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she worked with chris matthews for a while. she and chris parted company around 2008. tammy reinvented herself as a for a purpose -- full purpose convener. she does a lot of consulting for media companies. it's not entirely clear what she does. she does seem to have a video component. she produces things. she is everywhere. she is someone who has made washington work for her. she would say that she is an insider, she just likes to bring people together. she has been a very successful business woman. >> have you heard from her in how you portrayed her in this book? >> i portray her accurately, i think. everyone is entitled to their own story about themselves. i have not heard from tammy. >> kirk gardella. the chapter was adapted for the "new york times" magazine a couple of weeks ago. who is he? >> the former press secretary to darrell issa. issa was about to be the chairman of the house government oversight committee -- government reform committee. kurt was this incredibly transparent operator, someone whose ambitions he wore on his sleeve. he joined the workforce at 1

for msnbc, i'm chris matthews. thank you for watching. >>> some very good news.ning. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with the very good news. the jobless rate down to 6.3%. the number of new jobs created cash this, 288,000. way more than a quarter million, and this is just in the one month of april. the stock market this week, this week, hit its highest level in american history. more than doubling since president obama's inauguration. and what was the republican reply to all this news?

chris matthews has written a book that i really like a lot and that that was labeled on and called tip and the gipper. is sort of a relationship between thin speaker tip o'neill and president ronald reagan, and it is the story of a time that now sings law long ago, unfortunately, in which republicans and democrats actually could come together and make a difference for the coach. i think everybody who works out in capital out to read the book and take it to heart because a lot got done because of that relationship they didn't always love each other but they're willing to reach across the aisle and get things done. a wonderful book on the history here in congress of the adoption of the civil rights act of 1954 cents a can up with the 50th anniversary written by todd purdum called an idea whose time has come. if you really like the engine of the how legislation happened, this is almost and hour by hour recount of what was going on and who did what. and again, it makes one a little sad because in those days republicans were at the forefront of protecting civil rights in america and had a l

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chris matthews has written a book that i really liked a lot and i thought was very well done. it's called to defend the gipper. the story is the relationship of the then speaker tip o'neill democrat and president ronald reagan republican. it's the story of a timed it seems long ago unfortunately in which republicans and democrats actually could come together and make a difference in the country. i think everybody who works here on capitol hill are to read this book and take it to heart. a lot got done because of that relationship. they did now is love each other but they were willing to reach across the aisle and get things done. a wonderful book with a history here in congress on the adoption of the civil rights act of 1964 as we are coming up on the 50th anniversary written by todd purdum and it's called an idea whose time has come. if you really like the ins and outs of how legislation happens this is almost an hour-by-hour recount of what was going on in hooted what and again it makes one a little bit sad. in those days republicans were at the very forefront of attacking c

. >> why would the republicans ever give chris matthews a debate?ome on. >> people say, you want to have 23 -- nobody hear wants 23 debates in front of chris matthews. that's not an establishment t e takeover. this is using your brain. >> i like a debate format where you actually let people talk and expand on ideas and discuss among each other and sometimes better ideas come out of that discussion. >> and moderators that care about our party too. >> thank you. appreciate it. >>> coming up next, the patriarch of the "duck dynasty" family phil robertson will be here onset. no topic off limits, including remarks about his faith that landed him in a little bit of controversy. that and much more as we continue from new orleans, louisiana, the home of the 2014 republican leadership conference. s own. so it's time we do something about it. and there's help. premarin vaginal cream. a prescription that does what no over-the-counter product was designed to do. it provides estrogens to help rebuild vaginal tissue and make intercourse more comfortable. premarin

she worked with chris matthews for a while. she and chris parted company around 2008. tammy reinvented herself as a for a purpose -- full purpose convener. she does a lot of consulting for media companies. it's not entirely clear what she does. she does seem to have a video component. she produces things. she is everywhere. she is someone who has made washington work for her. she would say that she is an insider, she just likes to bring people together. she has been a very successful business woman. >> have you heard from her in how you portrayed her in this book? >> i portray her accurately, i think. everyone is entitled to their own story about themselves. i have not heard from tammy. >> kirk gardella. the chapter was adapted for the "new york times" magazine a couple of weeks ago. who is he? >> the former press secretary to darrell issa. issa was about to be the chairman of the house government oversight committee -- government reform committee. kurt was this incredibly transparent operator, someone whose ambitions he wore on his sleeve. he joined the workforce at 1

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is chris matthews a correspondent? i love that guy. >> he covers the white house every day. >> talk about a bulldog. right? >> anyway, next up, everyone's heard of the old phrase from baretta. don't do the crime if you can't do the time. but bobby scott of virginia, there he is, thinks that kind of political sloganeering simplifies crime policy. they actually do little or nothing to reduce crime. well, congressman scott joins steve colbert last night in his latest better know the district segment. colbert tried to help the congressman come up with rhymes of his own. >> you don't think you know your stuff. put some rhymes into your crime talk. i mean, people don't think you're walking the walk. >> that's the next rhyme. >> my rhyming is sub lime. i can rhyme on a dime. see i'm trying to help you. but you got to help me out. you got to drop a few rhymes yourself if we're going to make the world a better place. >> that's. >> the problem with crime policy. we're pushing so far for an evidence-based approach where you look

chris matthews will host that. live reports on super tuesday. you don't want to miss that. and chris hayes is up next. >>> hillary's obstacle course. let's play "hardball." >> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this big focus on hillary clinton. is there any real reason she shouldn't run for president? or is this just a smart way to build up suspense and keep the wolves from the door? or is there something real in this health issue? meaning is there a real danger from the accident that led to that concussion she suffered in 2012? or is this just trouble staring by reince priebus and his band of merry elves? and why are vice president joe biden, maryland governor martin o'malley and the others out there putting out smoke signals that they are ready to run for president. if nobody on the planet believes any of them can beat hillary, does that mean at least some of them are betting she won't be there to run against? tonight, i would like to get to the bomb of this big will she or won't she? find out what the motives are for people who are

but i actually have been having a lot of fun with chris matthews. id a little thing on "the good wife" together a few years ago. every time i see chris, we have a great hang. >> he's quite the character. >> he's awesome. >> what is it about? and we were talking about this a few minutes ago. what is it about the dinner tonight that attracts, you know, guys like you, a-list actors coming to little washington, d.c. to hang out with politicians? >> i think -- it's funny. bo earlier today said -- he's the writer and creator of the show. he said, come on, you get to see the president do stand-up. where else do you get to see that live? for us, i think it's just, like i said, chris matthews. last night i was talking to him about it. i'm just like, wow. >> so you're kind of in awe as well. >> yeah, yeah. >> what has the popularity of the show meant for the public's fascination with politics? >> well, i think we're at a place now where everyone really is into politics. i think in the last ten years, you know, i think that bill clinton really got everyone invo

i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start with tonight's bik electoral contest, leading off with the two state where is the democrats had the best chance to snatch u.s. senate seats now held by republicans. those contests in kentucky and georgia could end up as this year's big democratic morale boosters. both being contested by women with impressive political roots in their state, the kind of strong name and family idea that could help them withstand what threatens otherwise to be a brutal november. in kentucky, allison grimes at the age of just 35 is running even right now in poll matchups with senate republican leader mitch mcconnell who may or may not have reached his electoral sell-by day. astoundingly, she has the greatest opportunity in the country to knock off an incumbent republican u.s. senator. again in a year that democrats are generally seen as vulnerable. today, michelle nun is dpmted to win big. the polls kentucky and georgia are now closed. in kentucky, mitch mcconnell has beaten tea party challeng

i am chris matthews, you're watching special election coverage. the votes are in. we are looking towards november already. can mitch mcconnell be unseated in kentucky. what do the primary defeats mean for the tea party? live reports tonight analysis and key moments from the victory and concession speeches as well. let's get right now to the results. in the marquee race of the night, republican senate primary in kentucky, mitch mcconnell got close to 60% of the votes to defeat matt bevin. allison lundegan grimes, takes on mitch mcconnell. in the pick yuchl in the cup. alison grimes wanted to make it about kentucky. mcconnell wanted to make it about hollywood. >> my opponent is in the race because barack obama and harry reid want her to be in the race. there is a reason, my friends, a reason, every hollywood liberal is sending her a check. there isn't a dime's worth of difference, not a dime's worth of difference between a candidate who puts harry reid in charge and harry reid himself. >> let me set the record straight tonight for our senior senator out of touch with

i'm chris matthews. in washington, let me start with the latest smear of hillary clinton. now it's nigeria. the accusation now flying across the right wing air waves from fox to limbaugh is that the u.s. secretary of state is guilty of letting those 200 girls get taken prisoner of nigeria. they say the guy who grabbed those girls and took them off into the jungle would not have done so if hillary clinton had named him to the foreign terrorist list. guess what, hillary clinton did name that guy to the terrorist list. also two of his top commanders. she did it two years ago. after their group attacked and killed 23 united nations workers in nigeria. the sick fact here that everything that goes wrong and causes horror is now going to be counted by the hate hillary crowd. no matter where, no matter if it's in an uncontrolled region of an african country or an ungoverned war torn libya, hillary clinton was on watch and should have kept it from happening. this is an absurdly unfair standard. has any democrat done this to w or cheney or any of that bunch? any time we faced an amb

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good evening, i'm chris matthews in philadelphia.e start with monica lewinsky's new tell all about her time with bill clinton. i've read the story. it's really about her, not so much the clintons. it's about what happened to her in the years since the world learned of her sexual involvement with a married american president. will this encourage the republicans seeking to undermine hillary clinton, that once charged sexual impropriety to go like henry v's band of brothers?

i am chris matthews, you're watching special election coverage. the votes are in.g towards november already. can mitch mcconnell be unseated in kentucky. what do the primary defeats mean for the tea party? live reports tonight analysis and key moments from the victory and concession speeches as well. let's get right now to the

i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with the very good news. the jobless rate down to 6.3%. the number of new jobs created -- catch this -- 288,000. way more than a quarter million, and this is just in the one month of april. the stock market this week, this week, hit its highest level in american history. more than doubling since president obama's inauguration. and what was the republican reply to all this news? to rain on the parade. and you have to wonder if this relentdless debbie downer number of theirs isn't without a purpose, that being to discourage the consumer from spending, encourage business leaders to hoard their cash, put off investing, sit on the money they had already to invest if mitt romney had won, but you don't have to wonder how loudly the republicans would be celebrate had they held these bragging rights over numbers like these, a solid drop in the unemployme unemployment, well more than a quarter million new jobs in just a month, the highest ever point in the history of the stock market. what do you think raines priebus,

>> chris matthews autographed his book, "tip and the gipper o'"so that's the first one i'm going to read this summer. obviously it's a book about tip o'neill, the speaker, and ronald reagan, the president, how the would two of them to high demetrically opposite views but were able to forge a relationship and get things done. the present-day congress could use a little of that advice so i'd be very interested to see how it relates to the present day inaction of congress. i also have some other books. i've been very much mesmerized by the new deal for the years, fdr and the new deal, but it's really multifaceted, and ira rote a book called "fear itself the new deal and the oins of our time" looking at the politicked of the new deal and how fdr put together this coalition of northerners, northern liberals and southern conservatives and at a time when communism and socialism, fascism, naziism were rising all over the rest of the world and then also with the new deal, there is a book called "america's soul in the balance" by gregory rollins who sent me his book, the holocaust, the fdr state d

i'm chris matthews up in new york. let's start tonight with this battle over benghazi. secretary clinton has blown the bugle on this front, making it clear she's going to go punch to punch with any republican trying to battle her in her book about life as secretary of state, blasting those who, in her words, try to exploit this as a political tool. she said she will refuo

chris matthews says written a book that is called tip and the gipper of the speaker to podium and president reagan. of story that now seems long long ago unfortunately a but they could come together to make a difference and to take it to heart a lot was done because of that relationship to reach across the aisle to get things done. a wonderful book on the history of congress of the adoption of the civil rights act of 1964 written by an idea whose time has come and how legislation happens this is almost the hour by hour recounting of what was going on and who did what. in those days republicans are at the forefront to protect america and had a lot to do with the passage of the '64 civil rights act but unfortunately most of those republicans are not here anymore but it is the great reid with research. the sleepwalkers by christopher clark is pre-world war one starting 1870 through 1914. it contradicts that somehow you have stumbled into world war wine as an accident. but this book says not so much they were plotting, planning and many wars and conflicts that preceded 1914 that absolutely were

i'm chris matthews. in washington, let me start with the latest smear of hillary clinton.e accusation now flying across the right wing air waves from fox to limbaugh is that the u.s. secretary of state is guilty of letting those 200 girls get taken prisoner of nigeria. they say the guy who grabbed

. >> worst than that, one cycle ago we had chris matthews hosting a debate of republicans.ing the worst enemy lawyer of your opponent and saying i'm going to voluntarily be deposed by him. >> we'll do a hannity tv radio extravaganza. i just want to open it up. i'll try to stay out of the way. we'll make a deal tonight. >> you would be a great moderator. i want people who will ask fair, tough questions. people who actually give a darn about the future of not just our country, but also our party, taking part in these debates. it's a really simple thing and it's a reasonable solution. >> i agree. if you go to some of these networks, you're crazy. the whole thing is going to be a setup. >> i'm not interested in that. >> look at how big an impact candy had. she was wrong and obama was wrong on the issue of benghazi. >> you had some of these guys doing debates two days in a row. so you're not raising money. you're not meeting voters. you're not doing anything other than preparing for departments, the aftermath from debates, the spin from debates all because you avail yourself to

i'm chris matthews in washington. the jobless rate down to 6.3%. new jobs created, catch this, 288,000, way more than a quarter million. this is just in the one month of frill. the stock market this week hit its highest level in american history, more than doubling since president obama's

anyway, he a appeared on chris matthews show this weekend. at this gentlemen. >> joining us right now for his television debut, the man himself harley brown. >> send the biggest boy you got. swag. a scentific wild ass guess. a ram lamb ding dong rock and roll is king. >> what government programs are you going to get rid of? >> the commies. [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: finally a candidate says whatever everything is thinking after five margaritas. since when has santa joined the hell's angels. we have a great show tonight. give it up for the roots. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: that's roots. they got a new album, just came out today. [ cheers and applause ] congratulations, roots. "and then you shoot your cousin" is the name of the album. >> questlove: yes. >> jimmy: and it was on itunes at one point it was number one on itunes. >> questlove: yeah. >> jimmy: and when i checked today it was like number nine. >> questlove: yeah. >> jimmy: but, i give it a a pretty decent review. >> questlove: thank you. >> jimmy: i got to be honest.

i metould have to say, him last night, chris matthews. i know he is not a white house correspondent. i am consistently viewing his show. [indistinct conversations] yes, ma'am. >> how are you? >> tell us about what you have coming up. >> we are going to a brunch to support a great cause. they do so much for our country. i think it is a great way to get the issue out there. >> what made of a -- what motivated you? them have tragic lives, difficult jobs when they come back. finding ways to reintegrate into society. i love that people are aware of it through different causes. it is great. [indiscernible] are notr away and we impacted. we need to be responsive to the people who did fight that war. you are very welcome. [indistinct conversations] >> how are you? >> i saw you last year. >> it is surreal and wonderful. [indistinct conversations] >> what do you like about it? >> [indiscernible] >> some of the sights and sounds at the 21st annual white house correspondents'garden brunch, one of the number of activities ahead of the white house corr

i am chris matthews, you're watching special election coverage. the votes are in. we are looking towards november already. can mitch mcconnell be unseated in kentucky. what do the primary defeats mean for the tea party? live reports tonight analysis and key moments from the victory and concession speeches as well. let's get right now to the results. in the marquee race of the night, republican senate primary in kentucky, mitch mcconnell got close to 60% of the votes to defeat matt bevin. allison lundegan grimes, takes on mitch mcconnell. in the pickup. alison grimes wanted to make it about kentucky. mcconnell wanted to make it about hollywood. >> my opponent is in the race because barack obama and harry reid want her to be in the race. there is a reason, my friends, a reason, every hollywood liberal is sending her a check. there isn't a dime's worth of difference, not a dime's worth of difference between a candidate who puts harry reid in charge and harry reid himself. >> let me set the record straight tonight for our senior senator out of touch with kentucky, pres

i'm chris matthews up in new york. let's start tonight with this battle over benghazi.ry clinton has blown the bugle on this, making it clear she's going to go punch to punch with any republican trying to battle her in her book about life as secretary of state. blasting those who tryo

i'm chris matthews up in new york. let me start with this preventive war being waged on hillary clinton. it's right out in the open now. from benghazi and nigeria, all the forces of the right are closing ranks to attack their common enemy for 2016. bill krystal, the iraq war field marshall of the home war has waged war on her title, secretary clinton. rabd paul has said to relish his direct line of attack on clinton, and now marco rubio looking for any chance to line up with the far right attack squad is joining the charge against the former first lady. some think this is preventive war, a nasty line of fire to scare hillary clinton from evening entering the presidential race. this is just the beginning, they're saying, of what we're going to throw at you. the second you throw your hat in the ring. if you don't like the heat, they're channelling harry truman here, stay out of the kitchen. well, this dreadful cam feign of personal attack suck succeed? will it drive the democrats' best hope from the field even before the

." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. could the weapons the gop forces use to pummel democrats this year blow back in their faces come 2016? could the battle cries, obama care, benghazi and the outright rejection of immigration reform and a minimum wage hike be the very weapons that can be fired away at the republicans two years from now when the battlefield is wide and the american voters are looking, not for issues that ignite and anger, but for a leard in a cause that can truly unite the country. put more sharply, even as they try to hide the tea party extremist, could the party of ted cruz and sarah palin who tries to win with hatred this november portray themselves as the nation's savior when it has to take on hillary clinton? michael steele is was the chairman of the republican party and joan walsh. both are msnbc political analysts. the campaigns may yield dividends in the midterms, but those battle cries on issues range from the affordable care act to benghazi and even minimum wage may cost the party come 2016 and

. >> worse than that, one cycle ago we'd had chris matthews hosting the debate of republicans. >> it'she worst enemy lawyer of your opponent saying i'm going to be deposed by a person at the business of creating news at our expense >> we'll do a hannity radio tv extravaganza. i just want to open it up. let the candidates, i'll try to stay out of the way, we'll make a deal tonight. >> i want people who can ask fair, tough questions who aren't p the business of trying to make news at our expense people who give a darn about the future of not just our country but our party. taking part in these debates. it's a simple thing. it's a reasonable solution. >> i agree. if you go to some networks you're crazy. i believe the whole thing is going to be a set up. >> and i'm not interested. >> look at candy crowley. look how big an impact. you know? right candy? there is obama. she was wrong and obama was wrong on the issue of benghazi. he had some of the guys doing debates two days in a row. saturday night, sunday morning. next week. you're not raising money or meeting voters or doing anything othe

." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington.he gop forces use to pummel democrats this year blow back in their faces come 2016? could the battle cries, obama care, benghazi and the outright rejection of immigration reform and a minimum wage hike be the very weapons that can be fired away at the republicans two years from now when the battlefield is wide and the american voters are

i am chris matthews, you're watching special election coverage. the votes are in.oking towards november already. can mitch mcconnell be unseated in kentucky. what do the primary defeats mean for the tea party? live reports tonight analysis and key moments from the victory and concession speeches as well. let's get right now to the results. in the marquee race of the night, republican senate primary intu

i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this big focus on hillary clinton.on she shouldn't run for president? or is this just a smart way to build up suspense and

good evening i'm chris matthews in philadelphia. with this -- a newly disclosed e-mail from deputy national security adviser ben rhodes has reignited the benghazi firestorm on the hard right. senator lindsay graham has coined the white house scum bags. darrell issa is comparing president obama with president nixon. but the freakout once again doesn't square with reality. here's what got things going. rhodes refers to a prep call with susan rice ahead of her appearances on those five sunday

." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews back in washington. let me start tonight with this, burgeoning national focus on racial remarks. did yesterday's banishment of donald sterling mark a new zero tolerance in hostile language? are we entering upon a new era where words spoken in private or public that carry negative attitudes or views will face round condemnation? and what about the political side of this? is there a new line that elected officials have to respect? can they no longer place the primary blame, for example, on poverty, on the poor themselves? can they defend cuts and welfare and other support programs by saying people simply don't want to work? well, finally, are there certain americans out there who remain even today able to say the most disgusting things about blacks, for example, about they were better off as slaves? another ugly nonsense like that. eugene robinson with "the washington post" and howard fineman is editorial director at "the huffington post" media group, both are msnbc political analysts. well, there are cert

i'm chris matthews in washington. the jobless rate down to 6.3%. the number of new jobs created, catch this, 288,000, way more than a quarter million. this is just in the one month of frill. the stock market this week hit its highest level in american history, more than doubling since president obama's inauguration. what was the republican's reply to all of this news? to rain on the parade. and you have to wonder if this isn't without a purpose. that being to discourage the consumer from spending, encourage business leaders to horde their cash, put off investing, sit on the money they had all ready to invest if mitt romney had won. but you don't have to wonder how loudly the republicans would be celebrating had they held these brags rights other numbers like these. a solid drop in the unemployment. well more than a quarter million new jobs in just a month. the highest r point in the history of the stock market. what do you think priebus, boehner and eric cantor would be saying about those apples? they would do the republican equivalent of high-fivi

i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with the very good news.the number of new jobs created -- catch this -- 288,000. way more than a quarter million, and this is just in the one month of april. the stock market this week, this week, hit its highest level in american history. more than doubling since president obama's inauguration. and what was the republican reply to all this news? to rain on the parade.

." >> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with the sound of trumpets, the sound i heard last night from kentucky. the voice of a gutsy young woman taking on the old political establishment, the voice of alison lundergan grimes telling senate republican leader mitch mcconnell that this november battle's going to be, as she put it so boldly, between you and me. with those bold words, the 35-year-old kentuckian threw down the gauntlet, challenging mcconnell person to person, saying she'll do to him what he threatened but couldn't do to president obama, deny him another term in office. well, tonight, i can hear other candidates trumpeting the same spirit, showing they are ready to fight all-out campaigns this summer, not only cast aside a republican takeover of the senate through victories in arkansas, louisiana, and alaska, but win, as well, those big state governorships in california, new york, pennsylvania, and perhaps even florida. there's a fire in those ranks, a readiness to take their candidacies direc

if you look how hillary clinton has been treated by chris matthews, you know, who is a liberal.eferred to her as witch and she devil in 2008 when she was running against obama. keith, you know, said s.e. cupp should have been aborted by her parents and called one a mashed up bag of meat with lipstick on it. i can sit here all night and recount and again, these are not fringe people. they are people who are well-known liberals talking about women this way. >> yet, the same people are talking about a republican war on women and -- >> yeah. >> i guess they are talking about, you know, abortion policies and contraception and so on. but still, how can you be a -- you know, a standard bear opposing the war on women while then going out and calling women names that you just mentioned? >> right, well, exactly. i think that's exactly right. they have turned it into saying bel well, if you oppose abortion rights you hate women so it's a war on women but ignore bill maher. i didn't talk about bill maher. i didn't say anything he says on air because it would have to be bleeped out the way h

good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington.t with this breakthrough in the christie case. today, right on television, a christie aide said on the record that she had been told to destroy evidence, to cover up the efforts by trenton officials to punish mayors who didn't play ba

." >> good evening piem chris matthews in washington. let me start off the week with this.illary clinton, by that i mean the partisan enemies have got their voodoo doll. it's called benghazi. every sometime they put the pin in, they hope it

." >> good evening piem chris matthews in washington. let me start off the week with this. the enemies of hillary clinton, by that i mean the partisan enemies have got their voodoo doll. it's called benghazi. every sometime they put the pin in, they hope it hurts hillary. every time they say the word, they hope it scares her. and now they have' got a select committee, an official committee of the congress devoted entirely to putting in the pens. it will endure for months and quite plausibly years as they stick it to benghazi. and they want to hurt the person they fear is unbeatable in 2016. just listening to the chapting as they dwell on the incident they hope will puncture the political brand of the former secretary of state. they want her and every voter in the country when they hear the word benghazi to think hillary clinton. it's become an obsession bordering on cultism among republicans with even john boehner falling under its spell. you can almost smell the incense. benghazi, benghazi, benghazi. they keep chapting the word until it gets hillary to fall. could the caus

i'm chris matthews. in washington, let me start with the latest smear of hillary clinton.e right wing air waves from fox to limbaugh to all corners of planet hate is that the recent u.s. secretary of state is guilty of letting those 200 girls get taken prisoner in nigeria. that's right. they say the guy who grabbed