so i'm just saying. >> you know, mike murphy, i forget, we have mike murphy here. ere. >> i love it. >> come on, mike. >> jump in. go! >> well i'm a michigan guy. i grew up there and i was a political consultant to the governor before governor granholm so obviously governor granholm and i have some disagreements about some policy issues but we won't clog up the program with that. i'm a student of the american auto industry and very happy to see it's coming back. but you ought to read the book on kind of the rise and fall of detroit. it's very instructive. one of the problems we have how do you answer the question that general motors before the collapse here was the most successful company in their joint venture and the toughest, fastest auto market in history in china getting clobbered in michigan and the united states. we have an over regulated industry that had real problems. now these bankruptcies have cleared away a lot of the legacy costs so there is some hope now but manufacturing in america is in a crisis and i'm not sure i'll resonate to the idea it's all ab

i thought mike murphy who is a republican strategist, i thought mike put it best last night. >> oh, really? he was talking? >> he was tweeting. this is what he said. listening to perry trying to put a complicated policy sentence together is like watching a chimp play with a locked suitca suitcase. i am not associating myself with those comments. that said, he is, willie geist, a republican. >> seriously. there are some things you just can't say but watching rick perry last night try to talk poli policy, pass a quick sound bite, a shot of coyote in the face. >> come on. >> beyond that it gets pretty depressing. and i'm sorry. i know republican primary voters as you get past the first couple states and i've seen them time and time again chew up and spit out guys like this who are the flavor of the month. i just don't see rick perry surviving past march. >> we are going to see some new polls from cnn that have him not only leading the field but saying he has the best shot of beating barack obama. >> seriously? >> by a margin of 16%. >> cnn has, you know, the polling, but they've got a special

, mike murphy had one last night.igh wire after a three-day meth bender. >> any time you can have a meth joke in connection with rick perry, that's a win. >> there's perry looking at romney. >> when he talks -- he can't talk and look at the same time. >> hes looks forward. i think that's his approach. he makes eye contact with the camera, like he's doing right here. >> he is a good-looking rascal. so the presidential hopefuls are desending on florida last night, a swing state. let's look at a clip in the debate and get harold ford jr.'s response. >> it's not the first time mitt has been wrong on some issues before. and the bottom line, we never said we were moving this back to the state. >> it's different than what the governor put in his book, just six months ago. there's a rick perry out there that sang that -- almost to quote, it says that the federal government shouldn't be in the pension business. that it's unconstitutional. unconstitutional. and it should be returned to the states. so you better find that rick p

jury had determined that it will city of mill valley was responsible for a landslide that killed mike murphy. if victim's widow and daughter will now split $4 million. >>> a shut down of the federal government was averted today by just three members of the house. in a procedural move they passed a bill to keep the government running until tuesday. only three were needed because congress was on vacation and party leaders agreed. when members return they'll have to vote on another stop, gap bill. that may spark another heated debate on government spending. >>> scores of people marched this afternoon. a group called refund california organized the banks. in a release the group said today's action wrapped up a week long series of events calling on banks to help fix the housing situation and pay more taxes. >>> bank of america is planning to start charging customers to use their debit cards in stores. ktvu's mike mibach says the bank's rational for the new $5 a month carjack. >> reporter: bank cards they are very familiar and easy to use. according to a press poll 2/4 of americans prefer to swipe

jury had determined that it will city of mill valley was responsible for a landslide that killed mike murphy. if victim's widow and daughter will now split $4 million. >>> a shut down of the federal government was averted today by just three members of the house. in a procedural move they passed a bill to keep the government running until tuesday. only three were needed because congress was on vacation and party leaders agreed. when members return they'll have to vote on another stop, gap bill. that may spark another heated debate on government spending. >>> scores of people marched this afternoon. a group called refund california organized the banks. in a release the group said today's action wrapped up a week long series of events calling on banks to help fix the housing situation and pay more taxes. >>> bank of america is planning to start charging customers to use their debit cards in stores. ktvu's mike mibach says the bank's rational for the new $5 a month carjack. >> reporter: bank cards they are very familiar and easy to use. according to a press poll 2/4 of americans prefer to swipe

. >> i think one of my favorite quotes if the book is from mike murphy. he worked a long time political campaign consultant and mccain and mike tells this story. he had a friend in the advertising business and came to him one day and i'm paraphrasin and said why did mcdonald's never attack burger king or burger king never attack mcdonald and he said never kim the category. why didn't they say the mcdonald's burgers have maggots and we killed the cagory of politics right when we need it most. basically with money, gehrmoney gerrymanderring and we're having a financial crisis and our politicians have having an election and it's like the two circlesearly overlap. >> charlie: why don't they overlap on the eve of the president making a big speech trying to say the understands the economic collapse and will try to setforth a plan and try to garner support in the political arena to enact a plan. >> i think he's been trying to make it relevant but i don't know if the system has made it relevant. misc misc michelle bachmann said she's bringing back two dollar a gal

that is the inimitable words of mike murphy. patrick, i can only go to you with that. but what is going on? i got a sense -- i get a sense, in the media world here, which there are not a whole lot of republicans floating around, but there are a few i suppose, all worried, trouble in river city, we've go the to stop this guy perry because we've got to get the right nominee. what's going on in your erstwhile political party? >> i think they're scared to death of rick perry, because, one, he's not one of them. and second, there's this fear that's existed since goldwater, if we give him the nominee, he'll explode and take down the ticket with him and he'll also lose the senate and house when we got this golden opportunity. chris, this is the battle we've had, 1968 with richard nixon. it was look, you nominate nixon, you lose. rockefeller's guys were putting out polls, you nominate nixon, you lose. go back to taft. we want to win. we've got eisenhower. this is a battle endlessly in the republican party for the nomination. the problem with rick perry, for the establishment,

mike murphy tweeted something that makes the points a lot of you made. perry very good in the gop primary. went on offense, stumble bomb on defense. how does he win a general election? >> he does not win a general election. this may offend a lot of people, i'm sorry. i said the same thing about michele bachmann a few weeks ago. rick perry does not win the general election. >> i understand it's his first debate. fine. i get that. you almost have a subliminal line across the bottom of the screen to republican delegates. the line says do you want to scratch a sore or do you want to win? >> the problem is, a lot of conservatives lined up behind john mccain four years ago. that stinks. a guy they didn't consider to be a conservative, teamed up with ted kennedy on a lot of things. sticking a sharp stick in a lot of things. like goldwater, he had a disconnect. do you agree? >> i agree with you. >> conservatives are saying wait, i'm going to get behind a guy that was a liberal governor of massachusetts? so i think mark is right, it's why it's hard to make that f

host: that is mike murphy's question on twitter. tab, or have they already? guest: very much they have already. if you look at what they have contributed over the years to their own equipping of their military forces, it started out very much the u.s. government programs providing for the iraqi security forces with respect to equipment, but over the last year, that is change where right now i think last year was more than 90% -- and this is just equipping -- paid for by the iraqi people rather than the american people. that obviously is going rapidly down to -- up to 100%. as far as salaries of their troops, more than 650,000 troops in the iraqi security forces, salaries are paid for completely by the iraqi government. there is no cost shared by the u.s. taxpayer. there awakening movement, the sons of iraq, the tribal movement that i addressed earlier, initially it was an idea that developed in 2006 in anbar and other provinces, and it was u.s. funding at that point in time they got the program went into a dozen eggs, we transition

murphy is one of those people. >> wow. >> madonna, i don't know if we're planning on sending her flowers this week, but if you were, do not buy her hydrangeas, a great open mikeally part of a press room, gives her flowers. take a look at her reaction. >> thank you. thank you. >> i absolutely loathe hydrangeas, in case he doesn't know that. >> she gets this gift, and then she kind of rolls her eyes, a little difficult to see in that shot and says i loathe hydrangeas. madonna's rep has spoken out saying she's entitled to like anyone she want. doesn't mean to hurt the feelings of the hydrangea nation. i expected a lot of people to say this is the rudest thing ever. you should be gracious. siding with madonna. didn't know her mike was open. apparently it's okay to be mean as long as nobody hears you. >> and this baby bump controversy. >> the big news, let's face it, out of the mtv video music awards that beyonce is married, and she confirmed that she is with child. now, there is a website out there mediatakeout.com, not that she's not pregnant but that bump was fake. she's not as pregnant as she says that she is so in order for the announcement to seem very drama

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