one thing we know, any interview with lawrence o'donnell will be a nfascinating one. t's watch lawrence and mr. green. >> are you a witch? >> no. first i want to remind everyone that demint started the recession. >> your nickname in high school, i'm told, was turtle. does that tell us -- where did that come from? does that tell us anything about how this race might end up? >> demint started the rerecessi, demint is responsible for the recession. >> seriously, alvin, your nickname, turtle. where did that come from? >> no. >> no? okay. >> demint started the recession, and i'm the best candidate that defines where we are at in this country. >> lawrence o'donnell. you can't miss those interviews, whether it's vice president biden, levi johnson or alvin green. amazing jim demint started the recession. did you see the streaker at president obama's rally in philly the other day? there were streakers. he's up there. firing up the base. let's get excited about the mid terms, the good people of pennsylvania. some dude gets nude and goes streaking through the crowd. oh, dear. oh,

"the last word with lawrence o'donnell" airs weeknights at 10:00 p.m. on msnb. >>> here's a look at some of the stories also in the news today. >>> producers and crew on the film set of "transformers 3" got some unscripted action when the bumblebee got side swiped by a real police vehicle. some thought it was a scene from the movie. the wreck temporary halted production, but shooting will continue all week. >>> a florida woman is going to get some help from a problem that's been buzzing over her. a company that specializes in africanized bee also remove a huge beehive 30 feet high in her tree, after several others said they couldn't help. even the city refused because it was on private property. until it's down, she warns neighbors to stay inside. >>> the largest pumpkins are still rolling in. at a competition in california a gorgeous gourd tipped the scales at 1,435 pounds. this is the first time in 11 years that a home-grown pumpkin has taken the title. the winner's secret, you wonder? pumpkin seeds donated by a previous win perpendicular. >>> back in

last night on the last word with lawrence o'donnell, lawrence asked michael steele what he meant back it in january when he said that, quote, government has never created one job. >> you know, having a government job is great. it's a great opportunity. i know a lot of people -- i've had government jobs in the past. >> so you've actually had a job -- you've had a job created by government, so you no longer hold to that that government does not create one job? >> lawrence, the fact that the government creates a program and that people administer the program, people that get a job from that, that's a whole separate piece from what this economy is about. our job creation in this country is not based around federal government employment. our job creation in this country is based around small business owners. and it is the mind set that you're now putting on the table that is what the problem is in this country right now. i don't think that the american people want to hinge their future to a government program or a job created through a government program that could go away overnight. rear

. >>> last night on "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell, he got a chance to talk with chris coons. he was asked how he felt after sparring with his opponent, christine o'donnell, some of which got some laughs. >> we spent an awful lot of time dealing with the distraction of issues that my opponent -- things she said years ago on late night tv, things that keep coming back to haunt her, frankly and i think dogged her in the course of the debate. what i hear up and down the state of delaware, is folks that are interested really in the issues of how we tackle the deficit in debt, how we create jobs and make america competitive and wolf blitzer did a terrific job in holding my opponent accountable for her actions and statements and a lot of things she has done as a candidate as well as as a tv pundit. it was great to have a chance to debate her less than three weeks from the general elections. we have tdhad a number of other debates she hasn't attended. a lot of folks have been eager to get a chance to ask her questions and hear her views. she likes to claim she has matured in her fai

because i'm not a witch. >> good evening from new york, i'm lawrence o'donnell. laware is now the most watched senate race in america. republican tea partier christine o'donnell versus democrat chris coons. tonight the two a faced off in a debate for the first time at the university of delaware. going into the debate, chris coons led christine o'donnell in the polls by an average of 19 points. 56 to 37. the debate played to a packed house, campus tickets sold out in less than ten minutes on monday. university of delaware students were obviously hoping to have some fun. christine o'donnell did not disappoint. >> there's been lots of discussion in the national media about things my opponent has said or done that i think are distractions, from the core issues that delawareans were asked about. >> you're just jealous you were not made fun of "on saturday night live." >> hear now the one person standing between christine o'donnell and the united states senate, delaware's new castle county executive chris coons. chris coons, i know every candidate leaves the debate stag

tonight, and we will see you again tomorrow night and now it is time for the "last word with lawrence o'donnell." lawrence, good evening. >> thank, rachel. >> indeed. >> there is nothing tea party candidates love more than telling us what is wrong with politicians in washington even as they all dream of becoming politicians in washington. what the joe millers and the christine o'donnells and the sarah palins most want to avoid, answering questions. tonight, a tea party candidate who is now leading in her race for the senate was finally forced to answer questions in a debate this ended moments ago. >> you don't know me. let's get together, and let's ç talk. >> getting to know sharron angle, easier said than done. >> she has been ducking the media ever since she won the primary in june. >> you, the viewers, had a number of questions for sharron angle and we have made numerous attempts to schedule an interview with her. >> we needed the press to be our friend. >> to be your friend? >> to report the news the way we want it to be reported. >> reporter: even when her own campaign called a news confe

start with the michael steele clip of him speaking last night with lawrence o'donnell. >> do you agree with christine o'donnell? do you wish she wasn't privy to classified information i mean, america would be safer if she was not privy to classified information, wouldn't it? >> christine o'donnell is a fantastic candidate for us and i can't wait to call her senator. >> she is lying about the classified information, right? reassure the country -- >> i don't -- do you know that, lawrence? >> she doesn't have any classified information. don't worry. >> do you know that? do you know that? is it legal for her to have classified information? >> do you know that for to sure? >> to an absolute certainty. >> deduce your evidence and invite me back on the program to talkn't it. >> she is absolutely lying. >> do you think o'donnell has classified information? >> i don't know what information christine o'donnell has. i think there's a very legitimate concern about the extent to which china controls our debt and the impact that's going to have on our economy. >> that's -- >> and the fact that china

so lawrence o'donnell on monday through thursday, 10:00 eastern on msnbc. >>> and you know, lawrence johnston, former fiancee of before bristol palin. bristol has one of her own starring with the alaskan band wearing an oversized mink coat. icy eyebrows and lashes. call it is a mother nature role. here's a clip. ♪ >> i think my role was like a mother nature role. i wore a mink coat with a big fur. my eyebrows all iced. >> wonder what pete letter have to say about that. >>> two russian cause knocosmon to the space station. an the launch site, no other than russian spy anna chapman deported by the u.s. in july. appeared briefly in jeans and a red coat. she refused to take questions but did take pictures. >>> whew. >>> just a bit outside. florida governor charlie crist with the first pitch at game two of the tampa playoff series. no, crist wasn't blindfolded. currently on the outside in the polls for his u.s. senate bid, crist is apparent lay good sport. walked off the mound way smile. in the real action, yankees took down the d r-rays and too a 2-0 lead in the series. >>> what happens

i'm lawrence o'donnell. a lot of people have a lot of reasons to be angry in this economy, but that's no excuse for these shocking increases in secret militias documented by "time" magazine, which we will discuss later, and there's never an excuse for any billionaire to be angry. so what explains a billionaire candidate for governor on the verge of slugging a reporter? i don't know. what do i know about billionaires. for that, we turn to "the last word's" fave billionaire, the mayor of new york. thanks for being on tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> this is the first question for all the billionaires on the show. i'm going to let the audience know the answer, so the pressure is on. >> doesn't seem fair. >> come on, this is something you're supposed to know. really. any kind of decent billionaire would know this. but the mayor should know this. the audience knows the answer, but they don't know the question. and the question is -- what is the minimum wage? >> u.s. minimum wage is about $15,000 a year, about

i'm lawrence o'donnell. as the republican party continues to try to gloss over its tensions with the constantly embarrassing tea party candidates it has been forced to embrace, republican party chairman michael steele now says the two parties are actually locked hand in hand. tired of what he calls nit-picking and back fighting he has one target in mind. nancy pelosi. he has taken his message on the road in a "fire pelosi" bus tour, but who's really driving that bus? and does it make a difference? i spoke with michael steele earlier today while his bus was stopped in los angeles. michael steele, thanks for joining us. >> great to be with you, lawrence. how's it going, man? >> all right. now you've said that the republican partied on the tea party are locked hand in hand. that's your phrase. and you have a republican nominee for senate in alaska who says the minimum wage is unconstitutional. so is that now your position, republican party position, that the minimum wage is unconstitutional? >> what i meant by

historic access to justice brennan talking about thurgood marshall. >> i saw an ad for the lawrence o'donnelldn't have access. they just made that up for the show. there was one part where i thought this was fascinating as his biographer. he told you he was disappointed in thurgood marshall but then said, be careful with how you say that. i don't want to be misinterpreted. >> it was a hard part of the book. they really were good friends. they worked together closely. i think justice brennan felt that when he got on the court, this man who had been the great lawyer of the 20th century didn't do as much work on the court to help advance the issues they cared about together. >> lawrence o'donnell, your name has been mentioned about the blum blumenthal lie you mentioned. stephen just got himself bokked for any time he wants, any time he wants. stephen, your access kind of stuns me. justice brennan allowed you into his chambers at 7:00 a.m. every day and you were able to pore over anything you wanted, open any drawer. is that what he allowed you to do? >> i started cloeslowly. i went carefully and

that is a violation of their rights. >> all right, lou dobs on the last word with lawrence o'donnell.it week nights, 10:00 eastern, right here on msnbc. >>> okay, let's do our trivia who is current lit longest serving governor in the united states? the answer is north dakota governor john hovan, he was sworn into office on december 15, 2000, just six days before the second longest-serve governor, republican rick perry of texas. >>> coming up, president obama, vice president biden on the road trying to rally the base but republicans still hold a wide lead in the money race. up next, the weekly readout with the "washington post's" ann corn blus. >>> and at national journal's major garrett. >>> and coming this up sunday on "meet the press," the kickoff of the senate debate series. alexy giannoulias versus mark kirk this sunday. >>> first, the white house soup of the day, serving corn and crab chowder on a friday. chuck todd is off. no one to comment on the soup. so we will just play it out to the break. ♪ [ male announcer ] ever have morning pain slow you down? introducing bayer am, an e

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that's the headline that's emerging from lawrence o'donnell's interview last night with the rnc chairman on lawrence's show the last word. steel asserted that the republican party is in lock step with the tea party, so lawrence challenged him on whether the republican party woulded a don't one of the tea party positions that the minimum wage is unconstitutional. after steel countered that he doesn't do policy, lawrence as he's want to do took it a step further. >> what is the minimum wage, michael? >> you are really like the minimum wage, don't you? i want to talk about a lot more things besides one issue. whether the minimum wage is $7, $10 or whatever it happens to be, in whatever part of the country you live in, the fact is if you don't have a job, that number is irrelevant until you get one. >> the minimum wage is not $7 or $10, but let move on to jobs. you have said, michael -- >> that will be your headline. that will be your headline, law rerngs steel doesn't know the minimum wage. >> 7:25. steel later weighed in on christine o'donnell who shocked the party establish want when she

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cheery, thoughtless woman who has no idea how to control her own pocketbook but i think that lawrence o'donnell made this point a few nights ago. it is delaware. delaware's all about taxes. and the american public is all about the economy right now. and i think in terms of messaging, the democrats are right on this. i mean -- >> if she's a dead beat, it matters. >> fiscal responsibility. >> you can't be a deadbeat, you're saying. >> exactly. >> you might be a witch but a deadbeat won't work. >> exactly. >> it's kind of strange up there you have to worry about your witch thing. here's o'donnell i want richard here, on o'donnell on cnn saying she's been a lot -- she's seen a lot of -- now first of all a lot of buzz in our business about -- an i was up in massachusetts last night. a lot up there of course but i haven't seen any hillary for president signs. let's watch. reed voted to pay for sex offenders, what else could you need to know about harry reid? >> is that unlady like to go after viagra ads? you need an actress to do it? >> maybe you only want attractive women to talk about viagra. in te

cheery, thoughtless woman who has no idea how to control her own pocketbook but i think that lawrence o'donnell made this point a few nights ago. it is delaware. delaware's all about taxes. and the american public is all about the economy right now. and i think in terms of messaging, the democrats are right on this. i mean -- >> if she's a dead beat, it matters. >> fiscal responsibility. >> you can't be a deadbeat, you're saying. >> exactly. >> you might be a witch but a deadbeat won't work. >> exactly. >> it's kind of strange up there you have to worry about your witch thing. you cover the deadbeat. shears sharon engel's ad hitting harry reid over a bogus -- remember we talked about this viagra thing. it was a time they accepted any amendments they had to accept basically the ball from the house. they had already gotten 60 votes. look how they're using it now. let's listen. >>> but here's the kicker, reid actually voted to use taxpayer dollars to pay for viagra, for convicted child molesters, and sex offenders. what else could you ever need to know? about her ay reid? >> there they get a young

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we will see you again tomorrow night, now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> come on, rachel, a disgraced former politician has to make a living somehow. >> you know, for $5,000 i'd be happy to debate that with you, lawrence. >> all right, we'll do that some day, rachel. >>> former witch and current candidate for u.s. senate could run no more. after weeks of evading questions about what she really believes, she faced her opponent tonight. christopher koonz will join me for their debate. >> i'm christine o'donnell, i'm not a witch. >> former witch christine o'donnell wants the jokes to stop. >> just like you, i have to constantly deny that i'm a witch. >> it is disgusting that it has even gotten this far. >> yeah, how did that happen? >> companies are cross breeding humans and animals, mice with fully functioning human brains. >> why are monkeys still not evolving into humans. >> you can't masturbate without lust. >> it's that kind of spinning with words, things that we know will not prevent aids. distribute condoms in high school. >> is candidate o'donnell starting

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> thanks, rachel. you had rand paul, i have ron paul. >> congratulations, man. enjoy. >> thanks, rachel. >>> every forest fire begins with a single park, so did the tea party movement, tinderbox ready to dismantle the american government and its revenue must have gotten their ideas from somewhere. tonight, their fearless leader, libertarian ron paul. >> you cut government back to its constitutional size, that's what you need. >> once at the fringe of his party, congressman ron paul is now the accident figurehead of the republican tea party leading the fight to tear down the american government. >> i believe that's what the tea party movement is all about is cutting it back to size. >> ron paul's message also the fuel for more extreme tea party candidates. >> who is ken? >> you regret at all dressing up as a nazi. >> i'm linda mcmahon. >> christine o'donnell. >> i'm not a movement. >> the father of a movement. the father of one of the most extreme nominees, senator from kentucky, his son rarnd paul. >>

here's what the chairman of the rnc said about that last night on "the last word with lawrence o'donnellsified information. >> christine o'donnell is a fantastic candidate for us for the united states senate and i can't wait to call her a senate. >> michael, you know she's lying about the classified information, right? reassure the country. christine's lying about that she doesn't have any classified information. >> do you know that? >> joy-ann reid and george pataki are with me. governor, a tough position to put michael steele in. >> he laughed and there's not much else you can do and this is the level of debate for an important u.s. senate seat. >> how did it get to this point? >> i don't know. but, on the other hand, i just was reading this morning that the democrat has al franken going in and campaigning for him. so, it's not as though both sides are

he squared off against the author of the article last night on msnbc's last word with lawrence o'donnellred illegal immigrants, and that's the essential facts. >> i don't have evidence that you directly, knowingly employed any undocumented worker. all i'm saying is they labored on your property. the question i'm wanting you to answer is where does the buck stop, lou? you became you're holding yourself to a different standard. >> michael, where does the buck stop? >> nobody was turning off that debate last night? i was captivated by it. tamron, i think there's probably truth on both sides. i didn't hear anything in the discourse where he disvowed a single word of that. what is the charge? as you've already said that five or more individuals who were undocumented or illegal worked on his property. his defense is to say well, i'm not the one who hired them, and i believe they're probably both right. in terms of where the buck stops, the buck ought to stop, in my view, at the border. we need to control our border e. and while this is embarrassing for lou dobbs, because surely it is. i was re

. >> i'm lawrence o'donnell. if you were watching this program closely last week and have a strong memory you already know my answer to multiple choice is c in washington there's no such thing as fighting. i said that in an interview with david axelrod while we were discussing complaints about president obama from his supporters. now, this might be just semantic confusion over the verb to fight. in my years as a senate i never saw a politician fight. i heard most of them lie during campaigns and promise they were going to fight. in presidential campaigns the press is always complicity in these lies pretending they are covering a campaign for king instead of the campaign for chief administrator of the co-equal branch of government that includes another branch populated by 535 independently and democratically elected members. instead of fighting elected officials in washington simply asked other politicians to support their positions. and those other politicians consider those requests based exclusively on their ow

. >> good evening, i'm lawrence o'donnell. a new article alleges that undocumented imgrants worked in the gardens and horse stables of the media's leading anti-illegal immigration crew cader. is lou ready to turn himself in? joining me now is isabel mcdonald whose year-long investigation into lou dobbs' especially ploimt practices including five people he employed without papers is in the paper now. and to respond, joining us from his new jersey home, lou dobbs. now lou, you are only the second person to do two appearances on this show. we're going to give you complete chance to deal with this. in courtrooms, the prosecution goes first. i'm going to have isabel make her case first briefly and then have you respond to that? is that all right, lou? >> i will brace myself. >> i heard some of the exchange on your radio show. so this is round two. isabel, what is the basic case you came up with in this year-long investigation? >> well, in my investigation, which included interviews with five workers who told me that they had work w

here's michael steele getting the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> what is the minimum wage, michael >> you really like the minimum wage, don't you? i'd rather talk about more. whether it's $7, $10, whatever it happens to be in whatever part of the country you live in, the fact if you don't have a job, that number is irrelevant until you get one. >> the minimum wage is not $7 or $10, but let's move on. >> all right. that will be your headline. that will be your headline, lawrence. still doesn't know the minimum wage. >> he doesn't know, joe miller, the tea party-backed candidate doesn't believe it's constitutional and then you've got this democrat talking point going into the midterm. is that a problem? >> reporter: when they can't speak coherently or consistently about what the issues are facing the country, that's a problem. the member mum wage question is the equivalent of what is a price of a gallon of milk or carton of eggs or in new york, what's the price of a subway ticket. that's basic knowledge. if you don't have that, you shouldn't be leading. >> good to see you. >> reporte

. >> i also want to get your reaction to this because last night lawrence o'donnell called this the mostefefective political ad he hadç ever seen and from the friends of christine o'donnell. let me play a little clip of it. >> in america where jobs are being lost and wages cut in delaware where the economy is suffering, hide your will. hide your lights. because he's taxing everything out here. chris coons is the tax man. >> because you remember antwan dawnson the guy's whose sister allegedly was attacked by someone and he said hide your wife, hide your kids because they're raping everybody out here, that's that, antwan has gone -- >> but is it effective political ad you've seen? one of them? >> one of them. >> could it work? >> sure, sure. because it's more substantive than the actual candidate. >> it's a different political ad. >> it is not that sort of glossy, shiny ad where you see a politician sitting behind a window in the back with their pretty backyard and an american flag and saying, hi, i'm so and so and i'm going to make sure that we get jobs for you. >> nicely done, nora. >>

. >>> last night if you didn't see it on nbc's the last word with lawrence o'donnell, dobbs faced off with a reporter whose investigative piece claims dobbs knowingly had undocumented workers employed at his estate. listen to this. >> i would say that is wrong. it fails logically and freight forwardly. the only person who would have been illegal in any context would have been a landscaper working for the contractor working on my house in florida. that may have happened. that isn't my employee, nor is it the reason i would have contracted with that landscaper. to suggest i hire the person who is illegal, if she can document someone is illegal is an absurdity. i absolutely did not. maybe there's some fine point you would like to straighten out for me. i'm telling you point-blank. i've never done so. >> on the issue of immigration, the white house released startling new numbers that caught our eye. a record number of illegal immigrants were deportd this year. it's an effort by the obama administration to reinforce federal immigration laws. in all, more than 390,000 people were deported.

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and the housekeeper's name is nicki, and allred appeared last night on "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. let's watch. >> i know she's reluctant to attack my client because she doesn't want to alienate the latino voters, but -- so she's trying to use me as a punching bag, but none of that is going to deter us or deflect from the fact she terminated my client's employment not because she was undocumented, lawrence, because we believe she knew that for years. she did it because my client wanted to be legalized and she thought at that point she would be so -- >> gloria -- >> so, andy, is this a side show or is it going to become the main act? >> it's certainly a main act. the whole story is belief. do you believe that meg whitman knew that her housekeeper was illegal or do you not? it's one of those issues where it's kind of a dangerous thing for jerry brown to be playing with. on one case, you know, this is not a great story for whitman. on another case, you could see how this might be able to rally people behind her if they feel like this is a partisan attack and you certainly see that wh

last night, it was really extraordinary on lance word with lawrence o'donnell.et's watch. >> lou, she says there are people that she's spoken to who have worked at your home who are illegal. that means you've hired these illegal workers working at your home, doesn't it? if what you're telling her is true. >> i would say that's categorically wrong. it fails logically and straightforward causality. >> lou, you're holding yourself to a completely different standard than the standards that you've held all other american employers to. >> it was really gripping television. basically what she, the reporter, was saying is you can't say just because it was a subcontractor that i have no responsibility because he had on television over and over said that people should be held legally liable for what their subcontractors do in their homes, around their homes, their guardnes gardens. is the fact that john mccain refused to work with barack obama on this and therefore lindsey graham wouldn't, is that a turning point for this issue, and would you see any chance that after the

. >> good evening from new york, i'm lawrence o'donnell. as newt gingrich recently reminded republicans, ronald reagan's speech in 1980 was america versus the malaise. and this week gingrich unveiled his latest contribution to the campaign talking point cannon. his new slogan is, "paychecks versus food stamps." he recommends that republicans repeat the democratic party of food stamps and the republican party of paychecks. so republicans believing it a winning slogan have run with that this week, making sure americans know that the party of paychecks doesn't know. and doesn't care what's actually in your paycheck. last night on this program, republican national committee chairman michael steele didn't know that the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. even after several republican candidates had run into trouble because they either didn't know how much it was or hinted that they wanted to lower it and some actually saying they wanted to eliminate it all together. since about 2/3 of americans support raising the minimum wage, you'd expect t

. >> i have to go because the current rcn chairman was a guest on lawrence o'donnell. eal a line from him. as a former rcn chair i'm going ask you the same question about christine o'donnell. she said the china has a carefully thought out and ext strategic plan to take over america. she said i wish i wasn't privy to some of the classified information i'm privy to. do you think christine o'donnell has classified information. >> i don't know what information christine o'donnell has. i think's a allegedly mat concern or to which china controls our debt and the impact it has on our economy. >> you know that's not the question. the question is her making a statement that she has this -- she has classified inform snoogs well, chris, you're asking me a question i can't answer. i don't know what information christine o'donnell has or doesn't have. >> do you think it's likely? >> i think if she says she has information that indicates that china has a plan to increase its influence over the economy, i'm not sure how many people can argue with that. whether it's classified or not,

this time it is for what he did not appear to know last night on "last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> what is the minimum wage, michael? >> you really like the minimum wage, don't you? >> i -- >> i want to talk about more than one issue. whether the minimum wage is $7, $10 or whatever it happens to be in whatever part of the country you live in, the fact is if you don't have a job, that number is irrelevant until you get one. >> well, the minimum wage is not $7 or $10. let's move on to jobs. you have said, michael -- >> all right. that will be your headline. that will be your headline lawrence. steele doesn't know the minimum wage. >> he got that part right. it is the headline. joining me now, a man who knows the minimum wage, michael sm smurconich. your thoughts? >> i was -- i was the maintenance man at mcdonald's, and i loved that job. i would be easy to say that michael steele is a knucklehead, but i said to my producer, is it $7 or $7.25? it's embarrassing. it will hang it us. i don't know. i'm not ready to hang him out to dry on this. >> i get that because a lot of people may

much more on that debate coming up with the "last word with lawrence o'donnell" and his guest is p personwho is running against both of those candidakancandidates. we will be right back. [ male announcer ] 100 potato chips or 100 pringles. both cost the same, but only the pringles superstack can makes everything pop! ♪ ♪ whoa-oh-oh-oh ♪ yeah, yeah ♪ hey, hey [ male announcer ] the choice is yours... 100 of these or 100 pringles. same cost but a lot more fun. everything pops with the pringles superstack can! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ another day ♪ another dollar ♪ daylight comes ♪ i'm on my way [ indistinct shouting ] ♪ another day ♪ another dollar ♪ working my whole life away [ dogs barking ] ♪ the boss told me ♪ i'd get paid weakly ♪ and that's exactly [ bull lows ] ♪ how i'm paid ♪ another day ♪ another dollar ♪ working my whole life away ♪ another day ♪ another dollar ♪ daylight comes ♪ i'm on my way one month, five years after you do retire? ♪ client comes in and they have a box. and inside that box is their financial life. people wake up and realize i better start doing something. we open up that box.

. >> let's take a look, not to do cross promotion, but my friend lawrence o'donnell had some interesting guests last night including rand paul and one thing they talked about and one thing they talked about was medicare. so, let's take a listen defining where he stands on medicare. >> if you want to have medicare for the elderly or education for our children, you can't do it by running up trillions of dollars in debt. that is my beef. my beef is this, that we have to cut. but i don't come out and say, oh, well, we're spending too much. what we have to do is cut medicare, we want to abolish medicare. you're absolutely distorting my views. my views are this and i do get a lot of support from the left because they understand the true progressive understands what i am saying. >> does the true progressive understand what he's saying? >> what progressives are saying particularly when you look at the gop pledge where it will cost $700 billion and we say, okay, where you going to cut and they won't give a straight answer. ron paul is right, we do need to bring in the deficit and i think republic

. >>> excellent booking night yet again on "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" he'll be talking withthis show. do you remember when newt gingrich accidentally gave an award to a dallas strip club, he took it back, and they got their feelings hurt? that story just got so much worse. >>> officials in chile estimated if all went well, it would take 24 to 48 hours to rescue all miners. but tonight, they exceeded their best estimate. the final miner reached the surface at 8:55 p.m. eastern. about 22 1/2 hours after this extraordinary rescue operation began. the last miner to make it to the surface is the foreman and leader on the crew, who said he would not leave until every other man on his team was rescued first. after reaching the surface, the crew chief introduced himself to the president of chile and then he told the president we hope that we can avoid an accident like this from ever happening again. we will be right back. [ male announcer ] 100 potato chips or 100 pringles. both cost the same, but only the pringles superstack can makes everything pop! ♪ hey [ male announcer ] same c

lawrence o'donnell wanted to know.t the senator's daughter, meghan mccain, said "on the last word" here on msnbc. >> you knew it was the biggest mistake of his life? >> i don't think it was the biggest mistake of his life at all, i think she brought a lot of momentum to my father's campaign. history can judge it. my family doesn't like to look back. it's a pretty great trait. we don't sit around the table talking about the election, thank god, otherwise i probably wouldn't go home. >>> we're about to play something for you that you might never expect to hear from my esteemed " eed msnbc col league andrea mitchell. "30 rock" featured a brilliant cameo by "nbc nightly news" brian williams reporting on rumors that tina fey's character, liz lemon, is having an affair. and wait until you hear the jaw dropper! >> and we have this just in to us. richie and liz spotted in tree. eyewitnesss report k-i-s-s-i-n-g. for more let's go to nbc's andrea mitchell. >> thank you, brian. good luck. >> i didn't even know she knew that word.

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fighting back on those perceptions and he appeared after the debate on msnbc, "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" and addressed the whole issue of being this guy far back in the pack. >> let me tell you in the primary you had people down here writing my political obituary saying it's over. down ten points three weeks out. we won by 26 points. >> you got a sense from watching the debate that rubio had sort of the cool air of a guy who thinks he's doing well. and for crist who really needed to land a blow he made his points. all three seemed to have prepared zingers for the other. but it wasn't the kind of knockout punch that a cyst might have needed and because meek has underdog status he played that big as well. >> kelly o'donnell in our washington newsroom covering that. it was quite the debate of course. there's still a lot of talk inside of florida and crist circles and crist people are hoping to convince meek to get out. meek was pretty feisty. he seems like a guy that's not going anywhere. >>> jobless numbers and the retail picture are setting the stage for wall street. becky quick co-host

he was live with lawrence o'donnell covering this event. and you could see the joy because kerry has been talking with these family members day after day, waiting to see if it was possible that their loved ones could be brought out of that situation safely. i understand kerry is ready for us now. kerry, we just watched yet another rescue. i got to tell you, i was watching you last night and you could feel the excitement that those families were sharing with you through your emotions. >> you know, how could it not be infectious because of what's taking place here? calculate 70 days below earth and then everybody said it wasn't possible and then they were coming up. and now it's continuing. and it may actually be wrapped up by tonight because they're moving so further ahead of the schedule than they actually thought. they thought this would take 48 hours. this started just after midnight last night and now we continue to see that the tempo is improving. the family members are, you know, going up and being brought out and every one of them is