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So are they going to go negative? are they going to stay positive? what -- what do they do? >> he's going to do at least a two track, and you've been asking for some positive plans for him. mark haleprin mentioned last week the economic speech that's coming up, that's going to have a lot of red meat in it. he's going to go hard on cutting the deficit. he's going to have a lot of spending restraint. the conservatives will like, so at the very least he'll have that. at the same time that he or others are trying to destroy santorum. they learned with gingrich you can't take your boot off the thro...

Weakens mitt romney, you know, just in political terms, that's not a bad thing. >> do you agree with that? >> i do not believe that the catholic church or anybody else will accept this waiting game, we'll tell you next august. i'll pay you on tuesday for a hamburger today. joe biden is not going to be believed on this because he's been overruled on this thing. he's shown he couldn't win on this argument. nobody's going to believe it when he comes on, a good guy and says we'll try to work it out. yeah, right, work it out before the election, buddy. in fact, i don't think they can work it out. t...

Political analyst mark haleprin. and in new york, willie geist, an msnbc contributor, mike barnicle. so you guys were all at cpac yesterday. and sam, you actually said you were ready to contribute to a certain candidate. >> yeah, joe the plumber. he won a huge endorsement yesterday, herman cain got up, gave a rousing speech said joe the plumber's -- >> joe the plumber. >> it's that simple. >> but you say, though, herman cain was a rock star. >> he's made for these moments. the only thing i found kind of interesting was herman cain obviously has endorsed newt gingrich. he never mentioned newt's...

Different, and it would be the one here. but they've been consumed by this fight with komen for the cure foundation and they have other things on their radar, as well. and so what you've ended up happening is exactly your point, which is that an incredibly effective and not totally invalid campaign by the catholic church to put a spotlight on this that is going to probably end up, i'm guessing with some sort of modification to the policy, right? >> but mark haleprin, you have two competing interests here, obviously. you've got the catholic church, you have biden and others that were pushing ha...

Help you with a short sale to sell your house and move. but the biggest thing is what we call principal reduction. and you know from florida, you've got 2 million families that owe more on their houses than their homes are worth. >> right. >> and that's the one thing we haven't been able to get started in this crisis. we've gotten people lower payments, but haven't been able to reduce principal. the single biggest reduction of principal in the entire crisis. >> do you have an estimate of how many people could be possibly impacted by this? >> a total of almost 1 million families. and then that ...