against carter, railing against jimmy carter and his failure as president, there was the ad. >> richard wolf, to be fair to newt gingrich -- >> yes. >> -- and there's no reason not to be. everything he said about mitt romney was a legitimate shot in the presidential campaign. i don't remember him taking any cheap shots. >> no. and he had reason to be disdained. of course, the irony was is that here was a guy that had doing something more than anything else and has delighted in tearing people down and not engaging in politics but also as a permanent campaign and precisely the tactics that poured heat upon his head and they did him in. so, yes, all of his defense and counter attacks, yes, they were grounded in more reality than that statement we heard from mitt romney but the tactics that killed him and tactics that he unleashed on american politics for much, much bigger deal and goals and damage to our society than, frankly, this election campaign. >> let's listen to the last thing that president obama said about newt gingrich, which was actually at the white house correspondence dinner. >> n

and richard wolf.eets, to put it mildly, are you concerned about what this means for the president politicly and for the african-american vote. >> i am. i was blown away by the gesture. this is an historic moment. if the arc of history bends toward justice, we're seeing get toward the top of the arc i think. but we have most of the states in america are -- have amendments against gay marriage. we're not making the turn just yet. i am a little concerned about what will happen with the gay community. takely important stittwednesda constituency for the president. there is hopo phobia around america. 55% of black are telling people they are against gay marriage, and 55% of whites are for gay marriage. i wonder if this will not create a crisis of conscience for some voters who were supportives obama above brrr and do i need the brother to be re-elected and what we talk about on sunday aside? or i got my god, my bible, my minister and we've been talking about this for years, and i need to speak about this. i

the expiration of the bush tax cuts and the defense spending sequester, so i want to play what richard wolf had to say on the show last night about what he believes is happening here. >> it is interesting watching republicans try to squirm their way out of a deal they made. they're also trying to change the triggers, the sequesters and the defense cuts. this is the whole unpicking of a deal. these are people that say they understand the private sector. no businessman can try to undo a deal they just did. that's what they're trying here. >> what i enjoy about hearing from you is i talk to people around this country and bring it up all the time. you get to the heart of what folks see from their vantage point of what's happening in that town. >> i will give it to you then. i think richard wolf's analysis is accurate but too cerebral and instead the republican play is to reinforce the narrative they created that the president is a big spender and, oh, look, here he goes again, he needs to raise the debt ceiling because they haven't made any cuts and beyond that i think you lose folks in terms o

joining me now is richard wolfe."revival" the struggle for survival in the white house, and michael steele, former rnc chairman and msnbc analyst. good for you to be here tonight. >> michael, let me start with you, will mitt romney be able to bring the party together? >> i think he will. i know this is a lot of the build up to tampa. you see the interparty fights particularly as a number of tea party activist vie for positions within the party whether it's chairman, national committee man or woman. they have been winning some of those elections, so this is part of that process. i think the washington times is right. it will be an interesting dance there for sure. it will be more exciting than some people want it, but once you're past that point, the focus comes to the prize, which is winning the white house, and rallying behind romney to do that. i don't put too much into these right now because this is just part of the process, the ron paul people as you know, reverend, are strong, and they're very vocal, they're ha

. >>> richard wolf is an msnbc political analyst, and the senior editor for the national review, good morning, gentlemen. >> good morning, chris. >> interesting timing, because just moments ago mitt romney was speaking in st. petersberg, florida and he has a debt clock behind him. >> it's like looking out across the prairie and seeing a fire in the distance. at a stage like that, you don't say, well, i'm going to go to bed and maybe someone else will take care of it. we need a president who will stop the this spending inferno and i will. >> the president's also been talking about this, it's a big problem and it's one that's right at the heart of the election campaign, along with one that's obviously jobs and the economy and the connection between the two has got to be played out. it's interesting that romney has identified this as being a problem in saying this is a wildfire. but his own policies throe a whole gallon or more of gas on this debt fire. this stuff has got to be played out. it's got to be played out in the lame duck and it's got to be played out in the election too. >> it

." >>> joining me today, msnbc political analyst richard wolf, katherine crier, journalist and authortor and publish of the nation, and msnbc contributor steve of salon.com. it is the 21st century definition of maiming it in. 11 months after launching his presidential bid and 27 days after ending his campan,

." >>> joining me today, msnbc political analyst richard wolf, katherine crier, journalist and authortor and publish of the nation, and msnbc contributor steve of salon.com. it is the 21st century definition of maiming it in. 11 months after launching his presidenti bid and 27 days after ending his campaign, rick santorum finally endorsed the presumpive gop nominee, mitt romney. santorum sent out an e-mail at 11:00 p.m. last night. his endorsement came 900 words into the 1100 word e-mail writing, quote, it will require all hands on deck if our nominee is to be victorious. governor romney will be that nominee. he has my endorsement. joining me now is hogan gidley, someone who is said to have the

joining me for today's political power panel are doug thornell, susan derl percio and richard wolf. want to start with you, talking about what's taking place on twitter, some of the tweets we found. one person has written, the dnc in charlotte is going to be rather awkward on several counts. another has recommended the dnc be moved to west virginia. a third suggested the conventiongoers should boycott business that is don't fly a rainbow flag. should the democrats consider moving the convention out of north carolina or is this the perfect place to hold the democratic national convention now? >> i think it's the perfect place. and i think what happened yesterday opens up a discussion that we should have about the differences between the two candidates on this issue. mitt romney once said that he wanted to be to the left of ted kennedy on gay rights issues. now he's taken positions that put him to the right of pat robson. the president's taken historic steps ending "don't ask, don't tell," opposing doma, supporting the employment nondiscrimination act. he has a very good record on thi

. >> richard wolf, that wasn't even all of it. there are more i don't have anything else to give yous. >> about as convincing as a rick santorum endorse m. he's evolved from the sea to amphibian stage and stuck there. it hasn't changed. i think if you look a at what the vice president said, he was dancing around it too. i know everyone's reported it as the vice president comes out for gay marriage. not quite. the bigger question, i think, is the relationship with the community, with the people who support the president, and how much they're disgruntled with him and why they're disgruntled with him, especially when he has a pretty good record. if you think, "don't ask, don't tell." he staked a lot of political capital to get this done. they really want him to come out on, no pun intended, on gay marriage and make exsplis sit. that's not what he's prepared to do at this point. >> and that's a political calculation. >> absolutely. >> we're talking about team obama's putting $25 million into advertising in nine key swing states, virgi

you asked him to be your chief national security spokesman. >> all i know and all we know, wolf, was that richardor four u.s. ambassadors to the united nations. i worked with him, and in the early part of the 2000s and is an extremely talented guy and we were lucky to have him, to be working for the campaign, speaking on national security issues and foreign policy issues. >> so you didn't have a problem with all those tweets baz he deleted them from the little blog. you said some nafty things about the women. he actually apologized for the things he and said we obviously respected that and we were moving forward when he wrote the things that he wrote. he certainly wasn't speaking for the campaign. he apologized for anything he said that was hurtful and he managed to speak on foreign policy issues for governor romney. he was also being criticized in the campaign and was criticized from the other side because he's openly gay and they thought he would be inappropriate to have someone who is openly gay especially on behalf of mitt romney. we're in a pretty heated political environment and there are p

richard lugar on tuesday. thank you for being on the "washington journal." >> tomorrow, chuck wolf, president of their gay and lesbian victory fund in institute talks about his group's effort to elect openly gay public officials. arthur brooks discusses his new book, "the road to freedom, how to win the fight for free enterprise." the cost and scope of missiles procured by the defense department for the army, navy, air force, and marines. "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> cutting back in an age where crime is global in ways that it was not 10 years ago, and by that i mean whether it be organized crime, whether it be cyber crime, white-collar crime, gangs, they are globalized and consequently that entity that has the best chance for addressing globalized criminal activity is the fbi. consequently, if you cut us from doing that at applied in time where much of the crime is globalized, that is a double hit, in some sense of regret on wednesday, the fbi director capitalize from capitol hill about the negative impact of budget cuts, political correctness, and renewing the foreign intell

host of the richard follower radio program and vince colonies senior editor at the daily caller gentlemen let's get started first of all the elections in europe i was just talking with max wolf about these. voters from france to greece to germany or reject the local elections in germany even though they're not going to down electing either socialist. so both sides who are both opposed to austerity here in the united states we have one party that is absolutely committed to austerity particular at the state level but now at the federal level as well that's the republican party best represented by the paul ryan budget. how how are they going to push this ahead or should the republicans recalibrate and say hey wait a minute this isn't working in europe we should do it here but you see the elections as a warning shot to the united states the well the way it played out i see the austerity the austerity that the ryan budget represents in the united states if it were implemented is what has been going on in europe for about a year and a half two years and it's taking down their economies and so but you don't think the austerity measures that europe has tried are are not something th

richard quest, see you in london. >> have a safe flight. >> thank you. >> bringing you live coverage starting sunday at 11:00 eastern. thanks so much. i'm brooke baldwin. wolftuation room" begins right now. >> safe travels. we'll be watching, brooke, thank you. >>> mitt romney is moving on and close to the presidential nomination. they keep blocking the spotlight with yet more controversial comments today. we'll update you. >>> a leading cause of death in latin america. does the scary parasitic disease pose a growing threat here in the united states? >>> and a runway emergency in chicago where a giant cargo jet collides with an airliner. we'll bring you the very latest. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room."

richard quest, see you in london. >> have a safe flight. >> thank you. >> bringing you live coverage starting sunday at 11:00 eastern. thanks so much. i'm brooke baldwin. wolf blitzer and "the situation room" begins right now. >> safe travels. we'll be watching, brooke, thank you. >>> mitt romney is moving on and close to the presidential nomination. they keep blocking the spotlight with yet more controversial comments today. we'll update you. >>> a leading cause of death in latin america. does the scary parasitic disease pose a growing threat here in the united states? >>> and a runway emergency in chicago where a giant cargo jet collides with an airliner. we'll bring you the very latest. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> president obama telephones mitt romney, congratulates him for going over the top in the republican delegate count and over the top comments with supporter donald trump has created a distraction. you've heard trump question the birthplace in "the situation room," now romney is trying to move on. here's our national political correspondent, jim acosta. >> wolf, mitt romney has left l

wolf, he wants a tax of 75% on those incomes over a million euros. >> well, he's a socialist and that's what a lot of socialists do. thanks very much, richard.ding one high-profile first lady is different than the other. she's not married to the new president of france. here's cnn's hala gorani. she is france's first, unmarried premiere dame. valerie, is the girlfriend of the president and she prefers the term companion. their affection for each other was evident election-eve and a relationship that be gap in 2005 while they were both with their form partners. they've known each other for a very long time. before that she was with another paper and she's always been a political journalist. so they've known each other for at least 20 years. >> reporter: a feisty, political journalist, the twice-divorced mother of three gave up her career so she could actively campaign for aland and now she has big shoes to fill. size 38, carla bruni sarkozy. that could be out of character for france's first lady who says she will keep her day job. >> translator: she wants to stay a normal woman. she says herself that she has no family wealth. she has three ch