but this president has been intent on attacking, and attack mode is not the way a leader tries to get people to work together. >> i want to talk about newt gingrich for a minute. you've used some tough words about him, zany, unreliable, inconsistent, loose cannon, you believe he might be tearing up the constitution about this idea about judges. just this morning i got my usual daily e-mail now with the headline on gingrich called unreliable leader. do you think he's fit to be president? >> of course i think speaker gingrich has the qualifications to become president. i've said before that i think anybody on the stage would be a better president than the one we have. i happen to think that i'd be better than speaker gingrich. if not, i wouldn't be running. i think he has proven that when the big issues of the last decade or so came to the fore, the cap and trade issue he sat down with nancy pelosi on a sofa to argue about it. when medicare was brought