we will see a stronger republican candidate as we get to tampa. now, i told you earlier that right now there's no clear winner before tampa, i actually happen to believe that there will be a clear winner before tampa and i doubt that we will have a managed convention and competitive convention on the floor when we get to tampa as republicans. right now there's no clear path and nobody should be muscled out of this race. >> phyllis is in nashville, tennessee. democrats line. welcome. >> caller: thank you. for the good of our country, i have two points. it is incumbent on the american people to allow

here in the tampa area. and it continues to grow, and the result now is our drug treatment systems are taxed to the limits. and our county jails are now becoming taxed to the limits. >> colonel jim frapatera runs the two facilities that make up the tampa jail system. the falkenberg jail has a capacity of 3,000 inmates, and the orient road jail has capacity for 1,700. it's also the site for intake, where men and women are processed into the jail. unlike prison, for all of the inmates convicted, the majority of jail inmates have only be charged with a crime and are awaiting trial for resolution of their cases. but these days, many of them first arrive in a similar state. >> whatever. what is this? >> you're at orient road? >> orient road. >> in hillsborough. >> seeing more and more men and women arrive in a state of opiate withdrawal. not a black issue, a white issue. not a hispanic issue, not an old issue or young issue not a rich issue or a poor issue it crosses all lines. people feel it's okay to eat this s

tampa is the spot. there are a lot of chicks that come from out of down who come here just to dance. when you ask me about my ideal chick, that is her. see, she doesn't have any inhibitions. that's a stripper. that's my stripper. i respect a dancer who's got a mean hustle. some girls just don't have the hustle in them. there's other girls that can hustle. i mean, you can walk in the strip club and they can talk you out of your jeans and your shirt and have you walk to your car in your boxers, you know? >> 205. one man. >> flores isn't likely to meet his ideal woman any time soon. he has been temporarily transferred from state prison to hillsborough county to appeal his sentence in the nearby court. >> flores' case is a 25-year sentence. our policy is is anybody with a 25-year sentence or over gets sent to confinement. while they are running through the court systems we don't want the population to be a training ground for criminals. >> flores received a sentence in part of a deal many which he pled guil

let me set the coordinates for tampa. [beeping sequence] >> goggles engage. oh, my god, i'm here. i'm in tampa. it's so real. and hot. i'm cyberschlitzing. i'm walking into the convention center. oh, the hall is filled with republican celebrities. hello, patricia heaton. hello, major dad. oh, now i'm riding a horse. i'm ride a horse. i'm riding fast, and i'm walking again. good boy. good boy. oh, it's a world where the physical laws don't apply. where's my body? i have a tentacle for hand. and my other hand is a laser cannon and here come the zombies. get behind me, patricia heaton. take that. take that zombie scum. got 'em. oh, now it makes sweet love to me, patricia heaton. don worry. don't worry. i'm not using contraception. [laughter and applause] oh, yes, care, care to join us in a three-way centaur abraham lincoln? yes, yes, it's an open virtual republican convention where anything is possible. wait! they're announcing the nominee. it's... it's... mitt romney. [bleeped]. [cheering and applause] really? come on. i got to get some cheat coats for this thing. in the mean-time,

what happens in tampa in this scenario? newt gingrich is a very powerful man, clearly. >> gingrich would be a powerful man. ron paul would be a potentially powerful man even with 125 delegates. and there would be other people from jeb bush to chris christie that people would be walking around watching them at their every move just to see what happens here. here's the point. this is unlikely. this is a big money state. there's is big conservative base in california. governor christie is on team romney. let's give this back to romney. romney is close to the finish line. okay. but let's do this other scenario. first i want to come back to today. then i want to bring this. if gingrich gets out -- if gingrich gets out -- >> okay. >> if gingrich gets out with -- now, these went to santorum tonight. make these purple. do that. now we're going to move on. i'm going through these. if gingrich gets out, now santorum gets that. i've decide we're generous to santorum. that's our scenario. let's keep going move quickly. he gets louisian

they moved actaeon with a win over tampa bay. -- they moved back in with a win over tampa bay. they tied the game 2-2 in the third period. four minutes left, alex from the right side. the caps take it in overtime. they move into the eighth and final playoff spot in the >> we are looking forward to an early spring. >> let's keep them on hold for a couple of days. this is only part of spring. a big warmup, and little cool down, and some showers mixed in. bywill be back into the 60's monday and tuesday. >> it is called now. >> thank you for joining us. >>

. >>> once a year, tampa, florida undergoes an invasion complete with pirates and blasting cannons. the gasaparilla festival is one of the biggest events of the year, celebrating tampa buck here in past. but when it crosses the line from fantasy to reality there, is a place eight miles outside from downtown more than willing to accommodate offenders. the hillsborough county jail is actually comprised of two sprawling facilities with an average daily population of more than 3500 men and women. >> falkenroad jail has housing for up to 3400 inmates. it takes a little bit to get from one point to another so we utilize the golf carts. >> depending on where i'm going and what my function is if i have to be there in a hurry i use the cart. it's smarter. if i'm going two housing units down i will walk for the exercise. >> four miles away is the orient road facility where up to 1700 inmates can be housed. both facilities are run by a former secret service agent determined to bring the experience he learned guarding a vice president to the job of overseeing thousands of inmates. >> traveling

. >> at the hillsborough county jail in tampa, florida, 24-year-old rookie deputy maurice pressey hasrned to deal with the intimidation factor of his job. >> first day by myself, i'd be lying if i didn't tell you i was nervous. it's 72 on one. >> pressey, who is unarmed during his shifts, is the only deputy locked in a housing unit with 72 inmates. most are not convicted, but are in jail awaiting trial for charges including assault, robbery and murder. >> when you tell people what you do, they say, man, i don't see how you do it. 72 people, you know, all walks of life, that done all types of crime. >> at many jails, officers monitor units like this secured control centers, but at hillsborough county, they spend their shifts on the floor in the open. it's a system known as direct supervision and it has been proven to reduce violence in other problems by allowing deputies to build a rapport with the inmates. >> if you like dealing with people, this is a great place to work. i love dealing with people, that's why my degree is in sociology. >> but pressey and every other deputy in the jai

this is with gingrich in. >> what happens with tampa in this scenario?ular man. >> he's a powerful man. ron paul would be a powerful man even at 150, 125 delegates in this scenario, and there would be other people from jeb bush to sarah palin to chris christie, people walking around watching him with their every move. but here is the point. this is unlikely. this is a big money state. there is a big conservative base in california, but it's a big money state. let's give this back to romney. he's close to the finish line. that's giving santorum california. first, let's bring it back to today. if gingrich gets out, if he gets out -- >> okay, this is fun. >> if gingrich gets out, these went to santorum tonight, all right, we need to make these purple. and we do that. and then now we're going to move on. i'm going to go quickly through these, if gingrich gets out, santorum gets that. we're going to be generous to santorum, that's our sunar you, let's keep going, move quickly. he gets louisiana, let's say, santorum is doing well in the midwest, we'll give him

they are going all the way to tampa.he folks would love to see them step out and we are at the point where we have to ask, are we dividing the conservative vote. if you look at the exit data, we are. santorum is getting the more conservative voters. he is proving to be more of a spoil than he is for romney. >> this surge that we are seeing for san sor um the real deal or will it fate? >> we saw mitt romney had his surge. if he can take this or has the organization f we were discussing earlier, he doesn't even have illinois in four districts. he may not necessarily be able to capitalize in a practical on the ground way. >> he has a lot less money although that can change. if we are talking about santorum and mitt romney is spending a ton of money and the super pac campaigned in illinois. money is an issue, but we learned this is not necessarily decisive. >> that's right. mitt romney will talk about delicate math and that's not inspiring and not ronald reagan. coming out of tonight, we will hear santorum talking about mome

gives you the creeps. [ laughter ] ♪ >>> with an average of 361 days of sunshine per year, life in tampaflorida would seem like paradise. but crime knows no geographical bounds. on any given day, the two sprawling facilities that make up tampa's hillsborough county jail system house 3,000 men and women. >> the hands should be on the wall. >> most only stand accused of crime and are awaiting trial. others are serving short sentences of one year or less. they all begin the incarceration in the intake department. but the crimes range from horrific to petty and everything in between. >> i'm very photogenic. >> reporter: deandre barnes was arrested on charges of cocaine and marijuana possession with intent to tell. he plans to plead not guilty. >> who is that? >> barnes. >> i know you're barnes. go in, sir. welcome back. >> i said i wouldn't come back and i'm back. i let myself down. >> yeah it is still the same. i guess i'll make my bed up. >> though barnes has been arrested half a dozens times, the charges haven't always stuck. he only has one prior conviction for obstructing a law enforcem

is this prolonged fight knock down dragout to tampa? >> of course it's a nightmare. he can't find his own level of discipline running against a guy who went to america's heartland, participated in great american pastime has been campaigning about jobs and economic opportunity and growth in a way important for america. i want to say one thing. michael is right, this is a path forward for him. the question is forward to what? this is the ultimate on insider's baseball. that's what a speaker of the house does. you have to remember, newt gingrich never got elected by a lot of voters. he got elected in one congressional district and one caucus. this is what he loves best. >> all right. we shall continue to watch this. jackie kucinich, michael steele, kiki -- president obama meeting with his british counterpart about the war in afghanistan. how this weekend's deadly rampage could impact drawdown plans. >>> plus, defense secretary leon panetta makes a surprise trip to the war torn region. why soldiers were ordered to drop their guns. bazinet, president of creative digital i

mitt romney will not be the nominee and will not arrive in tampa with the right amount of dels.l be tossed aside after the first vote. >> you know mr. gingrich better than any of us. it's hard for us to get inside the great man's mind. is this really about his anger at what the house and indeetd republicans did to him in 1997 when he was ordered to pay that unprecedented fine of $300,000 and where the house voted 395 to just 28 in favor of him being reprimanded as speaker? is this how he wants to get his revenge by getting to tampa and actually getting is the opportunity to speak at the convention even if it damages the nomination process? >> well, that would be a great story if it was true. first of all, newt wasn't fined $300,000. the committee needed to do something because they spent $300,000 on the investigation. >> sorry, he paid $300,000 and. >> he paid the committee to reimburse the committee. >> and he was reprimanded by the house. >> he was found innocent by the a federal judge and by the irs. >> i thought he was found guilty of ethics issues. >> no, sir, 84 out of 84

how does it work well for him from now until tampa and on to november? what's a good scenario for newt gingrich to come out a winner in this whole process? >> well, the best scenario obviously is that he wins alabama and mississippi. then he gains some momentum from there. as rick santorum -- you can look up his record, but he's not a conservative. i think he gains momentum from there. by the way, the romney campaign has put out all this math where it's impossible for rick santorum or newt gingrich to reach the delegates he's now claiming for himself. while i'll admit it may be improbable, it is also equally improbable, if not impossible, that mitt romney actually gets to the convention with the right number of delegates. if newt gingrich were to drop out and leave the voters with no conservative choice at all, mitt romney would crush rick santorum and he would be our nominee. >> you know, when newt gingrich was speaker of the house and was responsible for getting the debt ceiling passed every year, wasn't that something you have as a reality in your own

typical, says tampa mayor, bob buckworth, who is furious with the irs.appointed you and your sister? >> i don't know. i haven't seen them. as far as i'm concerned they're missing in action. they have not been helpful. they have not been a player. they have not taken responsibility for their side of the enforcement. if anything, you know, we've been banging our heads against their door asking for help and getting nothing in response. the silence has been deafening. >> reporter: is the irs missing in action in tampa? what's your response? >> tho, the irs is not. in fact, we have significantly increased the amount of resources we've devoted to identity theft, which is a heinous crime. >> reporter: just one week after our interview, the irs sent a team to meet with tampa and north miami beach police officials. law enforcement tells us there's a simple solution to curbing much of the fraud. don't allow the refunds to be put on debit cards. why hasn't the irs stopped that? >> not every taxpayer has a bank account. and so the debit cards that are issued by a th

i'm glad i think i have twice as >> i'm going to tampa. >> the three-ring republican circus rolls on. bob shrum and howard dean are here with the latest. >>> mitt romney drops a bomb on women. >> planned parenthood we'll get rid of that. >> a proposed law in arizona says bosses can fire women for taking birth control? katrina vanden heuvel will have reaction. >>> game on in wisconsin. the recall dates are set. now scott walker is complaining he doesn't get paid enough. >> my wife in some ways would love it if i went back to the private sector and made real money. >> john nichols has the latest. >> tonight, another "ed show" exclusive. >> professor ogletree took great pains to hide that. >> the man at the bogus theory, charles ogletree will tell us why he hid the tape of barack obama. >>> good to have you with us tonight, thanks for watching. there is only one thing keeping newt gingrich in the republican presidential race, it's ego. rick santorum pull off a six point win in alabama, a closer race in mississippi, but santorum, he won but never led in any mississippi polls. it was not a

it's impossible. >> chad is still living the salvation army in downtown tampa.s bike ten miles to the jail to see katie again. >> did you go get tested for your hepatitis? >> no. >> no. the reason why because you don't want to get moved out of the pod, huh? >> if i lose -- i don't want to lose my friends. >> if you feel sick at all, you need to go. chances are you already passed the destructive phase, are you scared about the hepatitis? >> i don't know enough about it to be scared. i know jesse had it. that is all i know. >> jesse had a big gut, that wasn't fat, that was his body swelling up because he drank. >> i know that. >> that is what happens. it a horrible death, another reason for us to be clean, you know, just try to live healthier. >> chad hasn't used drugs since his release two weeks ago. and that he made strides in rebuilding his life. >> i got a job today. >> yay, why. >> at denny's, working overnights. the plan is on, going great, two weeks i have been out. i need skid resistant shoes, black shirt to cover my tattoo. i haven't stolen anything i'm n

typical says tampa mayor who is furious with the irs. >> has the irs disappointed you and your city?n them. as far as i'm concerned, they're missing in action. they have not been helpful. they have not been a player. they have not taken responsibility for their side of the enforcement. >> is the irs missing in action in tampa? what's your response? >> no. the irs is not. in fact, we have significantly increased the amount of resources we've devoted to identity theft which is a heinous crime. >> just one week after our interview, the irs sent a team to meet with tampa and north miami beach police officials. law enforcement tells us there's a simple solution to curbing much of the fraud. don't allow the refunds to be put on debit cards. >> why hasn't the irs stopped that? >> not every taxpayer has a bank account. so the debit cards that are iss issued by a third party provider is a legitimate way for taxpayers to get their refund. >> and the fraudsters know time is on their side. the sooner they get some cash. >> it's an underground epidemic. >> are these your cards? >> it is a scary p

while difficult, it's not impossible for somebody to achieve 1144 prior to tampa. >> does that make sense? >> alice is a friend and i respect her opinion. no because you're asking for so many things to happen. in this wacky year we've lived through is it possible? sure. you're asking for the unpledged delegates. many of them are members of congress and the like of that. if they were going to come to senator santorum's way my question would be why haven't they done so already? if he goes into the convention with a lot love momentum, that would change things. they made a huge risk to go down to puerto rico and paid the price for it. polling shows him down 14 points in illinois. if santorum can surprise us in illinois, we can have this conversation. the challenge for santorum or speaker gingrich, they have to start beating governor romney in the places that he is favored like illinois and don't have to just beat him. they have to beat him by a lot to get the delegates. you have to beat him 70-30 or 60-40 to make up the math. is it impossible? no. is it improbable? yes. >> let's talk about th

gingrich said he's going to tampa. it didn't sound like the campaign was all in that scenario. so we'll see. the speak has had the conflicts in the past with campaign aides. but i talked to sheldon addleson, you mentioned the super pac donor. i talked to one of his friends and said i think sheldon has written his least check. after last night if that judgment was accurate it's likely to be more accurate now that rick santorum has won. this is bad night for gingrich. goods night for santorum but because it's bad for gingrich it's bad for mitt romney because it's likely to extend this season even if hit mitt romney ends up as a nominee. >> these were not must-win states but it's the turker t-- soft-pedaling his chances of winning in the deep south. how do you think this goes over with republican party leaders who are already concerned about his appeal to conservative and evangelical voter. are mississippi and alabama a writeoff? or is there disappointment in terms of his viability for this? >> there has to be disappointment, rachel. front runners aren't supposed to finish third.

it is the reason we are going to go tall way to tampa. >> all the way to tampa.ur help. >> so far he has been able to keep it going with help from a billionaire back to his super pac. it is a fact he did not mention when discussing mitt romney during his speech this past week. >> sabut he -- he's -- he can raise money from billionaires. we raise money from middle class people. >> joining me is rick tyler, senior adviser for the pro-gingrich super p kra winning our future and former spokesman for newt gingrich. hey do you. good to see you. >> hey, how are you? >> i'm well. i know it is rude to ask but how much money does the super pac currently have? >> i'm not going say. we had adequate fund. >> adequate funding -- can you give me a ballpark figure? >> no. >> all right. well, can i ask you if it came mostly from ad elliselson? gingrich said 178,000 donors he had thus far, individuals. >> yeah. he's speaking about the campaigns -- speaking about the money that comes into his campaign. our donor base is -- much smaller. the contributions are much larger because we

gingrich said he's going to tampa. it didn't sound like the campaign was all in that scenario. so we'll see. the speak has had the conflicts in the past with campaign aides. but i talked to sheldon addleson, you mentioned the super pac donor. i talked to one of his friends and said i think sheldon has written his least check. after last night if that judgment was accurate it's likely to be more accurate now that rick santorum has won. this is bad night for gingrich. goods night for santorum but because it's bad for gingrich it's bad for mitt romney because it's likely to extend this season even if hit mitt romney ends up as a nominee. >> these were not must-win states but it's the -- he was soft-pedaling his chances of winning in the deep south. how do you think this goes over with republican party leaders who are already concerned about his appeal to conservative and evangelical voter. are mississippi and alabama a writeoff? or is there disappointment in terms of his viability for this? >> there has to be disappointment, rachel. front runners aren't supposed to finish third. y

is the reason we will go all the way to tampa to compete for the nomination.e need in a time of great problems greece solutions. substance requires actually knowing something. -- problems great solutions. substance requires a actually knowing something. virtually everything president obama knows is wrong. ronald reagan used to say it is not what they do not know that is so frightening, it is what they know is wrong. we were told by the u.s. geological survey in the 1990's there was 150 million barrels of recoverable oil in north dakota. this was a period when liberals told us we are about to run out. we have no future. new drilling technology came along. we are now told that in fact as of this last week they believe there are 24 billion barrels of recoverable oil in north dakota alone. that made me feel like i had to change my speech. up until last week i had been saying there was 25 times as much oil as they thought. it turns out the current estimate is there are 160 times -- 16,000% more oil in north dakota and then they thought there was a 1990's. some expe

>> newt gingrich vowing to roll on to tampa. >> i emphasize going to tampa. >> newt vowed to take his fight to tampa in he made it clear he is not getting out. >> gingrich is in this thing until the end. >> what state do you think you can win. >> i don't know yet. >> newt gingrich is swimming in a sea of delusion. >> it is hard for us to get inside of the great man's mind. >> newt craves attention as many of us politics do. >> why is this guy in the race. >> he will have to say more outrageous things to draw attention to himself. >> newt wants to go to the convention come hell or high water. [ laughter ] >> republican voters can't seem to decide who the republican nominee for president should be, so that, of course, leaves republicans wondering, who does god want? after watching romney finish in third, erick erickson wris it is almost like god himself is toying with romney. maybe it is because the romney camp said it would take an act of god for santorum or gingrich to win. god seems like he wants to make it happen. all right. let's look at the big board. according to nbc news, here's