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Can -- what bothers me about the media. this is why we are vetting obama and showing the excuses as we did before governor romneys speech. what is frustrating to me is he has made all of this excuses, people dont put it together. i figured,im going to do this now until november. we did things that the media wouldnt do in 2007 and 08, its frustrating. >> have you to move it fast. you cant allow the president to run out the clock with a 3- or 4-minute answer. if you want to be respectful to the of...

Your own primaries. you have watched senate gubernatorial primaries. >> point taken, my man. whats the question? >> so how would you handle it? how can you not agree that this is over? the numbers are in favor -- even in 08 when clinton and barack obama had emerged as the nominee, hillary clinton trounced him in west virginia and states after that because of the makeup of that constituent. y mpt -- constituency. >> well, because you had two people and you knew at one point that barack obama was ...

>> not there yet. >> a political front. she is a more effective fund-raiser. she gets more. was this the case with hillary? the spouse is a better fund-raiser than the vice president? >> i have to look at the numbers with hillary and al gore, but the first lady is a rarer commodity and as we know, its supply and demand. there is a bit of mystery. she was not as public as she could have been. she held that to take care of her family and she didnt -- being a super public person was not high on the...

You watched the primary and watched the presidential primaries and want issed the candidate. how can you not agree that this is over. the numbers bode in favor and even in 08 when clinton and barack obama and hillary clinton trounced him because of the make up. >> lead up to that, how can you not? >> you had two people and at one point barack obama was going to have that moment when he got over the top and he wasnt going to have to go to the convention and there wasnt going to be a floor battle....

Joining 123 house republicans calling for holders resignation. >> we know the secret service code name for mitt romney is javelin and rick santorum is pet ryes. he told jay leno what his name would be. >> bulldog. >> paul says hes genesee kret service protection. hes a regular citizen and taxpayers should not be paying to protect them. that is your 5 at 5. i want to know what our code names would be. tweet it in. >> time for the first degree weather update with maria molina. i know you have ...

Rebuttal to the mitt romney centered campaign? >> i think one of the things that you heard rick santorum talk about tonight which i think is intended to insulate him from calls to get out of the race or to step aside is that hes looking forward to the pennsylvania primary five weeks from now, giving no indication that hes planning to get out of the race. the gloves are off. hes going to continue to make a tough case. hes going to continue to make an ideological case attacking mitt romney from hi...

At the moment tells him to believe. he is building an effective rebuttal to the mitt romney centered campaign? >> i think one of the things that you heard rick santorum talk about tonight which i think is intended to insulate him from calls to get out of the race or to step aside is that hes looking forward to the pennsylvania primary five weeks from now, giving no indication that hes planning to get out of the race. the gloves are off. hes going to continue to make a tough case. hes going to co...

Ballot about this five-state rule. its important and im hearing a lot from ron paul supporters about this. explain it about the issue of do you get to keep your delegates even if you dont win five states? >> well, the rule used to be that in order to control business from the floor, a particular matter or issue or individual would need the majority of five statess delegates to control business on the floor. that rule was amended in 08 to meaning that now the rule is that you only need a pluralit...

$9 trillion in debt, even though hes been in office three years and two months. this president has run up more debt than any other president in history. and has now run up the same amount of debt as george bush did in eight years. if you look to the future, and you look the president obamas own budget, not yet accepted but in place, that budget would add another $9 trillion to our total outstanding debt in the next ten years. the president has failed to control runaway spending which, according ...

Terms of activities in the precincts and so on. so im not worried about that. and im looking forward to the fall. i think were going to have a robust turnout. those numbers were interesting you mention in the nbc/"wall street journal" poll, because theres been a real collapse. at the last, last summer, the story going into last summer was the story was this big republican advantage in enthusiasm. you dont see that anymore. i think this long, grinding, negative campaign has really deflated intere...