still with me are karen finny and kai wright, and caroline jamison.had been fond of barry as she calls him, and he was particular way and worked an idea and question and turned it over and looked at it in all sides and then came to a precise and elegant conclusion. right, this idea of -- first of all i cannot, and i have read and the place you will see it is in the communication style, because if you see him answering questions, you will see what some in academic style is a high self-monitor and you hear him hearing himself and in pauses evaluating the next things he is going to say. there are strengths and weaknesses in that. sometimes in the presidency, you can see who could benefit from that more, but the question leads to is that a question of indecisiveness and that is where being a strong leader on foreign policy is a strong image, because it undercuts that. >> and yes, president obama was not a high self-monitor of those things, but president obama is. >> yes. >> and you think about the passage that you read in the context of the decision of wh

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karen finny and alex wagner will joinis. the long good-bye with newt gingrich trying to rewrite the history of his campaign which of course lands newt gingrich to once again in tonight's rewrite. that's coming up. >>> major combat operations in iraq have ended in the battle i' of iraq. the united states and our allies have prevailed. [ applause ] >> barack obama chose to figurely parade osama bin laden's dead body around the public square and brought singular glory to himself. how pathetic. the guy they today drag off the golf course. obama is out there basically, he is trying, folks, to call himself or have us think of him as a hero. for doing something that if bush or cheney had done, obama probably would have called in the war criminals. >> joining me now are karen finny former dnc director and david frum former bush speech writer and writer for the daily beast. david is the author ever "patriots." karen, i would show you the clip of limbaugh criticizing the accomplished speech but i'm afraid he never got around to it. >>

karen finny and alex wagner will join us. the long good-bye with newt gingrich trying to rewrite the history of his campaign which of course lands newt gingrich to once again in tonight's rewrite. that's coming up. this is $100,000. we asked total strangers to watch it for us. thank you so much, i appreciate it, i'll be right back. they didn't take a dime. how much in fees does your bank take to watch your money ? if your bank takes more money than a stranger, you need an ally. ally bank. no nonsense. just people sense. >>> major combat operations in iraq have ended in the battle of iraq. the united states and our allies have prevailed. [ applause ] >> barack obama chose to figurely parade osama bin laden's dead body around the public square and brought singular glory to himself. how pathetic. the guy they today drag off the golf course. obama is out there basically, he is trying, folks, to call himself or have us think of him as a hero. for doing something that if bush or cheney had done, obama probably would have called in

steele, the always delightful msnbc political analyst and former dnc communications director concern finny hard to open the show what would you do if you had just clinched the republican nomination for president? perhaps share the stage at a fund raiser with donald trump and newt gingrich? for the romney campaign, check. then make nothing public appearances and insaed the next day jet to a 95 room chateau that sits on an estate. check and check. ideally that will would be hosted by the ceo of a major corporation th

. >> joining me now, joe, and former dnc communications director car ren finny.it turns out brian fisher is only half crazy. >> seems that way. >> he is right tonight. >> he is right for all the wrong reason. >> to be leading our diplomacy just as a china incident showed the same thing. he peeped up about that. now he has gotten rid of because of this yahoo who says why is he listening to me. he called himself a yokel. he said it. like -- >> self-described. >> would you listen to a self-described yokel tell you get rid of this person. when you look at the people, under president clinton, reagan, under both presidents bush, serious important job. it's not a joke. and for mitt romney to get rid of a guy after a few days just because, which you have to assume it took him a while to pick this person and he gets rid of him because a yokel tells him this guy has got to go because he's gay? this harkens back to a very dark period when people were kicked out because of various kinds of prejudice and our diplomacy and our intelligence and military all suffered from that.

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steele, the always delightful msnbc political analyst and former dnc communications director concern finny and hugo lindgren. the nicknames are so long it's hard to open the show what would you do if you had just clinched the republican nomination for president? perhaps share the stage at a fund raiser with donald trump and newt gingrich? for the romney campaign, check. then make nothing public appearances and insaed the next day jet to a 95 room chateau that sits on an estate. check and check. ideally that will would be hosted by the ceo of a major corporation that just announced it would lay off 25,000 employees. in romney's case it's hewlett-packard's meg whitman. check, check and check. michael steele. >> and what do you want me to say about that? >> what? check. >> explain. >> check please. >> yeah. >> this is a day the romney campaign knew was coming. >> i don't get it. i never understood over the last week the whole setup for everybody knew that will this texas primary would be the event. to roll out in texas with conservative base around you going into this next 90 days where you'r

karen finnie joins us from washington and james peterson from lehigh university joins from us philadelphiaod afternoon to both of you. karen, i want to ask you about reproductive freedom and we also want to point out that you are a board member of the naril epro choice america that strongly supports abortion rights. however, a new gallup poll suggest there is may be trouble for the movement, just 41% of americans self identify as pro choice. that's a record low. >> yes. >> what do you make of this, karen? >> if you look at another part of the poll, i think what we're seeing is it is the label that people are not comfortable with and seeing that in a lot of places. in the same poll it continues to show that support for women's rights to choose is still at record highs, so that's been consistent, remember, we've had all of these person hood measures and a number of other measures about six times in a number of different states in the last couple of years and every time voters have come out and reaffirmed their support for pro choice issues, so where as they might not like the label, they sti

so finnis meant goal, purpose. so i think what i'm thinking is that my definition of finance is, it's about financing activities, making things happen. that means allowing people to achieve their goal. if you democratize finance, different people have different goals. some of them are religious groups. some of them are hospitals. some people want to see scientific drug rest. different people have different goals. we ought to make it possible to achieve those goals. another example i mentioned in my book, you have a child who is handicapped and the child is going to live longer then you. you want to protect this child. what you going to do? the child is unable of taking care of himself for her so you so you want to create a trust for the child. you can go to a trust company and say, i want you to manage this account for my child after i'm gone and they do that. that is part of modern finance. that is just one example of the kind of goals the people have. the problem is that most of our important goals in life take t