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republicans pleading for the strength. you pick up the phone when you re done in two minutes. you say to newt, what? what the hell are you doing? you believe you i expect this from sol olinsky. this is what he taught barack obama, and the stuff you re saying is one of the reasons we re in the trouble we re in right now. this total ignorant populist view of the economy that was proven to be incorrect with the soviet union, with chinese communism. also today, tom donahue, president of chamber of commerce called the front runner foolish, saying, quote, i was very disappointed with the intramural carrying on with the republican party. he also scolded gingrich and perry for attacking romney s record. it sounds as if you re attacking the capitalism and the free-market system. and that s not what we re about. to attack that, to me, is inconsistent with who we are. governor perry has dialed back his rhetoric. he was calling governor romney a vulture capitalist. he ....
and for now at this point, kyra, i ve reached out to some republicans here on the hill. they re reserving judgement at this point. as you know, they frequently talk about wanting smaller government, so on its face this seems like something that they could go along with but, of course, they re waiting right now to see what president obama says. they re waiting to see if there are any catches. you see president obama here doing a couple of things. he s trying to make good on some promises about having more efficient government. he s also trying to put congress in a spot where he says, i m proposing something that you should be on board with and sort of trying to force republicans to say, yes, to that. so watch for what the president is going to say at 11:20, kyra, and then watch to see how republicans react. if they say, yes, this is something we can go along with or if they say is shuffling the deck chairs. we will take the president live at 11 clock a.m. eastern hour. ....
you pick up the phone as soon as you re done here in two minutes. you say to newt what? what the hell are you doing, newt? you believe what i expect this from this is what saul taught barack obama and the stuff you re saying is one of the reasons we re in the trouble we re in right now. this total ignorant populist view of the economy that was proven to be incorrect with the soviet union, with chinese communism. also today, president of the chamber of commerce called the republican front-runner foolish. saying i was very disappointed with the intramural carrying on within the republican party. michael steele also scolding speaker gingrich and rick perry for their attack on romney s record at bain. it sounds as if you re attacking, you know, capitalism and the free-market system, and that s not what we re about. so to attack that to me is inconsistent with who we are and what we believe. governor perry has dialed back his rhetoric. he was calling romney a v ....
dukes of hazard. former governor barb bour ran the state like boss hog. he didn t follow the law. governor barber didn t follow it. it was very clear he had to have this information. he department obtain it before he signed these pardons. now he s caused a public safety issue. these families are afraid out here. these victims have been through a terrible amount. martin savidge is in jackson, mississippi, this morning. martin s what s the constitutional issue here? is haley barbour giving any explanation? i know you tried to talk to him at the beginning of the week and you couldn t get anything. yeah, in fact, we just tried to talk to him again. we put another request in to his officials. once again, flatly turned down. let me point out what the mississippi constitution says when it comes to the issues of pardons, especially pardons granted as a result of the governor. it says in writing in that constitution that there has to be a formal 30-day notification publi ....
went to court to block some of the pardons. he says they re a slap to the face of everyone in law enforcement, he will be with us with jeff toobin in a bit. first, four of the convicted murderers that got pardons were released sunday, according to mississippi department of corrections. one link between them, they all worked at the governor s mansion on a work release program. one of the men is david gatlin. these him there. the shooting victim he left behind and family of the victim that didn t live to tell the story are in a word scared. martin savidge joins me live. martin? reporter: it has been a chaotic last couple hours as the legal wrangling is under way to try to bring to a halt in some way the pardon process that was brought about as a result of former governor haley barbour. as you point out, there has been success on the part of the mississippi attorney general. they have that temporary injunction. what that means, those in prison, 21 that have not been rele ....