>> no one's going to hand the nomination to someone on a silver platter. they're going to have to fight hard to win the nomination, it's a process that i respect. and it's going to take a while to get this job done. john mccain lost 19 straight on his road to become the nominee. >> e.j. dionne is a washington post columnist and msnbc contributor. good morning to both of you. e.j., what does romney need to do right now? >> mitt romney needs to find any way possible to make sure he beats rick santorum in michigan. i think he has several problems. one is that he has lost the electability of the one guy that can beat obama. there's been a slew of polls that suggest he's no stronger than santorum against obama. so a lot of conservatives didn't really trust romney but wanted to beat the president, willing to vote for him. now that's gone. in the meantime, as you pointed out, santorum has money and a

good deal of momentum. here's what romney i think has going for him in michigan. this is the first time that rick santorum is in a real fight one-on-one. he won iowa by visiting practically every voter in the state. he spent months at it. and then he won his other three victories in colorado, missouri, and minnesota because no one really contested those states hard. this is the first one-on-one fight. and a lot of republicans in michigan say, look, romney's behind now but he's got a lot of money and he also has some real organization and establishment support. lastly, i think santorum is having a problem with women voters. and that includes republican women because some of his statements on contraception -- >> yeah, and i want to get to the whole contraception brouhaha which is out there again. you know, let me go back to the whole michigan thing. there's this great headline in "politico" today.

romney and santorum sell nostalgia in michigan. the dnc wanted to give people this reminder. take a look. >> if you write a check, you're going to see these companies go out of business. if you write a check, they're going to go out of business, let them go bankrupt. >> in 2008 you said -- >> let them go bankrupt. >> i refuse to let that happen. >> it's a very powerful piece that the dnc has put out, jackie. and i'm wondering, do you think that michigan is a turning point in this campaign? >> i do. i think romney has to win michigan. going into super tuesday, his campaign isn't going to fall apart if he doesn't. but going into super tuesday, which all of those states voting, he needs this momentum. i think he needs to do very well in the debate on february 22nd coming up in arizona. and that -- that will, you know, help propel him in michigan. and he's all in there. and you know, it's interesting,

he said in the interview that he's not going to lose. and you don't really hear, you don't hear him talking about -- it's usually not that affirmative. oh, well, we're going to try, be uh no, he's serious, he's ready, he wants to win this and they know it's serious they know they need this momentum. >> he said that's not going to happen. >> exactly. >> and let's face it, e.j., he's been through this before. one of the other guy surges and he manages to come out in large part because he's had so much money, as you mentioned, but santorum is closing that gap. i think it was 40 to 1 spending on tv ads, now it's 3 to 1. romney said no to the latest debate, so no free air time there for the rest of them, but what's left in his arsenal? if you see santorum, catching up to him in ad dollars, e.j., what's left? >> well, first of all, i think jackie's absolutely right that if romney loses michigan and

arizona, he is in enormous trouble. and that's when the talk machine really kicks in and says maybe we need another candidate to get in the race that's already starting to percolate now. i think romney has to figure out a way to say that rick santorum is too conservative on social issues to win the election without actually saying it himself. because his problem is if he launches that attack himself, then he increases the mistrust that social conservatives already have with him. and i think he's counting on the news media to play back all of these rick santorum statements on contraception, on abortion, on other matters where a lot of voters who listen to them say even if they agree with them say, gee, they won't play very well in a general election. so it's an interesting line romney has to walk down. >> and the folks who believe that got a little help not from rick santorum yesterday, but i want to play for you the

exchange that everybody is talking about with santorum's super pac donor. >> this contraceptive thing, my gosh, it's such inexpensive. back in my days, they used bayer aspirin for contraceptions, the gals put it between their knees, and it wasn't that costly. >> excuse me. i'm just trying to catch my breath from that. >> foster is known in political circles as telling a lot of jokes and some of them are not particularly funny, which this one was not. >> and this morning, foster freiss tweeted out kind of an apology. what's your take on this? >> i mean, it was, it wasn't a very good joke. i -- watching andrea mitchell's reaction, i think, is kind of the reaction a lot of people had. just what? >> yeah. >> and i think he'd walk it back at this point, but it keeps that narrative going of, you know, what are you even talking? contraception? what are you talking about? it keeps the narrative going, which is good for obama, but you

know, i think he did right, i think romney can't bring this stuff up directly to santorum without making himself look less conservative somehow. it's a really tough -- it's a fine line he's going to have to walk. and he's letting the media do the work on that. >> i want to bring in senator gene shaheen if you will hang on for a minute. and if i can, senator, let me get your reaction to the bayer aspirin comment we displayed. >> it was not only a joke that was in bad taste, but it showed just how out of touch he is with the challenges that women and families are facing. it wasn't just the joke, but it was his dismissing the cost of contraceptives and how costly that can be to so many women and their families, about $600 a month. he dismissed the fact that this was an important issue for women. and i was very disappointed in that.

>> and -- >> and this happened on the other side of the aisle, but there was a hearing yesterday on contraception with an all-male panel. the first panel talking about female reproductive rights. there you see it, all men. nancy pelosi and a lot of other democrats were upset. it's interesting, though, both sides think contraception debate is a winning issue in this campaign. who's it good for? republicans or democrats? >> listen, i think that's the wrong question. this should not be about politics, this should be about what's in the best interest of women and for women and their families. women need to be heard in this debate and that was what was so disappointing about yesterday's panel. that not only did the people testifying not understand that, but the members of congress who were holding the hearing didn't seem to understand it. >> it may not be the best question, but it is a reality, and i'm wondering how big of a deal you think this is going to

be come november when people go to the polls. or maybe in a more relevant way to who ends up running against barack obama when people go to vote and democrats and independents can vote, for example, in michigan in the primary, how impactful do you think these kinds of things will be? >> i think women are paying attention, this is an orchestrated attack on women's health, starting with the effort to defund title 10, to defund planned parenthood. when i was governor in new hampshire in 1999 we passed legislation to cover contraceptives, passed overwhelmingly with a bipartisan and republican house, with bipartisan support. we didn't hear anything from anyone that it was violating anybody's religious concern. and it's been working there for over ten years. now suddenly because of this debate at the national level, it's become a political issue. this is all about politics, it's not about what's good policy.

i think women are watching. >> i can't ignore what's happening today, a vote on the payroll tax cut deal. there's steny hoyer right now. some of your senate democratic colleagues have said they'll vote no. how are you going to vote? >> i plan to vote for it. i share some of the concerns, but i believe the most important thing is that we've got to keep this economy growing. and to the extent that we can help middle class families put more money in their pockets so they can pay their bills and be able to help generate a growing economy, that's what's most important. now, we've got to deal with this debt and the deficits, there's no doubt about that. but job number one is to get this economy moving. >> senator, thank you so much. it's good to see you, jeanne shaheen. let me go back to the contraception issue, e.j., you have been upfront on this. obviously the debate is not going away. how important is this in the overall 2012 campaign? to the point i just made to the

senator, for example, in michigan, where anybody can go to the polls. democrats, independents, how big of an issue will this be in driving voters? we typically say social issues really only work on the margin. >> well, i think social issues sometimes work very effectively in the republican primaries, especially with the economy getting better. and usually i think the general view of the issue helped rick santorum because it ignites socially conservative voters. now i'm not so sure. that foster friess statement is not something that just plays all over cable news, but plays all over youtube and has pushed santorum a little out to the right. i think in the general election, i long thought that president obama was vulnerable initially because he was not willing to make any accommodation to what i saw as legitimate concerns of the churches, particularly the catholic church. and now i think that people who want to push way beyond the

compromise that the president proposed, they're going to end up on the wrong side of this because most people are for providing contraception in health care plans. and so i think it has the politics of it, but i think obama still has to be careful to make sure he continues to show respect for the legitimate concerns of religious people and then that isolates the people on the far right. >> do you think this has slipped more to the president's favor? and we talked about the fact that most polls show that most americans including catholics support requiring religious institutions to provide coverage for contraception. >> oh, i'm sure the white house would be happy to talk about contraception all day long in this election, you know? i think if it's about contraception and not about -- republicans are trying to make it about religious freedom. the religious freedom argument doesn't help the white house, contraception thing does. it's something that, you know, like you said normal voters are -- and across the spectrum

are just -- it's not really an issue. i think, you know, they -- i think the issue of this election is going to be this economy no matter what and that's what it's hinged on and the side issues at the end of the day, they play into the conversation, but i think the big thing is the economy. >> all right. jackie kucinich, by the way i'm keeping my eye on the markets because we're waiting to see how they're doing right now up 26 points. we'll have more on that, we'll see if indeed they hit 13,000 today. thanks so much, both of you. joseph kennedy iii has been hitting the campaign trail already. he's announced he's trying to replace retiring congressman barney frank. can he use the kennedy legacy on capitol hill? congressman frank will join me in three minutes. and the world of journalism has lost a great voice, "new york times" foreign correspondent anthony shadid died while reporting from syria after suffering an asthma attack. shadid is a two-time pulitzer

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joseph kennedy iii is hitting the campaign trail running after formally announcing his congressional campaign yesterday. the grandson of robert f. kennedy wasted no time meeting with massachusetts voters and the 31-year-old says shoe leather campaign will win the race. >> i'm very, very proud of my family's record to public service and to our country.

this campaign, any campaign is going to be about the issues and about -- >> and joining me now is the man who currently holds the seat, barney frank. good morning, congressman, good to see you. >> thank you. >> let me say a little bit about him besides his family history. he's got credentials, studied industrial engineering at stanford, went to harvard law, he was in the peace corps which was founded by jfk, worked as a prosecutor and an assistant d.a. in massachusetts. but why do you think he'd be good for this job? >> he combines the right values, which is the first test you want to do. he understands the importance of making this a fairer society in ways it won't retard economic growth. and the myth there's diminishing equality. we're at a point there's more inequality than is necessary or

efficient. and joe kennedy understands that and i've been able to talk to him about this. but he also understands the private sector and how there was, in fact, no conflict. he's also an engaging guy, political campaigning is -- i've always had to deal with the fact that i think i'm better at legislating than campaigning. i wasn't a natural campaigner. joe kennedy, he's a better campaigner than i was, and i'm glad you mentioned it, there isn't a trace in him of any sense that this is by right or by inheritance. this is not a guy who thinks he's entitled to anything. he will be working very, very hard. so he has that combination that i think makes him the best candidate to represent the district i now represent in the way it represents the values i care about. >> he obviously can't escape the kennedy name or his lineage. and i was interested as i googled it this morning that

this wasn't just a national story, an international story. a headline in a british newspaper was will it herald a dawn of a new camelot? we are so fascinated with the kenne kennedys. this book by the alleged mistress of jfk, even steven king writing a novel based on the assassination, does it help him or hurt him, do you think? >> it would hurt him if people imputed to him this media obsession, i don't think they will. i don't think people who are looking to stop a policy that forces them to lay off firefighters -- i spoke to the mayor who needs more federal help. joe kennedy understands that. this isn't his fault. if people thought he was somehow inviting this or reveling in it, they'd be resentful. but the media can go off on whatever tangents it wants, i think you'll find joe kennedy as

a candidate talking to people. he's not the one who's giving interviews to the british newspapers. i know you're going to find him very focused on representing that district and it'll be clear he's no more responsible for the media obsession than any of us are. >> let me ask you about something that's been out there now. you know there was a lot of controversy and we were talking about this earlier in this program about the house hearing yesterday, about women's reproductive rights and the first panel had only men on it. and then the comments by rick santorum, foster friess. for people who haven't heard it, i want to play it again. >> this contraceptive thing. my gosh, it's so inexpensive. back in my days, we used bayer aspirin for contraceptives, the gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly. >> excuse me, i'm trying to catch my breath from that, frankly. >> i want to get your comment on that and just overall, are you

surprised at the level to which social issues have played in this campaign? >> no, it's an affirmation of the fact that intelligence is not uniform across the board. mr. friess is good at some things that made him very rich, but he also appears to have moronic tendencies. you can be very good about some things and bizarre about others, but it also makes clear what we have here. this is not an attack on contraception. and mr. santorum was clear. when the supreme court decided in the lawrence case with sandra day o'connor and the majority that you should not send people to prison for who adults of the same sex have consenting sex in their bedroom. two men in texas were arrested by the police in their bedroom for having consensual sex. and the supreme court said no, you can't treat that as a crime. rick santorum was outraged. rick santorum, in fact, compared

that. he said what's going to be next? man on dog? so when you have a man who is prepared to support, who did support sending two people of the same sex to prison for consenting sex in their own bedroom, you're not talking about life, you're not talking about children, you're talking about a man who has a particular moral code to which he's fully entitled trying to impose it on others. let's be clear, when we talk about contraception, we are not talking about the right to life. i know there was argument, when does life begin? nobody thinks life begins the moment two people have sex and nobody thinks life begins two people have sex in which there's contraception. let's be clear -- and abortion has difficult aspects to it. this isn't about a potential life being snuffed out. there's people who want to tell the rest of the world when we can engage in intimate relations with people we care about. and i -- that has to be

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about who is attending tomorrow's service. kevin costner will speak, aretha franklin and stevie wonder will perform, alicia keys and dionne warwick will be there, as well. >> and you'll be singing at the funeral? how difficult is that going to be for you? >> it's not going to be easy. i can tell you that. it's not going to be easy. but cissy asked me to do and i'm going to try to do my best. >> do you know what you're going to sing? >> not really sure right now. >> houston's ex-husband bobby brown honored her last night at a concert in maryland. thanking her fans for prayers and support. we'll have coverage tomorrow right here on msnbc noon eastern time. here's a look at some other stories people are talking about right now. a workplace argument between an immigration agent and his boss led to a shooting that left one

person dead, the other seriously wounded. a colleague actually had to intervene. the california federal building in long beach was on lockdown for a while. a federal judge has sentenced a nigeria man, known as the underwear bomber to life in prison without parole. she called it a just punishment. he pled guilty to trying to detonate a bomb hidden in his underwear aboard a flight in 2009. amanda knox will finally tell her story and will get $4 million for it. the 24-year-old was cleared of murder last fall after being convicted in the death of her british roommate while studying in italy. publishe publishers reportedly got in a bidding war. staggering new fund raising numbers have been announced by the obama campaign. the president raised $29 million and the democratic -- for his campaign and the democratic party last month. 98% of those donations were $250

or less. so grand total in his war chest, $250 million. richard lui, that shows you the money pressure the republicans must be feeling. >> big-time pressure. and the president's money juggernaut is coming over the hill and it sounds like this. ♪ >> that's sound garden's ex front man chris cornell, later $35,800 was the price to dine with the president. >> mitt romney's negative attack machine is back on full throttle. >> all right. those are some of the ads that have been playing out there. i want to tell you in between the president did go to china town in san francisco hugging some babies in an impromptu visit there. the west coast swing could bring in more than $8 million.

while sounds on the other side were very different. let's play those ads again. now millions have been raised and spent on ads so far in michigan. santorum leading in the polls, romney and romney's super pacs have outspent santorum 40 to 1 in early weeks, the favored son in 2008 no longer the favorite. his main tactic now is attack ads. his political director said in a recent strategy note speaker gingrich's and senator santorum's campaigns have resource challenges, the remaining february states may not be kind to them. well, february may be romney's resource challenge. the latest spending shows he's 3 to 1 over santorum, not 40 to 1 as it was earlier. compared to 2008's campaign fund raising at the same time in the election, romney is down 35% here. but with newt gingrich battling in the south, santorum surging in the midwest, romney's war

chest has split. will he have enough to get to november? not too long ago, candidate hillary clinton learned how early spending could hurt. >> why was the campaign broke? aides said they spent too much in iowa leaving not enough for super tuesday. >> senator clinton's personal loans helped spark more than $6 million in online contributions in the last 24 hours. >> more from 2008 there, chris, she finished the race with $25 million in debt. gop contenders have to wonder if her story is a hpeek of things o come. good to see both of you. you know, there have been these headlines that the romney campaign has had to spend a lot more money at this point than expected. something you guys knew about in

the hillary clinton campaign, morris. do you think at this point with that and the fact that his poll numbers are dropping that rick santorum is raising more money and he could be in cash trouble? >> well, santorum needs to raise money, he needs wins in order to generate funds. and that's very challenging. and you want to make sure you have enough cash on hand. but he's desperate, doing hand to mouth. he's doing okay right now given he swept those three states, but it's going to be challenging going forward for him. if he doesn't win, he doesn't have any money and that's not the situation you want to be in when you have a tough battle ahead. >> what about mitt romney? what do you think about that? we're looking at a campaign that was so well planned, but what they didn't plan for was the kind of challenge after challenge after challenge they found and the amount of money they've had to spend already. >> yeah, there's no question that the romney campaign was probably not expecting it to go this long, this hard. they figured it might go until

super tuesday but felt they'd be on a big roll, big momentum. the good news they've got a strong financial network all across the country. they're doing fundraisers over this kind of small break. but rick santorum is using that big momentum to do it online, and that is fundamentally changed the way we do campaigns the last couple of cycles. four years ago, mike huckabee, we raised 70% of our contributions online, which means they were instant, we didn't have to do events, didn't have to spend money on mail, it was instant and that's what rick santorum's living off of right now and doing it well. >> and all they have to do is see some clip and it could be an impulse buy. people can click, put in their credit card number and you've got the cash. let me go back to president obama's fund raising number. $29 million in january, $250 million to date, how daunting is that if you're any other republican candidate? >> well, listen, president obama's a formidable fundraiser. and it's coming in in small

numbers. that means he has the opportunity to go back to those donors to get more money out of them if need be. you know as a democrat, this is eye popping, this is enthusia enthusiastic, but we know that republicans will have more money than the democratic party on both sides, particularly with what's now the super pac. it's a good position to be in. i think the president will raise $1 billion, but i'm not for sure that money is going to win everything. we've got the right message and the country's turning, it's not just about money, it's about leading the country in the right direction. >> yeah, let me ask you about that really quickly. it has been interesting that rick santorum has virtually no money up until this point. nobody's saying in the general election money's not going to matter. but given that both sides may raise unprecedented amounts of money, could that in a way not be the difference? >> well, you have to have a certain amount of money just to plan the strategies in the 18 or so states that are going to be the battlegrounds. you can't do this without a

certain amount of money. and look, barack obama's going to have $1 billion. it was ten years ago george bush had $100 million, we thought that was unbelievable. he's going to be able to spend money every minute, every second. we'll have to have the right message and the right messenger. >> the good news, though -- the good news that the democrats got good money and a great candidate. >> good to talk to both of you. thanks so much. >> thank you. speaking of money, we're keeping a close eye on wall street, the dow jones industrial arch is zeroing in on a milestone. a small rally away from 13,000 and we have not seen that level in nearly four years. mandy drury is here with what's moving your money. i know 13,000 is just a number, but boy, there could be a big psychological boost, right? >> yeah, and it also shows how far we've come back, chris. the 13,000 mark hasn't seen since may of 2008 and the s&p 500 opened today's session at the highest in nearly ten

months, that's the 1,358 mark. it's more than doubled in the march 2009. in fact, over the past three years,s there have been a lot of sparks, i'm talking about the stocks, not the indices that have rallied even more than that. well-known brand names, chipotle, they're all up more than 500% in just three years. and what it's encouraging here, chris, is that the market has been stirred by better economic news, what we call fundamentally good news. it's allowing the market to address the problems ongoing in europe. >> in the meantime, maybe we can take some of those profits and buy ourselves a little treat. some of the candy bars are slimming down. what's that about? >> yeah, maybe not so fun size. mars, the maker of m&ms and twix is going to stop making chocolate products that exceed 250 calories by the end of next

year, and that means those big and i have to say delicious king size versions -- >> that gets you through an entire movie, let's say. >> absolutely. i've always got one as i'm driving along -- i've got a king-size bar, but all of those disappear from the candy aisles by that time. a standard snickers bar has about 280 calories, a package of peanut m&ms at 250 calories. not too smart, but a lot of companies like walmart are trying to keep america a little bit healthier. >> or maybe charging the same amount but shrinking size. >> it's happened before. >> cnbc's nancy drooorth amercnd afternoon. the postal service says it could lose up to $18 billion a year by 2015 if lawmakers don't eliminate saturday delivery and make other cuts. 3,700 local branches are also on the chopping block as a way to

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the u.s. director of national intelligence sees limited benefit from an attack on iran saying it might set back the country's nuclear development program by one or two years. leon panetta recently down played the likelihood of an israeli air strike. joining us now is silven. as you know the secretary general says diplomacy is the way. why are you leaving the military option on the table? >> i absolutely agree with secretary general which i met with only three days ago. we've got to solve the problem. unfortunately, the security council cannot do it because russia and china do not want to

impose sanctions in order to stop this. and why no one can stop this, everything should be put on the table. we need to understand it's not israeli/iran conflict, it's a conflict that belongs to all of us. for many, many years, much of the world believed -- after the terrorist attack that was carried out here in new york, after the attack carried out in madrid and russia, the world is much more determined, and outcome is very positive. only recently in 2007, the americans said that the iranians abandoned their military program and now they realize they were wrong. now they realize that the iranians continue to develop nuclear bomb and developing new missiles with much longer range. in that range is -- even new york, even new york -- >> let me be specific about what he had to say.

he said u.s. intelligence believes iran's leaders have not decided to build nuclear weapons but are pursuing technology that would allow them to do so. from your perspective -- well, first of all, is he wrong about that? and if not, what's the line? where does it cross over from being a nuclear development program aimed at civilian purposes and a weaponized program. >> i think it's out of the question. everyone now knows most of the world if not all the world knows the iranians are trying to develop a nuclear bomb. it's out of the question. they have all the proof. everyone knows the security and intelligence of the west world knows very well the iranians are developing a nuclear bomb. and they should be stopped. it can't be -- >> why don't we talk about what is happening. the team from the agency is set

to meet with officials in tehran next week and president ahmadinejad did signal earlier this week he's open to talks about the nuclear program and you're already kind of smiling about that. >> because they're trying to buy time now for more than a decade. and always when they feel that the pressure is too hard, when the sanctions are on the way, they are trying to get engaged. we would like to them to get engaged, to do what needs to be done, to stop the military program because we are in the assembled. these days the iranians are trying not only to have that nuclear bomb, they're trying to take control of all the oil fields, and to revive the persian empire. they believe if they have a nuclear bomb to give them an insurance policy to keep the regime in power. and we would like to believe that it should be different if the sanctions would be tough enough finally they might think that they should abandon their

dream to hold a nuclear bomb that the last decision taken by the eu is what's very, very important for the iranian oil, a decision followed by the united states, canada, australia, japan, south korea. you impose sanctions on the iranian central bank. if they would do so, they might change the iranian attitude. and until then, the iranians are laughing, they are bluffing, they are trying all the time to make progress. and one year after another, they are very, very close. even secretary panetta and the militants are saying if they would move the enrichment to 20%, it would take them only one year and they will hold a nuclear bomb. >> do you think you're going to get a ticket to the knicks game tonight? he confided in me he's trying to go to the knicks game. do you think you're going to go? >> i hope so. >> who are you cheering for? >> the knicks. >> we're just checking. >> since i was born, i'm a big

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