bill o'reilly of fox news decided to attack andrea mitchell for this. >> andrea mitchell is the chiefgn affairs correspondent for nbc news. here's what she said yesterday on msnbc. >> i had the advantage or disadvantage, as the case may be, of watching mitt romney and newt gingrich at the same time on side by side screens. it's my job. someone has to do it. >> what was a brief light-hearted aside at the end of an eventful day was suddenly taken up by mr. o'reilly as a comment on the declining of journalists in america. he also implied that she is part of a left leaning press corps which has no interest in the business of proper reporting. of course, he failed to mention that yesterday alone, andrea mitchell conducted thoughtful and insightful interviews with roy blunt. he also failed to acknowledge that countless interviews with andrea mitchell has conducted from war zones, hostile territories, and often from places where women are neither well regarded nor treated with much respect. but none of that registers with mr. o'reilly who presents himself and fox news as maintaining the high

i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. president obama will be making a populous pitch aim administer in boca raton, florida. the president is urging dong raise taxes on millionaires on the buffett rule. though it look likes an obama/romney contest, rick santorum is still officially running, or is he? chris cillizza an msnbc contribute somewhere manager editor of post politics.com and nbc's ron mott joins us gettysburg, pennsylvania, traveling with the santorum campaign. chris, let me go first to ron, because ron, are you hearing anything new here? we want to talk about the buffett rule and all of that and what paul ryan said. i just got an e-mail from somebody close to the campaign who said, just make sure you have a camera there in gettysburg. what are you hearing? because we know some people inside the campaign suggested that santorum get out before pennsylvania's primary to avoid the embarrassment of losing his home state. >> reporter: absolutely. good day to you, andrea. we reporters are prone to ask questions, and wh

>> i'm andrea mitchell live in denver. our daily fix today, we are kicking off the tour of eight battlegrou

>>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports" it's on. president obama officially hits the campaign trail next week, but first he unleashes hi ace tack dog on mitt romney. >> i said before, thanks to president obama, bin laden is dead and general motors is alive. you have to ask yourself, if governor romney had been president, could we have used the same slogan in reverse? now it the i'm to heed the timeless advice from teddy roosevelt. big softly and carry a big stick, end of quote. i promise you, the president has a big stick. >>> in a race where the economy is a top issue, how important will -- >>> plus sxloisive testimony. andrew young airs john edwards' dirty laundry on the stand as defense lawyers put the top a s aide's credibility under attack. >>> foul ball, a little boy reduced to tears after missing the lucky catch. did the greedy couple next to him really need to pose for the pictures? answer -- no. good day. i'm chris cillizza live in washington, in today, in our daily fix, team obama has made it official, the general election

i'm andrea mitchell, live in washington today. in our daily fix, in dueling devents today more about politics than substance. the president called on congress to crack down on oil market speculators and mitt romney had a picnic with small business people in pennsylvania. chris cillizza managing edter of postpolitics.com. tell us about the events, both sides, because it sounded like what the president said today was exactly what our own ali wineburg reported on march 29th, i think. >> you hit it right, andrea. a lot more politics than policy in both events. i think the next seven months are 90% politics, 10% policy. you could go 95/5. basically what you're seeing here, the obama white house has pushed very hard on things like tax breaks, eliminating tax breaks for oil companies, those things because they believe they can win that fight, that people want fairness in the tax code, and that they -- that is an issue for them. the buffett rule is the sail thing. it about fairness. it's not about higher or lower taxes. mitt romney on the

when she crosses the line like she did. >> bill: she actually has a show, andrea mitchell on msnbc. here is my point, sally, let's say that you are correct, i mean, we can't read ms. mitchell's line. i want to be fair to her had. let's say you are correct. just -- she should have said that she should have clarified that what if carl cammeron, our main campaign guy comes on "the o'reilly factor" as he does occasionally and says, you know what? cover obama people. somebody has to do t. come on. come on o. [ laughter ] you know what the outcry would be. even if he was saying i'm overworked. you got me running around and, you know, i'm clearous. it would have been taken in ideological way because that's what the liberal press wants to believe. now, what i do believe. >> you are right about that. the liberal press would have said that they were somehow ideological even though they weren't. >> bill: last time andrea mitchell was on this program in 2007 on the factor. study done by pew research stead nbc news was the most supportive of barack obama. that's what it said. okay? this is an obj

>> i'm andrea mitchell live in denver. in our daily fix today, we are kicking off the tour of eight battleground states determining november's election here in colorado, obama won colorado by nine buttons 54% of the vote. the unemployment rate here is 7.8%, well below the national average. chris cillizza is an msnbc contributing editor and managing editor of post politics.com. and joins me from washington. a lot is focused on the west and particularly on colorado. what are the prospects here for team obama versus mitt romney assume he's the nominee? >> what's interesting, so in 2000 and 2004, george w. bush won colorado. president obama won it convincingly in 2008. in the 2010, we note 2010 very good election nationally for republicans but democrats, including the guy you're going to interview, john hickenlooper, when he won the governship, michael bennett won re-election. so it was a little bit of a counter weight in the west because nevada the same way. good democratic wins in nevada. so we don't know the is the answer.

tonight she didn't mind his calling me because she wants to get the word out about his plight. >> andrea mitchell who has routinely asked cuban officials about this case, after this surprise phone call today, andrea, thanks. >>> two years ago tonight, 41 miles off the coast of louisiana, an oil well deep below the gulf of mexico had a blowout in the deep water horizon drilling rig attached to it blew up in a giant ball of flames. 11 men died. we didn't know that night it was just the beginning of something else, the largest oil disaster in u.s. history. those relentlessly depressing pictures of the plume of oil underwater, five million barrels right into the gulf. while tourism is back and seafood has been deemed okay to eat, an environmental adviser to the louisiana governor said last week there's still 200 miles of oiled coastline, including what he called clear, retrievable oil in some places, which he added was completely unacceptable. >>> still ahead here on "nightly news" on a friday night, the mystery that sent shock waves through a generation of parents. now the search to find missing boy

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when she crosses the line like she did. >> bill: she actually has a show, andrea mitchell on msnbc. my point, sally, let's say that you are correct, i mean, we can't read ms. mitchell's line. i want to be fair to her had. let's say you are correct. just -- she should have said that she should have clarified that what if carl cammeron, our main campaign guy comes on "the o'reilly factor" as he does occasionally and says, you know what? cover obama people. somebody has to do t. come on. come on o. [ laughter ] you know what the outcry would be. even if he was saying i'm overworked. you got me running around and, you know, i'm clearous. it would have been taken in ideological way because that's what the liberal press wants to believe. now, what i do believe. >> you are right about that. the liberal press would have said that they were somehow ideological even though they weren't. >> bill: last time andrea mitchell was on this program in 2007 on the factor. study done by pew research stead nbc news was the most supportive of barack obama. that's what it said. okay? this is an objective s

andrea mitchell in washington, thank you so much for your time

i want to get you back to andrea mitchell who is in washington.iting word from the white house, as you know. i know that the secretary of state has been very vocal on this issue. she was in washington today speaking about it after meeting with our counterparts. what exactly did the secretary of state have to say about this today? >> well, she actually predicted accurately that they would be going to the united nations. this is the month that the u.s. is in its rotation as the president of the security council. so she certainly knows that ambassador susan rice was going to convene a meeting in response to north korea should there be such a launch and in fact that meeting has been called for 10:00 tomorrow as you've reported. they are now looking to china to see what china could do. they are reluctant to take harder action against north korea and with it being right on their border, they will be looked to as a member of one of the five permanent members of the security counsel to whether they would be a stronger resolution of condemnation against no

i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. motel from now, the president will be holding a rose garden press conference with canada's prime minister stephen harper and mexico's president philippe calderone. we'll bring that to you live. >>> but first in our daily fix, as republicans close ranks behind romney, team obama is stepping up its attacks on the likely nominee. >> i think governor romney is a little out of touch. i can't remember a presidential candidate in the recent past who seems not to understand by what he says what will ordinary middle class people are thinking about and are concerned about. >> chris cillizza is an msnbc contributor and managing editor of most politics.com. first of all, take a look at that the "usa today" gallup swing state survey which indicates a growing gender gap for the republicans. mitt romney against barack obama, obama opening his widest lead, 51-42. and that shows a big change in the women surveyed. >> yeah, andrea, hugely. president obama in a head to head match-up in many mid-february

correspondent and the host of msnbc's "andrea mitchell reports." steve, the thing i love about watching a romney speech is just watching him play those teleprompters. because he has silenced the republican attack on president obama for using teleprompters. they seemed to have come to an agreement on this. >> i think it's going to be a teleprompter heavy election here. but, look, i think we've watched all of these speeches together through this long primary season. i thought by a hundred miles, this was his best effort. it was the best speech. it was a concise economic argument that i think has the potential to have resonance in the middle of the electorate. and it's something that i think unifies the entire republican -- >> he cleared that very low bar for best romney speech of the season. let's hear a little clip of him talking. it seems like he's reaching, or trying to reach across the gender gap here, talking about single mothers and let's listen to this. >> for every single mom who feels heartbroken when she has to explain to her kids that she

i'm andrea mitchell live in new york. our daily fix today, the republican national committee has declared the obvious, mitt romney is the nominee. he so why are newt gingrich and risk santorum so late to the party. chris cillizza, you've got the sort of gingrich and santorum factor. it's not that they have any leverage left. they've obviously stayed too long at the party and now we hear newt gingriching is going to formally officially suspend the campaign on tuesday and will no longer be getting secret service. >> the thing with newt gingrich, we talked about this yesterday, it was really kind of the end had already come. he hasn't acknowledged it, frankly. this is his acknowledgement but in his own very newt way, not suspending his campaign today but announcing he will suspend his campaign in a week's time. you're right, andrea, i don't understand the thinking here in terms of lever and. newt gingrich is in his late 60s. i don't think he will run for president again and therefore, preserving good will within the party is

that does it for this special edition of "andrea mitchell reports." >> great to see you.p. mitt romney's campaign within the last hour or so responded to comments that he made at a private fundraising event in florida. he talked about what he would cut and eliminate. why so specific in private but not in public? we'll have the official response from the romney campaign. and certainly not royal behavior, if you believe what the pictures indicate. coming up, why she is caught up in a controversy over who pointed a gun at a photographer. it is causing a big scandal in the u.k. ♪ hey, dad, you think i could drive? i'll tell you what -- when we stop to fill it up. ♪ ♪ [ son ] you realize, it's gotta run out sometime. [ male announcer ] jetta tdi clean diesel. the turbo that gets 42 miles per llon. that's the power of german engineering. ♪ i was 18 years old before i had my first fresh bun. the invention that i came up with is the hot dog ez bun steamer. steam is the key to a great hot dog. i knew it was going to be a success. the invention was so simple that i knew i needed to

i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. at the white house, they have canceled the proposed food aid deal with north korea after its failed missile launch. but first, the battle for the white house is a battle for women voters. hilary rosen's comments on ann romney set off a firestorm but rather than starting a debate on the role of women in and out of the workplace, republicans, then democrats rushed to criticize rosen. >> my career choice was to be a mother. and i think all of us need to know that we need to respect choices that women make be. >> raising george walker was not easy. >> the comments that hilary rosen made today wakened many mama grizzlies across the nation. >> that's as the outrageous assertion. >> an ill-advised statement by somebody on television. he's it's not something that i subscribe to. >> ruth marcus from the "washington post" is here for our daily fix. can we get serious, ruth. >> our daily fix of mommy wars. >> you know, you're a mother. i am not, but -- >> we can still be friends. >> we can still

i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. four years ago, they fought like cats and dogs. >> he's very likable. i agree with that. i don't think i'm that bad. >> you're likable enough, hillary. >> give me a break. this whole thing is the biggest fairy tale i've ever seen. >> but they've worked so hard to patch it up in the years since and last night, bill clinton headlined the first of three campaign fund-raisers for the president. and helped raise more than $2 million for the re-election campaign. the party was even hosted by hillary clinton's former campaign chairman, bills bff terry mccough live who tweeted this picture. the former president is featured in a campaign video praising the bin laden raid. >> he had to decide. and that's what you hire a president to do. you hire the president to make the calls when no one else can do it. >> chris cillizza is an msnbc managing editor. in a twist on the old bill clinton reference to his wife in 1992, last night president obama said you guys get two presidents for the price of one

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i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. president obama won't officially accept the democratic nomination until september, but mitt romney is showing up today at the site of the democratic convention in charlotte, north carolina. and today, romney's campaign has parked a bus out in front of the president's job training event site in ohio. chris cillizza is an msnbc contributing editor and managing editor of post politics.com. the games begin. a little bit of a silly season, as well. what is the point in the president and his team today twin efforts, first rolling out their latino effort for support as well as really highlighting this legislation on domestic violence against women. >> right. i mean, i think the goal, we call it bracketing in politics which is you just make sure that something, your bus, a surrogate of yours is at all these events because what they want to do, the romney team is they don't want barack obama to get glowing local press particularly in swing states, north carolina and ohio both very contested st

i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. in our daily fix today, mitt romney is finally showing his hand spending millions in negative ads in pennsylvania. his campaign hopes this will finish off rick santorum in the keystone state while santorum has spent nothing on tv so far. although the romney campaign did praerl pull those ads off the air today because the santorums have been off the trail caring for their ailing 3-year-old daughter bella. chris cillizza is managing editor of post to picks.com and mark hal her pin is a political analyst and "time" magazine's editor-at-large. chris, first to you, the battle for pennsylvania, this ad blitz that romney has unveiled temporarily pulled but the santorum campaign is going to be back in gear tomorrow, we're told. it will be back up. santorum has not spent any money at all in his home state. >> mitt romney understands that to bring this to a formal, this is over, no one can dispute it conclusion the way to do that is to beat rick santorum in pennsylvania. it's the only state tha

nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell has more tonight. >> reporter: it is a chinese power struggle that reads more like a tabloid sex and murder mystery. communist party boss bo xilai. accused of corruption. >> undoubtedly the largest political earthquake to hit the chinese leadership in the last 20 years. >> reporter: and his wife, suspected of arranging the murder of a british businessman neil haywood who worked with her husband and may have been her lover. haywood found dead at this hotel and was cremated within hours before an autopsy could take place. the british government is even being accused of letting china cover up the case. >> we did offer to hold an investigation. >> reporter: it is a stunning downfall for a power couple who traced their roots to the early leaders of the communist party. >> the public started to question, well, if bo xilai who was a corruption-fighting, gang-busting son of a revolutionary hero, is this corrupt, what does it say about the rest of our top leadership snrz >> reporter: adding to the scandal, the couple's son. educated at ton

we get the report tonight from nbc's andrea mitchell. >> he's a gun-loving rocker, the south-styled motormadman. hardly a logical sideman for buttoned down mitt romney, but nothe secret service wants to talk to ted nugent after the longtime nra board member fired off a verbal assault against president obama. >> if you can't galvanize and promote and recruit people to vote for mitt romney, we're done. our president, attorney general, vice president, hillary clinton, they're criminals. we are brave heart. we need to ride into the battlefield and chop their heads off in november. >> nugent endorsed romney in march, tweeting after a long heart and soul conversation with mitt romney today, i concluded this good man will properly represent we the people and i endorse him. romney's son quickly tweeted his excitement, ted nugent endorsed my dad today. ted nugent. how cool is that? he joins kid rock as great detroit musicians on team mitt. and mitt romney sounded happy to have his support. >> he said he had a great conversation with you. if ted says you're okay, he endorses you, i'm tempted to do

andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >> and another former candidate is set to weigh in on the campaign season and much more. sarah palin appears exclusively tomorrow morning on "today" on this nbc station. >>> overseas, a big win for democracy in myanmar. the nobel peace prize laureate aung san suu kyi, once imprisoned by the regime for more than a decade, taking her victory lap with throngs of supporters after what is said to be a landslide for her party, winning almost all of the seats up for grabs in yesterday's parliamentary elections. >>> back in the country, what has already been a dangerous and destructive tornado season has spawned this. the national weather service has been studying last year's extreme tornadoes and is now testing a new warning system in the midwest's tornado alley. our report from nbc's john yang. >> sometimes there's little warning, but in the annual struggle with nature that is tornado season, the national weather service hopes blunt words of warning will get people to take cover before something like this is right on top of them. starting today, they're te

andrea mitchell, host of andrea mitchell reports. thank you for joining us. really appreciate it. >> you bet. >>> again, breaking news this hour, north korea has once again defied international condemnation. this time to go ahead with an attempted long-range rocket launch. to add insult to that provocation, the launch was a failure, fell into the sea without achieving anything that the north koreans said it would do. stay with us. we'll be right back. >>> the governor of connecticut, e it's me against my hair. [ female announcer ] weak, damaged hair needs new aveeno nourish+ strengthen. active naturals wheat formulas restore strength for up to 90% less breakage in three washes. for strong, healthy hair with life, new aveeno nourish+ strengthen. to put more giddy-up in our get-along. it's time to start gellin' with dr. scholl's... ... and mix a little more hop in our hip-hop. with the energizing support and cushioning of dr. scholl's massaging gel insoles ... you'll want to get up and go. >>> the governor of connecticut, dan malloy, the former exhibit for of t

brian. >> andrea mitchell to start us off tonight. thanks. >> as we said, this is likely not a one-day story, and it's certainly not just a washington story. as nbc's chris jansing found out today, this one prompted talk all over. >> maria smith is a suburban atlanta stay at home mom of three with a fourth on the way. she considers herself a liberal. but was shocked when she heard hillary rosen's comments. >> i felt offended, i felt mad, i felt like this is someone i thought was on my side but actually really didn't understand me. >> today, she discovered she wasn't the only one with a visceral reaction. >> i have talked about this today at preschool pickup, at the playground talking to some moms about it. i was surprised at how many people picked up the story. >> a story that started as a political discussion has revived a different conversation, decades old, hitting an apparently still raw nerve about a woman's place. leslie has worked at women's magazines for 25 years and now editor of "more." >> welcome to the mommy wars version 2

andrea mitchell has more from secretary clinton. >> it is a white house photo that captures all of the drama of a command decision fraught with risk. in the situation room, concern is high. what if they fail? >> it was a pretty intense, tense, stressful time. and i'm not sure anybody breathed for 35 or 37 minutes. for me, the worst part was when one of the helicopters, the tail got stuck, and it was not flyable. >> she thinks about jimmy carter's failed iran hostage rescue in 1980. >> we got the word they thought they had killed bin laden, but think about what they had to do because it was imperative that we take the body. >> they needed bin laden's dna to prove he was dead and had to get out before pakistan's military knew they were there. but first, the downed chopper had to be blown up. >> the s.e.a.l.s had to take the women and children out of the house to get them away from the site of where the disabled helicopter was. all of this is happening, you know, the bodies going out, the women and children are coming in. the reserve helicopter is on its way, but it's not there yet. you k

, host of andrea mitchell reports. thank you for joining us. really appreciate it. >> you bet. >>> again, breaking news this hour, north korea has once again defied international condemnation. this time to go ahead with an attempted long-range rocket launch. to add insult to that provocation, the launch was a failure, fell into the sea without achieving anything that the north koreans said it would do. stay with us. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] we did an experiment for febreze fabric refresher. [ experimenter 2 ] what do you smell? light floral, lilac. wispy white curtains. [ experimenter 1 ] okay take your blindfolds off. ♪ hello? [ male announcer ] febreze fabric refresher. breathe happy, guaranteed. they claim to be complete. only centrum goes beyond. providing more than just the essential nutrients, so i'm at my best. centrum. always your most complete. >>> the governor of connecticut, dan malloy, the former exhibit for of the "new york times," bill keller, both are here tonight and we are in san francis

andrea mitchell, host of andrea mitchell reports. thank you for joining us. really appreciate it. >> you bet. >>> again, breaking news this hour, north korea has once again defied international condemnation. this time to go ahead with an attempted long-range rocket launch. to add insult to that prov provocation, the launch was a failure, fell into the sea without achieving anything that the north koreans said it would do. stay with us. we'll be right back. [ female announcer ] women have made it the number one selling anti-aging cream undeniably. it creamed unbelievably a $500 cream and now women have made regenerist microsculpting cream also unscented. women love it. in original and also fragrance-free. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] at nissan, our ideal is innovation. 5 all-new models over the next 15 months, including a completely reimagined altima. welcome to our most innovative year ever. nissan. innovation for all. ♪ >>> the governor of connecticut, dan ma line, the former exhibit for of the "new york times," bill keller, both are here tonight and we are in san