senator, we just had mitt romney on.for president said he supported raising the minimum wage because republicans are about good jobs and good wages. this past week rick santorum's come on, former pennsylvania senator, he supports raising the minimum wage. former minnesota governor tim pawlenty also supports raising the minimum wage. where do you stand on those issues? >> i disagree with those folks. agree with a large majority of republicans. joe, i think you understand. we want higher wages. we want better jobs, but we also want more jobs. if the government comes along and issues a fiat and picks an arbitrary number and says you have to pay at least that amount, there's some people at the low end of the skill spectrum, maybe it's a teenager that needs the first opportunity. they won't get the job. this isn't just my theory. the cbo said if we went ahead with the democrat proposed increase, the best estimate is we'd lose half a million jobs in that. >> david gregory? >> senator, i guess a follow-up to that, understanding

also this is one of the weirdest mitt romney things i have seen in a long time. mr. romney is back. a house race in idaho. i can't pledge for sure this is a green screen. it looks like they have dropped him into a pseudo oval office in front of a green screen to create the impression that mitt romney may not be president of the united states of america but he's definitely the president of something. watch this. >> washington spending is out offal control. you can take it from me, the conservative choice for congress is mike simpson. i know because i have seen him in action. >> mitt romney in a not quite oval office. isn't it weird the way they dropped him in there. what's the weird reflection? an oval office with a wall mirror? i don't know. from that quasi presidential position mitt romney is back endorsing in the idaho house race, also the senate candidate who said she would be good in washington because she kas straits pigs and at the last minute mitt romney yesterday jumped in to endorse a candidate running today in the republican primary for the u.s. senate seat in north caroli

mitt romney, i thought we were friends.his morning the former presidential candidate broke with fellow conservatives and basic economics to suggest that raising the minimum wage would be good for the country. why? because we need better outreach to minority voters, he says. i'll remind our viewers that this comes after romney opposed raising the minimum wage in 2012, which came after he supported raising the minimum wage in 2008. now, i don't understand republicans like romney and tim pawlenty and rick santorum, guys i know and respect choosing to abandon principles and ignore simple math in order to seem warm and fuzzy. they know raising the minimum wage will not create jobs. they know it will slow hiring. so what is with the pander, guys? >> well, believe it or not, s.e., i am outraged about the very same thing you are, but i'm actually outraged at you. >> what? >> and all the republicans who are mad at mitt romney and tim pawlenty and rick santorum because they're right. and more than half of the republicans actually agr

romney lost. but that debate lives forever.at position of his that he was so mad about, that position of his lived for a while. when mr. romney ran for president in 2008 he was for the minimum wage and for raising it, and then when mr. romney ran for president again in 2012 he was also for the minimum wage and for raising it. >> i heard haven't you talk about minimum wage on the trail and what your position is? >> my view has been to allow the minimum wage to rise with the cpi or another index and adjust automatically over time. >> you support that as president? >> i've already indicated that. >> that was in january 2012. mr. romney was trying to get the republican nomination for president. the right criticized him for saying that about the minimum wage. "the wall street journal" ran an editorial against him. if mr. romney was going to be the republican nominee, then the right did not want their nominee thinking the minimum wage should go up. and so, bingo, mitt romney decided he no longer believed that. after outcry from the r

mitt romney decided he no longer believed that. look.rom the right, romney reverses stance on minimum wage. and so he did. >> right now there is probably not a need to raise the minimum wage. >> so that was march. he was for it until people scum planed and then he was against. now it turns out he is for it again. >> i, for instance, as you know, i part company with many of the conservatives in my party on the issue of the minimum wage. i think we ought to raise it. frankly our party is all about more jobs, and better pay. and i think, communicating that is, is important to us. >> for people who want to ray the minimum wage, right now, mr. romney's latest position is understandably heartening. a prominent republican who agrees with us. honestly a grain of salt. whether you do not like his position or do look it. just wait a minute. he is due to come around the next time the wind change jes. take support where you can get it, sure. do not mistake agreeing with some one with the impression that that person is an authority on the subject who

>> mitt romney comes off as still very bitter that he lost the election.unseemly for the guy who just lost to talk out about the current administration or the next administration. i think there's an effort on the part of the right to intimidate hillary clinton to get her not to run for president. they go after her in every possible way. even a magazine piece featuring monica lewinsky as something that hillary clinton engineered to get it out of the way -- i don't know why mitt romney thits to keep talking about it. >> he's asked a question and gives a genuine answer. i came to a revelation about this boko haram scandal and the benghazi scandal that's just getting started. i don't think he's going to run. i don't think she's going to be able to withstand the scrutiny of her tenure as secretary of state. it's going to be all the campaign fodder. she's going to have to be fighting this -- if she's having to deal with it now, what do you think it's going to be like when she's the -- >> it's a ploy of the right to get her not to run. >> everyone was so surprise

romney left the meeting incredulous at romney's dictate and back room delivery.omething out of the so ppran sopranos. are you kidding me? this rhymes with what we've also seen about christie's behavior. >> do you remember when there was the whole clamoring in the fall of 2011 for mitt to make a last-minute entry into the race. it was coming from the big money people who had ties to njs in many cases. this is the same crew right now, if you read that article, this is the similar crew right now that in a lot of cases express doubt with -- >> finish with you. christie is too hot to handle, we agree? and jeb bush is too dull? >> and too moderate for ted cruz. >> this leaves them in big trouble. i thought they' been in big trouble for a long time. >> these folks do not want rand paul to bubble up. and they're terrifies that's exactly what's happening. they're casting about for other people. christie doesn't have a chance. jeb bush doesn't have a chance. >> let me give you a republican horror story. rand paul is the nominee. if you're concerned about israel, foreign po

mitt romney lost because people didn't think that he was on their side. republicans are going to be in for i think a it goitougher n november if that they don't right their way for the minimum wage and the pay equity for women, and on a host of issues that they are so radically out of step with middle america. and this is a growing political crisis for them even though the bigger problem is that it is a bigger economic crisis for all of the folks who are essentially suing in the stagnant wages and the lost employment benefits because of the republicans' inability to work with us in the senate. >> if i could end on a more optimistic note, sunday is mother's day, and i want to put up a picture that you tweeted, and what mom loans her car to the 18-year-old son and friends who drive to alaska and back -- mine. that is you on the left, and what is with the spare tire on the roof of the car? >> well, yeah, when you drive through the bumpy roads of alaska and canada, we were told that you had to have a spare tire, and what that picture doesn't show is that we d

would mitt romney be president if mitt romney got his way?hink is terrific, i don't know if you ever saw him. and he's so smart and he has a great story and it would've been so much more exciting. charles: unblushing. [laughter] >> i don't think that mitt romney should have chose this. i think the republican party should've chosen us. >> i tell people that i honestly believe, you know, i think mitt romney could have been president obama. and i thought that romney dropped the ball because he got to comply after winning. i just think what the president has done, he had this opportunity to bring the country together. and it's just heartbreaking two it's because you don't pit americans against one another and that is something that we really need to understand. >> in politics they go way back. >> they have 65 million names. but it feels like people want to think that president obama was a seasoned politician, a community organizer. he's more of a politician than most politicians small-business owner, we are not going to elect someone with $100 mi

mitt romney who said there was probably not a need to raise minimum wage now says it should go up. >> i, for instance, as you know, part company with many conservatives on the issue of minimum wage. i think we ought to raise it. frankly, our party is all about more jobs and better pay. >> romney isn't the only one embracing wage hike. fred de luca, founder of subway, the biggest fast food chain, said he was not concerned about hike in minimum wage. over the years i have seen so many of these wage increases. i think it is normal. it won't have a negative impact. that's what i tell my workers. the former nominee for president and ceo of the largest fast food chain came out in support of raising minimum wage. republicans in congress simply aren't listening and seemingly do not care. last week, senate republicans filibustered a bill to raise minimum wage. this week they're spending their time doing what? putting together a brand new benghazi select committee. today, speaker john boehner tweed out. no word on minimum wage vote. while republicans may be out of touch with the american people

if the establishment comes argue. >> what do you think about another mitt romney run?a scheming. what the state wants to do that could have voters paying more. but first -- we need it right away! we cannot let the fans down. don't worry! the united states postal service will get it there on time with priority mail flat rate shipping. our priority has always been saving the day. because our priority... amazing! ...is you! the amazing spider-man 2 delivered by the united states postal service. >>> all right. companies are getting the urge to merge. bayer announcing a new deal with merck worth more than $14 billion. shares of merck falling more than 2.5% today but roughly half a trajectory dollars worth of deals in the works this year alone. time to whoop it up or hunker down? to charlie and melissa. >> i mean normally when you see a deal it's the sign of a stronger economy, they're willing to part with cash, acquire someone else but you have to drill down on the details. you look at bayer and merck, this could have been about paying less taxes. merck moved to by domicile

the country clearly has no big clamor for mitt romney.hat he did do was he sort of signaled who he thought would fill that assistanter rice space you like to talk about. he talked about paul ryan, his running mate in 2012. he talked about rob portman, he talked about mike pence, the governor from indiana. he talked about scott walker. he laid out a whole list of people he said would basically match hip in terms of his views. >> why is he talking? why is he on television? just to promote other people? or is he trying to keep our eye on him? i like kasich, but they're pretty far back on the bench. there isn't anybody sitting on that front step of the republican party right now. >>> i guess he feels like why should he do the proverbial sherm sherman-esque statement and say under no irk ises will i run. but weave already even chris christie implode and jeb dependent get off to a great start either. >> let me just explain my limited role around here. besides genuinely doing the show is history. and beth is pretty much right, except i know a ma

it's not going to help out anyone that he endorses going down the road to say hey mitt romney thinks raising the minimum wage federally is a good idea. i didn't understand why he was going there. >> bob, is he trying to maybe move the party in a direction he thinks it should go? >> maybe. i don't know anybody on that tent on minimum wage who is a republican beside him. >> paw leny are being very specific. >> i stand corrected. >> even your best friend bill o'reilly thinks we should raise the minimum wage. >> a lot of states are tied to the minimum wage, at $7.25 people cannot get out of poverty and they go to bed hungry at night. >> what about the issue of increased regulations is and just in terms of energy costs? we're always going to be chasing the a minimum wage that will never actually solve the problem that bob talks about. >> that's going to remain perpetually insufficient. >> $10.10 is not sufficient. that will work. >> if you raise the minimum wage to $10.10, you are going to eliminate 500,000 people jobs. >> they also said 2 million people will be risen out of poverty. >> s

isn't this a sign he is feeling ever emboldened right now and does it not support mitt romney, one your critics who said president obama miscalculated putin? >> mr. pud putin's presence in crimea is not helpful. the united states does not recognize the illegal annexation of crimea, part of the sovereign nation of ukraine. any effort he engages in that further destabilizes the situation in the rest of ukraine, including in the east and south, is very unhelpful. as you know, kristen, the united states and our partners and allies and europe and g-7 imposed sanctions on russia, raising the cost of the actions that russia has taken to destabilize ukraine and they will rise if they do not keep the commitments they made in geneva when it agreed to work towards stabilizing the situation. >> let me jump in on that point about sanctions. several rounds of sanctions, i believe it's been five so far. do you see any evidence they are having any type of impact president putin said he called his forces back from the border but do you see any sign he's done that? >> we have not seen any sign that russi

i'm really surprised people in the republicans, romney wanting to raise the minimum wage.hat's really anti-poor. i yust don't know why they do it. we all want to raise the wage but not a legal minimum wage. why not have a $30 wage because you have so many people employed and growth is so high. that's what we want. >> art laffer, you might have a future at this economic thing. keep working on it. you'll get somewhere. >> thank you, neil. >> always good to see you. one of the finest minds on this subject. steve case also on this subject. at od, whatever business you're in, that's the business we're in with premium service like one of the best on-time delivery records and a low claims ratio, we do whatever it takes to make your business our business. od. helping the world keep promises. and the award goes to ceramics house. congratulations. thank you. the success of your small business depends on results. go vests! all organic, and there's tons of info on our website. that's why you rely on the best for your business. and verizon delivers the best devices on the best network.

romney was sort of perry-like. but unless you move a little bit to the middle in the general election, you lose the only two candidates who have pushed the tea party off. christie, jeb bush. i don't think another candidate's going to come close to -- >> mitt romney is a creature of the middle and he lost. >> he wasn't. >> john mccain was a creature of the middle and he lost. bob dole was, he lost. >> different america. it is. >> no, senator. >> yes. >> we are one america. >> hey, joe. hey, joe. could you imagine the chuck schumer ads that are going to get run against them? he just endorsed chris christie. >> no. they can push off the tea party. that's true. >> note to self. always book chuck schumer after the white house correspondents dinner because he is loopy and possibly inebriated. >> any republican candidate that pushes off the tea party will not only lose the primary. even if they pass the primary -- you need both sides. >> that's why we're going to win. you can't push off the tea party and win the general.

as far as the mitt romney comment, i find out that mitt romney is a big business guy. he's big business, big government. he went with the romney care. he doesn't see it as a problem for small business. he would rather not have small business. it just competes with big business. they want big government, big business. i'm a small business owner. i never paid the minimum wage. i paid the market rate. i didn't have to have anybody telling me what somebody was worth. if i had a good employee, that came to work every day, did his job, i paid him accordingly. they stayed with me 15 years, some 10 years, some people came in, did dishes, came in part-time, worked, got -- pay they were happy with. i was happy to pay them. the market determined it. and you have a situation where the federal government is trying to decide what the rate should be, the states are all different. i mean, it's a lot different to pay a rate for somebody in north carolina than it is in california, washington, d.c. the minimum wage in those cities are naturally going to go higher with the market because

mitt romney, i know, did not believe president obama was capable of doing for the economy what romneyht it needed, and the president felt if governor romney and the republicans took control of the federal government that things would go in a very negative direction and so you had these three big clashes in the 2012 campaign. as george suggested, when you sit down to try to write about a presidential campaign in real time and to publish it in less than a year after the results. the biggest single challenge is to tell people something that they didn't know. because my day job at the washington post, working with colleagues at the post and every other news organization with now compete with we are telling the story not just in daily and weekly bites, we're telling it in our early bytes and now through twitter and minute bites and by the second, there is acute amount of information that by the time you get through a campaign everybody feels they know. certainly everybody knows the broad outlines of what happened and many people feel they know basically all they want to know about what hap

and the way the republicans are pushing their strategy right now undercuts what mitt romney said. on the minimum wage, his sort of blessing the benghazi irs strategy, the sort of strategy of investigation, the politics of subpoena, that's what they are going to talk about to the extent they can, it's going to be a huge theme. in midterms getting out the base is what it's all about and that's what trey gowdy from the sort of home state of the modern republican party is aiming to do. and people like karl rove -- believe me, romney and rove and whole rest of the establishment are in on this strategy big time. >> right and you say tray gowdy getting out the base there was a fund raising e-mail and it was of course targeted at fund raising for gowdy and others and wasn't from his camp specifically. >> gowdy -- ronan, gowdy has to say, he's the chairman, he's got to say, oh, no, this isn't about politics at all. he's the chairman of this special committee. he can't say that. but everybody else around him is going to say it. >> he made that it's not a circus comment. it's what we would e

cheryl: should mitt romney get an apology? you searching for a perfect date and looking for a job? believe it or not those are two of the biggest challenges that many people are likely to face. now there's an app that draws from experience on the dating scene to help find your dream job. we'll talk with a man that came up with the idea. that is coming up next. >>> next time you want to rush delivery of your lunch, don't be surprised if you see a parachute or two. that will be "off the desk." we'll explain that one when we come right back. ♪ my dad has aor afib.brillation, he has the most common kind... ...it's not caused by a heart valve problem. dad, it says your afib puts you at 5 times greater risk of a stroke. that's why i take my warfarin every day. but it looks like maybe we should ask your doctor about pradaxa. in a clinical trial, pradaxa® (dabigatran etexilate mesylate)... ...was proven superior to warfarin at reducing the risk of stroke. and unlike warfarin, with no regular blood tests or dietary restrictions. hey th

but mitt romney actually won among married women by seven points.ble to win the women because he won among unmarried women by 36 points. 36 points he beat mitt romney by among single women. the unmarried women are growing in numbers. they account for 1 in 4 eligible voters. with marriage rates declining, their clout only figures to grow. the problem for democrats when it comes to midterm elections, unmarried women have not been showing up at the polls. their turnout in 2010 plummeted more than 20 points from the 2018 presidential election. that's a far more dramatic dropoff than among men. our cover story writes, in one very measurable and consequential sense there are two americas. there's the america that votes in presidential elections, which has helped democrats win the p popular vote in five of the last six cycles and then the one that votes more regular ly. eisenberg points out that 127 million voters get to the polls in presidential elections, but only 78 million vote every two years, 50 million fewer. unmarried women make up a critical part

you what he said, plus mitt romney breaks from some in his party on the minimum wage. why he thinks it should bebe raised, when "the five" returns [ male announcer ] hands were made for playing. legs, for crossing. feet...splashing. better things than the joint pain and swelling of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. if you're trying to ma, now may be time to ask about xeljanz. xeljz (tofacitinib) is a small pill, not an injection or infusion, for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. seris, sometimes fatal infections and cancers have happened in patients taking xeljanz. don't start xeljanz if you have any infection, unless ok with your doctor. tears in the stomach or intestines, low bod cell counts and higher liver tes and cholesterol levels have happened. your doctor should perform blood tts before you start and while taking xeljanz, and roinely check certain liver tests. tell your doctor if you have been to a region where certain fungal infections ar

. >> a lot called it the death of romney care. if you read a lot of the press up there, romney care. >> that was the weirdest thing because the exchange in massachusetts had been up and running since 2007 and them trying to convert it to all the requirements of the affordable care act that, in part, was one of the things that was a disaster for that state. oregon, the fbi is investigating the failure of its website. so, i think it shows you that bureaucrats, whether at the federal level or at the state level are just ridiculous and when they're given money, they will spend it recklessly and you get, basically, nothing for something. >> i am not to leap on political patterns here but all these three states run by democratic governors. >> the short list to be president, possibly. i would say this, i had a big debate with austan goolsbee where he said obama care is a private sector solution to our health care crisis. >> what are you guys doing at the conference? >> would you like to know? >> not really. >> just lends credence to your

what mitt romney is attacking hillary clinton about is nigeria. the response to the abduction of 287 young girls. mitt romney is attacking hillary clinton about the abduction of a tragic international situation where 287 young girls were ab ducted in nigeria. he is attacking her and somehow blaming hillary clinton, who is championed women and girls her entire life, not as secretary of state, her entire life. it's a sad and unconscionable estimate by mitt romney, and he should retract it. >> i didn't hear that in the quote you asked about. what mitt romney is saying in the quote we heard is that hillary clinton does not have a strong record as secretary of state. her record as senator is mediocre, that's what shell run on -- she'll run on. >> i have to tell you, if you put the quote in context, the way it was said this past week, was about nigeria, okay. if you listen to the whole quote, it's about nigeria. we can't take a snippet and determine what he's talking about. he was talking about nigeria. >> and bringing hillary clinton's record into ques

even mitt romney, who frequents wolfeboro at his vacation lake home says he should apologize and resignssioner copeland did not respond to our phone calls for comment, but he was apparently listening to the criticism being leveled at his town. in a one-line e-mail to the chairman of the police commission, he simply wrote, "i resign." commission chairman describes a long, emotional meeting with copeland. >> he says, joe, you're a good friend, you screwed up. you got to face it, you got to admit it. made a bad mistake and we've got to move on. end of story. >> reporter: but it may not be the end of the story for everyone. so this is where it happened. the whistle-blower who exposed copeland after overhearing his words in a restaurant has been targeted by menacing calls. >> threats? >> yeah, yeah, i have been getting threats. >> reporter: what are they saying to you? >> some white supremacist things, like you want to just stick to your own kind, threatening to beat me up. >> reporter: that is just one person's concerns. most people here are talking about what's going to happen to the econo

enjoy covering a caucus campaign of mitt romney giveagain. >> you got it.want to go to sam now on the phone. we've talked before. boy, this race, all it's been about is this crazy scandal having to do with the break-in into this nursing home. so let me ask you this -- does mcdaniel still have a chance? >> he still has a chance. like i said before, you know, i've seen his base just really get morin gaue engaged because of this. that's going to help turnout. and if you look at the situation where his base gets out and the cochran base, you know, they're not as excited as the mcdaniel base is about this entire race, and we're starting to see a lot more coming from the cochran campaign, you know, talking about the urgency for his voters to get out and go to the polls more so than what we've seen, you know, in the last few days. so i think that's clearly one thing they're looking at is turn out here is going to favor mcdaniel just as far as an excitement standpoint. >> let me ask you this, this has obviously been a very bitter end to this campaign. if cochran lo

of mitt romney, tired of john mccabe. a lot of conservatives say this is our turn to sort of run the show and push likes of ted cruz. >> then it ends up being, john mccain -- >> seen a lot of bushes already. i don't know. i think we're just starting to get bob warmed up, you know. >> i'm for ted cruz. >> you're going to campaign for him, right? >> ted cruz and palin together would make a hello of a team. >> with that thought, new developments in the firing that has so many folks all fired up. "new york times" axing its first female editor amid reports she sought equal pay. what the paper is saying now plus some of your reaction. >>> the pc police may be at it again. why one parents complaint took fun out of classic song for first-graders, all because of this guy. ♪. h. heartburn.

and the standard bearer of the 53%, mitt romney, check.oining me now is robert costa and jonathan capehart, both from the "washington post." welcome, gentlemen. and robert, how crucial is this race for the establishment here? >> it's a major test for the republican establishment. it's a crowded primary. there are eight candidates. beyond tillis and greg brannon you have also mark harris, a baptist pastor who's been endorsed by former arkansas governor mike huckabee. so this is really a proxy battle for the current state of affairs in the republican party. and it's also a test for jeb bush, not just the establishment but bush himself. ahead of 2016 can he bet well, can he really help a candidate get through a primary? >> yeah. and you talk about that proxy battle and you see that, jonathan. we mentioned karl rove. that doesn't just bring a name that is popular in some republican circles. it brings money. 1 1/2 million from american crossroads, 15 million spent total in this race so far. >> yeah. and the importance of this race is the money

i find it interesting that the press has gone on to romney care. but the big ones. found it interesting that it's not on the presidents, but those that want to be president. >> i think you'll have a lot of finger went in. a lot of things going on, we shouldn't be surprised by any of this. the weight of this was put together, it was a together the right way. and you have to start looking at the regulatory environment. you will have a lot of people looking at fraud or criminal activity in and the bottom line is that it may not matter because that headline story about how many people have signed up, that is what the white house is going to focus on, especially going into the midterm elections. the democrats that are still there. >> these 8 million figures, they are way off. >> we don't know. or we could not tomorrow. the white house has access to the data but hasn't released them because they are embarrassed. >> they're always very sedated. >> we focused on that number, that is what we will focus on. main street america, middle america and they will do that headline nu

mitt romney points out her service to the country, well, he was looking for something positive.n, you could go through some of the things, benghazi, boko haram, we talked about why she never called that group a foreign terrorist organization, arab spring, recent russia. i'm still looking for the other side of the ledger. give me some positives on hillary. >> in all due respect to governor romney, i think that's a bit of baloney. where i come from, it's called, a translation quite briefly, to cover the sky with one hand. it's practically impossible. to say her record is negative is absurd. during her tenure as secretary of state, she did nothing but restore the leadership and good name of the united states across the world, in extremely challenging times. she is correct about that. jennice, are you saying our stature in the world globally is better now than it was four years ago? >> she helped defend our integrity and leadership. they were challenging times. and you cannot blame the challenging times on any one leader or person. and hillary clinton, by no means, made things worse

i mean, mitt romney had a chance on the third foreign policy debate to lay them out on benghazi and romneything. all right? whether it was fear, i don't know, but in this election, other than christie, who i think is shot at this point, i'm shocked that he hasn't made a come back from the bridge thing, but he hasn't. other than christi, t ti, the o aren't confrontational people. >> i don't know about confrontation. you need somebody with a winning personality, somebody americans are comfortable with, someone they won't reject on the basis of personality like romney a capitalist or mccain perceived as too old or too hawkish or those kinds of things. look, you said those motivated to go out this year would support the gop. so what does that tell you? year elections, 2010 and coming up this year where the election is essentially run on ideas and ideology because there is no candidate at the top, we know what happened in 2010. that was a shellacking or not an election, that was a restraining order and we think we know what will happen this year. if you make the case, if you argue the issues, y

mitt romney has been enormously helpful in his endorsement of mike simpson. he jumped out for monica webbe. it's interesting that romney has been so comfortable doing that, being and acknowledging that he's the symbol of the establishment, right, chris? >> i agree with you. and i think for a party that really -- if you say who's the leader of the republican party right now, probably by default it's still romney. >> that's what consultants have noticed, right? when you have to prove somebody is a republican, they had to go grab romney. >> so particularly in a state like idaho, i think he is to the extent there's a party elder or party leader who's visible to the rank and file, it's him. >> '90s flashback, amy, i know you listen to the '90s station all the time on sirius xm, pretty much the only one, so we've got bob barr, marjorie margoleis, they can so 0-2. >> especially when your district looks a little different than it used to. for both of them the districts are different and the issues are a lot different than when they left. the fact that bob barr is see

and that misses romney -- mrs. romney, it was there favorite show -- it was their favorite show. thing they had in common, probably. it is probably because of the conservativeness of the gay couple. and my character is a little more a business guy. i don't know. large spectrum of the country. tavis: because you have been through this once before, and because you put your finger on the pulse that this was going to be hit, what does your crystal ball tell you about how long this show can run successfully? >> i would say eight. we are going into six. it would make sense to go eight. with an outside possibility of a ninth year. think that is probably reasonable guess. fine with me. tavis: let's assume you're had twout when you have -- you have hit gold with two ain'tsful series, you , yougot a work again could've have played for the pittsburgh steelers. unless you are like most athletes, when you get done, i assume you will never have to work again in life, do you still love what you do enough to still want to do it? >> i go back and forth. i have a place in hawaii and sometimes i th

a lot of people are saying this is turning into georgia's romney versus newt with perdue as romney and kingston as newt. >> and in idaho, congressman mike simpson is fighting off a challenge by tea party candidate michael smith. smith has hammered him with ads calling him a liberal and accusing him of scheming to give amnesty to illegal aliens. the club for growth hasn't run a single ad in this race since april. it's not good news for the treat party groups looking for another victory. there's still a fight going on for idaho's top job. for the governor, who first ran on a pledge to tell the feds to butt out of the state is facing a challenge from the right. if you need evidence that otter is a little worried about his job, exhibit a is this week's wild idaho governor's debate that's gone viral. otter reportedly insisted that a couple of perennial candidates, kind of whacky perennial candidates, biker harley brown and the spectacularly bearded wa walt baz had to be involved in the debate and it ended in exactly what otter was looking for, a political circus that's gone wild. >> you hav

here is what he had to say about romney. >> he's just wrong.s wrong with romney care and he's wrong with this. now he's becoming a troublemaker. now he's becoming a divisive force. now he is trying to leave an imprint on the republican party that will contribute to its destruction. >> mark levin is a pretty influential guy. he endorses candidates. >> he's a great guy. >> he said, look, this is destroying the republican party. >> i think governor romney came out in favor of president obama's increase. i'm not in favor of president obama's increase. when i was in the senate and the house, i did vote for minimum wage increases that were incremental, not inflationary. if you look at the cbo report, half a million people would lose their jobs. i'm talking more in the range of a dollar, phasing that in. i think that will create a minimum wage, only 2% of workers are covered by the minimum wage. historically it's between 5% and 7%. >> from a political point of view, there is this sort of intraparty push and pull. some people think there shouldn't be a

from washington but obamacare themselves but now massachusetts the way the media is portraying is romney care not obamacares that is a trifecta. >> that he is what is the thi under flow of all of these. they will all get it in order did the fbi never confirms that they spend $130 million on there website since march. they have signed up not one single person. not one human being. >> but there is a line that crosses from incompetence to criminal behavior. but you just have to go back but the whole point of this program was to help relatives the smallam percentage of americans who were consistently and uninsured. neil: be amended on their behalf and many don't even want it. so what does this mean? so nevada, a georgia especially with these paid enrollees and alabama's. >> looking at for states merrill lynch minnesota and oregon and massachusetts is the blueprint. they're all in trouble with having huge problems going to the federal exchanges all had democratic governors but only two are up for reelection but the political implication with the blue state to get deep republican in there. >>

i mean, mitt romney had a chance on the third foreign policy debate to lay them out on benghazi and romneyright? whether it was fear, i don't know, but in this election, other than christie, who i think is shot at this point, i'm shocked that he hasn't made a come back from the bridge thing, but he hasn't. other than christi, t ti, the o aren't confrontational people. >> i don't know about confrontation. you need somebody with a winning personality, somebody americans are comfortable with, someone they won't reject on the basis of personality like romney a capitalist or mccain perceived as too old or too hawkish or those kinds of things. look, you said those motivated to go out this year would support the gop. so what does that tell you? in the two off year elections, 2010 and coming up this year where the election is essentially run on ideas and ideology because there is no candidate at the top, we know what happened in 2010. that was a shellacking or not an election, that was a restraining order and we think we know what will happen this year. if you make the case, if you argue the issue

. >> here's mitt romney. he can be a gentleman. he's well bred and all of that stuff. here he is base is i cically de the use of killing those four democrats on watch for us, their killing is now fair game to raise money with. here he is saying so on "morning joe." let's watch him. this is mitt romney, the gentleman talking here. >> i think what the republicans have every right to say and is appropriate to say is that if republicans were not in the congress, if republicans did not have a majority in the congress, there would not be an investigation into benghazi and so to say, look, elect republicans so we can have these kinds of investigations is appropriate. >> he doesn't know -- he doesn't know what he's talking about. >> he's talking about raising money. he says it's already -- he's saying, michael and david, if we go out and raise money on this horror out there, then it's fine. >> but factually wrong. there have been eight -- >> michael first. >> there have been eight investigations, two of them were done by the senate on a bipartisan basis. senate is run by democ