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.

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

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

... ...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

, 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

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, 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

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

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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

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

. all in good fun an the state department today. we're live in washington, of course. our daily fix today, mitt romney has just finished speaking to a leading latino organization, and importantly the speech was held in florida. chris cillizza is an msnbc contributor and managing editor of postpolitics.com. hey, chris. this is the group president obama is going to be in front of tomorrow around this time. this is a very important audience and romney laid out new proposals. he had moved from where he was during the primary campaign. >> yeah, you know, andrea, this is not unexpected. he talked about green cards for people under one roof. he talked about if you get an advanced degree, a green card will come stapled to your diploma. everything in the broad context of the economy as an issue for hispanic americans. this is, again, not new. mitt romney wants to talk about immigration. he wants to talk about every issue through the lens of the economy or through the lens of barack obama said he would do one thing, and he didn't do it or he didn't do what he said. so i think you heard a lot

house. for eight long years washington has not been working for ordinary americans and has not been working for hard-working latino-americans. >> danny, we fast forward to today and now we have the president's recent announcement on the executive action concerning immigration. more importantly though the promise of these temporary work permits for the youth who qualify for that. is the president finally delivering? >> well, so much for a champion and a partner in the white house. frankly, since president obama took office we have had 2 million more hispanics in poverty. we have 11% unemployment among the hispanic population. he spent the first 2 1/2 years he was in office when he promised that he would address immigration reform, he did absolutely nothing to move forward a legislative solution and he comes out five months before an election with an executive order that doesn't have the force of law behind it as a way to pander to the hispanic vote. absolutely the dream act, young people see this as an encouraging sign but they also know this is a temporary solution. it's a band-aid

get are go to washington and work out a deal to create jobs. work on getting a bipartisan agreement, and focus really on the near term on jobs. secondly we know elections are always close in pennsylvania. >> i expect this year to be no different. >> but republicans don't usually win it. >>> we have to leave it there. thank you very much, senator bob casey. good to see you. >> thanks, andrea. >>> there is more ammunition today on for new york city mayor mike bloomberg's campaign against big gulps. a new report says obesity is actually a threat to our national security. some of the facts that the group cites back up their claims. joining me is former secretary of health and human services donna shalala, president at the university of miami and part of the bipartisan group. great to see you again. >> great to see you. >> let's talk about the effect on the military of what we're finding, and more and more of us are out of shape. >> it's really scary. 27% of young people between 17 and 24 are obese. in the military, of the people that they take in, half of them can't pass the first fitne

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debunk the republican witch hunt, and the washington post drops a bombshell on the romney campaign. mitt romney was an outsourcing pioneer at bain capital, and the president is attacking. >> we do not need an outsourcing pioneer in the oval office. we need a president who will fight for american jobs. >> good to have you with us tonight. president obama came out swinging today against a republican-led do-nothing congress in the house. his message to a group of latino elected officials was simple, comprehensive immigration reform in the country is possible, but the republicans are preventing it from happening. >> we should have passed the dream act a long time ago. it was written by members of both parties. when it came up for a vote, a year and a half ago, republicans in congress blocked it. the bill hadn't changed. the need hadn't changed. the only thing that had changed was politics. >> this was the president's first speech to a latino audience since he issued an action halting the deportashz of some 8,000 illegal immigrants brought to the country as children. it was the same aud

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yourself. i'm sick of it. >> beyond the screaming, the problem with our politics and with washington in this election year as seen by former senator bill bradley, author of the book, "we can all do better." >> good morning. if you needed a reminder about how important the economy was in this presidential fight, 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 about whether this economy is 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 in the dream," deval patrick. and john kasich. >> we were just giggling at the set-up. we didn't know we were here to face off. >> like it or not you're facing off. and it is about the economy. >> we may attack you, dave. >> that's an option. let's look at the record here. we are looking at economic record of president obama. here is the jobless r

he'll say anything he has to stay in washington. >> at least he's telling us he still cares, he's very in touch with his voters, while luger was very -- >> the club for growth was kind of the first one who would primary incumbents who they consider to be rhinosnd not far enough to the right and hatch moved so that he eventually got tea party express, club four growth, sarah palin all to line up behind him to avoidhe fate of some of these colleagues. >> you can make two very interesting bookends here about the story of orrin hatch's career, or the study of moderate conservativism. he came in in 1976 who was written off and ran as a reagan conservative. he was one of the tl-- there we number of primaries that took out some incumbents. all these sort of entrenched rockefeller republicans are beaten. fast forward to 30 years later. the conservatism has moved so far to the right, it's a lot about tactics, it's about using a vehicle for partisan dale maker, he's walked across the aisle and that has struck the suspicion of conservatives he's pure and too much of a washington insider. >>

washington threatens to make theituation even worse. >> keep it up, let's get this done. thanks, everybody. >>> today, the romney campaign tried to stop the governor of the larnlest battleground state from talking about the improving economy there while president obama was trying to stop student interest loan rates from doubling. >> others have said we're just talking about student loans to distract from the economy. that doesn't make much sense because this is the economy. this is all about the economy. this is all about whether or not we are going to have the best trained, best educated work force in the world. that improves our economy. we can't control every economic head wind that we face. but this is something we can control. >> the president's remarks come hours after a bloomberg report surfaced saying that the romney campaign asked the republican governor of florida rick scott, quote, to tone down his statements heralding improvements in the state's economy because they clash with the presumptive republican nominee's message that the nation is suffering under president o

half of the equation is to get folks to re -- folks here in washington to reprioritize are going to have to convince them that it makes more sense to spend the money now on these worthwhile efforts than to spend money later and as we know in this city, no one wants to hear about more spending or even consistent spending. they want to talk about cutting spending. how do you convince particularly the republicans who now roll -- now control the house that this is the right thing to do? >> well, part of our initiative is to be focused for one, less on inside baseball and more on constituency building. we need to get a million people to sign the petition at ourtime.org and notion of getting a million people to stand up for something, you had people who have talked about change.org on this show. when a million people signed the petition to remove the bank of america fees, it worked. politicians at the end of the day, if you get a big enough constituency are accountable -- >> human pack model. >> all about sag gating strength and numbers and leveraging our numbers to put initiative in moti

washington. in our daily fix today, mitt romney continues his bus tour motoring through six states that the president won in 2008. states that romney's campaign hopes to capture this time around. but romney's small town tour hit something of a bump in the road this weekend, as he scrambled trying to respond to the president's decision easing deportation rules for the children of illegal immigrants. chris cillizza is an msnbc contributor and managing editor of post politics.com. hey, chris. the president's move on the whole immigration issue clearly put mitt romney on the defensive. this is all of his attempts to try to answer it when asked about it by bob schieffer on the road in pennsylvania. >> would you repeal this order if you became president? >> well, let's step back and look at the issue. with regards to these kids who were brought in by their parents through no fault of their own, there needs to be a long-term solution. >> but would you repeal this? >> well, it would be overtaken by events, if you will, by virtue of my putting in place a long term solution. >> would you lea