nicechicken, honey. speechless. and even without real tv advertising, herman cain is actually still in the thick of his honeymoon with republican voters. got the new york times/cbs news poll released today. it shows him at the top of the field with 25%, mitt romney at 21%, newt gingrich at 10%. joining me now, msnbc analyst and opinion writer for the washington post. thank you for joining me tonight, john. oh, my god. how are you? when it is wicked weird i call you from the bull pen because i m speechless. please. three minutes, what did we just see. last night when i was here to talk about i think we were talking about rick perry i had already seen the smoking ad with mark block, the first commercial that you saw and i couldn t
field with 25%, mitt romney at 21%, newt gingrich at 10%. joining me now, msnbc analyst and opinion writer for the washington post. thank you for joining me tonight, john. oh, my god. how are you? when it is wicked weird i call you from the bull pen because i m speechless. please. three minutes, what did we just see. last night when i was here to talk about i think we were talking about rick perry i had already seen the smoking ad with mark block, the first commercial that you saw and i couldn t believe it was real and communicating with other people trying to figure out if it was real. now this afternoon, i see this new ad that you showed. i didn t think that was real. couldn t possibly be real. it s so bad that no one who we would even imagine running for president would even associate themselves with something so
joining me now, new york times writer and chief washington correspondent johnharwood. and co-author of game change. thank you for joining me tonight. you got the big interview of the week with rick perry. s as you were sitting there and he was turning over his cards in effect and telling you what he wasn t supposed to tell you which is this whole birth certificate thing is just a good thing to keep alive, did you get the feeling that no one told rick perry here are the things we say behind closed doors and here s the stuff you say to john harwood. i think people got that message to him today because he had a press conference and cut off the reporter. i don t know what his handlers told him ahead of time but i gave him several opportunities, as you saw in the clip that you played to say i m kidding, i
let s listen to this piece. in 1996, when your adviser steve forbes was run og an flat tax, mitt romney said it was a tax cut for fat cats. he says that about your plan, what do you say to him? i would say he has to look in the mirror. i consider him to be a fat cat. it doesn t matter to me what anyone says about this. i know what will work. john heilmann i go back to the perry staff the. no one told him, fat cat, that s a liberal democrat term. we republicans do not call rich people, investment bankers like mitt romney fat cats. especially, the candidate skills on display of this guy have been extraordinarily bad. you think of, john harwood interviews this guy on the eve of his big roll out of this tax plan which is supposed to be his relaunch. what s the first thing he does as he steps over his own
it s just so counterproductive. well, if they want to lose, this is the game for losers. joining me now, new york times writer and chief washington correspondent johnharwood. and co-author of game change. thank you for joining me tonight. you got the big interview of the week with rick perry. s as you were sitting there and he was turning over his cards in effect and telling you what he wasn t supposed to tell you which is this whole birth certificate thing is just a good thing to keep alive, did you get the feeling that no one told rick perry here are the things we say behind closed doors and here s the stuff you say to john harwood. i think people got that message to him today because he had a press conference and cut off the reporter. i don t know what his handlers told him ahead of time but i gave him several opportunities,