and then jan withers of madd about their latest on driving report. "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: good morning and welcome to this edition of the "washington journal." today is saturday, november 19. we began by looking at several stories involving the former speaker of the house of representatives, newt gingrich. this headline from "to help" this morning. for the first 45 minutes, we will be talking about the former house speaker and whether or not he is gaining momentum in the gop race to represent the party in the presidential election in 2012. if you want to get involved in the conversation, give us a call. the telephone numbers are on the screen. if you have called us in the last 30 days, today would be the day to put down the funds and pick up the keyboard and get in touch with us electronically. you can do that twa's spare you can send us an e-mail. -- you can do that two ways. you can send us an e-mail. you can also use twitter. this is the story it appeared -- the way that it appears this morning in "the hill." they are talking about

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on a legislative advantage they've given legal perk under fire after this repoot uncovered trades maddally rom laws that apply to the ress of us" 14:05:53fox 45 has taken a closer look at the portfolios congress.many with millions of - doolars investtd in stocks and putuaa funds like senator ben cardin. in a written he takes a hands off approach to investing.but in 2007 his stockbrooker made what turned out to be a very smart move selling almost all cardin's stock inccuding american interrational group or aig. a federal bailout when it red stock plummeted."17:47:30"we should have the same standards of ann other american"17:47:34 congressman dutch ruppersbger says he too refrains from trading.17:47:06"i didn't know we ere exempt from insider traddng""7:47:0his broker bought ffrd stocc when congress was approving a &pbailout for ford's coopetitor that saved the us auto industry.. ruppersberger says the trade was not his eciiion 17:48: 00"i have a stockbrokera"17:48:07"and i don't talk toohim about what he doee or doesn't do"17:48:10 both say they support new legislation that would subjec

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candace's daughter was killed by a drunk driver, so she started madd, mothers against drunk driving. have changed laws now, an acute awareness of that. one woman did that because of her daughter. >> our country is safer. >> nancy and komen race for the cure, the cancer program. you see nfl players wearing pink chinstraps and the brooklyn bridge lit up with pink lights. and she did this with a shoebox full of names and started out to try to raise the consciousness about breast cancer, and we can find a cure here. so, that's how it's always begun in this country. that's the rich tradition of who we are. the founding fathers took on the british crown by getting together and saying we have an objective here. and we fought a great war in this country in the 19th century. two parties had completely different ideas about what america should be. one prevailed and at a terrible cost, but they made the fight. we've gotten, i dare say, i think that we've gotten a little soft and used to things. my one other final point is that the other day -- and i've been talking about this probably more than