megyn rocks. >> there were a lot of headlines about this, megyn kelly rips joe scarborough. no, she didn't. she was tweaking him. >> there were tough questions. don't take that away from her but mostly playful and said he had four viewers and maybe he has five viewers. >> clearly enjoying it. >> and he kept filibustering. she kept saying i have to go. >> time for the scores. >> i'll give it a 9. >> didn't get him to confess that he has 2016 ambitions so i'll give it an 8, good segment. still to come, your best tweets, and the newspaper that sunk to the bottom by running a picture of kate middleton's bottom. >>> here are a few of your top tweets, wonder if the v.a. coverage will fade now that eric shin seccy is out. robert lohaus says covering whether it gets fixed is a different matter. i don't think so, it's an emotional issue that has fired up americans on both sides of the aisle. and on jay carney stepping down as press secretary. joe remy says they all say a lot without saying anything but gravitas and humor can cover a multitude of sins. carney had neither and tough bec

here is joe scarborough. yeah, joe scarborough also slamming the parents. listen to this. >> barack obama has his arm around a man who is reaching out to pro-taliban forces, talking about killing americans. >> wait. >> don't -- who wants to wa"wai me here? who wants to "wait" me here? >> don't criticize the parents. don't criticize the parents in here. >> i can criticize parents that have reached out to the taliban. oh, my god, chuck. >> they are missing a child. their son is missing for five years. >> chuck -- >> you know what, it is not logical. you cannot handle it. >> i have a 26-year-old son. if my son is out on the wire and he is out there with fellow troops and he writes me up and says he hates america and he's thinking about deserting and thinking about leaving his post, i can tell you as a father of that 26-year-old or 23-year-old son, i'd say, joey, you stay the hell right there. i would call his commander, i would say, get my son, he's not well, get him to a military base in germany. i would not say, follow your conscience, son. >> you know, i am

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it's that simple. >> joe scarborough, watch you every morning. thank you.ichael steele. >>> up next, hillary clinton's book rollout this week is the start of big things for the clintons, so how's that tryout going? my colleague cynthia mcfadden interviewed hillary and that's coming up next. this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> some rare cooperation on capitol hill late today. the united states senate voted overwhelmingly to pass a bipartisan bill to reform the department of veterans affairs with over 90 votes in favor of the bill, which was brokered by bernie sanders of vermont and senator john mccain, closely marries the version the house unanimously passed yesterday, so it would increase the number of va doctors and allow veterans to go outside the va system to avoid excessive wait lines for health care. >>> also today the fbi opened a criminal investigation into the va, and we'll be right back. >>> reading a lot about the kickoff for the book tour. hillary, dead broke, really? >> that may not have been the most artful way of saying that, you k

it's that simple. >> joe scarborough, watch you every morning. thank you.ael steele. >>> up next, hillary clinton's book rollout this week is the start of big things for the clintons, so how's that tryout going? my colleague cynthia mcfadden interviewed hillary and that's coming up next. this is "hardball," the place for politics. means keeping seven billion ctransactions flowing.g, and when weather hits, it's data mayhem. but airlines running hp end-to-end solutions are always calm during a storm. so if your business deals with the unexpected, hp big data and cloud solutions make sure you always know what's coming - and are ready for it. make it matter. >>> some rare cooperation on capitol hill late today. the united states senate voted overwhelmingly to pass a bipartisan bill to reform the department of veterans affairs with over 90 votes in favor of the bill, which was brokered by bernie sanders of vermont and senator john mccain, closely marries the version the house unanimously passed yesterday, so it would increase the number of va doctors and allow v

i just want to encourage joe scarborough, this matthews, "washington journal" to have actual vets onnd not let these situations with our vets get so extreme -- for instance, with the v.a. situation -- and then scream about everything. guest: well, it's an interesting comment. first of all, i didn't make it to boy scouts so i am hardly a person to hold forth on what happens to vets, although i want to encourage one thing for you to think about. i don't think it is fair to tell folks that they can't comment on subjects related to military unless they have served. criticism,ng a including of many democrats, from people that were arguing against cuts in the military well, you can't really talk to because you haven't been in uniform. these are important public policy issues and i think that some of the aspects of this are worthy of public debate. i think that you are right when it comes to boots on the ground come that is a perspective that we need to hear from veterans. as to the release itself, i happen to agree, even though i disagree with many of the actions that president obama has t

[inaudible question] >> in the same manner as matt lowary -- >> if joe scarborough was here you would be laughing and impressed by how well he understands politics. he is a good friend and why i am here today. morning joe started because his radio show was on msnbc for three hours and when he got in trouble for talking about the rutgers women's basketball team and he was let go. and they were pulling people off the street to >> host:. you got an hour in the morning to get an nbc idea. joe had a primetime show at night and it was his idea to take the morning and turn it into politics. he was watching me and he plucked me. i didn't know him well. and dad knew micka better. i owe joe a great deal of gratitude. morning joe was the first time i hosted a tv show. >> willie, i want to know if you have ever tried to parallel park in chicago because i understand you are one of the best in the world. >> top five. i said in an interview years ago someone said what is your special skill? and i said i am one of the five best parallel parkers in america. and sure enough the first day they had three

. >> joe scarborough of "morning joe" had a different take. >> these people were my children, i would be laughing at them calling them the biggest whiners. >> they cheated. >> no. they didn't. they followed the rules. they followed the law. you lost. they were smarter than mcdaniel. as laura ingram said, mcdaniel ran a tea party race in an open primary. that's stupid. if you are too stupid to win an election don't whine and say the other side cheated. >> i want to get back to the point about the future for the tea party movement in mississippi and a candidate like mcdaniel. you are saying you would rather have a democrat win this thing in the fall than have your candidate. you are talking about the republican process or if you are a democrat, the sanctity is you give it your best shot. play by the rules. if you win, congratulations. the other guy supports you. if you lose, you support the other guy. >> normally we vote conservative in the primary and republican in the general election. in this case the democratic-opponent was opposed to obamacare. he's anti-gun law and may be more con

joe scarborough on "morning joe" talking about how when eric cantor came on air he had not entourage governor. jim cramer saying he was the representative of "squawk box," not a representative from his district. do you think that some of the signs were apparent now that we're looking back in retrospect? >> well, sure. once you have the election results, you can look back at things and say, well that is correct presaged his defeat. he didn't know that at the time, and we didn't know that either. so i think that's a little bit of monday morning quarterbacking. but when you look at the range of factors, you've got discontent with washington, you've got discontent with party leadership. you've got issues like immigration that dave brat was emphasizing, and you've got the fact that when you're in the congressional leadership you're traveling a lot, you're on television a lot, you're not doing the things, tending to the grassroots in your district in the way that more junior members do, and that was a problem for eric cantor clearly. >> john, curious what you make of the announcement today

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joe scarborough urged them to begin a draft romney movement.hamm, a billion anywhere fundraiser said everyone would encourage him to consider it again. george p. schultz said i wish we could call him mr. president. nbc's casey hunt reports that romney's former finance chairman spencer zwick said i think if you asked this group who can beat hillary clinton, they eyde say mitt romney could beat hillary clinton. when asked about the comments romney said the unavailable is always the most aattractive, right. that goes in dating as well. well said there. he later addressed the romney movement with david gregory. >> david, i'm not running for president. i have said that many times. i want to find the best candidate for us to take our message to the american people that we can bring better jobs, higher incomes and more security globally. we can do it. i'm convinced the field of republican candidates i'm seeing is better positionsed to do it than i am. i'm not run aring. talk of a draft is silly. >> anybody who does shots on camera with little cowboy f

in regard to this bergdahl situation, i am listening to chris matthews and joe scarborough and theseuys who have never served in the military and don't have children serving in the military screaming about president obama's decision. what is fascinating to me about all these programs -- i have to say, a little bit "washington journal" as well -- they don't have a lot of vets on who have been in these situations. a lot of us who have never served have no idea what it is like to be in the situation that bergdahl was in. i am not condoning whatsoever what he allegedly did. but if president obama were to leave him there, wouldn't that be exactly what we are complaining or people are complaining about bergdahl doing, abandoning his comrades or whatever? i just think they had to do what they could do to get him released, because that is just an example of we don't leave people behind, even though, ok, bergdahl, whatever they find out through the hearings. the other thing i've become aware of this what our soldiers have really gone through by listening to the winter soldier congressional he

it's inappropriate that you as well as joe scarborough from msnbc are attacking a man whose son has been held in captivity for five years. you don't know what that father has been going through unless you've been in that situation. what -- how can you even say or even question the motives of this father? you just don't know. and here is a man who has lost his son, possibly cforever. >> and he doesn't know if he's coming back. i'm not in favor of everything bob bergdahl has done and said but it seems to me he didn't ask to be in the national spotlight pape guy from a small town in idaho who then is at the white house with the president. >> you look at the picture. the guy in the middle here is president obama. it was kind of freaky to see the president treating the family as a yellow ribbon opportunity. >> why? >> because he didn't do it for the other 2,000 who have been killed in afghanistan, that's for sure. and he treated them -- again, susan rice is honor and distinction. the case is murky at best. let's just say it's murky. all of his colleagues say he's a deserter but it's murky. an

i want to turn to comments made by msnbc host joe scarborough on his show on thursday, responding toe-mail exchange the twin bowe bergdahl and his father, published in michael hastings and matthew farwell's peace in "rolling stone." >> i've got a 26-year-old son and if my son is out on the wire and he is out there with fellow troops and he writes me up and says he hates america and he is thinking about deserting and he is thinking about leaving his post, i can tell you as a father that 26-year-old or 23 old son i would say, joey, you state the hell right there. i would call his commander and say, get my son, he is not well, get to the military base in germany. i would not say, follow your conscience, son. i would not reach out to the voice of jihad. >> can you respond to this, matthew farwell, if you could understand it? it is just scarborough shouting at the msnbc reporter chuck todd. am stunned by that. that is the first time i've seen that with. doing a lot of press yesterday about this. i'm just astounded that all of these people that did not know a thing about this case for the

from the beginning of this, chris -- and you and i were on a college campus discussing this with joe scarborough and other people before the war started is to figure out why they wanted to do this so badly. the argument over the wmds, i'm sorry to say, dick cheney is wrong. not everybody believed that. i didn't. i don't think you did. lots of people said that colin powell's appearance at the u.n., all of the rest was very, very thin. there was very little evidence he still had wmds. they invaded before the inspections were completed. they really didn't want to know if he had wmds before he started the war. why do it? to this days it is very hard to figure out. none of the theories they had about it made sense that this was going to remake a democratic middle east, no. this was going to empower iran are from are the very beginning. if you put shia in power in iraq they had been living in iran. iran had been protecting these guys. >> anyway -- >> it made very little sense. >> you know, the funny thing is the arguments escaped with the people who made them. we can't remember what they were. george

it was speculation, not a threat. >> mik, we're going to bring joe scarborough in. el like this week, we have used the word "taliban," in many different ways. and as we cover this breaking news, i wonder how many dots we can actually connect here, or are they all just completely isolated situations? >> we will see. i don't think they're isolated. but mik, i want to ask you. you brought up something, i was going to say, you've brought up something i've been hearing from a lot of people inside the pentagon and outside of the pentagon. a lot of people in the military culture, very offended by the rose garden ceremony. and they have said that what the president's excuses were for getting him out did not hold up. military officials telling me that the taliban was not going to kill him. that he was like their gold en goose. i mean, he was their ace of spades. they were not going to get rid of him. and that the president -- i have somebody here who said, he wasn't near death. it didn't happen quickly, they would have never killed him if it had leaked. and what this really i

to invade another country the joke came during a discussion with host joe scarborough and you know timescolumnist nick nicholas kristoff about what the united states should do to solve the crisis in iraq check it out. your columns when i look through columns i see your mission but you've chosen for yourself for me in many cases to bring hope to the hopeless apparently is that you know if i want to read about invading other countries or not invading other countries i'm going to let the bill bill over your bill kristol but not on the not invading side not only not a vegan site just look elsewhere but i will tell you right now it's trying to be kind bill but just the fact that kristol one of the iraq wars biggest cheerleaders was actually invited on t.v. to talk about iraq is bad enough but the fact that he use that platform to joke about his slavish support for bush's invasion of iraq the blood of over one hundred thousand people and over four thousand americans on both their hands is just unbelievably. coming up when it comes to children telling them look but don't touch is a lot easier s

>> i feel like it's the job of being -- if you're given the job of waking joe scarborough in the morninga thankless task. >> fire hose. hot stick. >> being the majority leader in this house republican congress, yes. >> he has stair stepped his way into this position. that's why he's the youngest, the fastest rising. but there is still an undercurrent here that has not been dealt with. the guys rushed this thing through. the base is not happy about it. they wanted to see conservative, you know, pry someone out of the tea party contest. they clamped it down early. they're not given a chance to ramp it up. that's going to come back to bite. this is not going to be an easy transition. everybody's doing the party unity thing. but this is not how it's going to play out. there are a lot of conservatives around the country not happy we the process. >> it's been an interesting process, gene robinson. >> yeah, it has been. very slick. i think this is what eric cantor would have wanted. but, you know, my question about kevin mccarthy, i don't know all that well but obviously i know him a bit. he's

and i used to call myself, look, i'm just joe scarborough.up, that's pure sugar. it's very bad for you. >> it is very bad for me. i on do it when i get very, very early in the morning. >> fair enough. >> this is very exciting. do you have a favorite movie, a favorite project that you've been involved in where -- where maybe it wasn't the one that brought you the most fame but something that you've done that you're the most proud of? >> i was in a movie called 54, i got to play steve rubel. and a fascinating character, how i knew i could play him was that he used to guard the door at 54 and if people weren't beautiful, they couldn't come in. and they said would you let yourself in? and he said, oh, of course not. and i went, oh, i can play that. >> sounds like your favorite production might have happened along with the first one eight weeks ago. >> and how old is your older child? >> two and a half. spike. my dad's name. it a common liverpool name, spike. my dad was the biggest liverpool fan in the world. and i tried to get his ashes bury in a

. >> you know, joe scarborough, a must win game for the usa given how tough the first round is for themthey had to win this game. >> it's called the group of death and for good on reason. gene robinson, of course, i know i was following you on twitter. i saw you were following the game. >> oh, yeah. >> there was no way we were expected to beat ghana who ma beaten us the past two world cups and no way we were to beat portugal and germany to get out of group play but yesterday, amazing things happened with this match. and portugal having a meltdown yesterday and their best defender is not going to be there. we suddenly just have to draw against portugal on sunday and we're through! >> we're in. >> but we got to do a little better, you know? this was a great ganelme and gr win but a little worried about the injury. but ghana dominated most of the game. for us i guess about the set pieces. that corner kick. we are good at that. and we better be really good at it when we play portugal. >> we were beaten and bruised yesterday. broken noses. >> you got to say, although all of that is true abou

i just want to encourage joe scarborough, this matthews, "washington journal" to have actual vets onnd not let these situations with our vets get so extreme -- for instance, with the v.a. situation -- and then scream about everything. guest: well, it's an interesting comment. first of all, i didn't make it to boy scouts so i am hardly a person to hold forth on what happens to vets, although i want to encourage one thing for you to think about. i don't think it is fair to tell folks that they can't comment on subjects related to military unless they have served. criticism,ng a including of many democrats, from people that were arguing against cuts in the military well, you can't really talk to because you haven't been in uniform. these are important public policy issues and i think that some of the aspects of this are worthy of public debate. i think that you are right when it comes to boots on the ground come that is a perspective that we need to hear from veterans. as to the release itself, i happen to agree, even though i disagree with many of the actions that president obama has t

. >> tim, first of all, joe scarborough. congratulations. hated forever, ronaldo, score a deciding goal that helped us go through and i saw everton's goalkeeper make me chant out usa, usa. what does it mean for u.s. soccer? >> thank you. it means everything for u.s. soccer. job one is to get out of the group. if you don't, it's a massive failure for as far as we've come. so we've done the first job and now we're on to the next round. it feels good. >> what has jurgen klinsmann meant to the team? >> he's brought in a new owe-- bunch of new ideas, fresh ideas that maybe we hadn't seen before. it was good, he shook things up after the last world cup and that's what every team needs. he's driven us forward with his enthusiasm, with his passion. you're talking about a guy who's won the world cup himself as a player so there's not much that we can debate with him. >> tim howard, thanks. good luck in tuesday's match. we'll be watching that. >> usa, baby. usa. >>> news to cover this morning. this is quite something. president bill clinton is reprisi

[inaudible question] >> in the same manner as matt lowary -- >> if joe scarborough was here you would be laughing and impressed by how well he understands politics. he is a good friend and why i am here today. morning joe started because his radio show was on msnbc for three hours and when he got in trouble for talking about the rutgers women's basketball team and he was let go. and they were pulling people off the street to >> host:. you got an hour in the morning to get an nbc idea. joe had a primetime show at night and it was his idea to take the morning and turn it into politics. he was watching me and he plucked me. i didn't know him well. and dad knew micka better. i owe joe a great deal of gratitude. morning joe was the first time i hosted a tv show. >> willie i want to know if you have ever tried to parallel park in chicago because i understand you are one of the best in the world. >> top five. i said in an interview years ago someone said what is your special skill? and i said i am one of the five best parallel parkers in america. and sure enough the first day they had three

in regards to the bergdahl situation i'm looking at joe scarborough and guys who have are never served. don't have are children who served. screaming president obama's decision. what's fascinating is i have to say washington journal as well. they don't have are a lot who have been there in these situations. so none of us who ever served, have no idea what it's like to be in the situation. i'm not condoning whatsoever what he allegedly did. if president obama were to leave him there, you know, wouldn't that be exactly what we are complaining or people are complaining about him doing -- abandoning his comrades or whatever? i just think they had to do what they could do to get him released. that's an example of we don't leave people behind. though whatever they find out through the hearings, the other thing i have become aware of is what the soldiers have gone through by listening to the winter congressional hearings. i encourage chris matthews not to let the situation get so extreme and scream about everything. >> first of all, i never made it beyond webelow. i'm hardly a person to hold

>> if they had captured a senator or a cabinet member or joe scarborough, of course we would negotiateith them. >> i would leave a senator for sure. >> i'd get a bullet in the back of my head. >> stop. >> we need to go to david. let me just say right here yes. damn straight it matters he was a deserter instead of a war hero. and yes, damn straight it matters that maybe six americans have already died because he wanted to roam the fields of pakistan. damn straight that you leave him there if it means that more americans are going to get killed and more daughters and sons are going to grow up with their moms and -- without their moms and dads. this guy and his father who was sitting in the rose garden with a president of the united states made a calculation that they were going to abandon -- that he was going to abandon troops in one of the most dangerous parts of afghanistan and put their very lives at risk. damn straight he's at the bottom of the list of the people you want to get out of there. i would try to get the 72-year-old guy out, the reporter. people that didn't actively seek o

[inaudible question] >> in the same manner as matt lowary -- >> if joe scarborough was here you wouldughing and impressed by how well he understands politics. he is a good friend and why i am here today. morning joe started because his radio show was on msnbc for three hours and when he got in trouble for talking about the rutgers women's basketball team and he was let go. and they were pulling people off the street to >> host:. you got an hour in the morning to get an nbc idea. joe had a primetime show at night and it was his idea to take the morning and turn it into politics. he was watching me and he plucked me. i didn't know him well. and dad knew micka better. i owe joe a great deal of gratitude. morning joe was the first time i hosted a tv show. >> willie, i want to know if you have ever tried to parallel park in chicago because i understand you are one of the best in the world. >> top five. i said in an interview years ago someone said what is your special skill? and i said i am one of the five best parallel parkers in america. and sure enough the first day they had three cars