the suspect is still inside and has not taken hostages, according to this report. all of this is still sort of coming in. and the details are a bit unconfirmed because this is coming in over a police scanner. but you can see there is a situation underway at this fedex fas nilt bed forward park illinois. if there are more developments on that we ll get it to you. bill: keep a close eye on that. newt gingrich is getting trouble for fannie mae and freddie mac and he s hiring gliew. first of all t. wasn t paid to me. gingrich group does a lot of things and we offered advice. bill: so more on that, and also, where is the outrage over fannie mae executives, fannie and freddie, we should say, walking away with millions of dollars in bonuses? martha: and police are now saying that this man s
say he has done a poor job of responding to the claims. almost 50% of republicans who say done a good job making the case. the chargers aren t to be taken seriously. it has accrued and it s evident andm plified by the oops on libya in front of the milwaukee editorial board. bret: charles, what about the questions about the gingrich group and the consulting done for freddie mac and how it plays for the big picture for gingrich? bret: now that he has run to front of the pack he gets the scrutiny. it s not the media ganging up on him. it happens when anybody becomes the front runner. it s best. if there are issues that most of us never heard of, if a republican you want to come out now and see how they handle it if he wins
of their uniquely high iq. well, i would say this. he is clearly the highest paid historian in american history. people complain if you go into the humanities, you don t make as much money, but this may do a lot for that career path. it s just nonsense! advice about what? if it was advice about what kind of policies to follow, he was very critical of those policies. again, i m just struck by his ability to say things that clearly make no sense. and he also, i gather he said the money wasn t paid to him. that was his other oh, yeah, that dodge. it was paid to the gingrich group, not him. frankly, i thought the gingrich group were his wives. congressman, you re not aware of the new lingo, which is coming from mitt romney, which is, corporations are people too. that s right. anyway, here s an interesting reaction to the latest news. lobbyist jack abramoff, who s back for reclamation, he went to
what they call it now. he s running for president and rising in the polls. but former speaker newt gingrich s is also a corrupt example of how the revolving door helps washington. gingrich says he s never lobbied, but just months after le leaving congress, his con summiting firm, the gingrich group, took in more than $1.5 million from the now taxpayer owned mortgage giant, freddie mac, the very same freddie mac who along with fannie mae is blamed by conservatives like newt gingrich is a primary driver of the housing crisis. maybe it was newt s consulting that did it. newt says he was paid as a historian, but where is the line between consulting and lobbying? and should former lawmakers be allowed to do either? i think we both know the answer. one of the nation s most notorious and powerful lobbyists, jack abramoff, says no way. this is exactly what i m talking about. people who come to washington, who have public service, and they cash in on it. and they use their public
the white house. the sun has come up over washington, d.c. welcome back to morning joe. still with us, mike barnicle, jon meacham, along with michael sfeele in washington, and joining the table, we have the president of the council on foreign relations, also columnist and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. also in washington, the moderator of meet the press, david gregory. okay. we ve got a big group today and a lot to get to. let s dive right into the news. we ll get to the top stories and then i want to get to something richard wrote about asia. we were listening to barney frank as we came in, he s facing new scrutiny this morning over the dealings with the government backed mortgage lender. reportedly earning $1.6 million in consulting fees from the company. gingrich addressed the controversy in iowa yesterday. first of all, it wasn t paid to me. gingrich group was a consulting