dealt with us on the hill on a daily basis, and i think every one of them was there. i don t know anyone that jumped out saying i don t like this guy. as a republican, particularly a republican from georgia, i can tell you if you want press, just jump up and say something bad against a fellow republican particularly newt gingrich and thin you can become the hero of the day and media or those critical of newt. i understand there s a big temptation with our team on it. i m comfortable with mitt romney. i think. second choice. no problem if he s the nominee. yes. i would say all of them will have better ideas and be more conservatives than current occupant of the white house. newt gingrich has gotten things done in washington. the republican establishment won t like him because they don t like change. when he came out with a contract with america, not every member of congress would sign it. and the senate pooh-poohed it. washington doesn t like a
so we got to talking. so i called him yesterday. i wanted to find out what he thought about the debate in florida. and we had a nice little conversation. clearly, donald trump likes governor perry. he likes mitt romney. he told me that he thought they both did very well and pooh-poohed all the criticism of governor perry s debate performance. but clearly he thinks that there are some people who were on that stage who shouldn t be there. he is relishing the role that he s playing within the republican nominating field. his chief political guy, michael cowan, i believe his name is, went on abc and talked to the folks there and called donald trump the godfather of politics. donald trump is very proud of something that he saw on newsmax which said that basically donald trump has become his own iowa because perry and bachmann and romney and all of these folks who are seeking the republican nomination are either getting him on the phone or going up to
after he saw a piece that i wrote basically saying, you know, will governor perry end up being the next donald trump, that is, someone who bursts onto the scene, rises to the top of the polls, and then implodes and gets out of the race? he didn t quite like the fact that i said he fell or he imploded. so we got to talking. so i called him yesterday. i wanted to find out what he thought about the debate in florida. and we had a nice little conversation. clearly, donald trump likes governor perry. he likes mitt romney. he told me that he thought they both did very well and pooh-poohed all the criticism of governor perry s debate performance. but clearly he thinks that there are some people who were on that stage who shouldn t be there. he is relishing the role that he s playing within the republican nominating field. his chief political guy, michael cowan, i believe his name is, went on abc and talked to the folks there and called donald
conversation. clearly, donald trump likes governor perry. he likes mitt romney. he told me that he thought they both did very well and pooh-poohed all the criticism of governor perry s debate performance. but clearly he thinks that there are some people who were on that stage who shouldn t be there. he is relishing the role that he s playing within the republican nominating field. his chief political guy, michael cowan, i believe his name is, went on abc and talked to the folks there and called donald trump the godfather of politics. donald trump is very proud of something that he saw on newsmax which said that basically donald trump has become his own iowa because perry and bachmann and romney and all of these folks who are seeking the republican nomination are either getting him on the phone or going up to new york to see him in trump tower. now, there s also the matter of dick cheney.
economic time. it is. remember when obama pooh-poohed the clinton as small ball and he wanted to be left wing reagan and now shazam, he is trying to take the entire clinton team on board. do a replay and saying he s not. bret: juan, we are talking staff changes so we d be remiss if we didn t ask you about the npr staff change today. ellen weiss, senior vice president for news announced her resignation after a review of the firing of you from npr. vivian is keeping your job. your announcement? it s good for npr. the constitution wants to go forward as news organization and huge audience has to have reform from the inside.