go to isitlowt.com to find out more. >>> we're back with roger simon and maria teresa kumar.r more of "the politics fix." betting against health care reform has been a very safe bet for the last 60 years or so. let's listen to what president obama had to say about that today. >> that's why those who are betting against this happening this year are badly mistaken. we are going to get this done. we will reform health care. it will happen this year. i'm absolutely convinced of that. i bee

and maria teresa kumar. thank you for joining us.tribal politics coming up, and i mean it. this gates thing, we had the congressman on, he's obviously well-spoken, we can say that. this guy, mccotter from michigan. you know, cillizza, do you know what astounds me about this whole thing, the whole thing about whether the president is american or not, anybody who thinks the map is simple, that new york state is all liberal and pennsylvania is a little more conservative. the country is blotchy. every part of the country has some far full mooners in it, states you think are liberal like michigan have some way over. isn't it amazing. i want to talk to you about this crowley, gates, obama thing. is the president sitting down with these two guys and having their happy hour thursday night, does this end it okay for him or is he still going to pay a price for this politically? >> i think it ends it okay, chris. i think the price he paid is that we're still talking about it, you know, five or six days afterwards which basically means some of t

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>>> we'rba with howard fineman and maria teresa kumar. let me ask you about this issue of the health care bill. the president announced toy rnlg ga benjamin from alabama is going to beis nominee for surgeon neral. ma ierpreted this decision today, on the mondayhis first day back frohis trip overseas, s to keep the excitement behind his commient toealth care high onis agenda. my worrys that in the hill today i watched senator hatch came on tonight and id they justot narrowly by one vote with b casey joining his side, to not exclude abortion fromhe health care covera of this new plan. i ju think it might be a deal-breaker to include abortion when theresident says he's going to reduce thnumber of abortionin this country, through nooeion, obviously. how n he do that and say i'm bsidizing it at the same tim >> ihink is a difficult problem and this is whera lot women's groups are going look ahim critically to see if he's maintained his campaign promise to ph rward their issues. i thk he's going to have a fight. i inone of the reasons he came on

thank you, roger simon and maria teresa kumar. chris matthews will return monday night at 5:00 and 7:00 for more "hardball." "countdown" with keith olbermann starts right now. >>> which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? first class hypocrisy. governor mark sanford flying high on the taxpayers' dime. the phony fiscal conservative won't take federal stimulus money to educate the poor, but he will spend public funds on expensive airline tickets to south america. you know, the place where his mistress lives. >> i've let down a lot of people. >> a conservative think tank allegedly putting its thoughts up for sale to the highest bidder. do i hear two million? when fedex tells you it absolutely won't be part of your paper plate scandal, there's always u.p.s. what can green do for you? turns out not every mccain loves joe the plumber. daughter megan sets her sights on huss her father's unofficial campaign mascot samuel wurzelbacher. quote, joe the bummer is a dumb ass. he should stick to plumbing. crank calls gone wild.

thank you, roger simon and maria teresa kumar. right now, it's time for "the ed show," with ed schultz. >>> i'm ed schultz. this is "the ed show." good evening, americans. live from 30 rock in new york, it's "the ed show" on msnbc. you heard it here first. howe now it's official. the house intelligence committee chairman sylvester rayers confirms there will be an investigation into dick cheney and the cia and why they didn't brief the congress. yes! the right's talking about taxing and spending and some democrats are starting to get some weak knees on this again. we'll straighten them out tonight. one of them's joe lieberman. he's acting up again. i've got a message for them tonight, that's right. less than one year after the bailout, wall street's making some money again. how's this working out? i thought government wasn't supposed to get involved in any of this kind of stuff. another republican talking point bites the dust. this country, serious business. not doing right by our female veterans. we're going to talk about that ton

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maria teresa kumar back in the conversation. jonathan is here. democrat, member of thehouse intellence committee going back to 003, one of seven democrats who sen a letter to cia director leon panetta arguing he misledcongress. i should point out panetta soon into the job said you' right, we misled congress but not on my watch. represtative, nice to see you. >> gd morning. >> i'm gng to startth a question i'm hopingyou'll answer and then we'll go into some you're more likely to answer. can you comment at all on coes's report about a possiblerivate army reporting to dick cheney being this thing abouwhich you and others were misled. >> no, i c't. itighly classified, and we can't discuss it. >> because my theory is we were either about to inva cana, we were going toick up st. bart from the french, or cheney had arivate army. more broadly, we obously have anssue with the trust and transparency between our congress and ou intelligence agency. we also ve broader issues in terms of theerall culture of are we getting the investigations andre the inquirie