and let me correct what reince priebus just said. largest growth since 1997. >> chris: wait, wait, guys, i said i would play traffic cop and i will do that. congresswoman, president obama was interviewed when he was pushing a 800,billion dollar stimulus and this is what he said. >> if i don't have it done in three years there will be a one-term proposition . >> chris: congresswoman, the president failed to meet that test. >> guest: i think the president certainly should be credited for pushing hard and fighting to get the economy turned around and fighting to create jobs without help from the republicans at all. >> chris: you would agree he hasn't done it in three years. >> guest: he inherited a hudge set of problems >> chris: that's what he said. >> guest: i understand. i certainly think he deserves credit and he should give himself credit and does for beginning to get the economy turned around. we have gone from an unemployment rate that was over 11 percent and now it is below nine and we are moving in the right direction. >> chris

the rnc chair reince priebus is here and he is next.inning in iowa, governor mike huckabee knows what it takes. he he won it four years ago. but there are always surprises. he knows that as well. and he will estimated at $2 million. back to greta. >> greta: right now there is blood on the floor in iowa as the republican candidates dual each other. at 7:00 p.m. tomorrow, iowa voters kick off the nominating process. but one leader says the first votes are not just for the republican candidate. today, rnc chairman reince priebus post on facebook 2012 is finally here and tomorrow the fight to defeat barack obama officially begins with the first votes cast against him in iowa. we are one step closer to remove him from office and elect republican presence this year. chairman priebus joins us. good evening, sir. >> hey, how are you, greta? >> greta: i am very well. thank you. you look at this much differently than the candidates. you have a big picture look at this. you are head of the rnc. tell me what is your strategy for defeating president

the rnc chair reince priebus is here and he is next.inning in iowa, governor mike huckabee knows what it takes. he he won it four years ago. but there are always surprises. he knows that as well. and he will estimated at $2 million. back to greta. >> greta: right now there is blood on the floor in iowa as the republican candidates dual each other. at 7:00 p.m. tomorrow, iowa voters kick off the nominating process. but one leader says the first votes are not just for the republican candidate. today, rnc chairman reince priebus post on facebook 2012 is finally here and tomorrow the fight to defeat barack obama officially begins with the first votes cast against him in iowa. we are one step closer to remove him from office and elect republican presence this year. chairman priebus joins us. good evening, sir. >> hey, how are you, greta? >> greta: i am very well. thank you. you look at this much differently than the candidates. you have a big picture look at this. you are head of the rnc. tell me what is your strategy for defeating president

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here's the head of the republican national committee, reince priebus. >> in a few months, this is allient history and we're going to talk about our own little captain scatino who is president obama abandoning the ship here and is more interested in campaigning than doing his job as president. >> comparing the president to a man charged with manslaughter? a man charged with this reckless cruise ship disaster where 17 people died and 16 are still missing. and here's tea party freshman alan west in florida over the weekend. >> take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, 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 poll, but get the hell out of the united states of america. yeah, i said hell. >> yes, you did say hell, congressman west. and a standing ovation and cheers for telling president obama to take it to hell. where is the respect for the office of the president? and then there's the no

so you know, like the polls you were just talking about with reince priebus, it shows the hypotheticalchups and now we may begin to get clarity, whether it's mitt romney or somebody else. but then it becomes the barack obama or another candidate, and he can start really getting to work on that. so, yes, it's partially the field organization, which they'll be able to replicate but he's going to have somebody to run against fairly soon. >> let's talk a little bit about the messaging, too, because you know, we were listening to reince priebus saying that the president has failed but if you listen certainly to his campaign, they will tell you that he rescued the u.s. auto industry, that whether the republicans like it or not, he said he was going to get health insurance, it got done, the war on terror, bin laden, taking the troops out of iraq, overhauling the credit card industry. they have a lot of things to point to. there's a check list of president obama's accomplishments there. but how does he take that given the state of the economy right now? how are they going to package this? >> w

. >> reince priebus got his job because republicans grew weary of michael steele saying things that they thought he shouldn't say. and now here is priebus comparing the president to a cowardly ship's captain who left his passengers to drown and is now charged with manslaughter. this is the kind of thing that could only appeal to people who already deeply hate the president and would never vote for him. it's wasted on people when you're trying to persuade them to vote republican. it doesn't appeal to moderates and independents and democrats. and without some of those votes from some of those peoples, a republican cannot possibly win the white house. there are people going to bed in several states in this country tonight who almost lost their lives on that italian ship. and there are americans trying to go to sleep in this country tonight who are still in the throes of grief at the loss of loved ones on that ship. the chair of the democratic party had to remind priebus of that. >> to make light of a tragedy and to compare the president with someone who has been charged with manslaughter is

reince priebus of the republican national committee told bob schieffer the attack instead will make the nominee even stronger and pointed to democrats in 2008 as proof. >> when hillly clinton called barack obama a hypocrite and when obama said hillary clinton didn't have the moral fine tore lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier, you see what happened. hillary is now the secretary of state, barack obama is the president. i think primaries are tough. >> reporter: now if you think the primaries are tough just wait until the general election. president obama's re-election team already is attacking romney. that is just a hint of what we can expect. now here's my colleague dean reynolds with the gingrich campaign. >> reporter: jan, with two days to go before the primary newt gingrich is lashing out at mitt romney calling him a tool of wall street, a dishonest candidate, and a massachusetts liberal that conservatives will never warm up to. >> and i am not running for president of the united states to make the wall street elite and the washington elite happy. i'm running to change bot

joining us right now is the chairman of the republican national committee, reince priebus. good morning to you, reince. >> good morning, steve, how are you? >> i'm doing fine. thank you very much. according to our white house guy, ed henry, he says he has learned through democratic sources that apparently this particular speech has been crafted in part by david axelrod and a number of the president's pollsters. in other words, they're poll testing these ideas to see what they can do. right? >> right. well, this president is all politics, all the time. and you know, the president knows something that we know, too, though, that this election, that 2012 is going to be a referendum on barack obama. so he's going to take every possible thing that he can do, whether it be on taxpayer money, through state of the union addresses, you know, bus tours that are paid for by the taxpayers, through battleground states because he's going to focus in on politics. it's going to be more promises. more speech, more hot air. and a lot of undelivered promises so that's what this president is abo

joining us right now to weigh in is the chairman of the republican national committee, reince priebus >> what do you think about that, mitt romney being the winner had a bad night? >> well, it's pretty interesting. but when you're dealing with a president whose numbers are in the toilet, i guess everything is spinning all the time. but listen, i thought it was a great night for the republican party. i think it's been a good year for the republican party. i think it's going to be a great year in saving our country and beating barack obama because a couple of things. one, the republican party had record turnout in iowa yesterday. everyone is talking about the republican party including debbie wasserman-schultz, everybody is talking about our candidates. voter registration in iowa is outperforming the democrats 2-1. that's been sustained now over the last couple of years so, you know, we're feeling very good about where we sit and i'm feeling great about the fact that the whole country is talking about who the republican nominee will be because i know that the people here in this country

chairman reince priebus compared president obama to captain tell me this tino the captain of the run aground italian cruise ship will abandon the ship before all the passengers and safely gotten off here's a previous had to say in an interview on face the nation sunday morning in response to a question on the ugly g.o.p. primary season. and in a few months this is all going to be history and we're going to talk about our own little captain which is president obama who's abandoning the ship here in the united states is more interested in campaigning than doing his job as president nearly seven thousand people died on that cruise ship accident as a result of. conduct by the captain mr priebus is a little confused after all president obama is consistently presenting legislation to congress and trying to do his job as president only to have a shot down held hostage by the republican party priebus and the republicans are the only ones abandoning ship on the american people and the very very ugly north carolina republican state representative larry pippen pippen has some radical ideas on h

reince priebus. the president of the rnc. i've been in politics. you expect strong criticism from time to time. that's the name of the game. but priebus said something truly horrible and way over the line. first he made a dumb comment in response to the statement whether or not this ugly republican primary would hurt the primary nominee. >> the history shows bob, that tough prime ministers and a little bit of drama is a good thing for the challenging party. hillary clinton and president obama, they won pretty easily. >> no, priebus is dead wrong with 2012 being like 2008. the difference, 2008 hillary clinton and barack obama were serious candidates and both would be good presidents of the united states. but then priebus attacked president obama in the most tasteless manner possible. >> i think it's good for america and in the end in a few months this is all going to be ancient history and we'll talk about our own lyle captain schettino which is president obama, who is abandoning the ship here in the united states and more interested in campaigning t

. >> reince, priebus the chairman of the republican party. thanks for coming in. >> happy new year. >> happy new year to you. >> and the poms in south carolina. who's the favorite. all in the family, rick santorum says his family brings his strength and others pointing to some controversy. we'll explain? >>> the two iowa women who became big-time internet sensations after iowa's caucus. stay with us. osteo bi-flex has really helped my knees. osteo bi-flex has been incredible for me, and i swear by it. [ male announcer ] osteo bi-flex, the glucosamine chondroitin suppment with 5-loxin advanced. shows improvement in joint comfort within 7 days. osteo bi-flex, my knees thank you. [ male announcer ] osteo bi-flex. the #1 doctor and pharmacist recommended brand. we're getting back in shape. oh! try these. i sprinted here... wow! from your house?! from the car. unh! ooh. [ male announcer ] get back on track with low prices on everything you need. backed by our ad match guarantee. walmart. happened to come across quicken loans online. [ chris ] quic

among the other people communicating was reince priebus, who went on to become the chairman of the republicanional committee. >> okay. so the scope broadens here. but we really, right now, are at a point of asking a nixonian type question. what did he know, when did he know it? how involved is walker? how could he not know if his office is 25 feet away from alleged illegal activity? >> well, and remember also, we're talking about tim russell here, who was in so much trouble a week or so ago and is listed in this complaint. his name's all over it. tim russell was for a decade scott walker's wingman. the guy who was at his side in everything that he was doing. another person who's listed in this, all over it is the guy who went on to become governor walker's chief of staff. and the woman who was charged with four counts of misconduct in office, it went on to serve as a fund-raiser for governor walker's campaign and was working for that campaign, right up until recent days. so it's hard to imagine the governor didn't know about this. i think it -- >> yeah, how does it affect the recall? >> it be

rnc chairman reince priebus compares the president to the captain schtinneo. >> we'll talk about ourcaptain who is abandoning the ship here in the united states and is more interested in campaigning than doing his job as president. >> what did you just say? what did you call president obama? >> i called him captain schtienno, the captain that fled the ship in italy. that's our own president who is fleeing the american people and not doing his job and running around the country and campaigning. >> i love bob schieffer. what did you just say? we're going to ask reince priebus' counterpart debbie wasserman-schultz when she joins us in the next hour. i bet she doesn't agree. >> i'm not sure. don't jump to conclusions. >> the obama administration headed for a major clash with catholics. parishioners across the country pleaded with their congregations during the weekend's mass urging them to pray for the reversal of the new health care mandate? what does it do, it forces them to cover contraceptives on their health care plans. about 15 million americans attend catholic mass next week and t

reince priebus is facing heated backlash today as the result of his comparing president obama to, gethis, the captain of that italian cruiseliner who abandoned ship after taking the "costa concordia" on the rocks. let's listen to what priebus said about gop infighting yesterday on cbs. >> in the end in a few months, this is all going to be ancient history and we're going to talk about our own little captain schettino, which is president obama who is abandoning the ship here in the united states and is more interested in campaigning than doing his job as president. >> what did you call president obama? >> captain schettino, you know, the captain that fled the ship in italy. >> well, that captain, that ship captain is facing charges, including manslaughter for his involvement. u.s. congresswoman and dnc chair debbie wasserman-schultz released a statement calling ought priebus for making that statement. chairman priebus should be ashamed of his comments comparing president obama to the captain of the wrecked italian cruise ship. that he would compare the president of the united states to

from racine, wisconsin, reince priebus. and debbie wasserman schultz. >> we got good news for the nation on friday. 200,000 jobs created in the last month. the unemployment rate down to 8.5%. the lowest in almost three years. while it is good news for the country isn't it taking away your strongest argument to replace barack obama? >> well, not at all, chris. i mean obviously 8.5% is unacceptable. clearly going taking down one tenth of one percent is better than being at 8.6%. i'm talking to you from racine, wisconsin, and what people feel out here in racine and kenosha is that we are losing manufacturing jobs and people don't feel better off today than they were two or three years ago. i'm not sure if an f minus to f is good news. certainly it is better but you this president has failed in his major promises when it comes to jobs, the economy, the debt, the deficit and, look, nancy pelosi and debbie wasserman schultz herself in 2006 were bashing george bush over 4.6% unemployment. this is a great country. we can do better

so this is not the standard that reince priebus has set or the rnc has set.f we hold barack obama to the standards barack obama has set for himself, he's failed america. >> so the unemployment rate fashionly is at 8.5%. so it's closer to that number than we've been in a long time, but i do want to talk to you though about the republican race. and what we're seeing about the candidates that are criss-crossing the country right now and trying to get the unification that they need of the party itself. it's really taken a toll on mitt romney over the past week buckling under some pressure to release his tax returns. we have those now. at least the past two years. the collapse of what we saw happening in south carolina. do you feel, reince, that governor romney's weakness with the conservative voters is a bad sign of things to come if he is the general election nominee? >> well, first of all, back to your point, and you made the comment and moved on, unemployment rate isn't better off today than it was and it's not closer. there's a whole lot of factors that go in

. ♪ got you in a stranglehold, baby ♪ >> rnc chair reince priebus says a little drama is good for the it's a good thing he likes it because there's certainly no shortage of drama, at least not this week. this week in south carolina all the candidates have taken a roller coaster ride and where the ride stops still is anybody's guess. the chairman joins us. nice to see you. >> hi, greta. how are you? >> very good. the last appearance you had with us you had to cancel at the last minute because, hold your hand up. >> well, this is what happens when you get your finger caught in an automatic steel door along the hinge side. so when you can hear the crunching before you feel it, you know it's not going to end up in a good place. i was actually getting stitches when i e-mailed you and said i wasn't going to make it. >> it was funny, i was in new york and i got an e-mail you were getting stitches in your hand. i hope it improves. >> i will be just fine. >> indeed. welcome. >> speaking of drama. >> speaking of drama, yes. last night you were in the room with the debate. when it started and sp

still republican party chairman reince priebus hoping for a clean sweep.us from washington tonight. mr. chairman, let's me bait you first. i have in this envelope a secret prediction from governor branstad. what's yours? who is going to win? >> it's a good one, john. look, i think that the american people are going to win tonight because it's the green flag of this race is going down and we're busy at the republican national committee pointing out the fact that starting today with the release of a new ad that the president's given us so much material and so many speeches and so much hot air coming out of his mouth, he's given us so much material we've got videos coming out every couple days of what he promises the american people four years ago, three years ago, and what he delivered. using his words, the standard that he set for himself and that's the job that we have, the job we have here at the rnc is to put an army on the ground, to put the grassroots on the ground, we've got a new mobile application that anyone can get to. you can get the results of t