mr. friess, i'd like to ask him what century he woke up in.his is the 21st century and griswold versus connecticut has been overturned that allowed the use of contraceptives between a married couple. but i think many like him would like to return us to the day where government's reach went into women's lives, their bodies, what they could have access to, and while i've been in congress, i've seen a constant chipping away at a woman's right to choose by the right-wing republican majority. but now i'm beginning to see an attempt to roll back a woman's right to contraceptive access. it's to me outrageous, it's troubling, and quite frankly quite scary. i would say about mr. friess, another problem with him and others like him is the supreme court decision that allows people like him to have an undue influence on american elections by being able to give unlimited billions, hundreds of millions to the so-called super pac to influence elections, which certainly does -- his view does not reflect the view of the majority of american women. 99% of whom

mr. foster friess, alex? >> well, i was confused when i first heard the advice about the bayer between the knees. i thought that was more about keeping your legs closed and that's how you stay out of trouble. but apparently there's some sort of -- i don't know what. you know, foster friess seems like not a bad guy. i think he has a lot of -- he has a lot of love for rick santorum. but, look, if you talk about some of the positions that rick santorum has taken on these social issues, whether it's gay marriage, whether it's some of the statements as you rightfully pointed out about supporting states that would outlaw contraception, he is so far to the right on this stuff, i don't know how you win over not only american women, but the american public. >> chris, what is the friess effect in the santorum campaign today? >> um, negative. i think the -- >> cold. >> yes. it's cold. i think the clip from andrea's show is going to be everywhere. i think the problem is that it's stacked atop an entire week's worth of th

mr. friess has a superpac too. >> nothing matches the romney campaign. thank you, charlie black. lease. next we're going to look back on the life of whitney houston who died this weekend. this is "hardball" on msnbc. ♪ and i will always love you one chance to hunt down the right insurance at the right price. the "name your price" tool, only from progressive. ready, aim, save! grrr! ooh, i forgot my phone! the "name your price" tool. now available on your phone. get a free quote today. >>> stay with us. we're coming right back with the sad death of singer whitney houston. that's coming up next here on "hardball." >>> we're back. the music industry and many fans are still in shock over whitney houston's death on saturday. surprised me. according to the associated press she battled drug addict shun. they took a poll on her once remarkable voice, largely off the radar in resen years. last night the gram miss, many artists played tribute. >> no way around this, we've had a death in our family. >> when the truly great artists leave us, their legacy lives on. we love whitney houston. >>

mr. friess, frankly.ldon addleson is, of course, supporting newt gingrich, and supporting that super pac, he's apparently said in the "wall street journal" that, or "the wall street journal" is at least reporting in a bit of political chess that mr. addleson is ready to not only direct support to the former house speaker in the republican primary, but to use his cash to push rick santorum from his position atop the latest national polls. do you think addleson's support for newt gingrich as a way to also topple rick santorum? >> well, i don't concentrate a lot on this political maneuvering. i'm just basically in love with my country. you know, i started out with $800 of accumulative leave pay. i've seen other people become successful, multi-millionaires, steve jobs, mark zuckerberg of facebook, jeff bisos of amazon, and i think this is what america's great about and i want to do everything i can so your grandchildren and every grandchild that's listening to this has an opportunity to run for president as r

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mr. friess.ng me now "politico"'s report. >> what terrified him was not a murderer like in "psycho," but the man who says i'm terribly sorry, but a man's family has got to eat, sorry. >> you have people on the right. you have people on the left who are all saying we don't really like the rules. you have barack obama on the one side who has been against this whole situation. what is he doing, a couple of weeks ago, hey, big dollar donors get behind my super pac. and mitt romney is saying i hate super pacs but his prescription is let's put this money to the campaigns directly. we looked at the numbers that came out just last night. financial filings, and remarkably the super pacs in many cases are raising or spending more money than the candidates themselves in a situation that would have been utterly inconceivable. >> the ron paul super pac pulled in $2.4 million. the republicans have made the argument that money going to his super pacs would still wind up in the campaigns even if there weren't su

mr. friess was a lovely man who said a stupid thing. can know a lot of men who say a lot of stupid things about women, and ron is right, this isn't going to turn a lot of votes, and no voter is otherwise going to not vote for santorum because of his reaction to the supporter. >> let's get to the issues where they might vote for him. mary mentioned michigan and ohio. he's been doing better with white collar voters, santorum with blue collar voters. does he have the appeal or is there a town downside? >> the actual polls we have seen in the five states where we have seen them, there's a class skew with romney support. he's a class candidate for the upscale voters, better educated voters. less religious voters. santorum, we impute, a blue collar appeal. we thing it should be there because he has a blue collar, he grew up in a western pennsylvania town, he talks about rebuilding manufacturing. but so far, in fact, john, he has not run better down scale than upscale, he hasn't run better among noncollege than college or less affluent or affl

mr. friess is a lovely man who said a really stupid thing. i know a lot of men who say really stupid things about women. this is not going to turn any volts and nobody is otherwise going to not vote for santorum because of his reaction to the reporter. >> mary mentioned michigan and ohio, and we know that rom my is doing better with blue collar workingers in the polling, does he have the blue collar appeal or is there a potential downside. >> the exit polls that we have seen in the five states where we have had them, clearly there is a class of mitt romney support. what i call the managerial republican party, better educated voters, nonevangelicals. santorum we repute a blue collar appeal to him. he grew up in a western pennsylvania town, he talks about rebuilding manufacturing, but so far he has not run better downscale than upscale. so the question really becomes, can he begin to console date those voters, not only in michigan, but all place where is the republican party is a dominant part of the electorate. and if he can win in michigan, i

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mr. friess was a lovely man who said a stupid thing. know a lot of men who say a lot of stupid things about women, and ron is right, this isn't going to turn a lot of votes, and no voter is otherwise going to not vote for santorum because of his reaction to the supporter. >> let's get to the issues where they might vote for him. mary mentioned michigan and ohio. he's been doing better with white collar voters, santorum with blue collar voters. does he have the appeal sore is there a town downside? >> the actual polls we have seen in the five states where we have seen them, there's a class skew with romney support. he's a class candidate for the upscale voters, better educated voters. less religious voters. santorum, we impute, a blue collar appeal. we thing it should be there because he has a blue collar, he grew up in a western pennsylvania town, he talks about rebuilding manufacturing. but so far, in fact, john, he has not run better down scale than upscale, he hasn't run better among noncollege than college or less affluent or afflue

mr. friess is good at some things that made him very rich, but he also appears to have moronic tendenciesu can be very good about some things and bizarre about others, but it also makes clear what we have here. this is not an attack on contraception. and mr. santorum was clear. when the supreme court decided in the lawrence case with sandra day o'connor and the majority that you should not send people to prison for who adults of the same sex have consenting sex in their bedroom. two men in texas were arrested by the police in their bedroom for having consensual sex. and the supreme court said no, you can't treat that as a crime. rick santorum was outraged. rick santorum, in fact, compared that. he said what's going to be next? man on dog? so when you have a man who is prepared to support, who did support sending two people of the same sex to prison for consenting sex in their own bedroom, you're not talking about life, you're not talking about children, you're talking about a man who has a particular moral code to which he's fully entitled trying to impose it on others. let's be clear, wh

mr. friess. >> last night on the trail santorum was forced to respond -- >> i'm not responsible for everything that somebody says in my campaign. >> senator? [ inaudible ] the basic premise, it was a joke. it was a stupid joke. it was bad taste. and, you know, i don't know what your preoccupation with that is. >> mark murray is nbc's deputy political director, and mark, santorum had a lot of momentum here in these polls but seems to be bogged down by the comment by foster friess made on andrea's show. >> the conventional wills dom might be that rick santorum is on the defensive here. i would put it in a different way. this is actually really good news for rick santorum, the more the fight is about cultural issues in a republican primary that plays into rick santorum's wheelhouse. he showed the pro-super pac ad, one of the claims it made, a champion for life in there. he's talking about the economy as he did in detroit yesterday. but also social issues have always been a part of rick santorum's candidacy and the more we're talking about social issues, the more republicans are, the better news i

mr. santorum so much to say what he said. and although it sounds funny, it is very, very, very insulting to women. >> we have breaking news on that congressman, foster friess as he did last night on my show that he did not mean it as actual medical advice to anyone. >> well, i'm glad he said -- i'm glad he at least apologized. because i can tell you after that hearing, lawrence, you said it's one of the most -- worst that we've had. we got more social media response from that hearing than from anything we've done yet. and 95% of it was from women. and there were a lot of men who were embarrassed and upset also. >> well, congressman, hopefully you have a much better day now that you know that mr. a papoll apologized to the nation. >> he did? i feel pretty powerful here. >> thank you very much for joining us. >>> up next, former undersecretary of state charlie beard who argues that working women have it much tougher today than they used to. we'll be back in a moment. the employee of the month is... spark card from capital one. spark cash gives me the most rewards of any small business credit card. it's hard for my crew to keep up with 2% cash back on every p