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york's 26 a wake-up call for the republicans who backed paul ryan's proposal to reform medicare, pat buchanan as sarajevo said, you bet 'ya! >> yes. >> it's the same as social security, five years ago, where republicans put up a plan, democrats don't have to put up an alternative and attack demagogue, demagogue. they should have learned their lesson. >> because they use the same strategy to block obama's health care rae reform. ryan's plan has lost momentum. >> the answer is it doesn't prove anything about ryan's acceptability or not. it has to do with davis concerni >>> issue four, gas bloat. >> in many places, gas is now more than $4 a gallon. meaning that you could be paying more than $60 to fill up your tank. $3.83 per gallon, practically 4 bucks. that's what the average national price for a gallon of gas has bloated to this week. last year, the price of gasper gallon was a dollar cheaper. today three out of four americans say high gas prices are causing their families financial hardship. about 50% of all americans say gas prices require them that make major changes in their lives, includ

pat buchanan? >> you got a couple separate headlines but is delaying long. he didn't show up for the new hampshire debate. john this, guy is the wends el wilkie of 2012. >> wilkie lost. >> well, he's the media candidate show being imposed upon the repuican party. i've never seen sump a build-up for a candidate who is at zaire or 1% in the polls. he's not no general did, no cutting-edge issue. he's not been a leader of the party. sure, he's got a shot to get into this thing, john. but he is nowhere in iowa now and i do don't see how he beats mitt romney or michelle bachman in either our or new hampshire. he will flame out very, very early. he will get a huge boost but he is going nowhere. >> eleanor? >> well, there are a lot of up sides to jon huntsman. he is smart, he isgood- looking, he is comfortable with himself in a natural campaign in a way that mitt romney isn't. he definitely will cut into the romney vote, which you can call the grown-up vote. and i ththk he is not contest engine iowa. i think the showdown will be in new hampshire. i think if the part

president nixon and his his his a propagandist pat buchanan tried to undermine public broadcasting to. to get me off the air try to get. robin make me feel off the air try the sandy bit ochre all thir not because we were liberals but because we were reporting what they didn't want to turn it into the official white house next only in view of reality robert go who was then senator from kansas and senate minority leader tried in the late one nine hundred eighty s. to defund public broadcasting then along comes newt gingrich the late newt gingrich in one thousand nine hundred eighty three and for trying to defund public broadcasting and then you had george w. bush and. thomas and his henchmen and the corporation for public broadcasting trying to do the same first of all they don't believe in public funding of of of of media as a matter of principle but secondly more importantly they do not believe there should be truth tellers who are calibrate the official view they do not like independent journalism let me repeat that is not true of the present president of the corporation for public b

the pat buchanan wing of our party. but now, it seems to have moved more center stage, so to speak. >> and so, i want to bring in christiane amanpour, anchor of "this week." she's in washington, preparing for tomorrow morning's program. christiane, always great to see you. the senator not holding back there. talking about the buchanan wing of the party. isolationism taking center stage. what really bothers him about all this? >> well, he was very concerned about it coming to center stage, as he said. he said to me, what would ronald reagan think about this? and i said, what does he mean? he said, look. the republican party has always stood for the battles for freedom. whether it was against the soviet union, against communism in the cold war, or today, against militant extremism. and he said, also, that he felt this was a turning point. and of course, republicans have always been very strong on national defense, on national security and have always stood firmly for that. and you saw those seven candidates standing on th

there's always been an isolation strain -- isolation strain on the republican party, pat buchanan wing of our party. but now it seems to have moved more center stage, so to speak. >> defense secretary gates, when he came before the united states congress, he could not identify a vital national american interest in libya. >> we were not attacked. we were not threatened with attack. there was no vital national interest. >> they are not simple situations. it's a mess. it's an absolute mess. >> we have got to have a totally new strategy for the region, because we don't, today, have the kind of intelligence we need to know even what we're doing. >> if we had not intervened. gadhafi was at the gates of benghazi. he said he was going to go house to house to kill everybody. that's a city of 700,000 people. what would we be saying now if we had allowed for that to happen? >> you were one of the key supporter, what we're talking about all of the republicans on the stage of that debate on monday, seeming to waver from the traditional republican position on natural security. >> wonder what ronald

bush, what bob dole saw when pat buchanan cleaned his clock. >> herman cain, has the highest voter intensityoes he have to do tonight to keep the big mo? >> keep his mo going, keep his juice flowing. you know, he's the showman in the group. he has to do as well as he did in south carolina in the fox debate and keep people smiling. but the truth is your shouldn't rule him out because he's got legs in new hampshire. >> yeah. >> he could be the dark horse. he could be the person that emerges as the conservative alternative to romney and then two african-american candidates conceivably which would make for a very interesting story line. >> it would make for history, that's no question about that. jennifer donahue, thank you so much. nice to see you. talking to you later throughout date. >>> kiran, back to you. it's chilly, but very exciting. everyone is very excited today as this -- the countdown gets started for this big debate tonight. >> we'll be watching 8:00. a late night but an interesting one. thanks. >>> opposition forces in libya claim they have a copy of moammar gadhafi's top secret ba