rick santorum, john mccain, mitt romney won republican primaries. barack obama won the democratic caucus, so sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. it seems that the caucuses really, the best or highest ,unction is winnowing the field sort of. if you can't make it here, you are probably not going to make it somewhere else. about three tickets out of iowa, the top three finishers in the caucuses can move on. that is not always the case, but it is kind of a good rule of thumb that if you don't finish strong in iowa, you are probably not going to be able to maintain a campaign, a winning campaign. winning iowa does not necessarily mean that -- rick santorum did not go on to get the nomination. ted cruz did not go on to get the nomination. winning in iowa is not a guarantee of getting our party's party'son does your nomination, but it is a sign of organizational strength, that you can put together a campaign that delivers people to the caucuses almost in the same way that you will have to deliver .eople to voting booths so it is a good test in th

we want to bring in rick santorum former republican senator from the commonwealth of pennsylvania.rmer presidential candidate and cnn political commentator. senator thanks for being with us right now. why do you think or what should the concern that president trump has over joe biden and pennsylvania be? >> well, i mean joe biden, at least he's trying to stake out a position of being a more centrist democrat. that's the kind of democrat that can do very well in pennsylvania. and, you know, if you look at even my own race, when i lost re-election, the guy that defeated me ran as someone who was very much a moderate democrat and, you know, as a republican you've got to pull democratic votes if you're going to win in pen. the democratic votes you pull are more conservative or moderate democrats. they will vote republican. they did for president trump. they did for me on a couple of occasions. but they are still democrats. if they have someone that they feel is more aligned with them from the standpoint of, you know, of some of these issues that are, that joe biden is trying to attach

winning iowa does not necessarily mean that -- rick santorum did not go on to get the nomination. ted cruz do not go on to get the nomination. so winning in iowa is not a guarantee of getting the nomination. but it is a sign of organizational strength that you can put together a campaign that delivers people to the caucuses almost in the same way you will have to deliver people to the voting booth. it is a good test in that way. bernie asks for a progressive economic agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment, and provides health care for all. >> my name is charlie, and i'm here to vote for rick santorum. husband, a home-school dad of seven children, and a former u.s. senator. >> at a caucus, it starts up like a meeting people tying in. they usually have a temporary chair who calls things to order, and they call a permanent chair. the unlucky person becomes the permanent chair. and then there is a difference between a republican caucus and the democratic. hopkins have a straw poll. they pass out -- republicans have a straw poll. they pass out talents. it can

. >> joining us now we have joe lockhart former clinton white house press secretary, rick santorum former republican senator from pennsylvania and cnn's senior political commentator and jeffrey toobin cnn chief legal analyst. what will you be doing tomorrow? where will you be reading this? what will be looking for this this report? >> look, i will be just reading i think just like everybody else, but i'm not really looking for anything in particular. i suspect that the media will focus on the obstruction of justice piece. look, you've heard me on this program for over a year now saying that there was no collusion and that there's no evidence and there's nothing going to be in that report that's going to be new, and i believe there will be nothing with the russia connection. >> but you don't think there will be anything new of interest. >> no, i don't. >> you don't think in 400 pages there will be anything new? >> not that points to anything that rises to any concern that the public should have that the trump -- that the trump campaign was involved with the russians beyond what we've had l

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joining us now one of those 2016 republican candidates, former senator from pennsylvania rick santorumcnn senior political commentator. this is a conversation i wanted to have with you for eight years since i covered your presidential run in 2012. >> okay. >> when you look at this field of 18 democratic candidates, the question i think people ask is does every one of them really think that he or she has a chance to win? >> no. i think that people run for different reasons. i mean, if you look just even the last go round in the democratic party, bernie sanders i think when he originally got in i don't think he really felt he was going to win, but bernie is someone who is driven by a set of issues and trying to move the country in a direction and sees this as a platform to get those policies. now, obviously he did almost win and i think he has a legitimate chance of winning this one, but i don't think that's why he got in in the first place. people run for different reasons. they run because they have an agenda or ideas they want to promote, maybe they want to promote themselves and put

i was talking to rick santorum. he said this would have a devastating impact.s would be a huge potential economic risk for the president. if he went forward with it. they think this week will be important in trying to wait for the administration to put a little bit more specifics to the plan. we may know more by the end of the week. the president has a trip planned to california. it was interesting. i saw a local report that officials who are doing some border-related preemptive note that what they are doing is not wall construction in the traditional sense. they just wanted to get ahead of the news if there was misinterpretation about what they were doing. it was a long scheduled project. for the president, it is the messaging he wants without any of the economic blowback. we are seeing this at a time when his calculations on trade negotiations with china are very much kind of penned in by the same pound boundryes. he wants an impact, wants to do what he promised during the campaign. one of the important aspects of his re-electability is the state of the econo

let's bring in cnn political analyst david gregory, kerstin powers, "usa today" columnist and rick santorum, cnn political commentator and former senator. when we spoke last week, you were ho-hum on the mueller report. now that you know more of what's in it including the ten examples of wrongdoing that, if it were a regular person, would be prosecuted for obstruction of justice but can't because it's a sitting president. now how do you feel today? >> i don't think there's anything in that mueller report that we didn't already know. the reality is the ten things that were mentioned are ten things that have been out there in the public -- >> it doesn't matter if we knew it. i'm saying the wrongdoing. >> the question is whether the president exercised his authority as the president, can influence activities of his own executive department. the answer is he can. look, as i said last week before the report came out, i was never concerned about any collusion or anything with respect to the russians' activity, certainly were substantial. any kind of coordination or help by the trump campaign, that

people like let -- people like rick santorum, a former senator has spent time on this.e proposals i worked with this gentleman and others on that would accommodate the concerns you raised by coming up with an alternative to the affordable care act. by devolving a lot of the responsibility back to the state level. i think these things could be cared for. i do think we have a responsibility to take care pre-existing conditions, especially when you consider what some of those are. you and i share a commonality and we of both adopted children. if you're in the process of adopting, i experienced this, it was considered a pre-existing condition. i lost health care coverage for a time because of this pre-existing condition of being the adoption process. there is a lot of unintended consequences the need to be looked into. david: finally, briefly, i know you are a devoted father. i want to ask you about vaccinations. i know you have a position about vaccinations. you understand where other devoted fathers be worried about their children going to school with people have not been

you know this argument pretty much wider than anyone else out there, you and pat buchanan and rick santorum, you are all making this case 20 years ago. this is a real issue. when people feel like they are talked down to by the elites, frankly, and both parties come but trump cut through that. >> laura, normally i agree with you but tonight come i got to tell you, you have become a cynic. the fact that you actually believe that those voters out there who go to waffle house, listen to leonard skynyrd, like to watch nascar and basketball, that those voters don't care mostly about whether they get to see donald trump's taxes, you know the issue they sit around the kitchen table and talk about is trying to make sure that we don't have any cars or airplanes in ten years, not just for the people who get to d them but the people who make them. those folks sit around their kitchen table hoping we have open borders so that anybody can come into the country and live right next door to nancy pelosi. again, how cynical is that you think that you are not as concerned about cow flatulence as are those fam

who didn't have a boomlet, michele bachmann and the only person who didn't get at boomlet was rick santorums tail off. that's why i said the 1% to 4%. he went from 1% to 2% to 4%. buttigieg has the fund-raising numbers in, a conversation right now about whether he insulted the 2016 nominee hillary clinton. it's from this back in january. "the washington post" magazine tweeted out donald trump got elected, quotes from people, donald trump got elected because in a twisted way he pointed out the huge troubles in our country and democracy and at least he didn't go around saying america was already great like hillary clinton did. a senior adviser took offense with that. this is pete buttigieg over the weekend somewhat trying to clean it up. >> america would be a much better place if she were president. that's why i voted for her and that's why i campaigned for her and i have enormous respect for secretary clinton. i do think she was ill served by a strategy and a media environment which made things much more about the individuals, much more about all the problems with donald trump and much less

rick perry, newt gingrich, rick santorum, michele bachmann, even herman cain was atop the national pollstober of 2011, but now cain is back in the news because president trump is recommending him to join the federal reserve world. cain, we should say, was a chairman of the federal reserve bank in kansas city. he is the man, of course, trump wants overseeing the banking system of the wealthiest nation on everything. >> but the 9, 9, 9 plan is catching on with people. >> 9, 9, 9. >> 9, 9, 9. >> i'm ready for the gotcha questions. >> so you agreed with president obama on libya or not? >> okay, libya. >> oh, shucky-ducky, as the man would say. >> president obama supported the uprising, correct? >> oh, shucky-ducky. >> and when they ask me who is the president of u becky becky becky stan stan, i'm going to say, you know, i don't know, do you know? >> that's what i'm talking about. >> you don't need foreign policy experience to know who your friends are and your enemies are. >> immigration is four problems, not one. >> i believe these words came from the pokemon movie. >> america's never seen

cain,e bachmann, herman rick santorum -- anyone who is coming out of the base was totally unacceptableo the establishment. the change in 2016 is they could not crush it. but the interesting question is, why was this happening? why in election after election was the voting base producing a candidate utterly intolerable to the establishment? is, if answer to that you think about that, the answer is not very hard to discover. since the 1970's, during this neoliberal period, both of the political parties have shifted to the right. 1970'0's,ats by the they pretty much had abandoned the working class. the last gasp of more or less progressive democratic party theslative proposals was humphrey-hawkins full employment act in 1978, which carter watered down so that it had no teeth, just became voluntary. with the democrats have pretty much abandoned the working class. they became pretty much what used to be called moderate republicans. meanwhile, the republicans shifted so far to the right that they went completely off the spectrum. political leading analysts of the american enterprise institut

lewis guterres and former republican presidential candidate rick santorum. what i want to get at is the relationship between the president and the attorney general. the attorney general did not announce a press conference until the president did. the president nounlzed in a radio interview and said maybe i'll hold one after the attorney general is down with his. is there any independence here? >> i don't believe there is. let's remember that the now attorney general barr published a 20-page opinion basically saying it's as nine -- hiswards and that mueller his team of attorneys which he criticized for mierg a bunch of democrats something echoing president trump, looked like a group of people out to overthrow the president of the united states. then he sent the 20-page memorandum saying the president couldn't be investigated for firing comey and obstruction of justice. >> obstruction of justice. >> even broader obstruction ever justice. he said he couldn't be investigated for that. he sent that 20-page unsolicited memorandum and opinion to rosenstein. but let

and rick santorum, the presidential candidate and republican senator.outspoken how do you not think stephen moore is qualified to sit on the federal reserve board. but do you think people are pulling a kavanaugh on him regardless. >> no. no, look nobody made moore say those things. this is not he said she said. this is he said it again and again and again and again. in print. on live tv, all over the place. that said, my main concern about putting stephen moore on the fed is not the sexist remarks. it's the fact that for one he can't tell whether prices are going up or down. and that he is a long time partisan operative whose main priority placed on the fed would be not to do what's good for the economy but for the republican party. we have seen this in the views he expressed about monetary policy under trump versus under obama. we have seen in why he flip flopped about the gold standard, immigration, about trade, about pretty much any major economic policy. so i think for him to claim that nobody has been talking about his economic views is just poppyc

and i'mme is charlie here to vote for rick santorum, a homeschool dad to seven children. caucus, it starts to go. between thefference republicans and democrats. they basically have a stronghold. quickly.ppen very they cast their ballot and go home. they are not interested in party. the democratic caucus, there's a lot more to it. a candidate has to have at least 15% present to be viable and if they are not viable, they can reform the groups. be that you could try and convince people to come over , but i think the democrats have changed the rules, so they will not do that and then they select delegates based on those preference groups. you have to be registered as a democrat or republican to participate. sometimes, people will change their party representation. it is the people who want to participate. >> i would not expect huge numbers on the republican side. 2016.sibly could exceed possibly a couple hundred thousand democrats showing up at the caucuses. with a big field of candidates, that would make sense. everybody brings along a few thousand supporters. anticipation r

it was rick perry, newt gingrich, rick santorum and everybody got to lead for a week or two. a lot of people will go up and down in the democratic race. >> bill: bernie has big crowds and big money. nancy pelosi is overseas. she was in london and was asked about aoc yet again. here is the response on that. >> when we won this election it wasn't in districts like minor alexandria's. she is a wonderful member of congress. i think all of our colleagues are. but those are districts that are solidly democratic. >> bill: to be fair to her she said that would be true for her district as well. but you are thinking this gets worse before it gets better, byron. >> do we need any more proof that nancy pelosi really does not like alexandria ocasio-cortez who is getting all this attention and sucking up a lot of the oxygen around the democratic party in the house, and by the way, with ocasio-cortez and her rather small group of co-patriots, tlaib and omar. they're vowing not to back down to the authority figures both in their party and in congress as a whole. i think you have to say this