the problem mitt romney has is a couple of things.is already over a plurality and in the polls a majority. if he was going to do this effort, it probably should have taken in place in my view six months ago before donald trump hit 50% in the polls. even if half the candidates drop out, he's still at over 50% and wins the winner takes all states in the course of this. megadonors don't control the process anymore. it is controlled by small donors and donald trump has showed that. his ability to raise money, 30, 40, $50 at a time and he can outraise anybody else and so the idea that he's going to -- mitt romney wants to signal to megadonors what to do in this process, they really don't control the process. the students are in charge of campus today and the deans have left town. and that's what mitt romney doesn't seem to understand about the republican party. >> well, i wonder if the other point is if candidates and i think it kind of makes your point, if candidates drop out, is there any indication there is somebody that would beat him

what do you think of what mitt romney is saying?l have to step aside. >> forgive me for not taking advice from mitt romney, a man who referred to donald trump as -- i understand why there are criteria for the debate, you need 40,000 individual donations, it can be as small as one dollar, to get on the debate stage and you are walking, here's the deal. i understand why there are criteria, everybody want a hot dog stand there is a spot on the stage but you are illuminating people with real credibility. i ran for governor of california in the recall election, got 3 million votes. more than virtually all the other 45 rivals. raised more money than republicans on this slate combined, california has 58 counties, i carried 57, the only one i lost was san francisco by one hundred 49 votes. mike pence is struggling because of the 40,000 criteria but maybe the criteria might be onerous. almost a mockery here because at least one of the candidates on the republican side is offering a $20 gift certificate for a one dollar donation in the, quote

let's ask you about what mitt romney saying.u don't believe your candidate should pull out. tim scott is polling well. he does have the resources. what romney is getting too, there's too many in the race and too crowded and tees up donald trump all over again, picking off a large field. what do you think of that? some for the better part of the party should go, step down. >> i don't agree with him. i think tim scott is the kind of guy to know him is to love him. you have to realize, he started three months ago. look where he is now. he's third in iowa. number 2 is cutting back his staff by a third. this guy is the real deal. he understands what is going on. i had some major issues when we talked to tim in the beginning. i met him a bunch of times. abortion. no republican can be elected to national office unless they believe in a 15-week abortion window. his view on the ukraine where i built three orphanages and 130 ambulances, he understands defense and he understands energy. he is surging right now. and everybody i talk to tell

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write that after mitt romney did sell it. there's a lot of news in here. i have. you broke this news. i'll spoil it because it'll give you a taste for the great insights into the book you write that former vice president biden mitt romney the night he won his utah senate race. i came out of the general of the primary and and mitt romney said you have to run. so he had more support from the 2012 republican nominee than the 2012 democratic nominee, someone run for president, if you want to put it that way. sure. yeah, it's biden has this thing that he does and always has done where on election nights he will call basically everyone who's on a and he'll either congratulate them or, commiserate them with them or whatever how he had very few good things to say about mitt romney until trump became president and donald trump emerged. you know, biden really had actually quite viscerally bad things to say about mitt romney from when they were against each other. and actually felt the same way. but anyway, calls romney when he wins his essentially to say, well, welcome to t

i know when to avoid things like this, so i am not going to comment on mitt romney uttering the phrase [laughter] maria: john? >> you know, mitt, they used to call hot dogs tube steaks from the great depression, that's all people could afford. i'm really shocked that somebody like mitt romney, who looks so healthy, is recommending that we eat to hot dogs that are supposed to be horrible for you. knew anticipates, salt and -- nitrates, salt and whatever else. maria: that's a good point. i'm surprised also because with i bet he doesn't eat hot dogs that often. >> right. he eats tube steaks. maria: right. he would not hook are as healthy as he does right now. we have got a pretty good rally underway. we are about 30 minutes away from the opening bell. tune in on sunday morning, i will talk with 2024 presidential candidate robert f. kennedy jr. he will be joining me on "sunday morning futures" at 10 a.m. eastern. i also have part two of my interview with president trump. we will also take a look at economic issues, and this morning we are anticipating a major week next week. we've got tech

>> well, i will think republican voters have stopped taking mitt romney's advice a long time ago.hat's number one. but number two is this. the data just doesn't show, the environment doesn't show that as well. again looking at the polling, donald trump is having 50, 60% of the vote and he's head to head polls has him up 60-40 against his next closest candidate ron desantis in this race here. so this idea that somehow we're going to get some sort of opposition candidate, right now in the gop primary, there is only one lane for a victory and that is through donald trump and you're seeing that in poll after poll. there is no other lane here, whether it's desantis, pence, nikki haley, tim scott. again we're talking 50, 60% of the vote in a crowded primary he's running away. so mitt romney's advice is completely off-base. >> jonathan: quickly, lauren, on the hunter biden issue, how difficult is this becoming for president biden? how dangerous is it to his political future? >> one concerning family i think is a concern not only for the president of the united states but anyone with fami

>> it's interesting, mitt romney is not making the argument to the candidate themselves. the financial backers, right? >> right. >> he's saying you should turn off the spigot here and no longer fund candidates who aren't viable to trump after the first contests, iowa, new hampshire, south carolina. whether or not candidates will listen is an entirely different equation but romney, of course, has campaign experience, as we know. saying to the big financial backers of the super pacs and candidate themselves, stop funding candidates who don't have a chance. >> and jessica, did romney come out and say who he thinks they should gather and support instead of donald trump? >> no i think that's the point. it's more to the donors as david is saying, stop funding them, in order to really mount a challenge to donald trump and beat him, they're going to have to coalesce, and people have to drop out if they're not viable. i also think it's interesting, mitt romney is saying publicly what so many any privately especially on the senate side. you talk to republicans, they'll stay this pr

. >>> republican senator mitt romney and 2012 gop standard bearer is urging republican donors to helpl hopefuls to prevent donald trump from clinching the nomination. in a "wall street journal" op-ed, romney is calling on donors to pressure candidates who have no chance to drop out. no chance of winning to drop out no later than february 26th, the monday after the contest in iowa and new hampshire, nevada and south carolina. romney adding, quote, our party and our country need a nominee with character, driven by something greater than revenge and ego, preferably from the next generation. a slap at another candidate, the incumbent president. joining me now is former republican congressman from florida david jolly and former obama campaign manager and deputy chief of staff david mussina. how is the call when you got a new monmouth poll showing 69% of republicans think that donald trump is the strongest general election candidate against joe biden? >> yeah, andrea, mitt romney proving on principle to always be correct now in this kind of post trump era, that trump remains a threat to the

i am curious to get your read on mitt romney's call. i think you said much the same, governor.ire primary. even governor christie himself where he placed all of his marbles back in that in 2016 and didn't do well. he placed sixth in your state and opted out of the race. that mitt romney wants to see the same thing so that everyone can coalesce around one or two alternatives to donald trump. what do you think of that and who might those individuals be? >> you definitely need to coalesce around one candidate opposite the former president. the fact is, the former president is polling 40% in new hampshire. 60% of the most hardcore based republicans don't want the guy. so on a one-on-one race, that's the path to victory. you'll see about three phases weaning down. there's three or four candidates that don't qualify for the debates and they have to step down. come october, if you're still sitting there in zero, 1, 2% land, you have to get out as well. right before the iowa caucus, maybe not right before but around christmas, you have three or four more go and finally the final coales

. >>> and now, there is a call to shrink the field of candidates, and mitt romney is saying that candidates with no hope should drop out, and prevent donald trump from becoming candidate. and so, turning to the op-ed, jackie, the decision date that romney cites is the 26th of august, and what are you hearing? >> well, there is an assumption that they can differentiate themselves from the president, and at this point, the only two who wants to separate themselves from him is chris christie and asa hutchinson, and in the other states he has such a commanding lead, and when you are doing the math, it is difficult for any of them to catch up, but at the present time, there is a difficult time to see that not only donors, but voters want somebodyls >> and so, loong at this, romney is not a trump fan, and he writes in op-ed, we need a nominee driven by something other than ego and revenge. and so, in your opinion, who needs to come and go? >> well, that is obviously for the republican party to decide, but mitt romney has a point, and the democrats did that after south carolina and the field thinn

specifically mitt romney, when he said this. >> mitt romney. of the union wearing a lapel man. that i'm a gay man and i should sit in the back. rosa parks didn't sit in the back and i'm not going to sit in the back. >> i'll pick up where i started. this is why teaching our history in completion and fairness and accuracy is so important. george santos and rosa parks are not the same thing. he doesn't even deserve to be sitting in the claim better. he is a liar and he fabricated. she stood up against racism who said we are all created equal against white nationalists and they are not the same. it is disgusting. i hope he goes away. his constituents deserve better. >> he was trying criticize mitt romney because mitt romney came up to him one time in the chamber and said something along the lines of, you don't belong here in more colorful language. but that was his response to criticism he's getting from his own party. >> he doesn't belong there. that's true. he lied about getting there. my advice, resign. deal with your own problems. and straighte

mitt romney was right. he lied about who he was to get there. now has massive criminal problems in his own life. my advice, george, resign. deal with your own problems. straight in your life out. you are not doing yourself any favor, certainly not the republican party any favors. >> thank you for being here on a first night for an interesting segment to respond to that. ahead, we just got word that rudy giuliani is trying to cut a deal with whom? the latest next. plus, i have new reporting on trump's mindset regarding the special counsel's investigation on january 6th. ere loading our suv when... crack! safelite came right to us, and we could see exactly when they'd arrive with a replacement we could trust. that's service the way we want it. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ julian's about to learn that free food is a personal eating trigger. no, it isn't. (sigh) yes, it is. and that's just a bit of psychology julian learned from noom weight. sign up now at noom.com. we never just see the numbers. we see what it looks like to su

what mitt romney is doing is saying, look, the outside influence mega donors have right now matters,ured into the process, and donors, you should hold your candidates responsible, and tell them they need to get out after the early contest. romney's basically saying you should make your candidates make apromise, if they have not broken through by then, then they get out. >> carlos, just this morning, there's now seven names that qualified for the first debate. what kind of opportunity does this provide them? >> look, josÉ, that will be the first opportunity where millions of candidates can speak to primary voters that will be tuned into that debate. it's a huge thing to try and get on the debate stage. you need at least 40,000 unique contributions from a diversity of states. you can't just be from your state. it isn't an easy threshold, but the prize is big. that is where they are really going to have the opportunity to make a break through, to make that argument directly to millions of republican primary voters, and now they have to go state to state and door to door and attend town

the chief strategist for mitt romney's 2012 campaign.ey, governor desantis just concluded his remarks. what did he somewhere to say? more to the point of the story, what is his campaign saying about their finances? >> perhaps unsurprisingly desantis didn't say anything regarding the troubles that his campaign is facing right now behind the scenes. instead this was a speech focused on israel, focused on foreign policy. that's generally the theme desantis stuck to. it sounded a little like this. watch. >> folks in florida would agree, so many people run for office and they promise big things and then they underdeliver on their promises. in florida we make bold promises, but we overdeliver on our promises. when we say we're going to do something, we do it. one of the things that i said was that if you elect me as governor in 2018, that i would be the most pro israel government newspaper the united states and we have kept our promise on that. >> chris, perhaps because of the momentum desantis had on the ground in florida especially coming ou

mitt romney is somebody who has not stayed silent when it comes to taking on trump.w not afraid to go there. he has a new op-ed encouraging donors to take action. saying donors backing someone with a slim chance of winning should seek a commitment from the candidate to drop out and endorse the person with the best chance of defeating mr. trump by february 26th. that's after iowa, new hampshire, nevada and south carolina all vote in their primaries and caucuses. so february 26th, that date. do you see that happening, people dropping out then? >> i think donors should also ask if a candidate is going to basically say it is okay for donald trump to be indicted or make excuses for him or validate donald trump, do not give money to that candidate. if you're not going to challenge donald trump, then don't at all endorse that candidate at all. i think that is even a more important thing, so that's why somebody like a chris christie or asa hutchinson or will hurd, who is saying it is not good for the republican party to have an indicted candidate, we should not be in any way

tonight's star, mitt romney. day and perhaps you also know that hotdog is my favorite meat. i love hot dogs. i love them in buns, i love them outside of buns, i lave them with baked beans. i just love hot dogs, it's the best meat there is without question. so for all of you like me celebrating national hotdog day, congratulations to you and may there be many, many more hot dogs served in our wonderful land. >> greg: so, jim, that's his favorite meat. >> jim: i love it. i felt like i was watching some dark sexual secret like him out of his garage i like hot dogs in the bun. i like them outside the bun. i like rubbing my hotdog against the bun. i like when my hotdog barks. i like catketchup on my hotdog. that was the creepiest hotdog ever. does this guy have friends? did anyone try and talk him out of this video [laughter] >> greg: don't walk and talk mitt. that's the first thing. you said his dog doesn't bark. at least this dog wasn't in a cage on top of his car. >> jim: yeah, or just tied to the rack. >> greg: th

boy, i could not agree more with mitt romney than that. that is absolutely what our country needs.estion to him, and to you and to everyone's who in the republican field right now fits that description? because i do not see anybody. >>, need what do you think of romney's position here? he wants somebody who is not a character, but somebody who it has character. who could that be? >> i'm not sure who that person exists within the republican party right now. and this is one thing stephanie, just to echo amy's point which is if any republican really wanted to beat donald trump or all of them wanted to beat him, they would have gotten together as they all did. their preparations to launch and they would've said look, we are all going in on this guy. all day, every day. not all of us will survive. and that is just going to have to be something that we do. because the only way to be disguised to stay in his face day in and day out and never give him the breathing room he wants. why is he at 55% and nobody's within 30 points of him? because he gets all the airtime he wants because they gi

well, senator mitt romney is out with a clear message to republican mega donors and influencers. a trump pleuroalty. romney acknowledges the apparent inevitability of donald trump's nomination and suggests all hope is not lost for a potential alternative, that is he says if the republican field narrows to a two-person race before trump's nomination is lock in. that's where donors me in. their job according to romney, get candidates what he calls a slim chance of winng to, quote, agree to withdraw if and when their path to nominatio are effectively closed. and to do it, by february th of next year. according to a recent quinnipiac unersity poll republican and republican-leaning voters trump is way ahead with 54%. desantis in at 25%. remaining candidates in the single digits including new jersey governor chris christie who told new hampshire voters last night he's not worried. >> i will never be in front in one poll in this race until election night. and then when election night happens, and i win, all of a sudden you're going to become the smartest people in the world. and the mom

washington and you're going to stay in there with them. >> garrett, your first job was covering mitt romney like i was talking to his younger brother, and he had a salt and pepper feel. >> he could be the sixth romney son. >> i don't say that as a criticism. >> no. >> even mitt romney realized a business-only approach isn't going to work and he awkwardly tried to embrace issues. >> and how he should be the economic mr. fix it and how he should engage on other issues and he touched on the key issue. it's not about culture wars. the operative word is the war, the fight. this is trump's superpower, that he has cultivated the right enemies. he can fight the biden doj. he can fight the left. he can kind of pick the enemy of the moment and make it all about how they are going after him. desantis tries to do that and the idea that trump is the enemy, that's not going to work and trump has spent the last eight years in the public eye cultivating all the correct enemies to republican primary voters, and that's the big reason that he has the lead that he has. >> claire, what if republican primary vot

this republican party is not the party that mitt romney ran in even in 2012.his is donald trump's party. right now, he is in command, and every one of these indictments is a certification that he is taking on the deep state. he is taking on the establishment and this is their revenge. people are lining up and they are lining up behind him. he has a larger league now than when the indictments began. >> congress men, in the desantis campaign, they're pivoting towards a leaner and meaner operation after obviously failing to gain traction in the early polling. did the governor miscalculate by leaning so hard into the culture war issues right out of the gate? was not being lean and mean the issue? >> i think his issue was thinking and i think his plan was, donald trump will be indicted, this is what he was hoping, he will naturally through miracles and unicorns and a man and a white horse that doesn't exist be kind of taken out of the race. and desantis is trump like, his younger version of donald trump. that was his play. it's not working because if you want donal

mitt romney lives in a different world. and he needs to buckle up. it will be a bumpy ride for him. >> right. i'm just going to leave that for you right there. john berman, sometimes silence says everything, my friend. >> yes, it does. thank you so much, laura coates. the curtain opens in the final case against donald trump, the georgia edition. as rudy giuliani takes center stage, hair and makeup optional as always. this is "cnn tonight" or cnn nearly tomorrow, as i like to call it. and tomorrow, which is now just minutes away, is a milestone in one of the key investigations into former president trump. tomorrow, selection begins for the grand jury, which seems likely to vote on whether to indict trump in fulton county, georgia, for his efforts to overturn the election there. this was the call that trump made to find votes there. >> so, look. all i want to do is is. i just want to find 11,780 votes. that's one more than we have. we won the state. >> the new grand jury can move well beyond that phone call and expand charges into the realm of fraud an

. >> tonight star mitt romney.l it.l, a well, as you all know, today day is national hotdog day. and perhaps you also know that hotdog is my favorite meat. i love hotdogs. i love them. and buns love them outside of i bonds. i love them with baked beans. i just lik lave theme hotdogs. it's the best, you know, best meat there is without question. so to all of you who, like me, are celebrating national hotdog day, congratulations to you. and may there be many, many man more hotdogs served in our wonderful land. >> so, jim, that that's his favorite meat. i love it.>> yes. i felt like i was watching some dark secret, like him out of his garage, like i likeke the hot dogs in a bun. and i caidn outside the bun. i like rubbing my hot dogy ho against the god i love. i like gourmet hot dog barks. i like ketchup. i had to ask. . that was. that was the creepiest hot dogtt ever w. who does this guy have? t friends. did anyone try to talk him out of this videalo? >> yeah. i mean, you don't walk and talk, mitt. that's k anlk the

the rebounding economy the white house talks about and donald trump is not mitt romney. >> kayleigh:p wins next november and everyone says, how did that happen, one question will be what was the biden campaign doing in the summer of 2023, said a person who worked on biden's 2020 campaign, no headquarters, few staff, seems like they are taking it for granted. >> harris: and he is dealing with whispers behind his back to places like axios reporting the staff is not happy and people do not want to be alone with him because of his temper. those people can cut you like a knife, they are next to you and they know your secrets. you have that and the drum beat of tripping and falling and the verbal gaffes and all of that and maybe some of that is part of being biden-y, it is hurting him in the polls, something is crushing him in the polls. we are now about 4% inflation rate, which is four times what it should be. trump had 1.4 in a pandemic, however, it is not 9% any longer. things are kind of going in a better direction, but his foreign policy and mistakes on the world stage and didn't hold

when when mitt romney is the one who popularized the phrase makers and takers and so the coal industry rallied behind a romney to end obama's war on coal and so in romney's paradigm in order to not become a taker miners were recruited to identify as makers even as cool jobs continued to disappear leaving workers nowhere to turn to a firm their produced or identity except the companies themselves. and so in conclusion, i'm friends with cole did not provide jobs safety benefits or any level of economic security the agenda in advance to the exact opposite. sellerating economic abandonment and environmental ruin in fatally unsafe and unhealthy working conditions and yet it's succeeded by appropriating and recontextualizing moods and structures of feeling long associated with umwa identity in the conjuncture of the union's collapse hetero patriarchal family structure a linear timeline of american progress achieved through american industry as fueled by american energy national security and power through energy independence and white masculine producerism framed in opposition to racialized p

there's also bipartisan concern from everyone ranging from josh hawley to mitt romney, the more moderate attorney from utah. so there are a lot of things congress can do. they could consider revoking the status, any number of thing. but the most important thing that happened today was this on-the-record admission from the tour that doj is looking at this deal we all thought that was the case "the wall street journal" and other outlets reported on this earlier. but i spent some time at doj as you noted, kelly these are folks who will be fair. >> here's what i'm confused about with their failed attempt to blog this mega business partnership. what is the basis by which the doj can get involved here. is it about anti-competitiveness or the saudi influence which seemed to be what blumenthal was excited about, you know what i mean what's the mechanism for which we're supposed to watch for them to block something >> i think it's more the return. best buy, based on public reporting, we knew that the doj was already looking at the tour even before this proposed agreement came into the picture. >>

of the candidates, and he's not a candidate, that they talk most about being comfortable with is mitt romneyen if romney could enter. could he regain the nomination he had in 2012? how would it work out for him and the country? >> feels like a lifetime ago. joining the conversation, jon meacham, the editor of the new yorker, david remnick. jon, big picture thoughts. we just talked to ken dilanian on the eve of a likely third indictment for the former president of the united states. what are your thoughts on a former president of the united states running for a non-consecutive term while he will be on trial, perhaps in multiple cases? >> that used to be the virtual reality scenario that constitutional scholars would worry about. look, it's the most serious thing you can imagine. i mean, here's a former president who attempted to subvert the constitution that he was sworn to protect. maybe that sounds sentimental to some people, but if we don't have an allegiance, not only to the substance of law but to its spirit, then we don't have a functioning constitutional republic. full stop. i don't be

it's the best meat there is. >> well, laura, i guess if anybody knows a wiener it's mitt romney.encountered a hot dog though it was in a cage on the roof of his car as i recall. so, you know, you should leave the hot dog comments aside. >> laura: it never worked in 2012 when he kin tried to be kif casual. he is not a button down guy. it doesn't work. your second wish? >> my second wish is also food-related. i wish when the biden staff staged, say, an ice cream give away with union workers that some one would help the president pass them out like an adult rather than a 3-year-old. >> sandwich. ♪ >> laura, he tosses the ice cream at them like is he at the seal house. did you see the way he ripped the egg glow top off? you would have sworn there was a burisma payment in that thing he just ripped it right off, knocked it over. well, i'm sounding like our friends over at msnbc, but couldn't they have had that cooler elevated for the poor man? i mean, he almost -- he looks like -- could fall over at any moment. that's just another hazard for him. they have got to be very careful. third

here he is responding to mitt romney. -- at the state of the union. >> look yes, what rosa parks did not sit in the back, and i'm not going to sit in the back. that's the reality of how it. works mitt romney lives in a different world, and he needs to buckle up because it's going to be a bumpy ride for. him >> right. >> john berman, sometimes silence says everything. >> yes it does. thank you so much. the curtain opens on a final act and the case against donald. trump the georgia addition. justice rudy giuliani takes center, stage hair and makeup -optional as. always i'm john berman and it's a cnn night tonight for cnn, tomorrow as i like to call it. tomorrow, which is just minutes away, is a milestone in one of the key investigations into president. trump tomorrow, selection begins with a grand jury which seems likely to indict trump in fulton county georgia, for his efforts -- his 2020 election. there this was the call he made to secretary of state brad lathcoats burger to find votes. there >>, so all i want to do is. this i want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have

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but after mitt romney lost to then incumbent president barack obama in 2012, the republican party hads six popular votes for president. and so, the rnc released a report which they called an autopsy, looking at the winds in the house, the gop has falling on hard luck. that report recommended that the party modernize its messaging and pivot its strategy to appeal to minority groups. quote, if our party is not welcoming and inclusive, young people and increasingly other voters will continue to tunis out when it comes to social issues that the party must in fact indeed be inclusive and welcoming. but there was another, a lesser known autopsy report released around the same time. it was developed by the american principles project, a socially conservative think tank. and it called for exactly the opposite strategy. it says that the d o gop should dig in on social issues. and of course, the next presidential election, that rhetoric of the gop with one particular candidate leading the way, took a sharp turn from the collegiality of john mccain and mitt romney. >> when mexico sends its peopl

telling mitt romney you don't belong here before president biden's state of the union address. to call them out, you want to call me a liar, i'll call you a sell yoult. mitt romney, the man goes to the state of the union wearing a ukraine lapel pin, telling me a latino gay men that i shouldn't sit in the front. i should sit in the back. rosa parks didn't sit in the pack, neither am i going to sit in the back. >> oh, snap, in 1955, rosa parks was arrested in montgomery, alabama, for refusing to sit in the back of the bus and give up her seat to a white passenger. her act lof extraordinary defiance, led to the montgomery bus protest. by comparison, mr. santos is awaiting trial on criminal fraud charges, pleaded not guilty to a 13-count indictment that includes allegations of misusing campaign funds and lying about his personal finances on a house disclosure form. he's also admitted to lying about his resume and family background. the first term congressman's th thirsyness is unclenched and he claims he'll be seeking reelection. harry enten is here. what does the data show us? >>

comments came in a recent podcast interview where he discussed senator mitt romney.g here before president biden state of the union address in february. centrist invoked rosa parks's name when discussing what happened. >> i will call them. out you want to call me a liar? i will call you a sellout? i mean mitt romney, the man goes to the state of the union of the united states weighing a ukraine lapel pin. tells, me a latino gay man and i should not see in the front. that i should be in the back. guess what, rosa parks didn't see in the back and neither am i going to see in the back. >> oh snap, let us put this into context shall we? in 1950, five rosa parks was arrested in montgomery alabama for refusing to say in the back of the bus and give up her seat to a white passenger. her act of courage and defiance led to the montgomery bus boycott. it is known as one of the earliest starting points of the civil rights movement. nearly a year later, the supreme court ruled the cities bust segregationist laws were illegal and unconstitutional. by comparison, mr. santos is awa

, john soon as well, mitt romney said the reality is the president trump, he did a number of terribled part of the distractions always running the former president, relatively tepid stuff given the charges. >> i want to take a step back i worked for jim jordan, one of the people spoke out, put the shoe on the other foot, this pretend that barack obama refused to leave office, inside an insurrection, his age around him try to do this doj fee collectors scheme, lettuce people would be those members of congress say he should be impeached, and he should be indicted.>> president obama, showing classified documents. >> all of the above, it has gone to such dangerous your partisanship it defies reality, after donald trump lost the election, everyone around them with the exception of peter navarro knew he lost election, donald trump knew it, was a matter of how are we going to handle it, some aids to the credit and myself included, let's go on the campaign trail and talk about accomplishments and get people vaccinated, instead he wanted different route and a lot of people enabled it and they

i just think it's thinking this growing course, the op-ed by mitt romney this week saying if there'sk he agrees. john thune is echoing that, if you want somebody to be anti-trump, get out of the race. you said they need to do that earlier, other republican candidates then what mitt romney is calling for. >> well, a little bit. it definitely needs to be before super tuesday. that's what they're talking about. given that iowa and new hampshire, i think you're going to see three or four candidates not get through the second debate and they'll drop out. >> haven't you said november or december. >> i did, two or three more, polls are sitting in single digits. before iowa, my guess you're going to see five people in the race, something like that. after new hampshire you've got to get it down to one on one. >> who should stick around, who should those five be? >> whoever's got it. >> come on, give me -- give me a few names. >> it's really on personality. it's on leadership and personality. i'm not saying these guys have to have a danceoff on stage and figure it out, although that would be g

. >> former republican presidential nominee mitt romney says major donors should losses force some of poorer performing candidates to force them to drop out of the race by late february of next year that is if former president trump remains far ahead clearly an attempt to get romney to make sure he is not the nominee next year. interesting. >> bret: we have exclusive interview with governor desantis monday in new hampshire. been trying to get that interview for a while. we are going to sit down with the governor on monday. sit down with martha mccallum and me as we host the first republican debate of the primary season. it will happen on fox news channel august 23rd, 9:00 p.m. eastern time live from milwaukee, wisconsin. the dow finished ahead for the 12th consecutive trading session. the industrial average gained 27. the s&p 500 was up 13. the nasdaq grows 86. we brought you this story yesterday. but now we are getting new information tonight about the drowning of former president obama's personal chef. tafari campbell apparently died in a paddle board accident near the obama's home

here he is responding to mitt romney. -- at the state of the union. >> look yes, what rosa parks didthat's the reality of how it. works mitt romney lives in a different world, and he needs to buckle up because it's going to be a bumpy ride for. him >> right

neil: he had said that you contributed to mitt romney's has.raised this a number of times, that you were star struck by barack obama during the whole sandy storm incident -- [laughter] which you worked with the former president to get new jersey expect northeast back in shape. when you hear that are and it keeps coming up and this is the latest, what do you think of that? >> well, one, it lets me know that i am inside his head in a big way, ask and he is very worried about standing up on that stage with me on august 23rd. and secondly, i would just say this, my state, our state, neil, because i know you're a resident of our state, our tate suffered the greatest natural disaster in its history and the second greatest natural disaster in the history of this country. and and you bet that i welcomed the president of the united states when he came to see the damage, console our citizens and offer to help us to rebuild and recover. that's what a responsible leader does. what an immature child does is to criticize someone for that, and this is the kin

the best, you know, best meat therel,i gu is. >> well, laura, i guess if anybody knows a , it's mitt romneythe last time he encountered a hot dog, though, i the root wn a cage on the roof of his car, as i recall. so, you know, he shoul d the hot dog comments that it neverd to worked in 2012 when he tried to be kind of casual. he's just like a button down guy. that's okay. but it just doesn't it doesn'tis work. >> what's your second word? well, my second wish is also food related. i wish when the bidenswish whe r say, an ice cream giveaway with union, that someone would help the president pass them out like an adult rather than a three year old, laura.ice he tosses ice cream madam likee is at the seal house. and did you see the way he ripped the igloo top top off?t n >> you would have sworn there was a burisma payment in thapedo >> he just ripped it right off, knocked it over. well, i'm soundingfrie liket our friends over at msnbc, but couldn't they have had that elevated for the poor man? thmean, i hear what he looks like he could fall over at any r moment. i mean, that's just another hazar