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Early voting state of iowa. mr. gingrich has opened up a big lead there, even though he only ran his first iowa tv ad today. and even though he did not get around to opening up a campaign headquarters in iowa until last week. this is the new normal in running for president in the republican party. good-bye, herman cain. hello, apprenti. joining us now is a man who knows what it takes to win iowa in any year. david yepsen, director of paul simon policy institute. he covered every iowa campaign si...

Pains to be really unkinglike, the pardon power is an absolute power giving to the president alone. its used thousands of times by presidents and most of the times its not a big deal. some are scandalous. like the iran contra pardons. casper weinberger, about to gone on trial for allegedly illegally selling arms to iranians and using the money for groups in nicaragua which was illegal to fund. sometimes pardons are scandalous and sometimes a nice mix of pitiful and disgusting, like when on his l...

And tend to win from the field of candidates. i think that process is going on right now on the republican side. >> it seems like it remains to be seen, that sort of gut-level -- looking for a gut-level match you were describing. that remains the major unknown with the mitt romney candidacy, whether voters are almost viscerally comfortable with him as a man. and as a candidate, as a potential republican nominee. hes not thought this year as being a good ideological match with the conservative io...

Somebody is denied a pardon. that is one reason propublicas investigation into the pardon process is ground breaking. through a freedom of information act request, propublica analyzed a random sample of 500 or so cases. with rigorous statistical analysis, controlling for all other factors, check out what they found. look at this. quote, white criminals seeking presidential pardons over the past decade have been nearly four times as likely to succeed as minorities. white people are 400% more like...

Times. he knows i will take that very, very seriously. >> geragos also is a political connection. he helped secure a pardon from president clinton for which of his clients. a mark rich. susan mcdoogle. d roger clinton. geragos got a pardon from bill clinton and the answer is susan mcdougald. so its a tie, correct? >> bill: i hoped that wouldnt happen dont gloat doocy. >> bolster his ego once a week. >> for his book "it" steven king wrote about a killer clown. >> i georgey am the dancing clown. y...

Times. he knows i will take that very, very seriously. >> geragos also is a political connection. he helped secure a pardon from president clinton for which of his clients. a mark rich. susan mcdoogle. d roger clinton. geragos got a pardon from bill clinton and the answer is susan mcdougald. so its a tie, correct? >> bill: i hoped that wouldnt happen dont gloat doocy. >> bolster his ego once a week. >> for his book "it" steven king wrote about a killer clown. >> i georgey am the dancing clown. y...

Times. he knows i will take that very, very seriously. >> geragos also is a political connection. he helped secure a pardon from president clinton for which of his clients. a mark rich. susan mcdoogle. d roger clinton. geragos got a pardon from bill clinton and the answer is susan mcdougald. so its a tie, correct? >> bill: i hoped that wouldnt happen dont gloat doocy. >> bolster his ego once a week. >> for his book "it" steven king wrote about a killer clown. >> i georgey am the dancing clown. y...

>> you know, a lot of things that hes done disturb me. even before he was attorney general, if you recall, he testified before congress about the part of mark rich and he said he didnt know anything about it. it was very similar to his testimony about fast and furious. he said that he didnt know anything about it and then we find out after his testimony that he actually knew a lot about it and in fact, when he was attorney -- u.s. attorney, he led an investigation. we know about his problems wit...

Suggested we try khalid shaikh mohammed in new york without talking to the folks in new york who didnt want it. none of those happened, and while deputy attorney general under clinton argued for the pardoning of mark rich, which ultimately was handed down, it was really controversy, and eric holder had to go testify before congress when he was being confirmed as aur attorney general and they wanted to know, did you investigate that case before you suggested this guy get pardoned? take a look at ...

General of the united states when he was being confirmed. you heard krauthammer talking about the arizona laws. one of the controversies was his role in the mark rich pardon. there was a big controversy over that because he helped get that pardon and this is a bad guy an later had this exchange with arlen specter, we dont have it? we dont have it. specter said did you know about mark richs background? and holder said, no, i was not. and that was one of the mistakes i made. i did not acquaint mys...