a former speechwriter for condoleezza rice, cnn political correspondent, harry rosen and ben smith, editorzzbee. let me start with you, i've been studying your twitter feed and probably enjoying the lovefest that's gone on, on my show tonight. so pour a lot of cold water all over it. >> no, i'm really fascinated by the evolution of the president's stance on states' rights. i talked about this over on breitbart.com this evening. he's never come out on states' rights before ever. he doesn't believe on states' rights on immigration, health care or anything else, but suddenly just today he believes in states' rights for gay marriage. i know gawker called it a sham. they think it's a copout, his stance on gay marriage, but at least we kind of get a little bit of clarification on all of this. but that's what i was focusing on was states' rights. it came up finally. >> right, but what do you -- let's put that one issue aside. what do you think of the president of your country sitting there and announcing momentously that he supports gay marriage? >> he basically just affirmed what everyone though

so we understand which ben smith you know. now, it's not important for every search you do but it's important for some of those searches. i think we've been looking at ways of meeting that user need and meeting it really well. >> so you're worried or not worried about facebook's competition and search he? >> i think that it's something we take seriously. like people's social media. it's been unfortunate that facebook has been pretty closed with their data and we would certainly... we're in the business of searching data, we don't generally turn it down when it's offered to us. so i think in general we'd like to see content on the internet being made more open and so on. we have an issue of them over contacts where they... from the user's perspective you say that's great, i'm joining facebook, i want my contacts in google. we said fine you can get them from google and the issue we had is facebook said no, google, you can't do the reverse. so we said users don't understand what they're doing. they're putting data in and they don

isn't that ben smith former navy seal, isn't that almost a confession a sigh of defeat?ut look at the administration that is leasing the documents. the 7 documents like the doj and ice saw asking for holder to put things up there. there are 17 of how many? >> as they are using attack ads they are going to use this to make obama and the war that pbus diminished. >> you are making a political argument. you believe that it is inappropriate then for the president to talk about these matters in a cell bra tory way? >> as was last year we were on here we rode down at 9-11 everybody is feeling it. yes, feel the excitement of killing bin laden because that is our right. that man came here and killed 3,000 of our people because of him and all of his -- what he has done. fwauking about it talking about the intelligence we got from that day, talking about the tactics we use all of those things the books that have been written and a lot of the conversation we are asking is not really lose lipped to sink ships. if you taught the enemy as watching this right now they are learning. >>

joining me today is ben smith ar martin bashir. perhaps the finest hour of tv on this network and steve of salon.com. speaking this last hour on "the view," president obama acknowledged it will be a close can election. >> how tight do you think it's going to be with mitt romney. >> there are a lot of folks hurting out there and in that type of environment. >> there was still a lot of problems in my life. >> the confidence, martin, i want to bring you in on this first. >> did you nose ee elizabeth hassle back was not clapping. >> the president has really begun. i think we see this week as the beginning of the election. branding exercises to show mitt romney is a vampire ceo of corporate radar and so forth. i want to go to stephanie cutter speaking on "the daily rundown" which attacked romney on his record at bain. >> this has nothing to do with private equity. this has to do with mitt romney making the central premise of his campaign for presidency. the central qualification for his business experience, the economic policies that he

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it's friday, it's buzzy ben smith of buzzfeed. at this hour, investors are friending facebook trading at $38. this morning, mark zuckerberg rang the nasdaq opening bell from a huge party at facebook's california hq. the initial public offering is the largest ever for an internet company. it raised $16 billion and valued the company at more than $100 billion. henry, welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> there's lots to talk about as far as the business model here and the valuation. but i thought about this. i'm skipping right ahead to the story of an american company. and sort of what this represents for us. i mean, i think we all watched the big party this morning when zuckerberg rang the bell and it is really the story of mark zuckerberg, the kid who invented this in his dorm room has come full circle. >> it is a great american story especially given the troubles in the economy for the last few years. it's wonderful to see this. company was a coding project in a dorm room eight years ago used by one-eighth of the po

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yar menendez patricia murphy, citizen jane politics and buzzfeed editor in chief, the always buzzy ben smith. folks, we just heard the president talking a little bit about jobs numbers at the top. unfortunately, there was some sort of terrible storm going over the washington area. so we missed that. we apologize if you were watching at home but he was speaking at length about students loans. i want to talk about the jobs numbers first. we know that numbers are disappointing if the word only precedes them as in the u.s. economy only the created 115,000 jobs last month. liz, you're new to this rodeo. let's talk to you first. this is not necessarily what the white house wants although better that these numbers come out now than later on in the year. >> yes, economists have been talking to some extent it seems like there's a first quarter curse where we've seen in the last couple years that it looks like things are getting better and there's a dip for a while where things get worse and it picks up in the summer. maybe that will happen this time around. these numbers are bad. what's striking abou

menendez, steve kornacki of salon.com, buzzfeed editor-in-chief, the always eternal little buzzy ben smith. mitt romney is doing his best to sell his resume to the american public but there's a glaring hole in his pitch. the four years he spent as governor of massachusetts. duly noted says the president. >> he doesn't really talk about what he did in massachusetts. but he does talk about being a business guy. >> that might be because for the past year, mitt romney has equated the running of the state of massachusetts to a clinton eras controversy. >> i spent 25 years in business, only four years as a governor, and i joke that i didn't inhale. >> i spent four years as a governor. i joke that i didn't inhale. >> four years in government. i didn't inhale. i promise. >> only four years as governor. i didn't inhale. >> mitt romney's campaign is down today. he'll be heading from his home in massachusetts to his other home in california. joining me to help us step into the way back machine is "time" magazine and msnbc senior political analyst mark halperin. he joins us from cambridge, massachuset

it's friday, it's buzzy ben smith of buzzfeed.$38. this morning, mark zuckerberg rang the nasdaq opening bell from a huge party at facebook's california hq. the initial public offering is the largest ever for an internet company. it raised $16 billion and valued the company at more than $100 billion.

smith? nate, ben and tom. and if the smith brothers has a certain ring to it, well, it's because they are related to the other ones-of cough drop and elixir fame? but, what these smith brothers are known for are, video games- cordy, cordy sky, and sleepy jack-three of the most popular game apps in the digital universe, millions, multi- millions of downloads across all platforms. >> try to i have good experiences across all those. >> the ability to go from here to there, to there is a huge deal. >> yes, yeah, and that's the thing that i think we're ahead of the kufb there in terms of all of our designs. they are the principles in eight year old silvertree media, a couple dozen folks in a downtown historic palo alto california building. they are virtual world creators and storytellers, and when you consider there are hundreds of millions of devices upon which their games will play? there is nothing sleepy about that, jack. >> we always try to think of ourselves as the pixar of the mobile industry, so we try to ma

we've got ben stiller, jada pinkett smith, martin short, jessica chastain, chris rock and david schwimmeris? >> oh, i did. i mean -- >> martin -- >> ben threw me this idea and i -- >> i had something and i called up prince, and we batted it back and forth. >> so madness or genius, what do you think, ben? >> i think it's -- you called it limited genius? >> limited. >> you know, i actually -- >> i actually heard it last night on a cell phone as a ring tone just fyi. you may want to get some -- >> wow, already? >> and he owns the publishing. >> okay. >> so -- >> yeah. >> all right. >> okay >> -- just got braces so i need the money. >> four of the six of you as i understand it, four of the six of you, this is your third madagascar film in something like seven years. at this point, how much of it do you actually improvise? >> we -- a lot. >> yes. >> a lot! >> but we were lucky because we had a great script on this one. but you know, by this point, like we've been doing it for like ten years, we started two years -- >> we had no children when we started this. >> so at this point it's really lik

be just heavenward it will be on the red carpet, and guess who gets to interview ben stiller, chris rock, jada pinkett smith and also sean penn coming up? that's going to be me. we're going to have all of that all coming up this week, including our interview with alec baldwin and chris pines, as well, matt. >> listen. have fun. already looks like a good time. we'll see you very, very soon, ann. >> and they lifted the restraining order against her from brad pitt. that's great. >> let's get -- >> anyway. i don't know where we're going there. meanwhile coming up from here, we've got our money 911 crew ready to dispense some much-needed financial advice. everything from rolling over your 401(k) to saving for a down payment versus paying off those student loans. >> and the newly crowned winner of nbc's "fashion star" is here with us. she went, i love this, she went into the show a former school teacher, and now her life, to say the least, is completely changed forever. she'll show off her winning design. worth $6 million. >> that's terrific. >> all for a former teacher. >> she looked a little -- >> very pretty.

we've got ben stiller and chris rock and jada pinkett smith and also talking to eva longoria. before i let you go, on your behalf, just for you, because i'm really missing you here, i'm going to go take a little dip. actually, not complete dip. i'm going to put my toe in the mediterranean for all of us at the "today" show. and sending it back to you from here. >> wow, that's nice. >> it's cold! >> we're going to have a little doughnut in the green room for you here. we miss you as well. >> careful. careful. >> send back some rose! >> okay, i will. i'll bring back a bottle. >> where was it we were doing the show remote one time and you dove in your clothes in the pool? was it miami? >> oh, that was in miami, yeah. that was in miami. >> do it again. >> not this time. >> dropping a hint. >> anyway, ann, thanks very much. here we have "today's professionals" back in the house. >> yeah, they are here. they've got a lot to talk about, fired up. we are going to talk about the john edwards case. was it a mistake that john edwards did not take the stand in his criminal trial? we'll als

ben stein, thank you. plenty more as the factor moves along this evening. body language on the president andview ladies as well as actor will smith dennis miller on thoughts about obama on "the view." as well as mitt romney. >> bill: body language segment tonight, let's begin with president obama appearing on "the view" for the fourth time. >> it was tight with john mccain in 2008. how tight do you think it's going to be with mitt romney. >> when your name is barack obama it's always tight. [cheers] barack hussein obama. >> why do you say that now after four years? >> i think it's going to be tight because the fact of the matter is that, you know, the country has gone through a very difficult time. >> bill: all right. here now body language maven tonya reiman. because i have been on that program a number of times. i want to ask you questions about how i conducted myself as opposed to barack obama. >> okay. >> bill: first of all, i never cross my legs. i usually lean in because i have got to be aware. i have got to be. >> ready for the attack. >> bill: i have got to be swivelling here. i have got to -- is he leaning back and cross

ben crump, appreciate your time. >>> there's a new twist in the mississippi pardons mess that could mean justice for the family of 18-year-old charity smith. the drunk driver was convicted, but why was he on the road in the first place and why was he pardoned by then governor hailee barbour? >>> the drug war in mexico. this time dozens of bodies turned up headless and mutilated. and the murderers left their calling card at the scene. or did they? why it's not so easy to determine which drug cartel is responsible. >>> a major development in a mother's search for justice. a mississippi grand jury has charged this man, harry bostick, who was pardoned by mississippi governor haley barbour in january for a fatal accident last october. negligently caused the death of charity smith when she crossed paths with bostick. his truck crashed into her car when she pulled out on a highway. bostick, who was a former irs investigator, has charged with driving under the influence. it wasn't the first time. he'd already been arrested three times for drunk driving. this dash cam video shows one of those arrests. by the time bostick crashed into charity smith

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