most stunning offensive and outrageous suggested reasons for the shooting came from m s n b c's joe scarborough on yesterday's episode of morning joe take a look you have these these are these people that are somewhere i believe probably on the autism scale i don't know if that's the case here but it happens more often than not. people that can walk around in society they can function on college campuses can even excel in college campuses but it is socially disconnected. naturally scarborough's comments created a firestorm of controversy and anger throughout the day yesterday especially for those with autism and in the asperger's who read people like the autistic self advocacy network called on scarborough to retract his cause is comments as did labor journalist mike elk who said that he too has asperger's syndrome a form of a part of the autism spectrum under pressure joe scarborough issued a statement this morning not on the air but in writing saying during a debate regarding the recent colorado shootings i suggested that the aurora tragedy should make americans focus more on mental health in

coming out joe scarborough was met with a firestorm of anger yesterday after a bland asperger's and autism spectrum disorders for the colorado shooting massacre why did scarborough say he thought the shooter might have had one of these disorders and is there any scientific evidence to back up these outrageous and insensitive statements. emissions free could you take should three years for charges free arrangement three. three stooges free. download free broadcast clothing videos for your media projects a free media done to our teeth on time. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations to rule the day. the big. welcome back to the big picture i'm tom foreman coming up in this half hour comments made yesterday by joe scarborough have sparked a new debate over the handling of autism spectrum disorders in america or so-called .

trillion of irresponsible budget busting tax cutnto unpaid wars, even a staunch conservative like joe scarborough concedes president bush has the worst fiscal track record of any president. did you vote for president bush? would you agree? >> guest: let's get a response from our guests. >> guest: if i like clinton or bush, the clinton batter. i think you're missing the point here, and a tea party again is not republican. i personally don't consider myself to be a republican. i think most are independent. some are republican because they are conservatives and republican is more likely conservatives and then the democrat party at this moment in history. i am not here to defend the republican party and neither is tea party movement. i think you are confusing the are confusing republicanism a tea party is on. >> host: but many agree the analysis the college is made of the bush president? >> guest: i cannot tell you how many have been to rate their frail as arguably against president bush and his failure to carry the mantle of limited government as they did against president obama. i mean, they have n

joe scarborough and mika brzezkinski down there for "morning joe." guys, this is a terrible thing to wake up to this morning. >> no doubt about it and i'm sure americans are

joe scarborough and mika brzezkinski down there for "morning joe." guys, this is a terrible thing to wake up to this morning. >> no doubt about it and i'm sure americans are going to be waking up shocked over the next several hours to what you've been talking about. i'd like to welcome everyone to "morning joe." with us this morning, political editor and white house correspondent for "the huffington post," sam stein. we've got senior national correspondent for bloomberg business week, joshua green, and nbc news capitol correspondent kellyyork, of course, willie geist. we also have msnbc and "time" magazine senior political analyst mark halperin, willie has been following this breaking news story over the past 30 minutes and we will -- let me -- willie, let's go back to you. a lot to talk about this morning on syria, the latest in the campaign as well, but why don't you get everybody up to date who's just tuning in this morning to what happened in colorado. >> for people just waking up at 6:00 in the morning tuning in to "morning joe," you're looking

so -- >> but you know -- >> joe scarborough here -- >> this opportunity to align ourselves with the american. >> joe? >> well, you talk about aligning yourself with the american public. you have to admit we republicans chose a curious candidate four years after lehman brothers, four years after the biggest wall street scandal of all times, four years after the big bust on wall street, in september of 2008. and it seems like the obama campaign, whether they're being cynical about it or not, are playing it very smart and understand that the american public has no problem with rich guys. the american public does have a problem with rich guys who pay lower tax rates than the secretaries who work for them. isn't that where the obama campaign's going? joe klein said, this is a rich guy that doesn't pay taxes. >> it's where they're going. there's no doubt. i mean they have decided -- i mean they are betting that this is a campaign about what is in governor romney's financial disclosures. we're betting that this is a campaign, we are interested in making this a campaign, about whether or not we're g

why not just be honest and say what he told joe scarborough, which is this is a tough campaign. to be rough-and-tumble days for both sides as opposed to the first answer, which as it is not so much that we have been negative, it is that mitt romney has told people that we are negative and people believe that we have been negative one we really haven't. in fact, the ap shows that they are negative. of course they are. they are both negative. >> if you are david axelrod, think about how awkward this is. you won the presidency on two words, hope and change. and it was a brilliant campaign. you did not have to talk about serious issues. you talked about being this hopeful, loving, put your arm around ukiah and going to put you back to work. everything is going to work out and then they got the job and realized that it is not that easy. it hasn't done that well. >> then, you don't sound very positive right now to i am just telling the truth. >> you could tell this campaign was going to get really negative when mitt romney, before criticizing the president on campaign started out, you

president right now is going to be leaving for virginia, for some campaign stops, but i tell you when joe scarborough got on his show this morning, he was so inspired about what the president had to say. >> i put this up to george w. bush who was asked after four years if he had made any mistakes yet and he said i can't think of any. >> i give him credit, it makes me like him more. but you don't want to show, especially in this campaign, is any form of weakness or self-doubt. >> what do you think, richard, he's right there. >> the question about the communication about the american story is telling his story, what kind of a president was he going to be? was he the insider making deals, or was he the outsider or the reformer and i think they got the balance wrong. he could have talked more about the kinds of reforms that he wants to do in his second term, that he didn't do in his first term. he said it was a mission, maybe half a mission. maybe you don't want to show weakness, but you've got to show honesty and one of the strengths he had in 2008 was he seemed to be answer the question. >> if you want

. >> joe scarborough and former governor howard dean weighed in this morning as well. here's what he said. >> what's he going to do in israel? look around and go -- >> i'm a tad bit worried about the trip to israel. >> the palestinians should have all of jerusalem and what's he going to do in poland? say hitler was right? >> this is a disastrous trip from one end to the other. do i think he'll recover? probably. but this is probably the worst trip that any presidential candidate has taken. >> robert, worst trip ever? will he recover? >> of course he will recover. let's put this in context. yes, he's running for president of the united states, it's a very important job but he's human and humans make mistakes. obviously george w. bush in 2000, barack obama made mistakes back in 2008 when he was running for president. it happens. so, look, at the end of the day this is a big, big bruise on the left chin but he will recover. there's no question about it. i'll remind you to put it in context. howard dean was the former democratic chairman and ran for president. so he natura

. >> chip, joe scarborough said on "morning joe" about the bain defense something telling. take a listen. >> i'm barack obama, i approve this message. >> tax havens, offshore accounts, caredied interest. mitt romney used every trick in the book. >> i agree that is not a good answer. give me a name. give me a face. give me -- the romney people haven't handled this well. the romney people have not handled this way. give me a name, give me a face. the questions surrounding romney departure from bain points out in '99 to 2002 not changing the letter head. but why not come forward with the real ceo? >> yeah, i agree. i think they have an opportunity to set it up. this is simple math. he left in 1999 to run the olympics. he couldn't have done both jobs if he was spending six days a week in salt lake. he's an impressive guy but i'm not sure he's that impressive. they have an opportunity to push back on this one. this is something that is it pretty clear. in 1999, he left bain. now will is some passive income. there are other deals that are forthcoming. the romney campaign needs to

but chris, joe scarborough, governor howard dean and michael steele was there as well even if you invempbted the olympics no reason to talk about it. take a listen to how they were talking about it this morning. >> what's he is going to do in israel? look around and go, you know what -- >> i'm a tad bit worried. >> think the palestinians probably should have all of jerusalem. what is he going to do in poland say hitler was right. >> this is disaster from one end to the other. do i think he'll recover? probably. this is probably the worst trip that any presidential candidate has taken. >> chris, is this really a gift to team obama and do they need to even say anything just let it play out as it is? >> what do you need to say? i mean, i know people are going to hate that i'm going to say this. mitt romney does deserve the gold medal for gaffes. if you look at the reality what he did, it kind of reinforces his narrative about romney he's not a discipline candidate, that he's not focused on, you know, delivering a message and that's problematic to say the least domestically but when you go overs

might seem like a given that obama would bring up clinton as he has but take a listen to what joe scarboroughwere i barack obama, i might not bring up bill clinton and tax cuts because bill clinton is of course a guy that said we need to cut corporate taxes. bill clinton's a guy that says we don't need to raise taxes on anybody. >> what do you think about that, ron? some might ask why hasn't obama reached out more than in the past three years. >> reached out more to bill clinton? i think he has reached out. listen, bill clinton's wife is barack obama's secretary of state. we ought to remember that. bill clinton has been campaigning actively for barack obama. so again, there's no surprise that barack obama would reach out to bill clinton or cite bill clint clinton. what barack obama is actually doing is similar to what mitt romney is doing with bill clinton is giving kudos to people like john mccain, though. he's doing the same thing that romney is doing in the opposite way. he's saying look, i, barack obama, am a reasonable guy who has tried to reach out to republicans like john mccain. hey,

president delivered this middle class tax cut proposal and contrary to the arguments of some, joe scarborough was making this point yesterday with us, that he should have just gone up to the million dollars? i mean, that's what chuck schumer has said. that's what claire mccaskill, bill nelson, others who are running in tough elections, that when you target only $250,000 and list, you're not reaching the whole middle class and you're also hurting middle class businessowners and job creators. >> look, this is -- he has a mandate on this issue. he ran in 2008 on, you know, keeping people whole under $250,000. he had three weeks of debate. let's not forget joe the plumber. that whole issue was around this issue. he has a mandate on $250,000. 98% of the country is protected by this. i think he's at the right place for the argument he wants to make. he's now driving a story about the middle class. that puts him in a much stronger place. >> a stronger place now, but as you point out in the book, james, you wrote "my biggest complaint with the president is that there's a narrative in front of him and

joe scarborough among others is right that he paid zeros some years -- i don't know anybody that thinksntage of the united states you need to pay your taxes. >> yeah. >> doug in north carolina. hi, doug. >> good morning, stephanie and crew. >> hi. >> first theory why mitt is not having sarah at the convention do you remember when mitt announced that he was running for president, look at who showed up at the look at me on the same day -- >> just to be fair it's not hard to steal mitt romney's thunder. >> no. >> he is not exactly. thor. >> and sarah palin i'm running for president, send your money, just -- yeah she is such a fake. but talking about fakes, you know college dropouts like sean hannity and rush limbaugh whenever someone brings up romney bringing up his tax returns, they say how come obama -- >> yes. hello, kate. >> hi, how are you? >> good. go ahead. i just wanted to give you a little fyi when myth was here when he was our governor. >> uh-huh. when he left he had people go into the after after he had left to take down her curtains. >> really? >> honest to god. >> just saving

. >> reporter: senior advisor to the obama campaign, david axelrod told nbc's joe scarborough, quote, i can tell you the president of the united states did not leak classified information. the call mitigations are a diversion. axelrod said romney's charges are a bunch of bellicose bloviating. house minority leader nancy pelosi is also dismissing the leaks. >> there has been a shift in the whole approach to intelligence since 9/11 that people are much more aware, both people in this room who write about it and the american people who consume your news. i don't subscribe though to the idea that there's a preponderance of leaks. >> reporter: in response to that statement, new hampshire republican senator kelly ayotte told fox news this morning, quote, i think it is pretty clear pelosi lives in an alternate universe. jenna. jenna: some may be dismissing it. some may be pursuing the national security leaks more but let's go back to what the high-ranking official from the military said, admiral mcraven, about some of these leaks potentially doing damage in some way to some of our operations

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joe scarborough is with us.rview with will ferrell. go ahead. >> you are the only person on the face of the earth and i think everybody around our show talks about every show you have been in. we brought up wedding crashers and i talked about when you came down the shares and my wife got up and walked out of the theater. that was not a funny movie. i walked out halfway thru. what do you call bradley cooper's a team? a squad or something like that. anyway, this is a-list. that's right. this was a great movie. we had a lot of fun and i want you to talk about your partner and screen writer who has been with you through the other guys and of course a lot of other great movies you guys have done. >> adam mckay, we were hired at the same time as "saturday night live" in 1995. just kind of really enjoyed writing sketches together and shared the same sensibility and when you left the show, you said let's cover the movies. foolish enough to think someone would pay us to write screen plays. he's kind of -- we are kind of

i'm going back to joe biden because he got such a warm reception, maybe not from joe scarborough, but yesterday, at the naacp convention in houston, a day after mitt romney addressed the same audience, biden took the opportunity to paint a very clear picture of what the supreme court would end up looking like under a romney presidency. >> imagine what the romney justice department will look like. imagine when his senior adviser on constitutional issues is robert bourque. imagine, and i mean this, this to me is one of the most critical issues in this election, imagine what the supreme court will look like after four years of a romney presidency. folks, this election in my view is a fight for the heart and soul of america. >> i liked watching your face as he spoke. >> listen, i love robert bourque. he brings up robert bork, seriously, we're refighting the battles of 1987, 1963. jon meacham, i'm curious, hisser to scli, a bit of an -- historically, a bit of an overreach here or are we seeing everybody use this naacp convention to play to their base? >> precisely i think that's right. rom

. >> apple in the news, and joe scarborough here, the markets can't get enough of that. the weekend that the economy is just dragging along -- it seems to be dragging down. steve ratner gave us a beverage -- bevy of depressing charts this morning. how do we expect the markets to react this week? >> we saw the markets go up two days in a row of gains more than 200 points in the dow which carried the dow up above 13 nourk13,000. you go, why that if the economy is growing in europe? that number at 1.5%, so why did the market go up? i think it's two reasons, and i think the main ones are these. number one, it's pretty clear that mario dragy, the head of the european central bank, is going to do in his words whatever it takes to defend the european monetary union and the euro. that is regarded as positive news. and in the united states, the fact that the u.s. economy is growing as slowly as it is and probably growing at an even slower pace now than it did in the quarter whose data was just reported last week, that suggests to investors that maybe bernanke will jump in and do

>> i learned joe scarborough has a man crush on brian sullivan and he's no longer afraid to show it.n't have to watch political animals to have tall women. i have two of them right here. >> it's all right. we have heels on. we'll take it. all right, guys, thanks very much. if it is way too early, it is time for "morning joe." now

. >> dexter, you were -- joe scarborough here in d.c. 1990s, well before 9/11. you know the country as well as any american reporter, probably far better. the mission -- the mission wasn't to beat the taliban when we started this. our mission when we started this was to destroy al qaeda in afghanistan and we did that. we changed the mission, didn't we? that's the biggest problem? >> well, you're right about that -- >> not the biggest problem, but in defining why the mission has not been accomplished, it's because we changed that mission. >> well, we did, except -- you're absolutely right. we went there to destroy al qaeda and we did a pretty good job of doing that. but if you look back to 9/11, al eda had a sanctuary in afghanistan because of the chaos there, because of the civil war. they were able to basically occupy that space because the government there basically collapsed, and so the danger and what's really -- this is a conversation which every afghan is having, i just tapped into it, the danger is that happens again, that you bas

>> i learned joe scarborough has a man crush on brian sullivan and he's no longer afraid to show it.n't have to watch political animals to have tall women. i have two of them right here. >> it's all right. we have heels on. we'll take it. all right, guys, thanks very much. if it is way too early, it is time for "morning joe." now it's time for "the daily rundown" with luke today. have a great day, everyone. >>> repeal, check, replace. republicans say that may have to wait until november as the house records its 33rd vote to gut health care reform. the president tried to put the gop on defense on taxes. mitt romney gets an earful from conservatives who want him to hit back harder. who better to hang out with some tough talk than dick cheney? romney heads to cowboy country for a fund-raiser with the former veep. and more information leads to more questions about the conditions of congressman jesse jackson jr. we'll have the latest from capitol hill. >>> good morning from washington. it is thursday, july 12th, 2012. this is "the daily rundown." i'm luke russert in for chuck todd. let's

and seriously is joe biden trying to defend the honor of jack scarborough age 4 and george w. >> well, it is. and you wonder why we can't have a serious dialogue about it, but the reason is because every time somebody comes out with an idea, whether you like it or not, to reform medicare, look at social security, they're met with a press release that's already printed and on the shelves of most democratic representatives attacking that plan. there's never been, i haven't seen recently anyway, a constructive dialogue about these long-term problems. >> let's take this dialogue and to turn why professor porter is here. joe was talking about the mathematical realities in the competition between the two campaigns and the conversation they're having about where money should be spent or not and how we try to deal with our deficit. how does that parallel, even come remotely in sync with us staying competitive, which wouldn't we argue at this point that we are not? >> it's not only are we not. we're facing the greatest economic challenge we've faced in probably a century in america. we

joe, i love that recovery on the billy ray cyrus. you said, "oh, i love billy ray cyrus." i didn't realize you were such a fan. >> huge fan. billy ray played on scarboroughry one time for the troops. >> that's all it takes to win your heart. i love it, i love it. >> we're going to talk a little olympics. you've been studying, for some people just tuning in, we'll give you a little briefing on the olympic games. and the yankees do have the best record in baseball and now they have the best player ever to come out of japan. a surprise trade yesterday. the yankees picked up ichiro. he just moved over a locker room in seattle. sports is next. [ cellphone rings ] the wife. hey, babe. got the jetta. i wiped the floor with the guy! not really. i would've been fine with 0% for 36 months, but i demanded 60. no...i didn't do that. it was like taking candy from a baby. you're a grown man. alright, see you at home. [ male announcer ] the volkswagen autobahn for all event. we good? we're good. [ male announcer ] at 0% apr for 60 months, no one needs to know how easy it was to get your new volkswagen. that's the power of german engineering. this is new york state. we