and newt gingrich was the guy in charge. well, this will hopefully focus american's attention on exactly what will happen if you put the washington republican leadership back in charge. you're going to get more the same. you're going to get the same old economic policies that we got for eight years under the bush administration and you'll get the same kind of rhetoric and constant investigations that you got under gingrich instead of focusing on the country's problems. >> what about their strategy on the right? early 2009 the first guy to come out and take a swipe at president obama was dick cheney and that went on for about four, five months. and then it was kind of transferred over to the senator from south carolina, who gave us the waterloo comment av course a no agenda to everything that the democrats and the majority has proposed, and you know, led by president obama. so now we have got -- cheney's pretty much out the mix. here's newt with some the most radical stuff that we've ever heard. is this a reflection of the re

i think he could have been a little tougher on newt gingrich. look, newt gingrich lived a lie. he imposed a lie on this country when he poses the moral scourge of the congress, when he was speaker going after clinton. and now we know, this guy, you know, was not an avatar of morality. he had treated, you know, two out of three wives incredibly badly. he was carrying on an affair with a staff member while he was going after clinton. why would anyone listen to him criticize the background of barack obama. it shows how gullible a lot on the right would be that they would stand there and applaud this character. >> i guess christine o'donnell is not the only republican messing around with witchcraft these days. when you look at this guy, i think you are looking at mesostopoly figure of our time? >> and colin powell says he makes these statements from time to time. it's every week. he equated mosque supporters to nazis. now he's talking about obama's kenyan world view and things like that. it's consistent, it's constant. >> thank you, we've got to go. eric, keep posting the informati

how about newt gingrich? he's out with the kool-aid and sounding like a paranoid, or is he, or just pretending to fire up his brand name. let me finish with what i saw in the town hall. we begin with the obama clinton coalition. arianna huffington, her new book, and howard fineman. let's go to arianna. it's enormous. everybody goes there. >> i thought you were going to congratulate me on bringing howard on board. >> well, i was going to start with you in your greatness. let's talk about the news. you cover progressive news better than anybody. let's call it the progressive centrist coalition and some moderate high thinking -- who voted for obama. how do you hold that thing together? how do you blild the way blair built in britain. nobody does this better than mr. bill. >> i told the president last time i talked to him, i said, i don't think they're saying very many things they didn't say about me in '94. people just don't feel better and the democrats need to say, this is what we did, this is what happened an

here's what newt gingrich said. i used to grow up reading that magazine. it was serious and very antibias, by the way -- he's really a kenyan guy over there thinking like that against the british oppressives who he now sees as the white ruling class from wall street. that's the way newt's selling it. >> part of the thing for a lot of these people who believe -- they said, i want our country back, they're talking more generally about the liberal conspiracy to take over and teach condoms in the schools. >> good old american left. >> homo sexuals in the military are trying to get in. this is a new way for them to hook in to the same animosities that the republicans played on successfully. >> they don't need it. they got the key to the door. it's unemployment. thank you, guys. i got some real pros here, by the way. i am humbled. >>> up next, lisa murkowski's running as a write-in candidate, but if they can't spell her name -- apparently, the judge is going to help the voters. you're watching "hardball." we need directions to go to... pearblossom highway? it's

wisdom from newt gingrich. but the article by dennis de souza has tons of inaccuracy and misstated assumptions in it. it's a dream/nightmare of the right about obama. it's not really about obama. it's less about barack obama, president barack obama than it is about the fears and the nightmares and the resentments of the people who write articles like that. it is more of a window into desouza than barack obama. it has almost nothing to do with barack obama himself. yes, he wrote the book "dreams from my father," but if you read that book, it's not about what danish de souza says it's about. >> who was it that said the other day they know less about this guy than anybody? >> haley barbour. >> haley barbour. now newt goes after him for having written an autobiography. it seems like there's no way this guy can can win the argument of who he is. >> no, and this is a myth too they don't know this about him. if you go back and read barack obama's debut speech to the democratic convention in 2004, the first line of his

can't newt gingrich raise the issue. >> david you've been critical of gingrich's remarks. what makes them so significant? is this a farrakhanation to have -- is this a fair conversation to have? >> imagine that obama was the child of a irishman who had a drinking problem and abandoned him and he made a voyage to ireland to discover the story of his father and they discovered he was a pretty disappointing person and he identified more with his mother's family. would his political opponents say, to understand him, you have to understand that he's just irish. nobody would say that. and to the stent he was irish you would say that's part of the american tradition and makes him no less american than anybody else. there's plenty of opportunities to oppose every idea in barack obama's head without denies that they are american ideas. they are ideas that are wrong or misplaced or not conducive to economic growth or not conducive to economic liberty but as you said in the introduction, the same bad ideas that were held b walter mondale and others. to make -- to make this link. and,

newt gingrich comes to us as. trouble, oh, we got trouble. he calls good people racist, people like supreme court justice sonia sotomayor and shirley sherrod. he doesn't beat around the bush. he calls them race i in broad daylight. with president obama he gets more vicious. he says the president has the mind of a kenyon. what is this man doing in public life? why are we living in a public square so dominated by eye of newt? die bowlcally, he speaks on my matter that will cause hatred, anger or fear, or all three. he warned this last week we are in danger of being placed under sharia law. he declared his opposition what he called any effort to impose, his word, impose, sharia on the united states, you know, arms and legs being cut off, stoning. newt barks out a message of hate and confusion and anger that would be frightening if it were

newt gingrich. >> given that we were colonies and we rebelled, that we were anti-colonialists, when did anti-colonialism become anti-american? i thought we've almost always also worked with the colonies who sought to get out from under the thumb of the european colonists. >> yeah, because we didn't like being colonies. we didn't like colonialism. but somehow, again, inside his head, that narrative has been twisted, and one imagines that he fancies himself, you know, a retired british colonel in 1963 sitting around in his armchair puffing his pipe saying who lost kenya, you know, that sort of thing. >> yes. why do they call row desia rhodesia? >> why do they call -- what's his end game? nobody's blown himself up more in america except wile e. coyote. >> i suppose we could give him a nice assortment of fine acme products as a parting gift. >> one big anvil. >> other than that, nothing really. this doesn't lead anywhere. i don't know a single republican involved in politics who believes newt gingrich c

newt gingrich wants it. in other words, if the american people want all the things that i would say, normal people want, why is he an outlier, why is he promoting values that most americans don't want? this guy always had bad ideas. we that when he was speaker of the house. always playing fast and loose with morality and ethics. and now he is using religioniosity. who thinks that the poor are poor because they just don't work hard enough and who is simply living on another planet with a different constitution. >> president obama yesterday was asked about being a christian. this is his response, which i thought was very powerful. i want your response. >> i'm a christian by choice. you know, my family didn't -- you know, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. so i came to my christian faith later in life. and it was because the precepts of jesus christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that i would want to lead. being my brothers and sisters keeper. treating others as they would trea

newt gingrich is back with us. sir, seems like a lot of democrats are running ads without saying they are democrats. saying they didn't vote for health care. essentially running from the president and the democratic policies. is this unusual or not? >> well, i think it is unusual in a normal year. but this isn't a normal year. i think failure of the obama economic policies, the unpopularity of the giant health bill, the disagreement over the 787 billion dollars in stimulus withdrawal added to the deficit, what you have is a country which is in most parts of the country, increasingly unhappy. if you were a democrat trying to get reelected and you took a poll in your district and found 2-1 the people in your district wanted to repeal the obama health plan, probably if you voted yes, you wouldn't put your vote in the advertising. a lot of this is normal. what has begun to be more interesting is the fact that congressman taylor the democrat from mississippi, is now saying he would like to vote for a skeleton the democr

. >> what do you make of newt gingrich making that charge? >> you know, i mean, i was never a big fan of newt gingrich when he was in office. i have no idea why the media is still knocking on his door now that he is not in office. i think he is perhaps the most used guest on the sunday talk shows. what's sad is that newt used to be the thinker in that party. he was like the trotsky. this is the thinker? this is the reader? well, you know, in the land of midgets, pigmies cast tall shadows. >> he thinks the president is thinking like a kenya. here's bill clinton this morning on "good morning america." here he is, president bill clinton. let's listen. >> the american people can elect whomever they want, but she served not a full time term as governor. we don't know if she's going to run for president. >> what's your gut on that? >> but i think, i think she's clearly a public figure who is -- who speaks well and persuasively to the people who listen to her and she's somebody to be reckoned with. >> there's the president on george stephanopoulos t

, newt gingrich? >> it would more, except i've seen this pattern over the last year. that the teabaggers are actually taking over the mainstream republican party. >> larry: take over newt gingrich? >> taking over john mccain. john mccain had a long noble service, i wanted to vote for him in the year 2000. suddenly, had was against everything he ever stood for. this was the guy who was sponsoring the sensible immigration bill in the united states congress. and now, he's talking about the border. ee he's on the beheadings page. he was saying illegals were causing car crashes on purpose. i'm not surprised that they're getting the mainstreamer republicans to pander to them. yeah, newt was considered the thinker in the republican party. he was sort of their philosopher. now, he's talking about the wild tribesman. >> larry: let's get to the islamic center in the world trade center. it's 12 blocks from it? >> two or four blocks. there's nothing else down there. it was a burlington coat factory that is out of

next, a conversation with former house speaker newt gingrich. then, a former massachusetts governor mitt romney speaks to new hampshire republicans. at 11:00 p.m., pulitzer prize- winning author isabella wilkerson. the national commission on monday and bp deepwater horizon oil spill meets again tomorrow to hear testimony -- the national commission on in the bp deepwater horizon oil spill meets again tomorrow to hear testimony. live coverage starts at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span-2. >> next weekend, explore the reality behind science fiction, the vision of einstein, and the fundamental forces of the universe. the author has written more than half a dozen books, including his latest, a physics of the impossible. we will take your calls and e- mails alive next sunday at noon eastern. >> newt gingrich was first elected to the u.s. house of representatives in 1978 and served as speaker of the house from 1995-1999. since leaving congress, he has written more than 20 books and is an analyst on the fox news channel. our conversation with them includes hi

at fourth was newt gingrich. sarah palin came in fifth. >>> busy local bridges are closed, the chain bridge and the frederick douglass bridge were both closed last night for structural repairs. that means there is no access to them for motorists, cyclists, or pedestrians. both are expected to reopen at 5:00 a.m. monday. the chain bridge will close again each of the next three weekends in october. >>> very nice saturday night. it brought about the rest of the weekend -- what about the rest of the weekend? brian van degraff is in the weather center. >> we are watching a gorgeous weekend developing. it is fitting because this is the last full weekend of summer, as we switchover to fall. the weatherbug network temperatures cooling off nicely, upper 70's, 80 degrees. 62 rockville. leesburg 59, 57 warrenton. 58 la plata. we are cooling off nicely. in the morning, 50's downtown, 40's in the suburbs. we warm to the upper 80's to more. afternoon clouds, but a very nice finished the weekend. >>> coming up, igor on the move

. >> some absurd rhetoric like what newt gingrich has used. >> that's right. as a result of the campaigns using that rhetoric, what do we expect to start happening other than open brawls and campaign events? >> at one point, you wonder if this is going to start turning people off. you know, the irony of what colbert's doing, he and jon stewart are trying to have this rally on the mall for sanity and of course colbert today contributed to the insanity. vaughn, we've got a new feature we're teaming up on. the voter confidence index. tell us more about it. >> what we're trying to do with this is measure the impact of the anger out there. we've taken the average of big poll questions these national major polls ask commonly and averaged them together. we've come up with a number that sort of illustrates where the feel, the mood of the country is. negative is bad, positive is good. president obama is down to negative 38. we've also taken that back and looked at how the numbers stack up historically to other midterm elections. he's right now the president in his part

in a moment i will be joined live by newt gingrich. i'll ask him to weigh in on the left's claims that a civil war has erupted within the republican party. the rise of candidates like christine o'donnell, sharron angle, rand paul, marco rubio and others have led some to argue that the future of the gop is in peril. as usual the mainstream media and chief propagandist, robert gibbs. >> the republican leadership is just stunned by what happened last night in delaware. now they are scrambling to get control of a movement that seems to be taking overtheir party. >> last night showed there is a very vociferous debate going on inside the republican party. >> republican officials in this state and nationally are trying to figure out how to win with a candidate they did not want. >> tea party upsets like hers have triggered a republican party civil war. >> i want to get straight. o'donnell is another sarah palin endorsed candidate. karl rove is doing battle now with sarah palin. >> palin vs. rove, get your tickets. >> sean: it is a civil war o

and secondly he's not newt gingrich. newt gingrich walked in with a reputation and image of a guy very conservative, maybe kind of out there maybe kind of unpredictable. bairner doesn't have that. he is sort of a bland image if anything so the ago of demonizing him i don't think is going to fly. >> what is john boehner as a ledge later. he is not somebody who will blow up the place. he really is a guy that for 20 years has been interested in getting things done. >> lehrer: and we had gotten this done tonight, thank you both very much. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day: at a wide-ranging news conference, president obama charged republicans are holding the middle class hostage and delaying the economic recovery. he also made a call for religious tolerance in light of recent threats by a florida pastor to burn the koran. and protests were held across afghanistan against the possible koran burning, and some turned violent. at least 11 people were injured in clashes. and to hari sreenivasan, in our newsroo

he doesn't want to criticize newt gingrich because he's been a big supporter of his. here's the other deal. the president's father left them when he was around 2 or so. he didn't even know the guy. so it's not like he grew up around his dad, listening to him all the time. also, when has been colonialism a great thing? >> talking to democrats, i know you have, privately, we'll say, some of the anger they hear in they districts, they say there's no doubt some of it is latent racism. they can't prove it -- >> oh, good lord. when republicans start talking, they scream racism. it's the last best trick of a losing democrat, is to accuse the republicans of racism. the issue here has nothing to do with race. the issue has to do with nobody, republican or democrat, has figured out what this guy's world view is. and the republicans are starting to set the narrative for 2012 already that this guy's world view is fundmentally anti-american. >> erick, you're not going to say the president of the united states who is sworn to defend and protect the constitution, has an anti-america

and newt gingrich talks about the theory. is this fringe journalism? from breathless coverage of a kooky pastor here to the phone-hacking tabloid crooks in britain, are the media sinking into an ethical swamp? conversation with the daily beast's tina brown. plus a new york jets reporter gets cat calls in the locker room and some commentators are blaming her for dressing too provocatively. we'll ask espn's christine brennan whether that's out of bounds. i'm howard kurtz, and this is "reliable sources." >>> a couple of weeks ago no pundit on the planet would have wagered a nickel on diehard conservative candidate christine o'donnell winning the republican nomination for joe biden's old senate seat in delaware. shows what we know. and when o'donnell upset veteran congressman and former governor mike castle this week she stepped into a blazing hot media spotlight. >> a triumphant night for the upstart tea party. christine o'donnell with sarah palin's backing. >> the republican leadership is just stunned by what happened last night in delaware and now they

mike huckabee, mitt romney, newt gingrich, sarah palin. is this representative of what the republican party might endorse as a whole? >> caller: no. mike pence is a great guy. i think a lot of people respect him very, very much. he's not a national figure at this point and time. mike huckabee, obviously, i shared his campaign. mike came in second in the presidential race last time. obviously, if he wants to run, again, he'll be a viable candidate. he's not given indication he wants to do that. these are very important people that came to the convention. the difference between this con ve investigation and the tea party is things are important to them like gay marriage and abortion issues. they are significant. the tea party is about fiscal conservative and smaller government and not raising taxes. they may share common goals. at this point and time, mike pence is a good guy. he's going to be an important player if we have a majority in the congress. no one has talked about him as a presidential candidate. >> you mentioned the differences b

you've heard -- >> some absurd rhetoric like what newt gingrich has used. some crazy rhetoric. >> that's right. and you know, as a result of the campaigns using that rhetoric, what do we expect to start happening other than opening brawls at campaign events? >> you know, rat one point, you do wonder if this is going to actually start turning people off. you know, the irony of what colbert's doing, he and jon stewart are trying to have this rally on the mall for sanity and of course colbert today in many ways contributed to the insanity. vaughn, before i let you go a new feature that we're all teeming up with on msnbc.com. the voter confidence index. tell us more about it. >> what we're trying to do with this, chuck, is measure the kind of impact of the anger that we've seen out there. we've taken the average of big poll questions these national major polls ask commonly and we've averaged them together and we've come up with a number, that sort of illustrates where the feeling of the mooftd country is. negative is bad. positive is good. president obama start

followed by huckabee, then romney and newt gingrich. former alaska governor sarah palin got 7% of the vote. caroline shively has more from the summit in washington. >> reporter: the social conservatives here at the summit say washington is ripe for a revolution. chairman of the liberty council asked the crowd are you ready for an awakening in your generation? bob mcdonnell told activists that a renaissance is sweeping the nation. >> we have to get people who believe in the limited government federalism ideas out in november. >> reporter: newt gingrich told the crowd they can take the house and senate back from what he called a political -- >> we are at a great cross roads part of why i think the insurgency is helpful and the toughness and eagerness to come to washington to change washington is so useful. >> reporter: he pointed to a number of races where establishment candidates were knocked out. grass roots 7, establishment 0. islam was a big topic. bill bennett spoke about terrorist acts made in the name of islam and from islamic lead

newt gingrich talks like he is a tribal leader somewhere. the president talking about a kenyan, a third worlder. he is calling him an anti-colonial. here's what he said, what if obama is so outside our comprehension that only if you understand kenyan anti-colonial behavior can you begin to piece together his actions? that's the most accurate predictive model -- in other words, if we're going to predict the speaker of the house, we should think of him as a kenyan chief or what? what kind of talk is that from an american politician? >> look, i'm going to leave it up to newt to do the philosophical theories on politics. look at one of the problems with obama, he just hasn't been effective. he needs to focus on jobs. that's what the american people are worried about. he hasn't been able to do that. he spent too much money. >> why don't republicans focus on jobs instead of on his tribal nature? why are republicans -- you have a good case about jobs. >> you're talking about one republican, come on. >> newt was your speaker. you used to obey this g

and then you had a period of time where newt gingrich and bill clinton had some things they wanted to make progress on like welfare and so they worked together but it took some time to get there . if after this election the republicans gain control of the house and senate, i think we'll have a rocky period for a while and then the question will be do the republicans move ahead with trying repeal the health care bill which democrats have blocked? everybody agrees we need to do something about immigration although people have different prescriptions. everybody agrees we need to do something about entitlement and the cost of entitlement. will there be some attitude that we have to deal with those? tavis: everybody has his or her opinion about this. i'm curious to hear yours. why the president's numbers are as low as they are when you take into consideration that he has accomplished more in this you know, first year and a half than most first term presidents, whether one agrees or disagrees, that may be your answer, but he did get health care through and financial reform through. we could

. >> whether it's dealing with the tea party or newt gingrich, bill clinton. >> you're simply the best. mark, what did you learn? >> that mika can squinch up her nose just like amanda stevens. >> okay. nikki haley tomorrow, a rising star. >> wrap it up. >>> right now it's time for "the daily rundown" with chuck and savannah. >> they call us whacky. they call us wing nuts. we call us we the people. >> christine o'donnell works her magic with value voters. >>> plus, democrats are waving a nationality party campaign but the white house says it's not happening. >>> and the case against men. the evidence that women are better at just about everything. can this really be true? good morning. it's monday, september 20th, 2010. >> i'm chuck. let's get to the rundown before we go to mars and venus. the president working to break through on the economy. it's an hour-long live televised town hall on our sister network, cnbc, and he talks to 200 people from college students to small business owners and retirees. >> the president then hits the campaign trail later on. he's going to head to philadelp

i like working with newt gingrich. i could deal with all the shenanigans they pull, but i hate to see the people who are more likely to generate manufacturing and small business opportunities and more likely to train the american people to do the jobs that are open and more likely to deal with the remainder of the mortgage crisis thrown out of office. >> schieffer: all right. >> i don't know how it will play out. >> schieffer: mr. president, i'm sorry, we have to leave it there but we do. the clock ran out. we'll be back in one minute. >> thank you. >> schieffer: we're back now with our republican political round table. joining me here in the studio, michael gerson of "the washington post," the legendary strategist ed rollins is in our new york studio. well, as many of you read in your morning paper, we expected to have christine o'donnell, the surprise winner of that republican senate primary up in delaware with us this morning. she called us or emailed us yesterday morning and told us that she was canceling. said she

mitt romney, third, newt gingrich fourth, sarah palin 5th. and what's the important issue to them, they said not government spending, they said abortion number one. social issues were number one. might tell you why mike pence won the straw poll. he may not be the highest from indiana because governor mitch daniels a lot of people would like to see run. >> a lot of people would say don't make a lot of hay out of this material. look at mike pence and mitt romney probably step forward and be the likely republican candidate for president. i'm not sure why they would go that direction. again, like you said, dave, maybe more social issues than economic issues 'cause if it were economics, you'd look at definitely mike huckabee. >> and they also asked about vice-presidential who you'd like to see on the ticket for vice-president. that was sarah palin, senator rick santorum, congressman paul ryan. jim demints, governor mike huckabee and that the organizers obviously of this, the three-day conference of you know, the biggest names in conservative polit

newt gingrich was the clear leader of the revolution. he didn't have a revolution forced upon him. boehner has not been the leader of this. >> more scared. >> he's just trying to hang on to the bulls as they're running through the streets, that, you know wasn't the case in 1994 and because gingrich was the leader of the revolution, i think he felt more obligation to them to prove he could lead. once he got into office boehner won't have that since that sort of motivation is spurring him as well. chances are he may be more inclined to watch his back. gwen: is everybody getting a little overreacted to this, getting too nervous? "roll call" wrote of all the incumbents this year, 98% are getting re-elected. it's not as if they're throwing all the bums out they're selectively, and spectacularly in high profile ways throwing certain bums out. >> when the bums thrown out mood costs you a senate seat that would give you control of the senate is worth worrying about. gwen: that's what happened with scott brown as well. people forget we've been through these upheavals before. >> as most incu

i covered newt gingrich when he ran the newt revolution in 1994 and the old newt gingrich looks like nelson rockefeller compared to this crowd. and newt couldn't do it. newt was much better as an attack guy, trying to pull down the democratic hierarchy of that day than he was as a manager and an inside guy and he really in the end couldn't do it. there were all kinds of coups and countercoups because when the purists get in they're more interested in purism -- purist thinking than they are in cutting deals and running government. i think it'll be very difficult. and this is really kind of too bad, keith, because we need this kind of argument in the country, constantly, about the role of government. but you have to have people who believe enough in government to make that possible. a rejectionist front doesn't work. and i blame for this collapse of the conversation, people like john mccain, who is after all the republican standard bearer against barack obama, he went totally over the tea party side to get the nomination in his state. you ran a list of republican senators there who wer

mitt romney, mike huckabee, newt gingrich will be there. o'donnell will meet with national republican senatorial head john cornyn who initially said he would not back her race but later promised to give her the organization's maximum legal donation of $42,000. yesterday republican national committee chair michael steele also called o'donnell to personally express his support and to pledge the backing from the national party. despite polls suggesting o'donnell has a slim chance of beating democratic candidate, they are still pouring money. chris coons had raised over $944,000 compared to o'donnell's 20 grand. 20 grand, leading up to the primary. but in just the 24 hours after her win, look at this. o'donnell racked up $845,000 in donations. that's in one day while coons netted $125,000. not so bad either. but 8:45 on the wednesday, the day after she won the primary is remarkable. >>> on fox yesterday, karl rove, the man who made news for his criticism of o'donnell after her win on tuesday, backed off a bit. even offering o'donnell advice on