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eastern when i'm joined by carole king, robert costa and eric bates. you can findous at dpfacebook.ello, andrea. >> hey, alex. thanks so much. we are highlighting the battleground battle here in colorado, the swing states. the democratic governor john hickenlooper will be joining us as we also kick off education nation with the governor. also joining me ambassador susan rice on the failed north korea rocket launch and a new u.n. presidential statement on that. >>> and former iran hostage sarah shourd will be with me. andrea mitchell live from colorado coming up next. i'm bill karins with your business travel forecast on this monday. what a crazy monday it's going to be. summer-like heat with record highs in new england. snow in northern minnesota. rain down along the gulf coast and more and i in the northwest. but boston today, boston marathon, 88 degrees, warmest temperature ever for the boston marathon. thunderstorms possible atlanta and detroit. [ female announcer ] lactaid milk is easy to digest. it's real milk full of calcium and vitamin d. and tastes simply delicious. for thos

cnbc kudlow report contributor robert costa of the national review, rolling stone executive editor eric bates, msnbc analyst and columnist for "the hill" karen finney. three new polls of the general election matchup lead to one conclusion, unclear where this race stands right now, but this november it's going to be a nail-biter. gallup shows the race in a statistical tie, a cnn/orc poll, gave obama a nine-point lead, and reuters/ipso has the president up four, outside the pla pla margin of error. karen finney, nail-biter. >> yeah. >> we talk about -- i mean this is something we talked about when we were having meetings to discuss this very show. >> how about that. >> one of the things we talked about a general feeling perhaps on left that mitt romney's weakness as a candidate has given way to malaise and a general sense that the president has this, i don't need to participate, he's going to be fine. >> it's a matter we didn't have a contested primary, right people were think, i'll focus on what's happening in the house or senate races and then i'll focus on the presidential farther down the r

nbclatino.com political commentator alisha menendez is with us and rolling stone executive editor eric batesney is in wisconsin wallying is

commentator alisha menendez is with us and rolling stone executive editor eric bates. this hour, mitt romney is in wisconsin wallying is support ahead of tuesday's primary. voters in the badger say the, maryland and washington, d.c. will award a combined 9 delegates. if romney runs away with all of them, will he finally seal the deal? how many times can i ask this guahe for real, this may be it. >> this will be it for a very significant portion of the republican establishment. in a campaign, you have three sort of power bases, the establishment of the donors, the media which wants drama and a longer race most of the time. >> we do? >> i think so. i like drama in my races and finally the voter who's want address or the appearance of democracy. so we rather everywhere last cycle people didn't want this thing settled too quickly between barack and hillary. they didn't want this either time either unless they're convinced democracy has run its course and romney is the legitimate leader. >> this whole process has fatigued people to the point they're lgs to vote for romney.