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>> our guests this week is tim pawlenti, former governor of minnesota, onetime presidential hopeful, co-chair of the mitt romney's presidential campaign and now the new president and ceo of the financial roundtable. >> i am delighted to be here. >> it is great to see you. you have now been at the financial services roundtable for a few weeks. what are you hearing from some of your members about the upcoming fiscal cliff? is there optimism or are you sensing there is a sense of alarm? guest: members are concerned about the fiscal cliff. the cbo said if it is not sold -- salt i timely management, they said unemployment would go up. business leaders and people across the country want this problem solved. >> the issues we are talking about are the same issues we have seen over the last couple of years between this congress and the white house over taxes and spending. it is more or less the same debate. is there anything different at this point? as the election change the calculation? guest: it is discussions with a deadline so that is the difference. we actually have a hard deadline and

we now have a very moderate mitt could they have done better with a tim pawlenty.se? >> they could have done better with a jon huntsman. that highlight reel you showed is easier to enjoy in retrospect than at the time when you thought good lord our country may be in trouble here. but sure, i don't think they could have actually done any better than romney. because romney, what romney had that none of them except maybe huntsman had, is that you could project -- could just project on him any belief you wanted to and the fact that he was a flip flopper was his greatest strength and that's what he showedp he showed since the first debate. >> tim pawlenty and jon huntsman having too much i guess core belief in anything at all to act as a blank screen. >> pawlenty is so terminally dull. he makes romney look like springsteen. >> well, that is quite a statement. >> wow. >> i didn't think it's -- i don't think the choice of character was really that problem this time around. it's not that their profile didn't fit. they need a nominee next time around who can lead this party

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that's longer than the entire tim pawlenty campaign. >> i wrote the book in lew, actually, of running for president myself. i was just trying to contribute a few thoughts without-- without taking that on. >> stephen: you know what this book reminded me of? >> i'm afraid to ask, but what. (laughter) >> stephen: reminds me of my book, america again. saving america, america again. rebecome the greatness we never weren't. you know what, on amazon people who buy this book often buy this book too. i'll endorse your book if you will endorse mine. >> done. >> stephen: ready? go buy his book. >> my wholehearted endorsement for this epic work. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: well, tell you what, governor, we are going to take a little break. stick around for a couple of minutes when you come back, all right. >> and if i said no. >> stephen: i would lock the door. >> yeah, okay. >> stephen: well answer right back. with governor mitch daniels. thank you sop much. >> stephen: welcome back. we're here with governor mitch daniels with his new book, keeping the rep eck, all right, governor daniels,

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we are back after talkin to governor tim pawlenty who is now the ceo of the financial roundtable. he represents the financial sector but this week, the president met with business leaders as part of his crafting of the fiscal clip deliberation. what were the message is the two exchanged? what did the president have to say to the business community and what was their message back to him? >> the message is fairly similar on both sides. the business has been very productive getting the message out to congress. they're concerned about the impact of the fiscal cliff and they want them to deal with the deficit but they don't want it done in a dramatic fashion. the president and members of congress have been consistent as well. when you have the business community and the white house getting together, the business community continues to hammer this message of needing to do something. i think the white house wants to get more ave buy in . they want to have additional leverage. host: there a generalized message about taxes? >> that underscores that this is not just an issue where one party

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mitt romney is an exception and perceived to be a credible front-runner of 2012 and tim pawlenty. >>xperience of '08? >> yeah. my point is -- >> traction. >> we project forward based on who's the luminaries now. it often is someone we're not looking at under current dynamics and doing 18 or 19 i guess the likelihood of one of the 20 the people -- >> primaries again. now let's talk about the fiscal cliff and house and senate leaders expected to meet with the president next week and hopefully negotiations will continue. staffers reportedly have made little progress over the last week. politico is writing this saying that the gop's opening offer, the sources said would freeze the bush era tax rates, change the inflation can clated for entitlement programs, keep the estate tate at 2012 levels and overhaul of the tax code and not provide a revenue target. martin, if this is the starting point, if that's the starting point -- are republicans as serious about compromise as they claim? >> that offer's like the sticker price at a car dealership. >> with room. >> you know you won't pay that an

and late today, romney's former national co-chairman tim pawlenty joined the chorus, kicking the formerernor to the curb. >> i don't think it's a matter of people looking at the election and saying i'm going to vote because of, you know gifts. i think they looked at it and said which one of these candidates would they prefer because leadership considerations and also can understand their needs the best. i don't think it's as simple as saying the president gave out gifts. i just don't think it's that simple. there's a lot more to it than that. >> so now of the biggest names in the gop have condemned romney's comments, including a bunch of his former pals and some folks who may try to run for president in 2016. these republicans have seen the writing on the wall. and are practically shoving mitt romney off the public stage. joining me now is melissa harris-perry host of the melissa harris-perry show here on msnbc and margie oh marrow. democratic strategies. thank you both for joining me tonight. >> absolutely. >> melissa, the romney comments have managed to doll what nothing else has, uni

straw poll, it's the first organizational test and it's also something that we candidates, think tim pawlenty, he dropped out after that because he had made such a big deal of it. if the candidates want to participate, then they will. the other historical point on this is that it's not a great predictor of who wins the caucuses but, until last time around where michele bachmann and ron paul finished first and second, it had been the case that since 1980 when they started this, that the top two, one of the top two finishers, did go on to win the straw poll, so it was a bit of an indicator, although the top person didn't necessarily go through. >> to some degree almost a microcosm of this fight within the gop between the establishment and the grassroots, sort of the establishment saying these things aren't going to work because the grassroots can manipulate them to their benefit. let's talk about who seems to be throwing their hat in there. some interesting comments from jeb bush jr., the son of jeb bush, former governor of florida, and rand paul. let's play this and we'll get you on the other

it's not tim pawlenty dropshot right after the audio what caucuses and then michele bachman dropshot and new gingrich can you are left with a sort of one person left standing. it's not about picking a winner. it's about picking losers. this is not the person, this is not the person. and finally you get the last person standing. the process of elimination. >> host: which is consistent in better organization it tends to be. >> it is a simplified version of reality that i think you used to build the theories that are simple and then you make them more complex but if you take say gee so they're famous for the way they choose leaders. we always tell our students g is a company that works in practice but not in theory. it doesn't seem to do any of the things that we say it should do but it is successful. and if you have the competency, it seems to be that it's good at picking leaders committed the living and training managers. so she spent ten years of lifting of the people when the organization and promoting them and evaluating them over and over again. so at the end of the day you have t

tim pawlenty drops out and then michele bachmann drops out and then newt gingrich drops out and eventually you are left with the last person standing. it's not about picking a winner. it's about picking losers. this is not the 1 -- person and finally gets the last person standing. >> host: a process of elimination, which is consistent in whatever organization it is. >> guest: i think it is in the sense that it's a simplified version of reality, that i think you used to build very. theory star simple and you make a more complex but if you take ge. ge is famous for the way it chooses leaders. we always tell her students, ge is the company that works in practice but not in theory. it doesn't seem to do anything as we say it should do but it is profitable and successful. if you had to pick ge's core competency it seems to be it's good at picking leaders and developing managers in training managers and picking the right people. ge spends 20 years selecting among all of the people in the organization slowly evaluating them over and over again and so at the end of the day, 20 years, he'd have to

we tried tim pawlenty and michele bachmann and herman cain and rick perry.inverted but we tried newt gingrich and rick santorum and we arrived at the inevitable mitt romney. >> you ended up with a weak candidate. >> in many ways yes. >> do you think any of the other guys or women that you passed over would have been better? >> i don't know yet. you don't know. >> do you actually think so? do you think michele bachmann would have been a better candidate for president. >> i don't know. >> you're being a real -- that'sing asimple carried very far here. i think he beat all the other candidates. >> in some ways he was very good, but in some ways -- >> your best candidates were on the bench. your best candidates even though they had weaknesses are obviously other people that could have ran. mitch dabbniels, jeb bush. >> there were a lot of people that could have run and didn't run. mitt romney sort of came into the race without -- >> chris christiee would have run a better race. >> certainly would have been more interesting. what would they have done at the end wh

caller: i think tim pawlenty is absolutely right. i would have voted for him. i think republicans should stay away from issues that have to do with -- social issues, and stay more on the fiscal and financial issues, because by staying on social issues they turn off a lot of women. by aligning themselves so closely with religious right, they turn off a lot of people. so they should try to stay more on the financial side and the fiscal side and stay away from social issues. if they did that, i think they would get more acceptance from these other groups that generally vote democratic. host: richard is on the line from new mexico. caller: good morning. i think this is a low priority conversation. we have all this stuff going on in libya. i cannot remember in the past two weeks you guys opening up with it. i think it's extremely important. in my state i was embarrassed because when you look at the map, all around us or redstate and we were blue. one of the things i blame the is the catholic jarrett bush. -- one of the things i blame is the catholic church. in this

he thought it was going to be tim pawlenty. >> ax looked at me and said they are going to pick paul ryan. at the time i thought to myself, they're going to spend a lot of time on defense on medicare, medicaid, all whole bunch of issues. >> they were not divisive issues. >> did you see how close florida was? i think they spent some time defending it. important. we aired several ads. i thought he added some youth and energy. they had a base concerns and he helped those. so i am not criticizing the pick i just think there were other -- >> you are. >> i was giving an assessment of the good and bad. >> was the helpful? he gave them excitement. he bought them silence from conservatives. did that help or hurt mitt romney? >> i do not think it did much of be there. here is the truth. we carried his home town. vice-presidential picks usually help you in their state or they add something to the national ticket. you have to ask governor romney. >> besides the automobile in the midwest, at what other regional issues? >> in iowa and colorado, wind energy tax credit. there was an issue that was import

thank you very much. >> tim pawlenty offers business community response to the so- called fiscal cliff and u.s. economy today at 6:00 eastern on c-span. >> truman had two proposals puzzles in his life. he got into politics having failed at many businesses as a young man. the only way to get into politics in the zero was to be part of a machine. there were two. he hooked up with the pend ergrast machine. the most corrupt. hwo could he possibly work in this machine in local politics? that was the first thing i have to work out. the second is what we all know about. that is how he came to use the atomic bomb. what was behind the decision? what is the story about the atomic bomb, before he became president and when the decision was on his desk? it is still a controversial story. i wanted to know more about it. >> she looks at the life of harry truman tonight at 8:00. >> on tuesday, the tsa administrator spoke about what travelers can expect in the upcoming holiday season. it is anticipated over 24 million passengers will travel the skidding weaken. the agency plans to replace full body x-r

. >>> tomorrow, tim pawlenty, illinois senator dick durbin and singer dionne warwick. >> great show. meanwhile, cnn "newsroom" with carol costello begins right now. >>> tear gas in cairo near the u.s. embassy as the fight for democracy goes on. >> face to face. susan rice and john mccain, the man who wanted watergate style hearings, meet. and only cnn catches up with mccain before the big meeting. >> what do you have to learn today from miss rice? >> whatever ambassador rice wants to tell me. she's the one who asked for the meeting. i didn't. >> wouldn't you like to be a fly on the wall? >>> spyfall, real-life bond movie. yasser arafat's body was exhumed. was the palestinian leader po h poisoned by israeli spies? >>> plus this. >> you said walden is in trouble. >> i'm the trouble walden has been in, repeatedly. >> he calls it filth, the half in "two and a half men" begs you not to watch his show. "newsroom" starts now. >>> good morning to you. thank you so much for being with us. i'm carol costello. we begin with a high stakes meeting just minutes from now. this hour, the u.s. ambass

tim pawlenty performed very poorly in the iowa straw poll, dropped out and many said months later mightave been a real challenger to mitt romney. and who won the iowa straw poll? >> michele bachmann won. >> dropped out not long after that. >> she's an iowa native though so she had an edge this time around. >> exactly. >> it was a contest -- >> iowa straw poll is great. >> why? >> i work for senator tom harkin from iowa and democrats in iowa love the straw poll. it's a good burst of energy in iowa. iowa is a great political town. >> give me a good reason. >> gives everybody an early look at what's out there and gives us something to talk about. it gives political reporters something to report on. >> every single -- >> it's a very positive thing. >> initially, of course, it was all about the idea of the straw poll was it was an early indicator of how much organizational strength you have. right? but i do feel like today, in today's day and age, not so much. it really -- >> why is it no longer an indicator? >> look at michele bachmann. perfect example. she did very well at the beginning an

look at that with the assistant majority leader senator dick durbin joining us, former governor tim pawlentyan also our guests this morning. plus protesters showed up naked, look at that. that's house speaker john boehner's office. they were demanding on a serious front demanding funding to fight aids. >> oh, my goodness. >> seven of them will be joining us, fully clothed i'm hoping, to talk about what sparked their protest, what they're hoping to gain, plus she sold 100 million records in a decade. a career that spanned five decades, dionne warwick is our guest. going to talk about her new album, my father is in love with dionne warwick so he'll be all excited about that. much more coming up this morning on "starting point." >> did you invite your father in? >> he can watch it on tv. of course. >> we'll be getting up -- >> oh, my gosh, soledad. thanks. >> you bet. >> black ice and snow causing some trouble after yesterday's storm in the northeast. now, new storm's rolling into the northwest this morning. alexandra steele with the extreme weather center where -- putting the extreme in extrem

and they use him like tim pawlenty. aey haven't talked about single tough choice. >> for the c-span audience, one question from earlier -- there are two big questions. i am not convinced. one question, why did mitt romney not pivot to the center, as he did in denver in the debate, why didn't he do that in april. that was the time to make the shift. the obama team forecast their strategy. >> the reason was -- you wrote brilliantly about it. until the convention, the campaign they ran was not good until the convention. they wasted money in not buying adds earlier. he could have moved to the middle. the republicans didn't think they could win and would have taken any transition. and an email from northern chile -- what impact will latino voters have? you bring a lot about immigration reform. >> new mexico wasn't in play. it went automatically into the obama column. it is clear in nevada and colorado. nevada is a pathway to 270 without ohio. i think the post-mortem on this is that -- if the republicans don't win, a look a t

on the newsmakers, our guest is tim pawlenty. he now is head of the financial services roundtable. he talks about two issues that divide republicans and democrats in 2012. one is the impact of the affordable health care act and the other is the debt limit. >> from a business standpoint there has been some concern about this being a cost burden and regulatory uncertainty on small and medium-size businesses. with the president's reelection and one or two of the court challenges have not been resolved, it is a reality. people are going to have to make decisions about how to implement it. from an economic standpoint, the experts give mixed reviews about whether it will be a net drag or a net plus. >> governor, beyond the fiscal cliff and the deficit deal, and another thing we have coming over the horizon is the debt limit. the estimate we will hit it at the end of the year and will have to extend it. is that something that should be wrapped into a fiscal cliff deal or would you like to see that dealt with separately? are you hoping that we would have lost, this time around? >> i hope s

. >> tomorrow on newsmaker, former minnesota governor tim pawlenty. he became a co-chair of mitt romney's campaign for president. he talks about the business community's response to the fiscal cliff and his role as the president and ceo of the financial services roundtable. join us for his interview at 10:00 on c-span. >> up next, a discussion on immigration and security along the texas-mexico border with sentatives. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> thank you for being here at the second annual texas tribune festival. we have had some pretty lively discussion so far. these gentlemen are from the texas house of representatives. they are on different sides of the aisles. commissioner todd staples is the texas agriculture commissioner. state representative from 1995 until 2001. he has held statewide offices for the last five years. who knows what 2014 has in store for him? he launched a website that documents the problems that farmers are having on the texas border. whethe

>> former minnesota governor tim pawlenty, now president and ceo of finance to services roundtable offers financial sector business community response to the so-called fiscal cliff and deaths u.s. economy. >> for the last nearly half century, the discussion of the ss mission has been discussed by -- dominated by two schools of thought, or if you will, two feet. i will briefly describe each of them and how they approach the evidence in the case. to begin with, there is the church of the lone assassin whose adherents insist the alt and ruby were loaned the two murdered john kennedy and the orioles will respectively for their own reasons. on the other side, we have the church of the great conspiracy. their adherents as are thick with the vague about exactly what they think happened and who is responsible but they're absolutely convinced there was a very large conspiracy usually involving figures within the u.s. government, and a massive cover-up. >> this weekend, 49 years later, the questions remain. lone gunman, the mob, ca, castro, the military-industrial complex? what happened in dallas?

on our own talk show, newsmakers, on sunday, tim pawlenty, the former governor of minnesota, spoke aboutre of the party. here's a look. >> i do think if you look back at the election of 2012, when you have a product that you put into the marketplace, the republican perspective, um, and the marketplace doesn't buy it, you either have to have better marketing or a better product x. so this is a wake-up call for the republican party to, first of all, have better marketing and that involves a lot of things. but clearly, as the discussion has unfolded, republicans need to do better with female voters, with blue collar voters, with latino and hispanic voters. so there's a need to better market. but we also need to have products that sell better. and that doesn't mean you change your philosophy, but i think president obama, first of all, just tactically did a better job getting out the vote in his campaign. but number two, he at least at the margins was better able to connect with people in this campaign for, and they made that judgment. but i don't think, i don't think it's a matter of people

he thought it was going to be tim pawlenty. >> ax looked at me and said they are going to pick paul ryan. at the time i thought to myself, they're going to spend a lot of time on defense on medicare, medicaid, all whole bunch of issues. >> they were not divisive issues. >> did you see how close florida was? i think they spent some time defending it. we obviously thought it was important. we air anded several labs -- aired several ads. i thought he added some youth and energy. they had a base concerns and he helped those. so i am not criticizing the pick i just think there were other -- >> you are. >> i was giving an assessment of the good and bad. >> was the helpful? he gave them excitement. he bought them silence from conservatives. did that help or hurt mitt romney? >> i do not think it did much of be there. here is the truth. we carried his home town. vice-presidential picks usually help you in their state or they add something to the national ticket. you have to ask governor romney. >> besides the automobile in the midwest, at what other regional issues? >> in iowa and colorado, wind

if i was still a ranking democrat and tim pawlenty came in, my first request is please explain my marriage threatened use of much. i am little uncertain about that. secondly do you expect this to work with people who demonize us? >> what do you say to those who say dodd-frank didn't go far enough and too big to fail still exists and high speed trading made the world more dangerous, not less than the list goes on? >> we get it from both sides, didn't go far enough, and we ended too big to fail. the notion that we didn't, we did say this, there are institutions that are too big to fail without paying attention to the consequences of the failure. the bill says in some cases the federal authorities may have to step in and manage the consequences of the failure but every dollar expended will be recovered from large financial institutions. the secretary of the treasury will violate federal law and extend money to a big bank and the argument that i saw from the guy from dallas, there will be enormous political pressure on the secretary of the treasury. in what universe? right now in america today

even the sane ones like tim pawlenty and jon huntsman. >> bill: no.ne time all of them lead except for jon huntsman. none of them out on the campaign trial with mitt romney. >> that's weird. >> bill: it's because they know he is going to lose. parting shot? yeah, i'll give you one coming up next. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." ♪ perspective. >>i'm a slutty bob hope. the troops love me. >>only on current tv. ♪ >> announcer: the parting shot with bill press. this is the "bill press show." >> bill: all right. here we go on this friday november 2nd. my parting shot for today well president obama picked up a big endorsement from the big independent mayor from the nation's biggest city michael bloomberg. up to yesterday he had dumped on both candidates. what changed his mind? the way obama handled his response to hurricane sandy. he showed leadership at a time when the nation was crying out for leadership, said bloomberg. and not only that, bloomberg noted that obama alone realizes the importance of climate change that climate change is one of