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Again he slipped when he was defending the fee although he says he cant remember how much because he said, well, after all, i am a former speaker of the house. well, thats an important credential if youre hiring a lobbyist. as i understand it, it doesnt get you tenure at the yale history department. having been a former speaker has never been considered a credential. this is symptomattic of the republicans effort to blame us for their mistakes which you see of course with the effort to blame oba...

Fix was put in by the federal government. and if you want to put people in jail, i want to second what michelle said, you ought to start with barney frank and chris dodd and look at the politicians who created the environment, the politicians who profited from the environment, and the politicians who put this country in trouble. >> clearly not saying they aurgt ought to go to jail. >> well, look at he was close to freddie mac. all im saying is -- everybody in the media who wants to go after the ...

For the legislation. i changed my position. but i was irrelevant first a house run by newt gingrich and then tom delay. in 2007 when chris dodd and i first became chairs of the committee, thats when the legislation was adopted. its now very clear. we gave the secretary of the treasury under george bush, who acknowledges that we were the ones who did it, the power to put them into conservatorship. he put them into conservatorship in 2008. and newt lost $30,000 a month. so i understand why hes dis...

$30,000 a month. as he was speaking he was cashing that check. and in light of his comments after that period of time when he indicated that barney frank and chris dodd both ought to be arrested for their relationship with fannie mae and freddie mac, then clearly the former speaker if he were to hue the straight line and stop being a hypocrite, he would today place himself under house arrest for a series of gross -- >> that was a cry for help in other words. please come arrest me, take me to jai...

I want to replay the bite, september 2008 talking about barack obama receiving contributions from fannie and freddie. replay it, alex. this is what newt gingrich said. >> i think senator mccain shouldve turned and said, senator obama, are you prepared to give back all the money that freddie mac and fannie mae gave to you? are you prepared to fire your housing adviser who was paid $90 billion over six years while helping ruin fannie mae? are you prepared to fire your adviser who was the former he...

Gingrich and then tom delay. ive said this before. if tom delay was taking my advice during the period when i was in the minority bill clinton wouldnt have been impeached. we wouldnt have gone to war in iraq. and he wouldnt have gone on the dance show. he didnt accept my advice on any of those issues. now, gingrich is clearly there when they are refusing to do any reform. read hank paulsons book. paulson says, bushs secretary of treasury, in 2006 when he became secretary, he talked to me. i was ...

Said in september 2008 just about the same time about then presidential candidate barack obama receiving contributions from fannie and freddie. >> oh. >> i think senator mccain shouldve turned and said senator obama, are you prepared to give back all the money that freddie mac and fannie mae gave to you? are you prepared to fire your housing adviser who was paid $90 million over six years while helping ruin fannie mae? are you prepared to fire your adviser who was the former head of fannie mae, ...

unemployment, solution as big as $2 trillion annual deficits. and my sense was in the last couple of debates people sort of checked off and began saying to each other, gee, i think newt has the right ideas and as they went to newt.org and looked at our 21 century contract with america, i think they thought maybe having done it before in the 1990s with four balanced budgets and welfare reperform and bringing unemployment down from 5.6 to 4.2% maybe newt gingrich actually has the right s...

nobody. we need a leader, not a reader. >> ive narrowed your choices down to five unthinkable options. each will cause untold misery. >> i pick number three. >> you dont even want to read them first? >> i was elected to lead, not to read. >> well, we were neither elected to read or lead but were right here. herman cain is where we begin our daily fix today with msnbc contributor and manager editor post politics.com mr. chris alissa. hi, andrea. >> hi. you are the ironman. >> were makin...

unemployment, solution as big as $2 trillion annual deficits. and my sense was in the last couple of debates people sort of checked off and began saying to each other, gee, i think newt has the right ideas and as they went to newt.org and looked at our 21 century contract with america, i think they thought maybe having done it before in the 1990s with four balanced budgets and welfare reperform and bringing unemployment down from 5.6 to 4.2% maybe newt gingrich actually has the right s...