plus, could newt gingrich become the first openly mean president? that's the clever question posed by our own david corn from mother jones. very quietly the mess tof his figure who once blamed congress for a mother who drowned her children has been slithering his way up the polls. if herman cain collapses as so many expect him to do, could newt become the next anti-romney. the republicans certainly need one. >>> also, marco rubio's problems may extend well beyond the self-inflicted damage of his embellished biography. he may just be on the wrong side of the immigration issue for too many latino voters. >>> and a tea party group says michele bachmann is all about one thing -- michele bachmann, and it's time for her to g-o. >>> let me finish tonight with jack kennedy and how he could never figure out texas, even at the end. >>> we start with the latest flip-flop from mitt romney. susan page is the washington bureau chief for "usa today," and steve kornacki, welcome back, steve kornacki! i haven't see you for awhile. he's with salon.com, seriously, i m

witty that you believe what he says. >> reporter: it's interesting that you mention that about newt gingrich because we have one of the highest test eclipses, not only this debate, imu debate. this is newt at his best. let's take a look. >> if you want to understand how totally broken washington is, look at this model of the super committee, which now has a magic number to achieve and if it doesn't, we will have to shoot ourselves in the head so when they come back with a really dumb idea to merely cut off our right leg, we will be grateful that they are only semi-stupid instead of being totally stupid. i found the military reform caucus. i'm a hawk, but i'm a cheap hawk. but the fact is, to say i'm going to put the security of the united states up against some arbitrary budget number is suicideally stupid. >> now you talked about newt gingrich being positive. what was it about the dynamic between mitt romney and rick perry that concerned you? >> well, number 1, they continued to fight. and it's almost as if two cats or dogs are going after each other. >> reporter: for most of this election

newt gingrich would clobber barack obama. i don't think if he's going to be the one that surfaces as the fortunate candidate who gets to face barack obama because unfortunately, in this day and age, sometimes conventional wisdom would dictate that he who has the most money, the campaign dollars, wins. i don't want to believe that this is going to be the case this go-around. if not newt gingrich, hopefully the other candidates, whether they have as much money as the next guy or not, will learn from newt gingrich, understand that we want to hear substance, we want to hear solutions, we don't want to hear the engagement of the nitpicking and the bickering because that plays right into the left handbook as they get ready for the general election debates. >> and regrettably, the media loves that because it spikes the viewer interest when there are few pokes. those are the sound bites, right? >> yeah. evidently they do because you know, this was what, debate number whatever it was. >> eight. >> and we still have probably a dozen mo

i spoke with two republican candidates this week, ron paul and newt gingrich.house speaker. i'd like you to respond to one of your other rivals for the republican presidential nomination, ron paul. he very much opposed president obama's decision to order the killing off of the leader. listen to what he said today. >> they asked me whether that was an impeachable offense. it is. i mean, just ignoring the fifth amendment and assassinating american citizen without due process? and won't even tell us what the rules are. oh, i bet he's a threat. can you imagine being put on a list because you're a threat? >> all right. are with you president obama on this issue or with ron paul on this issue? >> well, i wrote a newsletter today entitled obama gets one right. the fact is that congressman paul is wrong about the law much he's wrong about the constitution. if you were an active enemy combatant, if you're actively advocating the killing of american americans. there is footage in a movie of him calling for the killing of americans, we know that he was advising the terror

we move further. >> after getting off to a bumpy start, former house speaker newt gingrich says the presidentialhis may entry in the race, gingrich took heat for referring to congressman paul ryan medicare overhaul plan as right wing social engineering. >> you are an embarrassment to our party. >> he was forced to answer question about six-figure credit line at tiffanys. in early june most of the senior staff quit. back then, sources said the staffers disagreed with the gingrich plan. maximize social media and debate performance performancesf traditional campaigning. >> they were wrong. >> fox news polling among potential primary voters in the g.o.p. vind kateed the gingrich strategy. in july, 9% said he was their pick. then 11%. last week he's at 12%. in the same time period, akg fk polling say favorable ratings have gone up from 26 to 35%. the unfavorable has been tracking downward from 59 to 51%. but he still has challenges ahead. >> the negatives that he faces right now are two-fold. one is money. takes a lot of money. obviously, to get your message on the air. to reach as many voters as pos

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newt gingrich is quietly picking up one point here, one point there. for the john mccain potential award goes to newt beginning risch, not saying he's going to win, but he might be the anti-romney by the end of this. >> newt gingrich reminds me of the congressman when i first came to washington in the 1990s. he can take two or three issues and define them and create a, what he likes to call, binary proposition. if you are for this and this, you must be for this. it sort of carries you along in this realm of argumentation. that works on a couple of issues. bashing the fed has become an echo of ron paul. he's trying to get that ron paul part of the party. he has no other part of the party right now. this whole conversation about who should go to jail was started by what about the wall street people. michele bachmann said it was a community reinvestment act that forced people into homes and fannie mae and freddie mac changed their loans. which allowed the expedited creation of all of the toxic assets through other things. >> it was a couple bad things in

>> first of all, it is so much more fun if you're newt gingrich to talk about other people because when you talk about yourself, all you do is get in trouble as he has often. gingrich has got to get in the game and the best way to get in the game is to make news by talking, you know, trash about some other candidates. and i'm not saying i disagree with him, his criticism of those candidates, just unusual for a republican primary candidate to be so voluble about his competitors with such political analysis. i think he's reaching for straws and looking pretty desperate. >> it would seem that would back fire. this is a candidate that could use some support, could use some money, he's down pretty low in the fund-raising efforts. so why turn the attention atway from himself and instead of taking the time on morning talk shows to extrapolate on what he's bringing to the table than criticizing the others? that's not going to get him any more support, is it? >> because he was answering the question he was asked, fredricka. if there is one very appealing thing about newt gingrich, he answers the

i'm talking about newt gingrich?porter: well, while the anti-government sentiment appears to be helping the folks at the top, governor romney and herman cain, newt gingrich is hoping the closer we get to the election that people will focus on the issues and his experience will be his trump card. >> shawna, thanks so much, from columbia. thanks so much. >>> all right. turning now to president obama. he's continuing to travel around the country and talk to supporters. last week, he used his executive powers to ramp up assistance for americans seeking or repaying student loans. >> then in last year's state of the union address, i asked congress to pass a law that tells 1 million students they won't have to pay more than 10% of their income toward student loans. and we won that fight, too. and that law will take effect by the time -- that law is scheduled to take effect by the time freshmen graduate. but we decided, let's see if we can do a little bit more. so today i'm here to announce that we're going to speed things u

>> this is the easiest question i think i'll get all day, that's newt gingrich, newt gingrich at a speechbout 12 minutes, mentioned five products he was involved with, three movies he and his wife, calista and his book and his wife's new book. the media was not being unfair but unintellectual not reporting on his books as part of his effort to improve the country. >> it's interesting, something we've seen him tweet a lot and i believe he even threw in a mention during the last debate about the movie you were talking about, the one, i think, that he's made about ronald reagan with calista, right? >> and he's made a series of films, one about ronald reagan, one about the pope -- sorry, pope john paul ii, two about the religious history of america, one about energy. this is how he's spent the year since he left the speakership, building up his reputation as a statesman, but herman cain has a memoir, michele bachmann has a memoir coming out in about a month, all in different ways using this not just to supplement their campaigns but to get past the media and kind of chastise us for saying we'

>> i was thinking of musical chairs. >> in recent national polls, in both newt gingrich has risen to place. the fox news poll has gingrich at 12 just behind cain and romney. similar numbers in "the new york times"/cbs poll, where gingrich has a 10% to cain's 25 and romney's 21. there he is up there with the top three. one of the most memorable moments of the gingrich campaign, back in may, "face the nation" -- i love bob schieffer, but this is more proof of how good he is. he grilled newt over his spending at tiffany's. let's listen again to newt. >> you owed between $250,000 and $500,000 to a jewelry company. what was that about, mr. speaker? >> well, first of all, it's about obeying the law. >> did you owe $500,000 to a jewelry company at one point? >> we had a revolving fund. >> what does that mean? >> it means that we had a revolving fund. that -- >> i mean, who buys $500,000 worth of jewelry on credit? >> no, it's a -- go talk to tiffany's. >> it's very odd to me that someone would run up $500,000 bill at a jewelry store. >> well, go talk to tiffany's. >> i mean, you're running f

were debating her, not just debating her, and i was losing in the polls, i would do exactly what newt gingrich d.you'id. i'd start to say outlandish things and change the subject. >> barney is as outrageous at newt thinks he is. your thoughts? >> i think there's a slight chance, maybe more than slight, that michele bachmann really believes this. >> the sign of the beast. >> that herman cane is the anti-christ. >> she's said so many outlandish things over the year and she has a very fundamental view of the world. she has a very conspiratorial view of the world. next thing she gets on the show ask her about agenda 21. she believes in black helicopters and everything leading up to the rapture. >> i know. >> so it's not inconceivable that this wasn't a joke. >> let me go back to square one. congressman frank, again, besides being a liberal and a progressive supporter of your interests in your district up there in massachusetts, and you do study politics and history, what has happened to the republican party? why does it look like a tea party-fueled party looks like it's giving up and finding a can

. >> neither has newt gingrich. let's play a clip from last night. >> in both the bush and the obama administration the fix has been in. if you want to put people in jail i want to second what michele said start with dodd. this sounded like newt gingrich the back bencher back in the '80s and '90s before he was in the leadership just scatter shotted everyone. >> and this is a dynamic that happens when you have a big field when there ask a couple of people who thinks can be the nominee and a bunch who can't be the nominee. newt gingrich is in the can't be the nominee category. he can say whatever he wants to say because he doesn't have to worry about if i have to say this president obama will use this against me in a debate. this is newt unbound. he has been good in the last couple debates. the audience cheers for him but it is unlikely he is the nominee because he is not raising that much money and has little campaign organization. his campaign is going to these debates and giving speeches. >> giving speeches and sel

you've got newt gingrich proposing option l an and the huntsman plan, not only lowers the rates, butonsolidates the brackets. a lot of interesting thinking. interestingly, the one timid person at the party, mitt romney, who has not proposed anything very dramatic and is going to have to see if he can keep up with the rest of the tax. >> what about mitt romney's plan. he says he's going to cut taxes only for those people, capital gains and dividend taxes only for people who make less than 250 or $200,000 a year, depending if you're a couple or single. >> i get it confused with the obama tax all the time. and if it's single or i mean, he has a problem that he wants to go after the rich. and that's a problem for the republican base, and it's also, a problem economically, because even if you collected all of this money from the rich, you wouldn't solve our deficit problem and you would probably hamper growth because these are the people with the money to invest. >> james, this suggests to me we're going to see, particularly rick perry comes out with a flat tax, and several years back wit

and this is "state of the union." >>> four months ago one prominent beltway blog said of newt gingrich's troubled presidential run -- he looks a lot like the bruce willis character in the "sixth sense," everyone but him thinks he's dead. but at last week's washington post/bloomberg debate gingrich remained very much alive and kicking. >> all of the spending cuts that are built in the debt ceiling bill, all of them are acts of congress. they can all be repealed at any moment. it is nonsense to say we're going to disarm the united states unilaterally because we're too stupid to balance the budget any other way. >> former house speaker and republican presidential candidate newt gingrich joins me now. very much alive and kirking. >> good to be with you. >> let me talk to you first about some things that are in the news. let's pretend that president gingrich is in the white house. you received word and uncover a plot to kill the saudi arabian ambassador to the u.s. in the u.s. there is a money trail that leads you to the government of iran and some sector of it. do you what? >> continue the s

please welcome back newt gingrich.o have you here today. >> good to be with you, governor. >> mike: i want to quote something from your website about the 21st century contract with america. you say that you will issue a series of executive orders to create jobs and help undo the damage of the obama administration on the first day of the administration. what specific executive orders would you do on day one? >> imagine that shortly after the inaugural address, about 3:45 o4:30 in the ach about the time the president will be flying back from andrews air force base, back to chicago. [applause] >> and somewhere between 50 and 200 executive orders, basically beginning to repeal and replace the entire obama administration's initiatives. very first executive order would wipe out all of the white house czars effective as of that minute. [applause]. >> mike: very popular with my studio audience here. i'm assuming it would be with a lot of people across the country. >> for example, and also we're developing these, they'll be pub

newt gingrich made the comment that he thinks that dodd and frank should be in jail. se to that? >> well, that tells us why newt is doing so well in the republican primary. i think that's what it tells us. senator sanders, good to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. >>> the effort to recall wisconsin governor scott walker is officially underway and off to a great start. we'll bring you the latest next. >>> the justice department announced another terrorism bust today. don't hold your breath for republicans to praise the obama administration for being tough on terror. okay, so you mean you just ignore the environment. actually, it's cleaner. and, it provides jobs. and it helps our economy. okay, i'm listening. [announcer] at conoco phillips we're helping power america's economy with cleaner affordable natural gas... more jobs, less emissions, a good answer for everyone. so, by reducing the impact of production... and protecting our land and water... i might get a job once we graduate. >>> and we are back with the latest on the effort to recall wisconsin governor s

the same thing with newt gingrich. we may see some candidates drop off on their own. by tuesday night but in the near future. >> they do not have the money and do not win quickly in the first primary state, they are out. >> right. and you have to have 2% in the polls. some of these candidates are not at that threshold. some of the networks that have sponsored these debates may start screening them at some point. >> president obama began his bus tour to push the jobs bill. i would imagine a bit of a reelection campaign mixed in there. >> no coincidence to go into key states. they happen to be electorial which states where he has to win. talking about jobs. i do not think the white house is trying to hide the agenda. it is about jobs, that is what the election will be about. >> virginia to n.c., states that have been m -- by republicans. >> it is also a convenient geographic location. he can hop across the river in virginia go down to south carolina. n.c. it is something the obama team is watching closer. they may have a better shot their than northern virginia. >> thin

newt gingrich made the comment that he thinks that dodd and frank should be in jail. 's your response to that? >> well, that tells us why newt is doing so well in the republican primary. i think that's what it tells us. senator sanders, good to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. >>> the effort to recall wisconsin governor scott walker is officially underway and off to a great start. we'll bring you the latest next. >>> the justice department announced another terrorism bust today. don't hold your breath for republicans to praise the obama administration for being tough on terror. while sunbathing? why not? have you ever climbed a rock wall in the middle of the ocean? or tried something really wild? why not? it's all possible in the nation of why not. royal caribbean's floating nation where you're free to do anything you want. which may be nothing at all. royal caribbean international. visit royalcaribbean.com today. >>> and we are back with the latest on the effort to recall wisconsin governor scott walker. last night we broke the news here on "the ed show" that

the surprise there newt gingrich 12% over rick perry at 10%.es rick perry need to do get ahead of herman cain now? >> you can't -- there will be another poll in a week, two weeks. you have to look at the long view and not get caught up in the short term polls. >> if you were advising mitt romney -- >> do what we're doing. be consistent, be strong. he's first or second in every poll. this is about beating president obama. it's not about tomorrow's poll. it's not about the ohio story today. it's not about this particular side issue. don't get sidetracked. be disciplined. you know, be the presidential candidate. be strong. be the ceo. not necessarily the ceo. be the manager the country is looking for. >> would you advise mitt romney to stay in all the debates? this morning, we're reporting that rick perry is going to step out of some of them. >> i like rick. he's been a friend, obviously. mitt has been strong, obviously. one of the reasons that a lot of people see him as the strongest nominee is the direct result of performances in debates. we all

what the news is and when they begin to speak. ♪ megyn: new signs that gop presidential candidate newt gingrichg the kind of campaign surge that lifted rival herman cain. check out this new rasmussen poll shows mr. gingrich moving up into third place behind just mitt romney and herman cain, ahead of mr. perry. also a new poll by public policy polling shows mr. gingrich, again, in third just seven points behind mitt romney. the former speaker of the house and presidential candidate newt gingrich is my guest now. mr. speaker, you've got to feel good about that. >> i do. it's been a pretty good couple weeks. megyn: how? why? explain it. >> well, i think partially, real solutions, being positive and people getting to see me in the debates without editing and without judgment being rendered by others, and i think as people listen to common sense ideas like having a learning requirement attached to unemployment compensation or focusing on stopping crooks from get canning $120 -- getting $120 billion a year from medicare and medicaid or creating jobs through very dramatic cuts like zero capital gain t

on that attribute, newt gingrich wins. >> all right. let's go, mitt romney, by all accounts, also, had another very good debate this week. following the last focus group, you showed him winning by a considerably margin. here's him, you dialed him on the issue when he's talking about, quote, the rich. >> at what income does someone reach your definition of rich? >> i don't try to define who's rich special who is not rich. i want everyone in america to be rich. i people in this country to have opportunities. i want everybody to to have the kind of opportunities that we on this stage have had. i want people to recognize that the future will be brighter than it was for them. i know at president's party wants to try to take from some people and give to others. that's not the way to lift america. the way to lift america is to give people opportunity and let them enjoy the freedoms that have made us the envy of the world. >> the uplifting side of that seemed to give him that high water mark. >> you are right. mitt romney has become an outstand

. >> newt gingrich, ron paul, rick santorum. >> could it be newt gingrich? possibly. we are running out of time now. we are getting very close to these early states. >> john mccain says that the candidates can't underestimate the importance of those early states including nevada. >> i think the debates are very important. in new hampshire it will be important is whether they have seen in the neighborhood. >> jon huntsman will be a no show tonight. he protests nevadas decision to move its caucus to january 40. new hampshire says that is too close to its first in the nation primary. huntsman says he agrees with that. >> some of the candidates are saying they would not campaign in nevada because of that dispute with new hampshire. is there a lot of pressure on mitt romney to join the 08 -- boycott? with analysts say there is pressure to side with new hampshire. he is leading in the polls. he should stay out of nevada. he won the state of nevada in 2008. that could be difficult for him on the other hand. he does not want to up sets new hampshire voters because he really n

newt gingrich is on the coming up. and herman cain is on the rise. >> it feels like speed dating. >> yeah, i speed dated my whole life. usually it was like do you want to go out on a at date and they would say no and that would be speed dating in my world. >> well, republicans want someone of principle. they want to know that's a person who say what they mean and mean what they say, number two, they want someone who is intelligent to have the ability to make the changes. and three someone that can beat barack obama. all the candidates have two out of three but to a typical primary voter there is always someone missing when i is why they examine a candidate and fall back, examine a new candidate. >> i'm undecided. i'm the quintessential undecided voter. president obama policies have failed, the country can do better, and i don't want to see 46.2 americans in poverty because i know we can do better. i don't think one in seven americans ought to be on food stamps. the process i think is going to make whoever e candidate i

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produced his own health clever care plan in one thousand nine hundred four republicans led by newt gingrich offered their counter proposal that included you guessed it the heritage foundation type of individual mandate so why is it that the heritage foundation is suddenly declaring that an idea that they came up with is unconstitutional it's unlikely the constitution suddenly changed since one thousand nine hundred two could it be just because president obama proposed it. i don't want to put words in their mouths so all our heritage is own spokesperson set the record straight maybe has a great this is a state issue here confusing state police powers space powers with national federal powers and the question is not i've got the heritage lectures i actually have the documents that you guys put together a heritage talking points in even eighty nine they called for a national a national. mandate and so ninety two they called for a national mandate and when romney do they applauded the state. again then the heritage foundation a very clear that the individual mandate federal it was unconstitutio