. >> rick santorum who is running again, you said huckabee. you have a strong, right wing front there that doesn't want to have anything to do with same-sex marriage. >> hold on. hold on. as the republican here -- >> i would be saying to mike huckabee, if i wanted to win elections in the future, good riddance. >> i think he's right. i think there's no place in the republican party for him. and there's no place in the republican party for that. and i think, you know, it would serve us all well, frankly, from a governing standpoint, if these guys just go away. >> i also just want to make the poent that the people he's speaking to, who they say are going to exit with him, is a very small portion. and they say it's all social conservatives. for social conservatives, i am not one, but knowing them very

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>> rick santorum won 11 out of 30 states with almost no money.t they're sitting there and saying -- >> so you're saying the party is rational? >> i'm not saying that. >> irrational? >> they're stronger on the core convictions of the party itself -- >> the winnability argument -- >> [ all speak at once ] >> somebody's going to win, somebody will lose. hillary has 55% of the vote. >> we have to get back to the major problem with mitt romney. why would he be a better candidate? he lost on some of the bigger issues, demographics, which are still an issue, and can he relate to average people on the economy. >> and that's not going to change either. >> so i don't know why he would be a stronger candidate than a name out of the hat here. >> i think people like people more after they've been beat up a little bit. >> the reason obama became president, hillary clinton was seeing too much of the center and obama beat her, why? i want to know, who did you vote for president? >> i voted for w., the first time. when he said we were going to have a humble farm

senator santorum, former senator santorum at 7% and florida senator marco rubio at 6%. >> since kentucky senator rand paul's stellar showing at the political conference six months ago, senator paul has continued to make waves around the nation. as the 2016 presidential race draws closer two years away, senator paul is centering himself at the heart of republican party politics. and get this. he has reframed traditional libertarianism. he's repute yated his isolationist character. for example, he voted in favor of military action against isis. >> if the vote came to you, would you vote yes or no? >> yes, i would vote yes and i would do it in a heart beat because i think that radical islam, isis is a threat to the united states, a threat to our embassies, to our consulates, to our journalists. >> question, is senator rand paul a libertarian and is he leading libertarians toward the mainstream of politics? >> i think that's a fair assessment. rand paul is not as pure a libertarian as his father ron paul was. rand paul is making accommodations to what's happening. for example, he backed off

but heck, my client, rick santorum, everybody thought he was crazy, he won 11 states and almost got the who would have thought? >> that's a great line. who would have thought we'd be living in a world of ebola and beheadings. the war against isis has reen jazzed the hawks. in an interview, senator lindsey graham is now talking about running for president. quote, if i get through my general election this nfl, if nobody steps up in the presidential mix, if nobody's out there talking, me and mccain have been talking, i may just jump in to make these arguments. he took on marco rubio, painting him as someone frightened of his own party. he's a good guy but after doing immigration with him, we don't need another young guy not quite ready. he's no obama by any means, but he's so afraid of the right. what's the knock on rubio there about? >> i think it's immigration. >> if you had a bet right now, ten bucks. >> rand paul, but keep an eye on, mike pence. >> i'm not making a prediction because i have skin in the game. >> are those unreasonable predictions? >> i think it's so complicated. you hav

you go to santorum's and the supporters looked like meth addicts. they didn't know what was going on. because he shot from the hip. >> remember when bob dole said stop lying about my record which was the beginning of the end of bob dole. he told me he thought this was before the show had begun and he wasn't on the record. >> he was talking to tom brokaw. and he said -- trying to be very convivial, do you have a message about the guy that just beat you? tell him to stop lying about my record. >> we'll make candidates so robotic. >> it's already happening. >> everything will be robotic. >> a fast track, e.j. thank you for this totally exogenous comment, also erogenous. mmm, progressive insurance here. ever since we launched snapshot, my life has been positively cray-cray. what's snapshot, you ask? only a revolutionary tool that can save you big-time. just plug it in, and the better you drive, the more cash you'll stash. switching to progressive can already save ye $500. snapshot could save ye even more. meat maiden! bringeth to me thine spiciest wings

. >> if your rick santorum, for ben carson who is not ever run for office before, to be at 11% as it begin. people are going to look at that. chris christie and jeb bush. they are the establishment favorites. kristi is almost certainly running, and i am hearing more and more that bush is leaning toward running. wire those numbers so low -- why are those numbers so low? >> it is really well known, but not in sync with the iowa party. chris christie is underwater in terms of his favorable and unfavorable. >> it is a huge jump ball. romney is kicking up a lot of space. a lot of excitement about him in iowa as of late. with ben carson and second, he will get a lot of attention. a lot of people do not put him on their poles, and evil will start to include him -- polls, and people will start to include him. >> when we asked voters who shares their values more hillary clinton or elizabeth warren, elizabeth more than doubles her score. >> political police, we invented this question for this poll. failing to be sophisticated and pick the front runner. she is still way behind, but the fact tha

, orc, wnba poll of new hampshire republicans, jindal got only 3% of respondents, tied with rick santorumand falling just short of "no one" at 4%, which i say he can use to his advantage. jindal 2016: no one is more popular! (laughter) (applause) but recently, jindal set out to convince people he's a down-home guy who's learned to stop learning. >> do you personally believe the theory of evolution explains the complex life on earth? >> look, the reality is i was not an evolutionary biologist. >> stephen: yes, the reality is he was not an evolutionary biologist. he just graduated from brown university with an honors degree in biology. (laughter) but come on! nobody uses their college degree in real life. i went to dartmouth but i don't use my degree in -- "diploma withheld due to outstanding library book." (laughter) true story, by the way. and jindal knows what it's like to be handicapped by knowledge, so he wants to make sure others don't have to suffer the same fate. >> i want my kids to be taught about evolution in their school. what i believe as a father and a husband is that local sc

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[applause] ♪ ♪ >> senator rick santorum. thank you, senator.e pioneer of the value voters movement. a leading spokesman for pro-family and pro-growth values, chief domestic policy adviser to president reagan, president of the family research council, a senior vice president of focused on the family. in 2000 he ran for president of the united states of america. today he serves as chairman of campaign for working families dedicated to electing conservative candidates to congress and is president of american values featuring his end of day e-mail briefing which is a must read, by the way, for every value voters. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming to this stage gary bauer. [applause] ♪ >> thank you very much. how nice of you. thank you. appreciate that. i told you this before, reagan once told me if i was ever introduced an understanding of patient i would sit down immediately because i have no where to go but down after that. you have already put me on the spot. thank you for the wonderful introduction. what line did you have to get

and i'm sure any democrat would be delighted if he spends a billion dollars on rick santorum in the nextmary election. but, you know, there's only -- you can make a difference, but there's only so much of a difference you can make. >> okay. why don't we open the floor to questions from the audience. there's a gentleman in the very back with his hand up. so we have a mona will come back to you -- microphone that will come back to you. if you'd like to submit questions, you can do so through hashtag billionaires. >> thank you very much. i'm lauren her scherr. about -- hershey. about 30 years ago, i was a guest scholar here at brookings. >> welcome back. >> thank you. i come back whenever i can. lots of questions i could ask as an attorney who helped to break up at&t, but i want to try and make it easy. i'm a virginian. there's a federal trial in richmond recently, $177,000 bought some favors. will you please comment on that? >> what comment are you -- what -- could you be more specific in -- >> well, i think in about three years there'll be a supreme court called u.s. v., you know, robert

. >> i want him to santorum to run to see who can out-homophobe the other.ked away from his radio show, when he was stealing listeningers from limbaugh. i don't know if he's serious about running or -- >> how successful was his radio show? he was given 200 radio stations. didn't hold a lot of them. >> but he did manage to capitalize -- >> he found out he had a real job, three hours a day, plus preparation, that cuts into your homophobia. >> i think it will. jesus every said a thing against gay people. love one another as i have loved you. huckabee is the anti-christian here. >> he's telling states to ignore the supreme court's decision on same-sex marriage. >> yeah. >> how radical is that? i mean, advocating that courts don't matter. >> you know how the game is played. huckabee is not going to go broke pandering to homophobes. that dwindling demographic in america, god willing, if will die off in our lifetime. i got to see over a generation from people not being able to come out at work to a sitting president endorsing marriage equality. it happened and marr

>> you can look to rick santorum and the strategy rick is an tour rum used in the 2012 election cycle. it baupts enough wasn't enough e primary. look at those who have embraced marriage equality, people like senator portman and others like senator rand paul as people who will be the standard bearers for 2016. >> gregory, thanks for your time. >>> coming up, today i spoke with the woman hope to think the next governor of texas, democrat wen wendy davis. she thinks texas could support the supreme court to take up gay marriage. ♪ americans drink over 13 billion gallons of sugary beverages every year. over-consumption may link to obesity. but there is a better choice. drink more water, filtered by brita. clean, refreshing, nothing is better. you pay your auto insurance premium every month on the dot. you're like the poster child for paying on time. and then one day you tap the bumper of a station wagon. no big deal... until your insurance company jacks up your rates. you freak out. what good is having insurance if you get punished for using it? hey insurance companies, news flash. nobody'

rick perry, rick santorum, chris christie, mike huckabee, bobby jindal, rand paul have all come to iowaultiple times in 2014 alone. paul had the good fortune of being chosen by the chamber of commerce, a powerful gop force to appear in their closing ad. >> if you're a freedom-loving, liberty-loving voter, i urge you to get out and vote for joany earnst this thursday. sometimes it can be testing when they asked him about not his own presidential prospect, but mitt romneyee. >> you'll have to ask him. >> i did. >> unlike eight years ago when barack obama denounced hillary clinton in iowa, she doesn't have much competition for now. >> one of the latest controversies in the senate is that the republican candidate joni ernst abruptly skipped a meeting with the des moines register newspaper editorial board and hillary clinton jumped on that, jake, and she said in iowa you have to be willing to answer tough questions. i'm sure that reporters like you and i and others will rae miemir of that this time next year. >> what did hillary clinton say about the republican candidate joni ernst? >> so in

those numbers, when rick santorum dropped out, our digital department in total was 14 people. our entire campaign was 87. now, i would argue and i have often that republicans underinvest in human capital. i think that that is the detriment of our campaigns. i hope everyone in 2016 that they want to spend more on staff. the challenge is that's easy to say until resources bottom finite. we made it through a primary. our model was going to every state down 8 points, send 2,000 points of television and win every state by ten points. it was rinse and repeat and we did it again and again. to the point that we had to probably cut back on staff. that worked fine when we were communicating with other people who had limited resources. that doesn't work against the president of the united states. when they have hundreds of millions of dollars it's not the greatest tool. you made it through the primary but we're looking up and seeing an incumbent. they weren't meant to make sympathy for us and i felt no sympathy for kerry. for us, we became the nominee and we had five months. you say, oka

you've got rand paul talking about poverty, rick santorum talking about this.e is another branch of the republican party that is tone deaf on these issues, business republicans and christie has proven himself. >> i do think the republicans have come up with a bit of a strategy. not too long ago, scott walker running for re-election in wisconsin was asked about this in a board meeting or something. and he says, i don't want people making the minimum wage, i want them making two, three, four times the minimum wage. ij republicans are trying to say, hey, we don't care about people making money, we want you to be wealthy. two chickens in every pot. >> that's called loving it to death. i'm for more money. >> that's right. and so what he was saying in a much cruder fashion is, what we shouldn't be caring about the minimum wage, we should give everybody a unicorn. >> the media in this country is -- not that it's good all the time, but it does have sort of a regular guy's point of view. because the most people watching are regular people. they get mad about the weather

for president has made a point of cropping up in the hurricane katrina yea state, rick perry, rick santorumcruz, paul ryan, bobby jindal, rand paul has all come to iowa multiple times in 2014 alone, sometimes testing the waters can be treacherous, like when a voter asked rubio, not about his own presidential prospects, but mitt romney's. >> can we convince mit to run? >> i don't know, you seal have to ask him. >> reporter: a lot less chaotic on the democratic side, unlike in 2008 when barack obama trounced hillary clinton in iowa, she doesn't have much competition here for now. but she is throwing herself in to try to help the democrat in this very, very tight senate race here, carol. in fact, she made a point of going after the republican senate candidate joanie ertz for skipping a des moines register editorial board which is something that is traditionally done by candidates as far as we can remember. she said the reason why it's so bad is because candidates here in iowa are required to answer tough questions. carol, you can be sure we'll be reminding her of that maybe this time next year

tax plan, and then and i think february of 2012 he felt like he was backed into a corner by rick santorum, and then like everybody else he felt like he needed a tax plan, and it came back to bite him in the fall because the numbers added up to you either had to raise taxes on the middle class or it had to be a net revenue loss. i think the lesson people take away from that is that mitt romney got too specific on policy and would have done well to be even vaguer. >> they thought through whether they should have a policy agenda and concluded that they should not have one. it left us with a headache. they thought it through. it was not that they had no idea how it would work. they thought the politics of that would be a bad idea. that has to change. the politics of that has to change. >> one thing we have not really talk about this evening is that cultural conservatism is fragile intellectually and also in terms of what appeals to a broad section of america. there are a lot of reasons for that. we always talk about economic policy. we like to wonk out. but young people today grew up well aft

those numbers, when rick santorum dropped out, our digital department in total was 14 people. our entire campaign was 87. now, i would argue and i have often that republicans underinvest in human capital. i think that that is the detriment of our campaigns. i hope everyone in 2016 that they want to spend more on staff. the challenge is that's easy to say until resources bottom finite. we made it through a primary. our model was going to every state down 8 points, send 2,000 points of television and win every state by ten points. it was rinse and repeat and we did it again and again. to the point that we had to probably cut back on staff. that worked fine when we were communicating with other people who had limited resources. that doesn't work against the president of the united states. when they have hundreds of millions of dollars it's not the greatest tool. you made it through the primary but we're looking up and seeing an incumbent. they weren't meant to make sympathy for us and i felt no sympathy for kerry. for us, we became the nominee and we had five months. you say, oka

this includes pennsylvania senator and 2012 presidential candidate rick santorum, sayre sarah palin and also a discussion on marriage. >> thank you very much. this is a great group of people. as you saw from the introduction, the mission of the liberty institute is defend and restore religious freedom back to how the founding fathers meant it to be and i think most of us know those are under attack. the typical person under attack doesn't have the money to hire a legal team so we provide the best in the country when that happens. people ask me how i got involved. back in high school i knew i had gift in analytical speaking and said i should be a pastor or lawyer and people said isn't that a god or satan choice. i went to law school, did well, had wonderful job offers when i got out and i remember thinking what do you want to do? i thought i want to use my legal skills but help pastors and religious freedoms and founding principles. i like to go to siminary sometimes. two weeks later i got a call from two large firms and i said we started donating time to religious freedom and it is hurt

[applause] >>> for senator and presidential candidate rick santorum spoke at this year's value voter summit organized by the family research count. the topic was religious freedom. this is 20 minutes. ♪ >> thank you. thank you very much for the great work that you do at the national organization for marriage and all of you for being here. this is my ninth speech at the value voter summit. that's because there have only been nine summits. [laughter] i told him backstage i would expect an attendant spin for ten years. [laughter] but i come here because as brian said, together we've been out there fighting the battles on these fronts and we've been successful in many respects more than anyone expected on some issues particularly on the life issue that we try to see some dynamic issues of america coming together your position of you position of all of the dignity of human life. i can tell you that important issue for me that i've been out there speaking about for a long time and i've been taking podiums but i've been living. i want to give you regards from from care and in ourselves seve

she said, coming in number two, right behind rick santorum and that sweater vest of his, if you remember 2012, was "the des moines register" and she said it proved local papers can not only survive but thrive. they combine good, old fashioned, shoe leather reporting with an understanding and aptitude for the technical and digital world. when i took the reins of the publisher's job 13 months ago my vision was a very simple one and it's going to be elevated even more. we have to protect the content at all costs. if you are a student editor, if you're in the greenlee school, working for all the media sites, have you to protect that content. it's the life blood of our success. it's a very, very simple form la, all right? i'm just a news guy who came up through the editing ranks but i know how it works. that great content that we produce on all platforms generates a very engaged, passionate audience. it's that passionate audience that wants to align itself with that content. those are the eyeballs of advertisers, the hy-vees, the fairways. they to want align themselves with content. it's impe

holding pattern as we wait for vice president joe biden this morning, former pennsylvania senator rick santorumnk you. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. very kind. thank you very much. thank you, brian. thank you for the great work that you do at the national organization for marriage. and can thank all of you for being here. this is my ninth speech here at value voters summit. it's because there's only been nine value voters summits. [laughter] i told tony backstage that i expect a pin next year like an attendance pin for ten years. [laughter] but i come here because, as brian said, you know, we together have been out there fighting the battles on these fronts. we've been, we've been successful in many respects, much more than, certainly, anyone expected on some issues, particularly on the life issue which you're really starting to see some dramatic and dynamic changes of america coming to the realization of the dignity of all life. i can tell you for me, personally, obviously that's a very important issue for me, one that was not just one that i've been out there speaking about for a

tax plan, and then and i think february of 2012 he felt like he was backed into a corner by rick santorum, and then like everybody else he felt like he needed a tax plan, and it came back to bite him in the fall because the numbers added up to you either had to raise taxes on the middle class or it had to be a net revenue loss. i think the lesson people take away from that is that mitt romney got too specific on policy and would have done well to be even vaguer. >> they thought through whether they should have a policy agenda and concluded that they should not have one. it left us with a headache. they thought it through. it was not that they had no idea how it would work. they thought the politics of that would be a bad idea. that has to change. the politics of that has to change. >> one thing we have not really talk about this evening is that cultural conservatism is fragile intellectually and also in terms of what appeals to a broad section of america. there are a lot of reasons for that. we always talk about economic policy. we like to wonk out. but young people today grew up well aft

tax plan, and then and i think february of 2012 he felt like he was backed into a corner by rick santorumand then like everybody else he felt like he needed a tax plan, and it came back to bite him in the fall because the numbers t e added up to you either had to raise taxes on the middle class or it had to be a net revenue loss. i think the lesson people take away from that is that mitt romney got too specific on policy and would have done welln to be even vaguer. have >> i think the romney campaign e wentr. through a real process i true mitt romney style, thinking whether they should have a policy agenda and concluded that they should not have one. it left us with a headache. t th they thought it through. it was not that they had no ide how it would work. they thought the politics of that would be a bad idea.. that has to change. that calculation has got to change. >> i want to build on somethinge that megan. was talking about, that we haven't talked about this evening, and that is, cultural conservatism is fragile intellectually and also in terms of what appeals to a broad cross-sectio

government has a responsibility and role to play -- >> the question is, before you were santorumed hereng if you're for gay marriage you're for polygamy? and suddenly say republicans have no place in these moral issues? talk about this convenient position. i guess i am just such a convenient guy. this has always been my position. which is i don't want the federal government banning gay marriage. i don't want the federal government accepting it. i still think that marriage, as well as some of these other social issues like abortion, can be left to the states. saying that, i of course manage to offend everybody. this is a very wonderful place to be. i must say, i've offended everybody on left and on the right since 1994. my position actually was more progressive than barack obama's position in 2012 because he was against gay marriage as a matter of course. i'm so open minded, matt, aren't i? it's scary. matt, we love seeing you. >> still ahead, he's one of hollywood's most successful entrepreneurs. nick cannon is moments away. plus, red bull gives you wing, right? right? >> what? yeah. >>

and then, in i think february of 2012 he felt like he was backed into a corner by rick santorum and like everybody else he needed a tax plan with a headline about rate cuts. and it came back to really bite him in the fall because the numbers on it added such that you either had to raise taxes on the middle class, or it had to be a net revenue loss. and i think the lesson people take away from that was that mitt romney got too specific on policy and would have done him well to be even vaguer. >> i think the romney campaign went through an actual process in real mitt romney style of thinking through whether they should have a policy agenda and they concluded that they should not have one. it was a very frustrating process. some of us were involved in it in ways that left us with a headache. they thought it through. it's not like they had no idea how it would work to develop a policy agenda, they thought the politics of that would be a bad idea. that calculation has got to change. >> i want to build on something that megan was talking about which we haven't really talked about this evening

rick perry, rick santorum, mike huckabee, paul ryan.lad to be here. >> sometimes, testing the waters can be treacherous like when a voter -- but about mitt romney's. >> unlike 2008, when barack obama trounced hillary clinton in iowa, she doesn't have much competition here for now. now, the latest controversy for this race is that the republican candidate skipped a meeting with the des moines register editorial board and democrats have been pouncing on her. hillary clinton did very aggressively yesterday saying that when you're in iowa, you have to be willing to answer the tough questions. you can be sure we're going to remind her of that maybe this time next year. >> if she's in the race of course. dana, i love that graphic where you had all the would be candidates popping up as square crows in the corn field. do you think they are helping right now coming in or are they reminders of the establishment? >> that's a great question. i don't think they're hurting because at this point in time, it's about getting out the base and if you are

i was talking with rick santorum last week at the values voters summit.izing republicans, who are trying to move away from the birth control issue and say why would we cede this fight. i think it's interesting that you're seeing rand paul and chris christie staking out the issues that are more centralist or libertarian. whether it comes to legal liesing drugs or birth control. trying to look ahead to preservation in a general election. understanding what the cost is in a primary. >> you see paul sort of relying on his medical expertise here and that sort of provides an out for him. i'm a doctor, an eye doctor, but as a doctor, i understand this is the same pill and this is what it does. i think he may hope there's a little bit of a loophole for him there, where he can make that case, this is a problem for republicans, because nobody is against birth control, very few people. and it always drove republicans crazy, in the 2012 debates when they got depicted that way. but there is gray area of some things where some people see it as birth control and others