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and letting rick santorum in front of a microphone is a great place to start. folks, the rest of the party needs to fall in line. do you hear that michele bachmann, tone it down! nation, it's about time somebody said what we were all not thinking. just because people know things doesn't mean we should listen to them. sorry, elite, but we've given your pro knowledge wisdom-pushing policies a chance and they have failed. f-a-l-7 d-failed. and this is a wake-up call to all anti-intellectual americans. i'm not talking just about the dumb people. i'm talking to the droolers. the mouth breathers, those struggling to finish the kid's maze on a long john's silvers placement. stand up, shake that bucket off your head and be counted. unfortunately to do that you'll have to find someone who can count. and folks if you want more evidence that the elite smarty crap media are against us, well, look no further than last week. while i was conveniently not on the air, news happened. oh, and the free masons don't control the world government, right. evidently, in response to an

rick santorum or mitt romney. rick santorum won big. with women, even a greater margin. mitt romney's problem is he talks out of both sides of his mouth. >> what came up today was the question of the redistribution of income. >> i actually believe in redistribution at least at a certain level to make sure that everybody has a shot. >> this idea of redistribution follows from the idea that if you have a business, you did not build it. >> that obama comment was recorded 14 years ago. how is that working? >> i do not think you can come back with something that small. that was a tiny portion it remark that was about how we should let the market work. it is taken out of context. call me crazy, but that is not that bad. we have to give people a shot. >> but we already redistribute income. >> yeah, but woozy liberal. we had joe the plumber in 2008. spreading the wealth around. look at the policies. one of the explicit names of obamacare is spreading the wealth around. you do not have to go -- if you want to use a quote, there is the famous one of the debate in 2008 where charli

and long-time aide to rick santorum.e last 20 minutes. robert, let me start with you. with the anti u.s. protests much of the focus is on foreign policy. many said he was tone deaf in the way he responded in the attacks. how hard will it be moving forward for governor romney to demonstrate he's moving forward. >> there are a lot of gray areas. a lot of nuances there. governor romney stepped out on a limb if you will and the limb broke. most american voters do not make their decision based on foreign policy. they need to make sure and they want to make sure that the presidential candidate has an understanding of the foreign policy. but at the end of the day this is still about the economy. he did not look very presidential. we'll see over the next couple days how he continues to handle this situation. but also to remember the president did not handle the situation very well as well because he said one thing in terms of egypt but another in terms of whether or not they were allies or not. of course former president jimmy c

. >> rick and karen santorum. >> barack obama believes the government should do more and you cannot trust the private sector. >> condoleezza rice. >> what they really wanted was you as vp. >> first of all, nobody wanted that, especially me. >> and the mitt romney you don't know from his sons. >> you say he seems laid back? is that what you said? >> yes, his hair is too perfect. >> this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. i'm here at the cnn grill. the republican convention has been wrapping up. tonight we begin with faith, family and mitt romney. today, they're more kable, more down to earth. with their mother ann, just might be his secret weapons. >> can you do it without the ear piece in? >> no one was giving me information. we're at a crucial stage. your father is within breathing distance of his white house. how are you coping as his sons with all the negativity that begins to pour down on what is your dad's head? >> you don't worry about the negativity. you keep rolling with it. and get your own message out there. which is a positive vision for what my dad believes america can g

but for rick santorum talking about abortion and criminalizing abortion.gh moments for social issues at this whole convention. republicans were very careful to stay away at the convention from the party's newly uniformed hard line stance on social issues, they have prioritized it so much over the years but do not want to talk about it when it comes to the presidential race. there was that rick santorum line and one line from mike huckabee in his speech. a six-word sentence from mitt romney and on leak reference to the god of life from paul ryan. otherwise they kept away from social issues and plans to criminalize abortion. most of although, republicans did not want to talk about todd akin, the missouri senate candidate who last week up-ended the political narrative of the republicans heading into their convention when he said this. >> if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. >> although the republicans were seemingly pretty undisciplined when it came to most of their messaging this week, take, for example, t

rick santorum found the rest of his sweater. that's nice. >> ron paul, he's actually still running. not much has changed. herman cain said if he won the nomination, he would have a "substantial lead over president obama." in that world, obama would have bigger issues to focus on, what with all the flying pigs and mothersmen of the apocalypse flying about. i'm done talking now. >> thank you brett. all right everybody someone's always in our war room, so you should check us out on line at current.com/thewarroom, check out our web extras to find stuff that we don't talk about on the show but you love to see. tomorrow is voter registration day across the nation. everybody who's watching this program needs to grab a family member, friend or stranger off the street who is not registered to vote and get them to register. it's a huge issue. we're going to be all over it. we checked out a wilco concert over the weekend. we're going to bring that you and much more. i hope you all have a tremendous night and we will see you tomorrow.

i was a rick santorum supporter, and i'm grateful to have seen it play out. when everybody was played out, now it seems like we're all standing strong and firm behind mitt romney. it answered all of our questions to watch that campaign, and now what do we do as little individuals? >> glad you asked that. the most effective thing you can do is to go to mittromney.com. register to volunteer. there's a direct dial program into the swing states. you're californians, maybe someone east in the web driving through, but you're all californians. this is the land of the damned; right? we're doomed. [laughter] we're just going to slide off into the economic hell hole that is -- [laughter] that is the future for california until we hit bottom, and then we'll rebuild. you don't -- you want to register for the purposes, and you want to senior high school tier in california to help the state ?t and congressional candidates. there's great ones that need help. if you want to do something from home, register at mittromney.com, they give you a virtual volunteer pack, and on the

other speakers included michele bachmann, bob mcdonald of virginia, and rick santorum. santorum pointed out, with pride i might add, that a true values voter never lets facts or information e get in the way of their gut instincts. >> we'll never have the media on our side, ever in this country. we will never have the elite, smart people on our side because they believe they should have the power to tell you what to do. >> right wing pundit gary bower riled up the crowd urging them to get out and vote. >> there will be a lot of people to vote for the president. there's a lot of people around america who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day. they will turn out in massive numbers. my prediction is after all the votes are counted, even the dead votes of democrats in chicago, detroit and cleveland, i predict that we will win. that this national nightmare will be over. >> let's turn to barry lynn, executive director of americans united for separation of church and state, who obviously was at that conference as an observer, not a participa

next, rick and karen santorum.e former presidential candidate about his now famous speech and his advice for mitt romney. >> under president obama, the dream of freedom and opportunity has become a nightmare of dependency with almost half of america receiving some sort of government assistance. it's no surprise fewer and fewer americans are achieving their dreams and more and more parents are concerned their children won't realize theirs. more and s are concerned that their children won't achieve theirs. president obama spent four years and borrowed $5 trillion trying to convince you that he can make things better for you, to put your trust in him and the government to take care of every problem. the result is massive debt. and anemic growth and millions more unemployed. >>> you okay? here, let me help you. my mom has been sick for as long as i can remember. you need more methadone. helping her out is a bigger priority than going to school. because i don't know what i would do if something happened to her. i wouldn

rick santorum, rick perry, all these guys had to do that. mitt romney has hidden stuff that could have potentially been damming to him. we don't know much about it because he's never released much of the tax returns for us to compare them with. when he's released tax returns to compare with the summaries, the comparison does not look good. here is what i mean. when he released tax returns for 2010, he had already made summary disclosures about his finances for that same year in order to run for office. we got the actual tax return and you could compare them and it turns out that in the tax returns were listed 20 different investment vehicles that were never listed in his disclosures including seven of the 20 that were overseas foreign investment vehicles. commenting on while it will juicy foreign stuff had been hidden in his disclosure forms the his spokeswoman said the candidates failure to include his swiss bank account in earlier financial disclosures were a trivial inadvertent issue. after months of stalling he leased the one additional

rick santorum? are you thinking you missed the boat this newt gingrich? if you think i'm unrelatable, check out callista. looks like a character. my hair moves. >> very nice. >> it's better than nice, it's freaking awesome. you guys wish ron paul was still running? well guess what, he probably is, because he's a lunatic who doesn't understand how voting works. [ laughter ] and, you know what, if you want rick perry back, it's real easy. you just say his name three times and he'll show up. rick perry, rick perry, rick perry. >> do i get to be president now? >> no, no, rick. no, no. >> oh, you big tease. >> yes. [ laughter ] >> where does he go back to? >> if he's lucky, he goes back to high school. >> oh. [ laughter ] >> and to all these republicans that are saying "if we can't win against the president this week, what does that say about mitt romney?" well, if this race was so winnable, how come jeb bush, chris christie and marco rubio decided not to run? fellas, if you don't net up, you have to shut up, okay? [ laughter ] >> wow, pretty strong words, ann

rick santorum, rick perry, all these guys had to do that. mitt romney over the years in those disclosures has hidden stuff that could have potentially been damning to him. we don't know much about it because he's never release much of the actual tax returns to compare them with but when he has released tax returns to compare with the summaries, the comparison does not look good. when mr. romney released his tax returns for 2010, the year we had before today, he had already made summary disclosures about his finances for that same year in order to run for office. he'd already filed these personal financial disclosures. but then we got the actual tax returns and you could compare them to those summaries for that same year. it turns out that in the tax returns were listed 20 different investment vehicles that were just never listed in his disclosures, including seven of the 20 that were overseas foreign investment vehicles. commenting on why had it been hidden in his forms, his spokeswoman said at the time that the candidate's failure to includ

>> well, both candidates -- both of these folks have been out of the headlines for awhile but rick santorum is throwing his support behind a controversial colleague. missouri congressman todd akin jumped into the spotlight after making comments about legitimate rape saying the bodies of women who were raped would be able to prevent a pregnancy. he later apologized for the wording he used and decided to stay in the race for the u.s. senate even though a lot of republicans aren't backing him. >>> school and community partnerships are helping stotteds excel in the classroom. pnc and morgan state are teaming up to teach students about finances. our education reporter sherrie johnson shows us how financial literacy is making a difference. >> reporter: it's not your average day here in northeast baltimore. students are getting financially fit. they're learning how to manage money. it's all a part of appalachian hope. >> it's important that we have the knowledge, the skills, the concepts of living a good life and managing money. it comes into play. >> reporter: operation hope teamed up with pnc ba

i don't know if rick santorum can sell that better than what we've seen already. >> well, obviously,here's 39, 38 days to go. where are we sf? 39. >> 30 states already votes, though. that's the other interesting thing in this. we have more than half the country is on you there casting ballots. we haven't had a debate yet. the 2013 presidential debate commission. let's schedule one before a ballot has been cast. >> that's interesting. i don't know that the candidates want to do that, right? the risk of what can happen in the debates gets very frightening for them. i don't know if they want to do it earlier. romney would like it that way. >> one thing interesting with the debates, both sides try to play down the expectations and say obama saying mitt romney is a great debater. he's amazing. >> when they come out and say mitt romney can debate, you know they are trying to do something here. >> yeah. see, what do you think -- i'm having trouble getting a sense of what the american people's expectations for these two candidates are. i think the president is the president, so there's going

. >> numerous times before, as have many fact checking organization, rick santorum's and others claim that president obama ended the work requirement for welfare is just incorrect. one of their posters said this week it's their most effective ad for voters. clearly they think that the message of welfare and voters is what they want to reach. the question tonight were republicans successful? joining me cnn political contributor republican strategist mary matalin. also democratic strategist paul begala who is also an adviser to a pro-obama super pac. paul, i don't know how many news organizations and fact checking organizations have pointed out this -- these incorrect statements, these factually incorrect statements from the republicans about what the obama campaign, what the obama white house is doing about welfare reform. and yet they continue to hit this message hard. is it working for them? >> i suspect it is or they wouldn't be doing it. i have to say it is a bit of a character test for three different parties. first off, the romney campaign who is running the ads and they have fai

he said i learned a lot from rick santorum and i understand these issues are important. has become a much stronger candidate especially when it comes to the value issues in this general election and people are moving, where they weren't last year, and the best comparison, four years ago, this crowd was ambivalent about the general election, they didn't know much about barack obama, weren't excited about john mccain. this time they no about barack obama and they're getting very excited about mitt romney. so he's well on his way. >> are they excited or motivated about mitt romney or is it more we really just don't like what the president's done over the past few years? because i think those are very different. >> you are right and i'll be candid, it's both. the first step was a complete disenchantment with barack obama and secondly this growth of support with mitt romney. he has been slow or was slow coming out of the primary to begin connecting with value voters. but i'll have to say, i think he's been doing a great job and i was one of his critics in the primary. >> i re

we just heard from rick santorum there, as well. how has the romney campaign responded to the backlash over his comments? >> well, initially they didn't even blink. they held a press conference, they doubled down on the issue, they didn't see anything wrong with it. and in the following day, you saw some of his senior advisers speak out and further emphasize their point. they didn't back down at all. but towards the end of the week, we saw them change the subject slightly, we saw romney and paul ryan return to issues like the economy which is what they would much rather be talking about than what happened earlier this week in the middle east. >> jim, in your recent issue, the question is raised did the arab spring make that region more dangerous. and he also introduce as new term, a global industry of outrage. what is that? >> well, the global industry of outrage is -- i mean, these protests did not spontaneously erupt because hundreds of millions of people around the world saw a youtube video. they were told about the video you thr

either next election cycle will be jeb bush or maybe rick santorum or paul ryan carried onto that ticket 2010 is more the lesson that they'll take and say, look, forget the politics of these guys. these were mostly a lot of newcomers who came from outside of politics, and maybe that's the direction that this 2012 loss, if it is a loss, will send them in for 2016. >> susan, the obama campaign has telegraphed if they -- if the obama administration really if they do win a second term, one of the things that they're going to take up early on is comprehensive immigration reform. there's been a lot of talk this election about where republicans stand with la teen knetinos and can afford to move forward without significant support from the latino community. you have in the republican primary very far right extreme rhetoric, self-deportations, absolutely no amnesty from the republican party. how will that issue play out within the republican party, do you think, in the next term? >> well, again, it depends on the results of this election, because if governor romney wins, then they're going to fee