let s watch this now. newt gingrich went on rush limbaugh today and denied he attacked paul ryan s medicare plan even though everybody who watched 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? because it was interpreted in a way, which was causing trouble, which he doesn t need or deserve, and it was causing the house republicans trouble. here is what he really said on meet the press after 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. which is completely changing medicare. i think that s too big a jump. i think what you want is a system where people voluntarily migrate to better outcomes,
jon stewart and steven colbert or gingrich, the guy they had so much fun with last night. i said consistently we should have some requirement of having health insurance or have it s a variation. just a variation just like wife three is a variation on wives one and two. i don t think right wing social engineering has any more desirable than left wing social engineering. i don t think imposing radical change for the right or the left is a good way for free society to operate. wow, appealing to the moderate wing of the republican party. a wing which as you know is has been closed for renovation since nelson rockefeller died. does he want to be nominated by the republican party? one wonders. he was never a likeable guy. this is a capital offense. how can i say this politely? he was urinating inside the family circle. what would the impolite way have been to say that?
afternoon, a lot of them were felonies. he will be confined to his wife s apartment with armed guards, and, by the way, an insurance policy of $5 million to say he wouldn t need. for more we are joined by an michelle sigona, investigative crime reporter. couldn t have you at a better time, michelle. it seems to me the defense will try to basically impeach the witness, the main witness who is the victim here. tell me where they are headed here. they can t just pie-up the guy. he would be in jail for 20 years. a lot of times we see this on and on again, especially with rape victims. every two minutes in the united states attempted rape in this case. exactly. a woman is attacked, sexually attacked. 60% of those people, of those victims, don t come forward because of situations like this. it s troubling.
play for the democrats singlehandedly. what has newt done? he knows how this thing pulls. he is running for president. what is interesting is i think newt is running way from it because he wants to survive in a general election, even though he won t get to a general election. there is not another republican in the presidential field who endorsed the paul ryan medicare plan. because presumably they have done their polling and understand how unpopular and how unfair this plan is. to add to this craziness, and i can t even follow on this, i can usually follow sarah palin s fairly basic brain at work. here she is knocking newt for apologizing for what he said. at the same time defending him against the tactics of what she calls the lame-stream media. if you follow her logic, she says keep it up newt, keep it up even though you are destroying our main party platform. listen to her. i don t know why politicians feel they have to apologize for something that they said just because the
this front, her show business ability is spectacular. absolutely. her ability to be president is out to lunch. but with the way she presents herself, she is very attractive, she waves. all this stage craft. she is buffalo bill s wild west show. that s what she really is. she is fantastic as wild west show. thank you steve and thank you john. up next, newt gingrich gave jon stewart and steve colbert amazing stuff and they delivered. let s hear from these two guys about newt in the side show. you re watching hardball only on msnbc. [ male announcer ] a moment that starts off ordinary