thank you, howard fineman. as always. thank you, joel rubin. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back after this. >>> let me finish tonight with this. this was a busy news weekend especially for a holiday. much of it tragic. the horrible airline crash in san francisco, the violent and unsettled situation in egypt. the shooting of 67 people over the extended weekend in chicago, alone. and yet when i read the sunday "washington post" online, i noted the most popular item was a column written by robert mccartney about the latest caper of a man who bills himself as the phantom planter. henry doctor is his name. he's a 52-year-old green thumb good samaritan who for the last three decades has been surreptitiously planting flowers on four continents in an effort to beautify public spaces. he views his work as performance art. never has he encountered a problem, that is until he planted 11,000 morning glories, cardinal flours and vines at a metro station in the nation's capital. his plan was they would bloom in 167 otherwise baron fl

well, let's go right now to howard fineman. thank you for joining us, and thank you, terry for joining us on behalf of now, a great organization. howard, it looks to me like the clintons, the one thing we know about anthony weiner is he married well. he married huma abedin, a close confidante, sits with her on the plane all the time. somebody she would trust to make all kinds of judgments for her. here she is playing this role of enabler. keeping this guy in the race. politically, not about the marriage. politically keeping him in the race. >> the clintons are in a sense a kind of royal family in the democratic party. he married into that royal family. and he seems to be abusing his privileges. and now he's put her in a terrible position. and the clintons in a bad position. i can assure you that dee dee myers didn't come out there on face the nation with guns blazing the way she did basically speaking on behalf of the clintons had she nod hat good reason to do so as a former press secretary to the president, as a friend. clinton

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howard fineman, take us back to the mood of the country september 2002. > wounded, proud, united, as you said. still following symbols and signs and acts of unitedness in the country and signs of americanness. whether it was baseball games you were watching. what i did on the first anniversary of 9/11 was go out to mount vernon where george washington lived and appreciated the beauty and peace of the place. i think everybody in america looked for signs and symbols of togetherness. chris: andrea, i remember being at yankee stadium back then with rudy giuliani and everybody back then just rooting for the yankees. you wad -- had to do that that year. >> it was an amazing feeling, a feeling of we were in this together but at the same time there were warning signs that many people overlooked and that was the lack of questioning authority, not looking deeply enough about accepting the verities of the government as part of its rush to war. >> i think we all felt vulnerable still and i think there was this sense that perm nated -- permeated then and still to a degree now that lives with us o

well, let's go right now to howard fineman. on behalf of n.o.w., terry, i'm not sure what you're going to say. howard, it looks to me like the clintons, the one thing we know about anthony weiner is he married well. he maried human my eied huma abh her all the time. not somebody she wouldn't trust. here she is playing this role of enabler. keeping this guy in the race. >> well, >> politically, not about the marriage. politically keeping him in the race. >> that's right. the clintons are in a sense a kind of royal family in the democratic party. he married into that royal family. and he seems to be abusing his privileges. and now he's put her in a terrible position. and the clintons in a bad position. i can assure you that dee dee myers didn't come out on face the nation with guns blazing basically speaking on behalf of the clintons had she not had good reason to do so as a former press secretary to the president. clintons stick together. the people in clinton world generally stay in clinton world. >> fellow that from reporting >

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howard fineman, thank you. david corn, thank you. we'll be right back right after this. >> a little comic relief now. we're back to the sideshow. last week justin bieber apologized to bill clinton after tmz released a video of the wayward youth bad-mouthing a photograph of the former president. well, saturday night, actually late night's jimmy fallon, fallon weighed in on that with a reenactment of their phone conversation. here is the real reason that clinton was so forgiving of bieber's wild boy tactics. >> hello? >> hey, president clinton, this is justin bieber, yo. >> justin, what's up, my man? >> i am calling to say i'm sorry i called you f bill clinton and sprayed that blue stuff on your picture. >> no worries. >> really? >> i saw the whole video. let me tell you, it was awesome. >> really? because i was kind of embarrassed about it. i mean, i peed in a mop bucket. >> of course you did. you're the wild kids. i want to be one of the wild kids. i'm a wild kid. come on. >> that's great. >> i'm serious, i want to hang with you guys

joining me howard fineman and mother jones magazine david corn, both msnbc political analysts.entlemen, this, well, predictable outrage i call it from the right, but i have to tell you, when i watched newt in action, i've learned to believe he's just pulled the pin in the grenade at every operation, every opportunity. here he is again trying to excite i think a group of americans unhappy perhaps at the whole tragedy itself who aren't saying hallelujah. i don't care how conservative you are, i think most americans say what a terrible thing that's happened in race relations in this country. so we much wish it never happened. there's no heros in this case. >> well, newt can sometimes be a human sneer. in the case of ann coulter, she is on it for show. steve king is the wild man from western iowa. newt gingrich used to be speaker of the house. he should know better. to focus on the accusation of ignorance on the part of people who are demonstrating is to more than miss the point, chris, more than miss the point. and i -- look, i actually think the comments that you showed on the le

senator rand paul told howard fineman at the "huffington post" today his southern avenger staffer's earlier work was just a form of youthful showmanship. the senator asks rhetorically, writing about how the confederacy needed to rise again. and secede from the nation. and then within a year of that, rand paul had him on staff on the payroll writing rand paul's book. and now that rand paul is getting asked about it, senator paul says the whole secessionist neoconfederacy thing was a youthful indiscretion which this 39-year-old put down months before rand paul hired him. that's apparently all you have to say. that's how rand paul is explaining that he's keeping this guy on with him. salary paid by the taxpayers. as he heads to purple state nevada this weekend to attend one of two conservative movement and republican party vegas events this weekend spotlighting the most ambitious republican federal officeholders in the nation alongside the nation's leading proponents of the theory that our country's first black president could not possibly be american, he must be secretly foreign, his presiden

i'm joined by political analyst howard fineman with the huffing post and the new york daily's reporternnie carney. "the new york times" has come out strongly in its lead editorial against weiner saying in the race. the paper read quote, the mr. weiner should have his marital troubles and personal compulsions out of the public eye, away from cameras, and off the web and out of the race for mayor of new york city. he says he is staying in the mayoral race. to those who know his arrogance and grown tired of his saga he has dragged the city into, this is not surprising. that's pretty strong for the gray lady. >> i think it probably captures the sentiment of all but whatever strong supporters he has. which i think is a rapidly diminishing number. i think part of it is what you said. the dignity, pride of new york. the desire for a world class figure, that's number one. number two, his -- he had told the narrative that this was all behind him. that he'd learned. that he'd gone through therapy. he was a stronger man, better man, and because of his pain he would be a better politician and bett

we start with friend of the show howard fineman, editorial director at the huffington post media group. welcome, howard. >> hi. >> so 72% of americans right now are saying they support spending government money to put people to work and to fix crumbling infrastructure. but will this apply the pressure necessary to get the gop to act particularly on the house side to support president obama's initiatives here? >> well, i think it's highly unlikely. i think what the president is doing on this economy tour, which is going to continue, is to point out a couple of things. first of all, he wants to remind people about the good things that have happened. the disasters that were avoided and the good economic news where there is some, and there is. so he wants to do that. he wants to put the blame squarely where he thinks it belongs, which is on republican intransigents and the republicans especially in the house and the tea party people in the republican ranks who don't seem to think that the government has anything good to do when it comes to the economy. and i think third the president wants

. >> joining me now to discuss all this is howard fineman and david corn. let me ask you a simple question. what is her connection to wyoming. she went to high school in virginia. she went to college in colorado. spent all of her life back here in washington. usually you know a person where they went to high school. that's where you're from. no connection to the state except her father's last name. what's dick cheney up to here? is this some effort to create a satellite of his own political career? what's he up to? >> well there are a couple things there. first of all the connection is a family connection that goes back to the mid-19th century. that's true. liz cheney chose to live in jackson hole wyoming which is a little bit like saying i'm going to go live in the hamptons and understand the heart beat of new york state. i mean, jackson hole is not exactly casper. it's not even laramie. so there's that. and i think the cheney family is busy trying to resurrect itself to reclaim its reputation. as indeed on a parallel track, george w. bush has been. these

howard fineman joins me in this incredible fest. i don't know what it is. he's a "huffington post" media leader and maggie haberman, senior political reporter from politico. maggie, at some point we just have to laugh. i refuse to give in to this as a tragedy. i know it has tragic elements. more trouble for weiner in the script tonight. yesterday in the "new york daily news" an ex-entirn criticized staffers in the campaign and said some are connect to his wife huma in order to get themselves a job with the hillary clinton campaign for pez. they're willing to put up with it as long as they get a chance at a job with hillary clinton's presidential campaign they hope. that letter elicited unbelievable response from weiner's communications director barbara morgan to the web site talking points memo. most of it is impossible to repeat here on the air filled with language i guess you've heard somewhere. but it's unbelievable. here's a small slightly cleaned up portion of how they talk over with. i'm dealing with like stupid blanking interns who make it on the cov

senator rand paul told howard fineman at the "huffington post" today his southern avenger staffer's earlier work was just a form of youthful showmanship. the senator asks rhetorically, "are we at a point where nobody could have had a youth? can a guy not have a youth and stuff?" youth and stuff. for the record, the southern avenger guy who rand paul hired to write his book for him in 2010 and then to become part of his senate office thereafter, the southern avenger is 39 years old. in 2009, he was 35 years old. still going by the title the southern avenger and still writing about how the confederacy needed to rise again. and secede from the nation. and then within a year of that, rand paul had him on staff on the payroll writing rand paul's book. and now that rand paul is getting asked about it, senator paul says the whole secessionist neoconfederacy thing was a youthful indiscretion which this 39-year-old put down months before rand paul hired him. that's apparently all you have to say. that's how rand paul is explaining that he's keeping this guy on with him. salary paid by the taxpayers.