washington, d.c. here is the most important thing we have learned. wisconsin's law went into effect. it has served the purpose the republicans intend for it. they have succeeded in effectively killing the unions in wisconsin. this shows union membership nation wide from the 1950s down to the present. the decline has been driven by one factor, corporations getting their way, getting nonunion work forces. even with this decline over the decade, still nearly one in eight american workers belong to a union. that's because public sector unions have held on. they have remained stable. that public sector unions have remained relatively strong it has really big implications for americans who work for a living. specifically for those that work as teachers and bus drivers. that also supports all working class wages. the strength of public sector unions have been important economically for people that have to work for a living. the fact that unions exist supports everybody's wages and everybody's workplace environment. the fact that public sector union exists has blunt political implications.

henderson reporting for "the washington post." nia-malika, it's tricky for first ladies to get into talking policies too much. michelle obama seems to have the perfect touch when she does talk policy, she has a tone that makes them seem nonpartisan. >> that's exactly right. she is, as you said, a perfect surrogate. who needs bill clinton who has been widely off message, when you have michelle obama? she in some ways is a better surrogate for his husband's policy than her husband because she is able to marry the personal, his background story, with the political. and you know, this wasn't always easy for the first lady. when she came in, there were some -- you know, some stumbling. in 2010, they very much want heard to be out there on the stump. she wasn't as comfortable being out there. she wanted to in some ways save up her political for her husband. and we see her using it quite effectively, with women voters. that's something she did in 2008, she'd have roundtables with women voter. she got the nickname the closer because she was so effective at turning voters who weren't decided

washington by both republicans and democrats to put forth a serious proposal on immigration reform, one that could be bipartisan, one that could be at least discussed in an open manner without using harsh language, the lack of leadership -- that vacuum that has existed for many years now in washington, d.c. is what permits the sb-1070s of the world to arise. and if democrats and republicans and the congresswoman that you have on your show tonight is a perfect example of someone who is willing to reach across the aisle to talk to republicans and to try to get something done on immigration reform. but unfortunately these people are in the minority both in the republican and democratic party. you know why? because when they could do it, they didn't do it. and the republicans have been stone walling this issue for years. >> congresswoman sanchez and jose diaz-belart, i've got to go. thank you so much for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> she's been bullied, mocked, and abused. and tonight bus monitor karen klein is here live to tell us how she's doing and what she makes of

washington post that he had not been questioned by any law enforcement agencies after the rash of democratic attacks -- attacks on democratic offices he called for. he called for them, he claimed credit for them. after it was done, he continued to threaten more. >> there are rifles being cleaned right now. do you understand it? >> cleaned? >> taken out of the closet and cleaned. >> being the break their windows, cleaning our rifles, incitement to violence guy from the health reform fight, did bring this blogger guy some measure of fame on the fringe. he kept threatening civil war and armed sedition on right wing talk radio. he was booked as a speaker in an openly carry your fire arms rally that was timed to coincide with the anniversary of the oklahoma city bombing, classy timing. since that time, the break your windows guy, has moved on to a new thing. he has moved on to promulgating a new conspiracy theory about president obama taking away your guns. so it has come to pass that your uncle who watches fox news all day is worked up about something today. in the span of 27 months s

washington, nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of "andrea mitchell reports" andrea mitchell. we have the washington executive editor for bloomberg news, and the host of "the political capital with al hunt" and he has polls with him. al hunt. also political editor and white house correspondent for "the huffington post" sam stein. also in new york, msnbc contribute mike barnicle and willie geist. we love joe biden. we love -- there is a reason why we declared in our bylaws when we started this show this was a no attack joe zone. the guy is just -- he's beautiful. like a rainbow, as cyndi lauper saying. >> he is very refreshing compared to what's going on in the rest of the campaign. you've got these two mild-mannered guys, the president of the united states and former governor mitt romney of massachusetts out there, sort of lee key, even keel, same pitch no matter what they're talking about. you get joe, he's on fire! >> the i could is on fire. us -- the guy is on fire. he has a reason to be on fire. new bloomberg poll out this morning that shows the president has a 1

one, president romney stands up to china. >> but would he? the washington post has just revealed that romney's companies were pioneers in shipping u.s. jobs overseas. >> last week alone the obama campaign spent more than $1.5 million in ohio alone and it's paying off. a new poll shows president obama leading romney in ohio 47% to 38%. and an nbc poll shows him leading by eight points the nation's battle ground states. joining me now ana marie cox and wes moore. thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> let's start with you. are the bain attacks working in the rough belt swing statesç le ohio? >> the attacks are definitely working. more important than the bain attacks, something people aren't understanding. this isn't about an attack on the mitt romney business record. it's about how he somehow created jobs. there is a difference between being an investor and actually creating jobs and businesses that actually accelerate job growth. that's where mitt romney is finding a disconnect between his rhetoric and what happened between the record that puts forward. >> now, let me a

. >>> turning to business, jpmorgan chase ceo jamie dimon heads to washington to testify before the senate banking committee. dimon is expected to apologize for a string of risky investments, that cost the company at least $3 billion. let's take an early look in the markets and get more on that story as we get all up in your business. cnbc's geoff cutmore is live in london. >> it will be fascinating, i think tarm tim johnson wants to know if you are engaged in trying to reduce risk, how on earth do you increase risk and end up with a trading loss potentially of $5 billion. the senate banking committee, want to know whether bank officials are any good at spotting risk and preventing it becoming large enough to be a systemic threat to the financial system. jamie dimon for his part will say it was all about the cio office and whether they were meant to be reducing risk, they engaged in trades that went wrong. no doubt he will be apologetic. but he's got a tough job on his hands today. trying to convince this banking committee that bank executives know how to reduce risk in the organization. w

washington, d.c. the middlemen essentially the lobbyists, the political consultants, the pollsters, they're one of the main reasons why you see this kind of pollerization, because they take these sort of instant polls, show, look, we have a great opportunity to hammer the other guys. we can score in this election, and that's why on the big issues, we see everything gridlocked. i think on tax reform, we have another terrific opportunity. i and others have put together a bipartisan bill, built around what democrats and ronald reagan did where they clean out the clutter, hold down the rates, and rhee create millions of jobs. to do it, both sides are going to have to say we're going to be willing to do what's good for the country, solve a problem, and that means fighting the special interests, not each other. we'll see if it can be done. >> we'll see. oregon democratic senator john wyden, thank you for being here. i hope you're right. >> it's the only way out. >> if you're watching this show ile staying at a fanlsy resort in park city, utah, you might be a big time mitt romney donor in

a lot of fights with congress later, "washington post" chief correspondent and author of "the take." dan, the issue is of course enthusiasm levels, turnout, whether he can -- the president can run up the score. there's a real question as to how enthusiastic they will be. he will clearly get a better reception today than governor romney did, given the concerns that hispanics have had since the primary debates over mitt romney's immigration approach. >> well, there's no question that he'll get a better reception and he'll get a lot more votes in the fall. you're right about the issue of enthusiasm. i think the obama campaign has always believed that they had to do more and i think that what we saw a week ago in the decision about stopping sending young people back was an indication of their concern about this, and in many ways, a way to put governor romney in a box. the obama campaign's calculation is this. they believe they will continue to get at least what they got four years ago which was around 65% of the latino vote, and they think that the latino share of the electorate will b

attitude of republicans in washington. when unemployment was ticking down, republicans were ready to take kred. now that we're struggling, suddenly the gop has nothing to do with this. quit playing politics, this is bigger than trying to sink this president. it's not lost on anybody that it's an election year, i understand that and i noticed, but we have responsibilities bigger than an election. we've got responsibilities to you. so my message to congress is, now is not the time to play politics. now is not the time to sit on your hands. the american people expect their leaders to work hard no matter what year it is. the economy still isn't where it it needs to be. there are steps that could make a difference right thousand. >> joining me now is karen bass and jared bernestein, a former chief economist for joe biden. thank you for being here. congresswoman, do you have any sense at all that your republican colleagues are willing to come to the table to get this economy up and running again? >> i wish i had good news for you, that sounded so good at the beginning of your show when you

for washington state, right? but here is the thing that makes this both the best new thing in the world and also the bitterest new thing in the world today. how are you going to react to this if you are the pacific northwest and you've lost your team in this particularly underhanded way to oklahoma whereupon they succeed in this way? this was the headline this morning in the "tricity herald" in ken o wick, washington. "sonics advance to the finals, oh, wait." oh, as in oh, wait, they're not the sonics any more. oklahoma city steals team and steals game from san antonio. you know, when you get dumped by the person you're seeing, no matter how big a person you are, do you really want that person to find total bliss with the perfect other person? you want your ex to be having all that bliss celebrated publicly in the lead story in the news every night? we get it, seattle, we get it sonics fans, we all get it. the best new thing in the world today but also the bitterest. and sometimes those things are the same thing. that does it for us tonight. we'll see you again tomorrow night. now

. we think. we turn now to george washington university law professor jeffrey rosen, professor, thank you so much for joining us. we really appreciate it. >> thanks. it is great to be here. >> what does today's decision reveal in general about the direction of the court? >> well in some ways this is a vision of the bipartisan decision that people who don't like the polarization of the court were hoping for. the court did not divide along party lines. you had chief justice rjohn roberts and anthony kennedy joining the three liberals. the court didn't strike down all of the law or uphold all of it but picked and chose. justice kennedy ended with a call to civility. for those that hoped the court is not going to go off the polarization cliff on thursday on health care reform, in many ways this could be a model of what a good path would look like. >> let me ask you about that. should we read anything into this decision in terms of what we should expect to see thursday? are they -- some have conjectured that maybe this is sort of softening the blow for more of a down the line partis

deliberation, a jury in washington acquitted roger clemens of all charges that he lied to congress during a 2008 inquiry about his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. clemens maintained then and does today that he has never used steroids or human growth hormone. after the not guilty verdicts were read, the seven-time cy young award-winner spoke outside the courthouse. >> i put a lot of hard work into that career, and so again, i appreciate my teammates that came in and all the e-mails and phone calls. from my teammates. >> yesterday's verdict marked the federal government's second failed attempt to convict clemens on perjury charges in the five-year investigation and resulting trial cost the government and the taxpayers $10.5 million. this is not the first costly defeat for the u.s. government. prosecutors faced similar difficulty miss the trial against barry bonds which yielded just one conviction on obstruction of justice while cost millions more in money. federal investigators dropped a two-year-long criminal investigation against lance armstrong in february, though t

... ...but washington isn't talking to the american people. [ female announcer ] when it comes to the future of medicare and social security, you've earned the right to know. ♪ ...so what does it mean for you and your family? [ female announcer ] you've earned the facts. ♪ washington may not like straight talk, but i do. [ female announcer ] and you've earned a say. get the facts and make your voice heard on medicare and social security at earnedasay.org. >>> the campaign war-rooms in chicago and boston filed their may fund-raising totals last night. team obama has over $100 million in the bank. six times more than the romney campaign has on hand. but chicago is warning that combined with superpacs romney will have more than $1 billion behind him this election. joining us from washington, democratic strategist tad devine. thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> karl rove writing the pages of the "wall street journal" making a big point about the importance of cash in this campaign cycle. he brought up the example in 2008 president obama outspent john mccain by 7-1 in som

washington. lots of questions, huh? it's monday, june 111, 2012. >>> three days after six words set off a political firestorm, the obama campaign is still trying to contain the damage. >> the american people are smarter than that. they understand the president called the press conference to say that because of the storm clouds rolling in from europe and elsewhere we need to undergrid or economy. >> the private sector, we need to accelerate job creation in the private sector. >> by now we've heard the line hundreds of times. on friday, president obama tried to be upbeat about private sector hiring versus the public sector. >> the private sector is doing fine. >> republicans pounced as the feeding frenzy grew. the president responded to a shouted question later in the afternoon for a walk-back. >> it is absolutely clear that the economy is not doing fine. >> mitt romney saw an opportunity to do what the president did in 2008 when john mccain announced that "the fundamentals of the economy were strong." turning obama's fine line into a bumper sticker burned into the minds of voters. >> he sa

"the washington post" and msnbc political analyst. susan page is the washington bureau chief for "usa today." welcome both. he's why i'm skeptical. perhaps the key question for the election is whether voters will feel better off than they were four years ago. according to the latest bloomberg poll, 45% say they are better off. susan, what i have ringing in my head is the revelation recently by the census bureau that 35% of our net worth has been lost in the last couple of years. that's largely attributable to people seeing the value of their home, principal asset decline. you know if i'm seeing the value of my home decline, how can i now say if i'm one of the 45%, i think i'm better off than i was four years ago. >> you know, it is possible when you look at the head to head number in this poll, it looks like maybe the sample had a democratic tinge. the reason polls have a margin of error is because there's a margin of error when you take a national poll. if that's the case perhaps it is number is lower. i think it is possible that given we have been in a recovery for some time pe

, just destroying people. >> a new "washington post" poll shows dissatisfaction with both candidates' plans for the economy. 37% view mitt romney's plan for the economy favorably and 47% view it unfavorably. 43% view president obama's plan for the economy favorably and 50% view it unfavorably. joining me now is former chairman of the dnc and governor of vermont, howard dean, and msnbc political analyst, richard wolffe. governor dean, what does the president have to say tomorrow in ohio to get a little bit more approval for his economic plans? >> he needs to condense his economic message to three or four words, and then repeat them every single day between now and the election. people fundamentally don't trust mitt romney. they believe he only cares about people who have great wealth, which is probably true. but the president's got to close the sale. and the way to close the sale is to have a slogan and repeat it and repeat it and repeat it and repeat it. he was doing very well right after the jobs speech. he needs to get back into that groove. >> well, let's listen to the groove he w

jim mcdermott, democrat from washington. thanks to you both for being here tonight. >> good to be here. >> governor strickland, let's go to you first. romney is telling governors to keep the good economic news under wraps. how big a deal is this in your mind? >> well, i think it's rather shameful if it's true and the reports seem to be true that this is happening. but i can tell you that ohio's economy is coming back. it started coming back in 2010. ohio's economy would not be doing nearly as well as it is doing today if the president had not rescued the american auto industry. that's a huge deal in ohio. thousands and thousands of jobs are connected to auto production and to the supply chain. the president deserves credit for that. i'm so happy that ohio's economy is doing better. and i'm also happy that florida's is doing better even if mitt romney is not happy about that. >> because when you look at the fkt that unemployment has been dropping in key states and it s projected to do well in those same states on election day. congressman mcdermott, in ohio where governor stricklan

, a political correspondent for guardian u.s., and david corn, the washington bureau chief for "mother jones" magazine, and an msnbc political analyst. ana marie, i am very surprised that the speaker and the republican nominee for president did not discuss, apparently, the governing of the united states of america. they simply discussed the republican campaign going forward. >> right. the best way forward for republicans, not the best way forward for, you know, america in general. >> yeah, for republicans, which is less than 40% of americans. yeah. >> exactly. and a lot of republicans don't trust republicans, apparently. >> right, yeah. >> i do wonder how that poll would have changed if, in fact, people were asked, do you think republicans are standing in the way of recovery, not intentionally trying to block it, even. that goes to motive and sometimes i think, do we wonder that republicans are actually malicious in the way they're trying to block the recovery, or are they just ignorant about how a recovery should proceed forward? i'm not sure what the american people think, an

editorial director of the "huffington post" media group. david corn is the washington bureau chief for mother jones magazine and the author of the book "showdown." both men, of course are msnbc political analysts. gentlemen, here's what the president said on friday. in context, he was comparing job growth in the private sector to the less rosy picture in the public sector but gave republicans a big opportunity to jump on his words. let's watch. >> the truth of the matter is that, as i said, we have created 4.3 million jobs over the last two -- 27 months. over 800,000 just this year alone. the private sector is doing fine. where we are seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government. oftentimes, cuts initiated by governors or mayors not getting help at the time in the past for the federal government. >> later in the day the president back tracked. he said the economy was clearly not doing fine but it was too late. the romney camp had already punt a pair of web videos showing the president as out of touch. let's watch. >> we have seen layoffs, cutbacks. >>

call upon you to resign your office. >> we have pete williams joining me from washington, d.c. what did mr. holder say in respon response? >> what the attorney general said by using two u.s. attorneys in the area, the investigation is already started. they are moving for quickly. he said the fbi has already done at least 100 interviews of him and the director of the fbi with a special counsel, you have to find the person and get them staffed and get office space. he said the point here is to get moving quickly. now republican members said, look, in the bush administration, a special counsel was brought in. pat fitzgerald was brought in to investigate the investigations that someone leaked the identity of the cia agent. the two that he has chosen have experience in these cases. here is what he said. >> they are good lawyers. they are tough prosecutors and they are cut out of the mold of pat. >> you are not going to change your mind. >> they are cut out of the mold of pat fitzgerald. what is missing is a sitting u.s. attorney. nothing was done differently than regards to these people.

washington so much, reverend. and it's a sick moment for our nation. it's a dark moment. because what we're doing is we are so caught up into the disposal of president barack obama that we are dropping down into a level of incivility and some that most people have never seen before that it's making the entire political process soiled to the point that nothing is productively happening. >> now, it really is motivated in part by politics, large part. steven king, republican member of congress, in march said this was all politics. he said and i'm quoting him. i think leadership doesn't want to be seen as using the gavels here for political purposes. i think there's a bit of an aversion to that. me? i have no reservations about that. this is politics. >> well, you know, that confirms what i have shared with people. some of the people in my party get upset when really speaker boehner is a pretty good guy who wants to do the right thing. and i think there are others in leadership who also are trying to do the right thing in the republican side. however, i think they're getting enormous pressure f

get washington moving to show movement in a positive direction breaking gridlock. anything that tests 60/40 or better is going to be politicized today. i don't know for a sheer fact the white house did a lot of polling on that before they did this issue but i would bet they did. the argument that mitt romney is making that the president shouldn't have done this because it shows he hadn't done anything comprehensive and it messes things up for a big deal, i don't think that's a bad comeback but it's insufficient. they're on the short end of this right now. >> the american people don't care about that argument at all. they've got to see movement. and we also know what happened when george w. tried to move immigration. one of those areas where the democrats are going we like this, there's a conversation here completely shut down. there was nothing for this president to do with this congress on immigration. there was no other way to accomplish this. >> it sounds like the outline of they're not going to do anything so i'll do it by myself. boom. >> look, what the white house has been afrai

certainty or it's what's going on in washington which is an acceptance that it's going to be hard to write this complicated tax package in the lame duck. woo are going to have to kick it down for six months and besides the economy is not so good. that bigger debate is getting pushed along by clinton and obama. it will get decided in a closed room without the cigars by six men. >> the substance, they don't agree with that. he said don't permanently extend because that will be the big mistake. you can extend below 250,000 and more. >> initially he said i don't have a problem with extending it now. >> he said i am against permanently extending the high end rates. >> that was the second half of the statement. initially he said this is interesting. this is who bill clinton is. barack obama has been criticized a lot by those who elected him and hoped he would be more aggressive going after wall street and financial wrong-doing. what you see here is the daylight between him and bill clinton. bill clinton defending private equity and the bush tax cuts. that is who bill clinton is. he was the

, what a huge week this week in washington, d.c., the eyes of the nation, of washington, the nation, on the supreme court. momentous decision coming down that could shape not only the way people get their health care, but how the auto he lex turns out in the end of the day. >> we've all tried to game out who's going to win. we can't say who's going to win the election until we see what court decides and how both sides handle it. one interesting thing that became more clearer over the weekend governor romney is going to put himself front and center. he he's not going to leave it to members of congress and other people who have been involved in this debate. he's going to be front and center and an interesting debate about politics but policy. as you said, health care is going to have to be figured out whatever the court rules. >> and mika, certainly everybody was talking about it yesterday on the sunday shows. >> leading voices from both parties addressed the potential fallout to the health care ruling on nbc's "meet the press." >> i think it's a huge defeat of the supreme court moves for

thought our economic situation was so dire, so severe, that we needed action from washington immediately. on december 19, 2008, he wrote this breathless exhortation in the national review. what is washington waiting for? the inauguration is less than five weeks away. at the rate we've been going, another 500,000 jobs will be lost by then. the downward spiral is deepening and accelerating. congress and the president must act now. see? mitt romney once knew how bad the economy was just before barack obama became president. what did mitt romney and the president to do right then, right at that moment on december 19th, 2008? this is surely the time for economic stimulus. a stimulus plan is needed without further delay. on the spending front, infrastructure projects should be a high priority. we should also invest to free us from our dependence on foreign oil. by invest, of course, he meant spend. government spending. and he says so in the next line, where he advocates, quote, funding basic research in renewables. so there is mitt romney in 2008 urging the president to invest, to

really, it boils down to the state of arizona saying that barring immigration reform in washington, which is something that the federal government has a responsibility to deal with and neither republicans nor democrats have been really successful in dealing with this issue, barring that, every state has the possibility of, according to the supreme court, unanimously to ask people that are stopped whether they're citizens or not. >> michael, i want to turn to you for a sort of deeper dive on the provision that was upheld as jose speaks about it. it would seem to be a setback but your analysis said you thought it was rather weakly worded in terms of the support for it. >> yes, that's right. it's certainly in human terms, he's right. in human terms, this is going to be something that will affect hundreds of thousands of people, potentially, in arizona. but what the court said was in effect not yet, the fight goes on. the court said they weren't ready to rule on it but that there could be a state constitutional challenge and they wanted to see how it was put into effect. people who hav

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in washington, senior national correspondent from bloomberg business week, josh green. good to have josh on board given one of the headlines, the bank downgrade. >> jon meacham, compare yesterday, last night, with what happened on 14 june 1940. >> it's 1980. >> no, no, no. >> 14th of june, 1940, when hitler's troops rolled into paris and occupied that great city and you had people crying. i mean, compare the two ents. >> why would you do that? >> well, because, i mean you have -- >> two great, great horrors in western civilization. >> dark hours. >> darkest of hours. who was our churchhill who will lead us from this grim, grim, epic. >> i was talking to my son last night about what john maynard cane said. >> how old is your son? >> he's 10. >> go ahead. >> he's very interested in this. he hung up actually, like the great depression was like the dark ages. it lasted for 400 years. >> yeah. >> no one knew why. that's what we're entering. >> i will make a historical reference. all kidding aside -- >> i need a -- >> no, this is very interesting. >> first there was an arrogant press conf

washington post" that she, quote, hit it out of the park. joining me now, joy reid, managing editor of thegrio.com and an msnbc contributor. joy, other than condoleezza rice having said supportive things about roe versus wade, any other reason why she shouldn't be moving omove moving up on this list? >> you know, lawrence, there are candidates you actually pick and candidates you talk about picking because it makes your base feel good. i think condoleezza rice is the latter. the reality is she would not bring women, she would not bring african-americans. she does not have the standing that even colin powell does and she's on the reminder of the bush administration. she's on the wrong side when it comes to the life issue. she's more of a feel-good, let's talk about picking her, kind of person. >> and in a poll in april, joy, condoleezza rice talked to the poll of republican voters, who do you want to see as the vp? there's rice with a comfortable lead at the top of that poll. >> three words for you, lawrence, 9-9-9. republicans like talking about african-american republicans. it's a

washington, d.c., where "morning joe" us "morning joe's" beat reporter for sports is standing by with sweaty little hands, luke russert. >> these are big hands, my friend. these aren't little hands. these are big, american hands. >> i'm sorry. let me correct myself, with his tiny, sweaty little hands, luke russert, with the morning sports. luke, what a -- what a series between those heat and those celtics this weekend. >> the heat and too bad, but celtic pride until the end, they held on to it and the miami heat will return to the finals for the second straight year after dispatching the celtics in game seven of the eastern conference finals. lebron james and the heat will face a thunder team that looked unstoppable while reeling off four straight wins against the spurs. that series tips off tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. eastern time from oklahoma city. d.c.'s own kevin durant, i think the best player in the league, better than lebron, that's me. >>> baseball. nationals going for the sweep of the red sox at fen way. yours truly was there. game tied at 3, bryce harper taking off from fir

social security... ...but washington isn't talking to the american people. [ female announcer ] when it comes to the future of medicare and social security, you've earned the right to know. ♪ ...so what does it mean for you and your family? [ female announcer ] you've earned the facts. ♪ washington may not like straight talk, but i do. [ female announcer ] and you've earned a say. get the facts and make your voice heard on medicare and social security at earnedasay.org. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports" risky business. protests on the hill at the nation's leading banker blames overconfidence and faulty controls for jpmorgan chase's $2 billion trading losses. >> this portfolio morphed into something that created new and potentially larger risks. as a result, we let a lot of people down and we are very sorry for it. >> money, money, money. president obama and mitt romney clash over who can save the middle class as they both dash for campaign cash. >>> he said a few days ago the private sector is doing fine. but the incredulity that came screaming back from the american peo

, voters across the country will demonstrate they want the same in washington, d.c. david axelrod tweeted, bad night in wisconsin. it raises questions for mitt. it will cost democrats money to carry their wisconsin this time around. republicans saw good sign, specially when it comes to their own turnout organization. team obama is taking calls, and our exit polls show the president's slightly ahead of romney on who would best improve the economy, 42-38 which begs the question are the constant reminders by walker and the republican governors that the economy improved in wisconsin and we see this argument in other states. is it helping the president in that state and in other states. we learned that it might be. the republican party may beat a democratic party that is all in. if anything, it will be slightly more democratic simply because you had a whole bunch of young voters who were not there because college is out, if you will. that said, it is clear, wisconsin is more 2004 than it is 2008 and it will be more of the more closely contested states in the battle ground which is why

boost. i'm steve handelsman, nbcç new washington. >>> last night on "the edge" show, congresswoman nancy pelosi talked about the supreme court decision and told host, ed schultz, about her role in passing it. >> i always thought this wod be unheld. i think the election of 2010 was about 98% unemployment. $200 million was spent misrepresenting what the health care bill was. 9.5% unemployment, hard to get through that shield to explain anything. our members felt proud of what they did. we feel that we stand there in the ranks of those who passed social security, medicare and now health care for all americans as a right, not a privilege. >> lean forward with the ed show at 8:00 eastern on msnbc. >>> eric holder has become the first cabinet member to be held in contempt of congress. all but two republicans voted for the resolution in a dispute over access to documents for the gun tracking operation known as fast and furious. the house could try to go to court to force the attorney general to hand over the documents but that could become a long court fight. holder called the vote a poli

from washington, as the united states supreme court has committed octuple murder-sewer side, leaving only clarence thomas to rule on obama care, he has remained silent. the united states supreme court surpriseded many analysts today when justice samuel alito announced he will be stepping down from the bench to become the bass player for iron maiden. today the long awaited decision on obama care came down -- excuse me, excuse me, i said nobody in the break room. get out, out. >> iron maiden reference, you don't hear that enough. for his part, we should point out mr. murdoch's office said as the boy scouts say, be prepared. he said he fully hopes the supreme court strikes down obama care. >>> still ahead on way t"way to earl early", your tweets, texts and emails are up next. >>> we asked you at the top of the show what you were doing up. our producer has some answers. >> twitter, one response, i must be a fan, sitting in my car listening to your show on sirius, because no electricity here in richmond. >> wow. richmond, virginia, dr. danny, that is a level of commitment. i don'

the morning. beautiful picture there of the jefferson memorial in washington. a check of the weather from bill karins. whoa, that's a red map. >> summer spreading this way. it's going to get a little interesting around here even in d.c. first things first, the big heat this summer so far has been out west. that's where the fires have been the worst from colorado, especially lately. a fire outside of colorado springs and this outside of ft. collins. about 120 homes burnt at this point. more threatened. this week, we don't have any big tropical systems to talk about, it's all about the heat. yesterday 98 in denver. imagine a firefighter out there trying to fight the flames and it's nearly 100 degrees. hot weather all the way to chicago. still relatively cool in areas of coastal new england through the mid click. high pressure blowing in on the cool air on the wart. the whole weather pattern flip-floption. wednesday to thursday, the hottest air in the country will be over the mid atlantic and the northeast. a lot of people in new england haven't turned their air conditions on we

playing this game in washington. and the republicans think they've got something here, and he's just seeing if he can turn up the temperature on it. i think this is why people get disgusted by politics. i think this is why people say, i don't want anything to do with it. you know, i go around the commonwealth here in massachusetts and i meet with people, big groups of people, i ask, how many people in here are another out of work or have someone in your family, someone you love, care about, who is out of work. someone you know. hands go up all over the room. there were three jobs bills last fall, three jobs bills that would have supported jobs here in the commonwealth of massachusetts. scott brown voted against all three of them. we should be talking about that. we should be talking about why that happens. not playing political games. we should be talking upt how kids are going to pay for college education. we should talk about accountability on wall street and whether or not jpmorgan and the kind of practices it still engages in put our economy at risk. there's really serious s

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owned every one of the legislatures. when they sent the senator to washington, d.c., he bribed his way in and they couldn't seat him. >> could history be repeating itself. let's look at north dakota and montana one more time. i wonder if they have any judges out there. i wondfer they have any county commissioners. i wanter if they have anybody on the local level that might take some of that citizens united money so they could win. and they might know where the money is coming from and they might give a favorable vote to those who just want to gut the environment and go do whatever the hell they want to do and don't have anybody stop them, and oh, by the way, this crowd that's doing all that, they want the taxes lowered in north dakota, too. they think they're paying too much for this oil extraction tax. 100 years ago, laws were presented to prevent our laws from being corrupted. today, they're being struck down by a right wing court to sell our politics to the highest bidder. president obama ocknowledged this today. >> you're going to have more money spent in this election than eve

in washington, d.c., where mitt romney will speak to social conservatives tomorrow. mark, i know you're on site and we'll get to the faith and family convention but i want to ask, this is obviously big news. no decision, i always maintain, made this close to an election, doesn't have political calculation and consequences. what are the calculations and what are the consequences? >> i think this is about latino turnout. our nbc/"wall street journal" poll said 68% of latino registered voters said they were very enthusiastic and interested in the upcoming election, compared to 81% of all other voters. so this is i think an effort to really get latino voters, young people fired up about the election, and so you look at that -- in that political lens. also, one of the arguments of mitt romney and republicans when it comes to immigration, this president hasn't done anything with the latinos, he hasn't delivered. there's no reason to vote for him. so i think those are the political implications here. >> right. this is not about necessarily winning the latino vote by a bigger margin. it'

. >> beyond the screaming, the problem with our politics and with washington in this election year as seen by bill bradley, author of the book, "we can all do better." >>> from nbc news in washington, "meet the press" with david gregory. >> if you needed a reminder about how important the economy was we got it on friday. worst day for the stock market in 2012 after the jobs report came out. how did it play over the weekend? not well if you are in chicago and running the obama campaign. 69,000 jobs lost, questions over the economy lagging and fears over what is going on in europe. that ask where the debate is as we move forward. here with me this morning democratic governor of massachusetts and author of the book, "faith and a dream" deval patrick. and john kasich. >> it is about the economy. let's look at the record here. we are looking at economic record of president obama. here is the jobless rate. up and down we go. now it's going back up in terms of the unemployment rate. 8.2% for may. here is perhaps the most daunting chart if you look at three straight months where we see this d

, including this... medicare guide and customized rate quote. >>> washington, d.c., is broken. it does not work. the entire system is rigged and rigged against you. there is no doubt about that. from insurance companies to drug companies to oil companies. those people run this country now. and the question is what are we going to do about it? i think you got to take them on and beat them. i don't think can you sit at a table and negotiate with them. and we will never be able to have universal health care, be able to change the way we use energy and tackle global warming. the big issues that face this country. they are standing between us and the change that we need. >> what a loss for the democrats. that was john edwards back in 2007 as senator an vice-presidential nominee and two-time presidential candidate he was one of the few politician who's talked about poverty in this country, who told the truth about what's happening to the middle class in america. today, edwards was found not guilty on one of six campaign fraud charges with the jury deadlocked on the other counts. the judge de

as long as it's a political one. i am convinced after a year and a half here in washington and in the senate, that for some people, i wouldn't say many, or all, but for many -- i would just say too many people this issue is more valuable unresolved. for them they'd rather have the immigration -- >> but you didn't -- you had a chance to put forward the bill. you didn't advance the legislation. why not force democrats to vote on this? >> because we're -- voice on immigration. first of all we have developed the idea in enough detail that people knew what was in it and were able, when i first announced the idea immediately democrats on the left criticized me. the same people who are now applauding the president for doing something similar. but, and that exposes the hypocrisy behind it. legislation like this, if you are a responsible policymaker you don't just rush out a piece of legislation that impacts the lives of potentially 800,000 people that deeply affects the immigration laws of this country. you have to be careful. you have to have answers to every question. if i rush out a pi

in washington, d.c. and i know it is the nature of this town to always be in panic and to elevate every single headline as if it is the entire narrative. june does not an entire campaign make. i can well remember working president's campaign in 2008 and folks were on this show and others talking about how we couldn't win the primary contest, we would lose in the general campaign once sarah palin went again us in the campaign. we expect that because of the infrastructure that we've built, the animated organizers and activists that we have across this country, and the fact that this president has a real strong record to run on, and continues to call on republican leaders in congress to work with him, to continue our forward expansion on jobs to make sure that we hire teachers, firefighters and construction workers this year instead of running on the clock as republicans are wont to do. >> thank you very much. >>> i have some news. united nations secretary general bangy moon said they came under fire as they tried to reach. unconfirmed reports say pro government militias killed nearl

. literally nobody in washington knows the numbers on this stuff better than he does. i'm glad to have you here. >> glad to be here, ezra. >> i want to talk first about romney's plan in terms of health care insurance coverage. what do you expect? you've tried to run simulations on this. what do you expect if it passes will happen to the population of the insured? >> the congressional budget office estimates that under the affordable care act, 33 million people who otherwise would be uninsured will have coverage. the one specific we know on romney's plan is that his medicaid proposal to turn it over to the states with much less money, he has previously put out more detail on it. and it's virtually identical to paul ryan's proposal to cut medicaid, turn it over to the states. same reduction in money. urban institute, nonpartisan institution, analyzed the medicaid proposal and said between 14 million and 27 million low-income people would lose coverage under medicaid as a result of it. now, there are lots of other factors, but if you just take -- you don't have 33 million and lose 14 mill

in washington just months away from a tightening presidential race. >> thank you so much, mike viqueira. >>> another fight over tax cuts for richest americans brewing this week highlighted in a new report this morning. former president bill clinton brought it up this week, and now an article in roll call says, even though the former president walked back his comments supporting an extension of the bush era tax cuts, it still sparked a political firestorm. joining me is the author in roll call. we're going to get right to it. your article says, even though mr. clinton apologized for what he said was the mistake in the timing and the damage had already been done, is there a chance it might force a short term extension of all of these tax cuts? >> the short answer is not before the election. this is all about political posturing, about striking out a difference from the other party before the election. republicans saying we want to extend all the bush tax cuts. and the democrats saying we want to extend for the middle class, but not for the wealthy. >> not for those over $250,000.

obama to cancel this event saying he should be in washington helping them get to work. >> once again, he will use students as props in yet another expertise calling on congress to act. >> they should be here working with us to ensure they won't double. >> oh, okay, he should be working with you, speaker boehner. what student loan jobs bill are you working on today? that's right, you're working on neither. the gop house just passed the 30th bill to dismantle the president's health care law. that makes sense because you know what they say, if at first you don't succeed, try 29 more times. their refusal to get serious about jobs is astounding, but guess who willard blames? >> three and a half years in as president, with people out of work, he has not put forward a plan to get us working again. >> has not put forth a plan? guess you weren't one of the over 31 million americans that listened to president obama sell his jobs plan before congress. i guess you also missed this. >> the purpose of the american jobs act is simple. to put more people back to work and more money in the pockets of

figsequence if you w. first, "the washington post" dug deep uncovering bain was a pioneer in investing in companies that moved jobs overseas. president obama couldn't resist bringing this up. in a tampa campaign rally this friday. >> today, it was reported in the "washington post" that the companies his firm owned were pioneers in the outsourcing of american jobs to places like china and india. we do not need an outsourcing pioneer in the oval office. >> we do not need an outsourcing pioneer in the oval office. next, "the new york times" with a report that bain basically rigged its deals so that even when companies went broke, bain profited and today, mitt's hometown paper, "the boston globe," dug into mitt's business deal with 1980's junk bond king. here's part of a nightly newscast before he went to prison. >> one of the riche men in the world pleaded guilty today to six criminal charges and agreed to pay the largest fine ever assessed against an individual. it marked the end of one of the wildest financial eras in american history. >> howard fineman, beth heely, a financia