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[ screaming ] >> that would be the rachel maddow show's producer bill wolff who is a mess at the sightought of cockroaches. it is a fear of cockroaches. bill has it really, really, really bad. [ screaming ] >> today because bill wolff isn't here, since he isn't here, we bring you the best new thing in the world. the discovery of this. it is a roachy looking roach for sure, nuclear war surviving. what makes this new discovery new, what makes it the best ew thing in the world today? this! the rest of the bug, the other part of the bug. look at those long, nasty legs on that roach! this apparently is a leap roach. it is called that because it can leap up to 50 times its body length. imagine one with all of the ability to leap into the air. locuses are the biblical har ben injury of doom. here are the puppies. now back to the leaping roaches. this is a bad news, good news, bad news situation. the bad news, there is a cockroach can jump on you from across the room. good news, it was discovered in the grass lands of south africa, and sub cysts on grass hopper poop. if you stay anywhere that

bill wolff back at the office, we'll return this from eww to new. now time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >>> tonight, republicans have three big problems, newton, willard, donald. >> "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" is a complete total disaster. >> the party has image problems. >> the clown show. >> i would like to restore your right to drink raw milk any time you wanted to. >> image problems. >> i'm someone who is moderate and my views are progressive. >> he has been consistent since he changed his mind. >> is romney so desperate to prove he is a conservative, chris alyssa, he is bringing out christine o'donnell? >> what was that endorsement? >> mitt romney has to start pulling over conservative voters or he is not going to win the nomination. >> mitt romney is not a true conservative. >> they don't view mitt romney as one of them. >> no one is getting a mitt romney tattoo for next summer. >> if you cheat on your wife, you'll cheat on your business partner. >> do you give someone you acknowledge is a bomb thrower a nuclear wea

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wolffe. that's michael steele. do we have michael wolf? seriously, come on. that is bill wolf in a wolf t-shirt.meat plus caffeine equals the best new thing in the world today. here's the scene. where are we? we are on a street. here, wait. what was i doing? i was driving a car. what's that? person i just ran over in a crosswalk. there's one thing to understand about the case for rick perry that is being made so far and that it looks like will be the basis for his presidential run, one thing to understand about that -- it's baloney. >> i'm often criticized about the fact that i've never held public office and criticized that i don't know this and i don't know that and i don't know that and i don't know this. you know, a leader doesn't have to know everything. >> i don't think i have to try to prove this anymore. i think the evidence is

wolffe, how does that play? what do you think? >> the problem is he can remember 30 years ago as if it was yesterday, though he did confuse being someone in washington for 30 years, bill and jimmy carter. yes, he can say i've always been a conservative. he's not trying to fool people. that's the implicit contrast with mitt romney, but he's been there 340 years, this is his fourth decade in washington. is he from another era? that's the problem that marine voters will face? are they moving forward or going back? >> e.j., is that one skeleton that newt gingrich has gotten rid of, that he's maybe convinced iowa voters that he is a conservative? >> i just think it's very hard to convince anyone that newt gingrich is not a conservative. richard is right that 1980 was a long time ago, but first of all, the republican primary and caucus electorate is really old, and secondly every conservative remembers that democrats better saying that ronald reagan was the easiest guy to beat. they love to bring that up with democrats. and so i think that line resonated with the audience that he was talking to. not necessarily with other audiences, but with the audience he needed to care a