also, ed harrington for nominating me. also, a special thanks to my family. mason, kelly, tray, my wife, naomi, my sister joy, and my mother-in-law. they have been supporting me for a long time. behind this individual all board, there's a team of people that are responsible for making things happen. just for a moment, i want the puc to raise their hand and give a shout. we have a lot of folks who really committed in making the systems wwork. again, we have billions of dollars that we are entrusted with delivering in a timely way, which needs to be within budget. systems like this will really elevate and make it really transparent that we are delivering these programs in a very conscious and deliberate way so we can save the ratepayers' money. with that, i just want to thank you guys for this award. thank you. [applause] [applause] >> if you are a consultant or you work for a company that does work for the puc, raise your hand. that's about half the room. thank you, harlan kelly. >> it does not matter just where you're going to go. it matters how you're going t

looking at a long and bitter spring and a long time before any candidate can nail down the nomination. let meards on the table. my point of view. i want a one-on-one race. i want a fight between the true conservatives in the republican party and mitt romney, who i believe deep down is a moderate republican from massachusetts. just like when he was. that's my view. i admit my prejudice. i want a fight. rick, i think your guy is the road hog stopping that from happening. why doesn't he let a conservative who has a chance to knock off romney do it and get out of the way so it can happen? >> well, first of all, rick santorum is not a conservative. he's a big government republican. he voted to raise the debt limit five times. >> okay, you got the talking points. there's not a single person watching right now, rick, who thinks that's anything but political blather. we all know the american people -- he's a conservative. rick santorum is a conservative. >> compared to you, chris, he's a conservative. >> no, no. he's a conservative. what was his ada rating? five? what are you talking about? >> newt g

just a day ago when we were with the romney campaign in ohio, he said help me get the nomination. help me lock it up on super tuesday so i can organize against barack obama. again they have to continue to focus on rick santorum. i'll be in that meeting with some of the senior advisers tomorrow as they try to lay out the map for us. the headline they were looking for, at the end of the night, they won ohio. they go five out of ten if they don't win alaska later this evening as well. it's the time of night when they turn into glasses. most hustled home. it was remarkable how quickly the senior advisers, the strategist, disappeared from this room as soon as mitt romney was done with his remarks of several hours ago now. frankly they usually come and turn around to the reporters in the back of the room and try to spin us. they ran upstairs to get in front of the televisions and the computers to see exactly what the number look like tonight. as they go forward, they're well aware of the challenges with march through the south and for santorum trul, it is a senior adviser said to me earl

and you told me there because this show was nominated. ot going. >> jimmy: yeah. >> he's like, we lose every year to the kennedy center honors. >> jimmy: every year we go. we lose. >> a very weird category. >> jimmy: it has no writing in it whatsoever. and we all leave depressed. >> and then, he won. >> jimmy: we won this year. >> the show won. [ cheers and applause ] and i noticed, the kennedy center honored this year were not as funny, as usual. you won. and it was ironic. >> jimmy: did you accept the award? >> i accepted the award for jimmy. >> jimmy: where is that award? >> i threw it in the garbage. >> jimmy: you, as the acceptee, should have brought me the award. >> oh, now i'm your servant. i'm your assistant that have has to all these things? >> jimmy: in a way, yeah. >> i would have. but it was too heavy. >> jimmy: you have three boys, right? how old are the kids now? >> i have two. one just turned 7. and one's about to turn 4. >> jimmy: you have two. i'm sorry. there's one living in the chicken coop, actually. you left him there.

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and we still have a long way to go before anyone gets enough delegates to clench the nomination. joining me tonight is msnbc political analyst michael steele, also with us student is associate editor and pulitzer prize winning columnist for the washington post, eugene robinson. gentlemen, thank you for burning the midnight oil tonight. >> for you, ed, absolutely. >> michael, we're here because of the gop primary rules enacted, which you led the rnc, that's why we're working late. okay, given mitt romney's situation on the numbers that i just showed about favorability ratings and where people are going, is this a tenuous situation in maybe it is hurting the republican brand, what do you think? >> no, it's not that. the process isn't hurting the brand, it is how the candidates are conducting the negative ad campaigns. that's where that drain on the favorability is coming from, it's independents looking at the race and not liking the way the candidate is positioning himself, vis-a-vis the other candidates and the background noise taking the drain. you noted in earlier shows, ed, the downturn i

yet, both the two remain in the race for the republican nomination. joining mecal commentator, former radio talk show host ron reagan. it's myself to see you this morning. first up, i want to start off the gate with newt gingrich, politico in a new piece talking about cash running supporters getting paid. it's that gingrich leads its worth plowing ahead. why is ron paul still in this race? he does he really find himself to be a viable contender to go up against president obama? >> boy, i hesitate to try and read newt gingrich's mind. i'm not really sure that at the beginning he was running for president seriously as a serious candidate. at some point around south carolina, which, of course, he actually won, he began to get the idea that maybe he could pull this off and once that idea planted itself in its head, he is loathe to let it go. he is a man whose known for having a titanic ego, and i think that the idea of president gingrich is now dancing around in his head. i also think he probably suspects that the longer he stays many this race, the better bargainin

then we started -- after the -- after the nomination, president ford asked me to chair his general election campaign against jimmy carter because, as i said, rogers martin, who had been chairman developed cancer. we started out 25, 30 points behind. on election day the two candidates were dead even. we only lost by 10,000 votes out of 81 million votes that were cast, so it -- those close elections are tougher to lose quite frankly sometimes than the blowouts, but that was -- i was chairman of the president ford committee in the general election. >> okay. the relationship with president nixon, did president ford consult with president nixon on foreign policy, and were they friends? >> i can't answer that because i was -- i was in the campaign and not really in the white house. i was over at commerce for six months, as i said, and i was the acting secretary of commerce, but most of my -- most of my contact with president ford at that time was all on substantive economic issues, and -- and very little to do with foreign policy. in fact, nothing to do with foreign policy and nothing at that tim

is more than 30%, about one-third of the delegates needed for the republican presidential nomination. joining me now, patricia murphy, founder of citizen jane politics and contributor for "the daily beast." thanks for joining us. >> good morning. >> so how big of a deal is tuesday? it appears right now we have a two-man race between mitt romney and rick santorum. what could shake out -- >> they don't call it super tuesday for nothing. this is the biggest day of the election season so far because there are ten states we already talked about how many delegates there will be and a big opportunity for every person in the race to do what he needs to do. mitt romney needs to break away from the pack, close the door on the other guys. rick santorum wants to keep it a two-man race, super tuesday he can turn that around but he needs several victories, newt gingrich has to win georgia, needs to win some other states to stay in the race and be legitimate. he can stay as long as he wants but to be a legitimate candidate to continue raising money he needs to do very well so it's a huge day for all of these c

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gingrich ought to get out, that it's impossible for actually either he or santorum to win this nomination. walk methrough, first to you, congressman gephardt, what that process is like when you've kind of thrown your whole life into the campaign trail and when you wake up one morning and go, uh-oh, i've got to get out. >> well, you know, in the past it's a little different than it is today. because in the past we didn't have the super pacs -- >> ran out of money. >> there's an old saying. campaigns don't end. they run out of money. so when you ran out of money, you couldn't buy an airplane ticket to go to the next stop. so that's when people usually got out. so that's what happened to me in my races. we just -- we weren't winning. and when you're not winning, you're not raising money and you can't keep going. but that may be a little changed today. >> yeah. steve, like the congressman, you ran twice. and both times pulled out after you couldn't put it together. how -- what goes through your mind when you're making that decision? was it a monetary decision? because you could have self-funded probab

that's why i've said and why many countries around the world are nominating me to be the next world bankresident. >> how do you beat poverty in these countries? what's the game plan? >> it's a mix of, of course, getting private business going, improving agricultural productivity and also controlling disease because in the poorest countries you have tremendous burdens of disease. so one of the great breakthroughs in the last ten years has been to get malaria down which was a killer in africa that not only was a tragedy but holding back the economy. helped get started something called the global fund to fight aids and malaria a decade ago. now we've had about a 40% reduction of the malaria burden according to the world health organization and this is giving a lift in the countryside in what is rural economies. >> what needs to happen beyond that? how do you lay out the economies? it do you see it as a capitalist bringing in money and making sure that the free market kind of works this those arenas? >> for the first time africa is now achieving growth of about 5% to 6%. it could be up to 8%

romney moderate who served massachusetts or the arch conservative who is competing for the nomination it reminds mef the line. the key is sincerity. once you learn to fake that you have that. what does he do? >> i like being himself and a point in the michigan speech. his victory speech in michigan forward toward the end. will my children be able to compete in the world and will we have america we want to have? he did the big picture and the media, of which quee are part. it is like a football. they keep raising the bar. even if he wins, the headlines don't say he won. it romney didn't lose. >> chris: and our group will pick up with the discussion on "fox news sunday".comand we'll post the video. and follow us on twitter. up next, we go on the trail. impact wool exports from new zealand, textile production in spain, and the use of medical technology in the u.s.? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. it's just one reason over 75% of our mutual funds beat their 10-year lipper average. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. request a prospectus or summary prospe

and they offered me the nomination, which wasn't worth very much, but i accepted it and ran a vigorous campaign and pulled a big upset. i w my registration as a democrat, no strings attached. when i was elected as a republican, philadelphia is a one-party town, a lot of corruption in the democratic organization. so i became a republican in order to try to bring back a two-party system. and i've been comfortable as a republican. i agree with the republican philosophy on jobs, on low taxes, on strong national defense. i support the death penalty, for example. but on many items i do not. i led the fight for national institute of health funding. and these earmarks are not bad if the direction is for something which is useful. so my role in the senate was pretty much independent. i opposed. the republicans got very mad at me. we're having a 25-year retrospective next month on bourque, and i'm going to be speaking there. so when i voted for the stimulus, and irreconcilable differences, i made the switch. and i have no regrets. >> all right. debbie, a democrat in kansas city, missouri. go ahe

people of california who back in 1978 when i was living in the dormitory at college, they gave me the nomination for my party. and it's been a very, very exciting time. i also want to say, mr. speaker, that i express my appreciation to the very, very dedicated public service. in my office in california and my offices here in washington, for their commitment to do the best job possible to help me represent the people of california. and with that i yield back the balance of my time. [ applause ] >> from the floor of the house of representatives this morning, congressman david dreier, a veteran of the house of representatives republican from southern california. the current chair of the house rules committee announcing he is stepping down at the end of this year. david wasserman joining us live. >> thanks for having me. >> this did not come as much of a surprise. why? >> well, california transferred power to redistrict its congressional line from the state legislature to a citizens commission who proceeded to dismantle dreier's safe district seven ways. so the district where he lives is now a heavi

ballot, in every single convention but one since 1932, including the 1948 convention which nominated mr. truman. to me an open convention means one reflecting the free will of delegates, freely elected and contested primaries and in state conventions, but based on my observations of him in 1952 and in 1956 and last saturday, mr. truman regards an open convention as one which studies all the candidates, reviews their records, and then takes his advice. nevertheless i share his hope that our convention will consider all prospective nominees including all those he named and some he did not name. and i hope that mr. truman will attend the convention and should i be the nominee i hope he will support me in the fall. third, mr. truman accused ms. supporters of using improper pressure on the delegates. not one concrete example has ever been named. i do not want any votes that have been pressured, and the facts of the matter are that my votes come from the primaries. from all that was open and from rank and file democrats that voted for me in state conventions. >> craig crawford, those exchanges give you a se

. >> what is your path to the nomination? tell me how you're going to win enough delegates to win this nomination. >> yeah. i think, you know, we just go out and in every single state. that's what we've been doing. we compete here. as mentioned in the report by -- that this is a two-person race here in illinois. we'll pick up substantial number of delegates here. we hope to win here. i mean, this is a tough state. but -- and we're being outspent ten to one, but we have a great grass roots effort and we feel confident we'll be competitive here. louisiana coming up on saturday. we spent yesterday in louisiana. we think we can win there. keep going on and trying to win. if the other people stay in the race, it will be hard for anyone to get to that magic number, but if, you know, we believe that we get to the convention, charlie, that the convention will nominate a conservative. they will not nominate the establishment moderate candidate, you know, from massachusetts. >> there are those who are arguing -- or noticing that -- taking note

i am grateful she ran with me and i will be proud of what we did and humbled i was able to get the nomination the republican party for president of the united states. >> i want to ask you not about palin but yourself. one of the things in the movie it says for all of your talk about putting country first your decision to pick sarah palin was pure politics. here is a clip from the show. >> desperately need a game change in pick. none of these middle aged white guys are game changers. so find me a woman. >> so find me a woman. simple question, senator, did that ever happen? >> of course not. by the way, i have been told that i am portrayed as using an exceeding amount of course language. i don't use course language very often. i have a larger vocabulary than that. but of course not. i thought she was the best qualified person. i thought she had the ability to excite our party and the kind of person that i wanted to see succeed in the political arena. she was very effective and successful governor of the state. again, chris, i look forward and not back. this kind of stuff is something that i don

nomination. so coalesce around me. i think he'll have a much more powerful argument to make if he has success in the south. >> many in the romney campaign have been complaining that the gold post continues to move. many saying the win in ohio doesn't count. >> that's true. part is expectation setting, i think on their own part. they thought they would have a much bigger night last tuesday. part of it is results. there's a reality to these results that in any state that's a tossup, that mitt romney needs to show strength. he hasn't showed that much strength. that win in ohio was a win, but very narrow, much closer than they hoped for. a week before in michigan, a state where he has deep roots, should have done better. had you asked him a month earlier, they would have thought they'd get a convincing win. he barely beat rick santorum. there's a perception in the media among voters and certainly the republican party that he can't close the deal, particularly in the states that matter most in a general election context. he

. >> i'll be running as a conservative republican nominee -- or excuse me, hopefully nominated for president that the policies and positions are decided. >> romney made no public appearances thursday as he focused on private meets in washington. his rivals didn't let up. rick santorum seemed to imply president obama will be better than romney. >> instead of taking a risk in what may be the etch-a-sketch candidate for the future. >> mitt romney responded in a statement -- "i was disappointed to hear that rick santorum would rather have barack obama as president than a republican." the candidate bickering underscores the push for delegates. romney has more than double those of santorum. no candidate shows signs of dropping out, even as some republicans call for closure. >> the sooner we can come around on a nominee, i think the better we are as a party. >> polls show that rick santorum's is up ahead pretty substantially in louisiana. mitt romney looks stronger in the next set of contests including maryland april 3. i am emily schmidt. >> thank you. more republican presidential candidates are m

more than 400 delegates, and that is more than 30% of the delegates needed for the nomination. joining merphy. she's the founder of citizen jane politics and a contributor for "the daily beast." patricia, thanks for joining us. >> good morning. >> so here in georgia, this is the biggest prize on super tuesday. >> yes. 76 delegates. >> obviously, newt gingrich has to win here to stay in the race. >> georgia is everything for newt gingrich. >> there's no way he can be a credible candidate for president if he doesn't win here, but he needs to show strength in other states. you can't just win in your own backyard and say i can be president. he has racked up several losses in several contests, so he needs to win georgia, come in second in a lot of states, and it wouldn't hurt to win a couple other states as well. you can't say you're electable if you don't win elections. >> what does rick santorum have to do? i mean, he -- all the momentum. only won three contests in the upper midwest, colorado. then you have mitt romney come back, and he has gotten momentum now. what does santorum have to do

nomination? >> you asked me that a month ago, six weeks ago, i'd say nah, nah.he fact is we're still 12 weeks away from the california primary and which of course has the largest pot of delegates. a few minutes ago you showed us those numbers of delegates. guess what? that means as of tonight only about a third will have been decided one way or the other. as we run through the remaining weeks if romney can't seal the deal by mid may yes, california, with the biggest bunch of delegates, about 8%, will become enormously important. stay tuned. because every week this thing goes on, every week it happens like this where nobody could really seal it, the nomination remains in doubt. >> always nice to have you inhouse and listen to your perspective. >>> the presidential re-election campaign will make the bay area stop this month. first lady michelle obama is coming to san francisco march 30th. tickets to the fundraiser at the california academy of science will cost a thousand dollars. now if you want a picture with mrs. obama you ready to lay out five grand? the first

nomination. >> rick santorum tells me how he plans to beat the front-runner to a nomination. and president obama goes all hollywood. his glitzy new campaign ad and the oscar winner who made it. >> how do we understand this president and his time in office? do we look at the day's headlines? or do we remember what we, as a country, have been through? >>> plus, the real story behind the extraordinary video the whole world's talking about. >> we fear that if we sleep at home, we can be abducted by the children. >> invisible children, the kony 2012 video already seen by 30 million people and rising fast. >>> also, only in america, the last word on last meals. this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> good evening. our big story tonight, rick santorum doubles down. if you thought the candidate would back off of his tough talk, well, just listen to what he's been saying on the campaign trail. >> what's wrong with america's government today, and what is sickening the american spirit today. and there's this noxious, oppressive, we believe we're smarter than the rest of america attitude in