unbelievable. we are still talking about archiving facts from history. governor rick perry s use of painkillers to relieve back pain may have kept him from being on top of his game according to a new politico e-book released today. that brings us to today s politico play book. joining us now, the chief white house correspondent, mike allen along with princeton university evan thomas. they are co-authors of inside the circus . hmm. what could that be about. our boss is here. your boss, exactly. my lord. mike, make sure you get things right. your boss will correct you on the air as i learned on sunday. yes. you don t take offense to that at all. i suffered back pain was on
come on t.j. let s go. we re out of here. mike allen is coming up next. got a new book out, huh? the real mike allen. valerie jarrett is going to join us. eugene robinson and up next, inside the circus. mike allen and evan thomas are here to look at the new e-book going inside the republican race. first, the real bill karins with a look at the forecast. this is like middle school lunch. it took the word unzip. get ready for a beautiful stretch of five or six days of gorgeous weather in new england. it s a cold start to the day. carry the jacket and put the gloves on kids in new england. 60 in boston and sunny. the big cities of i-95 gorgeous
if he doesn t win pennsylvania, floss future for that campaign. thanks so much, peter alexander. the republican primary was supposed to be a quick contest for mitt romney. it s turned into what some have called the long slog. the new ebook inside the circus gives a behind the scenes look at the long republican primary battle. the split between mitt romney s campaign on how much to let the candidate let loose and clues into the two ricks, santorum and perry. mike allen joins me now, author, author, congratulations. the new reality that you and evan thomas are going to put books out so quickly that nobody else can catch up? well what people love about this is in this new cyclone, as we call the news cycle, books are a chance to hit pause, see where we ve been, where we re going. we find out that just by sitting down with people getting them to tell their story when there s not a clock on them, not a camera on them, we find out remarkable things. you mentioned in the romney
by the way, happy birthday dr. brzezinski. happy birthday, dad. he had the highest s.a.t. score in the history of the world. that s why i am such a grand failure. tell me about the new ebook, right now. [ laughter ] 10 seconds. you have 10 seconds to pitch your own book inside the circus. go. last night, we closed the book. this is the old newsweek project done in real time, edited by john meacham, written with evan thomas. we go behind the scenes of the campaigns. and we have a great look at the unraveling gingrich campaign. the most unusual campaign ever run from the bus. joe, you ll enjoy this. one of the people who works on the campaign described it to me as a think tank with yard signs. it s the biggest book tour ever for newt gingrich, last night as we heard about them firing 1/3 of their staff, getting rid of their campaign manager. we saw the beginning of what looks like an unraveling of that
expectations while unemployment dropped to 8.1%. while republicans point to the numbers the democrats will point to the falling number. who will win? we will talk about it on this show. and romney blew his chance for an endorsement. those are a few of the nuggets from a new book of inside the circus. and is there a new war on the women by democrats? we will have that debate. and did you wonder what it might be like to text with hillary clinton? it is viral and in the sideshow. and let me begin with the best thing of all that began this week. begin with the economy and the presidential race. john heilemann is the u.s. correspondent for newsweek