liz cheney said he's putting america on a path of decline.wt gingrich said he's the most radical president in american history. is that accurate in your mind? >> make no mistake if we continue down this path what i fear for my children and grandchildren, more [ inaudible ] if we don't -- we are going to be the first generation that leaves fewer opportunities for our children this is the greatest country in the history of the world we are abandoning limit government principles our founding fathers put in place that made this such a great country. that's why we are trying to stop this health care bill. [ inaudible ] we are going to do everything we can to repeal and replace this health care bill. >> sean: great to see you. ladies and gentlemen, the governor. [ cheering ] >> sean: coming up the man who was [ inaudible ] mississippi governor haley barbour will be joining us. later texas governor rick perry. mike pence. rick santorum, jc what thes as we continue from the southern -- --. [ inaudible ] . >>> if the democratic party members have hear

short of nominating liz cheney, there will be a fight. no matter who is nominated.rd it this morning when jon kyl would not give any assurances that any of the front-runners were not ideological, and therefore, is anything including filibustering. that's why i think the president, upon whoever he thinks should nominate whoever he thinks is the best. and avoiding the fight because he won't be able to. >> you can nominate someone in the middle of the road and think that's the best. by the way, yes, felix frankfurter, he thought he was nominating a liberal. wrong. they change. if this president decides his new criteria is to nominate someone to avoid a big fight, he's betrayed the people that elected him and what a lot of people think his feelings are on the supreme court. he should nominate not an extremist. off the cliff. but someone he thinks, let's see how he evolves, he'll stand up on the principles on the left, if he will, that he believes them. >> i'm not so sure he is so far to the left. >> i'm not sure either. >> i think that he is -- >> people who elected him

liz cheney said he's putting america on a path of decline.ewt gingrich said he's the most radical president in american history. is that accurate in your mind? >> make no mistake if we continue down this path what i fear for my children and grandchildren, more [ inaudible ] if we don't -- we are going to be the first generation that leaves fewer opportunities for our children this is the greatest country in the history of the world we are abandoning limit government principles our founding fathers put in place that made this such a great country. that's why we are trying to stop this health care bill. [ inaudible ] we are going to do everything we can to repeal and replace this health care bill. >> sean: great to see you. ladies and gentlemen, the governor. [ cheering ] >> sean: coming up the man who was [ inaudible ] mississippi governor haley barbour will be joining us. later texas governor rick perry. mike pence. rick santorum, jc what thes as we continue from the southern -- --. [ inaudible ] are you read take your family on a little rece

we have liz cheney, newt gingrich and others.right now, the louisiana republican party chairman is speaking. in a few minutes, remarks by mary matalin >> new orleans, did not forget those saints. we have much more to offer in terms of culture and cuisine and common sense. thank you for attending and it is wonderful to see you here tonight in such a vibrant city and at such an exciting time. i have the privilege of chairing our louisiana republican party and with that privilege comes the honor of introducing our first speaker. she is saying louisiana resident and a political consultant. she has clientele that stretches from president's down. she has been active in politics since college and she started at the grassroots level and worked her way up. she has been at senior positions in the george h. w. bush campaign in 1998 and eventually was appointed to chief of staff of the rnc. she was a host for cnn and ran her own talk show. she reinforced her position as an important voice on the right. without further ado, it is my pleasure

i understand liz cheney is in the house. i am glad to see her dad is doing well. she has been on a tear lately. now she is questioning if tom brady is a real patriot. [laughter] what the hell. it is worth a try, guys. it is worth a try. happy st. patrick's day to all of you. [applause] the truth is i cannot believe i am here with you guys. here i am, the first irish catholic vice-president in the history of the united states of america. barack obama, the first african american in the history of the united states of america. he goes to the st. patrick's day dinner and i and here with you all. go figure. [laughter] he is with my face. i am with his. the more i thought about that, i know why he wanted to be with all those irish-americans. he really believes that st. patrick is the one responsible for driving lobbyists out of ireland. but you all know sam patrick was credited with banishing snakes from ireland but you guys know the truth, sometimes. there were never any snakes in ireland. saint patrick just made that up. that explained why he is the patron saint of fo

we heard from liz cheney, who was here yesterday and calls the administration's response to hamid karzai childish and dangerous. it's been a lot of sharp rhetoric. there is a lot of hope here at this point that in 2010 and 2012 that republicans can take advantage of things. >> candy crowley, thanks. >>> wall street had something to cheer. minutes before the closing bell the dow industrials broke through the 11,000 mark. they closed three points shy. the dow hasn't been that high since september 2008. the magic wall to see what's ahead on the program. when we come back, we'll continue to focus on the president's big supreme court choice, including looking at this question here, who's right? when sarah palin and newt gingrich offer different opinions whether the republicans should be the party of yes and the party of no, what's the republican challenge in the court fight? that's our pulse tonight. wall-to-wall, where's the middle? as the president prepares to make his second pick to the high court, we'll look at how our country is so divided at the moment. in our clash, we'll call this one

. >> i wasn't sure, however, if after i saw liz cheney on tv on sunday, if this was maybe the announcement of -- cheney 2012? >> no chance. >> she lost by 20 points. just a thought. it wasn't his fault. i'm not going to blame him for that that's all right. >> i guess rubio can now go after tiger woods' endorsement. you know, john just mentioned, you know, that he doesn't, dick cheney or any washington figure plays well with the populist tea party side of things. but also he certainly won't play well with independent or swing voters. >> is he going to make the rounds and do mccain out there in arizona? >> well we've already -- >> toomey, carly fiorino -- >> the republican men and women will say please, no thank you. maybe he'll go out and endorse john mccain to give him one more punch. >> what can you report on the front, further endorsements by dick cheney. >> i think david is right. that's a list you don't want to necessarily be on. i think he's 100% about carly fiorina, the last thing you want is dick cheney next to your name in newspaper endorsements. >> i remember a great winston churc

former state department official liz cheney. and juan williams also from national public radio.comment about standing up to powerful interests seemed to be a clear reference, bill, to the president's continuing battle with the supreme court ruling last january that citizens united case, which allowed corporations and unions to use unlimited funds to support or oppose candidates. is that a smarter way to sell this nominee than the empathy standard he used last time? and just generally, do you think he is going to make a nomination looking for a fight or looking to avoid a fight? >> i think it would be good to have a nominee that stood up against powerful interest like elite law schools, which are a powerful interest in the u.s. i believe if elena kagan is nominated, which i select, the solicitor general, every justice on the court went to ivy league law school. president obama went to harvard law school so he's not concerned about that. he wi will nominate someone who is well qualified and will have hopefully easy nomination. he wants those without political effect. sotomayor and

and last night, the event kicked off with a number of speakers, including liz cheney. also speaking over the next couple of days will be the governor of louisiana and former vice-presidential candidate sarah palin. last night newt gingrich among the speakers. the story this morning is front page in the "new orleans times-picayune," gingrich rallies the troops. >> this is the most radical administration. and i began to realize after a year of watching them that if you think about the group that meets together in the white house their experience is the corruption of springfield, and the radicalism of wall inski, and it comes together in a format, and then they meet with their colleagues, pelosi and reid, and you have a perfect unrepresentative left-wing machine dedicated to a secular socialist future. host: newt gingrich live yesterday in new orleans. phil barrow is covering the story for "new orleans times-picayune" in new orleans. he's joining us live on the phone. thanks very much for being with us. caller: good morning. host: what ultimately doonk will come out of th

but she did have this increasingly sharp critique of foreign policy which closely echoed what liz cheneysaid the day before the notion that obama is hard on enemies and soft on allies. one incident that both mentioned they both said obama, it was inappropriate for him to criticize the afghan president in a recent time, you know, which i think struck a lot of people as surprising because a lot of american foreign policy people increasingly think of him as an unreliable ally. it was a odd person for sarah palin to calendars her lot with. host: some papers say it is ok to be the party of no then newt gingrich saying be the party of yes. what were the differences? guest: i think that is exaggerated. this sort of palin and others said we are fine being the party of no. bobby jindal the governor of louisiana said in healthcare we should be the party of hell no and newt gingrich said we should be the party of no but. i oppose the plan but here is my positive skwrefrpbd and they should be laying out a more positive agenda. i think the reality is they have been doing both for a while. opposing ba

speaking now, liz cheney, daughter of former vice president dick cheney. >> as afghan president karzai whose support we need if we're going to prevail in afghanistan. is being treated to an especially dangerous and juvenile display from this white house. they dress him down on an almost daily basis and within the last 36 hours refused to say whether he was even an ally. you know, i used to work on the middle east and there is a saying in the arab world that it is more dangerous to be america's friend than it is to be our enemy. and i fear very much that in the age of obama that's proving to be true. now, the president's approach to nuclear disarmament which he also unveiled this week confirms the naivity of his views about america's enemies. until this week, any enemy of our country that might be contemplating a chemical, biological or large scale conventional attack against us knew they might face the worst in return, a nuclear response. we have now surrendered that powerful deterent. the new strategy prevents america from building any more nuclear weapons or using our nuclear deterre

this evening, speakers include liz change the -- liz cheney, newt gingrich, and former oklahoma rep j.c watts. and we'll talk about this morning's nuclear arms treaty. the group global zero will also preview the summit next week. former ambassadors thomas pickering and richard burton -- 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> "washington journal" continues. host: on your screen is the " lawyer times" washington correspondent who covers the economy. she hung on your screen is "the new york times" washington correspondent covered the economy. everybody has a former chairman greenspan on their front page today. what do you think happened? guest: chairman greenspan offered his analysis of what got us into this big financial mess. unfortunately it is an analysis not very comforting to many people feared he essentials ec's what happened as a once in a hundred years storm and he thinks it is very difficult for changes in regulatory structure to prevent what happened from happening again. and for congress, which is about to overall financial regulations, it is not good news. his message was essentially would ha