that mark mckenyon. joan walsh, your thinking? is it along those lines? yes it is very much so, chris. he s been called a perfectly lubricated weather vein by our friend john huntman. his friend. but i think it goes further than that. i think it is very cowardly not to distance himself from donald trump. i think it is a sign he want it leave no wing nut behind. he doesn t feel that the base loves him enough, that he can just count on turning them out in november. they ve been a little bit tepid. so he want it rely on the trump magic and trump name. and i think, you know, after yesterday, i will never forget the sight of mitt romney decomplaining next to the big trump sign behind him. like a wholly owned sub sudden areary. so it is cowardly but also brings this this birther nonsense, no matter what they try it say, he validate trump s birther nonsense and keeps it part of the conversation. trump is loving every minute of it. and romney needs it stand up to
in america, we admire success. we aspire to it. i want everybody to be rich. but america is not just about a few people doing well. america is about giving everybody a chance to do well. everybody. joining me now is congressman, democrat from pennsylvania. thanks for being here tonight, congressman. thank you for having me again. i don t know if you re a betting man, congressman, but what do you think about boehner s one in three odds of keeping the house? well, look, i look at it almost like a one-two punch. john huntman said on your network today that he compared the gop to a communist party empower in china. and that they were locking people out who had moderate or contemporary ideas. they ve been trying to push the country back to another century, i think. they want it get rid of newt says,ets let s get rid of child
i m candy crowley. and this is state of the union. the afghan government says the man who killed two american soldiers inside a highly secured government african building is an intelligence officer. hamid karzai has offered condolences of the families of the four americans killed since news that u.s. personnel apparently inadvertently burned copies of the koran at an air base in afghanistan. karzai called for calm in his country but insisted the u.s. must prosecute those responsible for burning the muslim holy book. joining me from kabul, u.s. achl bass door to afghanistan, ryan crocker. mr. ambassador, let me ask you first, the u.s., over more than ten years, has spent half a trillion dollars in afghanistan, almost 2,000 american lyes have been lost. and the american people wake up this morning to find that two high military officers sitting inside a secured afghan government building were murdered, basically, by someone who was, you know, freely walked into that buildin
do you see any road back for him at all? i don t see a road back for him. now, it is possible in new hampshire that this cranky aggressively negative newt gingrich could take hold, but the problem is he arrives in new hampshire with what is a failed result, dropping from first to fourth, no one, some organization, but not nearly enough, and he doesn t have the money to put ads on the air, so the only way he can get into the mix is the two debates this weekend. that s one possibility. the other is to get earned media attention. well, the reporters of new hampshire are going to be focus on mitt romney, rick santorum, john huntman and rick perry you to a degree and others. newt gingrich is going to have to fight for that airspace. the only way he is going to get it is to be as aggressively negative as he can about romney that will get him some headlines but not quite sure it will get him any votes. folks on both sides of the aisle who believe rick perry may have run one of the worst
i don t see a road back for him. now, it is possible in new hampshire that this cranky aggressively negative newt gingrich could take hold, but the problem is he arrives in new hampshire with what is a failed result, dropping from first to fourth, no one, some organization, but not nearly enough, and he doesn t have the money to put ads on the air, so the only way he can get into the mix is the two debates this weekend. that s one possibility. the other is to get earned media attention. well, the reporters of new hampshire are going to be focus on mitt romney, rick santorum, john huntman and rick perry you to a degree and others. newt gingrich is going to have to fight for that airspace. the only way he is going to get it is to be as aggressively negative as he can about romney that will get him some headlines but not quite sure it will get him any votes. folks on both sides of the aisle who believe rick perry may have run one of the worst presidential campaigns in history and you