of pundits. and the act gets even higher on the wire when it s the two candidates. what everybody is missing is how close rick santorum came to actually almost being the nominee. he lost michigan by a few votes. go into ohio the big state, loses by 10,000 votes. he ended up winning 11 states and tying two others out of 30 when he had a one on one with mitt romney like missouri rick santorum not only got 55% of the vote but won every single county. josh, i just wonder, a guy like newt gingrich, does he feel that it s better to have because there was all this debate about who would be on the top of the ticket. does he feel it would be better to have president obama and joe biden in there today or vice president gingrich? looking back on it does he regret not having taken the second slot? i think that would be a tough question for him to answer. when we talked about this he wasn t really in the mood to second guess. i think he was, you know, proud of the campaign he ran, had hop
avert a nuclear iran. so thawing those relations could open all sorts of channels for improved military efforts in this area and is very important to the u.s. and israel. also to turkey. so a feather in the president s cap, jake. all right. jessica yellin, safe travels on your way back to the white house. thanks. it s the story of the charismatic politician. the heiress and the envelopes stuffed with cash. it sounds like a fun caper. elmore leonard maybe or carl hyasin but this political drama is real. and it s in french. former french president nicolas sarkozy is under formal investigation accused of accepting illegal campaign contributions from 90-year-old l oreal cosmetics heiress. some say he took advantage of her and accepted money to fund his 2007 campaign. sarkozy says it never happened. there are more people on
we ll bring in our political panel which has big players here to talk about this. the dream team that never was. former adviser to rick santorum, john brayvender joins us also former advisorier to hillary clinton s campaign kiki mccain and the guy who broke the story and got a thousand tongues wagging about it josh green senior national correspondent for bloomberg business week. john, i start with you because you were the one negotiating here. so what happened? how close was this to becoming a reality? i feel like i m somebody who just came from an auto accident or something listening to everybody else who wasn t there describe it and i was. describe the auto accident. well, interesting enough, what really happened is that at some point it became clear that it was going to be mitt romney versus an alternate and the alternate was going to be a conservative. and, really, this thing started a little bit before michigan when rick santorum on one night won missouri, colorado, minnes
this planet with cell phones than those with access to clean toilets. that s just one of the reasons why this day is set aside every year to get people talking about the planet s water crisis. world water day started 20 years ago but picked up steam in recent months thanks to a sattirical campaign launched by actor matt damon. until everybody has access to clean water and sanitation i will not go to the bathroom. yes. what? damon s strike with me campaign uses humor and occasionally a few celebrity friends to raise awareness about the world s water problems. you can find out more about damon s cause at strike with me.org. one footnote to yesterday s program. georgetown university s christine fair a guest participating in our report about u.s. drone strikes said the u.s. was flying drones launched from pakistan territory and was even building a new
santorum versus romney. i ve known a lot of these gingrich people for years. they re friends of mine. we started to have a discussion of what if we could get a unified, conservative ticket? and the ticket wasn t necessarily santorum and gingrich. it was santorum and getting everybody from michele bachmann and perry and gingrich and even sarah palin to start coalescing behind rick santorum and starting to campaign with him. and then the gingrich people said very clearly, look, newt still has hopes of winning either alabama and mississippi. they re desperate states for him. he has to win them. santorum won both those states as you probably remember. yes i do. and the discussions intensified where there was some very serious talk about newt getting out, supporting rick santorum, and doing this sort of conservative unit campaign. in the end, you know, i got called and said that newt thought it over and decided that he wanted to concentrate on the states he thought he could win and let