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ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. >> thank you. thank you very much. great audience. welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. some nut group called freedom from religion has their antenna up because the governor of texas is calling for a day of prayer. now, even though taxpayers aren't paying for any of it, this group is suing to stop it. look, it is one thing to express some cynicism as to whether the timing for a highly publicized prayer event is a precursor to an announcement the governor wants to run for president, but i cannot understand why people who don't even believe in god and hate religion are so afraid of it. if they really think prayer is a worth less and meaning less exercise in futility, then wouldn't they want believers praying more? it would keep them busy doing something harmless instead of going out to the streets scream ling for pedestrians to repent. let's say i plan on messing them up. i will pray for them. they need the prayers, and i need the practice. another story this week gave me a real headache. they tried to create a

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ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. pplause] welcome everybody, and thank you very much. what a great audience, we've got here tonight. here in new york and welcome to huckabee, from the fox news studios. and well, i begin today with a most important message, this is my wife's birthday, and i better say happy birthday. i better do that, so, happy birthday. [applause] >> i know that some of you are asking, how many is this for her? well, i'll let you do the math. she was born in 19-- none of your business. and a gallop poll saying that president obama would be defeated by a generic republican, but he leads any specific candidates he's paired against. what does all this have mean? frankly, absolutely nothing. you know, a poll at this point in time only tells us where things are today. not where they're going to be in 15 months when it's going to matter. some voters are going to automatically vote democrats and some are automatically going to vote republican. the election is going to be decided by the smaller group of indep

huckabee. >> mike: thanks for joining me.ill take birthday wishes from liberals. >> lin, you pay your bills and mortgage, right and electric and gas and car payments. >> mike: no, we do. >> and you understand as washington seems not to that bad stuff would happen if you didn't. why is it that your republican colleagues on the campaign trail and house seem so blindd and frankly reckless about that? >> mike: i don't think it is that they don't want to pay the bills. but we shouldn't run up the bills we can't pay in the first place. it is the problem with government. not that we default. but quit borrowing money to pay back. >> but there are so many republican members in the house are saying let's default and it is okay to not pay our bills. we have to get past playing politics and legislating. when president obama said let's find a balanced approach and then talk about eating your peas. it is not daddy telling them to eat their peas. but mom saying take your medicine. new house republican members who are so reckless and in the

here is what mitt romney is said. >> capping and a balanced budget. >> with us today, mike huckabee. t wait to watch. before we get into romney, bachman, colmes thinks the culture is so hunky dorie and you see chris brown given the big platform on nbc today. the culture in decline. >> did allan truly listen to lyrics 30 years ago? things that could never be put on to tape and given to any one is now common place. it is not the same. things that were innuendo. >> morris, come on, babe. light my fire. where are the feminists? >> it is degrading and demeaning to all people to be treating women and objects and things and toys that are disposable and expendable. an insult to every woman. >> a lot of the entertainers might be talented underneath it all but they are debasing themselves. they think i will make money this way and what is what the message to kids is. you can make money by stripping it down and slezing it up. something a little less sexy, what what is going on in washington. romney saying cut cap and balance the budget which is what the republicans came out with today. boehner,

. >> ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [cheers and applause] welcome everybody. thank you very much. what a great audience we have here tonight in new york and welcome to huckabee in the fooksfox news studios. an important message. this is my wife's birthday and i better say happy birthday. [applause] >> happy birthday janet. some of you ask how many for her. she was born in 19 -- none of your business. a big buzz about a gall up poll showing that president obama would be defeated by a generic republican by 8 points and leads any of the spectacular candidates that he is paired against. what does this mean? franklyy absolutely nothing. a poll in this point in time is where they are today and not in 15 months. voters will automatically vote democrat and some automatically vote republican. the election is going to be decided by independent voters in the middle, and they are a long way from making up their mines on the next election. they are struggling whether or not they are having a next paycheck. while i enjoy a good game of politics as much as the next guy, there

today tastes so good. >> mike: each day on the huckabee report i share news and commentory on 600 radioamerica and a daily pod cast to download. go to mike huckabee.com. what i'm you are there sign up for my facebook page or twitter . toddlers to teenagers parents warn them about dangerings. don't talk to strangers and be careful who you chat with on the internet and at a away from drugs. but what about recruiting for being a terrorist. extremist are luring in americans and transforming them in jihadist. catherine herage writes about the threat of home grown terror in a book called the next wave. thank you for being here. >> i was disturbed when i read your book and realized that there is an active movement going on to get americanized type kids into jihadism. >> back in 2006, al-qaida leadership made a decision to go after western recruits because we were young people from the middle east and afghanistan and pakistan. americans were the new gold standard and we have a generation al-qaida 2.0 and they are the new version of the digital jihadist. >> historically said terrorist are a musl

that was the mike huckabee strategy that worked very well for him. the one republican journalist out there, the iowa noted, when bachmann sent out her cards, nothing about the straw poll, making her wonder if there's a way to go when it comes to organization. we're going to have a lot more, including tim pawlenty's new tv ad. >>> in a week, the senate takes its first vote this afternoon on libya. it's something nobody wants to talk about. after 15 weeks of bombing, there's no end to the stalemate. signs of friction within the nato coalition. how this vote goes, what happens today, what amendments get on there over the week? this could actually be the newsier topic of the week more so than the debt deadline, but we're going to go to the deadline. it's on everybody's mind. as we know, the first order of business is going to be the procedural vote on libya. with me now, vermont independent senator, senator sanders. i want to talk about your plan on deficit reduction, but i want to start with libya. how are you going to vote on the libya resolution? >> i

. >> let's listen to mike huckabee. we were talking about how reagan was more of a reasonable conservative. more than the tea party people today. mike huckabee on home court in may that reagan probably wouldn't even make it into the ticket today. let's listen and see if you agree with that. >> ronald reagan would have a difficult, if not impossible time, being nominated in this atmosphere of the republican party. >> how come? >> he raised taxes as governor. he made deals with democrats. he compromised on things in order to move the ball down the field. >> michael, are you the left or right of reagan? >> i stand with reagan. one of the reasons why i joined the party as a young man. >> one of the reasons you're not in it anymore. let's go to joan. it seems like the michael steeles and ronald reagans aren't quite hip enough, crazy enough to bring down the government. your last thought, joan? >> michael still says he's not -- let's leave him where he is. i'm glad he supports ronald reagan. >> let me answer the question. >>

. >> mike huckabee did very well with that same constituency. >> speaking of gov. perry, i think the only thing holding him that is good he raise the money and put the infrastructure in place at this date? there is an undercurrent of bad blood between the perry forces and the forces of george w. bush. since this is "inside washington" we should not fail to mention that. >> in terms of the money, the president could rise up to $60 million. i wonder if at some point the american people get fed up? >> i think a certain point, diminishing returns. it will be a referendum on obama, unless a nut is nominated on the republican side -- >> of which there are many to choose from. >> that was said ironically -- to i have to explain the jokes here? if the debt reduction talks succeed, it will deideologize the election. obama will can see on entitlements, republicans will can see on -- will concede on entitlements, republicans will on taxes. it will be about the state economy and stewardship, and as to which it is romney's -- and a storage shed is romney's strong point. >> the

mike huckabee, a conservative finalist in 2008 against john mccain, has taken a shot at him, saying he will be the champion of traditional values and high morals, and then why did he indoors and back to rudy giuliani -- endorse and back rudy giuliani, a pro-gay rights politician? >> i am not sure that supporting giuliani or the gay issue will have any effect whatsoever on perry. he has a lot of money and support. he is not even in the race, and the fox news opinion poll on thursday showed mitt romney at 17 n., i believe, perry attw13. >> there is a letter shakiness with him. >> i think it will end up with perry and romney. >> nobody is responsible to the american consumer. nobody is looking for american families. >> harvard law professor elizabeth warren with abc's jake tapper. she was a prime mover in the wall street reform and consumer protection act. wall street does not like this, charles. >> how was it working out, with 9.2% unemployment? the regulations that i get to be written on this -- that are yet to be written on this take years and years and introduce nothing but uncertaint

and remember mike huckabee won the iowa primary in 2008. buchanan won the new mexico primary in -- the new hampshire primary in 1996. so we'll just have to see. but i would go the conventional wisdom route on this. i think this all helps romney. there's lots of debate. there's lots of high throwing. -- pie-throwing. she probably won't go in the history books. but, again, you never know. chris: there's some spark there, i hear. she seems to have perfect pitch for some people. >> i think there's something interesting about the fact that she's so categorical about it. she's yes or no. and for a lot of back and forth that we've seen in washington, that must be very refreshing. >> chris: she's so crystal clear. i think there's a potential that there will be shifts in the republican party and she's at the center of the real republican heart, like mitt romney, who's seen as a moderate and that party is not run by moderates. >> the calendar is in her favor. if you look at iowa, to a certain extent new hampshire less so, but she's got that geography

have a very strong second place to mitt romney to get the kind of momentum that somebody like mike huckabee had in 2008. for it to be a launching pad, she needs to perform well in the debate, she needs to perform well in the straw poll and convince iowa voters that she's a long shot that's worth taking a chance on. jon: are you surprised, chris, at how well she is doing even in that national poll we just talked about? i mean, she's a relatively, um, little-known member of congress, and to rocket to number two in this poll is pretty amazing. >> well, jon, i've always figured that the best way to get ahead in politics is to manage expectations and remember that the expectations for michele mie bachmann, especially among liberals, were rock bottom. they thought she was a flake, that she couldn't do it, and then she got out there, started talking, and people said, wow, she actually makes a convincing argument. wow, she can put two words together. and it had a great effect for her because she exceeded expectations with by so much. now, however, that those expectations have been exceeded there's

certainly, we spoke with mike huckabee earlier this year. i'd think that he did give it a serious look, but he is doing very well financially. this is a guy who grew a poor. he decided not to make the run. donaldson decided not to make the run. no one knows how serious he was. no one knows. he keeps holding out the possibility he could run as an independent and not as a republican, so he continues to have fun. sarah palin, we don't know. it does give people a lot of attention. once you jump into the race, people like me start to ask a lot of questions about your record and start turning over a lot of rocks, so it becomes less fun. host: managing editor of politics for "national journal." she has covered every presidential election since 1980. bob in oregon. caller: the conservative wing of the republican party branching off, i see that happen if they agree to the debt ceing vote. and a potential for hillary clinton to enter the race in order to savthe party if things look really bad for the democrats. guest: i think the debt ceiling negotiat

something that i think is crucial to understanding is certainly people like michele bachmann or mike huckabee but really important to understanding a lot of the modern writing and that's the idea of a biblical world view which basically holds that all of reality is conditioned by your kind of theological starting point and so it says that you know if you believe for example in something like evolution it's only because you have the wrong worldview you're starting with the wrong premises and what this idea has done is it has kind of given this movement permission to create its and to create an entire alternative reality you know and so we're now living in a in a place where one of our two major political parties is gone many people who don't accept you know what we would consider fundamental precepts of reality you know kind of don't accept the enlightenment don't accept the scientific method you know have a kind of. entirely different a pistol ology. and in fact i'd like to delve into that more and and michele bachmann's involved with that right after the break we'll have more with bestsellin

thousand and seven here just for a second comparing ron paul john mccain mitt romney rudy giuliani mike huckabee and fred thompson there's a little flash flash back total from the entire campaign it back four years ago again ron paul until until the end of the primary season ron paul had more campaign contributions from active duty service members then all other primary candidates put together including barack obama back then so here's the latest. two thousand and eleven military donations we've got ron paul mitt romney cain and bachmann they're nice to have a little visual effect to put that in perspective. in mother russia your votes don't pick presidents presidents pick your own as that's not right that's not right in mother russia naked chicks the side elections it seems that while ron paul is inspiring scores of activists to build money bombs and take to the political cannons for his presidential primary battle russian pm vladimir putin is inspiring another kind of fan and that occasion stripping an all knowing campaign of unknown origin manifests into the intro abs and its message is simpl

mike huckabee called for his execution. senator lieberman got busy and tried to put wikileaks out of business altogether. he successfully pressured amazon to stop hosting wikileaks web site, and he urged any other company that supported the wikileaks site to, quote, immediately terminate its relationship. and then pen pal and visa and mastercard promptly stopped processing donations to wikileaks claiming that it somehow, in ways not specified, wasn't complying with their terms of service. somebody pointed out that visa and mastercard, um, continue nonetheless to support the ku klux klan web site, the web site hawks their merchandise and paraphernalia, t-shirtses and so on, and you can pay for it by credit card the way you used to be able to donate to wikileaks by credit card. i checked the klan web site day before yesterday, they're still doing it. visa and mastercard are still there, but they won't touch wikileaks. lieberman together with -- this is the company that he keeps these days -- lieberman together with senator jo

one person that has not annou e announced her money yet is michele bachmann. >> and even though mike huckabeeng, sounds like his daughter will be out on the campaign trail. what is that about? >> huckabee, we were keeping our eyes on him to see if he would run for the republican nomination, and he said he would not. but his daughter is a republican operative in her own right, and she worked on his campaign in '08 in iowa when he won the caucuses there, and tim pawlenty is now saying she will be his political director as he tries to win the nomination. >> thank you, paul. >>> in the latest political news, you know where to go. cnn politics.com. the top of the hour and i am suzanne malveaux. passengers flying to the united states from other countries may have to go through extra security. there is a report that says there is new intelligence pointing to a possible new technique that could be used. but the source says no attack appears eminent. >>> casey anthony may walk out of a courthouse tomorrow free to carry on her life. anthony sobbed and hugged her lawyers when jurors found her not guilty

governor mike huckabee. >> thank you . thank you very much. great audience. welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios from new york city. some nut group called freedom from religion has the antenna up because the governor of texas is calling for a day of prayer. even thope the taxpayers are not paying. this group is suing to stop it. it is one thing to express the cynicism as the timing of a prayer event is a precursor to announcement that the governor is running for president. but i can't understand why people who don't believe in god and hate religion are afraid of it. if they think prayer is a exercise in futility. shouldn't they want believers praying more. that would keep them doing something harmless instead of screaming for pedestrian to repent. i plan to mess them up. i will pray for them. they need the prayers and i need the practice . another story this week gave me a headache. some disgruntled former staffers of michelle bachmann tried to create the story out of occasional migraine headaches and takes medication for them. boy, that is a big stor

last time around mike huckabee asked perry to back him. he became the chairman of rudy giuliani's campaign. >> do you think rick perry is going to jump into the race? >> all the signs are he is. the top fund-raisers are saying he's getting serious and would do well. it could be a romney, bachmann, perry race before we are done. >> i find that fascinating. do you? >> i think that's the top three i have to talk about. i think it's a fascinating race. >> howard? chris christie? >> i don't think he gets in. it's hard after two years of governing. >> they are begging though. >> begging chris christie to run? >> yeah. most of the people in the world in business finance who are concerned. they think he's a real winner. >> i have heard that. mike allen, thank you. coming up, big news overseas. british numbers papers saying james murdock misrepresented parliament. >> also, news in the united states. a settlement from years back. a hacking settlement. almost $30 million. is it coming here? looks like it. >> ( rooster crows ) >> by 2020, 50 billion n

certainly, we spoke with mike huckabee earlier this year.'d think that he did give it a serious look, but he is doing very well financially. this is a guy who grew a poor. he decided not to make the run. donaldson decided not to make the run. no one knows how serious he was. no one knows. he keeps holding out the possibility he could run as an independent and not as a republican, so he continues to have fun. sarah palin, we don't know. it does give people a lot of attention. once you jump into the race, people like me start to ask a lot of questions about your record and start turning over a lot of rocks, so it becomes less fun. host: managing editor of politics for "national journal." she has covered every presidential election since 1980. bob in oregon. caller: the conservative wing of the republican party branching off, i see that happen if they agree to the debt ceiling vote. and a potential for hillary clinton to enter the race in order to save the party if things look really bad for the democrats. guest: i think the debt ceiling negoti

take it from mike huckabee, the host of "huckabee" joins us live from jerusalem today. hello, sir. you. >> hello, steve. well, the president definitely has a jewish problem in the united states. he also has a jewish problem here in israel. among israeli jews, his support, his favorability is down to 4%. sometimes it can range as high as 15% but he's basically in single digits and that's how much there is a disfavor of the president and his policies here among israeli jews. so they may not vote for him, but they may have a big influence on their friends and neighbors back in the united states and those numbers aren't looking good either. >> sure and governor, if you look at a reason to explain that, a lot of it has to do with the fact that months ago, the president came out and suggested, you know, ok, let's both sides get together and the palestinians and the israelis and as a starting point, let's go back to the way the lines were drawn back in 1967 with some mutually accepted swaps and when he said that, he said this is a great idea. however, the people in israel are horrified be

mike huckabee has a pac. the question is what happens when they mention it on fox news.ox news can just say, you can't discuss your pac. >> actually, colbert was pushing for broader press freedoms if you will. he wanted to be able to use staffing from his show to create advertisements. he wanted to be able to run his advertisements for his pac on other shows. democracy 21 took a firm stand against it because it sets a questionable precedent. you know, as far as fox news, what this points to is a broader, and i think more disconcerting trend, in terms of money, media, and influence. and you look at fox news. and again, this is a channel that -- let's remind our viewers donated $1 million to the u.s. chamber of commerce and $1.25 to the republican governor's association last year. that was precedent setting. now there's a confluence of media and money. if we are talking about free speech and democracy and the political process and transparency, i think it's a disturbing trend. >> what he's really done for himself is created a nightmarish bookkeeping task. he has to record

then they move on to mike huckabee and mitch daniels. huckabee out, daniels out. >> a part of this is unfair to the candidates that are in the arena, running. they are all good men and women, capable. they've made the all-in commitment in yearning for something else is flattering for someone if you are that someone else. in reality, i think this race, we have qualified candidates. as it gets closer to the primaries, to the caucuses and primaries i think people will begin to see the mettle of the men and women that running. >> sean: i agree. i don't like this media narrative this is a weak field they can win that obama is certain to get reelected. >> i agree with youé and disagree with the pundits that form conventional which is come that are always wrong if you recall, my dad in 1992, had an approval rating that was double what president obama has rate now. he was running against the seven dwarfs, i think. one of those became president. president clinton. the know shun that somehow these -- the know hunt that somehow these aren't folks

. >> you know, mike huckabee out of the race immediately someone could play an instrument. >> that'spamela, good to talk to you. thank you very much. senior producer on the morning briefing on sirius xm. >>> and the american dream, the reality of the struggling economy threatens it all. candy crowley sat down with russell simmons. you know him. he talks about a different kind of american dream. he calls it inner wealth. >> the more we can let go of the need for results the better we can do our job. make a great record you hear a melody. that melody is what makes you happy. you may think for one minute i can't wait for my friends to hear that record, right? and if you're thinking how much money you're going to make off the record you're not doing a good job making the record. if your mind is on the money you're going to make from that record, you are really not making a good record. so your mind has to be and so as much as you can engage your focus, as much as you can in something -- some single point, this is happiness. >>> all right. you need music ideas for your 4th of july barbecu

the former governor, mike huckabee, governor, we are going to drink dirty water and we are killing all federal employees. >>governor huckabee: they bought some radio, as well, this is a psa for division $200,000 in a couple of dozen markets which tells me when it is that wide of a view on youtube video, their real purpose is--. >>neil: you are good with that lingo. >>governor huckabee: when you buy that small of a buy you are trying to get free media attention. in other words trying to do exactly what we are talking about here today. we're talking about it. and of course federal workers do important things. but so do private sector workers. everybody's economy is on the line. and i don't necessarily blame the federal workers but it is self serving to act like they are the only ones would will be affected if congress cannot get its act together. >>neil: what they seem to say is an effort to stall to kills us effectively. >>governor huckabee: well, that is what ads do. it is like if you don't buy this product your teeth are going to fall out. if you don't buy this car, chances are you wi

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then they move on to mike huckabee and mitch daniels. huckabee out, daniels out. >> a part of this is unfair to the candidates that are in the arena, running. they are all good men and women, capable. they've made the all-in commitment in yearning for something else is flattering for someone if you are that someone else. in reality, i think this race, we have qualified candidates. as it gets closer to the primaries, to the caucuses and primaries i think people will begin to see the mettle of the men and women that running. >> sean: i agree. i don't like this media narrative this is a weak field they can win that obama is certain to get reelected. >> i agree with youé and disagree with the pundits that form conventional which is come that are always wrong if you recall, my dad in 1992, had an approval rating that was double what president obama has rate now. he was running against the seven dwarfs, i think. one of those became president. president clinton. the know shun that somehow these -- the know hunt that somehow these aren't folks

he's bringing in the daughter of mike huckabee to run his campaign. she helped put together that campaign in iowa for her dad to win the caucuses and finish second in the straw poll. in an effort to engage the young and tech savvy the president is holding a tweet up this afternoon. topic is the economy and jobs but the thousands of 140 character or less queries submitted versus the ask obama hash tag includes marijuana legalization. and the rnc is going up with an ad on national cable today hitting the president on the economy. the first of four ads they are releasing in the next month. let's take a look at this first one. >> left turn after left turn. america is headed the wrong way fast. 6 million foreclosures, 14 trillion in debt, 500 billion in higher taxes and the worst long term unemployment end generations. don't let obama drive us to disaster. change direction. >> here to explain the strategy behind the rnc's new ad, the chairman of the republican national committee. so you're going up this early with a tough ad on the president. why? >> well,

. >> it's not clear sailing, i guess not for anyone mike huckabee taking a shot at rick perry saying texas governor reck perry is still flirting with a run for all his new fund commitment to hyper conservatism, he'll get to discuss why he supported proabortion, prosame sex marriage rudy giuliani last time. >> ouch. >> welcome to the nfl. that just shows a peak from huckabee and did not appreciate that the texas governor endorsed rudy juligiuliani. >> there's some history there. governor perry supported giuliani. governor huckabee has a long memory. governor perry is going to face some serious challenges if he does decide to run. he's got a jobs message in texas. he's got a pretty pure conservative record on a lot of issues that i think will appeal to both pragmatic minded and more true believers in the republican party. that said, in a general election scenario he's going to have to answer the question of how he can play in swing states, the pennsylvanias, the ohios, the wisconsins, the michigans. that's going to be a taller order for him. how to make the case for why he's going to b