dana milbank in today's washington post.before. >> we have. >> he is a good guy. i am personally fond of him. i wonder peter, if this is one of the instances that maybe he didn't like what his reporter did but as a boss he had to show a united front and say, i am standing by this guy. i am going to reprimand him away from the public outrage. i am going to do it in private. >> that's exactly what bill said the other day. tucker is a friend of bill's. he stands by him as a friend. but he even said this is a bone-headed thing to say to compare what neil monroe, the white house heckler, did to sam donaldson, it's not based on any kind of logic or any kind of fact and you are probably right i think these people who run these websites push their reporters to make news, make news, make news and sometimes they become the news and then you just have to stand by it. >> i was called -- am i allowed to say, ass-hole on the air? >> you just did. >> the election which was settled in december to the inauguration because at the end of the p

joining me now is dana milbank political columnist for "the washington post."itten extently about the gop. where is the gop outraged over this inappropriate display in montana? >> i've been saying for some time politics has gone down on the toilet in this country. now it's down the outhouse. i think they're not yet familiar with indoor plumbing, they're so backwards. the insult here is not such a thing exists. look, there are nut cases in either party. these sorts of things are going to happen. the real insult is nobody's stepping forward. first of all, get rid of the thing, and second of all condemn it. i think your instinct to call the republican national committee is correct. and i think the idea of dismissing it as a sideshow saying they didn't sanction this is irrelevant. what's necessary is for people in positions of responsibility to actually behave responsibly. >> especially if the outhouse is standing in front of where you're convening to select delegates. clearly you have reason to condemn it. but it is even getting more serious than that. let me give

. >> dana milbank. when abc said rubio had not been asked to turn over hundreds of pages of paperwork on financial and other interests, romney comes out and says he's being vetted. all depends on vetted. did he knock down that story? >> i don't think so. this is the reason why it's preposterous for us to speculate on the vice president. there's one person who knows this. maybe one person. that would be romney. maybe he shares it with somebody leading his search committee. we have no ability to report on this sort of thing. maybe it was true when abc reported it. but romney can instantly make that untrue. we have no power over this. inevitably we speculate, come up with dozens of names. in the end the vice president will something else. >> way too much reporting on the veepstakes and who's being vetted and not being vetted. it's certainly important to look at the actual candidates who are in the mix. look at their records. the ones that might actually be in the running. >> fictional short list. a list pr

now let's welcome back ken vogel dana milbank and joy reid. dana, republican senator john cornyn called on attorney general eric holder to resign because of the allegations. let's take a listen to what mr. rove said about mr. cornyn last night on fox news. >> he's a form ser supreme court justice. he spent about 20 years on the bench. he has a very keen understanding of the tension between the legislative branch and the executive branch and a very keen understanding of law. he is not a man to make rash or intemperate remarks. >> okay. first off, mr. corn inwas not a supreme court justice. he served on the texas supreme court for six years. not 20. and he is given to making intemperate statements. in fact, he justified violence against judges during the terry schiavo case and now he's pulling another stunt with mr. holder. is that right? >> well, i think so. i mean, in fairness, i don't suspect anybody tuning into fox news and seeing karl rove is going to say is he with the brookings institution. they will know who this guy is and where he's be

let me bring in "washington post" columnist dana milbank and joy reed, managing editor of thegrio.com. good morning to both of you. you heard jan brewer call this a win. both sides are calling it a win s there a clear political advantage here? >> well, it is a split decision in the sense that they -- the supreme court struck down three provision and let stand one, albeit tenuously, and that may change later. so clearly, it is a lot better than the obama administration and the sort of pro-immigration folks had expected it to be, particularly from this court. so, jan brewer can declare victory but nobody is confusing her with some sort of a legal genius. >> yeah. >> but it severely weakens the arizona law and takes away a loot of its power. >> nobody is suggesting that this is over yet. obviously, we talked about the fact that they are training today, not surprisingly, controversial sheriff joe arpaio says he is not going to bend to the federal government, let me play for you what he said. >> lock up the human smugglers, raid businesses, crime suppression. i'm not stopping. i got state

dana milbank, thank you for being on the program. >>> no decision today from the supreme court on whatiting for, the president's health care law but the high court did rule on the fcc's policy regulating profanity and nudity on broadcast tell vision. nbc's justice ender to pete williams is live at the supreme court. what did they desnide. >> reporter: you can thank cher and nicole richie for bringing this case before the supreme court because in awards shows, both uttered words that i could say on cable but i certainly could not say on broadcast and that i won't say now the fcc fined the networks when those words were uttered during live broadcasts and they challenged the fcc's rules. and today in a unanimous decision you can the supreme court said the fcc's rules were too vague. it agreed with the broadcasters that the fcc seems to be shifting ground on this all the time, that on the one hand, it is permissive when fleeting had expletives are uttered during live awards shows and then turn right around and issue huge multimillion dollar fines against the networks and their own station.

thank you congressman schiff, dana milbank, and katherine eban of "fortune" magazine.'ll be right back. i went to a small high school. the teacher that comes to mind for me is my high school math teacher, dr. gilmore. i mean he could teach. he was there for us, even if we needed him in college. you could call him, you had his phone number. he was just focused on making sure we were gonna be successful. he would never give up on any of us. >>> the republican congress may vote to hold the attorney general in context. why? i'll ask republican congressman john mica. next. an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement available only with liberty mutual auto insurance, if your car's totaled, we give you the money for a car one model year newer. to learn more, visit us today. responsibility. what's your policy? with two times the points on dining in restaurants, you may find yourself asking why not, a lot. chase sapphire preferred. >>> we're back with more on efforts to hold eric holder in contempt of congress. some republicans have a theory on the re

columnist keith boykin, susan delpursi and "washington post" political columnist dana milbank. dana, i want to start with you and launch off what governor pawlenty had to say about the participation ribbon president there. is that really the line, the message that they want to use the right anyway to take shots at president obama and his team looking back too much in the rear view mirror at the bush administration. isn't it fair the bush presidency being a central figure to our current economy it has to be discussed to give it proper context, right? >> it's fair for the. to the make that case and fair for paw lent ai yen the others to try to push back in their way. the truth is it doesn't matter what either side is saying. what matters is how americans are feeling in late october and in early november. lot of this is really out of their hands and that's why the administration is worried now and that's why the republicans are smelling blood here because they believe that things are not going to improve particularly in the jobs picture in time to help president obama. that's why p

columnist keith boykin, susan delpursi and "washington post" political columnist dana milbank. and launch off what governor pawlenty had to say about the participation ribbon president there. is that really the line, the message that they want to use the right anyway to take shots at president obama and his team looking back too much in the rear view mirror at the bush administration. isn't it fair the bush presidency being a central figure to our current economy it has to be

joining me now is dana milbank, and cynthia tucker, a visiting professor of journalism at the university here tonight. let me start with you cynthia. does jeb bush's comments matter? is the republican fever, as the president says, about to break? >> i'm not so sure that they do matter. this is not the first time jeb bush has said something like this. back in february in the middle of the crazy and occasionally terrifying debates, he says i used to be a conservative, and i don't think i've changed, but i watch debates and wonder about people just appealing to people's fears and emotions. there's a good run he didn't run for president this year. he didn't the to pay the crazy tax of birthers, bashing immigrants. there are no signs that i see that the fever will break any time soon, certainly not in 2012. >> dana, the crazy tax. let me show you the gap between the right and the left. since 1987, republicans and democrats have moved further apart in their belief president difference in opinion in 1987 was 23 points. in 2012 was 41. labor unions were 20 points. now it's 37. the split between

dana milbank and harry baker jr. clothed on the top and on the bottom -- >> alex, i have pointed out we have only seen the top of you today. >> see, i have a skirt on there, we go. oh, many i gosh. that was hysterical, susan. we started busting up and had to put that on. that's how we roll on the weekends. it's all good. thank you so much. appreciate you both. >> thanks, alec. >>> no a moment, meet a high school graduate facing deportation before getting a temporary prereeve reprieve. >>> and chris hayes on the youth vote importance to president obama's re-election hopes. you are watching "weekends with alex witt." i have a black skirt on, i'm dressed nice. do you read in bed? do you read out loud or in your head? do you need a lamp to see? and does it leave your bedmate be? don't you wish there was a light that wouldn't keep them up all night? if so, you'll be happy to know, our newest nook now comes with glow. introducing nook simple touch with glowlight, the only e-reader made for bedtime reading. find your nook a

let me bring in "washington post" columnist dana milbank and joy reed, managing editor of thegrio.com of you. you heard jan brewer call this a win. both sides are calling it a win s there a clear political advantage here? >> well, it

. >> dana milbank, did joe williams go too far as a reporter in what he just said about mitt romney.> i think he's wrong in the sense that romney is equal opportunity uncomfortable with all people. on the merits i think he s wrong. i suspect that that comment by itself would not have gotten him into trouble. i think it was in combination with other things he had done. you could see how, look, when we're saying things unfiltered on live television you can sometimes say something that's not quite right in a way that wouldn't happen in print with editors. >> you're saying there's a pattern? >> that's certainly what his editors at politico were saying. there was a pattern. that's a different mat zbler amy holmes, when williams says there are white folks very relaxed in their own company, did that strike your ear as being what racist? >> i don't know about racist. not particularly insightful. it doesn't really give us any insight into mitt romney. agree with dana in terms of him being awkward and stiff, isn't that mitt romney's rap? you don't need to throw race into the mix to inflame the

read this in "news week" where neil ferguson wrote about it or in the "washington post" where dana milbank about it or over the weekend in "politico" where ben white wrote about it or read it on my blog today where i brought together some of the people writing about it. if fact, if you tuned into the "rachel maddow show" eight months ago you could have heard me say it here, too. if europe doesn't get its act together we're likely to have a global recession next year and going to make it very hard for barack obama to get re-elected. good point, past ezra. that's one very important caveat that handsome fellow didn't emphasize as much as he could have. that is this. europe will decide the american election if and only if we let it. if we fail. if we have done a bad job. by we i mean economic policymakers of which i'm actually not one. what an economic policymaker does for a living is make sure when something bad happens on the other side of the world it doesn't crash our economy. that is their jump. we don't knee economic policymakers when things are going great. you need them when things are

. >> great to have you on the program, dana milbank, joy reid, thank you for coming in. >>> told you this would be a busy week in washington, thursday the same day as the health care decision the house is expected to vote to find attorney general eric holder in contempt. by saturday, june 30th, the house and senate need to pass that highway spending bill. it would keep 3 million construction workers on the job. and saturday is also the deadline for congress to act to keep student loan rates from doubling. ah, claim trouble. [ voice of dennis ] you should just switch to allstate, and get their new claim satisfaction guarantee. hey, he's right, man. [ voice of dennis ] only allstate puts their money where their mouth is. yep. [ voice of dennis ] claim service so good, it's guaranteed. [ normal voice ] so i can always count on them. unlike randy over there. that is one dumb dude. ♪ the new claim satisfaction guarantee, only from allstate. are you in good hands? ovider is different the new claim satisfaction guarantee, only from allstate. but centurylink is committed to being a different

dana milbank is i columnist for the "washington post" and crystal ball is a democratic strategist. tive issa's contempt vote, dana, i want to get your considered opinion about what we're seeing on capitol hill. you've been at the hearing, have you not? >> i was for a long part of it, but not the entirety of it because of course, every member has to get in his or her five-minute speech even though we know exactly what the outcome is and that's all the republicans votes for this contempt vote and all the democrats vote against it. and nothing happens because the guy in charge of enforcing this vote answer holder is eric holder. >> so the point of this exercise is what, please, dana? aside from a witch hunt? >> it's going to shock you, martin, to know that there's an election coming up and this is a time when they have these fights. they're not fighting about the underlying issue in this fast and furious program within the department of justice. they're fighting about what happened after this program was canceled. so it gives you an idea of what it's all about. >> what do you this is a

the accuracy of that statement, because a vote alone, a single election alone as my colleague dana milbankd, is not going to break the current stalemate. i think the nightmare scenario, both parties waiting for the american people to tell them what they want. i'm not sure the american people know what they want. we will be back. we will be back, and yes, folks, there it is, the rose garden. >> still there. >> the rose garden is there. you're looking at two different angles, again the magic of television. we now expect 2:00 p.m., less than ten minutes from now. 2:00 p.m., the president to come out and make what is a major policy shift that as both political and policy discussions, we will be mac moment tear. this message. back from the worst economic depression. almost 4.3 million new jobs we're still not creating them president's jobs plan firefighters, police officers, work. right now. wealthiest americans congress refuses to act. tell congress we can't wait. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 let's talk about fees. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 there are atm fees. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 account service fees. tdd# 1

joining me for more, political columnist for the "washington post" dana milbank and andy kroul. dana, after the president spoke at the conference there in florida, he stuck around for that campaign rally. florida, of course, a crucial state. the latest poll shows the president up 12 points, what do you think is behind the bump? could it be the immigration message? >> it could be a little bit of that, alex. you've got to be careful reading too much into any poll. it may have nothing to do with anything like gas prices falling, that can reflect just as much. the immigration message is particularly important there in florida. and it also is shifted the national debate away from the economy where the president is weak. it's had both of those effects and presumably that has something to do with his bump there. again, we could be talking about something -- it could be entirely different in another week or two. you don't want to get too carried away. >> do you see florida as being a must-win for romney? how concerned is the romney camp with the latest numbers and any way to chip away at

there is clear disappointment in a lot of reporters you mentioned, dana milbank, jonathan alter and joe mead waa wave of the president, he is not as good as he was in '08. he was not transformational figure like like we hope he was. we have to give him advice how to win. he obviously needs our help. people like frank rich saying that obama should blast romney with like a 1964 daisy ad. see david gregory look, remind people how terrible it was under bush. see chris matthews every show is pretty much an invitation please watch so i can tell you how to win your election that is the new plan. jon: on, over the weekend, alan, matthews said to his panel something like, you know, can he still win this thing? >> i'm confused because for so long all we did was criticize chris matthews and criticize people like frank rich who are liberal commentators for being too pro-obama and, wait a minute, are we now saying we're criticizing them because they're not pro-obama or enough or not liberal enough? is that what the problem is? i'm very confused. jon: the point is they seem to offer obama campaign ad

dana milbanks and a great column this morning, he talked about the white house. betwist what is happening with the secretary of a cabinet in the california area. leak gate and unemployment and a coup elf people you see on the channel a lot made a great observation. the white house denies that the leaks came from them, and yet they brought up a great point. david sanger interviewed former advisors to the current white house. where are the denials and please don't write this? one of the things that is missing in this case that we have saw repeatedly in the bush years when national security secrets were disclosed is indications that the administration pleaded with the publications not to run the stuff. >> let me say something about the president. the new york times, he could call them up. they call fox all of the time. they could have called up as president kennedy said do not do jay carny could have called them. is there any evident. of course they do. and it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is a duck. >> first indication that they

host: we've gotten an op-ed from dana milbank from the "washington journal" underhe headline adequate man without a plan." he writes i had high hopes for president obama's speech on the economy but instead of going to ohio on thursday with a compelling plan for the future, the president gave americans a falsehood wrapped in a fallacy. the falsehood is that he has been serious about cutting government spending. the fallacy is that this election will be some sort of referendum that will break the log jam in washington. lyndon, virginia, douglas, on our line for independents who has the power to solve problems? caller: yes, i believe that when the government and basically the president and congress exercise power it creates problem. the best thing for them to do is not get their hands into every little thing. i just want to say that everybody i hear calling in tends to -- a lot to the callers tend to have a left-wing mindset and the way i see it is, you know, the president has become a dictator. he goes around congress. and congress doesn't have the backbone to finally standing up fast a

and dana milbank is not a conservative or republican.et's like at the president's claims that spending has grown more slowly than during any presidency in the last 60 years. that claim does not pass the smell test. the former director of the national economic council is one of many observers who has debu debunked this claim. first, as hennessy notes, the presidenpresident's claim is baa discredited article that he isn't accountable for anything that happened before october 1, 2009. that's the start of the fiscal year, but of course he took office almost nine months before that time. in other words, that timetable excludes the auto bailouts, the first year of the stimulus bill which, of course, was president obama's legislation, the bailouts of fannie mae and freddie mac and a lot of other things. as hennessey writes, this date was cherry picked to make president obama's record look good. and i would just ask does president obama also disclaim anything to do with bailing out the auto companies, for example, that occurred in that period of