his father jon huntsman senior gave his superpac nearly $2 million. >> huntsman's father, by the way, has been named official host of this year's most awkward thanksgiving dinner. in fact, half of the candidate's superpac money, $67 million came from just 22 individuals. now i am sure that the good government goo goos out there is aing this is just handing all the power to the 1%. when in fact, 22 people out of a population of 300 million people is in fact, give me one second, sorr sorry-- that's 7/1 1,000,000, of 1% so occupy wall street, are you going want to change those signs. folks, this is what the supreme court intended with their citizens united ruling. 22 billionaires deciding who our next leader would be. now i'm sure it's the way that the 22 billionaires who chose our founding father was want it. so join me in honoring these 22 patriots who have given so much and expect so much in return. ladies and gentlemen, i give you the people selecting our next president. >> oh beautiful, forespacious skies, for amber waves of gray. for purple mountain majesty, above the fruited plain

and then individuals that can basically just support entire campaign and so it turns out that jon huntsman and the super pac that supported him which was call the i forgot it's called our destiny thank you basically his daddy. that's just pathetic so i'm on seventy first of all the money in. fact was from dad you just can't be any more of a people where money better things just like the way you were we learned elementary school remember foamers lives yeah and the kids in the class with the rich parents their parents who they were sure you know. the thing and their kids like me would just steal from them and. that's how that works goes all right well he's going to steal the dad's money now i want to see. you know i think that's a really good example you grow up at the same thing never changes but now you get over it if you are going to billionaire parents that try to buy you the presidency you haven't even daddy couldn't succeed in buying the presidency or even a spot this far well because i mean there are other reasons for that because i think jon huntsman is just hussein in ways with the

time to bash obama for being accepting of all the bullshit intel thanks old time and happy hour jon huntsman's biggest donor was from his own family and i made a cameo on jay leno's tonight show and have all that and more after the break. old means of protection can be used. when global supremacy is at stake. between two thousand and five and two thousand and nine the u.s. has spent fifteen billion dollars in the prostate for the entire program that we are dealing with right now here in two thousand and eleven is another hundred fifty billion dollars that's larger than many country's entire military budgets twenty oftens becomes the best form of defense. a soulless substance. cannot touch like a well trained army. villages in ruins. for thailand where time stands still. all becomes a sea of nothingness. the mysterious sons of russia. are teaching. sorry guys it's time for tonight's tool time war and tonight we're giving it to crotchety old newt gingrich yet again is he one of the stops along the campaign trail in florida you decided to set his moon colony and his child labor proposals aside to

i'm pleased to have jon huntsman back at this table. welcome. >> thanks, charlie. honor to be with you. >> rose: thank you. we took great pleasure of being able to talk to you. what do you think it accomplished? >> i think he's now able to check the box of having been through the diplomatic drill here in the united states which for those in the beijing audience very closely watching and analyzing how he conducted himself was a very meaningful event. in other words, how you're seen, how you come port yourself, how you handle the western media is a critically important part of it. how you handle some of the thorny issues with respect to their core issues, tibet, taiwan, human rights, south china sea. he got through it all. as i suspect everyone figured he would. he's a talented party functionary. and now instead of being 99% or 95% of the way there, he's 99% of the way there. >> rose: who chooses him? >> well, he's the first non-ping appointee. if you stop to wonder that we're beginning a new dynasty. ping was around long enough to anoint the last leader of china. no

ambassador to china, jon huntsman, who made his china connection a calling card in his presidential campaign. [ speaking foreign language ] >> he can translate for us. >>> and war of words, is iran serious about nuclear talks a day after bragging about nuclear progress, iran's president ahmadinejad arrives in pakistan. >>> and the fourth generation of kennedys enters politics. >> my family has had the great privilege of serving massachusetts before. they taught me that public service is an honor, given in trust, and that trust must be earned. >>> plus, a white house surprise. visitors to the white house get the ultimate vip tour, bo and his mom. >> oh, my goodness! congratulations. proud to have you here. absolutely. absolutely. >>> china is america's biggest creditor and we are their biggest customer. and will be joining us in a moment is former u.s. ambassador to china, and former presidential candidate, jon huntsman, but first we want to go to muscatine, iowa, where nbc's jo kent is covering the extraordinary visit of china's next leader, xi jinping. jo? we'll try to revisit jo in a momen

i think jon huntsman would have been a great republican candidate. look where he is now. >> i think the other thing is that if you are just a plain joe or jane you say to yourself, can i really raised the money? and the money really -- >> scrutiny plus the money frightens people away. let's pause for station identification. for listens -- listeners on sirius xm radio, channel 124. the audio can be heard at 930 -- 9:30 a.m. on saturdays, 3:30 p.m. saturdays. and the entire program can be seen on english language stations of the voice of american and 200 other american television stations, public and public access. do you want to do is shout out to any of our stations, linda? >> schow out, yes. we have state college, pennsylvania. >> one of our loyal -- >> loyal stations. >> the people up there right a lot. write to us at whchronicle.com. that's to the subject. why do we not have positive programs? not doing anything really serious about iran, not really serious about the budget. not touch the fence but we would do this. all very bland. newt gingrich i

romney did not accept the endorsement on the same stage with jon huntsman. but yet there was this hastily arranged news conference. and this is one of his gatches a few weeks ago was -- gaffes a few weeks ago was i like to fire people. standing on the stage with somebody whose catch line is "you're fired" might not necessarily be a move that makes a lot of sense politically. in fact, there's polling that suggests that swing voters in particular say donald trump's endorsement is a turnoff. >> i wonder to go back to the very poor and where that goes in the rest of the campaign. because it struck me as one of those moments that was not a gaffe. it was mitt romney saying what he intended to say. gwen: and has said before. >> and repeated when he was challenged on it. presidential candidates in both parties don't want to talk about the very poor. but if you're barack obama, you have a set of policies as he has which quietly are targeted toward many of the poor. his health care plan added millions of people to medicaid. mitt romney does not have that. he is not se

one-time presidential candidate, now romney backer, former utah governor jon huntsman.n an exclusive with tim geithner. first a programming note. on monday warren buffett ready to answer your questions live. becky will be in omaha. e-mail them to us or tweet your question #askwarren. responding to your questions starting monday at 6:00 a.m. eastern. stay tuned for that. [ male announcer ] let's level the playing field. take the privileged investing tools of wall street and make them simple, intuitive, and available to all. distill all that data. make information instinctual, visual. introducing trade architect, td ameritrade's empowering web-based trading platform. take control of your portfolio today. trade commission-free for 60 days, and we'll throw in up to $600 when you open an account. >>> yeah, that's our open. it's the first time you got to see it. >> how do you feel about that? >> you like it? >> you should have seen us taping this stuff, it was even better. welcome back, everybody, we're in the chairs this morning and we're talking about some of the stories th

> greta: before i get to the topic of senator rick santorum, i saw your most recent tweet that jon huntsman called to see into. i said no, he gave our country away to china? >> nothing i hate to see when people give up pieces of our country and a big piece was given during his reign. he wanted to meet with me. i just said no, what is the purpose? that is it. i was very disappointed in the way, what he did, what he said and his attitude. i think attitude is suicidal and terrible. >> greta: did he call after you first tweeted him today which you said china did a major number during the reign of jon huntsman? >> no, he called a while ago. i decided not to see him. he wanted to see me and i said no. >> greta: you also poking a stick in his eye on twitter? >> i'm just disappointed when people give away chunks of our country and he gave away big chunk. we can get it back if we smart our tough. he did a very poor job. >> greta: did he call today looking to come to see you? >> no, not at all. a while ago. >> greta: that was before he got out? >> before he got out of the campaign. >> greta: now to r

self-professed romney supporter jon huntsman said this. >> i think we're going to have problems politicalntil we get some sort of third party movement or some alternative voice out there that we can put forward new ideas. we're joined by joe williams for politico joe. good evening. >> hi, how are you. >> candidates speaking to middle age white men in suits don't embarrassing pictures happen. >> some of them were masquerading as empty stadium seats. we call this a campaign advance staff fail. the storyline is this. the detroit economic club said that there was such demand for tickets for this hot event to hear romney outline his economic plan that they had to move to a larger venue. the campaign supposedly said no problem. ford field, we can fill it. only they didn't. that was something that they didn't think threw, how this would look compared to this big state. there wasn't a library available or a high school gymnasium or even an union hall, god for bid. there could have been some other alternative. they didn't consider that. now they've got a week or more bad press. >> romney's verbal

. >> and jon huntsman senior to jon huntsman jr. >> 70% of the huntsman super pac money came from onentsman's father. harkens back to joe kennedy days when he was hoping to finance his son. >> or others. we've seen that in mayoral races in new york. >> the staggering fact is the size of these what leaps out. i mean, we had the soft money era in the past, $100,000, maybe get a million. now we're getting million dollars routinely and multimillion dollar donations. >> a brave new ugly world. thank you very much. >>> and what political story will be making headlines in the next 24 hours? that's next. this new at&t 4g lte is fast. hey. did you guys hear... ...that mary got engaged? that's so 42 seconds ago. thanks for the flowers guys. [ both ] you're welcome. oooh are you guys signing up for the free massage? [ both ] so 32 seconds ago. hey guys you hear frank's cat is sick? yeah, we heard. wanna sign the card? did you know the guys from china are in the office... [ speaking chinese ] [ male announcer ] stay a step ahead with the 4g lte galaxy s ii skyrocket. only from at&t. ♪ >>> don cor

jon huntsman got help within the family. jon huntsman, sr. gave his super pac nearly $2 million. a lot of them we won't know because if a super pac creates a nonprofit arm their donors can remain anonymous of the $53 million that super pac spent on ads. 29% were positive and 71% negative. here a sample from the romney and gingrich campaign. >>> who has more baggage than airlines. newt was fined for ethics violations. >> mitt, claims to be pro-life but here is what he told voters of massachusetts when he was running for governor. >> i will preserve and protect a woman's trite choose. >> you may know that steven colbert his on own super pac. he pulled down nearly a million bucks as of december 31. and in his filing to the sec, how do you like me now. i got 99 problems but non-connected independent expenditure only committee ain't wrong. probably funnier when he said it. >> shep: trace is live. it appears president obama is continuing to rake in the dough. president raised a whopping $68 million in the fourth quarter of that tha is double what gingrich as an romney pulled in combine

for jon huntsman his dad, for newt gingrich the casino guy, sheldon adelson. for rick santorum, foster freeze, the green tie guy. in rick santorum's moment of triumph, there was foster freeze, in the green tie. not being touched by rick santorum. you can imagine one of his accountants telling him don't be photographed shaking the hand of your billionaire, you and your pac aren't supposed to coordinate. maybe a handshake is coordinating, don't touch him in public. last time rick santorum had a good night in this campaign, the last night he won a state was iowa. and once again, in iowa, who is that? rick santorum giving the speech, who is behind him? there is his billionaire. we went through the tape from mr. santorum's victory speech in iowa, inch by inch, frame by frame and he may have touched his billionaire at that event. watch this, this is right after mr. santorum finishes his speech. his billionaire slides over to kind of congratulate him, and then the two of them appear to engage in about 10 seconds of conversation, not definitive from the tape mr. santo

ambassador to china, jon huntsman. that you very much. >> excited to be here. >> many people will be thinking who is xi jinping and doesn't really matter who is the leader or is the communist party so monolithic that an individual does that make a difference? >> it has been driven by consensus leadership for the most part. when you stopped to ponder that at the 18th party congress that will play out this october. politics are played out in america and also in beijing. you will see seven of the nine ruling standing committee which is essentially the board of directors of the party turned over. you have new rules of the party. someone like xi jinping who is well schooled, well-respected. army, ile's liberation would argue that after a year of consolidating his power, he will have an opportunity by virtue of new leadership of actually engaging in some meaningful change. >> do you think that he is interested in change? >> i believe that he is politically savvy enough and astute enough to know that he has no change because

joining me from washington jon huntsman. he was previously the outs ambassador to china and governor of utah. i am pleased to have him this evening to talk about something he knows a lot about which is china. he in fact speaks the language. welcome. where do you think china and the united states is at this moment and what will be the most important conversation to take place in washington? >> the back drop as we sit here today is one of pau politics whr you're in washington or whether you're in beijing. it's an interesting time in the history of the bilateral relationship in the sense that we have politics playing out this year right at the same time that politics are playing out in beijing, so not promisingly you're hearing from time to time a little bit of political rhetoric coming out of our system, and not surprisingly, even in china a little bit of rhetoric may be a little sharp-edged coming out of their system. we'll have of course all of this wrapped up here in november and the 18th party congress will be wrapped up i