i'm on mark halperin's side here. they were egging him on. >> i had to apologize on this program when a guest used the same "d" word in the anthony weiner story. >> i can't explain why i did it. it was inappropriate, disresp t disrespectful. i'm sorry to the president and sorry to the viewers. it was the kind of thing that i can't really explain but i take full responsibility for it and it was a mistake and disrespectful and i shouldn't have said it. >> now the indictment is being expanded to saying mark halperin is the epitome of empty beltway conventional wisdom. what's your take? >> he's earned his reputation as a serious journalist. i worked with him at abc news. he is tireless. he's devoted and he's also as a commentator, i always find quite measured and cautious. it is a surprising episode but i don't think there's anything to criticize in mark's past. i think this was a really embarrassing incident and i think that, you know, msnbc had no choice but to suspend him and i think that if you look in the past at the

the capitals welcome back jeff halperin today.the first day of free agent, the capitals signed halperin to a one-year deal. and even though halperin has been with the caps, he doesn't expect to be a captain this upcoming season. now, the 35-year-old center played six seasons in washington from 1999 to 2006. last season with the canadiens earned 11 goals and 16 assists. halperin will provide another veteran presence for the caps, and this upcoming season will be his 12th in the national hockey league. halperin says he's just excited to be back in washington. >> looking back, i wouldn't trade it for anything. you don't always expect to be traded or where you're going to sign. but i enjoyed every city i went to, and every team i think i've played with, maybe except for one or two. but it's been a great ride. i've learned a ton and maybe appreciate the even more i think how special the game is and also how special my time was here. so, yeah, i'm looking forward to coming back. >> jeff halperin, another veteran presence for the capital

. >> mark halperin. what was the president's strategy? >> are we in the seven-second delay today? >> oh, lordy. >> i want to characterize how i thought the president behaved. >> we have it. we can use it, right, alex? >> yeah, sure, come on. >> go for it. >> i thought he was kind of a dick yesterday. ( laughter ) >> jon: mark halperin, senior political analyst, editor at large of "time" magazine just called the president a dick. and that wasn't like a spontaneous, like, can't contain myself, you lie! like this one, you guys have a delay because i'm going to call the president a dick. now, people can argue whether that's appropriate, whether halperin crossed some sort of line, whether or not journalism has lost its professionalism. personally i could give a ( bleep ). that horse left the barn years and years ago. what's interesting to me about what he did is not what he did. it's what happened after they came back from the commercial. >> joking aside, this is a pro forma apology. it's an absolute apology. heartfelt to the president and the viewers. i became part of the joke but tha

the thing you have to say about mark halperin. he made a mistake. this is the way you do it correctly. he apologized quickly and said, i made a mistake. no ifs, ands or buts, he moved on. we don't hear much about it. that's how do you it. >> that is how you do it. unfortunately, on sirius radio, he said back then he was sorry, apologetic, it would never happen again. four years later it happened again. also, look. i got to say, he's been in television a lot longer than i have. at abc before his current job. we all know what can and cannot happen when somebody's supposed to push a button back stage. so -- >> i agree. >> the fact they kind of set him up is not -- >> i understand. nobody's perfects. doesn't matter, whatever political party, who you report to -- >> a great analyst -- >> apologized, moved on. that's the way to do it. e we reported on michele bachmann, about her finding a job when he loses his job and it's almost as if the primaries started already. right? >> absolutely. in fact, what we have right now is what i would call the pre-primary

after halperin called president obama a dick. >> i became part of the joke, but that's no excuse. i made a mistake, and i'm sorry. i shouldn't have said it. [laughter] >> jon: i wonder if wendi deng would approve of willie geist's scowl. no. seriously, her scowl puts his scowl... makes his scowl almost look like approval. you know what that means, scowl-off. let me try. here we go. oh, boy, i feel terrible. rushing this morning to get a cab, and i accidentally knocked someone over. i know, willie, bad. i'm sorry. although many my defense, pregnant people take up a lot of room, and... oh, oh. anyway, that was rupert murdoch. what about england'second most powerful man, david cameron, whose hiring of the former "news of the world" editor andy colson as his press secretary despite colson having resigned in the first round of "news of the world" accusations. >> crunch time for david cameron. lawmakers are determined to ask him questions about what many consider an uncomfortably close relationship between him and rupert murdoch's empire. cameron ended a trip to africa early to make thi

political annlysttmark halperin is out of job.. for now..or calling the president a dirty four - letter word on the live t-v. and the precedent has been set on this show, ... go aaead, i thought he was kind of a dáák yesterday, oh my god, delay that... delay that what are you doing? i think the presideet, i can't believe you i was joking i can't believe ou, did we delay that? the answer is no, the producers in the control room didnnt catch it in time. people across the country heard him call the president a four letter word that bbgins with d... the m-s-n-b- c analyst offered an immeddate apology. to be fair scarborough had promised they bleeped, but everyone agrees e it was wwy out of line. if you're heading out this holidayyweekend... plan your travel tiies wisely! wisely!m-t-a says he est time to avoid traffic on the chesapeake bay bridge... is before 10 this morningg...and after 10 tonight.if you're traveling tomorrow... you're encouraged to head out before &p7 a--... or after 5 p--.and o sunday... the best travel assyou get ready for yo

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the image they want but do you think it was scarborough is something you would for doing that mark halperin was a bit of it there for doing that i mean which one was actually i think joe's more like. going to the question a lot and where he got his ear about it and i'm not i'm not calling anyone anything ok i think that they both it's one thing whatever it was about the word that he used it was who he was referencing was that was you can call anybody else a word but when it comes to the president what i like are you going to have to play through this i mean not everybody has that there is a reason to start coughing up a storm so you can call there was here in washington sorry not a problem helping us at the f.e.c. because he's trying to start a super pac and look at what actually happened. moments ago the federal election commission made their ruling ladies and gentlemen i'm sorry to say. we won. that. the crazy thing to me about this is that we see stephen colbert on capitol hill before now we see him here that you see emmy and he's a comedian it's all part of entertainment but then sudden

delay and then once he said he goes i can't believe you actually did it he will meet it and mark halperin even though it was a bad comment is the one that got indefinitely suspended and nothing happened joe scarborough but. sorry sorry last last word i want to say about this and we were talking about this all morning is that i understand you're not supposed to say things like that there's a certain you know fake decorum that's involved in washington but it boggles my mind that people can go on fox news that they call people socialists and nazis and baby killers you know and that's all that's ok but then a cuss word isn't i mean there's a certain there's a certain level of professionalism you're going to expect from the guy that you know is often doing stand ups and part of the white house and also i mean i will also note that joe scarborough show is one of the best shows on and this n.b.c. i mean i really love it but joe is always yelling at me i mean you know they're the the media and they're going back and forth all the time to think that this is like a tip of the iceberg just kind of i

halperin too. he thought the word would be bleeped. the engineer hit the wrong button.o one is using that as an excuse. >> i think rougher language is deemed acceptable on some cable news shows but live television means there is no safety net. >> reporter: the white house complained immediately and msnbc suspended halperin indefinitely saying the comment was completely inappropriate and unacceptable. halperin agreed. >> i can't explain why i did it. it was inappropriate, it was disrespectful. i already apologized. i will again to the president and say i'm sorry. >> reporter: it's yet another reminder that a microphone is not always a friend. >> [ bleep ]. >> this is a big [ bleep ] deal. >> reporter: those moments do fade from memory and this will too though perhaps more slowly at the white house. for "good morning america," john berman. >> let's bring out jake tapper and a whole lot else going on. first off, apology accepted at the white house? >> reporter: yeah, i believe so. they don't think that mark, who obviously used to be a political director here at abc news, t

halperin immediately apologized, saying it was disrespectful. >> i've already apologized.d it was disrespectful. i'm sorry to the viewers. it was the kind of thing that i can't really explain, but i take full responsibility for it. it was a mistake and disrespectful, and i shouldn't have said it. >> no word on how long halperin's suspension will last. he's also an editor at large at "time" magazine. nbc universal is the parent company of msnbc and nbc 4. >> firefighters in new mexico say they are confident that they've stopped a wildfire from advancing on a los alamos nuclear lab. they kept flames closest to the facility from advancing further, but the fire has spread into los alamos canyon and has now scorched more than 145 square miles. the canyon does run through parts of town and the nuclear lab. firefighters say most of the canyon has been cleared of brush, giving them a safe area to attack the fire. residents will likely not be able to return home until at least sunday. time to take a look at the weather forecast. tom is here in the studio. >>> sun will be up in abou

. >> let's move on now to mark halperin, analyst who contributes to msnbc, writes for "time."nd made a bit of a -- let's just say he put his foot in his s mouth here. he was talking about the president's press conference and how the president acted. i believe we have his -- what he said with a little bit of a censor. >> we're good. >> i thought he was kind of a [ muted ] yesterday. >> delay that. >> oh my god, delay that. delay that. >> except they didn't delay that, so it went out over the air. he has since been suspended from msnbc. you can imagine that his boss the not happy with that. that's not the kind of analysis that you want in the public discourse. >> no matter whau0you think of the president it's probably better not to say that particular word about him. >> exactly, yes. >> have you seen this movie "bridesmaids"? >> i haven't. >> i'm dying to see it. turns out this is jed apatow's latest movie and everyone says hysterical. our senior producer allison said she loved it, laughed so hard her face hurt. turns out it is so funny it has passed up "knocked up," another inc

take a look at this. >> mark halperin. what was the president's strategy? we're coming up on a deadline, and the president decided to please his base, push back against the republicans. i guess the question is, because woe all know a deal has to be done, is this short of showmanship? a lot of times you go out there, both sides, and they act tough, so their base will be appeased and then they quietly work the deal behind the scenes. >> are we on the seven-second delay today? >> oh, lordy. >> i want to characterize how i thought the president behaved. >> how do you think he behaved. >> well, we have it. we can use it, right, alex? yeah, go for it. >> yeah, let's see what happens. >> alex, you have the button. >> you fall down, they catch you. >> and the president has been said on this show. >> i thought he was kind of a [ bleep ] yesterday. >> oh, my god. delay that. delay that. what are you doing? >> i think the president -- >> i can't believe -- i was joking. don't do that. did we delay that? >> i hit it. i hope it worked. >> well, my mom is watching. so we

now they've used the "d" word as well, gawker reports halperin has called obama both types of genitalia "d" spot, disconnect. >> one button, two button, four. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> all right. coming up next hour, he could have been france's next president. now word that the sex assault case against dominique strauss-kahn may crumble. we'll talk about his future and whether the u.s. legal system really dropped the ball. 55 minutes after the hour. a vacation on a budget with expedia. make it work. booking a flight by itself is an uh-oh. see if we can "stitch" together a better deal. that's a hint, antoine. ooh! see what anandra did? booking your flight and hotel at the same time gets you prices hotels and airlines won't let expedia show separately. book it. major wow factor! where you book matters. expedia. ♪ it's tsunnyd!you bring out the sun ♪ ♪ it's the way you make it all fun ♪ know who makes the day sunny? my mom and sunny d! i love the taste. mom loves the vitamin c. and now it has 40% fewer calories than most regular soda brands. sunnyd! ♪ make today a sunny d

wonderful head of the center for american progress and my former chief of staff, john podesta and david halperin the director of campus progress who was a very able speechwriter for me on foreign-policy when i was? president. i sort of have to show up when they ask. [laughter] but i am very glad to be here. i want to begin with something that was emphasized in a brief film. most of the time when i was in politics, people debated what are you going to do and how much money are you going to spend on it? and, there wasn't enough attention given to how are you going to do it so your good intentions actually turn into real changes? and if you don't think about that, you get in trouble. for example, and i have come back to this in a minute but i just want to mention it. in the current budget debate, there is all this discussion about how much will come from spending cuts, how much will come from tax increases and almost nobody is talking about one of the central.that everyone who has analyzed this situation makes, including the bipartisan simpson-bowles commission, which said you shouldn't do any of t

american progress, my former chief of staff jonathan bethesda and a director of campus progress, david halperinign policy when i was president. i sort of have to show up when they asked. but i am very glad to be here. i want to begin by something that was emphasized in the brief film. most of the time when i was in politics, people debated whether you going to do and how much money are you going to spend? there wasn't enough attention given to how are you going to do it so your good intentions actually turn into real changes? if you don't think about that, you get in trouble. for example, i will come back to this in a minute. in the current budget debate there is all this discussion about how much will come from spending cuts and how much will come from tax increases, almost nobody is talking about one of the central points that everyone who has analyzed the situation makes including the bipartisan some symbols commission which said you shouldn't do any of this until the economy is clearly recovering because if you do things that damages economic growth and the u.k. is found in this out now. th