mr. gingrich calling obama the food stamp president and with this general idea that with the food stamps are the new welfare and we've got to get rid of it like we did welfare itself, that's actually a new thing. what they want to do is they want to turn it into a block grant. instead of it being that you would have a legal right, as you do have, which is why we got up to 46 million people, just leave it to the states, they can help or not. that's what we did to welfare, and that's the other story i would tell you, because that was definitely a bipartisan not all democrats, but a bipartisan agreement in the wrong direction in 1996, and that's a very sad, unfortunate, terrible story, because now cash assistance for mothers, and this is a story about mothers and children, it's about women and children, it's practically gone in more than half the states in the country. in the state of wyoming, they're the kind of big winners on this, just barely 600 people in the whole state, mothers and children, receive tafnfs it's called temporary assistance for needy families. twenty-six states now have

mrs. gingrich called president obama the food stamp president because we had a program working to help people in the recession. he is the food stamp president, that's great. although, and food stamps were raised in the recovery act, the stimulus legislation, and that was a very, very good thing. now, why did they go up? because people had a legal right to get that when they went into the office to apply, had to be done. welfare, now temporary assistance for needy families, tanf, no longer a legal right. go in, you look healthy, you look like you can work, they can say whatever they want, there'si no obligation to do that. in the recession, tanf went up from 3.9 million people to 4.9 million, 500,000 people here, 20 million over there. huh? what do we have now? well, the state of wyoming wins the prize. 617 people in the entire state of wyoming, moms and kids, 4% of the poor children in wyoming are getting tanf. unbelievable. 25 states now, six more since i started writing the book, have under 20% of the poor kids. no wonder people are in deep poverty. it was run in the new "new york times" in

mr. gingrich is in our washington bureau right now. mr. speaker, this is a tragedy for the entire u.s., for the diplomatic community. what do you make of what's happening on the ground right now in libya? >> well, first of all, i think all of our prayers should go out to all four families who gave their lives on behalf of the united states. these are truly soldiers of freedom as much as anybody in afghanistan and iraq. we should all recognize that. i also think we should back up a half step and realize, this is not just about libya. you don't get simultaneously attacks in benghazi and cairo, and libya and egypt on a purely local basis. and you don't get them on 9/11. a day when we're already honoring terrorist attacks in the united states, without a fair amount of collusion and a fair amount of planning. so i think you have to look at this in a larger context. it doesn't matter if the average libyan likes us or dislikes us. there's a substantial faction, particularly in benghazi, which was sending people to iraq to kill americans. there's

ongoing cover-up that is going on in benghazi, former speaker of the house of representatives, newt gingrich. mr. speaker, welcome back. >> good to be you. >> sean: the ambassador's body dragged through the streets. this is more infuriating thing to me. this is the anniversary of 9/11. apparently we didn't beef up security and the president had no answer last night. we had these attacks and this is about movie trailer released in july. after two weeks of pressure, it's self-evident it was a terror attack and then the president says it was related to the movie. they can't get it straight. do you think they are lying? >> yes. i think the president of the united states has lied to the american people but i think he may be lying to himself. i think this president is so totally one-sided in his view of islam, he is so misinformed. he is so willfully ignorant, if you look at his cairo speech that was filled with factual errors. this is a president who simply can't face reality when it comes to people who wanted to kill us. when i see bear bearians -- barbarians torturing an american ambassador, i foun

mr. gingrich and mr. army and others -- armey and others. well, we have empirical evidence. we did raise taxes at the top. and those folks in the top tax bracket actually brought more after-tax income than at any time in american history. but everyone was better off. about 22 million new jobs were created. that number seems as though as it's in a different world today when we struggle so hard to create jobs, but just think of all the job creation. we experienced one of the lowest levels of poverty. the rising tide lifted all boats. it worked. but beyond a strong economy and to some extent because of that strong economy we were able to get control over the federal deficit. and in fact for the last three years of the clinton administration we had a surplus . mr. gore was scorned for talking about the lock box, but the lock box was all about putting some of that surplus aside to pay for the retirement and health costs of the baby boom generation. i'm a member of that baby boom. generation. we haven't all retired. there's more than 70 million of us. many of us feel we should pay

. >>> i am joined by former house speaker and former republican presidential candidate newt gingrich. mr. speaker, good to see you. >> good to be with you. >> coming out of the conventions, the democrats were basically, we're all in this together but mitt romney's philosophy is you're on your own. and the republican convention basically was the president thinks government is the answer to everything. who was more effective? >> i think in the long run the romney convention was more effective. you had this a little bit with jerry brown this morning. if you ask the american people do you want a bigger economy with more jobs but a smaller government with fewer services, or do you want a bigger government with more services, but a smaller economy with fewer jobs, it's about 70-16. the challenge that the president and the effect on friday morning was reminded once again, his plans aren't working. four americans dropped out of the workforce for every american that got a job in august. at any rate people one in order to be your brother's keeper you have to have a job. you need an income. >> wasn

. >>> i am joined by former house speaker and formerer republican presidential candidate newt gingrich. mrspeaker, good to see you. >> good to be with you. >> i want to play something from the democratic national convention which seems to me to typify a lot of the message from out of there. >> mitt romney and paul ryan are correct when they say that each individual should be responsible, but their budget goes astray in not acknowledging that we are responsible not only for ourselves and our immediate family. rather our faith strongly affirms that we are all responsible for one another. i am my sister's keeper. i am my brother's keeper. >> so, cominging out of the conventions the democrats were basically, we are all in this together, but mitt romney's philosophy is that you are on your own and the republican convention basically was that the president thinks that government is the answer to everything. who was more effective? >> i think that in the long-run the romney convention will be more effective. and you had a little bit of it with jerry brown this morning. if you ask the american peo

mr. gingrich, you got that one right. but you don't have to listen to newt. let's listen to the economic advisor to really the icon of the modern-day republican party, president ronald reagan. look whaep said. -- look what he said. look at what mr. bartlett said. he said distributionally, the ryan plan is a monstrosity. the rich would receive huge tax cuts while the social and safety net would be shredded to pay for that. a monstrosity. this is the economic advisor to president reagan. president reagan wouldn't have a chance in today's republican party, not with the ryan budget. so again, the ryan budget is radical. radical. and shrinking the size of government to what it was more than a half a century ago. more than a century -- half a century ago. well today i'd like to focus specifically on the devastating impact of the ryan budget, the romney ryan budget on american agriculture and on our quest for clean renewable energy and energy independence. the ryan budget would make deep reductions in our federal commitment to america's farmers and ranchers, to rura

gingrich says that when he faces president obama, mr.omney should "not be hostile but be assertive, clear, a dirt and not back off." >>> cpaigngith mro in ohio yesterday was mike row, the host of "dirty jobs." the two agreed that creating jobs is the most important thing that america needs. >>> the "orlando sentinel" reports at jimmy buffet, the mayor of margaritaville, will be doina prmex m to help president obama. tickets for the private invitation only fund-raiser cost between $500 and $5,000. >>> steve harvey will tapen episode today at nbc in chicago with first lady michelle obama r hew t tal show. he says he is honored. the interview will air next wednesday. >>> and bill clinton told cnn he can't be president in the u.s. again but he does have other options. clinton says because of his irish heritage, he would be elle runorsint in ireland. since his home state of arkansas was part of the french empire before the louisiana purchase, he could run for president of france. but his french is so bad that he asys "within a week i'd be anh

former presidential candidate newt gingrich. mr.er, thanks so much for coming into "the situation room." >> thank you. glad to be with you. >> want to show you poll of polls as we call it in ohio and florida. ohio likely voters 51% said they'd vote for obama. 44% for romney. and the poll of polls september 16th through the 24th in florida, 50% said they'd vote for the president, 45% for mitt romney. why do you think it is that mitt romney doesn't seem to be resonating in these critical states at least so far? >> well, i think he has three or four big challenges. one is that for a long period the obama campaign dramatically outspent romney in resiesly those states driving home their image of who romney is. the second is that the romney campaign is yet to find a thematic way of explaining itself and laying out in a clear crisp way the difference between romney and obama. and i think that frankly is a problem. and there's an ironic third problem. both these states have republican governors. both these governors have been doing the righ

and newt gingrich will join us, and wednesday night, mrs. romney will be here, you don't want to miss that. go to greta wire.com. good night fro greatest governmn earth. >> kimberly: hello, everyone. i'm kimberly guilfoyle along with bob beckel, eric bolling, dana perino and brian kilmeade. it's 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> kimberly: president obama made his way to new york city this afternoon for the united nations general assembly. world leaders are gathering but the president is not going to meet privately with any of them. so far he turned down a meeting with israel prime minister this week to talk about stopping iran. but what does mr. obama have time to do while he is here? at this very moment he's wrapping up an interview with the lovely ladies of "the view." priorities, priorities, priorities. what do you think about this? right call? >> eric: right about now, he is being asked hard hitting question, like what is your favorite color or favorite food. >> dana: favorite app. >> eric: perhaps. ridiculous. so many ba

. >> speaker gingrich, mr. >> we're looking forward to seeing calista on tuesday. dee dee myers stay with us. coming up more poll numbers from swing states. david gregory and chuck todd will be here to break them down and also eugene robinson joins the conversation. i don't want healthy skin for a day. i want healthy skin for life. [ female announcer ] don't just moisturize, improve the health of your skin with aveeno daily moisturizing lotion. the natural oatmeal formula goes beyond 24-hour moisture. it's clinically proven to improve your skin's health in one day, with significant improvement in 2 weeks. for healthy, beautiful skin that lasts. i found a moisturizer for life. [ female announcer ] aveeno daily moisturizing lotion. also discover daily moisturizing body wash. for healthy skin that starts in the shower. only from aveeno. ♪ >> all right. 29 past the hour. welcome back to "morning joe." we're live in washington. joining us in new york the guys who are supposed to be live in washington. >> hey, where

and newt gingrich will join us, and wednesday night, mrs. romney will be here, you don't want to miss that. go to greta wire.com. good night from washington. on. good luck. >> the rirl factor is on. tonight. >> you are asking the american people to hire you as president of the united states think would like to hear some specifics. >> mitt romney dodges questions about what deductions and exemptions he would outlaw. why is the governor doing that he? he wool tell you. >> i don't think -- we will tell. >> you i don't think anyone is going to be confused as to the ideological belief of most of the people who appear on fox. >> i think that's grossly unfair. bret baier, is he an idealogue? >> i don't know bret baier. >> bill: you don't know. >> bernie goldberg itching to weigh in on the koppel o'reilly shootout. he will be here. >> do you think obama made the right choice by choosing paul ryan as his vice president? >> yeah. >> do you think he picked paul ryan because is he african-american or because he is qualified? >> it could be a little bit

it was outlined in a book in 2009 when newt gingrich was part of a group that met and devise a process to obstruct. mr. boehner was one of the key lieutenants. back in 1995. his following the process. i'm waiting for you. i want you to identify it now. we need information to understand the process because -- guest: i get your question. it's a good one. i assemble all this in a book at present before the election so people can make an evaluation. it has the details from what occurred over three and a half years. if he do it daily reporting of this, you cannot accumulate the information. i have found this to be the case over 40 years. the reactions to who obstructed or who did not do what was necessary. people had different opinions. this was politically neutral presentation of what occurred. some people will say the republicans were awful, they not unified. -- were not unified. speaker boehner had the tea party which she could not control. -- he could not really control. others say the president was not aggressive enough and could not control the democrats. i point the finger at everyone but make the p

it was outlined in a book in 2009 when newt gingrich was part of a group that met and devise a process to obstruct. mrone of the key lieutenants. his following the process. i'm waiting for you. i want you to identify it now. we need information to understand the process because -- guest: i get your question. it's a good one. i assemble all this in a book at present before the election so people can make an evaluation. it has the details from what occurred over three and a half years. if he do it daily reporting of this, you cannot accumulate the information. i have found this to be the case over 40 years. the reactions to who obstructed or who did not do what was necessary. people had different opinions. this was politically neutral presentation of what occurred. some people will say the republicans were awful, they not unified. speaker boehner had the tea party which she could not control. others say the president was not aggressive enough and could not control the democrats. i point the finger at everyone but make the point, it gets down to presidential leadership. the president is the one that has

mr. softy is coming. >> jimmy: pro, here we go. pro, breaking out the old slip and slide. con, or as newt gingrich calls it his old flop and slap.ls it? >> jimmy: he changed the name of it. >> steve: that's his name for it. >> jimmy: pro, going to the beach and busting out your pool noodle and beach balls. >> steve: oh, come on! what is this? who put -- >> jimmy: let's get another drum roll on that, i guess. [ laughter ] [ drum roll ] con, and then quickly pulling up your shorts after someone calls the cops. ♪ >> steve: oh! >> jimmy: no, you can't do that. >> steve: ♪ it's harder than ever ♪ >> jimmy: the audience is too smart. >> steve: yeah, they're smart. they're intelligent. the most intelligent audience in new york. >> jimmy: finally pro, going out for ten minutes and getting a tan. con, going out for twenty minutes and looking like this. [ audience ohs ] there you go, guys. that'd be "pros and cons." we'll be right back with a new installment of "at the bar with roger federer." what? [ cheers and applause ] ♪ pros and cons and pros and cons and pros and cons ♪ ♪ and pros and cons and pros you misare you sure?et toss. eeeee

mr. romney is going it turn things around, then he'll have to do it by himself. just today you've got newt gingricher out there with todd akin, the man who leth ma advertised rape. these men are not really doing mitt romney much in the way of favors, are they? >> depends on who their audience is. this is going to be a base election. meaning mitt romney has to excite his base to ensure they come out. >> he's been exciting his base for six years. how much longer does he have to go on and try to do this? >> he's got to do it until the voting -- until the polls are closed across the country. and so -- but also remember donald trump and sheldon aidleson are not exactly for mitt romney. they're against barack obama. so whatever they have to say, you know, it's about their goals to get rid of the president. mitt romney is but a secondary thought, but, you know, if it excites the base to come out to vote against the president, then that works to romney's benefit. >> i put it a little differently. i think a lot of the folks on the right are treating this as a referendum election where you can talk about une

unique perspective on all of this, newt gingrich disagrees with the president on just about everything and of course, he ran against mitt romney and joins me now. mr. speaker, welcome back. how are you? >> good to be with you. i have to say, given that sound bite, i thought barack obama sounded like a conservative republican. that was a great series of sentiments. i agreed with every single one of them. i just wish his policies were there. >> if he's reunited the whole of america, including you, this is a good step forward, isn't it? >> that's right. well, he is rhetorically terrific. unfortunately, his policies were almost exactly the opposite of his speech. but it was a very good speech. he clearly has learned something from bill clinton recently, because he now knows how to sound like he's a conservative american even if his policies are very left wing. >> do you believe that presidential candidates should be held accountable to their words? do you think they should live up to their rhetoric? >> well, ideally, sure. i think the people have an obligation to try to communicate clearly and if you don't communicate clearly, how can you possibly hav

newt gingrich who was on morning joe friday. he said this about mr. romney. you think that he has the ability? >> yes. having debated him 15 or 17 times, he's a pretty good debater. he's a better debater than any of our nominees. >> so perry, some analysts say mitt romney needs to connect on some sort of a hail mary in the debates to turn things around. is that putting too much pressure on him? >> he does have a lot of pressure on him. right now the numbers are showing he's behind about three or four points nationally. the other thing, gallup research showed last week that essentially twice in the last 50 years has a candidate basically been losing before the debates but then after the debates been winning. it's very hard to change the dynamic completely. as we've seen in 2008, the president may know debates are not his number one skill. he's pretty good at them. it's not clear he's going to make a bill gap to let romney win. >> thank you both. >>> let's go more from iowa. early voting is happening now. good day to you, jamie. what can you tell us about the o

mr. president, the romney-ryan plan is extreme and unbalanced, and i'm not making it up. don't take my word for it. listen to former house speaker newt gingrich. he criticized the ryan budget. he called it -- quote -- "right-wing social engineering." end quote. all i can say is, newt, you got that one right. mr. president, representative ryan believes in radically shrinking the size of government to what it was over half a century ago. his aim is to use the deficit crisis as a pretext for degrading and dismantling everything from medicare and medicaid to education, environmental protection, workplace safety, medical and scientific research and on and on. and it doubles down, as president clinton said, it doubles down on the theory that if we just give more and more of our national wealth to those at the top, it will magically trickle down. we've tried that before. it sure doesn't work. now, i'd like to focus some more of my remarks this evening on the devastating impact of the romney-ryan budget on medicare and medicaid, but health care more generally. now, since he first arrived in congress, representative ryan hases are tently -- has consis

mr. romney would do better to focus more on reducinged his ur estate's political bias e if whining about the liberal media was a winning strategy for republicans newt gingrichould be the nominee. hugo, i will call your attention -- >> liberal media. >> new york tim hugo lingren, isecause it references stink bombs also. the ap quoting michael mcdonald of george mason university which tracks early voting saying if you wait until the election prior to the election to release your stink bomb you've lost coloradans. ifou've got the geha yove dha soon. >> i agree with that. look, the romney campaign if they could buy time they would be buying it. i don't know what they want to make the most of this last push. it's hard to see -- i mean i think the debates will be interesting for the exact matter that sometng unexpected has t happen to reayhangac 'sar to imagine -- it's hard to imagine obama going in there and doing a terrible job. it's possible. sort of equally impossible to imagine romney doing such an outanding job, so different than we've ever expected that would also make a difference and yay tha except in 2004, i keep talking about 2004 today, you know, geor

it was outlined in a book in 2009 when newt gingrich was part of a group that met and devise a process to obstruct. mrboehner was one of the key lieutenants. his following the process. i'm waiting for you. i want you to identify it now. we need information to understand the process because -- guest: i get your question. it's a good one. i assemble all this in a book at present before the election so people can make an evaluation. it has the details from what occurred over three and a half years. if he do it daily reporting of this, you cannot accumulate the information. i have found this to be the case over 40 years. the reactions to who obstructed or who did not do what was necessary. people had different opinions. this was politically neutral presentation of what occurred. some people will say the republicans were awful, they not unified. speaker boehner had the tea party which she could not control. others say the president was not aggressive enough and could not control the democrats. i point the finger at everyone but make the point, it gets down to presidential leadership. the president is the o

mr. romney and the republican party need to find a way to do that otherwise it will be tough sledding going forward. >> geraldo: i have to leave it there. thank you all, evan bayh, jackie gingrichnd jackie chavez, kristine pelosi. one of the worst movies ever made causing >>> live from america's news headquarters i'm marianne rafferty. a new warning from iran as that country's president heads to the u.s. to address the u.n. the commander of iran's revolutionary guard saying he believes israel will attack his nation over its nuclear program and he is warning that the jewish state will be destroyed if it it takes a step. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad is set to face the up united nations on monday. >>> dutch media saying a a 16-year-old are girl posted about a small gathering and the invitation went viral and chaos followed. thousands of would be partyers descending on the small town 100 miles from amsterdam littering the streets around damaging cars. police arrested some 3 dozen people. i'm marianne rafferty. now, back to "geraldo at large." for the latest headlines log on to fox news .com. log on to feuts .com. .com -- fox news .com. >> geraldo: welcome back live to los