but they did not know john kerry. he hung tough and he decided to take his message directly to the voters of new hampshire. he showed not only what he was made of but what the voters of new hampshire are made up. of course, that is when the new hampshire firefighters came up with their idea of the chili suppers. they pounded out they had a candidate as hot as the chilly they were serving. i think john kerry probably 8 50 pounds of chile during that campaign. there were a huge success and they were a success because john kerry took his message and his candidacy directly to the voters. he did not give up. he showed the courage, the tenacity, the intellect, and the commitment one and the democratic nomination. i remember he fought for every vote. i can still see him out on granite street at 6:00 a.m. on election day, shaking hands in the blistering cold and he stayed out there right up until the polls closed. he won the new hampshire primary that day and there was a victory as much for john kerry as it was for the new ha

but they didn't know john kerry. take his message directly to the voters of new hampshire and showed not only what he was made of but what the voters of new hampshire are made of. of course, that is when the new hampshire firefighters came up with their idea of the chili suppers. as dave lang says, they pointed out they had a candidate as hot as the chili they were serving. i think john kerry 8 50 pounds of chili during that campaign. they were a success because john kerry took his message and his candidacy directly to the voters. he did not give up. he showed the courage, the tenacity, the intellect and the commitment that won him the democratic nomination. i can remember that he fought for every vote. i can still see him on granite street at 6:00 a.m. on election day shaking hands in the blistering cold. he stayed out there right up until the polls closed. he won the new hampshire primary that day, and it was a victory as much for john kerry as it was for new hampshire voters. and, you now, i supported john kerry b

there was a sense that kerry would lock this in. john kerry would say it was a tape of osama bin laden that hit in october that really switched things for him and made that argument that almost seems quaint now that you don't want to change horses during a war with a president. if you remember how fiercely people at that time did not like the war in iraq. a lot of it came down to john kerry and a comfort level. in this election year, the notion of electability which is such a great sales pitch until people settle in with the gut check. chris: let me ask you about history, david, the whole question about the way people get re-elected. historically looking back several decades, presidents tend to get re-elected rather resoundedly, johnson in 1964. reagan overwhelmingly, nixon, clinton. they come back in like gang busters. the race was the exception in 2004. in obama does pull it out, going to look like 2004? any chance he wins by a landslide? >> after 2004, george w bush changed in significant ways from chaney and the confrontational

come on, kerry. >> hello? >> hi is kerry there? >> this is me. >> hi, kerry it's ashleigh banfield calling. >> good morning. >> you are on the air so no f bombs. how are you? [ laughter ] >> jon: how am i? i'm getting ready to say (bleep) real loud. how am i? 308 seconds ago i was riding the dinosaur naked through middle school and now i'm on the phone with you. that's how (bleep) i am. do the interview. >> we've seen beautiful pictures of your father. you were eight years old when he was killed? do you still have haunting memories of every campaign? >> jon: ash -- i like you. i get it you want to have it both ways and have fun and have hard news. kerry kennedy cold call. you were eight when they shot your dad. any memories you want to share with us? answer right now and win two tickets to aerosmith. this will is cnn. you are going to do a bit like that you have to pick a lane. you know what? -- [cheers and applause] try the bit again. try it again. >> he's a comean, tv personality. we'll die aling him -- dialing him up to see how

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rush limbaugh is comparing him to john kerry. plus combat or compromise? a big move tonight in the debt ceiling fight but president obama and lawmakers battling the debt or just each other? aaron goes on the record but first new developments in the costa concordia cruise ship disaster. courtney joins us by phone. where is the captain and what is the latest on him and what is his story? >> reporter: the captain is actually under house arrest near sorento. actually they are trying to rescind that order that he can go home and trying to get him back in jail. he is actually facing charges. he hasn't been formally charged of abandoning ship, manslaughter and could face up to 12 years in prison. it's interesting i've been talking to people since saturday. everybody is furious, totally, nobody can make any sense of what this captain did. here on the island, we got here today and talking to people, especially people who know the boat and what exactly happened are a different picture is emerging. basically they are saying one person we spoke that is very knowledgea

if you think about what happened in '04 with kerry, you had howard dean behind kerry and that was importante party there was a lot of pressure that said we don't want an extended fight. we want to get behind our guy. >> they had the same attitude. get bush. same attitude republicans had. getwom obama. >> in 2008 people were nervous about how long it was going on. hillary clinton came and supported barack obama which made a huge difference. i don't know that we're going to see that kind of kumbaya for the republicans. romney has to shore up that debate. >> all thought they had a political life. >> absolutely. >> newt gingrich, it is due or die. >> he's 68 years old. it's very unlikely that he's running for president again. he knows that. the only thing i would say and i agree with you i don't think he has anything. i put ron paul in there. nothing to lose. >> ron paul isn't going to attack mitt romney every day. he's been a defender of romney. >> here's the argument of newt staying in forever. he said he'll stay in through the convention. earning power. he's wealthy but earning power. as muc

kerry would certainly add to that. >> we will leave it there. you. >>> coming up, more on the fight for south carolina and the republican primary race. republicans there picked the party's nominee in every cycle since 1980, and after romney picks up in iowa and new hampshire, his rivals, as you heard this morning, are turning up the heat by attacking his claim on jobs, and we will have lindsay graham and tim scott coming up next on "meet the press." [ man ] i've been out there most of my life. you name it...i've hooked it. but there's one... one that's always eluded me. thought i had it in the blizzard of '93. ha! never even came close. sometimes, i actually think it's mocking me. [ engine revs ] what?! quattro!!!!! ♪ ♪ [ multiple sounds making melodic tune ] ♪ [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, every innovation, every solution, comes together for a single purpose -- to make the world a safer place. that's the value of performance. northrop grumman. ♪ [ male announcer ] you'd be shocked how much data you use in a month. e-mail, status updat

for some reason, they were committed to trying to take on kerry personally.hen you do this, when you run negative ads that are personal, you may break the other guy, but you also break yourself. >> and divide the country. >> you divide the country. >> let me ask you about this campaign. i know you want to go positive, but the nature of this campaign, and what was done against you in iowa, let's talk about it. we all watched it. you couldn't turn on a tv set without hearing a negative on you, and they were about you personally, and they were written by somebody who did the ad copy, but they were never signed by anybody. >> that's right. >> there was no name on it, that said, i paid for this ad, pay for my mitt romney. what does that do to the system? >> that's right. and i took on mitt romney head-on. those were his staff from the last campaign with his millionaire friends paying for it. those were his ads. he just didn't have the guts to admit it. >> he did come out saying, i could have called off the dogs, not using his words. i could have made it less negat

[applause] [chanting kerry, kerry] >> i love new hampshire. and i love iowa.h your help to have the blessings and the opportunity to love a lot of other states in the days to come. [applause] thank you, new hampshire for lifting up this campaign and because of an america that belongs not to the privileged, not to the few, but belongs to all americans. [applause] let me tell you this victory belongs to all of you who made the phone calls, what the -- what to the snowy, cold streets. [applause] gave your hearts, your hands, and countless sleepless nights. you stayed the course here in new hampshire and because of view, this has been a successful and happy campaign. >> [chanting "bring it on, bring it on"] i intend to. i have a message for the influence peddlers, the polluters, the big drug companies that get in the way, it will, and the special interests who now call the white house their home. we are coming, you are going, and don't let the door hit you on the way out. [applause] this victory belongs in a special way to the veterans who marched with us. [applau

white house yesterday as john kerry shows up with a couple of black eyes for the celebration of the stanley cup champions. and the team's star goalie doesn't show up at all. the question is, what motive did the player give for his no show? it's way too early for this. good morning, i'm willie xwooge. and this is the show that was invited to the white house by president ray dwan aftof reagan winning the banana pie contest. i'm glad you're up with us. shoot me an e-mail or tweet me let me know what you're doing up at this hour. or text the word awake followed by your response to 622639. we'll read the best later in the show. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this tuesday, january 24th. a lot to get to including the latest on the health of illinois senator mark kirk who suffered a pretty serious stroke over the weekend. plus stephen colbert still bask management glow of his "morning joe" appearance on friday brings us the highlights of his rally with herman cain. yes, to answer your question, they did sing the pokemon song. first the news live at 5:30 a.m. tonight s belongs to

come on. >> hello. >> hi, is kerry there? >> yeah, this is me. >> hi, kerry.t's ashleigh banfield calling. >> good morning, ashleigh. >> you're on the air so no "f" bombs. how are you? >> i'm okay. >> i'm doing my best to imitate howard stern by calling you and waking you up but i wanted to call you particularly on our inaugural show because we're on the eve of the big political kickoff and wanted to know what it was like for you in the political dynasty you grew up with all of the campaigns that you've gone through. i did a quick piece of math and think it's one, two, three, four, five, six members of your family have been in elected office. is that right? >> oh, i've never counted. >> you had to do -- what was it like going through all the campaigns? we're seeing beautiful pictures of your father, so handsome and so endearing and such a tragic tire and wanted to know what it was like going through the campaigns for you. >> well, you know, we just loved -- i have great memories of campaigning with him around new york and then across the country, of course, wh

. >> the conservatives do a great job of messages, they went after john kerry, massachusetts liberal.uts, private accounts, that kind of stuff. here comes the obama team and i love it, corporate raider. they are putting that label on him. is it going to be effective? >> i think it will be. politics at the moment elemental level is stigmatizing the other guy. they have been very bad at that kind of thing in the last several elections, republicans are much better at playing pin the tail on the donkey, than democrats are at this kind of cut and thrust, it's very important that moving forward the democrats bring up their game and this is a sign that they might be able to do so. >> newt gingrich said today about his own super pac. >> i'm calling on the super pac, i cannot coordinate with them, i can't communicate directly, but i can speak out as a citizen talking to you, i'm calling to edit out every single mistake, or to pull the entire film, but not run the film if it has errors in it, i think we ought to have somebody who wants to be president ought to have the courage to stand up for t

kerry would certainly add to that. >> will leave it there. you. >>> coming up, more on the fight for south carolina and the republican primary race. replicans there picked the party's ninee in every cycle since 1980, and after romney picks up in iowa and new hampshire, his rivals,s you heard this morning,re turning up the heat by attacking his claim on jobs, a a we will have lindsay graham and tim scott oming up next on "meet the press." >>> we're back. joininge now is representa tim scott, and the senate from south carolina as well, lindsay graham. welcome to both of you. senator graham, this is the cor of the weekly standard, and it tells the story if you look at it. can the romney jug nunt be derailed. you said if the election were held tomorrow, you are saying it would be newt gingrich who would win south carolina. who do you think will win now? >> i think the deates, i think, will be outcome determinative. and if for some reason he is not derailed here and mitt romney wins south carolina, i think it should be over. there would be que a t

we'll update you on npr commentator kerry groce. >> he says that the interview

disorderly collapse of our of our political system ok i agree with ron paul a lot of the polls that the kerry principles but most of the country doesn't and you can just log jam that in you're going to have massive i mean you can have a lot of teachers that are going to be against having a slashing with a part of education just like that right in any case i just think my personal view is kind of sad is that there really is no hope other than having. the system collapse because that's the only way that anything is going to change and i think a lot of people realize that when they look at iowa when they look at radicals like rick santorum coming out making statements and mitt romney has got the person out of a shoe horn going out and caucusing and you know sound i'm going to be clear you think that collapsed and i think i think it will basically will it will others not mean that what's the reality you've basically got a class of oligarchy who have decided that they can no longer make money legitimately in the system whether it's wall street the military industrial complex whoever so they will g

thank you kerry it's twenty three past one pm here in moscow welcome to business here at r.t. the rally you know oil prices is continuing traders await the next move in the escalating dispute between iran and the west tehran has responded to the decision to impose an oil embargo by threatening to close the straits of hormuz twenty percent of the world's crude supply passes through it however and want that back from platts believe that the warning and they should be seen as bargaining points. the award thing also says that they'll be a review in may so that almost means that i am ready to do something in july but i can change my mind in may i don't think anybody wants this things to happen because europe right now is very weak. financially economically the last thing that you're really wants is a conflagration because there will be even more disruptive for the economy here the oil that was supposed to come to europe from iran will go to a shell oil that was going to. start west africa or even russia will now go to europe so europe can always switch the oil that's not the issue

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kerry sanders is in tampa now with details. good morning, kerry. >> reporter: good morning. i'm outside the exclusive avila neighborhood. detectives here say it was an inside job. the sheriff here says dr. hector rivera, 75, and his 55-year-old wife debra were allegedly murdered by her personal assist is -- assistant. why? greed. investigators were puzzled. who could have gone over the eight foot walls unnoticed and penetrated the around the clock security in avila. now they say it was an inside job. dr. hector rivera and his wife were allegedly murdered by her personal assistant. 31-year-old julian ospina flores is charged in the murders. the motive? investigators say it was all about money. debra rivera ran a part-time jewelry business and it is believed flores targeted them after he drove her home from a recent jewelry buying trip. investigators say ospina flores tried to cover up the alleged role, dialling 911 himself and claiming he, too, had been a victim. >> during an interview with the defendant he stated he was attacked by an unknown male inside the residence and th

>> john kerry's not a -- wait a second. john kerry's not a mormon. he's catholic. >> no, no, i'm saying the reason mitt romney speaks. what's wrong with mitt romney speaking french? that's my point. why is that a negative? >> nothing is wrong with it. let me quote herman cain. sometimes, it's good to have a sense of humor. that particular ad has gone viral because it's funny. >> but really trying to be funny and not play on the antifrench, foreign thing? >> it wasn't anti french. we happen to have a clip of kerry speaking french. we were making the point of how similar massachusetts politicians are and they normally don't do well in republican primaries. you're a republican primary voter going, i get it, dukakis, barney frank, mitt romney, is that where i want my presidential candidate to come from? >> do you speak french? >> no. i used to live in france. a long time ago, i spoke some french. >> spoke some french. >> i have a ph.d. in european history. i can do some in spanish, french and german. don't overthink this. it's supposed to be humorous, fu

>> john kerry's not a -- wait a second. john kerry's not a mormon. he's catholic. >> no, no, i'm saying the reason mitt romney speaks. what's wrong with mitt romney speaking french? that's my point. why is that a negative? >> nothing is wrong with it. let me quote herman cain. sometimes, it's good to have a sense of humor. that particular ad has gone viral because it's funny. >> but really trying to be funny and not play on the antifrench, foreign thing? >> it wasn't anti french. we happen to have a clip of kerry speaking french. we were making the point of how similar massachusetts politicians are and they normally don't do well in republican primaries. you're a republican primary voter going, i get it, dukakis, barney frank, mitt romney, is that where i want my presidential candidate to come from? >> do you speak french? >> no. i used to live in france. a long time ago, i spoke some french. >> spoke some french. >> i have a ph.d. in european history. i can do some in spanish, french and german. don't overthink this. it's supposed to be humorous, fu

come on. >> hello. >> hi, is kerry there? >> yeah, this is me. >> hi, kerry.t's ashleigh banfield calling. >> good morning, ashleigh. >> you're on the air so no "f" bombs. how are you? >> i'm okay. >> i'm doing my best to imitate howard stern by calling you and waking you up but i wanted to call you particularly on our inaugural show because we're on the eve of the big political kickoff and wanted to know what it was like for you in the political dynasty you grew up with all of the campaigns that you've gone through. i did a quick piece of math and think it's one, two, three, four, five, six members of your family have been in elected office. is that right? >> oh, i've never counted. >> you had to do -- what was it like going through all the campaigns? we're seeing beautiful pictures of your father, so handsome and so endearing and such a tragic tire and wanted to know what it was like going through the campaigns for you. >> well, you know, we just loved -- i have great memories of campaigning with him around new york and then across the country, of course, wh

john kerry thought you should let these tax cutting for the rich expire and john kerry should pay more? if they've got the majority of the country now playing right into the democratic hands and argument of fairness and shared sacrifice, isn't this going to be making doubly tough for both newt gingrich and mitt romney on the campaign trail? >> you would think so, republicans play a lot of scare tactics. >> that's the truth, though. >> they do. but what they're doing is playing the same old trick here. they're saying this is socialism, this is unamerican from a president who doesn't look like the other presidents, you know. and they're saying this is an alien concept, and you heard mitch daniels speak to that. the american way is to let people keep their money and get the government out of the way. that's why it's interesting the president tried to preempt that, in quoting lincoln, he was saying, perhaps in a more elegant, more historic way. the small government era is here, but it has to be a smarter government and not one that takes fringes away from community colleges. >> the democra