of course, newt's honesty so alarmed the beltway crowd they took off the belts and spanked newt's assuntil it was so pink and swollen it looked like newt's face. jim? >> i think the number one thing you don't want to do when you start a campaign is alienate your political base. >> newt gingrich has cleaning up to do if he's going to get his campaign rolling again. >> he blew himself up not just as a candidate but in a real sense as a republican. >> jon: wrong. newt can't blow up any further. he is already inflated to maximum pressure. [laughter] besides, folks, it's all a misunderstanding. as newt explained while on a break from selling oranges on the side of road. >> any effort to impose a federal mandate on anyone it's fundamentally wrong and i believe un-- [horn honking] >> stephen: sure on sunday he was for individual mandates and monday he found it unconstitutional. things change. maybe between sunday and monday he read the constitution for the first time. he knows a good leader views all sides of an issue. a great leader takes all sides of an issue. he told newsweek paul ryan wa

>> the nut work of newt gingrich organizations. >> how much money does newt have?i don't know. >> 35 million? >> okay. >> derived from newt inc.? >> not all. lot of speaking, tv contracts. this is a problem with newt, i think. he's been around in washington forever. so he doesn't have the fresh new thing going for him. at the same time, he doesn't give off the sense of gravity and solidity you expect interest from someone with so much experience some he's caught in that bind. but he is smart, he's compelling, he's creative, and perhaps overly creative. >> endorse him as your candidate for president? >> i don't speak about our endorsements. i would say until the time comes, but he has -- the problem with newt, it's temperament. >> exit question, who is the g.o.p. presidential front-runner in the g.o.p. now? still mitt romney or has newt edged out mitt romney. >> maybe none of the above. it's not sure it's mitt romney. he's an accomplished capable man but has an albatross that just doubled in size this week. >> if he can get through the primaries when he did in massa

newts -- newt gingrich for president. what do you think? jamal from indianapolis. caller: i am a member of the black republican coalition here in indianapolis. we would wish that may be mid daniels would throw himself in but newt gingrich is very divisive and if he were to remit -- when the primary, the black independent coalition would go democrat or independent. we have been through this in the 1990's. his ideas are the reasons he is in the position he is. anybody who commits incidentally and says he did it because he loves his country is a sham artist. he is the moral equivalent of farrakhan on the left. host: who are you supporting right now for president? caller: it depends on who is the nomination is for the republican party. divisive, undertone racist type candidates -- i would have to support a re-election of the president who just went and got bin laden and bingm and done several things. actually i am ashamed of my party. i cannot leave it. we are led to believe that maybe we can change the party from within. until the republican finds out the resources it

you're welcome, newt. go get em, buddy. folk, swimsuit season is right around the corner and there's one place i always turn for my fitness tips, the house of representatives. (laughter) just check out this month's issue of the very not gay men's health magazine. that's illinois republican aaron schoch showing off his six-pack abs. and if you look closely you can also see his pathway to prosperity. (laughter) (cheers and applause) >> stephen: now congressman schoch is partnering with men's health to promote a fitness initiative called the fit for life summer challenge encouraging all americans to get fit for life until september. then we turn back into-- then we turn back into alfredo-based life forms. i applaud congressman schoch for using the power of his office to raise awareness of just how ripped he is. of course this isn't the first time i laid eyes on aaron schoch. i spoke with the fully clothed congressman back in 2009. jim? >> hi, stephen colbert. nice to meet you. >> hi, mr. colbert, welcome. >> stephen: tell me a

( applause ) look, newt-- and i say this with all due respect, newt, and i hate to break this to you,ole twitter, youtube thing is not going to work for you because you're not cool. ( laughter ) you're uncool. let me put it th in lingo you might understand. you're what might be known to your generation as a square. ( laughter ) look at you. physically. you resemble a square. you physically-- look at your head. your head looks like the box a slightly smaller square head would come in. ( laughter ) which is fine, but embrace who you are. you're a smartie-pants policy wonk guy. you should announce through through a media form with a limited amount of characters like twitter. do it through a sudukeo puzzle whiches is awe know, is a large square made up of a series of smaller ones. let's face it, newt, if you were a superhero your power would be the ability to turn things beige. ( laughter ) and your theme song would be-- you would not have a theme song. you see what i'm saying? and you would have gotten your powers when you were bitten by a radioactive unsalted saltine. ( laughter ) this

[laughter] >> jon: here is my impression of newt gingrich in a minute. [laughter] nonalcoholic tequila. [laughter] bomb sniffing turtles. [laughter] kosher bacon. [laughter] edible diapers. [laughter] two ideas a minute but a lot of them. the larger point is all is forgiven. you get a second chance to make a first impression. he chose just the place to do it "meet the press." a chance to show off. david gregory set him up with an easy one. what do you think of paul ryan's medicare. >> should the republicans change medicare? yonch think right wing social engineering is any more desirable than left wing social engineering. i don't think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for the society to operate. >> jon: wow appealing to the moderate wing of the republican party, a wing closed for renovations. [laughter] i'm sure they respect the gravitas. >> he detonated his campaign on sunday. >> does he want to be nominated by the republican party. one wonders. >> he was never a likable guy. >> this is a capital offense. >> how can i

>> no, how much damage has newt gingrich done to your effort to reform -- >> oh, newt gingrich, i'm sorry, i didn't hear you correctly. i'm not a pundit. i'm a policy maker and i'll let you and the voters figure this stuff out. point is this, we've got to get beyond this and we've got to get on to a serious conversation about what it takes to fix the fiscal problems in this country. and if we don't tackle these problems now while we have time, they're going to tackle us. and our whole point here is we need to preempt and avert a debt crisis, and the way we have proposed to do that is do on our terms and prevent people who are currently retired and people about to retire from having severe disruptions in their lives, and so -- >> but congressman -- >> the people of iowa and new hampshire can figure this stuff out. >> but wait a second, but that really is a dodge. you are the chairman of the committee, yes, you're serious about entitlement reform, yes. you're also a politician. you say you want to do it on your terms. law does not become law without building political consensus, and you don

>> stephen: you could play newt gingrich in the biopick.hter) >> not so much him but the only other newt i can think so that young girl... remember the feral girl in "alien?" >> stephen: you could play a feral eight-year-old. you're very... >> (laughs). >> stephen: you've won your tony, your emmy, and your oscar. >> tio. >> and you got theio. why keep acting? it seems like you've won acting? (cheers and applause) you're in it for the awards, right? that's the joy. that and doing these press junkets. (laughter). >> yeah, we can't wait. the moment you get the script from the agent you think "i can't wait for the press junket. just sitting in the room and doing 16 of these in a row is going to be fantastic!" >> stephen: this movie is 3d, right? >> yeah. >> stephen: is it harder to do 3d? is it a burden to have... >> no, i always act in 3d. (laughter) >> stephen: geoffrey rush thank you so much for joining me. (cheers and applause) the man is geoffrey rush. the movie is "pirates of the caribbean: on stranger tides." in theaters next friday. we'

you can decide for yourself if the media is targeting newt or if newt is targeting newt in this particular instance and whether this question that he was asked really was a gotcha question at all. >>> another blockbuster from arnold schwarzenegger. this time the shocker is all about his movie career. we'll be right back. she felt lost... until the combination of three good probiotics in phillips' colon health defended against the bad gas, diarrhea and constipation. ...and? it helped balance her colon. oh, now that's the best part. i love your work. [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health. >>> keeping them honest tonight, you would like politicians to stand by their words, even if that's what they truly believe when they say those words. or if they no longer do because they misspoke or gave offense or somehow got it wrong, you would hope they would apologize and take responsibility. tonight, newt gingrich seems to be doing a little bit of both and a bit of neither simultaneously after what he said touched off a firestorm in his own party. try to stay with me here. he's now saying that h

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so, newt's always unplugged.can field i think since 1940, when wendell wilkey snuck in. usually it's a front-runner or rockefeller or ford against reag reagan. this time it's wide open and you saw it on the poll, where the numbers are scattered all over the place. that gives anybody a chance. >> matt bai, a couple years back, you wrote a cover story for him on "the new york times magazine," "the anti-obama?" and he would answer no. yet the issue of obama's values, are they in sync with what americans want, how americans define themselves, and whether or not obama loves america. i didn't hear the former speaker dial back a lot of his views that obama's still outside the mainstream. >> no, and i thought your questions on that were really fair, david. all politicians, and we know this covering them, are contradictions, all humans are contradictions. this human, this politician is especially contradictory. and one of the big contradictions you see when you spend time with speaker gingrich, if you've looked at him ove

. >> this conversation is dead, john >>> issue 3 -- hey newt, what's newt? >> i'm newt gingrich and i'm announcing my candidacy for president of the united states. >> newt gingrich former speaker of the house of representatives officially announced that he will seek the republican nomination for the 2012 presidential race 15 months from now. four days after the announcement on sunday, gingrich attacked wisconsin republican congressman and the chairman of the house budget committee paul ryan. gingrich criticized ryan's plan to reform medicare. under the current medicare system, the federal government uses tax dollars to pay for health care for the elderly. under the ryan plan, medicare pays for a portion of the premium for insurance that is sold by private insurance companies. ryan calls it quote unquote -- premium support. but gingrich calls it quote unquote -- radical. gingrich also likened the ryan plan to obamacare. >> i don't think right wing social engineering is any more desirable than left wing social engineering. i don't think imposing radical change

. >> this conversation is dead, john >>> issue 3 -- hey newt, what's newt? >> i'm newt gingrich and i'm announcing my candidacy for president of the united states. >> newt gingrich former speaker of the house of representatives officially announced that he will seek the republican nomination for the 2012 presidential race 15 months from now. four days after the announcement on sunday, gingrich attacked wisconsin republican congressman and the chairman of the house budget committee paul ryan. gingrich criticized ryan's plan to reform medicare. under the current medicare system, the federal government uses tax dollars to pay for health care for the elderly. under the ryan plan, medicare pays for a portion of the premium for insurance that is sold by private insurance companies. ryan calls it quote unquote -- premium support. but gingrich calls it quote unquote -- radical. gingrich also likened the ryan plan to obamacare. >> i don't think right wing social engineering is any more desirable than left wing social engineering. i don't think imposing radical change