rick santorum and jon huntsman. the question is are you coming back to get back in? >> well, the question is what is wrong with the rest of 297% that did not name -- rest of the 97% that did not name nein the poll? that's what hurts my feeling. at 3% i'd hardly call it a stinging mandate to jump back in things. i am frankly lookin

. >> huckabee won the iowa caucuses and if you look at the results in central iowa, the counties huckabee won ring des moines, while like a radio signal. >> that's where we helped mike huckabee is we helped him get known. but he still had to close the sale. >> earlier this week, dace predicted michelle bachman would won the straw poll, but insists he has no favorite in the current gop field. >> there isn't a ronald reagan in this field. there isn't a george w. bush 1999 in this field. that might be a good thing. >> especially for dace who will be riding herd and occasionally taking shots at the candidates as they travel through iowa. >> bret: i asked him whether or not -- >> i asked him whether or not there was anything how he treated romney in the runup to the caucuses and he said there was one thing, that he didn't do more of it, because romney is back as a candidate this go around. bret? >> bret: steve, thank you. let's bring in a man who knows a thing or two about iowa politics, chuck grassley is in his sixth term as united states senator from iowa. he joins us now. senator, welcome?

it did not make sense to governor huckabee. i thought was interesting.ly, he enters with a lot of potential and excitement and he will be a serious candidate from the beginning. he will tour i was starting tomorrow and will be watched very closely. host: according to your colleagues over at "the new york times," money will not be a factor in he has raised and it -- in excess of $100 millino. -- million. guest: in as a lot of people who are willing to help them out. host: we are talking with amy gardner, the politics reporter from "the washington post." we're going to michele bachmann and then will be back for more of your comments. [applause] >> i understand the greatness of the united states of america. [unintelligible] [applause] i told them that it was really simple. the ames, iowa, straw poll. [applause] barack obama lost in iowa. [unintelligible] am i right? [applause] [unintelligible] [applause] i believe that we are a team that cannot be beat in 2012. [applause] >> the comments of representative michele bawkman. amy gardner, you're right. a huge c

we'll get you back to huckabee in ames, iowa. ♪ >> mike: we are back. only a congressman from iowa he is a rock star in this state and a go to guy. people want your advice and every candidate wants your endorsement . have you endorsed anyone in the race? >> i am going to get past labor day and we have an event in south carolina. this certainly has impact today. >> mike: you have been in iowa all of your life and seen straw polls. why should someone living outside of iowa care. >> it is linked to the first nation caucus. you know mike, it is retail politics and a measure of a person's character and authtesity and the issues in the agenda and stamina and all things that embody a great president. if we lose the first in the nation caucus. the person with deep pockets would buy media image and we would not be able to see them unless they had a lot of money. >> mike: chip is the campaign manager from my campaign and i know him. >> we didn't win, governor. >> mike: we did win the caucus. i want to talk about what congressman just said. it is not parachuted an

former arkansas governor mike huckabee rejoins me. governor rick perry is in.s that shake up this race, number one? number two, does it matter that he's not here in ames and debate thursday night? >> it changes the race in that you have a very strong candidate coming in. he'll have lots of money. he's the governor of a large state. he'll have a lot of grassroot support not just from texas, but attracted to the tea party and fighting with michelle bachman to be able to sort of garner that and become the candidate of the tea party. here is the challenge: he made this decision on the day when the centre of the political universe is not in south carolina. it's in ames, iowa. the press a team, the varsity from every news organization of the world is here today. he has made this announcement with basically the b team coverage. he shares what ever announcement he made with the bigger story of what's going on in ames. it seems to me that that was a tactical error. i know people will say, i'm -- i'm one of the people saying that. he's smart, he took away the steam of it

don't worry if you miss huckabee's first performance.atch him and his band capital offense in herman king's tent and in the tim pawlenty area. and ron paul prosperity playground. a dump ben bernanke dunk tank, naturally, and inflatable sliding dollar slide. you get the feeling if ron paul could primary bernanke we would? of course, there's food. i told you about the santorum jam. they call it presidential peach preserves. and trucking in from minnesota and herman cain's tent, serving godfather's pizza. a want to know there's more barbecue there. a little concerned, not enough barbecue. we'll see. if you want the real deal on food you have to go to the iowa state fair, which is what i did yesterday. yesterday we told you about the macaroni and cheese, fried macaroni and cheese. too much pasta got in the way of the cheeses. this is definitely fried cheese. cajun batter. american cheese. on a stick. >> wow. that is really, guys -- thanks. that's had you're wondering, is your producing team producing for you or producing at you? all right. t

mike huckabee said that. well, i have great respect.ct for mike huckabee. he was terrific. i think he would have gotten the nomination. but he had lots of considerations. so if he said that, i'm greatly honored. >> gretchen: would you do it? >> it would be very painful for china and opec. it would be very painful for many of the countries that are just ripping us off. when you look at brazil and all of these countries. we gave $2 billion for brazil to drill oil wells in brazil! it's hard to believe. so well i just appreciate mike huckabee very much. >> eric: what should geithner do? >> i think he should move to another position. i think he should go into the private sector because he certainly hasn't told this nation how to get rich. i think it's time for a change. obama always said, time for change. you know what the change is? close to default, downgrading, lots of other things. we had some change with obama. i think it's time for president obama to bring in somebody new that knows what he or she is doing. >> gretchen: but that would

critics are blasting huckabee saying he's trying to cash in on the attacks.rom distorted messages that dilute the signature canc of our nation's most important events. >> the purpose of this was to set the history record right because children in school don't learn history in a fair and unbiased way. so mike huckabee is putting this series of cartoons out to right the wrongs of what children are being taught in school. >> without political correctness, he says. >> without political correctness. so -- >> yeah. interesting. we'll let you decide on your own what you think about that. >>> let's talk about another question of the day. now it's a chance to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. our question -- when is it okay for political leaders to take a break from washington? some republicans are hopping mad that president obama is in chicago raising money for his re-election cam plain. reince priebus says, i suppose the white house thinks he should stick to the job he really likes, raising money from fat cat donors while the rest of americans struggle

because mike huckabee came in second, not romney. >> that's true.understand he talks to a higher authority. so he got the word from a higher authority. he did make the right decision. as you know, if you come back eight years later, nixon came back eight years later after losing in 1960. reagan actually came back eight years later, lost, but stayed with it. he finally won in 1960. george bush lost in 1980. to reagan. was vice president under reagan. he came back. so the four-year itch is what has gotten romney and all of the other individuals, 14 of them, who failed to get the nomination the first time. and thomas dewey and adelai stevenson both nominated for president, losing, came back four years later, nominated again, lost again. >> and what is it about the four years later that -- is it just too soon to ask voters to change their mind about you? because, i mean, if you lost four years ago, that means a lot of people voted against you four years ago. >> i think you're right. let's just take romney for an example. fascinating situation. in 2008,

like allen keys, a very good thing for paul robertson's career, also good for mike huckabee, mike huckabeewas he going to win the republican nomination? who cares, when all was said and done, he was a host. four books, plus audiobooks, got his history dvds for kids. one of the reasons mike huckabee said he wasn't going to run this time is because he'd be walking away from a pretty good income. there is a reason there is not a broad democratic party parallel here. i mean, there are individual democratic candidates here and there that have tried to do the same thing, but the republicans do this wholesale, every year, a lot of their candidates are following this path, that's because the conservative movement that overlaps with the, is in constant need with conservative celebrities. they've created this market. becoming a conservative celebrity, speaking things and the publications and direct mail and giant tv network and religious tv networks, the conservative movement needs celebrities, people who whether or not they have won political offices are famous for being conservative. they just nee

the face-base vote of huckabee three years a, and who has it now?e double back and ask to discover it's undecided and still up for grabs. steve brown, fox news. >> bret: remind they're the fox news debate cosponsored by the washington g.o.p. and examiner is thursday 9:00 p.m. eastern time. >>> coming up, movie about the bin laden mission may be foretu to us for president -- fortuitous for the president obama's administration. obama's administration. and does also get a free flight. you know that comes with a private island. really? no. it comes with a hat. you see, airline credit cards promise flights for 25,00miles, but... [ man ] there's never any seats for ,000 miles. frustrating, isn't it? but that won't happen with the capital one venture card. you can book any airline anytime. hey, i just said that. after all, isn't traveling hard enough? ow. [ male announcer ] to get the flights you want, sign up for a venture card at capitalone.com. what's in your wallet? uh, it's okay. i've played a pilot before. >> bret: now fresh picking from the politica

i would say tim pawlenty has huckabee performing -- and so does rick santorum. >> apparently huckabeeverywhere. quickly shameless plug. >> i am a dog love, send pictures of your favorite paw with its pet to right term. >> i will be hosting xm's press pool tomorrow from noon to 3:00. >> i like jennifer's writing, and rod blath, two of the best conservative bloggers in the country. >> shame his, yeah, thank you, everybody. that's it for this edition. five straight days on the roared. tomorrow i'll be live in iowa. saturday don't miss a special primetime episode. >>> chris jannen -- jansing & company is next. and a choice. take advil now and maybe up to four in a day. or choose aleve and two pills for a day free of pain. way to go, coach. ♪ ♪ [ recorded voice ] onstar. we're looking for city hall. i'm sending directions to your car. [ recorded voice #2 ] turn right on hill street. go north for two miles. ♪ [ man ] this is onstar. i got a signal there's been a crash. do you need help? yes, please. i've got your gps location. i'm sending help. [ female announcer ] introducing onstar fmv. g

poll but then went on to lose the caucuses to mike huckabee. trying to stay sort of out of these signs of organizational strength. iowa is not the best state for him. new hampshire is a better state for him. he was there yesterday. mitt romney is doing very well. he's going to be threatened some by rick perry who announced today. those two are probably going to be the two front-runners in the race as we go forward. >> we have the campaign embed with the romney campaign and he said at the press conference yesterday half of the questions were about rick perry and him getting into the race. i wonder what the buzz is there around iowa about the official entry of rick perry now. >> well, you're seeing lots of iowans in these original t-shirts that say americans for perry all over events. they've gone to bachmann events, romney events, pawlenty events. you know, these straw poll events, they've been all over the state trying to drum up certain for for rick perry because he's getting in the race so late. as you may recall four years ago fred thompson

let's ask a former campaign manager for mike huckabee. great to see you.rt out by talking about some of the candidates who are not spending a lot of time in iowa you think of romney, huntsman, johnson are they cutting their also? >> they are. but i think it is a huge mistake to skip the early primary states, especially iowa. as you saw it give mike huckabee to get in the national arena and do well. governor romney gets a little buy since he participated the last time. for these other candidates a great chance to test organizational skills. >> shannon: there are folks who are not taking part in the straw poll because they are not in yet. sarah palin, perry out of texas. do they miss out by not being in on this early activity? >> i think sarah palin is such a big name she can stay out and be okay. governor perry is the same way. here's been so much buzz with governor perry. i think governorbkd perry playig smart politics and maybe you will start hearing about him five minutes after the straw poll. talking about when and what he will do to get in the race in