and alicia menendez. thanks to you both for being here tonight. and before we start, i want to give a big shoutout to the actors and actresses from our friends at political subverseties. they perform every saturday here in new york. bob, let me start with you. this was so brazen. billionaires, the koch brothers. now, bob, you've run a lot of campaigns. how will this play? >> oh, it's not going to play well at all. look, it was a spectacle that goes to a point that i'm going to make in my column in "the daily beast" tomorrow. he's a candidate by the rich for the rich who's indifferent and insensitive to the middle class. you know the guy you quoted there who said -- or that the improv guys quoted that said obama's a socialist? he's a bozo who runs a restaurant in the hamptons called the american hotel. i've eaten there. it's way overpriced. food's gone down hill. he ought to pay a price for this. maybe the democrats who live out there should eat somewhere else and get a better meal. what this was was greed on parade. a group of people who care only

joining me now is darryl lewis and alicia menendez. the host of "huff post live."ood to see you. you've covered weiner a long time. how much of this is true? >> what we're hearing is -- or what you are observing is that he over a year of saying almost nothing publicly popped up on a raid know show for an interview, seems to be finding his way into newspapers. and you know, if you know the reporters and know the relationship he had with reporters, you have to assume that this is stuff that he either knew about or had a friend or an associate send to these media outlets to sort of get some talk going. and it makes all the sense in the world to sort of take the temperature of the city and see if people are open to a weiner candidacy. >> alicia, he has $4.5 million. and that's probably more than anyone that is thinking of running for mayor next year other than the local -- >> no one has that. >> so he would be very formidable in terms of finances. he's got name recognition. does the scandal. >> when you look back to the heat of the scandal, new yorkers are more forgivi

columnist and alicia menendez of huff post live.ability rating we're seeing among the undecideds, with mitt romney's polling only favorable to dick cheney's unfavorability rating, truly, when he was leaving office, cheney had a 13, which is about as low as you can find in polling. you just need your family and extended family to get to 13. i mean, how -- is there any way romney can get these undecided if the they don't like him so much? >> yes, there is, but he's not willing to do it. there's a number in the poll, 67% of people in the poll like president obama personally, but only 47% like mitt romney personally. in order for romney to connect, he's got to talk about his experiences. he's got to talk about his faith as a mormon, he's got to talk about his experiences as a business leader at bain, talk about his experiences at the olympics, talk about all the things he doesn't want to talk about, because those are the things he's been hiding from us, as the american people have been asking these questions. so he's in this tough posit

. >> joining me now, joy reid, managing editor of the agree joe.com and alicia menendez the of huff post joe biden in that speech had the political line of the day in nevada. let's listen to that first. >> when his father was a candidate for president in 1968, his father released 12 years of tax returns because he said, and i quote, one year could be a fluke, perhaps done for show, end of quote. that was his father. his son has released only one year of his tax returns. making a lie of the olded a adage, like father, like son. he wants you to show your papers, but he won't show us his. it's kind of fascinating. >> i did not see that coming, alicia. >> oh, you can tell how excited vice president was -- >> he knew it was coming. >> he knew that line -- that's the type of line you walk around the office trying out on everybody, because it's that good. but i don't want it to overshadow some other really good points from that speech. the language of inclusion, which really is what immigration is about, a proxy conversation for who belongs in this country and who doesn't. democrats want to own

joining me now is alicia menendez and chrystia freeman. great to have you with us.i think this shows that they're trying to make a big argument -- democrats are trying to make a big argument that this isn't just about the last four years. this is about fundamental concepts of fairness, policies that support the middle class. no one better able to articulate that and say listen, this is something the president has been -- these are policies we've seen work before. we saw some of the numbers that you brought up earlier in the segment. i think it also showed that -- a base going up to november is critical for a win. >> what do you expect to hear from clinton's keynote address? >> i think we're going to hear a lot about the middle class. >> or the primetime. i don't want to miscast it. >> i think we'll hear about the middle class. one way to classify what it's about, who is going to be better for the middle class. and the reality of the past three decades is overall middle class wanls have stagnated. the one exception is when bill clinton was president. he has a lot of

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. >> keith boykin and alicia menendez get "the last word." thanks for joining me tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> up next, hardball with chris matthews. >>> the army of the night, let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start with this tonight. i have this feeling about this presidential election between barack obama and mitt romney. it's not just about them, it's about the armies behind them. the people who share in their victory also in their defeat. look at the army of the night riding behind the presumptive republican nominee. it's an army of war hawks, of neo-cons for lack of a better word. they bring war with them in every election. an agenda of a country they want us to fight. people voted for w, they got iraq. why? because the army poised behind the uninformed ill-read w knew what he didn't. when 9/11 struck, they struck. this time it's iran. but don't think they're going to end it there. these old cold warrers haven't been happy since the berlin wall fell. they want another big one with russ