up with the world s worst act forps of course the greatest threat the world faces is a nuclear iran and nuclear north korea is already troubling enough. but when these terrible actors already pursue their course in the world and we go to the united nations looking for ways to stop them, who is it who always sdands up for the world s worst actors? it is always russia typically with china alongside. when wolf blitzer pushed him for the clarification, i think he went ton make a pretty good point and a pretty good case for what he was trying to say about russia. right. and so he maybe should have said it more clearly to begin with, but yeah, he makes the case that russia has made a habit of, you know, being the protector of states like venezuela and cuba and, you know, the countries basically that are doing things that the western alliance opposes and often things in violation of international law and violation of human rights.
networks including nbc on the campaign trail with newt gingrich but no print reporters. second newt gingrich cancelled his campaign events in north carolina this week. the campaign would prefer we call ate postponement. mr. gingrich will stay close to home in northern virginia and go to campaign events there. the north carolina primary is on may 8th. virginia s already done. that brings us to the third new thing to report about the newt gingrich campaign. it is about his wife, calista gingrich. she is campaigning for her husband all week. an important state, her home state of wisconsin. this is a new thing for mrs. gingrich. this isn t something she hadn t made a habit of. she doesn t go on events on her own very often. she seems to be at an elementary school in trinity academy, in hudson, wisconsin. she took a tour of the school and did a book reading from her book sweet land of liberty. which is a great and effective
xw well, let s it s the opposite of ms. warren. let s show it. really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working, and have nobody around them who works. so they literally have no habit of showing up on monday. they have no habit of, i do this and you give me cash. unless it s illegal. now, i met your mom, i know your story, you talk in more of these households in the afternoon than about anybody. how do you respond? let me tell you how i feel. your colleague, crist matthews is great on this. he says it s a clown show, but these irscary clowns, rev. they re very scary, and they re for real, but i think in the end, if we think about what this country has never done. i don t care if we have differences on abortion or immigration, we ve never elected anybody who was crazy, right? these guys are crazy to me.
polls but does that mean he s the definitive nominee? he seems to think so and that s what he said to abc news. it s not the first example of his ego that has been out on the campaign trail. is he just too confident? michelle bernard is the president of the bernard center for women politics and public policy and an msnbc political analyst. steve kornacki covers politics for salon.com. here s what newt gingrich said last night, in iowa, about poor children. let s watch. really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working, and have nobody around them who works. so they literally they have no habit of showing up on monday. they have no habit of staying all day. they have no habit of, i do this and you give me cash, unless it s illegal. what if you paid them part-time in the afternoon to sit at the clerical office and greet people when they came in? what if you paid them to work as the assistant librarian? what if and i pay them as early as is reasonable and
front-runner along with mitt romney, has said on this program that in the past, discipline has been a problem for him. in his personal life. and in his public life. to that point, a lot of critics are looking at his comments this week and saying, are we seeing the return of that newt gingrich? this is what he said about children. really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habit of working. and have nobody around them who work. so they literally have no habit of showing up on monday. they have no habit of staying all day. they have no habit of, i do this and you give me cash. is that the view of the republican party? he also called child labor laws truly stupid. well, you know, i m going to let i can t be the referee of all, you know, 21 candidates in the republican field. i mean the reality is that these candidates have to speak for themselves. but