joe?oing on for centuries. it's not going to geted. >> dana: larry dade on "curb your enthusiasm" when he makes fun of jewish people, nothing funnier than that. it helps uses up each other. i don't make muslim jokes. >> eric: christian making fun of himself. if you make fun of your own culture and religion and nationality, it seems to be acceptable in the muslim world. they just, that is something they don't do. for the life of me i can't figure out why. >> dana: all right. good discussion as always. thank you, everybody. coming up, the holder justice department is caught coordinating with the liberal group. you know them. media matters to attack the critics. eric has the details next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> eric: welcome back. is the department of justice colluding with the left wing propaganda site media matters? ap e-mails obtained by the daily caller. the eric holder d.o.j. doesn't like it when reporters criticize them. remember the black panther voting scandal hit? we remember the fast and furiou

joe? going on for centuries. it's not going to geted. >> dana: larry dade on "curb your enthusiasm" when he makes fun of jewish people, nothing funnier than that. it helps uses up each other. i don't make muslim jokes. >> eric: christian making fun of himself. if you make fun of your own culture and religion and nationality, it seems to be acceptable in the muslim world. they just, that is something they don't do. for the life of me i can't figure out why. >> dana: all right. good discussion as always. thank you, everybody. coming up, the holder justice department is caught coordinating with the liberal group. you know them. media matters to attack the critics. eric has the details next. ♪ ♪ rachel quit the corporate grind to start her own interior design business. she's got a growing list of clients she keeps in touch with using e-mail marketing from constantcontact.com. constantcontact is easy and affordable. it lets her send out updates and photos that showcase her expertise and inspire

it is o official with two voteso evict joe, joe will be leaving the house, but let's see how he votes. >> i vote to evict joe. >> julie: thank you. >> sorry. >> julie: all of the votes are in. let's give the news to the house guests. house guests, just a reminder, when i reveal the vote the he vicked house guest will have just a few moments to say good-bye and walk out the front door. by house vote of three to zero, joe, you are evicted from the big brother house. >> it happens. >> good luck. ah. >> i truly love everyone, i really do. it is just a game. take it easy. >> we will see you on the outside. good luck. hang in there. [ applause ] >> love you, thank you! >> julie: thank you. >> are you all right, man? >> julie: joe, you survived one voting round earlier tonight, but you couldn't survive the second one. why not? >> couldn't win the pov, sometimes you have to come up with a big win in your life and i couldn't pull that one out. he deserved it. ian absolutely deserves it. >> julie: but why you and not danielle he vicked tonight? >> >> i can't go there. i will rub his back but th

joe, joe, this is what you're missing. the president of the united states is lying to the families of four dead americans. >> he is not lying. he's not lying. >> bill: if this was a spontaneous attack, they happened to have in their back pocket rocket-propelled grenade, if it wasn't a planned, orchestrated attack? they happened to have a mortar round in their back pocket that they were firing at the embassy? >> sean, sean -- >> bill: wait a minute. why were the -- >> sean, wait for me for a second. when libya fell, when the government collapsed, there were thousands and thousands of rpgs that were missing. we all know that. that's a fact. >> bill: that they just happened to bring to a spontaneous rally -- >> no, no. i'm not doing the spontaneous rally thing. these weapons are all over that country. >> bill: why didn't he beef up security on the anniversary of 9/11? >> those are things that will be -- if there's an investigation -- look, if you're a government you don't say it's terrorism until you know it's terrorism. >> j

joe biden was trusted.e's the guy who always took the train from washington back up to wilmington. >> because? >> because that's where he lived. >> and because his two kids were orphaned. >> his kids were orphaned. his first wife died in a tragic accident. he's the kind of guy who liked to ride the train, who liked to talk to people on the train. his dad was a car dealer. he's an average guy. he went to state schools. he knows how to speak the real language. the onion newspaper, the humor newspaper, they've got a guy they call onion joe biden, and he's a guy with tattoos and a muscle tee who's always polishing his pontiac. that's an exaggeration, but on the other hand, that's who joe biden is. and the other thing about joe biden -- and i think the senator will agree with me -- he was one of the best informed, most detail focused guys. he was chairman of the foreign relations committee, chairman of the judiciary committee. this is not just a show horse by any means. >> it helps if you're 29 years old when yo

"morning joe."nd that got the most publicity, by of way, of your entire interview with president clinton, which was very interesting. it was also all manner of politicians from across the board. from not just the president but small-town mayors to people like scott walker and paul ryan. i mean, that's really like turned it into a big story. it's like, wow, scott walker, the same person who doesn't think we need trained union teachers and firefighters really believes that we need trained union officials on the field for the nfl. it turned it into the kind of story that could not be contained by the sports page. >> paul ryan wants these guys to have exactly the same pension that he does not want anybody else to have. >> yeah. and that turns it into all kinds of fodder that really does transcend the sports world. >> i was going to sit back in chicago and say nothing because i like dave, but seriously, you guys politicizing this, it's pathetic. by the way, these refs, you know what the difference betwee

if i'm wrong, i always correct myself, joe. >> as joe is prepped to move into his new cell, deputy warden joni brown offers some words of wisdom to amy. >> you can go by the book, you can alter the rules, you decide how you are going to do your job, but you darn better make sure you do it the same way every single time, especially with somebody like that, because he's not going to forget. >> he's expected to parole next month. so i think a lot of it might be anxiety of -- he's been doing time since the riot days. >> all right, fellas. stay out of trouble like [ bleep ] me. >> i saw some pictures, some young pictures of me when i first come in. i look like a puppy. i mean, i was so young. and then now i look at myself, the years just go slow. they seem slow. then you know, after a while, you're like, wow, they just went by. i wasted so much of it in here. i don't want to see myself an old, gray 50-year-old man, 60-year-old man sitting in here with nothing. you know, your family just dying off. sometimes i wonder what the future is for me. is this it? you know, i don't want that. i just wan

joe's life was shattered.strong catholic faith and his fierce love for our boys, joe found the strength to get back up. that's joe. [ cheers & applause ] >> cenk: moving speech by dr. jill biden in favor of her husband who is going to be speaking in about ten minutes. you know she mentioned something there that's really important. sometimes it doesn't happen often but sometimes congressmen senators politicians make a difference. even if they're not president. >> al: oh, yeah. >> cenk: i had an interesting conversation with alan grayson about this. was in congress, now out, going to come back in. there's so much you can do. are you sure you want to go back into congress? he said cenk you don't understand, when we pass a bill he said we're helping people. that makes a difference. there's nowhere else i would rather be. that was an interesting comment. >> al: it used to happen a lot more than it does now. and remember joe biden was in the senate since 1972. he became chairman of the judiciary committee where he d

joe scarborough, the host of "morning joe" on msnbc n charlotte this morning as well.ng to you. >> good morning. i'm in charlotte, and i'm in a bar. >> situation normal, nothing is different for you, joe. but let's talk about that speech last night. obviously barack obama landed on the national political speech with the big speech in 2004. four years ago we saw him in denver speaking to throngs. yesterday we saw a more straightforward approach, didn't see the swelling oratory. given the democrats' task of inspiring enthusiasm among their voters was that the right call and did he deliver? >> well, the president certainly delivered an exciting people inside the convention hall. he delivered in exciting his base. did we see anything new from barack obama last night? did he give any proposals that would allow him to have a mandate moving forward after getting elected? no. as we were saying on the set beforehand, jeff greenfield was saying on this set, they weren't swinging for the fences. michele obama, bill clinton, set this president up well and they believe they're goin

>> it's "morning joe" day! >>> welcome back to "morning joe." pat buchanan, can you stay with us for another hour on the phone? >> sure, joe! >> of course, no money, no support. it's safe to say things have changed in five years. fim griffin decides that we can get a cake for the fifth year anniversary. unfortunately, we had to go to costco and it was a leftover cake. >> let's just call it a gently used cake. intended for someone -- this actually happened. we ordered a big fifth anniversary cake. we're going to splurge on it, get it right, celebrate five great years of "morning joe." this is what they sent us back. benjamin joseph having a big birthday today. >> willie, it's been great. >> we have your cake. so everything you ever needed to know about five years of "morning joe," you got to watch now. >> it's awful. >> it's terrible. it suction. >> while america was sleeping, history was made. [ alarm ] ♪ ♪ >>> good morning and welcome to "morning joe." its a 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. >> frankly, because there are not enough news coverage lik

this is damaging, joe. it's not a good thing, joe.ustomers are upset about it and american is doing the right thing in that they're canceling further outs and they're giving customers a warning. there's nothing worse than a cancellation on the day of and that has happened in the last few days and that being said i had a wonderful flight in american and the flight attendants were terrific and the service was great. it's not every flight and it's certainly not every pilot. >> this is the second story, major story about unions and probably not in a great light and we haven't heard a lot in recent years. with 7% private unions and i know we had a lot of public union, but was that a coincidence that union stores have come to the fore? what does that say to you? i know what it says to me, but what does it is a to you? >> it is clear that these tactics and these approaches haven't worked for most unionized employees and the consequences is most of industrial americans and private sector is now not unionized and we're simply going to have to

those who know joe know he gets really pouty if you don't. [ laughter ] all right, thank you, joe. you may these two guys. joe and peter bought the golden state warriors for a record $450 million. they are the perfect pair. joe has funded the start-ups of dozens of companies that are household names for us and cut his teen in the nba as minority owner with the boston celtics and won the championship there. peter, hollywood icon has earned 50 academy nominations and made movies like color purple." rain marn," "batman," ohio $3 million in gate receipts for his movies. i metnese guys a year ago when they looked for a president of warriors and i never heard them use the word "good in our conversation. i only heard them use the word "great." and we have really set out to build a world-class organization. i can tell you now what has happened. i think jerry west is responsible as a great player and architect of all the los angeles lakers' championship teams and a member of our executive board involved in every player-personnel decision that the warriors make it. we purchased a dame last w

>> hi, joe.is five ideas that are changing the world for the better. this is a collaboration between us and the clinton global initiative which starts next week to coincide with the u.n. general assembly. and you know, as i call clinton in my little editor's letter, he's the fiphilanthropist in chf around the world. and the clinton global initiative has, over the last five or six years, raised $70 billion for problems around the world treating inequality, instability, unsustainability. and it's really -- it's not a secret, but it's really one of the most powerful forces in the world now, as powerful and probably more than many governments and certainly than most foundations out there. so this is bill's view of the world. and why he's optimistic about things like inequality, instability, the growth of democracy and global economies. it's an unusually optimistic note in these somewhat pessimistic times. >> you've got to photograph, he's cradling the globe ever so gently, isn't? i >> yes. you know,

joe jonas is here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] ladies love joe jonas. >> steve: love the joe jonasusic from rapper 2 chainz. [ cheers and applause ] 2 chainz got a big record man. hot album. >> steve: number one. >> jimmy: hey guys, today is friday and that's usually when i catch up on some personal stuff. you know, i check my inbox, i return some e-mails and of course send out "thank you notes." [ cheers and applause ] i'm running a bit behind today, so i thought, if you guys wouldn't mind, i'd just like to write out my weekly "thank you notes" right now. is that cool with you guys? [ cheers and applause ] honey boo boo, can i get some "thank you note" writing music? [ laughter ] sorry. no -- sorry, no. it's james. james. ♪ thank you, buddy. >> steve: he can't believe it. wait. honey boo boo. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: tariq is laughing. ♪ [ laughter ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you, the 10-day weather forecast, or as i call you, the two-day weather forecast and eight days of made up bull-shizz. [ laughter ] give me a break. i got my umbrella. where is the rain, y'all? >> steve: wait. it's sno

and then, karl, vice president joe biden. >> absolutely. >> bill: we know sometimes joe biden goes offor real. my home state of delaware, we love him because joe is very authentic. >> he's literally the most authentic vice president we've literally ever had. >> bill: last night his job was to tell, i think the world who barack obama really is from somebody who has been up close and worked with him and been there with him when he made all of the tough decisions. here karl is joe biden talking about barack obama's backbone. >> time and time again i witnessed him summon it. this man has courage in his soul compassion in his heart and a spine of steel! >> it was a really good speech. you know, what was interesting if you compare that to the republican convention, the republican convention, the spin was they're trying to personalize the candidates because people don't like them, right? the big mistake that they made in doing only that was that people -- they're not just looking to like mitt romney. in order to cast their ballot for him. they want to know the direction he'll take the country

joe's life was shattered.boy growing up with two hard working parents in scranton, pennsylvania. it's what makes him such a loving supportive father of our three children, beau, hunter and ashley. and it's what drives him today as he and president obama fight to strengthen the middle class they grew up in. for as long as i've known him, joe has never given up, never failed to see the possibilities, and never had any doubt about who he's fighting for. and as long as he has the privilege of serving this nation, i know from the bottom of my heart that he will continue to fight for you every day. thank you, god bless our troops and god bless our military famili. thank you! >> i like best about this country the people. there isn't anything we can't do. there still is that feeling in america. that's the part i love about it. my mother thought the most important virtue was courage. she thought everything else flowed from that. and she said, bravery lies in every heart and some day it's likely to be summoned. >> over

if joe biden-- >>> -- [overlapping dialogue] >> if joe biden had said-- >>> with a slight -- >> if joe had said what you are praising clint east woord for saying to that chair, you would be all over him. >> sean: can you imagine if any republican said as joe biden dhere, have you an african-american -- first time an african-american, he's articulate, he's clean... well spoken. >> he would be drummed out of public life. some of those words are actually code words, for african-american. but joe biden can say it. i know have you always wanted to interview the president. you should do the empty chair interview. a full hour of you and the empty chair. >> sean: my interview with reverend jeremiah wright. i did the one interview in the last election psyche welreverend jeremiah wright, the last interview he did. march of 2007. >> you are saying-- >>> you didn't even i. i have to go back -- >> you don't have it in the archives? >> sean: i look a little younger, but it was me. let's talk about, you know, i see marco rubio and -- a cast of rising mia love, who we just had on -- rising stars in th

it's "morning joe."strength and together with its founder and ceo, bill shore, bringing an end to hunger in both party conventions. with the food network to raise awareness about the 16 million children who go hungry in the united states. let's take a look. >> i'm 38 years old, and been married for 16 years now. to dana walker. i have four children. >> there hasn't been a lot of food coming into the house. i've gone about three days without eating. i've been able to do that, sometimes. >> money is short in our house. we have eaten ramen noodles three time as day, 24/7 up to 3 1/2 months. >> thank you for being here. before we get to this, jeff, i have to point out in the your making of the white russian. notable in its absence is white. it's just a glassful of vodka. >> that's not something i drink. >> just a slight residue. that's all you're looking for is the residue. >> and you call that devirtualizing? >> right. like a powdered milk. kind of like a margarita. >> sure. very particular in your interest

if joe biden-- >>> -- [overlapping dialogue] >> if joe biden had said-- >>> with a slight -- >> if joe biden had said what you are praising clint east woord for saying to that chair, you would be all over him. >> sean: can you imagine if any republican said as joe biden dhere, have you an african-american -- first time an african-american, he's articulate, he's clean... well spoken. >> he would be drummed out of public life. some of those words are actually code words, for african-american. but joe biden can say it. i know have you always wanted to interview the president. you should do the empty chair interview. a full hour of you and the empty chair. >> sean: my interview with reverend jeremiah wright. i did the one interview in the last election psyche welreverend jeremiah wright, the last interview he did. march of 2007. >> you are saying-- >>> you didn't even i. i have to go back -- >> you don't have it in the archives? >> sean: i look a little younger, but it was me. let's talk about, you know, i see marco rubio and -- a cast of rising mia love, who we just had on -- rising stars

that is something i don't see joe biden doing as well and we of course have the paul ryan/joe biden debate will be a huge proving ground. james, i wonder in terms of bill clinton, how does the administration best use him apart from dispatching him out to florida and so forth? are there marching orders they should give him in terms of things to focus on? >> how to use him best. four words. as much as possible. the guy is a political person and you're right, i agree with you absolutely. he possesses the numbers, he possesses -- it's underneath his skin, waiting to bubble out, and people like him. they like him because they know he means it. politicians, a lot of terrible people can mean it. hitler meant it. stalin meant it. on the other hand, franklin d. roosevelt and john f. kennedy meant it. just meaning it isn't enough. but there is a kind of ardor, a kind of passion that emerges from deep inside. we teach students to find themselves inside, to access themselves and then at the proper moment onstage, to let it emerge and it emerges genuinely. that's when we believe them. that's when we un

with us today, john heilemann, katty kay, helene cooper and joe klein. first up, mitt romney may not have been the love of their life, now he is out in the arena has the republican's champion, a political gladiator who has now thrown down his gauntlet. >> this president can ask us to be patient. this president can tell us it was someone else's fault. this president can tell us that the next four years he'll get it right. but this president cannot tell us that you're better off today than when he took office. chris: john, that is it, that's the gauntlet, can the president and what will he do to answer that charge that he has not made things better? >> is a perennial questions in elections and the case of romney against obama. explicitly and implicitly, the president has to answer that charge. they have tried in chicago for the last year to say this isn't just a referendum on us. it's a choice. you're going to hear that framing throughout this convention in charlotte. i will say, i think they're going to do more to try to go back and litigate his record th

>> welcome back to "morning joe."s where it's all going to happen tonight. president obama will make his speech. we've had some great speeches, though, already in the convention. boy, the democrats know how to put on a convention. let's now do the must-read opinion pages, shall we? >> shocking when you say that. i mean it's like -- it's surprising when bill clinton says nice things about barack obama, despite the fact that they're not close things. when you say -- if you say the democrats did something wrong -- >> nixon has gone to -- >> just walked down the stairs in peking. >> why don't you say it. you tell me which convention is more hip, vibrant, more alive, more connecting, the democrats or the one last week in tampa? >> so michael gurson wrote in his op-ed, clinton shows he's no obama. >> and he says this -- why am i not surprised? >> imagine that. >> yeah. >> well -- >> he does like himself a lot. >> when did you pick that up? >> he's just like -- lasters in it. >> there's a lot to lather in i hear. so michael

what a -- >> joe, jesus loves us all first of all.ll this man grew up in south carolina. you can tell. correct. >> yeah. but number two, look. barack obama defeated the clinton machine in 2008. he defeated john mccain. he has opened a lead on mitt romney. i mean, you know, i think it's fantasy to say this is all like the -- you could argue he's had luck but in fact he is good at this. he is good at this. you know, he's got a trial. he's got a track record here. >> all right. >> as i said to david axelrod, mika, the dnc, you people may not know how to run this country but you can put on a campaign. >> yes, yes. david gregory, who do you have on "meet the press thoi sunday? >> we'll talk to chris christie on the program to get his handicapping of the race and the debates ahead. >> that'll be good. chuck todd, see you on "the daily rundown" right after "morning joe." eugene robinson thank you as well. new column in today's "the washington post." joe, bless your heart. in the south, you know what that means? >> go to hell. you're in troub

that's joe.eart that drives him forward every day, it's what he learned as a young boy growing up with two hard-working parents in scranton, pennsylvania. it's what makes him such a loving and supportive father of our three children, bo, hunter, and ashley. and it's what drives him today as he and president obama fight to strengthen the middle class they grew up in. for as long as i've known him, joe has never given up, never failed to see the possibilities, and never had any doubt about who he's fighting for. and as long as he has the privilege of serving this nation, i know from the bottom of my heart, that he will continue to fight for you every day. thank you! god bless our troops and god bless our military families! thank you! >> the wife of vice president joe biden, dr. jill biden, introducing herself as a teacher and as a military mom. this is the lead up to joe biden's speech itself. we'll see a video about joe biden's life. there will also be an introduction tonight before the president'

welcome to "morning joe."ith us on set, we have msnbc and "time" magazine senior political analyst mark halperin. hello, mark. >> hi. >> national affairs editor for "new york" magazine and msnbc political analyst john heilemann. and in washington, we have nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of "andrea mitchell reports," andrea mitchell. good morning, everyone. good to have you on board this morning. a lot to talk about. >> a lot to talk about internationally. a lot to talk about domestically. internationally the chaos continues. "the new york times" has a front-page story. "cultural clash fuels muslims raging at film. devout values conflict with free speech." i don't know if i would use the word "devout" to associate anything that's happened over the past week with the savagery that we've been seeing on our television sets over the past week over a crude film that's been uplinked and is being used as an excuse to kill americans. >> it's not the excuse. >> no. >> just the touchstone. >> the thing i