welcome back to hardball, if you needed evidence that parts of the republican party are hostile, richard gernell is out after being criticized for being openly gay. on april 19th, the romney campaign announced the hiring of him to be national security and foreign policy spokesman for the campaign. his résume including eight years as director of communications for the united states at the you needs nations. the very next day, brian fisher of the american family association tweeted this reaction. romney picks out and loud gay as a spokesman. if personnel is policy. gernell yesterday left the campaign. his statement is that person issues that sometimes come from a presidential campaign. i want to thank governor romney
that will unfold for chen s life, whether he s safe, whether he s relocated, he s reunited with his family, which is very significant. whether he ll have the chance to study law. we re going to see there will be a lot of back and forth over this, because this is contrary to what we ve always seen in the past. usually the united states is negotiating for an activist to be able to leave china. now, at least, for the most, it s negotiating for an activist to be able to stay in china. my concern is what i read in the papers this afternoon, sophie, which is his family were threatened. they were going to take them back to the village and beat them to death if he didn t leave the united states embassy, where he had sought refuge. look, every activist in china operates under threat at all times. and, you know, our concern about the guarantees that have been offered up by the chinese government is that, frankly, if the chinese government was serious about any of its human rights commitmen
his exit of the 2012 race today. last month, newt was asked what democrats would do with the treasure-trove of brutal attacks he gave them. when the time comes and somebody wins the nomination, can you stand on stage together and stay with a straight face i support each other? absolutely. make stuff up? why reinvent the wheel. here is how team obama commemorated the last day as candidate. why should we expect him to level about anything if he is president? i don t know of any american president is a swiss bank account. i would be glad for you to explain that sort of thing. are you calling mitt romney a liar? yes. fresh off the campaign trail making a case for president obama. now to mitt romney s search for
embassy. hillary clinton stopped short of this this morning, but did not act for this activist in the situation. we do believe that all governments have to answer to citizens aspirations for dignity and the rule of law, and that no nation can or should deny those rights. first, peter navaro, friend of the show. before we get to trade and jobs and all the rest of this, peter, what what was your initial response when you saw the news of this dissident, and really, the strategic brilliance on the dis, dissident s part to get a seat on that airplane? i ve never been more ashamed of american policy, and i think it s important to look at this
joining us now, lieutenant commander jeffrey lake, co-founder of topgun on wall street, why the united states military should run corporate america. your argument is very simple. what is it about the way the private sector is interpreting the mission that s wrong? everybody thinks the united states military is about discipline, but what it s really all about is about continued process and improvement. that plan of brief, plan, execute and debrief is really the culture issue. what about those people that think they re doing it, but they don t understand what that means in a way that forces you to understand when you re in the context of military engagement. when in military engagement, you have to execute, but we don t run into straight into military execution.