privilege power. you ve had senior bush officials like dick cheney who had literally decades worth of philosophical arguments on behalf of a strong executive in an executive branch that assert eud itself over the legislative branch. you haven t seen that from the obama administration going back three and a half years. you have seen them take liberties with executive power. barack obama was not in 2006 and 2007 as a member of the senate arguing in favor of a strong executive. so there is not the sort of principle argument that they can look back on and say, look we ve been making this case all along, that raises then the question, is there something specific that they are trying to keep from darrell issa and from the investigators? martha: i don t know how you avoid that notion in this. steve. i mean there have been specific documents that have been requested and basically the impression that you get is there s been a flood of documents that number 7600
of the other speakers but me mentioned lincoln. it s not just ducking away from the gay issues, it s also backing away from immigration, women, driving so many people from the republican party they have a death wish. yeah, they re more with the other guy. remember the problem senior bush had when bucanan give that ugly speech. i hope this is a teachable moment. you have a good sense of humor, fred. thank you, good to see you both. good luck in your campaign in those six states in which you serve well on the ballot. up next the secret service agent assigned to jack ji kennedy. he was a body guard for her that day in dallas. there are the pictures, and he became one of her closest friends. the great clint hill will be with us. surf s up everybody get your boards and your wetsuits
he had mentioned lincoln once, none of the other speakers except me mentioned lincoln. it s not just as mark says ducking away from the gay issues, also away from immigration, from women. they re driving so many people from the republican party they have a death wish. yeah, they re in war with the guy on the other side of that civil war. remember the problem the senior bush had when buchanan gave that ugly speech at the convention. the cross-dressing speech. he was rebuked. you re laughing at all my comments. i like you already. thank you, mark foley, buddy. thank you, fred karger, good luck in your campaign in the six states you served well on the ballot. up next, the secret service agent assigned to jackie kennedy. he was body guard for jfk that day in dallas. and it became one of her closest friends. the great clint hill next on hardball. we do everything here. this is hardball. drink?
like pat buchanan that buchanan won in 96, almost won against the senior bush and beat dole with that message, a pro-life underpinning, everybody knows you re pro-life and then make the economic argument. that s what santorum did last night. yes, i know, but i agree with steve. if he goes the buchanan route, that s a dead end. rick santorum thinks of himself as a guy who can marry cultural conservatism with with economics, and he s got yeah. he s got to stress the economic message up here, and his got to do it in a way 6 that gets a new generation of voters here, and by the way, on the catholic thing, chris, i think it s true as far as you take it. it, but that s not what the main aim of rick santorum is going to be here. he s going to go after secular people who want some kind of new leadership that doesn t seem manufactured and pre-made and phony. yeah. a big part of what rick santorum is going to do here is appeal to the new hampshirites love of authenticity saying
it s putting planned parenthood people on the board up here, all these assaults he s been trying to make already at at at romney, and now the question is can he join with the ultimate pro-lifer, santorum, and bring all those conservative catholics aboard for santorum up here next tuesday and surprise romney by getting up around 25% or more? i i do think that he s going to come up in new hampshire. how high he goes, i don t know. new hampshire is not a state that s going to be driven by the social conservative message. it s the economic populist message that i think is going to be much more impactful for rick santorum. right. and i think you saw that message previewed to great effect last night. i thought his first speech to the national audience, looking at him through the prism of a potential nominee was a major league performance. we ll see how he equips himself. didn t he sound himself like pat buchanan that buchanan won in 96, almost won against the senior bush and b