rachel blogs for catholicvote.org. goldy taylor, an independent analyst and social critic. nice to see you. and here on set with me, pete dominick. the four of us combined, by the way, have enough children combined to form a football team. pete, forget the violence and the injuries, all that for a second, football is the most expensive sport. it largely excludes girls. in an era of severe education budget cuts, maybe that's the reason to be talking about cutting it from public schools. some are. >> yeah. i mean, that's a fair point. if we're talking about budget cuts, i think that we might want to cut expensive sports that require the reason it's so expensive, so much equipment, hockey, lacrosse, football are much more expensive. i would cut football before i would cut music and art and foreign languages if that's the question, but if you take budget cuts out of it, the idea of getting rid of football because it's violent at a very youth level within i don't think we should extrapolate what happens down to fpeewee, tha

thank you for doing that. >> thanks, rachel. >> thanks for staying with us for the next hour, that will be on our blog, soon. nicolle wallace one of the central characters of the movie "game change" is here tonight. >>> the return of best new thing in the world at the end of the show. looking forward to that. we'll talk also about newfound competition for the title governor ultrasound. all planned for this hour, it will be a great show. >>> we have to start tonight nine years ago. nine years ago this week, then president george w. bush issued an ultimatum against iraq. he told saddam hussein and his sons they needed to leave their country or face an imminent u.s. military attack. he called it a moment of truth for the world. that was nine years ago this week. eight years ago this week, eight years ago today, in fact, that war that president bush ultimately launched was approaching the first birthday, that same president was running against a democratic senator, a highly decorated viet nam veteran. at this point in that campaign, eight years ago, the first attack ad from the george bush reelection camp

. >>> you can watch rachel's run across the hall from her set to my set to do this show on our blog.ater tonight we'll have that video posted in the very "last word" section of our blog. >>> newt gingrich's daughter and rick santorum's communications director are going to join me next. they're going to tell us what's next for their campaigns. what they think the results mean for them. >>> and later in "the rewrite," romney men are known for exactly two things, money and saying wicked, weird stuff. what mitt romney's son said about president obama. that's tonight's "rewrite." >>> rick santorum is the projected winner in alabama tonight. but we are still watching a too-close-to-call three-way race in mississippi with republican presidential candidates there tonight. joining me, jackie gingrich-cushman. jackie, thank you for returning to the show tonight. what do you think the results mean tonight for the gingrich campaign? >> first of all, thanks for having me on. i always love coming on your show. secondly, what these results mean is that we're still very strong. we're looking forward

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