Welcome to one nation, i hope you re having a fantastic weekend. Tonight, a special show. Hopefully your favorite one of the most successful words businessman in the world and you will love this story. This universe life got better after that and to explain. They hit on his own. Big personalities from the breakfast club. Talk about his story but first, want to talk about the state of the economy. Everywhere you go, everyone you talk to, every pull you look at the economy. 38% of voters saying the most important issue is picking the next president so whatever says about the other if you want a clue on who s winning and who will win. Getting a handle on the economy with the real economy for average everyday americans might be your best bet. Three the best economic minds we know, take a walk with me. David asman, charlie gasparino has a brandnew book out, go well or go broke. Fantastic. Needs no introduction but i gave him one. What you stand is on taxes, welcome, guys. What is the state
commitments? right. i think that s what he talks about frequently. he talks about south korea. he talks about japan. he talks about germany and why for 50 years we ve had bases there and 30,000 troops, for instance in, south korea. you know, to the extent that they alone come back, they would provide a source of lowering the deficit, so that s, i think, very much of a positive. he has other things going for him, too. i mean, he does have the strongest sense, i think, of all republican candidates in terms of monetary policy. yes, he goes too far in terms of the gold standard. yes, he goes too far in saying we should eliminate the fed, but he does know how the monetary system works and that s something, i think romney and santorum and others don t have a clue on. this is interesting because i know you re saying all right, he goes too facts and circumstances but, you know, a lot of people on the strike team, it won t surprise you, bill, they said ron paul, he s crazy because he wants
in iowa and immediately hitting the new hampshire air waves. it s time for this pessimistic president to step aside and let american optimism that built this greatest nation on earth build a great future for our children. but are people buying what mitt s selling? conventional wisdom says the former ceo will be the republican nominee and that the quote/unquote establishment is behind him. well, we wanted to know if that is really true. so we reached out to the out front strike team, our exclusive group of the best and brightest minds in the business world in this country and asked them which gop candidate is best for the economy. here are the results. it turns out most do support romney. 12 of 15. two preferred gingrich over all other candidates and one person said ron paul and i ll get to that. that s really important. here s another thing. in a head-to-head matchup the strike team matchup said they would support rick santorum over obama, that s right. this is importan
i m erin burnett. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, romney on a roll. mitt romney squeaking out a win in iowa and immediately hitting the new hampshire air waves. it s time for this pessimistic president to step aside and let american optimism that built this greatest nation on earth build a great future for our children. but are people buying what mitt s selling? conventional wisdom says the former ceo will be the republican nominee and that the quote/unquote establishment is behind him. well, we wanted to know if that is really true. so we reached out to the out front strike team, our exclusive group of the best and brightest minds in the business world in this country and asked them which gop candidate is best for the economy. here are the results. it turns out most do support romney. 12 of 15. two preferred gingrich over all other candidates and one person said ron paul and i ll get to that. that s really important. here s another thing. in a head-to-head match
way. remember, of course, republicans can only afford to lose 21 of their fellow republicans and pass this bill. it s changing moment by moment. let s get over to where all the action is. sunlen serfaty is on capitol hill. sunlen, the speaker pushes back his press conference and his meeting with members. reporter: kate, those are two big signals that indicate that the house republican leadership simply aren t where they need to be yet. no deal has come together yet. so the intention is to push towards a vote tonight in the house. but there s nothing scheduled. that gives us a big clue on where things stand right now. there are a lot of moving parts at this hour. you have members of the conservative house freedom caucus who are heading to the white house to meet with president trump. they re among the chief holdouts. they have been very disgruntled about this bill and are pushing for more changes to be made. house leadership has been making