i decided that i had tool time award and tonight we're giving it to newt gingrich the former speaker of the house is trying to revive his twenty twelve presidential campaign in recent weeks his staff quit he reported very weak fundraisers and by week i mean by raising numbers and by week i mean the fact that he the debt and he's also battled numerous very unflattering stories about his spending habits at tiffany's so it's safe to say that newt's had a bad summer so far but he's still out on the campaign trail shaking hands and trying to win support and i did stop in iowa this week we began talking about judicial activism as a member of the g.o.p. call it when judges just don't rule the way they want them to so listen to make to a very shocking claims about the supreme court. more. from the. let. the courts the right. all right so new thinks that congress can keep the supreme court from hearing some cases and he also believes that there is just no supreme court by. to the constitution. the think progress is quick to point out today that article three of the constitution begins with th

he tweets newt gingrich, dear newt gingrich, because of the many newt/shrute rhyme options, i humblinganager. he tweets back, i have a campaign manager. he has a sense of humor. >> not only that, he could be running the easiest campaign if he took him up on the offer. >> i've got to go to shameless plugs really quick. >> my colleague hosting xm's press pool on thursday and i have a south carolina story in today's roll call. >> my new york partners who manage the gay marriage referendum in new york, they won. and we are very pleased with that, very proud. >> western republican leadership conference, october 18th through the 21st in las vegas. going to be a major political debate. hope you'll be there, chuck. >> well, we'll see. depends what network the debate's on. that's it for this edition of "the daily rundown." tomorrow, the rnc chairman plus a look at the politics in the nba lockout. next, "chris jansing and company." then at 1:00, "andrea mitchell reports." we'll see you tomorrow. bye-bye. we get double miles every time we use our card... i'll take these two... ...no matter what w

so newt gingrich has now turned to michele bachmann for inspiration since he's trailing in the polls why not just steal the front runners ideas that is really pathetic but it's also sad when republicans who claim to learn of the constitution and all its freedoms are going to step on the document for their own political gain and that's why newt gingrich is tonight's top time later. ok time for happy hour on this lovely evening and my mistake or earlier jim hansen is in fact not staying with us for happy hour joining me tonight is our view producer jenny churchill and libby jacobson senior policy analyst for new media strategies ladies thank you for joining me. the southern poverty law center i'm not sure what your feelings are exactly about this organization but they've decided to come out today and say if they think they can sack he said of the rand paul should be labeled an extremist and one of the examples that they use behind that logic there is because he said that he would not have voted for the civil rights act because as a libertarian that's just not the way that his mind work

now, what about that old silverback, newt gingrich. by the way, that's not a wildlife metaphor. he stopped shaving his back when he left congress. >> newt gingrich, what did he have $2.1 million? that's more than i thought he should have. >> there should be ans asterisk next to that because he's actually $1 million in debt. >> jon: okay, there could be a little asterisk there or you could change the mother to minus one million. either way it's a tip graphical issue. it's not going to hurt gingrich, unless he was out there ten weeks ago touting his fiscal bona fide. >> i am debt-free. if the u.s. government was as debt-free as i am, everybody in america would be celebrating. [laughter] >> jon: actually, per capita, we owe $45,000 per person, so the u.s. government is, in fact, in a lot less debt than you are. [laughter] santorum is a wounded wildebeast, and gingrich is apparently a spawning salmon. all right. now we're getting there. let's see where governor tim pawlenty is at. he's got there 4.4 million raised. >> former governor tim pawlenty kicked off three weeks of iowa bodil

henry hyde said the letter to newt gingrich telling him why he wants to be on the committee. i get the phone call on january 20th, you are going on the judiciary committee. the next morning as i was drinking my cup of coffee i opened up the washington post and there is. the monica lewinski story is all over the front page and i was off to the races. what happens after that, within an hour i get back to my office and there were 20 tv cameras out there and i am surrounded and all these people are shoving microphones in my place and telling me you need to be put on this committee to impeach the president. you are a former prosecutor and judge. i was standing and smiling. other than copyrights and trademarks, you are a liar. that is not what you are here but i walk you through the time table to show you it really was a coincidence. one of the things about collecting political memorabilia that came back to help, when i got back to congress the democrat majority for years were out of power and not happy about it and one of the senior democrats with a guy named john congress who was

find a northstar that will break the republican mantra no and republican presidential candidate newt gingrich has a new supporter me probably won't get my vote in two thousand and twelve he clearly shares one of my viewpoints on the u.s. constitution i'll explain in tonight's daily to. wisconsin voters one of the polls today for the first of a series of special elections prompted by governor scott walker's war on labor unions through was causing state politics a new national spotlight earlier this year the days elections are democratic primaries in six republican held state senate districts where those republican incumbents are being recalled by their constituents but these election. what a strange twist the democrats running in the primaries are opposed by republicans who are running as democrats why is this ruse forces the democrats the whole primary elections and gives the incumbent republicans more time to campaign and raise money for the latest from wisconsin is my friend john nichols russian correspondent for the nation magazine john welcome back it's good to be with you tom great to ha

michelle baachman and newt gingrich shared the spotlight at this fourth of july parade. >>> coming up, kasey anthony's future is now in the hands of the jury. >> dominique strauss-kahn may have a new legal fight. a new woman accusing him of sexual assault and his plan to fight back against the accusation. >> dominique strauss-kahn faces a new legal problem tonight. a french novelist said she will file a complaint saying that he attempted to rape her. he denies the allegations and plans to countersue. this comes a few days after he was freed on bail in the u.s.. this comes after his credibility has been publicly questioned. >>>>> according to a new report, the typical american worker got one half of 1% pay raise last year but the average ceo got a purees of 23%. >>> still to come, will the storms stairway -- stay away from the fireworks tonight? >> more drama in the courtroom for kasey anthony today. >> plus an american makes history on this holiday. you cannot get any more american >> we are monitoring the developments from orlando. jurors have just finished delivering for the day in

newt gingrich and michelle bachmann, courting the same part of the state for conservatives. bachmann has been spending time in iowa after officially kicking off her campaign there and plans to spend a lot more time in the state that holds the first caucus. >> we love you. we'll be back soon. god bless you. >> as gingrich shook hands, he was asked about the partisan fighting in washington. and the down-to-the-wire fight over raising the debt ceiling. . >> i think they're going to pass a debt ceiling. then the question will be whether the president will sign it. >> why are we pushing it to crisis for the whole niegs naigs? sdsh nati -- nation? >> rick santorum is also in iowa marching in parades there today. >> thanks so much for that. now to a critical challenge. >> americans are still dying in iraq. iranians may have some of that blood on their hand. here's chris florence. >> 16 american troops died in iraq last month, more than anytime in the past two years. u.s. military officials indirectly blame iran for their deaths. >> most of our kids who have been killed recently hav

that's not going to happen here with newt gingrich. no chance of that. i think he's done. >> wow. here to respond to republican presidential candidate and author of "a nation like no other," newt gingrich. thanks for being here this morning. >> it's good to be with you and sort of fits what brent bozelle was saying. none of the people who decided i wasn't a candidate anymore were with me in iowa, south carolina, new hampshire, georgia, california where i just came back from. so i find it fascinating sitting around in washington and new york, they decided they ought to tell the american people who the candidates. >> that's part of where this comes from is your staff leaving. >> ronald reagan had 13 senior staff quit the morning of the new hampshire primary and two weeks heard they laid off another 100 staff. john mccain had a similar experience. my ohm point is i'm talking about substance, how do we create jobs? look at the unemployment numbers today. how do we deal with energy? look at the gasoline prices. how do we help housing get back so that -- which is now in worst sh

what's going on with newt gingrich and mitch mcconnell.> newt gingrich talks a little bit about shutting down the government. he had that big fight with president clinton back in the '90s. newt gingrich is very critical of mitch mcconnell's plan of trying to divert this whole debt crisis. in fact, he tweeted yesterday that the mcconnell plan is contrary to big deficits and overspending. what's the mcconnell plan? basically it's a plan that would allow president obama to raise the debt limit in three different increments but all of the responsibility would be placed on the president for doing so and not on congressional republicans. that's a very big issue as we're heading into the 2012 election. the problem is for mitch mcconnell, there are a lot of conservatives who don't like the idea and they think advocates would just be responding to the idea. problem is, newt gingrich isn't on capitol hill, mitch mcconnell is. >>> herman cain, did you hear his gospel cd tucked away for more than ten years, comes out on the internet? the guy has some

. >> what about that old silver back, newt gingrich? by the way, he stopped shaving his back when he left congress. >> i wonder how "the daily show" will depict pawlenty's demise? if a pawlenty campaign falls in the woods, does it make a sound? >> herman cain raised $2 million. that's a lot of pepperoni for the godfather of pepperoni pizza. there's one candidate who seems to be gaining strength. michele bachmann. >> michele bachmann's migraines and whether this should be considered a campaign issue. >> got to say, of all my issues with bachmann's brain. >> $18 million raised. mitt romney is the king of the jungle, the thick maned, super predator of the race, the republican's aslund. >>> time for your political ticker with tim farley live from washington. 11 days and counting until the debt ceiling deadline. what's your feeling? do you think we're getting closer? >> i think you got it in the beginning when you said the democrats are netting nervous. harry reid and nancy pelosi asking why they're not a part of the conversation. there was

the next thing she knew she spent a decade of her life working for newt gingrich. you never know who you might be at one of these events. make sure you may know. interestingly enough she is married to its abundant, for those of you that our symphony lovers, the first chair, first violinist for the washington symphony for a long, long time. he retired year ago. they met at a meet in three and fellow love and live very happily in georgia. you never know when these events might lead to a happily ever after. so, again, my first memory and deasy was in the 70's. this was way before my dad won. i'm going to take you on a little bit of a reminder of my background and his career for us to understand where we come from and why it is important to me lessons. if you can imagine the 1970's, around 74, we lived in carrollton, georgia. we live in georgia because my father went to lane and got his ph.d. part of the deal was the essence dollars of money if he promised to come back to georgia and teach when he finished. fair deal. well, he finished up his dissertation and found a j

. >> as someone who has been behind closed doors with newt gingrich, what was happening between 6:00 and 10:00 when they decide there's no vote. is he screaming at those guys? >> there's usually not screaming. there will be screaming from staff members sometimes. usually, they will escort you into the speaker's office. it's a very intimidating place. it's a wonderful office. you would want it. it's opulent. you have an extraordinary view of washington, d.c. i have been in probably about 20 of those meetings. the message is always the same, help me or you are going to help the democratic president. you don't want to damage the speakership and our cause, et cetera, et cetera. a lot of these things, i can get you clips from a decade ago, people were saying the same thing to myself and coburn. >> joe, i would say that at the end of the day, when you were there, that group of people were there. there was much more willingness to compromise at the 11th hour than now. there was much, much more party discipline. >> there was more of a need to compromise. a lot of times, i didn't compromise.

now, i'm on record as saying i think newt gingrich is the guy. aughter) but i think i may have to eat a little crow. or whatever it is that newt's been eating. (laughter) i'm going to say oreo cakesters. (laughter) the former speaker of the house announced his candidacy back in may and he hasn't been seen much since apart from a guest spot on c-span's "i love the '90s." (laughter) now newt's been struggling in the polls, he lost most of his staff, then he lost the rest of his staff. (laughter) and to top it off he lost the startup disk for his wife. (laughter and applause) it keeps beach balling. now, folks, there's been more bad news. according to records filed with the f.e.c., newt's campaign is one million dollars in debt. folks, this is perfectly understandable. newt has major expenses. for instance, he spent $800,000 on his campaign web site. (laughter) now, sure, newt could have had his nine-year-old nephew design a web site and all he'd have to have paid him was one of his oreo snacksers-- snacksters, cakesters. but for 800k grand large, ou

i like rick ashley. >> haelts moments for newt gingrich and his campaign staff.th reporters in atlanta yesterday. insisting we have got to beef up manufacturing in this, buy more american-made products. so then he has this exchange with a reporter who first asks him to hold up his campaign t-shirt. >> what should they trust? >> hold up your t-shirt? >> sure. >> a lot of what you're talking about is about taking america back to america. we asked for t-shirts to be sent to us and they were made out of america. just picked up that one and it's made in el salvador. it's printed here in atlanta. it was a big thing when we talked to your campaign about how you wanted things to be made in america. do you have plans to change things? >> i have to ask the folks who ordered this. i didn't order it and i didn't do it. >> that is a rush order that some of your -- >> volunteer campaign, lots of volunteer do lots of different things. >> so i imagine they are going to get some campaign t-shirts made in america. >> and not made in el salvador. >> but more expensive in america. >

. >>> newt gingrich is blowing hot air again. latest flip-flop on climate change is our con job of the day. >>> and sarah palin's big-screen debut is tanking at the box office. what does that mean for her political career? i think i know how this movie ends. that's ahead. what's up, smart? oh, just booked a summer vaycay. ooo. sounds pricey? nah, with the hotels.com summer sale, you can find awesome deals for places nearby. interesting... wow, i'm blown away. you look great. hotels.com summer sale, save up to 30%. and get a free kindle. hotels.com. be smart. book smart. the 3.6-liter v6 engine of the jeep grand cherokee has a best-in-class driving range of over 500 miles per tank. so you can catch morning tee time in pebble beach and the afternoon meeting in los angeles all without running out of gas. just make sure you don't run out of gas. ♪ this past year alone there was a 93% increase in cyber attacks. in financial transactions... on devices... in social interactions... and applications in the cloud. some companies are worrie

you've got michele bachmann and newt gingrich marching in the same parade in fact out there in iowa andhit on a bunch of other events. rick santorum also campaigning in iowa. let's move east to new hampshire where of course that's the first primary in the nation, so that's another busy state. you have mitt romney and jon huntsman marching in the same parade in new hampshire hitting a bunch of other events. herman kaine is going different. pennsylvania, tea party in independence hall in philadelphia. but you know where he ends up, ally? ends the day in new hampshire. they're going the end up in one of those two states eventually, right? >> iowa or new hampshire, exactly. by the way, through the course of the election as you pointed out clearly, they will end up in pennsylvania and ohio. i know you follow this stuff like i follow moneyed th thadou mccotter. >> officially announced on saturday. you're right, he's not a name that a lot of people know. congressman from michigan, western suburbs. he becomes the third house republican to run for the republican presidential nomination. here's s

also, when some of these other candidates start dropping out, herman cain, newt gingrich, she's likelyick up most of their votes rather than romney. >> i've been a long believer in michele bachmann's political abilities, i don't know anything about rick perry except another texan of that kind. thank you, david corn, thank you michelle goldburg. when we return, why so many americans look down on politicians lately. >> ( rooster crows ) >> by 2020, 50 billion network devices will roam the earth. that's seven devices per person. this will change how we work in ways we've never before imagined. what do you need to secure your people, their devices, and your business? a network that can evolve and grow to protect your human network. >>> let me finish tonight with why so many people look down on politicians. it's this, this skirmishing, this pie eating contest, this sack race, this absurd picnic atmosphere of one side against the other. waste of a summer afternoon with dank arguments in the basement. this isn't why i love politicians, this is the florida recount, this is al gore picking out

this one surrounding the deal with the man who was about to become speaker of the house newt gingrich. gingrich said he underestimated the reaction to the size of the advance. >> we're about to have the first republican congress in 40 years. and i did not want to walk in next wednesday, and give the bitter defenders of the old order something they could run around and yell about. >> reporter: gingrich aids defended their boss showing off a display of books including over republican leaders including al gore. one republican leader did not see the connection. >> the difference between mr. gingrich book deal, is that mr. gingrich was going to take an unprecedented $4.5 million from a man who has a direct interest in federal legislation and who has a case pending before the communication committee. >> reporter: among those expressing concern was then senate republican leader bob dole. when we come back, remembering another media empire by a man who also built himself a castle. william randolph dorf. i tell ya, i work a long day, every day. i hang my head out the window. oh man, we're deli

. >> grover nor worcester was newt gingrich's butt buddy. [laughter] >> jon: [bleeped] it.y big mac and dog fart get their own show. we'll be right back. vo: this year, go back to school with geek squad. so you can do things like... ... carry fewer books... ... become master of the study group... take notes... while conserving energy... ... and stream important research material. make school easier with geek squad support 24/7. online, on the phone or in-store. geek squad from best buy. >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight, academy award-winning actress. her new film is called "the whistleblower." >> i'm looking for a girl. the police dropped her here a few hours ago. can you check? she's 15 years old, no passport. >> okay. okay. that's easy. i know what you look for. those girls do not go through. they go for death to serbia. >> geez. [laughter] >> please welcome back to the program rachel weisz. how are you? >> jon: nice to see you. >> nice to see you. [cheering and applause] >> jon: first of all, great to see you again. >> nice to see you. second of all, boy, this is a

now, i'm on record as saying i think newt gingrich is the guy. (laughter) but i think i may have to eat a little crow. or whatever it is that newt's been eating. (laughter) i'm going to say oreo cakesters. (laughter) the former speaker of the house announced his candidacy back in may and he hasn't been seen much since apart from a guest spot on c-span's "i love the '90s." (laughter) now newt's been struggling in the polls, he lost most of his staff, then he lost the rest of his staff. (laughter) and to top it off he lost the startup disk for his wife. (laughter and applause) it keeps beach balling. now, folks, there's been more bad news. according to records filed with the f.e.c., newt's campaign is one million dollars in debt. folks, this is perfectly understandable. newt has major expenses. for instance, he spent $800,000 on his campaign web site. (laughter) now, sure, newt could have had his nine-year-old nephew design a web site and all he'd have to have paid him was one of his oreo snacksers-- snacksters, cakesters. but for 800k grand large,

. >> grover nor worcester was newt gingrich's butt buddy. [laughter] >> jon: [bleeped] it.e lady big mac and dog fart get their own show. we'll be right back. als need to perform under pressu-". ♪ and essure can cause bq anyos"'s deodorant to fail. ♪ w) in9)oducing gill)á%" odor shield antipe$i4$"úntu@ unlir"-"$cl&ar deodorants, itar$imcxb n9jtraliz;i oi'r@z w ♪ 2@ 1@ in new body wash. wk >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight, academy award-winning actress. her new film is called "the whistleblower." >> i'm looking for a girl. the police dropped her here a few hours ago. can you check? she's 15 years old, no passport. >> okay. okay. that's easy. i know what you look for. those girls do not go through. they go for death to serbia. >> geez. [laughter] >> please welcome back to the program rachel weisz. how are you? >> jon: nice to see you. >> nice to see you. [cheering and applause] >> jon: first of all, great to see you again. >> nice to see you. second of all, boy, this is a heavy piece. is this... the u.n. soldier, is this a true story? >> it's inspired by a true story of

and newt gingrich for all the rhetoric of the republican revolution stood at bill clinton's side and with bob rubin and endorsed that. there used to be a time when no matter what the ideological principles of a particular republican or democratic there was a larger mission which was the public good as perceived and we've now gotten to the point as chuck was pointing out the timeline later, this really is the two-minute drill. this is a point beyond which they cannot bend the rules. you can buy unanimous consent as chuck was saying, do a lot of things. but that unanimous consent has to be unanimous. you have to get let's just say hypothetically sanders and rand paul to sign off of that. you have to have 100 senators agree tight. then you have to get it through the house. >> then this option of sir come venting everybody with the 14th amendment. then also senators harkin, bernie sanders they use their floor speeches to push the use of the 14th amendment. do you think that that is really a viable option on the table? >> the president has said that it's not. the chief of staff has said t

later. >> thank you. >> he's the host of morning briefing on sirius xm, live from washington. >>> newt gingrich had explaining to do with his campaign teachers because the label reads made in el salvador, not made in america. listen to this exchange between gingrich and an abc producer. >> we asked for t-shirts to be sent to us. they were made in america. i just picked up that one and they were made in el salvador. printed in atlanta. it was a big thing when we talked to your campaign about how you wanted things to be made in america. do we have plans to change thing? >> i have to ask the folks who ordered this. >> gingrich campaign spokes pirn sa said the shirts were a rush order. >>> this is not what you usually see on a wednesday afternoon in toronto. they're filming the new total recall movie there. it did cause a few present-day traffic headaches. those are supposed to be -- those will be flying cars. these are the regular cars you usually see in toronto. there's an actor. the international space station, by the way, only has a few more years in existence. after 2020 it will be plugged int

against you, the national consensus is going to be against you, don't forget 1996, you know, the way newt gingrichs blamed, we're going to get blamed, so just suck it up and do it. and eric cantor, his number two, is now saying the same thing. the problem is, the way i see it, eric cantor is just looking for a way to avoid blame himself, because eric canner has been spending weeks actimn if o months, trying to undercut boehner every step of the way. now he's telling everyone win one for the gipper when he's been undercutting the gipper all the way along. >> what about the crisis situation we face? what happens when cut, cap and balance become stall crash and burn? that could happen by next tuesday afternoon what do do the people like kelly from erie, the once who were, who really only care about the next tea party meeting that they have to go to. what happens when the government faces greek-like hell, and it would be all over their hometown newspapers that they were part of lighting the match? >> what's so amaze being this, it's a self-created, self-inflicted crisis that really masks a much deepe

. >> grover nor worcester was newt gingrich's butt buddy. [laughter] >> jon: [bleeped] it. i hope lady big mac and dog fart get their own show. we'll be right back. ...was it something big? ...or something small? ...something old? ...or something new? ...or maybe, just maybe... it's something you haven't seen yet. the 2nd generation of intel core processors. stunning visuals, intelligent performance. this is visibly smart. come to best buy. where an expert will find the perfect phone for you. like the at&t htc status. it let's you post instantly to facebook with a push of a button. and it's free! with no mail in rebates. of course, just because you can share on a whim, doesn't mean you should. the at&t htc status. free, with no mail in rebates. at best buy. >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight, academy award-winning actress. her new film is called "the whistleblower." >> i'm looking for a girl. the police dropped her here a few hours ago. can you check? she's 15 years old, no passport. >> okay. okay. that's easy. i know what you look for. those girls do not go through. th

john boehner to then former use speaker newt @@gingrich, how well is boehner doing? i ask you, major garrettí >> this lots of ways to measure that. one is the polling data. gingri's he's negatives were always higher an his positives. john boehnes positives are yawl to his negatis so he's doing@better in the@polling with the american public. congress's approval rating though is lower now than it was in the@mid-90s. congress is held in much higher ntempt now than then. analysis. the inside coress analysis is that this stage of speaker gingrich speakehip he already had the contract of america through, to 10 high priority items sos he had more legislative victories than ehner does now. but that was e fective end of the gingrich speakership. boehner has taken a gradsistic approach, removing power from the speakership, giving it@more to the chairmen, allowing legislation to move through the house, that is giving him latitude to strike deals some boehner internally is stronger and is probably going@to remain s(nger as a eaker an gingrich was. >> do you think all@of at which

>> the reason default is no better idea today than when newt gingrich tried it in 1995 is it destroys your brand and would give the president an opportunity to blame republicans for bad economy. look, he owns the economy. he's been in office almost three years now, and we refuse to let him entice us in to coownship of a bad economy. >> jon: we can hear you. [laughter] the country defalling would hurt the republican brand. it's like when the pinto people were upset the exploding gas cans were singeing the horse ma danal. i find mcconnell's honest dishonesty refreshing. he's laying out the cynical strategic subtext that we're not supposed to be hearing about. he's like that guy on fox who ruined magic for everyone in the country five years ago. here's what it is, kid. i drug five rabbits and i stuff them in my pantds. don't cry, timmy. you need to hear this. so the outside observer, our leaders' inability to compromise on even the smallest things seems inexplicable, but watch as senator mitch mcconnell explains washington magic to the muggles. >> you said, "the single most important thi

you save. >>> you may have thought that newt gingrich's finances which seemed to rely heavily on the lines of credit from tiffany's were bad for a presidential candidate, but are they worse than you thought? with confirmation that gingrich's campaign is $1 million in debt comes word that almost half of the total is owed to -- wait for this -- moby dick airways a private plane company that does a lot of of work for republicans. so is this the white whale that is going to finally sink newt's campaign? more about this from michelle coddle from the daily beast. >> well, we know running for president is expensive, but for a guy preaching fiscal conservativism is not what you preach, and is newt aware he is running for president? >> well, what you have to remember here, ezra, is that newt's presidential campaign is all about the kind of self-aggrandizement of newt, and in order to maintain the lifestyle, certain things have to be done and if he has to spend half a million on private planes, so beit. >> there is a lifestyle to which newt has become accustomed and the presidential funders wil

i would contrast her introduction to this race with that of the former speaker of the house newt gingrich. with each passing day, in spite of the stumbles, her stock has been enhanced. her position has been improved. newt the last time i was trying to close out his tiffany 's account. >> she was no. 2 in one of the polls behind mitt romney. >> democrats under rate her at her peril. they talk about -- at their peril. they talk about her t way they used to talk about ronald reagan, and that is really dumb. having said that, politifact analyzed her statements and found that of the ones they analyze, not were really true, and 10 were pants-on-fire false. these are things he cannot continue to do. >> -- you cannot continue to do. >> she is the best thing that happened to the democratic party, becse she might actually win the nomination, but i don't think he can win the presidency. >> t think and she can win at the republican nomination. >> it is possible, it is not likely. she remains a longshot. she has a good chance of winning iowa but i am not sure where she goes in terms of winning after t

newt gingrich didn't fill it. sarah palin never got it. newt never took off. huckabee never got in. filled that void. not only is she running number two in your poll, more importantly she's usually winning or running number two in iowa. the key for her is can she win iowa. if she does, it doesn't matter what mainstream media thinks of her, she will be a formidable force in this campaign. >> i wanted to ask you also about this whole issue of her health. now, the genesis of this was the daily caller. why don't you deconstruct how this came out. it clearly came from opposition research probably from another campaign. it had to do with the fact that she takes medication for migraines, for headaches. >> it's clear it was a competitive story. it's clear abc was working on it. the daily caller was the first to write it that's a conservative website and ors were tracking down this story. it seems pretty clear it came largely from former staffers people that have worked with her and seen the ramifications of these chronic headaches that she's had in the past that can be quite debilitating an

also, when some of these other candidates start dropping out, hermain cain, newt gingrich, she's likely i've been a long believer in michele bachmann's political abilities, i don't know anything about rick perry except another texan of that kind. thank you, david corn, thank you michelle goldburg. when we return, why so many americans look down on politicians lately. the nice thing about the tempur-pedic is that no matter which position i am in i wake up feeling good. it fits you so perfectly... it fits you. you wake up and you're revived and rejuvenated. it's just like wow! tempur-pedic the most highly recommended bed in america. tempur-pedic is rated #1 in comfort. sleep satisfaction. and back support. it fits the curvature of your body but you don't sink in and it is firm. proprietary tempur material suppresses motion transfer. this means that when you get in or out of bed, you won't disturb your partner. that's amazing. that's amazing. tempur-pedic, the most highly recommended bed in america. call the number on your screen. ♪ ooh baby, (what) can i do for you today? ♪ [ female annou

and newt gingrich appears to favor the finer things. reports show a campaign more than a million dollars in debt. half of that spent on luxury charter jets. msnbc political analyst karen fin yi also worked as the democratic national committee spokesperson. matt louis is a senior contributor for the daily caller. good to see you. what can you tell about a candidate by the way he or she spends money? >> i think you can tell a lot. if you look at mitt romney you have a disciplined businessman who's running the campaign that way. the organizations that he fronted that were allowed to take dc he got accustomed to a certain lifestyle, when you run a campaign that is out the window. it's not about raising money. it's about netting money. having money set and left over to spend. i think, gingrich's people blamed the consultants, but again, you know, if you're going to run for president of the united states, the buck stops there. this could be a hiccup or a bump, but it is an issue. >> it may be hard to go to donors saying can you donate half a

comes from newt gingrich's. bam. >> with tea party media stars, none bigger than sarah palin.test facebook post, she is cheering the tea party extreme its on. quote, the new wave of public servants may recall they were sent to d.c. for such a time as this. all my best to you gop freshmen from up here in the last frontier. those tea party freshmen helped change the balance of power in the mid term elections. and became members of michele bachmann's tea party caucus bp so here we are. the monster is alive. and squeaker, i mean, speaker boehner has no way to control it. joining me is lee fong, investigate ef reporter of think progress. lee, one of the things that is beyond my understanding, ability to understand, is how the tea party leaders initially war saying they wanted to take care of the average american people that needed jobs, and that needed a balanced way of living would never, as they grew into power, question the rich and would fight against taxing them and closing the loop holes. would you begin answering some of those questions? because a lot of where they were gett