also, presidential candidate buddy roemer, and republican senator rob portman of ohio. up next, nbc's chuck todd, david gregory, and tony perkins joins us. >>> but first, bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill? >> good morning to you, mika. a little bit of light rain greeting people this morning from d.c. to philly to new york. so far, the airports are doing all right. no delays reported. we could have minor delays, but it's going to be another warm day. not going to rain in this region of the country. just light rain on and off from now until about noon. forecast today, look at these temperatures. this is march weather, folks. 67 in d.c. today, 62 in new york. and just soak it up while it lasts. temperatures around the southeast also warm. as we look toward the west coast, rain this morning in seattle, that should clear out for this afternoon. a peek at tomorrow's forecast, a big highlight come thursday and friday. a little rare winter snowstorm. do you believe that? it can snow this winter. watch out denver to omaha. you're watching "morning joe"

. >> one more thing, here comes buddy roemer. you never heard of buddy roemer, but he's a former louisiana congressman and governor, he's ending his run for the gop nomination and he's going to run as an independent on the americans elect ticket. he's seeking the nomination of the reform party. let's bring in mike papantonio, host "ring of fire" on radio stations across the stations. sort out the possible from the crazy, what is happening? >> first of all, palin does see herself as a candidate. she wants a brokered convention because in her crazy, delusional mind she sees herself at the top of the ticket, santorum running as a vp. she is manipulative opportunityist who never stopped trying to run for president. she destroyed the republican ticket in 2008. you will see her unleash her flying monkey type of campaign more and more as we get closer to the convention. remember this -- >> you think she is serious or is she just talking smack for the tv camera, what do you think? >> no, she is always serious. she is delusional, ed, in h

ron paul and even governor buddy roemer who's also running for president are not getting much coverage and when they do it tends to be negative and so we just took a lock at mainstream media this trend of literally embedding their reporters with candidates how do you think this practice and other journalism practices a fax campaign coverage so when you embed a journalist in a war zone for example that has some very legitimate journalistic uses because you have somebody on the ground with a camera who can speak to soldiers and all that but when you have embedded reporters who are on the campaign trail and have you know sort of an unspoken allegiance to a certain candidate that's very dangerous because you have a reporter who's acting more like a p.r. person than an actual journalist because they know if they dig a little too deep or dig a little too hard that they can be thrown off that campaign bus you know they can stop being invited to these press conferences where there is limited space and i don't like a lot of the embedded reporting that we've seen so far in the g.o.p. primary and

well i actually had buddy roemer on this show last month and while it's great the buddy has sworn off pac donations and deep pocketed donors partly because he's not getting that money anyway it's still ultimately comes down to ideas about governance and buddy and i don't agree all that much these kinds of things including health care which we debated on my show in december. even like our current system i think that we should have a national health insurer all that really works good it works good for the other three have a good let me give an example like the post office tom you're crazy for what for you could use a one to sixty cent embrace and to let it all away across you won't choice and competition in our society that works best right now we don't have to show you want or profit motive and you want the profit motive could mean for profit or nonprofit that's up to the person perhaps that's up to you from going to the world they say ask to be nonprofit clearly are for profit health insurance system is broken and i don't thing buddy has the right ideas to fix it but is more than welc

president obama, mayor bloomberg, buddy roemer, most online support.'re number six, but behind paul and huntsman and bernie sanders, who's not even in the race. why are you so far behind there? >> well, i think i'm relatively unknown, luke. i've been a congressman and a governor. the only person running for president who's done that. i've built a billion dollar bank in the last six years. i've been in private business. i'm not a lawyer, a lobbyist and i've been out of the limelight. i've been doing what americans do. work to build their families, their companies, their fortune, their income and i didn't think i'd ever be in politics again, luke, but i've watched washington bought and sold on health care, on energy policy. i've been to china many times and i see our country being played the fool. we talking about automobiles early on your show. china just raised the import fee for american automobiles by 22%. and you know what our president said? not a damn thing. we need leadership. we need planning. we need to build a country. not afghanistan. america

does not take a penny of pac money and limits all contributions to one hundred dollars per person buddy roemer is not bought out by these special interests he should be invited to your show every week to promote his campaign well i actually had buddy roemer on this show last month and while it's great the buddy has sworn off pat donations and deep pocketed donors partly because he's not getting that money anyway it's still alternately comes down to ideas about governance and buddy and i don't agree all that much on these kinds of things including health care which we debated on my show in december. you know like our current system i think that we should have a national health insurer all that really works good it works good for the other three i'm a girl let me give an example like the post office tom you're crazy for what for you to use a one to sixty so numbers and to let it go all the way across you want choice and competition in our society that works best right now we don't have to show you want the profit motive you want the profit motive could mean for profit or non profit that's up to

former governor buddy roemer on why he is running for president. you are not going to want to miss my interview with uaw president bob king on the challenges challenges on the labor movement. the war room. we will be right back. only one who thinks an amendment to the constitution may be in >> g.o.p. presidential candidate bud d.c. roemer has not participated in any of the republican debates. he is not even mentioned in most polling figures but today, he did something that none of his other competitors are can lay claim to. not that they would probably want to: roemer qualified for matching funds by collecting $5,000. that means the u.s. treasury will cut him a check for 100 granted which will leave him $57 million of matching mitt romney's war chest. if one of the reasons he got into the race was to reform campaign finance, how much weight does today's news carry? let's ask him. the former governor of louisiana joins us from baton rouge. governor roemer welcome here into the war room. >> good to be in the war room. i should bring a weapon of some

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former louisiana governor buddy roemer is expected to announce his departure from the develop presidential race and plans to run for president as an independent. >>> happy birthday to dakota fanning. she turns 18 years old. all day long you can stay on top of those stories and others as they break on msnbc. and tonight be sure to watch brian williams with "nbc nightly news". >>> finally, here's a look at what is coming up later this morning on the "today" show. the latest details of the guilty verdict in the university of virginia lacrosse murder trial, plus reaction from the victim's family. and the wife of an amazing race producer speaks out on the mysterious death of her husband in africa. >>> keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports and more. i'm lynn berry. thank you for watching "early today," your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. have a good one. >> reporter: an overnight fire in sunnyvale destroys a home, concerns, questions now about the whereabouts of the family of four who lives here. i'm bob redell. we'll take you here live coming up. >

host: joining us from boston rouge, louisiana, is buddy roemer. you decided this week he would become an independent. explaining the strategy behind that. -- explained the strategy behind that. guest: in the 21st century, elections are decided by debate performance and opportunity. i have been a republican for 21 years. i am proud of the republican party. i was a democrat before that. in the course of the last year, there have been 23 nationally televised debates. most americans now get their impressions of candidates in the debate format. newt gingrich rose and fell in that format. rick santorum has risen in that format. herman cain, in that format. some have not done so well. debates decide it. the governor of texas fell in that format. michele bachmann felt in that format. debates are important. of the 23 nationally televised debate, i am the only republican candidate who was not invited to the debate. i am the only republican candidate who has been a congressman and a governor. here is the key point. i am the only republican candidate who does

joining me guys but they're pretty right so thanks for trying to get admission to come back tomorrow buddy roemer a former louisiana governor and third party presidential candidate is going to be back on the shelf and meantime don't forget to have you want to facebook the policy on twitter if there's anything you ever miss you can find out some stuff. and that's the. issue is that so much there's a huge music issue on. the right to protect the rights to penetrate syria continues down the path of destruction and civil war there are loud voices on the international stage. download the official auntie ugly cation joe i phone or i pod touch from the i choose option. which are cheap life on the go. video on demand g.'s my bold colors and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com it also measures the a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you tear see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

operation in which you delegates left and right which could bring about so i was speaking of all this buddy roemer the former governor of louisiana who was running as a republican has decided he's still a republican but he's not going to be running for president of the republican ticket instead he's throwing to the citizens elect thing so this is a like is this are americans like rather is this shadowy group was put together by a bunch of hedge fund managers and billionaires and wall street we still don't know all of them. they're hiding behind total secrecy they've raised twenty two million dollars their own fourteen states ballots including california they say they've got enough money to get all fifty states on their website they're promoting mayor bloomberg might give you a clue who's behind this thing and and mitch daniels. and then they're saying that they their executive committee and we don't know who these people are that they're going to have a national vote and whoever wins the vote is going to be the candidate and they're going to put their candidate up as a third party candidate but if

>>neil: would you elect buddy roemer? >>guest: you tell me.ant a republican and democrat. doesn't matter who is on top or bottom. >>guest: it don't matter. the rules say it has to be a moderate republican and a moderate democrat so a mitch daniels and john warners or general petraeus and chris christie. >>neil: you looking for modest. the reason i say it is year, is that you wanted hillary clinton. she was a liberal. >>guest: hillary clinton was not a liberal. hillary clinton was a democrat --. >>neil: who was a liberal. >>guest: depends on where you start. hillary clinton was a person who believed in a strong america. >>neil: would you want her on your ticket? >>guest: i would want her as president any day of the week. >>shepard: she would be part of this if she were so inclined? >>guest: or mitch daniels, chris christie, any of them. right now on www.americanselectorg people can draft whoever they want. who do you think should be president in what we are saying is elect a president, not a party. because the parties are trying to shoehorn the

the most interesting person is buddy roemer. he used to be a democrat. now is a republican. system as it were. the president with the move into the super pacs is making that case a little easier for someone like that. he did it for good reason. he had to do it because the republicans have raised so much, but it does create an environment -- >> let's look at the situation. if you're counting strategies, the swing states that mattered the most, voters see the gop nomination battle as weakening the republican nominee so far. that's 53% of those people in the swing states say this whole primary season has hurt. only 21% say it strengthened the eventual winner. >> i think it's awfully hard when you're right in the middle of the battle to see this is something that could strengthen the nominee. but four years ago in the middle of the clinton/obama fight, i don't think many people were looking beyond the here and now, the immediacy and thinking eventually this is really going to help us. but obviously -- there are still schisms -- >> i think it was a strong contest of two strong ca

consumers union about bank overdraft fees and a former louisiana governor and presidential candidate buddy roemer. "washington journal" is next. ♪ good morning, today is saturday,

. >>> not sure about the odds on buddy roemer winning the white house. probably not very good.overnor is expected to drop out of the race for the gop nomination in about 15 minutes. he will instead try to run as -- if you remember this, jesse ventura, pat buchanan, the reform party candidate. the ratings have taken a huge hit since he released the controversial super bowl ad featuring an asian woman speaking broken english, that holds a 21% lead. hoekstra is hoping to receive support from herman cain. we'll all see that in november. wake up! that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. oh! [ baby crying ] ♪ what started as a whisper ♪ every day, millions of people choose to do the right thing. ♪ slowly turned to a scream ♪ there's an insurance company that does that, too. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? ♪ amen, omen >>> one told of us how embarrassed and just powerless she felt when she was standing at the pharmacy counter and learned for the first time the contraception was not covered on

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presidential candidate buddy roemer's expected to end his bid for the republican nomination. am i going to vote for? he's going to stay in the race for the white house now as an independent. let's go down to the most interesting man in the world. it seems to me that americans elect and no labels and all of these centrist movements, not really centrist movement, but just -- >> buddy roemer had a great message about the problem with money and politics. former governor, former congressman, successful businessman. they wouldn't let him in 20 debates. they let a pizza mogul, but he's the first declared candidate for americans elect. and he's a very exciting guy with a great message, a very focused guy. talking about one of the real problems in american politics and he needs to be heard and he's going to be heard when he runs out on americans elect because somebody's going to win -- they're going to be on the ballot in 50 states and he could be on that ticket. >> he has got probably the most custom made message for 2012 of any of the candidates. >> let's go to politico. >> let's go

host: joining us from boston rouge, louisiana, is buddy roemer. you decided this week he would become an independent. explain the strategy behind that. -- explained the strategy behind that. guest: elections are decided by debate performance and opportunity. guest: in the 21st century, elections are decided by debate performance and opportunity. i have been a republican for 21 years. i am proud of the republican party. i was a democrat before that. in the course of the last year, there have been 23 nationally televised debates. been 23 nationally televised debates. most americans now get their impressions of candidates in the debate format. newt gingrich rose and fell in that format. rick santorum has risen in that format. herman cain, in that format. some have not done so well. debates decide it. the governor of texas fell in that format. michele bachmann felt in that format. debates are important. of the 23 nationally televised debate, i am the only republican candidate who was not invited to the debate. i am the only republican candidate who ha

also, buddy roemer. washington journal begins saturday at 7:00 a.m.rn time. >> we got started because there were a lot of conservative think tanks that work across issues. there had been no single progressive think tank that works on economic and domestic policy, national security. >> neera tanden on the issue of the washington, d.c. think tank. >> we think there is often and radiology with very little facts behind them. part of our job is to make the arguments and the factual arguments and evidence based arguments. i think sometimes when the facts cannot argue for our position, we reexamine those positions. we think the most fundamental thing is to be right no matter what your views are. >> sunday at 8:00 eastern on c- &a."s "q >> he also commented on fighting in syria and iran banned nuclear program. nuclear program. >> this is the first time we have had a chance to meet. obviously, we have been very impressed with the first five months of her prime ministership. i shared with her how much michele and i appreciated the hospitality that was shown to

and also buddy roemer. "washington journal" begins at 7:00 a.m.rn time on c-span. >> bobby jindal is scheduled to reveal his proposal for balancing the state budget. a budget $900 million in the red. >> next weekend, book tv and american history tv, explore the hist rip -- history of shreveport, louisiana. author gary joyner on his book "from one damn blunder from beginning to end." a look at the 1,000 books of the hal smith collection. then a walking tour of shreveport and boser city with neil johnson. and from barksdale air force base on 911. also visit the founding father's collection at the louisiana state museum. and medical street. -- treatment from the civil war next week on c-span2 and 3. >> there are million of decent americans who are throg sacrifice for change. but they want to do it without being threatened and they want to do it peacefully. they are the nonviolent majority. black and white who are for change without violence. these are the people whose voice i want to be. >> as candidates campaign for presidency this year. we look bac

i am a protest vote for buddy roemer. so i will say i do not have a horse in this race. but i am signing papers today to make an offer on a house. i just want to encourage everyone to work with your credit union. but i feel like i am getting cheated in both ways. i just paid off this one house i am living in right now. it should be worth $120,000. that is what it cost to build it. i could maybe get $60,000 for it. right now what is really weird is that freddie mac and fannie mae are underwriting almost all the loans and they are right now stifling the flow of foreclosures. i am getting hurt both ways because my house and -- i got cheated on the value of it right now and right now they are not allowing housing values to go rural so i can get a better value. but withholding the flow of foreclosures -- and these houses are being empty for years and you destroy a house by leaving it and see. it is one of the worst things you could absolutely do to it. but in know what, it is strange for me to actually say this, but i decided that at this point, freddie mac and fannie mae sho

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. >> president candidate and former louisiana governor buddy roemer, i want to thank you for joining us. after the break, mitt romney said to let it go bankrupt. president obama said no way. so what's next for the thousands of men and women who keep the american auto industry running? uaw president bob king joins us in the war room. and that's next. keep it right here. our democracy here. >>this is outrageous! [[vo]]cenk uygur calls out the mainstream media. >>the rest of the media seems like, "ho-hum, no big deal." we've have no choice, we've lost our democracy here. just refreshing to hear. no other television show does that. we're keeping it real. lowered wages for union and non-union workers too. i wonder why they do that. i wonder if it has to do with campaign donations from incredibly rich people. >> thank you so much for joining ah, claim trouble. [ dennis ] you should just switch to allstate, and get their new claim satisfaction guarantee. hey, he's right man. [ dennis ] only allstate puts their money where their mouth is. yup. [ dennis ] claim service so good, it's guarantee