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Here. >> let me ask if i got anything dreadfully wrong in summarizing parts of your book. >> you hit the nail right on the head about the views about work. when newt gingrich says the dignity of work, hes hitting just the right chord with many conservatives. and tea partyers. and they make a distinction between benefits for those people and things going -- even like pell grants for college students that go to folks who havent paid their dues yet. >> because which you cant have done as a young pe...

That mr. romney will be proposing his own changes regarding medicare. after days of dodging that question, today tim pawlenty took the plunge. i would vote to kill medicare. the only major republican presidential candidate who has not signed on to this joint proverbial suicide pact in the republican party is mitt romney. mitt romney so far managed to avoid signing on to the kill medicare thing. every major republican presidential candidate except for mitt romney so far, every one has pledged the...

>> newt gingrich has the race locked upp on his account of tun poor kids into janitor plan. the open question is whether republicans do fall in line, like we were talking about earlier, or whether we could see conservative voters bucking the republican establishment that has turned all its guns on newt gingrich. the establishment really sort of seems to be against him. his polls are still good. could the people answering the pollsters and going to the caucuses and primaries and voting actually d...

Mitt romney? >> they think hes inauthentic. i dont think hate is the right word. we interviewed people in the spring of 2011 and asked them late in the interview process, did they have a favorite for the gop nomination? and the one thing they all agreed on is they werent enthusiastic about romney. thats because they just dont believe hes for real. something which many massachuset massachusetts liberals might agree about. >> newt gingrich has been so many different things. its hard to see why he ...

Were like mitt paul ryan, romney. you doing p 90 x all the time, if you had been in cahoots, standing with him, been with paul ryan along the way. mr. romney, youre the one guy that did not jump in with paul ryan on the republican side. newt gingrich has been more with him than you have. its true because we covered this for weeks. the republican party and conservative establishment are insisting all of their presidential candidates pledge they, too, want to kill medicare. tim pawlenty, officiall...

We speak and have this conversation. that are as deceptive and terrible as all the loans that got us into this mess. thats happening. the actual substantive regulatory responsibilities are important and we need someone to do it. the deeper question to me is, really face a democratic crisis at a certain level when the filibuster becomes normalized. its hard for the institution to respond and people in the media to respond. because it has become so normalized. what you showed the clips off, james ...

It would be one thing if you were like mitt paul ryan, romney. you doing p-90x all the time, if you had been in cahoots, standing with him, been with paul ryan along the way. mr. romney, youre the one guy that did not jump in with paul ryan on the republican side. newt gingrich has been more with him than you have. its true, because we covered this for weeks. the republican party and conservative establishment are insisting all of their presidential candidates pledge that they, too, want to kill...

>> newt gingrich has the race locked up on his account of turn poor kids into janitors plan. the open question is whether republicans do fall in line, like we were talking about earlier, or whether we could see conservative voters bucking the republican establishment that has turned all its guns on newt gingrich. the establishment really sort of seems to be against him. his polls are still good. could the people answering the pollsters and going to the caucuses and primaries and voting actually ...

Fineman joins us now. and t"the washington post" columnist, dana milbank. i should say at the beginning here, ladies and gentlemen, the man who joined us earlier tonight in introducing herman cain was lin wood, whos an attorney, a very prominent one, based down in atlanta. he has represented former congressman gary condit, hes defended the woman in the kobe bryant case, the notorious case involving that, and hes also represented richard jewel, the security guard falsely accused of planting a bom...

Because thats what you just said. >> sure. and i think if he becomes president, its a question of whatever he perceives at any given moment in his presidency to be sort of his imperative of the moment. >> what would his role be, then? its not leader. >> of course not. thats the open question. thats why you can read the question of, is he a secret moderate, is he really a conservative? because maybe he becomes president and feels he has to serve the tea party. maybe the republicans are running th...