chris kofinis. up 71 in the dow. >> a wild week, brian, on the street. >> yeah. >> the first day we haven't seen a triple-digit up or down move for the dow. let's bring in joe tanius. welcome back. >> good to see you. >> great day to have you. it's been a volatile week. so far, pretty much flat on the day. is that fear? apprehension? what do you think? >> i think investors are nervous and apprehensive ahead of the greek vote. you have a binary outcome. all the polls show within margin of error but new democracy has a lead and everyone's hanging on to the seats to see what happens sunday night. >> do agree with chris kofinis partly about greece but the bigger issue is italy and spain? >> absolutely, absolutely. the issue is never greece alone. it's obviously tragic what's happening in greece but what happens if they leave the euro? can that be contained or does it start to spread over in to the remaining peripheral countries? if you get to italy, all bets are off there. more than greece, portugal, ir

we will bring back our political power panel, michael steele, david corps, chris kofinis. i want to play something that president obama said in '07. >> every time there is something a little shaky that is taking place, they want to hide behind executive privilege. i think theed a minute would be best served by coming clean on this. >> then rick santorum tweeted, transparency, yet another obama promise broken as his administration invokes executive privilege in fast and furious. do you think the president got backed into a corner, especially at this time pivotal to the campaign election? >> i don't think so. you look at it in terms of executive privilege, he has invoked it once nearly four years, an issue which from their perspective, they see this as big political football season and basically all the balls being thrown at the attorney general holder. from my perspective, the problem the republicans have they have gone way overboard in terms of making this look overtly political, doesn't serve their interest. i don't see how it has any kind of political gain for them in th

but this is chris kofinis, one of his aides during the campaign. >> when i went to work for senator edwards, i had a 6-month-old and i left my wife alone. you do that because you believe in someone. this is what you do in campaigns, you believe in a candidate. i lied to me, to supporters, to the american people again and again. so the question about rehabilitation and coming back politically, it's not going to happen at least in my opinion and i don't think it's something he should even attempt. >> lisa, that was chris kofinis talking to thomas roberts. you've been down there surrounded by all of them. you watched the heartbreaking testimony and the reaction of people in the courtroom. do you think that john edwards could ever be back in politics? >> no, andrea, i don't. i don't think he thinks he could be back in politics. i took what he said yesterday, actually abby lowell had used similar words in his closing statement in the courtroom. i took what he said yesterday about doing -- that there were good things left for him to do as meaning he has talked before about doing a public interest

me now, syndicated columnist, nia henderson political reporter with "the washington post" and chris kofinisemocratic strategist. i want to play a moment from chris matthews' show yesterday where he asked his panel last night about the issue of race involved in what's playing out in this house committee. a portion of what he said. >> it smells like i.c.e. has one goal, get eric holder up under the lights, go through his pockets. it looks like stop and frisk, the mere act of which shows who is the boss and who says you're clean. well, that's what this subcommittee of i.c.e. is up to trying to make noise so people will think they're doing something up there on capital little, which everyone knows they're not. >> earl, to mention stop and frisk as we know it's being challenged. many people taking issue that minorities being targeted, blacks and latinos when they are, quote unquote, suspicious and in many cases as chris pointed out, go through your pockets. is that how it you see what's happening today with this committee, or is there a legitimate investigation here? you have a family who's lost

joining me chris kofinis and chief washington correspondent john harwood. i am one lucky lady today. chris and john, two of my favorite people. chris, you're the vat gist here with all of the things, the europe crisis that happened. of course, the deportation policy change. the list goes on and on. the unemployment number. the numbers point out we're pretty much where we were at the beginning of may. >> we are in terms of the national dynamics. when you scratch down and you look at the battlegrounds and the fact that romney is doing poorly and worse in key battlegrounds is striking. his negatives are up. this is a really interesting statement about one, the failure of the romney camp to define him and i think the success so far of the obama campaign to define him. it's an interesting dynamic in terms of where we are. >> the laundry list of swing states, colorado, california, iowa, michigan, new hampshire, new mexico, north carolina. ohio, pennsylvania, virginia, these are all states where we're seeing the impact of the tv ads as well as romney struggling, at

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