what happens to the gop?f, a big if, if he should lose is one i told you so from the likes of rick santorum, maybe mike huckabee, maybe sarah palin, i think will say mitt romney was not sufficiently conservative to be the candidate overlooking the fact he has run, to use his own words, craig, a severely conservative campaign. now, the question is will you hear other voices maybe from a jeb bush who will say, wait, time out. this is why we lost. what we need to do is grow the tent. i suspect that won't get resolved until primary elections in 2016. >> it sounds like you are saying you don't think this will be the end of the civil war of the gop, you think this is the beginning of the civil war in the gop? >> i do. i think they have to duke it out for another cycle. thanks to all of you. i appreciate your time. 92 thank you. >> thank you. >>> up next, they're only working eight days this fall. eight. but the house made sure to make clear how they feel about the working poor this week. that and more ahead. msnbc.

s about the gop in my book. the first is that the gop worships wealth of the wealthy and subordinate every other domestic economic issue to that fact. while they try to make the deficit and debt reduction their signature issue is a former house and senate budget committee staffer, i believe that is safe only plan. they will be subordinate deficit reduction to giving tax breaks to the wealthy contributors. and that romney's current tax plan is a case in point. it would increase the deficit by $6 trillion over 10 years. ask yourself now, which loophole is he going to cause to make up the difference? he doesn't say and there aren't enough loopholes to do that in any case. most middle-class people like you do not consider the mortgage interest deduction to be a loophole. unlike the deductibility. and in the recent past, congressional republicans have refused to repeal that even the egregious tax loophole a corporate jet to the deficit claims are essentially fraudulent. it's simply bait for the rooms. and yes, they c

they do go to a self-delusion the gop has about the president.oaster oven could beat him in an election. it's not true. the american people like the president. mitt romney was forced to move so far to the right in the gop primary it's hard to come back to a sensible, mainstream view and his embrace of paul ryan on the ticket just made that that much harder. >> if you're in the wilderness for years and you're not winning and we have 8% unemployment and we should win this thing and you're about to not win this thing, you can't blame your ideology. you want to blame the candidates or polls or media. >> i have to go or else i get blamed for this if we go too long. thank you so much. we'll see all of you on "the cycle" every weekday at 3:00 p.m. on msnbc, the place for politics. >>> there's new developments in one of the country's most enduring mysteries, the disappearance of jimmy hoffa and brand-new video as police removed a large soil sample from a michigan home moments ago. this move follows a tip the teamster boss may have been buried there more

take in the gop candidate for the senate, richard murdoch.about refusing to compromise. >> i certainly think that bipartisanship ought to consist of democrats coming to the republican point of view. >> bipartisanship means they have to come our way. >> but today we're learning he's changing his tune to woo indiana moderates. all of a sudden he says he'll support parts of president obama's health care law, protect social security and medicare and even entertain the idea of compromise. why the sudden change of heart? could it be because he's losing his senate race and we're seeing the tea party stars fighting for their political lives. america's rejecting radicalism. as i always say, do unpopular things, become unpopular. with the tea party decline, will the parties be able to get something done in washington after the election is the question. joining me now, karen finney, msnbc political analyst and former communications director of the democratic national committee and e.j. dionne, columnist for "the washington post," and he's writing today

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this is the dominant philosophy of the gop. george w. bush ran in 2000 as a compassionate conservative, but even paying lip service to that idea is out the window with these mean-spirited tea party-flavored republican men. their extreme agenda is now clear. you're on your own. and if you need help, look somewhere else. remember some time ago when romney said, "if voters want more stuff from government, tell them to go vote for the other guy." more free stuff? remember how crowded the republican debate actually cheered at an idea of letting a person die if he doesn't have health insurance? >> that's what freedom is all about taking your own risk. this whole idea that you have to prepare to take care of everybody -- [ applause ] >> but congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die? >> audience: yeah. yeah! >> remember all the attacks on the poor and anyone who's trying to help them, like the president? >> i'll go to the convention and talk about why the african-american community should demand paychecks and not be satisf

gillespie was running the gop.k black folks have got to remember that, one, all of us are not democrats and that these black folks are concerned about the economy, they're concerned about issues. some of them even voted for president obama. >> but there is this perception that if you do not vote for president obama, and you're black person, you're in some way a sellout. >> sure. >> a race traitor. >> a race traitor. you might as well be clarence thomas to them. >> if people, they look to 2008 and they see this grand campaign, you know, which was excellent run, then they see a presidency and then another grand campaign again. where they felt like he's a good campaigner and not a good president? >> i think it's a call to remembrance in some ways to say think about what we've been through together. i'm the same man that i was in 2008 and we have travelled this journey together. i think a lot of people are prone regardless of mistakes that have been made to stick with what they know. >> but i'll be very honest with you

you saw sort of hispanic outreach by way of speaking in spanish at the gop.ot in terms of any policy specifics. the other thing the democrats are doing, we mentioned this a little bit before, is trying to bring in the moral compass question. specifically as it pertains to something like the paul ryan budget where the u.s. conference of catholic bishops went to paul ryan, a catholic and said, this plan that you have put forward, it hurts the poor, it's not a morally sound proposal for the country. sister simone campbell last night, the famous nun on the bus, made a case. let's listen to what she said last evening regarding the romney/ryan budget. >> in order to cut taxes for the wealthy, the romney/ryan budget would make it even tougher on hard working americans like billy to feed their families. pa paul ryan says this budget is in keeping with the moral values of our shares faith. i disagree. together we understand an immoral budget that hurts already struggling families does not reflect our nation's values. we are better than that. >> mark, i actually -- i t

romney and paul ryan were in florida home to many military bases ryan told the gop faithful he would cut the budget but not cut the military. that is bad for jobs and bad for national security the world is not a safer place >>> earlier in cincinnati ryan use the college football game to criticize barack obama on job issues for both sides it is game on romney tries to continue its momentum after the gop convention president obama tries to build his ahead of the democrat convention. dru levenson cbs news. voters in wisconsin go high- tech, they'll be able to use as smart phone tablet or laptop to show proof of residency instead of bringing in a paper utility belt voters can show proof of where they live by showing document from the self on election officials call it bring the process up to date. west nile virus continues it spread across the united states the latest bay area city taking measures is it still trying to fade away in northeast problems along the gulf coast remain the damage many say was caused by the levy designed to protect new orleans >>> a big warm-up for the bay area t

it's about the identity of the gop.november, that's something they have to grapple with two years down the line and four years down the line. >> now, i think that, steve, rush limbaugh yesterday summed up what most conservatives think. that is, it doesn't matter who romney is. the base is voting against obama. listen to limbaugh. >> i know romney isn't ideal. i know romney ticks you off. romney, remember, isn't about him. he may as well be elmer fudd as far as we're concerned. we're voting against obama. >> is being against obama enough to win an election? >> that's what republicans, i think, and we're all sort of finding out right now. we had two months to go, let's see what happens but at this point we can say obama is ahead in this race and obama has basically been ahead in this race all the way. not by a huge margin but two, three, four points consistently. that's about where it is right now. maybe climbing higher with the convention. what romney has tried to be in this campaign, more than anything else, is the gene

now, as far as the gop is concerned, they don't seem too concerned with it.y seem pleased with the address. judging an american icon like clint eastwood doesn't work. his ad libbing was a break from the political speeches. the crowd enjoyed it. he pointed out that 23 million americans out of work or unemployed is a national disgrace and it's time for a change. they believe clint made their day. but, let's face it. you know, it is very hard to ignore all of those awkward moments. back to you. >> thank you very much. i want to go straight to our resident comedian, bill santiago. good morning, bill. >> good morning, randy. >> loving the pink on you. >> thank you. >> everyone is talking about eastwood's speech more than romney's speech. this can't be good for the candidate, can it? >> it's supposed to be romney's night and he was up staged by eastwood's keynote embarrassment of the evening. i love the guy. i love his movies, but hen he makes a movie, there's a script. this was live, improv from a man not taking his vitamins. he was off his meds. you end up with t

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he is the gop's candidate because he has been saying what the gop has been saying.ht wing gop that has all of inra allf narr mindness, doesn't really care about the 47%. that's what the policy is. >> i have to mark down robert reich as being unable to make sense of rush limbaugh. your name is being added to the ever bn hiow.one else o ha kan fin i d robe rei. thank you for joining me tonight. >>hanks. >> coming up, paul ryan's values line. whenever you hear a republican talking about values, that's when you know they're lying. 'stot'wr and wel talk to the man standing between another term in the house of representatives for bat crap crazy congressman allen west. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you engier a true automote breakthrough? ♪ you give it bold new styling, and neay 1,000 improvements. introducing the redesigned 2013 glk. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services. governor of gettinit done. u howo dae... with a deadline. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in

nancy cordist follows this debate inside the gop. californians reconsider the death penalty. john blackstone tells us the debate pits emotion against economics. >> justice at last. he was getting what he deserved. >> california spent over $4 billion. it makes no sense economically. >> jeff: deportations delayed. two brothers from mexico now will have to stay in the u.s. under i new federal program. >> we're to the asked to be given the best opportunities. we're just asking for a chance. >> jeff: and conair, allen pizzey with the story of the italian who tried to play pilot captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> jeff: good evening, everyone, i'm jeff glor. 9 chair of the republican party admitted today that it is not the best week for the gop presidential ticket. the polls seem to reflect that. with 44 days left in the race governor romney trails by a few points or more in nearly every battleground state. nancy cordist picks up the story. >> reporter: in beverly hills, california, last night, governor mitt romney was urging donors to keep an open mind a

to the latest gallup poll, republican presidential candidate mitt romney's acceptance speech at the gop convention in tampa last week scored a record low with americans. only 38% of americans surveyed rated romney's speech as excellent or good, the lowest rating of any of the eight speeches gallup has tested since bob dole's gop acceptance speech in 1996. 16% rated the romney address as poor or terrible. >>> it has been a week since isaac slammed into the gulf coast and still, tens of thousands of people are in the dark. while crews have been working around the clock to restore electricity, utilities report more than 40,000 customers are powerless in louisiana. low-lying areas are still under water and now a triple-digit forecast could make an already difficult clean-up even more miserable, unfortunately. >>> here's your first look at other news going on around america. in california dramatic pictures a fire tornado. in the angeles national forest. wildfires are known to create their own wind conditions. 1,000 campers and visitors were evacuated since the fire broke out on sunday. >>> h

>> plus, only the insider with journey rocking the gop after party.oberts new heartbreak. >> robin's mother passed away overnight. >> her medical leave, her final moments with her mom and her tearful good-bye to her co-workers. >> i want to thank you from the bottom of my quivering heart. >> trump reaching out to rosie after her heart attack. >>> one-on-one with matthew perry. his new role after "friends." >> i was 24. >> you don't look a bit over -- >> 28. >> why tom hanks went wild partying with a fan. and our interview with paltrow's trainer. >> before stanford got engaged to his mistress -- >> political cheating stories that became prime time series. >> now from hollywood, the weekend insider is on. >> welcome to the weekend edition of "insider." >> we have latest details behind this week's biggest headlines. this weekend's inside story is on. >> more sad news friday for robin roberts. the gma anchor who will undergo a bone marrow transplant took medical leave one day early to be by

that would be in iowa, and the republican running mate, the gop running mate keeps up -- running mates keep up their attack on president obama's economic policies, but mitt romney admits his own party let people down when it comes to the deficit. and as visitors start moving into charlotte, some people are forced to move out. we're taking a closer look at a little-known downside to the democratic convention. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, reporting live from charlotte, the site of the democratic national convention and you're in "the situation room." >>> and we're here in charlotte where the democrats are already gathering for their party's national convention. it starts on tuesday, but this is now becoming the campaign's command center, as democrats work to take back moment from the gop after the republicans grabbed the spotlight in tampa. president obama is on the road today, as democrats build up to their huge event in charlotte this week. let's begin our coverage this hour with our white house correspondent, brianna keila

consider what the gop nominee said on the similarities between the president's health care lawa& andnow and thennthe president says i'm the grandfather of obamacare. i don'ttttink he meant thaa as a compliment but i'll take it." after thh obama campaign noted what romney has said in the past about the lawa"i will repeal obamacare and i will kill it dead on the first day." one of the romney's top governor bobby jindal hopped on a conference call with reporters to say the candidate is not trying to have it both wwys."governor romney has made repeal and replace this very y - bad laa."after a rocky couple of weeks that'' seen more fundraisers thaa rallies the campaign is planning to pick up the pace... in a swing state blitt dubbed by the press as more mitt. the gop ticket will wrap up a series of stops in florida this weekend, moving on to a bus tour across ohio next week. it's a road trip ttat offers a chance for a wayward campaign to get a essage back on course."both campaigns on both sides say things that get off the message. the message is: let's stay focused on jobs because that''

but in the gop universe, none of it exists.nce priebus compared the war on women to a war on caterpillars. speaker boehner said the war on women was manufactured and fabricated. and now fox host bill o'reilly is on the bandwagon. >> all i'm hearing this week everywhere i go is that the women -- american women, their right to choose is being threatened. don't know what that means. to choose what? i don't see any women's rights under assault at all. i don't see it. nobody's denying anybody's rights to anything. >> you don't see it? are you watching the same republicans we are? the gop platform bans abortion with no mention of exceptions in the case of rape or incest. paul ryan co-sponsored a forcible rape bill that said public funding could only be used for abortion in cases of quote, forcible rape. all told, democrats say the house gop has backed 55 votes on anti-women policies. did bill o'reilly think we wouldn't notice his efforts to ignore the record? nice try, but we got you. mid grade dark roast forest fresh full tank brain

he is the gop's candidate because he has been saying what the gop has been saying. right wing gop that has all of the intolerance, all of the narrow mindedness, doesn't really care about the 47%. that's what the policy is. >> i have to mark down robert reich as being unable to make sense of rush limbaugh. your name is being added to the list of everyone else who has ever been on this show. karen fin i and robert reich. thank you for joining me tonight. >> thanks. >> coming up, paul ryan's values line. whenever you hear a republican talking about values, that's when you know they're lying. that's in tonight's rewrite. and we'll talk to the man standing between another term in the house of representatives for bat crap crazy congressman allen west. i didn't think it was anything. i had pain in my abdomen... it just wouldn't go away. i was spotting, but i had already gone through menopause. these symptoms may be nothing... but they could be early warning signs of a gynecologic cancer, such as cervical, ovarian, or uterine cancer. feeling bloated for no reason. that's wh

one prominent goal at the gop convention was to narrow the looming gender gap. >> when my mom ran for the senate my dad was there for her every step of the way. i can still see her say in her beautiful voice "why should women have any less say than men about the great decisions facing our nation?" [ cheers and applause ] >> toward that end an array of female gop lumaries took turns promoting the romney/ryan ticket as good for women, especially mothers. they want to change the campaign focus from women's right back to the economy and push back against the so-called republican war on women. >> it's a myth. it's a political campaign that the democrats have calculated. first time since ronald reagan that the republicans won the women's vote as w're mving forward we're seeing where others really are a battle over women heading in to 2012. >> we reach out to every woman, we'll tell a story and again we have again a candidate that is ready to talk about the big thing not to try to divide our country in to again, men against women. it's, think that we need federal government in our lives from

remember the gop primary debates?hat the audience cheered rick perry's lack of unease at the idea of executing an innocent man. there was the time that the crowd booed a gay soldier who asked about don't ask, don't tell. and the time the audience demanded the uninsured be left to die. in a normal year, a candidate has to thread the needle of playing enough to the base that you win the primary but not going so far afield you can't win over those folks with a slightly less ideological take. this year that task was suppose up all of his ground in the upcoming debates. maybe just maybe if his performance to date were the real problem, that would be possible. he could benefit from low expectations, turn in the performance of his life and turn this thing around. mitt is not really the problem though. there is no debate performance, no ad, no policy speech that can wash off the stench of gop extremism. all right. that does it for us. martin bashir, what do you think? >> i think i agree, krystal and i'm luking forward to you

at the gop convention. i just don't see enough of america.you know, i don't parse it that the folks at the republican convention aren't americans. they are. >> i'm not saying that. >> i know you're not saying that. but what i'm saying is i see america, too. i just don't see enough of it at our convention. i'd like to see more of it when i was chairman. i emphasized in my first year, we want to expant and broaden the opportunity of this party to talk to every, black, white, gay, straight. you want to put the gop hat on your head, we're proud to have you. the more we taking that attitude, the more we embrace the future, the stronger we'll be as party. >> michael steele, brave man there, former rnc chairman. >> eight more weeks. eight more weeks. >> all right. up next, it's one of the gop's biggest 2012 talking points. your social security's going broke. in the guest spot, meet the budget guru who says that is a bunch of baloney. buying this juicer online was unbelievable. what a bargain! [ female announcer ] sometimes a good deal turns out to b

challenges facing the gop this november certainly will be winning latino voters. >> for romney to win swing states like colorado and nevada campaign advisors say they have to get a larger share of the hispanic vote. >> to become as committed to the democrats as the-- in the past while we're in trouble as a party and i think as a nation. >> stephen: yes. if hispanic goes with the democrats it will be bad for the nation. if they go with republicans, it will only be bad for hispanics. now the point is... (cheers and applause) the point is this election will come down to attracting latinos who, once again, are doing a job americans aren't willing to do, voting. so it is no surprise that the democrats made san antonio mayor julian castro their convention keynote speaker while republicans countered with chris christie who while not technically hispanic s at least 50% nacho. that's why... that's why this week unovision meet the candidates forum hosted both romney then obama, fold of course by a guy in an ape suit and a giant red grasshopper. and folks, romney had clearly prepared himself to

the president also got a leg up this weekend in several polls showing that he pulled ahead of his gopchallenger by as many as five percentage points. but romney is hoping to close the gap and talking up more popular parts of the health-care law that he would keep. >> i'm not getting rid of all of health care reform. of course, there are a number of things that i like that i will keep in place. if one is to make sure that those with pre-existing conditions would get coverage. >> the gop challenger attended church yesterday and proud for the presidential debates, but he is back on the campaign trail in ohio. >> the have the same plan that they have had for 30 years. tax cuts, tax cuts, got a few regulations, and then give some more tax cuts. the president call the bad math. what is setting up? campaign contributions on both sides. both candidates raised more than $100 million in august. >> in today's medical alert, with the kids back in school, to not be alarmed before many of them are sent home sick. one of the top reasons they miss school? pink eye. it is extremely contagious and can

shoppers in the air and security charlotte is ready for the democrats just days after mitt romney and gop put on the show in tampa democrats are ready for the spotlight. >>> president obama needs to continue would has been saying which is the truth >>> the romney campaign disagrees and says obama has plenty of questions to answer. >>> the president needs to explain why he has not done what he promised he would do >>> democrats need to work harder this year because new state voter i.d. laws could keep older and minority voters away from polls >>> i want to see and do everything possible supporting him to get the vote out and make sure it is there >>> president obama 1 north carolina in 2008 and democrats want the convention to help him hold on to the state this year >>> the president makes his way here through swing states he appealed to students at the university of colorado's sunday >>> if you are willing to work with me and knocked on doors with me make phone calls with me if you are willing to vote with me in november we will win boulder and colorado we will win this election. >>> hund

and i don't think he asked them to confront gop obstructionists either. the president signals he needs an outside game to get his back if he is re-elected. here is how he put it. >> something that i'd really like to concentrate on in my second term is being in a much more constant conversation with the american people so that they can put pressure on congress to help move some of these issues forward. . >> put pressure on congress. well, i think he means the republicans in congress. and i hope he means pressuring them to change the obstructionist rules that stop reform, like endless minority filibusters for bills such as the jobs act that have majority support. so while obama's memory of the health care fight may involve some revisionist history, it does sound to me that he has learned the right lesson for writing the next chapter. craig? >> let me ask you, how much of this is about the citizenry having unrealistic expectations with regards to change? how much of this is about people in 2008 hearing it over and over and think okay, maybe this is the guy t

the gop ticket of romney and iran are headed to ohio and florida in the president ticked off his road to charlotte campaign. >> after last week's republican national convention and with the democratic convention about to begin, both candidates are gearing up for the home stretch. mitt romney and paul ryan started day in ohio. rancher on his own mark as it opened its season against ohio state. from the address of the nation's budget at a campaign rally in cincinnati. >> we will finally have to do something. when we have the lead, we let people down, we have to make sure that we did not let people down this time, i will cut the deficit and debt as of truck for a balanced budget. >> and i would the president began his final week of campaigning before the convention. >>president obama: they will not create jobs or cut our deficit or strength in the middle class. they are not a plan to move our country forward. >> the white house and gop addresses focused on two different issues. the president talked about bringing troops of from afghanistan and the republicans, one leader's book about job

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