we're joined now from washington by michael schmidt of the new york times.o this is pretty unusual for several reasons. let's just talk first off having the venue in d.c. there's already some pushback. this is a very expensive proposition. >> yeah. typically in the past since post 9/11, these terror trials have been in new york or in alexandria, virginia. there's a real advantage to having them in new york because the jail is actually connected to the courthouse by a tunnel so you don't have to move the suspect every time on a -- in a car that he has to appear in court. we saw this yesterday when the hearing was over, a big motorcade came flying right out of the courthouse, the streets were shut down, sirens were blasting, this were men in bulletproof vests and machine guns on the street. so that is something we'll probably see every day that that suspect has to be moved back and forth here. >> all right. what about the evidence in the case? the fbi wasn't able to get to the crime scene so to speak for weeks. >> yeah. this is an interesting case. this is not

it actually ignited a rally, but at that exact moment the game stopped and michael jack schmidt came out to congratulate rollins along with his teammates. rollins becomes the franchise leader with 2,235 hits. afterwards jimmy talked about having schmidt there to sell bralt with him. >> so, i knew he was in town, but i didn't know he was going to be having a part in it and i hit first base and i looked down and he's halfway up the line. and i was like, whoa that is pretty nice. that's a surprise. >> a cool moment, no doubt. rollins former teammate the flying hawaiian tweeted "congratulations. victorino saying congrats to my big brother jimmy rollins on becoming the phillies' all-time hit leader. 2,235 and counting. proud of you, bro. world series team from 2007 to 2011. first inning chase utley at the dish and this is no base knock. a bomb to right and a solo shot and utley's fifth. second inning runners at the corners and singles to center and junior league can't handle it. the ball gets past him and allows two runs to score. fifth inning, 4-3. i mentioned that jimmy's hit started a

michael jack schmidt came out to congratulate rollins along with teammates. rollins becomes the franchise leader with 2,235 hits. afterwards he talked about having schmidt there to celebrate with him. >> i knew he was in town but didn't know he was going to be having a part in it. so i hit first base, and i looked down and he's half way up the line charging with my bat. i was like whoa. that was pretty nice. that's a surprise. >> rollins former teammate flying hawaiin shane victorino tweeting congratulations to him saying congrats to my big brother. proud of you bro. victorino member of the playoff and world series teams from 2007-2011. >> as for the action, chase utley at the dish. this is no base hit. deep and gone to right. solo shot makes it 1-0 phils. runner at the corner, lake can't come up with it. that allows two to score. 4-1 phillies. fifth inning, 4-3. i mentioned jimmy's hit started a rally. that was capped off by don brown with a whale of a hit here. a three run bomb to right makes it 7-3. phils win 7-4. this day was all about j roll. >> i had th

michael, who's clueless about marketing. so he goes online, paying $500 for an mba degree from the unaccredited "ashley university." then schmidts michael marketing experience, creating jobs at two fake companies one as product manager at "performa marketing" and a current job as marketing director at "altman research." and one last thing that couldn't hurt, michael springs for more than 2500 of those phony twitter followers. we submit both phony resumes through the companies' websites to see if they'll catch our fakes. schmidt boasts he's rarely been caught because few companies thoroughly check resumes and job references. >> they're very boilerplate. they question nothing. >> reporter: at the end of the day, you're lying. and you're helping people lie. >> but, you see, that moral question has to reside within the person who's subscribing to my services. >> reporter: which brings us back to our fake job applicants. over 100 people applied to the two positions, the more promising resumes, including ours, landing here in front of pecoraro's investigators. they don't know who our ringers are, but they find plenty of other fakes,

. >> joining me now is republican strategist and msnbc analyst steve schmidt and michael tomasky of the daily beast. steve, the list of dmcommentato talking about this is an unimpressive list. they are not the kind of people that make things happen in american politics. what is your take about where we are now with the tea party versus the republican party? >> a couple things, lawrence. this group of people, for the most part, wouldn't be able to successfully organize a three-car motorcade, let alone a new political party with ballot access. that being said, they're responsible for republicans giving up six u.s. senate seats over the last two election cycles. the reality is, if the sarah palin wing of the party did split off, it would be -- it would put back into play many categories of voters that republicans used to compete strongly with but haven't done well with in recent years. >> mike, do you see that as possible, that if there was a tea party smplit and they got a candidate for president that that would free up the republican from trying to appeal to that side? >> yes, it would.

we now know that the united states rebuffed, according to the "new york times" today, michael gordon and eric schmidt, the united states refused malaki's request to strike against the militants, strategic disaster assisted by withdrawal from iraq, iraq's terrorists are becoming full-blown army. one of the smartest guys that i have encountered is a guy names dexter filkins with great experience. he has an article in "the new yorker." i quote extremist iraq rise america's legacy, and he says when the americans invaded in march of 2003, they destroyed the iraqi state. he goes on to say -- said the negotiations between obama and malaki fell apart in no small measure because of a lack of engagement by the white house. today many iraqis, including some close to malaki, say that a small force of american soldiers working in noncombat roles would have provided a crucial stabilizing factor that is now missing from iraq. samia el-askari, a malaki confident, told me from my article, and i quote, if you had a few hundred here, not a few thousand, they would be cooperating with you and they would become your part

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