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Will take the bain arguments about his days at bain capital that investment firm and trying to tell positive stories out of it. right now they say only the negative stories are being told. the problem, though, is its republicans hitting him on a vulnerability that the democrats and president obama already believe was a liability for him with swing voters and they have always believed once youre able to talk about his record as one of these, quote, wall street guys, bain is not technically a wall...

Crir sten powers, good morning, good to see you. >> good morning. martha: lets talk about newt gingrich first. whats your take on this? is this a big issue for him, do you think? >> this is a big issue among conservatives. i dont know if he was a the -- if he was the nominee it would be a big issue but conservatives for a long time have been very unhappy with fannie mae and freddie mac and in fact, even gingrich himself had criticized barack obama for taking money in 08 from two executives from ...

Congressmen yesterday who were saying -- theyre in the debt ceiling, there truly were a lot of people calling into congress, into capitol hill saying, hey, will you just solve this thing? its almost as if the publics not paying attention, throwing up their hands, not tuning in. >> is he unable to figure out? has he not figured out that the other side of the aisle is n giving him nothing? >> i think thats the calculus they have made. thats the calculation theyve made. were not going to get anythi...

Times. been on the news for the last several months, saying hes innocent repeatedly. i think saying that tonight again doesnt help him. >> reporter: blagojevich was paid for his appearance tonight, but the college democrats wont say how much. whether this publicity is worth that paycheck will likely be determined at his trial this summer. marion brooks, nbc 5 news. >> my alma mater. >> i got rejected from there. >> i only got in for grad school and am still paying for it. dont be sad. and comi...

Will have loyal folks to him part of this so that this committee doesnt steer off course and consume the republican party next year as theyre trying to make the case to voters to become the majority party. >> no matter who he picks there is one republican that nancy pelosi selected to be on this special commit tee. congresswoman liz cheney. >> one he doesnt want on the committee. this is a no win situation for kevin mccarthy. he wants to be speaker of the house but if this is a circus that doesn...

Administratively. he needs to get off of this track. he keeps returning to it and it doesnt help him. >> neil: theres a number of people very angry, including 17 sets of parents that lost their children as a result of this miscommunicated or not properly started out fbi interview with someone that knew and was worried about this shooter. why couldnt a surrogate or someone like that express the obvious thing, okay, the fbi botched this one. why do you as president of the united states have to go ...

That cherade he kept up for 41 days. >> you never know whats out there. when he found out that there may be tapes out there whether its governmental tapes or who knows, i think his story may have changed. youll have to take a look at that because then he had to tell what took place at the events. my story didnt change. my story was always a straight story. my story was always the truth. youll have to determine for yourself whether or not his story changed. i did not tape. >> its a smart way to m...

Not doing a good job. at the same time, this contradicts some reports out there that trump had threatened to actually send the army in. officials on both sides have said that is not true. what we have seen is mexicans are beginning to unite behind what was a very unpopular president. when we see these kind of humiliations, it certainly doesnt help him. hes busy trying to figure out what can be renegotiated with mexico, whats on the table, what isnt. he needs all the support he can get, carol. >>...