to kiss the ring of a non-officeholder, noncandidate, a political nonentity. please explain the debasement that even this clown show seems to be willing to descend to. a couple things, chris. first of all, newt gingrich is the guy who s been talking about how he wants seven lincoln/douglas-style pure, endless, serious debates with president obama. but in the meantime, he wants to engage in this circus, as you rightly call it. i saw newt last night, spoke to him at the kennedy center honors, of all places. this is not the guy who s out campaigning. he s not shaking hands in iowa. he s looking to surf any publicity or glitz wave he can find. that s why he s working the crowd at the kennedy center honors. that s why he went up to new york today to see donald trump. we have a dozen reporters on the ground in iowa, chris, for the huffington post and our companion company, patch.com. our reporters out there are saying that newt is very poorly organized for the caucuses. but that s not th
let me start with howard fineman. why would a republican guy like newt gingrich, with a brain, who was once speaker of the house and the leading republican in this country climb trump tower to kiss the ring of a non-officeholder, noncandidate, a political nonentity. please explain the debasement that even this clown show seems to be willing to descend to. a couple things, chris. first of all, newt gingrich is the guy who s been talking about how he wants seven lincoln/douglas-style pure, endless, serious debates with president obama. but in the meantime, he wants to engage in this circus, as you rightly call it. i saw newt last night, spoke to him at the kennedy center honors, of all places. this is not the guy who s out campaigning. he s not shaking hands in iowa. he s looking to surf any publicity or glitz wave he can find. that s why he s working the crowd at the kennedy center
this country claim trump tower to kiss the ring of a nonoffice holder, noncandidate, a political nonentity. please explain the debasement that even this clown show seems to be willing to descend to. a couple things, chris. first of all, newt gingrich is the guy who s been talking about how he wants seven lincoln/douglas style pure, endless, serious debates with president obama. but in the meantime, he wants to engage in this circus, as you rightly call it. i saw newt last night, spoke to him at the kennedy center honors, of all places. this is not the guy who s out campaigning. he s not shaking hands in iowa. he s looking to surf any publicity or glitz wave with he can find. that s why he s working the crowd at the kennedy center honors. that s why he went up to new york today to see donald trump. we have a dozen reporters on the ground in iowa, chris, for the huffington post and our companion company, patch.com.
square last year. an extraordinary development and we mobilized cnn correspondents around the world to cover this breaking news story for us from the pentagon to istanbuistanbul. it s hard to indicate just how important al awlaki was to the organization, but here s a frightening reality. he may be more dangerous dead. that s exactly what our nic robertson has been covering to this point. let s go straight to you. what exactly do you know with regard to how he was targeted and is it possible to give credit to an agency at this point? well, i think what we just heard from fran townsend perhaps nails it down very well. that is that it can t be nailed down because nobody wants to go on the record. the past track record, however, of against al awlaki in may this year was credited to the united states, to a drone strike. missile bumped off the fender of his car as he made a get away. politically sensitive. right now the president does not need the united states to announce that i
does probably lose. but not against anybody in the republican field. anybody that gets nominated. the republican field is not a strong field. it s a field of nonentities. you re not going to beat barack obama with a nonentity. there are a couple of people, maybe, in an economic disaster, mitt romney for one, who could beat him but the economy is not trending that way. can i say one word about the latest poll says people think the economy is getting worse. it s gas prices. it is. and if gas is at $5 a gallon next summer i paid 78 bucks to fill my car and it wasn t even empty. 78 bucks. it was premium, but the one mistake is he stopped talking about jobs and we can t have a jobless recovery. we have to get people back to work. your republican friends don t want to hire anybody. they want to hire robots. they want robots. chris, you know better than that.