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That was very important. we need to stay with our conservative values. all of the conservatives, the red state guy, eric erickson, whatnot, it's good to get romney further right. but we conservatives would like to see it even further right. >> kimberly: what about her role and future as well with the republican party? >> andrea: she has a bright future. the best thing for rick santorum is for your boy, from texas rick perry, step out of the race for the other candidates. even if newt gingrich doesn't, it's a benefit. the best thing for santorum is have the other g.o.p. candidates step out, and...

Agree with you. its -- the whole she set him up thing doesn't work for me. >> you don't think there is potential for extortion the whole way it sounded scripted and she egged him on and knew the buttons. >> his part wasn't scripted. >> yes, that's true. do you think he may have been in character? >> i was going to say robert pointed out that gibb sean just did a movie where he talks to a beaver. the beaver is a dark comedy about a troubled man who feels compeled to communicate through a beaver hand puppet. i think we should blame the hand puppet. >> that is a happened puppet on the phone. that...

>> let's bring in our congressional correspondent phil mattingly, cnn political director david, and shannon, white house reporter. david, the impression is the fear is that during the transition you don't want to give a foreign government the notion that there are two administrations. >> right. and we have a lot to learn about this. we don't know -- we know the desire to set up a back channel communication and we know that it wasn't set up. that's sort of what we know. what we don't know is what the content of that communication would have been if it did get set up. if it was just setting it u...

First, i support social security, it is a great idea. but it wasn't set up to be fiscally sound. prior congresses have raided the social security trust fund to the point of 2.5 trillion. they spent the money. it is gone. all they left were some iou's. unfunded liability to date is 17.9 trillion. at the same time i'm not afraid of talking about social security. the individuals, the young people think that talk to across the state of wisconsin, when i ask what do you expect to get out of social security? they say nothing. >> neil: is the media being too rough on governor perry? >> absolutely. be...