we have a new msnbc/"wall street journal" poll out that shows numbers how tight the race is right now for president. the key may be, who can take advantage of the growing anger at wall street and economic equality. >>> and guilty of involuntary manslaughter. that was the verdict this afternoon. dr. conrad murray was found guilty in the death of his patient, michael jackson. he was accused of administering a lethal dose of an anesthetic that killed the pop giant. >>> and imagine this -- you turn to the side on a plane and who's sitting next to you? mitt romney. we'll talk with the woman who shared a trip with mitt, in coach, by the way. >>> and let me finish tonight with the terrible position of the republican party right now as i speak. they have one candidate who has been perhaps fatally wounded today and another who has never been able to break through to republican conservatives, much less become their champion. >>> we start with this story. sharon bialek says she traveled to washington, d.c. to meet with herman cain for help finding a job. here she is describing a night in which h

. >>> joining me now is ed rendell, current msnbc news analyst and michael steele, now msnbc news analyst. thank you both for being here tonight. >> good evening, al. >> good evening. dismissing policies is not so acceptable, am i right? >> it's absolutely right. i work for a law firm, you consult for a number of companies, but i've made it clear that i won't take a position and won't advocate for something i didn't believe in while i was governor in my public career. i think that's what all politicians should do. you can't be hired guns. you can't start getting out there and start talking about things that are antithey cal to what you tried to do while in office. let me ask you, chairman steele, we've seen in the iowa poll we see them ganged up together. >> right. >>> did this revelation yesterday about freddie mac and today about the health care industry, does this bring gingrich's week or three or four days as a resurged contender to an end? will we see him deflated like we did mr. cain last week? >> i don't think so. i think a lot of the information about newt has been baked into the

could've had a v8. >>> time to dig into our new msnbc wall street journal poll with peter hart and republicanichael roberts. welcome to you both. there is sort of one dominatings a spegt of this poll that is getting overshadowed and that is sort of the anxiety the country has about the government. two questions. one is the economic structure being out of balance. 76% agree on that. the second is this idea that there is too much government regulation. 53% agree on that. the obama vegs, more agreeable but both have majority. >> they do. tells you what's behind this election. awful lot of disappointment. an off lot of fear out there. for the public to sense that the 1% are doing well and the 99% are struggling is clearly the other vision of you have to get government under control. it is more partisan. it is more ideological but both ideas are out there. it is an electorate that is out there to change things. >> michael roberts what i want to also notice is they both have roots in the different populus movements. one in two people we surveyed said they identify with one of these two movements an

>>> plus, new msnbc contributor meghan mccain will be here to weigh in on the gop field and her timeall street protesters. >>> and why today's young adults feel their generation will be worse off than their parents and the tough choices they're making now in the face of a dismal economy. hi, everybody. great to have you with us me today. i'm thomas roberts. president obama is speaking live this hour, turning up the heat on congress to pass a portion of his bill that he says will put thousands of americans back to work. and there is positive news when it comes to the president's poll number this is morning. live coverage of his speech roughly 25 minutes from now. but first, we start with herman cain, still not being able to change the sexual harassment story following him to every interview, every campaign stop on the trail.

new msnbc contributor meghan mccain spent time with the protesters on wall street. she'll join me to talk that and a lot of politics in a mu moments. that most women aren't getting enough calcium. with over 25 flavors, yoplait original gives you 50% of the daily value of calcium in every cup. looks beautiful, honey. [ rattling ] jason... really buddy, wow. samantha jane. ♪ guys, christmas dinner and you're bringing toys to the table? ♪ that, that's not a toy... let's eat! [ male announcer ] get low prices on the gifts they love. and layaway is back, so you can pay a little at a time. save money. live better. walmart. is best absorbed in small continuous amounts. only one calcium supplement does that in one daily dose. citracal slow release... continuously releases calcium plus d for the efficient absorption my body needs. citracal. >>> as a good rule of thumb until things go past allegations to fact, i just try to leave them alone. >> this is the year when we can't settle. this is the year when we can't have any surprises with our candidate. we have to have a candid

a new msnbc documentary chronicles the trial from the points of view of murray and his defense team.nge encounter with jackson in april of 2009, when murray agreed to make michael jackson his only patient. >> dr. conrad, i have watched you. i have looked at you for so long. and i said, why were you looking at me? what was that about? he said, i looked at you because i tested you. and you are the one. >> this morning savannah guthrie talks with murray in part two of her exclusive interview immediately following "news 4 today." >>> the soldier leading a rogue kill team in afghanistan has been charged with three counts of premeditated murder. sergeant calvin gibbs admitted to cutting and keeping fingers from corpses as war trophies, but he says he was returning enemy fire and was not out to kill. gibbs was charged after links showed him posing with other soldiers with dead bodies. two other defendants testified against gibbs. he faces life in prison. >>> defense secretary leon panetta is ordering the air force to review the severity of discipline handed out to three supervisors at the d

which was in the news a few weeks ago, and i wanted to ask your take on it and what your co-author had to say about it in the text. al sharpton was being considered for the job at msnbc. "the new york times" ran a number of major stories about the role al sharpton had as one of those civil rights leaders, the role that he and others played, the naacp and other organizations, the approval to purchase nbc. you said back in the day, black folk did not use to do that. they used to complain. now, they're finding out a way to go after these civil-rights leaders, go after these organizations, and i am not going to say buy them off, but figure out to get their approval, so they can get approval for these mergers. this becomes a front-page story. he is going to work for the company potentially that he signed off on or supported publicly being able to purchase, msnbc. that became a national story. i come back to this because it was in the news prior to that and i am sure will be again in the future, but what has happened that has allowed a black and brown, all kinds of organizations -- i am not demonizing just black folk or black organizations -- but what has happened that all

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this is msnbc. >>> welcome to "hardball." "the patriot newssburg said there -- their are two new potential victims in the case under investigation. by the pennsylvania children and yoourt youth services. these new allegations reinforced the lingering sense that more should have been done to prevent the attacks and should have been done sooner. michael isikoff is nbc's national investigative correspondent, former democratic pennsylvania governor ed rendell is now an msnbc political analyst. michael isikoff, what's the latest from happy valley? >> well, the latest in the wake of that report yesterday from "the patriot news" is that the lawyer for jerry sandusky confirms that at least one of those alleged new cases, one of those new cases involving alleged child abuse involves a family member of sandusky and a minor child. we cannot -- we're constrained by nbc news policy about saying too much more about that because we can't say anything that identifies a minor child, but this is coming from sandusky's own lawyer saying that his understanding is

new time, 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc, the place for politics. >>> sad news with the passing of 92-year-old dorothydham, mother of hillary rodham clinton. she was surrounded by her family when she died at midnight yesterday. andrew andrea mitchell has more. >> it's literally true i wouldn't be here without my mother. >> reporter: whether at the state department, the white house, or on the campaign trail, dorothy rodham has always been at her daughter's side. >> my mother, dorothy rodham. >> reporter: it was she who first taught a young hillary how to stand up to neighborhood bullies. >> she met me at the door and she said there is no place for cowardses in this house. you have to go back outside and handle yourç problems. >> reporter: big hearted and if you would of adventure, dorothy rodham had a toughness born out of adversity. at the age of eight, she was september across the country with her 3-year-old sister to unwelcoming grand parents. they treated her so harshly she left to work as a nanny. >> my other was basically abandoneds as a young girl. and by the anyone of 13, she was on her own. >

with me here in new york, msnbc, columnist for bloomberg view and with us at san francisco.f i can begin with you, you described newt gingrich as a man whose baggage comes with baggage yet he is confidently boasting that his life prepared him for this moment right at the top of the polls. >> you know, newt has never been short of self esteem. there you go. i was listening to that clip and it's really, really kind of bold of him to say that. he is correct on one point which is there is a lot in the public record about newt. so there is a lot out there and he withstood the scrutiny. innocent because he has been so far back in the pack, neither the media or rivals have bothered to focus in on all the thing they could have been talking about. every time somebody gets a turn in the spotlight, they get a lot of attention and tend to wither on the vine. now newt is full of that so he will not wither, but he may not lead good digging into the ethics charges. we know about the wives, but the callus way he left his wives and the history of divicive statements, blaming all sorts of thi

msnbc. and we begin this morning with a defiant denial. at a news conference yesterday, republican presidential hopeful, herman cain, insisted he has never sexually harassed anyone. blaming mounting accounts of inappropriate behavior on a quote democrat machine. meanwhile, as cain's camp worked to discredit his first accuser to go public, we learned the identity of one of the first women to actually file a complaint. nbc's steve handelsman reports. >> i don't even know who this woman is. >> reporter: herman cain went after his first accuser to go public. the day after sharon bilic said cain groped and pushed her in 1997. simple charges. >> they did not happen. >> cain's campaign listed lawsuits against her. >> the democrat machine in america has brought forth a troubled woman to make false accusations. >> but bielic denied her motivation is political or financial. >> i expected this, this is what happens. it's not about me. i'm not the one running for president. >> cain insisted he'll keep running. >> as far as these accusations causing me to back o

>> let's bring in the panel with me in new york. msnbcnd columnist for the bloomberg view. joining us from washington, political economist for "the washington post." a man conspeckulously ab tent from the top lines is the tiffany-loving speaker, newt gingrich. he is preparing a campaign relaunch in iowa. do you think this is the moment when the king of bling is going to shine the diamond? >> no question. it's a process of elimination. we are with newt and we might get down to ron paul and john huntsman if the a certain point. for a lot of republicans, it's a plausible candidate and speaker of the house and they may sweep under the carpet he may resign. he set new records for hypocrisy going after bill clinton for his adultery at the same time he was carrying on an affair with the woman who is now his wife, calista. this is not his first problem in that department. wife number one totally wanted a divorce in the hospital with cancer. >> mr. gingrich said and i'm quoting him, "the media doesn't do an accurate job of reporting." isn't he s t

. >>> i'm melissa rehberger with breaking news we're following here at msnbc. mayor michael bloomberg and police commissioner ray kelly will hold a news conference in an hour on a terrorism-related matter. wnbc is reporting from sources that it involves a long-term investigation of a suspect described as a lone wolf type who had the materials to build a bomb. we'll continue to bring developments as we get them. >>> now back to "caught on camera." >>> you may think criminals with deadly weapons are the greatest danger police officers face on the beat. but traffic incidents can be as dangerous, if not more so. in our next story, officers on highway patrol find themselves in harm's way. >> come on, hurry! hurry, hurry! come on, come on, let's go! >> on an icy interstate, a car is crushed between the police vehicle and a careening tractor trailer. >> i thought for sure the driver of that car would have been seriously injured, if not killed. >> february 13th, 2007. officers douglas eagler and bill allen report for duty at the erlanger, kentucky police department. at

the host of msnbc's excellent new weekend show "up", "up with chris hayes," will join us next. eny al eblllutho p. is n n anstngmere do anhaca't >>> veterans day is tomorrow. which sort of makes this veterans week. and on this veterans day, veterans week, spare a particular thought for republican senator jim demint of south carolina. not because he's a veteran. i don't think that he is. but because rather jim demint apparently has a frigging problem. today on capitol hill there was a vote on a hiring bill for our nation's veterans. right now our national unemployment rate's about 9% for iraq and afghanistan veterans. it is 12.1%. which is both miserable and sort of astonishing because iraq and afghanistan veterans are a ferociously competent group of americans. they have spent the last decade doing incredibly difficult, complex, exhausting, tireless, underappreciated work. i'm not being romantic about this. i mean it in practical terms. this is an impressive, professional class of americans with a lot to offer. they really did do more before 9:00 a.m. than most of us did all da

you have the full resources of msnbc, the news decision division and yet you're on my show to plug your book, "jack kennedy: elusive hero." by coming on, you have admitted my half hour show has more pull than your entire network. you realize that ( cheers and applause ) i accept your surrender. >> well, the reason i did it is because you have, as you can see, lailts younger audience than i do and i wanted them to know we once had a hero for president and i wanted to tell them about this guy. >> stephen: tell them about the jack kennedy character. some don't know who he is. >> in the second world war he was a skipper of the p.t . boat that got cut in half by a japanese destroyer in the middle of the night and dived into water, saved one guy, and then ended up saving the whole crew. he swam for four hours with the strap of a guy' guy's lifejacken his teeth, pulling the guy-- he had a bad back to begin with-- and saved the whole crew, got them home. >> stephen: the best part of that story to me is he carved a message on a coconut. >> right. >> stephen: he gave it to, like, an islander. gav

joining us is chris hayes, host of msnbc's excellent new weekend show called "up with chris hayes." chris, it's great to see you. >> it's great to see you, rachel. >> do i have the soft bigotry of low expectations? am i applauding things that -- >> you need to come in and rain on the parade. no, i thought the senate -- i thought there was a sort of vestigial senatorial functionality that we saw in those two bills you mentioned. the fact that mcconnell put out a good press release on it. this is the kind of thing that as you said is non-controversial, it's almost sxrunt pramt routine and pramtic. it's the kind of thing that the senate and the house should be able to come together and do. and we have been in such a horribly dysfunctional knot since the 2010 mid-terms they ha haven't been able to do it. i think there's something about that and the bill getting out of the senate. the other part of the story, the highway bill, is the house has its own version of the highway bill which does not reconcile very well with the senate version of the highway bill and spends a lot less money and

first, let's get the latest from the courthouse with msnbc news correspondent kristen dahlgren. kristen, thanks for coming on the show. >> reporter: hey, there, al. it's 2 1/2 years since michael jackson's death since you spoke at his funeral. and today we finally did hear the verdict in association with his death. dr. conrad murray, found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. want to play for you that moment inside the courtroom. >> we, the jury in the above entitled action, find the defendant, conrad robert murray, guilty at of the crime of involuntary manslaughter, in violation of penal code section 192, subsection b, alleged victim, michael joseph jackson. >> reporter: we're told that that scream there inside the courtroom was from michael's sister, la toya. during the verdict, conrad murray sat pretty quietly, showed little emotion as the jury was polled. he did look at them. he was then handcuffed and remanded immediately into custody. his sentencing will be on november 29th. he could face up to four years in prison, as well as the loss of his medical license and up to $10,0

msnbc analyst, and mother jones washington bureau chief. political columnist cynthia tucker who is now a visiting professor at the university of georgia. and john heilemann national political columnist for new york magazine and an msnbc political analyst. first of all, the iowa caucuses january 3rd. mitt romney's making a push in the hawkeye state. according to "the new york times" today. romney is now playing to win the iowa caucuses, television commercials are on the way, volunteers are arriving, and a stealth operation is ready to burst into view in the weeks leading up to the caucuses. that's according to "the new york times." let's go to david on that. is this going to happen out there? first get to him, is he entering? >> well, yeah, he's entering, taking out ads. he's opening the campaign office. they didn't have a grand opening, he's trying to have it both ways. he wants to compete, he wants to do well. maybe even -- >> why is he doing this? why doesn't he take a breather? he's not a cultural conservative, he's questionable on abortion rights and other issues. why didn't he just wait until new hampshire? >> my guess is he sees an opening for an early strike. there's no non-romney ca