david jones adopted the name david bowie in the late '60s and hits and grammys soon followed. >>> oneour special day more s calendar. the african national congress turned 100 years old this weekend. former president nelson mandela we're told will not attend the festivities due to his failing health. >>> a thrilling tourist adventure goes horribly wrong. could have been worse, though. this is erin worth, a tourist from australia, plunging toward the river right there. oh, my gosh. and then the cord of that bungee breaks. watch the cord, one more time there. she falls to the water below, 300 feet, and amazingly, she actually survives that. >> it wasn't black straightaway and i felt like i had been slapped all over. i had to swim down and yank the bungee cord out of whatever it was caught under. i think it is a miracle i survived. >> it turns out the cord broke at just the perfect moment if there is a perfect moment. she avoided serious injury because it broke when she was already so close to the surface of the water. she's bruised pretty badly. that river is known for being filled with

david jones. [applause] and your state senator in the state of california, mark little.se] his colleague, state senator at leland neyeat. [applause] member of the california state assembly, fiona ma. [applause] and a majority of your board of supervisors are here, which is a good thing. [laughter] the president of the board, david chiu. [applause] the rev. of the board, sean elsbernd. [applause] and the three women that are always undying loyalty you in support almost everything you'd do, and i will introduce the three of them together -- jane kim, leah komen and carmen chu. [applause] mark farrell. [applause] scott wiener, member of the board of supervisors. [applause] eric mar, a member of the board of supervisors. david campos, a member of the board of supervisors. [applause] you have some other city officials who are here. you have, of course, the man who takes all of our money, the treasurer, jose camos. [applause] campos would like to be there one of these days. i am so focused on campos, he owes me one. [laughter] the public defender, the man who he looked to -- y

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alex walter, will dougherty, pete herman, and david h., dan jones, bruce smith, and [unintelligible]rned one in. >> please do not speak out from the audience. >> please stop speaking directly to supervisor wiener. next speaker, please. >> i am a working class queer, i live month to month and paychecks. i do not need to be further criminalize. i organize and work with tenants and bookstore cycling in and out of homelessness. this is a quality of life ordinance being for the 1% of the gay community at the expense of everyone else, mostly people of color and transgendered. everybody should not be the code word for rich people. if you need to sleep in the park, in need to sleep in the park. thank you. >> i am anna conda and iwe disagree with this legislation. on the basis that it does not take into account the work that harvey milk put forward before creating a better city for all communities especially bc & g which margamarginalized communities and takes them out of the public sphere and a lager and kyrgyz them to be part of public discussion. these need to be looked at and maybe there

i want to bring in david corn, msnbc political analyst and washington bureau chief for mother jones. david, thank you for joining us. >> good to be with you, reverend. >> tell me, david, as mr. romney, when you look at the fact that citizens for tax justice says his tax plan is a complete handout to the top 1%, while the poorest suffer, the bottom 20% would only get a 1% tax cut while the top 1% would get a 38% tax cut. that's the analysis on the citizens for tax justice. is that why mr. willard wants us to only talk about this in quiet rooms, maybe so we're so quiet no one knows what he's really proposing? >> well, you know, this is an old and classic tactic that we've seen from conservatives and people in business community for decades. i think actually the notion, the term politics of envy was coined by marie anttoinette. any time you start talking about these issues, they come in and say it's class warfare. you are dividing us. you are looking down at american values of free enterprise. there's a word that's missing from this debate that is actually a conservative word that conser

but eventually that list was winnowed down to david sutter and edith jones. governor sununu's comments in the oral history reveal his nuanced approach to the selection criteria that he considered, including future nominations and a desire on his part to avoid reserving seats for various groups on the high bench. he was of the thought that perhaps justice o'connor would leave soon and he didn't want edith jones to go into that seat for fear of this concept of the women's seat would be developing. he also reports that sutter's lack of a paper trail on federal judicial issues constituted a judicial issues codistinct did it is continuing point in his favor among some members of the president's team as sununu observed we know that work was rejected. that was the environment in which the next supreme court appointment came up for george bush and the president obviously wanted to make a positive impact on the court and yet at the time really did not want to go through a contentious hearing process on his first supreme court nomination. bush eventually met with sutte

mother jones, david corn liken newt gingrich to a suicide bomber in his article today, newt the destroyer. gingrich is now on a single-minded mission to blow up the republican party in the process. we're back with our guests. after a small teleprompter failure there. howard, you've done these things before. you know how these things can go. >> i do. >> howard, i don't think we've ever seen this on a debate stage. can you imagine yourself on a debate stage with a candidate who is articulate, who is well-armed, who also, by all appearances, knows he has no chance of winning and hates one particular candidate on that stage? >> well, that's actually the problem here. newt is not going to be effective. you can't show your anger and hate. you can do this, because i've had people do it to me, but you've got to be subtle. you've got to do it in a laughing matter. but if it's motivated by what most americans are going to think is bad sportsmanship, i think it's going to be incredibly ineffective. >> newt gingrich is talking about a possible apply generals with rick santorum. >> can you see a scena

chris cillizza is managing editor of the post politics.com and david corn from mother jones.l analysts. chris, you first. this game of cat and mouse that this guy has created here, because it's never been created before. everyone assumes you have to show your tax returns. it shows you have done your tax returns. everybody has them. you can't be a legal citizen in this country without tax returns. we know he has them. we know they exist. he refuses to show them. there's only reason reason he doesn't want to show them. he doesn't want to. why? >> chris, i agree with you. i mean, i've been baffled. you showed the bit from cnn last night, but on monday night, romney was asked the same thing and he again fumbled. which is odd to me. this is a guy who is quite good as a debater. he had to know it was coming. if he didn't know it was coming monday, he definitely knew it was coming last night. and yet, he still kind of struggled with it. i think it has to do with him being uncomfortable in some way about his wealth, although we know he's rich. what it makes it look like, chris, and y

the eisenhower institute and a "huffington post" contributor and msnbc political analyst david corn of mother jones's watch right now the candidates on why they want to be president. some of this is quite good. >> why would i make a good president? it's a very good question. but, actually, am i out of time? it's okay with me if i am. >> i owe a you've spoken, loud clear. i get it. there's no "i" in iowa. >> i would like to say something for 20 seconds. this is this is stupid. >> i could say i could good at execution, because people like that, or gays give me the heebie-jeebies, but santorum has the homophobic vote. i just don't want to make another mistake. >> i love my dad, he's always been there, or giving me millions when my campaign runs out of fund. >> the internet is -- gosh, it's a dumping ground for gay pornography, during some of nigh own comprehensive research. i found myself lost for hours at a time. >> okay. >> the things you see. >> they said they want smaller government, i want even smaller. look how small i am. how much government do you think i need? >> some brutal stuff, by the way

joining my is mother jones washington bureau chief david corn and politico senior congressional reporter jonathan allen. gentlemen, good morning. david, one report said the obama campaign took notes where mitt romney got rattled. do you think that after all this practice, romney still has little laws to expos? >> he as been pretty good in the debates up to now. he's been getting better. last night he wasn't that great, but i don't see any of the others gaining grounds. maybe they can tie him down or get a hook in him here and there, but he still strides along. if you have -- like rick santorum had in great exchange last night, so i thought -- >> let me stop you and play it. you've got to tell you, i thought going into this, debate 16? what's this going to be? and there are a lot of great moments. let's take a look at the one you were referring to. >> i would ask governor romney, do you believe people who are felons, who have served their time, who have exhausted their parole and probation, should they be given the right to vote? >> i don't think people who have committed violent crimes l

joining me now is msnbc analyst richard wolffe and david corn, msnbc political analyst and mother jonesau chief. thanks to both of you for being here tonight. >> thanks, reverend. >> sure thing. >> richard, let me start with you. can you believe how low they're going? >> sadly, i can, yes, reverend. this has been going on for a very long time. and your opener was right in the sense that you linked together the strengths of the president with the sort of edge of these attacks because what we saw from day one was an arc straighted campaign of vilifcation of this president. he won big. he won in states that democrats didn't normally win in, and the strategy, the explicit strategy of mitch mcconnell in the senate was to deny this president any -- any bipartisan votes. so not a single republican could switch sides and vote with this president, even when he was doing things that were actually republican ideas. that led to all sorts of contortions. health care had to be a socialist thing as compared to a republican bunch of ideas that this president picked up. and you go through the list here.

halperin is an msnbc senior political analyst and "time" magazine editor at large and david corn is bureau chief for "mother jones." let's look at the new numbers just out from "time" magazine and cnn. the opinion research shows a new rise for newt gingrich in south carolina. this poll was taken from last friday through tuesday of this week but he has gained five points from early this month while romney has dropped four points. gingrich has a decent edge over conservative rival rick santorum. mark, you are a student of these numbers. i'm just wondering if you can see a projection from here until saturday morning that could allow for newt to overtake romney and win the all-important south carolina primary. >> i think he could. i think he could also come close enough that if his team is deft enough in spinning it, he could go into florida with an effective one-on-one matchup with romney for 85% of the vote. the trajectory is good for him. as you pointed out, the poll was done through tuesday. the debate performance for gingrich was monday. most of the poll doesn't have that in it. gingrich is doing well now. he is

. >> david corns washington bureau chief of mother jones and political analyst.ood morning. >> good morning. >> the argument's being made that president obama was the big winner because the field remains unsettled and as long as the republicans are going after each other that only helps him. do you buy that argument? >> i think the field is weak. the fact that mitt romney who has been campaigning in iowa for like 17 years now, can't get above 25% even if after spending $30 million or whatever the final figure was. i think it shows that he is inher rently a weak republican and you have the republican craziness. republicans go ahead and nominate someone like rick santorum who is extreme on cultural ideological issues he's against contraception. he's a cultural warrior. is that what people want when the economy's doing bad and other things have to be dealt with? i don't know. i think the republican party has to take weeks, if not months, to sort this out and that's good for barack obama who has his own problems. >> yeah, he's got problems with the economy, basically