newt gingrich is the former republican speaker of the house and co-host of cnn's cross fire. newt, seeing a huge concentration of wealth. some say the obama economy has favored the very top of the income. the growing income gap between the haves and have nots. leaving tax consults aside what has to happen for the wealth to trickle down? >> well, first of you a, i don't think that in the reagan area you had trickle down. the goal was to really cut taxes on small business. the rich take care of themselves. obama's living proof. here's a guy preaching inequality while the inequality keeps growing. when you get to be the size of warren buffett's fortune, so many lawyers and smart accountants you manipulate whatever the government does. the keep is upper middle class and middle class workers, very often husband and wife both working, people who start businesses, historically in america, we start about 500,000 small businesses a year. about 400,000 fail. so we have a net increase every year of 100,000 small businesses. that's been the driving force. the real focus of reagan was, and

on the right newt gingrich. in the cross fire donna brazil. the politics of being sorry now while keeping open the bridge to 2016 tonight on "crossfire." >>> welcome to "crossfire." i'm sally kohn on the left. >> i'm newt gingrich on the right. in the "crossfire" a top democratic strategist and a republican former governor. during his state of the state address new jersey governor chris christie firmly and forcefully dealt with the scandal he is facing. before we go on, jake tapper is in trenton. jake? >> reporter: newt, the feeling right here by the governor's aides is that he did what he needed to do nine days ago, the idea he would be apologizing for a political scandal in his state of the state address would have been completely foreign as a concept. of course, the ee-mails came out last week suggesting that his inner staff, some top advisers were involved in what appears to be a political vendetta. the governor said mistakes were clearly made although one could argue quibble with the question of the passive voice in that, it was more than

. >> on the left, van jones, on the right, newt gingrich. in the crossfire, senator joe manchin, a democrat from west virginia, and senator john hoeven, a democrat from north dakota, on this eve of the state of the union, is there any hope for action? tonight on "crossfire." >>> welcome to "crossfire." i'm newt gingrich on the right. >> and i'm van jones on the left. in the crossfire tonight we've got two u.s. senators who also happen to be former governors. they know a little bit about how to get things done and so does president obama. and that's why tomorrow during the state of the union, the president's going to make it clear to everybody, if republicans keep blocking everything that's good, the president's going to use his executive pen and help america anyway. and i say, it's about time. can you imagine having a co-worker on your job who sabotages you every single day? now, you try to scale back your own ideas, try to accommodate him and he go, well, you're feeling delete. then he torpedoes his own ideas. finally you just say forget it

on the right, newt gingrich. in the "crossfire," ilyse hogue, the president of naral pro choice america and lila rose, the president of live action. what's changing in the national debate and with voters' attitudes? tonight on "crossfire." >> welcome to "crossfire." i'm sally kohn on the left. >> i'm newt gingrich on the right. in the "crossfire" tonight, guests with very different views on the value of life. today in washington, we saw thousands of people in a minus 4 windchill standing to protest babies being killed. in their view, it's a moral issue that is literally life and death. we've been having these marches since the supreme court decided roe versus wade 41 years ago. but here's what's different. new technologies now enable us to see that an unborn baby is a baby, not just a lot of tissue, and we now understand that unborn babies feel pain. faced with this technology, killing babies becomes harder and harder to defend, which is why 64% of americans now oppose any abortion in the second trimester and 80%

from the left i'm van jones. >> from the right i'm newt gingrich.front" starts "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> next breaking news. a former virginia governor once a star in the republican party just moments away from speaking publicly for the first time since he and his wife were indicted on federal charges. plus, the rising stock of richard sherman. could the post-game rant by the seattle seahawks quarterback mean politicalons of dollars for him. >>> and a new video emerges of a rambling

newt gingrich is saying obama is a food stamp president. reagan and the welfare queens.s triggering racial sentiment, anxiety. on another, newt gingrich can turn around and say, i didn't mention race, i just said food stamps. he can go further and say, it's a fact, as if there's some sort of racial undertone. >> in the 2012 republican primary, newt gingrich was widely accused of employing the so-called southern strategy to appeal to the prejudices of white voters in the south. at republican debate, fox news moderator juan williams question newt gingrich about his description of president obama as the foodstamp resident. that more people have been put on food stamps by barack obama than any president in american history. [applause] now, i know among the politically correct, and i'm supposed to use facts that are in current -- were not supposed to use facts that are in comfortable. >> that was newt gingrich. >> people have a sense the sort of politics is out there, but they also think it is marginal, maybe a throwback to sort of old southern race dating from 50 years ago.

the destruction the obama presidency newt gingrich came on my show just couple months ago and basically bragged about it so yeah that's what we did and pete sessions afterwards said we're going to be the taliban he literally said that we have two of the taliban taught us how to do this we're going to be an insurgency we're going to prevent him from accomplishing anything and it seems to me like they've won they they've done this have have the republicans won while the result has banned and do nothing congress the most gridlocked congress and recent history which is truly hurting mainers and americans across this country people are struggling they feel like washington isn't listening at all and a lot of people are blaming the president for this which is really in my opinion unfair but you know it doesn't help when he says like in his speech last night he said if congress would make the decision to do something i'm sorry congress did a lot nancy pelosi passed over two hundred fifty pieces of legislation that republicans filibustered in the senate you know the senate has passed a lot of go

that is where newt gingrich really has got it wrong. tavis: give me some sense of how it is that cities are going to survive if what i am reading is correct, which is that the federal government is spending less money -- sending less money to the states. exhibit a, detroit michigan. how do city survive if they are getting less support for the programs of everyday people? >> a really important question. very straightforward answer. americans live in cities. there are small cities in kansas, but they live in cities. city dwellers have to start voting their urban interest. never mind republican or democrat. the interest of cities is the interest of nations. if urban citizens both their interest the national government will be giving them back the resources. it is only because the american government is in the hands of a minority right now that the urban minority is not being well served. worldwide, the majority are in cities, and if we follow democratic practices, in time that means national governments will be controlled by urban majoriti

conway who worked for none other than our own newt gingrich. now, listen, you have to look at the numb% and tame them seriously. i am imagining we're hoping obama care fades a bit and we can go after you guys on minimum wage. why don't the republicans just vote on this stuff right now, get it out of the way? why will you stay on the wrong side of the economic issues? >> obamacare just started to be implemented in full yesterday. so we didn't cause that, van. not a single republican supported obamacare, so he owns this. there are certain dates that are fixed in the system. they'll keep rolling it out. we hit a sad milestone today, where we have more people in this country who have had their plans canceled than successfully enrolled in obamacare. women are the chief health care officers and they don't like obamacare. >> see, this is it, you want to beat the drum -- >> it's the law -- >> i'm asking you a sophisticated question, you're a sophisticated pollster? you guys are standing in the way on the minimum wage increase. americans deserve a raise

that's newt gingrich in 1993 on the clinton tax increase. work on the other side of that tax increase, newt, have been waiting for your apology for 20 years to be completely wrong about that. >> i don't agree with you. >> the economy soared. no one lost a job because of that tax increase. there was no recession. >> jay carney presides over a press briefing room that includes more than a few reporters who were not quite old enough to remember that every single republican in washington was wrong about the clinton tax increase. and so today, he offered this little history lesson that bares repeating over and over again. >> do you remember 1993, the clinton budget? >> yes. >> remember, and some of these members are still in the house and the senate. profoundly confident predictions that if this budget were to pass we would -- the country would go into recession, job growth would be decimated. terrible things would happen. and instead, we saw the longest sustained period of economic growth and job creation in half a century. so i think we're a li

that the president can do that might not get yells and years. >> speaking of toxic atmosphere, newt gingrichill clinton worked together despite all of that at the height of it. how about rand paul bringing that up as a potential issue for 2016 if hillary were to run? >> you know, i actually don't know. if this is an attempt at some kind of brushback pitch, it's a rather early in the season to do that. one would certainly think that most people watched that unfold and thought she was one of the people who was hurt by the whole thing. i -- if she runsz, if she runs, certainly her whole public career is going to be at issue but i thought that was a little strange. >> thank you very much. we'll watch the speech tomorrow night and we'll talk to you afterwards. before the big speech, we want to hear from you, from all of you, share with us, how would you funnish this sentence, the state of our union is, using hashtag sotuis. here's what a few already had to say, sunshine tweets the state of our union is under construction. gene writes it is struggling to hang on and durrell says the state of our u

newt gingrich and stephanie cutter are hosts of cnn's "crossfire."ow much damage has this scandal done to chris christie's potential 2016 run and can he recover? newt, i'll start with you. >> i think it's a lot like, to use the current football analogi analogies, he clearly has had an interception. this is not how he wanted to start. the bridge scandal clearly has slowed him down. it will nag him for another couple months. whether anything else comes out, i'm not at all convinced. but there will be some turmoil, there will be some difficulties. i thought he looked good today. he's lost weight. he's gotten a haircut. the speech was pretty good. in fact, very good, for a prepresidential speech. and he's simply got to weather this. if another big shoe drops, that's a different story. but in the absence of something really big happening, i suspect he lives beyond this, and he is one of the major competitors. >> reporter: stephanie? >> well, to continue the football analogy, this is more than an interception. this is a major fumble on his part. he clearly

back with andrea pitching, nia-malika henderson, in newt gingrich. >> what do we think about this? in the pressure cooker before. how does this wear on him? >> that last quote if he meant it is a little strange. he's going to serve out his second term. >> what's what i just heard him say. >> until he doesn't. >> my intention is to be here unless my intention changes and it's not going to change until it changes so trust me. one of the dangers, as you know, is not the initial problem. it's the pressure cooker. it's the things you didn't expect. it's how you handle the problem. you know, as ken langone lecturing you in public. so we'll see. christie's got to relax and understand, this is a marathon. this could go on for three to six to nine months. he's not going to get red of it easily. >> he's going to have this investigation around for a long while. that's what i was asking the assembly man about. >> what he has to focus on is the investigation. he probably should not have gone to florida and fulfilled that commitment because in florida, if he's first of all behind a gated communit

let's discuss what we just heard from the president and more with newt gingrich.e's one of the hosts of cnn's "crossfire." mr. speaker, very much for coming in. let's talk a little bit about this year of action. what do you make of the president's new proposals that he just outlined to create jobs, create new businesses, to make sure the united states remains at the top, the cutting edge of new technology? >> well, look, i think the general idea is right. the rhetoric is right. the particular hubs he is setting up may actually have a positive impact. but the fact is that the amount of red tape, the amount of regulations, the amount of taxation that are hitting small businesses has really dramatically changed the rate at which we're creating new jobs. and i think until we have a small business liberation act and people understand how much all of this bureaucracy is crippling small business, obamacare is a piece of it. but there are a layer upon layer from the environmental protection agency to the department of labor. on a list. and i just talked to an expert this

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i worked for the budget committee, because of him, after that and then i worked for newt gingrich while he was speaker of the house for the last year or so of his speakership. >> what's the one thing you'd take away from the newt gingrich experience? >> you know, working in congress in general is an extraordinary thing for a young person who's interested in politics. i'd recommend it to absolutely everybody. it's -- washington is an incredibly open place, much more so than you would imagine. and i would say the more that i the more time i've spent in washington, the less cynical i've become about it in a certain respect. you can't believe conspiracy theories when you actually work in washington, because what happens is really people -- human beings, all the way down, trying their best to advance the good of the country as they understand it. it's very messy, it's very complicated, because that's what human beings are, but it's a very open process. it's incredibly open to people who are willing to work hard and who have ideas about how to do things. what i learned from the gingrich exper

we saw that with newt gingrich and rick santorum. these guys did not have broad- based appeal. we would talk about campaign- finance, what does that indicate? traditionally, the amount of money they raised really reflected kind of support among many networked donors. with the internet, we really have to look at how many donors are giving and is a small donors or big donors? it doesn't tells a lot about the support. or their appeal. i don't think it changes whether they are electable or not, but i do think it makes them competitive. it can really mucked things up. more generally, the internet. i think it is reinvigorated momentum as a possibility presidential nomination, simply because from roughly the 1970s through 2000, arguably 2004, candidates could not have the capacity with an increasingly frontloaded primary schedule to raise the money and make a difference. now they can. they can raise money really, really quickly. that gives the potential for a candidate who beats expectations like a barack obama. now obama in 2008 was well- funded, but, man, he really shot forward with

on the right newt gingrich.gie o'meara, and kellie ann conway who polls for republicans. who should fear the election more? democrats? republicans? or the voters? tonight on "crossfire." >>> welcome to "crossfire." i'm van jones on the left. >> i'm newt gingrich on the right. in "crossfire" tonight, democratic and republican pollsters. as we start the new year, the biggest request el is whether either party can get its act together enough to win a decisive victory, or whether we stumble through the year in a series of localized elections, leaving us in the doldrums until 2016. i know where your vote is. >> well, i hope the democrats can get their act together, and get a wave going, but we could blow it. we've got to bring this thing out. we have some of the best minds in the country to help us think this through. margie o'meara,ened kelly ann conway who worked for none other than our own newt gingrich. now, listen, you have to look at the numb% and tame them seriously. i am imagining we're hoping obama care fade

christine romans tackling triple down economics with newt gingrich. i'm fredricka whitfield.st century labor movement brewing with the support of president obama and leading economists. i'm christine romans, this is "your money." these are the people who flip your burgers, and clean your offices and they want a raise. [ chanting ] >> reporter: fast food woeshgs aren't the only ones at the bottom of the economic ladder. 1.6 million americans live on the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. that works out to just overs 15ds,000 a year, well below the poverty line for a family of three. another 17 million americans earn only slightly more. >> we have to sacrifice. either my husband eats today and i eat

there, you have senator ted cruz, newt gingrich and his wife, melissa. there is mark lavin.meal. there, you see right there there is the great one, mark lavin, deep in conversation he got in a shot with me and willy cory. and i had to get in one as well the president gave the state of the union. every president is going to say the state of the union is strong. sadly i don't think the state of the union is strovenlth one in six americans in poverty. one in five american children in poverty. we have the labor participation rate lowest in 30 years and doubled the number of people on food stamps it's sad behind everyone of the numbers are real people. real families real lives. suffering and i would argue, needlessly. there is a lot of blame to go around. one thing is for sure. if someone take reigns and lead and balance the budget, penny plan, use the energy, we have more energy than the entire middle east combined we're going to suffer. add the debt, deficit, america has problems and big challenges and we'll be discussing these things in days and weeks ahead. the state of the u

as someone who served in the 1990s during another house led, republican house caucus with newt gingrich and so forth, do you think there's been backsliding, erosion on basic consensus support for basic safety net programs? >> yes, and it began with gingrich. remember, newt gingrich undermined the former republican leader, bob michael, a mainstream conservative because he was too close to tip o'neill. they weren't snarling at each other. and, yeah, what you have is a real -- you have a reversion now on the part of the republican party back before the new deal. there's one very important point. john boehner says, well, this isn't going to help jobs. that is not only a lack of sympathy, not surprised to see that, but it's appalling economic ignorance. there is a broad consensus based on an obvious fact that unemployment compensation does help create jobs. because it adds to aggregate demand in the economy. every economist understands that. in fact, the unemployment compensation program starting in the '30s is widely, again, hailed by almost all economists as part of the countercyclical set

and needless to say, if newt gingrich were running against chris christie for president at this moment, gingrich would be savaging chris christie with at least as much verve as he brought to his attacks on mitt romney when they were competing for the republican presidential nomination. chris christie was a man on the run in florida this weekend, not yet running for president but running away from inquiring reporters. it was his first official weekend on the job as the chair of the republican governors association. the events he attended in florida were fund-raisers for the state's governor, rick scott, and the state's republican party. christie's biggest supporter in florida this weekend, billionaire home depot founder kenneth langone, opened up a bit to the "new york times." according to the "new york times," mr. langone said he told the governor he must be smarter about those who surround him. "i conveyed the importance of the decisions he makes about the people around him and their qualification and their competence, including common sense," said mr. langone, who called the politica

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i'm newt gingrich on the right. >> i'm van jones on the left. in the crossfire tonight, we have two leaders in the fight and against legalizing pot. now, this week, thousands of people in colorado stood in line to buy legal pot. here's where i stand. i hate drug use and drug abuse. i've seen the harm it's done to good people and families and neighborhoods. but i hate the drug war even more. it wastes money texas ruins lives. the numbers now show it unfairly targets people of color and the poor. this is one case where the solution is actually worse than the disease itself form a this point i support decriminalization, but i want to regulate it, tax it and discourage its used. i don't want my kids or yours using drugs. i just don't want any of them going to prison if they do. >> i think we can agree that the war on drugs does not work, but we also know from the 1890s that totally unregulated use of drugs leads to devastating results, which is where part of the food and drug act came from. i think tonight's discussion will be interesting. two terri

. >> i'm newt gingrich. join us tomorrow for another edition of "crossfire."nett outfront" starts right now. >>> next, three shootings in three days. a movie theater, a middle school and a grocery store. places we go every day. what is happening in america? >>> plus, how did an asiana passenger get run over by emergency responders? the nation's top transportation investigator joins us. >>> and is "how i met your mother" racist? the hit sitcom

i go one-on-one with newt gingrich.ght now, "snl" gearing up for a brand new show and a brand new face. sasheer zamata will be making her debut as the fifth black cast member ever on the show. some famous female comedians weigh in with their advice. "cnn newsroom" starts now. >>> chris christie on the move and looking for money. in the wake of the bridge scandal that keeps getting bigger, will a florida fund-raising trip charm the big donors or alienate them? >>> a "wall street journal" reporter disappears and a week later, investigators are still baffled. now, some reports are suggesting his disappearance may have to do with his coverage of the oil industry. >>> a big debut on "saturday night live." sasheer zamata joins the show tonight as the first african-american woman on the cast in six years. we have our own

on the right newt gingrich in the crossfire.ent obama's foreign policy in shamabbleshambles? tonight on "crossfire." >> welcome to "crossfire." i'm newt gingrich. >> we have a pair of experts with different views on president obama's foreign policy. a political bombshell hit washington. the "new york times" and "washington post" shared part of gates' new book. from what we read gates' dumps on -- >> you know the pentagon is always getting attention. remember bob gates was always seen as a team player and someone who demanded loyalty from his own people, now shocking revelations about what he felt about the president. let me get to a couple of them for you. in the book mr. gates said the president regarding afghanistan doesn't believe in his own strategy and doesn't consider the war to be his. for him it is all about getting out. gates

. >> and i'm newt gingrich. join us tomorrow for another edition of "crossfire." erin burnett "outfront" starts erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> next, bitter cold. the frigid air forcing schools to close, cancelling flights and postponing a major vote in washington. >>> plus the family of the 13-year-old girl declared brain dead looking for a miracle tonight. >> she has been taken from children's hospital and brought to a place where they will use her name instead of calling her a body. >>> and a major shake up at "saturday night live." let's go "outfront

. >> i'm newt gingrich on the right. in the "crossfire" tonight, guests with very different views of president obama's foreign policy. here's how i see it. libya is in chaos, syria is in chaos, iraq is descending into chaos, pakistan is a mess, afghanistan is teetering on the edge, and then you have the iranians. within the past two weeks, cnn has record three things that should alarm every american. first, iran's president tweeted the world's powers surrendered to iran's will. second, iran's foreign minister declared his country isn't dismantling any of its centrifuges. and then you have iran's president today explaining to cnn's fareed zakaria what the chants of "death to america" really mean. >> what they mean to say relates to the aggressive policies of the u.s. and intervention and meddling boy the u.s. we don't want those to continue. >> well, i would just suggest that you that if an american leader was wandering around chanting death to iran, it would be hard to explain we meant that it symbolic. and they have had

. >> from the right i'm newt gingrich. join us again tomorrow for another edition of "crossfire."in burnett outfront" starts right now. >>> next, breaking news. guilty in a shocking verdict an italian appeals court has just convicted amanda knox of murder. live to florence for the latest. a huge question tonight. will the united states extradite knox to italy to serve decades in jail? >>> plus, cnn holds the georgia governor accountable for his bungling of the storm that paralyzed atlanta. how did this happen? >>> what was justin bieber on the night police stopped him for drag racing. the toxicology is out and let's go "outfront."

. >> from the right i'm newt gingrich. join us next time for another edition of "cross fire."burnett "out front" starts now. >>> next, breaking news. a student allegedly opens fire in a high school gym. at least two other students are injured. police are still looking for suspects. plus, more breaking news. new details about the southwest flight that landed at the wrong airport. when did the

. >> based on massachusetts plan which was mitt romney, newt gingrich our co-host. >> nobody who was involved in the massachusetts plan says it's part of the massachusetts plan. no one involved in congress says it was -- >> there's plenty of outreach. >> i just like to point out that in the past two months we've got a deal on the farm bill, we've got movement on immigration reform and we had a budget deal all without the president, so maybe it's time the president stays home and lets congress get to work. but mo, republicans are not the only folks going after the president. this is from a letter sent to harry reid this week from two labor unions representing a million workers combined expressing serious concerns about dropped coverage under obama care. they write, it would be a sad irony indeed if the signature legislative accomplishment of an administration committed to reducing income inequality cut living standards for middle increase and low wage workers. when you start bleeding from your base on your signature piece of legislation, what's your plan b? >> that's an absolutely fal

when newt gingrich wanted medicare to wither on the vine and medicaid to be block granted, you were there. because you knew it would result in kicking millions of pregnant women and children, millions of seniors, middle class seniors in nursing homes because they had no one else they were alone kicking them off of coverage. you stood with teddy to build a national program chip. you welcomed then senator obama here in 2007 where he pledged his mmitment to make health reform a reality. and he did. he did. i get credit. he deserves all the credit. because i was with him every minute through this bitter fight, at least half a dozen times when he could have compromised. and what he would say every time, joe, if we let this go, it will be another generation before 24 million young eople, mostly of color, poor, will ever get the kind of coverage that they need. i think everyone of you around this room, whether you were sometime in your life fully insured or under-insured or had no insurance at all, you have a story of your own. i'm sure like me you have stories of family members and close associ

he would names but this particular billionaire is now backing newt gingrich in this particular billionaire i mean that was the coverage of the republican primary was which billionaire was deciding which candidate and as soon as the billionaire pulled their pulled the plug the candidates collapsed is this any way to run a republic well but see here. their public in primary in two thousand and twelve we had a bad oh i don't need any really america by me about it wasn't the results this is headed to the area the country who are appealed but i mean should one when our news coverage is is you know how much money is being dumped into a campaign rather than what the issues of the campaign are i think is to me that i lost that i don't as yet i don't see that dear i think that the news coverage is twenty four seven about everything i mean it's news it's what you're eating for breakfast it's what the candidates get when and where they're sleeping i mean it's everything it's too it's too much on the level it seems to me that the real issue i agree with you that it sometimes is annoying to find out th

i am told kurt russell and i am not sure i met him once in newt gingrich office he is not a libertarianyou? then the of comedy star vince vaughnn but now he has a radio show and said this. >> i very supportive of ron paul. as you get older you have less trust of the government running anything like that the constitution theeal purpose is to protect the individual rights. john: yes. he said too many rules lead to government corruption a other unintended consequences. he gets it. maybe there are more libertarians in hollywood in theloset. for if you don't march in step with the other liberals you may not get work as kevin sorbo said earlier. >> just to say i'm an independent is enough to lose working in the city. john: that is why just well established stars who are willing to speak up and performers like drew carey who now works for reason tv. >> we don't need garett centralized government to tell us what color to paint our house. john: but maybe the entertainers cannot comprehend. let's close that when they say government must act to protect privacy on the web? penn gillette said this b

shelly adelson has decided he's going to back rick santorum well this week he's going to back newt gingrich and you watch them pop up or down depending on which billionaire is giving too much money to whom and the patient a drop for americans i mean americans should wait a minute we're watching who is being funded by what billionaire i mean that's oligarchy you know that's plutocracy that's that's not democracy that's a republic so i am frankly shocked that there's not more. just horror about this expressed in our media i think it's a it's a real this is a real serious problem and politicians both democrats and republicans will tell you this is a problem we can find gold which is intent to dial this back which got blown up by citizens united was a bipartisan bill the politicians don't like the fact whether the democrats or republicans don't like the fact that they have to spend sixty percent of their time outside their office in a private office if they read dialing for dollars that every weekend they have to go to fundraisers it's crazy and the one thing about these super pacs is that. for

on the right newt gingrich. in the "crossfire", alan st.leading the national fight for legalization. and former congressman patrick kennedy, who is against it. should marijuana be legal nationwide? tonight on "crossfire." >>> welcome to "crossfire." i'm newt gingrich on the right. >> i'm van jones on the left. in the crossfire tonight, we have two leaders in the fight and against legalizing pot. now, this week, thousands of people in colorado stood in line to buy legal pot. here's where i stand. i hate drug use and drug abuse. i've seen the harm it's done to good people and families and neighborhoods. but i hate the drug war even more. it wastes money texas ruins lives. the numbers now show it unfairly targets people of color and the poor. this is one case where the solution is actually worse than the disease itself form a this point i support decriminalization, but i want to regulate it, tax it and discourage its used. i don't want my kids or yours using drugs. i