heard and i try to find out what's really going on investigative journalist and publisher of the brad blog brad friedman joins me now from the new york studio he has been following these events very closely and i see you brad so things got illusions you things got pretty heated there in missouri paul supporters they feel like they're not getting a fair shot do you think that there's an effort to silence or silence that rather well the fact is they weren't getting a fair shot this was not a matter of ron paul supporters were making trouble this was a matter of the party establishment there in st charles county missouri actually trying to hijack this caucus putting in place some rules that they're really not allowed to do according to the republican party rules they. started off this thing saying well we have to turn off all videos all recording devices now there was nothing in the rules about that whatsoever and the ron paul folks know that as soon as you shut down transparency democracy goes away and they were not happy about it they spoke up as is their right in a caucus like this they tr

go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com, we'll bring you results later on in the show. >>> joining me tonight is brad woodhouse communications director for the democratic national committee, brad, good to have you with us tonight. >> thanks, ed. >> are you concerned about the polling numbers that this many people in two southern states think the president is not a christian? >> well, look, should say we are maybe, but not really. we're not getting spun up over any one particular poll or any one particular finding. it's unfortunate, i would certainly agree with you about that. the president has made clear his entire history has made clear, he's an american, born here, he's a christian, i mean the same people that wanted to attack him for attending services at reverend wright's church, a christian church, seem to want to question his religion. it's unfortunate, like the president said it has 100% no place in politics. because once this starts going both ways, you're dividing people on some very emotional turf of. >> dividing them and making them believe about a falsehood about the highest office in the

brad pitt. well, we knew the latest ipad was a hot commodity but now tech blogs are posting reports of customerst is becoming too warm to hold after prolonged use. and other tech sites are alerting users to watch what they say since the ipad's new dictation feature sends all your information directly to apple for processing. a feature apple has been up front about. >>> and will the real mitt romney please stand up? this video parody of eminem's famous rap is going viral and being shared across facebook. >> real romney please stand up. we're going to have a problem here. >> like you haven't seen a mormon before george i'm not concerned about -- got it wrong. sorry that's not what i want. >> every american -- >> if only political ads could be that entertaining. it is now 8:04 right now. let's go back outside to matt and ann. you've got to watch everything you say. because they dice it up. >> what you can do with a home computer. no question. natalie, thank you very much. >> let's get a check of the weather with al. he's out here somewhere. where are you, al? >> i'm over here. your first trip to ne