he's in hong kong but taped this question for chris matthews before he left. >> chris, cable news channels have not had ratings success putting news shows on in prime time. you're very good at opinion. you're very good at the show that you do, but why do you think cable news channels have so much trouble doing news in prime time? >> well, i think, to answer frank's question, i think by a certain time of the night, people have the basic facts. i sort of think around--i'm on at 5:00 east coast time, and by 5:00, they have picked up pieces throughout the day of the story that broke that afternoon, and i'm always--we're always worried that we'll miss that 4:00 story at 5:00. and so they know the story, they know the headline, and they may want to know some attitude about it or what the argument's about or why is this important or so what? answer the "so what" question. so they don't really need to have it taught to them again. now, there's still a big market for nightly news and world news and the evening news. there are some people that don't know what's going on all day or they want it produ

"hardball" with chris matthews is next. >>> the teed off party. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. leading off tonight, who is in charge? are we witnessing a hostile take over of the gop? mitt romney managed to win this weekend's republican straw vote by just one vote over the man who essentially inspired the tea party movement, ron paul. and right behind paul was that other tea party lucky charm, sarah palin. can the republicans be a party of opposition and still nominate a problem solving mainstreamer like romney? will they? >>> also, supreme court sweepstake. should president obama break with the recent tradition of nominating judges and go with politician, someone with real-life experience? we'll look at the president's short list and my short list which i have to tell you all people who have been elected to something. >>> plus, eating up the whoppers. the government is creating death panels, there were no terror attacks under president bush, no racial criticism for those who voted for health care. it's

[captioning made possible by nbc] >> this is the "chris matthews show." >> the time for change. chris: president obama turns to the political censure and goes to afghanistan. he oks offshoreri dlling to focus on oil security and orders a high-level commission to attack deficits. to all obama's moves share the advantage of cutting off republicans. so critics can't call him a big spending, tree-hugging soft on terror type? finally, no time for prime time? . has been nine months since the president took questions from the press, not since he wdalke into the professor gates' mess. is barack obama barack obama trying to avoid the danger zone? welcome to the show. norah o'donnell, chief white house correspondent. chuck todd is co-host of "the daily run down." helene cooper from the "new york times" and david ignasheyuss, a columnist. -- ignasheyuss. president obama moved to the center, those moves toward the center may not be motivated but they have a political upside. they preempt republican attacks when he runs for re-election. first, offshore drilling pro text obama. he favors the e

the chris matthews show follows us this morning. >> let's check in with chris to see what he's workingn for this week's show. >> good morning. coming up at 10:00 on the chris matthews show, the president's got a winning line on wall street and looks like the populist appeal of reform will bring him a big bipartisan win. will he settle for a quick compromise with the republicans? and why is the president making a big push on immigration this year? is that smart politically in this tough election year? plus we create theaid star last weekend. >> good morning. coming up this washington, washington versus wall street. is a deal finally near on financial reform. we will ask the two men tray trying to shape an agreement. democratic senator chris dodd and republican senator richard shelby. then our roundtable takes on the growing political divide over illegal immigration back on the front burner now as well as financial reform. how will voters sort it all out in november coming up this morning on "meet the press." >> jason campbell is heading west. he's been traded to oakland, but he's still

the chris matthews show is coming up next. let's check in with chris to see what he's working on for this week's show. >> good morning, washington. coming up at 10:00 on the chris matthews show, the tea party rallies, an alarmings rise in hate groups and the anniversary of the oklahoma city bombing all raise the question is the anti-government anger out there at dangerous levels and what's behind it? is it all about big government and spending or is it also about obama? plus the republicans have a hot debate going on. should they replay that newt gingrich contract with america? would issuing a new contract with promises help them grab the gavel from nancy pelthonen all coming up at 10:00. here's david gregory with a look what's coming up on "meet the press." >> good morning. coming up this morning, new rules for wall street. will reform mean an end to all the government bailouts and what about jobs? our interview with treasury secretary tim geithner. then the politics of the economy. what role will the tea party play in novembe

"hardball" with chris matthews starts now on the place for politics, msnbc.let's play hardball. good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. leading off tonight, teapot doom. here they come. we've got a death threat in seattle, a noisy town meeting in ft. lauderdale, another in new hampshire and a nasty racial attack down in georgia. we've got mad haters out there in the tea parties and of course, the steam is not blowing over. wait until you hear the latest racial or racist voicemail some character left the civil rights hero u.s. congressman john lewis on his phone. wait until you hear how congresswoman debbie wasserman-schultz was greeted at her town hall meeting in ft. lauderdale. and now comes the arrest of a fellow for threatening to kill senator patty murray in washington. >>> plus wrong way karzai. did you catch the hamid karzai saying, if foreigners don't stop meddling in afghanistan he's going to join the taliban. foreigners meddling? isn't he being defended day and night by american soldiers? earlier today on msnbc the former deputy u.n. envoy to

>>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in new york.ff tonight, the public interest versus a wall street mouthpiece, what are the republicans really saying about wall street reform? just as mitch mcconnell seemed to dial back the rhetoric that the democrat bill is nothing more than a recipe for end also bank bailouts, house minority leader, john boehner dialled it right back up. we'll try to get to the bottom of the debate with real english and what the bill actually does right at the top of the show. also, republican purge, arlen specter is out, john mccain, charlie crist and robert bennett is all being threatened on the right. is this any way to run a party or run it into the ground. >>> next, where's the credit. the top two leader of al qaeda were killed over the weekend. does president obama get enough credit for being tough on terrorism? that's my question for former counterterrorism adviser, richard clarke. >>> plus wait until you see how president obama parried with a gay rights heckler. >>> and let me finish with a tribute to a

let's play "hardball." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington.tiger, tiger, burning bright. tiger woods just gave one of the most anticipated news conferences in years, a bold effort a talk publicly and plainly about the behavior that cost him millions of dollars in endorsements and prance his iconic stature in american life. we've seen politicians do this all the time. why is it some of them are forced to walk? think of eliot spitzer, while others like david vitter can linger on. did tiger get himself back into the game? >>> plus, war with right wing radio. let's be clear here. when rush limbaugh refers to the obama regime, or as he did today, junta, is he doing anything less than trying to i anything less than delegitimize? will that work with -- it works with the ditto heads, i should say, work with the independent-minded voter? >>> also, are we about to see another fiery national debate in this country, this time over supreme court nomination? justice john paul stevens is talking about retiring. can president obama find the winning nominee, s

good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington on this holy thursday.ht, the elephant in the room, sometimes a mouse is enough to scare an elephant. today, the mouse on the floor is the sex club scandal, that little rodent of a story that's causing such a big scare in the republican party. it's got them running for the trees. tony perkins' family research council and of course, sarah palin are both running from the republican national committee. and now a group of big-name republicans are starting their own group to compete with the rnc. a group that could starve michael steele's rnc of money. how bad will this get for the grand old party? that's our top story tonight. >>> plus, all this embarrassment, confusion and running away comes at an odd time for the republicans. polls have them moving past the democrats now, who just got the lowest ratings ever recorded in a cnn gallup poll. is there anything that the democrats can do to keep 2010 from looking like 1994, the year they lost both houses of congress to the republicans? >>> also, remember the anti-g

i'm chris matthews in new york. leading off tonight, packing heat.the tea partyers, now the pro-gun crowd. they rallied on both sides of the potomac river today, for what, exactly? freedom? freedom to do what? while we're at it, why today? are they commemorating the first shots of the revolutionary war or maybe winking at the anti-government hatred that resulted in oklahoma city which as every militiaman knows was exactly 5 years ago today. their friends in the tea party seem to be, as the old song goes, torn between two lovers, sarah palin and ron paul. they are about evenly divided in the party between the social conservative palin and the libertarian ron paul. today the new politico poll that actually answers the question. who are the tea partyers? >>> plus, do the fraud charges against goldman sachs increase the democrats' chances of passing wall street reform? president obama put a name and a face to the republican opposition to that effort, mitch mcconnell. this may be a battle the democrats can actually win. >>> in florida, signs that charlie

. >> glen beck returns in a moment, but, first, chris matthews previews special report. >> coming up eview the weekend's big gathering of republicans in new orleans. >> my pal and i chris wallace are very different, i can't say i would let that go. if you have to be confused with somebody at fox, i think i hit the jackpot. barney frank played word affiliation last night. >> mitt romney? >> flip-flopper. is that one word or two? >> that's two. john mccain. >> old. but i want to say this -- >> is he two years older than you? >> yes. that's important. because john mccain gave me the hope that i would not die without being younger than the president. i mean, you look to the president as an authority figure. you start to get older than the president, you are looking for the wheelchair. >> right on palin, direct hit on romney and cheap shot on mccain but he softened it a bit by talking about himself getting older. day one of the republican southern leadership conference in new orleans. out of all the conference speakers yesterday everyone that spoke at that podium, a city that is still rebu

people like chris matthews and yourself when democracies were voting against president obama, they were considered racist. you know, it's not against the law to be antigovernment. we're allowed to. i guess your partisan. but, you know, daily 24 hour domestic terrorism is happening in black neighborhood with the crypts, environmental terrorist, black panthers, that's a racial group, why don't you ever discuss these? and you've only had 75 incidents between now and 95. that i call loan wolf. these people are killing their own people daily. why not go after them domestic terrorist? >> host: mark, go ahead. >> guest: because they are not domestic terrorist. we're not a law enforcement agency. so i absolutely agree. obviously gang violence in the cities and elsewhere is responsible for far more criminality and numbers of deaths than people who blow up federal buildings. there's no doubt about that. but, you know, the crypts and the bloods and the mexican mafia, these are groups that are criminal enterprises. they are not seeking to impose some kind of racial ideology in the country. as to th

i'm chris matthews here in washington. leading off tonight, wall street showdown. wall street reformers a fight president obama and the democrats are happy to have. and figure to win. senate democrats are putting the squeeze on republicans, bringing wall street reform to the floor on monday. and betting that the gop won't want to be seen as wall street's protector. this isn't like health care reform, where the democrats had to convince people they were on the public side. in fact, i think president obama is right where he needs to be on this one. one fight the president may be smart to avoid is immigration. the arizona governor has just signed a new bill that would require state law enforcement officials to ask anyone suspected of being an illegal, in the country illegally for identification. the law has sparked outrage among latino groups and it may have forced the president's hand in tackling an issue that could prove very divisive in the mid-term elections this november. >>> and get a load of the latest from dick cheney. he says that his gross remark to senator

caller: people like chris matthews and yourself, when democrats were voting against obama, they were considered racist. it is not against the law to be anti-government. we are allowed to. daly, 24 hour domestic terrorism is happening in black neighborhoods with the christmas -- the crypts. you have only had 75 incidences of [unintelligible] these people are killing them daily. when i go after these domestic terrorists? guest: because they are not domestic terrorists and we are not a law-enforcement agency. i absolutely agree, violence in the cities and elsewhere is responsible for far more criminality and numbers of deaths than people who blow up federal buildings. there is no doubt about that. but the gangs and the mexican mafia and the aryan brotherhood, these are fundamentally criminal enterprises. the are not seeking to -- they are not seeking to impose some sort of ideology. we also do cover hate groups of all kinds. the new dock panther party, which is utterly unlike end -- the new black panther party, which is utterly unlike the to original, is a racist hate group. but whateve

good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. leading off tonight, wall street showdown. wall street reform is a fight president obama and the democrats are happy to have and figure to win. senate democrats are putting the squeeze on republicans bringing wall street reform to the floor on monday and betting that the gop won't want to be seen as wall street's protector. this isn't like health care reform where the democrats had to convince people they were on the public's side. in fact, i think president obama is right where he needs to be on this one. one fight the president may be smart to avoid is immigration. the arizona governor has just signed a new bill that would require state law enforcement officials to ask anyone suspected of being an illegal -- in the country illegally for identification. it sparked outrage and may force the president's hand that could prove divisive in the midterm elections in november. get a load of the latest from dick cheney. he said his gross remark to senator lay hey in his vice president days was sort of the best thing i ever did. is he

. >> "chris matthews" show is next at 10:00 a.m.ollowed by "meet the press." >> let's find out what ty're working on. >> good morning. coming up at 10:00, he has the biggest of democratic goals, health care behind him. now barack obama is showing every sign he's moving to the center where the country is. this week he rallied the troops in afghanistan, then okayed off-shore drilling, but can these move prospect him from the usual republican charges that democrats are big spenders? tree huggers, soft on fighting terrorism? >>> it's been nine months since this president gave a nighttime press conference. join us for great analysis. that's coming up at 10:00. for a look at what's coming up on "meet the press" here is david gregory. >> good morning. coming up, the nation posted its largest job gain in three years. how does the administration plan to replace the millions of jobs lost during the recession? our exclusive interview, the chair of the white house council of economic advisers, christina romer. than an in-depth discussion of sec

too much of the tea party movement last year this is what she told, i have a thrill up my leg chris matthews saw some of the clips. people storming these town hall meetings. last time i saw well dressed people doing this when al gore asked me to go to florida when they were recounting the ballots this is organized go up on the website you have to look at what is going on here this is all planned. >> sean: how quickly things change. we can only hope this is one of the last things we hear from senator boxer before me is probably defeated in november. >> the democrats' health care bill may not take effect for a few years but it is clear it is a disaster making. according to the "new york times" not even medical professionals have a clue of what is in the bill. the president of the american academy of family physicians told the times not only is the public confused so are our members. the doctors are wasting a lot of time thanks to the democrats disastrous bill. one doctor said we've had to add an hour or two to our day because patients want to talk about the bill. i see 30 to 50 patients in a w

chris matthews asked him what, when they go looking for possible immigrants, they will look for besidesor of their skin. bilbray's answer? their shoes. >> they will look at the kind of dress they wear. there's different type of attire, there's different type of -- right down to the shoes. right down to the clothes. but mostly by behavior. >> different type of attire. okay, so you can judge people's illegalalty by how they dress. let's see how this works. white shirts, gray suits, a little purple in the tie. caucasians, in their 50s, yet one of us has a job in which we succeeded a fellow named duke cunningham. guess it doesn't work. but the winner, dick cheney, on the internet show of former comedian dennis miller who brought up 2004 on the senate floor when he told senator leahy to go blank himself. >> by the way, i also want to thank you and on the list of things, thank you for almost kicking patrick leahy's ass. thank you very much. i love that move. one of my favorite stoirps, muttering that. >> you'd be surprised how many people liked that. that's sort of the best thing i ever did.

i'm chris matthews in washington. leading off tonight, the real republican leadership.today, april 7th, 2010. the new republican party showed its head today. move over mitch mcconnell, you rascal. move over mr. chip and pudgje john boehner. the crowds in your party are now on the heads of sarah palin, michele bachmann, glenn beck, rush limbaugh and sean hannity. today on daytime television we saw the wing team dream team of palin, bachmann and hannity. they have the star power, not the backroom schmooze of capitol hill. >>> plus jeff davis republicans. cries of secession and nullification got men killed in the 1860s. cries of states rights got us fellows like jim crowe and

congressman ron paul, lots to talk about, that's what you'll do with chris matthews, coming up.cer: trying to be good to your heart? so is campbell's healthy request soup. low in fat and cholesterol, heart healthy levels of sodium, and taste you'll love. chef: we're all kind of excited about it. guy: mmm! i can see why. announcer: campbell's healthy request. m'm! m'm! good! for your heart. >>> the goal is do make certain that taxpayers are never again on the hook because a firm is deemed too big to fail. >> the president today, diagnosing the disease that plagues our country -- too big do fail. but not offering a cure. that's the topic of today's "town square," a group of senate democrats introducing a bill that would shrink of nation's largest banks. bank of america, wells fargo and jp morgan chase, along with goldman sachs, citigroup and morgan stanley. it would also have an impact on companies like the parent of this network, general electric. the bill aims to close loopholes in an existing rule that says no single bank can hold more than 10% of our nation's deposits. it woul

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." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in new york.ht, the public interest versus a wall street mouthpiece, what are the republicans really saying about wall street reform? just as mitch mcconnell seemed to dial back the rhetoric that the democrat bill is nothing more than a recipe for endless bank bailouts, house minority leader john boehner dialed it right back up. the bailout false is the death panel of the wall street debate. we'll try to get to the bottom of the debate with real english and what the bill actually does right at the top of the show. >>> also, republican purge, arlen specter is out, john mccain, charlie crist and robert bennett are all being threatened on the right. is this any way to run a party or run it into the ground? >>> next, where's the credit? the top two leader of al qaeda in iraq were killed over the weekend, in a joint operation by u.s. and iraqi forces. does president obama get enough credit for being tough on terrorism? that's my question for former counterterrorism adviser, richard clarke. >>> plus wai

i'm chris matthews. down in washington leading off tonight, gone with the wind, talking about that proclamation of virginia governor bob mcdonnell of the human rights month. he didn't mention the civil war and now mentions slavery. why would a governor want to celebrate a war that fought to deny voting rights and rights all together, had 6 million americans footing at each other at point bla-blank range acrossn fields. >> and tea partiers have called president obama a socialist, terrorist, and now saying tea parties are like the kkk and says, quote, they've taken over the republican party. he'll be with us tonight. could we be seeing a replay of last summer's hostile town meetings? >> excuse me. excuse me. >> this was a scene from debbie wasserman-schultz's reascent to hall and a democrat that got the same treatment. >> how much did a republican pay at a vermont winery for quote office supplies? that's our sideshow. >>> and a political association long called the party of lincoln that might now be in nee

." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. leading off tonight, going negative. senator arlen specter has attacked democratic congressman joe sestic's military record. a new commercial opens by saying that he was relieved of duty by a 31-year naval career. with just four weeks to go before the primary, why is he doing this? it's our top story tonight. >>> also, president obama takes on wall street, the president traveled just a few subway stops from wall street to urge the wall street's masters of the universe, not to fight proposed new regulation. >> unless your business model depends on bilking people, there's little to fear from these new rules. >> well this looks like a win-win for mr. obama. either republicans fight him and take wall street's side in this fight. or they join him and he gets a bill. what's better? big question. >>> plus, michelle bachman again attempts the obama administration as quote, gangster government. that's her phrase, we'll get the "hardball" strategists to debate it. >>> and the man beloved by the country's libertarians, ron paul joi

i'm chris matthews in washington. leading off tonight, border wars. call it the battle no one wanted to fight. immigration reform. democrats in swing districts worry about facing a tough vote. republicans worry about facing a future without hispanic support. but two things. the new arizona law and harry reid's need to galvanize hispanic voters in his own re-election bid are forcing the issue. >>> plus the heads i win, tails you lose battle. the democrats are only too slighted to fight is wall street reform. late today the republicans voted to prevent debate on the democrats' reform bill from coming to the senate floor. the democrats will be happy to portray the gop as doing wall street's bidding. >>> also the man behind the highest grossing film of all time "avatar," writer/director james cameron is sounding an urgent call to take care of this planet. he'll be here tonight. >>> if democrats are going to avoid huge losses in the fall they're going to have to mobilize those surge voters who put barack obama in office. the kind of people who generally st

this is my old friend and greenroom pal, chris matthews, he used to like me but he found somebody newtold him, maverick, i can do but messiah is above my pay grade. >> so here's the real john mccain. "news week's" howard fineman is chuckling away. jay newton-small is washington correspondent for "time." howard, this is chuckle worthy. we all have a fondness of john mccain, we've worked with him, spent time with him for years. he was a great source of news. and in many ways, inspiring as a candidate. why would he deny being the thing we all know he was? >> well, the amazing thing is in the interview that he did with my colleague david margolic i don't think that it ever occurred to john mccain that there was any twist or irony in what he was saying. and the fact is that in the last few months, it's been extremely inconvenient for him to be mavericky at all with regard to the republican conservative establishment. because that's who he desperately needs to stave off a challenge in the republican primary. >> jay, is maverick such a bad word that even a guy who embraced it, i think wondro

chris matthews likes to talk about the big number.ig number today on apple is three and the power and multiples of three. $3 billion in profits yesterday. and this morning, apple's move to new record highs providing about two-thirds of the move as far as the nasdaq big caps, which are the big performers. right now up about 6%, another multiple of three. now a three handle is the standard on the street with deutsche bank boosting its price target to $350 on apple, which keeps it still at a number three when it comes to market cap for now, but it might boost it to number two if it does reach that $350. meantime, some of apple's competitors are doing pretty well. hey, they make phones, too. they may not be selling 9 million in a quarter, but google and palm and r.i.m. are all higher. yahoo! disappointing on guidance, not the only one. cree also disappointing guidance, although upped it above analyst estimates. gilead cutting guidance. and huntington banc shares leading the regional banks to highs today after it posted a surprise profit,

. >> you can go see chris matthews.ah show and meet her after the show. >> that's cool. are you serious? >> that's a lot of fun. >> i'm bidding on that. >> her last show so you've got to do that. >> what's the top bid so far? >> the top bid i think is $15,000 to go see oprah. >> i love it. what else do you have in. >> let's see. you can go see justin bieber backstage. very cool. >> your daughter, carly. >> i need to make that happen for carly or i'm in big trouble. >> that's very big, as well. >> very good. >> i would guess justin bieber who i have no idea who he is, but i know the kids love him. >> he has an interesting hairdo that i think would look good on you. >> probably not a rfk fan. was there a family member associated? >> there are a lot of grandchildren. five grandchildren. >> great. >> ben stiller, be in the next ben stiller movie. and there is one week internship with vogue and then go meet anna win tower. so that's a career starter. >> my gosh. >> in hard economic times to do that. >> so talk about what the