up the tab. >> this is the latest plank in the so called war on women. entirely created by my colleagues across the aisle for political gain. >> john boehner is crying up a storm calling the student loan fight bogus. >> i pick this big political fight where there is no fight is just silly. >> tonight, we prove the speaker wrong. >> give me break. the obama campaign is hammering mitt romney on national security. >> look, he knew what would happen. supposed the navy seals had gone in there and i want hasn't been bin laden. >> you're not going to believe ç mitt's response. scott walker is running scared. he's mailing lies across america. now he's calling in the heavy artillery. >> you know, something may go

down tonight, but it ain't going to be jobs sweetheart. tomorrow is the white house correspondence dinner. tonight, we're looking back at some of its greatest hits. >> paul ryan couldn't be here tonight. his budget has no room for laughter. good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching. republicans are stuck between a rock and a hard place in the fight over student loans. the gop wanted interest rates on some student loans no double in june. well, today, they voted oen a bill in the house to keep the rates where they are. house democratic leader nancy pelosi pointed out the president forced the republicans to act. >> the point is that on the floor of this house at this time on this day, the republicans have folded because the president made the issue too hot to handle. that's why the bill is coming to the floor today. >> there's only one problem.

the bill in the house is a complete sham and republicans know it. john boehner reached the house op dishonesty on the house floor today. >> why do people insist that we have to have a political fight on something where there is no fight. there's absolutely no fight. people want to politicize this because it's an election year, but my god, do weç have to fig about everything? this is beneath the dignity of this house and the dignity of the public trust that we enjoy from our con stitch wents. they expect us to come here and be honest with each other and work out the issues and not pick this big political fight where there is no fight is just silly. >> we're used to seeing the speaker throwing phony temper tantrums. he was kicking and screaming about the republican war on women. >> this is the latest plank in the so-called war on women

entirely created by my colleagues across the aisle for political gain. >> there's a pattern here. boehner blows a gasket when ever he needs to express fake outrage about something he knows is false. remember the health care bill. >> can you say it was done openly? with transparency and accountable? without back room deals, hidden from the people? no you can't. >> this is nothing but a dog and pony show. he claims there's no fight over student loan interest rates, but the house bill keeps interest rates low by rating a health care fund which provides cancer screenings. it's an unworkable bill and the president says he will voe toe it. boehner says everyone is in agreement. 30 members of his caucus voted against his bill and the

conservative for growth they're "f'ot on board. they said the federal government should not be in the business of distorting the market for student loans. we urge members of the congress to oppose subsidized loans. that's a 180 from where america is. the club for growth helped elect 20 republicans in 2010. boehner said there's no reason to fight over student loans but there's a fight within his own party. paul ryan wants to lock in the higher interest rate on these loans in his own budget. they voted on it. in the committees budget proposal the democrats are taken to task for lowinger the interest rates in 2007. the ryan plan wants to roll them back and return them to pre-2007 levels. the speaker is dishonest when he claims there's no fight. republicans starting the fight and the hard right groups are

keeping the fight going within the republican party. boehner knows he's on the wrong side of the fight and so does mitt romney. mitt romney was in ohio today trying to sound very concerned about education. instead, he sounded once again like he's seriously out of touch. >> this kind of divisiveness, this attack of success is very different than what we have seen in our country's history. we have always encouraged young people, take a shot, go for it. take a risk. get the education. borrow money from your parents. >> someone needs to held him not every kid in america has parents whoare millionaires. was it just last week that in pennsylvania the republican de facto nominee was sitting down with middle classers talking about education. they were telling him we're concerned about our local schools. we're concerned about education. we're concerned about our kids futures. there's been a lot of budget

cuts. why did he just say you got to suck it up. you got to send your kid to college. you got to just borrow your kid some money. this is about the dumbest thing he's said on the campaign trial. this is proof positive he has no clue what middle class families are going through. i've been down that road before i came to work here. i can tell you when people get this their 40s and kids are thinking about going to college, they're thinking i'm going to help them out but they're going to have to get a loan. i wonder if i can get my house paid for. i want to get this truck paid for. that's where america is. mitt romney is saying just loan your kid some money. for most young people assistance comes from things like affordable loan rates. things that can be provided by the government, not hand outs, loans. not loans from mommy and daddy. mittster, not everybody was born with a silver spoon. one of those guys is in the oval always right now and he knows

all about what the middle classers are dealing with when it comes with student loans. just get it from your mom and dad. give me break. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. how many americans is he talking to? what's your reaction to this? >> i wish i had thought of that. i forgot to borrow that money from my parents. it slipped my mind when i had to go to college.

here's what's going on. young people, every kid in america, every parent of a kid that is graduating this spring, the kid is graduating and looking down the barrel of 6.8% for federal loans. the banks are getting their money for less than 1%. salespeople start people started yelling and screaming. the president listened. romney follows the president's leadership but he's got to drag his party behind him. look at how they act. they step forward. they say borrow the money from your mom and dad. they say we'll raid a public health fund to help women get mammograms. americans can't have tuition and mammogram ls at the same time. you got to take the money from the mammogram fund. these people are out of touch with america. it's almost laughable.ç >> how dishonest are the republicans being? how dishonest was john boehner when we went screaming on the floor today? >> there is a real fight.

it's a fight in his party to figure out which americans they're going to hurt in order to get out from under this theme. you have a bunch of angry parents and young people about this doubling of the interest rate. they are not asking for hand outs. they are saying we'll borrow the money. we just want to pay it back at the 3.4% that everybody else is doing. to insult those people that say they want to pay fair loan, that's wrong. look at how the republicans are doing. how conservative is it to raid the prevention fund. seven out of ten americans die every year from preventible diseases. 75% of the money we spend on our health care is preventible diseases. they go after the prevention fund. that's going to save money? no. it's going to cost us more money on the back end. they can't come up with a better

way to fund young people going to college than to raid the prevention fund and take mammograms against women. they got a war on students and women and wonder why they are falling in the polls. >> mitt romney is wipging this thing. he has no concern for public education. he has no plan to alleviate the problem for young people when it comes to finances. van jones great work. appreciate your being here on the program. joining us now isç msnbc political analyst richard wolffe. this is the president today saying that the republicans are starting old fights. here it is. >> just look at some of the debates we've had this year. instead of putting forward serious plans to help more americans back to work, a lot of those folks in the other party have chose on the refight battles we settled long ago. >> who is winning in this battle? who is winning in the political give and take here? >> the president normally scores well on issues of authenticity

and honesty. that's why people say they like him. it is a bit rich to coin a phrase to hear john boehner say this whole thing is contrived and phony. here is someone that took this country to the brink of default over an entirely contrived argument about the national debt ceiling. a debate about a budget they had already passed. a debt ceiling that will be lifted for decades to come under the paul ryan budget. they hurt the economy. they hurt themselves. he knows something about contrived political debates. the president has said all along this is about real people. it's not a game. >> i think this is real opportunity for young people in this country who are in college and paying attention to their money, paying attention to their future, payi ining attention tos fight to see how washington works. is president obama coming out on their side in their minds? do you think he's winning this?

>> this is not an abstract thing. this what people are going toç have to pay. this is mount of pockets and it's happening now. it's not something that the president just cooked up. these rates will go up. budgets are about choices. if the conservatives in the country like the club for growth think the free market is more important than struggling students, that's a choice. that's a value. >> has romney said anything more out of touch than go to your mom and dad to get a loan? >> yes, every week. couple of cadillacs. the car elevator. he cannot help himself. this is the world he has lived in. people again are going to have to decide whether the character they see out there in these little slips is someone who is going to look of their interests when he gets into the oval office if he gets there. that's the kind of decision

voters have to make and that's why these moments are more telling. >> he's winging it. he doesn't have plan. that will haunt him throughout this entire campaign. i guarantee that comment does not resonate very well with the kid sitting in his dorm room wondering what is going to happen to his loans and have to get through the next semester. they are seeing who is on their side. >> great to have you with us. remember to answer tonight's question at the bottom of the screen. share your thoughts on twitter. republicans say president obama is using the killing of osama bin laden to divide the country. you heard that çright. colonel lawrence wilkerson will join me. fellow radical new jersey governor chris christie is heading to wisconsin to do some campaigning. somebody else might be going there too. stay with us.

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that has to be our biggest national security priority. >> welcome back. candidate barack obama back in october of 2008 with plan. when he game president he executed his plan and made the right call on osama bin laden that night almost a year ago. republican presidential candidates including mitt romney have relentlessly attacked the president saying he is weak on national security. now, theç obama campaign has p out a video and here is part of it. >> he took the harder and the more honorable path than the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result.

>> it's not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person. he was referring to the hunt for osama bin laden. >> as you might expect the romney camp can dish it out but they can't take it. a spokeswoman said it's now sad to see the obama campaign seek to use an event that unified our country to once again divide us. wrong. president obama is banishing his national security credentials with hard evidence. the president is also responding to months and months of attacks by candidate romney. joining me tonight is colonel lawrence wilkerson, former chief of staff. good to have you with us tonight. >> good to be here. >> let's do a what if for a moment. i've often thought that if they

had not gotten osama bin laden on that night, that it could have brought down the president's presidency. how bigç call is it? >> i think you're probably right. it probably wouldn't have brought him down, but it would have seriously hurt him. i served three presidents. the most intimate moment, the most difficult moment, the most crushing moment is making these fateful decisions that put young men and young women in harm's way. it's not easy for anyone. the tendency is wanting to back up from it. when you do put the hammer down when you're john kennedy trying to do to do the bay of pigs, this is real defining moment.

it's the defining moment. when they make the right decision they should be applauded. >> the political decision is the white house is going to remind people of what this country has been through and that he did make the right call and we got a successful conclusion and he's taken out more terrorists in the last three and a half years than the last administration. >> there's something else. you have to realize, i think, i'm hoping the american people are beginning to realize is that all my party has to attack people especially democrats is national security. that's it. they don't have any other ideas. they don't have any other domain in which they dwell. it's all about national security. >> should president obama play this card. should he remind america? >> i wish we didn't have to play any card about killing anyone. >> that's just the politicalç climate. >> if he's got to establish it, this establishes them. >> your credibility with many people in this country, and you say you teach it.

looking at mitt romney, what national security credentials does he have? >> i see none right now. i'm waiting to hear somebody of substance from this candidate. throughout the primary all i heard was lunacy whether it was santorum, romney, gingrich or whoever. the only person i heard any sane remarks was ron paul. as a republican, i've heard mitt romney say nothing of substance domestic or foreign. >> is it hard for the country to be on the same page when it comes to national security because we're so idealogically divided. >> we talk about foreign policy and security policy from world war ii forward. there hasn't been an iota difference between presidents republican or democratic when it came to the brass tax of national security. sometimes there were difference on the surface matters, sometimes in the way we

portrayed it, but there hasn't been much difference. you have to come to george w. bush to find real significance. now we're tracking back to the center where both parties understand u.s. national security interests. i'm waiting for the republicans to articulate that understanding. the democrats have. >> would you like to hear mitt romney congratulate the president for making the right call? >> i would. i would. i would have at the time. >> here is part of senator john mccain's statement on theç oba video. shame on barack obama for diminishing the memory of september 11th and the killing of osama bin laden turning it into a cheap political attack ad. >> my thought is that's all they have been doing since george w. bush in 2001 assume the presidency. how dare john mccain accuse the democrats of doing something the republicans have made their reason for existence. >> great to have you.

>> thanks so much. 33 growths of economic growth says president obama is interested in slow jamming the news. senator john mccain said the war on women is imaginary. president obama proved his wrong. easy label, right? but that label can lead to prejudice and discrimination, and we don't want to go there. so let's try to see people for who they really are. you can help create a more united states. the more you know. i get my cancer medications through the mail. now washington, they're looking at shutting down post offices coast to coast. closing plants is not the answer.

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economic news. we learned that the economy grew for the 11th straight month. that's 33 months of consecutive growth but growth for the first quarter was slightly less than predicted, 2.2% because government spending fell. hear that conservatives. government spending fell. private sector growthç was at 3.5%. cutting back on government spending dragged down the overall numbers. this is exactly what republicans want an austerity program during democratic presidencies. mitt romney said, president obama stagnant government. economy has depressed growth and the american spirit of natural optimism. president obama spent the week slow-jamming the news. wrong again. republicans have spent three years slow-jamming the president trying to obstruct him at every turn. here is government spending

during the last five presidents. the two blue lines are president clinton and president obama because democratic presidents are pressured into keeping spending low. if you want to know what happens under severe austerity, just look across the atlantic. england has fallen into a double dip recession. maybe if they had spent some money on a stimulus package, they wouldn't be there. let's bring in robert reich. author of the book beyond outrage. i love the title. i'll have to read the book. good to have you with us tonight. what do you make of these numbers? the numbers tell a story. private sector growth was 3.5% but overall was 2.5% because of the government spenting. >> the big news is that governmentç cut, that is cuts

spending, budget cuts mostly at the state and local level but a slow down at the federal level, that is a drag on the economy. that should be no news. we know that's happened in the past. it's what's happening in europe. europe has embraced austerity economics and that has pushed the continent, europe is now moving into recession. britain is already in recession. spain is in recession. when you cut government spending as much as they're doing, when you cut it as much as going on in our state and local level, you are dragging the economy down because you're cutting total economic demand. when you have a recession or you're trying to get out of a big recessionary hold, when consumers can't make up the difference, when businesses can want make up the difference, government cuts are crazy. >> the news today on economic growth included, i think a real bright spot, the automobile industry in this country.

this is a big win republicans just can't take away from the president. had we had not done what we did with the automobile industry and floated a loan which they are paying back and now positioning themselves as real world competito competitors, where would our economy be? >> it's interesting. had we not adopting even larger versions that the president was pushing, we would be in so much worse shape than we are. if we had adopted policies that were larger than the president had been pushing but republicans said no all the way whether talking about autos orç the stimulus that the president wanted. the economy would be charging forward. all of the drags are a result of republicans saying no. the nabobs of negativism. >> how crucial are the next

months coming up to the election? we know there's not going to be anything done on the economy in washington. the economy will have to flourish on its own. it's not going to get anymore stimulus or bills passed. how crucial is this period of time for the obama administration and the country for that matter? >> it's very crucial for the country because people are still hurting. we're still in the gravitational pull of the recession called by the policies of george w. bush. a lot of people are worried about understandably worried. most of the data in most elections shows the critical period is three months before election day. if the economy is still moving, no matter how slowly, if it's still moving in the right direction. if growth is still positive and unemployment is declining then the president will be in good shape. if the economy follows europe into a slide or a double dip or a stall then that gives romney

and the republicans a much, much stronger chance even though their the ones, their policies that brought all of this onto begin with. >> finally, i want you to comment on what mitt romney said today. ìai=re in education, you're a profession for a long time. this has been a big economic pitch by the president to young people in trying to help them out with student loan rates. mitt romney says go borrow money from your mom and dad. what's your response? >> it displaces a certain ignorance. most of the kids that need loans are from poorer families and working class families. obviously they took out loans because their parents couldn't afford it in most cases. to say go talk to mom and dad

d displays an ignorance of where americans are. beyond that education is not just a personal or family investment, it's a public good. i don't understand why are these republicans insist on cutting back student loans, on cutting k through 12 education, on cutting back pell grants. in the paul ryan budget we're going to have dramatic cuts and the ability of poor kids to go to college. romney says it's a marvelous budget. they used to believe, the old republican party of the 1950s, early 1960s used to believe in equal opportunity which meant education. now they don't believe in education. >> i think i hit your hot button. thanks for beingç with us. >> thanks. there's a lot more coming p up.

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with walker in green bay and milwaukee. this is so predictable. one radical governor going to protect another radical governor. walker shouldn't stop with ch s christie. go get kasich. go get scott. he will talk about how he got a 26% approval rating back in december. christie will bring his jersey style of politics. christie gave tax breaks to millionaires and slashedç budgs which meant thousands of jobs for teachers, cops and firefighters all lost their jobs. last month new jersey lost 11,600 private sector jobs. new jersey unemployment rate is higher than illinois's, a at a time that scott walker routinely

criticizes for its economic policy. i guess the old saying is true, birds of a feather flock together. if you're interested in watching the radical governor's flap their mouths on may 1st, you first have to donate $20 to scott walker's campaign then hope that your name gets drawn out of a hat so you can go. now we know the walker campaign strategy is what, they're going to raffle their way to victory. sounds not real people friendly to me. i'm joined my malin mitchell, president of the professional firefighters of wisconsin who is running to challenge walker's lieutenant governor. good to have you back with us tonight. it's very clear. >> good to be back. >> what scott walker is doing. he's going around the country. people in new jersey and new york are getting mailers. now he is bringing in christie. is this going to work? >> it shows that walker's latest attempt to bring a ringer into

our state shows how basic and how his campaign has failed. walker is raising money for his failing come pain now he brings a friend along with him. a friend that his criticized before.% they have both been brink drinking the koch brother's kool-aid. how do you attack teachers? they both are ally fls this republican attack, war on women. i have three questions for governor christie when he comes here because our governor will not answer the questions. my first question is why will the governor not take responsibility for being number one in the nation or last for having the most job losses. we have 23,900 lost last year. second is why would he not take credit for having workers rights urntds attack and saying it's not about the budget but busting

up the unions. another question is why will he not live us to his promise he broke of balancing our budget. right now we have a 250% more of a deficit than we had last year. i have simple questions and we can't get him to answer. that's why our governor has got to go. >> i think the people of new jersey would like to ask christie those same questions. it's interesting how the state is attracting guys that can't create jobs. if walker is forced to go outside the state to get money, why doesn't he just keep the money in state? there's just, i know it's national campaign, but he has really tried to sell this on all the cables that this has wide ramification, sweeping ramifications beyond wisconsin's borders. what's your response to that? >> it's proven that governor walker is not talking about?x wisconsin. he is working for a bigger agenda, a national agenda, not for wisconsin values agenda.

you can tell that. when he speaks last year he's able to talk a call from one of the koch brothers or who he thought was a koch brother but he can't take a call from a constituent like myself. that's why we had the recall election. nobody likes recalls. it costs the state money. people are sick and tired of having these koch brother ageneral dagenda and these billionaires coming in. we just can't have that. >> mahlon good to have you with us. we'll show you the tape, next. stay with us. i went to a small high school.

the teacher that comes to mind for me is my high school math teacher, dr. gilmore. i mean he could teach. he was there for us, even if we needed him in college. you could call him, you had his phone number. he was just focused on making sure we were gonna be successful. he would never give up on any of us. coming up, you won't believe what president obama said about the republican war on women. we'll play you the tape, next. tomorrow is the white house correspondence dinner. i'll show you why this year's

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senator john mccain went to the well of the senate yesterday and ripped the democrats for claiming that there's a war on women in this country. just moments ago president obama spoke to a women's leadership forum here in washington counter mccain's claims. >> we don't need to read between the lines when folks talk about killing the health care reform that we have. part of what they're saying is women should pay more than men forç the same health care coverage. they are saying we should stop protecting women with preexisting conditions. they are saying t ining no long that 25-year-old daughter and more than a million other women stay on their parents health care plans. when you talk about how marvelous your party's economic

plan is, when you break down the number what is you're really saying is you want to pass massive new tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires and pay for them by gutting programs that support low income women and children and pregnant mothers and student aid that helps young women. when you say get rid of planned parenthood, you're not just talking about restricting a woman's ability to make her own health care decisions, you're talking about denying the preventive care like cancer screenings that millions of women rely on. when something like the violence against women's act is up for debate then we know something has gone haywire. this is a bill that my vice president co-authored when he was in the senate. it's a bill that once passed by wide bipartisan margins. it's a bill that we are going to renew. it's the right thing to do. >> so, who do you believe, an

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wait. you forgot your lunch.ç >> well, i think his legacy is going to be the natural environment. improving the green spaces of our country. i've urged him to spend more time on that. >> the president's schedule is just as busy as ever. he's just doing different things. ♪ i got a lot of things i'd like to say ♪ >> the bush administration was a little short on humor but

comedian stephen colbert targeted bush and his policies. the jokes were hilarious but the room wasn't laughing. take a look. >> i believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least and we have set up fabulous government in iraq. i believe in this president. i know there's some poll ls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. we know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality. reality hasç a well known libel bias. the greatest thing about this man is he is steady. you know where he stands. he believes the same thing wednesday that he believed on monday no matter what happened tuesday. events can change. this man's belief never will.

as excited as i am to be here with the president, i'm appalled to be surrounded by the liberal media that is destroying america with the exception of fox news. fox news gives you both sides of every story, the president's side and the vice president's side. the rest of you, what are you thinking reporting on nsa wiretapping or secret prisons in eastern europe. those things are secret for a very important reason. they're super depressing. >> rich little was asked to host the following year. now my favorite moment came just last year. in the weeks leading up to the dinner donald trump repeatedly embarrassed himself by demanding that president obama release his

long form birth certificate. the wednesday before the dinner, president obama made big news by leasing his birth certificate. it was president obama who got the last laugh by delivering a pitch perfect roast of donald trump. here it is. >> i know that he's taken some flak lately, but no one isì(lc% happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the donald. that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter like did we fake the moon landing? what really happened in roswell? and where are biggie and tupac? [ applause ] >> all kidding aside.

obviously we all now about your credentials and breadth of experience. for example, seriously, just recently in an episode of celebrity apprentice at the steak house, the men's cooking team did not impress the judges from omaha steaks. there was a lot of blame to go around, but you, mr. trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership. ultimately you didn't blame lil jon or meatloaf. you fired gary busey. these are the kind of decisions that will keep me up at night. [ applause ] >> trump didn't like it. he complained to fox news the next morning. i didn't know that i'd be the sole focus. is there anyone else they could talk about?ç later that day.

>> tonight, i can report to the american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leerd of al qaeda. >> that announcement managed to interrupt the last few minutes of celebrity apprentice. that's "the ed show." "the rachel maddow show" starts now. thank you. have a good weekend. >> you bet. >> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. jeb bush says he would, says he would consider being vice president. he said he would consider it and then he told bloomberg news i will not consider it. mitch daniels said everyone should consider it. maybe that means he wants it. he said just because everything should consider doesn't mean he wants it. mario rubio gave a speech that seemed like a vice president audition