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it was eight days, nine days ago we were discussing paul ryan, the article in "the new yorker" called fuss budget. did you know then he was actually on the fast track to be a pick for the vp? >> no, we barely talked about it in my interview. the reason i wrote the piece, i wanted to think about what is romney going so do if he wins. if you want to understand what republicans will do if they gain the white house, paul ryan is the guy to understand. it was his policy agenda that you knew...

Commitment to the nation after combat troops leave. president obama will address the nation tonight from bagram air base at 7:30 eastern and fox news will bring it to you live. before the president left, the campaign put out a new add defending the record on clean energy, green jobs. hitting romney for his record and his swiss bank account. take a look. >> president obama clean energy initiative help create jobs across america, not overseas. what about romney? he shipped jobs to mexico. and as g...

Commitment to the nation after combat troops leave. president obama will address the nation tonight from bagram air base at 7:30 eastern and fox news will bring it to you live. before the president left, the campaign put out a new add defending the record on clean energy, green jobs. hitting romney for his record and his swiss bank account. take a look. >> president obama clean energy initiative help create jobs across america, not overseas. what about romney? he shipped jobs to mexico. and as g...

More america across america, not overseas. what about romney? he shipped american jobs to mexico and china. as governor, he outsourced jobs to a call center in india. its what you would expect from a guy with a swiss bank account. >> welcome back to "morning joe." its an ad that will be heard in virginia, ohio and iowa. hitting romney on his swiss bank accounts. republican senator from oklahoma, tom coburn. "the debt bomb" very good to have you on the show, senator. >> great to be with you. >> l...

What you ought to do is stop and look at the facts. >> wendy, how are the historians at brown university taking this historian defense? are they offended that he is trying to blame their profession? >> well, theres a difference between an inaccurate historian and someone who makes things up and revises history over and over again. and youve got to argue that gingrich is really engaging in a lot of revisionist history. >> hes like a history creator and re-writer. >> hes a smart guy. he knows what...

Were quite weak, even from gingrich. very, as ron paul, 1960s in the approach. so i thought gingrich kind of -- but hitting historians, if youre romney hitting historians, if youre gingrich hitting romney, what gingrich should have said, not everyones as rich as you, mitt, and i had to make a living. and thats the truth. he made a living. >> howard, lets go to that -- >> lawrence? >> howard, go ahead. >> i was just going to say, thinking over it now, as i review the debate in my mind, when newt ...

I dont know whether it will affect things dramatically but it has been pretty dramatic. >> alternatively, maybe they read the reviews overnight, saying why arent the candidates hitting romney and came out this morning looking for blood. what do you expect? >> its battle for second place. seems like mitt romney has the new hampshire win fairly well tied up. theres a fairly tight race for second place, and that will decide which candidate goes into south carolina with momentum and fake it a fight ...

It were kind of flabbergasted, like what are they doing. this morning i thought maybe that was a devious plan. they didnt give him a chance to come back this morning, hit him the last outing there was going into the tuesday primary. maybe there was all sort of their plan. they definitely hit him hard in the beginning. huntsman got some real licks in which he hasnt for a long time. dont know whether it will affect things dramatically but it has been pretty dramatically. >> alternatively, maybe th...

plus, house democratic leader nancy pelosi on the presidents re-election campaign. >> i think he should run against this do-nothing congress. and off the trail to give us a primary preview -- phil rucker of the "washington post" and neil king of the "wall street journal." im candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." ignoring the iowa caucuses, jon huntsman planted himself here in the granite state, holding events, answering questions, signing autographs, shaking thousands ...

plus, house democratic leader nancy pelosi on the presidents re-election campaign. >> i think he should run against this do-nothing congress. and off the trail to give us a primary preview -- phil rucker of the "washington post" and neil king of the "wall street journal." im candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." ignoring the iowa caucuses, jon huntsman planted himself here in the granite state holding events, answering questions, signing autographs, shaking thousands o...