close personal friend and i said that. the fact is i ve supported what ryan has done on the budget and the budget vote is one i am happy to say i would have voted for and i will defend and i will answer to any democrat who attempts to distort what i said. talk about a bad day. i don t get that. distort, he called it radical. well, he did. he used that word. it is the top of the hour, 6:00 on the east coast. welcome to morning joe. with us on set, we have msnbc contributor, mike barnicle. you look nice. that s right. i like it. they were talking to people last night about you. wow. that shirt, talking about it. it follows me. nice place, willie, everyone knows you. we also have the president of council on foreign relation, richard haass, always dapper, opposed to mike who needs a lot of help. i dressed up today. that s nice. i can see it from the waist up. i don t know. bad day for newt gingrich. yes! there s a bad day and then there s a bad day. ye
with allies like that who needs the left? yeah. look, what is happening is medicare is going broke and we re saying if we put a plan like this in place, you don t have to change the benefits for anybody who is 55 and above. that s hardly radical. the republican conservatives are all over newt. he has been just hammered from all over the right. what does this say about his potential going forward as a candidate? well, andrea, i say all the time when i m asked if newt gingrich is a serious candidate, i say unless he says something so dumb that it is disqualifying, he has a good chance to be the republican nominee, and then i say let me check my blackberry. his advisers keep telling him, you must stay disciplined you cannot say outrageous things. he has an intellectual point in criticizing the ryan plan and a mandate on individual insurance. but he s made the point in the typical bombastic hyperbollic way that gets him into trouble. the reaction has been swift and stro
in cash and gifts over his eight years as county executive. the results were revealed today that two developers and a johnson staffer had already secretly pled guilty in the participating with the fed called widespread pay to play scheme. he treated the citizens of prince george s county with crooked deals sealed with whispered conversations handshakes, and under the table money. his wife, councilperson leslie johnson remains under indictment for her role in the alleging attempting to destroy evidence by flashing a track down the toilet and hiding cash in her underwear. her case was not addressed today and she remains on the council. one current council executive says he hopes the county can now move ahead. individual actions, and they in no way tarnish the hard work that the employees of prince george s county have been doing and are doing. jack johnson will be sentenced in september. today, he offers an apology. i want to say to the citizens of our county that i a