. >> so i want to -- mike barnicle, i'm going to let you follow up. he's starting to talk about what you've been talking about and we've been reading about this week and that some of our close allies in the gulf states have people that have been funneling money to islamic extremists over the past 20 years and they've turned a blind to it and we've turned a blind eye to them. we've talked about going to war militarily and a cyber war but there's a banking -- >> what would you do in terms of locating, freezing the assets of certainly some individual in the middle east who have a long track record of raising and sending money to terror groups? >> you know the countries and i know the countries, too. the countries are obvious and they're very rich and they're sending money to the terrorists, to isis. tremendous amounts of money. it can be tracked and fairly easily tracked if we have intelligence people leading our country but we don't. some of them claim to be our friend but they're not our friend. they're using us and using everybody else. they're rippin

let's bring in mike barnicle to the conversation.store have i about ben carson. i want to ask you about dr. carson, donald. a couple of times you'he's talk about hitting his mom in the head with a hammer and stabbing someone. he actually meant these things happened in his life and faith turned him around. is it fair the way you're characterizing those two events and how important is faith? >> i think faith is very important and i don't want to really get into it with ben because i have a very good relationship but he wrote a thing about going after his mother with a hammer and hitting people in the face with rocks and things like that. >> finding a space. >> i know. but they're pretty severe. i never hit anyone in the head with a hammer. if i did, i was in big trouble. no, it was the whole thing. ben understands. he wrote about it. i'm not telling anything new. but i thought it was sort of a strange situation s.. i have a very good relationship with him. best friends. even with jeb he was nicer. i have a good relationship with these

. >> much ado about nothing at the end of the day, mike barnicle. >> yeah.p talking about the moderators. just have the debates, be asked specific questions about what ryu r you going to do about the economy and -- >> just fair, right? >> you know, boom, boom, boom. >> maybe if they start asking those questions, won't have debates so much. >> be specific though. >> willie geist, it was supposed to be a massive revolt. the massive revolt ended and it ended very quickly and now you have donald trump not surprisingly going off of hin own and he's going to negotiate with the networks by hymn. >> and when you bring in 25 million viewers with the first debate, you've got the leverage to do that. and also chris christie said the debate rules don't bother me. that coalition against the debates kind of fell apart. that doesn't mean i don't think it's a good idea. to get a different point of view asking questions of the candidates. >> we had, of course -- we just showed the new hampshire poll. if we could put that up again. sam stein, you had a very agitated john kasi

mike barnicle, nicole wallace. the star of the new usa comedy, "donny deutsch."here's a review in "the new york times" and it's a love letter to donny. headline is rat pack persona in digital age compares it to "curb your enthusiasm." people are loving this show. >> that review almost seems like you wrote it. don't watch it because you will laugh and you get angry at yourself for laughing. that's pretty much our relationship, isn't it? >> well, willie, let's get to the news. a lot to talk about today. crazy stories coming out of missouri. we still haven't gotten to the bottom of what happened there where it looks like a football team is actually now making academic decisions. we want to talk about that. also an important decision coming from a federal appeals court that may impact president obama on illegal immigration. of course, 12 hours from now, we'll have yet another debate. >> we've got a debate tonight. before we get to that, i want to introduce associate editor of worst, eugene robinson and another writer for the post, jonathan capehart, and al hunt. >>>

with us on the set, we have mike barnicle, mark halperin and on capitol hill, matt lewis.ming? barnicle? >> mercy. you got to get matt harvey out of the game. >> he pitched eight shutout innings. matt harvey gets in his manager's ear, says i want to go out and finish this game, i want to be on the mound when i throw my glove in the air. >> they can really play baseball. the way baseball is supposed to be played, run the bases, hit the ball, catch the ball. >> and a team of destiny, was backed against the wall, was so out of it that a certain texas governor tweeted that, you know, they were gone. >> they came back in all four of these wins in the world series, including last night in the ninth inning when hosmer makes a daring dash at third base. if he's called out at home, the game is over, he ties the game. >> you cannot overstate the degree to which this entire region has royals mania. it has for decades. >> royals mania, jeb mania. you actually said jeb, though. you were impressed by jeb. i saw a tweet where you said anybody that rules him out doesn't know politics. >>

mike barnicle. >> donald, last night you spoke about issues of global importance, about the future ofworld. for too many families in this state and in other states, the future is like this afternoon due to the drug crisis in new hampshire and otherwise, heroin and overflow of heroin. >> heroin in particularly. >> so treatment facilities are necessary in this state and other states. treatment facilities cost money, cost less than incarceration. what is your view on how we get more treatment facilities in this state and other states? >> well, you do have to have that. it's amazing, i'm up here a lot, from here i go and make a speech at a certain place and we're going to have a lot of fun. i'm in new hampshire so much. i'm doing great in new hampshire. i'm leading in the polls by a lot and we're having a lot of fun here and i've gotten to know the people. i have a lot of friends. people don't realize the heroin product -- it's so incredible what's going on in terms of heroin addiction in new hampshire. you don't think of new hampshire that way. most people -- i was very surprised when i

mike barnicle, mark halpern and jamie weinstein all at the table as well.g. let's talk about the debate setup. >> sound like you're ganging up on me. >> i'm not. i'm not. let's talk about the debate setup. what do you make of the setup, especially given that ben carson is one of the front-runners? >> i'm not excited about it. sometime national polls drive things. if they did, we'd have president giuliani and president cain based where they were at this point in time. but rules are rules. you agree to play by them, you don't have to like it. i think there's a lot of unfortunate pairings that happen. if we don't get an adequate amount of time in those debates, it's hard to keep advancing. i only got three questions in the most recent one and it's really hard to get your message out there when you're not able to talk about why we need to protect social security, why medicare is important to seniors are why we need to make big changes in the tax man and instead i get questions like do you think donald trump has the moral character to be president? that's very f

with us we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, mark halper halperin, and eugene robinson as well.et to today. we need to talk obviously about the press conference yesterday, which was inexplicable, almost as inexplicable as the republicans' response but let's start with the headlines and start with the investigation. >> in a moment we're going to get to the president's news conference. it's drawn reaction from all over the idea logical map but first the latest developments in the paris attack. new raid in paris overnight, more than 100 of them. secretary of state john kerry met with french president francois hollande hours after he said it was planned in syria. france identified the lyninchpi in the attack, abdelhamid abaao abaaoud. abaaoud was in charge of keeping track of the attackers, manufacturing the suicide vests. prosecutors have identified five of the seven dead assailants, four are frenchmen and one was born in syria and fingerprinted in greece last month with a passport discovered near his body. officials in turkey said they told france about one of the attackers twice,