i'd like to introduce and i was in the middle of most major conflicts of the twentieth century mr jonathan documentary filmmaker winner fifteen emmy awards and one of the best known to have met with the general. john till now heard is one of the biggest names in american journalism and documentary filmmaking since he worked in the early seventy's he's won fifteen emmys and for columbia to point towards he reported extensively from hot spots around the globe for nature the middle east and latin america he was the first american t.v. reporter to enter coming bodie after the vietnam war and a few years later reported from to her own during the iran hostage crisis after the persian gulf war jon alpert was the only t.v. reporter to get out of the. rock with censored food which helped bring civilian deaths his report was cancelled hours before it was due to be an n.b.c. after john was fired but. johnson welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us today thank you well first of all your latest document sure he is called in times square eighty days egypt's unfinished revolution well f

mr. romney, jonathan. >> hardly the warm embrace of a grizzly -- momma grizzly. but, look.ty in part because she caters to that very conservative part of the republican party that still isn't entirely sold on mitt romney. i think at the end of the day sarah palin and mitt romney want the same thing which is to defeat president obama. i think their voters, the ones that follow her and him will eventually be mostly in the same place. >> now, sophia, matthew dowd of abc explains why palin's endorsement has been good for some candidates saying quote, singularly she doesn't win these races but if there's a forest with a bunch of kindling she puts a match and a light on it. the forest would have to be dry, but she's a spark. that spark could also in some key swing states be something that willard romney could use, wouldn't you think? >> there's no doubt about it, reverend. sarah palin regardless of how people feel about her politics or her personally, as i said she is a darling of the conservative wing of the republican party. and this tea party wing in particular that is highly

mr. jonathan mcbride. [applause] this is how we will manage our time together. i will ask them each to take about five minutes. we are going to ask them each to give them -- to give you an update on what is going on with these agencies as they moved to implement our agenda. brothers and sisters, ladies and gentlemen, what they are doing now really is implementing the naacp's agenda as passed by the u.s. congress and signed into law by president barack obama. let's just go down the line. i see you guys are salivating. i have some questions for them now. that is great. i am going to step down with his microphone. i will do my best oprah winfrey impersonation and walk around and let you ask questions. does that sound good? give them another big hand as we start with dr. bill spriggs. >> thank you for the great introduction. it is an honor to be on the panel with all of these folks. if you would take a minute to reflect on what hillary said introducing all of us, if you do not get what you elected barack obama, understand that no other president -- people talk about

mr. eastwood, sir. >> sir. >> thank you, jonathan. more than 100 nations support iran's nuclear energy program.according to iranian state media. those nations from africa that's a continent. asia and it makes up the largest voting group in the united nations and its members met this week in iran's capital of tehran. of course, iran claiming nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. western nations accuse of it of trying to build nuclear weapons. now the u.n. nuclear watchdog reporting iran has doubled the number of nuclear centrifuges and fortified underground bunker. iran suffered up a separate site to hide it at least one person is dead and thousands have been evacuated as a massive wildfire threatens upscale resort area. it's our top story as we go around the world in 80 "around 0 seconds." spain. authorities say the fire broke out late last night near the southern port. strong winds spanning the flames. popular tourist region. at least two people reportedly suffered burns. at last word officials still investigating the cause. extreme heat and dryness have made this spain's worse summer for

i have buddy roemer, alicia menendez, "the washington post" jonathan capehart and mr. roy ortega.duction of mitt romney? >> he'll stick to the script and talk about how romney is going to help him, help america get more jobs and improve the economy. and he'll also talk about you can be sure something along the lines of american exceptionalism, he used his own family store to talk about how america has a special obligation, special place in the world and a special prominence. >> i find rubio so interesting as his choice standing there between the two candidates n part because he was baptized mormon, went to latter-day saints youth groups but then actually converted to catholicism and latter-day saints, but also he and i apparently share a favorite artist, which is on nicki minaj, are we going to see marco rubio talk about his own story of immigration, his own interesting exceptional american narrative? >> i might add when i was working on my book about marco rubio that people who worked with him on the campaign said, boy, he can spit, he can spit lyrics. he also likes snoopdogg, so

mr. jackson, oh, your fastball were for real. i like that. he had a one hitter going through six innings. jonathan niese of the mets, just as good. he went into the eighth inning and seven strikeouts. we had a scoreless baseball game going on. jackson made one mistake, there it is. ike davis, the reverend syke his make it anymore, mets shut out the nats 2-0. >> i don't know how many keys you had. but you have to a lot. 11. they weren't, i mean his stuff is so electric, i mean, he was over matching us. >> orioles and tieingers in a wild card battle. this is a good one tonight ladies, chris davis in the seventh inning, bop delirium tremens opposite way. three run home run. down the stretch, jim johnson was automatic inducing the groundball. orioles tied for the wild card with the win. they get it 3-2 tonight. and finally, the bears, 33-31 on top of the redskins. it's a good game going back and forth. >> we've got a few seconds left. >> you never know, those redskins, you never know. >> he did come back though. >> there you go. >> what are we looking at sunday? >>> nice day temperature wise, mid-80s,

. >> jonathan, it has been widely said by political operatives that mr.ertain amount of the latino vote. he's been polled at 0% of the african-american vote. he cannot run without some support in minority communities. but just putting people on the stage doesn't get that. i remember when i was born, my parents were republican. my pastor was republican. and jackie robinson, the most popular black at that time was a republican. first black to play baseball. but as the democrat are more pro-civil rights, black people shifted to where their interests lie. don't the republicans understand the way to get latino votes and other votes is not putting people on the stage but dealing with the interests in the policies? >> the gop used to have chairman that understood that very well. ken melman understood that and wanted to reach out. michael steele, another former republican party chairman who wanted to reach out to african-americans and latinos to broaden the tent of the party because the party can't survive unless it expands and unless -- particularly expands to i

jonathan, we heard red meat from is an tore sxum gop chairman and mr. boehner. most of the speakers were governors and they seemed more interested in providing the crowd with their own resumes than than they did talking about mitt romney. what happened? >> well, what happened is what we knew would happen. these are -- these are governors, these are people who are potentially looking at standing on that stage and in 2016 where the republicans hold their convention. you know, from chris christie to governor mcdonnell of virginia. and they -- have an audience, they have a national audience. >> do they have no shame? >> no, they do not. no, martin they do not have any shame. would you if you are standing there before this screaming, cheering crowd wanting to show them that you are the person who could be their standard -- in four years and especially in a hall where you know that the current standard bear is someone that a lot of the folks in this hall don't luke still? >> james, no one has done a truly effective job of selling mitt romney. meaning it is up to his s

mr. romney still has trouble pointing out specifically any actual lies being told about him. joining us now, jonathanart and in minneapolis, ana marie cox, a correspondent for the guardian. how can mitt romney say with a straight face that he's the one who should be upset at the lies being told about him? >> you know, i don't know. especially since mitt romney, governor romney continued to peddle the false notion that the president has gutted the welfare requirement, continuing to talk about it on the campaign trial, both he and congressman paul ryan. even though as you said, it has been rebutted, proven false over and over again, but perhaps, governor romney is still trying convince the republican party base that he's one of them by playing into this notion that there are people out there who are willing to take government money without ever having to work for it, which as we all know, is just not true. >> do you agree with jonathan, that that's the strategy as far as romney's concerned? say these things that are false in the hope of sustaining support from the base? >> i think so. if i can just ans

jonathan capehart. msnbc and "time" magazine senior political analyst mr. mark halperin. co-host of msnbc's "the cycle," se cupp, thrilled to be here this morning. >> i am. >> and the president of the council on foreign relations richard haass. welcome everybody. everybody awake and alive. >> it's going to be great. >> this is good. >> we're going to get to the convention? a minute. richard, i want to ask you about this big story this morning front page of the "daily news," stripped, lance armstrong throwing in the towel on charges that have followed him the better part of 10, 15 years being stripped of all his titles. is that an admission he did something wrong and didn't want to face the arbitration and see the evidence against him? >> he says it wasn't an admission, it's a nonadmission admission. he's gone forward, all these eyewitnesses would have spoken about it, chapter and verse. seems to me there were enough eyewitnesses, enough smoke you have to say there's fire and it's sad. this guy one of the iconic athletes of our time, made this event popular and brought it

jonathan grimblat. the other nis industry is, why did he react first before everybody else reacted? after a really fun's day worth of effort, we reached mr and he explained it to us. he told us that everybody knew that there were several landing criteria, right? and he calls them checkpoints. these landing criteria checkpoints and everybody knew if they were met, that meant the landing was successful. he said when he saw the rover's sky crane, the rocket thing that eases the rover on to mars and then fires away so it doesn't crash on to the rover, when he saw that thing successfully fire and fly away to leave the rover safely on the ground on its own, he said that was the checkpoint he was waiting for. he knew the landing was successful. >> grimblat also heard animated chatter in his headset not from engineers in that room with him but in nearby rooms. our

mr. assange himself is soon going to speak live in london, outside that embassy where british investigators could conceivably snatch him right off the street. "the fox report's" correspondent jonathan hunt is in our newsroom tonight. if this does happen, jonathan, i guess it will be his first appearance in public in months. >> yeah. we haven't seen him in public since he went into the ecuadorian embassy, almost exactly two months ago, shep, so this would be an extraordinary appearance, if julian assange decides to make it. now, the question is, if he steps outside, even one step outside of that embassy. does he lose the ability to be shielded from the british police? if he is on the top step, for instance, of that embassy, will they move in and arrest him? now, it may well be that julian assange wants this as a final sort of publicity stunt before he is hauled away and sent off to sweden. that might be his style. observed, it might -- on the other hand, it might be very risky if he doesn't want to be arrested. there is always the chance, of course, that his advisors will tell him before 9:00 a.m. eastern time on sunday when he is due to do this that it's really not a very good idea

jonathan capehart, margie omero, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >>> coming up, is it a campaign? or is it a classroom? >> excuse me. well, let's see. there we go. >> we'll tell you why mrromney's medicare class is not accurate. >>> and the right doubles down on its effort to block the vote. we're not going to let that happen. you're watching "politicsnation" on msnbc. ♪ spread a little love today ♪ ♪ spread a little love my way ♪ ♪ spread a little something to remember ♪ ♪ ♪ spread a little joy... [ female announcer ] fresh milk and real cream. that's what makes philadelphia. ♪ so spread a little... [ female announcer ] and that's what makes the moment we enjoy it, a little richer. ♪ real belgian chocolate whipped with philadelphia cream cheese. new indulgence. the moment just got a little sweeter. why not get buried in something other than work? new indulgence. get two times the points on travel, with chase sapphire preferred. with less chronic osteoarthritis pain. imagine living your life with less chronic low back pain. imagine you, with less pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one non-narcotic pill a day, every

jonathan martin for politico, fresh off the campaign trail with vice president biden. we'll get to this. interesting way they try to press manage him. and msnbc contributor and "washington post" reporter mrix hillself, chris, author of the book "the gospel according to the fix." >> yes. >> one of the things about the last five days and it was -- the three of us got together friday morning. >> yeah. >> and then later that evening we found out about paul ryan and one of the things we were debating about paul ryan it was going to take us off the topic of the economy and that's exactly what's happened. we haven't talked about the economy. i would argue in a coordinated way from the romney campaign since before the london -- >> you're totally right. what's so fascinating is the push back you get up when we bring it to the romney people we're playing offense -- >> it's built in. >> and may be playing offense but the economy still hasn't gotten increasingly or measurably better and we now have five days in which we haven't talked at all about it and people say, five days, whatever no one is paying attention, only 82 or 81 days nis election so five days is not insignificant. >> let me back up th

jonathan grinblat. that's one mystery solved. we know who he is. but the other mystery is, why did he react first, before everyone else reacted? after a really fun day's effort, we reached mrgrinblat at nasa today and asked him. and he explained it to us. he told us that everybody knew that there were several landing criteria, right? d he calls them checkpoints. these landing criteria checkpoints. and everybody knew that if they were met, that meant the landing was successful. he says when he saw the rover's sky crane, the rocket thing that eases the rover on to mars, and then fires itself away so it doesn't crash land on to the rover, when he saw that thing successfully fire and fly away to leave the rover safely on the ground on its own, he said, that was the checkpoint he was waiting for. he knew the landing was successful. he also heard a little animated chatter in his head set from engineers not in that room with him, but in nearby rooms, meaning that the other engineers felt it was a success too. but our guy was apparently too excited to wait to cheer with everybody else. which i totally get. that totally would have been me. so to all of the amazing scientists and en