and donny is a jerk. and seriously when my team wins, and you know this, when they win the big one, i keep my head down and never say a word because my team just talked for me. but donny -- >> that's not his way. >> that's not -- >> let new put it another way. red sox -- >> all right. okay. let's go pat buchanan, talk about the 2012 presidential race. a new fox poll showing romney back in the lead and rick perry's support has collapsed. look at these numbers ask then we'll pass it around the rest of the table. romney at 23%, picked up one over the past month. rick perry at 19% has dropped precipitously losing a third of his support going from 21% to 19%. a big shock here, cain actually helped by the florida straw poll. so i guess for people right now, it did mean something, cain up 11 at 17%, paul 6%. bauchman, i've got to say, about as fast of a drop as i've seen since the iowa straw poll, and rick santorum at 3%. pat buchanan, let's talk headlines first. rick perry, the horrible week is starting to show

thank you so much, donny deutsch. know what you're talking about. >> appreciate it. >>> when we return -- by the way, who was the actor who said knock this off my shoulder, the battery? >> robert stack. >> robert conrad. thank you. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] sitting. waiting. hoping. that's a recipe for failed investing. open an e-trade account and open doors, seize opportunities, take action with some of the most powerful yet easy-to-use trading tools on the planet all built to help you maximize the potential of every dollar you invest. successful investing isn't done by throwing ideas against the wall and hoping. it's done by lowering your costs and raising your expectations by using unbiased research and powerful screeners to build a diversified portfolio with stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and every etf sold. and we'll help you every step of the way. with 5-star research and free education covering everything from the basics to advanced investing strategies. start now and we'll

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>> you want to talk to donny osmond about dancing? >> sure. donny is here? >> donny is in utah.uld love to see you on "dancing with the stars." i would love to see you dance because it would be so much better than what i saw last night. >> oh. goodness. >> the sooner they can get ron off that show, the better it's going to be. >> okay. all right. >> it was just like -- >> calm down. calm down. not yet. save it, donny. >> my ears. my ears. i was just interviewing a monster. >>> we'll introduce you to the man who changed fortunes when he finds treasure in locked deposit boxes. >> i love it when i find money in my piggy bank. >> you do? >> what's going on under that desk? >> what's happening? what's happening down there. >> elmo was finding coins. >> i had some water. >> there must be a hole in george's suit. >>> and celine dion is coming up in this half hour. she has a great show we'll tell you about. >>> and josh. >> how do you go to news? >> we go. we go because we must. we're going to be with some breaking news coming out of libya. moammar gadhafi who remains on the run, has ju

let's move on to russian football now until a brace from donny helps and you go top of the premier league the reigning champions coming from two goals down to edge out rubin has one to head off to five minutes thanks terry taken pounds and by being just not sure. that midway through the fast avs a need to endorse international gold people who was left joining in playing the splashing is the biggest that seize the moment to blast home rubin second goal from long range with my fave substances is off the was how about within five minutes on one should all go for launch to come back in the midfield the finishing off a dunk. and within eighteen second help minutes danis struck twice to snatch a late swing for the visitors alexander the pool for help along in the build up for the match winning goal the channels. well it does man take it three two and move alone at the top of the premier league standings line two points ahead of dunam or sco. and that's partly because says scum is that chance to take a three point lead over as it needs in the day the muscovites had to fly back for a water hole j

i want to rush in for bill now until a brace from donny helps the need go top of that premier league the reigning champions coming from two goals down to be in the hosts went to have after five minutes thanks to a retaken panel to buy a big press not show that midway through the first solves the needs and russia's national goalkeeper which is lost my fave was left ruling in pain after this clash and so again it's not seen as the moment of last no rubin sang come from long range with no life and substance use is off the was however within five minutes someone should all go for launch the meet scumbag midfielder finishing off a free kick to called the gap and within eighteen second half minutes diamond struck twice to snatch a late victory for the visit those an example of his. wolf helped along in the buildup for the match winning goal which on a split is man taking three to move a bone at the top of the premier league standings drawing two points ahead of denominate moscow. and that's partly because say it's come is their chance to take a three point lead over the needs in the day th

back with us onset, we have mark mckinnon and donny deutsche. >> donny deutsche, a good day yesterdayught netanyahu was a little condescending. i don't need anybody from any country telling the president of the united states nice job. you know what, bebe, keep it to yourself. and this is a pro-israel guy. i thought the president did a pretty darn good job in a difficult situation. >> i actually think in the last couple weeks he's found some mojo between this and the jobs bill. he's carrying a different weight. i like what i saw. >> i am, too. what do you think of the president yesterday? >> good. i mean, it was the right tone and the right approach. i think you've got -- french doing an end run. >> the french doing an end run? this is a shock. >> i'm just confused, though. a few months ago -- i'm not the smartest guy around. >> whatever. >> contrast this with, okay, let's go back to the pre-1967 borders. >> right. >> help me with that. i wouldn't think the same thing would be coming out of this guy's mouth. so help me out. what happened? how did he find god? i don't mean the israeli g

donny is talking about declining empyres.time to dust off paul kennedy's book and look at the rise and fahle the great empires and just ask ourselves, how sustainable is our current military footing? >> you know, look, joe. i supported the iraq war for democracy reasons so i'm as responsible, you know, for encouraging that trend as anybody. and i feel terrible that we have spent so much money there. we can argue about the war and whether it could have been done better in ten different ways but what we've never done in our history, okay, is launch two wars and then not just not pay the tax increase but have a tax cut. we've never done that in our history. and then add on that the biggest entitlement program i believe since 1965. that was just insane. so when you say -- yes, the wars have been terribly costly but what has taken us completely over the edge was that we cut taxes, didn't pay for these wars, then added a medicare prescription drug entitlement that, you know, we simply can't afford. this was utterly reckless, irresp

donny alan thomas will go to prison and will have to pay almost half a million dollars after pleading guilty to charges of scamming the city. thomas and four men from the power crew were arrested for the scheme back in 2007. a whistleblower told police the men stole public money, forged payment requests, wrote up fake invoices and submitted false insurance claims. >>> this morning, hospitals throughout the entire state, bracing for what could be the biggest nurses' strike ever, right here in the bay area. nurses from more than two dozen hospitals could walk off the job as early as thursday. christie smith is live in oakland with the latest. good morning, christie. >> reporter: good morning to you, jon. even if you have no plans to visit a hospital on thursday, there's a good chance you'll see nurses walking the picket line, thousands of them, according to one union leader. i spoke to a nurse who works here at summit. one-day strike is planned for thursday, which may affect 34 hospitals in northern and central california. that could include summit, berkeley, oakland, solano, sutter del

louie freeh who became trektor of the fbi, he introduced me to joe pistone, the real donnie brascoe,o relate to each other, that was my first introduction to peer-to-peer therapy. >> really quickly, someone who is watching who is suffering from this, are there some crucial first steps? you talked about peer-to-peer therapy, cops talking to cops, firefighters talking to firefighters, combat spouses talking to other combat spouses, is that the crucial first step here? >> i really believe that peer-to-peer therapy is the first line of defense and keeping post traumatic stress at post traumatic stress and not allowing it to come to disorder. we believe in education and awareness in our society. we did it with hiv/aids and we've done it with alcohol and tobacco. we need an education and awareness program to bring more information to people so that the stigma is not something that causes for people not to want to speak about what they're experiencing. >> hopefully interviews like this and certainly your book which "surviving the shadows: journey of hope into post traumatic stress" hopefull

he introduced me to the real donnie brasco, and he and i, since we went through similar experiences,able to talk, and it was my first experience with peer to peer therapy. >> you talked about peer to peer therapy, cops talking to cops, firefighters talking to firefighters, combat spouses talking to other combat spouses. is that the crucial first step here? >> i really believe that peer to peer therapy is the first line of defense in keeping post-traumatic stress at post-traumatic stress and not allowing it to come to disorder. we also need education and awareness in our society. we did it with hiv/aids. we nedid it with alcohol and tobacco. we need to talk about this disorder so it's not a stigma and causes people to talk about what they're experiencing. >> hopefully your book, "surviving the shadows, a journey of hope into post-traumatic stress," those will work to do some of that. thanks so much for joining us. >> stay safe. thank you. >>> still ahead this morning, diana nyad's extreme dream. get this, swim 103 miles from cuba to florida. plus kate winslet will be buy as well to ta

donnie, we want you to know that you will always be our baby boy. you will be in our hearts as forever and the levy. -- and we love you. we love you. and to my husband. flight 11. mayor saul finally rest in peace. -- may your soul finally rest in peace. goodbye, my dear friend. my teacher and my hero. >> florence moran gregory. >> pedro grehan. >> john michael griffin. >> tawanna sherry griffin. >> joan donna griffith. >> warren grifka. >> ramon grijalvo. >> joseph f. grillo. >> david joseph grimner. >> kenneth george grouzalis. >> joseph grzelak. >> matthew james grzymalski. >> robert joseph gschaar. >> liming gu. >> jose guadalupe. >> and my hero and my father, harry. daddy, i love you and miss you. i wish you could see me now. everyday i strive to make you proud. >> and my beautiful brother, brian kelberg. his big heart, boundless energy, and most of all true friendship of are profoundly missed every day. by me, mom, dad, jody, and so many of your friends. we love you, brian. >> cindy yan zhu guan. >> joel guevara gonzalez. >> geoffrey e. guja. >

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finished the euro spars a big concern don't really care their movement money away to stay for dinner and donny had this warning for us and revealed who exactly is running the show in the global economy. i would say this everybody who's watching this this economic crisis looks like a cancer if you just wait and wait thinking this is going to go away just like a cancer is going to grow and it's going to lay what i would say to everybody is get prepared this is not a time right now to wishful thinking the government going to sort things out that governments don't rule the world goldman sachs rules the world goldman sachs does not care about this rescue package neither does the big funds so goldman sachs rules the world and according to his study goldman sachs and other banks there's are driving the world markets into the ground intentionally so isn't this evidence enough that we need tougher regulations on the banks and on these traders or have we officially given bankers the power to destroy us are going to be moving in that direction here to offer his take on this is matthew beta as to get a jo

. >> somehow, donny got the short end of the stick today.k. >> get back to the time of the dinosaurs. >> they do. they go back a long time. >> let's have a fight. >> let me show you something here. getting mad. >> i want to show you something before you get on there, brian. pull that mouth open real quick and let me see the teeth. i want you to look in there. 82 teeth. they can really do it now, you can only hold that so long. watch this. the big snap, all right? we're going to put you on there. >> all right. >> if he bites you, you holler. >> what's my goal? to pin here? >> your goal is to leave here with the same number of holes thaw came here with. >> good news, in case something happens, louie agary is here on "fox & friends." >> get behind donny and hand on the neck. on the neck. on the neck. knees on the ground. >> take it right there. don't move -- >> don't let go. don't move your hand. look at this. sit back a little bit, brian. >> got nothing. got nothing. >> this is good. >> he never felt this type of power. >> about to flip you. >

. >> donnie brooks taylor. >> i am honored to have read these names as well as the name of my husband. >> and the son of peter and france's swept, and brother to patrick and myself, you were the inspiration in our family. you set the example and i will follow. we miss you. >> lorisa ceylon taylor. >> michael morgan taylor. >> paul a. tegtmeier. >> yeshauant tembe. >> anthony tempesta. >> dorothy pearl temple. >> stanley temple. >> david tengelin. >> brian john terrenzi. >> lisa m. terry. >> shell tester. >> and my mother. we love and miss you every day. >> and my uncle. we love and miss you with all of our hearts, especially your wife and your two sons. and the entire family. >> lesley anne thomas. >> brian thomas thompson. >> clive thompson. >> glenn thompson. >> nigel bruce thompson. >> perry a. thompson. >> vanavah alexei thompson. >> william h. thompson. >> eric raymond thorpe. >> nichola angela thorpe. >> sal edward tieri, jr. >> john p tierney. >> mary ellen tiesi. >> william r. tieste. >> kenneth francis tietjen. >> stephen edward tighe. >> and my father. you are a star so brig

according to the da's office donny allen thomas supervised a group that stole more than $300,000 of taxpayerllegedly wrote false invoices for personal items and ran their own personal business on county time. thomas faces three years in prison and must pay almost $1,770,000 in restitution. >>> tomorrow night the berkeley city council is expected to consider expanding it's opt out program to include at&t's yellow pages. residents have to go through at&t's website to opt out of their phone book. the city will call on at&t to honor opt out requests from their agencies. >>> the google wallet app was released to sprint users today. it lets nexus and android phone users make tap and go credit card purchases. at&t, verizon and team mobile have similar plans in the works which are expected to roll out sometime next year. >>> and what a nice day we had today. a lot of heat out there. right now the fog is away from the coast. we have some winds that are pushing to the north. you see the fog, you see what it does. it chooses away from the coast. there will be some patchy fog as it was today along the c

according to the da's office donny allen thomas supervised a group that stole more than $300,000 of taxpayerey. they allegedly wrote false invoices for personal items and ran their own personal business on county time. thomas faces three years in prison and must pay almost $1,770,000 in restitution. >>> tomorrow night the berkeley city council is expected to consider expanding it's opt out program to include at&t's yellow pages. residents have to go through at&t's website to opt out of their phone book. the city will call on at&t to honor opt out requests from their agencies. >>> the google wallet app was released to sprint users today. it lets nexus and android phone users make tap and go credit card purchases. at&t, verizon and team mobile have similar plans in the works which are expected to roll out sometime next year. >>> and what a nice day we had today. a lot of heat out there. right now the fog is away from the coast. we have some winds that are pushing to the north. you see the fog, you see what it does. it chooses away from the coast. there will be some patchy fog as it was today a

>> donny and marie did okay. >> there was an allegation -- this is pretty damaging to you i think forny presidential hope -- that your real hero musically was captain beefheart. now is that true? >> if you can tell me anything about captain beefheart, i'll give you an answer. but you can't. >> you're the expert. to me he was always a bit of a joke but perhaps you can give me another -- >> let's just say he was avant garde. he was discovered by frank zappa. but there was a period maybe between 1968 and 1978, maybe the early '80s where he was probably the most cutting-edge avant garde -- hey, not for everybody's taste. >> you're the same kind of age as president obama. i think you are a year older than him. you both come in on this likable ticket. you both come in on a change ticket. i want america to be better. lots of similarities. people have drawn between you both as men, as human beings. what barack obama has discovered is that the reality of being president is it is pretty brutal and washington is a brew it will place. you're going to get chewed up, spat out, your hair is going to

i think you really have the potential in this race to have the sort of a donny brooke in the republican party primary that we have not seen in many, many years. i mean, not even really with bush/mccain. you really have two solid guys, well, maybe not the party's best, but very equally matched contenders. well financed, able to go at each other for a few months. the president is, you know, in a terribly vulnerable position saying, how did he get so blessed to have this sort of thing going on. >> so the old paintings, with fists and no boxing gloves, beating each other until they're bleeding all over the place. >> think of a "rocky" film. >> cut me! >> exactly. there are fewer winner-take-all states. so if you come in second in one of these primaries, you will still collect votes, or delegates. so that will keep both of them in the race for as long as they can keep on standing. so if there's no knockout blow early on, this could go on for a long time. >> well, i was at a briefing with the president where he was like, he had quoted, but i got the sense coming out of that briefing that this

branch, who's scathing piece for "the atlantic" is being held as a water mark moment for the ncaa, and donnyber 3rd. dehoney, shall we say, is a man of the world. taylor, what is the most essential points of your scathing thesis? >> the ncaa is coming apart for practical reasons, because they're squabbling over the money. but underneath, and unbeknownst to me and a surprise, it's unjustified in principle. there's nobody else in our whole society that we impose amateurism without benefit of law or anything else other than a cartel and custom. >> dehoney, you've obviously walked into a room with people of a certain point of view. you were explaining to me during the commercial break that this is a point of view that's very relatable to you, but for you, you hold the line on the need to protect the purity of the amateur competition, which quite honestly, resonates with me. that makes sense. i can see the appeal of that. i just would like to hear your thesis. >> i think something definitely changes when money enters the equation. regardless of what you're talking about, in any sport, in any busi

you know, it's a good game show, whatever it is. >> you just called him donny which is fascinating.>> doesn't matter, you make your own rules. >> man with his own rules. rule number one is there are no rules. >> thank you. >> about your buddies. >> i'm the more emotional one on the couch. >> ok. >> what would it do for your self-esteem? you're the highest, hottest comic in the country until all of a sudden, you're having trouble making ends meet. what does it do to you? >> money comes and money goes. my accomplishments have not been about financial, you know what i mean? i wanted to do something special with my life. and i became the hands down the biggest stand-up ever. i mean, selling more tickets than any comic ever in history and like you said, i went through a tough divorce and at that time, it was way more important to raise my sons so it wasn't about career moves. >> now it is and you're back on the couch. >> now it is. >> right after this two minute break, i want to hear about that. right back. there'only one bottle left ! i've got to tell susie ! the vending machine on elm

. >>> another deadly accident happened yesterday, two blocks away. 51-year-old motorcyclist donnie lee dixon was hit and killed by an suv. the suv driver, eric banford, was being chased by police. banford is now in police custody. >>> well, a stomach flu outbreak is hitting uc santa cruz. more than two dozen students came ill in the past week. no one knows what's causing the virus. most of the affected students live near a dining hall. some 200 students became ill last december with a similar outbreak. everyone is being advised to wash their friends and clean surfaces. >>> the energy department approved two loan guarantees worse more than $1 billion for solar energy projects in never vau and arizona -- in nevada and arizona. that's despite the recent bankruptcy filing of solyndra. and we're hearing more details on that. according to bloomberg, the factory designed to make soar panels had robots that whispered disney tunes, is spa- like water that resembled crystal, paid for a by a $500 million loan guarantee. 1100 workers have lost their jobs because of the bankruptcy and layoffs. >>>

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donnie in washington state. hi, there. guest: hi. i am in washington state. i have personally known so many people on section 8 housing who are abusing the system by hiding their income. i believe wholeheartedly in the section 8 program, because i know handicapped people who really need it. the cuts they have made -- so many people are having their boyfriends or girlfriends with income living with them. when they get their notice that they are having an inspection, these wage-earning people move out temporarily. it is the responsibility of the landlord to do more out for vacation -- more verification. abuse is rampant and i think that hurts the program drastically. guest: i absolutely agree that hurts the program. hud has a program where they can match the income data from folks who were recently hired in the state. you are talking about families that have somebody living there that is not on the lease, contributing to the income of the household. it is another problem. you're right that households -- landlords need to be more diligent. a lot of the landlords

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donnie in washington state. hi, there. guest: hi. i am in washington state.ave personally known so many people on section 8 housing who are abusing the system by hiding their income. i believe wholeheartedly in the section 8 program, because i know handicapped people who really need it. the cuts they have made -- so many people are having their boyfriends or girlfriends with income living with them. when they get their notice that they are having an inspection, these wage-earning people move out temporarily. it is the responsibility of the landlord to do more out for vacation -- more verification. abuse is rampant and i think that hurts the program drastically. guest: i absolutely agree that hurts the program. hud has a program where they can match the income data from folks who were recently hired in the state. you are talking about families that have somebody living there that is not on the lease, contributing to the income of the household. it is another problem. you're right that households -- landlords need to be more diligent. a lot of the landlords are

you know, when i tell donnie deutsch to be self-aware it's the same thing. >> yeah.. >> joining us now pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. >> he's in trouble. he's in trouble. >> i hear i've had a bad morning already. >> you have. >> mika is not amused. >> well, your column has been called on this show already "premature" and "out of line" by some of your closest friends. so having said that, i'll now read it. it's called "christie's hefty burden." i don't know if you are responsible for that, but i'll assume not and give you the benefit of the doubt. >> thank you. >> you say this. whether or not he lets himself be persuaded to run for president, chris christie seems to find some way to lose weight. like everyone else, elected officials perform best when they're in optimal health. christie obviously is not. you could argue that this is none of my business, but i disagree. christie's problem with weight ceased being a private matter when he stepped into the public arena and it's no

donnie in washington state. hi, there. guest: hi. i am in washington state. i have personally known so many people on section 8 housing who are abusing the system by hiding their income. i believe wholeheartedly in the section 8 program, because i know handicapped people who really need it. the cuts they have made -- so many people are having their boyfriends or girlfriends with income living with them. when they get their notice that they are having an inspection, these wage-earning people move out temporarily. it is the responsibility of the landlord to do more out for vacation -- more verification. abuse is rampant and i think that hurts the program drastically. guest: i absolutely agree that hurts the program. hud has a program where they can match the income data from folks who were recently hired in the state. you are talking about families that have somebody living there that is not on the lease, contributing to the income of the household. it is another problem. you're right that households -- landlords need to be more diligent. a lot of the landlords