up with chris hayes." tom, how do you score it? >> well, i always let the voters decide how they want to score it. i really just try to call strikes here. who scores the most runs tonight, we'll know when the florida voters go to the polls. i think objectively, however, there was a different mitt romney on the stage tonight. i think in the last ten days or so, the questions have been both, can he throw a punch and can he take a punch? tonight he threw a punch pretty effectively against newt gingrich at the beginning. the speaker did not look happy on that stage. i think one of the essential questions about his work for fannie mae and freddie mac has never been asked. for all the explanations and all the accusations against him, what, in fact, did you do for 1:6 million? that's a simple question. i think on the other hand, governor romney still and will continue to have difficulty explaining the difference between what happened with health care and massachusetts and the obama plan. >> you have an insight, i

. >> and now, i'm honored to bring in our very own chris hayes. host of "up with chris hayes". to be here with you. >> it's great to be with you. >> we have to start with newt. we may have to start with the moon. >> we can come down to earth. >> we can make a re-entry. what's the deal? i saw him in south carolina. this was an angry, fired up candidate who came from nowhere, won the primary. what happened? >> here is my theory about newt. there's part that thinks he doesn't want to president. there's part of me that thinks he likes the attention but he doesn't want to be president. the other theory, to use a sports metaphor, there's certain athletes who have a certain amount of natural talent but not technique. without technique, you toenend have a lot of vary blt. if you have a lot of technique you have consistency. newt was relying on his natural, emotional affinity for the emotion of his core audience. hee he was kind of winging it and it came back to bite him last night. >> what i can't figure out, his technique such as it is works so well in south carolina. fire them up, ge

and chris hayes, host of "up with chris hayes" here on msnbc.r you both being here tonight. dick, is newt's surge real and as strong as it is appearing? >> -- around the state today because i had the same question. is this something we in the sort of political commentary class see or is it real? less than two hours ago, he had a rally in orangeburg, not 50 miles from where i'm sitting. 1200 people showed up. romney's lucky to get 20 to show up. there is something going on out there. and it's a visceral reaction to newt that he is, as you know, in the south, these politicians bombastic that excite you, that point fingers and make strong points. they excite people. he's a throwback to that. and he has caught fire here whereas willard or mitt, whatever you want to call him is a guy with a glass jaw. he won't answer the questions. this is a guy who continues to tell us he got where he was because of his hard work and good luck. wasn't his hard work and good luck. it was his good luck to be born to a daddy who worked hard. and it's becoming clear he'

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msnbc's up with chris hayes. you had a jaw-dropping moment during newt gingrich making those wonderful fully democratic sounding voices. >> democratic. he sounds like he uses it in a general occupy wall street assembly. you know, here is what -- i am really stunned, actually, by this turn of events and the reason i'm stunned, democrats do this all the time. democrats will try to get to the right of their competitor. particularly on foreign policy. you're always seeing this very hawkish arguments. and someone who is proudly a dove always makes me grimmace and despair and here we are, mitt romney says the president is going to put the free enterprise on trial and the republican primary field has managed to put literally the free enterprise system on trial because joe is exactly right, this is what modern american capitalism looks like. bain capital is what modern american capitalism looks like. you know, it turns out a lot of voters have issues with modern american capitalism. not just democrats. people that would

the only place that i finally saw a real debate about these bills in the mainstream media was on chris hayes program with an s n b c this weekend but nowhere else and you know that really shows us is how incredibly far removed the mainstream media is from what young people actually care about if you've been monitoring the internet blogs online publications you would know what's happening with these two bills you would see how the reddit community has engaged in online activism pressuring businesses and members of congress to drop their support but the mainstream media is just completely oblivious why do you think you're losing young viewers and then it takes one of the youngest hosts on m.s.n. we see to finally bring this up and there is one more issue here that we have to address by now you know that all of the major tech companies like google yahoo e-bay they all oppose sopa and protect ip but do you want to know a few more companies that actually support the bills aside from just the motion picture association and the recording industry all those companies would be comcast and n.b.c. univ

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"up w/ chris hayes" is next. >>> good morning from new york, i'm chris hayes. the associated press is reporting this morning that a suicide bomber struck at a funeral in baghdad, killing 33 people and wounding 65. according to police and hospital officials there. here at home, the huffington post reports the obama administration state attorneys general and big banks may be near a settlement over a mountain of claims of fraudulent foreclosures. we'll have eric schneiderman on the snow tomorrow to be talking about that. right now i'm joined by my colleague colleague at nation 39 come, executive editor richard kim, democratic congresswoman, carolyn maloney, heather mcghee, director of the washington office, josh barro,. i want to talk about mitt romney's taxes for the second week in a row, from here until the election happens quite frankly. we can do four hours every weekend about mitt romney's taxes as far as i'm concerned. his taxes continued to be a significant obstacle and problem for him in terms of the campaign. in the last debate, romney was not only debati

snchlgts from new york, i'm chris hayes. "up with chris hayes" this afternoon.8:00. we have been talking about south carolina primary results with eliot spitzer, melissa harris perry. former reagan budget director david stockman. newt ginrich won the south carolina primary last night handedly winning 40% of the vote to mitt romney's 28%. one of the more surreal elements of the south carolina race was the presence of the stephen colbert/herman cain team. colbert's presence in south carolina. this is him on "morning joe" talking about -- they play an ad which is -- he has this running shtick about how he created a super pac and handed it over to stephen colbert and not coordinating. it is perfect absurdities of campaign finance law in the wake of the citizens united decision. here is on "morning joe" driving this point home. >> my staff did not make that ad. jon stuart's staff made that ad. it used to be the same staff that worked for me. he hired them from my staff and can work with other members who are working on my exploratory committee but we are keeping them

chris hayes, fox 2 news. >>> georgetown looking to make it 10 wins in a row and the caps hope to ring in the new year. tucker. >>> and hey, maureen. after a beautiful day, the temperatures in the 60s and we're starting a gradual cooloff. fifty in washington, 46, gathersburg. what does the first day hold in store? i'll have the details on the forecast coming up.  >> the capitals on the mini roll. >> and football season is winding down. >> yeah. >> and the capitols are the team to do that. >> looks good to me. >> the capital his one goal in mind, end toss toss with a bang and since starting the season 7- 0. the caps and blue jackets, trail 2-0 and ovechkin tries to divert the shot and his one- timer beats mason and cuts the deficit. his wrister beats mason and we're tide 2-2. up the right side and shoots and also risks it past mason. it takes us 2 minutes and 53 seconds for the caps to go down two to up by one. later third period, orloff behind the net and there is a second goal of the game. back-to-back two-bowl games for obie with 16. the caps rally and defeat the blue jac

. >>> hello, from new york, i am chris hayes. in tucson, arizona, today congressman gabby giffords and others will mark the one-year anniversary of the shooting there. >>> the republican presidential candidates are in new hampshire today preparing at this moment for this morning's nbc facebook debate which you can see here in one hour from now. it's 13 hours after the previous republican debate, but this will be better. joining me is the staff writer for salon.com. and then we have msnbc contributor, maria kumar returning to "up," and john randolph, host of underground railroad here in new york, and you can find him online where jay has a bunch of video commentaries that you check out, and it's some of the most insightful things you can find on the internet. >>> the republican candidates met last night for the first televised debate in 2012. although mitt romney did not say much, he may have walked away a stronger candidate when he arrived because the five men standing between him and the presidency attacked each other. one of th

>>> i'm chris hayes in new york with msnbc's continuing coverage of the iowa caucuses. nbc news is still reporting that with 99% of the vote in, the race for first between rick santorum and mitt romney is still at this late hour too close to call. congressman ron paul will come in third. our panel for this portion of our coverage includes msnbc contributor melissa harris perry, professor of political science at tulane. rachel maddow is here, you may remember her from live coverage in the last seven hours. michele goldberg and ranesh. glad to have you here. first let's go -- i believe we have chuck todd is in iowa at the moment. he has been tracking very closely which counties are counted and which are uncounted in this nail biter of an election. what is the latest? >> we have a handful of votes left at this point and so there's various reports out there the google site helping iowa run its -- run that counting process claims everything has been counted and still santorum is ahead. that doesn't matter. it's about what's happening over the next week and the santorum momen

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later, chris hayes wraps it up with late night coverage and results. >>> in los angeles, there was a major break in the case of dozens of arson fires over the holiday weekend. fires which caused millions in damages and left area residents on edge. nbc's stephanie stanton reports. >> reporter: for four days, los angeles area residents have been on edge after a string of arson fires have swept across the city. >> this is scary. you know, i live -- i mean where i live seems to be the epicenter. >> reporter: since early thursday morning, there have been 52 fires in and around los angeles. sunday night a dozen more fires were set. but early monday morning a break in the case. >> our long four-day nightmare is over. >> this morning, around 3:00 a.m., the sheriff's department detained a 24-year-old man named harry burkeheart. he's been charged with one count of arson. >> reporter: police say he is a german national. for now, he's been charged with one count of arson and is being held without bail. it's also still unclear if he acted alone. >> there are some indicators that he may be a lone

"up w/ chris hayes" is next. >>> good morning from new york. i'm chris hayes. >>> a luxury cruise ship ran aground off italy's tuesday can coast. three are dead and four more reported missing. >>> iraqi police say a suicide bomber killed at least 30 people in basra this morning. right now i am joined by vince warren, executive director of the center for constitutional rights and a professor of politics and international affairs at princeton's woodrow wilson's school. alexis mcgill johnson making her first appearance on "up." and dave roberts, staff writer for a website. >>> we have to talk about the republican field and what's going on. it's hard to pinpoint most unexpected most of the presidential campaign so far. newt gingrich and rick perry are attacking mitt romney from the left for his record at bain capital. romney is forced to defend himself against accusations he sucked millions of dollars out of the companies he acquired leaving behind a trail of unemployed workers. to see how far things have gone, i want to you to take a look at two p

i'm chris hayes. today is the republican presidential priary in south carolina.erage all day. you're going to want to stick here. alex wagner will be on later and martin bashir and a number of our other prime time hosts hosting the live coverage of the returns. i've been riveted every night. stick around all day. i'm here with gary johnson, formerly the governor of new mexico and melissa harris-perry who launches her own show and it will be following this show next month and it will be awesome. and ezra klein is with us. this time last week two pieces of legislation that most americans didn't know a thing about. this week, both intellectual property bills are dominating headlines thanks to a epic and historic coordinated day of protests on wednesday. sites like wikepedia, even green peace went completely dark and other sites redacted large parts of their content and google putting a black bar over its logo and collecting 7 million u.s. signatures in one day in an online petition to stop sopa. that one-day protest resulted in a stunning 19 members of congress in o

know an important story until it's staring them directly in the face and once again aside from chris hayes show on m.s.n. we see the last week and really did do an in-depth page on this issue everybody else well even really slow to follow suit and once again you have to ask why would they follow suit it's a very convenient for the mainstream media to ignore sopa and protect ip because let's see viacom comcast n.b.c. universal time warner news corp all the parent companies of these channels are in support of sopa and protect ip now what i fear is after today after this blackout day the mainstream media will just move on and once again forget that this battle is even taking place we all know they have a painfully short attention span unless it deals with campaign politics or sex scandals so once again i welcome the mainstream media the world of the rest of us have been living it this weird world where people on the internet actually talk about what matters to them rather than political tit for tat but i dare them to keep it up so only tomorrow will tell and for some reason just get the feeli