leadership network s conference going on in florida right now. that s where steve harrigan is standing by live with a report. good morning to you, steven. good morning, steve. we re expecting speeches today from newt gingrich, from mitt romney, also from florida s senator marco rubio and these speeches come a day after the discussion on the topic of immigration at the debate last night. mitt romney pushing back against charges that he s anti-immigrant and newt gingrich pushes back against the charge that he called spanish the language of the ghetto. you ve had an ad running saying that newt gingrich called spanish the language of the ghetto. what do you mean by that? i haven t seen the ad. i m sorry, i don t get to see all the tv ads. did he say that? no, what i said is we want everybody to learn english, we don t want i didn t use the word spanish. we do not want anyone trapped in a situation where they cannot get a job. they cannot rise and virtually every parent of every
condition of breathing in america, you have to go out and buy private sector insurance or the government will fine you is something that people get angry about. and i was reflecting that anger with not anger but passion to make sure that we have a nominee who is contrasted with barack obama on the most important issue of freedom in this country and that s obamacare and what governor romney did last night was stand up and forcefully defend government controlling the health care system at the state level and he s trying to say, well, that will differentiate myself from president obama and i m just for government control at the state level and not the federal level. that s huey! the bottom line he s for government control of health care which is not a conservative principle and does not differentiate himself between president obama and that is a big, big liability for us going into this general election. senator, thanks so much for your time. i know you re going to be heading home soon
mitt romney knew he s on an upward swing and if he could knock him out on thursday or keep him from scoring big last night, he d probably have a really good shot at winning the primary and he might have done that. there was a lot of infighting. and i m wondering this morning how republicans and democrats and independents feel about that. is it getting old to you, all this infighting over the same topics over and over again? here s the next one. fannie mae and freddie mac. i know fannie mae and freddie mac were a big part that we have the housing crisis that we have. we had this discussion before. speaker gingrich was hired by freddie mac to promote them. to influence other people throughout washington wash, encouraging them not to dismantle these two entities. that was an enormous mistake. instead, we should have had a whistle blower and not a horn tooter. is he calling newter a tooter? horn tooter? he is. i don t know.
come on baby now come on baby watching that, everybody wanted to be ferris bueler right there, didn t they? the 80 s teen icon making an appearance at the super bowl. matthew broderick will be in a commercial bound to take you back. a you tube user going by the name of chucka chucka 2012 posted a 10-second teaser of the ad. how can i handle work on a day like today? oh, yes! the video s caption seems to indicate more will be released on monday. and speaking of ads, brian, and gretch, did you see that they killed off william shatner last night during the debate? on the priceline ad, there he went off the side of the off the bridge on a bus. we know he s got that big horse farm. battle heating up between indianapolis, the colts owner jim ursay and super bowl
oh, boy! we laughed earlier. it was about one week ago when he told a bunch of san francisco people that the giants are going to beat them. that was really good. and it just got better from there. 19th debate last night. i thought it was extremely strong for rick santorum. the washington examiner was interesting and they said santorum was great. romney was steady and newt was flat. abc says romney finally wins. he finally looks like the guy who wants to win the election. and newt gingrich was on our show a couple of days ago saying, you know, got to have the audience being able to react and last night, there was an audience and they were able to react. they didn t react to him, however, on the level that he would like and afterwards, the newt camp said that the romney camp stacked the house. had a bad day, though, because earlier in the day, marco rubio had said mr. speaker, your ad where you call mitt romney anti-immigrant is over the line. you got to take it down. he did take