the party needs to get out of its comfort zone. greta: african-americans are typically democrat. we had an incredible candidate in michael faulkner who ran against the machine up there, if you will. did reasonably well. yeah, he lost but the seeds were planned. you plant seeds in places where you are gonna lose and win. greta: is the job fun? job is fun. look, i think now we have a chance to move forward in a very aggressive way to take on the obama administration and his agenda and that s what we are going to do. greta: thank you. next we go to haiti. you will see firsthand what is happening in haiti, next. plus governor palin taking heat for something that happened on the haiti trip. happened on the haiti trip. but since we [ male announcer ] you are a business pro.
virginia is going to ask for that from the justice department. i fully support that and hope other governors will weigh in and say let s get this resolved. greta: have you spoken to any other governors since the ruling came down in richmond? a couple. greta: who? they probably wouldn t want me to say, i ve spoken to people on both sighs. obviously, some are disappoint greta: who have you spoken to? i had a nice chat with my good from martin o malley, does a lot of work with us. we tacked about the ruling. but, i ll just say that there will be different views on what they think about the ruling. there shouldn t be tkpwrplt on let s get this resolved at the supreme court quickly so everybody knows what the rules are. [ unintelligible ] we in a nice discussion. i followed up on the letter that i sent last thursday i sent to all 50 governors.
year and a half ago, two years ago needs to continue as we set our sights to 2012 and what we hope will be the election of the republican president in 2012. greta: it seems toeg in terms of the criteria, two questions whether you can win seats. and you did pretty well. we did. we did well. greta: you get credit and blame. absolutely. if we had not won the seats we won, 64 in the house, 21 legislatures that flipped from democrat to republican. certainly that would rest at my doorstep. in the 09, 2010 cycle we raised 179 million dollars a lot was small dollar donations that s the new political playground. we ve got to be able to adapt to that and we did. we took advantage of opportunities to raise the
greta: now you are down to three. we spent a lot of money. you can t look at it in terms of where you begin and what you end. you are talking two periods. one election which you had 13, 14 million dollars spent on governor races of virginia and new jersey, massachusetts and hawaii. you are talking about helping the other party committees, nrcc payoff their debt in 2009. you can t look in absolute terms. you look at dollars that come in, what you do with those dollars and how you get geared up for the next cycle. greta: why are some gunning for you? my style is a little different than most conventional republican party chairman. more grass roots oriented. i m more of a street guy. i love boardrooms, but i prefer to be in neighborhoods and communities. my first trip was to go to harlem. they asked why? that s where the votes are.
from coast-to-coast, the united states to take time to know it was so well worth i. thank you. thank you. greta: video pictures behind the scenes stories about our trip to haiti, go to gretawire.com. here s one story about the trip you might want to hear. did you see this ap picture of governor palin? the caption read governor palin has her hair done during a visit to a cholera treatment center. many websites went wild hammering governor palin for bringing a hairstylist to haiti. the person is not a hairstylist it is the governor s daughter bristol reaching up and fixing her mother s hair. check out the similar picture i took the same day. was that ap caption lame and deceiving? and why did they do it? we report, you decide.