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Think about it, what's happened. i'll tell you what happened, the conservative movement was born right then, and they decided the road not taken, they were not going to be pro-civil rights. they were not going to defend the rights of citizenship and economic justice and integration of african-americans in the south. no, they were going to side with the southern oppressors, and who was the great philosopher king of that argument? john c. calhoun. what happened? two things. first of all, the party which could have led the way on civil rights, the party of lincoln, turned away from it. also, they...

Known that the president is the philosopher king who weighing this seriously? i have my out thes. when bush leaked stuff -- he leaked a lot of stuff. he did. but most of time when he leaked things, first, he was leaking it to advance a public question. matter of public policy. or just outright declassifying information. this to the extent it's discernible what the motives are about building one man up in the re-election effort. >> bret: the president can declassify what he wants to. democrats push back leaks happen in washington. but people like john mccain an dianne feinstein, democrat from c...

Election year where the president is struggling. perceived as weak on international affairs, i'm not gullible. i don't think it's a big leap to look at this. look at the story on obama and the drones. it portrays him as concerned to study the just war theory when he deals out debt by shuffling the baseball cards with the name and biographies of the would-be terrorists. which makes them look like the ultimate philosopher king but he is tough. it's not an accident. you have quotes on the record. that obama a his team talking about stuff after the bin laden raid. they never should have. for examp...

Possible 2012 run. that's the first step for candidates. how does he stack up right now? jessica yellin is here to take a look. hi, jessica. >> hey, christine. newt gingrich as you know burst onto the national scene when he became speaker of the house in the mid-'90s. as you'll recall, he had a controversial stewardship of the house of representatives. he became a hero of the republican party for giving them their first majority in 40 years. during that time, we saw something that sounds so familiar these days. remember? two government shutdowns. it was all over spending. so in some ways he wa...

Wolf? >> all right, jack. thank you. speculation meanwhile is swirling over which republicans will run for the republican presidential nomination, and it's already looking like a very crowded field. we're learning right now that newt gingrich will announce thursday that he plans to form a presidential exploratory committee that's a key initial step. the former house speaker has staged a remarkable comeback in recent years. here's cnn's national political correspondent jessica yellin. >> reporter: wolf, it's the first step towards a possible presidential run and just the latest chapter in gin...