a palin endorsement, but it's not governor sarah palin, it's her husband todd palin who is making thennouncement and news. and he's endorsing former speaker of the house newt gingrich, why did he choose speaker gingrich and will his wife follow suit? todd join us from wasilla. and tell me why did you decide to endorse speaker gingrich? >> good evening, greta. i think that newt is the best conservative that can run against barack obama. he's going to have the billion dollar war chest campaign fund and a lot of the media in his corner. and newt is a proven reformer and he has a proven record to go against the obama machine and so he-- >> go ahead, i'm sorry. >> go ahead, greta. >> greta: and i interrupted you, todd. >> what's that? >> i said i interrupted you. i'm sorry, so i'll ask you, you were going on to talk about speaker gingrich and why you chose him. >> well, he's just a proven reformer, greta. and you know, he's not afraid to fight, fight for the working and that's why i'm behind him. >> did you call and tell him you were going to choose him? i spoke with a couple of his campai

presidential candidate newt gingrich has a palin endorsement under his belt but it is todd palin. sarah palin's husband says gingrich is well suited for the white house. >> the best conservative that can win against obama. of course, will have a lot of the media in his corner and newt is a proven reformer. you have to have a proven record to go up against the obama machine. >> that's interesting because as you recall, todd palin is an independent. so what does that say about independents going for gingrich? i don't know. we'll ask him when he joins our show a little bit later on. newt gingrich that is. sarah palin has not announced who she is going to endorse. >> i'm worried about levi johnston, who is he going with? >> me, too. >> it sounds like something out of the show "24." a suspect holds an elderly couple hostage in their own home. things got worse. the woman says the suspect forced her to rob a bank by strapping what she said was a bomb on to her ankle. when she got there, she quickly alerted employees. a bomb squad safely removed the device from her ankle and are now testi

mitt romney's lead over gingrich is shrinking and sarah palin threatening to shake things up and palin turned a lot of heads. >> she said if she were a voter in south carolina, she would vote for newt gingrich to keep his campaign going and it's a shock that mitt romney probably didn't welcome as he he's trying to beat back the other candidates in this race. sarah palin decided to sit out 2012, but that doesn't mean she can't shake up the south carolina primary. >> and i would vote for newt and i would want this to continue, more debates, more vetting of candidates. >> reporter: palin's comments on fox news mewind up forcing speculation that republicans are luke warm to their front runner. >> there were interesting moments. >> reporter: mitt romney is facing questions on taxes, his taxes and declined to release his returns until april but revealed he pays a 15% tax rate on an estimated $200 million income. >> me income comes overwhelmingly from investments made in the past rather than ordinary income or earned or annual income. >> reporter: the other campaigns are pouncing. rick perry

what do you say to those who say, will sarah palin jump in the race? >>guest: you know, there is a ground swell, still, support for someone who is so committed to the relendless reform that is needed in congress and in the white house in order to get the country back on the right track, in order to get us working again not just for me, but for others and i would not be surprised if there are names written in tomorrow evening and in iowa, but, at this point, the field is what it is, they all have strengths. all these candidates have strength. all the candidates have been strengthened through this process. it has been arduous and a tough candidates. the candidates are in a position where they will be less likely to be able to deal with the primary campaign, and it will be tough against obama and 90 percent of the media and $1 billion and everything else, all the candidates have been strengthened and i am happy with this field. i do wish that there were more of them who understood the gravity of the situation when it comes to america's finances today and

i will be joined by sarah palin and herman cain. but first, major news on the campaign trail today, in new hampshire when the 2008 republican presidential nominee announced his endorsement of mitt romney. take a look. >> it's with some nostalgia that i return to this place that i love so well. but i am really here for one reason and one reason only. and that is to make sure that we make mitt romney the next president of the united states of america. and new hampshire -- and new hampshire is the state that will catapult him on to victory in a very short period of time. that's why i'm here. >> sean: joining me together exclusively for the first time since the big anouncement, former governor mitt romney and senator john mccain. welcome back. >> thanks. >> thanks, john. >> sean: all right. senator, this is a very key moment, key state fur. by the way, i did go back and look at some of the ads you had running against each other. you were going at it pretty heatedly last time around. why mitt romney? why did you decide to jump in and sup

who is your money on in this little battle between palin and christie?em both but i think christie comes off forceful in a way i wish romney would come off. >> eric: were your surprised when chris christie said newt -- here is the point. say that newt wins the g.o.p. nomination. doesn't the left, doesn't obama just use chris christie for the ad campaign? >> bob: they are probably not going to use sarah palin. put it that way. that was a good interview on your part. panties in a wad. >> eric: it goes on. >> bob: were your microphones working? >> eric: i tell you - -- >> bob: i think you will hear it over and over. fact of the matter is he was embarrassment to republicans in the house. a great guy to take republicans to majority. people will say about newt gingrich a great field general but not a guy to run things. that is what happened when he got to the house. he had a revolution on his hand. >> eric: do i want christie saying it or mitt romney saying it? >> dana: it can go either way. i think it's -- for romney it's wonderful to have governor christie i

he is listening to the brain trust and sarah palin and herman cain. explain this to our viewers. >> he's also not listening to common sense that says maybe the weekend before a big election m and maybe that's the part you're not trying to emphasize and you're already losing with women voters. newt is free willing here. he's apparently calling the shots. he said a while ago, he fired campaign professionals and now he's doing it his way. it's representative of the same kind of bizarre, erratic behavior that got him in trouble in the building right behind me. >> you have to admire his self-confidence. he says he was responsible for developing supply side under ronald reagans and led to the defeat of communism. he would like to take credit for the reconstruction of the great wall of china in 1368. this man has confidence. >> yes, he does. one of the reasons he gets so upset with the republican establishment telling him what to do is he considers himself to be the creator of that establishment. one of the reasons he is glomed on and willingly accepting the

these guys, rick perry, newt gingrich, and i'll add sarah palin to it. the people that have been blasting barack obama as a socialist that doesn't understand the free market system are so willfully ignorant of the free market system of free enterprise, of capitalism. private equity, again, it's not guys on wall street who create fake financial instruments that they can move around the world in the speed of light. private equity people are on the front line of capitalism. they are the people that take a company that is dying and turn it around. there are gao government reports that talk about how private equity firms create jobs. and yet newt gingrich, rick perry, and sarah palin don't seem to understand that. >> and the interesting thing is, if you don't have private equity, capital's going to have to come from somewhere. the government. so there's a little bit of a choice. most private equity firms are as you said interested in turning companies around. they're interested in taking a company that's a "c," "c" plus. they have to make it grow. >> if you d

in fact, the only person defending the two seems to be sarah palin. and you want to talk about a an unholy triumph, it's just everything seems to be working in the favor of mitt romney. the guy is like mr. magoo. you're going from doing this hire-wire walk with the republican party that doesn't seem to want him and yet he's stumbling towards the nomination and newt gingrich is helping him get closer by the day. >> i want to listen to what sarah palin said. i'm wondering, listen to the way she puts it, whether she found a way to connect this to a blue collar republican view of what this bain stuff might be. let's listen to how sarah palin put it. >> governor romney has claimed to have created 100,000 jobs at bain and people are wanting to know, is there proof of that claim and was it u.s. jobs created for the united states citizens? you know, the 100,000 jobs and i believe that that's what governor perry is getting at is, you know, own up to the claims that are being made and that's fair. >> joe, south carolina has watched their textile jobs move off s

that's why sarah palin, you get to get her back on and push her harder. >> governor palin, i want to answer my question here! >> i want the truth? >> exactly. >> you know... as i watch the candidates go forward and you wonder, it look its like there is a clear dichotomy between mitt romney and rick santorum. does this split the republican party between the old school, sort of -- yon i don't want to call them rhinos, but the less staunchly conservative republican and it is truly conservative in the party? >> this is precisely the way that rick santorum wants this to unfold. it's one of the reasons that i am more skeptical than some of the other people about santorum emphasizing his sort of -- the populist economic plan and going full bore on that. sounding like mike huckabee did in 2008. have you to remember that rick santorum was one of the first people who fully and in an unqualified way, embraced paul ryan's plan, when other candidates were not doing that, that puts him pretty far on the right in entitlement reform and economic reform. i am not sure he will run that way because i t

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i don't see it as a decline from edmund burke to sarah palin. i see her in many ways as the fulfillment of the two parties, the fulfillment of the conservative tradition. >> host: one of the many liberal complaints about sarah palin, and the same complaints were made about bush and ronald reagan was that she's not smart enough and i know you go to great lengths to talk about this idea. you talk about the notion that conservatives are stupid and say nothing can be further from the truth. first, why do you think that has been propagated officially by conservatives and what you mean by it couldn't be further from the truth? >> guest: from the left, certain people on the left have had a traditional view of conservatism and the right which is that as i say it is the defense of power and privilege and i describe to that view but i think the left has historically gotten one aspect of that wrong which is that they think that enterprise of descending power and privilege is a self executing enterprise and is something that just happens if you have privile

i think palin and cain republican pretty inconscious sequenceal now. not helping, mr. gingrich. newt should start proeszing down to earth ideas. how about putting average americans back to work. steve writes zip, zilch, nada, the kind of voter who is attracted by sarah palin and herman cain is already in his camp. they like bombastic over the top attack dog rhetoric and newt is the masser of it. and david in virginia says i really think if they endorse newt gingrich, they should get a thank you know the from mitt romney. herman cain lost his mojo in carolina with the colbert antics and sarah palin from hockey mom from hell to tv pundit. and you know where tv pundits sit in the value chain, don't you jack? yes, i do. throw a post on the situation room's facebook if you want to know more. >> i want you to see the next report it may look like an ordinary car but it once belonged to the president of the united states. the asking price goes way up to $1 million. jeanne moos coming up next. [ female announcer ] the best things in life are the real things. na

that's why sarah palin, you get to get her back on and push her harder. >> governor palin, i want tonswer my question here! >> i want the truth? >> exactly. >> you know... as i watch the candidates go forward and you wonder, it look its like there is a clear dichotomy between mitt romney and rick santorum. does this split the republican party between the old school, sort of -- yon i don't want to call them rhinos, but the less staunchly conservative republican and it is truly conservative in the party? >> this is precisely the way that rick santorum wants this to unfold. it's one of the reasons that i am more skeptical than some of the other people about santorum emphasizing his sort of -- the populist economic plan and going full bore on that. sounding like mike huckabee did in 2008. have you to remember that rick santorum was one of the first people who fully and in an unqualified way, embraced paul ryan's plan, when other candidates were not doing that, that puts him pretty far on the right in entitlement reform and economic reform. i am not sure he will run that way because i thi

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we continue with sarah palin.aid in your piece, you said in florida you would vote for newt tomorrow. we all know newt gingrich, both the good and bad. what do you see as his strength and his weaknesses? >> i see his experience in washington actually as a strength heading into competition against barack obama. again, he who has been one of the few to work on a balanced budget in the federal government. that is what we need. he being quite passionate about shaking things up and not allowing the status quo to continue that is a strength of newt. >> sean: weaknesses? >> you know, i hate to list all four candidates what they are they are being bombarded by one another. let me talk about their strengths. i have such faith and respect and wisdom of the people. i know they are going to make up their own minds. >> sean: then you talk, for example, you have great respect for governor romney but you have some questions about him. you said i respect his success and concerns about his record and as a politician, he consistent

if newt wins, this guy would be very sheap. >> sean: joining us is sarah palin. governor, welcome back. >> thank you so much. and fred thompson is going to endorse somebody tonight. give me a hint. that will bring be news. he brings a different demographic. >> sean: i know you haven't gotten to the point of endorsing tonight but maybe i'll go back when we started last week. if you were voting in florida. you saw the results in south carolina. how would you vote in florida? >> i still think my endorsement is worth a hill of beans but my advice to florida voters would be to ask themselves which candidate is able to recapture that american exceptionalism that we benefited under ronald reagan. who wants to go back to those days of success under ronald reagan and who was supported and shaped by reagan's economic policies and who isn't? remember under reagan he was able to enact fiscal policies that invigorated growth and reinvestment in domestic markets. he decreased federal spending and tax rates and inflation. who is it that wants to recapture that? you don't have t

todd palin is going to go on the campaign trail. we had an announcement in florida. >> bob: we need to get out of here. i have a problem with republican congressman alan west. he made some disgraceful comments over the weekend. we'll play them for you next. hope you are listening, alan, baby! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> welcome back to the five. we're going to talk about rhetoric. representative alan west from florida had strong language when he was giving a speech at a lincoln day dinner in florida. >> president obama, harry reid, nancy pelosi and my dear friend members of the democratic national committee. >> your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency and take your message of enslaving the entrepreneur will and spirit of the american people somewhere else. you can take it to europe. you can take it to the bottom of the sea. you can take it to the north pole but get the hell out of the united states of america. >> dana: i understand how that has raised some eyebrows. i think about the messaging. i don't t

the press or by the by the campaign itself in the in the case of sarah palin that was a failure of the campaign's own intelligence gathering folks that they didn't find imus i'm saying that that was a ploy and that would have played by the presidency and it came out very badly played into a racist stereotype in this culture and all the powers of rationalization to defend your guy lot of democrats forgave bill clinton for a number of things and when sarah palin and her family stood on the stage and she had a pregnant daughter you had conservative saying isn't it nice that they're going to keep the baby and they're going to build a life together now i don't think yeah exactly ok so then the double standard eliot spitzer step down bill clinton was impeached anthony weiner let it but david vitter after he got busted for being with a prostitute which is actually a crime none of those related crimes well arguably spitzer did but. after he was with a profit came back to the senate got a standing ovation from his republican peers newt is running for president and mark sanford never stepped on

>> gingrich sent this to palin. after she said if she would vote for gingrich. >> i would ask her to consider taking a major role in the next administration if i'm president. but nothing has been discussed of any kind and it wouldn't be appropriate to discuss it at this time. >> in warrenville, south carolina, gingrich offered this prediction of what will happen between now and when the votes are countered saturday night in south carolina. >> i fully expect the romney campaign to be endlessly dirty because they are desperate they thought they should buy this. i think they have internal polls that show them losing and i think they will do anything at any level and i need your help. people power will beat money power and i need your help to beat romney. >> joining me now is national affairs editor for new york magazine and msnbc analyst john hileman. john, here's newt gingrich saying that the romney campaign will be unendingly -- what was that? unendingly dirty and dishonest. that's a nice little pull quote for the ob

sarah palin's daughter, bristol, has decided to go home.alin told "in touch" magazine, that she's giving up on hollywood and moving back to alaska. strange. it's not like a family to quit something part of the way through. why was she in hollywood again? as you may recall, bristol palin was a contestant on "dancing with the stars." and then, she had a reality show on the biography channel that never made it to air. and it turned out that hollywood wasn't into the bristol palin thing. so, she and her son, tripp, are moving into an apartment, under sarah palin's home tv studio. that's tough. i remember when i had to move back into my mom's tv studio. it's embarrassing. [ laughter ] i don't understand why khloe and kim don't reach out and make her an honorary kardashian. that would be great. or there's "celebrity ice road truckers." very good news today for overweight americans. our national obesity rate has dropped 0.5%. which is like four bags of funyuns. last year, the percentage of bees adults dropped from 26.6% to 26.1%. if we could get o