to the tune of an additional $3.5 trillion. i believe that while senator santorum was serving in congress, and the senate, government spending increased by some 80%. the public spent too much money, borrowed too much money. earmarked too much. rick santorum and newt gingrich have to be held accountable. mitt romney is saying i am not a conservative. that is just, that is laughable for a moderate massachusetts governor who has been for big government programs. says i earmark. he is the biggest earmark in the history of the country, for the wall street bail-out. bret: he went on to say the government of massachusetts advocated for more and more money cometologcome coming to his s. what about this? you knew when it started santorum would be recipient of the incoming from romney. if that is all romney can muster, it s not a lock. earmark is an issue. look how santorum parried it.
being conservative, and that s rick santorum, we re told now. we ve been told that s various candidates over the last six months, but we re told it s not mitt romney. that s the moderate candidate you settle for. i don t know about the narrative. santorum is the mirror opposite of ron paul, advocating for big government programs, from giving the manufacturing base a corporate tax rate cut, well, down to 0%, and none other. that s picking losers in the economy. beyond that, he has the most absolutely interventionist foreign policy out there. rick santorum is not what people like to believe, a small government conservative, so i don t know where this if this narrative holds true, it s not going to be valid. i mean, if we re selling a lie. so i don t know who s going to keep giving him money. people in the position in government are giving him money. who knows? i m going to switch gears well, maybe not switching gears, because we know he ll be scrutinized more and more now. lenny
we re bringing you the news from a to z. it s 5:00 a.m. in the east. six police officers were shot overnight while serving a search warrant in utah. that was drug-related. they are recovering in the hospital this morning. apparently, only one suspect there. also in the hospital, right? yes, also in the hospital. we ll continue to watch that. also, guess what? some huge announcements coming. pictures like this may not be as voluminous if the government gets its way. president obama is about to announce we re going to cut a lot of troops and change our war tragedy. we re not going to be so capable of fighting two wars at once if what he says is going to be the way of the future. so, you know the dallas teenager that was deported by mistake? well, her family says she was sent to colombia where she didn t speak the language, didn t know anyone. why? because apparently, she ran away from home, and when the police picked her up, she gave them a false name, which hap
prisons later. i was at a childcare center there my district and literally stood with moms when they lose their childcare as a result of the cuts in hr-1 they will have to stop working. they won t be able to send their kids to school and they won t get an early childhood education. cuts like that will directly lead to kids becoming criminals later on. megyn: really? joining me now, crystal ball, a former virginia congressional candidate. andrea tantaros, and sam bennett, the ceo of the women s campaign form. if we cut any funds for childcare all those kids will become criminals. all of them. the pilgrims didn t have these government program and they turned out okay. criminality predates big government programs. we are probably in our highest
about. what democrats don t want to. they want to talk about investment. bret: is this the end of the stimulus era? interesting question. you heard mark zandy an economist that was trumpeting the stimulus package saying it would cost 700,000 jobs and now pushback saying it will only cost 200,000 jobs. so it seems like era of the stimulus is over and not a lot of support among the democrats to push for big government programs. to defend them. some economists say this would create jobs freeing up more capital it s important to remember what both mitch mcconnell and john boehner said. democrats haven t offered anything. they don t have anything. only thing that exists is what the house republicans put out. democrats need to put out a number. if there is a compromise, after not putting out a budget last year, reason we are