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love. vladimir putin is suggesting john mccain is nuts. mccain responds on twitter saying, dear vlad, was is something that i said? on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com and good morning to you. it is friday, december 16th. nine days left before christmas. can you believe it? have you finished your shopping? i have two gifts bought. and that means no. good morning, everybody. i am alina cho. welcome to american morning. the last critical debate before the iowa caucus, the front-runner, newt gingrich playing defense on his conservative values and electability. mitt romney stood by his business background playing it safe and texas governor rick perry realizing it may be the fourth down threw this hail mary pass. there are a lot of folk whose said tim tebow wasn t going to be a good nfl quarterback. that looked print good. am i ready for the next level? let me tell you i hope i am the tim tebow of the iowa caucuses. best line of the night.
parr s zany side kick. what decade is that from? 40s or 50s. is it 50s? sure. welcome back to morning joe. 30s may be zany. that is just zany. and joining the table, bill bennett s morning in america, bill bennett. also author of the book the book of man. readings on the path to manhood. and also us with us in washington, political writer for the huffington post, sam stein. a great morning to have you with us, bill. the national review. yeah. put out an editorial, we ve been talking about it this morning. where they basically say newt gingrich is not the conservative s choice for
reason because of the weakness with regard to the soviet union, the weakness with regard to the military. huntsman frightens us that he s into that sort of state department intellectual i don t know let s go after the military. we shouldn t be a strong military presence. you don t say that to republicans. we re going to have him on next week, we ll let him respond to that. very good on china, he just doesn t want to occupy about 20 muslim nations at the same time. america has to be willing to have a military presence in the middle east for the next 50 years like we ve had in europe if we want to make a statement to the to our enemies. the people planning to kill us are in that part of the world, that s where our troops should be. all right. thank you very much. the book is called the book of man. if you believe in christmas, you will buy this book. we shall return. now i m embarrassed. i m burning out this useless telephone
conversation to be about this summer and fall? and, you know, newt s a great source of ideas, i ve learned a lot from him, but i m worried the conversation will be about him, rather than about barack obama we haven t even talked about let s turn the conversation to your book. because you came on here yeah. to talk about your book, and we for 30 minutes have hijacked you. it s called the book of man with all of these men around, what can rudy and meacham and i learn from the book of man? there s no problem at this table, let me stipulate that, but there s a problem with men. whether you look at employment levels, men looking for jobs, look at marriage, commitment to family, and so on. we said to the women, you know, you go girl, and they went. and now we have the first generation of women who are outperforming men in almost everything in terms of achievement, education, ambition, and so on. this book is an encouragement to men to be men and to remember