then and only gotten more so. this is the debate that we should be having and not about roy moore, but the way men treat women in this country and how we treat minorities. we can t have that debate with mr. jones because we can t get roy moore to debate. let me ask you about the outsider position. steve bannon is the consummate outsider. why does what he says matter to the voters? he doesn t want outsiders and why is he showing up only with steve bannon? i don t pretend to speak for the moore campaign and neither would i. steve bannon is the ultimate outsider. steve bannon is not going move the needle just like president trump barely moved the needle when he came down here for luther strange. this is an alabama race. i covered politics for a long,
in there. the stock market is the hitting record highs and they are back and high-fiving each other as their portfolios go up, but, you know, in a way he s probably better off having more of an outsider position than becoming a defender of the current situation. bill weir, bill kristol, susan page, thanks so much, one and all. you can hear much more about this search for common ground in the era of trump on bill weir s states of change. that s tomorrow night here on cnn at 9:00 p.m. eastern. looking forward to that. while all the attention has been on president trump s withdrawal from the paris deal his administration has been busy getting a lot of other things done, like enforcing stricter sentences for drug offenders. one federal judge says the new federal guidelines are putting justice in handcuffs. stay with us. where, in all of this, is the stuff that matters? the stakes are so high, your finances, your future. how do you solve this? you don t.
out. my apologies sir. i am usually much better behaved than that. and editor and publisher of the nation and the editor of the change i believe in. steve is back. political writer for salon.com. our starting point this morning is the national polls and the polls show rick santorum is surging. up by double dinlg jimts. sometimes we say surge and it s not really a surge but i think this time it s fair to say surge. nine months before the election democrats are going on the attack. there are plans to hit both now rick santorum and mitt romney and there s a new e-mail on the democratic national committee yesterday that said this about santorum. quote, rick santorum has embraced the same philosophy that created the economic crisis. his tax plan would primarily benefit the very wealthy while adding $900 billion to the national deficit. it would be a disaster for middle class families. let s get right to jennifer, democratic strategist, former white house deputy communicat
you know, there s all these wonderful things. kelly mcfarling, thank you. you can always check out my blog for all our music monday interviews. just go to cnn/brooke. now this. here we go, top of the hour. i m brooke baldwin. a couple stories we re watching for you. first, which republican hopeful will best challenge barack obama? also the latest on the cruise ship investigation, and a glitch on a very popular web site, and snow projected to cover half the united states this week. jim costa, i ll begin with you in myrtle beach. are you near that coalition group at which romney is expected to speak at? brooke, that is across town, just up the coast, i believe, and it s going to be happening any minute now. we re actually outside a tea party conference that is also going on in myrtle beach. newt gingrich, rick santorum, ron paul is all expected to be here today. it s good news for romney that huntsman got out of the race and he s being endorsed. here s what newt gingric