georgia congressman jack kingston. he joins us tonight. >>> and dumping trump. that debate donald trump wanted to host has been rejected by count them, five republican presidential candidates. huntsman, paul, romney, perry and bachmann have all passed. only gingrich and santorum are in. did the clown show just lose a ring master? >>> and president obama's fierce defense against republican charges of appeasement proves once again that if you underestimate this president, you may do so at your peril. >>> finally, let me finish tonight with a line from nietzsche that may be a line to gingrich. we start with newt gingrich under siege. can he be stopped? chuck todd is nbc's political director and chief white house correspondent, and john harris is editor in chief of politico. we've got the heavyweights tonight. here's the question. a new fox poll of republicans nationwide now shows gingrich at 36, way ahead of where romney's ever been nationally. romney tucked down below that 25%. he never gets above at 23%. ron paul, the libertarian, is at 12, and he's pretty much i

georgia congressman jack kingston. he joins us tonight. >>> and dumping trump. that debate drump druonald trum to host has been rejected by five republican presidential candidates. only gingrich and santorum are in. did the clown show just lose a ring master? >>> and president obama's fierce defense against republican charges of appeasement proves once again that if you underestimate this president, you may do so at your peril. >>> finally, let me finish tonight what line from friedrich nichei, that might be a guide to gingrich. >>> we start with newt gingrich under siege. can he be stopped? chuck todd is the white house correspondent, john harris is editor in chief of politico. we've got the heavyweights tonight. here's the question. a new fox poll of republicans nationwide now shows gingrich at 36, way ahead of where romney's ever been nationally. romney tucked down below that 25%. he never gets above at 23%. ron paul, the libertarian, is at 12, and he's pretty much irrelevant to this debate as to who the nominee's going to be. chuck todd, i have a theory. the

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jack kingston joins us tonight. jumping trump. huntsman, paul, romney, perry and bachmann all passed. only gingrich and santorum are in. did they lose a ring master? the defense against republican charges proves if you underestimate this president, do so at your peril. let me finish with a line that may be a guide to gingrich. we start with newt gingrich under siege. can he be stopped? chuck todd and john harris. we have the heavy hitters. her's the question. nationwide, gingrich is at 36, way ahead of where romney has been nationally. romney below that 25%. he never gets above a 23%. ron paul, the libertarian is at 12. he's irreallevant to the debate. chuck todd, i have a theory. the more they attack newt, the better he looks. he looks more blooded, tougher, nastier with more dirt on his uniform. it's what he wants to look like. >> it's the rush limbaugh theory. more the establishment. >> a broken clog twice a day, we're talking rush. >> george will, david brooks, peggy noonan. now we have the superpack. that is the risk here. if

joining us now is jack kingston of georgia.n, sir. >> good to be with you. >> i'm sorry, but i can't understand the basis for why you believe that this is a worthwhile and valuable thing to do at this moment in time. >> because of our failed economic policies, unemployment is at a record high and we have to be careful about how we spend unemploymentç dollars. the employer and employee contribution does not cover the full cost of unemployment experience and general taxpayers are picking up the tab. i don't think it's really harsh or draconian to ask people who are unemployed to stay eligible to work in case there is a job. the least they can do is be eligible to fill that job and instead of voluntarily taking themselves out of eligibility by taking illisit drugs. >> what are evidence do you have for this? south carolina governor once call for the same thing on the basis of a single anecdote and proved to be without foundation and soming issed she made it up. what evidence do you have that the 14 million americans currently out

. >>> republican congressman jack kingston will join me live.e republicans have backed themselves into a corner according to critics, what's next in the payroll tax fight? also expecting to hear from house speaker john boehner within the hour. we'll bring that to you live. and it's a super bowl first that has nothing to do with the halftime show or the team's playing. it's all about you, we'll give you the details next on "news nation." >> house republicans want to go back to the drawing board to rework the payroll tax cut extension but congressional democrats say that's not going to happen. maryland congressman steny hoyer is house minority whip. thanks for joining me. i know it's a busy day. obviously you know the house has rejected the senate plan and say they want to go to a conference committee. harry reid has said we're not even going to appoint conferees. what's the harm of appointing conner frfe conferees that something gets done by congress? >> i think harry reid is certainly willing to talking about trying to reach agreement. in fact,

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that's set to expire at the end of your so or so or payroll unemployment benefits and congressman jack kingston republican has introduced legislation this three week to require anybody who is unemployed to pee in a cup and this strikes me as amazing first of all rick scott tried this down in florida right wing republican down in florida and. aside from the fact that he owns a company that does drug testing which is raised a few eyebrows what they found was and this was just for welfare recipients what they found was that two point five percent of welfare recipients test positive for drugs nine percent of the general population does like a waste of time to begin with secondly isn't this really the definition of big government to say before you're going to get your unemployment benefits that by the way you paid for because they wouldn't budge if you're. going there are no yes no it was a big government this is big government to do and i am nice and to actually sit down employment generalization and convert unemployment no women title my program so why don't we just pay people not ninety nine week

. >> earlier this week, we discussed that bill with jack kingston who likes the idea of drug testingple before they can claim unemployment benefits. i want to play that interview and let's chat about it. listen to this. >> i don't think it's harsh or draconian to ask people who are unemployed to stay eligible to work in case there is a job and. >> here we have a game, congressman. the pipeline and then there is this ludicrous idea to drug test people who are unemployed. incidentally the research shows in florida that only 2% of people who claim unemployment benefits were using drugs and 8% in the overall population. why are republicans doing this? is this about demonizing the poor? >> it's because they have an ideology that everything starts with the richest people in the world and trickles down. one of their own was taking about kids that are in school in order for them to receive their benefits should clean the toilets. the pipeline has nothing to do with taxes and unemployment compensation. the whole idea that they would have people blood tested, they failed to realize that they a

let's bring in jack kingston of georgia. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> you get both ends here. saying house republicans holding up this deal and senate republican scott brown doubling down on the statement he issued earlier saying of the house republicans standing in the way, it angers me that house republicans would rather continue playing politics than find solutions. the actions will hurt men families and detrimental to our fragile economy. that is a republican. you heard from the president. what is your rely to that? >> let's strip off the rhetoric and the name calling and the say that the american people are tired of this or that and you are not being partisan. here's the reality that we are in. the house is ready to compromise with the senate. we have not voted on anything. our bill that passed on a bipartisan basis last week has been rejected by the senate and given us a two-month extension. we don't think that's a good deal for the economy or the american people. they said let's go to conference. we have

we're joined by congressman jack kingston, a republican of georgia. congressman, what went on here? were mcconnell and boehner not on the same page? >> apparently they weren't. we thought by passing an unrelated appropriations bill that we had last week prepared to do, that we had strengthened senator mcconnell's hand in terms of negotiating the payroll tax deduction. that wasn't the case. 89 senators elected to do a two-month. they wanted to punt rather than finish up the program for an entire year, which, by the way, that is the president's position, let's do it for a year. that's what the president said repeatedly throughout the fall, as did most of the democrat leadership in the senate. so when 89 senators voted to just take the two-month, let's get out of town and live to fight another day route, we were pretty disappointed in it, because we believe the american workers deserve a one-year solution to this. this is too important to the economy and to the american families. >> but here's the part that confuses me. initially, when the debate first began, the position of the republ

representative jack kingston from georgia on the phone before he goes and shops for his wife.king with us. >> thanks, alex. >>> we'll also be talking with a congressman from the other side of the aisle coming up in the next hour. but time for "office politics" and a look at the best of our interviews from the race to president to knickknacks in their office. nbc's best and brightest have given us plenty of insight. >> i think romney has a better shot than most of the other republicans in that field against barack obama. >> if mitt romney is nominee, is there going to be a tea party chal sneng. >> do you think tea party people like people? do you think they like leaders? they don't like leaders. they basically -- -- >> well, they have to pick somebody. right now it looks like romney. >> i don't think they want that job. i don't think they to want pick a president. >> gingrich will be, i think, the weaker candidate than romney just because romney, i think, to that little 5% or of% of the electorate would sound like a more reasonable person. >> if i were to choose the opponent, i

congressman jack kingston from georgia is the author of the house version of this bill. the committee on natural resources in september heard in september. the national park service testified and supported and we believe this is one piece of legislation that will not cost the taxpayers a dime. so i urge my colleagues to support the legislation and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from new mexico. mr. lujan: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. lujan: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. lujan: fort pulaski was completed in 1912. the savannah bar pilots was part in 1944. it appears that congress is a little late in formalizing this. they protect the people and the cargo entering the port of savannah. this has been a good use of part of the fort and should continue. we support passage of senate bill 535, and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker p