this morning, "the new york times" revealed to the world the identity of el bloombito.rachel figueroa-levin, and she joins me now by phone. rachel, thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> thank you for having me, i'm kind of excited. i'm a huge fan of your show. >> oh, great. now, rachel, you are in the middle, or what happens just the beginning of your 15 minutes of fame, and i understand it's been so disorienting to you that you're staying in an undisclosed location and dealing with us in the media just by phone. >> yes. >> so great things have happened. you've got agents reaching out to you saying, you know, is there a book here, kind of amazing stuff has happened, right? >> yeah, i really can't believe, you know, this is happening. i never expected this. you know, this is really just a joke for my friends on twitter. >> and i saw the picture of you and your baby in "the new york times" today, as soon as i saw the story i said can we possibly get rachel on the show. you're holding your baby in one hand, tweeting the other. you picked up a bunch of followers, i

el bloombito lives, thank you, rachel. >> thank you. >> you can follow my tweets in english @lawrence. "the rachel maddow show" is up next. good evening, melissa. >> gracias, lawrence. >> de nada. staying with us for the next hour, rachel has the night off. remember when this happened, remember when mitt romney formerly announced he was running for president and nobody noticed because the sarah palin bus tour stopped in new hampshire or how about when rick perry used the same weekend as the ames, iowa, straw poll to kick off his campaign. you mean there are other people doing this running for president thing too? we around the newsroom today recalled when the white house announced that president obama planned to give his big jobs speech before a joint session of which is when the republican presidential candidates are all planning to debate right here on msnbc. not just on the same night but at the exact same time. now, the debate has been scheduled for quite a long time, and lots of people have been saying that president obama needs to get tougher with the opposition, especially in h