moon tim pawlenty saves our country and i don't figure out how to end it.e'll put colbert pac.com at the end of ours. and one thing came to another, including a lot of lawyers. there's an entire industry in politics but i didn't know, suspected, entire industry. there's a politico industrial complex not only raising money but that is built around making money off of the fact there is so much money in politics. and there are almost no rules. should you be doing this? to point out and get a ruling for first time there are no lines between corporate interests and political interests? and i said, well, at least i always felt, that's -- that's like someone saying, i know there's this tiger of money over there but don't worry, we've got it in a cage. i just go, would you mind if i just check the lock? no, please, that's dangerous to check the lock. i went over and touched the door of the cage and it came off in my hand. it's not fault there's no lock on that. wouldn't you rather know that there is. for me the join is everything i learned while i did it was a new

later in the program, tim pawlenty, incoming ceo of the financial services roundtable will join us.y busy show ahead and both of you guys, joe and becky i'm talking to, are looking through earnings from travelers. >> yes. looks good, $2.22 a share versus expectations of $1.61. we'll see if there's anything that helps that much but total revenues were $6.5 billion versus estimate of $5.79. >> we look at the policies written which did come in at $5.7 billion. >> is policies written? >> let me look at the net written premiums. >> revenues net of premium so that's right in line with expectations. do we need to back out anything from the $2.21 then? because that's a 60 cent beat on $1.60. >> it did have record operating income per diluted shares, they came in, benefited from lower weather related losses so that would make sense, fewer losses coming off the top, even if the revenue comes in, in line. they did see rate gains, and improved underwriting margins on all three segments that they have. that number may be okay on the earnings per share. >> it's relatively recent dow component tha

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that's longer than the entire tim pawlenty campaign. >> i wrote the book in lew, actually, of runningsident 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, you are

i intended to make a joke about tim pawlenty's unbelievably over the top ad, like a michael bay voicef god, you know, preaching to america from the surface of the moon, tim pawlenty saves our country, and i couldn't figure out how to end it. at the end it just said liberty pac.com. and i said let's put colbertpac.com on ours. and that led to one thing and then another, including a lot of lawyers. there's an entire industry that i didn't know that is not only raising money but built on raising money off the fact that there is so much money in politics. and almost no rules. >> a lot of what your character does, a lot of what you do through the program, is similar to what you're talking about the super pac, exposing what's absurd or what simply doesn't work about politics and about our institutions of government, which i think a lot of your followers and your viewers believe. >> well, i don't know if i expose it. but i try to be aspects. i try to put myself in the news or embody the thing. john does what's called pure deconstruction, where he picks apart what's happened in the day's news

i intended to make a joke about tim pawlenty's unbelievably over the top ad, like a michael bay voice know, preaching to america from the surface of the moon, tim pawlenty saves our country, and i couldn't figure out how to end it. at the end it just said liberty pac.com. and i said let's put colbertpac.com on ours. and that led to one thing and then another, including a lot of lawyers. there's an entire industry that i didn't know that is not only raising money but built on raising money off the fact that there is so much money in politics. and almost no rules. >> a lot of what your character does, a lot of what you do through the program, is similar to what you're talking about the super pac, exposing what's absurd or what simply doesn't work about politics and about our institutions of government, which i think a lot of your followers and your viewers believe. >> well, i don't know if i expose it. but i try to be aspects. i try to put myself in the news or embody the thing. john does what's called pure deconstruction, where he picks apart what's happened in the day's news and lays

tim pawlenty, a republican said they think he's a terrific debater mitt romney used senator rob portman of ohio to act as his opponent while preparing for the debate.... and john kerry played the role of romney stand-in...for president obama. the president has a day job, the presiden'ts been president and has not had the time to practice, all we hear about is that mitt romney's been practicing practicing, practicing wherever he goes. i think mitt romney is going to come in there very prepared, he's going to do very well because he's done very well in all of the debates i think sometimes we expect a major breakthrough, you know a comment. that doesn't happen very often. it happened with reagan and mondale. it happened with reagan and carter, but frankly, i can't remember the last time there was one of these comments that grabbed everybody's attention because, frankly, the candidates are too well prepared. they're well scripted. on sunday, president obama headed to las vegas for a campaign event -- while mitt romney attended church in massachusetts....before hunkering down for final debat

joining us now -- serving as communications director for tim pawlenty's presidential campaign., let me get to this apology. this was 17 days ago, this tape came out. why did he apologize now? >> he was asked the question. he apologized. there's little daylight between what he said in elegant and if he apologizes and his policies are going to be for 100% of americans. not 47%. so look, i think he's moved past this. if we want to talk about inelegant comments, we can talk about president obama saying he wants to redistribute -- >> hold on a second, john. jump in here for a minute. let me talk about this fight for the middle class here because both candidates want it, but it really seemed in the past few days since the debate, that mitt romney lit up to say it's working for barack obama, i'm going to make it work for me. >> would he seriously borrow a position from someone else? >> they want it because they need it. you don't get elected unless you appeal to moderates an the middle class. that's why the 47% comment hurt so much. that's why the poll numbers started breaking hard ag

back to new hampshire when you were coaching tim pawlenty and the first new hampshire debate where he previewed he was going to be tough against mitt romney and talk about obamaeny care -- >> what are you doing to me here? >> could you relate a little bit to the fact that we all expected the president to be tough and aggressive and he wasn't? and did that happen back then in your camp? >> let me just say that i think that the debates are really fundamentally important. they were very important in our primary in terms of the demoments in the key trajectories who we chose as a nominee that led to mitt romney's election. i think this is a see with your own eyes election. if you look at the advertising spending it's moved the needle fairly narrowly in the swing states then you see a commanding performance by mitt romney last week, and a, you know, anywhere from an eight to 12-point bounce depending on what poll you might look at that shows that voters are paying attention, they're really focused on the issues and on the choice and on the future. that's why watching the behavior out of the

ann marie hauser, a romney campaign surrogate and former communications director for governor tim pawlenty's presidential campaign. thank you so much for joining us. you know, the president raised a whole lot, actually, an astounding amount, in just september. you know, and after the debate, observers say he seemed energized at these rallies. do you expect to see a different president obama putting a different foot forward after that debate last week? >> it's no surprise that barack obama raised this much money. we knew they was going to raise this much money all along. in 2004, john kerry out-raised president bush, and we all know how that turned out. so i think, you know, yes, he raised a lot of money. the president, or, excuse me, governor romney has raised $12 million since wednesday. so it's been a shot in the arm for the romney campaign too. >> and that's online as well. >> it's 60% -- >> we're not talking about major donors. we're talking about people who saw his debate and liked what they saw. >> 60% of them are new donors. so i think the romney campaign is very pleased with this. an

tim pawlenty dropped out of the race when he was not doing well in the polls. he might have had a good chance of getting the nomination if he stayed in. not doing well in the polls heard him because he could not raise the money. host: here is a story from "usa today." host: we will go to terry in florida. we are talking about political polling. caller: good morning. i have two questions. y're star in the early voting, why don't the polls actually poll the voters, the people who voted. in polling stop at some point olling the polls thol at count? what is your opinion about the country and the government legislating and governing by consensus? t polls play a bigger role with everything that concerns the american people if they legislate it and govern by consensus. guest: on the question of polling voters, the surveys we are conducting ask a series of questions about people's intention to vote. we ask people if they have already voted. record that and so we released yesterday in the poll yesterday that how many people have reported voting early. when we released o

. >> i think tim pawlenty will make all of the arguments that he made in tampa, and i hope joe bidenhreds on that. >> yeah, we haven't seen a lot of reporting of what happened with that, but romney came out with changes in his policies, and even newt gingrich said he had changed his tax policy so maybe the obama campaign needs to be more prepared for that thing than they seemed to be ready for in denver. >> bill: right. now the one issue that seems to have legs from last week's debate is not jobs or economy or health care, but big bird. [ laughter ] >> bill: this leg has legs, right -- >> yeah, long ones orange ones. >> bill: right. this is something that strikes a chord, and the president has certainly been having fun with this on the road. here he was at a big campaign event over the weekend. >> obama: when he was asked what he could do to cut spending he said he would go after public television. [ laughter ] >> obama: so for all of you moms and kids out there, don't worry, somebody is finally cracking down on big bird. elmo has made a run for the boarder. [ laughter ] [ applause ]

. >> caller: i live up here in minnesota, beautiful home of michele bachmann and tim pawlenty so i'm insane things on the media. when it comes to some of the -- some of the extreme right wing people have to say. so i'm not surprised to hear anything comes to defending their candidate. i still believe that money is controlling the media here. and there's so much money being passed along to these stations and they all want ratings and everything so i don't let it bother me as much because i know -- no telling what they're going to say. >> bill: that's a good point. no doubt that the people who are really racking up the big bucks in this election season are the tv stations and the networks. i mean -- i was watching the news last night and there were five spots in a row and they were all campaign spots. now, in washington, d.c., we're so close to virginia, there were presidential spots. and maryland. maryland spots and virginia spots but five in a row. all campaign spots. big bucks are going right into -- maybe that's why the media is so good to romney. when we come back, take just a lit