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Democratic partys ability to retake the house in november. the growing progressive insurgency -- presents serious questions for the democratic party as it continues its leftward movement. lets ask our political panel about this. a republican consultant who has worked on gingrich, carson and ryan campaigns. and a former legislative and policy director to chuck schumer and co-founder of third wave. jim, youre up first. you read the op-ed. he said the far left of the party is winning all the primar...

I love you. it wasnt edge equation. it was about paying down the debt. >> and what happened? we balanced the budget, paid down the debt. how? >> by bringing democrats to their knees. >> i -- >> you know im joking, steny. we worked together. >> joe, hold on. its an interesting analogy. gingrich made a deal with clinton. that was important. his right wing at that point in time in the party, you remember it. >> right now obama says he doesnt want to negotiate. clinton did negotiate. >> my point is ...

>> all right. >> this is what gingrich and clinton were able to do. i know chuck todd remembers this. gingrich would go down to the white house and say, you know, youve got to help me . scarborough, salmon, steve largent, those guys are crazy. help me . clinton would be like, i understand theyre crazy, what do you need. they worked together to try ang late us and clinton would give gingrich things to come back and tell the rest of the house republicans. so they would stampede over us. and barack...

>> joe wasnt as tough. he talks a tougher game than he plays. he plays a reasonable game ultimately. that will hurt him. >> he just talked about the right wing nuts that were tough on gingrich. >> yeah . >> we ran him out of town. >> yes. >> we were tough. >> they ran him out of town and the result of the deal with clinton gave us four years of budget balance. >> thanks to the republicans. coming up, are americans gaming the system? why one say -- "60 minutes" had an amazing story last night abo...

Runner. >> mitt romney, less jobs, more of the same. rick santorum, a bold plan for the middle class. >> newt gingrich says he likes talking about bold solutions. with many experts suggesting time is running out on gingrichs campaign, he tried to adjust the game clock a bit. >> im staying? the race cause i want to see if i cant in the second half of the race, louisiana is sort of half time. i want to see if we cant reset this whole race around the idea of really big ideas. >> louisiana primary i...

Santorum. we cannot call second or third in the state of alabama. lets check in now with carl cameron in alabama. good evening, carl, interesting things from speaker gingrich in our interview. you talked to him earlier. >> yeah. we have an opportunity to head up stairs to the suite while hes watching return was wife and staffers. and very, very calm, selected and. lots of laughing and phone calls going on. he was talking to his supporters around the country. we talked with him. he clearly said d...

Santorum. we cannot call second or third in the state of alabama. lets check in now with carl cameron in alabama. good evening, carl, interesting things from speaker gingrich in our interview. you talked to him earlier. >> yeah. we have an opportunity to head up stairs to the suite while hes watching return was wife and staffers. and very, very calm, selected and. lots of laughing and phone calls going on. he was talking to his supporters around the country. we talked with him. he clearly said d...

His southern roots in georgia to help carry him in alabama and mississippi. that is uncertain at this time but even romneys camp commented on gingrichs strength there and gingrich told a crowd in alabama that he has momentum but hasnt won yet and on the positive jobs number report that came out yesterday, he said this. >> the only reason unemployment is dropping is people are leaving the workforce and in fact if you those underemployed and dropped out, the real number is 19%. almost one out of e...

Which was staggering and flew off my twitter page. >> you know what we say about this poll at fox? >> what? >> aye carumba. >> president obama is up 56 points on mitt romney. hes on 55 on santorum, 58 on gingrich. >> this is a fox news poll, willie. and of course george w. bush, in 2004, got what percentage? he was like in the 40s. >> that is a potentially fatal number, john. >> you cannot win -- and you cannot win -- >> you cant pick up 100 electoral votes! >> thats what all three of those guys...

Weakness. and he really ought not be struggling santorum the problem with romney is he keeps saying stuff like the wifes two cadillacs or im not really a big fan of nascar but i know the owners of the race car teams. this is just a candidate who is not fluent in candidacy. its not his thing. he is a businessman. he is a good man. i think he will make a good president. he is not a good candidate. i think if are republic. if you want to beat obama you have to admit that. he will probably end up be...