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

their own self-interests? author thomas frank and "washington post's" e.j. dionne will join me. share your thoughts on twitter #edshow. we're coming right back. >>> okay, righties. you can get a good piece of me right now. last night wisconsin, in my opinion, was about one election and one night of disappointment. democrats, that's how we've got to look at this. but the fight, it continues on. and let me be up-front. you can't sugar coat this. i mean, you can't buy enough lipstick to put on this big political pig for the democrats. it was a rough night. a rough night for wisconsin dems, a rough night for labor, a tough night for wage earners. and to me, from the start, from the very first time we started covering this story, wisconsin has been a big inspiration. it has been a moving story. it has been emotional. and it was last night. but the first day we started covering this, i wanted americans to see the big picture in all of this. because i knew where this was going. all those comment wes played in the first block about how they're going after labor, i've known that forever, okay?

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

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today. >> you know, today it was reported in "the washington post" that the companies his firmed owned were pioneers in th outsourcing of american jobs to places like china and india. pioneers. let me tell you, tampa, we do not need an outsourcing pioneer in the oval office. we need a president who will fight for american job and fight for american manufacturing. that's what my plan will do. that's why i'm running for a second term as president of the united states. >> joining me now is jared bernstein, msnbc contributor and former chief economist for vice president joe biden. and ej dionne, washington post columnist and author. his new book is "our divided political heart." thanks to both of you for joining me. >> good to be here. >> thank you. >> ej, let me start with you. how important is this new report to the romney campaign? is this as game changing as i'm suspecting? >> i'm always reluctant to declare anything game changing. because something comes along tomorrow and changing it again. it's a big deal for the reason you said which is if you're going to make your business e

daily. these could be our best years yet. activia >>> in last week's "washington post" there was an opinion piece making a case despite who is currently living in the white house, we're still waiting on the first black president. harris argues president obama, hasn't, in his estimation, paid special attention to the black agenda and he deserves to have his placard revoked. try telling that to this little boy. 5-year-old jake on philadelphia three years ago in what has since become an iconic photo. by now you know the story. he wanted to know if his president's hair felt like his own. now, i'm not saying that the president's edged up caesar is more important than his policies. but if you were the black boy that could never see himself in the leader of his country, the black girl ever asked if that's your real hair, the only black girl at the pool explain yg your hair shrunk up that, if you are that thaw personal, the physical body of the president and first lady matters, the hair of the president and first lady matters. i found that out when a got an e-mail about her 9-year-old daugh

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brian mooar has the story from washington. >> reporter: as mitt romney served up breakfast to voters in ohio, his talking points were jobs and the economy. the conversation has suddenly shifted to immigration. president obama's decision to stop deporting children brought into this country illegally. >> if he really wanted to make a solution that dealt with these kids or illegal immigration in america, this is something he would have taken up in his first 3 1/2 years, not just in last few months. >>> on cbs romney declined four times to say whether he'd repeal the policy if he's elected. >> we'll look at that setting as we reach that. >> reporter: republicans says it is an end run around congress and campaign camouflage for a bad economy. >> this is obviously a way to divert attention from very bad news the president has had for the last three or four weeks. i think that's very clear. >> reporter: the president's supporters say it's about priority. >> this was a physician made by the homeland security department to allow them the discretion to focus our enforcement on criminals, people w

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

insurance building in washington. this guy sounds like he wants to fight this bill. do you think that's right or not, or with david and he has to decide? >> well, i think it's a tough choice for him because i think it's a trap. if he decides to continue on the discussion on this, here's the answer from the white house. the part that you were for i massachusetts that we took from you, the individual mandate, is the least popular part of this bill. what david was talking about is right. every other provision of the bill enjoys anywhere between 62 to 80%-plus support among voters, including republicans. so it's a bad discussion for him to get into. the more you talk about it, the more people are going to realize what they like about the bill is what president obama did. then obama has to say this is how we pay for these benefits. there is no way to make this bill work without the individual mandate. he can be the stern sort of daddy who says in order to these benefits, this is how everybody kicks in. which is what romney said. >> can he fight romney on that? i was quoting roosevelt

, ed. and from washington, contributor to "newsweek" and "the daily beast" and with the consulting firm hill and knowlton -- >> whoa, whoa, whoa. my eyes kind of hurt. >> stop the train. >> wait a minute. >> that's not what -- >> have you got a job interview today, mark? what's going on? >> his wife picked it out. >> oh, there you go. >> now it makes more sense. good to see you. >> showing my respect for the white house today. >> yeah. >> thank you, alex. >> yeah, alex was talking. >> he was at the white house yesterday with the bush portrait. >> you were there yesterday when president bush got his portrait reveal. i thought that was very nice exchange between the obamas and the bushes. >> it was very cute. >> yeah, it really was. i thought it might be a hanging but there was actually a portrait involved, and there was a lot of good humor and a lot of smurmer. i asked willie about that one. >> thank you. >> but a lot of fun, a lot of good feeling. shared respect for the institution of the white house. and the one thing that was really -- that really came across was the great feelin

would it? the washington post has just revealed that romney's company were pioneers of shipping u.s. jobs overseas. investing in firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by american workers to new facilities in low wage countries line china and india. >> the obama campaign releasing that ad today, specific to virgia, where mitt romney was campaigning today in virginia. they also released another version of it specific to iowa where a lot of the fight played out today in iowa, and where that message was designed to dove tail with this barn burning speech by joe biden. >> give mitt romney credit. he's a job creator. in singapore. china, india. >> the overarching narrative of the presidential campaign, the overarching narrative, so encompassing both campaigns is no, the economy is not back from the depression yet. and mitt romney says he would do better in bringing the economy further back. president obama on the other hand says that right now, the white house is doing their best and bringing us in the right direction. there is further to go, but mitt romney's idea and his track

, we forget that in washington, we forget that when we come out and start hearing these stories and they happen every day in every town across this great land. >> joe, as you know, i spent last week on a fact finding mission. >> in pubs all across ireland. >> no, i was in turkey and in greece. i would tell you to the point of your story, no one is banging on the door to get into turkey or greece. they are banging on the door and will always be banging on the door to get into the united states of america. talk about lloyd blankfein, heads of the big bank, their stories are unique stories. lloyd blankfein was not born on third base. >> guy is from queens, right? >> yes, yes. >> father was a postman, went to harvard on scholarship. >> yeah. >> only here. only here. >> only in america and we believe it. >> well, we've got a lot of those stories coming u on the show today. we're profiling a couple. businesses in the program and we'll have our main guests as well. let's get to the news. president obama sat down for a series of interviews with local tv stations from critical battleground s

capehart put this in his column today. it's actually an excellent column. go to the "washington post" and look at it. people's rights shouldn't be put on ballot measures. governor christie said four or five months ago that he thought if plaque people had had their civil rights put on the ballot in the south in the 1960s, we would be much better off. that's a paraphrase, but that's what he said. is he smoking something? >> i don't know. >> because i got to tell you, in the 1960s in mississippi, if you put civil rights on the ballot -- >> i get the point. >> the only place you can get this done correctly and not always correctly, by the way, they fixed it in subsequent cases, but the court is where it has to happen. it's the last bash of morality, in my opinion. >> it's not really a moral judgment in my view, susan. you're talking about the infinite quest for morality and the constant sort of quest to close those two lines. do you agree that the courts are the keeper of those? >> to some extent. they've dictated our culture to a large degree, but at the same time they've been deemed so poli

ago in washington the secretary of agriculture entered a press conference and apologize it had to a low level employee he fired after a short piece of video came out that hardly told the full story. >> on the day that president obama signed wall street reform into law. the news media, as well as the obama administration, were consumed entirely by something entirely else. shirley sharrod. remember the shirley sharrod scandal. she was an agriculture employee who was thrust into the spotlight after a clip on her was posted online by a conservative website. it was played on a constant loop on fox news and conservative blogs. it showed an african-american government official admits to denying assistance in white farmers. it made it seem like the government was employing an openly proud reverse racist, an anti-white people bigot. while the rest of the news media was covering, you know, news, fox news and right wing blogs were running with this story like it was watergate on steroids. >> break news tonight about an ags culture department official caught on tape making racially charged comm

texans in washington, d.c., including my friend, david duhurst. [ crowd booing ] texas works! >> perry's classic response after his speech, when asked about being shouted down, i thought they were saying "dooo." got to love perry sometimes. >>> he's the former two-term republican governor of new mexico and you've seen him at a republican debate last fall, where he had perhaps one of the more memorable lines, not just of that night, but of the debate season. >> my next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration. >> but just last month, he accepted the libertarian party's nomination for president, and according to his campaign, he'll be on the ballot in november in at least 47 states. joining me now, the libertarian presidential nominee, gary johnson. governor johnson, good morning. >> chuck, great to be with you. there is a third choice. >> there is a third choice, so i hear. so okay, so, 47 states. that means you've got -- what are eyou missing? >> actually, we're thinking it could well be 50. so i'm going to sit here today a

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

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

. let's play some "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm michael smerconish in washington for chris matthews. dream act lite, today, president obama issued an executive order that will stop the deportations of most illegal immigrants who alived here as children. is this a political play for the latino vote? you bet. plus, president obama and mitt romney offer starkly different visions for fixing the economy. romney says trust the private sector. president obama says that's another way of saying let's try those bush

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

watching the heat. temperatures in chicago, 92 degrees. even washington, d.c., the mid-atlantic, into the carolinas, really warm up. and down along the gulf coast, we continue that thunderstorm threat. not a good beach weekend from new orleans down to florida. and then by sunday, we'll be watching the heat around chicago continue. and we're looking nice and dry in many other areas of the country. >>> all right. as far as what we're dealing with out there this morning, d.c., you are nice and toasty. heading up to mid 80s today on a nice clear beautiful morning. you're watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. now you can apply sunblock to your kids' wet skin. neutrogena® wet skin kids. ordinary sunblock drips and whitens. neutrogena® wet skin cuts through water. forms a broad spectrum barrier for full strength sun protection. wet skin. neutrogena®. for full strength sun protection. morning, boys. so, i'm working on a cistern intake valve, and the guy hands me a locknut wrench. no way! i'm like, what is this, a drainpipe slipknot? deaf aimi nobo keeps you on the road like progressi

. and with us from washington, msnbc political analyst, former dnc communications director, karen finney, a columnist for the hill and julian epstein, former chief council for the house judiciary committee. i have to congratulate you because you have consistently said the mandate would be upheld and you've been proven absolutely right. how did this happen given that the solicitor general in those three days of oral arguments was criticized. people said he choked. couldn't even drink his water properly, then today, you have this decision by the supreme court. what happened? >> i think the media did a woefully bad job covering this. the justice department and many of the lower cases argd it was not just the commerce clause. it was the taxing authority. if somebody doesn't get married or have a kid, there are tax penalties. there's nothing new about this. it is a huge victory for the tens of millions of americans that have no or inadequate health care. not just a political victory, it shows he's a very strong person and an çunbelievable slapdown the theory that has been the opponents have

official and "morning joe" economic analyst steve rattner, also a financier. in washington, msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele. good to have you all on board this morning. we have a lot to get to. you heard the back and forth over the executive order on immigration. so the question we're going to talk about coming up is who is really playing politics, the president for issuing it or mitt romney for not answering the question on whether he would repeal it? seems like a game on both sides. but first, we'll get to greece. president obama touched down in mexico last night for the start of the g-20 summit. where he's expected to urge european leaders to focus on pro-growth policies before austerity. this comes as stocks opened in europe strong on the news that greece's pro-bailout party claimed victory in this weekend's parliamentary elections. european union leaders are breathing a collective sigh of relief as the conservative new democracy party took a narrow victory over the anti-austerity left meaning greece will remain a

>> good morning. a lot of focus here this morning on the week ahead in washington. it's going to be a crucial week. all eyes on the supreme court. two big decisions. the biggest, of course, the health care decision. will the president's health reform law stand up or be struck down by the supreme court? also on the topic of immigration, the law in arizona. seen as a pretty aggressive law to crack down on illegal immigration, that will be decided as early as tomorrow. so a lot to get to. and of course the big question will be what will the political impact be on this presidential campaign? joining me now, the republican senator of florida, author of the new book "an american son," marco rubio. senator, great to have you back on the program. >> thank you. >> i want to start with what's on top of the news here. s arizona immigration law. as you know, critics say this is tantamount to racial profiling. law enforcement has the ability to pull somebody over if they think they're an illegal immigrant they can demand their papers. if the supreme court upholds that law does that make you unco

washington post" dug deep into bain's business uncovering they were investing in companies that moved jobs overseas. can't do worse than that in this environment. 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 ne an outsourcing pioneer in the oval office. we need a president who will fight for american jobs. >> we do not need an outsourcing pioneer in the oval office. that's getting personal. 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. michael milken. to remind you of how notorious milken was, here's part of a nightly newscast before he went to prison. >> one of the richest men in the world michael milken pleaded guilty today to six criminal charges and agreed to pay the la

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.

we need to repair and what we're seeing repaired away from new york and washington in all the places that we've been able to visit and my goal is to obviously learn more about all that. >> so part of what you're saying is that the consumption of your media, your message, is not for you, success. it's actually changing something through the message. >> i feel like the reason to go to work is to try to help. and helping, i interpreted helping myself as trying to explain complicated things. to large groups of people so they better understood how they were being lied to by the government and media. with the the banking system. and i don't want to diminish the value of informed awareness, but i think that the awareness has significantly increased over the past few years. >> let's jump to what we do about the awareness, if anything. in our next segment, which will be about a future instead of the past, which i feel is more you any way. we will have more of this exit interview, the last dylan ratigan interview, in a moment. ♪ hello...rings ♪ what the... what the... what the... ♪ are y

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should expect the same thing from your representatives in washington. right? [ applause ] >> so there are a bunch of things that congress can do right now. let me tick a few off. at a time when our businesses have created more than 4 million new jobs, unfortunately, state and local governments have lost $450,04 450,000 jobs. that's been one of the biggest problems in our economy, is all the layoffs happening at the state and local level. cops, firefighters and teachers all being laid off. those folks provide vital services. they protect us, they're teaching our kids. congress should pass a bill, like i've asked them to do, to help states like nevada put americans, those americans who are doing outstanding service on the part of their communities, put those folks back on the job right now. that's something we can do. . number two. we know that the housing bubble burst. here in nevada, the construction industry got killed, right? so i told congress months ago, let's pass a bill to put hundreds of thousands of construction workers and contractors back to work rebuilding america. re

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

unsuck sets are saysful here tonight in wisconsin. i'm joined by johnny kols, washington correspondent for "the nation" magazine and author of the book "uprising." and we have political editor for "progressive" magazine. this is one for the archives. ruth, your impressions? all the exit polling did not match up the final result. >> yeah. i mean, i agree with you. this is a tough night for us. we walked out of the studio after doing the show earlier and we saw the protest movement around the capital. we saw the firefighters with their bagpipes. we saw all of our teachers out. we saw cars driving by with their "recall walker" signs and the mood in the air was euphoric so to sit for the next hour and see the reports coming in was tough to take. it's hard. we flew western going to be outgunned. we knew we were going to be outspent, 10-1. taking a flyer on democracy in wisconsin and just going to come out as the people, without being led from above. just coming out from below and we were going to take on this tidal wave of money washing over our politics. and i think, we just have to pick o

presidential campaign or you're in the midterm elections and you're working from washington, you want to be able to work with functional state parties. the fact that there are dysfunctional and uncooperative state parties is nothing new to the people who run both parties, and so this is an issue that the romney campaign and the republican national committee will have to work around. but of course, the party has ruled and the rules are designed as you move into the national convention to make it very, very difficult for insurgent state parties to go in there and cause to lot of mischief and disrupt the flow of the convention. so at the end of the day, it's probably not a big deal, but it's a has tool have to deal with. >> if you were an insurgent in the republican party, if you had a sort of long-term idealogical view the way i think the ron paul folks do, i don't mean that in a critical way, just the way i think they're oriented and you were advising them and could choose between winning a state party chairmanship and winning some sort of platform plank at the national convention, which wou

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

to vote for the contempt of this attorney general. >> that's right. but it's sort of washington business as usual. any outside group on any issue that sees there to be an opportunity to use that issue to get lever and for their own issue, and they don't like eric holder will. so this is business as usual. but the challenge for each of us in congress is to try to stay focused on what's really at stake. there's a very important congressional principle here of oversight. this is where my view is i wish mr. issa would have worked with committee democrats because we support an investigation and support congressional access to documents but we want a complete investigation and have it beyond the level not turn into essentially a political agenda or something used by an outside group for its own purposes. >> thank you very much. i greatly appreciate your time. assistant democratic leader james clyburn said today what's going on withholder is overkill and told chuck todd that republicans are not interested in finding out all of the facts. >> there were about four of these so-called gun

i columnist for the "washington post" and crystal ball is a democratic strategist. while we await representative issa's contempt vote, dana, i want to get your considered opinion about what we're seeing on capitol hill. you've been at the hearing, have you not? >> i was for a long part of it, but not the entirety of it because of course, every member has to get in his or her five-minute speech even though we know exactly what the outcome is and that's all the republicans votes for this contempt vote and all the democrats vote against it. and nothing happens because the guy in charge of enforcing this vote answer holder is eric holder. >> so the point of this exercise is what, please, dana? aside from a witch hunt? >> it's going to shock you, martin, to know that there's an election coming up and this is a time when they have these fights. they're not fighting about the underlying issue in this fast and furious program within the department of justice. they're fighting about what happened after this program was canceled. so it gives you an idea of what it's all about. >> what do yo

wasn't always the case. a damning new report from "the washington post's" tom hamburger today lays out clearly just how invested romney's firm bain capital was in companies that outsourced jobs, including to china. quote, during the nearly 15 years romney was involved in running bain, it owned companies that were pioneers in the practice of shipping work from the united states to overseas call centers and factories making computer components. according to the filings, with the s.e.c., the securities and exchange mission. michael, is this going to stick? i ask that question because bain has been an issue. the charges of vulture capitalism in the beltway, you hear people say they didn't play well, yet out in middle america, and in focus groups, i think you get a different reaction. what will be the reaction to this? >> i still think we're at the very beginning of this conversation. mitt romney so far is sticking to his line which is i have experience in the private sector. he doesn't want to go beyond that to discuss specifically what he did at bain. the obama campaign is determined to h

washington, msnbc "time" magazine, senior political analyst, mark all person, co-author of the book "game change." >> it is not way too early, not even early at all. >> you have good standards for earlyness. let's talk about what happened yesterday and what it means going forward. if you are mitt romney, you heard what he said there. he is going to repeal it on day one. how do you handle this for the next four months? >> the way he has been handling it all along. he talks about obama care in his stump speech and gets about the best reaction of anything he talks about. he is going to keep connecting to the economy and saying, if you want a healthy economy, you have to get rid of this law. it would have been better a lot of people agree for romney's political fortune if the law had been struck down. as fundraising shows, from statements of republicans across the land, thislr unifies the republican party. romney has an advantage in this debate. the law is more unpopular still than it is popular. >> he also may have gotten another argument yesterday. the court ruled the mandate couldn'

new report from the washington post today lays out clearly how invested romney's firm bain capital was in companies that outsourced jobs including to china. quote, during the nearly 15 years that romney was actively involved in running bain, it owned companies that were pioneers in the practice of shipping work from the united states to overseas call centers and factories making computer components according to the filings with the sec. is this going to stick? i ask this question because bain has already been an issue. in the beltway, you hear people say that they didn't play so well, yet out in middle america and in focus groups i think you get a different reaction. what would be the reaction to this? >> i think we're at the beginning of this conversation. mitt romney so far sticking to his line which is i have experience in the private sector. he doesn't want to go beyond that to discuss specifically what he did at bain. the obama campaign is looking to hit them over and over again all through the summer. they have had some success in these swing states doing this. i think this i

own sense of paranoia. let's get right to our panel now. "washington post" columnist dana joins us live from washington. here in new york, jonathon altar, columnist for bloomberg view and msnbc political analyst. dana, have you just come from this hearing. it has been testy, vociferous. >> it is a small room. it can overheat quite quickly. they started out were w the pleantries but quickly turned into really a food fight. unfortunately i left as they were taking out the mashed potatoes. it is -- very tense. unlimited debate in that room. it will go on for a while. it has been all laid out. they are going to proceed with this regardless of what the facts are as presented in the report. whether or not they were fair with the investigation. they will have the contempt vote and then nothing will happen. just another day of theater. >> did anybody mention this bombshell report in "fortune" magazine? >> no but they mentioned the democratic committee report that said there are 100 errors of fact in the majority report. the democrats accept that something was wrong with this gun walking pr

later outside the courthouse here in washington with his lawyer to talk. >> thank you very much, pete and i don't know if karen and colin are still with me. are you guys there? okay, you are. >> we're here. >> welcome to the cable news business, my friends. going to do some farming and roger clemens. there's something that really struck me that goes beyond all of this. which is that you are corelated both of you are correlating the accessibility of sustainable food supplies and the the accessibility of the awareness on limited water, limited land, which is really a situation in the world, that that has an association with global security. make that connection for me. >> you really hit it with water. nobody's really talking about access to water. it's a huge issue here in southern california. we probably pay the most expensive water in the world. . it's going to be cut off from neighboring nations and that's going to create tension. there's things in life that you need and that you have to have and water and food is one of them. it's going to be growing tensions and the six-day were in

for heidi and her mother. "the washington post" wrote a story on heidi and her mother giving them a one-year reprieve from deportation, but what was only a temporary fix might now with the obama administration's new policy be a long-term solution for heidi? joining me from richmond, virginia, is heidi and he lawyer, ricky. and here is antonio. his new book is "we are americans: just not legally." heidi, i want to start with you. i read your story monday in "the washington post"." and then president obama's position yesterday feels to me like it might absolutely impact your story. what is your reaction to it? >> i think it's incredible, everything that's happening right now. this new policy that may be accepted is going to benefit everybody. and i was very happy to hear what was going on with me now that everybody gets a chance is incredible. >> heydi, i love that you said it that way. when i was reading your story, it really hit home because you graduated from meadowbrooke high school. and i just want to tell you i graduated from thomasdale high school and thomasdale and meadowbrook

. get it right. let's get right to our panel. with us from washington, msnbc analyst, eugene robinson, a columnist for the "washington post." mother jones washington bureau chief, david corn, also an msnbc political analyst and jared bernstein, senior fellow at the center for policy priorities and former adviser to vice president joe biden. eugene, donuts and slogans are fine things. even if mitt romney can only identify one of the two, but how much longer, seriously, can he simply run on platitudes and hollow cliches? how much longer? >> well, first of all, martin, i'm proud to say this show runs on freedom and you know, i think he intends the go on is way for some time. he comes up with these sound bites that i guess somebody tells him sound good, but what i'm hearing is an increasing impatience among voters, people who write to me or call me who say they're independent minded, but would like to have some idea of what he's talking about. what he would do if elected president. >> good question. david corn, peggy noonan took romney to task for his pandering speeches. she writes applau

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

washington, msnbc and "time" magazine senior political analyst mark halperin and msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele, and nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. >> what a -- >> great way to start the morning with these folks. >> hey, tj, really quickly, would you show everybody the headline, straight ahead, "the new york times," screaming headline obviously the fight for majority with john roberts in the majority which is just absolute stunner. i expected it, if it were a 6-3 majority but not a 5-4. i don't think anybody expected that. still standing, says the usa today keriaked today. "wall street journal" says the court backs obama on health care. locally here, since this is a local manhattan upper west side show "the daily news" to your health, and then with the softest touch of all, the subtly, you have t"the new york pos post". >> let's get to the headlines 5-4 decision the supreme court has preserved the heart of the affordable care act. the individual mandate requiring all americans to carr

washington, d.c.'s watergate complex. that scandal brought down president nixon and changed the face of presidential politics in this country. let's go back to nbc's chief white house correspondent and host of this show, chuck todd, traveling with the president. and he's in los cabos, mexico. chuck, you've taken a nice look back at this watergate scandal and probably learned a lot. >> you know, i have. and that's what's great about having the opportunity to do this on the show, because there's a lot of stuff that we did for nbc, and then ends up on the cutting room floor, and it's stuff that is just amazing history, amazing perspective from people still alive, including one of the burglars. first to sort of wrap-up, it was 40 years ago yesterday that we had the most famous break-in american political history. >> i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. >> that's, of course, how watergate ended. but the biggest political scandal in american history began to unfold 40 years ago, on june 17th, 1972, when five men were arrested after breaking into democratic headquarters at

% have negative feelings. the polls were conducted as "the washington post" ran this headline. "romney's bain capital invested in companies that moved jobs overseas." today president obama and vice president biden brought that message to georgia and iowa voters. >> we don't need somebody who's a pioneer in offshoring or outsourcing. we need a president in the white house who's going to every single day be fighting to bring jobs back to the united states, do some insourcing. >> so you've got to give mitt romney credit. he's a job creator -- in singapore, china, india. he's been very good at creating jobs overseas. >> if some of the obama campaign's attacks on mitt romney appear to go unanswered, it's not because mitt romney doesn't have an answer. according to his son and campaign surrogate, tag romney, tag told concerned republican voters in iowa, "you'll see us hit back pretty hard. we're biding our time. he explained how his father's campaignad to refill its financial coffers after a lengthy primary fight. we're catching up on cash on hand. if we're going to get outspent in june or oct

rule thursday, that is the last day of the term. by the way, the new york times writes washington is tense with anticipation, saying, quote, the impending health care ruling by the supreme court has become this city's o.j. simpson verdict, crossed with a papal conclave polarizing maddeningly unprecedented and shrouded in mysterious signaling. what a description. let's go to our panel now. joan walsh back with us. how would you describe the anticipation, is it as the times puts, if this weren't so serious i would laugh, compared to the o.j. simpson verdict? >> well, i think that no one wanted to be taken by surprise and some people were taken by surprise by the o.j. simpson verdict. i think since the 27th of march we have been waiting to see people drew some conclusions about opening arguments. but both sides are preparing for various outcomes and trying to be quiet about it. democrats want you to believe they're going to have a victory and it will be upheld and republicans want it to be struck down at the same time they will tell you privately they don't know what is going to happen

times" says the may jobs report has, quote reshaped the presidential campaign. "the washington post" says the election is now primarily a referendum on president obama's record. advisers from mitt romney's campaign are seizing on the unemployment news in what they describe as evidence of the president's failed agenda. >> this is a hostile environment for job creation in our economy, and that's why, frankly, it adds a sense of urgency in terms of this year's election to be able to turn things around, because the only thing that's going to change it are changing the policies and that means changing the person in the white house. >> what we really have here is a deficit in leadership. and this president came into office without any prior experience running anything. he never even ran a corner store and i think it shows in the way that he's handling the economy. >> the obama campaign argues the economy would be in a much stronger position if congress would do more to put the country back to work. >> the proposals that we put forth and have been sitting there for nine months, you know, i

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