for tonight's conversations with great minds i'm joined by chris hayes chris is a political commentator and host of up with chris hayes which airs saturday and sunday mornings on m.s.n. b.c. he's also the editor at large of the nation magazine and writes on issues central to the progressive community including what is heard in the democratic party and how the labor movement is changing chris is a graduate of brown university with a bachelor's degree in philosophy he's also the author of the critically acclaimed newly released book twilight of the elites america after meritocracy chris joins me now from our new york city studios chris welcome. oh it's great to be here tom thanks for having me great to have you with us chris before we get to the book i'm curious about you what got you into politics what what what is the core of your passion for these topics and how did you get to where you are. you know i grew up in the bronx my father was a community organizer my mom was an educator she taught in the south bronx and you know i was very lucky to grow up in a world. you know my parents are

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joining us now is chris hayes, the host of msnbc's weekend show "up with chris hayess." chris' new book "twilights of the elites: america of meritocracy." >> great to be here. >> we watched two elite washington operators last night, two men who spent their whole adult lives in washington. does that mean that paul ryan's sin is such a common sin that it's not an important one? >> no. no. it is very important, and it is very common. but here's why it's so important. there seems to me sometimes a desire on the part of the romney campaign and equal desire sometimes among liberals and the obama campaign to talk about this grand ideological battle about the size of government. really what we're having, we're fighting about the size of government and there is nothing in the record of the republican party to suggest that they will shrink government. it just doesn't -- it's not there. you've written about this in your book "drift," under reagan, we saw it under george w. bush. government grew as a share of gdp, spending, even things like medicare part d. the question is, who will

. >> joining me now msnbc's alex wagner and chris hayes. the first round of this, he went the rush limbaugh route and explained the comments. he said this is such a golden opportunity. this could be the opportunity for the campaign to take the gloves off and explain conservatism. tonight he says, well that comment i was completely wrong. >> yeah, you know, lawrence the word that has popped into my head in the course of the last 4 hours was labotomy. that is the ome way they are going to believe in the things that he is saying or he has had one. which is the explanation for this pivot. i think what struck me last night was there was btn't the attempt to defend this positions to his tax plans to this position on education funding to any number of thing that is he has run on, he white boarded everything. >> chris hayes, a presidential candidate never wants to say that sentence, i was completely wrong. what else are you wrong about? but what choice does romney have at this point in how to respond to that 47% comment? >> i can what happened was

we have chris hayes ahead. and what frank just said about get out the vote and what that means and how it works between now and the 6th, that's next. [ thunder crashes ] [ female announcer ] some people like to pretend a flood could never happen to them. and that their homeowners insurance protects them. [ thunder crashes ] it doesn't. stop pretending. only flood insurance covers floods. ♪ visit floodsmart.gov/pretend to learn your risk. >>> hey, if you have already voted this year, congratulations. i voted this past weekend. i voted absentee. i was ecstatic for 48 hours afterwards. if you already voted, your representational democracy thanks you. if you have not voted early yet but you are going to, stick around, because the next bit is for you. >>> i want to ask you about this voter suppression thing. >> yeah. >> look at this billboard here. look at this billboard. show it. voters will be asked. but not required. that's a billboard, i think it was in colorado. and, you know, like, they make it look like you h

here to energetic discuss energy with us is msnbc's chris hayes host of "up with chris hayes" for a segmentlike to call up now. >> let's do it. >> let's do it. the night of that debate, i believe you said this discussion around energy is talking about cancer without talking about smoking. >> talking about smoking without cancer. >> the point is i felt you're having this debate about energy. one of the people believes climate change -- accepts the scientific consensus and wants to do something about it, stated that, and defending an energy policy crafted with that guiding it in part, not wholly, but in part. it's very hard to defend that record if you don't talk about that part of your belief system or that part of the actual empirical data. if you landed from mars and looked at our policy towards dough paco and didn't know it caused canner why are they picking on this industry, are they trying to drive these people out of business. no, actually it's public policy done because tens of thousands of people year die from this product. you can't make sense of energy policy without climate in the

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joining me now is chris hayes, host of "up with chris hayes" here on msnbc and author of the book "twilight of the elites" and krystal ball, co-host of "the cycle" also on msnbc. thank you both for being here. >> thanks, reverend. >> chris, let me start with you. does vice president biden need to point to the values of fairness in the ryan plan and now the romney/ryan plan? >> yeah. i think one of the things that was so remarkable and frustrating about the performance in the presidential debate was that romney seemed to essentially disown anything that he had previously advocated that was now unpopular. he pulled this remarkable u-turn. paul ryan -- it's going to be much harder for him to do that. he wrote the ryan plan. >> right. >> he can't run away from the plan that bears his name, the plan that bears his name that would voucherize medicare. so i think the key is for joe biden to take the modern republican party, particularly the modern republican house caucus and hang it around the neck of paul ryan. >> well, ryan wrote the budget, as you said, and ryan is named after -- and he is the

, host of "up with chris hayes" here for a segment we like to call up now. about -- >> everyone at home get that. >> up now. >> howard was talking about compassionate conservatism as we went to break. your thesis on this? >> russ dellfit at the times wrote a smart blog post. if you look at how george w. bush ran in 2000 he had all this baggage, a plutocrat, the son of a president, out of -- he could very easily be caricatured as an out of touch person. very early on they picked a few issues, education was one of them, and a few linguistic troeps they would repeat to signal to voters i am not an out of touch plutocrat. mitt romney because he had to worry about shoring up his base through the duration of the primary and the right got trapped in its rhetoric never did that. instead of playing against type he played to type. this we built this stuff, just spit on you -- all the -- all the we built this stuff you saw at the convention, was him embracing the idea of himself as this kind of titanic job creator figure as opposed to playing against. the first time we

when chris hayes joins us for up now, next.erica... and you're seeing that right now. over five million new jobs. exports up forty one percent. home values... rising. our auto industry... back. and our heroes are coming home. we're not there yet, but we've made real progress and the... last thing we should do is turn back now. here's my plan for the next four years: making education and training a national priority; building on our manufacturing boom; boosting american-made energy; reducing the deficits responsibly by cutting where... we can, and asking the wealthy to pay a little more. and ending the war in afghanistan, so we can... do some nation-building here at home. that's the right path. so read my plan, compare it to governor romney's... and decide which is better for you. it's an honor to be your president... and i'm asking for your vote... so together, we can keep moving america forward. i'm barack obama and i approve this message. >>> it's okay that there's a tiny fraction of uncommitted voters in a few swing states w

i'm joined by ed schultz, reverend al sharpton, chris hayes, and steve schmidt. lawrence o'donnell will be our man in the spin room tonight. and the one and only chris matthews is at the university of denver, which is the site of tonight's debate. chris, i've been watching you this past hour. i can sense the excitement that you feel, that i feel as well. i mean, it is a big night when these candidates speak at their conventions, but tonight the tv audience for this debate could be almost twice the size as the convention audience. just a huge night. what are each of these guys thinking they need to do tonight? >> well, i think obama's the one i'm focused on, the president. because everybody's been talking about, it's romney's big chance, it's romney's opportunity, blah, blah, blah. suppose obama goes on the attack tonight. suppose he surprises everybody and doesn't play defense. he doesn't try to handle his opponent and clinch, that he really goes and tries to put him away. and i think that's the significanti i significanting question. how does romney deal with the

in an e-mail obtained by msnbc's "up with chris hayes," the ceo of aeg software solutions writes this, "i'm encouraging everyone to go to the romney for president website and contribute as much as you can to his campaign for president, up to the maximum of $2,500 per person. we need to elect a fiscally conservative president and vice president and stop this ridiculous government spending." now, in his statement to "up with chris hayes," asg says that it's a privately held company and its publications are intended to be informative, not coercive. more on these stories throughout the next two hours right here on msnbc. >>> all right. here's what he said moments ago. listen to joe biden. all right, we don't have that tape. when we do have it for you, we'll get it to you a little bit later in the program. let's move to president obama. where is he? he's holed up for a weekend of debate prep. the third and final debate is on monday in the all-important battle state of florida and will be entirely focused on foreign policy. nbc's mike viqueira is at the white house for us right now. good to

i'm chris hayes. the obama campaign said they broke a presidential campaign record by topping 4 million individual donors. the taliban is claiming responsibility for a suicide attack in afrg that killed six people yesterday including a nato officer. we have josh, lead writer from blookberg news. sarita, a labor policy group. maya a nonprofit group that specializes in public research great to have you here. during the vice president debate, paul ryan reprised the line republicans used repeatedly in making a case for a romney presidency. >> mitt romney, his experience, his ideas, his solutions is uniquely qualified to get this job done. at a time with a jobs crisis in america, wouldn't it be nice to have a jobs creator in the white house? >> that's the heart of his candidacy. he knows how to create jobs. romney points at his career in the private sector. binge capital specialized in debt buyouts, company that is result in bankrupt, and layoffs. he focuses instead on the few start ups he helps provide fu

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i'm joined by ed schultz, reverend al sharpton, chris hayes, steve schmidt. lawrence o'donnell is our man in the spin room tonight. the one and only chris matthews is at centre college in danville, kentucky, the site of tonight's debate. chris, is this unusually high stakes for a vice presidential debate? >> well, it's great being with you, again, rachel, and everyone else tonight at msnbc. look, it's great. it's great in its importance because of what happened last week. the frustration from the democratic base, i expressed it a acceleratisimilar version of the frustration of the failure of the president to bring out all this issues that his paid advertising, speeches have made all year but for some reason he didn't bring up. the most powerful issues. i'm going to one through four or five. by one word. you know the one word. vouchers. the way paul ryan wants to deal with health care which won't work for medicare. personhood. the way he wants to basically in effect criminalize, turn it into murder abortion decisions. the emergency room. where this presidential

i'm chris hayes. in the swing state of iowa, endorsed mitt romney for president after the paper agreed to an off the record interview to the president and blasted the president for getting off the record. printed it on the record and endorsed mitt romney. the last time they endorsed a republican for president was when they made the call to go with richard nixon. many are preparing for hurricane sandy. eight states declared a state of emergency. a national hurricane center said it's expected to bring strong winds and a significant storm surge to the mid-atlantic states and southern new england. dylilylan drier has the latest. >> good morning. thanks. we are focusing on a category one her honor here. it is still moving to the northeast. it's going to take the turn to the northwest. right now, it's still almost 400 miles to the east of charleston, south carolina. it is still very far out to sea and moving to the northeast. it is an expansive storm. it's huge, stretching all the way through the eastern se

i'm rachel maddow, at msnbc headquarters along with al schultz and al sharpton and chris hayes. we'll be joined by our friend, lawrence mcdonnell, who's reporting from the very overcrowded spin room at hofstra. both campaigns putting literally dozens of surrogates out tonight to spin each candidate's performance. we'll be joined by chuck todd for poll analysis tonight. we'll be joined by ezra klein for policy analysis. and from hempstead, long island, at the site of the debate, it is right now the one and only chris matthews. chris, has another incumbent president had stakes this high in a second debate? >> rachel, no. and the reason is so deep into the soul of president obama himself. what's missing in the obama campaign right now is not a couple of points on the scoreboard or the polling or even a couple of states that are getting tricky right now, it's a spiritual loss. this campaign, the obama camp needs a spiritual revival, and only one man can bring it. it needs to see the leader out front. it needs to see the man they're fighting for, and what does he win? out there bring

i'm chris hayes. president obama has picked up endorsements from the denver post, the tampa bay times and the salt lake city tribune. a federal judge blocked arizona yesterday from applying new law that bars planned parenthood clinics from receiving state funding. we'll be talking more about how women's issues have played in the presidential campaign in a minute. right now my great pleasure to introduce patrick gat barring. rebecca traceberg, friend of the program. she wrote big girls don't cry. father bill daley. he's at the university of notre dame. and msnbc contributor victoria de francesco desoto. a fellow at the lbj school of public affairs. you guys are an a gust panel. that was a lot to get through. >>> if this week has told us anything about the presidential election, it's that women appear to be the most sought after part of the electorate. the morning after president obama stepped off the stage with mitt romney where he trumpeted the signing of the lily led better fair pay act, he went to i

i'm chris hayes. president obama returns to los angeles today for a celebrity studded concert and fund-raiser. venezuelan president hugo chavez goes to the polls there. joining me, we have congressman peter welch, a democrat from vermont. chris rabb author of "invisible capital." author of "entrepreneurial nation" and former deputy assistant secretary in the obama department and my colleague, j.j. ramberg author of "its your business" and host of msnbcs "your business." it's great to have you here. thank you, good to be here. >> if there has been one hero of this presidential election, it has been the mythic small businessman. republicans dedicated their entire con vens with we built this. democrats touted how their policies would help small businesses. it was on display in wednesday night's presidential debate when the words small business were mentioned over 25 times. >> we are helping small businesses. >> champion small businesses. the number of small businesses, i know what it takes to get small b

i'm chris hayes. former south dakota senator, george mcgovern died this morning in sioux falls. he was an influential leader for americans. losing to richard nixon in '72, he was 90 years old. voice for peace, decorated war hero and we acknowledge his passing. >>> iran and the united states agreed to one-on-one nuclear talks. joining me, we have alli a blogger and marie slaughter, professor of politics and affairs at princeton and the former policy planner for obama state department. joe sestak from pennsylvania, three star admiral for the clinton national security council and former speech writer for condoleezza rice. the defining moment of tuesday night's presidential debate came between president obama and mitt romney on last month's attack in benghazi, libya. the issue was seen as a slam dunk for romney, but quickly turned into a political disaster. >> the day after the attack, governor, i stood in the rose garden and i told the american people and the world that we are going to find out exactly w

talk to your doctor. >> good morning from new york, i'm chris hayes.k ner from "the new yorker" magazine and sylvia. we were talking as we have ten days until the election there's still some room for some movement in the polls i think there's still some room to move for people who are undecided. we're talking about that tiny cohort, small sliver of the electorate who are undecided. we're talking about when we left what effect that has on our politics. this is something i think about a lot as someone who is quite ideological, quite committed to a very specific world view who thinks a lot about politics. my vote is taken for granted and the vote that politicians are catering towards, particularly down the stretch, are these folks. when they don't seem to have a kind of coherent, fixed conception of what they even want, how does that play itself out in what actual policies we get? >> right. we were talking about ideology and romney moving to the middle and i was teasing a little bit and saying i have this result that was going to blow your mind. we've bee

aim chris hayes. five suspects arrived in the united states early this morning to face terrorism-related charges after being extradited from the u.k. in his weekly address president obama hit people on fighting to deregulate. right now it's my great pleasure to be joined by nobel prize winning economist, joseph stiglitz. the price of inequality, how today's divided society eng dangers our future. and joy reid. dedrick muhammad and msnbc contributor karen hunter formerly of the new york and daily news editorial board. now a distinguished lecturer at the film and lecture department at hunter college. mitt romney delivered what appeared to be a pretty stunning victory in the first presidential debate wednesday night. he did this by using a time tested tactic that came as a surprise because it usually happens during the conventions, moving to the middle. at times, romney even got to the left of the president simply by denying, disowning, or apparently abandoning many of the policies he has spent many of t