john avalon is with us. and a columnist with the daily and co-author of the grand new party. let me start with you, and everyone should know who watches this show, but your background, you used to work for rudy giuliani, a pro-choice. ten years ago different story, but he s done a 180 on every social issue since he s started running for president. i want to play quickly an ad. this is from newt s pac running now in new hampshire stealing from a john mccain ad back in 2008, of course, on the day john mccain endorses mitt romney. here it is on the social issues with mitt romney. i believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. i will preserve and protect a woman s right to choose and devoted and dedicated to honoring my word in that regard. i am pro-life and fab that legislation. you won t see me waivering. go back to youtube and see what i said in 1994.
gross is saying he would be an obama man, but when it comes to looking that the republican field, he does not dismiss someone like ron paul out of hand twi did seem like the establishment was do, and and similarly in our results from our strike team with rick santorum. so what do you make? do you think that these guys have the capability to become more mainstream candidate? ron paul has no capability of becoming a more mainstream candidate. he s a man of the margin, and i think if you are a democrat and you want to do a little mischief in the republican field, you might well favor him because he is is a man ron paul is a man who couldn t be elected mayor of a town, let alone president of the united states. here s how the ron paul message worked. i was in one of the precincts in iowa and sought speech given by a very effective and intelligent ron paul supporter. he presented ron paul as pro-life, anti-gay marriage, a veteran, in favor of strong american military, and by the way a
goes too facts and circumstances but, you know, a lot of people on the strike team, it won t surprise you, bill, they said ron paul, he s crazy because he wants to get rid of the fed and i dismiss that out of hand. you re the guy who deals with the fed more, relies on the fed more and american monetary policy more than anybody in our country, our mutual funds, our 401(k)s, a lot of them are in your hands. so what would happen in a ron paul presidency? why would you be all right with it it given those ideas? how do you think he would temper them? would you become comfortable with that if he did? well, back again, i think obama is the man, though i m not satisfied with what obama s done from the economic standpoint, but in terms of the republicans, you know, i think ron paul has a sense, again, of monetary policy. he does know that it s important to have a stable currency and a stable sense of value going forward, that inflation basically is not the clue going forward to our economic p
plenty of love in the state of new hampshire, and he s got a home here. he was a governor of massachusetts, so he does have a lot of friends and supporters here, but this is about barack obama and who is best capable of beating the president of the united states because we re he s taking our country i believe in the wrong direction so like granite staters i am making a final decision in this final week. so you re not convinced at this point talking and meeting with every single candidate. you re not convinced at this point? interesting last night, we were we were up until 4:00 a.m. covering iowa, and even in iowa when the voters who cared about electability overwhelmingly voted for mitt romney. when they cared about the deficit, ron paul, social issues it was rick santorum, but you say you care about electability and you re still not convinced romney is your guy. well, look, i think the two people who came out on top in iowa, rick santorum and mitt romney, are both great
cordray to be head of the new consumer financial protection bureau. at a speech in ohio, with cordray by his side the president said the appointment is necessary for the new agency to begin protecting consumers. republicans say the agency is bad for jobs and bad for the economy and they won t confirm any nominee until it s changed. house speaker john boehner also says he expects the courts will find the president s appointment illegitimate. the president, for his part, has no time for that. number three, a man charged with a spree of arsons in l.a. also under investigation for arson in germany. that s his home country. he was charged today with 37 counts of arson. authorities believe he set more than 50 fires after learning his mother may have been extradited to face fraud charges in germany. we have also now learned burkhart is a suspect in a fire which destroyed his family s home in germany days before he came to the united states. number four, fed chair ben bernanke outlined to cong