women's hockey team playing for gold in a showdown with canada on msnbc. mancuso with another crack today. the medal count, united states still on top with 28. germany has 24. norway with 18. and canada picking up a little speed with 15 overall medals. and speaking of canada, every day since we arrived in vancouver we have honored on this show a great canadian. from shatner to trebec to pamela anderson. this morning we will reveal the greatest of them all according to you. can't go wrong with john candy. i wouldn't be surprised if gretzky wins. there's still time to vote before we reveal your choice at tend of the show. shoot us an e-mail right now at waytooearly at that time waytooearly@msnbc.com. >>> we'll get back to the games a little bit later on. first here's a look at today's stop stories. president obama is set to take on republicans this morning at a televised health care summit in washington. although the meeting is meant to kick start bipartisan negotiations, there is little evidence either party is prepared to give ground. republicans are calli

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he threw in msnbc as an afterthought.dy watches that now anyway and i don't know how much impact that's going to be. because he doesn't want the other point of view challenging his positions. >> jon: too much president obama, elliss. >> apparently not, it serves him well and people want to look at the guy and numbers are still big. jon, i understand and i have a little bit of a conflict of interest because i make a big part of my living in cable news and radio. watch 24 hours a day, fine with me, but there's a bubble that some of us fall into who watch and play too much of this stuff. and one of the reasons i try to report from my columns, you actually meet some real people once in a while. >> jon: kirsten, one of the criticism the president has been doing, basically offering an olive branch to republicans and turning around in the next breath and hammering them. is that part of the white house strategy? >> i guess he's trying to have it both ways. the idea that you're not suppose today get information from news sources,

msnbc meteorologist bill karins is tracking it for us.do you see as the biggest problem anywhere? >> mid atlantic anywhere from the delmarva to chesapeake bay. first off, you can see the storm, bright white clouds. the storm itself is located in two pieces, one be headed through missouri. and the dominant storm now developing in northern florida and southern georgia, as the moisture spreads up the coast. expected snowfall totals, very significant, right from virginia, west virginia, maryland, delaware and southern jersey. why isn't this storm heading up to new york city, hartford, boston, providence? there's this huge ocean storm, a blocking storm. this looks like a hurricane in the north atlantic. it's not going to allow the storm that's coming off the mid atlantic coast to head northward. this storm will push it out to sea. that's why, contessa, areas to the north get spared but not areas in the mid atlantic. it's very rare. >> you're keeping a close eye on that. we'll check back in with you during the day. >>> john edwards' sex scandal

chris matthews with "hardball" is next right here on msnbc. you tomorrow night from hartford. >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. leading off tonight, feed the hot hand. in basketball, you get the player to the player who's on the streak. that's if you're smart. that's precisely what the presidential game plan these last seven days has been. give the ball to barack obama, get him out there with the people, hitting his points. the president was up in new hampshire and his message to independent voters was clear. look at me now. i'm out there leading the country through this tough time when everyone else just sitting on the sidelines offering their criticism. the latest gallup poll has his approval rating making a turn upward since the state of the union speech. so it's working. >>> plus, don't ask, don't tell, both defense secretary robert gates and the chairman of the joint chiefs admiral mullen testified on capitol hill in support of ending the policy. >>> the oscar nominations are out today. how nominated movies like "up in t

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and msnbc down a whopping 47%. that is armageddon. the factor remains the most widely watched cable tv program in the world. we are very grateful. that is the cable news program in the world. that is reality check. pinheads and patriots, the grammy edition moments away. the images from haiti are heart-breaking-- homes, hospitals, and schools destroyed; families searching for loved ones; parents trying to feed their children. but we can all do something. we can help the american red cross as it delivers the food, water, and medicine that can save lives. donate $10 by texting "haiti" to 9-0-9-9-9. visit redcross.org or call 1-800-red-cross. thanks for your help. bill: time for pinheads and patriots. the grammy show last night was interesting. we admire this song from the zack brown ban. ♪ america ♪ america, america god she had his grist on thee ♪ -- god shed his grace on thee ♪ and crown thy good with brotherhood ♪ from sea to shining sea ♪ ♪ bill: excellent. while some in the audience were confused because there was no rapping we belie

the number to dial is 1-877-ed-msnbc. my question tonight is do you trust, it is about trust, do you trust that the republicans will work with the democrats to create jobs? press 1 for yes, press 2 for no. i will bring you the results later on in the program tonight. joining me now, where unemployment is high the state of michigan, senator debbie saab now joins us tonight. good to have you with us. >> thanks, good to be with you. >> i was at this health care clinic yesterday in hartford, they basically feel that the congress has struck out on health care reform. if the congress strikes out on job creation, who is going to pay the political price here? what do you think? >> well, ed, first of all, i don't believe that we are going to strike out on health care we can't afford to do that, because it is about jobs, we are losing jobs because of the cost of health care, losing jobs overseas because of it as you saw yesterday at the clinic, the problems that people are having aren't going away. so, i'm still also very focused o

vice president biden brought that message to msnbc. andrea mitchell, host of msnbc's "andrea mitchell reports," had the exclusive with vice president biden. she joins us now. andrea, i know one of the things you talked to him about, among others, was this threat from yemen. he was quite candid about it. >> he was very candid. we were asking about the whole question of giving the miranda rights to the christmas day attempted bomber. and he said, look, that was a mistake, but we have dealt with other threats. and i said, are there other threats out there now? and he said, yes, there are. there are other threats to the u.s., domestic threats, and here's what he had to say. >> we've isolated al qaeda out of afghanistan and pakistan. it is on the run. we've knocked off most of their -- >> but yemen -- >> yemen's a growing problem. and yemen and the whole african c continent, and east africa is a problem as well. this is something you've got to stay on top of, totally. this is something that's not going to away overnight. >> that was a prett

that just into us here at msnbc. a 6.0 magnitude earthquake.ly update you as we hear more reports about whether there was any damage there. >>> also some news about an arrest that has been made in connection with a deadly massacre on a town on the mexican border. they are questioning the lookout man for the killers. on sunday they went on a shooting rampage killing 16 teenager students. this is at a birthday party in the border town el paso tech texas. they are concerned the violence will spill over into the u.s. even more than already. telemundo joins us from miami. jose, your investigation shows a lot of this violence has spread into the u.s. what have you learned? >> indeed, norah. by the way, those 16 kids not related at all to anything to do with drugs. they were just at the wrong place at the wrong time. the fact is if i can paint a real quick mental picture for you all about the situation in mexico. in 2005, it took about eight months into the new year before the country registered it's 1,000th execution by these thugs. you know how long

tonight: >> if everybody here turned ooff your cnn, your fox, your msnbc. the topic is constantly politics. that's part of what the american people are just sick of. >> bill: once again, president obama tells the american people that cable news is not helping the country. karl rove and dick morris will have some comments. >> oh my god! they have lost jon stewart and as stewart goes, so goes an incredibly small yet for some reason demographically valuable segment of our population. >> bill: jon stewart enters the no spin zone. >> you have alley's reach. did you see the arms? >> bill: you have no idea. what does he really think about president obama and fox news? >> this is going to be awesome. [ laughter ] >> bill: also, dennis miller will react to my conversation with stewart and is have some academy award observations. >> i'm going to stay the course. >> bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly, thanks for watching us tonight. did you know that republicans are stupid and evil? that

howard fineman of msnbc and "newsweek", many thanks. >> thank you, keith. >>> if mr. brown, massachusetts, has not yet heard from wall street he should keep his phone on. new york state attorney general andrew cuomo today filing civil fraud charges against bank of america, its former ceo ken lewis, and other executives saying the bank purposely misled investors about more than $15 billion in losses at merrill lynch not to mention huge bonuses in order to complete its purchase of that firm in late 2008. that wall street might still need reform in the wake of the near collapse of the u.s. economy, republicans now actively seeking donations from wall street by making the case they would be antireform. "the wall street journal" reporting that house minority leader boehner has been courting jp morgan chase, chief executive james dimon until now a big democratic contributor telling him congressional republicans have stood up to the president's effort to curb pay and impose new regulations and expressing his disappointment that so many on wall street continue to donate their

watkins, contributor to msnbc companion website thegrio.com.'s the one single step families can do to save their money? >> well, you have to cut the fat. you have to rethink how you perceive money. you may want to reconsider the difference between the things that you want and the things that you need. i'm telling families to go through and do a line-item analysis of all the things you're paying for every month and determine whether or not you can afford that lifestyle. and if you can't, it's okay to downsize. it's okay to reconsider how you live. it's okay to dig deeper into your resources. remember, you don't have to get a job in order to have an income. if you like to bake cookies, sell tumer ware, whatever it takes to bring in extra money, i recommend people explore all those options. the goal is not to just get a job but enough money to do what you need to do. >> so many americans essentially are underwater on their mortgage, in other words they owe more than their home is currently worth. what should they do? >> first of all, think about w

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so i go up -- i go up to msnbc and i see the newsroom. and i think okay, i'm going to get even with her. i'm going to let her know i may be from the university of alabama, but i'm not dumb. [laughter] >> well, not that dumb. and so i go up to her and i say, hey, mika, joe scarborough, great to meet you. she said very nice to meet you, too. by the way, i just want you to know i know you're making fun of my show. to which mika presents to respond without missing a beat, how can i make fun of the show that i have never even seen? [laughter] >> good question. >> that's a good question. >> i am a journalist. >> and then i responded, without skipping a beat, how would you like to do a morning show? and that's how it started. and we always had these people always say, how long did you guys work together? you've got this great chemistry. it was very simple. we just -- i recognize in her somebody who frankly, my dear, just didn't give a damn. she had been through enough. she wasn't freaked out about how she could get on the today show to talk abou

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here at the table with me, steve mcmahon, democratic strategist on msnbc analyst pat buchanan.at, what is his point here? he is talking to the business elite. message is also to get out to the done. >> i his basic point is look i'm the mainstream democrat. i'm a free market advocate and here for government and our job is to help private enterprise do the job. it is not to supplant it. and i think it is a very centrist message he is delivering from all over that i read and heard so far. >> he's saying let's not hurl accusations, he is saying let's come back to a new normal in washington. >> right. david axelrod put it very well aier ago when he said the president's job is to be inclusive of the opposition and the opposition's job is to be constructive. and i think what he is trying to do at -- in a broader sense is that these are common problems, not democrat problems or republican problems. they are america's problems. we have to do it for the good of our country that may not always be for the good our party. i think it is a centrist message as well. >> he is making a political

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. >> with us tonight msnbc analyst jonathan altar and columnist for "newsweek" magazine. john, good to see you. >> thank you. >> what just happened here? >> this was a big triumph for the rule of law and lucky break for the obama administration. if this had gone the other way, the heat would have stayed on from the republicans. this lets us say, as fbi director mueller did, that our system works, that there is no fundamental clash between national security and our values. and that's the message the president has been trying to deliver since his inaugural address, and it was reinforced tonight. >> but you said the republican heat would have continued. obviously, pete king and hoekstra and giuliani are not going to say, we were wrong, the system does work. we're sorry. i mean, even though that last "washington post" poll said 62% specifically approved of the way obama had handled the detroit case before this development, where, gosh, the system works and cooperation with the family turns out to be more valuable than, you know, trying to drown the man, they've been selling i

the host of "hardball" here on msnbc. thanks for staying around. >> it's fun. >> it is fun. >> it's a fun time these last few days to watch politics come back into our lives and democracy going to work and two sides going at each other. instead of just one side. >> i saw you talking about this on "hardball" today. yesterday i saw your segment titled, has obama got his groove back, and it certainly seems like he's got momentum. do you think it translates to him getting stuff passed? >> yeah, i had this image of an old cowboy movie where the soldiers, the guys on the uniforms or horses, they're inside the fort. the indians are attacking outside, these allegorical indians. i always wondered why did the soldiers not stay in the fort? why didn't they stay in the inside and hide behind the fence? you know why? because they're cavalry. he's happier on his horse, he's happier out there fighting. he's been under attack. i think you talk to people in massachusetts, all through this hosanas about scott brown. he won because the demo

. >>> i'm tamron hall on msnbc, questioning toyota any minute now. the president of toyota will try and explain his company's actions before and after the massive global recall. can the grandson of the man who started toyota repair its image? live coverage of day two of that congressional hearing on the company's safety record. >>> and bonus here, bonus there, before you know it another great year for wall street and record bonuses. new numbers, billions of dollars, handed out again to wall street. rolling stones' matt taibbi and the bailout hustle. a math teacher being called a hero after two students are shot. the incident happened in the same community left devastated after the deadliest school shooting in our country's history. he hear what teachers and witnesses are saying today. >>> the star witness to testify on day two of the congressional hearing on toyota's massive recalls. toyota's president, akio toyoda, is here from japan, a leading japanese newspaper says his performance will be a crucial test for his company. this follows yesterday's e

my concern is that if we do that, then we're essentially back on fox news or msnbc on the split screent arguing back and forth. so, my hope would be that we can just focus on the issues of how whoa actu we actually get a bill done. and this would probably be a good time to turn it over to secretary sebelius who -- >> can i say, mr. president, the american people cared about what we did and how we did it and that's a subject that i think we should discuss. >> they absolutely do care about it, john. and i think that the way you characterized it, obviously, would get some strong objections from the other side. we can have a debate about process or we can have a debate about how we're actually going to help the american people at this point. and i think the latter debate is the one they care about a little bit more. so, kathleen, why don't you just address some of the issues related to insurance reform? there's some agreement here, but i know that on the republican side, there are a couple of concerns about rate purview, the issue of setting up some benchmark standards that insurance compa

you see a lot of bickering back and forth. >> msnbc political analyst richard wolffe, it seemed like at his remarks today, the remarks that house democrats have been waiting for the president to make ever since that election in massachusetts, house speaker pelosi says, look, if he can get the senate to pass these fixes even through reconciliation we can then go ahead and pass the senate health care bill as is. we can get you the votes but the house democrats have been frustrated because they felt the white house is not lighting a fire under the senate. that seemed to change today. >> reporter: i think it changed today and in the state of the union. lots of references to the house having done something, waiting for the senate to do something and not just on health care. what was topic "a" today was about jobs and small businesses. this is the jobs package, the second stimulus, if you will, the house voted on earlier late last year and the senate is supposed to be picking up now. that's the priority here is to get the senate to do something on the economy, to find a path on health care

and msnbc chi bnch krncbc chief correspondent, norah o'donnell.ips of o'reily and stewart. >> we'll have that as well. >> and wanda sykes. >> but, first, mika brzezinski with some of the top stories. >> yes, finally. time for a look at today's top stories. the toyota story. toyota's chief executive will hold a news conference today as the company faces a public relations nightmare over a series of safety concerns. executives are considering another major recall this morning, amid new issues involving the braking system in its 2010 prius hybrid it would affect more than 100,000 drivers in the u.s. and 170,000 in japan. that is on top of the 4.5 million other vehicles already being recalled over sticky gas pedals. the automaker says it will cooperate with federal investigators and congressional hearings scheduled later this month. wow. >>> president obama will be pushing his attempt to jump start job growth in maryland. it follows yesterday's appearance at the national prayer breakfast, where he called on leaders to reject cynicism and partisan atta

what is the president's reaction to these two msnbc revelations?ughter] >> robert, do you think it made it more difficult for sheikh mohammed to get a fair trial with the comments you made yesterday and the fact that he would be -- why not? >> no, because i daresay, ann, we wouldn't go to trial and indict him if we didn't feel like we had a case that would lead to a conviction. and i think -- i don't have any problem saying that i think that conviction would lead to the death sentence. >> and he would be in a civilian trial, with the same kind of protections other defendants would get, including innocent until proven guilty? >> absolutely. >> and do you believe that the president still is insisting on civilian trials, even though a growing number on capitol hill are saying they would stop the money for those civilian trials? >> well, look, i think the president believes, particularly if you look at the southern district of new york, you've got experienced prosecutors at bringing these cases, experienced judges at hearing these cases. we've all seen

. >> my concern is is that if we do that, then we're essentially back on fox news or msnbc on the split screen just arguing back and forth. so -- my hope would be that we can just focus on issues of how we actually get a bill done. >> reporter: president obama made some overtures toward republican ideas such as medical malpractice reform and allowing insurance companies to sell policies across state lines, but no deal. diane? >> let's see what's next now, jake. george stephanopoulos, our chief political correspondent, host of "good morning america," has been making calls. george, what's next? >> reporter: everyone goes back to their corners, diane. first, for the president, and the house democrats, they have to figure out, are there any republican votes out there. the answer to that is almost certainly no. now, what the democrats might do is still take some of them republican ideas that the president talked about and include them in his bill. but then go back, especially to house democrats, and see if they can get those 217 votes they need to pass the bill. right now, they are short. >>

msnbc will carry it live. you can watch it stream live on our website nightly.msnbc.com. >>> now we go to florida where a winter vacation outing to seaworld turned into an awful scene today as one of the star attractions turned on its trainer. our own kerry sanders with us from there tonight. good evening. >> reporter: good evening. the killer whale that attacked and killed the 40-year-old female trainer in orlando today has a history of aggressive behavior. the name of this killer whale is tillikum. tillikum has been involved in human deaths, another one in 1999. tillikum is the largest orca in captivity weighing over 1,000 pounds. the trainer had the whale on its back. this is the trainer identified as dawn brancheau and described as highly experienced. she was apparently petting the whale on its stomach and then tillikum was called to go out into the main show area. instead, witnesses say, it turned back around at a high rate of speed and slashed in the water and grabbed dawn, the trainer right there, and b

first, we have "hardball with chris matthews," the political news show on msnbc and then we have "nipk." [ laughter ] a show about plastic surgery on the fx network. two very different shows that have been combined into the new nbc show "hard nips with chris matthews." [ laughter ] it says here, higgins, "the hottest issues, the coldest newsroom and absolutely no undershirt." [ laughter ] >> steve: well, there you are. that's a winner. that's a winner. >> jimmy: that's a winner. yeah, i like the show because he gives equal exposure to the right and the left nipple. [ laughter ] >> steve: you like it because it's not called "ball talk," so -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that was a joke you thought of, higgy? [ laughter ] you thought it was going to be called "ball tuck"? [ laughter ] "hard nip." >> steve: okay. well, now i know. >> jimmy: yeah, you do. yeah. this one here. here's another one here. nbc is just taking "the ghost whisperer" and "flash forward." they're two popular shows right now. they've combined them to make this completely brand new show "the ghost flasher," which is really

. >> if everybody here turned off your cnn, your fox, your -- you know, just turn off the tv, msnbc,folks out there, instead of being in this echo chamber where the topic is constantly politics. sny've said this before and i'll say it again. how would you know what the topic constantly is with the cable chatter if you're not watching and listening to the cable chatter? that's another story for a whole nother show. now to a big rock star on cable, one of our rock stars i'm happy to say, john stossel. he has an important lesson for all of us, essentially to stop whining, stop complaining. >> we keep talking about the good old days and how terrible everything is. tomorrow night's business show i'll point out that's just not true. i think we have a little clip from that. >> wait a second. what about perspective? 100 years ago this area looked like this. the photo makes things look pleasant, but that's only because you can't smell it. there was horse poop everywhere. and many years the city removed 15,000 dead horses. by the time i got to new york, the horses were gone, but movies like "t

i mean, if you look at msnbc, the only black face the easy primary is cameron all. and most of the other african-americans are there every sparingly at best. and those that were there are no longer there. cnn is attempting to be the newest version of b.e.t., since bt does not know how to be news. [applause] >> high, c-span. [laughter] >> since they don't know how to do news. and have been at least courting an african-american, latino audience in a way that most of the other networks have not. however, that has not translated into more african-american or latino producers. and has not translated into them identifying new faces. with a level of integrity can talk about a broad number of these issues. some of that is ecstatic that it saved her career on cnn. but what does that say when we are not cultivating new faces and new voices? we had people like jamal who was on very consistently more finite period of time, but they are not looking to identify voices that are there consistently. and so the real question for us as those that are involved in this space, is how do

and what is the president's reaction to these two msnbc revelations?>> smartly, the president do not occupy his time watching cable television. >> thank you very much. >> a third trial in the somebody made yesterday that he would be quite off? >> i daresay, we wouldn't go to trial and indicted if we didn't feel like we have a case that would lead to a conviction. and i think i don't have any problem saying i think that conviction would lead to death sentence. >> he would be in a civilian trial, to the same kind of protection and other defendants would be including, innocent until proven guilty. >> absolutely. >> to you still think the president is insisting on civilian trials even though the number growing on capitol hill say they would stop money for those civilians? >> look, i think the president believes, particularly with a few look at the southern district of new york. you've got experienced prosecutors that bring these cases experience, judges hearing these cases. we've all seen cases that have gone through that system and ended in a conviction o

. >> chris matthews, the host of msnbc's "hardball." it's nice to be here on set with you. >> i like joining the night shift occasionally. >> sorry to keep you up late. >> i'm not that all. i don't go to bed at 9:00. >> i didn't mean to imply. >>> john mccain came out angrily in favor of keeping don't ask don't tell. he used to say he would favor getting rid of it if the military wanted to. they want to. the census helps us know exactly what we need. so everyone can get their fair share of funding. we can't move forward until you mail it back. 2010 census that's what's gonna happen here. ♪ because you're tasty with toasty whole grain. [ crunch ] wheat thins. toasted. whole grain. crunch. the crunch is calling. >>> in 2006 senator john mccain said he'd be ready to let gay people serve in the military if pentagon leaders said they're for it. well, they're for it, so john mccain today was angrily still dead set against it. more on that next. some models look so mad. maybe it's because their department store makeup is so expensive. simply a

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he is also an msnbc political analyst. gene, always great to have you on the show. thank you very much for being here. >> it's great to be here, rachel. is it true that you have the other gene robinson on your program tonight as well? >> we have two men named gene robinson on the show tonight. only in part because we wanted to have you both on the same show. we probably would have done it anyway, but it's kind of great. >> you cornered the market on gene robinsons. >> we were trying to come up with a segment where we could have you both on at once and i was going to go, take it, gene and sort of do it as a personality test to see which of you would be more aggressive and go for it. >> you would enjoy that, wouldn't you? >> i would enjoy that. neither of you would, which is why we didn't do it. so anyway, let me get your reaction to the president tonight. i mean, two more speeches in one night tonight for the president. what is the white house strategy here, and do you think it's working? >> well, i think the strategy, which you saw begin at the state of the union an

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