thank you ron reagan, dana millbank.omney from behind. >>> let me finish tonight on this, this attack on mitt romney from behind is the most exciting thing to happen in this election. imagine if democrats started attacking president obama as a kenyan? what if a couple democrats started blasting barack obama for being some socialist from europe trying to bring this country down with the welfare system they have over there. well, imagine if it were a democrat or a couple of them going after their own man for being a disciple of saul linske. you wonder why the protecters of mitt romney are getting out there, raising bloody murder over newt gingrich and rick perry and what they're saying this is why. they're feeling as scared as a democrat would feel if one of their own were throwing these attacks out at obama. nothing spooks the herd more than when one of their own speaks out and saying what's being done is not the right way at all. the fight between the democrats and republicans, a couple big time republican candidates are

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and ron reagan is author of "my father." i want to start with patrick.begin what we call the kick, has he begun his kick? the part where you really try to put it on? >> chris, we have a ways to go. it's definitely been a good week for our president. while newt gingrich has been off orbiting the moon and mitt romney is content with orbiting the truth, barack obama has been having an honest conversation with the american people about the economy we have to built, built on american manufacturing, clean energy, enhancing the skills of all of our workers and also reinstituting this basic sense of american -- the american value that if you work hard, play by the rules, you are going to get rewarded in this society and have economic security for a time to come. it's been a good week. you saw the great energetic crowds in michigan, in nevada where the president -- >> yeah, that's all official. patrick, that's all good. i accept all of that. what about you as a political guy watching this thing. when you are watching these debates, what is your feelings about it

ron reagan is here and dana milbank. unnerved mitt romney on o the issue of illegal immigration. listen closely at the end of this when romney calls out for a lifeline. >> and mitt, you lose all of your standing from my p perspective, because you hired illegals in your home and you knew about it for a year. the idea that you stand here before us and talk about that you're strong on immigration is on the height of hi pock ra si. >> i don't think i have ever hired an illegal in my life. i'm looking forward to finding your facts on that. >> i'll tell you what the facts are. you -- >> i'm speaking. >> it's time for you to tell the truth. >> you get 30 seconds. this is the way the rules work. >> the american people want the truth. >> i get to respond. >> anderson. >> anderson. what do you make of that? dana first. >> i've started transcribing in my columns the ha, ha, ha that romney says. it means, i am attempting humor now. we have seen this before. it's like the al gore problem that romney gives many outward impressions he'

let's go to ron reagan. it's great to have you on. again, i go back to the question.rew sullivan has been a rock 'em sock 'em job of pointing out the historic advances of this president in a way that even the white house hasn't been able to do. >> yeah. it's true. they need to do a better job of that. as you ran down that list, i was struck things for people on the left and things on the right. so it's a broad list of accomplishments there. but back to the $6 million that the koch brothers are going to drop on obama's head accusing him of being a gangster-style president running a pay to play government. let's forget the irony of the koch brothers being angry at somebody for subsidizing energy. the government has been subsidizing them for a long time. here's my question. if this is true of president obama, if he's running a pay to play government, why are you spending all this money on ads? why don't you just pay him? because apparently he'd do whatever you asked him to do. but i guess it doesn't quite work that way. >> the concern i have, and this is as a citizen and

two conservatives, ron reagan, head of the reagan nation, and son of ronald reagan. and andrew breitbart. andrew breitbart, let me start with you. who are you endorsing right now? >> nobody. the interesting thing about what's happening right now is that a lot of the momentum that was built up in the conservative movement over the last three years by the tea party has been utterly destroyed. there's not a candidate out there that is the tea party's first, second, third, or fourth choice. what you have here is a fait accompli. the republican establishment has taken control of the republican party, and you have the predictability of mitt romney running just perfectly. david axelrod has helped create an organized left and occupy movement that is perfectly situated to attack mitt romney's record with bain capital. the only person who can beat barack obama at this point is barack obama himself. >> you say that, but mitt romney had played a very good campaign so far. he's the first republican, not a sitting president, to win in iowa and new hampshire. what more could he be

patrick come back, ron reagan, that is "hardball" thank you for being a good week for the president. the "the ed show" starts right now. >>> good evening, americans, welcome to "the ed show" live from minneapolis. >>> president obama is destroying republican lies about his record. polls are showing americans across are country are not buying the spin from the righties. this is "the ed show," let's get to work. >>> i have always voted for a republican any time there was a republican on the ballot. >> romney said he's always voted republican when he had the opportunity. >> republicans are attacking each other in florida. the president is attacking unemployment in michigan. >> if there is anybody in america who can teach us how to bring back manufacturing, it is the great state of michigan. >> tonight, congressman tim ryan on the strong new numbers for america's recovery. >>> jonathan cohn of the new republic on the message the president needs to send. >> if we can't trust what mitt romney says about his own record, how can we trust him on anything? >> mitt romney is basically lying his

ron reagan. that's "hardball." a good week for the president. maybe one of his best. "politics nation" with al sharpton starts right now. >> welcome to "politics nation." i'm al sharpton. tonight's lead -- the gop race is turning into a demolition derby. and while the candidates on the right run each other over, president obama is able to focus on his message -- fairness. >> we're going to push hard for the buffett rule. we're going to push hard to make sure millionaires -- somebody making over a million dollars a year isn't getting tax breaks and subsidies that they don't need. not out of envy but out of a sense of fairness and a sense of mutual responsibility and a sense of commitment to this country's future. that's what we're fighting for. and the american people understand that. >> that's one vision. and last night, we saw the other side's vision. during the debate in florida. if you trust the headlines, willard mitt romney won that latest battle. but i'll tell you what. he could be setting himself up to lose the war. the general election. he's gone to the far ri

. >> let me get back to ron reagan, i think the candidates especially the president are so well advisedther than pounding of the lecturn. it comes across so well, doesn't he? >> he does. he comes across as he often does as the grown-up in the room. i know the republicans want to paint him as the difficult vice i have figure here, divisive, look at the candidates in the lead. what can be more difficuvisivfv that? >> i'll tee this up for you. the fact newt gingrich has done so well he may be out of this in two or three weeks, in it for a while now, the fact that he can sell as a front-runner, with the republican electorate tells you how angry they are, how over the top they are in their anger, to the point they can't think right. newt can't possibly be president. can he? by any standard. >> well, clearly, i expect barack obama will continue to be president after the november election, but let's be real with one another, chris. the fact that newt gingrich, rick santorum, michele bachmann, he hermam cain thought they were vietable. folks on that side realize not only is he disavowing what h

in 1984 i voted for something called gasohol, which ron reagan signed as part of our national energy program. in 1986, it had been renamed ethanol, and i signed it again. in 1998, when big oil tried to kill it, chuck grassley said i was the one person who saved ethanol from being killed by big oil. the reason is simple. if i have to choose between paying $1 billion to iraq or $1 billion to iowa, i will pick iowa every time. [applause] and if i have to choose between spending $1 billion on saudi arabia or south dakota, i will pick s.d. every time. that is how i would start the economy moving again. yes, ma'am? >> our president does not do these things by himself. we do not elect just the president or it -- but a presidential team. can you give examples on who will be on your team? >> actually, it is deeper than that. we need to run a republican team campaign next fall because we need to pick up the senate by a big margin and gain seats in the house come and do so with an agenda so people understand going into office in january, 2013, that the american people expect us to get things do

newt gingrich's campaign with ron ronald reagan's son on a radio show. and he claims that nancy reag reagan -- she said just as berry gave the torch to ronny, berry has passed on the torch to newt. >> i am being told that he is taking nancy reagan's comments out of context. this was the original tape, what he was referring to just then and this is nancy reagan back in 1995, she was talking about newt and the entire republican congress. watch this. >> the dramatic movement of 1995 is an out growth of a much earlier crusade that goes back half a century. berry goldwater handed the torch to ronny and in turn ronny turned that torch to newt and to are republican members of congress to keep that dream alive. >> al, this in fact, this speech that she gave i'm told was written for her. and it was speaking about the congress not just newt gingrich. and you have done a lot of reporting, you talked to the best of the reagan biographers and the fact is this is not the relationship that existed between ronald reagan and newt gingrich. >> andrea, the former speaker m

interestingl he didn't take much of either margaret tlacher or ron ol reagan rses why? >> because hes a utopian and thought that ol politics was necessarily a compromise. and inevitly, therefore, he was flattered. but at the same time he said don't blame me for anything they do. because they're not doing it so-- . >> rose: so chris hitchins died, a front-page story in the no times, someone i loved having on the program for all the obvious reasons, he was a great conservationa conservationalist. how do you remember him? >> i have no christopher for 40 years, maybe. and i was a part of a group of young journalists and writers who were brought up together, as young men in our -- by a man called-- howard who was a great editor of the news magazines. he had no children of his own and we were brought up as tony's lost bars, am moss, barns, many, many people. and therefore i had this strange sort of frat ent which hi with hitch which meant that actually he could never allow me to disagree with him, you know. as much as i wanted to have a fight with him he was always very sort

because you see, what we need is a candidate in the likeness and image of a ron nall reagan who has the bold differences necessary to take on a barack obama. what we need is a fearless conservative, one with no compromises on their record, on spending, on health care, on crony capitalism, on defending america, on standing with our ally israel. on securing our border from illegal immigrants or on defending innocent unborn life or protecting marriage between one man and one woman. if anyone is confused, so we can defeat barack obama and his failed socialist policies, i believe that i am that true conservative who can and who will defeat barack obama in 2012. and over the next few days just be prepared. the pundits and the press will again try to pick the nominee based on tonight's results but there are many more chapters to be written on the path to our party's nomination. and i prefer to let the people of the country decide who will represent us. and, of course, i'm very deeply grateful to our iowa team to the many dedicated volunteers who have given so much of their time to this effort.

reagan? >>guest: let me tell you ron, i knew ronald reagan, newt is no ronald reagan. >>neil: so you don't think lightning strikes twice there. half the ballots in florida are already in because so many vote absentee, so, it might not be our best chance to gauge newt gingrich's firepower. >>guest: no, he is crossing a -- causing a real stir. and the advertising will get tougher and meaner, you will not be able to look in television in florida without seeing someone attacked and beaten. >>neil: we saw that in iowa and until numb but it will be in overdrive. >>guest: in south carolina where the fact that romney is a mormon, that had a factor and wait until they start picking on him. it will be a war. and --. >>neil: all wars spend they have to rally around the winner, and you are saying sometimes grudgingly. >>guest: but the casualties. the casualties. >>neil: now, it is not just the candidates going at each other but a major union taking aim at romney in florida with $1 million ad campaigning attacking his business career. and my guest says that could help mitt romney.

i got the biggest support the we've seen among republicans, even including ron reagan -- that far backam pleased that i'll be back to connect well with our republican race. -- base. we have to take my word for the facts. i will point out they are accurate. the members of his own team. his conditional team, after his four years of leadership, they moved to replace him. they also took a boat and 80% of republicans of voted to reprimand the speaker. he did this time -- he did resign in disgrace. this is the first time in american history that a speaker of the house has resigned from the house. that was the judgment rendered by his own people as to his leadership. do not forget, at the end of the speaker's term as speaker, his approval rating was down to 80%. we suffered historic losses after his four years in office. we just learned today that his contract with freddie mac was provided by the lobbyist at freddie mac. i do not think a possibly retake the white house if the person leading the party was working for the chief lobbyist at freddie mac. they're paying speaker gingrich 1,000,006

that's something ron paul's been passionate about since the reagan years. it was interesting talking to ron paul supporters. you know how they are, they're passionate. ron paul or nobody. but when i pushed really hard, maybe then newt. >> well, one of the -- it's a fact of life, ron paul's going to get a significant vote. and it's a fact of life that you want to find something that would give him a strong reason not to consider a third party and so, you've got to say, okay, under what circumstance, he has a legitimate role. he's earned that by running a very formidable campaign. you want to find something that you could find something to do. >> one final question and this is just, i had reached out on twitter. i had asked for questions for you. they were questions about a lot of different things, but the main question was about last night. it was about what you had said in 1998, talking to your pack. april 22nd, you said i will never again as long as i am speaker make a speech without commenting on this topic. there is a -- president clinton about that and n

ron ad reagan's, 27221 times.e, the man more responsible than any other for the mess we find ourselves in, george w. bush, has been only name checked 56 times. a tenth as much as president obama. winter weather has come to much of the u.s. you should know most of the country will experience abnormally warm weather next week. temperatures 6 to 10 degrees above normal in the eastern u.s. during what's usually the coldest month of the year. you should know the evidence of a warming planet is all around us if you look. you should also know more than half of the weather reporters don't accept the science on man-made climate change and 27% think global warm sing a scam. according to a study done by george mason university in 2010. you should know a new campaign called forecast the facts is petitioning the american meteorological society to vote next week for a strong climate change statement that confirm it is science of climate clang. you should know our chuck rich graphic of a matchup between famously hard to kill hor

believing in reagan's message of smaller government, and lower taxes. >> the ron paul political ad, and the candidate is back with me now. the reagan factor is very alive and kicking here. because it's quite clear, a lot of conservatives are looking for a reagan-esque figure. i come back again to i guess what your problem is in terms of perception, is that your enemies out there always position you as slightly crazy. and therefore, not presidential. not somebody who could actually win against, say, barack obama. how do you deal with that? now it's getting serious, and you see the poll numbers. maybe you hope to win in iowa, you didn't. you're coming in second perhaps in new hampshire. but you won't win there. how do you change perception to make people believe you could seriously be president? >> well, you know, i get a charge out of this when they say these views are extreme and i wouldn't be elected. i've been elected 12 times in my district. and age is a relative factor. you know, besides, you're not allowed to discriminate against age. if i have good ideas and in good health and app

gingrich dice que es la mejor opciÓn porque es un conservador como reagan y romney es un moderado de massachusetts. gingrich, ronque i new hampshire no serÁ facil. ponen esperanza en carolina del sur. talked que romney 15 dÍas antes trataba de conquistar. >>> romney trata de mantenerse un paso adelante de de los adversarios carolina del sur es muy diferente que new hampshire el 97% de los votantes son conservadores y ahÍ es donde gingrich, santorum y romney. se estÁn jugando todo en 5 dÍas. >>> noticiero telemundo estarÁ ahÍ y algunas cosas ¿que especÍficamente estÁn pidiendo los votantes republicanos en new hampshire? ¿cuÁles son los temas primordiales para ellos?. >>> la economÍa, el dÉficit, new hampshire hay un Índice desempleo menor que en el resto de estados unidos pero el republicano en ni mam chairo es un republicano mÁs educado que estÁ preocupado por la economÍa a nivel nacional. con el dÉficit, la deuda a nivel nacional y quieren que alguien le gane a barack obama. >>> eso es para los republicanos es prioridad y que interesante. vemos ahora las campaÑas que se estÁn lanzando en estos 5 dÍas que quedan

would get rid of the tax code, go to two rates, 10% and 28%. 28% is the top rate established by ron reagan. five deductions -- health care, housing, pensions, children come and charities. a simple code and put in place to be able to support those who need support with health care. yes, ma'am. >> if you get elected [unintelligible] getting rid of some of them federal regulations. made in america is an import label i look for. my question is, what was your issue with nlb going after boeing? >> you just heard about obama appointing three directors of nlrb.p the let me address manufacturing and nlrb related to boeing. obama appointed these individuals which i believe is wrong. we did not allow in the senate -- we insist the senate not adjourn for more than two weeks, some period of days because if you add jauron for that period of time, during the recess of the senate, the president can appoint people on a recess appointment. it is allowed under the rules strict because we knew there were people out there for this consumer product safety commission that was created by -- consumer financial ser

that's something ron paul has been passionate about, back since the reagan years, and it was interesting talking about ron paul supporters. they are passionate. ron paul or nobody. but when i pushed hard, maybe then newt. >> well, one -- it's a fact of life, ron paul is going to get a significant vote. it's a fact of life that you want to find something that will give him a strong reason not to consider a third party, and then you have to say, okay, under what circumstance. he has a legitimate role. he's earned that by running an adequate campaign, and you want to find something we're adequately compatible on. >> one final question, i reached out on twitter today, social media, and i asked for questions for you. there were questions about a lot of things, but the main question was about last night, and it was about what you had said in 1998, talking to april 22nd, referring to the monica lewinsky scandal, i will never again as a speaker make a speech without commenting on this topic. there's a perception that has been hypocritical because you were so hard on clinton and. >> what was the