i got chellie pingree, so i'm excited. appreciate it, man. >> thanks, rachel. >> thanks for staying with us for the next hour. last night the whole political landscape for 2012 changed. it actually had nothing to do with michigan or arizona or rick santorum or mitt romney, off even ron paul's dell grate zrat at the gee. the entire landscape for washington for 2012 changed before we got the results of those two primaries last night. hold that thought. in april of 2010, just before he retired from the supreme court, justice john paul stevens did an interview in his chambers with a reporter for the new york times, and at the age of 90, on the eve of his retirement, justice stevens said when he looked back at his career, when he looked back at every one supreme court justice who joined the court in the previous generation, in the previous 35 years, he told the reporter every single one of them was more conservative than the justice he or she replaced. with only two possible exceptions, over 35 years. think about that for a sec

we like shelly snow and we like chellie pingree. people are looking for people who will reach across the aisle and find common ground. we want to fix the problem not get stuck in ideology. that's what people want you to run on. they want you to talk about what you have done, your record, the things you're engaged in, fighting for the middle class, clean energy, jobs, health care. things that matter to everybody that are not really left or right. they want us to move beyond political ideology, constant elections, you know, one fight after the other. they want things to start being fixed and feel good about america and feel good about their childrens futures. >> don't miss rachel maddow's unique take on politics and all the top stories, that's rachel maddow, 9:00 p.m. weekdays here on msnbc. >>> a dramatic development wednesday indicated relations between the u.s. and north korea could be headed in a new direction under newly installed leader kim jong-un north korea says international inspectors will be allowed in to verify all nuclea