that and proved you can t here is what he said. a disaster for republicans. this is just two nights ago. it is so interesting to watch this unravel here. you re right, he makes a point, they are so disciplined they are like the old labor party in london. here he is two nights ago trying to get out. let s listen. i made a mistake. i called paul ryan today who is a very close poernl friend and i said that. the fact is that i have supported what ryan has tried to do on the budget. the budget vote is one that i m happy to say i would have voted for. i will depend. i will be glad to answer any democrat who attempts to distort what i said. this is crazy. just a moment i go we heard him deny he was talking about ryan. now he is apologizing to ryan by name. it is amazing. if you take the clips from a few different days, you don t know what story he is talking about. jonathan is right. we have seen, particularly with the tea party movement in the last year or two, certainly since obam
weird but i don t know about sophistication. it matches the inco-herens of the gingrich med ya strategy. they are trying to play off against elites because they know that one of the things that made republicans popular is when you dump on elites, dump on the beltway. all this stuff is super, you know, inside baseball. what is relevant is that they have taken on this unbelievably popular program. and tried to kill it. that s a fact. that s not spin. the ryan plan privatizes medicare. so the question is, can they get away from the ryan plan the way mitch mcconnell is running way as fast as he can from the ryan plan. it is hard when all republicans except four in the house of representatives already voted for it. they are stuck with this. even if the big budget deal, the
consensual. we start with newt gingrich. with me now is msnbc political analyst and with eric bowler. let s watch this now. newt gingrich went on rush limbaugh today and denied he attacked paul rye ryan s medicare plan even though everyone watching meet the press heard him do that very thing. let s listen. it was not a reference to paul ryan. there was no reference to paul ryan in that answer. then what did you apologize to him about it? because it was interpreted in way which was causing trouble which he accident need or deserve and it was causing the house of republicans trouble. here is what he really said on meet the press of a he referred to the republican plan to overhaul medicare as right wing social engineering. we have the tapes, let s listen. so there are things you can do to improve medicare.
not what paul ryan is suggesting. i think that s too big a jump. i think what you want is a system where people voluntarily migrate to better outcomes, better solutions, not one where you suddenly impose. i m against obama care which is imposing radical change and i will be against a conservative imposing radical change. there we have. eric, you re excellent at this. thank god for tape. thank god there actually is a record of what we do on television. is newt trying to do one of those superman movies where you go back into time and somehow change it through willpower and all of a sudden history is changed? we have the tape. now five or six days later he has gone back and realize oh, my gosh i never mentioned ryan he name. why is he doing this? he has dug a hole to deep for himself. what is amazing here is that it is not the evil liberals of a him or liberal media though he claims that is happening. he is getting absolutely demolished and pummelled by the