. >>> mitt romney leans in and abruptly bows out. no third white house run in 2016. >> it's best to give other leaders in the party the opportunity to become our next nominee. >> jeb bush is the instant winner, but who might benefit most in the long run. >>> plus, president obama prepares to budge if it raises spendsing and rallies his base. >> we need to stand up and go on offense and not be defensive about what we believe in. >> republicans say the president is in denial about last year's election results. what about their own promises? >> so, yeah, there have been a couple of stumbles. >> "inside politics," the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. >>> welcome to "inside politics" i'm john king. thanks for sharing your sunday morning with us. here is jackie ka sin fish, michael len, wanda summers and jonathan martin of "the new york times." for the past three weeks he looked like a candidate, certainly talked like a candidate but, no, there will be no mitt 3.0. >> i also believe with the message of making the world sa

one pundit really got under his skin. >> it can't be mitt because mitt ran and failed. he failed. the last thing we need is another bush. >> nobody's going to mistake donald trump for a presidential candidate. i don't think, other than donald trump. >> the donald struck back by ripping chuck todd on twitter. word is that nbc news is firing sleepy eyed chuck todd and his ratings on "meet the press" are setting record lows and he's a real loser. he wasn't done. so many people have told me that i should host meet the press and replace the moron who is on now. first of all nbc isn't replacing chuck todd. the notion of the donald hosting meet the press is more ludicrous than him running for president. we all hope he jumps into the race because he's so entertaining. but chuck is right does anyone really think he's running? lance armstrong lied to the world about the illegal substances that he took in winning seven tour de france titles. he lied to plenty of journalists. and he lied to me proclaiming his innocence in two separate interviews. now he's been asked about his cheating in a si

i was thinking mitt romney would be a candidate.his is a guy who has been a friend, mentor and boss. i worked for him at the olympics, so i bleed romney. quach you think you will be doing the kind of job -- >> you think you will be doing the kind of job taking the leadership role for someone? >> that's presumptuous. >> you have demonstrated a capacity to do it and almost every candidate would want you on their team. >> every candidate is going to build their own team. >> i know you have said it is early, but the bush campaign has done a lot. breakdown what they have actually achieved so far in terms of signing people on? >> we said in 2007 when mitt romney was running against rudy giuliani and john mccain, we felt money talks and early money screams. that was why we created called day. jeb bush has done a remarkable job eating out there early locking down fundraisers and saying hillary clinton is going to have $2 billion or at least $1.7 billion. who is going to be able to go up against that? is it going to be someone knew that has

mitt romney deciding not to run for president a third time. republicans had been full of praise for another romney run. right up until the point when mitt romney actually considered making another run. then former romney supporters decided they really didn't want to take yes for an answer. in fact, here was a typical example. >> there is not a lot of good press in it for somebody losing the election and coming back four years later and becoming a nominee. thomas dewy is the best example in our party. didn't work out too well. >> who better to join us than congressman paul ryan, mitt romney's running mate from 2012. also chairman of the influential house ways and means committee. in fact, ryan may be the most important republican in washington these days because if president obama is going to get deals done with the new

mitt romney's olympic stumbles in london. mitt romney trip begins in shambles. that trip inspired the hashtag romney shambles that trended in britain and the united states while he was there. this mitt person is an american borat, right? hash #romney shambles. it may not be his fault. it maybe the mix of london and american politicians. a few weeks ago, the american tv channel fox news became a laughing stock all over britain when they put somebody on the air who insisted there were parts of england where only muslims were allowed, including he said the entire major city of birmingham. that led 0 a response where british people tried to explain the birmingham allegation from the fox news perspective. the hashtag on that was fox news facts. the city is called birming because ham is not allowed. fox news facts. birling ham has a chain of fast food restaurants called birmig king. >> jam jars are radicalized. see jam jars in tiny burr kas. i choked on my pore age enthought it must be april fool's day. this guy is an idiot. fox news within a couple of days to a lot o

with mitt romney? >> how you doing? >> thanks, guys. you can yell at him now. >> and the latest poll, scott walker is the new front runner, with 15%. rand paul is basically tied at 14%. mitt romney's still in that poll at 13%. carson at 9% and bush at 8%. laura ingraham said this today. >> and so i think jeb bush, you >> joining me now a reporter for the washington post, and a reporter for politico. >> it's the race that might have gone to mitt romney if he stayed in this race. where's that money going now? >> money's still on the sidelines. the donor community isn't sure about bush. they think he is probably the front runner for the center right vote. but they are looking at walker, rubio, christie. >> there may not have been a lot of money waiting to go to mitt romney. and that might be part of why he pulled out of this thing. >> that was mitt romney's real strength, for all you can say and all the valid criticisms about him as a candidate, his inability to connect with people, he was an amazing fund

. >>> this super bowl sunday mitt romney >>> this super bowl sunday, mitt romney gets out, just as he was being pushed. >> i decided it's best to give other leaders in the party the opportunity to become our next nominee. >> with romney out, the republican field is now set. which candidates benefit from the romney departure? i'll be joined by mitt romney's 2012 running mate, congressman paul ryan. >>> plus, isis executes a second japanese hostage. former defense secretary robert gates joins me on the fight against the terror group. >>> also, are the big hits the fans love jeopardizing the future of football? >> i would forget things, i would forget places. i would have this erratic behavior towards my child. for no reason. >> what more does the nfl need to do to protect players from brain injuries? and how young is too young to let your child play football? >>> finally, how athletes are like politicians, and why this -- >> i'm here so i won't get fined. i'm here so i won't get fined. >> -- reminded us of this. >> there is no controlling legal authority. there is no controlling legal a

i believe mitt romney made that decision because he's a true patriot.aybe someone has a better chance of beating hillary clinton. pretty remarkable, in my opinion. >> we're going to talk more about hillary clinton after the break and check in on her of -- event that going on right now from california right after this. ♪ >> we have got ourselves a classic tv twofer. spencer zwick is in the studio and hillary clinton giving a big speech right now in silicon valley, so we're going to talk to spencer about secretary clinton's speech. let's start with hillary talking about the pay gap -- she made a reference to patricia arquette's speech at the oscars and also said this. >> you bump your heads on the glass ceilings that persist in the tech industry. one recent report on the gender pay gap in the valley found a woman with a bachelors degree here tends to make 60% less than a man with the same degree. we can literally count on one hand the number of women who have actually been able to come here and turn their dreams into billion-dollar businesses. >> that is

and mitt romney didn't do that in '08?the toughest negative ads were mitt romney against newt gingrich. >> we're in a period of reform. so maybe this applies to mitt romney as well. >> you know, savannah, what interests me now is watching jeb bush, i saw a washington post clip here jeb bush has become the gop front-runner for 2016. now what? i'm going, since when do we have a front-runner who doesn't lead in any polls? >> when romney was still polling, he had much better numbers than jeb bush does. i think that's interesting. establishment people who cover washington think jeb bush is a formidable opponent and he may be in a general election. but when you look at grassroots republicans he doesn't even make it to the top five of the des moines registrar bloomberg poll. >> he's not going to play well in iowa. but cramer, i think about your audience, about the business audience i'm guessing they love jeb. what do they think of scott walker? >> look, they're not pro union. when you -- >> they're going to like scott walker. >>

no one knew what mitt romney was talking about. it appeared to the less that they thought his name was ed leader. and that is how he felt about it. on that same trip, he disparaged british preparations for the summer olympics. mitt romney cited his own experience with the salt lake city games and he saw a few things that were disconcerting. that prompted this response from british prime minister david cameron. we are holding olympic games in one of the bustest cities, it is different when you have them in the middle of nowhere. >> also, he was given a security briefing by the ni 6 which have is close to the cia here, but they are way more secret. they're never supposed to say the name mi 6 or admit that mi 6 exists. >> i appreciated the insights of the leaders here, and leaders of mi 6. >> that meeting whether or not was not on his public schedule. it was supposed to be a secret. he was not supposed to talk about it with reporters, and even if he found it too irresistible, you're still not supposed to say it was with the head of mi

jeb bush benefit of the mitt romney dropped out today? >> yes, i think so.hink that mitt romney had a few strong supporters compared to advancing his interest in doing so. i think it was right for him to decline to run for the third time. so i think that probably there are opportunities there for multiple candidates to get into his support and fund-raising days. neil: do think that the supporters were beginning to wonder, if that was not the case occurred in a different story? >> i happen to agree with larry that there are a lot of folks who respect and admire his works as a businessman who never felt the need to find himself in after two tries in a billion dollars, i think a lot of people are looking for something a bit different. neil: coming up next going back to it trick question. all this time you have been focused on deflated balls. many people clean their dentures with toothpaste or plain water. and even though their dentures look clean, in reality they're not. if a denture were to be put under a microscope we can see all the bacteria that still exist

i'm a great admirer of mitt romney. i think there's many ways he can continue to serve this country but he may have frankly, spared his family from the ordeal which we all know is a very difficult one. >> you said you thought he was going to run. what did he say to you that made you think that? >> when we talked on the phone he made it very clear to me that he was seriously considering running again, and i'm sure that he spent a lot of time with his family and friends and came to the decision that he made and, again, i have great respect and affection for mitt romney. i think he ran an honorable campaign. >> do you think he could have won the primary even? >> i don't know because -- the reason why i don't know is you know know you only have so many chances at the brass ring and then people say, well it's somebody else's turn. there's no education in the second kick of a mule. >> another person who you knew from those days sarah palin, she was in iowa this past weekend. i'm sure you saw. she's taking some heat from some

. >>> and mitt romney is out. not without taking a jab at some of the gop hopefuls who are still in. our panel on what it means for 2016 as we look ahead on "sunday morning futures." >>> japan this morning condemning an online video that proports to show an isis militant beheading a japanese journalist. kenji goto. it ended days of negotiations and heightened fears for the life of a jordanian fighter pilot who is being held hostage. ed royce joins us now. representative, good to have you on the program. welcome. >> thank you. what do you think it tells us they're putting the video out beheading a japanese journalist. why japan? >> for one them, they're attempting to raise money. last year isis raised tens of millions of dollars by exporting ransom. it is in this particular case the demand was for $200 million. that's one point. the second point isis is messaging out to young men around the world that respond to their message to come and join the fight for the caliphate and kill the infidel. that's part of the mess

mitt romney, unbelievable. >> mitt romney, former governor of massachusetts, and he did something with the salt lake city olympics. is the third time the charm for governor mitt romney? >> not even 24 hours after sam seder got mitt romney on his fantasy draft, who has includes scott walker and jeb bush, lost it's luster. he announced he was bowing out of a running for president. that is one of the 25 draft picks definitely out and a big one too. watch this space to see how the rest of the players fair as our race for 2016 heats up. the conference call. the ultimate arena for business. hour after hour of diving deep, touching base, and putting ducks in rows. the only problem with conference calls: eventually they have to end. unless you have the comcast business voiceedge mobile app. it lets you switch seamlessly from your desk phone to your mobile with no interruptions. i've never felt so alive. get the future of phone and the phones are free. comcast business. built for business. >> the super bowl guarantees advertisers their biggest tv audience of the year. about a third of the count

one reason why the governor was not chosen as mitt romney's running mate, and we promise you this isust the tip. mark, my question to you today is this the beginning of a cascade of ugly stories about him? >> there is no doubt, no doubt based on what republicans have said to us about our book that people are going to come after his background. it is unfortunate for him. like mitt romney in the "boston globe," and there is a lot to look at, and we will see how he handles it. today in london, he handled it by not taking questions. >> you do not need to be reminded of this, but your own reporting suggested this is one reason why mitt romney believes that chris christie will never be the nominee. his background is a mass preview have got his lobbying, and one of his clients was bernie madoff. >> not that bernie madoff? >> that bernie madoff. securities fraud. there are all kinds of things. one of the reasons i thought bridgegate was powerful is that they thought that was the tip of the iceberg. we also know chris christie. we know his modus operandi. >> today, he did not have to answer q

i'm a great admirer of mitt romney. think there's going to be many ways he can continue to serve this country. >> that was john mccain reacting to mitt romney's announcement. pro two days after, they are publicly complimenting the gop nominee. who benefits most now from rom knee's departure? former press secretary for al gore. and press secretary for rip roadway. this was such a surprise that mitt romney dropped out. was this a case that he finally decided look, i've done this twice, i'm tired, or was he reading the tea leaves that my money was disappears my fundraisers weren't going to be there and also my aids were leaving me? >> i think mitt romney looked at his closest allies and realized, we can beat hillary clinton this time. republicans can win. it may not be us. i think they did the right thing. sense this has happened, "washington post" yesterday said jeb bush is now the front runner. all cameras now point to him. >> all research, everything else. that might be what was behind this tweet from mr. obama's 2008 c

the problem mitt romney always had, and i think he had it with contributors, what is the authentic mitt to run, i'm the authentic mitt romney. that's what he was going to do. i think he finally decided, this wasn't going to happen. >> hard to do authentic three times in. >> three versions of authentic isn't good. >> our friend in the washington post wrote, this has quickly become the largest prospective field of republican candidates and the most wide-open nomination contest in the modern history of the party. that caught my eye. >> aren't you excited? aren't you excited? >> i know you're excited. >> i am. >> is it as wide open as it really seems? when you look at a guy like scott walker. >> sure it's wide open. nobody was talking about scott walker a week ago. he gave the speech in iowa. the poll came out. now everybody is talking about him. all the people lined up that were going to give money to mitt now will give money to jeb. now they have to pause to look at scott walker. it's not just the three of them. there are ten more people who all sincerely feel they have a shot because the

jeb bush, mitt romney, chris christie.would say chris christie but definitely jeb bush is, you know, when it comes to the establishment, the one to beat at this point. >> so we've talked this morning about this new poll out in iowa that has governor scott walker at the top with 15%. mike huckabee down at 10%. he won the 2008 iowa caucuses. these early polls are a lot about name recognition. why is he so far down the list here, do we know? >> we should say that now that mitt romney is not in the race he's bumped up a little bit. look, scott walker gave a very well-received speech at the first cattle call in iowa just last weekend, and he is somebody who is from just -- sort of a nearby state, has the kind of midwestern values because he is from wisconsin, but, you know, i've covered iowa politics enough to know that it might not be the best thing in the world to be peeking a year from the iowa caucuses. by the way, today is a year from the iowa caucuses. that's what i -- that's what i think. you know, huckabee has been out

mitt romney let -- for the villain. mitt romney let himself be demonized. if you had gone after his opponent and showed why he was an opponent, you would have two villains. we would have won the election. that did not happen because we do not understand the power of story, the power of what they did when they said that mitt romney is a vampire who causes cancer in his employees, who want to put women in binders and put their lady parts in china. the election was already over. if we do not understand the power of this, we will never win again and i do not want to lose to these tables. -- to these people. can't we at least lose it to someone we respect? do we have to lose the country to these narcissist weenies just because we can't? not me. they do not do this through websites, through pamphlets or brochures. they do not do it for speeches. the young people who vote for barack obama have never, ever, ever listened to a speech of his. i assure you this is the case. they have never listened to the state of the union and if they ask you -- and if you ask them w

. >> at a basic level, we talk about mitt romney and the downfalls of running for president a couple of times and not doing so well. one of the great things running for president more than ones is you have experience in it. the two candidates who are testing the waters for the first time, they have a risk of being caught off guard by issues they didn't expect to be talking about. in chris christie's case and rand paul to some degree, the experience of seeing something that you've been seeing in your home state and suddenly saying it in front of a national audience is much different. >> understanding it. understanding you're speaking at a time when the country is dealing with this in more than a dozen states. whether you like it or not, we live in the ages of you can get asked about boxers or briefs. you're going to get asked questions of war and piece. you want the nuclear football? anything. >> you saw the other republicans. most other republicans came out and said, listen, get your kids vaccinated. this isn't a matter that you want to play around with. that was an interesting contr

it's about mitt romney. he ran twice before once as a nominee.a party wants to look for somebody they think can win and a lot of people that supported them and very strongly thought, this sh not a time for him to come back. romney himself put it this way. he said, look, i understand everybody's sitting there telling me to run. and once i were to get in the race, it would look different. he ended up testing out that thesis. for 2016, it leaves more room for jeb bush, chris christie for the establishment part of the party clarifies that a little bit. we've got a very open-ended race here. 15, 20 candidates at this point potentially. and it's a very open field. >> george, did mitt romney make the right decision not to run? and how do you think this shapes the field or what we think is going to be the field for the next two years? >> mitt romney became wealthy because he knows how to read markets, read the political market. its response to this product on a third romney run was uniformly negative. but he wants to delay as long as possible the time be

mitt romney, unbelievable. >> mitt romney former governor of massachusetts, and he did something witht lake city olympics. is the third time the charm for governor mitt romney? >> not even 24 hours after sam seder got mitt romney on his fantasy draft, who has includes scott walker and jeb bush lost it's luster. he announced he was bowing out of a running for president. that is one of the 25 draft picks definitely out and a big one too. watch this space to see how the rest of the players fair as our race for 2016 heats up. if you're taking multiple medications does your mouth often feel dry? a dry mouth can be a side effect of many medications. but it can also lead to tooth decay and bad breath. that's why there's biotene available as an oral rinse toothpaste, spray or gel. biotene can provide soothing relief and it helps keep your mouth healthy too. remember, while your medication is doing you good, a dry mouth isn't. biotene, for people who suffer from a dry mouth. i have the worst cold with this runny nose. i better take something. dayquill cold and flu doesn't treat your runny nose

. >> still ahead - mitt romney bowed out of running for president. would-be republican contenders scramble for his donors. next a look at deeper money in politics. >> more people are vying for drones with the f.a.a. to regulate them. another tomorrow to the north-east. >> chicago is looking at up to a foot of snow. more than that tomorrow - big travel delays. roads, airplanes, i'll have more in your forecast ahead. >>> tonight we take a deeper look at money and politics. the next presidential election is two months away. thanks to changes in law, big money donors are preparing to spend what it takes on candidates and causes. earlier this week news leaked that koch brothers pledged an 899 million on the next presidential election. almost double the 107 million the brothers raised in 2012. about as much as the entire committee spent during the last presidential election. ali velshi with more on the frenzy. frenzy. >> reporter: the koch brothers charles and david, are the election season nightmare democrats wish they could wake up from. they spent rough

i think this is about mitt romney. he ran twice before.nce as a nominee and the party wants to look for somebody who can win. lot of people who supported him thought this is not a time for him to come back. mitt romney himself put it this way, look i understand everybody is sitting there telling me to run are telling me that because i'm not in the race. once i were to get in the race it would look different. he tested that thesis, turned out to be true. as for 2016, obviously it leaves more room for jeb bush, chris christie to get in, the establishment part of the party clarifies that a little bit. we have a very open-ended race here. 15, 20 candidates at this point potentially. and it's a very open field. >> george did mitt romney make the right decision not to run and how do you think this shapes the field or what we think will be the field for the next two years? >> mitt romney became wealthy because he knows how to read markets. he read the political market. its response was uniformly negative. this is a mixed blessing for jeb bush. it

. >> so we are learning and we have had the weekend to mull it over mitt romney has decided, hey, i'm going to run for president next year. was this his decision or do you think maybe the gop top had something to do with this? >> i think the real winner was mitt romney has always been a numbers guy and the numbers didn't look good. we saw a poll out of iowa this weekend that i thought said it all where it said the voters knew mitt romney and made their opinion and while a fair amount liked him there was not enough margin for him to rise over anybody. a lot of governors eyeing 2016 campaigns have sort of big ranges of people who were unsure about them and to me that says they have a lot of room to grow and to rise well above that sort of 40% mark that mitt romney was running around in the poll. >> as you know he did meet with jeb bush for that secret meeting that we all knew about. we didn't know exactly what they were discussing before making this announcement. any chance that romney could fall on the vip o vp run. >> i sort of doubt that. romney's statement saying you know, i'm not g

that's where mitt romney fell down. he looked like he could fix the economy but he didn't look like he was going to fix average people. because he heepd scorn on them privately. >> 2 to 1 is who identifies with me, it's president obama. >> right. that's what i think likability actually is. >> charles? >> and it bleeds into this idea of whether he cares for people like you. that, to me is the most single most striking exit question in 2012. obama won that 82-18. that is simply an astonishing difference and obama all the objective conditions were for the incumbent to lose the election. the lousy economy and things are not going well. and yet on that he lost so badly that romney had no chance. he was a likable guy. but they had a sense that he was distant. i think our country has changed in the 50 or 60 years since kennedy. it's not so much you like the guy and want to have him for a drink. it's a therapeutic society. we want the government to take care of it. and you have to have a sense of a president who gives that sens

and mitt romney bows out as two gop governors inch closer to a 2016 run. who is most likely to benefit from his exit? >> so the serious future can begin. the only way to bring stability and peace to syria is going to be for assad to step down. >> assad needs to go. he needs to transfer power to a transitional body that is the only way we're going to resolve this crisis. >> welcome to the "journal editorial report." well, after repeatedly calling for the oust of assad is president obama changing his policy? sources are leaking that the president thinks assad and his regime may be part of the solution. as the priority shifts to defeating islamic state. this as moderate syrian rebels claim that u.s. money and supplies have all but dried up over the past several months. even as the president touted american support for the opposition in his state of the union address. so has the administration quietly changed the syrian policy in the middle east. let's ask dan henninger and foreign affairs columnist brett stevens. no official announcement about this. but lots

romney when mitt romney called him to concede the 2012 election?his is "hardball." this is so fascinating. sensitivity and awkward statements. anyway, the place for politics. back in a minute. it's scary. little bit in my eye. [ michelle ] underneath the kitchen table underneath my work desk we've got enough to knit a sweater. [ doorbell rings ] zach, what is that? the swiffer sweeper. the swiffer dusters. it's some sort of magic cloth that sucks in all the dog hair. it's quick and easy. pretty amazing that it picked it all up. i would totally take on another dog. [ kevin ] really? ♪ ♪ >>> well, president obama's getting back at congressional republicans with a pr offensive on the each of immigration, of course. republicans are trying to undue his executive actions on immigration by tieing him to funding measure. today the president hosted a half a dozen dreamers, young immigrants subject to deportation if the republican bill gets passed. the president accuses the republicans of ignoring the human consequences of their legislation. we're back after

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mitt romney was too late to try to make another run in 2016. and so now, with anybody who might have been a mitt romney donor, and with the huge network of donors to his father and donors to his brother, jeb bush is building himself a money mountain that nobody else can scale. i mean, financially, he is almost the prohibitive favorite at this point, unless something dramatically changes in the fund-raising on the republican side. and with that happening sort of slightly underneath the surface, now in an increasingly public way, he's starting to do the things that are expected of a top tier presidential candidate. this week, for example, jeb bush decided to do what the last successful candidate for president did when he was running in 2007. just like barack obama did before him, jeb bush, this week, went to the chicago council on global affairs, to give his big i'm running for president foreign policy speech. >> president obama called isis the junior varsity. four days after they took fallujah, and when they comprised a fighting force of more th