meanwhile, williams remains behind bars. his appeals have repeatedly been denied. that's our report. thanks for watching, i'm john seigenthaler. president obama and former president bill clinton hit the campaign trail as the midterms fastly approach. have you seen this? it happened at the happiest place onnette, but the shouting and shoving match gets uglier. wedding offers. the trapped miners are trying to adjust to life aboveground and what they will sell to the highest bidder. the terror travel alert. the u.s. says it is still in effect for american citizens in europe. we'll talk to somebody who just got back from london about what it is like to be there.

hi, everybody. great to have you with us today. i'm thomas roberts. alex witt has the day off. new today president obama back on the campaign trail 17 days out from midterm elections. he'll be in massachusetts lending support to governor duvall patrick. and the president is not the only big name putting on miles. former president bill clinton in california last night along gubernatorial candidate jerry brown. the two democrats waged a really tough campaign against one another during the presidential primaries back in 1992. new jersey governor chris christie was campaigning for senate candidate linda mcmahon. early voting begins in nevada this morning. and the key race there is harry reid against sharron angle. and christine o'donnell is trying to deep out from a deep hole in her senate race despite trailing in the polls. a new reports say o'donnell outraised chris coons by a 2 to

1 margin. we'll bring in mark here. christine o'donnell, really staggered financials, $3.8 million, and that's during the last three months. that's more than double the coons campaign. where is the money coming from? >> it is coming from outside of delaware. the same story is taking place in nevada where sharron angle was able to use her conservative stardom into raising a lot of money from outside of this state. this is one of the phenomenons we have seen of the tea parties really able to generate a lot of money for their candidates. it has been a big phenomenon. really tapping into what we saw president obama tap into in 2008. christine o'donnell trails chris coons in the polls. she's the big underdog in the race. >> polls show her down by roughly 20% minus a point or two here or there. how do you spend almost $4 million in 17 days to come out

of that? >> well, you just run a lot of tv ads. of course, we have seen a lot of her tv ads where she stairs in the camera and says she's not a witch. i'm sure we'll see other tv ads attacking chris coons and the democrats. certainly, you want to get your message out. and delaware because of the philadelphia nearby market is a pretty expensive state to advertise in. she's probably going to use the money and find ways to use it. >> we'll head out west and talk about california where we have a big name like bill clinton there on the stump for jerry brown. is the former president really the hottest ticket for the democrats now, even better than obama? >> it depends where you go. there's a reason we saw bill clinton campaign for jerry brown. early in the campaign meg whitman, jerry brown's opponent, was using tv ads having clinton attack brown back in the bid for the presidency. after that he made a joke about monica lewinsky and quickly apologized. one of the reasons he has bill

clinton on the campaign trail is to make that a non-issue. any criticisms from jerry brown in the '92 election, voters want to say there's no problem there between the two men. but bill clinton is going into places where president obama really can't. we have seen former president bill clinton go into arkansas, more rural states, state that is obama did not do well in in 2008. president obama is going to campaign places with younger voters and minorities. democrats are trying to cover their bets and sending bill clinton to some areas, president obama in other areas, joe biden is in working class areas and michelle obama is hitting the campaign trail, too. >> give us the races to surprise us election night. >> one race is in kentucky. democrats think they are in fighting distance there, jack conway might be able to pull off the upset against rand paul. the race is getting close. another race that could be a

surprise is alaska because we just don't know who will win. joe miller's probably the front-runner, but people don't think he's been running that great of a campaign. lisa murkowski running the write-in campaign. and scott mcadams is gaining momentum. we'll not find out who wins until late on election night. >> 17 days and counting. desixth 2010 this sunday on "meet the press." david gregory moderates a debate between colorado democratic senator michael bennett and his republican challenger ken buck. that's tomorrow on "meet the press" on nbc. a new report claims u.s. officials knew about plans for the 2008 mumbai attacks three years before they took place. "the washington post" is reporting federal agents were tipped off by the wife of an american businessman, david coleman hedley. a key figure in the attack to kill 166 people.

hadley's wife told them his husband trained with the pakistani group. the fbi looked into the tip but federal officials declined to say what if any action was taken. hadley was not arrested until 11 months after the mumbai attack. it is the happiest place on earth, but tempers were flying on a disney bus in orlando. home video taken as the shoving match took place between the driver and the passenger. what's more alarming is the passenger was holding his baby when the fight broke out. the driver told the passenger the bus was full. >> i was waiting here and he tried to block me. >> disney says the driver is on paid leave while they go ahead to review the case. two people are in the hospital after serious injuries after the driver of this volvo took the term "drive through window" literally. the vehicle went through the wall of the restaurant after the

driver mistook the gas pedal for the brake. the driver was not impaired. more high winds are expected along the east coast. maybe you felt them yesterday. the tail end of the first nor'easter knocked out power to tens of thousands of new englanders. many trees landed on a houses. for more on that, we'll go to bill karins. hey, bill. well, good morning to you, thomas. all this saturday morning we have our eyes on the nor'easter. we had snow in the higher elevations of vermont and new hampshire, but the storm is on the move heading through the gulf of maine and over the top of nova scotia. you can see the radar here with the green being the rain. that's where we are dealing with rain in down east maine from bangor to east port. the rain and the snow has come to an end. this has been a very impressive storm system with the wind still

gusting at this hour between 20 to 30 miles per hour from boston all the way down to philadelphia. and once the sun is completely up, it will mix the air a little more. we will see strong gusts. this is the max wind gust that we have seen in these cities up to this point. and the highest gust was in portland maine, 48-mile-per-hour. many other locations were between 30 and 45. to get damaging wind and downed trees, usually the wind gusts have to be 50 or more. we have avoided severe damage, but it has been on the windy side. that continues throughout the day today as the wind will crank we'll see the skies clearing. temperatures will still be very chilly in the 50s from balmy to boston. the rain should be ending this morning in bangor. going into sunday, the weather pattern will dramatically improve through all of new england. for that matter, much of the country is looking at a very beautiful saturday as it starts in new england where we watch and wait for the storm to exit. thank you, bill. we liked this shot so much we wanted to show it to everybody

from the top of the rock. a beautiful sunrise here in new york. as you can tell, it is getting ring did out there. we'll keep our eyes on the wind here in the northeast. moving on this morning to talk about something a lot of people are interested in, baseball. baseball fans in new york and philadelphia have a lot to be excited about this postseason. the yankees had a wild come-from-behind win last night. and tonight the phillies will take on the giants in game one of the nlcs. more than 3 million cable customers in the northeast won't be able to watch tonight's game or anymore post-season phillies baseball until a fight between two tv companies is resolved. nbc's lynn berry is joining me with details on this one. baseball fans are p.o.'d. >> this means everything. fox and its parent company news corp pulled the programming off cable vision at midnight last night in a fight over fees. the two sides are at odds over how much cable vision should pay fox for programming including sports, news and hit shows like

"glee." this blackout affects local stations, fox 5 and my 9 in new york and fox 29 in philadelphia. fox also called nat geo wild and fox deportes. 3 million households in the northeast can't watch their local fox stations or game one of the nlcs. plus, if the dispute isn't resolved soon, no world series either. as for the timing of this, the contract between cable vision and news corp expired at midnight last night leading to the blackout. cable vision pays $70 million per year to carry 12 fox channels under the current deal, but news corp now reportedly wants more than $150 million per year for the same programming. but both sides are lashing out at each other. cable vision calls fox's feed demands outrageous. news corp and fox say they've made numerous reasonable proposals to cable vision. in the end, thomas, no deal was

reached. >> lynn, you had me when you said no "glee." >> it wasn't the baseball. a lot of people are screaming, especially the yankee fans here in the studio. >> obviously, this is a big time for all baseball fans, but let's talk about the fact that this dispute is not unusual, correct? >> not at all. actually, if this sounds familiar, it should. abc yanked its programming from cable vision in a feed dispute and cut off the beginning of the oscars before a deal was struck. a lot of people were upset about that. and news corp has similar fights with a cable carrier time warner. this happened last year, but it was resolved before any channels were pulled. thomas, what we don't know is when this standoff is going to end. there are reports saying the two sides aren't even talking. no meetings have been scheduled. and a lot of people are getting involved. there's a house lawmaker asking the fcc to intervene in this dispute. >> no "glee"?

>> i'll give them a call and let them know thomas roberts is upset about this. >> if it was the orioles in the playoffs you would catch my attention, but you got me at "glee." >> you bring up the orioles and everybody is going to laugh. thank you so much. so in chile most of the 33 miners trapped for more than two months underground are home with their families this morning. two miners are still recovering from the agonizing ordeal remaining in the hospital. meanwhile, the men are staying unified as they look to rake in big bucks for their story. one family member says the miners agreed to sell their story together for $20 million. nbc's kerry sanders has the details from chile. >> reporter: well, thomas, they left the hospital, all but two of them, and boy, the parties have started. thrilled to finally be, after 70 days, out of that mine. now, family members are embracing them, also working with the fact that they have some mental issues. some short-term ones like trying

to get into regular sleep cycles, and the long-term ones, about trying to deal with the aspect of being isolated for so long. and in this ways, establishing a brotherhood with 33 men altogether and being separated from the families. so doctors say they are reestablishing their connections to their families, being brought up to speed on some of the personal events that took place while they were away, and hopefully taking time. but remarkably, one of the miners, 54-year-old jose rodriguez, was on the phone establishing a new contract at another mine and plans to go back to work. but first, he says, he's going to take a much-needed vacation. thomas? >> kerry, thank you. mystery in mexico, why did police stop searching for an american man? are drug gangs actually taking over and running that part of the country? also, a reality check on the travel alert for americans in

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welcome back. it looks like fall has come and gone in parts of vermont as snow turned higher elevation into a winter wonderland. one resident described the scene for us. >> you can't beat it. we were just down the road at 3,000 feet. and it is full-on fall. you could see the foliage and see the course start to get white. come up 300 feet, two inches. we are almost at four inches right now. >> jim cantor rooe is live in vermont. explain to us how much snow is there on the ground. >> reporter: it is fantastic. we have four inches here. we kind of go down -- you don't have to go too far down to find the green grass. and you can see behind me here still beautiful fall colors

existing. but now we have coated it with a nice layer of snow on top of this. this is the good snowball making stuff. it gets hard quick. and you cans to it pretty well, like a c.c. sabathia fastball for sure. on top of the mountain, as much as 16 inches of snow has fallen with this storm. unfortunately, it is the wind that has caused the power outages across new england, down to albany and boston with a tree blown on a house yesterday. but most people are coming up for fall foliage weekend will be quite surprised getting into the higher elevations to see this kind of snowfall. by the way, the gentleman we saw at the top of the hour there, he's actually hiking up the mountain right now to make his first tracks in the new snow because the chair lifts won't be running for another month and a half until after thanksgiving. we have a long way to go before it opens up, but everyone who is a snow lover is very happy this morning, including yours truly. >> is this unusually early for us to see snow like this? >> reporter: you know, it is not.

actually, a year ago yesterday we had a huge snowstorm across central pennsylvania which did the same thing. it turned fall right into winter. and you typically get the early heavy wet snows. the problem is they don't usually stick around because once the clouds move on out the storm folds away and temperatures get back up to seasonable levels in the 50s and 60s. we do expect that to occur heading into early next week. enjoy it now to get the pictures because it may be gone, but with the strong la nina this year, we are in for a heck of a winter in the northeast. >> explain for those interested in seeing the fall foliage, vermont is one of the most beautiful places for that, did this take a swipe at a lot of the trees to take down a lot of the good looking leaves? >> reporter: well, it did. you can see these trees that i'm standing right next to here have been stripped of their leaves. we got here yesterday and it was beautiful. we had red and yellow just about everywhere. and the last few leaves that had some color on them are kind of hanging on here for dear life. but a lot of the turn hasn't occurred yet in southern new

england and across the southern coastline of the appalachians. if you didn't get the color down here, you can travel down south. >> jim, thank you. president obama is kris-crossing the country with the midterm vote just two weeks away. today it is a rally in massachusetts before joining the first lady in ohio. stops are also planned in rhode island and minnesota along with a major swing out west. savannah guthrie is the white house correspondent and co-host of "the daily rundown." what's their best hope with this campaigning? >> reporter: it probably lies with the president being able to whip up excitement, some of the campaign magic from 2008. you see him now starting to schedule this wall-to-wall campaigning between now and the election day. clearly, the focus here is on what cay obama surge voters, some of the voters that came out to vote for the first time in 2008. usually young people, african-american voters, that's who the president is really directing his energies toward.

it is a bleak climate certainly for democrats. we know that. one thing that's changed also is that republicans now hold the fund-raising advantage where earlier in the campaign season it seems democrats had the edge there. democrats traditionally have a sophisticated machine about getting out the vote. that's what they will be relying on here in close races in a midterm election that will come down to turnout for sure. >> savannah goout rooe, great to see you. see you here at the top of the hour. with a dramatic car chase in brazil. the driver crashes into car after car. then police start firing their weapons. so did this make -- did it make him finally stop when bullets were flying? we'll take you there to find out.

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so a crazy chase in brazil to show you. it started when a man was stopped for a minor traffic violence. police ran a check on the car and it came back that it was

stolen. then the driver was an escaped convict. and the driver took off weaving through traffic until he was blocked. then he backs up at high speed hitting several motorcycle cops. police open fire and the driver took off again to crash his car moments later. by the time it was all over, the driver had hit at least nine cars and was shot five times by police. so their wild and crazy stunts have topped the box office before, but will "jackass 3-d" make it to the top? take a look. >> wait until he gets here. >> what's up? >> not hutch, how have you been? hi five! >> good stuff. for more on the box office battle and the latest hollywood headlines, i'm joined by rob chuter. i can't help but laugh because i

have a very cheap sense of humor. >> a lot of us do apparently. this movie will be huge. they are predicting it will take $40 million this weekend in terms of being at the box office. >> how does that compare to the prior movie? >> much better. the first two did well, but this looks like it will be in the 40s. studio executives are shocked this morning. johnny knox is one of the producers of the movie, so he'll be a very wealthy young man. >> is this the movie to see with your buddies, or is this to get back at your girlfriend? >> i think girls will like the movie, too. you don't get $40 million unless you are appealing to device and girls. both sexes are going to see it. it is funny, i saw it last night. ashamed to admit it, it is really funny. >> it looks good. the previews look good. also making headlines this morning, reaction from jennifer aniston's camp because of joan

collins. >> alexis carington strikes again proving at her age you can say whatever you want. >> this is what she said, i have to say, there ant that many good looking actresses around today, i mean, there's angelina jolie, and there's angelina jolie, jennifer aniston is cute, but i couldn't call her beautiful. >> angelina gave her a compliment. the reporter in britain asked her what she thought of jennifer. joan collins didn't go that way. what jennifer's camp is saying she's aware of the comments but they are not going to respond. they are just ignoring it. they didn't get a dig in with joan collins that we all were hoping the battle would go back and forth. it is dead. jen is not talking about it. >> moving on, speaking of angelina jolie, she is doing a directorial debut as we speak?

>> she has written her first movie and will direct it. it is a war-torn movie set in bosnia. she has herself in trouble in bosnia with complaints of the subject matter of her movie with the baby, there's a very brutal rape in the movie. angelina is not in the movie, but it upset a lot of people and almost put production on hold for a little while until they figure out exactly if this is the type of movie they want shot in their country. >> that's a big development. >> it is pretty big. and she has done so much for this foundation. the jolie-pitt foundation has raised awareness for the people in that country. i think that it is probably a big problem. if anyone can sort this out, it is angelina-jolie. >> rob, great to see you, as always. now i want to go see "jackass 3-d." kicked in the face by a stripper. now the legal battle over who is to blame is over.

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good morning, everybody. it is msnbc saturday. i'm thomas roberts in for alex witt. at half past the hour, here are your fast five headlines. there's yet another mine disaster. an explosion today in central china that has killed 20 miners, trapping 17 others. the mining accidents in china last year killed 2,600 people. meanwhile, in chile all but two of the 33 miners have been released from the hospital and have gone home. those home are perfectly healthy. the wife of the american mastermind of the mumbai terror attacks warned the fbi her husband was an active mill nant a terrorist group. a story in "the washington post" says the fbi looked into the tip but there's no indication what action, if any, was taken. president obama returns to the campaign trail today to stop in massachusetts this afternoon for governor duvall patrick. and harry reid and tea party

candidate sharron angle are in a statistical tie. those are your fast five headlines. it is a neck-and-neck race in california as senator barbara boxer fights for her political life. new polling shows the democrat leading the republican challenger carly fee rena by a single point. boxer had a four-point lead earlier this month. john harwood is fresh back to washington from california. john, explain what are the key issues keeping carly fiorina so close on the heels of barbara boxer? >> the general unhappiness americans feel over the economy, over what's happening in washington and the growth of spending in government. california is not immune to that, even though the water level is higher for democrats. president obama has an approval rate over 50%. but it is under 50% in most of the rest of the country. and the response from barbara boxer against carly fiorina a former chief executive says to

rip fiorina's throat out. she is going so aggressive in ads portraying her as a figure to ship jobs overseas at hp while enriching herself. she said, yeah, carly was a success in business and a success in outsourcing jobs and enriching herself. it was quite a striking display of aggressiveness by barbara boxer. that's why she has a lead. >> it seems like the two hottest races are the career politician against the former ceo. >> you could not have a more stark contrast of styles and sort of approaches to governance. meg whitman and carly fiorina are saying we need change. we can't have the same horse trading and the same approach to solving the political problems and creating new jobs. what jerry brown and barbara boxer are saying is, first of all, they are trying to redirect the public anger toward business

because wall street and big business isn't much more popular than washington either. and also saying jerry brown in the case of the governor's race making the argument says ini know how to operate and get things done. i have been in the process for a long time. and meg whitman is walking into something she has no idea to navigate. >> you spoke to jerry brown and meg whitman. what about final pitches? >> okay. the meg whitman final pitch is we need a different way of doing business. i created jobs at e-bay where she was the ceo. i know how to bring people together. i know how toll solve problems in ways that people who spent their lives in poll tiblgs don't know how to do. jerry brown's pitch is she doesn't know what she's talking about. look at arnold schwarzenegger. jerry brown doesn't bring up schwarzenegger because schwarzenegger has not taken a position in the race, but the backdrop by democrats is to say, yes, schwarzenegger came in from the out and said he would apply

business principles. he started out very high and is now in the 20s creating a conundrum for californians. what do you want? which is the approach that is best in a very difficult time in a political system that's pretty broken in california? >> $140 million personally for meg whitman. she is still an extremely wealthy woman. so with your ear to the ground on what's taking place in california, does that kind of money buy the momentum she needs? >> well, it has put her in a competitive position in the race. you know, the problem, thomas, is california is so vast. how do you get the attention of voters? how do you make yourself known? $150 million will make you known to the california electorate. doesn't necessarily close the sale. some republicans think that the extent to which meg whitman was dominating the airwaves in the summer may have oversaturated the market and made people feel sort of tired and ready for a fresh message. that's what jerry brown who saved his money started

advertising in september is trying to offer. it is kind of interesting to offer a fresh message when you are elected governor more than 30 years ago, but that's what jerry brown is trying to do. >> we'll switch to nevada. that's a hot race where we have been watching that. harry reid challenged by sharron angle. the to debated on thursday. we'll listen to some of the exchanges. >> all these things i've talked about. my opponent is against. she wouldn't do that. my job is to create jobs. what she's talking about is extreme. >> harry reid, it is not your job to create jobs. it is your job to create policies to create the confidence for the private sector, to create those jobs. >> all right. exchanges here of harry reid to man up and him saying to act like a lady to her. really fighting stuff, but who comes out of this winning the debate? >> i think angle probably got an advantage because neither candidate dominated. when you have someone like is a sharron angle who is not as

well-known, questions like is she crazy and ready for primetime? if she comes into a debate, she's not that great, but harry reid was not that great either. she is surprisingly close on the heels of harry reid. at the end there's a slight edge for the candidate who has won a bunch of elections in nevada before, but she's right in the game. whether she wins the race will tell you about the strength of the republican wave. >> john harwood, thank you, sir. a florida man is $650,000 richer today after a kick to the face by a stripper. michael ireland was awarded the money after filing suit for a 2008 incident at the cheetah club in west palm beach. he suffered double vision and broken bones after a dancer at the club kicked him in the face with her high heel. the dancer says she hit him by accident. even if californians decide to legalize marijuana in the next month election, they will still run a law. eric holder says the feds will continue to process cases of

marijuana possession in california no matter how voters decide on prop 19. the measure would decriminalize possession of an ounce or less of marijuana for people of drinking age. >> a new report in this morning. the san antonio express says mexican state police suspended indefinitely their search on a border lake for an american man after his and his wife were attacked by mexican pirates. that contradicts reports that u.s. officials in the missing americans family that the effort were stopped only temporarily. tiffany hartley said her husband david was killed while on the mexican side of falcon lake on september 30th. i have clint van sant here. on tuesday a mexican commander involved in this case was found dead. he had been decapitated. now there are reports that the mexican authorities are stopping the search for david hartley because they are worried how the investigation can proceed. is this sending the message that the drug gangs are winning and taking control of mexico?

>> i think it is, thomas. i mean, the drug gangs, there are two different cartels fighting for this lucrative drug route from mexico to the united states that goes right over falcon lake. i think that the message sent is that this is our lake, we, the traffickers, and they drew the line in the sand. in this case, they drew the line in the lake and said if you come over to our side, we don't care who you are, we are going to kill you. normally, thomas, you see the drug traffickers somewhat shy away, even though over 50 americans have been killed in mexico this year. they shy away from these types of confrontations because they know we are going to put the coast guard down there and will deal with them. but i think maybe we saw some young bucks who took this on their own and who decided that they were going to send their own message. >> could this be a public red h hering while they continue their information? >> i think so. i read a report last week that said crimes like this in mexico

have a 2%, 2% solution rate. and i think with the message that's been sent, with the decapitation of this mexican lead investigator, it is forget about this, let this go away. leave us alone because we are the drug traffickers. we've got more guns, more people, more boats. and as far as mexico's concerned, it looks like they may be losing the war. >> isn't this a wake-up call to the american side of the investigation around falcon lake knowing that it is a huge funnel for drugs getting into this country? shouldn't they ramp up and intimidate back the gangs into doing that? >> you know, i really think so. i think we ought to have coast guard boats, i think we ought to have helicopters with night vision capability. and if the traffickers are trying to run drugs across the lake in the middle of the night, we ought to take them on. we have to go toe-to-toe. if they send the message awe say, we got the message to stay out of your way, what message

does that send back, thomas? >> sadly, for the investigation there has not been a body found of david hartley. in your estimation and through your professional experience on this story, how hard will it be to recover the body so the hartley family has closure? >> i think the chances are slim to none. after he was shot and killed i think the drug traffickers grabbed his body, the jet ski and took it inland, disposed of it. they don't want him to be found and they don't want the evidence to be there. thomas, they had five days before the mexican authorities geared up an investigation. i mean, had this american been killed in san francisco bay, you could have gotten his body off the coast of new york in that period of time. so i don't think he's going to be found. and unfortunately, i don't think the family is going to have closure. >> clint van sant, thank you, sir. good to see you this morning. the fda approved botox for the treatment of chronic migraine headaches in adults. patients who experience 15 or

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>> i was there on assignment for two high-profile events. the queen elizabeth ocean liner was launched by the queen. and then the savoy hotel in london opened after three years. so i was somewhere where if there was going to be a terrorist attack, those would have been two likely places. so i had a bit of concern with myself, but when i checked with the principles involved, that i said there was security in place for those types of events, but not because of the american terror alert. they are always on a high alert in london. and you know that they have video cameras all over that city. so much so they can do a documentary on every one of our lives. >> what kind of precautions, if any, do they take? you did say there were concerns in the forefront of your mind? >> i am always looking around and seeing who is placing a bag down somewhere. at the airport -- i also like to know i have my telephone

charged. i just felt that it was really low on juice. i was just feeling a little bit like in a precarious situation. i always feel that to me that's a lifeline to have a cell phone because you never know if you need to take a picture of something, if you need to tweet something or make a phone call. so for me that's mostly what i did. i travel as a videographer and reporter, so i always have a decent sized camera with me. but what i was surprised with was that was not picked up on on the streets as it had been in the past when i was approached before by police who said, what are you doing? but that didn't happen this time. i was a little surprised that that didn't happen, and i did see police in lester square where i was staying, but they didn't seem to be armed. >> did you talk to any of the americans while you were there, maybe not for the distraction of work as you were, but there for the enjoyment of having a european vacation? >> there's not a lot of americans over there right now because of the season, which is

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oib pop into politics now, and michelle obama. working to drum up enthusiasm for democrats pt the woman who is arguably the right's biggest draw is also on the road. sarah palin is apparently trying to resurrect an old controversy from the '08 presidential race.

she took a hefty swipe at the first lady this week saying, quote, for the first time in my adult life, i am really proud of my country. you know, when i hear people say or have said during the campaign that they had never been proud of america until that time, i think haven't they met anybody in uniform yet? >> malik ka anderson is a political reporter with "the washington post." good morning. >> good morning. >> so that phrase that the first lady used was dissected two years ago. she clarified her comments back then. why do you think sarah palin would go ahead and resurrect those remarks? >> sarah palin's job is to excite her base and throw red meat to her base. it's a pretty small base. and so that is what she was doing there. i asked marble obama about sarah palin just kind of get ago sense of what she thought about sarah palin and she essentially said that she didn't really know sarah palin and that she understood that within the political arena sometimes

people, you know, have to say things to ginn up their base or to get atlanta. so i think that's how she will see this. she's not going to be drawn into some sort of fight with sarah palin. >> how do you think people will look at this as far as a woman when is looking at a presidential election or being a party leader? how do you think they're going to look back at this as she takes a swipe at the first lady in 2010? >> it depends on who you ask. some people might see it as petty. some people might see it as a legitimate statement. sarah palin has a base. she tends to that base on facebook and twitter. i think one of the problems that she's had is she hasn't necessarily been able to expand that base. if you look, for instance, at michelle obama's numbers, her numbers are in the 60s and in terms of sarah palin's, her numbers are much lower in terms of the folks who think that she's qualified to be president. >> there is an opinion piece by

so fee nelson on the grill.com. she says she's worried about putting it first lady on the campaign trail because it was only two years ago that commercial obama because fodder for political conservative is and pundits as well as the character of an angry and overbearing black woman. i am not sure that it is wise to resurrect that old stereotype pe peps. >> well, i think stereotypes of black women or women of latinos or whatever have existed. they'll exist before and after michelle obama. over these last two years, she very much has presented a picture of herself that are about those characters. i talked to her in january and she believes people know who she is now, that she isn't reduced any longer to a caricature. democrats and folks in the white house thought about that in terms of putting her out there. if you look at her speech, it isn't about red meat or attacking the gop or

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