it seal like that would be a mike huckabee and ted cruz event. we knew they were both there yesterday. but in the end it ended up being just a mike huckabee thing because in part, ted cruz wabltd to go talk on the left to the reporters but guy in the red shirt would not let him pass. and it was this weird mystery. and we didn't know who that man in the red shirt was. all we knew was last night, because of the physical stand-off of red shirt guy and ted cruz, the getting out of jail moment looked like this. i will tell you again. we did not add the sound track here. they were playing this music out loud at the event. ♪ >> incidentally the band survivor is now upentity the use of "eye of the tiger" at that rally and they are considering a lawsuit. whether or not anybody gets sued for the epic sound track, there did end up being mike huckabee's moment. he got to be there making it look like he was the one springing her from jail. even though ted cruz had gone all the way to kentucky to be there, he was totally boxed out. it turns out the guy in th

and by all of that, we mean send mike huckabee a check. hit that giant button at the bottom of the screen, help fund the battle. preferably at the $2500 level, which is also known as "the mike huckabee special." act now, operators are standing by. seriously, operators are standing by. mike huckabee wants you to call this number, the number right there on your screen so he can repeal obama care. i was watching the mike huckabee "repeal obama care ads" today. and i dialled. here is what happens when you call. >> to ensure proper handling, this call may be recorded. >> hi, this is richard simmons, thank you for calling project >> yep, you call mike huckabee's repeal obama care number and what you get is richard simmons. you call mike huckabee to repeal obama care and you get the astonishing hair guy with the glittering suits who is ready to give you the body you have always dreamed of. mike huckabee has been working this scamming obama care idea for so long that the infomercial gods have recycled his number and given it to richard simmons, wh

the internet got very, very excited about the huckabee prospect. the rumor has now been pretty definitively shot down by the huckabee camp and office with his political action -- official with the political action committee telling nbc, "there is no truth to the rumors that mike huckabee is reconsidering a run for president." don't despair. rumors are still fun. rumors are still happening. for example, the chris christie might maybe someday think about running for president even though he keeps saying he's not to rumors came back from the dead today. hooray. "the star ledger" in new jersey today reporting today despite firm evidence to the contrary governor christie is seriously considering running for president in 2012. still an anonymous source, naturally, close to the governor, naturally, telling "the ledger" in the last week mr. christie has been swayed from his earlier refusals to run by an aggressive draft christie effort by republicans and donors unhappy with the existing gop field. now, it is impossible to say whether or not the republican

four years ago huckabee won in polk county. it was his biggest margin in raw vote over mitt romney was in polk county there. and it's paul that's leading but i want to emphasize we're missing a ton of vote in polk county. we have places like dubuque county all the way on the mississippi river where we have yet to get any returns in but i can also tell you this. i told you about our modeling that the boiler room is doing first and third based on different models. there is a precinct model we do. there is a county model we do. based on those models, throwing out the entrance polls at this point, actually using the data that we have, 1.1% separates first and third. so unless something dramatic happens with some of this un -- this vote that we haven't seen come in, but in the way it's coming in it feels like it's a representative sample, we're going to be here a while, rachel. >> 1.1% between 1, 2, and 3. i will say in terms of those of us whose job it is to just make sense of what all of this means rather than just count it, i'm v

by 2005, news made its way to mike huckabee in arkansas. arkansas under mike huckabee passes a law to require health insurance drug policy to cover contraception. like in arizona and new york and in the obama administration's original policy this year, churches are exempt but church affiliated hospitals and universities are not exempt. that's what mike huckabee signed into law in his state in 2005. stick a pin in that for mike huckabee for a second. we'll be back to that in just a moment. the year after mike huckabee does it, mitt romney signs the big massachusetts health care overhaul which reaffirmed that health insurance prescription plans must cover birth control. mitt romney signed that. he now calls essentially the same rule from the obama administration an assault on religion. it's his own policy. mike huckabee, former weight loss guru, no longer trying to hawk that, now he's just a fox news personality and he's trying now to set off a national campaign under the heading we are all catholics now basting the obama administration for a

i think there were some hard feelings on the part of governor huckabee. i think people put that down. i think four years ago is a very long time ago in politics. >> did he lose political capital or potential political alliances in doing that in 2008 that might continue to reverberate? i'm trying to understand what might be the republican dynamics behind people still looking for more candidates who aren't mitt romney to try to displace him as the front-runner. >> i think all that is over today with governor christie getting out of the race. i think the field is the field we have now. think that the choice is the choice, you know, with the candidates that have been on the stage. you know, senator mccain and governor romney had a ferocious contest that went through the early part of the winter. but after, you know, senator mccain became the nominee, there was nothing that mitt romney didn't do, you know, to help john mccain. he was out there. he was raising money. he toured the country. he was one of the campaign's best surrogates. i think that went a long w

just wait until it is president huckabee in a couple of years. >>> former arkansas governor mike huckabee did announce he is running again for president. there are so many contenders and potential contenders for the presidency on the republican side that we are going to get some kind of announcement about someone basically every day between now an the summer. on monday this week we got ben carson announcing in the morning and carly fiorina announcing in the afternoon and then mike huckabee and then michigan governor, rick snyder would not run and that we might get rick santorum by the end of the month. the huckabee announcement provides a particularly good snapshot of something going on in republicanville that does not necessarily make sense in the rest of the country. but because it is going on in republicanville, it is going to be a national hum in the rest of our politics. here is how it goes. in conservative politics one of mike huckabee's most potent allies has always been chuck norris. yes, chuck norris. he is now 75 years old. chuck norris is still the platonic ideal of an action h

a huckabee alert. i don't -- mike huckabee says he is not running. then he says good night. then a little piece of tape rolls of donald trump. obviously taped earlier. so responding or presponding to the news mike huckabee isn't running. we just learned. donald trump has reannounced by shouting. i don't know. i don't know. a little more than 36 hours later there was donald trump again announcing that he would not be running either to the surprise of absolutely no one other than to the mysterious people who vote in republican party straw polls this time of year. beyond republican candidates overtly saying they will not run, one other high profile republican candidate effectively took himself out of the running this weekend. >> i am not going to justify this. the attack on paul ryan. the support for an individual mandate in hilt -- health care. folks, don't ask me to explain this? there is no explanation. >> if you're trying to become the republican nominee for president, that is not the impression you are looking to make. that's how it's going for newt gingrich. whose candida

they pick huckabees. and who doesn't heart huckabees? there he is tonight in des moines. weight loss self-help guru, fox news, activist, supporting the personhood thing that could have banned birth control pills in mississippi. all the republican candidates are kissing his ring because he's the last republican to have won iowa. if you want to know what a lot of good winning iowa does for him in the long run, you're looking at it tonight. i'm not going to lie to you, it would be fun to watch ron paul win it in iowa this year. it would make pundits' heads explode everywhere, right? because what he would be winning is the republican caucuses in iowa, that result would also mean roughly nothing. to the rest of the presidential race. >>> today in congress, nothing happened to make it less likely that your taxes are going to go up at the end of the year. right now, you are benefiting from a temporary cut in the payroll taxes that get taken out of each one of your paychecks. president obama and the democrats say they want to extend that cut when it expires at the end of the year

mike huckabee for president and be afraid of jade helm. the next candidate we are pretty sure who is going to announce on june 1st is rick perry. he made a little stab at trying to be the voice of reason on the jade helm issue. he is trying to be the voice of reason on this. watch how his handlers pull him away in the middle of his comments. >> texas monitoring the u.s. military? >> i am one of these guys, i think it is okay to question your government. i do it on a pretty regular basecy. the military is something else. i think our military is quite trust worthy. the civilian leadership, you can always question that but not the men and women -- >> governor perry, when should we expect an announcement? >> he has to go. stop talking. pity the poor republican politician who needs to figure out the appropriate line on this to avoid offending the base, which is upset about this matter, but also needing to not seem insane to the rest of the country. this is one of the issues that is hilarious to the rest of the real world and totally serious in

unless you're one of the people for whom the earth shook in 2008 when mike huckabee won in iowa. nu polling from cnn and "time" magazine showing romney ahead in the race that will follow iowa, way ahead in the new hampshire primary that takes place a week after iowa on january 10th. quote, romney who owns a house in new hampshire earned 44% followed by mr. paul with 17%. if it's one of this year's huckabees who wins, a ron paul, a rick perry, a michele bachmann, a rick santorum. if one of this year's huckabees wins iowa and mitt romney wins new hampshire, everything will have gone according to plan. we'll be no closer to knowing who the republican nominee for president will be. the first race will be an open question politically, will be on the saturday january 1st contest in south carolina. >> you have to win south carolina. everyone who's won south carolina has been the nominee. every single one. >> iowa and new hampshire are fascinating to watch, but south carolina might really be the race to watch in terms of how things are going to go in this nominating process. mr. gingrich

they pick huckabees. and who doesn't heart huckabees? there he is tonight in des moines. weight loss self-help guru, fox news, activist, supporting the personhood thing that could have banned birth control pills in mississippi. all the republican candidates are kissing his ring because he's the last republican to have won iowa. if you want to know what a lot of good winning iowa does for him in the long run, you're looking at it tonight. i'm not going to lie to you, it would be fun to watch ron paul win it in iowa this year. it would make pundits' heads explode everywhere, right? because what he would be winning is the republican caucuses in iowa, that result would also mean roughly nothing. to the rest of the presidential race. have asked yours truly to teach you about treating frequent heartburn. 'cause i know a thing or two about eatin'. if you're one of those folks who gets heartburn and then treats day after day... well that's like checking on your burgers after they're burnt! [ male announcer ] treat your frequent heartburn by blocking the acid with prilosec otc. an

mike huckabee's campaign manager is his daughter, sarah b. -- excuse me. sarah huckabee sanders. sadly, she also admitted to politico tonight amid these reports of senior staff leaving and salary cuts at the campaign, she admits to politico tonight, "obviously if we go to iowa and lose, well, frankly we probably won't keep going." so by the campaign's own admission it is win iowa or bust. for the mike huckabee for president campaign. which means among other things that wow, the mike huckabee combine plans on still existing for a few more weeks. through the first week of february at least. this is kind of one of the weird dynamics this year. in this race. nobody's quitting. we started off with a historically enormous, untenable 17-candidate republican field. we've still got 14 of them running all these months later. only three of them dropped out. three of them are gone. scott walker, rick perry, bobby jindal. three governors poofed. otherwise, they're all staying. even the ones who aren't really running by my contention. jim gilmore and george pataki. even the guy who flirts with

now he has a new way of making money off being mike huckabee. this is his latest enterprise, a company called learn our history. it promises, it guarantees to give your kids a learning adventure they'll never forget. for a trial offer of just $9.95 you get a free dvd about american history along with four free gifts. there is a small processing charge of $8.95 for the free gifts. all of this conveniently billed to your credit card and then you get a new history according to huckabee dvd every month from now until eternity for $11.95 plus $3.95 shipping. they keep coming every month and you keep getting charged every month unless you call to cancel. >> our films make great gifts for your kids or grand kids so why not see for yourself? click on this button right here and your kids can enjoy the reagan revolution dvd for under $10. and as an added bonus we'll send you $50 in free gifts just for previewing the video. if your kids don't love the film, just send it back within 30 days and we'll refund the purchase price. give it a try. i guarantee you

huckabee would like you to be confused about that. the former arkansas governor wrote at his website yesterday. in a recent internet post, a contributor on makes the claim that i supported cap and trade in late 2007 while running for president. to put it simply, that's not true. i never did support and never would support it, period. period. he never did support cap and trade and never would support cap and trade, except for when he totally, totally did. >> i also cap and trade of carbon emissions. and i was disappointed with the senate -- the senate rejected a carbon counting system to measure the sources of emissions because that would have been the first step toward implementing true you cap and trade. >> mike huckabee, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, not only supporting cap and trade but supporting true cap and trade. now he says he never would support it. changing your mind is not such a bad idea in politics. lying about changing your mind is a bad idea everywhere. everything's on tape these days. >>> necessary up, true or fal

most clearly that is mike huckabee. mike huckabee talks about race probably better than any other candidate in the '08 elections. really only maybe barack obama during the philadelphia speech and john edwards with two americas. mike huckabee is the straight shooting southern white man who can talk about racial history. the fact is when you looked at his policies in the contemporary moment, they are not that dramatically different than haley barbour's. my bet is that this extremist on the right makes a lot of room for somebody like huckabee to come on through the center right. >> do you think it's a deliberate effort to push the envelope, to try to make things that seem more extreme, seem not as extreme? we've had the confederacy commemorations without any mention of slavery. do you think this is a way to clear some room. >> i grew up in immediate post segregation in virginia. i grew up in north carolina and make my home in louisiana. the fact is i have tension when i talk about southern racial history. there's a part of

will having mike huckabee on tv repeal obama care? i'm checking with the constitution, but i don't think so. but mike huckabee would please like to stay on tv, if for no other reason than to keep asking for more of your money to help him stay on tv asking for more money. it is maybe inevitable that somebody is going to try to turn impotent political rage and ignorance into personal financial gain. it has been happening as long as there has been snake oil and hucksters, which is not the root word of mr. huckabee's name. i did check that. this isn't just some con man off the street. i mean mike huckabee, for whatever you think of him now, he came in second the last time the republicans nominated somebody for president. in the 2008 election, mike huckabee essentially came in second to john mccain. which is now the part where i tell you that the guy who came in second this year, the guy who came in second to mitt romney, where does he work now? he works at world net daily, which is admittedly hilarious, because it's a mad libs choose your