check out john huntsman on this network earlier today when he was asked about last night's republicanays when the republican party used to put forward big, bold, visionary stuff. i see zero evidence of people getting out there and addressing the economic deficit, which is a national security problem, for heaven's sake, in addressing the trust step. i think we're going to have problems until we get some sort of third party movement or an alternative voice that can put forward new ideas. >> john huntsman saying we need new ideas, we need a new voice, heck,

it had initially been filed by gingrich, rick perry, and john huntsman. >>> the new york city vendor credited with preventing a car bombing in times square is turning his attention to politics. dwayne jackson says his brush with terrorism back in may of 2010 taught him it makes sense to get involved. now, he is seeking the democratic nomination to represent his home district in congress. >>> well tonight, prince georges county police want to know if two officers made up their side of the story after a shooting. >> i'm scott broom in brentwood, where the surveillance video does not line up with the report the officers gave after the incident friday night. the lowest price gas station and convenience store. on rhode island avenue at brentwood. an officer fired a shot with two suspected robbers, including 19-year-old ryan keith dorm, a convicted felon who was arrested that night and accused of trying to grab an officer's gun. no one was hit by the shot that was fired, but the confrontation was caught on surveillance video, which apparently tells a very different story. >> we have given

gingrich, rick santorum, john huntsman and hick we arey -- rick perry all sued to get their names on the ballot. >>> in other election news in virginia, the state senate passed voter i.d. bill. the state senators were split right down the middle along party lines and lieutenant governor bill bolling cast the decisive vote to pass the bill. it requires voters to bring an i.d. to the polls or cast only a provisional ballot. the bill now heads to the house of delegates which passed a similar version last week. >>> the white house has closed the embassy in damascus and recalled all its diplomats from syria. the move by the u.s. is a diplomatic protest against the violent crackdown on desent by the regime of the president assad. more than 5400 people have been killed since the uprising began 11 months ago. >>> another diplomatic showdown is taking place just south of syria in egypt. egyptian military rulers say they plan to prosecute 19 americans, including the son of transportation secretary ray lahood. sam lahood heads the egypt office for the international republican institute. he is a

>> john huntsman saying we nd new ideas, we need a new voice, heck, we need a new party. but remember, vote for my guy, vote for mitt romney. i endorse him. it sounds less convincing when you put it like that. convincin put it like that. "first look" is up next. >>> fed up at the pump. president obama defends his energy policy as gas prices rise toward record highs. >>> close call. a brazilian rescue chopper touches down moments before falling apart. >>> and lobster legend. maine's monster 27-pound catch is set free. good morning, everyone. i'm lynn berry. those stories and more are straight ahead. this is "first look" on msnbc. >>> and we are going to begin with rising gas prices and politics. drivers around the country are feeling the pain at the pump with gas prices at a record high for this time of year and still going up. meanwhile, president obama is defending his policies against his republican challengers. nbc's tracie potts joins us from washington with the details. traci, good morning. >> lynn, good morning. here's one area where president obama and the oil indu

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candidates that pulled in a few votes, you even have michele bachmann pulling in 6,000 votes, john huntsman pulling in 6,000 votes, rick perry and so these are candidates that dropped out of the race but still collected some votes. going to what david said those voters who voted more than a month ago, that is interesting. >> as you look at the green swath in the parenhandle we point out of course the population there is smaller, in those counties than it is down south where you have got the heavy concentration of voters down in the miami area and of course moving up as you said into i 4, st tuvment rothenberg you have been looking at the exit polls, the interviews with voters as they left the polling places what do you see there? >> it is really interesting, judy, really, to reiterate something mark said, this was across-the-board victory for romney, you really have to look hard for places that speaker gingrich did well. he did well among the most conservative voters, gingrich, among strongest voters of the tea party, white evangelicals. people in north florida that you mentioned everywhere

john huntsman says the gop risks finding itself in the dust bin of history. governor of louisiana bobby jindal says demonizing the president won't work. karl rove warning about how all this is -- all this intramural warfare is coming across. nia-malika, even in the party, they are being kind of critiqued kind of harshly. what happens when they get out of the primary process and has a party that, at best is demoralized? >> well, you know, i think the republican party in 2009 in electing michael steele to head the rnc was trying to have a more big tent philosophy in terms of their party. diversify the ranks in terms of adding blacks and attracting latinos to the party. i think that's where they'll have to go back to. and even george bush. he was able to get something like 44% of the latino vote. meaning he was able to win by about 3 million. he had a base strategy but also a latino strategy. i think that's what you'll have to see from republicans if they have a hope of having some sort of broad coalition that looks like america. suburban women, latinos are goin

party of teddy roosevelt and the frustration of voters is understandable and i understand what john huntsmanvote for people and they think they'll do what they say when they get to washington, especially, republicans. you have one party to grows government, the democrats and other party that limits the rate of growth of government, the republicans. they are disgusted with both sides and a third party i don't think is viable. >> rick: congressman sestak, perot caused george h. w. bush the election and look at ralph nader in 2000 and say he cost al gore the election. a third party candidate from the left could certainly do a lot of damage. perhaps even to barack obama. do you see it happening? >> well, i have a little different take although i thought the points cal made were extremely good. i honestly believe the failure of a political institution, has outraged americans across the spectrum of politics and has given the impetus for outside forces from tea parties to occupy wall streeters, to actually be the agent for any achievement that we presently are having, because, americans really do b

gingrich, rick santorum, john huntsman and rick perry all had sued over the state's signature requirementon the ballot. this now means virginians will choose from mitt romney and ron paul in the republican primary march 6. >>> other election news in virginia, the state senate passed a voter irchts d. bill. the -- incht d. bill. the 40 state senators were split along party lines. bill bolling cast the decisive vote to cast the bill which requires voters to bring an i.d. to the polls or cast only a provisional ballot if you don't have one. the bill heads to the house of delegates which passed a similar version last week. >>> time for another your money report. >> jessica is back. >> we're watching your money and watching your phone. people love the 4g service that's out there but there may be one major drawback. "the wall street journal" reports some smartphone users are discovering that speedy service also kills their phone's battery life. the main culprit here, the phones are constantly searching for a signal and that drains down the power. the journal reports complaints about battery lif

later that spring and summer the field filled out with mitt romney, john huntsman, michele bachmann and newt gingrich in the race. the first test was the iowa straw poll last august and the results were historic. >> the winner of 2011 iowa straw poll is congresswoman michele bachmann. >> american had the first republican female winner of a presidential contest edging out ron paul by only 152 votes. >> we're stunned and humbled and grateful and thankful and the rest because this is really the people of iowa that did this. it wasn't us, this was the people of iowa. >> the next day the first republican candidate of the 2012 race would drop out, joining me now is former candidate and minnesota governor, tim pawlenty. >> good to be with you. >> i have to ask and don't mean to dispute. where the heck are you, looks like you're in a locker room or something like that? >> i am he' in traverse city, michigan, and i know that this is not the normal huckabee back drop, but i hope you understand and could throw in a mouth guard and hockey helmet if that's helpful to you. >> you're one of the guys w

former presidential candidate john huntsman now on the board. >> interesting. okay.he next section, million dollar baby, here we're looking for the best play right now, the stock that will pay off big during the course of the next year. you've picked emc. >> absolutely. ultimate enterprise play. cloud computing. storage. everyone, they are in essence the toll collector. they are serial acquirers and have the ability to do it because they have a tremendous amount of cash, $10 billion. they generate excellent cash flow. they have part ownership of vm ware and a nice acquisition this past year. the ceo is having so much fun, he's sticking around for another year. >> interesting. okay. so emc. another clint eastwood film, unforgiven. a stock investors continue to punish but you believe is poised to turn around. and sw energy is your pick. >> i know you're a huge fan of clint eastwood. >> i am. >> southwestern energy. we know where natural gas prices are going on the exchange. but you have domestic natural gas learning to live with sub $4 gas. and now you look at a name l

in utah, romney's favorability through the roof and polls show he's more favorable than john huntsman that's more his home state than michigan, michigan is where he was born and trailing santorum. and to your point doing well in the state and arizona as well. >> juliet: newt gingrich's home state was georgia and he was visiting the atlanta and shaking hands and kissing baby-- well, popular guy down there, not as popular as i cording to the straw poll, santorum coming outen 0 top with 40. gingrich 27, paul and romney. >> clayton: much is made of the straw polls and attacking mitt romney over the cpac, saying i don't stack straw polls or the fact that romney bussed in a lot of individuals. the straw polls you pay to go into. how much weight you put between the few hundred people inside one of the straw polls, but in newt's back yard, 40% is a sizable number. >> dave: i'm sure he'll tell you atlanta area snot much representative of the staut of georgia. much like in florida. newt did well in northern florida. an interesting breakdown, but newt gingrich clearly betting on the south on sup

say -- i would have to say i see a pattern with rick santorum, newt gingrich a little bit with john huntsman a little bit like jimmy carter for the democrats, 1976 or nix on in 1968 that mitt romney is going through he is the front runner i think i would be less than honest with you if i didn't say he looks like the candidate, who would oppose president obama, but that said, many within his own party have doubts 1976, senator frank church of idaho and a fellow named jr.ry brown -- gerry brown started to win primaries late because people had doubts gerry brown wonder what happened to him on the republican side, richard nix on looked strong at the beginning a lot of candidates backed down including mitt romney's father governor george romney but then, nelson rockefeller got in the race won a primary, ronald regan became california's favorite son, but in the end, just wasn't enough and it was a little late for them to stop the front runner. >> you mentioned newt gingrich, where is newt gingrich in all of this and is it now really a race between the two front runners, mitt romney, rick santorum.

. >> i'm going to say a name that's going to, well, you heard john huntsman yesterday talking about theme example. but some republicans would say their immediate reaction to hearing his comments is instead of saying maybe we need to be introspective and figure out how to get everyone to fit into the same tenlt, they're going to say well he's not a republican. and that's just -- that's a problem because there are many kinds are there not? >> i have a different view of it. it's the primary season. that's what happens during the primary. once you get the nominee settl s settled, the republicans are going join together whether you like the candidate or not. they're going to join together and basically are going to choose do we want our candidate or do we want obama? that's going to really unite the republican party. >> that's fine for the republicans. but we all know that this election is going to come down to 10,000 swing voters in a couple of counties. right now the republican argument is not one that is making independents think this is a party we should trust the country with. >> but wh

john king. maybe it's just me. in this day and age you can print out ballots without jon huntsman or herman cain's money on it. long? >> they're conservative, don't want to spend the money. they expect them to circle the na names. not a protest vote, they can do that but i suspect it's because of the costs. one of the controversies tonight, meaningless because of delegates will cost the state in the ballpark of $6 million. people say, why is the state wasting that money. i am debating what we will call this. rick santorum won iowa and very early in minnesota and missouri. what will we call the purple? the sweater states? i will go back to the state of iowa an pull up the demographics and show you something. this is unemployment and evangelical. why does rick santorum think he can match the iowa magic in minnesota and missouri. see the darker color. high higher number of evangelicals in mour missouri as well. this is why he feels good. he put the magic together in iowa and trying to match it in minnesota and missouri. and you go to colorado, a decent amount of evangelicals in colorado springs. this is important

john heilemann and harold ford jr. with us along with mark mckinnon in washington. and joining the table, former presidential candidate jon huntsmanlet's show the split screen. it looks great on you whatever that is. and, of course, he is trying to look like the most interesting man in the world. and i think -- >> he's not trying, he is. >> he is the most interesting man in the world. >> i think it looks great. i think it gives him a certain latin international -- >> latin. >> he's going for the swing vote. all right. so governor, what's happening to our party? come on, man. what is going on with our party? >> well, first of all, i have a hard time tuning into the debates. you have these flashbacks every now and again that aren't always so pleasant. because we've had far too many of them. and i think because we've had so many of them, they've dumbed down the value of debates and people watch them for entertainment value it's like "survivor." but we're wasting time, joe. i was thinking last night as we were watching some of the debate play out. gone are the days where the republican party used to put forward big, bold visionary stu

he's a senior fellow at the huntsman institute and teaches at the johns hopkins school of defense international studies among a variety of other affiliations. he said a long career as a reporter focusing on the soviet union and now russia and has written for an extraordinarily wide variety of publications from all across the political spectrum and he's taken a long a biography. this is the first of the semester so a little about the format. he will speak for 25 to 35 minutes of which i don't enforce vigorously and then we will open the floor to questions which i will moderate. before we begin, tonight i just want to take a moment to speak to be the former faculty member who is the vice president and director of the east-west institute for putting me in touch with david satter and rachel manning and with that i turn the floor over to david. [applause] >> thank you, jonathan and all of you for calling. i'm very glad to be here. i often come to new york but this is the first time i've spoken to a bard event or before a bard event and i hope it won't be the last time. the book that i've written and