Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
- McCain tweeted this week about the recent budget showdown that has been facing Congress. He wrote, “1,000 days since Senate Dems passed a budget - America deserves better #1000days.”
- On the trail in South Carolina, McCain said this about Mitt Romney: “Jobs and business were created all over this country by Mitt Romney, and he knows how it is to get our economy back on track.”
- McCain has served five terms as a U.S. senator for the state of Arizona and was the Republican presidential candidate in the 2008 election.
- Watch his last appearance on MTP.
Fmr. Sen. Fred Thompson
- When endorsing Gingrich this week, Thompson said, “I have come to the growing realization that Newt Gingrich is the guy who can articulate what America is all about.”
- Thompson tweeted this week about his support for Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. He wrote, “I'm backing Newt b/c it's not time to be bashful, or timid, or come with modest proposals to save our future.”
- Thompson served as senator for Tennessee from 1994-2003 and ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.
David Axelrod
- Strategist for President Obama’s re-election campaign David Axelrod tweeted this week about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his tax returns. He wrote, “Mitt may have thought story would be buried by SOU, but, if so, it was a Swiss Miss. His tax release helped make case for Buffett rule.”
- Axelrod served as a senior adviser in the Obama White House before returning to Chicago for the 2012 re-election campaign.
- Watch his last appearance on MTP.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum
- Santorum was the declared the official winner of the Iowa caucus by the state’s GOP Chairman Matt Strawn on January 20. He came in third place in the most recent primary in South Carolina.
- Santorum was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990 and served in the U.S. Senate from 1995 to 2007.
- Watch his last appearance on MTP.
Roundtable: Goodwin, Scarborough, Todd
- Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin discussed the 2012 race to the White House and the president’s State of the Union in “The Roundtabler” on PRESS Pass. She wrote, “2012 may well provide the healthy debate the country needs on the role of government in a free enterprise society.” Watch her last appearance on MTP.
- Host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Joe Scarborough wrote on Politico this week about GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. Scarborough wrote, “A Gingrich campaign is always a high wire act without the net and sometimes, the main actor in this manic routine actually makes it to the other side.” Watch his last appearance on MTP.
- NBC’s Political Director Chuck Todd wrote on MSNBC’s First Read about the GOP candidate debate which took place on Thursday. He wrote, “Romney was aggressive without being petulant. He finally looked comfortable sparring. He looked for the first time like he deserved the moniker ‘front runner’ on stage.” Watch his last appearance on MTP and read more about the latest NBC/WSJ poll: Gingrich 37%; Romney 28%; Santorum 18%; Paul 12%.
Follow these guests on Twitter:
- Sen. John McCain: @SenJohnMcCain
- Fmr. Sen. Fred Thompson: @fredthompson
- David Axelrod: @davidaxelrod
- Rick Santorum: @RickSantorum
- Joe Scarborough: @JoeNBC
- Chuck Todd: @chucktodd
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could someone ask Santorum why he has such a problem with Obamas health care mandates, but doesn't have a problem mandating a women that she can't have an abortion even when raped or could die if she doesn't?
The unborn child is a human being with a God-given right to life - same as you do.
Because an unborn child is a human being with the same to due process and life that you and your family enjoy.
Gregory has no balls when talking with a GOPer but then grows some when talking to a Democrat. He is afraid to interrupt a Republican but shows his biasness and cuts of a Democrat who's explaining. Gregory refers to Gingrich as mr. speaker but disrespectful to the President of the US by just saying Obama and not Pres. Obama. He is definitely not neutral and shows he's a repub. He's definitely not a journalist.
I'm no giant fan of Newt Gingrich, but the way you talked about him during the roundtable this morning reminded me of a nasty high school clique. You're all setting around making fun of him... snickering at his ideas and statements. It almost seemed as if your shiny studio table turned into a table in the high school cafeteria. Wow, did you all seem like a bunch of snobs and elites this morning... AND played right into the nasty campaign that Romney is running!
You speak about how the republican establishment has decided he can't be the candidate... apparently all of you feel the same.
Guess there's no need anymore to act as if you're looking at the campaign objectively. When do all of you receive your paychecks from the Romney campaign? Do they pay all of you right after the show, or do you have a wait awhile for your compensation?
The roundtable today was absolutely useless. What's the matter NBC? You couldn't find a way to balance out all the Republican bashing? Doris Kerns Goodwin is an unabashed liberal and has nothing to say from history that is good about the Republican party. Of course, execpt for Lincoln whom she equates with Obama.
This show needs a total make over.
Newt and his friends want to blame everyone else for his problems. He claims he didn't do well in last Monday's debate because the auidence wasn't allowed to cheer. His poor performance in the debate on Thursday was because Romney packed the audience with his supporters. Might his fall in the polls be due to the lies that come out of his mouth? Newt's ex wife says he was not deposed in their divorce proceedings. This after he was quoted in an interview in FL saying he didn't lie about his affairs in his deposition. Newt told everyone that he offered friends to be interviewed by ABC to refute his wife's story. By his own admission he didn't tell the truth about this. He has also told Americans a lot of misinformation about capitalism and the free market. He was forced to remove two ads that contained untruths about his opponent Mitt Romney. His stand on illegal immigration? Did he tell us his older daught is running his FL campagin prior to trotting her out to defend him againist his ex wife's allegations? What about accusing Paul Ryan of right wing social engineering? The list could go on and on. We already have somone in the white house who refuses to take resonsibility and blames somone else for our country's problems. Do we really want to elect somone who will be more of the same? Before Newt accuses others of being dishonest he should clean up his own act.
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Mr.Gregory when the republicans let the Bush tax cuts expire and cut out all the tax loopholes for rich people, then and only then should we look at trimming the safety net (medicare/medicaid) programs. The social security program is not a part of deficit spending. You and your buddy Joe Scarbrough are always harping on this to any democrat that comes on your shows while letting the republicans take a pass on the revenue part that's also needed to lower the deficit. Also,the show is very unbalanced with republicans on every week usually 3 to 1. Do the democrats just not love the camera or what gives with this?