explain it to me g.o.p., how cutting my pay creates jobs? this person, paul he represents the toby hanna army depot workers them. do something really important. and then another federal employee 12% of my salary i earn caring for veterans goes to my retirement. explain it to me g.o.p., how cutting my retirement puts people to work. that's what teresa has to say and she represents nurses at the minnesota v.a. hospital. and then here's eric young and he represents correction officers in miami and he says, i pay more than $9,000 a year for my family health insurance. explain it to me g.o.p., how cutting my take-home pay lowers unemployment. these are the faces of federal employees. you know, i don't -- sometimes when we talk about, just cut the federal employees, nameless, faceless, who are these people? but as you pointed out they are people who really improve the quality of our lives every single day, people who protect us here in the capital, but also who protect our veterans, who work in our federal prisons and who are army depot workers. t

joining me is the g.o.p. chairman. mr. chairman, are you there? okay. >> how about that? just lost him. isn't that good? i was just talking to him on the break. >> good? >> the drama was there. we are going to get ryan to call back on the phone. here's what he just told me. 100%, they are sure that rick santorum will win the colorado caucuses. they said they had 85% in. we have 67% of the projected vote in ryan call tellings that you 100%, rick santorum will win the colorado caucuses as we wait to get him back on the phone because technology is technology. we are back with the panel. you heard it. 100% confidence. i tell you what, that is a confident g.o.p. chairman when you think about iowa, when you think about nevada and you think about vote counts with 3%, 4% difference. >> i am sure he is 100%, but these thing, often when they are close, mistakes can be made and we have seen lack of organization, sometimes in some of the early contests and a close contest that poor rick santorum found out weeks later that he actually won. >> this is ryan call. mr. chairman, are you t

g.o.p. voters are growing less, not more satisfied with the field. let me up a couple of statistics a gallup poll finds 55 am if someone else were running, here is what jeb bush this week. it's a little troubling sometimes when people are appealing to people's fears and emotions rather than try to let them look over the horizon for a perspective. >> are you troubled by the negativity some would say the smallness of this race? >> from time to time on both sides, the president one the main perpetrators of negative politics. we can all wish and i do it would subside some. i don't blame the candidates. there is a certain dynamic to the race that leads to making if i any indication of small differences. >> chris: you have said that republicans need to focus on the economy and debt. as you said once, to call a truce on social issues. are you troubled when you see republicans talking about contraception and planned parenthood? >> they didn't start this. the president did with very intrusive decision. i think when they get a chance, governor romney this week, talki

joining me is the g.o.p. chairman. mr. chairman, are you there? okay. >> how about that? just lost him. isn't that good? i was just talking to him on the break. >> good? >> the drama was there. we are going to get ryan to call back on the phone. here's what he just told me. 100%, they are sure that rick santorum will win the colorado caucuses. they said they had 85% in. we have 67% of the projected vote in ryan call tellings that you 100%, rick santorum will win the colorado caucuses as we wait to get him back on the phone because technology is technology. we are back with the panel. you heard it. 100% confidence. i tell you what, that is a confident g.o.p. chairman when you think about iowa, when you think about nevada and you think about vote counts with 3%, 4% difference. >> i am sure he is 100%, but these thing, often when they are close, mistakes can be made and we have seen lack of organization, sometimes in some of the early contests and a close contest that poor rick santorum found out weeks later that he actually won. >> this is ryan call. mr. chairman, are you t

joining me is the g.o.p. chairman. mr. chairman, are you there? okay. >> how about that?ust lost him. isn't that good? i was just talking to him on the break. >> good? >> the drama was there. we are going to get ryan to call back on the phone. here's what he just told me. 100%, they are sure that rick santorum will win the colorado caucuses. they said they had 85% in. we have 67% of the projected vote in ryan call tellings that you 100%, rick santorum will win the colorado caucuses as we wait to get him back on the phone because technology is technology. we are back with the panel. you heard it. 100% confidence. i tell you what, that is a confident g.o.p. chairman when you think about iowa, when you think about nevada and you think about vote counts with 3%, 4% difference. >> i am sure he is 100%, but these thing, often when they are close, mistakes can be made and we have seen lack of organization, sometimes in some of the early contests and a close contest that poor rick santorum found out weeks later that he actually won. >> this is ryan call. mr. chairman, are you the

. >> joining me now is g.o.p.egyis, a former press secretary for the national congressional committee, the director of communication for american crossroads, a conservative superpac that raised millions of dollars in support of republican candidates. i just have to put these numbers on the board here. it wasn't too long ago everybody thought mitt romney had michigan nailed. and look at the polls. these are an average of real clear politics, and you see rick santorum up there, 37%. that is outside -- well outside the margin of error. what happened to romney's campaign in michigan? >> well, rick santorum has a lot of momentum right now, and you can't count that out. he has a lot of mexican-american going into the race because of the primary -- the caucuses he won. the question is whether or not things can change over the next ten days, and i think they can. ten days before the iowa caucuses in one knew who rick santorum was, and he won that. so ten days is a lot of time in a political campaign. and especially on the

. >> greta: let me turn to the g.o.p. race.at caught my attention two more polls, in michigan. two polls, one is rick santorum is up 6% and another is he is up 15%. should governor romney be worried tonight? >> my gut tells me 6% is likely to be in the realm of where it is in the 15%. we have seen volatility in this race. newt gingrich up by double-digit before the florida primary. romney up in sections two weeks before the primary. these things have come and gone. >> greta: but michigan? >> it's birthplace, granted he was born there but spent most of his life someplace else. critical battleground, if governor romney loses michigan it will be challenging, that is why his campaign outside group supporting him half a million dollars worth of television today. governor romney is going to be crisscrossing the state with the upcoming schedule. he has to win michigan, on the other hand you have to break through in more than one place. rick santorum is current competitor, but is santorum going compete in arizona the other state that i

g.o.p. ticket in november. my colleague tells met we're learning from the exit polls. >> hi there, good evening, bret. the people in michigan and arizona are still voting. here is what we're seeing so far, in the michigan primaries as long as you're a registered voter you can vote and we're seeing quite a few independents and democrats, more than we saw in 2008. and rick santorum has been trying very hard to appeal to this group as a cross over vote for him and here is how that is shaping up. democrats are making up 10% of the michigan vote for today, and half of those, 51% are-- 50% are going tore rick santorum in the exit polls this evening. a look at the independent vote in michigan for you now, nearly a third of today's voters are independents, they split their vote, 34% going for romney, 31% for santorum, 24% of them for ron paul and 7% of independent votes seem to be going towards newt gingrich tonight. we asked voters about the auto bailouts, hugely sensitive in the state of michigan. all four candidates said they were oppose

it certainly does in my opinion reflect on the campaign or me, he wasn't doing it as part of our campaign. >> that was g.o.p. candidate santorum to strong media to the remark you heard there. one of the supporters said about the issue of contraception earlier in the week. jim, it got all kinds of media attention. it was essentially blamed on the santorum campaign, why? >> santorum has strangely enough chosen to big donor to super pac to be on stage with him. it used to be present tense of distance between them but it's through the media. it's a part. >> jon: i think judy is in ordering in agreement? >> absolutely and media about, just wait until they hear everything that rick santorum believes about contraception and women's rights. >> he is leading in the polls. numbers rick santorum at least in michigan is up 34% to the mitt romney 30%. quite a stunning turnaround. how is the media reacting. >> i think they are covering it. look, i also think the contraception debate really mandates healthcare mandate played to his strength. social conservative. he is catholic. very outspoken about religious issues and it

joining me inside "the war room" for analysis of today's developments in the g.o.p. is the former chairman of the california republican party and also here former clinton's speech rider syd espinoza. he's now working at microsoft in the heart of silicon valley. let me start off by showing you a couple of things on our big board that happened today. first of all there were a couple of--there is a big poll out of michigan today. this poll is only a couple of hours old. it has santorum up 37% to romney's 34%. interestingly enough there is a synthesis of before that poll all of the polls between romney--and i just pulled out romney and santorum because i think that's most interesting you see this dramatic rise of santorum. this is just a few days ago. notice how much he has dipped, and this gap has narrowed. the question really is do you think romney has stopped the--has righted his ship, essentially n michigan? >> not yet. i think what you're seeing is momentum in general in the santorum campaign. romney has an organization. a national organization, state after state de

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so really, for me, it doesn't matter which one goes of the two. still g.o.p.1600. >> dana: like if you had a salad mixer thing and you could take the economic abilities of mitt romney, his experience and the social conservatism with the debate skills of newt gingrich which are amazing and ron paul still has -- we don't talk about him enough. he has enthusiastic base. if you mix them together, the american g.o.p. public might say that is the guy we want. did say that anybody who thinks that romney would not take on obama in a debate, he eviscerateed rick santorum. >> bob: that is eviscerating rick santorum. the history of the american politics is littered with the bodies of people who tried to beat an incumbent president because he had to lose. that is the problem. this race, obama has to lose it. $4 gasoline, the economy gets bad, whatever. but they have nothing to take to the public, except for they're not obama. it may be enough. but it's rare it happens. >> eric: $4 gas by that time. 9% unemployment. it will be enough. >> bob: do you think the munchkins are

me, boss. greta is next. >> greta: new battles with the g.o.p. nomination, florida primary may not be over just yet. newt gingrich is challenging the result. fox news has learned the gingrich campaign will contest the winner take all rule. under that rule, governor romney would get all the delegates. so what is the problem? >> well back when, they had to decide what the states to do that said they wanted their primary early. if you were an early state that you had to have your delegates proportionately, winner take all. frankly they haven't enforced that. they don't have the power. it's not a penalty issue. it's a question of the fact they issued and that is what it is. >> greta: how it is, for exampling primary, cut in half they are down to 50 to begin with? >> it's a rule that says right up front. it's not like a punishment. they decided to cut in half. it's a question they said it's going to be proportional. what is going to happen, there is a contest already, because it only takes one person to make that request. that was done by not our campaign but we would back it up. it was done by a state c

difference between me and the left and they don't get this just because i'm talking about it doesn't mean i want to government program to fix it that's what they do that's not. so what the g.o.p. is ultimate goal here and it's a battle over sex i think down to lose or to discuss with me is james columnist for the daily caller james thanks for joining us tonight. i mean how do you see this jeffrey let's talk about some of the crazy legislation that i think is just straight up crazy that we're seeing in some of these states whether it's transnational ultrasound now here you have people saying that if you want to you don't have to teach sex ed and if you do you don't teach about contraception i think it will social conservatives are the tough spot they have been pushed i think by the left over a number of decades into a position where they think the only thing they can do to protect their way of doing things is about nationalizing all these issues and politicizing all these issues i think of taking away other people's rights basically the point is that it's a strategy that's not working if you can get through the rated history of the bush administration in the first george h.w.

me. hopefully to you as well. you are in the war room. so come on inside. >> in the war room we are tracking the g.o.p. frontrunners ahead of next week's pivotal michigan primary. let's get to the big board. our nightly trend tracker. romney is doing better. santorum is looking a little chagrined. we will look at what that means. the g.o.p. primary, according to public policy polling, if you look at the difference between now and a week ago 37% for santorum now, 39 a week ago. so a slight dip romney up significantly. was -- excuse me. was 24, now 33. ron paul is up significantly. gingrich down a little bit. and then in this next poll michigan g.o.p. primary again, this is mitchell and rosetta stone paul, now romney looking ahead of santorum. pretty significant jump if in fact, that happens. in fact, this pole as well as the last poll both within the margin of error. you see romney taking a step up and santorum taking a step down. so we are going to take a look at why there is this change fortunes. maybe it's effective nasty ads. we will turn to steve mitchell the chairman of mitchell research, polled m

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to the polls, robo call operation, the santorum campaign told me it only targeted conservative leaning democrats who voted in the past g.o.pimaries and they only spent a couple of thousand dollars in the process. in washington, james rosen, fox news. >> newt gingrich did not compete in arizona or michigan. he is putting in a great deal of time in the state. he was the congressman for georgia. senior national correspondent john roberts tells us gingrich has work to do. >> georgia is a hotbed of conservatism and gathering place for undecided voters. >> i change midmind five times already. >> patty and rick are undecided. they lived here 25 years, voted for newt gingrich in the past and say this time around they just can't. >> i really wanted newt at first. but some of the negative things have pulled him out of it. >> i have always been very proud of him. but the personal issues really come to heart. i struggle with that. >> gingrich's survival as candidate depends on the southern strategy. he has powerful help in the state. >> he has to do what he does best. that is to show that he first of all, can engage the president in a

thanks for having me well today is presidents' day and of course were thick into campaign season with the four remaining g.o.p. candidates crisscrossing the country preparing for another round of primaries arizona and michigan a week from tomorrow and of course super tuesday is on march sixth now over the weekend g.o.p. presidential hopeful ron paul was in kansas city missouri speaking at union station there to pretty large crowd more than a thousand people and he came out with a pretty strong warning about the direction this country is headed in and we should mention this is video shot on a cell phone you should be able to hear this portion of the speech though. all right so according to ron paul the u.s. is slipping into a fascist system dominated by government and business strong words there from the texas congressman and as usual they were words largely ignored by the mainstream media now in our earlier broadcast i spoke with journalist michael tracey on wrong paul's prediction of the direction our country is headed here's what he had to say . this of this is something that ron paul for quite a while i th

support for president obama and this kind of reminds me of ron paul who has proven to have the most loyal and most energize following among all the g.o.p. candidates so far so is the obama campaign learning from the from ron paul who was once considered a fringe candidate. i think ron paul learned from barack obama listen i can respect the guy's a trailblazer when it comes to online campaigning this guy you know brock obama the politician was never elected to office barack obama the celebrity was barack obama who had the rock the vote campaign by m.t.v. who was texting scarlett johannson that's the guy who was elected into office not a guy with a bunch of prior experience or even a guy about whom we knew a whole lot is it going to be grassroots i don't know apparently the occupy protests are grassroots but you saw them being paid sixty bucks a head to show up and shout anti gay anti. female slurs at the pac what was there was a thing they yelled anti bit anti black anti gay racists bigots go away at sea back in their paid sixty bucks a head that was grassroots we've had nancy pelosi accusing the tea party of being astroturf. you know t

me in a moment. >> currently there are four men trying to get to that house on the g.o.p. side.ould there be more? the "u.s.a. today" poll, is the g.o.p. presidential campaign hurting the party? not hurting 57%. next, republican nomination better for the candidate to win during the primary, 66% in this poll said that. and 29% said let the convention pick. it's been decades since there was a truly brokered convention. notable, 1940 when wendell will can i emerged as the republican nominee. he was a democratic delegate in 1932. what is a brokered convention, contested convention, and why is it being talked about? >> this race is going longer than people expected and mitt romney is having trouble sewing this up. a brokered convention is when somebody brokers a deal. we don't have brokers anymore. three go into the back rooms and smoke cigars. it could be contested meaning somebody doesn't show up in tampa with the delegates. if they come without that number he has to convince somebody else to release their delegates to him. there could be multiple ballots, an extraordinary spectacl

g.o.p. leadership can convince me that this is not an earmark, then i will vote no on the bill. we should be here today debating a long-term surface transportation bill, a robust bill that would create jobs and keep our economy moving by rebuilding america and putting americans to work. rather we are considering a bill that authorizes construction of a specific bridge between minnesota and wisconsin with an estimated cost of $66 million and earmark instead of oply acknowledging that it is an earmark, the republicans are not saying it is not one and added it to the schedule less than 48 hours ago. do not get me wrong, i'm not against earmarks, but let's be open, transparent and honest with the american people. that's why earmarks got the bad name it did because we were not open and transparent and honest with the american people. if there's any doubt whether the bill that the house is now considering an earmark, all you have to do is read the bill. read the bill. it says, may authorize and assist in the construction of a new bridge crossing the st. croix river. then the bill goes

g.o.p. base. >> i'm here to ask you today to stand with me shoulder and shoulder as we go forward to fate for americaitical point in the nomination race for romney. he was shut out on tuesday night losing 3 states to rick santorum. he's facing increasing questions about why he can not seal the deal with conservative. >> i think a lot of people think tl. >>reporter: romney still the front runner but looking over his shoulder at santorum who got a rock star welcome. >> who has the bold plans to turn this economy around? who has that strong track record? and that contract? okay. i guess i can quit now since you are all convinced of that. >>reporter: after a series off bruising defeat gingrich promised to take the fight to president obama. >> no. 1 theme of the fall campaign will be a paycheck president versus a food stamp president, i believe we will win that fight. >>reporter: results of maine caucus will be announced on sachlts abc news. >> republican candidate took the president to task for his policy requiring catholic hospitals to provide contraceptive services. today the president rae advised part