>> well, there are a lot of republican leaders who want mitch daniels to run. and my understanding is that he wants to run. and in his own mind has decided to run. but this is what he's dealing with right now. i think this story is out because people don't want him to run on the one hand. on the other hand, supporters want to put it out now to see what kind of reaction there is. chris: it looks like that. >> because it's still only may. there's time to get in the race. he will be able to carry this because of his own character. and while there will be stories about the wife, and there will be things to discuss, it's not necessarily in this day and time an insoup rabble barrier. even though a side story all the way long. chris: maybe times have changed. happy rockefeller, nelson rockefeller, left her husband, all in our kids, dumped them and didn't have cust did i at all -- custody to them, married nelson rockefeller and took several months for that story to sink in and is t sunk him -- and it sunk him. >> the issue is not the divorce. several republican candida

later sherry and mitch daniels reconciled. he was a lobbyist and executive for pharmaceutical giant eli lilly. all issues that could get close scrutiny in a run for national office. >> so daniels is out. in the race, the republicans are newt gingrich and also texas congressman ron paul, conservative radio host her mma cane, gary johnson and tomorrow former minnesota governor tim pawlenty expected to announce his candidacy. >>> former south african archbishop desmond tutu hit the streets in connecticut yesterday. why? i'll tell you that in just a moment. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb to help rebuild muscle and strength naturally lost over time. [ female announcer ] ensure muscle health has revigor and protein to help protect, preserve, and promote muscle health. keeps you from getting soft. [ major nutrition ] ensure. nutrition in charge! i really didn't see it coming. i didn't realize i was drifting into

. >> and mitch daniels says he has other priorities. how difficult was it for you to say that you loved your family more than your country? >> and as the republican field grows our roundtable sizes up the contenders. then facing the future, the class of 2011 is ready to work but where are the jobs? graduates ask top ceos how they can get an edge in this troubled economy. >>> welcome to the program and lots in store for you. but first some late news since your morning papers. president obama heads to joplin, missouri, today to tour the site of that deadly tornado. the president will meet with local residents and speak at a memorial service for the victims. 139 people were killed in the twister that struck a week ago today. in afghanistan, officials say a nato air strike targeting insurgents instead killed 14 civilians, all women and children. afghan leaders say the bombing was in retaliation for an attack on an american base attack saturday and a nato delegation is heading to the scene to investigate. >> and sarah palin's campaign style

among them, indiana governor mitch daniels. he was president bush's budget director, and big donors are already promising their support. hundreds waved run mitch run signs as daniels took to the stage in indianapolis last night. while he admitted a run for the white house isn't out of the question -- >> i'm not saying i won't do it. >> reporter: he still seemed undecided. >> it's never been any intention of mine. >> reporter: on the democratic side -- >> good morning, obama for america. >> reporter: things are much clearer. president obama isn't expected to face any major competition. and just yesterday, his campaign headquarters in chicago opened for business. and at this point, most polls show president obama has a big lead over potential gop rivals. betty, back to you. >> all right, tara mergener in washington for us. thank you. >>> just ahead on the "morning news," facebook's dirty tricks in its push against google. plus "two and a half men" may have a new man in the house. this is the "cbs morning news." [ male announcer ]

mitch daniels, mark and i were talking beforehand, mitch daniels' personal situation which i think actually reflects quite well on him. his wife left him and married someone else and then came back to him and the four daughters. that's been given curse sorry attention in the state of indiana. that would have been a story for days and it would not have been a particularly pleasant experience so it's a tough thing to do. you've hit memorial day of the year before and you're not in, it's pretty tough to do. very few window wookees left. >> charlie: a pretty good candidate or not? he was a guy that went from wall street to running for president. there was this about, did his wife... do you assume that's the story that mitch daniels says the family doesn't want me to run. therefore i'm not running. he was leaning that way but he decided in the end when the family voted no to say no. >> i don't know what happened in the final days of conversation. i do know every time i spoke to governor daniels in the last two months, which was three times. >> charlie: you interviewed him recently. >> i did. i s

that was a big consideration for mitch daniels. now, tim pawlenty, his family is all system goss and he's going to have his announcement he's running for president in iowa with a town hall meeting and a release day video announcing that. let's run through a list of who is in and who is out. this race is starting to congeal, the gop field is starting to come together. who is in? well tim pawlenty is in, speaker of the house newt gingrich, former speaker is also in, ron paul, is in as well and herman cain announced over the weekend, he is a businessman from atlanta. out, this is a longer list which helps the field come together. mitch daniels, mike huckabee, donald trump, jeb bush, haley barbour and chris christi say they are not running in 2012 and the possibilities at this point, they're likelihoods, mitt romney former massachusetts governor and jon huntsman, former governor of utah and then balkman and palin are big maybes. bachmann leaning towards a race, sarah palin, a lot of folks don't think she is going to run. for tim pawlen

mitch daniels, they are married once again. sherri daniels is her name, largely stayed out of the public eye since then but a presidential run would have changed all of that. here is more of daniels' statement, apologizing to some in the republican party who wanted him to run, "if i have disappointed you, i will always be sorry. if you feel that this was a noncourageous or unpatriotic decision i understand and will not attempt to persuade you otherwise. i only hope that you will accept my sincerity in the judgment i have reached." we will have much more on daniel, his decision and what it does for the gop hopeful 2012 later in this show. >>> let's turn to some weather, nasty stuff. on am news scene. one person has been killed after a reported tornado ripped through a kansas town, damaging almost every home there. this happened in redding, kansas. 20 homes destroyed, 200 homes in the town were damaged. emergency officials telling cnn we have confirmed one person killed, two others injured. >>> that sound you're hearing is large

mitch daniels will not run for president. the indiana governor who many thought would arrive on a white horse to buck up the gop field will not join the fray after all, announcing in a surprise statement overnight that family concerns made the difference. from the statement, he writes about his wife sherry and his four daughters the following -- "what could have been a complicated decision was in the end very simple on matters affecting us all, our family constitution gives a veto to the women's caucus and there is no override provision. simply put, i find myself caught between two duties. i love my country. i love my family more." and with that, the field narrows. i want to begin, joined by the chairman of the house budget committee, paul ryan. chairman, welcome back to "meet the press." >> hey, good morning, david. nice to be with you. >> i want to get your reaction to the daniels news because he is, in many ways, a kindred spirit on a lot of these fiscal issues, fiscal discipline. he won't be a part of that 2012 conversati

mitch daniels is out, herminan kane is in. caller: he sounds great or torelli, but the man seems to be pandering to white folks. he does not want to say anything possibly related to black people that would hurt his candidacy, even though he is black. i do not believe he has the chance in the gop. the gop does not want a black president. they never have. they only want black people that will kalikow and behaved like modern-day slaves. they are not getting it from president obama. michael steele was their poster child. child. now herman ca kane is the poster child. the gentleman, i do not believe that he has a chance and i believe that he is just making speeches. that is what i have to say. thank you very much. host: "meet new gingrich, political opinion of." -- piniata." host: next is herald, joining us from westwood, new jersey. caller: good morning. this legalizing abortion issue and all of this, how could anyone do to a baby what they would never do to a puppy or a kitten? torture. you just had a program on regarding torture

meantime indiana governor mitch daniels turned down a gop bid because of, quote, family concerns. daniels is the latest in a string of prominent republicans choosing not to return. >>> then all of the -- many editorials bemoaning the fact that does the gop have a contender that can beat the president in 2012. it's our question of the day. which republican in your opinion has the best chance of being a president? it doesn't have to be someone who's declared. there's calls to try to strongarm some of the people who said they were not going to be running to maybe reconsider in the wake of some of the others deciding not to. send us an e-mail, tweet us, find us on facebook we'll read your comments later in the hour. >> those that say much of the republican field is dominated by the people who have not yet declared or said i will not run. >>> we're following breaking news out of joplin, missouri, search and rescue under way after a massive tornado tears the town away. 20 or 30% of the town could be destroyed. many, many injured. hundreds injured. a direct hit on the town hospital. we'l

gwen: mitch daniels drops down. sarah palin drops hints. a low-profile special election catapults medicare to the front burner. >> thank you all so much. gwen: meanwhile, the obamas take europe. with a little guinness, a little glamour, and a lot of the nitty-gritty of international give and take. >> it would have been easy at the outset of the crackdown in libya to say that none of this was our business. gwen: including some fence mending. >> but israel will not negotiate with a palestinian government backed by the palestinian version of al qaeda. that we will not do. >> it is very difficult for israelis to sit across the table and negotiate with a party that is denying your right to exist. gwen: and the supreme court presses not one but two hot buttons, on crime and immigration. covering the week, dan balz of "the washington post." major garrett of "national journal." helene cooper of "the new york times." and joan biskupic of "usa today." >> award-winning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens. from our nation's capital,

well, mitch daniels was, a lot of republicans thought he could improve that. hes was the last hope out there of candidates who might get in the race. now that he hasn't, it means that whoever the nominee is in the party is going to have to make a case for how they are going to get republicans excited. because for right now they're just not excited. >> mitchell: let's turn to newt gingrich. last week he criticized paul ryan medicare plan calling it right wing social engineering and said it imposed radical change. he was asked about that this morning on face the nation with bob schieffer. let's take a look. >> you said it's too big a job, it's too radical. are you saying now it's not too radical, it's not too big a job. >> i think it is a big plan that needs to be worked through with the american people. in that process, it will clearly be modified. and i think if republican as approach it that way and have a conversation with the american people, we will, in fact, totally defeat the democrat scare tactics and the american people will give us permission to have

mitch daniels is that guy. a solid, serious person. he has experience as budget director. under president bush. much admired around this town. for him. >> juan, you are hurting mitch's share. >> i like mitch. >> say something nasty about him. >> the deficit here is he's what you call areamatically challenged. challenged. -- is charismatically challenged. >> chris: but the question is here, less sizzle and more substance might not be a bad thing. >> this is politics here. you have to gave speech and wow a crowd. at some point people have to respond to you emotionally saying that's our leader. >> chris: brit? >> you are trying to find out how the republican field is doing, don't watch polling numbers for candidate. the number to watch are obama polling numbers. also, the numbers like the growth of the economy, which was quite leaguer in the recent quarter. the continued unpopularity of the healthcare program. president obama's abysmal poll rating on his job on the economy. these are the things, these broader issues that are thought about here in washington related to the deb

mitch daniels and his wife were divorced. she married, came back, remarried. and newt gingrich spent a lost time having to talk about his third wife and multiple marriages. let me play that and talk about whether is an issue this year. >> there's things i did in the past i'm not proud of. i had to go to god and ask forgiveness and seek reconciliation. but if you pressure who i am, what i've learned, how i live my life. you look at my close relationship with my two daughters, close relationship with my grandchildren, the kind of marriage that calista and i have, i hope people look at who i've grown into and decide if i'm someone they can trust with the presidency. >> that's univision. convincing? relevant? did he have to say that? >> he hood say it but i'm not sure it will convince somebody. everything three lives and having left two of them in somewhat unpleasant circumstances, to put it mildly, and three religions, the most recent of which is catholicism, and there's an awful lot of divorced catholics who are very pained by this situation. of their own divorc

i think if mitch daniels gets in, though, then in all likelihood if not openly privately mississippi governor haley barbour, his dear friend, with the giant roll desk, jumps in and tries to establish him. gwen: the bush is calling him to urge and get in. there's some establishment support. but what about the antiestablishment support? since last week when we were sitting here, mike huckabee dropped out of the race, if he was ever really in it. so that means that people who were sitting back on the sidelines and trying to decide what to do next have to scatter and go somewhere. where do they go? >> one of the things doyle was hinting at is there's a number of key constituency that still have yet to find a good horse. social conservatives don't have one although michelle bachmann could come up. the tea the tea partyies, other than ron paul who may or may not be a viable long-term candidate -- >> tim to plenty? >> he gets in. he's trying. he's been meeting with them and if you look at the field, as michael has said, all of them have really strong problems with their canned day d.a. sis.

mitch daniel spent a lot of time at the white house. he worked for george bush in the budget office and then went back and became the governor. he actually was the favorite of a lot of the mainstream republicans. they really wanted him to run because he understood those budget issues. but he said in his statement, in the end i was able to resolve every competing consideration but one, but that, the interest of my -- the wishes of my family is the most important consideration of all. if i disappointed you, speaking to his supporters, i will always be sorry. so the republican field narrows even more, daniels not going to run, bianna. >> and, david, why did so many republicans put him in the spotlight? also we know that former president bush's wife, laura bush, reached out to his wife pleading that he run, as well. obviously that wasn't enough. >> reporter: well, he had worked in the inner circle of the bush white house and therefore had a lot of support among those folks and, yes, indeed, laura bush did call cherie daniels and said, you m

sherry daniels, if mitch daniels would december tide run, calista has not given any interviews. she will be forced by appreciate tour to address what happened when she was on the payroll and carrying on? absolutely. >> nothing like republicans like more than a victim. they can play this up, play the victim card, they will play it to the hilt. >> let me turn to that t "l.a. times" story of arnold schwarzenegger who has only been out of office for governor a few short months. maria shriver. obviously that's a local story for the local paper. but why this avalanche of national attention? >> because they are huge celebrities. arnold is a big movie star. maria -- reminds us of a kennedy. >> but a -- journalist who was on nbc and at least one other network for 25 years. >> not only that, but she had to give up her role as an nbc correspondent when she married him. this is another issue which is the role wives have to take and i say wives, good husbands don't usually get into this situation. they have to sort of step back and let their husbands be the primary figure in the relationship

mitch daniels -- indiana governor, mitch daniels. he emailed his supporters over the weekend to tell them that he's not running for president. in response, his supporters were like, "dad, we live in the same house, couldn't you just tell us in person? [ laughter ] what's this e-mail all about? don't ever e-mail me again!" [ applause ] actually, mitch daniels said that he's not running because he loves his family more than he loves his country. the other candidates feel that way too. in fact, newt gingrich says he loves all his families more than he loves his country. [ laughter ] i thought that was very nice. did you hear about this? sarah palin just bought a house in arizona for $1.6 million. yeah, it has a pool, a jacuzzi and a gazebo, which'll be perfect for her kids -- pool, jacuzzi, and gazebo. [ laughter ] "gazebo get away. get -- track, get over by jacket. jacket, get over by gazebo. gazebo, get in the pool. gazebo, get in the pool. go ahead, go. in the pool, not -- jacuzzi, stay there. jacuzzi, get away from the chlorine. chl

. >> pawlenty is in, mitch daniels all doubt, on spent discovers new hampshire, and bachmann and palin edged closer. >> i have that fire in my belly. >> we will get back to sarah palin and others in a moment, but first, i want to go look at "politico's" thursday headline. this week, democrat kathy hochul defeated her opponent, republican jane corwin, in the special election for new york's 26th congressional district. this district is a solidly republican, and generally, but does with the key issue was? >> jane corwin supports a budget that essentially ends medicare. >> what do you say to these we need republicans? >> they are going to run these attack ads regret this. this is a time for leaders to be leaders. >> we will hear from paul ryan later on. democrats tied republican jane corwin to ryan's plan, which makes major changes to medicare. what did we learn from this, mark? >> when they change seats and one party wins and the other part of this is, they get attention. the especially get attention when it rolls out a single issue that captures the american people's attention. republica

these were the folks that were going to get behind mitch daniels. a lot of them will probably stay on the sidelines, at least for the summer. think of this summer as a summer of speculation. we're going to hear a lot about new york governor chris christy. we'll hear more about paul ryan, the wisconsin republican congressman who didn't quite slam the door shut on "meet the press" today about running for president. maybe even a jeb bush rumor. but at the end of the day, this could be very helpful to tim pawlenty, former minnesota governor. he officially launches his bid tomorrow. he's hoping to grab some of those donors, lester. >> chuck todd in ireland tonight, chuck, thanks. >>> police in los angeles arrested a suspect today in the brutal beating of a san francisco giants' fan outside of l.a.'s dodgers stadium. the case prompted outrage in the sports world and an outpouring of support for the victim. nbc's george lewis has more tonight. >> reporter: it was early this morning when a s.w.a.t. team stormed this apartment building >> the los angeles pol

and mitch daniels, do you read it the same way otherwises are reading it. that it seems like most of the main line republicans are pleading with mitch daniels to run because they think he would be-- he would be the best candidate. is that, am i picking up this, am i reading this correctly. >> i think he's the establishment favorite in this and he's been a very effective governor, you know, on school choice, on controlling the budget. i mean really one of the best republican governors in the nation. and i think people respect that. he has a kind of blunt manner that people like. and did a good populist in indiana which people underestimate. he drove his harley around the state during his campaign. he stays in people's homes. i think he would be a strong candidate. not necessarily a typical one. he doesn't look like, you know, a normal candidate but he would be a very good one. >> lehrer: what is your reading on daniels sm. >> i think mitch daniels is an impressive person. >> lehrer: do you think will go? >> i do not know. i think that's a personal-- . >> leh

what do you think went into the mitch daniels decision. he said his family, is it because his wife didn't want to do it? >> this was a personal decision. daniels was getting urged by of everybody to get in this. up until just yesterday, top republicans were thinking he was going to go and pushing very hard saying you have to do this. you are the candidate. he becomes the default anti-mitt romney candidate. the establishment choice. i totally agree. now is tim pawlenty's moment. >> did he say that about his wife? >> he did not. he talked about his entire family which means his children, four daughters. >> to me this is indicative. the candidates are making more new, running p and not running. at a time the president is as vulnerable going into reelect in recent memories, the number is in the my 40s. he's immensely beat many. all of these credible candidates remind me a little bit like the "seinfeld" show. where it's about nothing, all of these candidates coming in and out. huntsman, i think it's indicative of a republican field not quite kn

his hunch is -- he hadn't talked to mitch daniels. his hunch is that mitch daniels gets in. let's focus on a candidate that is in. we know that mitt romney has problems with the votes are because of the health care plan he passed. it tells the residents of massachusetts you must get health care. if not there are penalties involved. yesterday newt gingrich was on "meet the press" and that dirty word "mandate" came up. listen. >> i've said consistently we ought to have some requirement where you have health insurance or post a bond or indicate that you're going to be held accountable. >> but that is the individual mandate, is it not? >> it's a variation on it. >> it's a variation of it on a sunday hshow. today tweets saying mandates bad, mandates bad. did the former speaker step into it a bit there? >> i think he did. i haven't seen his whole statement about paul ryan's suggesting that we change medicare greatly, but he seems to be against that as well. so i think gingrich is going to add spice to the campaign because he sometimes says things that he then regret, but it was an

gwen: but there are people who are new to most people, like john huntsman and mitch daniel. >> and tim paulenti, former governor of minnesota. i don't think -- pawlenti, former governor of minnesota. i don't think at this point people are making a conscious choice of new or old. they are thinking who would be the strongest person to rin -- run against not a come bent? that's the question. will a fresher face do that more effectively? that's the calling card for somebody like john huntsman who really is not at all known around the country. he was governor of utah and then ambassador to china. but he is somebody beginning a very active consideration and is likely to run. tim pawlenty has remained in single digits, not surprising, but he is beginning to attract march -- more 0 tension. there is a great hew and cry among some in the party for mitch daniels, governor of indiana, to get into the race. >> and what gives them hope is that president obama's nubbeds on the economy are still -- numbers on the economy are still so low. even congress' approval rating went up and congress didn't hav

well as we can the governor mitch daniels signed a bill that bars state medicaid funding from being used to planned parenthood i mean poor woman can't get past smears and breast exams of planned parenthood clinics anymore this is in the could affect the health of nearly ten thousand women in that state it's just the latest assault the republicans war on women from restricting abortion rights to ignoring workplace discrimination to cutting to safety nets for single mothers so conservatives just throwing women out of the party katrina pierson doesn't think so she represents the dallas tea party and is the national grassroots director of the tea party review trained as a washington d.c. today to hold a press conference and child lies to the left wrongs of the right focus on how the tea party is handing over its leading roles to women to shape the agenda trying to joins me now to talk more about the issue katrina welcome thank you for having me pleased to have you for your press release for your conference that is what the tea party movement is showing is the leading role women have in creat

last week indiana governor mitch daniels signed a bill that guards state medicaid funding from being used to planned parenthood i mean the poor women can't get perhaps mirrors and breast exams and planned parenthood clinics anymore this is in the could affect the health of nearly ten thousand women in that state it's just the latest assault the republicans war on women from restricting abortion rights to ignoring workplace discrimination to cutting those safety nets for single mothers so conservatives just throwing women out of the party katrina pearson doesn't think so she represents the dallas tea party and is the national grassroots director of the tea party review the train is in washington d.c. today to hold a press conference and lies a little off the wrongs of the right focus and how the tea party is anti over its leading roles to women to shape the agenda trying to joins me now to talk more about the issue katrina welcome thank you for having me pleased to have you for your press release for your conference today said what the tea party movement is showing is the leading role

. >>> and mitch daniels, the favorite candidate among elite columnists not running for president. i'm howard kurtz, and this is "reliable sources." >>> the first scoop in "the los angeles times" was big enough. arnold schwarzenegger and maria shriver splitting up just months after he stepped down as governor. but that was a mere prelude to the bombshell that he fathered what the tabloids call a love child. that story, of course, exploding across the media landscape. plenty of questions ahead. but first, mark barriback broke storys. i spoke to him earlier from san francisco. mark, welcome. >> hi, howard. >> let's take a look at your reporting on this story. when you called the former housekeeper, she denied that this was arnold schwarzenegger's baby. she said it was her husband at the time who was the father of this child. at that point did you consider not publishing the story? >> no. at that point we knew the story was dead-on factual. we would not have gone and knocked on her door. we would not have put in calls to governor schwarzenegger or ms. shriver if we didn't know that it

former first lady, laura bush, called the wife of mitch daniels, urging her to get her husband to run. we are told. also, others are urging new jersey governor, chris christie, to enter the fray. bianna? >> john, thank you. of course, we'll get into all of that. >>> the big question is, will he or won't he run? john avlon, senior political columnist for "the daily beast" joins us this morning to help answer that question. of course, we're talking about mike huckabee. just a few weeks ago, you said it would be hard for him not to run. you're not so sure now. why? >> the buzz coming out from former senior campaign aides is they haven't heard anything from huckabee in the last several weeks, indicating to them that the buck will stop here. that huckabee will say tonight that he will not run. the only person who knows for sure is huckabee and presumably his family. it's extraordinary that he's polling so well, even for doing nothing. and it's because he has such a strong, conservative populist support that's really carried him through this day. >> he does have a name. the medium candidate

then analysis from our political roundtable including the news about mitch daniels. all coming up this morning on "meet the press." >>> david, thanks. >>> that's going to do it for us. ron mott, janice huff, who wants to go around manhattan. i'm driving? >> i'll be the co-captain. great having you here. thanks to you all for being here. i'll see you on "nightly news."