according to press dent. forรง people who are not romney they need a win, the easiest get if you re an evangelical or a tea partier is iowa. in the long run for the nomination, iowa doesn t really matter. steve? i think the tradition will role of iowa is to win the field. we had eight people here, there are four that you really need to look at. the threat again is from the christian right standpoint, if there s nothing to differentiate santorum, bachmann even perry next week, it s a great situation for romney. thanks, appreciate your time as always. much more on the sprin to the iowa, coming up for you. i hope the speaker understands that was humor and i m happy to tell my humorous anecdote to him face to face and look forward to seeing him. [ male announcer ] how do you trade?
gingrich to swing voters. basically in theize of liberal democrats. you ve been lovely. we have to go. i love the conversation. i could have that conversation for an hour straight. but i want to thank all of you on the panel, steve, jonathan and tony, thanks for the fight. we appreciate it. my pleasure. thanks. when we come back, it s the story everyone is talking about. one of the most powerful men in the world charged with attempted rape after an alleged altercation with a hotel room maid in new york city. but now his defense team is saying that he had an alibi. as mentioned, newt gingrich blasts the ryan medicare plan. i ll show you why this might have greatly damaged both ryan and newt. john boehner preaches religious values and gets choked up at a commencement speech. was it all a big con job? we ll explain. stay with us.
guys all right. i have to ask steve one last quick question here. who s the bigger winner, romney or the president? given that we just saw a poll where the president is beating romney fairly significantly, 51-38. who s the biggest winner here, steve? to be fair i d say it s romney. totally disregard the polls right now, the head-to-head obama versus likely republican nominee polls. you would have had the same thing 20 years ago with george h.w. bush beating ever democrat at this tile. it s going to be where the economy stands in the fall of 2012. if it s bad and the republicans put up a credible candidate, pawlenty, romney, huntsman, republicans win. if it s bad and republicans put up newt gingrich, obama might still when. why is huntsman a credible candidate. nobody knows who he is. he has the potential unlike newt
told, by senior government officials concerning the most wanted terrorist in the world, osama bin laden. i love that clip. i love it every time. where trump is trying to figure out if he should fire la toya jackson or not, obama was making decisions on how to get bin laden. in fact, did he get him. that s embarrassing. at the end of all this, trump realized he was hurting his brand. he tucked his tail between his legs and ran for the hills. exactly as we told you he would. all right. now, with me is msnbc political analyst jonathan alter, steve cornacki is from salon.com and tony blankley is here for an important perspective as well. welcome to all of you. i want to start with you, jonathan. first i want to show you a set of clips from donald trump telling us how serious he was about running. let s watch that first. i ve been asked for years to do it and hi no interest.
harpootlian. jared loughner is a suspect, it appears the police have their man, they have in this custody and say he did it. now you hear james rosen s report there was speubg hraeugs even before we knew who the guy was that there is politics to blame. you have the sheriff making the same allegations and prominent politicians, dick durbin, u.s. send making the same allegations. you say what. i think it s wrong, it s irresponsible, not based on fact. the sheriff is supposed to investigate not pontificate. hlet me say another thing. eye up to politicians to step back from this crisis, and to bring and heal america together. they are not supposed to insight and eupl flame further violence when it s not based on fact. we don t subscribe to the rahm emanuel that you never let a