stone, featuring an interview with president obama. two battlefield states, two colleges coming on the heels of the president's appeal to college students over loans. officially not the campaign yet but still sounds like a campaigner, doesn't it? >> remember, those were not campaign stops. we know that, because the taxpayers were paying for colorado and the other stop. taxpayers would never pay for campaign stops. what people don't understand fully about 2008 was that obama didn't actually get a much higher youth turnout, he just got a much higher percentage of the younger vote. the youth turnout really is never that that's sort of one of those myths. is he worried he won't get the percentage. he hasn't shown an ability to get the college turnout, just shown he gets a big chunk of it.

is he worried romney will. >> obviously this is a legitimate issue because it's something coming before congress. in many ways it sort of lays out the differences because it's very different the way the republicans and democrats would pay for this. >> absolutely. let's be honest here. this is an election year and presidents use their political -- tack political meaning onto policy debates here. you know, it's sort of cut to the chase here. everything the president is doing between now and the election day has elements of policy and elements of politics. how this gets paid for is something that's hashed out with every president. >> let's talk about one of the things the obama campaign does seem to be focused on, yesterday on the conference call with david axle roe rod and in the cover article from "rolling stone" is mitt romney reinventing himself from the primary to general election. the president told "rolling stone" i don't think their nominee is going to be able to

suddenly say, everything i've said for the last six months, i didn't mean." even if he does move to the middle for the general election, is that something they care about. or do they say, hey, this happens every primary season. you move to your base to win the primary and come back to the middle for the general. >> i think that's part of mitt's strategy certainly. i think the clear politics the president is trying to play is pin mitt as far to the right as he can. if he tries to claw back to the center, attack him as a flip-flopper. what david axelrod said if you're log for a candidate who reinvents himself every six weeks, you're looking for the wrong guy in president obama. >> i talked to president jimmy carter about this earlier in the week. let me play for you what he said about it. you'd be comfortable with a romney presidency? >> i'd rather have a democrat. i would be comfortable. i think romney has shown in the past in his previous years as a

moderate or progressive that he was fairly competent as a governor and also running the olympics as you know. he's a good, solid family man and so forth. he's gone to the extreme right wing positions on maybe some very important issues in order to get the nomination. what he'll do in the general election and the presidency i think is different. >> does this hurt or help him, tim carney? what do you think? >> i think exactly what makes a guy like mitt romney acceptable to a guy like jimmy carter is he doesn't really have firm beliefs. in other words, for romney to flip-flop isn't like a john kerry flip-flop where he firmly believes something one day and firmly believes the opposite the other day. it's like a wind sock blowing around, not rooted in one direction. a lot of liberals i talk to say, look, i don't know if i want to run against romney because he's harder to beat but i'd rather

romney than the other guys. everybody looks around and says mitt romney doesn't really have firm beliefs. maybe that will translate into him being a technocratic pragmatist. if you don't have enthusiasm that hurts in swing states, too. >> let's talk about enthusiasm. in the fox news poll that showed it was a dead heat, in the 2.0 article you wrote tim dickinson for "rolling stone" you asked about the enthusiasm deficit. he acknowledged it but saw it as an opportunity. in what way? >> there's key demographic changes. chuck todd was talking about the latino vote growing enormously, 8 million young voters who aged into the electorate. right now obama is doing very well among both those groups. romney's stance on immigration as far to the right as anybody in the last generation in terms

of a presidential candidate. obama, young voters had been aloof from him. he seems to be making in the latest pew poll great strides. i think when you're slow jamming the news with jimmy fallon the other night. the president is cool in the way romney is incredibly square. that's going to be a cool gap the president is going to be able to exploit. >> gentlemen, if you will stay around i want to bring in steny hoyer, house minority whip from maryland. >> hi, chris, good to be with you. >> the fox news poll neck and neck, 46 to 46. are you worried about that? >> i'm not worried. the polls go back and forth. the president has been up as much as 9% in some polls. clearly he's ahead. in terms of favorable unfavorable per acceptings, they have been pretty steady. the president's numbers have been high and mr. romney's

numbers have been low. from that standpoint, people seem to go back and forth the president remains tied or ahead in every poll i've seen. that's a positive sign at this point in time, i think. >> there's been so much focus on the presidential campaign but it's starting to shift a little bit to hot congressional races. let me play for you what john boehner had to say yesterday. >> i'd say there's a two in three chance we win control of the house again. but there's a one in three chance we'd lose. i'm being myself, frank, we've got a big challenge and we've got work to do. >> congressman hoyer, where do you put the odds? >> i think he's right. they have got a big challenge. the congress is unpopular. i think people voted for this folks who came to washington and created gridlock confrontation, took us to the precipice of a national default. i think the american public are not pleased. so i think when john boehner says one in three, you can bet

your sweet life that's a lot lower in my opinion than it actually is. i think at worst it's a 50/50 chance that works for us, perhaps more. people want to see congress work. they have seen gridlock. they have seen the fact that the republicans are deeply divided party within themselves. they can't pass a highway bill that speaker boehner made his principle priority over the last two months. so i think when the speaker saying one in three, you can bet that he's trying to low ball that. he knows he has a big challenge. he does have a big challenge. we have some 64 districts in which we have very, very good challenges. many of those they have outraised incumbent republicans. they are doing well in the polls. i think we're going to take back the house. i think the american people are going to want to see change from gridlock -- >> you feel confident the democrats could take back the house? >> i think we could take back the house, yes, do i. >> let me ask you about two

races in particular. as you very well know two blue dog democrats in pennsylvania this week lost their primary challenges. both of them were vulnerable after redistricting. both also happened to vote against the president's health care law. what's your take on what happened there? >> well, i think you're going to see that we take both those districts. so yes we had democrats on democrats running against one another. obviously one of the democrats was going to lose. that happened. i think we're going to win both of those districts in pennsylvania. i think mark will win, matt cartwright will win in the district which i regret mr. holden lost. a very good member of the congress. mr. cartwright is going to be a good member of congress as well. they are good districts, tough districts. the republicans have had the same thing. manzullo loss.

what we really are going to look at, democrat versus republican. let me say something on blue dogs, moderate democrats. we're going to have to win those districts new york city doubt about it, if we're going to take back the majority and i think we're going to do that. in 2010, i've been running in a lot of races over the last 40 years, it was the most virulent environment which i've seen i think in my career. people were extraordinarily angry. i think that anger is not totally dissipated but certainly a lot less. there is apprehension, fear in some cases about where our country is going and we need to get on the right track. i think there's going to be a more positive atmosphere for democrats running and therefore i think in some of these moderate districts, which by definition swing districts, i think they are going to swing back. >> let me ask you about the money involved here. again, we've been talking so much about how it's going to cost this presidential races. clearly some of these are going to set records, too. steve israel, head of dcc sent

out a fund-raising letter, set expectations low, helps you fund-raise. >> certainly fund-raising is a critical component. where we are now, we're six months out about. yes, we believe making sure people understand when john boehner says we have a one in three chance of winning, you can bet your sweet life it's a higher chance than that. therefore i think steve israel was saying to people who are seeing these extraordinary independent expenditures, we saw at the republican primary, huge sums of money, in many cases by unnamed sources, unknown sources trying to affect the elections. the good news for democrats is many of our candidates around the country have outraised their incumbent opponents. the triple c, of course, the

campaign committee steve israel heads has outraised the republicans over the last five quarters. that's unheard of where the minority party campaign committee outraises on a regular basis the majority party. but we're all concerned about these secret donations, this secret money that politics is in a wash now that resulted from the supreme court's decision. it's unfortunate the american people are not being told who is spending the money to try to influence them and change or forge their opinions. if they don't know the source -- and my mom used to tell me, consider the source. if they don't know the source, it's very difficult for them to evaluate correctly the information they are getting. so money is certainly an issue. secret money ought to be a very big issue in this campaign. we want to see disclosure. we want to have the american public have transparency of who is financing these campaigns.

>> congressman steny hoyer, great to see you. thanks so much. let me re-rack the tims. let's start with you, what do you think chances are they can take the house. >> he was setting low expectations saying only a two-third chance of hanging on. there is a chance of democrats doing it. i really see small gains in their future. if i were a betting man, i would have to get ten to one odds to bet on the democrats taking the house. >> ten to one. >> ten to one against the democrats. >> i'll get to the senate. tim dickinson, give me your odds on the house. >> i think people need to factor in the incredible grassroots campaign the obama campaign is being in the battleground states. i think they are going to be coattails. if the president wins, a lot of this will depend on the broader dynamics of the general election. if the president wins there will be significant coattails. >> people need to read your

article if they are interested thain kind of stuff. it really was fascinating. quickly republicans or democrats take the senate. tim dickinson. >> democrats continue to have control. >> tim carney? >> i think it's 50/50. biden or rubio decides who has the majority as vice president. >> absolutely great, great conversation. gentlemen, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you. two former and two current tsa employees working at lax are in custody for allegedly allowing drugs like come tan and marijuana to get through checkpoints. authorities say screeners allowed illegal drugs to pass through x-ray machines and got payments up to $2400 for it. if convicted all four face up to 10 years in federal prison. that's why we developed bayer advanced aspirin with micro particles. now we're challenging you to put it to the test. visit fastreliefchallenge.com today for a special trial offer.

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right now back on the stand facing an all day grilling by the defense. andrew young's credibility is the target. edwards' lawyer is pointing out inconsistency. edwards is accused of using campaign funds to cover up an affair. joining us from greensboro, north carolina, what's going on, jay. >> good morning, chris. it to be a grilling of andrew young. he had two days to talk about hiding this affair, not only from his wife, funneling funds to his mistress, rielle hunter. today they have pointed out inconsistencies between his tell-all book and testimony in the trial. at one point young responding he wrote something in the book to cover his own butt.

during the cross-examination the defense asked this point. i want to read it to make sure i get it right. he said, quote, you really hate mr. edwards don't you? he responded, i have mixed feelings about that. it's been tense in the courtrooms. most analysts feel the defense is making inroads. they have to tread lightly, chris. during his two and a half days of testimony for the prosecution he actually talked about some very important subjects in this trial that could ultimately help the defense. he said that bunny melon, the donor who gave $900,000 to edwards, that money used to help his mistress you understood it was for personal reasons and didn't expect anything in return for it. that could help ultimately. he did say several times that john edwards repeatedly said he did not feel he was doing anything illegal. be interesting to see how that plays ow as they continue here. back to you, chris. >> jay gray, thank you so much. i want to bring in savannah

guthrie, nbc news chief legal correspondent. nice to see you. >> nice to see you. >> all this sordid b movie type stuff. let's face it, it's fascinating. how much is likability, how much is legality. how much of the stuff we've heard so far is pertinent for jurors? >> it's one of the times when salacious stuff is part of the case. these are facts of the case, whether or not these contributions bunny melon made were political contributions or money to help john edwards in any way she saw fit. bunny melon, the donor said she didn't know what the money went for. she just wanted to help a friend. this is down to a credibility contest between two people who have almost no credibility left. andrew young is an acknowledged liar. john edwards is an acknowledged liar. the prosecution's case to some degree rises and falls on andrew young's testimony.

there are some elements of the crime only andrew young can testify to. he's the one this said john edwards knew bunny melon was giving money, knew it was going to cover up the rielle hunter affair. if they don't believe, it's over for the prosecution. john edwards himself has his own credit able issues. we will hear those when they play the interview where he denied the affair, denied paternity. >> let's be honest. cancer took the life of his wife. part of this is about him saying he wanted to protect elizabeth edwards and yet here he was having an affair behind the back of his wife who had cancer. it's very hard for a jury -- in my experience, and you have more experience than i do, jurors want to do the right thing. they want to follow the law. it's hard to put stuff aside. >> when you put your finger about what's so difficult for prosecutors, they are saying this money is to cover up his political viability. he needed to cover up the affair

so he could continue to be a candidate for president. you could make the same argument that, no, the money was to keep it quiet, so he wouldn't be publicly humiliated, his wife wouldn't find out the extent of the affair. that's the difficulty for jurors. what's the intent of this money? is it a private donation or political donation. that's the nub of it. even veteran prosecutors who try these campaign finance cases, many are saying this is stretching campaign laws to the outer limits. in fact, defense has two former federal election commissioners who are prepared to testify they don't believe these were political contributions under the letter of the law. unclear whether they will be permitted to testify. >> seejust talking about the ki of money for the election cycle, you look at the super pacs, $900,000 doesn't seem like that much money.

in the end the defense asked him, as jay gray said, you really hate him, don't you? young said he had mixed feelings. what are they trying to get at there? >> bias. they are saying this is a witness who is biased against john edwards, out to get john edwards, a vendetta against john edwards. this is a witness testifying under a grant of immunity. he's testifying and he was given a deal. he won't be prosecuted. andrew young is knee-deep in these campaign violations. jurors will have to scrutinize that as well. >> savannah, you and i are saying we would love to be in the courtroom. the legal issues are fascinating despite the fact is an incredible, unbelievable story. >> a let cal thriller for sure. a difficult case for jurors to figure out. >> great to see you, savannah, thanks for coming in. >> reverend al sharpton, jesse jackson and other civil rights leaders scheduled to hold a rally in support of trayvon martin and other violence victims. the rally hopes to shine the light on racial profiling and

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department are scrambling to do something about the rash of airplane bird strikes in the past week. on tuesday you'll recall a jetblue plane bound for florida struck a goose and was forced to make an emergency landing. new york senator kristen gillibrand has proposed legislation speeding removal of canada geese near where that jetblue plane was struck. richard lui is here. we have the question, is it i their imagination or is there more of them? >> chris, bird strikes skyrocketed, here is 2012, back in 1990, that's more than one every hour. last thursday is a good example. a boeing 757 turned around after an engine sucked in bird. hit by three birds, a bird also struck hillary clinton's plane overseas. this reminds many of the mire kell on the hudson in 2009, both engines shut down after bird

strikes then. it landed safely on water. some estimate the likelihood of bird strikes are one in 10,000. why? more flights and quieter jets. however, only one fatal accident for a jet powered strike to date. at least 55 fatal accidents killing 276 people, destroying 108 aircraft since 1912. the cost bird strikes.org estimates $200 million a year in damage, delays, cancellations worldwide. half of that in the u.s. the faa warns this. the snow goose you see here is a big threat. their population has doubled. 80% of their strikes leave an adverse result. engine manufactures test for bird strikes. rolls roy uses a chicken gun to roll dead chickens into the engine. they estimate a 12 pound goose colliding with a plane going 150

miles an hour is like a 1,000 pound missile. chris, bird strikes are as old as manned strike. the first flight in 1908 when orville wright chased a flock of birds and killed one. >> the thing i learn from richard lui. richard, thank you so much. it is fascinating and also scary. also making news this morning the marine sergeant who criticized president obama on facebook has been discharged. sergeant gary stein says he was exercising his right to free speech but the military has a policy limiting free speech of service members including criticism of the commander in chief. that's been in place since the civil war. the parents of missing tucson 6-year-old isabel solis are talking about her disappearance for the first time publicly. sergio and becky solis reported her missing saturday morning from her bedroom. now they are pleading for her safe return. >> just please, please, to the

person or person who have isabel, tell us your demands. tell us what you want. we will do anything for her. we are looking -- we're looking for you issa. we love you and we miss you so much. tucson police say they consider the case a suspicious disappearance and possible abduction. check out this video, a blazing wildfire overnight in the national forest. it's burned more than 1500 acres and planes are threatening about 50 homes. fire crews are working to contain it. octomom nadya suleman spent $525 dollars on two haircuts and a brazilian blowout while getting two grand a month in food stamps to support her 12 children. this week the stylist who gave suleman her hair treatment filed a report claiming her 14 kids were living in squall or. republicans this morning reportedly advising mitt romney

to back off from the negative campaigning that seems to have helped him win the nomination and get more focused on policy differences with president obama. he officially kicked off his general election campaign with questions from ronald reagan's playbook. >> what do we have to show for three and a half years of president obama? is it easier to make ends meet? is it easier to sell your home or buy a new one? have you saved what you need for retirement? >> no. >> are you making more at your job? >> no. "washington post" columnist and msnbc columnist ezra klein wrote about those statements and his analysis of it. good morning, ezra. >> good morning. >> in the column you're saying it's not entirely fair to blame the president for what happened in the last three and a half years. give us your argument. >> for one thing in october 2008 george w. burn was president. it may seem like hair splitting

but it's important. the very worst quarter of the entire recession, the time when the economy shrunk the most, in fact more than ever in american history was 2008, the quarter before obama came into office. what romney is doing here he's starting the clock when bush is in office, right before we hit the worst of the recession and blaming that on obama. it does get to a bigger question we have to ask, what is the right way to evaluate obama's stewardship over the economy. certainly he deserves some credit or blame over how things have gone. how much? he's like a firefighter who walked into a burning building. he could do a better or worse job. the recession began a year before he came into office. he's certainly been trying to deal with the aftermath of it. >> isn't it, ezra, for the obama cam paper a nuanced argument to have to make. republicans will say, the job market, housing market soft, gas prices are still up. >> it absolutely is.

luckily i'm not barack obama and not the barack obama campaign. what i'm trying to walk people through here is how will you really try to do this if you're thinking seriously about it. one other piece, even if you decide when you want to start the clock, about a year into anybody's administration, what president clinton's chief economist said, look, they need time to make policy, time to get implemented. stimulus didn't begin main spending until 2010 while a lot of what happened in 2009 was t.a.r.p. there george w. bush, bush's auto bailout. he gets some credit for recovery in 2009. if you want to begin in 2010 with obama, how much is actually attributable to him? you had congress fairly obstructionist. a whole set of questions, are you better off now than you are then. the question is would you be better off with mitt romney as president. that's a more complicated

nuanced argument but the right one to be having. >> people can read about it, washingtonpost.com. ezra, thank you so much. >> thank you. meanwhile approval rating by congress is up but not much. new gallup poll, 17% of americans approve of the job congress is doing. doesn't seem so great but is up from february's record low of 10%. a new book, "do not ask what good we do" offers a fascinating behind the scenes look at the 112th congress. joining me is the author robert draper. let me ask you about something in the news. steny hoyer said the democrats will take the house. what do you think? >> i think it's difficult. for one thing 2012 is a presidential year. it's not a referendum on a house that achieved lows in terms of public approval rating. they have got to get 25, 26 seats, something like that. pelosi is a formidable fund-raiser. the dccc has racked up a lot of money. no, i'd say the republicans are going to lose some seats but

they will hang on. >> you know this congress. you were embedded with them for a full year. what in your mind has defined this congress and what is going to be the defining issue for them come november. >> the defining feature is the internal conflict in the republican controlled house between leadership and particularly -- >> you saw it firsthand. is it as bad as american people said it is? >> in terms of division. in terms of the paralysis that results, at least as bad as the american people. yes. it's not as if -- president obama is going to call some version of the do nothing congress. it's not like they have done nothing. it's just that what they have done is staked out a position so far to the right there's no way a democratically controlled senate and democratic president is going to sign the legislation. that's been paralysis. all this began with tea party in 2010, which blew freshmen into town. these guys feel like they are on a mission. the mission has nothing to do with team unity or going along

with leadership. >> in fact you talk about a dinner that took place the night of obama's inauguration in 2009. the focus of it was how do we make him a one-term president. >> that's exactly right. this was initiated by pollster frank luntz, newt gingrich was a featured speaker. pointedly one person not at the dinner was john boehner, eric cantor, minority whip. these guys decided we have to be unified in attacks on democrat and any legislative initiative out of the white house. >> with all this negativity and people saying nothing getting done in this do nothing congress. a lot of people feel this way, you see approval ratings. could it turn out this and overall malaise with government not accomplishing anything. >> it could. what you'd like to see, the hougs of representatives paradoxically is the institution, hot wired to the public every two years. what you'd like to see is

electorate respond. if they are disgusted they throw them out what they finally develop is a despondency nothing works, nothing can be fixed, why bother. >> for anybody that loves politics, it's a fascinating book. thank you so much. >> my pleasure. cash strapped post office. mandy drury, your money. how much are we talking about here? >> $10 million in cascia refund of overpayments made in previous years to a federal retirement fund. that would give the post office immediate liquidity, chris, to pay down debt, forestall bankruptcy. that's the end guam. try and forestall buyouts to 100,000 postal employees. also controversial decisions on closing post offices and ending saturday delivery. the post office for its part, chris, really does feel these hard decisions need to be pushed through. because the post office says, look, it's totally inappropriate

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campaign stop or official business? this week president obama made stops in colorado, kansas and iowa to talk about the cost of college. the republican national committee filed a complaint saying taxpayer money used for campaign events. joining us mr. rance priebus. come on, isn't this something the other party always argues about? >> i won't argue other presidents have done campaigning. let me put it to you this way. >> this is something before congress now. an issue out there that both sides are having a serious

discussion about it,,000 pay for it. why is it wrong for the president coast guard out and talk about it. >> here is the difference. anything legal, what's reasonable changes depending on what the facts are. i don't think you can compare what barack obama has done in the last three years to any of these other presidents combined. i has taken this law and turned it on its head. here is the problem. you've got a president that put together three fundraisers in florida. these fundraisers have been on the books for many weeks. two days ahead of time he says now i'm going to give a speech at university of miami. now i'm going to take air force one to flo and make taxpayers pay for most of the cost of this trip. i get it. the reason why we didn't file it a while ago, over time we waited and waited and this president's actions haven't changed. i think he did cross the line as to what's reasonable and what's not.

>> let me read the response. this week's travel has been part of the president's official responsibility to get outside of washington, d.c., hear from students and discuss dropping interest rates on their loans from doubling in july. when there's political travel we follow all rules and regulation that is all administrations have followed. how far are you going to push this? >> we're going to push it as far as the law will allow. hear me, chris. i'm not arguing with you these types of things don't happen in the past. what i'm arguing, though, is something different. i'm arguing he has crossed a line as to what's reasonable and what's not under the facts. certainly we would agree that if all the president did was campaign all the time on taxpayer money, certainly we would agree that violates the law. what i'm saying is that he has now crossed the line into what's reasonable behavior by an incumbent president using taxpayer money to campaign and

what's not. these are campaign rallies. these are people chanting four more years. these are handpicked crowds behind the president. very well, carefully staged. come on -- >> let me ask you about mitt romney. understanding based on what was said this morning at a rally by newt gingrich, he said he has had a phone call with mitt romney and he called you to ask what his role is in the campaign going forward. can you tell us? where you see newt gingrich's role in the mitt romney campaign? >> well, that's up to governor romney. here is what i -- where we're at. number one, mitt romney is the presumptive nominee. he is just a fantastic candidate, i think, to highlight what we need to do to get our economy back on track and fulfill some of the promises barack obama made four years ago. as far as newt gingrich is concerned, one of the things i think we've done pretty well at

the rnc, we've communicated every single one of these steps we've taken with the other candidates in the race. the same is true with rick santorum, congressman paul. as far as newt gingrich goes, i know wisconsin comes up a lot lately. callista is from wisconsin, have a very close relationship with the speaker and callista. he has been nothing but gracious moving forward. he wants to be part of the team. he wants to help the republican party. he wants to help governor romney. >> do you see both newt gingrich and rick santorum out on the campaign trail for mitt romney? >> absolutely. i know they want to be helpful. i know they want to be part of the team. i know they want to end this european nightmare we've got going in the white house right now. i think this election is the most important election of our lifetimes. i think they are going to be part of the equation to get this done. >> reince priebus, nice to see

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