john mccain the arizona senator being introduced now and in a moment the 2008 nominee, john mccain, will hand the reigns over to romney as the g.o.p. standard bearer and this is the opportunity for romney to say it is time to get behind the candidacy and the serious business of beating president obama. i spoke to the all but certain fm knee just before the speech and here is how he put it. >> we will have to work hard to overcome the extraordinary funding and mussel of the special interests that support

>> john mccain and sarah palin were very negative at times in '08. in '08 you found obama had so much more money than mccain. this time it will be much more equalized. i think each will have 7$700 er800. it will be a much more balance in terms of finances campaign. >> you have to remember, also, that john mccain at the same time had better poll numbers than mitt romney. 47% compared to right now 35% for mitt romney. >> you also look at the poll numbers being under 50 for the president right now. that is a key watermark. april ryan sitting underneath the space shuttle discovery and perry bacon who looks not far away from that thank you for joining us today. >> there is a lot happening today with the trayvon martin case. there is the live picture again. has to be amazing in washington dc. george zimmerman's lawyer wants a new judge. trayvon martin is the unarmed florida teen shot in february. his death sparked discussions about race and racial subject and is the subject of a hearing today ending racial profiling in america. [ male announcer ] if you hav

nobody else does it. >> rose: john mccain, michael kahn when we continue. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. the republican presidential nominee against president obama in 2008: senator mccain has shaped the debate on a number of national issues from campaign finance reform to the use of torture. as a ranking member of the arms services committee he's been a key member on afghanistan, iraq and the arab spring. i'm pleased to have john mccain back at this table. >> thank you for having me back, charlie. congratulationss on your new gig. (laughs) >> rose: you've been there so i appreciate you coming every time as i appreciate you coming to the table. tell me where you think the syrian situation is and what's necessary to change the dynamic of a stalemate. >> well, first of all, i think the situation is dire, that it's an unfair fight. the russians are pouring arms and equipment in on the part of bashar assad and blocking any meaningful resolutions in the united nations security council. iranians

and the other is john mccain. i did not know mccain would push romney so well and i know he's very sensitive to anything on his right flank. we'll have to see how it lines up and makes a statement. steve clemmons from the american foundation and my pal, nice to see you? thank you, rachel. >>> right after this show on the last word, president obama is compared to hitler and stalin by a catholic bishop. lawrence o'donnell has that story next. good news, michigan is mad at us again. also the best new thing in the world. [ male announcer ] if your kid can recognize your sneeze from a crowd... you're probably muddling through allergies. try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin® because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. zyrtec®. love the air. on the first day you take it. free-credit-score-dot-com'sur boargonna direct you ♪ts ♪ ♪ to check your credit score before it gets too late ♪ ♪ and you end up strapped for cash ♪ ♪ patching your board with duct tape ♪ ♪ so

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and the other is john mccain.ccain would push romney so well and i know he's very sensitive to anything on his right flank. we'll have to see how it lines up and makes a statement. steve clemmons from the american foundation and my pal, nice to see you? thank you, rachel. >>> right after this show on the last word, president obama is compared to hitler and stalin by a catholic bishop. lawrence o'donnell has that story next. good news, michigan is mad at us again. also the best new thing in the world. treat your frequent heartburn by blocking the acid with prilosec otc. and don't get heartburn in the first place! [ male announcer ] one pill a day. 24 hours. zero heartburn. guys. come here, come here. [ telephone ringing ] i'm calling my old dealership. [ man ] may ford. hi, yeah. do you guys have any crossovers that offer better highway fuel economy than the chevy equinox? no, sorry, sir. we don't. oh, well, that's too bad. [ man ] kyle, is that you? [ laughs ] [ man ] still here, kyle. [ male announcer ] visit you

john mccain didn't use the strategy in '08 but can mitt romney attack him on questionable associations? i'll ask radio talk show host larry elder when we come back. ♪ >> governor huckabee: earlier this week, house speaker john boehner criticized the president for ignoring congress. >> president checked out last labor day. he spent the last six months, gaining from one of the country to the other. instead of working with members of both political parties, here in washington, to address the serious challenges that our country faces. >> governor huckabee: the republicans aren't the only ones critical of the president's way of conducting business. california congressman dennis cardoza is one of several democrats to blast the president. in a recent blog he wrote: he'd admonish staff, members of congress and the public in speeches as well as in private. president obama projected an arrogant, i'm right, you are wrong demeanor that alienated many potential allies. how will it come into play in november? i'm joined by radio talk show host larry elder. thanks for joining me today. >> thanks for

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john mccain himself a survivor of prison torture after he was shot down and captured in vietnam.the fight within his own party to ban torture and then he won his party's nomination for president of the united states. >> well, governor, i'm astonished that you haven't found out what waterboarding is. >> i know what waterboarding is, senator. >> then i would astonished that you would think such a torture would be inflicted on anyone that we are held captive and anyone could believe that that's not torture. it's in violation of the geneva conventions, it's in violation of existing law. >> john mccain beat mitt romney in that contest. he won the presidential nomination in 2008. and during that campaign, mr. romney repeatedly refused to say that waterboarding a person was a way of torturing that person. did mitt romney's point of view win out in today's republican party? is that another one of these issues in which even the politics of john mccain and sarah palin in 2008 are too left wing now for today's republicans? we may be about to find out. every time the romney campaign thinks t

john mccain was a candidate in 2008, carried arizona. we don't have that this time. hispanic voters could deliver potentially for barack obama in arizona. >> part of this is trying to shape the conversation so that obama folks want to say the map isnormous, we can play in all sorts of states, including arizona, which is a very red state. the argument is because there are so many hispanic voters and mitt romney is 40 points behind the president among hispanics. but when you talk to democrats candidly, they say arizona is not in play. the roll any team says we're not going to worry about arizona and the places to look at are some traditional ones -- colorado, ohio, virginia. if you had to pick four states to pay attention, to pick those. a couple of interesting states to watch is north carolina. the president won there in 2008. he may not win there this time. pennsylvania is one that might be a battleground but that likely might stay in the obama camp. those are two that might go into their various camps. >> romney spent some time with marco rubio and clearly that is a

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so john mccain has got many other problems and many other issues. maybe he is trying to work them out through these statements. >> maybe he is. i guess from the president's point of view, evenfie. and pealthrear enouoacto 20 wn meha tame, wne sa ttfhe had aidtable intelligence, he would go into the territory of an ally to take that person or those persons out. then to see what actually happened a year ago. that he said what he would do and then he did it if you were him. of course you would gladly talk about it. because you said what you were going to do and you did it. that's what the american people have been for for a long time. >> arff aoscoia scsi. ay witus ase t brk,we wto sh u lve picture ing on at new york's freedom tower right now. you are looking at the newly installed column of the 100th floor which makes the tower the tallest building in the city. stay with us. i'm al ways looking out for i'm al small ways to be more healthy. like splenda® essentials™ no calorie sweeteners. oefi or vitams in everyacket.neeete, mm same greataste wh an add

republican senator john mccain slamming the process that got it passed. >> it was the sleaziest process i have ever seen in my years as a united states senator! the cornhusker kickback, the louisiana purchase, taking lobbyists in the blair house and blankettenning them into supporting obamacare. no wonder the american people are sick and tired of that. that wasn't the kind of government obama promised the

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. >> he attacked john mccain on i am dprags from the right and rick perry for signing a dream act for the state of texas. >> absolutely. >> he attacked newt gingrich for wanting some sort of legal status. >> yep. >> he attacked rick santorum for confirming sonia sotomayor. >> i'll check. >> he made no change to his

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i hope we can always count on seeing john mccain in the u.s. believe in. thank you, senator. [ applause ] >> i'm surprised that senator mccain did not regale you with some of his favorite jokes. i heard a couple of them. he has one where he says this is the only state in america where mothers do not tell their children that some day they can grow up to be president. i think i can join the millions of americans that wish you would have proved them wrong, john. you would be president reit now. four years ago

late today john mccain hammered president of the ad.for diminishing the memory of september 11th by keling)it ino a cheap attack add." it was one just in a series. ended the war in iraq, exit plan for afghanistan. the president praised the military role in all of that today when he addressed 10,000 troops at fort stewart, georgia. >> you have performed heroically in some of the most dangerous places on earth. you have done everything asked of you and more, and you have earned a personal place in our nation's history. >> joining me now is michael eric dyson, an ann lis, and georgetown university professor. thank you for coming on the show. what do you think about the romney campaign calling this video about bin laden devicive. he took offense to president obama and his tactics, methods, and strategies for killing osama bin laden, and now he is attacking him for acknowledging this deed was done, a major act of foreign policy that was incapable -- the previous administration was incapable of performing. even by republican standards, barac

we are back in a moment we'll discuss john mccain calling the war on women imaginary.rongly correct him on that. but we're going to do view finer first. we have unfortunate sexual innuendo from the dalai lama and joe biden. >> look at that. look at that. all right there he is. [ cheers ] >> joe biden is the republican party [ inaudible ]. >> i promise you the president has [ inaudible ]. >> the one fantasy i have and the secret service people look at me like i might do it is to walk right out the front door and just keep talking. >> one person stayed by your side. your loving wife callista. >> if you spent any time watching msnbc lately you should change the batteries on your remote they are obviously dead. >> what does mitt romney stand for? >> what he thinks is good governance. >> i can't get more lean than that -- >> and now hilary has reached the pinnacle that all she is, is a secretary. >> oh my god. they can't give it to the kid. they actually are like rubbing it in the kid's face. [ applause ] ♪ >> everybody sometimes slips. i never do but everyone sometimes sli

in fact, senator john mccain walked in the room with romney.tee spring meeting. let's take a listen. >> but michele bachmann and tim pawlenty and jon huntsman and herman cain and rick perry and ron paul and rick santorum and newt gingrich, thank you to this extraordinary team. we have all fought hard and well and we will fight for the things we believe in. [ applause ] >> and i express my appreciation to senator mccain for his battle for the presidency, for standing true to the principles of our party, for the fact that he has been a fighter for america for decades. this is not someone who came late to the game. he has been a stalwart champion of the things that make america america from his earliest day, and he has sacrificed enormously and continues to battle to this day. i hope we can always count on seeing john mccain in the u.s. senate fighting for the things that we believe in. thank you, senator. [ appl ]