i believe willard mitt romney today came out and affirmatively said so. and i both know, r reverend al, this is part snake oil and part castor oil. the snake oil is that he said he will have tax give aways for the rich and castor oil is for the middle class. we all have to take our medicine and sacrifice. we are the ones who have to sacrifice and the rich strangely never do. i think this is great news for democrats and i think i also agree with him, that it really draws some stark lines between the tw parties as long as our party stands its ground and doesn't get into any kind of cute negotiations around these issues. these people are extremist and you can't compromise with them. >> and congresswoman, not only does it do all of the above that joan said, look at this, it increases military spending while it cuts food stamps, housing assistance, and medicaid. so they will increase the military spending while they, again, go after the most vulnerable and needy in society. >> and don't forget, once again he destroys medicare as we know it. turns it into a vou

have a long way to go >>> we start by extending the our warmest birthday good wishes to one willard mitt romneyorn with a silver spoon in his mouth 65 years ago. polls show he is in a tight race. in both the alabama and mississippi contest is up for grabs. national polls are also conflicted about whether he or rick santorum has a four point lead. mitt is predicting a victory in the alabama contest. that's a reversal when any were giving him a fighting chance in the deep south. he's managed to turn on the southern charm. >> last night i was in mississippi, by the way, i had cat fish for the second time. it was delicious. we're going get this thing won. >> it's not just with his fellow good old boys. mitt may have saved his best line for the beautiful bells well down yonder. >> please give us a big hug, that's the girls. i've been getting hugs from the southern girls. i mean from 12, well a lot more than 12. >> 12-year-olds. have some more grits. while he hits the cheesy grits, the race is so tight. they're taking the up against each other. >> why would the republican party in the most critical e

when i heard what willard mitt romney said last night on jay leno, it reminded me of that mentality ofen the gop had the debate -- remember this moment back in september in the debate when it came up about people could actually suffer from this? look at the attitude of that crowd in this gop debate. >> a healthy 30-year-old young man has a good job, makes a good living, but decides, you know what, i'm not going to spend $200 or $300 a month for health insurance because i'm healthy, i don't need it. but, you know, something terrible happens. all of a sudden he needs it. >> that's what freedom is all about. taking your own risk. this whole idea that you have to prepare and take care of everybody -- >> but congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die? >> no. >> i mean, are we becoming a country where people are just openly and very arrogantly saying, just let them die? >> it is the most scary thing about this, al, that if you look at the situation, the direction they're going is to say that this is social darwinism. if you can't hadon't have the m have insurance and sh

they endorsed willard mitt romney officially. sort of. th the headline, washington's gop caucus default choice, mitt romney. that's how they headlined the endorsement. and they say in the endorsement, romney has been his own biggest impediment. romney does not excite voters and is a suspect choice, except for all the others. i mean, this is the kind of endorsement he's getting. >> right. you know, holding your nose for a candidate is not a best way to turn out voters. will work up to a point. this is a rare moment in this cycle, okay, where everyone seems to have decided they know which way this election is going. this pendulum will swing again. just a few months ago, everyone said the president's numbers were in the tank and the economy wasn't getting any better. and the republicans thought it was a shoo-in. they could vote for anyone. herman cain even was going to be a shoo-in. so this will balance out again moving forward. but the persistent narrative you're seeing, george will is no light weight. he is an influential in his own right.

among the republicans willard mitt romney just barely pulled it out squeaking by rick santorum in a race as before. the national review calls him the candidate of eh. the right wing blog says willard is underwhelming. the red state says simply, what a mess. it's not going to get any easier for him. he's about to enter hostile territory. over the next week, the gop race heads to kansas, mississippi and right here to alabama. some of the most conservative states in the country. so while the republicans duke it out, last night's real winner continues to drive home his message as he did today in north carolina. >> we decide what that next chapter is going to be. and i'm confident working with folks like you, we can pull together and remind everybody around the world just why it is that the united states of america is the greatest nation on earth. >> joining me now is democratic strategist tad devine and chip saltsman, a republican strategist who was mike huckabee's presidential campaign manager in 2008. great to have both of you with us tonight. let me start with you, chip. should we just na

. >> mitt romney's math is just like mitt romney's conservatism. it's bogus. >> it's keeping romney from willing. >> willard has managed to turn on the southern charm. >> eating grits, i think cheesy grits he called them. >> i've got to start this morning with biscuits and cheesy grits. >> cheesy grits. >> it's not cheesy grits, it's cheese grits. >> the pander fest that's been coming out of his mouth has been pretty stunning. >> if you're going to pander, at least get it right. >> it's pandering and there is a difference. >> that kind of stuff doesn't really go over well in the deep south. >> it's like we're watching romney on safari in his own country. >> it's not what the voters want. >> i can't get him to stop watching msnbc which only makes him more miserable. >>> the republican nomination is all about the delegates now. and it's beginning to look like no one will have enough. >> can you imagine anything that would be a bigger gift to barack obama than us not having a nominee until the end of august? >> no, i cannot imagine a bigger gift to the obama re-election campaign, and that is now a serious poss

republican presidential race is getting really nasty and too many obama mitt romney would, quote, be malpractice, that willard'sly the worst person you could possibly want to be the nominee for 2012. >> on so many fronts there could be no person in this country we can nominate who would be any worse on taking on barack obama on the most important issue of the day, obamacare, than governor romney. and it is -- the equivalent of malpractice to nominate someone that gives away the most important issue in this race. >> malpractice. couldn't be anyone worse. wow. for his part, governor romney is running a new ad in illinois that accuses santorum of, quote, economic illiteracy. >> santorum's real weakness is the economy. he's never run a business or a state. his plan, economic illiteracy, inexcusable. the worst idea of any gop candidate. >> but you know, willard, this isn't the real problem as you. his real problem is himself. talked about how romney has failed to communicate any narrative about why he should be the president. one calls it, quote, a clumsy campaign that lacks a message. another says, their messaging

willard romney. >> i like cheese grits. i like grits with gravy. >> morning y'all. >> it's almost as if we're watching mitt romney on safarisurprised he started talking about we are meant hunting down there. >> nooimt a big game hunter. i've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. >> mitt may have saved his best line for the beautiful belles. >> this is what happens when your state has fewer schools than waffle houses. >> you might be a romney. if you're favorite kind of fireworks is firing people at work. >> we did it again. >> senator santorum is at the desparate end of his campaign. how many say missouri, like i do? a man of constant sorrows. >> people say he can't relate. he's so rich. he can't relate to the rest of us. >> guess what, i made a lot of money. >> i was called by some of my colleagues in the united states senate. >> have them speak english. that would be a requirement. you're not doing anybody a favor by not following the law. >> you what? >> i said english has to be learned as language. >> i love getting up in the morning. i love seeing what the weather is going to be. i love animals. in any mind everythi

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willard or mitt? the blunt amendment goes down. a win for women. a loss for mitt romney or is it?ot sure where he stands on that one either. back to tamron. >>> where does eddie murphy stand? lindsay lohan gears up for her comeback and justin beiber is not a baby, baby, baby anymore. he's 18. give us the scoop on eddie murphy. >> you remember that eddie was going to host. he was interviewed earlier this week and he said that bill did okay, but it would have been a lot faster with eddie at the helm. what was news here was that eddie said he would be open to hosting again. they could come to him next year and ask him. i would like to see him try to host it once. >> lindsay lohan on the today show. she's building up the drama for her hosting of "snl" on saturday. >> a lot of us have i understli fatigue. we're going to listen to a little sound from her "today show" interview. sg if i only focused on the negative and the people that doubted me, i might be back where they think i will be. that's not what i want for me. i don't want to go back to that place. i want to move forward. i wan

willard? president obama got 55%, people believing that he understands the needs and problems. mitt romneynly 31%. and i don't think this is all on policy. i think this is all on who they think really understands their dreams, their problems, their needs. you have been out there with them. do you see this reflected as you travel around following and covering him? >> yeah, you know, i think that is a big concern for a lot of voters but i think what the romney campaign is doing to correct that is going out and saying to voters, i want you to make the right decision in this primary, i just saw app romney yesterday in montgomery and she had an event with about 75 people. it was actually at union upscale restaurant, it was kind of to their base, we want you to go out and do the right thing and pick the guy that can turn around the economy. so i don't think that now he is trying to say anything to the effect of i understand the problems but more, listen, give me the reins to the economy, i can fix t in a way, i think they are moving around this issue of does he understand average americans becau

willard mittinghouse romney. a cinderella story of a hundred millionaire coming out of nowhere to barely squeak past a crazy person in his own home state. >> that's his native state. >> jon: fine! (laughter) but mittlooking to put santorum in his rear-view mirro% and he seems to have his eye on his opponent in the general election. >> he raised the national debt. i will cut, cap, and balance the budget. he passed obamacare, i will repeal obamacare. he lost our a.a.a. credit rating. i'll restore our a.a.a. credit rating. >> jon: he killed osama bin laden, i will reanimate him. (laughter) bring him back to life. he married michelle obama, i will divorce michelle obama. (laughter) he told you yes, we can. i'm here tonight to pledge to you, no. no we can't. (laughter) bizarro obama. of course, rick santorum's party after losing was a bit more subdued. he has earned, though, through the recent primary results a strong measure of our respect, admiration forged in the heat of a difficult campaign. it allows rick santorum to rise above the callow barbs that stemmed from a childish weapon people associated with what can only be described as frothy ass juice. (laughter) and that will not come back. tonight,

mitt romney a happy birthday. he is 65 years old today. happy birthday, governor. i hope you get all the cheesy grits you can eat. but, of course, now that he is 65, willardomney is eligible for medicare, but romney's campaign says he won't sign up for medicare. he'll keep his private insurance instead. i guess he wants to protect himself from the republican attack on medicare, a little thing called the ryan plan that willard just loves. >> one of the greatest ideas that required extraordinary courage on the part of our republican friends in washington was to vote for something known as the ryan plan. >> really? it took courage to vote for the ryan plan? the ryan plan that would force seniors to pay an extra $6,000 a year for health care? the ryan plan that the "the wall street journal" says would, quote, essentially end medicare. willard, maybe you don't need medicare, but 95% of all seniors do. i know you thought we'd let you off the hook just because it's your birthday. nah. but we do hope you have a happy birthday. oh, yeah, and nice try. but we gotcha. for important legal documents. so start your business, protect your family, launch your dreams. at

. >>> a searing indictment of mitt romney's good friends at goldman sachs couldn't have come at a worse time for willardn his resignation op-ed today lambasting his former employer for putting profit as head of clients and their own moral and ethical obligations. however, he might as well have been talking about their man mitt when he writes, it astounds me how little senior management gets a basic truth: if clients don't trust you they will eventually stop doing business with you. it doesn't matter how smart you are. joining us now is democratic congressman peter welsh of vermont who sits on the committee on oversight and government reform. good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon. >> let me read to you a part of what goldman sachs's ceo wrote, workers there in reply to this op-ed. while i expect you find the words you read today foreign from your own day to day experiences, we wanted to remind you that we, as a firm -- individually and collectively -- think about goldman sachs and our client-driven culture. foreign from your own day to day experiences. you can't get a much more dismissive reply than tha

mitt romney, and that is my real name. and i started tearing my hair out. his real name is willard. here about whether one can be too pragmatic. as we often say -- i do not, but a lot of americans seem to say they admire the candidates religiosity because it implies there are certain standards to which the candidate here's -- adheres. when your that pragmatic, there is no standard to which you hear too. any comment? >> pragmatism, at least in the business school model that i am thinking of, is a technique. it is not a goal. it is a way to get to x. how will we get this company to improve? how will we get this company to make its certain amount of money every year? we will do what we need to do to do that. there's a pragmatism with mitt romney that he wants to get the nomination, and he is scarily willing to do and say almost anything. and i agree with you, as someone who lived in massachusetts while he was governor, i have heard him say things that i have been surprised about. there is a difference there, i think, between a kind of native pragmatism among mormons, or someone who, sa

mitt romney, and that is my real name. and i started tearing my hair out. his real name is willard. why can he tell the truth about his name? there is a serious question here about whether one can be too pragmatic. as we often say -- i do not, but a lot of americans seem to say they admire the candidates religiosity because it implies there are certain standards to which the candidate here's -- adheres. when your that pragmatic, there is no standard to which you hear too. any comment? >> pragmatism, at least in the business school model that i am thinking of, is a technique. it is not a goal. it is a way to get to x. how will we get this company to improve? how will we get this comny to make its certain amount of money every year? we will do what we need to do to do that. there's a pragmatism with mitt romney that he wants to get the nomination, and he is scarily willing to do and say almost anything. and i agree with you, as someone who lived in massachusetts while he was governor, i have heard him say things that i have been surprised about. there is a difference there, i think, b

romney on his son mitt and his discussion to run the presidency. it was cleared he loved campaigning alongside of his of his dad. the young e., willardunlike the first, never still mentally or physically. why did he instead become the single most single tphoeft driven applicant. hi wife appe gave it a few year before it really appreciated what it's means. mitt would say i have approximately my tower' sops. >> thabs for sag me. >> what kind of relationship did he have not just pell tobgs but in the reallying of possibility. >> it of a with ulle patient referencing, he first gave a speak on behalf of his dan when his dad ran for governor. he was young 15 at the time. later years, george fp george romney followed his son in 1994 when mitt romney ran his unsuccessful campaign for senate against ted kennedy. a year later he came with his father to william welds office. he told me by how refer el challenge mitt was as de. as anne hatch any wepbz said, politics was his vine. >> hey, account, referen challenge action is a charming thing about his dad. one packet of his fore sears korea krao or that he had been brainwashed after a trip to vot