she is not a paid adviser to the dnc or to the campaign. and i hope, luke, that we can just have a conversation about what most americans care about right now, which is how they're going to be able to pay for their tuition of their children who are in college, how they're going to sustain the jobs that we need to make sure that this century is an american century and to make certain that we're allowing our children to outcompete and outinnovate the rest of the world. that's the honest dialogue we want to have against mitt romney and republicans who want to drag us back to the past. >> patrick gaspard thank you so much. we appreciate it. tonight at 8:00 p.m. on msnbc, ed schultz will have an exclusive interview with vice president joe biden. you do not want to miss that. >>> for the first time in months, guns are silent in syria. >>> plus, north korea's rocket is ready for liftoff and could fire at any moment now. >>> but first, today's trivia question. in 1943, which hollywood celebrity to the government enlist to convince americans to pay

women feel like there's war on our liberty. >> you got the dnc spokesman saying this. do the democrats have a messaging problem all of a sudden on this bernie sanders tell me, there's war on women. we got to keep talking about it. what do you think? >> i think democrats have lost a bit of their cool this week, to be honest. i don't think the obama campaign should have responded about the hilary rosen air fair in the way they did. not because she said things that's just fine. she's not associated with them. the president had the best response which is that spouses are off limits. he knows it because his spouse has come under ridiculous and painful fire. in any case, democrats need to stick to the policy questions. there are pocketbook questions that women care about. there's also fundamental rights questions that are coming under attack just in arizona where you see abortion procedures coming under fire again. that is not an abstract debate anymore. i don't know that it helps republicans to keep the conversation on this. they need be talking about who can run the econom

she doesn't work for them or the dnc. i think fundamentally while this has been a sort of good news event for the romney campaign, they have a lot of really serious work to do with women and hilary rosen is not going to solve their problem. >> in the next hour, mitt romney is going to be at the nra convention. i don't think we've talked enough about guns essentially in the aftermath of trayvon martin and a lot of the other conversation, mike bloomberg lid the way on mayors trying to fight against guns. this president signed legislation permitting guns to be carried in national parks which is one of the big achievements for the nra. but mitt romney is clearly an anti-obama convention the national rifle association. do you recall mitt romney back in the last campaign, i think it was april of 2007 trying to prove his. >> shooting varmints. >> his street credit with the nra. let's watch. >> i'm not a big game hunter. i've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter, small varmints if you will. and i began when i was oh, 15 or so a

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. >>> and the dnc is having great fun lashing mitt romney in his new budget plan which democrats insist favors the rich. ♪ when old mitt claps his hand ♪ for the paul ryan plan ♪ that's amore >> that is amore and that is the side show and let me start with the unpredictable election coming our way this summer and fall. we begin with the trayvon martin shooting. michael isikoff is msnbc's chief investigate i investigative correspondent. and also david wilson from thegrio.com, managing editor. michael, what can you tell us that you have been able to uncover? >> well, chris, look, there's still a lot that's murky with regard to what happened that night between trayvon martin and george zimmerman, but one new piece of evidence that we did find today that is -- that could raise some further questions is that the original 2005 police report on the arrest of george zimmerman. zimmerman was arrested at a bar near the university of central florida by a state law enforcement officer and charged with battery and use of violence and obstructing justice. when you look at the underlying police report

she has no official role even in the dnc. >> so she has no role in the dnc.he has no role in the white house. she is a pundit for cnn. she talks on a primetime cable show. >> yeah. >> and suddenly, you've got the white house and the republicans and ann romney and michelle obama immediately -- it's just crazy. >> but it's a motherhood and apple pie thing. it's an easy one for both sides to jump on hilary rosen for. >> joe tends to kind of back into things and vomit, so i'm going to back up and explain what we're talking about, because now the headlines this morning are spotlighted on ann romney. that is the headline from today's "the wall street journal" after democratic strategist hilary rosen's comments that mrs. romney has, quote, never worked a day in her life, continued to draw reaction from both campaigns. now we all know what we're talking about. ann romney herself hit back. >> hold on a second. do you think that people that watch a show that talks about politics and foreign policy and the international financial affairs spent the last 24 hours eating g

they told cnn she has no official role in the white house or the dnc. meantime, the romney campaign has tried to link rosen's comments directly to the white house. in an e-mail to supporters, they called rosen an obama adviser. the campaign's website also issued a call for support for ann. part of the text reads, we stand with mitt and ann in saying that all women play an important role in our country. america deserves a president who will bring us together, not pit us against each other. seems to be implying that president obama attacked stay-at-home mothers. you just heard what he said about rosen's comments. he doesn't agree with her. tonight, we've asked hilary rosen back to talk about all of this. also republican strategist bay buchanan, also the author of "bay and her boys: unexpected lessons i learned as a single mom. and an advisory to mitt romney. hilary, welcome back. i would like to give you a chance to talk about your comments, explain them, defend them, also address the firestorm they've caused over the last 24 hours. >> you know, i think i

one, i can't wait to see all the fact checks coming out of dnc. the number of, i won't call them lies but misinformation that came out of mr. romney's mouth was stunning. the picture that he was painting of an america, restoring an america. i kept thinking it sounds like you want to go back to a time when women couldn't vote, blacks couldn't vote. it just didn't sound like this was the america that we all know. >> to be fair, karen, he didn't say. that he didn't say he wants to go back to a period before when african-americans couldn't vote, did he? he didn't say that. there were other even more astonishing statements, i thought in the speech. >> when he says things like i want to return america. i want to restore america. i guess the question, when he talked about the constitution not being a living document. should would say that because the constitution is a living document, we passed rights for african-americans to vote. we passed rights for women to vote because we recognize that we should expand the freedoms of the constitution. not restrict

they told cnn she has no official role in the white house or the dnc.ime, the romney campaign has tried to link rosen's comments directly to the white house. in an e-mail to supporters, they called rosen an obama adviser. the campaign's website also issued call for support for ann. part of the text reads, we stand with mitt and ann in saying that all women play an important role in our country. america deserves a president who will bring us together, not pit us against each other. seems to be implying that president obama attacked stay-at-home mothers. you just heard what he said about rosen's comments. tonight, we've asked hilary rosen back to talk about all of this. also bay buchanan, also the author of "bay and her boys: unexpected lessons i learned as a single mom. hilary, welcome back. i would like to give you a chance to talk about your comments, explain them, defend them, also address the firestorm they've caused over the last 24 hours. >> you know, i think i've characterized them often enough over the last 24 hours, anderson, and it is clear tha

the -- what happened larry o'brien's office, the dnc chairman, was a big corner office with big windows overlooking the potomac window. where they had broken in and supposedly put the bug on the wrong phone, ha ha, was spencer oliver. he had the diagonally opposite overlooking the highway and there was no way you could possibly mistake one for the other. howard hunt also had a special hatred for spencer oliver. and all the targets they picked were of more interest to the cia than they were to us. and hunt and liddy were both cia people. and all during their operations, direct report to the head of the cia. now, what to make of that, i do not know, but this is something that was not publicized very much at the time. to put it mildly. >> what did it feel like for you to be the chief speechwriter all throughout the presidency, to be in the middle of this but not to be in the middle of watergate? >> i was glad not to be. i was not involved in that sort of stuff. none of the speech writers were. we were not operational and it was operational people that got caught up in it and unfairly for t

she does work and her firm does work with the dnc. they lean upon her.ink, play into what the democrats have been trying to create, manufacture this war on women. we've even that coming out of the white house. we've even it coming out of the dnc where they're trying to suggest that the women are waging a war -- the republicans are waging a war on women. and they've taken it too far. this is hilary rosen's comments that have taken it too far. the fact of the matter is, it's obama's policies that are failing, americans are failing american women. it's his policies that are concerning women right now, whether it's his economic policies, his health care policies or the tremendous debt that he is leaving to our children and grandchildren. >> but with the polling has shown, clearly, is that there is an 18 or 19-point in recent polls gender gap where women favor president obama over mitt romney. so, arguably women are geing a very different message as to his policies, president obama's policies, and mitt romney's policies or at least the association that he's h

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that looked to me like an ad created by the dnc. explain this to me?'t think he is a double agent, but i think the point is president obama is cool, and if he was running for high school class president he would have this election hands down, but we have some tough times with the economy, and i think the point of this ad was saying if you are graduating from college it will be tough to find a job. and i just don't think president obama is going to have that same enthusiasm for the younger folks. jimmy fallon is fun. >> i agree the enthuse asm isn't there now, but the way to get enthusiasm is to say you are cool. >> i remember when bill clinton went on the arsenio hall show with shades and playing the sack phone. and it got the youth vote out. that ad is a little weird, almost bordering on a colt 45 ad, but having said that, i think the president's cool point, something he has had since the beginning of his campaign, and i still think he has it going into this season. >> you said something that is certainly correct, which is the enthusiasm isn't there t

. >> the dnc wants romney to denounce those comments and the romney campaign is whiffing. >> we are patriots. we are brave heart. we need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in november. >>> republicans want to kill the united states postal service. tonight, my commentary on how to save it. >>> good to have you with us. thanks for watching. republicans continue to hammer president obama over gas prices. today the president struck back. he announced a $52 million proposal to con front the wall street speculators that are making every american pay more at the pump. >> i've asked attorney general holder to work with chairman lebowitz, the federal trade commission, chairman ginsler and other enforcement agencies to make sure that acts of manipulation, fraud or other illegal activity or not behind increases in the price that consumers pay at the pump. >> the president's proposal gives more oversight and resource to the commodity futures trading commission. this is the agency tasked with policing the oil and gas markets. president obama explained the problem in simple language.

the dnc has only been too eager to take advantage. mitt, it happens. how did it come to this? the most conservative republican party now dominated by tea partiers is about to moderate the most liberal candidate in the field. might we see the kind of blood letting that hasn't happened in the republican party since the goldman wipeout since '64? could that send the republican party even further to the right in 2016? and the obama party will go after romney because he is a mormon. really? where is the evidence of that? and "to kill a mockingbird" is going to be in a screening at the white house tonight. we'll talk about why the movie and its themes remain so relevant today. and let me finish tonight with a crime, the death penalty, and a question of justice. we begin with the rnc chairman's comments about the war on women. susan page is washington bureau chief for usa today, and howard feinman is huffington post media group. he's also public analyst. previs was asked about the attraction to women voters. >> the government said we have a war on caterpillars and then we would have

times" sunday article yesterday. 75% of donor who's gave between $100,000 and -- or $120,000 to the dncr the obama victory fund visits the white house, not the same, not true for lower dollar donors. what do you make of that? how do you respond to that? >> well, i think that the notion that this tells the story of the transparency and the reform that president obama brought to the white house is misleading because you look at what the president did. he created a whole new realm of transparency by telling everyone who comes to the white house. the whole reason that we know who is on that list is because of a policy that the president put forward. weighened to make sure people had the chance to finds out who is visiting the white house. >> visitor logs. >> if it weren't for that, we wouldn't know. whereas with mitt romney, we don't know who's bundling donations for him. there's a real difference on this and the transparency the president brought to the white house is something no president before him had done. when i was working for him, it was sometimes a real pain to tell these stories

nearly 31,000 for dnc. many of which are key battleground states as you can see including ohio and florida. now the dash for cash jump-started long ago try day 65 of the obama presidency. tony bennett crooned on march 25th, 2009. why so early? candidates cannot ignore history. more money means more votes. obama beat mccain in money and won. bush, xliii the same. exception, dole led in cash but lost. where cash is not king. white house correspondents dinner, even celebrities jockey for tickets to the annual presidential roast that bring hollywood and d.c. together. this all may sound daunting to you. this obama campaign tweet may give you hope. $3 gets you in on a raffle for that dinner with the president and clooney. your chances? a lottery ticket might be a better bet. let's bring in two people with inside access to the big-time political fund-raiser scene. you worked closely with the clintons and dnc and new york city mayor and also joined by a republican strategist that's been an adviser to president geo

it's going to be at the former dnc chi kr dnc. more than 500 supporters will attend the reception. clinton will be doing two more fund raise erps together in the future. >>> let's kuo to washington now. cnn's state of the union candy crowley is coming up at the top of the hour. candy, good morning do you. i understand you have an exclusive interview with house speaker john boehner this morning. >> we do indeed. it's been a while since we talked with him. we want to get a lay of the land. as you know, the speaker said earlier this year he didn't see anyway that democrats would become the majority in the house and then more recently he said, well, maybe there's a one in three chance we might. so we want to go back and take a look at the house because as we know everybody there is up for re-election as well as a third of the senate, and, of course, just get his lay of the land now that republicans have a nominee, what he thinks of the nominee, how they'll work together, that kind of thing. >> do you think he's going give you any thoughts on a possible short list for a vice-presidentia

he raised $53 million with the dnc in march. if money talks, what all these numbers tell you is both sides anticipate a long tough road to november. back to you. >> all right. big, big money. thanks for that report. >>> meanwhile president obama is heading to plate night tv. the commander in chief will be on jimmy fallon's show next week. it's part of the president's push to keep student's loan rates a 3.4%. it could cost the u.s. government $6 billion. the president will sit down with fallon when he visits the university of north carolina chapel hill. >> i'm chris shaffer, coming up at 6 a newly installed speed camera goes up in flames. >>> and bill cosby comes to baltimore. the special honor he and his wife received. those stories coming up at 6:00, now a preview of what's ahead on world news at 6:30. >>> coming up on world news, a baseball star breaks a record at the age of 49. dr. m. hmet oz, our person have the week. >>> trying to shake a recurring nightmare or just wish your dreams were a bit more entertaining? there's an

we're joined by the director from the dnc. good afternoon, brad.ouldn't pick and choose these polls. i know you'll pick the form he. but the gallup poll surveys about twice as many voters as the other two. it has been updated i think just hours ago. are you worried at all that romney, despite what has been a tough primary campaign, may be getting his mojo? >> not worried. we know what we have in mitt romney as a candidate. we have somebody who is taking positions that are way outside the main stream. that we don't think will get 50% plus one support when we get to november. whether it is positions on immigration or taxes. he is outside the main stream of most voters. even in the polls that are close, you see that he still struggles with women and he still struggles with independents. >> we know that romney has his own problems. chiefly likability. his favorable against the president -- he has managed to be the defacto nominee despite the issues. why do you not think he could overcome this in the general election? >> i think, martin, to large exten

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