let's bring in chris cillizza and maria. nailing down your base going for the reachables, taking positions that he's kept himself waway frm by the commitments he's made so far. your thoughts, chris. >> well, look, i think on immigration certainly, chris, what you saw was president obama taking advantage of the power of his office. mitt romney can't do something like this. whether we debate whether he would or not, seems like he wouldn't, but we would not, could not. president obama can. hispanics are clearly a pillar of the base. young people. those are and affluent whites are really kind of the three big pillars of the base. his p hispanics have become a little dispirited because the dream act, the dream act didn't pass. you could argue president obama didn't focus add much on their priorities as he would have liked. i'm not suggesting it was done for only political reasons, but the calculation behind this twouz say i am your guy and mitt romney -- it boxes mitt romney in. makes it hard for him to take a position. >> i think

thanks, chris cillizza. thank you, chuck todd. more on the poll of course tonight at 6:30. >>> mitt romney has criticized the president's stance on immigration and said he is disappointed in the supreme court's ruling on the arizona law. but he's still avoiding specifics. just what he would do, how would he overhaul the immigration system. here's how he addressed the issue less than a half hour ago. >> the supreme court had to step in because states had to step in. states looking for a way to solve the problems he didn't address, tried to address it in their own ways. now the supreme court's looked at it. what we're left with is a bit of a muddle. what we know is the president failed to lead. he failed to do what he said he would do. >> joining me, mark mckinon, former advisor to president george w. bush. george w. bush took on the immigration issue and tried and did not succeed. as did other presidents and other senators. now we've got a case where both sides are accusing each other of failure of leadership. >> yeah, that's the d

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chris cillizza, msnbc contributor and managing editor of postpolitics.com. msnbc political director chuck todd and pete williams, nbc news justice correspondent. chris, let's start with you. the president is targeting the swing states we just talked about in a bus tour. they just announced today they are going out next week. just where is the president going? >> well, i believe he's headed into the rural midwest, which is a place he needs to go. the states that you showed, i would add, those states, the most striking finding i found at least from the nbc/"wall street journal," i know chuck talked about this so i will defer to chuck but the thing i found, those swing states, he's ahead by more than he is nationally. we always said this is a national election in name only. that is, what matters is the margin in those swing states. you know, i'm from connecticut. president obama is very likely to win connecticut. if he doesn't win connecticut, he's got bigger problems on his hands. the fact that he's ahead by eight in those swing states and only three nationally

chris cillizza is back. there's a beauty show, a beauty pageant going on in chicago. all the prospective vice president choices are showing up. >> a vp tryout. you have governors chris christie of new jersey, bobby jinl, bob mcdonnell all speaking tomorrow. i would put them in the top ten list. maybe even the top five list for the vp choices. a little tryout. i don't think he will pick any time soon despite reports to the contrary. a few months probably still. >> that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. "news nation" with tamron hall is next. [ voice of dennis ] ...allstate. really? i was afraid you'd have some cut-rate policy. [ normal voice ] nope, i've got... [ voice of dennis ] the allstate value plan. it's their most affordable car insurance -- and you still get an allstate agent. i too have... [ voice of dennis ] allstate. [ normal voice ] same agent and everything. it's like we're connected. no we're not. yeah, we are. no...we're not. ♪ ask an allstate agent about the value plan. are you in good hands? [ male announcer ] we believe small things

chris cillizza is an msnbc contributor and managing editor of postpolitics.com.ssion overnight about a conversation you and i had yesterday. we ran clips of mitt romney in cornwall, pennsylvania, talking about his trip to a wawa. the rnc and campaign both reached out to us, saying romney had more to say about that visit, about federal bureaucracy. >> i was at wawa's. i went in to order a sandwich. you press a touch-tone keypad. you just touch that and the sandwich comes at you, touch this, touch this, touch this, go pay the cashier, there's your sandwich. it's amazing. people in the private sector have learned how to compete. it's time to bring competition to the federal government and to get it smaller and have it respond to the customers, which are you. >> now on to that other subject, immigration, because that was a big topic.

msnbc contributor chris cillizza is back with us. uning in at 11:00 tonight on the east coast, conan with the five romney sons all in one place. that's something to watch for. josh, ben and craig all appearing on conan tonight. >> i'm assuming you did that off the top of your head, andrea. >> i'm impressed i will say by that. look, i would say this is a good thing for mitt romney to put forward. anytime you can put your family forward, wife, kids they round out the perspective of you to potential voters who don't know that much about you. smart politics. i always watch conan. i'll be watching. >> my five sons for those not watching at daily show and ha does it for this edition of rep. tomorrow, florida senator marco rubio joining me. tamron hall has a look what's next on "news nation." >> i can't wait to see that interview tomorrow. we are following breaking news. will a house committee take the unprecedented step of holding the attorney general in contempt? >> i must say, mr. chairman, i am offended personal ly by your calling the at

chris cillizza is managing editor of post politics.com and here with me. these numbers are really bad. there's no silver lining. we'll be talking to maria bartiromo in a moment about the economic side of it. the political fall out is, how does the president keep saying as the white house did today in our statement, we're bumping along. there's volatility. it's the 27th straight week of jobs growth. >> positive growth. here's the problem. the fundamental question of the election, if it's up to mitt romney is are you better off than you were four years ago. that's it. that's what mitt romney wants to frame the election on. >> it's 19 0 all over again. >> when you see reports like this it's very hard for barack obama to pivot and do what he must do, which is find a way to say to the american public, yes, things are not where we want them to be, but yes, the policies i have put in place over the last 31/2 years are in fact working. numbers like this particularly if we seepts two more months of this heading into labor day makes that case virtually impossible po

let's bring in chris cillizza and maria. is this the name of obama's game, nailing down your base and going for the reachables before the other guy gets a shot of him? is this the name of the game, nailing down your base, going for the reachable it is other guy can't get because taking positions he has kept himself away from by the committedments he made so far in the primary. your thoughts? >> well, look, i think on immigration certainly, chris, what you saw was president obama taking advantage of the power of his office. mitt romney can't do something like this. whether we debate whether he would or not, seems like he wouldn't, but we would not, cannot do this. president obama can. hispanics are clearly a pillar of the base. go back to 2008. hispanics. young people. those are and affluent whites are really kind of the three big pillars of the base hispanics have become a little dispirited you can see it in the polling because the dream act, the dream act didn't pass. you could argue president obama didn't focus add much on

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chris cillizza is an msnbc contributor and managing editor of postpolitics.com. there has been a lot of discussion overnight about a conversation you and i had yesterday. we ran clips of mitt romney in cornwall, pennsylvania, talking about his trip to a wawa. the rnc and campaign both reached out to us, saying romney had more to say about that visit, about federal bureaucracy. >> i was at wawa's. i went in to order a sandwich. you press a touch-tone keypad. you just touch that and the sandwich comes at you, touch this, touch this, touch this, go pay the cashier, there's your sandwich. it's amazing. people in the private sector have learned how to compete. it's time to bring competition to the federal government and to get it smaller and have it respond to the customers, which are you. >> now on to that other subject, immigration, because that was a big topic. he brought that up on the trail in iowa last night. >> i'm sorry, andrea. i thought we were playing a clip of it. >> i thought so, too. let's make the point because immigration is the cutting edge issue. we

chris cillizza is msnbc contributor and managing editor of postpolitics.com. we're going to havemsnbc, but t president goes first. correct me, wasn't the president planning to do this then the romney campaign joined in? who got there first? >> that is correct. the obama campaign got there first, andrea. look, both these speeches matter but one matters more. that's the president's speech. this is coming at a time after ten days, we're almost now on two weeks now that i think of it, two weeks from the may jobs report that provided dire news about the state of the economy. and just kind of the wisconsin recall. some of the other things that happened. just bad. a serious of bad things for the president over these past two weeks. this is an attempt, though, the campaign hates when you use this word, to reset the economic debate in the broader debate in the country about what this election is about. and president obama, i think, going back to what he does best, he is a tremendous speech giver, whether you agree or disagree with what he says, he is gifted in that reg

chris cillizza is an msnbc contributor and managing editor of postpolitics.com. hey, chris. this is the group president obama is going to be in front of tomorrow around this time. this is a very important audience and romney laid out new proposals. he had moved from where he was during the primary campaign. >> yeah, you know, andrea, this is not unexpected. he talked about green cards for people under one roof. he talked about if you get an advanced degree, a green card will come stapled to your diploma. everything in the broad context of the economy as an issue for hispanic americans. this is, again, not new. mitt romney wants to talk about immigration. he wants to talk about every issue through the lens of the economy or through the lens of barack obama said he would do one thing, and he didn't do it or he didn't do what he said. so i think you heard a lot of talk from mitt romney and the specific proposals aimed at saying, we are looking out for you, we are looking out for your economic interests. we are not isolating you as a group. we are saying we know you care about t

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chris cillizza rejoins us. a turn backwards at a time when washington is all tied up in partisan knots and tempers are flaring. there was a moment here last night and you yesterday also attended an event signifying an earlier time when compromise wasn't a dirty word. the ford family awarded its medal to tip o'neill. the late speaker's son, thomas p. o'neill joined the ford children to receive this honor for his father, and basically he said that his father loved gerry ford and you also saw dick cheney and jim baker. it was quite a night. >> i heard our own chris matthews speak at a lunchon honoring one of my colleagues, scott wilson, who won a gerald ford award for journalism, and he talked about the relationship between tip and jerry ford. that they were both men of the house, people who revered the institution, and that was their common thread, not -- they weren't separated by their po partisanship. >> they did love each other and it was good to see. that does it for us for this edition. "news nation" with ta

. >> this is like eisenhower joining the campaign in 1860, chris cillizza. there are so many thoughts in that little number we just heard. i want to you analyze them. what was clinton saying there? >> sure. let me say, as broadly as humanly possible first, chris, this is what bill clinton is tremendous at. he is better at this than barack obama. he is better at this than almost anybody, probably either party operating right now. he takes things that are very complex, like the economy, it is not a simple thing, and he breaks it down into these digestible chunks that when you hear it, you think, oh, yeah, that makes some sense. he ties republicans to europe and even if you don't know exactly what is going on there, you know it's not good economically. he essentially says look, 8% unemployment is not great but if republicans are in charge, it'll good up, not down. he is doing a lot of different things. what he is broadly doing is essentially doing is framing this in a common sense way for people not following every second of this debate, who can say, yeah, this

chris cillizza and our friend chuck todd. >>> talks last night at the white house between obama officials and house republicans failed to avert a contempt of congress vote, scheduled vote at least against attorney general eric holder. barring a last minute compromise, that vote is expected tomorrow on the house floor. joining me now are our capitol hill correspondents, kelly o'donnell, luke russert, kelly, the status of these talks. are there likely to be more talks to try to avoid this or -- >> there are no indications yet. no indications yet. but because there is still time, more than 24 hours, that leaves open the door could there be more negotiating and while there is sort of a partisan aspect to this where people are talking about kind of the public face of it, there has also been a calmer behind the scenes effort to try to resolve this. it hasn't made any real ground up yet but it's still possible. so we do have time but no indications that it will happen. part of what is really at risk here is who is going to blink, and the attorney general has a difficult position in that he has i

chris cillizza is an msnbc contributor and managing editor of post politics.com. hey, chris. the president's move on the whole immigration issue clearly put mitt romney on the defensive. this is all of his attempts to try to answer it when asked about it by bob schieffer on the road in pennsylvania. >> would you repeal this order if you became president? >> well, let's step back and look at the issue. with regards to these kids who were brought in by their parents through no fault of their own, there needs to be a long-term solution. >> but would you repeal this? >> well, it would be overtaken by events, if you will, by virtue of my putting in place a long term solution. >> would you leave this in place while you worked out a long term solution, or would you just repeal it? >> we'll look at that setting as we reach that. >> well, you know, even some republicans will talk about this a bit more later, but some republicans, you have marco rubio with his dream act light which is set to be introduced, a lot of things were put on hold really by the president's move. >> yeah. first

. >> chris cillizza, thank you very much. see you later. >>> leaders of the world's top 20 economies are trying to present a united front today as they work to prevent the european debt crisis from triggering a global recession. but the headlines are all focusing on the first one-on-one meeting between president obama and russian president vladimir putin in his new role as president. >> we discussed syria, where we agreed that we need to see a cessation of the violence, that a political process has to be created to prevent civil war and the kind of horrific deaths that we've seen over the last several weeks. >> we have been able to find many commonalities. >> the body language alone. nbc news chief white house correspondent, chuck todd live from los cobos, mexico, where he is traveling with the president. chuck, that could not have been a colder session. it looked like the cold war all over again. then as you were pointing out earlier, they went back at it, did a do-over by showing a little bit of smiles and a slap on the bac

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. >> chris cillizza, thank you so much for starting us off today. that wisconsin recall election is the most expensive from the state, and much of the money coming from outside of the state. and though walker has promised to take on quote outside special interests he has raised 7.5 times more money nan the democratic opponent, and two-thirds of the money has come from outside of wisconsin according to the scenter for public integrity, and joining me is reince priebus, and most importantly in the context, you are the former chair of the republican party in wisconsin and you know it well. this is your state, and let's talk about all of this money. you guys are just clobbering the democrats. >> sure. >> with this effort to defend scott walker. >> well sh, first of all who kn in the end who spent more. there is a lot of union money being spent up there, and it is enormous effort. this never would have had to happen, andrea, if the unions from the outside wouldn't have tried to come in to hijack the state of wisconsin. we are committed and i can speak fo

i'm chris cillizza live in washington in today for andrea mitchell. in ourç daily fix, the supreme court gave the president broad legal and political victory on thursday but how will the health care decision affect vulnerable down ballot democrats and house and senate candidates who are running in red states, and there are lots of them. it didn't take long after the health care decision was handed down for republicans on capitol hill to rally around a single message. >> the court has now spoken. it is a tax. >> the government could decide that we're going to tax you if you don't eat broccoli on tuesday. apparently that's not constitutional. >> if we can see a republican victory in the senate, the congress i am convinced will overturn the obamacare law through the reconciliation process with the 51 vote margin. >> kelly o'donnell is nbc news capitol hill correspondent. thank you. it's a busy day on the hill. we had yesterday which i think broadly was a win for president obama because the alternative would have been a loss for president obama. today, d

"andrea mitchell reports" is next with chris cillizza in the anchor chair.hat i like "the newsroom" a lot. i want to be on record. >> you got the cillizza endorsement. that's all that matters. >> semi-handsome blogger. >> exactly. >> thanks, alex. >>> coming up, what's next for the states whoç filed suit to overturn president obama's health care law. georgia's attorney general will join me. >>> also, the romney campaign is collecting cash hand over fist since yesterday's health care ruling. more on that in today's political briefing. >>> and the real-life hoosiers. we'll meet the film makers behind a documentary, next. [ male announcer ] this was how my day began. a little bird told me about a band... ♪ an old man shared some fish stories... ♪ oooh, my turn. ♪ she was in paris, but we talked for hours... everyone else buzzed about the band. there's a wireless mind inside all of us. so, where to next? ♪ the charcoal went out already? [ sighs ] forget it. [ male announcer ] there's more barbeque time in every bag of kingsford charcoal. kingsford. slow down an

i, as i frequently do, quote the great chris cillizza.ote this weekend talking about whether we can even have a two term president anymore. it's clear that the idea that the president can drive the hourly, daily or weekly message of his choosing feels outdated. the bully pulpit may still exist but it's far less bully than it once was. that's especially true not only because of the fracturing of the media makes it hard to push a clear message but also because roughly half of the american public doesn't want to hear the message, whatever it is, because it is of the other party. this is directly what you were talking about earlier, which is not just partisan divide but the 24 hours news cycle. i would also say obama himself channels a certain -- his presidency has been more victim to i think a lack of respect than any other presidency. the question is how much is that precedent setting? >> i don't disagree with chris' assessment of the new media landscape and what it does to messaging. i don't think it has anything to do with whether someone

. >> perry bacon heads our panel today with chris cillizza, an msnbc contributor from "the washington. perry, let me start with you. you know, we are -- why are we so fascinated with this bill clinton/barack obama relationship? it's not like george w. bush is just telling everybody, you know, that he loves mitt romney. in fact, there has been some questions about how into romney was the bush family for a while. ronald reagan and george h.w. bush. i mean, this is not new that presidents of the same party don't always seem to be perfectly on message. they don't like being treated like a staffer, do they? >> we were so fascinated by him, because we were so fascinated by them in 2008. hillary, bill, obama was a great story. i think bill clinton is a net positive as a surrogate. the election is about the economy, and who has more credibility about improving the economy than bill clinton. i still think he's not a great figure for this new media environment where he really struggles with staying on message, but i think he'll help. >> one of the things nobody talks about when they're talking

"the washington post's" chris cillizza is an msnbc contributor and susan page, the washington bureauchief for "usa today." susan, let me start with you. yes, they are both there, but this is about the president today, and the fact that he is giving one of those rare campaign speeches. this is not an official trip, this is fall fledged campaign trip, where he's trying to reframe his economic message, but also it seems, quiet down the democrats. >> yeah, he's got all this charter, including from peter hart. you know, it's one thing for kind of the usual suspects to say -- >> on the clinton folks, right. i just got some e-mails this morning, come on! it's the same old people. >> peter hart's the most respected democratic pollster in town. somebody who wants obama to win. doesn't have an ax to grind, as saying you're on the wrong track, you've got to make an argument about the future. and i don't think that's what we're going to hear today from president obama. i think we're going to hear the argument we've heard before, which is that romney's too risky a choice, you can't trust him, you

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