wisconsin, but polling shows there's a good chance president obama will win the election in november. obama claiming scott walker's recall victory will make them stronger and more engaged. mitt romney saying last night's results will echo beyond the borders of wisconsin. our wisconsin native sun reince priebus is warning the president to expect a dog fight in november. and scott walker spins his win this morning on "the the daily rundown." >> anyone looking at the results last night would acknowledge it's now competitive in wisconsin. >> those who kept walker in office also prefer the president by 7 points. they are biting off more than can he k choose by triesing to wrestle away a state not won i go republicans since ronald reagan in 1984.

>> it's great to see all three of you this morning. april, i want to start with you. rnc chair said that this is really a dry run for the democrats for november it went over like, quote, a north korean missile launch. here's how republicans are playing this today. take a listen. >> you listen to the people of wisconsin and you follow their will, they're going to stand behind you. they've taken some bold action in wisconsin. >> these reforms were really a microcosm for what's going to happen in november with mitt romney's ideas versus obama's failed record on jobs and spending. i think it's good news for us for five months down the road. >> is the white house facing the reality they may have to pour more money into states of wisconsin and michigan to stave offvictory? >> the white house likes the fact that the numbers are

showing this lead but they also know it's a lot that can happen between now and november. they're going to build upon this lead from what i'm hearing. but at the same time, we have a lot of little things out there that could happen that could cause problems. in the next couple of weeks, the decision by the supreme court on health care reform and that will be major for the president and also the economy. we have a little bit of time. right now the president is sitting in a good position for wisconsin, even though the wisconsineers voted to keep the current governor there. >> the exit polls show voters in wisconsin trust the president more when it comes to the economy. a new poll this morning has the president holding a big lead. the election is months away, still a lot of campaigning to do but are republicans in danger of reading too much out of this? >> no, i don't think so. i think when you look at what happened in wisconsin you see republicans were willing to make an investment and spend money

the dga and other democratic party pacs and all of those other groups that they weren't willing to spend. you wind up realizing obama did have a secret killer and on it was barrett's candidacy. wisconsin is competitive. it will embolden other governors to take the same steps walker did. i think it's going to be positive. >> the bottom line is devastating, the blow that it lands for the union. 60% of the voters say they don't like the recall, saying they didn't think this was legitimate, that there was no misconduct on walker's part. how can unions regroup and will they take this out on the president come november? >> i certainly don't think they have a beef with the president. in fact, i think walker actually benefited from the fact that there were some jobs streaks created, almost all of them having to do with the auto

bailout, which is why i think he'll do surprisingly well in michigan and ohio. i think the lesson is pick your fights a little bit more intelligently. they picked a fight with blanche lincoln in arkansas in 2010, tried to oust her and lost and spent millions and millions. the same people that voted for walking in 2010 voted for him again. the same people who voted for barrett more or less voted for him again. tens and millions of dollars were spent by the super pacs and they didn't move the needle one inch. walker's margin was less than a point more than in 2010. i don't think this has broad implications at all. >> governor walker, because i want to get this out there for everybody, he struck this conciliatory tone in an interview with chuck todd this morning. take a listen. >> one of the great things i'm going to do on the social side of things is invite all the legislators, republican and democrat alike over next week

for some brat, some burgers and maybe a little wisconsin beer to talk about where do we go from here? >> is he the new gop star? are we going to see him on the stage? are they going to make room for him at the convention? >> oh, you know that, you know that. he is the one who took over -- took over the state recall and beat the union. but you have to remember and to your guest a moment ago, he said that the unions have to pick their fight as little bit better. unions are known and were known in their heyday to have intimidation, to be able to pick a fight and win. you know, unions lost their ground during the reagan years when the air traffic controllers were fired. so the unions are having their issues right now trying to find their footing. not only that, we're seeing what's happening in san diego with unions. so i think unions are trying to find their way and right now the poster child for the republican party and the anti- -- well, not

anti-union guy but the guy who can stand up against the unions is definitely governor walker. >> our wednesday political power panel, thanks to all three of you this morning. joeing me j joining me is bo biden. what is your take on the recall results there? >> my take on the recall results is when you have $31 million spent to $4 million that it's not surprising that the outcome is a repeat of the election in 2010 with where as your panelist just said it didn't move the needle one iota. that's how i read it, when you're outspent with that large of a number, it's tough to compete with that. >> so your dad, the vice president back on the campaign trail today, he's appearing this hour in north carolina to talk about jobs and talk about the middle class. your dad accepts the name of middle class joe. does the campaign need more of

him than ever after last night's results to be able to connect with middle america, remind them what's at stake and what's important in the upcoming november election? >> well, look, i think the vice president or president in the campaign is going to continue to do what it's doing every day and it's going to continue to build this grass roots organization that's built around the country, state to state, community to community, to reelect the president. this president has done an incredible job. over 4.3 million jobs created, 27 sustained months of job growth and that's compared with the record of mitt romney in massachusetts where he was 47th out of 50 in job creation. this is a gentleman who didn't even run for reelection. he was going to run against a guy up there who was the attorney general, a good friend of mine named tom riley and deval patrick, who is now the governor. i'm not even sure if mitt romney had been reelected had he run for reelection and that's probably based on the record he had to run on, which was not a great one in massachusetts. >> but, beau, you have to admit

republicans seem to have their mojo back, they appear more united than ever behind mitt romney, coming off this victory in washington and the president seems to have this surrogate problem undercutting the president's message. does the obama campaign seem off its game right now? >> not at all. thomas, i respect you and your colleagues at this network and around the country and the great national media, but a lot of times we all get caught up in the process pieces. this campaign, the campaign that i am supporting is, you know, it's about the citizens and the people of this country in a grass roots way doing what they can to reelect this president. we get caught up in times in the 24-hour news cycle and what one surrogate says from one day to the next. this is being won and will be won like it was won in 2008, people going door to door, community to community, shopping

center to shopping center, telling the person people about the extraordinary job this man has done in very difficult times. >> you're doing a nice job this morning. i know you're going to be talking to veterans who right now overwhelmingly support mitt romney, you yourself being a major in the delaware national guard, served overseas in iraq for this country. in your estimation with that large voting bloc, this country's armed forces, the veterans, how is the president losing that vote, given the fact he ended the iraq war trying to do the same thing in afghanistan and has a strong foreign policy? >> there was a reuters report out a couple months ago that had the president up as can relates to veterans. i'm focused on november. why i'm supporting the president so vigorously is he understands what it means to be commander in chief. he went after and got bin laden and fwhou gotten the number number two person in al qaeda.

number two, he's understanding where and when how to redeploy our forces and live up to the promises he made. but most importantly, thomas, he understands the third part of being a commander in chief. the sacred obligation a commander in chief has to veterans. that's why his budget has increased the veterans administration spending every year in office, his budget for the next year is 10% increase. that's contrasted against a guy who in the form of mitt romney decided to last year gather a group of veterans around the table and propose to them we privatize, voucherize the va. there should be and there will be a debate about what the role of government is in this country but there should be no debate and can be no debate that it is the role of the government, the role of the commander in chief to take care of veterans, give them the benefit they deserve and the care that they've earned. we have a stark contrast as it relates to how this president

has kept his sacred obligation to veterans and their families. that's why you see veterans and military families for obama growing every day and that's what i spend a lot of time talking about. >> you're focused on november but your step mom made news on the "today" show yesterday when she was asked about your dad and 2016. take a listen. >> there is talk he might run for president -- >> i take one campaign at a time. >> would you support it, though? >> well, you know, joe would make a great president. >> so one campaign at a time, as we talk about what's coming up for this november and then 2016. we know your dad wanted it four years ago. do you think that that is an option on the table for him? >> the only thing my dad will talk about is making sure we reelect the president of the united states in november. that's the o.j. thing we're talking about in our hose old and that's the o.j. thing i'm focused ond and my father is focused on, making sure that we reelect the president. this country is in a much better

place because of the work this president has done and it will be in a greater place laying a foundation for really moving this country forward. that's what i know my dad is focused on. it's the only thing i can get him focused on. >> your estimate ---e es-es es- if he came to you and said i need your help, you would support him? >> it's the only thing i'm focused on. >> you're like keanu reeves in "the matrix" working around these questions. >> it's the truth, the only thing i can get him to focus on is this and that's the only this

evening i want him to be focused on. he's out there doing it every day and he'll continue to do it. >> thank you, sir. >> we'll show you a live look as the shuttle enterprise goes to its final resting spot at the naval museum. it's now roughly by the world trade center, expected to arrive at the intrepid by 12:30 p.m. it will be lifted to the flight deck where visitors around the world can visit there. >> i was amazed at how quickly clinton's speech was turned into a campaign ad. take a look. >> i don't think it's important to real elect the president. >> i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. >> that was fast. >> then it happened again, president bill clinton going

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supporting president obama's plan to let the bush tax cuts for the wealthy expire but the off message remark reminded us of a similar instance. >> there's no question that in terms of getting up and going to the office and, you know, basically performing the essential functions of the office, a man who has been governor and had a sterling business career crosses the qualification threshold. >> on capitol hill last hour four of six republican leaders called the former president out by name in calling for those tax cuts to be extended. >> even bill clinton came out for it, before he was against it, and then, you know, larry summers, the president's former economic adviser this morning came out in favor of this. >> as the speaker indicated, coupling that with bill clinton's remarks and larry summers' remarks, it's pretty obvious the economy needs the certainty of the extension of the current tax rates for at least a year. >> what is the impact of

present's comments on the campaign? it's great to see you today. president clinton tried to walk back the bain comments. on fox news yesterday it was said "i think he really is now a bull in a china shop, a loose cannon, a double agent." and listen to mr. mccain. >> i want to thank you for having bill clinton on, he's the gift that keeps on giving. >> the gift that keeps on giving. ron, is president clinton the gift that keeps on giving for republicans right now? >> i don't think anything that bill clinton has said this week is going to have any impact on the election in november. look, bill clinton is actually a very effective surrogate for barack obama. he's been that during the three fund-raisers that they did together recently, pointing out that the republican fiscal policies are essentially the same that have been tried in

europe now for some months and have failed, demonstrablely failed in europe. so he can be very effective but occasionally, as we know, bill clinton can be a tad undisciplined. and i think if you look at those two remarks that you played, what you see is really bill clinton sort of speaking not as a politician because he's not really a politician anymore butbut really as a private citizen and speaking in a way that you and i might speak with some nuance. he wasn't saying he favored the extension of the bush tax cuts, merely that they might be an acceptable price to pay, extending them for a few months to get the republicans on board for something meaningful. the disturbing this evening about that remark, though, is he doesn't seem to understand -- and i don't believe this because he's too smart -- he doesn't understand what the real republican agenda has. it's about dismantling the social welfare system we have in this country. that's why they don't want more

government revenue. and he should have included that in his remarks i think. >> ron, real quickly, do you think he has a different type of agenda? a lot of people save he's the former president but he's the husband of the secretary of state and hillary clinton come 2016, if she were to win he could become the first husband. >> i think he should do everything to help barack obama get re-elected then because that will make her position a little bit stronger i would think. bill clinton's agenda is bill clinton's. let's understand that he's never going to be out there primarily for somebody else. he's always going to be thinking first of himself but he just needs a little more discipline and to realize that his best interests, hillary's best interests are served by furthering barack obama's best interests and he needs to just fight e tighten it ul -- up a little bit. >> yesterday was the anniversary of your father's passing. we have a picture of your mom

visiting the ronald reagan library. it's a beautiful and poignant picture. how is your family reflecting on your father's legacy? >> well, my mother goes out every year to the library and visits with him on the anniversary of his death and everybody in the family of course takes a moment and expends some thought on that and remembers him. it's, you know, it's one of those things. he lived a good long life. we miss him but that's just the way it is, that's the way life is. >> and your mom's doing well? >> she's doing well. she's quite feisty at nearly 91 now. >> that's what we like to hear. ron reagan, great to see you. thank you. >> he may be a monster but that isn't stopping elmo from trying to make the olympics in london. you heard me right, elmo campaigning to carry the olympic torch for the video. it shows how excited he would be to perform those torch duties. >> now that elmo has run around

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welcome back, everybody. right now jury selection in the jerry s jerry sandusky jury selection is under way. michael joins us now from pennsylvania. michael bharks do these jury

picks say about the big shadow that penn state casts over the potential jury pool? >> well, it is an enormous shadow. of 40 potential jurors, ten of them said they worked at penn state, 19 said they were financial contributors to penn state and eight had made financial contributions to the second mile. that's the charity for kids that jerry sandusky founded and ran here. that just shows how intertwied penn state football and jerry sandusky is in this community but the judge seemed determined to move this case forward and move the jury election process forward so we can start opening statements on monday as scheduled. >> when we talk about the opening statements, we've gotten this new information at that these love letters or inappropriate correspondence that jerry sandusky sent to his

victims could be featured prominently at this trial. what do we know about those? >> we know they've been described as bizarre letters, not necessarily love letters beep have to wait to see exactly what they say. but they are further evidence of how enmeshed jerry sandusky was the kids that are the alleged victims of this child. he gave them gifts, nike shoes, golf clubs, even gave them money to buy marijuana. and all that is going to be used by prosecutors to show a pattern by which he became obsessed with the kids he is accused of abusing. >> michael, thank you. >> meanwhile, across the pond, efforts to extradite the so-called cannibal porn star back to germany are under way. luka is in the custody of berlin effect. the ripple affects are being

felt far beyond that city. the packages with human remains mailed to two universities in vancouver came from montreal. police believe he killed the man, cut him up and mailed off those body parts. >> the political ripple effects of wisconsin. the democrats there are holding o out hope one state senate seat will flip from red to blue. a democratic win would give them a senate majority and some balance in future legislate of battles. governor walker weighed in at an event in milwaukee this morning. >> today is the first day of the take-off in terms of jobs and growth and prosperity of the state of wisconsin. we saw time and time again the big thing that employees were worried about was that election. well, the election's done. the election's done. we don't have opponents anymore.

that's passed. it's now time to come together. >> senator lena taylor joins me now. what do you think is going to happen on the 21st and how likely is it that seat will go democratic soap can you have some type of hold on what the governor wants to do moving forward? >> well, i'm pretty confident that that race is going to john lehman. they've been able to be on the ground and there were four wards that were out about 11:00 and then by the time that those wards came in, we were -- before those wards we were about 1,700 votes up and after those wards came in, he's about a little less than 800 votes up is my understanding. i feel pretty confident with that. i think it puts us in a great position to create the appropriate balance to go forward and work together. there will be responsible legislation and responsible efforts to work together and listen to both sides. >> as we put that graphic back um and let's show it to everybody again, it's showing

51% to 49%, so close right there, still too close to call. when do you think that we'll get the official pronouncement? >> you know, i'm not exactly certain. there were a lot of irregularities that happened. in particular there was turning people away saying the lines were too long in turning people away, there were no ballots. there were many different issues that happened. there was a lot of voter suppression efforts made by the gop. so i'm not really certain when those numbers will be fully final so to say but based on the individuals who were at each ward, we're very confident -- >> what does this mean as we look to the fall for democrats, the unions in this state, will it hold the president responsible? >> well, i think a couple of things. i think this wasn't just about unions. this was really about whether or not money should have voice over the people. i think that the race was close, 150,000 vote is less than the number of people in my senate district and i'm one of 33 state

senators. i think that what this says is that we have to do more of the same, which is be on the ground and continue to perfect the ground game and make sure that we tailor it for every community that we're in in regards to the presidential race. but i also believe it says something to the governor, that he can't just ram things through, that people of wisconsin will speak up, will rise up. some fights are worth fighting. you may not win every fight but it doesn't mean you shouldn't fight. >> thank you for your time this morning. i appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> mitt romney will make a second day in texas where he's making his pitch to texas voters. >> this economy has been hard particularly on his panic businesses and hispanic americans. the rate of unemployment of hispanic americans rose to 11%. >> joining me this morning is christian ramos, contributor for

nbc latino. christian, it's great to you have here. your latest piece accuses politicians, moments of the gop in particular, of talking out of both sides of their mouth when courting latino voters. you argue party members will take a hard line against issues like immigration. do you think it's an issue of duplicity or the party does have a cohesive platform to promote. >> i think the republican's real problem here is in their core beliefs on issues that are critically important to the hispanic community like health care, like immigration. they're far to the right. mitt romney has spent the last year establishing himself on one of the most extreme candidates on issues important to hispan s hispanics.

he's for self-deportation. on health care, he wants to spend the rest of his campaign talking about revoking it. he wants to revoke that. on education, the republican party has established a view on this which would severely roll back federal funding for public education. this stuff hurts the gop on a broad level. and then on the other side of this, if you're looking at surrogates here, let's talk about marco rubio. a lot of people have been flolting hflol floating him as a possible vp. what's critical to understand here is he has no bill. the president has said he would support and help him pass something and the senate majority leader said they would help him pass something. he hasn't produced a bill because nobody wants to touch this this evening with a ten foot pole. compounding that problem for

marco rubio is he has a tendency to go into spanish language media and talk passionately about finding a way to get a pathway to citizenship for hispanic constituents and then he turns around in english language media and says no way, jose, no way are we going to have a pathway to citizenship on this thing. hispanic voters see that. 70% of spanish speaking hispanics in this country are bilingual, right? they're talking about this stuff. it's like being lied to and insulted on top of that. >> we have this recent nbc news/telemundo poll showing that the latino voters support obama 61% over 27%. do you think they feel left

behind over what mitt romney has put out there sp. >> he's far to the right of the issues. let's look at reince priebus. he talked with jorge romas. this was a great opportunity for mitt romney to say this stuff is not the republican party that i know, this is not acceptable. he didn't say anything. then reince priebus was asked about this in the interview and he said he had not heard these comments yet and he could not comment on them because he hadn't heard them. this should be a basic thing where ilt not acceptable for anybody to compare people in johnson to animals. >> mitt romney campaigning through texas today. we'll see if this push works for him. if you want to hear more from christian and get an in-depth look at the hispanic community

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for half the calories plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. the white house has confirmed a drone strike in northwest pakistan killed al qaeda's second in command money abu yahya al libi was responsible for the group's day-to-day operations. it's not clear yet who is supposed to succeed his role. >> president obama's take no prisoners approach to the war on terror has become a hall mark of his time in office. it's also the subject of the new book "kill or capture, the war on terror." joining me is the author of that book, managing editor for

"newsweek" as well. it couldn't be more relevant with this recent drone strike. the title of the book "kill or capture" is notable itself. we killed owe ssama bin laden. do you think there is this sense that the never ending war on terror means that drone strikes and that option is the more useful one to keep america safe and our armed services safe? >> well, it's certainly the view of this president and, frankly, i think it would probably be the view of just about any president who occupied that position. the reason is it's very hard to go into these places, impossible really, for the united states to go into places like pakistan to go after the terrorists with our own forces. that's true in other parts of the world like yemen and somalia. drones allow us to target those

people and also allow us to do it in ways that don't get us enmeshed in local insurgencies and civil wars. the drone program is very much in line with his busineasic m.o terms of fighting the war on terrorism. >> these decisions aren't made lightly. there's a face-to-face squaring off between eric holder and obama strategies david axelrod. you describe "the two men stood chest to chest. it was like a schoolyard fight." what happened in that situation in obviously tensions run high when big decisions like this need to be made but how does the administration move forward with it regarding this and its terror policy when we see that they are effective? >> this particular confrontation between the torng and davattornd david axelrod was not about drone strikes. the back drop is the white house, early in the administration, very preoccupied with dealing with the economy

that was still deep in a recession, trying to get health care reformed passed and you have an attorney general whose obligation is to be independent, pushing counterterrorism policies that are hot button, controversial policies. so there is a national tension there. i was surprised at the level of animosity and personal animus sometimes within the white house. but the other way of looking at that time is that when people are pursuing their positions and doing it vigorously, sometimes you get that kind of tension. what i try to do in the book is lay bare the human dimensions of national security decision making because these are big, important and sometimes life-and-death decisions. >> with ramifications for years and future presidents to come. dani dani daniel, thank you for being here. >> authorities are trying to find out if mitt romney's e-mail

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>> as republicans like mitt romney work to woo voters away from democrats, they are less conservative than you can imagine. an historic shift here. 59% of u.s. latinos say that lgbt individuals should be accepted by society. second generation said 68% surveyed saying the same thing.

my next guest is a history maker in her own right. not only was she just elected the first woman to represent her state's 75th district, but the first openly gay lawmaker in the house of texas as well as one of the youngest i. of. great to have you and important to point out while pursuing public office, you wanted the election to be about qualifications and not about age, gender or sexual identity. what were the qualifications to let you triumph over perceived obstacles? >> thank you for allowing me to be here. going into the race i wasn't running as a gay or a woman candidate, but as candidate who cared about the issues. previously i worked at the capital and i left to be an educator and assistant dean. i thought the combination of the skills and the policy and in the classroom gave me the necessary

qualifications to address some of the serious issue texas was facing. >> when you talk about the issues, a lot of people may look at the legislature and think it's not enough diversity. you are quite a package of diversity wrapped up into one. how do you feel you will make changes within the legislature that is known as conservative. >> i think campaigns are symbolic. we knocked on 11,000 doors and connected with people. i think i want to bring back the same work ethic into the capital that showed we can overcome a lot of barriers and boundaries. we can do that in the house. >> we talked about breaking down so many barriers. what do you want to prove to the people of el paso and prove to your family. you are the oldest of 11 and your youngest sister is 13. you are quite a role model for

your immediate family as well. what do you want to prove? >> to make sure we have someone fighting for the district. there is 290 coalials. these are communities that don't have water, roads, sewer. i want to prove that there is a fighter for the needs of my district. >> i want to get your take on the decision out of san francisco with proposition 8 that bans same-sex marriage. they won't reconsider the ruling and they plan to take the fight to the supreme court. is that where it belongs? >> you know, i'm all for trying multiple avenues to try to promote equality. we need to fight whether it's marriage or education or water or etc. >> great to have ow this morning. we look forward to talking to you this morning. you are in it to win it and we will watch your career in texas.

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