better place literally. why don t you tell americans to turn their back on jesus at the same time. hall prin, we don t need it. it s poison. it is liquid poison. now that i hear that that s what i can have coca-cola running if my own home? think about it. i m going to take a bath in coke. i m going to, you know instead of tap water. make my tap water if that makes you take a bath i ll support it. with us chief white house correspondent for politico mike allen here with the morning playbook. so mike, this whole chris christie thing that s going on, regardless of how it ends up, a lot of people are saying what hurts chris christie may help another governor. tell us about it? yeah. a big beneficiary of chris christie s troubles, scott walker in wisconsin, you talked about him around the table so many times and people in washington are saying, wow, we re not so sure about chris christie now. who else is there? that s the big question, right? if not jeb who. th
that for trump. he was a one trick pony. early on he was very much talking about the economy, talking about china, getting good ground on those issues. then pounced on the birth certificate issue. he is so effective. i think that is the reason the white house released the long former istivecate. once the birth certificate is 0u9 there he lost his one big issue. if you remember the koernd s association dinner where president obama took such delight in going of a him, with him in the audience. it was clearly a pretty searing moment. he sat there stone-faced. didn t move at all. was clearly bothered by the attack. of a that you heard very little of trump and his numbers started going down. trump was saying he was serious about running. i want to go back to jim and see if you agree with mark. was there a serious run under this man s heart as mark said? let s listen to this. i ve been asked for years to
necessarily the case. the politics is a direct mirror reflecting the people. we will see who wins in 2012. nice to see you keli. that will do it for us. hardball with chris matthews kicking off its monday edition right now. trump, bump, thump, dump. let s play hard ball. good evening, i m chris matthews up in washington leading off tonight, trumped. two biggest leaders in the gop field have in just two days voted themselves off the island. that s right, donald trump an mike huckabee are out. gone. donald trump promises us that this time he really, really meant it. but he faced three options.
quit, lose or win the presidency. he chose the gate. donald, you re fired. trump is out. huckabee is out. got better things to do. but what s the republican party going to do? plus nasty newt attacking the plan to kill medicare the same plan he endorsed two weeks ago on meet the press yesterday by the way he kept blowing his dog whistle. newt thinks only white people can hear. about obama being, catch this, the food stamp president. how the president wants it turn the country into detroit, get it? beginning rich was forced to confess he was for the individual mandate for health insurance so were most republicans. it turns out. until they found out obama supported it. here is the biggest story of the day. french leave? not on your mind. not on your life. head of the international monetary fund is now held in manhattan without bail on charge he sexually assaulted a hotel maid on saturday thp this is man who was ker ced to be the top candidate for president of france. let me finish tonigh
someone, hitch up with tell because of hatred? this is the exact problem of the republican party. it got married, hitched up with the tea party. not because the tea party loves the republican party. don t even think about that. the marriage is based on hatred, hatred of government, hatred of the democrats, hatred of barack obama. what s love got to do with it? zip. you ve got to be kidding. look at the latest cnn poll, donald trump up near the top inches below huckabee, the other guy that just who dropped out. trump was running on one issue, how much trash talk he could say on obama. he wasn t born here, couldn t write very well, a con artist. anyone listening got the point. why don t romney or pawlenty or the other mainstream parties talk to them like this? it s not true. none of it. the haters can t take it. this is why they jump for joy