th us today, howard fineman, gloria borger, hunt hunt and -- kasie hunt, david ignatius. they may have resonated out in the country this week, passive, leading from behind. the opponents have ramped it up to challenge the president's very integrity. here is the republican chairman of the house ways and means committee on friday charging a white house culture of cover-ups. >> it seems like the truth is hidden from the american people just long enough to make it through an election. the american people have a right to the truth, to a government that delivers the facts, good or bad, no matter what. president obama promised to be different and to deliver a better government, the most transparent in history. >> and democrat charlie rangel of new york defending the white house in watergate era language. >> how did this happen? who was responsible for it? how far does this cancer go? how quickly can we cut it out? chris: howard, that's john dean language, cancer on the presidency. strong words. i'm not sure he intended to go that far. he did. has the president begun to get contr

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kasie hunt right now is nbc news political reporter. she's with us here. she covered the nra convention down in houston this weekend. and howard fineman is the "huffington post" editorial director and msnbc political analyst. let's take a look at this. here's npr. why do i keep saying that? nra executive vice president wayne lapierre. it couldn't be more different. anyway, he invoked the recent boston lockdown in his argument for gun rights. now, this is twisted but it's how he's thinking and how he's selling. let's watch. >> they can try to blame us and shame us with all their might, but when it comes to defending the second amendment, we will never sacrifice our freedom up on the altar of elitist acceptance. we will never surrender our guns. never. imagine waking up to a phone call from the police at 3:00 a.m. in the morning warning a terrorist event is occurring outside and ordering you to stay inside your home. i'm talking, of course, about boston. how about bostonians wished they had a gun? >> kasie, you were down there, you can give me the tick tock

. >> kasie hunt, thank you so much. >>> so at his ohio state convention speech yesterday, president obamaa's favorite words to challenge the graduates. >> unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warp of government as nothing more than a sinister entity at the heart of the problems. they'll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. should you reject these voices. >> joining us live, mark murray. the president didn't name the nra specifically in that clip but obviously the language of tyranny, certainly language that we hear a lot from the nra leaders. that was a direct shot. >> that was a shot. you do see in a particularly partisan lens that the democrats are going after the national rifle association. the national rifle association in turn is returning fire of and this has turned into a political game right now where it used to be the national rifle association had reach within both parties. marchly democrats from the rural states but it was noted that howard dean, the 2004 presidential democrat was once an nra member. getting an "a" rating. now yo

. >> thank you, kasie hunt. good reporting. >>> coming up, a posing immigration reform. jim demint's heritage foundation claims immigration reform will cost $6.3 trillion. well, that's a lot. heritage's fuzzy math, you might call it, is being challenged. it's being used by the hard right to kill reform which a lot of republicans think is needed to save their party. so they'd like to get it off their back, but yet they're trying to kill it. you figure. >>> also, tomorrow's election day in south carolina. looks like we could see a big turnaround in that race. a ppp poll has mark sanford up now by one point over elizabeth colbert. by the way, that's a ten point net pickup in sanford's favorite in just two weeks. so he might just win tomorrow. who knows. >>> and our series "the unkindest cut" on the real damage those sequestration cuts are actually doing. tonight, kids being turned away from head-start. a great american program. is this a smart way to save money? hurting kids? >>> finally, let me finish tonight with the definition of true immigration reform. this is "hardbal

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