magazine, the time triumphant john heilemann, patricia murphy, a contributor to the daily beast, maggie haberman of politico, and mr. sunday morning, "the new york times" magazine's hugo lindgren. president obama is in colorado right at this very moment where he is about to give the commencement address at the u.s. air force academy. meanwhile, there are some concerning numbers for the president in a crucial swing state. a new florida poll shows since march, there's been a 13-point swing leaving him trailing in the state by 6%. right now, we are waiting for mitt romney to take the stage at the latino coalition's annual economic summit. john heilemann, talk about florida first. are you surprised by the flip in numbers in terms of support for the president in the state? >> no. i think if you think about the big swing states, the president's people are less confident about florida than some of the other ones, much more confident about virginia and ohio now because the economy in those states is growing and the dem graphic composition of virginia favors the president. florida is going to be a close

maggie haberman, it is apparently now a war on job creators. >> a lot of wars this cycle.a lot of these people talking about bain have private equity ties of their own and or are not really sort of the surrogates that the obama campaign cares about in terms of they're trying to send this message into key states, ohio, the midwest. i don't thinking what dianne feinstein is going to matter there. what i do think is mitt romney has to answer his own message on bain and present the other side of the equation. mark halperin asked him four times to sort of push back on the bain criticisms and explain why this is a qualifier. and he sort of fails to do it. he essentially says let's talk about the president's record or my life experience. all of my life experience qualifies me. i can read a balance sheet. a lot of people can read a balance sheet. i don't think that answer is enough in the long-term. >> mark will be discussing that specifically with andrea mitchell live next in the 1:00 hour. >> let's not talk about it anymore then. >> but to maggie's point, hugo, romney has to tac

maggie haberman and mr. sunday morning himself, hugo lindgren of "the new york times magazine." tea party challenger richard mourdock ousted senator dick lugar in last night's primary after 36 years in office. he grated mourdock but offered an ominous prediction for congress, writing "what mourdock has promised in this campaign is reflexible votes for a rejectionist orthodoxy and rigid opposition to the actions and proposals of the other party. if that attitude prevails in american politics, our government will remain mired in the dysfunction we have witnessed during the last several years, and i believe that if this attitude expands in the republican party, we will be relegated to minority status." mourdock responded to this, this morning on "the daily rundown." >> what i've said is i certainly think that bipartisanship ought to consist of democrats coming to the republican point of view. >> well, there's that. joining us now from washington is former rnc chair and msnbc political analyst, the notorious michael steele. chairman steele, is this win, is mourdock's win a good thin

all the rest on our powerhouse roundtable with mary matalin, ralph reed, maggie haberman and hilary rosen. >>> good morning, and happy mother's day to all the moms watching. well, it wasn't the rollout that president obama had planned, but he did make headlines and history in that exclusive interview with robin roberts this week. becoming the first american president to endorse same-sex marriage. the initial political fallout was surprisingly muted but strategists on both sides of the issue say it's still too early to tell exactly how it will play in this year's presidential race. yesterday romney received a rousing ovation for his position. >> as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debate from time to time so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage, marriage is a relationship wean one man and one woman. [ cheers and applause ] >> let's dig into that debate with congressman barney frank, the first openly gay member of the congress and representative marsha blackburn of tennessee. welcome to you both and congresswoman blackburn, happy mot

. >> joining me now maggie haberman and johnathan capehart. they are running scared at the chicago cubs and td ameritrade. the two companies that have an association with the latest crazy billionaire to emerge. i want to read you the first sentence of a chicago cubs statement from ricketts' son joe ricketts. as chairman of the chicago cubs, i repudiate any return to racially divisive issues in this year's presidential campaign. like myhe capehart, i don't quie get what he's saying there about his father. his father was part of a group that was trying to push this crazy idea forward until they got caught today. >> right. until they got caught. this is supposed to be financed by his father's super pac. i think it's called ending the spending. and the new york times did a great service later in the day after putting this huge story on the front page. they provided a link on their website to the entire plan. and jeb later in the day tweeted out something i think most people hadn't paid attention to which is something that's on page 46. now, while

maggie haberman and mr. sunday morning himself, hugo lindgren of

magazine, the time triumphant john heilemann, patricia murphy, a contributor to the daily beast, maggie habermanne's hugo lindgren. president obama is in colorado right at this very moment where he is about to give the commencement address at the u.s. air force academy. meanwhile, there are some concerning numbers for the president in a crucial swing state. a new florida poll shows since march, there's been a 13-point swing leaving him trailing in the state by 6%. right now, we are waiting for mitt romney to take the stage at the latino coalition's annual economic summit. john heilemann, talk about florida first. are you surprised by the flip in numbers in terms of s

the intrepid maggie haberman of politico is here with us, msnbc lovely karen finney and mr. shouldn't morning himself hugo lindgren confident "new york times" magazine. president obama is back in washington, d.c. after a surprise trip to afghanistan. meanwhile, militant attacks killed seven people and injured more than a dozen in kabul this morning. the violence came just after the president said this from bagram air base. >> here in the predawn darkness of afghanistan, we can see the light of a new day on the horizon. >> karen, i want to go to you first on this. surely the juxtaposition of the violence in afghanistan right on the heels of the president's departure, he's delivering a message of hope, but is there any reason at this point to be optimistic about what will happen to afghanistan after we leave? >> i think we can't know. but the president -- i don't know that the president's goal was so much about hope as much as it was sending the political message and the psychological message for the audiences at home and the afghani audience. clearly we needed to send a messa

but michael steele, an article in politico today by maggie haberman and glenn thrush saying that romneynounced distaste for the media and that 2012 is shaping up to be an especially sour cycle. what do you make of that? >> i find it somewhat amusing. obama may share distaste for the media but he sure knows how to milk them. that's for sure. i don't know what he's so upset about. checking the cell phones at the door is probablyhey don't want the okay, we're going to put this on youtube moment but the reality of it is, you know, this is fictitious hate with the press come on on obama's part? really? after "the washington post," what they dollars last week on this little story. >> about mitt romney in his high school days. >> 17 years old. there's probably more concern how the press is going to look at this race from his side than it is from the obama side. >> when have we ever cared whether the people we're covering like us or not. better if we don't. there's a natural adversarial relationship that goes on that spurs us to good reporting. if they're going to ban cell phones at events, we'

. >> chairman, it's maggie haberman. how much -- there are specific factors in this case involving senator lugar. >> yep. >> he dnst didn't live in the state. >> right. >> and was seen as disconnected from the electorate. at what point is it incumbent upon the senators and people in office to run a race, campaign, do things that you actually have to do to stay in office, as opposed to just not have a tea party challenger? >> maggie, you're absolutely right. if you're going to parse this thing down and look at it, that was the nub of the loss here. you know, the tea party challengers in these races have had the advantage of going in and filling a void that's been left by the incumbent who's come to washington, forgotten their home state. they've, you know, not lived there for quite some time, as in the case of lugar, and become disconnected, as we saw with bob bennett in utah, for example. and so, the reality is that you have to stay engaged, you have to, you know, do politics 2.0, and really stay in this new environment,

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