there's a guy named newt gingrich who disagrees with you. i want to hear you listen to yourself talk about this issue a few years ago. >> what would you say to senator inhofe and to others in the senate who are resisting even science? what's your message to them here today? >> my message, i think, is that the evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading of the atmosphere. >> and do it urgently, now. >> do it urgently. >> this, i love, this newt gingrich guy, he's great. i would hate -- he uwas talking to somebody who used to be called a flip-flopper. i would hate to thing that newt gingrich is competing with john kerry for the title of flip-flopper in chief. >> it was in a debate in the senate conference hearing room talking about taking effective steps and suddenly elevating this -- i'm happy to say this is a serious topic and debate seriously. to then elevate that to more important -- remember, the phrase he uses is very clear. that's why the speech matters. not a press relea

on the right newt gingrich. in the cross fire, granderson who is against the bill and ken kucuccinelli who is for it. is arizona trying to protect religious freedom or legalize discriminati discrimination? tonight on "crossfire". >> i'm newt gingrich on the right. >> i'm van jones on the left. tonight the nfl, american airlines, marriott and even mitt romney and john mccain all agree with me. arizona governor jan brewer needs to veto this so-called religious freedom bill that would actually legalize discrimination against gays and lesbians. she has until saturday to make her decision. governor, one of the greatest achievements we ever had in america is simply this. we got rid of six words. those six words, we don't serve your kind here. now, we take it for granted today but it took a civil war and the civil rights movement, a century of struggle to get rid of those six words. and now you have some folks in your state that want to take those six words, they want to wrap them in religious garb and reinscribe them

newt gingrich told business lobbyists that clinton democrats are the enemy of normal americans.s first reported today, and rich promised the lobbyists that if republicans win control of the house and senate, they will use their newfound subpoena power to spend the next two years investigating corruption in the clinton administration. >> i do not know of any administration in modern times with as many different potential scandals. to the president or his wife for any individual. i said the total behavior of the administration is a threat to the american people. >> that is 20 years ago. what has happened since then? mentality hasf infected the political process. now it has become standard operating procedure. sort of ironic and counterintuitive, where you are weak, that is where you attack your opponent. people who are ethically weak attacking others on ethics. >> where do you come down on, money is speech? let's all theeech corporations in for jury duty and make them subject to draft registration if they are people. i think it is a totally phony thing. was totally inrt the tank o

i'm van jones on the left. >> i'm newt gingrich on the right. in the "crossfire" tonight two governors who met with president obama today. and moments after that meeting, a handful of governors rushed to the microphones for their own mini edition of "crossfire." >> this president in the white house seems to be waving the white flag of surrender after more than five years in this administration. the obama economy is now the minimum wage economy. >> i don't know what the heck was a reference to white flag when it comes to people making $404 a week. i mean, that's the most insane statement i've ever heard. >> so not satisfied with creating gridlock just in washington, president obama now is poisoning the traditionally nonpartisan governors ocean meeting and he started doing it thursday when he told democratic governors their republican colleagues are, quote, pursuing the same top-down failed economic policies that don't help americans get ahead. they're paying for it by cutting investments in the middle class. van, i thought this was a chance for t

newt gingrich is how i goat refer to you now. listen again. taking you back to 2007. this is you and john kerry discussing. >> what would you say to others who are resisting science. what's your message. >> my message is that the evidence is sufficient. we should move towards the steps. >> and do it urgently. >> so newt, this is 2007, it is such a threat and requires urgent action. you have john kerry saying hey, we need to take action. you say he should resign. >> there is a huge difference. i think we can have a serious rational conversation. we can adopt positive policies and we have. i recently wrote about a brand-new plant in mississippi that does a dramatic job that the southern companies developed. there things we can do. what john kerry said on sunday in indonesia, jakarta is profoundly wrong. >> how so? >> he said this could be the greatest weapon of mass destruction and the greatest threat that we face. now, you just showed kiev. russia is a neighbor to kiev and has several thousand nuclear weapons. the iranians announc

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so that became the basis of the book. >> host: could newt gingrich's speakership have been longer? >> guest: well, it's hard to say if it could have been longer. there was a way in which gingrich had a somewhat similar problem to speaker boehner, which is a fairly large group of new young members who -- this is not unusual. both parties have had this. they come in they're zealous, they have a sense they know how to fix things and at first that creates tremendous enthusiasm and energy which is useful to the majority party. but invariably that group or members of it start to get disillusioned and feel the things they got elected on are not being done and then they become a challenge for a speaker, and this happened to carl albert in 1970s, happened to -- has happened to speaker boehner. but with gingrich he had the same problem. so to some extent it was a difficult situation for anyone. would have been difficult no matter who the speaker was. but there was another more personal aspect, which is that gingrich was the kind of speaker who believed in being the general, the leader of the

years after newt gingrich and john mccain and george w.arming, climate change denialism is the de facto position for the republican party. an amendment was voted down that would have stated that climate change is occurring. to be clear, all the republicans present voted no and all the democrats present voted yes. joining me now is a political report at "the national journal." thank you for joining me on a subject that causes me no ending amount of distress. let's talk about the debate. it was brought to my attention to my great producer who works on this show and on this segment that in 2003, there was a memo that said the following. the scientific debate is closing against us, but not yet closed. there's still a window of opportunity to challenge the science should the public come to believe the scientific issues are settled, their attitudes will change about global warming. now 11 years later, alex, that's exa exactly what the gop has done to the degree there's now a "quote/unquote, debate over whether climate change is real. how did tha

can actually do that on the federal level as well as demonstrated by bill clinton, camelot, and newt gingrich. they all got serious about doing that, too, instead of just talking about it. max can i just add something? -- >> can i just add something? what he says is really important. the fiscal cliff and he should -- and the shutdown were not good, they were not good for washington, d.c. kin to wanting to lose weight and you just chop your foot off. that being said, the states are stepping forward, as you heard our chairman, mary fallin, talk about, and john hickenlooper talking about flexible federalism. we will take less money from the federal government in utah if you will take away the strings in the red tape. we can build roads better with less money if we do not have all of the federal strings and red tape. we can educate our kids better if we don't have all the red and strings attached to it. health and human services, medicaid expansion. fox gets a presentation issues. he is a local guy and understands that strings sometimes get in the way of efficiency. so we are proposing to the evi

and didn't newt gingrich have a pretty bold agenda with the american people? i don't think if i asked people what the republican party stands for today, i don't think i would get a coherent answer. i don't think most people know. >> that has been the pattern over and over. listen, the battle for who the republican party is, is not new. you go back to the rockefeller republicans, back to reagan in '76, and newt gingrich. the pattern is, there were always voices in d.c. who said don't pick a fight. don't stand for anything. that is the path to victory. but they keep losing elections. we win elections not when we fight everything. i don't think we should fight everything. i think we should take principled stands with the american people on things that matter and not bankrupting the country is right up at the top of that list. >> i've been suggesting five things, one, the penny plan to balance the budget because that reins in spending. we ought to duplicate north dakota and that means open up energy production all over the countr country, fracking, you tell me, th

on the left, sally kohn, on the right, newt gingrich.h and nutrition activist and rick berman, who opposes government overreach. should washington help you be healthy or is it wasting your time and tax money? 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 on opposite sides of this country's food wars. it is a legitimate concern to wore be the health of the american people. michelle obama's done all of us a favor by starting a conversation about nutrition. but the food labels she unveiled today are nothing more than symbolic liberalism. >> we're overhauling these labels to make them easier to read and understand. >> we've been ignoring government labels for 23 years. so now we're going to spend an immense amount of money on a multi-year process to rearrange the information, make it larger and add even more that you'll never read or use. because it makes liberals feel good. it is pure symbolism. >> actually, it's not symbolic at all. it ma

. >> host: could newt gingrich speakership have them under? >> guest: it is difficult to say. there was no way in which he had a similar problem to speaker boehner which was a fairly large group of new you own members and this is not unusual, both parties have this, they are zealous, they know how to fix things do that first that creates the enthusiasm and energy which is useful but invariably that group or members get disillusioned and feel things they were elected on not done then it becomes a challenge. this happens to carl albert in the '70s in the ways to use speaker boehner but with king bridge he has the same problems was a difficult situation for anyone. but there was a more personal aspects that he was the kind of speaker who believed to be the general, a the leader of the troops in the importance of listening understanding were members are coming from but not necessarily his strong suit. because of that i think it exacerbated the tensions the the republicans to question his ability to feed pass the first couple years. his personality contributed a relatively short na

. >> from the right, i am newt gingrich. monday for another edition of "crossfire," and erin burnett "out front" starts right now. >>> next, breaking news. growing protest in arizona at this hour over a bill that legalizes discrimination against gays and lesbians. >>> the phumunchies. a girl sells cook out outside of a pot store. >>> good evening, everybody. out front tonight, breaking news.

. >> i'm newt gingrich on the right. in the "crossfire" tonight guests on opposite sides of this country's food wars. it is a legitimate concern to wore be the health of the american people. michelle obama's done all of us a favor by starting a conversation about nutrition. but the food labels she unveiled today are nothing more than symbolic liberalism. >> we're overhauling these labels to make them easier to read and understand. >> we've been ignoring government labels for 23 years. so now we're going to spend an immense amount of money on a multi-year process to rearrange the information, make it larger and add even more that you'll never read or use. because it makes liberals feel good. it is pure symbolism. >> actually, it's not symbolic at all. it makes us liberals thinner and that's our secret trick to living longer, then winning more elections. that's what you won't see on your food labels. >> you do lead a rich fantasy life. >> in the "crossfire" tonight, director of nutrition at the center for science in the pu

campaign i never forget when sheldon adelson put ten million dollars into a campaign to benefit newt gingrich. i mean sudden he's a star. like well i mean there is something very wrong with that and it's amazing to me that the supreme court in in in the most recent case citizens united sort of acted like that doesn't happen you know it's naive or cynical. legal argument i've ever heard that that money doesn't buy political influence in the various way and that the first for tax money right in the fourteenth amendment protects corporations and i thought we fought the civil war to free the slaves well. what are the red carpets conversations of great minds of minnesota congressman keith ellison. i marinate joining me on the desk in park and financial reporting commentary interviews and much much. only on the bus and on our. and welcome back to conversations with great minds i'm speaking with keith ellison representative from minnesota's fifth congressional district and author of the new book my country tis of thee my faith my family our future i want to go back to you if i can i just because the

. >> from the right i'm newt gingrich. join us tomorrow for another edition of "crossfire."nett outfront" starts right now. >>> next breaking news. airports and airlines around the world on high alert tonight. u.s. officials linking a credible shoe bomb threat to al qaeda. >>> plus, how colorado is making a killing on weed. the numbers are in, they may mean pot is coming to your state and pretty darn quickly. >>> why are republicans, some of them, defending him. let's go out front. >>> good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett and "outfront" breaking news. tying the new threat of shoe bombs on airplanes to al qaeda. indications the threat could ultimately be tied to the

boehner is not the kind of speaker you can compare to nancy pelosi or newt gingrich. he always operated from the bottom-up, said he was going to listen to everybody and do things in the sort of democratic way, which is unusual for a house speaker. so things have always been a little bit up and down with the way things go in the house. i think he's -- if he is stronger, it's only because he showed his tea party faction he was willing to go the distance for them. they lost their leverage when the government shut down, hurt their credibility, and now he is back in control. he's got them piped down a little bit on some things. they are are still voting against a lot of legislation, but he's got leverage. [ overlapping speakers ] >> he's got maneuvering room here and it looks like he's going to use it, maybe, to push through immigration reform. and the tea party has lost some of their steam and yet i think he's got boehner has a little more influence with them. >> let me say this. >> here comes the grassroots implosion. >> let me say this. if he goes with immigration refor

on the right, newt gingrich.man adam schiff from the intelligence committee and u.s. senator ron johnson from the foreign relations committee. in a dangerous world, can we count on putin to protect americans? tonight on "crossfire." >>> welcome to "crossfire." i'm newt gingrich on the right. >> i'm sally kohn on the left. in the "crossfire" tonight, a democratic congressman and a republican senator. holding the olympics in russia was already wrong, now it's scary and wrong. and getting scarier by the second. we just learned the u.s. is banning carry-on liquids on airline flights to russia following warnings about toothpaste tube bombs. and if that sounds like a joke, watch what one of them does to this car. now listen to what senate intelligence committee chair dianne feinstein just told cnn's jake tapper. >> i think people going to the olympics should be careful. i think they should watch their backs. i think they should stay out of crowds if they can. >> like that's doable. the olympics is one giant crowd. if i

to be left, van jones, on the right, newt gingrich.the democratic governor of illinois, and rick perry, the republican governor of texas. the great divide, red states versus blue states tonight on "crossfire." >> welcome to "crossfire." i'm van jones on the left. >> i'm newt gingrich on the right. tonight we have two guests who represent profoundly different philosophies of governing. here in washington in weekend democratic governors who believe in high taxes, ironclad unions and greater indebtedness are gathering with republican governors who are relentlessly cutting spending and taxes and letting the private sector fill the gaps. today in the theater of absurd watching president obama in a meeting with only democratic governors attempting to reach tout republicans will be one of the more farcical events of republicans looking back on the ineptitude of this administration. be honest, wasn't that a bizarre moment? >> if you're looking for humor you're bragging on the red states, the red states are actually taking money from the blue s

actually do that on the federal level as well as demonstrated by bill clinton trent lott, and newt gingrich. they all got serious about doing that, too, instead of just talking about it. >> can i just add something? what he says is really important. the fiscal cliff and the shutdown were not good, they were not good for washington d.c. it is akin to wanting to lose weight and you just chop your foot off. that being said, the states are stepping forward, as you heard our chairman, mary fallin, talk about, and john hickenlooper talking about flexible federalism. we will take less money from the federal government in utah if you will take away the strings in the red tape. we can build roads better with less money if we do not have all of the federal strings and red tape. we can educate our kids better if we don't have all the red tape and strings attached to it. health and human services, medicaid expansion. secretary fox gets a transportation issues. he is a local guy and understands that strings sometimes get in the way of efficiency. so we are proposing to the evisceration and the congress,

then you know did that jamie's point i mean i was here in one nine hundred ninety seven with john newt gingrich we balanced the budget and we did it in a republican way by slowing growth and to say that we are facing a government shutdown regardless that's that's just not so i voted for sequester but the failure is it was a document in the washington post from the white house flying in to tell us and i don't use the washington post amy as my gospel so i really don't know that i'm going to go there but i'm going to tell you right now that that the sequester cuts were the unfortunate consequence of the deadlock in washington you've got the democrats that won't touch one fairhair on the entitlement programs and you've got republicans that won't even put any revenue on the table i'm not talking buzzword for taxes i'm talking tax simplification that needs to revenue so the super committee couldn't come up with this little itty bitty savings and as a result you got sequester and i don't think you know you don't get to call the crazy on the president for saying i'm not going to negotiate when you're c

campaign and never forget when sheldon adelson put ten million dollars into a campaign to benefit newt gingrich. i mean sudden he's a star. i mean there is something very wrong with that and it's amazing to me that the supreme court in in the most recent case citizens united sort of acted like. that doesn't happen you know it's the most naive or cynical. legal argument i've ever heard that that money doesn't buy political influence in the various way and that the first amount for tax money right in the fourteenth amount to protect corporations and i thought we fought the civil war to free the slaves well any of that was about the large rich parties conversations with great minds of minnesota congressman keith ellison at this point. is the media lead us so we need to. either see bush and see to the other your party physical. issues that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politics only on our t.v. . i've got a quote for you. that's pretty tough. stay with substory. let's get this guy like you would smear about john stead of working for the people both issue

campaign and never forget when sheldon adelson put ten million dollars into a campaign to benefit newt gingrich. i mean sudden he's a star. i mean there is something very wrong with that and it's amazing to me that the supreme court in in in the most recent case citizens united sort of acted like that doesn't happen you know it's naive or cynical. legal argument i've ever heard that money doesn't buy political influence in the various way and that the first for tax money right in the fourteenth amendment protects corporations and i thought we fought the civil war to free the slaves well. it's conversations with great minds of minnesota congressman keith ellison. you know the united states has as many think tanks as the next ten countries combined yes one thousand eight hundred twenty eight takes to tell three hundred million people how to think. but deal with the location of it is to know it's still remember. how to do that well there's of the high tension said you would stop this story we might be more my people will die. and welcome back to conversations with great minds i'm speaking with kei

campaign i never forget when sheldon adelson put ten million dollars into a campaign to benefit newt gingrich. i mean i sudden he's a star i'm like well i mean there is something very wrong with that and it's amazing to me that the supreme court in in in the most recent case citizens united sort of acted like that doesn't happen you know it's naive or cynical you know legal argument i've ever heard that that money doesn't buy political influence in the various way and that the first amendment protects money right in the fourteenth amount of protects corporations and i thought we fought the civil war to free the slaves well any. conversations of great minds of minnesota congressman keith ellison the spirit. join me. in part and. very concerned and much much. only on. i would rather ask questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question for. that's worse. than the dish line up. on. line. and welcome back to conversations with great minds i'm speaking with keith ellison representative fr

on the right, newt gingrich., and stephen moore, a conservative economist. will raising the minimum wage help the economy or cost jobs? 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 have a consumer advocate and a conservative economist. now you would thing that everybody would be happy about 25 million americans potentially getting a raise, especially if you're one of them. that's why president obama wants to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. look, that's just keeping up with inflation, folks. but that plan would also lift about a million people out of poverty. so what's stopping us from doing this? the republicans. they never like the minimum wage in the first place. and now they are happy they can hide behind this report that came out this week. the report said the minimum wage might, might cost 500,000 jobs, might maybe. but then again the same report also said that it might cost zero jobs. now, the re

newt gingrich refused to condemn nugent when pressed by wolf blitzer to take a look at this. phrase subhuman mongrel you're familiar with this because you're a student of world war two when the genocide that occurred during work when the nazis were one or two jews mr speaker as subhuman mongrel zz there is a history do not have races. you cannot have it both ways you can't say on how not saying this is how does this is raise mr speaker what i am saying is that the republicans so in the minute we have what you guys really wanted news you're representing the republican party on television doesn't represent the republican party but to dream represent some conservative perspectives and if we're going to call all the people that said bush equals hitler and all. the swastikas that were placed upon because they opposed his position on iraq we're not going to have that discussion and when i'm going to condemn those people i don't want to add this to them in america if you don't like the president you can call them whatever name you want that's all right i'm not a republican so i coul

arms of intelligence give in both the factual and the cognitive sense. 1994 here's tom broke on newt gingrich becoming a speaker. >> election year politics now it when you thought couldn't get any uglier it does. he's p house republican already declared war on president clinton and his latest the white house aroused. all out war the republican whip attacked the president. over lunch in this republican tkpwreufp rinning ist. lobby he promised the lobby kwreuft if win they'll use their new found subpoena power two years e next investigating corruption in the clinton administration. of any not know this administration with as many potential scandals all around it. i did not refer to the president or his wife or any individual. of id the follow behavior the administration is a threat to the american people. ago.hat's 20 years what's happened since then from your point of view? sort of mentality has infected the political process become standard procedure. weak and that is where opponent.k your people who are ethically weak others on ethics. >> where do you come on money is speech? money is speech

we're very pleased to have former speaker of the house newt gingrich and former director of central intelligence under jim clinton, jim woolsey as our coach here. we pulled together the best minds in this country, i think, on the vulnerabilities of the grid and what needs to be done to fix it. the military, as you know, jeanine, has been spending billions of do years hardening key parts of the military. so what do we use? surge protectors to protect the key things like these transformers that were nearly blown up in san jose. we use capacitors to shunt the surge around them and we could use physical cages or barriers to protect them as well. these are practical measures. we know how to do it. we've got to protect particularly these 2,000 other so transformers that truly are the critical component of our 21st century society survival. >> all right. frank gaffney, always great to hear your insight. thanks for being here tonight. >> thank you. >>> joining me, ray lahood who is joining us from peoria, illinois. secretary lahood, in your view, how vulnerable is the american power grid? >> well, i thi

. >> i'm newt gingrich. erin burnett "out front" starts erin burnett "out front" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> next breaking news out of k kiev tonight. we have exclusive footage. facebook pays a jaw dropping $19 billion for an app. is it worth it. ted nugent calls the president a subhuman mongrel. let's go "out front." >>> good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. breaking news. military forces and ukraine on the move ready to defend bases and weapons depots. there is word of a truce after bloody and violent clashes in kiev. how fragile is this? take a listen. that was the scene less than 24 hours ago in kiev. as you can see, this violence and bloodshed has been incredibly difficult could control. 26 people have been killed since the government's decision to align with russia instead of the west. president obama made it clear where the united states stands. >> we hold the government primarily responsible for making sure that it is dealing with peaceful protestors in an appropri

newt gingrich was forced out of the speakership by his own party.dn't work against bill clinton then. it's a question whether it has traction with the younger set but certainly something that i think republican elders can backfire on republicans again. >> i think republicans want to talk about benghazi. in our book we talk about how shawn spicer, the communications director says get used to seeing these ads on benghazi over and over again. i think they are also going to use her as a result of our book that people are lobbying on to health care as an issue to pin her to. i think that's an issue that republican see something that they can hold her to. >> a new report from house republicans today on the armed service ts committ services blames for heightened threat to benghazi. the military is basically cleared of any wrongdoing. what did you learn in the course of your research for this book about the decisions that secretary of state hillary clinton was involved in when it came to benghazi? aime? >> i think that's a big question. expeditionary diplom

there's the view that this is a pile-on, separate from the facts, the idea that none of them like newt gingrichnd he's attacked the media repeatedly. "the new york times" previously and he's attacked msnbc for its reporting, how much does that enter into the political rehabilitation here? >> christie attacking the media is smart in terms of being rga chair. you don't want to be on the media side against the republicans. that's never smart. that's why they are making those comments. looking forward, john kasich, scott walker, rand paul, these are people not accused of closing lanes in cities where their political opponents are. when you look at the nomination process, they can say they love chris christie while not being president. >> it's interesting because it almost goes to the idea, perry, that's he's doing poor enough that hrivals don't have to pile on as well. >> that's interesting, yes. >> we are being looking at interesting counter points. beth, perry, thank you both for your time. >> thanks. >>> now we're going to turn to some weather. thousands of flights have been canceled. bill karin

. >> from the right, i am newt gingrich. join us monday for another edition of "crossfire," and erin burnett "out front" starts right now. >>> next, breaking news. growing protest in arizona at this hour over a bill that legalizes discrimination against gays and lesbians. >>> the phumunchies. a girl sells cook out outside of a pot store. >>> good evening, everybody. out front tonight, breaking news. banning gays from restaurants at ground zero. the protest has been picking up steam in the past few minutes. people are furious that a state bill would allow business owners to refuse service to gays and lesbians. so if a photographer refused to take pictures of a gay couple they could not sue, for example, and it's not just arizona. lawmakers there are not the only ones that want to pass this type of legislation. protection bills have been introduced in oregon, ohio, mississippi, kansas, tennessee, and oklahoma. and we begin our coverage in phoenix. we are on the ground and looking at pictures. what are you hearing from people?

and so that became the basis of the book. >> host: could newt gingrich's speakership have been longer? >> guest: well, historical counterfactuals are always difficult. it's hard to say if it could have been longer. there was a way in which gingrich had a somewhat similar problem to speaker boehner which is a fairly large group of new, young members who -- and this is not unusual, both parties have had this. they come in, they're a little zealous, they have a sense that they know how to fix things, and at first that creates tremendous enthusiasm and energy which is useful to the majority party. but invariably, that group or members of it start to get disillusioned, they feel the things they got elected on are not being done, and then they become a challenge for a speaker. and, again, this happened to carl albert in the 1970s, this happened to, and this in many ways is what's happened to speaker boehner. gingrich had the same problem, so it would have been difficult no matter who the speaker was. but there was another more personal aspect to it, i would say, which is that gingrich was t

in other words, i love newt gingrich contract with america, what five big things are you going to do to get people off of food stamps. create jobs, create energy independence. i think that is key, a positive agenda. real quick. >> republicans have to talk about portability. all the language is tough, you have to make sure they say, no one's going to go hungry in america. we have to make sure we take care of those, the incentive to work is available. and obama care is not. >> growth, growth and prosperity. >> we have to break. >> good to see you both. >>> coming up next, the special hannity investigation tonight. we will delve deeper into phillip seymour hoffman's death, and why the heroin epidemic is spreading to small cities and small towns and it might be right in your backyard. what celebrities could be heading down the same deadly spiral? tonight we're going to name names and reveal our watch list. if you live in the northeast, janice dean is standing by with a weather warning, it will be impacts about 20 states. dear future olympian, one day you'll be standing on a podium. and h

cain,e bachmann, herman rick santorum, rick perry, newt gingrich. we will play again. -- a game. bachmann, herman cain, rick santorum, rick perry, nude gingrich, chris christie. a lot of you have kids so remember the sesame street song -- one of these things is not like the others. [laughter] to look at alld these people that they desperately wanted to nominate at various points in 2012 and then jump all the way over to chris christie. we have seen parties make huge swings but it was usually after they had a crash and burn election. incourse, after goldwater 1964, republicans moved to the middle and nominated richard butn and won the presidency they had a crash and burn election first. democrats have a crash and burn -- in 1972 1970's to with george mcgovern. republicans have not had a crash and burn election since then. the other super big name is jeff bush -- jeb bush and i think he was a terrific honor of florida and would be well-positioned. is that whole last name thing and i think he would love to run but when push comes to shove, i doubt if even would run. there is a lot o

have the alison grimes the world is talking about, that would be a strategic move like we saw newt gingrichton signed the minimum wage raise increase in the law. >> thank you very much. quick first read, but we greatly appreciate it. >>> the green is starting to roll in from colorado's marijuana businesses and the tax revenue is so good that one county official yesterday joked, "we have to sell more weed." that was pueblo county finance director hal hammler, after his county had tax totals two months after the recreational sale of marijuana became legal in the state. the county's two recreational pot stores, shops, sold nearly $1 million worth of marijuana last month. that generated about $56,000 in local sales taxes, exceeding expectations, most of the state's 160 rec stores are located in the denver area and officials expect the state to take in a total of $134 million in taxes this year. joining me now, nbc news correspondent harry smith shaking his head, who was deep in colorado to investigate the pot rush. we had the gold rush a long time ago. >> silver rush, lead rush. >> who saw this

you saw newt gingrich and mitt romney most memorably saying he would build the pipeline, himself, if elected and the president didn't it by them. totemic, it means more than the 25,000 jobs. it's a way to present the president as the person who doesn't believe the energy revolution. right now, at a speech by ted cruz in sarasota, florida, i was at a speech with him yesterday in beaumont, texas, where he stood in front of an oil gusher. this is the point he's making. america is having an energy revolution and the president who doesn't believe in this stuff is leaving us out of it. >> there's reporting in the "washington post" about what the gop agenda looks like for the rest of the year. house gop's annual retreat, devoted their speeches, necessity of the unified front, pressuring the president to support the keystone xl pipeline, among other issues that could be helpful on the campaign trail. they think they can run ads on this and make hay out of it. >> some of the senate seats they think they're going to win in states that voted for romney by as many as 20 points over the president

bush to have repeated some of the charges made by newt gingrich and others against the conduct of bill clinton in the white house, but instead of being against something, he said i will restore dignity and honor to the white house describing what he was for. and anybody who is going to take on hillary clinton in 2016, if she is the democratic candidate or she does run, democrat or republican had better focus on describing what they are for in a way that allows them to contrast implicitly with mrs. clinton, who democrat or republican, easier to say what you're against, harder to say what you're for, and more important to say what you're for. >> governor strickland, if elections, and almost a cliche by now, if elections are about the future, doesn't hillary clinton and to a certain degree bill clinton, don't they have a lot of history to live down? >> chris, they do, but some people think the republican party is a party of old ideas, and i agree on karl with this issue. to go back and to regurgitate something that happened 15, 20 or more years ago, i don't think says a lot about the futu

it led newt gingrich calling for him to step down. the point is, do they have their eye on the ball? and what of this charge that we basically have no teeth anymore. we're not feared the way we used to be and the way we need to be? >> we don't even have false teeth. i have to say as far as the climate change incident in indonesia goes, you can't win the climate change debate on either side. it is too loaded. but you know, there is real pollution in the world we do have to address. so i don't have a huge problem with that except when he starts saying it is the worst weapon of mass destruction. china, the united states, russia, we have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world with some left over so i would say that is a slightly larger threat. i don't understand where conservatives are not for conservation, but this administration is going to walk away from ukraine, let putin gobble it back up and it will be a tragedy for freedom everywhere. >> we'll continue to monitor it again, everywhere. they say there is a truce, but reports are