sadly, krystal the goat couldn't come with krystal where she played water polo in college.by the documentary "no end in sight." she had her sights set on political office long before that. back in fifth grade krystal run a and tied with brian shreikal for class president. sounds like a hard fought election, krystal. >> it was. and in some ways, the real presidential election this year is about simple childhood moments like that and about small town dreams. today i want to introduce you to a midwestern town that is close to my heart and part of what inspired me to run for office. it is in battle ground, ohio. this election to me, if you boil it all down, is really about the american dream. will it be revived or fade away? the answer, i'm convinced, lies in places like east liverpool, ohio. >> from across the ohio report east liverpool looks like picture perfect small town usa. and here the locals tell its story. it sounds like it too. >> this town was a bustling down. town. from the time ways born in the mid '30s, up through several generations. it just was a mecca of joy an

joining us now is krystal ball, lilliana gill and james peterson, professor at lehigh university and blogger for "huffington post." krystal, we've just heard that mitt romney some 48 hours has had the courage to ask todd akin to drop his pursuit of that senate seat in missouri, but how do republicans generally persuade women to vote given the recent history of republican performance in religiation to women? >> their strategy has been to change the subject. because if you talk about the substance of their positions and how far on the extreme they've gotten, it's a major issue for women votes and we've seen this happen time and time again. we saw it happen with the birth control debate. as you referenced, trans vaginal probes, redefining rape, personhood bills and these are highly extreme and wildly unpopular provisions throughout the electorate. personhood is one in particular that mitt romney and paul ryan have chelearly supported and it so extreme that it's been defeated in mississippi and oklahoma. they're out on the fringe and can't possibly run because it's so unpopular. that's w

johnston will join us, as will krystal ball. and another speaker has been added to the list of the democratic national convention speakers. she will join me tonight for an exclusive interview. and in the rewrite tonight, who's crazier? todd akin or alan west? we will leave it to some unbiased children to decide. >> alan west. >> you need a time-out. look at those toys. insurance must be expensive. nah. [ dennis' voice ] i bet he's got an allstate agent. they can save you up to 30% more by bundling your policies. well, his dog's stupid. [ dennis' voice ] poodles are one of the world's smartest breeds. are you in good hands? [ dennis' voice ] poodles are one of the world's smartest breeds. chase scene netflix coming soon extra butter tickets swoon penguin journey junior mints movie phone evil prince bollywood 3d shark attack ned the head 5% cashback signup for 5% cashback on movies through september. it pays to discover. is now in our new starbucks refreshers™ -- a breakthrough in natural energy. made with real fruit, starbucks re

johnston will join us, as will krystal ball. and another speaker has been added to the list of the democratic national convention speakers. she will join me tonight for an exclusive interview. and in the rewrite tonight, who's crazier? todd akin or alan west? we will leave it to some unbiased children to decide. >> alan west. >> you need a time-out. humans -- even when we cross our t's and dot our i's, we still run into problems. namely, other humans. which is why, at liberty mutual insurance, auto policies come with new car replacement and accident forgiveness if you qualify. see what else comes standard at libertymutual.com. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? [ male announcer ] aggressive styling. a more fuel-efficient turbocharged engine. and a completely redesigned interior. the 2012 c-class with over 2,000 refinements. it's amazing...inside and out. ♪ join mercedes-benz usa on facebook for the best summer sweepstakes. >>> mitt romney is now desperately floating yet another ridiculous reason why he

i like krystal's.couch for -- trying to get into the soul of the chair there, i think. and i think succeeded. >> it was a special moment. >> you're good at that. when it was my turn, it was a little uncomfortable and a little awkward because i got, i think, a really good point across. i was feeling good about myself. and then the chair got really frustrated and it actually jumped up and attacked me. it took a while to fight off. >> did you win the fight with the chair? >> it was a draw. >> lost to an inanimate object. >> i think the chair was on the juice. i don't want to say -- >> nice. >> i don't want to impugn his competitive integrity. so much we could say. s.e., you were down there last night. i assume when you hit the afterparties afterwards, the chair made an appearance or two? >> yeah, unfortunately this derailed the entire theme. all the momentum was gone. i don't remember what marco rubio said because i was still trying to figure out what the hell just happened when clint eastwood took the st

joining me now, msnbc's krystal ball and "the huffington post's" sam stein.rystal, as this day as unfolded and akin has dug in, it seems now that he is ready to go the distance in this campaign. how worried do you think republicans should be about that? >> well, i think they should be very concerned about it. i mean, frankly, this seat, holding on to this seat for claire mccaskill is really going to be a long shot, if she got any sort of normal, reasonable candidate in the race, she didn't get a normal, reasonable candidate in the race, though. she got todd aakin. and this really harkens back to what happened in 2010. republicans were perfectly happy to ride the tea party wave, as long as it was providing them with momentum and energy to make gains in the 2010 midterm elections. but even then, it wasn't without a cost, as we recall, sharron angle, ken buck, et cetera. but when you let your party be taken over by nut jobs, essentially, occasionally those nut jobs are going to run for office and they're going to say nut jobby things and it's going to screw up y

nothing is being taken away. >> krystal, listen. per the cbo, medicare is going bankrupt in ten years. the trustees. >> then why are you demagoguing against savings? why are you demagoguing against savingsing? all right, congressman, that's. >> the savings stay in the program. but you're taking them out of the program and using it it for someone else, that's wrong. >> all right. congressman duffy, i feel your pain. thank you for joining us. from the convention floor to the campaign trail, president obama right now before the a college crowd in virginia. we'll have it for su live just ahead. one is for a clean, wedomestic energy future that puts us in control. our abundant natural gas is already saving us money, producing cleaner electricity, putting us to work here in america and supporting wind and solar. though all energy development comes with some risk, we're committed to safely and responsibly producing natural gas. it's not a dream. america's natural gas... putting us in control of our energy future, now. >>> we take you now t

i'm not clear about that. >> krystal, todd akin seems to be hanging in there. he's already sent out a fund-raising plea, saying i'm in this race to win, we need a conservative senate, help me defeat claire -- claire mccaskill, that means -- by donating. he thinks he can raise money on this. >> the machiavellian political strategist in me wants to urge a bunch on democrats to contribute to his campaign, because having him in there, with was we know, claire mccaskill actually spent money to have him be the senate nominee, because he seemed like sort of a crazy person who would say these sorts of things, and then the there he goes saying them. so that strategist in me wants to urge democrats to contribute to his campaign. i wouldn't actually do that. but the broader point here, as joy was making, this is the default position of the republican party right now. and let's just remind people, when we're talking about personhood amendments, like what was on the ballot in mississippi and was defeated han diddly, that is giving the rights of a person to a fertilized egg,

ryan can do that. >> krystal, i think that's true. they're going to win or lose articulating what they really think. i think they're going to lose articulating -- >> i think they're going to lose, i don't think they're going to articulate what they really think. i think they're going to try to run away from the ryan budget. >> as close as a politician can. they're going to evade and all that, but they'll try to come closer. >> their big talking point has been, well, forget about pall ryan and medicare. let's talk about the president and all these alleged cuts to medicare that he made. so actually they don't want to really lay out where they stand and where the president stands. they want to obfuscate and do what they've been doing. as you saw in joe biden's clip, this is something that americans understand. it's very easy to understand what paul ryan stands for and what mitt romney stands for and it's going to be hard for them to run away from that. >> howard deen, steve kornacki and krystal ball, thank you all for joining me tonight.

our own krystal ball. >> what can i say? an effective messenger. >> the one thing i would say, i think it's interesting to consider the rationale for the ryan pick. the effect, i think you're right, is going to be turn out the bases very similar to 2004. i honestly think the romney impulse on this was that this pick would have appeal to swing voters. that this would have appeal to the middle. how? paul ryan has such an extremely ideological voting record. i think what romney thought would be interpreted by people is bold, courageous truth telling. i think that's how they thought they could sell it. i'm not saying they're going to be able to sell it that way. >> you wouldn't pick extreme conservative, right, we saw that poll. this is the most extreme on either side of vice president that we've ever seen. why would you do that to appeal to the middle? >> voters are not always logical. >> paul ryan voted for t.a.r.p., the auto bailout. there are plenty of areas to say, well, paul ryan is more of a pragmatist. in fact, i think t

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>> i think krystal is absolutely right. problem is they seem to have pulled out a script and said, what is the normal american family like? they're starting to read from it, rather than talking about their authentic experience. nobody really expects someone who is very close to a billionaire to shop at costco. they should talking about their real lives, their real experience. people don't have a problem with the romneys being wealthy. but when you come across as fraudulent, it's condescending to suggest being a normal american and playacting a normal american means coming up with tropes like shopping at costco. i don't think it's authentic because i don't think it's real. maybe they do, but you know what, they're rich enough to own costco so it's difficult to make it work. >> joy reid and the costco-shopping krystal ball, thank you so much. much more from tampa when we come back. >> he's not releasing tax returns. at some point we've got to take the man at his word, he's not going to do it. >> it's an issue that's hurt romn

krystal, it is the last night of the convention.raw tonight is apparently clint eastwood. >> and fs funny, too, they have short memories. he did the super bowl halftime in america ad and republicans were very upset. i remember karl rove, i looked up his quote. he said it was a sign of what happens when you have chicago style politics and the president of the united states' political min ons are using their tax dollars to buy corporate advertising and now, they're excited to have someone exciting on the night of mitt romney. >> eric fernstrom has just said that one thing we know about romney is that he also rises to the occasion. >> really? >> do we really know that? >> we know clint eastwood will and he's going to go ahead and make our day at the convention since there's not a lot else that's super exciting. that's been going on. but you know, it will be a fun event. it will get a lot of attention. ultimately, it's still about mitt romney and his speech and whether he can land it or not. >> michael, what does it say that on the last

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. >> i'm krystal ball. the romney team trying to take the conversation back to tax cuts and the budget. do they want to go there? >> i'm steve kornacki, one of least understood was most important pieces of legislation in history. the story behind the stimulus. >> plus a break from politics to take you inside the multibillion dollar worldwi wide web of dati on august 21st. >>> todd akin has just three hours to drop out of the missouri senate race, or else the republicans will face a much more difficult road in they try to replace him later. but akin shows no signs of throwing in the towel. here he was an hour or so ago. >> i want to make things absolutely clear, and that is, we're going to continue with this race for the u.s. senate. we've go given it a lot of thought and the first thing we felt we had to do was we had offended some people and we tried to respond to that and let people know that we didn't mean anybody or to take in any way, rape, anything less than very, very seriously. >> did you get all of

. >> krystal, thank you so much and good afternoon to all of you. it's thursday, august the 30th. what's happening. it's mitt's big night. but how can he possibly top

. >>> i'm crist krystal ball, 2:00, florida, 1:00 p.m. in flagstaff, arizona.the cycle today." the devils in the detail. mitt romney lays out his medicare plan, confused than before he explained it. >> i'm steve kornacki. everyone is crushing on the republicans these days, even the

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look, i do want to say that bill krystal is the one who said this thing will go away, take a hit or two. this is a big name republican who has said release the tax returns and move on. eric, mckay and jamal, thank you. it is true, we could go on and on. i have to move on. there are a couple of things big in the news today. facebook shares. facebook now trading at half of its ipo price. is it time for this company to look for a new ceo, maybe one who wears a suit? i'll talk about that in a moment. it's not a joke. and a controversial russian rock band, punk rock band, getting the support of madonna and other big name stars, but convicted of something called hooliganism. i'm not making this up. hooliganism. they're going to prison for it. also what did missy franklin and mitt romney have in common? it's adorable. you'll inevitably find yourself on a desolate highway in your jeep grand cherokee. and when you do, you'll be grateful for the adaptive cruise control that automatically adjusts your speed when approaching slower traffic. and for the blind spot monitoring that helps remind you th

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. >> krystal, do we need to kind of accept the hard reality?sport. >> i think that's part of it. your nascar example is an excellent one. i think in football, the violence is so engrained in the game that while you definitely want to take all those percussi percussions, the study concussi study, all of those things are fantastic. you are still going to have a fundamentally violent sport. and i truly agree with what you are saying, too, steve. but i think that the key here is that the older generation and even more recent generation of players had in idea that this was the risk they are signing up for. when their parents were putting them into football, young age, then didn't know the risks when they were entering the nfl, they had no idea of the risks. getting that information out there and making it totally clear that this is the results of the -- >> they know and that's why you see players shooting themselves in the chest so that their brains can go and be studied by scientists so that further -- other generations of players can study that. w