if this were a democrat we d scream bloody murder if that question hasn t been asked. bill: i wouldn t be screaming anything, you re wrong in the sense, that s old news and abc ran was old news. it s a headline on drudge and fox news let s go to another vicious mainstream media reporter bret baier who asked newt gingrich have his staff abandoned mimm and that s attacking bret baier calling it a gotcha question. bill: mitt romney did the same thing with bret baier. this is the serious issue the way that real racism is a serious issue and wiped away by frauds and charlestons and they want a defense like someone like newt gingrich doesn t want to answer a question and i need three hours to answer that question, he yelled at the moderator. and he s depleting the well of the the important issue and
for a positive campaign so i m not going to go after this man s opponents. i won t be saying things like the only difference between mitt romney and a statue of mitt romney is that the statue never changes its position. that s not positive. not even to the statue. and i am not going to answer the gotcha question, am i interested in an open marriage? though i am flattered that newt gingrich asked me. welcome back to hardball. stephen colbert rolled into south carolina, his home state, where he held a pretty big rally. some say a huge rally with herman cain there. police estimate the crowd was attended by 4,000 people, which is a big number down here. that s more than the actual candidates see at a rally. and he continues to explore a run for president down there in south carolina. what effect will colbert have on this election?
it on tuesday. and i think he had a good answer. he said i m going to file them, you know, i m going to make them public in april but then for john king to have that gotcha question, your dad said 12 years. when was the last time somebody asked barack obama, hey, we d like to see 12 years worth of your stuff or any other democrat on the other side. i think brian brings up a really interesting point that after three days and i think when you have and i think maybe it s a good answer. when you have your main encoarse endor endorser chris christie sitting on our couch yesterday reiterating that he should release his tax records now. he should do that now instead of waiting until april. newt gingrich has talked a lot about how he and ronald reagan hand and hand created millions and millions of jobs that led to a great economy that led to vast riches for people like mitt romney. well, last night, mitt romney wasn t going to bite for that anymore. i do think government can kill
things, not just what s wrong. i know. you set it up as an endorsement. and you said it before a couple of weeks ago you were ready to endorse somebody. i think that s why it was using that lingo of endorsement. gretchen, i also warned everybody that many people in the media won t like it because because it s not conventional. sure. but i said the american people will like it. i have received comments from people saying thank you for reminding me that i m still in charge of this country. washington is broken. we are broke and the american people need to stay engaged and inspired. so it was unconventional and i didn t do it the way they did it because that s the way i am. it is and you got us talking about it this morning. last night, the big debate. what did you think of cnn starting with that gotcha question to newt gingrich about his ex-wife mary anne? i love newt gingrich s response because that s the same crap that they pulled on me.
newt gingrich ripped chris wallace first and juan williams question is what newt gingrich was able to shine earlier in the debate this week and john king again. it s not as if it was scripted. he probably knew the topic was going to come up. absolutely. he knew the topic would come up as mitt romney undoubtedly knew the question of his income taxes was going to come up and he was ready and he responded he would go ahead and make them public as soon as he filed his income taxes in april as he has said in the past. but then john king had a gotcha question. he said did you know that your father when he was running for president said he would unveil 12 years worth of stuff? would you do that? and he had to waiver a little bit. he said maybe he would. he went on to talking about capitalism which i thought was a strong statement. listen to this. and i m going to stand and defend capitalists across this country, throughout this campaign. i know we re going to hit it hard for president