and paul pelosi, who is here. [applause] my colleague and seatmate from the legislature, all of my votes were cast by advice seatmate, congress woman jackie spear. [applause] i will have to pay for that one much later on, but i have the microphone. and [laughter] mr. mayor, there are some of your mayor colleagues that are here, and i have been told -- i saw two of them last night. the president of the u.s. conference of mayors, the organization that you're very much a part of nationwide, the most powerful voice for local government in america, that is the president, mayor antonio of los angeles, california. [applause] and the mayor that are really have an affinity for and relationship with, because i look to great things as his future unfolds, the mayor of atlanta, georgia, christine reed. [applause] the mayor of oakland, calif., a former colleague of yours from the old school days when you live in oakland, before i convinced you to moves. . [laughter] mayor jean quam. [applause] from state offices in this state,

ron paul, nancy pelosi -- ron paul and nancy pelosi are on the same side of an issue? i hope a super pack is watching. she tweeted, need to find a solution better than sopa. wikipedia cofounder says he's behind the efforts and is going to black out, too. >>> on his last day in office, haley barbour granted clemency to more than 200 drug dealers, rapists and murdereresmurderers. why? and the run of dsk. you will not believe the shocking defense his lawyers have put up. the other office devices? they don't get me. they're all like, "hey, brother, doesn't it bother you that no one notices you?" and i'm like, "doesn't it bother you you're not reliable?" and they say, "shut up!" and i'm like, "you shut up." in business, it's all about reliability. 'cause these guys aren't just hitting "print." they're hitting "dream." so that's what i do. i print dreams, baby. [whispering] big dreams. >>> start the second half of our show with stories we care about where we focus on reporting, do the work and find the out front five and first, the president asked congress this afternoon to

and you have michele bachmann on board, ron paul, nancy pelosi -- ron paul and nancy pelosi are on the same side of an issue? i hope a super pac is watching. she tweeted, need to find a solution better than sopa. don't break the internet. wikipedia cofounder says he's behind the efforts and is going to black out, too. >>> on his last day in office, haley barbour granted clemency to more than 200 drug dealers, rapists and murderers. why? >> and the return of dsk. you will not believe the shocking defense his lawyers have put up. [ male announcer ] you love the taste of 2% milk. but think about your heart. 2% has over half the saturated fat of whole milk. want to cut back on fat and not compromise on taste? try smart balance fat free milk. it's what you'd expect from the folks at smart balance. >>> start the second half of our show with stories we care about where we focus on reporting, do the work and find the out front five and first, the president asked congress this afternoon to increase the debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion. it's not a surprise, but it makes republicans angry including

and you have michele bachmann on board, ron paul, nancy pelosi -- ron paul and nancy pelosi are on the same side of an issue? i hope a super pac is watching. she tweeted, need to find a solution better than sopa. don't break the internet. wikipedia cofounder says he's behind the efforts and is going to black out, too. >>> on his last day in office, haley barbour granted clemency to more than 200 drug dealers, rapists and murderers. why? >> and the return of dsk. you will not believe the shocking defense his lawyers have put up. the other office devices? they don't get me. they're all like, "hey, brother, doesn't it bother you that no one notices you?" and i'm like, "doesn't it bother you you're not reliable?" and they say, "shut up!" and i'm like, "you shut up." in business, it's all about reliability. 'cause these guys aren't just hitting "print." they're hitting "dream." so that's what i do. i print dreams, baby. [whispering] big dreams. >>> start the second half of our show with stories we care about where we focus on reporting, do the work and find the out front five and first, the

paul, not good. check three, nancy pelosi also saying not nice things. >> newt gingrich out on the campaign trail said the dumbest thing he did was sit down on the couch and make an ad with you. >> the association dumbest thing he ever did, think there is plenty of competition. >> bill: kind of hot rhetoric does not help the global warming cause. check four. chris christie again taking no prisoners. >> really? so may go down but it ain't going to be jobs, sweetheart. >> i have a message, mr. president, this is disoriented anger, your cynicism and division is causing in our country. stop dividing the country, mr. president. >> bill: the liberal press loves to portray the occupy wall street movement as a law abiding protest. the head of police union of washington, d.c. has written a letter that crime has increased since d.c. police had to deal with the occupiers. pinheads and patriots on deck, tim tebow, [ kate ] most women may not be properly absorbing the calcium they take because they don't take it

and calling the paul ryan plan right wing engineering. you will look at his record and say he is not so conservative. we'll get a chance to frame up the issues. he had a good week going after me on taxes and bain and a great confrontation with juan williams. that is hard to imagine on every single state. >>reporter: how will yougenerally speaking, how will you go after newt gingrich now? >> guest: key for me is not going after newt gingrich as pointing out my capacit yebackground and strengths. i don't think the people of this country are going to choose as the next president of the united states. a person who spent 40 years in washington as a congressman and a lobbyist. that is not the most effective way to replace the current president who spent his career in politics. in order to replace a president who never had the experience leading a business or leading a state or leading a community, that it makes sense to have someone who actually has done those things and lead a state and also lead an olympics and business. that background is cr

the speaker when i was fighting against cap and trade, the speter was sitting down with nancy pelosi encouraging it. when i was fighting to say the paul ryan plan was gold and right, he was saying it was right wing social engineering. so we have different perspect e perspectives on leadership and the kind of leadership our movement needs not to just get elected, but to get the country right. >> i'm not going to spend the evening trying to chase governor romney's misinformation. he went on and on and on making all series of allegations. first of all, he may have been a good financier. he's a terrible historian. all this this stuff jumbled up. what you ought to do is look at the facts. >> romney zeroed in on newt gingrich's work with freddie mac. gingrich released his 2006 contract with the mortgage lender before last night's debate. that doesn't stop the two from going at it on the issue. >> on this stage at a prior debate, you said you were paid $300,000 by freddie mac as an historian. they don't pay people 25,000 a month for six years as historians. that adds up to about $1.6 millio

pelosi and attacking barack obama for being born in kenya, that's the whole thing here. the attacks that are coming against newt, a lot of them happen to be true. he just can't admit that. >> only 5% of gop delegates will be awarded. even if gingrich is wiped away today in florida, he still has something to go forward in february with, doesn't he? >> oh, sure. i think that's mitt romney's worth nightmare. newt is the gift that will keep on giving clearly through february even though he can't win and clear up and until super tuesday. he's going to take this into the republican convention in tampa this year. i don't think he's going to get that. he's just on a payback and a vengeful move. i think that's the long and short of it. >> don't you think newt is bound to feel positive about the south? there are a number of states there that are likely to take newt's message and run wp it again, aren't they? >> i don't think it's impossible for him to collect fair number of delegates. what you wind up with is as the momentum gets behind romney, newt will have a harder time with fu

it said that you had sat down with nancy pelosi and argued for a climate change bill. that was correct. it said that you called the ron paul -- paul ryan's plan to provide medicare reform a right wing social engineering plan. it said that as part of an investigation and ethics investigation that you had to reimburse some $300,000. those things are all true. if there was something related to abortion that it said that was wrong, i hope they pull it out. anything wrong, i'm opposed to. but you know, this ain't bean bag. we're going to come into a campaign and describe the differences between us. >> go ahead, speaker. >> i do think the rhetoric was a little over the top. >> you think my rhetoric was over the top. but your ads were totally reasonable? that's -- i've taken the governor's advice. >> mr. speaker, the super p.a.c.s that are out there running ads with ron paul's, mine, yours, as you know, that is not my ad. i don't write that adment. >> how about this. >> mr. speaker -- >> i wouldn't call some of the things you've called me public. i think that's over the top.

career in that he likes to say things that are popular, whether it's sitting on the couch with nancy pelosi and the global warming going on, or disclaiming paul ryan. >> i got to say, on this i give him the benefit of the doubt. if he wants to airing have been consistently opposed to tax hikes and any tax hike deal that ronald reagan entertained -- he said this before, and the other deal from 1986, write off credit card interest, that ultimately translated to lot more americans paying more taxes elm when ronald reagan left office he said bottom line people are paying a lot less in income tacks then they were when i came into office so i have the better of the democrats. gingrich is saying the purists, that's true, but i fought him when he ceded that ground. why would that be bad? >> that's fair enough. there are other people who he should be attacking outside of ronald reagan. he could be talking about how barack obama's class warfare and raising taxes on the rich is not how he will run his presidency and explain why the american people are already paying too much in taxes. didn't need to t

first, he sat down on the couch with nancy pelosi to talk about climate change. he called the paul ryan plan on medicare reform and spending cuts right wing social engineering and now, he's attacking from the left in the same playbook as barack obama and the liberals. we're very comfortable in defending free enterprise and romney's record and creating jobs. >> and you're sure it's going to end with a creating? >> if you take a look at the companies governor romney's been involved in, there's clearly more jobs have been created. >> so, let's talk about tomorrow. looking back in 2008, 32%. 32.2 or something that he got. a big part of the narrative has been he's got to do better. he's got this threshold nationally. >> i think if 32% is going to win, we're fine with that. if we get 35%, we win, that's great. 29% and win. i think what we'd like our bar, we won by eight votes last tuesday. we'd like to win by more this time. >> that's a low bar. >> we'll start there and work our way up. >> let me ask you a question about the campaign. i was at your headquarters today.

first, he sat down on the couch with nancy pelosi to talk about climate change. he called the paul ryan plan on medicare reform and spending cuts right wing social engineering and now, he's attacking from the left in the same playbook as barack obama and the liberals. we're very comfortable in defending free enterprise and romney's record and creating jobs. >> and you're sure it's going to end with a creating? >> if you take a look at the companies governor romney's been involved in, there's clearly more jobs have been created. >> so, let's talk about tomorrow. looking back in 2008, 32%. 32.2 or something that he got. a big part of the narrative has been he's got to do better. he's got this threshold nationally. >> i think if 32% is going to win, we're fine with that. if we get 35%, we win, that's great. 29% and win. i think what we'd like our bar, we won by eight votes last tuesday. we'd like to win by more this time. >> that's a low bar. >> we'll start there and work our way up. >> let me ask you a question about the campaign. i was at your headquarters today.

and arguing for climate change and calling the paul ryan plan right-wing social engineering. you are going to look over his record and say well, he's not so conservative. >> reporter: i think that listening to those two sound bites we were gearing up for what's probably going to a good fight down in florida. challenge for newt gingrich going forward is he is up against a machine mitt romney well organized and well fortified and a lot of volunteers on the ground and lot of money down in florida. it is going to take a lot of money to get on the air and major markets down there. gingrich sent out a tweet after he got this victory last night asking his supporters to go to his website and donate because he will need their help to get his message out around the states. a fun ten days in florida. we will head there in just a few hours. >> fun indeed. could get wild. thank you so much. you can all watch the entire interview with newt gingrich when "meet the press" airs at 2:00 p.m. eastern and 11:00 a.m. pacific. less than two hours from now. >>> rick is an tore sum scheduled to meet

when i was fighting to say the paul ryan plan was bold and right, he was saying that it was right-wing social engineering. >> he said at least four things that are false. i don't want to waste the time on them. i think the american public deserves a speech on how to bead barack obama. >>> perry bacon, and political editor the grio.com, and steve mcmahon is a democratic strategist. lois, it was newt romney and mitt gingrich, apparently. they traded personalities a bit last night. how did it work? >> i don't think it worked well for gingrich because of a couple reasons. he needs very strong debate performances to, a, compensate he doesn't have any paid media, and because -- to compensate he has a weak campaign. so taking the high road and sake i'm not going to address this now made it look like he was caught flat-footed. >> what was interesting about romney, perry, just five days ago, the last debate he said he lamented the fact he had to go negative rather than president obama, in fact we asked him about that. here was his answer. >> i learned something from last contest in south caroli

it said that -- that you sat down with nancy pelosi and argued for a climate change bill. that was correct. it said that you called the -- the ron paul -- paul ryan's plan to provide medicare reform a -- a right wing social engineering plan. it said that -- that as part of an investigation, an ethics investigation, that you had to reimburse some $300,000. those things were all true. if there was something related to abortion that said it was wrong, i hope they pull it out. anything wrong i'm opposed to. but you know, this ain't -- this ain't the bean bag. we're going to come into a campaign, we're going to describe the differences between us -- >> all right. >> but i do think the rhetoric, mr. speaker, was a little over the top. >> you think my rhetoric was over the top? but your ads were totally reasonable? >> let me understand -- >> i've taken -- >> mr. speaker, the super pacs that are out there running ads, ron paul's, mine, yours, as you know, that is not my ad. i don't write that ad, i can't tell them -- >> how about this. would you both agree to take these super pac

and arguing for climate change regulation, for calling the paul ryan plan right wing social engineering. you're going to look over his record and say, well, he's not so conservative as a reliable conservative leader, n as people might have a imagined. but we'll get chance to frame up those issues as time goes on. he had a very good week going after me on taxes and bain and so forth. a great confrontation with juan williams. that's hard to match in every single state. >> chris: i want to pick up on exactly this issue, how will you -- you give us a couple of ideas. but how will you go after newt gingrich now? >> well, the key for me is mott so much going after newt gingrich as it is pointing out my capacity, my background, my strengths. look, i don't think that the people of this country are going to choose as the next president of the united states a person who spent 40 years in washington as a congressman and lobbyist. that is not going to, in my opinion, be the most effectiven way to replace the current president who also spent his career icen politics. h i think that in order to repla