santorum controversial, conservative and taking outspoken aim at his republican rivals. i ve done this for 12 years in the united states senate where i differ from michelle is really a matter of proven leadership. real life rocky times two. victor ortiz in the fight of his life. i m taking my title home. that means the victory as well. and the great oscar de la hoya life lessons from a ten-time world champion. it can ruin your life. it almost ruined mine. this is piers morgan tonight. joining me now is rick santorum, one of the crowded field of republicans who aim to challenge barack obama in 2012. senator, thank you for joining me. thank you, piers. good to be on. i don t want to start on a defeatist note here, but the cnn poll on monday had you at 1% of the vote to be the republican nominee. if you don t mind me suggesting it, what do you do? i don t really care what the national poll say. they don t really matter at all at this point. the polls th
22 points from 53% last year to 31%. some on the left are even calling for primary opponents to step into the fray and challenge the president in 2012. senator bernie sanders may be chief among those. he s an independent from vermont who caucuses with democrats, and i m delighted to say he joins us now from capitol hill. good afternoon, sir. why are you so disappointed in the president, and let me just say, martin, let me just say yes. most people who are calling my office now are really not worried about presidential politics. what they are worried about is the collapse of the middle class, the increase in poverty, the growing gap between the very rich and everybody else, and a deficit reduction debate right now which is moving in exactly the opposite direction of where the american people want to go. you quoted the washington post poll. let me tell you soluthing else about the washington post poll. you may have seen this. recently 72% of the american people said they th
22 points from 53% last year to 31%. some on the left are even calling for primary opponents to step into the fray and challenge the president in 2012. senator bernie sanders may be chief among those. he s an independent from vermont who caucuses with democrats, and i m delighted to say he joins us now from capitol hill. good afternoon, sir. why are you so disappointed in the president, and let me just say, martin, let me just say yes. most people who are calling my office now are really not worried about presidential politics. what they are worried about is the collapse of the middle class, the increase in poverty, the growing gap between the very rich and everybody else, and a deficit reduction debate right now which is moving in exactly the opposite direction of where the american people want to go. you quoted the washington post poll. let me tell you soluthing else about the washington post poll. you may have seen this. recently 72% of the american people said they th
in the race for the oval office? it s not iowa or florida or anywhere on the east or west coast, the places you usually look to in these rays. it is colorado according to one of the leading republican legal minds in the country. alicia acuna joins us on this now. how is colorado expected to play such a big role alicia? martha, at a gop fund-raiser in january, in colorado springs, karl rove told the crowd, in 2012, as goes colorado, so goes the nation. and in the last presidential election, candidate barack obama, one colorado won colorado by a nine-point margin, however, i can tell you that voters here have a history of making no promises, and if colorado is a reflection of the nation s electorate, then the style of the 2010 senate race here could be a predictor of what s to come at the white house. in fact obama strategist david axelrod said that that race is a model they re looking at for 2012. senator michael bennett was
wisconsin. brian, your initial thoughts on what s gone on here today? what we ve witnessed today san absolute travesty. these republicans and governor walker have taken a baseball bat to the head of democracy. they are trying to silence workers and they re doing it for one reason and one reason only, and that is because they want to deliver this state to the republican nominee in 2012. senator fitzgerald said so on a fox news interview just yesterday. this was never about the money, it was always about silencing the workers so they could monopolize the political agenda for the next few years. what do you think this will do to the strike? there has been essentially a lot of talk that it s union busting. do you think that s what s going to happen in reality when you see how this bill will kind of play out in real life, if you will? well, you know, we don t have to bargain contracts to show the strength of our movement. what we re seeing, and you can see the thousands of people that