greta: here is the best of the rest. guaranteed you are going to love this. 8-year-old elizabeth hughes this had the thrill of singing the national anthem. unfortunately, technical problems interrupted. the crowd did not let the little girl down. gave proof that our flag was still there, oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave the
speakers. what do you intend to do at this retreat? i think the republicans have a great opportunity to develop a new approach creating hope and opportunity for the whole country. i m going to propose that 1/3 of the hearings they set up focus on science and technology and new breakthroughs and give the country a sense of what we could be doing if we were using our best people, following our best ideas and the breakthroughs in alzheimer s, diabetes, a whole range of areas that we could have, if we had better government. greta: that s the health area. obviously there s a huge amount of interest in the health area. the hispanic vote in 2012, how is your party going to get the hispanic vote? that s a growing importance in the election. it is a very good example. you have to include americans
when ronald reagan won the nomination in 1980 he was still campaigning in late may to get the nomination. they allow people with relatively little money to have a real chance to emerge in a way jimmy carter probably couldn t have gotten into the process without iowa george hw bush did a brilliant job in 1989 which he couldn t have done in a state the size of illinois and pennsylvania. i m a fan of if things aren t broke don t fix em. i believe the system we have now the iowa caucuses followed by the new hampshire primary, followed by south carolina leading into the other states, nevada, michigan, i think the system works reasonably well. we ought to allow it to continue to work. greta: in terms of iowa, the caucus if you have a job that doesn t let you takeoff the night of the caucus, you can t vote.
walk the dog there is. according to the manager here, he didn t seem to come come hpbd what he was being told and seemed to resist that information. so he was asked not to return. greta: we are all heartbroken by the murph nine by the murder of 9-year-old christina : greta: repeal is in the air. karl rove and newt gingrich minutes away.
system is relatively small states where people get to know you personally where you are there face-to-face, not just having consultants to raise money to buy tv ads, you are on the street talking to folks, these states have a very big impact upon who has a chance to become president. as you know, calista and i will make a decision the end of february about whether or not to color the presidential campaign and test the to examine more the presidential campaign and test the waters. for the moment we are not focused on that. we are still doing a lot of other things. greta: some critics would say why should these states pick the nominee? a lot of people are critical of the iowa caucus procedure. why does iowa get to pick the nominee for the party? it is a big country and a lot of members of your party across the country. no one state gets to pick the nominee.