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Energy. i toured those plants with president bush. nobody in their right mind could possibly think that president bush allowed gas prices to go up because he was an environmentalist or too tough on the oil and gas industry so the president now has to say weve been here before. theres a way out of it. by the way, anyone who thinks this is about politics doesnt even remember four years ago. >> of course, martin, the republicans blame the president with his position on the keystone pipeline as if t...

a new career. im year yeah borrow ger and youre in "the situation room." it may not be everything, but aappearance is everything on the campaign trail. a lack luster speech, the bang promise by his campaign was more of a fizzle. the gap is down from six points on tuesday to two points today. joe, what exactly happened? >> reporter: well, gloria, mitt romney is still struggling to get his momentum back and todays speech was supposed to be a step in the right direction but for a bunch ...

Nation. he feels the country should be governed by the rules of the catholic church. >> e.j., do you think rick santorum truly believes what hes saying or is he just trying to get people to draw distance between him and romney? >> i think joy-ann is exactly right. i think this is exactly what santorum believes. hes always believed this. and he cant get used to the fact that when he says things like this, it comes off differently because hes subject to the scrutiny of a presidential campaign and ...

Personal opposition to birth control and to women in combat. and over the weekend santorum seemed to question the presidents religion, in a speech attacking his energy policy. >> its not about your jobs. its about some phony ideal, some phony theology. oh, not a theology based on the bible. a different theology. >> reporter: santorum says he was talking about the presidents environmental views, not his religion. although look how his own spokesman slipped up when she tried to say radical environ...

He feels the country should be governed by the rules of the catholic church. >> e.j., do you think rick santorum truly believes what hes saying or is he just trying to get people to draw distance between him and romney? >> i think joy-ann is exactly right. i think this is exactly what santorum believes. hes always believed this. and he cant get used to the fact that when he says things like this, it comes off differently because hes subject to the scrutiny of a presidential campaign and i think ...

slamming the presidents energy policy suggesting the president wants to see higher prices and summing it up this way. >> this is what the presidents agenda, its not about you, its not about you, its not about your quality of life, its not about your jobs, its about some phony ideal, some phony theology. oh, not a theology based on the bible, a different theology. >> that phrase, a different theology, sparked the controversy which senator santorum at first initially seemed to embrace. h...

arizona. youre in "the situation room." they are numbers that are making mitt romney nervous. they are certainly catching the attention of the obama re-election campaign. were talking about the latest polls that show rick santorum at the front of the republican presidential pack. look at that gallup tracking poll number that has santorum ten points aheads of romney nationally among registered republicans. even with the sampling error, santorum is the frontrunner in this poll. but that ...

Electric car, theyre always vacant. it doesnt work. >> first of all, two things, we know that neil says that, a, he doesnt believe you go to whole foods, and b, there is evidence that people the average buyer of the volt earns $170,000 a year, no, no, 170,000 a year, so, to bens point, youve got someone who is driving a pickup truck making $30 grand a year and subsidizing someone who vacations at the vineyard. how nuts is that. >> thats a weird trend for a while, its very. but you know how depen...

The anti-- the environmentalist. >> what about the media matters study. liberal website says the pipeline is getting all the good press. >> well, what do you think theyre going to say? of course theyll come up with that study. as cal said, unemployment is a big issue in this country and jobs are a big issue. james from reuters made the point the unemployment rate is 8.5%. at the same time president obama can use energy 25 times dancing around the -- >> back to columbia journalism they did a stud...

Hearings generally. >> look, its good political theater, back and forth. impugning each others motives. >> who do you think we are, britain? >> there you go. but look, the real -- the reason it got a lot of traction besides the media action study which said there were more pro than antipipeline people, its a better story. 20,000 jobs, oil that answers our energy concerns. canada will sell to china if we dont get it to the pro pipeline people were nor interesting than the anti-- the environmental...