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(cheers and applause) (laughter) so if fox was high, msnbc must be msnb-sad. >> to say i'm shocked and stunned is pretty much an understatement. >> jon: shocked and stund is an understatement. no, it feels tonight more like my heart was (bleep)ed by the devil. (laughter) no, wait, that's an overstatement. (laughter) to want i feel between... somewhere between shocked, stunned and devil heart (bleep)ed. (laughter) this is ed schultes. indeed, msnbc passed through all the stages of grief last night. stage one, denial. >> you know, nbc is calling it for walker, okay, i think it's awful close and there's a lot of absentee ballots yet that are still out. >> jon: yeah, no. (laughter) stage two, denial. >> this will not be a massive win for scott walker. >> jon: yeah. (laughter) finally stage three just really massive amounts of industrial-grade denial. >> tonight the really big winner the wisconsin recall election is president obama. (laughter) >> jon: just like obama drew it up on the chalk board, hey, guys, i gotten a idea. what if we should figure out a way to have the core of what we bel

good morning everyone, i'm lynn berry, this is "first look" on msnb msnbc. >>> and we are going to begin this morning with the republican nominee in what may be the most important speech of his political career, mitt romney accepted the gop presidential nomination in tampa last night, arguing he is the hope and change candidate, not president obama. msnbc's steve handelesman reports. >> reporter: more swagger, a more gravelly voice, but the message was about barack obama. >> when somebody doesn't do their job, we have to let them go. >> reporter: in the most important speech of his life, mitt romney tried to talk voters at home out of sticking with president obama. >> i wish he would have succeeded, we deserve better, my children, my family deserves better. my country deserves better. to the majority of americans who now believe that the future will not be better than the past, i can guarantee you this. if barack obama is re-elected, you will be right. president obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans, and to heal the planet. my promise to help you and your family. >> repo

this is fir"first look" on msnb. >>> and we're going to begin this morning with another candidate's debate. with less than a week to go before the arizona and michigan primaries the remaining republican candidates will square off tonight. and rick santorum, who has surged in the polls, may get a lot of attention. tracie potts joins us with those details. tracie, good morning? >> reporter: good morning. while mitt romney is fighting to win his home state of michigan. santorum is trying to turn his success there into votes in arizona. rick santorum is the one to watch tonight. he soared ahead nationally and in michigan. he still trails mitt romney tonight in arizona where the debates happen. >> i will win in the states that matter to win this election. >> reporter: santorum's now under attack in a new ad from ron paul. >> is this dude serious? >> reporter: focusing on social issues worked for santorum. mitt romney is looking right meeting with the tea party and hammering president obama. >> unfortunately, perhaps because of the people the president hangs around with, their secular agenda, th

. >> i'm veronica de la cruz this is "first look" on msnb. "way too early" with willie geist starts right now. have a great monday. >>> two debates within seven days. the first tomorrow as we come up now on three weeks until election day in a race that is as tight as a drum. the question is, can mitt romney get a winning electoral map if he loses the state of ohio? >>> felix baum ggarner goes to space but comes down on his own power

currently jeff is an msnb krmplt contributor and executive editor of politic 365. he is a weekly commentator on the tom joiner morning show and chairman and ceo of the jeff johnson institute for urban development currently leading a five year project to recruit and develop 80,000 black male teachers. he has earned a reputation as a voice of conscience. we are pleased to have all of our panelists. please give them all a round of applause. my first question is as martin luther king junior talked about the war in vietnam, he asked the question, and i ask this question because i believe we are at war today, he said there comes a time when silence is betrayal. oftentimes members of the faith community hold politics and politicians at arm's length and choose not to engage in the process. how do we remind the especially younger generation of faith leaders about the black church's historical connection to politics and social change and motivate them to act? the floor is open. anyone that would like to answer. >> i will start. i think. i think that many in this room are ver

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guest so he will have more flexibility, perhaps as pundit at msnb or referring to a stretch class. is saying if he wins you will see the real obama, the one who isn't as keen on american interest as being the world's most progressive action figure. he is right. the national security is a nonissue once the american public is out of the way. it makes you wonder what else he will give up now that accountability is gone. ultimately how will america take president obama's betrayal? well, to quote george michael, "i should have known better than to cheat a friend. waste a chance that i've been given. so i'm never going to dance again, the way i danced with you." serious -- >> kimberly: boo-hoo. >> eric: for the record, i have never been picked by a hot mike. >> greg: i don't know. i have pictures. dana, this is weird, right? he used a public forum to deliver a message through a puppet. to putin. isn't that -- >> dana: i'm totally baffleed. i don't understand, they had been in a private meeting. if you wanted to deliver some sort of message, he could have done it in private. even when you

. >> it almost left msnbs's left-leaning host, chris matthews, to have a left-leaning meltdown. >> whatobama doing tonight? he was disarmed. an hour and a half, i can get through this thing. >> at least matthews was honest. he didn't immediately fall back on the excuses which have now become talking points for liberals. >> i think he was dishonest. absolutely. >> it was a masterful, theatrical performance. it was fundamentally dishonest for the american people. >> he has sate things not only that wasn't untrue. but what his complain said wasn't true. >> they're saying you lied. remember how those words went over when a republican said it? just saying. and the not feeling well talking point. al gore blamed altitude. when you go to 5,000 feet and only have a few hours to adjust, i don't know, maybe. and the bigger things on his mind defense/talking point. >> the president was flat. i don't know what else was on his mind. could have been his anniversary. could have been what's going on in syria and turkey because he is busy running a country while running for re-election. >> it looked like

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the campaigns have such undo influence because they want people--msnbs and fox are protesting the factre not getting in because they have a bias. how does this happen. >> it should be like who hosts the oscars, jon stewart. >> they could rotate it. it's absurd, what a crowded table that will be and the rotation is that you'll never come back around--you'll be a senior citizen by the time the rotation comes around. >> and you think the debates will decide become. >> michael: i think they do have an influence. we talked about that here. people got to see what they liked and didn't like about these guys early on. so within the party the primary debates helped. i think people are looking to see how mitt romney responds. >> now at the presidential level don't you think it's manicured and it's really a question of what they-- >> unless they let them debate. >> michael: they say it's going to be more town hall style. they say that every year, though. >> exactly. >> michael: it's always the same. finally our last newsroom clip of the day. >> throw out the run down. >> wait, no, we still need t

jackson is reaching out e.rs wh d llt iolsnn" on msnb >> mitt romney a week ago they were ready to count the guy out and now he's bounced back and he's on a bus tour in ohio. he's been working very hard kig baes foa. es foa. facebook yet? the "politicsnation" conversation is going l day long. and today our fans had a lot to say about the romney harvesting comment. lar sa,e'sevn bcreator. he's a profit harvester. our facebook family was happy about the voting in eye yeah. anthony says, go iowa. let's get this electiongog. we have a lore on ttir g e vote a little later in the program. we want to hear what you think, too. head over to facebook and search poins and like us "politicsnati and like us to keep the conversation going long after the show ends. it's always good o have a backup plan, it's always good ca gitbymete. o have a backup plan, wow, your hair looks great. didn't realize they did photoshop here. hey, good call on those mugs. can't let 'em see what you're drinking. you know, i'm glad we're both running a nice, clean race. o need to get nasty. here's your "honk if y had an affa

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. >>> nbc news has taken over microsoft's 50% stake in the msn msnb c digital network.will make them even stronger now that our digital platforms are completely aligned. nbcnews.com. got it? it's easy. >>> new details, what may have caused the accident of the daughter of the late robert kennedy. >>> federal workers caught in a prostitution probe. this time at the center of the scandal. >>> also a pill that could prevent hiv infections. and imagine a train that could what may have caused the accident with kerry kennedy. she e was arrested after an accident along a highway in north castle, new york. investigators are awaiting lab test results to see if prescription pills are behind the crash, but as jonathan dienst reports now, those close to kennedy are wondering whether a seizure may have played a role. >> reporter: investigators say after the crash, kerry kennedy spoke of taking ambien, a strong prescription drug. the sleep aid even carries warnings to not drive after taking it as well as the possibility of a side effect where users engage in activities like driving wi

msnbs's richard louis. >> ron paul's youthful campaign is dead in online video. $3,200 spent says politicsnt. mitt romney is destroying the competition. the president doubles the entire gop field combined. iowa, new hampshire and florida. he was there on web video. politicians are following of all people someone that you have interviewed. i'm talking about the old spice guy. hundreds of millions of people gawked at that online campaign. the candidates can't ignore the whopping web ad worth. 30 seconds of online video and the mental impressions and sounds they leave is worth 900,000 words says forester saying all of those words would take you 83 hours if you tried it. that 30 second ad seems like a bargain. for next week supertuesday 10 million is being spent. exsect a chunk of that flooding the web waves. the wall street journal estimates 3 billion in tv ads. this election and they are expecting that much. that is 50%. let me show you the number here. that is 50% more barging into your tv sets than in 2008. how long will tv beat out the web? well, remember 1952. televised conventions were

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msnbs line - up is a wash with progressive bias.ut rarely do we get an on camera admission by the leftist kabul as explicit as this. >> our reporters bias. there is to doubt that i've worked at the "wall street journal," the "washington post," worked here at politico and if i had to guess, if you put all the reporters on truth serum, most of them vote democratic. >> wait, did the head honcho at politico just admit that most reporters he knows votes democrat? play it again, please. >> if you put all the reporters i've ever worked on truth serum, most of them vote democratic. >> wow. fair and balanced? not so much. huh, bob? >> first of all, this guy can't hold a job pretty clearly. so i mean, how many places did he work? >> that's not unusual. >> i know! >> in the world of reporters. >> i'm sorry. you need a job, let us know. >> do we have jobs to give? >> greg does. >> outright admission that just about everyone he works with is a democrat and votes democrat. >> finding out that reporters vote democrats is like finding out water is

material into the hands of people that we know, people across the board, ben smith formerly of politico, msnb c, they claim they wrote their entire prime time lineup. >> anybody who has head ben's stuff over the year sees he's a fair reporter. what you didn't have was, okay, here is a litany of things that so-and-so wrote and this matches the media matters talking points and they didn't tell the other side. you just had again these sources saying that these folks in effect were in the tank. >> and these are source that is are unimpeachable. >> but what's very impeachable is the notion you didn't connect the dots by demonstrating ou these reporters were unfair. >> unfair to whom? the idea is this, that media matters employees, former and current, claim that these people will run their content. now wrshtion do we go from there? you're right. you have to look and see to the extent to which these people have done it. in our coverage you will see something inside our story where we talk about a media matters source who claims they have something called fingerprint coverage where they like to get t

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joining me now is msnb c's joy reed and steve. thank you both for joining me tonight. joy, we finally have a poll where the margin is bigger than the margin of error. looks like the president actually has a real, if small, lead over mitt romney in the pew poll. >> yeah, and i think those numbers are fairly stable, lawrence, because if you just think about it, the generic republican is going to go into the general election with a 42 to 45% floor and the president is somewhat higher. it's a good look for the president. i'm sure he'd rather be at 50, but it's not a bad place to be if you're an incumbent running into the head winds of the economic situation that's been delivered for president obama. i think it's been a good place to be at this stage. >> let's listen to mitt romney on the issue of the government subsidies going into business. he has said that taxpayer money should not be spent that way. he's been very, you know, adamant about that. but in fact, the bloomberg reports today that in california, taxpayer money built one bain company, a conveyor bridge between t

. >> joining me now is msnb c's crystal ball and steve. crystal, it was a little concern that broke out among conservists today. they're worried about the appointment of the transition chief because he supports the president's affordable care act, otherwise known as obamacare, by republicans. he supports the exchanges. he advises states on how to implement the law. this has rush limbaugh worried. >> romneycare, obamacare linkage. the obama campaign hadn't gotn to thgot n -- gotn to that yet. it isn't going to be pretty when they do. >> it just might involve the words mike levitt when they do. >> that's absolutely right. this dove tails with what you were saying about mitt romney's record in massachusetts. he's not wanted to talk about his record in massachusetts in any respect. if you don't talk about your own record, then your opponent is going to define it for you, which is exactly what the obama campaign is doing now and what they are also likely to do regarding health reform. also, conservative pushback, this is not the first time cons

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run-down" only on msnb >>> we have gone through four debates now.ve gone through four debate with the vice presidential debate and my debates. and we haven't heard an agenda from the president. that's why his campaign is taking on water and our campaign is supposed is moving full speed ahead. >> the president tried to blunt that argue by releasing a new book let that outlines his plans for a second term. but some democrats are asking is it a little too late to do such a thing? atlanta democratic mayor reid joins me now on behalf of the obama campaign. mr. mayor, thank you so much for bog the show. >> glad to be with you, luke. good morning. >> mayor reid, the president's senior strategist, david axelrod, said this about the booklet. >> of course, the pamphlet reflect it is ideas the president advanced throughout this campaign about where we need to go as a country. building on the progress that we have made. it is the -- the plan that he talked about at the convention. and it is the plan that he talks about every day. but we wanted to codify and put