mike murphy, let me start with you. rick santorum, he's in it to win it.tions himself as the one true conservative here with some experience is. he for real? >> well, as he pointed out, he was governor of a big, blue, hard-to-win state for republicans -- governor, senator of that state. on the other hand, not as famous. a lot of his story is wases, you know, did this, did that. there is social concern and there is room for that in the iowa caucus. it's hard to see the path for nomination for him. >> mayor reed, the other story is congressman anthony weiner and you heard from congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, you know, there's only so much we can do here to push him out of office. he's hanging in. how much is this distracting democrats of doing the real business of fixing the economy, which is going to weigh so heavily? >> it's very bad for democrats. i believe the congressman should resign so we can move on. the fact of the matter is democrats were doing very well on the medicare conversation. paul ryan had really given the democrats a great deal of

clubhouse manager mike murphy is here with his wife carol. also with us today, the giants' training and medical staff, the clubhouse staff, the front office staff of giants executives, and the players' families are here as well. i would like to introduce the of the giant broadcast team. tito puentes. dave flemming. mike cruco and dwayne kriker. hall of fame broadcaster jon miller. and finally, two giants living legends, hall of famer mr. willy makati and hall of famer, the greatest mr. willie mays. [applause] how about a big hand for all of our special guests, everyone? [applause] we would like to thank the city and county of san francisco and our community partners, bank of america, caw, levi's, coors and miller, sales force.com, diamond foods, and charles schwab who helped make this possible. we would like to recognize broadcast partners knbr 680, the sports leader, comcast sports net bay area and nbc bay area, who bring giants baseball to our fans all season long and who have made it possible for today's event to be watched by giants fans

. >> reporter: mike murphy, a republican consultant, said that you have a better chance of landing on jupiter than becoming president. >> i must have missed that. i never heard that. >> reporter: now you're here, you're tied for the lead in iowa. i mean, do you see this happening? >> sure i see it happening. absolutely, i see it happening. >> reporter: her brand of conservative politics has often generated controversy, as when she said this about president obama -- >> i am very concerned that he may have anti-american views. >> reporter: she's also been accused of being loose with the facts, saying, for example, that the president's last trip to india was costing taxpayers $200 million a day. that's why fox news sunday anchor chris wallace says he asked her this -- >> are you a flake? >> well, i think that would be insulting, to say something like that -- >> reporter: wallace later apologized. but does bachmann accept? we asked as one of her aides cut off our interview. do you accept his apology? >> those are the small issues. i'm focused on the big ones. >> reporter: on the big -- >>

. >> you know, mike murphy the republican strategist, james? mike well. >> what he said right away is that line in his speech may have cost obama 75,000 votes in florida. >> you know, wait and see, but by ask large most jewish-americans, the president does care about israel and there are some distinctions and look at the distinctions, as you know, wolf, having spent time in israel, people in israel don't agree with what the best thing to do is. that was the position of sharon. >> i think james -- what he needs to do is pick a line and stick with it. clearly yesterday he was going after support. he was in campaign mode. >> by the way, he succeeded and raised a lot of money at that dinner last night. hold your thought, guys because we'll have more opportunities down the road to continue this discussion. >> see you, james. >> thanks very much. >> a major new push to find one of the fbi's most wanted. >> why authorities are changing their strategy now in the hunt for an 81-year-old fugitive. [ waves crashing ] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] and just like th

recent tension between barack obama and the israeli prime minister netanyahu, republican strategist mike murphyepublican candidate had just picked up 75,000 votes in s in florida and what jumped out was not whether murphy jumped out, but whether he saw the impact on the large jewish vote in florida. democrat strategists are very sensitive to florida and that may explain why shuttle served as the party chair. she is popular in the south florida district and she is jewish. bottom line in all of this, floridians get ready. the presidential candidate and surrogates will be showing a lot of love to you. let's bring in our strategy session right now, joining us is our contributor roland martin and david from forum.com. you agree that the tension between the president and netanyahu may have picked up 75,000 votes for any republican candidate? >> there hundreds of thousands of votes because florida was hard hit sand one of the hand states at the center of the housing disaster and there is not a sufficient recovery. florida does not feel that way we have seen one more that is very important. we have see

i saw a tweet from mike murphy over the weekend. he said rick perry, formidable in the gop primary. general election gift to obama. are things easier for perry in the primaries than they would be in the race after? >> oh, definitely. he is, as he says, a disciplined conservative from texas. he would be a formidable candidate in the primary race but in the general election he could be too far to the right for general voter. huntsman would be a pretty tough candidate in the general election because he's a little more toward the middle more closer to obama and the political spectrum. which is why you have axelrod throwing these love notes to huntsman. he would love to make it hard for huntsman to come out of the primaries. >> jan, the white house is really trying to cozy up the president to huntsman. obviously, they did work together. will that be an effective strategy? can huntsman effectively separate himself from his old boss? >> that is the question for huntsman. also look at his record as governor of utah. he has a loyalist demeanor with president obama, trying to emphasize that.