mitchell was denigrating republicans. lock, you have to know and everybody has to know that nbc news is really getting into deep water here with this combination nbc, msnbc. they are really getting deep. >> bill, the most important thing that s. that people understand what they are watching. if the viewers or the readers. >> bill: do they understand the cross section of hard news reporters going into. >> i think it's really clear. i think that when andrea -- i think andrea is beyond reproach as a journalist. when she goes on nbc news. >> bill: i don't think so. i think andrea is a hard core liberal and just getting her opinion out in my opinion. >> actually, i don't. she is married to alan greenspan. is he not what you call a hard core liberal. >> bill: i don't know what he is. >> she has a great reputation. for her own brand she needs to make it clear what's fact and what's her opinion. she didn't do it in this case. she took a cheap shot at the republic presidential candidates. bad for nbc, their management, their share

mitchell was denigrating republicans.ou have to know and everybody has to know that nbc news is really getting into deep water here with this combination nbc, msnbc. they are really getting deep. >> bill, the most important thing that s. that people understand what they are watching. if the viewers or the readers. >> bill: do they understand the cross section of hard news reporters going into. >> i think it's really clear. i think that when andrea -- i think andrea is beyond reproach as a journalist. when she goes on nbc news. >> bill: i don't think so. i think andrea is a hard core liberal and just getting her opinion out in my opinion. >> actually, i don't. she is married to alan greenspan. is he not what you call a hard core liberal. >> bill: i don't know what he is. >> she has a great reputation. for her own brand she needs to make it clear what's fact and what's her opinion. she didn't do it in this case. she took a cheap shot at the republic presidential candidates. bad for nbc, their management, their shareholders

mitchell retrieved a gun -- ricardo mitchell when mitchell retrieved a gun and shot wyatt robinson who was down the street. wyatt's family was not allowed in the courtroom and didn't know he was able to plead guilty until a reporter told them. >> an obstruction of justice is not what we're looking for. if anybody else was in her situation they wouldn't get obstruction and i think she should be held to a higher standard being that she knows the law and she was at this scene to prevent something tragic like this to happen to my brother. >> reporter: mitchell was recorded by a surveillance camera leaving the house with a pistol in his hand. the document says the camera recorded him in a firing stand shooting at robinson. in the document mcclam is listed as witness 2 and says she initially lied about witnessing the murder. during an october hearing prosecutors say robinson did nothing to provoke the attack. robinson's family believes the officer was in a position to some the murder and did not. >> that's the only thing we feel. that's how we feel discomfort because they're not holding her

mitchell hires menard on as a clerk in 1863. which actually makes him one of the first african-americans to obtain a white collar job in the united states government. he was given an equal salary to the white administrative workers in the interior department, which caused quite a bit of controversy. the other workers rebelled against this, complained to the secretary of the interior, and within three months, had pressured them to discontinue menard's salary and urged the secretary of the interior to demote him to a messenger. because they couldn't have him standing there in the same office with an african-american who was obtaining an equal salary, even though he was probably more qualified for the job than most of his adversaries. menard nonetheless sticks it out with mitchell and the lincoln administration as a participant and a negotiator in these colonization schemes. he also comes into contact with another abolitionist. and this is our third picture up here. henry highland garnett. mr. garnett is a very vibrant, fiery speak

mitchell was an irish-born american preacher that lincoln knew from illinois. he brought him to washington specifically for this role, to administer the programs. and mitchell knew of menard through his abolitionist activities and thought of him as a potential ally, who could bridge the gap between the colonization movement in the white community and the immigration movement in the black community. mitchell hires menard on as a clerk in 1863,which actually makes him one of the first african-americans to obtain a white collar job in the united states government. he was given an equal salary to the white administrative workers in the interior department, which caused quite a bit of controversy. the other workers rebelled against this, complained to the secretary of the interior, and within three months, had pressured them to discontinue menard's salary and urged the secretary of the interior to demote him to a messenger. because they couldn't have him standing there in the same office with an african-american who was obtaining an equal salary, even though he was

mitchell and the fellow who cam e int to replace mitchell.an, but not always. the intelligence issue never came up once. i was not part of the discussion. the only time i heard about it is a live brought him into the office. >> see you think the president knew that you were being set up to take the fall? >> yes. i do. i hate to say that. i would like to think he had as much affection for me as i had for him. i think he knew it. i think he had to know it. what have you explain that? >> i do not agree with the jar when the that the survival of the fittest. i was below him -- darwin, but that the survival of the fittest. i was below him on the to change. -- food chain. >> last question and i will let you go. you said tell a story about asking, you are with a group of your former colleagues. you asked him what happened. tell us how that happens. >> we were conversing in my room. the testimony was going on. macgregor had been brought there. we were talking. i said we're in prison because of watergate. what you think we broke in their tax i said i'

bill o'reilly of fox news decided to attack andrea mitchell for this. >> andrea mitchell is the chiefgn affairs correspondent for nbc news. here's what she said yesterday on msnbc. >> i had the advantage or disadvantage, as the case may be, of watching mitt romney and newt gingrich at the same time on side by side screens. it's my job. someone has to do it. >> what was a brief light-hearted aside at the end of an eventful day was suddenly taken up by mr. o'reilly as a comment on the declining of journalists in america. he also implied that she is part of a left leaning press corps which has no interest in the business of proper reporting. of course, he failed to mention that yesterday alone, andrea mitchell conducted thoughtful and insightful interviews with roy blunt. he also failed to acknowledge that countless interviews with andrea mitchell has conducted from war zones, hostile territories, and often from places where women are neither well regarded nor treated with much respect. but none of that registers with mr. o'reilly who presents himself and fox news as maintaining the high

mitchell, thank you so much for joining us today. abouteek, we talked nroblems that the "washingto business journal" uncovered. some very troubling statistics. do you think there is a problem it minority lending when comes to small businesses? >> absolutely. in the late 191970's, you had te community reinvestment act that was not enforced until the 1980's. redas designed to eliminate lining. which was centered around discscrimination. recent events validate the fact e still this country w have a major issue with racism. it is kind of a rhetorical question. until we saw some of those toblems, it is going continue to see its way into the banking industry. >> you also make the case that one thing that can help is support more community banking. communityase for why banking is more open to lending. >> minority banks are a subset of community banks. community banks, even though we ff the deposit in the 40% of small-e business loans. sveryone k knows small busines employs 80% of workers. if you want a healthy economy, you need to create an

>> i'm andrea mitchell live in denver. our daily fix today, we are kicking off the tour of eight battlegrou

i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. president obama will be making a populous pitch aim administer in boca raton, florida. the president is urging dong raise taxes on millionaires on the buffett rule. though it look likes an obama/romney contest, rick santorum is still officially running, or is he? chris cillizza an msnbc contribute somewhere manager editor of post politics.com and nbc's ron mott joins us gettysburg, pennsylvania, traveling with the santorum campaign. chris, let me go first to ron, because ron, are you hearing anything new here? we want to talk about the buffett rule and all of that and what paul ryan said. i just got an e-mail from somebody close to the campaign who said, just make sure you have a camera there in gettysburg. what are you hearing? because we know some people inside the campaign suggested that santorum get out before pennsylvania's primary to avoid the embarrassment of losing his home state. >> reporter: absolutely. good day to you, andrea. we reporters are prone to ask questions, and wh

. >> what about mitchell? >> the way you did about hunt, only more so because he told me once john mitchell want to come here and didn't want this job, i could never turn down mitchell. i could never do anything to hurt mitchell. i think there he really felt a special loyalty that worked differently with me because i was a young guy and career ladder moving up and here's an older man with $500,000 a year law practice in new york and nixon talks him to come down and his wife embarrasses him and he ends up disgraced. >> where were you the day nixon resigned? >> in prison at halliburton. >> how did you feel? >> well, i was relieved that it was over. disappointed because i would have thought he would have taken his own troops with him if he was going to resign, pardon us. or commute the sentences. hopeful that probably jerry ford would do that. i really felt it. i really felt empthetic because i knew what an incredibly difficult thing that was for him to do. just to stand there and look at people in shame. how har

>>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports" it's on. president obama officially hits the campaign trail next week, but first he unleashes hi ace tack dog on mitt romney. >> i said before, thanks to president obama, bin laden is dead and general motors is alive. you have to ask yourself, if governor romney had been president, could we have used the same slogan in reverse? now it the i'm to heed the timeless advice from teddy roosevelt. big softly and carry a big stick, end of quote. i promise you, the president has a big stick. >>> in a race where the economy is a top issue, how important will -- >>> plus sxloisive testimony. andrew young airs john edwards' dirty laundry on the stand as defense lawyers put the top a s aide's credibility under attack. >>> foul ball, a little boy reduced to tears after missing the lucky catch. did the greedy couple next to him really need to pose for the pictures? answer -- no. good day. i'm chris cillizza live in washington, in today, in our daily fix, team obama has made it official, the general election

i'm andrea mitchell, live in washington today. in our daily fix, in dueling devents today more about politics than substance. the president called on congress to crack down on oil market speculators and mitt romney had a picnic with small business people in pennsylvania. chris cillizza managing edter of postpolitics.com. tell us about the events, both sides, because it sounded like what the president said today was exactly what our own ali wineburg reported on march 29th, i think. >> you hit it right, andrea. a lot more politics than policy in both events. i think the next seven months are 90% politics, 10% policy. you could go 95/5. basically what you're seeing here, the obama white house has pushed very hard on things like tax breaks, eliminating tax breaks for oil companies, those things because they believe they can win that fight, that people want fairness in the tax code, and that they -- that is an issue for them. the buffett rule is the sail thing. it about fairness. it's not about higher or lower taxes. mitt romney on the

>> i'm andrea mitchell live in denver. in our daily fix today, we are kicking off the tour of eight battleground states determining november's election here in colorado, obama won colorado by nine buttons 54% of the vote. the unemployment rate here is 7.8%, well below the national average. chris cillizza is an msnbc contributing editor and managing editor of post politics.com. and joins me from washington. a lot is focused on the west and particularly on colorado. what are the prospects here for team obama versus mitt romney assume he's the nominee? >> what's interesting, so in 2000 and 2004, george w. bush won colorado. president obama won it convincingly in 2008. in the 2010, we note 2010 very good election nationally for republicans but democrats, including the guy you're going to interview, john hickenlooper, when he won the governship, michael bennett won re-election. so it was a little bit of a counter weight in the west because nevada the same way. good democratic wins in nevada. so we don't know the is the answer.

today, he used the call to make a desperate plea to our own andrea mitchell. >>> and pinning it, the new obsession that helps millions of women share their favorite things. "nightly news" begins now. >>> good evening. since the wright brothers' first flight, we have competed with birds for space in the sky. they were there first, and from time to time, they remind us of that. occasionally with dire consequences. over just the past 24 hours, three jet aircraft have been hit. in the first instance, tragedy was avoided at new york's jfk when the jet was able to circle around back. but now we have learned air force two carrying the vice president and another jet carrying secretary of state clinton have also been hit. all of them in the past 24 hours. nbc's pete williams is with us tonight with this still developing story. pete, good evening. >> brian, it happened to secretary clinton's plane while she was flying from brussels to paris. the air force landed it safety, but sometimes birds weighing only a few pounds can cripple a 90,000-pound aircraft. riveting video captures how it sounds

brian. >> andrea mitchell to start us off tonight. thanks. >> as we said, this is likely not a one-day story, and it's certainly not just a washington story. as nbc's chris jansing found out today, this one prompted talk all over. >> maria smith is a suburban atlanta stay at home mom of three with a fourth on the way. she considers herself a liberal. but was shocked when she heard hillary rosen's comments. >> i felt offended, i felt mad, i felt like this is someone i thought was on my side but actually really didn't understand me. >> today, she discovered she wasn't the only one with a visceral reaction. >> i have talked about this today at preschool pickup, at the playground talking to some moms about it. i was surprised at how many people picked up the story. >> a story that started as a political discussion has revived a different conversation, decades old, hitting an apparently still raw nerve about a woman's place. leslie has worked at women's magazines for 25 years and now editor of "more." >> welcome to the mommy wars version 2

when it comes to reasons crucially they have found the black boxes actually mitchell now actually currently as we speak undergoing and now assist in moscow information about the final minutes of the flight and hopefully some clues as to what occurred there are three possible avenues already be explored here by investigators who are scouring the crash site just yesterday is pilot error this was a young pilot aged twenty seven that she said to be celebrating his twenty eighth birthday today were not for this air disaster questions being asked about his role asking has been deemed the plane wasn't at the spite weather conditions here in western siberia at the time of the flight dealing with temperatures minus degrees

andrea mitchell in washington, thank you so much for your time

i want to get you back to andrea mitchell who is in washington.iting word from the white house, as you know. i know that the secretary of state has been very vocal on this issue. she was in washington today speaking about it after meeting with our counterparts. what exactly did the secretary of state have to say about this today? >> well, she actually predicted accurately that they would be going to the united nations. this is the month that the u.s. is in its rotation as the president of the security council. so she certainly knows that ambassador susan rice was going to convene a meeting in response to north korea should there be such a launch and in fact that meeting has been called for 10:00 tomorrow as you've reported. they are now looking to china to see what china could do. they are reluctant to take harder action against north korea and with it being right on their border, they will be looked to as a member of one of the five permanent members of the security counsel to whether they would be a stronger resolution of condemnation against no

chris mitchell has the story. >> reporter: the garden tomb, the garden of joseph of arimathea some believe. some believe jesus died, buried and rose from the dead. the garden is a two-acre oasis in jerusalem. british christians bought the garden 125 years ago and formed the garden tomb associaton. for years they have allowed visitors free of charge. richard is the director of the garden tomb. >> we have the perfect representation of the biblical account of the four gospels. everything matches what we show people. >> today nearly a quarter of a million visitors pour into the garden tomb each year. this is the tour visitors get when they come to the garden. jesus was crucified outside the city walls, and there was a garden that belonged to a rich man by the name of joseph of arimathea. >> we came to the place the bible calls gol gat that, that is to say place of a skull. >> what are some of the main questions people ask you? >> some of the main questions from christian groups, can we be certain this is the place where jesus died and where he was raised to life. people ask why there are two p

we begin with andrea mitchell. >> only 24 hours ago, mitt romney was surrounding himself by women and has always leaned heavily on his wife, ann. trying to narrow a gender gap that has become a virtual canyon during the contentious primaries. then romney was handed a political gift wrapped up in a bright pink bow when a prominent democratic strategist and cnn common tear not working for the white house argued that ann romney cannot relate to actual women. >> his wife has never worked a day in her life. she's never dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing in terms of how do we feed our kids, how do we send them to school, and why do we worry about their future? >> with lightning speed, her remarks about state at home moms exploded on twitter. the romney campaign called it a kill ann strategy. obama adviser david axelrod tweeted, also disappointed in hillary rosen's comments on ann romney. they were offensive and disappointing. the first lady who worked part time out of the home until the 2008 campaign tweeted every mother works har

i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. motel from now, the president will be holding a rose garden press conference with canada's prime minister stephen harper and mexico's president philippe calderone. we'll bring that to you live. >>> but first in our daily fix, as republicans close ranks behind romney, team obama is stepping up its attacks on the likely nominee. >> i think governor romney is a little out of touch. i can't remember a presidential candidate in the recent past who seems not to understand by what he says what will ordinary middle class people are thinking about and are concerned about. >> chris cillizza is an msnbc contributor and managing editor of most politics.com. first of all, take a look at that the "usa today" gallup swing state survey which indicates a growing gender gap for the republicans. mitt romney against barack obama, obama opening his widest lead, 51-42. and that shows a big change in the women surveyed. >> yeah, andrea, hugely. president obama in a head to head match-up in many mid-february

i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. in our daily fix today, mitt romney is finally showing his hand spending millions in negative ads in pennsylvania. his campaign hopes this will finish off rick santorum in the keystone state while santorum has spent nothing on tv so far. although the romney campaign did praerl pull those ads off the air today because the santorums have been off the trail caring for their ailing 3-year-old daughter bella. chris cillizza is managing editor of post to picks.com and mark hal her pin is a political analyst and "time" magazine's editor-at-large. chris, first to you, the battle for pennsylvania, this ad blitz that romney has unveiled temporarily pulled but the santorum campaign is going to be back in gear tomorrow, we're told. it will be back up. santorum has not spent any money at all in his home state. >> mitt romney understands that to bring this to a formal, this is over, no one can dispute it conclusion the way to do that is to beat rick santorum in pennsylvania. it's the only state tha

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we found out that john mitchell, while attorney general of the united states, had controlled the secret fund among other people that paid for the bugging at watergate and some of these other undercover activities. and woodward and i would meet in the vending machine room off the newsroom floor, get our good cop bad cop routine 18 row to take to bradley. >> guess who was the good cop and who was the bad cop. >> so, i put a dime in the -- that's what a cup of coffee cost then, a dime in the coffee machine and we just found out, had written the mitchell story. i felt this literal chill go down my neck the likes of which i can remember today. literally. aturned to woodward and said my god, this president is going to be impeached. and wood ward looked at me and said my god, you're richt we can never use that word in this newsroom lest someone think we have some kind of agenda. we just kept going. i think that's the answer. >> yes. >> quick question for josh and the panelists. i was really struck by the notion, the question raised about going after the one fact to gept it on the web because i

jared bernstein, dan mitchell. and a footnote mitt romney will address the same group of itors and reporters here in washington tomorrow. >> ifill: still to come on the newshour, the jump in car sales; the muslim brotherhood fields a presidential candidate in egypt; help for small-scale farmers in east africa; and kentucky's winning strategy. but first, with the other news of the day, here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: the battle over budgets came as republicans held their latest round of presidential primaries. mitt romney hoped victories in wisconsin, maryland, and the district of columbia would finally force rick santorum to step aside. santorum has insisted he is staying in the race. the next big date on the republican campaign calendar comes april 24, when six states vote. tornadoes hit hard today in north texas. the national weather service confirmed at least two separate "large and extremely dangerous" twisters near dallas-fort worth. by midafternoon, skies over dallas were as dark as night. as the sto

correspondent and the host of msnbc's "andrea mitchell reports." steve, the thing i love about watching a romney speech is just watching him play those teleprompters. because he has silenced the republican attack on president obama for using teleprompters. they seemed to have come to an agreement on this. >> i think it's going to be a teleprompter heavy election here. but, look, i think we've watched all of these speeches together through this long primary season. i thought by a hundred miles, this was his best effort. it was the best speech. it was a concise economic argument that i think has the potential to have resonance in the middle of the electorate. and it's something that i think unifies the entire republican -- >> he cleared that very low bar for best romney speech of the season. let's hear a little clip of him talking. it seems like he's reaching, or trying to reach across the gender gap here, talking about single mothers and let's listen to this. >> for every single mom who feels heartbroken when she has to explain to her kids that she

i'm andrea mitchell live in new york. our daily fix today, the republican national committee has declared the obvious, mitt romney is the nominee. he so why are newt gingrich and risk santorum so late to the party. chris cillizza, you've got the sort of gingrich and santorum factor. it's not that they have any leverage left. they've obviously stayed too long at the party and now we hear newt gingriching is going to formally officially suspend the campaign on tuesday and will no longer be getting secret service. >> the thing with newt gingrich, we talked about this yesterday, it was really kind of the end had already come. he hasn't acknowledged it, frankly. this is his acknowledgement but in his own very newt way, not suspending his campaign today but announcing he will suspend his campaign in a week's time. you're right, andrea, i don't understand the thinking here in terms of lever and. newt gingrich is in his late 60s. i don't think he will run for president again and therefore, preserving good will within the party is

that does it for this special edition of "andrea mitchell reports." >> great to see you.p. mitt romney's campaign within the last hour or so responded to comments that he made at a private fundraising event in florida. he talked about what he would cut and eliminate. why so specific in private but not in public? we'll have the official response from the romney campaign. and certainly not royal behavior, if you believe what the pictures indicate. coming up, why she is caught up in a controversy over who pointed a gun at a photographer. it is causing a big scandal in the u.k. ♪ hey, dad, you think i could drive? i'll tell you what -- when we stop to fill it up. ♪ ♪ [ son ] you realize, it's gotta run out sometime. [ male announcer ] jetta tdi clean diesel. the turbo that gets 42 miles per llon. that's the power of german engineering. ♪ i was 18 years old before i had my first fresh bun. the invention that i came up with is the hot dog ez bun steamer. steam is the key to a great hot dog. i knew it was going to be a success. the invention was so simple that i knew i needed to

i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. at the white house, they have canceled the proposed food aid deal with north korea after its failed missile launch. but first, the battle for the white house is a battle for women voters. hilary rosen's comments on ann romney set off a firestorm but rather than starting a debate on the role of women in and out of the workplace, republicans, then democrats rushed to criticize rosen. >> my career choice was to be a mother. and i think all of us need to know that we need to respect choices that women make be. >> raising george walker was not easy. >> the comments that hilary rosen made today wakened many mama grizzlies across the nation. >> that's as the outrageous assertion. >> an ill-advised statement by somebody on television. he's it's not something that i subscribe to. >> ruth marcus from the "washington post" is here for our daily fix. can we get serious, ruth. >> our daily fix of mommy wars. >> you know, you're a mother. i am not, but -- >> we can still be friends. >> we can still