is about 30 years of history. i say if he succeeds where nixon failed and i will tell you why nixon failed in a minute in getting a conspiracy theory hung on assange, that s what nixon tried to do against the new york times in the pentagon case. he tried to say the reporter then, you conspired with elsburg and other people to leak the pentagon papers. he had a grand jury em paneled for 17 months in boston. that jury failed. they gave up on the case. now if obama succeeds in getting an indictment and conviction of assange, i say he will have succeeded where nixon failed. he is therefore worse than nixon. do you see this going to constitutional crisis lengths here? i think so, but to try to wake up the press, i am
there was a new nixon. a lot like the old nixon. maybe more extravagant comparison, but would be winston churchill, who had been on the scene for 40 years, seen as an erratic, unreliable figure, but somebody who the man met the moment. i think gingrich would need to say, you know me, you know my pluses, you know my minuses, but you ve seen growth and i m somebody that s ready for this moment. can you see it, john? well, that would be a stretch, because i see in gingrich s career more continuity than growth. the gingrich that you see now doesn t to my eye look much different than the gingrich that sprang upon the scene in the 1980s. very attack driven, prone to disorganization. always interesting. but more surprises than most people want in a presidential nominee. that s the case he would need to make if he wants to bottle this polling. he d need to say, look, this isn t just something effervescent, this is real, and i m here to make a serious case that i should be president of the
count anymore? doesn t the anti-washington fever count anymore? he s the ultimate washington insider, and now he s moving up in the polls. john? chris, a couple things i d say about that. one, what david says might be true. and i happen to agree with it, they happen to be candidates looking for the flavor of the month or what have you. but you have to say, newt gingrich is a much more established, accomplished figure over a long period of time than these other people who have been the candidate of the month. that long history he has, as you point out, chris, has got pluses and a lot of minuses. i think what gingrich would need to do is put that long history in some kind of narrative of personal growth. you know, that s what nixon did in 68. there was a new nixon. a lot like the old nixon. maybe more extravagant comparison, but would be winston churchill, which had been on the scene for 40 years, seen as an erratic, unreliable figure, but somebody who the man met the
governor had said at the outset that he wanted to cooperate, that he wanted to have full cooperation with the investigation. and now it seems like he is moving away from that gradually. he is starting to make allegations that somehow the continued investigation of this is wrong. we haven t gotten to the basic facts of why this happened, how it could happen, and how we could stop it from happening again. and the governor seems to want to cast aspersions on anybody who has the temerity of asking those very basic questions. well, that s what nixon did. thank you, john wisniewski, assemblyman and co-chair of this investigating committee, and brian murphy, thanks for joining us again. thanks, chris. coming up, seven million people have signed up, 7.1, actually. and the first poll showing it in positive territory. we re talking about obamacare, not away it from. are conservatives really ready to take health care coverage away from those seven million people and the millions more who wi
over a long period of time than these other people who have been the candidate of the month. that long history he has, as you point out, chris, has got pluses and a lot of minuses. i think what gingrich would need to do is put that long history in some kind of narrative of personal growth. you know, that s what nixon did in 68. there was a new nixon. a lot like the old nixon. maybe more extravagant comparison, but would be winston churchill, who had been on the scene for 40 years, seen as an erratic, unreliable figure, but somebody who the man met the moment. i think gingrich would need to say, you know me, you know my pluses, you know my minuses, but you ve seen growth and i m somebody that s ready for this moment. can you see it, john? well, that would be a stretch, because i see in gingrich s career more continuity than growth. the gingrich that you see now doesn t to my eye look much different than the gingrich that sprang upon the scene in the