tavis: let me circle, -- let me circle back to the comment that joe scarborough made. people profess their face, how can washington lead at the believers and the white house and on the hill and what we see happening happened to poor people. >> the religious issues, he will hear that these are about abortion and gay marriage and all of the rest. what i'm saying is the religious issue in this campaign are those census bureau numbers. asked that is the religious issue. 22% of our children are poor. the poverty line is 22,000 for a family of four. try living on that for a while. that is a religious issue. any candidate who says they are a christian and is not dealing with that is not really raising the true religious issue. this next week, state leaders are sending a letter to every candidate, republican and to mr. obama, to say these census numbers are religious matters. how are you going to respond to these terrible numbers from the census bureau? those are for us will be the face issues in this campaign -- faith issues in this campaign. tavis: let me ask you to talk to

. >> joe scarborough, i refer to you derogatorily. >> a republican is attacking republicans for attacking the wall street protesters. >> growing mobs occupying wall street. >> protesters are filling the streets around wall street. >> wall street's connected to main street. >> i think this divisive rhetoric is fairly -- is divisive. >> it comes two years after the tea parties. >> i don't think they're similar to the tea party at all. >> the more than 25 million americans unemployed. >> herman cain says don't blame wall street. >> some of them are there because they don't have a job. >> finding someone to blame in my opinion isn't the right way to go. >> blue, red, you know, it doesn't matter. you're unemployed in this country. >> i tell you what they need. >> look out. >> a shower. >> there she goes. >>> while president obama's re-election campaign is busy raising the money it will need to do battle with a super-funded republican opponent who will be strongly backed up by super-pacs the republican presidential candidates are doing battle in a way that can only help the president. in mit ro

joe scarborough among others questioned -- how do i put this? they questioned his intellect level. when joe talks about rick perry. this doesn't help make his case that he is able to articulate his way through tough questions and find a way to stay on message. >> i think there lots of way of probably taking that question and turning it to something that becomes less of a distraction. less of a problem for you. it's an opening if nothing else to say look, the problem i have with president obama is not about where he was or was not born, it's with the policies he is pursuing and his jobs record and with any number of other ways in which he might have engaged the question. i agree. it's curious and assuming the transcript of the interview is correct, i don't think it was probably rick perry's finest moment. >> this is perry with donald trump, one of many who they are seeking some kind of approval or endorsement from donald trump in the conversation. perry points to trump and said he also doesn't believe this as if to look for cover with donald trump. how does that help him? >> you wou

. >> joe scarborough said they needed christie to run to raise their game. given that he is not running, 3 a mediocrity around the candidates? >> the voters right now, there is a lack of enthusiasm. there was not much enthusiasm for richard nixon in 1968 and he was nominated and narrowly elected. you don't have to have a love affair with the nominee to work for him. if he goes on to win, today was a good day for mitt romney. christie and romney would have commit the non-extremist vote and helped rick perry. today was a good day for romney. if he wins the nomination, a lot will be forgiven. >> the latest polling has mitt romney at 22% followed by rick perry at 15%. the now defunct poll had him running dead even. the happiest man following the announcement as john was suggesting is mitt romney. >> this is good news. one way to look at the scenarios out of the race, the republican establishment right now might coalesce and he could do much better in the earlier contests. people thought he would win new hampshire and nevada and maybe he does better than expected

. >> it changed -- i heard joe scarborough talking this morning. you're the computer guy. i don't have to tell you. pc's and things like that, it's changed the accessibility and the ease of use even. >> he made the computer personal. he made the smartphone fun. he put all of this technology into the mainstream and made it accessible to anybody. and this is the stuff that used to be the province of geeks. now it's everyone. >> people are wondering what's next. let's move this past the sadness which exists. the family's loss of their husband and father. what happens next for the -- the stock is $375, not a big change. >> apple is going to be fine for the foreseeable future, right. this is not a surprise to him. it's not a surprise to us. it's not a surprise to apple. for more than a year now, steve jobs has been referring in memos to his team about the plan. he's been battling cancer for almost a decade at this point. he has a really strong team behind him. he spent the last five years at least building really, really strong team. he's a talent scout. tim cook is the reason

after joe scarborough accused the white house of hypocrisy and taking on a more populist bent while simultaneouslythan all of the republican candidates combined, the california republican said this about the president. >> i think the hypocrisy here is the president may use this for political gain. and the thing i think the president needs to do is find out that he is president to all americans. the thing that makes me most concerned overall is normally in divided government, we do big things. >> mccarthy then went on to talk about the glory days when democrats and republicans worked together to solve the complicated issues facing the country. well, those days are long gone. and mccarthy lecturing the president on being the president for all americans is so rich since obama has gotten into deep trouble with his base for bending over backwards to meet republicans more than halfway since he walked into the white house in january 2009. just last night, a bill for state aid for hiring teachers and first responders was defended on a procedural motion because it couldn't get the 60 votes needed to end a

. >> meantime, i want to ask you something interesting that msnbc's joe scarborough said in the wake of christie saying he's not running. he was saying that republicans, independents and even democrats would have been well-served if christie had jumped in the race, because, quote, this silly campaign about hpv, ponzi schemes and tiffany credit lines will become a deadly serious debate about america's uncertain future. like romney, obama seemed to take pride in his efforts to be all things to all people. christie, on the other hand, just doesn't give a damn. given all the excitement that christie generated, wouldn't it be smart for the other candidates to perhaps take a look at his playbook? >> well, i think they have all been trying to replicate it in some form or another. yesterday mitt romney in a town hall an hour after christie's announcement tried to get aggressive, tried to be an in your face kind of guy, but that's just not his personality. i think you're going to see rick perry trying to emulate that a little bit. you know, when he got hit for calling social security a ponzi

we're going to hear about this from joe scarborough, i suspect. orning joe" starts right now. >>> since this discussion is all about economics, governor romney, i promise this won't be about religion. sorry about that, rick. >> we're missing this so much. what we need to be focused on in this country today is whether or not we're going to have this policy or that policy. what we need to be focused on is how we get america working again. and we're sitting on this absolute treasure-trove of energy in this country. and i don't need nine nine nine, we don't need any plan to pass congress. we need to get a president of the united states that is committed to passing the types of regulations, pulling the regulations back, freeing this country to go develop the energy industry that we have in this country. i can promise you that we do that and we'll create an environment in this country where the manufacturing will come back to this country. we did it in texas. >> oh, we'll find out. it's wednesday, october 12th. >> what was it? it was a snuggie? is that t

. >> i told joe scarborough what coach told me, joe, and i know he told you.s "c" and "d" players, and i know you were one of his "a" players and he rode you pretty hard. he was the athletic director when i was there and he called me into my office after i won the u.s. amateur and chewed my butt about why i wasn't playing more for the university, why i was playing pro golf while in school. so you know all about that. >> that sounds like him. and i want to know what mr. scarborough did whenever he was at homecoming day. >> it wasn't pretty. it was not pretty. i watched you guys. joe namath, thank you so much. >> thank you, joe! >> you're a hero of all of us here in alabama. >> great to hear your voice. >> we greatly appreciate you taking time out to give us a call. >> i want to ask him, joe namath, what are you wearing right now? >> why would you ask that question? >> lewis told me to! lewis wants to know what you're wearing right now. >> i'm still in my night clothes, mika. i had to take care of my dog, you see. >> okay. >> all right, joe namath, thank you so

seriously, the fact joe scarborough and i were saying arkansas is going to beat vandy.s. >> let's talk about that in sports. >> we will. so anyway, if somebody had only written something about mitt romney shutting things down. >> yes. >> just turning the lights off. >> if somebody had, i'd read an excerpt. >> why don't you do that now. >> okay. new york magazine, the temptation of mitt. on one reading, to be sure, making a concerted late-stage effort to take iowa would be consistent with the new, nonsweaty pits mitt. it would be bold, it would be decisive, it would be opportunistic in the best sense of the word, but it would also introduce an unpredictable variable to a race in which virtually every constant so far has worked to romney's advantage. is there really a new romney? the answer remains unclear. but if there is, surely he'll be able to recognize and resist a briar patch when he sees one, even if it happens to reside amid thousands of square miles of cornfields. nicely written, john. >> they are -- look, they look at this -- as you said, joe, they look at this

our nuanced president sticks to gray while the no-nonsense governor as joe scarborough noted paints intie said he spent the weekend trying to see whether i could look in the mirror and make that call. now that he has opted out, he says he's going to tear off the rearview mirror. the same can't be said for jilted, love-sick republicans scraping the bottom of the barrel and turning their lonely eyes to eric cantor. that was joe's piece in politico about why it would have been great if christie joined the race. great on a number of levels. now let's take a look at the fallout. a new "washington post" poll. this came out yesterday. romney leading with 25%, the same support he had a month ago. rick perry and herman cain tied for second with 16%. this is a 13-point drop for perry. very bad news for rick perry, and a 12-point rise for cain in one month. now let's go to the polls out ten minutes ago. a new quinnpiac poll. cain at 18%, perry at 15%, gingrich, 9%, and it goes down the line. michael steele, where do you want to go? rick perry or herman cain? >> i think right now the momentum is c

>> i have learned to my shock and surprise that joe scarborough is a true christian. >> the kind we admire bible is about. >> it was very edifying, joe.

. >> i learned from joe scarborough, you have the life expectancy of the number three position in al

when clinton was president, he had joe scarborough in the house and newt gingrich, and what did he dod welfare. this president feels he has to divide the nation to win an election. >> i think the same would be said about the republicans. >> there's one huge difference i would submit, congressman, between the examples you just spelled out and today. when ronald reagan was president and george mitchell was the senate majority leader and tip o'neill for the early part of the reagan year was speaker of the house, not one of the leaders stood on the floor of the senate or the house and said our number one job is to defeat the president of the united states. not take care of my job. not to take care of peoples' jobs, but to become president. >> mitch mcconnell has been in the minority the entire time. he was not in the minority. and you laid out a case where the democrat was in the majority. the republicans in the house are in the majority. and you can't lay out a case that anybody said that. mitch mcconnell's a republican and he's in the minority. so hep can can't achieve that. you laid ou

. >> finding a way to get up -- >> i don't know how they do it, joe scarborough. >> you know, it's aus. i mean, we have to get up every morning. you've got to find a way. and there's always sort of a, you know, secret sauce to it. >> which is? >> froot loops and dedication and our intern. >> is he still an intern? >> yeah. he came in from -- >> our intern came in from fire island last night and put this together to show you how we win. >> so what's the secret to our success? we practice like champions, we work like champions, and we play like champions. any questions? ♪ ♪ >> and we eat like champions. any questions? i didn't think so. >> play like champions! go time! >> it's dedication. it's discipline. you've got to go back, willie geist after you had that second big mac and go for a third. you've got to pack it on. >> disgusting. >> some say it's disgusting to eat fast food under an overpass at 4:00 in the morning. >> it's how we create the magic we create. >> i finally got into that stadium. it took me two days and it took every door. >> tommy ford did a great job for us. can you