ron paul is the winner of the all rnc. -- winner of the rnc. -- rlc. >> from louisiana, our own tony note to self, never follow a straw poll. that we tell you, it is great to be back in my home state, among friends at this republican leadership conference. at first i was surprised it was not the southern leadership conference. at first i was a little concerned, but i understand we have invited folks from across the country to come and celebrate the centennial of ronald reagan. ofu will honor the legacy occu ronald reagan. it was from southern california. his favorite dish was macaroni and cheese. that is no substitute for fried catfish and jambalaya. change the title, but leave the menu alone. i want to thank each and everyone of you. you are the backbone of the conservative movement. many of you have labored from your early years advancing a unifying vision, the same vision that ronald reagan articulated so well. peace through strength, small government, free enterprise, and traditional values. -- my first political involvement was not until i ran for and won a legislative seat here

good news for the rnc, romney at 49%, the president at 46%. this looks like a good time for republicans, doesn't it? >> well, i mean, it's a good time for republicans, but, you be fortunately for our country, it's a terrible time for people looking for work because we have a president who just doesn't seem to want to engage in what the most obvious problems are in our country. and you laid it out perfectly with just the numbers which is we're dying under an avalanche of debt. we've got a president that's proposed a budget that includes the biggest budget deficit in the history of our country. we've got reel problems in this country, and we're really in a battle for the very idea of america economically so i'm not surprised we have a poll here that shows that basically only 27% of all registered americans believe that this president is doing a good job and only 20% of americans think that he's handling the economy well. with that type of record, this president is not going to get elected and he's not going to get re-elected if he can't put amer

bush and rnc chairman reince priebus. newt gingrich spoke last night and you can watch it now on c- span 3. for more information you can go to c-span.org and what many of the events we cover this weekend also in our video library. >> c-span launched a new easy- to-navigate web site for politics and the presidential race. information on the candidates, twitter feeds and facebook updates and links to c-span media partners in their early primary caucus states. this and us that c-span.org /campaign2012. >> more about 2012 politics and the future of labor unions from this morning's "washington journal." president of the employees international union. the labor chief in this headline from "the washington times" called richard trumka critical of the obama administration's handling of its proposed free trade deal with columbia. guest: we are all concerned by jobs in this country and all of the free trade agreements need to be handled with the concern of how we are protecting workers' rights in the u.s. is an important conversatio

but anthony weiner must resign is a man who is earning his keep tonight, msnbc political analyst and rnc chairman michael steele. please help me out here. >> you don't want me to give you the insight tons leadership that's for sure. i don't think they'd appreciate my views in this. >> dooing they're wrong on this? >> i think you're right. there's a level of inconsistency here to be polite about it. i've always felt very strongly that when you have been blessed with the public trust through the voters of the people and your district and your state you honor that trust every day. and whether your name is vitter or weiner and there's a whole commercial we could probably do on just those two names, the reality of it is in fact, that that trust applies to you, too. the consequences of breaking that trust should be equally applied to you. so i heard what the chairman said today. and i thought it was a little bit not right. you can't look at one case and say, that this dehaifr is -- warpts, you know, dismissal or you should quit. and look at another one that may be a degree or two more agree jo

while the current rnc chair called on dems to pressure weiner to go. >> nancy pelosi needs to do her job and be a leader of her caucus until anthony weiner to really hit the bricks and go home. >> he does a good job, let him do his job. >> reporter: nancy ploes has asked the house ethics committee to investigate. >> if house resources were used in this sexual contact, he could face concerns or problems under the code of conduct of the house. >> reporter: but there are new allegations. tmz reporting weiner had an online relationship with former porn star ginger lee and offered to help her cover it up. >> cameras are showing up, calling her family members, stuff like that. she is upset about it and asking him and he basically says, look, do you have need pr advice? >> reporter: as for weiner's wife, the top hillary clinton aide left tuesday for a seven-day state department trip to africa. kristen dahlgren, nbc news, washington. >>> cal trains service is getting back this afternoon after a person was hit and killed, cal train 133 hit the person near peninsula avenue buff the exact circu

the word in from the rnc moments ago on "america's newsroom." alisyn: an important story to tell you about now. there is an intense search for a 20-year-old missing college student in indiana. she was last seen after a night out with friends, blocks away from her apartment. julie bandaras is following this live. >> reporter: the search for a missing university student, indiana university student it back on today. 20-year-old lauren speerer after she was walking home alone from a bar after a night of partying with her friends. police say they suspect foul play, they searched nearby woods and dumpsters for any sign of the petite college som sophomor. she never made it home and her keys were found a blockade way from her friend's apartment where she was last seen. >> i watched her walk about half a block and didn't watch any further. that was the last person that is saying they saw her. alisyn: hundreds of volunteers spent yesterday searching downtown blooming ton, wooded areas, construction sites and lakes in the area her parents and sister, her o

bush was ahead of the rnc during the nixon administration. was there any connection between the president and they had a of the rnc and how much did the future president know about what was going on inside the white house? guest: he did not know much about what was going on in the white house that that is a great question. there was a story that tried to follow the trail. they discovered that the town house a fair run by roy gleason and how he went and gave money to a candidate and that became leverage until the candidate broke a new low when he took that cache, this is from dick and pat nixon, police and kept those records and receipts so they could prove the money had been given to the candidates and later used for blackmail. that box of receipts was given a gleason to george bush at the head of the cia. lowell weicker contended that bush called him and asked him what to do with these things. that is the sort of thing that in the watergate era would become a big scandal. today, not so much. we were almost trigger happy about any little thin

new media and campaign advertising with former white house senior advisor david axelrod and former rnc chairman ed gillespie and later, the future of media and telecommunications. next, a look at the influence of new media in campaign advertising. you will hear from former without house senior advisor david axelrod who is now heading up president obama a re-election campaign and former rnc chairman ed gillespie. they spoke at the annual convention. cnn chief political correspondent leads this 20-minute discussion. we want to talk turkey and politics. >> some people think they're the same! >> how do you pick where you put your advertising dollars? >> look, it is a simple concept. we are all about targeting. we want to reach people who might vote for us or we need to mobilize at the most cost-effective way. i remember when i started off in this business a long time ago, the late bob squire was a media consultant. bob used to say all the media consultants should put together and put lawrence welk back on the air so we can target senior citizens, and you know, now we have more tools includ

the current rnc chair called on d dems to pressure him. >> reporter: weiner has vowed to stay. a poll taken after he admitted inappropriate relationships online 51% of new yorkers think he should keep his job, 30% say resign. >> he does a good job. >> nancy pelosi asked the house ethics committee to investigate. >> if house resources were used, he could face concerns or problems under the code of conduct in the house. >> reporter: there are new allegations. weiner had an online relationship with former porn star ginger lee and offered to help her cover it up. >> cameras are showing up, calling her family members. she is upset and he says do you need pr advice. >> reporter: more lawmakers advise weiner to resign. >>> here in california governor brown is showing the state he is showing the state he is serious about cutting spending. he made a 44% reduction of state cell phones. brown's office estimated the state would save $13 million if some of the cell phones were retrieved. >> arson investigators are investigating the links to two suspicious fires just blocks from each other a

rnc chairman reince priebus released a statement saying: >> sean: the response from so of the top democrats has been mixed. new york senator schumer came out in defense of his former staffer. saying weiner did the right thing by coming forward with the truth. albeit after 10 days of lying. on the other hand, senate majority leader harry reid was, let's say not so complementry. >> i know congressman weiner. i wish there was some way i can defend him, but i can't. i'm not here to defend weiner. that's all i'm going to say ii >> what advice would you give him if he asked you? >> call somebody else. [ laughing ] >> sean: although prince harry reid may be too much of a partisan to condemn weiner one man is not afraid to give his take. donald trump. watch this. >> anthony weiner is a bad guy. he's a psycho. and when this came out, i was not surprised at all. he's a liar. he should never, ever be allowed to run for office again. what he's done is incredible. and what he's done to his family is truly a shame. >> sean: clearly now the truth is out the media frenzy surrounding the story will continue

next year's presidential election with president obama's campaign strategist david axelrod and former rnc chairman ed gillespie. the convention coverage begins saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> your watch and cspan, bring you politics and public affairs every morning, "washington journal" connecting you with elected officials, policymakers, and journalists. watch live coverage of u.s. house of weekdays and weeknights, policy and supreme court oral arguments. on the weekends, you can see our signature interview programs. you can also watch our programming any time at c- span.org and it is searchable on our cspan video library. cspan, washington your way, a public service credit by america's cable companies. -- created by america's cable companies. >> remarks from the white house national economic council director gene sperling on the debt ceiling and the national debt. he spoke at the committee for responsible federal budget and a new america foundation conference yesterday. we will also hear from former republican senator alan simpson who cochaired the national commission

next year's presidential election with president obama's campaign strategist, david axelrod and former rnc chairman ed gillespie. coverage of the convention begins saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. here is presidential candidate newt gingrich at the republican leadership conference last night in new orleans. this is 40 minutes. >> i want to cut through the challenge we have over the next 80 months. i want to ask some of these questions. how many of you think america is currently on the wrong track? raise your hand if you agree. virtually all of you, right? how many of you believe that washington will fight very hard against to getting back on the right track? think about this. this is the key question about the 2012 campaign. i want to make his case to you. it is very important to defeat president obama but that is not enough. we need to pick up 12 u.s. senate seats -- [applause] and we need to pick up 30-40 seats in the u.s. house -- [applause] and we need to strengthen our position with state legislators and governors and local city councils and county commissions because if

joining me now, former white house communications director anita dunn and ed gillespie, the former rncent george w. bush. welcome you, both. let me start with the economy. 9.1% is not much after platform from which to launch a re-election bid. one can hope that it gets better but i don't think can you go from 9.1% to 6% between now and election time. how do they handle this? >> candy, i think the real issue is whether the economy is moving in the right direction, which given the fact that the president walked in to a situation with the worst economy since the great depression in 1929 and obviously had to, as austan goolsbee said earlier, had to keep it from becoming a great depression, and now we're on the long road back to economic growth and the platform has been put in place for that. i think people are going to be looking to see are we headed in the right direction and more importantly, who really has a plan for the future for making sure that we can win the future in this country. i think that that is, at the end of the day, what people in this country are going to have to decide

and michael steele is the former rnc chairman. gentlemen you are the experts. first here is the news. here is congressman weiner late today. >> last friday night i tweeted a photograph of myself that i intended to send as part after direct message as part of a joke to a woman in seattle. once i realized i posted it to twitter, i panicked, i took it down, and said i had been hacked. i continued with that story, to stick to that story, which is a hugely regrettable mistake. this woman was unwittingly dragged into this and absolutely bears no responsibility. i'm so sorry to have disrupted her life in this way. to be clear, this picture was of me and i sent it. i'm deeply sorry for the pain this caused my wife huma and our family, and my constituents, my friends, supporters and staff. >> howard, what do you make of this? here is a guy who tried every trick in the book to covered it up. he blamed it on breitbart, the conservative blogger. he blamed it on hacking. he blamed it on the media. he did everything he could. he said maybe, maybe, maybe it was me. every game

the head of the rnc, reince priebus, says wiener should resign and today, house majority leader eric captor agreed. >> i don't condone his activity. i think he should resign. >> but i have a message for eric captor. >> the gentleman will sit! the gentleman is correct in sitting! >> look. was what weeper did creepy? yes, of course we all agree to that it was illegal? in my opinion, no if he wound up using you public resources for the could have jury that might change the equation and of course we will have to see about that. but does any of this have anything to do with the congressman's views on taxes or the budget or any other issue? no. remember, he was a principal congressman that led the charge to get health care for our 9/11 responders when the republicans were blocking that bill. so, does it affect what i think of that bill if i knew that congressman weiner was sending out dirty pictures it same time that he was pushing for it? absolutely not. now, it's not just republicans going after wiener unfortunately, as they like to do of course. democrats don't have his back either. eve

she, along with her counterpart, the chairman of the rnc, reince priebus, joins us here exclusively this morning for their first joint television appearance. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> good morning, david. >> congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, let me start with you. >> sure. >> what led to the change? why now call for him to resign? >> well, i think that since this story broke, we were giving congressman weiner some breathing room to be able to be circumspect, do the right thing, make a decision, reach the conclusion that he needed to step back and step down on his own, and as of yesterday when that didn't happen, it was important to weigh in. >> but before his actual admission, you spoke about this during an interview, and this is what you said. >> anthony weiner is dealing with a personal matter and it should be left as a personal matter. >> when did it become less a personal matter and more an issue of public trust? >> that statement, before it had been revealed that anthony had not been truthful and that he was engaged in the conduct that he had been denying at the

the rnc chairman saying that in 2008, pennsylvania went for mr.ama based on his, quote, rhetoric, but that in 2012, it would be based on, quote, results. wolf? >> dan lothian, traveling with the president. thanks very much. >>> to syria now. where one group is reporting at least ten new deaths in a mass outbreak of demonstrations following friday prayers. the europeans condemning the shocking violence that the government in syria is committing against its own people. let's go to damascus right now. cnn's hala gorani is standing by. you've been there a little while. there are restrictions. set the scene for us. what are you seeing in the syrian capital? >> reporter: as you mentioned, restrictions there, wolf. we need to preface this by saying government does accompany us on shoots, that is when we film outside of the hotel we're staying in. today they took us to a small pro-government rally that happened outside of the mosque in old damascus. there you had men who had just come out of the mosque, streaming out after prayer, praising and accusing th

if you read his rnc nominating speeches is all about how we supposedly grew up in a shot gun house.s is the grandson of a senator. this is the picture of american aristocracy who turns himself into this and how does he take down the democrat? flagburning. the image of the supposedly unpatriotic 60s and he turns them into this. that is what it becomes. how does it go in 1992? so now you have got this out of touch president who doesn't even know what a supermarket scanner is, right? versus a guy, and this is kind of on the edge. bill clinton this picture of him on the edge of the 50s right at the pentacle of the jfk camelot situation. george bush tries to turn himself into the fighter pilot from the brand of the 50s. and he uses allegations of burning draft cards in protesting the war to try to make america see bill clinton as this. now granted that is bill clinton. [laughter] in 1996 it plays out again. you have bob dole, a constant washington insider running as a conservative democrat in his tactic is to turn himself back into the 50s. and say that bill clinton is as liberal as the

. >> reporter: the latest call from weiner resignation comes from the rnc chairman. he says his abgs and deseplgs are unacceptable and thaactionso resign. all it takes for a formal investigation to commence in the ethics committee is a referral from a member. we apparently have that from minority leader nancy pelosi. she said in her statement i am deeply disappointed and saddened about this situation for anthony's-huma, his staff and constituents. i am calling for an ethics committee investigation to determine if any resources were used or any violation of house rules occurred. what happens in the ethics committee is secret. it will take its time and we won't hear much about what is happening if it does meet. the panel would issue a report. if it recommends punishment the entire house would vote on whether to punish him. one of the potential liabilities for weiner is as nancy pelosi wants to know, were official resources used? here is what weiner said last night in the press conference about that. >> i'm going to try to tell you everything that i can remember was my

a former rnc chairman will also there. and bob schieffer interviews nancy pelosi and they will take a look at republicans in 2012. -- campaign 2012. it begins at noon eastern with "this week" of nbc. you can listen to them all at c- span radio. you can also look -- listen to satellite radio or on line at c-span.org. >> it was not altogether a compliment, though -- although he regarded it as one. >> republican of thomas reed changed the power structure in the house. >> it overturned a long standing status in the house. >> mr. speaker on c-span q&a. you can down on one of our signature interview programs online at c-span.org/podcasts. and eileen shanahan talks about reporting this weekend on "american history" television. we will also look at american artifacts, the museum resource center and the history of overflowing fidel castro. "washington journal" continues. host: we are talking with the executive to rector of the faith coalition wrapping up his weekend conference here in washington, d.c. the fifth tryout for president

guest: it started with the former chairman of the rnc. karl rove was helpful in the founding it.hey occasionally give us some good advice. there is a very small staff and a tiny little office, and then there are people from across the country who give us amounts of money. both small and large amounts are valued by us. i signed every single thank you note because it matters to me that people care enough to try to help change the country. host: you can join the conversation with steven law from american crossroads. our numbers are -- send us a tweet or e-mail at -- we also have a line for independents. good morning. caller: good morning. i want to find out what american crossroads' position was on the debit card swipe fee being voted on today because it has such a large impact. ,f you don't have a position why not? guest: i was listening to the debate in the previous segment. it was exciting. a lot of very strongly held views on each side. we like to specialize in things that we know about about. one thing we have not become specialists in is in the area of consumer finance. obviou

as well as marsha blackburn, congresswoman from tennessee and the rnc chair reince priebus and former governor of louisiana buddy roemer. that will all be live beginning tonight at 7:30 p.m. on c-span 3. you can watch newt gingrich -- but go to c-span.org if you want the full schedule. youngstown, ohio. daniel is a democrat. what do you think about secretary gate's stain most countries lie to each other? caller: teams like a poker game to me. really a high stakes, high roller. we never see that kind of money. these people know what is in their hands. then we get the chest pains on the side -- other countries -- we are all in this. it is a winner take all. who allies up with whoever. in the end, that is where the allies, in. -- the lies come in. all we have in america is this layman's perspective. i am glad for c-span. host: mechanicsville, virginia. annn on the republican line. caller: i thought i will call in and let you know not only do i support mr. bill gates, all countries to lie to each other. -- do lie to each other. been charged with being an enemy, and in texas. kind of amazi

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leadership conference wraps up with presidential candidates buddy roemer and, marcia blackburn, and the rnc chairman. that is live at 12:50 p.m. eastern here on c-span. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] --2011. >> visit us at c-span.org/c ampaign2012. >> michelle bachman announced that she will be running president next year. during a debate, she along with six other republican presidential confidence -- candidates criticized president obama's handling of the economy. this is the main chance -- manchester, new hampshire. behind me on this stage the republican candidates for president, appearing together on the same stage for the first time tonight. and tonight's debate will be different than any presidential debate you've ever seen. over the course of the next two hours, in addition to questions from myself and journalists from our partners, wmur and the new hampshire union leader, the candidates will take questions directly from voters right here in manchester as well as from voters at town meetings taking place

adviser david axelrod who is now heading up the reelection campaign for president obama and former rncspie. >> we want to reach people who might vote for us but we need to mobilize at the most -- in the most cost-effective way. when i started off in this business a long, long time ago, the late bob squire was a media consultant. he is to save that all the media should get together and put lawrence welk back and the air so we can target senior citizens. now we have more tools including cable television to target. we spent the vast majority of our money last time on broadcast television. we spent about 12% or so on cable. i think we will spend a little more now. there are still some barriers on cable that we need to overcome. >> let me ask what the barriers are. >> you often have to buy in a day parts and you cannot target programming to the degree that you can on broadcast television. there are fewer slots available. if you are buying local cable, in the past, you have not been able to get direct satellite television advertising. can do that at national level but not at the local level.

a presidential candidate and a texas governor, marsha blackburn of tennessee, and the rnc chairman. live coverage on the c-span network. >> blackberry users, you can access our programming at any time. public affairs, and nonfiction books, and public history all for free. you can also listen to our signature programs every week. download it free from blackberry app world. >> house republicans held a news conference today on jobs and the economy blaming the obama administration for the slow financial a cop -- recovery. this is just under 25 minutes. >> good morning, everyone. job creation has been the focus of our new majority. you can check out all of the details at jobs.gop.gov. we want to create growth, the kind of growth that the stimulus promised, but failed. turns out that federal regulators have been hiring at a rate of three times the private sector. taxpayers are footing the bill for more bureaucrats. washington democrats say that the only economy, this is what their economy looks like. we have invited the president to work with us on jobs. he downplayed the unemployment as