is iran, and it s nuclear ambitions. some want to bomb iran, but have they even thought what the consequences would be? finally, which republican candidate said in new hampshire he doesn t care what the rest of the country thinks or fears? that s in the sideshow. we start with newt gingrich. joan wall somebody editor at large for salon.com and david corn is from mother jones and an msnbc political analyst. one of the more ridiculous answers at last week s cnbc republican debate. asked about his ties to freddie mac, newt gingrich said they paid him to offer advice as, quote, an historian. let s watch. i offered advice, and my advice as an historian when they walked in and said to me we are now making loans to people with no credit history and have no record of paying back anything, but that s what the government wants us to do, i said to them at the time, this is a bubble. this is insane. this is impossible. well, it seems like to pay those tiffany bills he s been busy out there f
now to politics. republican flavor of the month newt gingrich really went out on a limb at the cnbc debate last week when he said he never worked as a lobbyist for the government-backed mortgage company, freddie mac. your firm was paid $300,000 by freddie mac in 2006. what did you do for that money? are you asking me? yes. i offered them advice on precisely what they didn t do. i have never done any lobbying. every contract that was written during the period when i was out of the office specifically said i would do no lobbying and i offered advice. my advice as a historian when they walked in and said to me, we re making loans to people who have no credit history and have no record of paying back anything, but that s what the government wants us to do. i said to them at the time, this is a bubble. this is insane. pretty shifty, isn t it? so newt says he was never paid to be a historian. okay. he was paid to be a historian, not a lobbyist.
now to politics. republican flavor of the month newt gingrich really went out on a limb at the cnbc debate last week when he said he never worked as a lobbyist for the government-backed mortgage company freddie mac. your firm was paid $300,000 by freddie mac in 2006. what did you do for that money? are you asking me? yes. i offered them advice on precisely what they didn t do. i have never done any lobbying. every contract that was written during the period when i was out of the office specifically said i would do no lobbying and i offered advice. and my advice as a historian when they walked in and said to me, we re now making loans to people who have no credit history and have no record of paying back anything, but that s what the government wants us to do. i said to them at the time, this is a bubble. this is insane. pretty shifty, isn t it? so newt says he was never paid to be a historian. okay. he was paid to be a historian, not a lobbyist. never been a lobbyist.
finally, which republican candidate said in new hampshire he doesn t care what the rest of the country thinks or fears? that s in the sideshow. we start with newt gingrich. joan wall somebody editor at large for salon.com and david corn is from mother jones and an msnbc political analyst. one of the most ridiculous answers at last week s cnbc republican redate. asked about his ties to freddie mac, newt gingrich said they paid him to offer advice as, quote, an historian. let s watch. i offered advice, and my advice as an historian when they walked in and said to me we are now making loans to people with no credit history and have no record of paying back anything, but that s what the government wants us to do, i said to them at the time, this is a bubble. this is insane. this is impossible. well, it seems like to pay those tiffany bills0he s been business out there for freddie mac. today bloomberg reported that freddie mac executives dispute gingrich s assertion that he warned th
me, we are now making loans to people with no credit history and have no record of paying back anything, but that s what the government wants us to do. this is a bubble. this is insane, this is impossible. okay. so i m just going to say, i don t buy a word that he says there are if you look at the chris christie numbers, there are smart republicans in this country, just not that many running for president. the bench is amazing. the bench is pretty impressive. mitchell daniels sits out there, he could be running for president. if you like southern republican politics, haley is as good as they come. jeb is great, he s got the wrong last name. they have true beliefs. they are conservatives with true beliefs. here s one thought, whoever the candidate is going to be, that candidate is going to become the vessel for such a huge amount of money to basically administer an agenda of deregulation, more