they don't want mike huckabee as a friendlier voice, they don't want mike huckabee or anyone else riling up delegates, when you look at these delegates, they're far more conservative. the ring -- far more conservative than the image that republican strategists want to be painting for the rest of the country. they don't want anyone getting up to the podium who's going to rile up the delegates, and bring back memories what have happened in 1992, that really scared off swing voters. >> patricia, help me here, i don't want all of this inside baseball. we are talking about a candidate who needs to come up in the women's vote significantly. and we are talking about what akin said is outrageous to women, even republican women. doesn't this at all play into the conversation. it's almost as if they're oblivious to the insult that was stated by mr. akin. >> i think that they are not oblivious to the insult that todd akin had for all women. and that is why the romney campaign dumped him overboard as soon as he said it. that's why the nrsc dumbed him overboard. 2,000 voters were women. 53% of the vo

>>governor huckabee: to the russian president. >>governor huckabee: flexibility. i am just saying the whole idea our government is the checks and balances of three branches with equal power, not someone would believes he can ignore the law. >>chris: kirsten, when when party holds a convention traditionally the other goes off the stage but the democrats are not doing this. we know that president obama is going to be on college cam pitses trying to reenergize the youth vote and joe biden was until the weather hit, going to be here in florida and my shoal -- michelle obama will make, many appearances were smart? >>guest: yes. the only thing outside the normal behavior would have been bide incoming -- bideen then coming down. they are trying to define him as an extremist, a radical, they are going to continue to use the todd akin thing, calling ryan his ideological twin, so they are trying to make sure when this is over they have convinced people that the person they are presenting romney to be is with he is. >>chris: i talked to karl coffee -- karl rove and he said b

>>governor huckabee: it could happen. one thing that needs to take place is to get away from the comment that he himself repudiated and apologized for. that is the past. it was a dumb remark. he acknowledged that. but the real issue is not what he said. it is what the senator did: she voted for obamacare. she has supported abortion. it is about what president obama did, not something he said. he has said plenty of crazy things himself. president obama is one of the few people would voted three times against a bill that said you have to give medical treatment to a baby born as a result of a botched abortion but it was a living child, outside the mother's womb, and this is an after birth abortion. he said, no, no, you can still take the life of the baby even after abortion failed. that is further that barney frank and the hardcore liberals in the congress were ever willing to go. >>neil: whatever the case, governor, it doesn't seem to be helping the congressman right now, a number people and you were the first, when all thi

also speaking tonight, mike huckabee. he broke with much of the rest of his party to support todd akin after his comments about women and rape. will he double down tonight on live tv? we'll also hear from bush secretary of state condoleezza rice. and the budget director of the bush administration rob portman. the convention theme today is quote, we can change it. judging from tonight's lineup, sure we can change it. right back to the way it was under bush 43. we'll talk about that later on and show you some truly amazing bush tribute video being shown to delegates tonight. >> i'm so proud of george. >> they'll remember him for being a good, honest president who got a lot of things done. >> dad and i both know what it takes to be president. and there's no doubt in our mind that mitt romney will be a great president. >> but tonight is congressman paul ryan's night. in fact, it's basically paul ryan's convention on the delegate floor. the buzz is all about ryan, not governor romney. some headlines. romney is the big draw. he

akin's gone on to the mike huckabee radio show. huckabee endorses him early on. this going down in last half hour to make it clear to everyone listening, he's staying put. >> i want to make things absolutely clear and that is, we're going to continue with this race for the u.s. senate. we've given it a lot of thought and the first thing we felt we had to do was we had offended some people and we tried to respond to that and let people know that we didn't mean anybody or to take it anyway, rape, anything less than very, very seriously. >> also this morning, his campaign released an ad called "forgiveness." >> rape is an evil act. i used the wrong words in the wrong way and for that i apologize. >> and despite a debate that pits the republican candidate for president against a senate hopeful and is causing strain within the party, akin supporters in missouri, some of them, standing by their man right now. >> what he said was misguided, he admitted it was misguided, i'm all right with it. i think he's a good man. and i don't necessarily think he should drop out of t

>>governor huckabee: never. we have more people, we have, we are talking about $8800 billion in food stamps at this rate. you cannot continue it. there are some people who need some form of government assistance for different reasons such as disability, severe illness but we are at a point where we are begging people to get on the assistance with radio ads and fewer are paying taxes and we ask those few to pay more in taxes so we can turn an and subsidize people who are going do look around and say, gob, i am doing well without a job, this is if. >>stuart: so, is this deliberate? is president obama deliberately structuring the programs for get more people on to federal assistance and, dare i say, buy votes? >>governor huckabee: when i tell you the answer, the blogs will light up with people who are saying i am being partisan but the fact is, there is no other explanation. can you not say it is better if people to be on a government dependence than for have a job. we need to be making the steps that make it so pe

now back to "huckabee." hour. >> mike: well, the republican national convention is sure to produce many headlines and some sound bites this week. and there was no shortage of memorable quotes over the past week, here is some. with their convention kicking off here tomorrow, republican delegates from all over the country are arriving in tampa where they're being greeted by this billboard. it says, welcome to tampa, where the mayor and city council are all democrats. enjoy our well-run city. we are enjoying your well-run city and when a democrat does something good, we salute you, so we thank you, not just the mayor and city council, but the wonderful people of tampa, florida, proven in the first few moments of the convention, an incredibly hospitable and delightful people to be with. we want to say thanks, we know that bringing all of these people disrupts your life and makes it difficult for you to get around. because it's difficult for us to get around, too, with all the security, but thanks for your patien

>>governor huckabee: you got it exactly. it was the vice guest, it was in part to respond to the super bowl ad where some surmised he was out there supporting the obama bailout the he came back and said, no, that had nothing to do with it, it is about america. he is a great american and loves the country. he is conservative and tens it lead libertarian. i thought it was, you know, it was clint eastwood. >>neil: he was not reading any script. we noticed the teleprompter, i notice a because my goes down and the show is...but, there was no teleprompter. the remarks, you know, they were -- he winged all of the remarks. a did you make of that and whether it helped or hurt in >>governor huckabee: well, the people who do not like mitt romney and do not like republicans hated clint eastwood being there. the people would like mitt romney and who love clint eastwood and are republicans they thought it was great. and cute. and fun. and kind of, frankly, the only moment in the entire convention that wasn't highly scripted and choreograp

huckabee hosts and starred in it, governor huckabee's antiabortion dvd also features an activist that campaigns for pro choice rights. he has also interviewed her on his tv show and in 2011, they both worked on the personhood campaign in mississippi. you remember that, the ballot measure intended by its authors to ban some of the most popular forms of birth control, hormonal birth control and iuds, also in vitro fertilization, and all abortion. they were not shy about the fact they wanted to ban all abortions, including those by rape or incest. they campaigned on that measure. mike huckabee was a major spokesman and keynote speaker. the activist he featured iphis dvd, the one who changed rick perry and on his television show, she headlined a tour, and the tour was called "the conceived in rape" tour. that was part of the campaign for the personhood measure, not against it. the mississippi campaign prided itself on its mission to force rape victims and incest victims who became pregnant as a result of the crimes to bring the pregnancies to term against their will. as a rape victim or a

banch mike huckabee called on folks to show support by buying food at chick-fil-a. he dubbed it chick-fil-a appreciation day. they confirmed reports that yesterday was a record setting sales day. >> record historic sales. people stood in time for lengthy times a lot of stores ran out of chicken. >> the folks had written it off and chick-fil-a had the best day in history. >> or as chickens refer to it: the worst day in history. i think chig chick-fil-a has item stumbled on a new strategy to help struggling businesses in this down economy, associate your product with divisive political position and wit for the cash to roll n. hey, laz boy why not run ads who say who know who is lazy? mexicans. get upset about it. that's what they want. [ laughter ] here say free one for pringles. once you pop you can't stop requiring women to get transvaginal ultrasounds. get mad. get mad! [ laughter ] but, folks,. [ laughter ] we must not lose sight of what this is really about oppression. right some guy. >> let your voice be heard. stand up to the hate and intimidation and remember

special huckabee. tonight, florida senator marco rubio on introducing mitt romney before he accepts the g.o.p. nomination. former democratic congressman archer davis why he's now a republican stumping for the romney-ryan ticket and also tonight. florida attorney general pam bondy and the evangelicals in the general election. ♪ >> welcome to huckabee. now, we are live from tampa, florida where tropical storm isaac has caused republican national convenes organizers to cancel the monday night session and of course revise the schedule. over of the course of the next four days, the republican party is going to formally nominate mitt romney as candidate for president. there's going to be the usual, red, white and blue balloons, funny hats worn by otherwise perfectly normal people. patriotic music and bands and stickers, and long lines of people, waiting to get in, get out. eat, and just wait and this year dodging bad weather. the purpose of the elaborate staging and coordinated programming is to convince a

huckabee hosts and starred in it, governor huckabee's antiabortion dvd also features an activist that campaigns for pro choice rights. he has also interviewed her on his tv show and in 2011, they both worked on the personhood campaign in mississippi. you remember that, the ballot measure intended by its authors to ban some of the most popular forms of birth control, hormonal birth control and iuds, also in vitro furt ertilizatiofertiliza abortion. they were not shy about the fact they wanted to ban all abortions, including those by rape or incest. they campaigned on that measure. mike huckabee was a major spokesman and keynote speaker. the activist he featured iphis dvd, the one who changed rick perry and on his television show, she headlined a tour, and the tour was called "the conceived in rape" tour. that was part of the campaign for the personhood measure, not against it. the mississippi campaign prided itself on its mission to force rape victims and incest victims who became pregnant as a result of the crimes to bring the pregnancies to term against their will. as a rape victim o

>>governor huckabee: no, that is not the case. ryan brings not only a great economic perspective but what mitt romney did by selecting paul ryan is to give real assurance to people in the pro life world that he pick add person who has absolutely flawless pro life credentials so paul ryan is extremely acceptable to people in the party if whom that is an issue, that we cannot compromise on. i'm in that crowd are as well. >>neil: indeed, you are. i look at money and you a man of god and c.i.a. am -- i am a manf money and hotdogs. but i notice 72 hours of the ryan announcement they raised $7.5 million. obviously the financial backers liked the choice. >>governor huckabee: i think that will go through november. something happened with the ryan pick. everyone took a breath because now we know. all the speculations and now we know. people will find something wrong with anyone he picked. he could not have picked the apostle paul, much less paul ryan for someone to say this is in the quite right. with paul ryan he has a person who is a fis

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>>governor huckabee: it was amazing. people are tired of being told if you are a christian and you hold a worldview of march you are supposed to shut up. nobody is saying people are not free to be gay or to have whatever view they want. that has to go both ways. the intolerance bullying toward chick-fil-a as a company because their owner said something is ridiculous. it is un-american. when government officials like mayors starting saying they would try to stop this company from doing commerce in their city because of the view of the c.e.o., my gosh, that's iran, north korea, that is not america. >>eric: that was chicago and boston mayors. is this about gay marriage or the first amendment? >>guest: it is whether a christian or anyone can speak their convictions. muslims have the same view of same-sex marriage. did you see the mayor of bought condemn the muslims? he gave a $1.8 million piece of property to build an islamic center in boston the day that rahm emanuel is condemning chick-fil-a he as his arounds around farrak

governor mike huckabee. [applause] >> thank you very much and welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. what you thote that the campaign couldn't slide much deeper in the sewer along comes joe biden with the race-based comment virginia. >> ther going to put yautopsy all back in chains that. after the adof mitt romney responsible for a cancer death harry reid couldn't stretch that far poor old joe biden forgot what state he was in in virginia. >> we can win north charl charl again. >>ip am sure he could. >> and then joe had a misfire of the mind as to what century we are in. we shouldn't lead in making automobiles. i have not seen it written anywhere. >> i haven't seen it written anywhere before joe either. no where. >> hine had a problem remembering what public office paul rhine holds whampt governor ryan is. >> i am sure paul ryan wishes he were a governor. it is a great job. the vice president was sent home without supper. he seemed to have been place time out chair by president obama

we know what mike huckabee's principles are. he wants the principles applied to government and to everyone. i was disappointed in huckabee. he didn't are bring the fire i expected. he has a nationally syndicated radio show. >> you think he wants romney to win or planning to try again next time? >> not everyone is in love with the guy. >> not a single one of them. >> tonight it seemed like some of the speakers like last night, waited for the last couple paragraphs of their speeches to pay for their dinner and mention the guy that put them up there. >> it was awful for mitt romney. but i have to say i was shocked by mike huckabee's speech. last week he was railing against the party and defending todd akin and now he is a good soldier and coming out and saying all these nice things about romney and what he was saying about barack obama not protecting life outside the womb what was that talking about? and that nasty crack about debby washerman schultz? it was sexist and soulless. >> explain the sexist part. >> making a joke about he

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huckabee starts now. tonight on huckabee. >> i don't know about you. but are you ready to fire barak obama and save america? on the eve of the republican national convence party chairman rience priebus sets the stage. we say it is it about a better future it is not pretty words it is an, anthem. >> mitt romney will be the star of the show. but who else will provide highlights of the rn c. and why did the cross the road. teacher's unons focusing on brainwashing instead of teaching them. here's governor mike huckabee. >> thank you. for much. what a great audience we have here tonight and welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. this past week a republican from missouri said something about adorsion -- abortion. i sure hope so. and the senate cand date who is a decent and honorable man and a engineer hardly the ignorant and insane and didn't make a factual wrong it was a mistake to think it or say it and the candidate admitted he was in error and issued a contrite apology. our guy apologized for something he said. will barak obama a

now back to "huckabee." and they i tell people just because i have god for my coach everything i do is perfect . only criticism i let in my life and wife and people who have input that is positive feed back. beyond that, my goal is to listen to god and do what he tells me to do. >> obviously that is amazing about you. you are running for a gold medal and running to win. but in talk you, ryan, i don't get the impression winning a earthly race is everything that there is. what is it that drives you and motivates you and if you don't win in london, are you still okay with who you are as ryan hall? >> yes, certainly . one thing that god told me over and over and over again. for the last six months, i have been running my brains out and preparing for the race. jesus is the prize for me. that is freeing. a gold medal or medal of any color would be icing on the cake. i feel like i already have something that transcends a olympics medal brings satisfaction to my daily life that is better than a gold medal. and some

see you half way through huckabee with a news update. now the governor. ♪ tonight on huckabee. ♪ beaming with pride and patriotism america's olympics winners are by the i.r.s.. and olympics mara thon runner is running 26 miles and hoping to wear a gold medal and said good is with him every step of the plus. ♪ i heard it through the grapevine. >> word is out he hasn't paid taxes for 10 years. >> majority leader stating hear say as fact on the senate floor. the senators outrageous statements. ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [applause] >> thank you. great audience here tonight. thank you so much welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. well, what a week it has been. thanks to you. chick-fil-a day was a huge success. [applause] >> i want us to see how it all happened . chick-fil-a founder opened the first restaurant in 1956 basing it around christian values. the business expanded in a chain of more than 1600 restaurants without incidents. chick-fil-a came under fire when the current president and ce

thank you so much welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. well, what a week it has been. thanks to you. chick-fil-a day was a huge success. [applause] >> i want us to see how it all happened . chick-fil-a founder opened the first restaurant in 1956 basing it around christian values. the business expanded in a chain of more than 1600 restaurants without incidents. chick-fil-a came under fire when the current president and ceo said >> i pray god's mercy on our generation that has a prideful and arrogant attitude to think we have the audasit i of what marriage is all about. >> those who disagreed with his view. twitter flooded with hateful tweets and blasted the chick-fil-a president for speaking his mind. paris hilton said i

tonight on huckabee. >> i don't know about you. but are you ready to fire barak obama and save america? on the eve of the republican national convence party chairman rience priebus sets the stage. we say it is it about a better future it is not pretty words it is an, anthem. >> mitt romney will be the star of the show. but who else will provide highlights of the rn c. and why did the cross the road. teacher's unons focusing on brainwashing instead of teaching them. here's governor mike huckabee. >> thank you. for much. what a great audience we have here tonight and welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. this past week a republican from missouri said something about adorsion -- abortion. i sure hope so. and the senate cand date who is a decent and honorable man and a engineer hardly the ignorant and insane and didn't make a factual wrong it was a mistake to think it or say it and the candidate admitted he was in error and issued a contrite apology. our guy apologized for something he said. will barak obama a