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Good guy to convert on the fence democrats. >> e.j. dionne, author of the new book "our divided political heart." e.j., congratulations on this successful launch of the book. >> thank you so much. >> thank you for being here. appreciate it. >> good to be with you. >> we have big developments to night in the state of floridas attempt to make it harder to vote. this is something we have been talking about on the show for the last few nights. my colleague ed shultz is covering this in even more dep...

bluster, big talk, and beating the drums of war with iraq. and rush limbaugh inc., a contract worth hundreds of millions as more advertisers jump the ship, as he put his own empire at risk? im wolf blitzer at the cnn election center. youre in "the situation room." its called super tuesday for a reason. even in this years slimmed down version 1/3 gop contests in ten states today. more than all the primaries and -- three of then last week, certainly romney could leave some of the -- ...

>> there isnt one. its getting pulled along at the bottom. >> you gave me an excellent explanation of what to expect. you laid it out quite well how hes going to behave. hell tell us the truth. then when he gets a call, hell tell us what that guy believes. your defense was as weak as i have seen one. by the way, the georgetown law student insulted by rush limbaugh will be ed shultzs guests tonight. georgetown has great students. im so lucky to live in the same town as that great school. its a gr...

>> not because they like him but theres not a strong democrat. i think ed shultz could beat him. >> hes barely surviving a recall. >> no. im not going to that point. but what i am saying if he loses the recall, if there is, that will happen. >> you didnt answer my question. can ed shultz beat scott walker e? >> i would love to see that. hes the man. thank you eugene robinson and michael steele. you will vote for obama if he carries the midwest. how much of mitt romney is actually scripted verbat...

Landscape. this will be a defining moment. >> you talk about "hardball." welcome back to it. scott walker knows the stakes are high. hes looking defensive. the democrats in the state filed petitions with more than a million signatures to trigger the recall election. democrats needed just 540,000 signatures for a recall. got double that. got half the elect rat to come out with the signatures. the angry response from union supporters made wisconsin ground zero in the fight for survival. with a rec...

Could it become a big part of the progressive coalition in this country? >> i hope so. i think labor has been critical in delivering wisconsin in any number of races. big labor is about 25% of the electorate here. we have been a strong labor state. but i think we have we absolutely need an expansion of labor. i think its peoples ticket into the middle class. thats what people are hungering for is how to live their life with a little bit more so they can get by. >> last word, ed. the big thing is...

Identifying the scrooges in the right-wing. gentlemen, great to have you with us tonight. >> good evening. >> merry christmas. >> john, you wrote a piece recently comparing newt gingrich and mitt romney to scrooge. what was the reasoning here? >> well, ed, when you start out by suggesting that you fire school janitors and replace them with children, youre getting pretty close to a dekenzian model. there i havent read all of dickens character recently, as for romney, the tragedy of romney is that...

Security. having said that, ed, it appears that the republicans finally are now on the defensive. the democrats have got to raise the ante. they have to go back and i intend to play an active role in that and say jobs is what we have got to talk about. millions of jobs. we have to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. we have to transform our energy system. we have to rethink our disastrous trade policy. what we have to do is tell the american people, we are on the side of working families who a...

Point. but what were you going to say, ed? i interrupted. >> who wins iowa, do you think? of all the crazies, who wins iowa, liz? >> usually, you know, because iowa has been so helpful to the republicans in the past with, you know, huckabee and pat buchanan. so my guess is that rick santorum will take this win and just ride it all the way home to his amazingly christian marriage. >> what do you think, mike? >> its going to be a guy like perry or santorum. the rest of the kun stri worried about t...

Democrats and republicans, to make sure that the economy is growing and to make sure that more jobs are created. >> so where does the president go from here in the next 60 days? i mean after the new year, hes going to the opportunity to make the pitch to the american people about how important this is in the state of the union address. but the fact is that the democrats are going to have to hold the line on the big three and theyre going to have to try to get revenue. how is that going to work? ...