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"hardball" with chris mathews is up next. ♪ ♪ >>> let me start with my headline tonight.hardball" on msnbc, and obviously this isn't for lack of interest in politics. as you can tell i have loved every 20 minutes of my host as "hardball." every morning i read the papers, i'm gung ho to get to work. many many people have had this privilege. i love working with the producers and discussions we've had over how to report the news. i love having the connection with you the good people who watch. i've learned who you are, bumping into you onhe

before we get to that news, i just want to take a moment to acknowledge my colleague chris mathews. just about an hour ago he announced on his program he's announcing his retirement effective immediately. after more than two decades. so that took us all by shock because chris has been such a fixture of american political coverage for so long. i remember personally watching his coverage of the last presidential impeachment in my dorm room during clinton. and he's a legend of a broadcaster. has had a durability and say stamina that almost no one in the industry can match. it's quite literally the case political coverage in this country will not be the same without him. political coverage is why we are here in california. today is, of course, the biggest day or tomorrow is the biggest day in the presidential primary. right now we are between acts 1 and 2 as it might say in this town, right? so in the democratic primary, act 1 was the first four states and it sort of ended with a cliff-hanger, right? bernie sanders did very well in the first three, and not so well in the last one, south