good evening, everyone, i m erin burnett. and outfront tonight, ahmadinejad on the spot. an unexpected spectacle in tehran today. the president summoned before parliament for the first time since the 1979 revolution. conservative parliament members called ahmadinejad out on everything from the limping economy, which is a victim of u.s. sanctions, to his public disagreements with the ayatollah who, of course, is the supreme leader of iran. ahmadinejad tried to make jokes, and he made no secret of his disdain for this event, saying, quote, the fact is that i tried not to attend this session, but i guess it was ordained that i should come, so there was nothing i could do about it. i met him once in person. that sort of seemed the way he might have delivered that, a little nonchalant. a growing power struggle between ahmadinejad and the supreme leader khomeini. president obama watched tehran s action and he used some of his strongest language yet while standing next to the pr
achieved. and we re doing it because ideas matter. being able to make a principle case matters. the reagan tradition of visionary conservatism was based on proverbs and the deep believe that without vision people perish. and i believe we need a visionary leader who is prepared to talk about a dramatically better future with dramatically more jobs, more energy, and a safer and stronger america. that s the key to winning this fall. not all this petty baloney, but the really big choices. and as i went around both states talking about $2.50 gasoline, having all sorts of folks in the elite media saying that s not possible, and finally on saturday in the wall street journal they wrote a piece that is entitled newt gingrich is right about gasoline. and he walked through step by step why it s possible. and the fact is it s very possible. and then yesterday, steven moore reported in the wall street journal, numbers are so amaz g amazing, the fact i want to about substance is wha
saying look at the auto industry. gm is alive. bin laden is dead. we have done great things. we brought back the economy. we met the crisis. probably the greatest crisis since fdr had to face it since the 1930s. can they win a positive campaign in this environment? you know what they can t win? a backward looking campaign. you can make the case that some of these things got a bad rep, but that s not what s going to win a presidential election. he needs to look at what we re going to do next. what is the course at hand? they haven t done that yet. but isn t that fascinating. in fairness, neither guy has. romney hasn t done that either. every political consultant will tell you that every election is about the future. that s what they all say. we can t wait for that. that will have to come in the debates. thank you, susan page. david corn, as always. coming up rick santorum wants newt gingrich out of the race so he can have a one on one with mitt romney. will he get it? we l
looking campaign. you can make the case that some of these things got a bad rep, but that s not what s going to win a presidential election. he needs to look at what we re going to do next. they haven t done that yet. but isn t that fascinating. in fairness, neither guy has. every political consultant will tell you that every election is about the future. that s what they all say. we can t wait for that. thank you, susan page. thank you david corn. rick santorum wants newt gingrich out of the race so he can have a one on one with mitt romney. to get newt out, santorum has to beat him down south badly. he has to take mississippi and alabama. he has to shut him out. close the guy down. can he do it? that s ahead. you re watching hardball, only on msnbc. look at all this stuff for coffee.
can get above 28%. does that ceiling on mitt romney s ability to do well, his performance in the south allow santorum to still be both of them, both he and newt gingrich, if gingrich stays in in other words, is there still an opportunity next week for rick santorum to win in alabama and mississippi even with newt still in the race? well, yes, i think so. i think that what it shows, chris, look, the modern republican party as you know was built out of the south. it is built on and out of the south. sure. and, and mitt romney has very little if any connection to it. he won in virginia by default because the other guys weren t in the race, and only ron paul was in the race. and mitt romney did not win the northern part of florida and he has to show that he can touch the southern base, but i don t see him doing it. by the way, one thing that rick santorum did in ohio that put romney on the heels a little bit