was used at abu grahd. that flat out, according to mr. rodriguez who he was in charge of enhanced interrogation techniques, wrote an op ed in the washington post and said that simply did not happen. of course, stanley mccrystal, after the brian: real quick, he said he used interrogation like waterboarding. steve: just not that. brian: the stuff that they took was not what he did and they re trying to pin it on the c.i.a. but that was from this abu grahd stuff that some renegade soldiers did when things were running amuck in iraq. they also said on radio yesterday, jose rodriguez from the c.i.a. will be joining us tomorrow. gretchen: he s written a book about what was going on during that whole time period. general mccrystal also talked about how his wife reacted when he went and resigned in front of the president and he was a bit surprised at what she said. i got out of the car and the one beauty is i thought i knew
that s true. these are some of the topics out of the wouldn t stay away from the christmas poinsettia because the leaves are poisonous. steve: that is false. explain why. it s just an accident that people assume poinsettias are poisonous. a kid ate one once and they assumed he had a problem. gretchen: what about for dogs? it s okay, cause people are worried about that. dogs who have to eat a ton. they fed pounds to rats. gretchen: second one? i ll bring you chicken soup u will feel better. gretchen: false. brian: i say it s true because you were on radio yesterday. gretchen: cheater! that is true. chicken soup does tend to do better for colds than other hot liquids. steve: i was going to say, coffee? it will stunt your growth, you ever hear that? gretchen: now i know why i m short. [ laughter ] that coffee it s fall.
absolutely. steve and i were doing the radio yesterday and we were hearing callers calling in and saying listen, i m not going to expand my business and i m afraid i m going to lose my coverage where i am because there s no obligation to give it. the company is going to pay the fine or tax or penalty, whatever they call it, today and i m going to be on my own and in exchange, am i going to wind up government health care down the line? as you point n t even begun and three times more expensive than we thought, these exchanges aren t open, is this going to explode to 10 times the original projection? it s crazy. the sky is the limit. you think about some of the other social programs that we put out there in the past from social security to medicare, and, you know, the original estimates, it s almost a joke, you know, this will cost us 60 million and instead, it costs us like several billion. the numbers are just ridiculous so it s not out of the realm of possibility that $10 trilli
watergate in 2006 as part of the leadership so i m staying in the race because i think it s a question of who can beat barack obama. really? is that really why you re staying in the race? brit hume has another suggestion. brit? newt gingrich is a guy with a lot of energy and a lot of things to say and i think he likes to say them. if he stays in this race, he still has a bigger platform if he had if he got out. we don t hear much from those who have gotten out, do we? he s not back in office, newt gingrich. his good friend rick santorum lost by a huge pointed out biggest defeat in his career. and he told me on radio yesterday, mitt romney as a nominee would be a disaster. i said so you ve eliminated yourself from running mate or anything else. how could you possibly coalesce beside somebody that you re just quoted as saying, that s fine. he doesn t really i m sure there s a strategy to his statements but he s not backing off at all. indeed. meanwhile, the president of the uni
then it sort of oozes up. erupts, right. thank you, eugene. we ll see you down there. see you down in south carolina. and newt gingrich and his super pac are running a scorched earth campaign. at least the super pac is, against mitt romney, airing millions of dollars of ads like this one to try to stop him from making south carolina the last stop on his path to the nomination. rick tyler is a senior adviser to winning our future, the super pac supporting newt gingrich. hey, rick, thanks so much. you re down there in columbia, south carolina. tell us the rationale between newt gingrich being above the afraid and running this campaign in iowa, which complained, appropriately, many people said, about what the romney super pac was doing to him, and then going so negative with his own super pac, right afterwards. d well, andrea, today is the first day we ran any ads against mitt romney. we did run some on radio yesterday. but before yesterday, we didn t run a single negative ad ag