a lot of speakers today, including former senator from pennsylvania rick santorum and later today, newt gingrich. they're considered possible for the presidential nomination. that's part of the thing that was happening later today. there's going to be a straw poll. people have been voting all week here at this conference. later today they're going to have the results of the straw poll. they do it every year when there's no republican in the white house. mitt romney has won the last three. you're going to have more speeches today. the key note address later tonight by glenn beck of fox news. busy day here, betty. >> no doubt. . we have heard rhetoric come out of that cpac meeting there. is it that the people are starting to capitalize on the frustration or just more of a rally cry? >> it's a little of both. i've been covering cpac for a couple of years and this year, what a world of difference from the last two, in '07 and '08 and '09 even. they're energized this year where they weren't in the last couple of years. they feel the political wins are with them and you are hearing talking ab

rick santorum was just here, he told us behind the scenes, they used to invade his office all the timepink. the problem is going to the phone circuit. >> then they went upstairs to the closet. i hate to agree with bob, but -- i think he has a point. >> what is it? is he somehow blackmailing you? you spent 15 minutes on this show for some punk who broke into a senator's office. >> sean: why are you being so rude today? because he embarrassed acorn. he embarrassed the president's group and you are still mad about that >> no, what i'm mad about is he's starting to he did brass you and i like you. stop, let it go. >> sean: i'm asking questions. >> let the grand jury handle it and we'll find out. >> sean: if he didn't have bugging equipment i think it is a different case. he walked in. there's no break-in >> he walked in, in a telephone repair man's outfit. >> sean: he walked in as a in acorn. he was the least convincing pimp i've ever seen. >> woman was convincing as a ho. >> sean: oh! >> i thought she did a good job. >> sean: you to admit. >> he looked like huggie bear but she was cute. >

rick santorum, great to see you as well. we'll see what the american people think of this health care bill and whether or not they like it when it goes to them. thank you very much to both of you. bill: thursday is going to be a rocking day. martha: sure is. bill: acorn, new details on how the committee's organization might not be an organization anymore and harry reid has a whole new observation about men who are out of work. wow. we report, you decide. next. martha: have you seen this today, senator majority leader harry reid makes a novel pitch for the jobs bill, saying basically men who lose their jobs are more likely to be engaged in domestic violence? look at this. people end up with domestic abuse, it has gotten out of hand, why? men don't have jobs. women don't have jobs, either, but women aren't abusive, most of the time. men, when out of work, tend to become abusive. martha: he didn't say exactly where he got all that data, but reid went on to say the domestic cryis -- crisis shelters in nevada are, quote, jammed n

rick santorum talks about the future of conservatism.bolton talks about obama's foreign-policy. >> tomorrow on ""washington journal," a look at the latest developments in 2010 with thomas defrank and april ryan. we will chat with a special envoy to afghanistan on the latest in that region. following that, we will discuss the latest on the economy. that is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. tomorrow on "newsmakers," george miller looks at the status of health care legislation. the german -- chairman also talks about student loan bills. that is at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> i come from latin america. i was not expecting to find this kind of poverty. >> photographer and documentary filmmaker kike arnal. sunday on c-span. >> the seale of chipmaker intel -- ceo of chipmaker intel announced that he would buy billions of dollars of u.s. high-tech companies over the next couple of years. here is a look at his speech, just under an hour. >> good morning, i am the vice- president of the brookings institution and i welcome you to this

former senator rick santorum joins us live. ouch! >> ouch.not a republican by the way. >> greta: this is probably the last thing that senator reid needed since he has cozied up to the president any way. >> it is like hugging a cactus hugging the president right now. obviously i'm not from nevada. two things happened when the president did his thing last february talked about first time he mentioned las vegas. it was at the same time that the democrats in congress were doing investigations into corporations as to where they were traveling. it had a huge impact on nevada. huge impact, tourism went in the dumper. >> greta: i didn't realize that i thought -- >> absolutely. number one, thevtesq president d don't go spend your money in las vegas. number two, because the congress was watching corporate america and where they were spending on resorts, las vegas travel dropped way off. it hurt them badly. i knew this. i watch the news like you do. but i'm not from the state. everybody in nevada really knew it. for him to get up, knowing that and say i

noted conservative, intellectual and by many accounts is looking for running for president and rick santorumo run and is making phone calls and talking to folks in iowa and new hampshire about the possibility of running and a lot of people don't take it seriously and here's the roster, on who is on the ballot here for potential 2012 republican nominees. mississippi governor haley barbour, newt gingrich, sarah palin, mitt romney who spoke here yesterday, john thune from south dakota and mitch daniels, the governor of indiana and mike huckabee, and ron paul, we mentioned mike pence and rick santorum and there is a space for others and maybe we'll put bill hemmer in there. bill: or maybe not, i'm quite happy where i am, beactually, carl. >> reporter: and i said arkansas governor sarah palin and i meant alaska. bill: stand by that correction there and maybe a question hit bore than anybody else, what tea party activists are doing in relation to cpac and it appears they have merged. is that a fair assessment? or not? >> certainly here it is and we have tea party panelists, yesterday, taking part