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You keep coming in third, youre not much of a frontrunner. >> what state coming up do you think you can win? >> i dont know yet. i dont know yet, brett. were looking at a number of them. were in sort of a halftime. louisiana is the halfway point. were having like a football team, were having a halftime resetting of the game plan. >> like a football team. that was newt gingrich last week refusing to call it quits. if is halftime, why is he sitting out a big part of the contest in the locker room?...

Ballot which mitt romney will fail to win, then rick santorum would have a genuine chance at winning an open floor fight. he doesnt have a chance otherwise, he has no ability to beat mitt romney and his organization and his money. >> rick -- i just have to follow up with that. of course he has the ability to be -- you look at michigan, ohio, romney bombed santorum with money in ohio, and if newt gingrich wasnt in the race, santorum would have beaten him decisively. >> well, explain that -- in th...

It forward. he wont grant us the actual facts of the votes weve counted. and he wants to talk about the votes that are months away. eric, what rick is essentially saying is okay, hey, everybody, lets just keep playing, seems pretty clear to us, that even romney isnt going to get the delegates he needs in the election process to go into the convention with the nomination. so we will all show up in florida with our delegates and then we can talk. and if rick santorums way ahead of newt gingrich, m...

Er eric, santorum is beating gingrich consistently in these things. you have a wipeout of mitt romney in all these campaigns. what does rick santorum have to do to convince -- not newt gingrich but other republicans to rise up and say, come on, lets narrow this race? >> im not a political strategist, i have to say that if he continues to say what he believes in, i have a funny feeling that the obama administration is probably more afraid of san forum at this point than theyre willing to admit. h...

Records reflect they would be able to do that, they would both accommodate washington, he would step aside. he doesnt see that in either of those candidates, why not give people in mississippi a chance to vote for another conservative? >> well, according to that formulation then, hell never stop aside, because every poll shows president obama beating every one of these guys. rick, come on, you cant keep things going like this. >> things change. >> i want to see the real debate between the conser...

Room kicking around ideas about what to do about the oil spill, and tanoy had this idea and we kind of kicked it around and came up with this idea of what if bp executives spill a cup of coffee on their table and have no idea how to clean it up. >> you know how many people are watching this? i was at work and it went around the entire building and by the time i came here, everybody was looking at this. er eric, is there because there is some truth and the truth is often spoken in jest, is that p...

Airplane. if i bring a carry-on i pay for that fuel. >> eric, you tell me right now. you look at my eyes and tell me that when you are on the airplane, and you see a 400 to 500 pound person walking down the aisle, that you are not like please dont sit next to me. please dont sit next to me. if they didnt buy two seats your experience has been destroyed. you are also putting that passenger in a very precarious position. we need to address the safety issue. the bottom line is this gentleman, mr. s...

Know, there are countless court cases on the issue. so, yes, it is an issue of not looking carefully enough at the paper that has been signed. >> jamie: i have to leave it there, not being able to keep up with it, even the administration offered relief and they were flooded with paperwork, too. >> the administration could not deal with it, either. >> jamie: thanks, great to have you weigh in on this. er eric. >> eric: disappointing news expected this week for people who get social security. the ...