Today at their winter meeting, the rnc chair Reince Priebus expected to drop a truth bomb on his party. Politico reporting hell lay out his plan for republican renewal. One that will change the rules but not the partys principles. And louisiana governor bobby jindal dished out his tough love prescription for fellow gopers last night. We have to stop being the stupid party. Its time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults. Time for us to articulate our plans and visions for america in real terms. No secret we had a number of republicans who damaged the brand with offensive and bizarre comments. Im here to say weve had enough of that. Weve got to speak out against the stupidities. Weve got to stop being the stupid party and you start by disciplining your most stupid members. We have republicans speculating about the future. Democrats are speculating about four years from now adding fuel to the fire, news that president obama will appear jointly with outgoing secretary of state
0 we have republicans speculating about the future. democrats are speculating about four years from now adding fuel to the fire, news that president obama will appear jointly with outgoing secretary of state hillary clinton for an interview this sunday on 60 minutes. now in the next 60 minutes, the president is expected to formally name his pick for his next chief of staff. dennis mcdonough, the president s current deputy national security adviser. a lot to get to this friday. we ll dig in and say good morning to today s political power panel from the white house, nbc news correspondent kristen welker, perry bacon, also political editor of the grio. cnbc contributor and b.e.t. columnist keith boykin and msnbc contributor robert, former senior adviser to president bush and assistant dean at georgetown university. all right, gang. we are all together and a lot to talk about. first thing i want to get to is about the vice president s push to get on the road and talk about gun control.
organization can get out of it. it is in the ideal by any stretch of the imagination. but listen, this is a war on religious liberty. the constitution absolutely protects our first amendment religious liberty fundamental freedom as americans and the government must be able to prove a few things if they re going to violate that constitutionally protected right. they should be able to prove this is the least-restrict tiff means. they can not do so in that. they also have to prove they have a compelling reason to do that. they can not prove that in either of those situations. gregg: well, i think it is a fascinating intellectual argument and constitutional question that may work its all the way to the supreme court. but a great many catholics in america are looking now to the courts for a solution and thank you very much for your thoughts, jean moynihan. thanks for having me. martha: her disappearance last fall set off a media frenzy and now there is new
choice for president, economy, jobs, 52%. let s take a look at the next one here which is a deeper look at that. who do you think would do a better job handling the economy, this one has not been looking this way in recent polls, steve. they re in a dead-heat, who would do better for the economy. so interesting. in some ways this poll echoes some others we ve seen in the past weeks and some ways it different. you have several categories voters seem to be somewhat pessimistic about the past. they look at, you know, the poll that he just showed, are you better off than you were four years ago? by two to one voters saying they re not if they re one way or the other that is a negative, that s negative for the president for sure. there are a couple other findings in this poll that are negatives for the president if you look backwards. if you look forward the president seems to be at least competitive and there are voters who seem to be optimistic if he hasn t solved the problem
that is how we start this morning. good morning. i m martha maccallum in america s newsroom. . i m gregg jarrett in for bill hemmer president obama getting 49%. mitt romney not far behind, 46%. martha: a telling quote from top political analyst, saying at this staple he would rather be in mitt romney s shoes than the president s shoes in this race. stephen hayes joins me, writer for the weekly standard and fox news contributor. good morning steve. booed morning, martha. martha: let s look at couple more polls. let s pull off the first one in terms of the economy and how it looks. what is the single most important issue in your choice for president, economy, jobs, 52%. let s take a look at the next one here which is a deeper look at that. who do you think would do a better job handling the economy, this one has not been looking this way in recent polls, steve. they re in a dead-heat, who would do better for the economy. so interesting. in some ways this poll echoes so