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With us in changing washington. [ cheers and applause ] >> chris: what a week. and now the candidates head to t florida where the next primary is nine days away. well be right back with ah special program note you know when i grow up, im going to own my own restaurant. i want to be a volunteer firefighter. when i grow up, i want to write a novel. i want to go on a road trip. when i grow up, im going to go there.

I spent my life in the private sector. i understand how to creati e jos and how to get america strongta again. im running against, in the case of speaker gingrich, someone who has never worked in the private sector, who spent his life in washingtonor and has been workig as a lobbyist and he doesnt call it officially a lobbyist, but thats what it is. and i. simply cannot imagineyi america being led by a person whose sole experience is not inside the private sector, but insideho washington. i just...

Deficit problem. the facts are this: the president would never say yes to fundamental reform of our tax code. he asked for more revenue. i told the president, ill put i revenues on the table, but onlyt if were going to have fundamental reform of ourf entitlement program. the president would never say yes. and then he wanted a trillion dollars worth of new taxes. the problem in washington is there is too much spending. weve got to get our arms around it. m the republicans in the house and senate ...

Should, among other things, go after the news media because it had played like gang busters in south carolina and would help down the road. but as we discussed with romney, he did even more. he went after washington and new york eloots who he said, and let me get the quote right r trying to force us to quit being america. effective or over the top? >> look, i suggested he do it cause he knew he would do t he cant help himself. >> chris: you also thought it was a good idea. c >> it works in a rep...

Credit for a year and it was offset with reasonablere reductions in spend, most of them coming from the presidents own budget. im hopeful well get this finished as soon as possible. the keystone pipeline is the prime example of a shovel ready project thats been through every approval process here in washington. every option is on the table. were going to do everything we can to try to make sure thatto this keystone pipeline is, in approved. its 20,000 direct jobs. its over 100,000 indirect jobs....

Hell demand the wealthy pay more taxes. and onceme again, hell proposea grand bargain to cut the deficis and avoid that $1.2 trillion in automatic triggers. do you see a compromise on any of those issues? >> ive read a lot about what the presidentse is going to tals about tuesday night. it sounds to me like the same old policies that weve seen, more spending, higher taxes, more regulations. the same policies that havent helped our economy, theyve made it worse. if thats what the president ise go...

>> i want to get a picture. >> weve had our differences, whichha campaign also inevitabll have. newt is not perfect, but who w among us is? have an opening to marriage. iri refused. >> i am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that. >> at times, hes got sort of that worrisome moment that something is going to pop. >> this is our grandson, robert -- youreop playing hook. shhh. this is his mother. this is an educational field trip for robert. >> you know, in washingt...

So conservative as a reliable conservative leader, n as people might have a imagined. but well get chance to frame up those issues as time goes on. he had a very good week going after me on taxes and bain and so forth. a great confrontation with juan williams. thats hard to match in every single state. >> chris: i want to pick up on exactly this issue, how will you -- you give us a couple of ideas. but how will you go after newt gingrich now? >> well, the key for me is mott so much going after n...

Him. third, you saw it earlier, heth took on gingrich on the question of character, but not on the question of marriage, but on the question of you were working for freddie mac. you were the guy who is the washington insider. you are the guy who attacked the republican house members about being foddr the ryan budget byor saying right wing social engineering. hes got to use attacks that distinguish him ast being more conservative or as conservative on certain issues. >> chris: what would your adv...

Report they issued this week, many of the ideas and the presidents own jobs council are bills that have already passed in the house. >> chris: such as? >> the issue of infrastructure. we need -- we have big problems with our highways and roads. we need to get those things done. when youto look -- >> chris: he supported an infrastructure as part of his jobs bill. >> if you look at the regulatory of bills that have passed the house, same kind of suggestions coming from the presidents own jobs coun...