people like rachel maddow people like lawrence o'donnell everyone on fox news that was covering this nonstop yesterday do you think that they really care about the story is that what they want to be talking about or is it some executive sitting in a room saying we got to run with this you know it's tough to serve and you know when you look at the entire donald trump you know the kind of operation that he was doing as a presidential run i mean i found that to stir being you know because of going on and on and on for so long it was somebody who clearly wasn't going to run who's a master showman and charlatan seem to be that sucked a lot of energy out of you know what is that was a more serious question which is who who is going to be in a for the president of the united so presidential race in two thousand and twelve something like this is you know it's a sideshow for sure but at least i find this one more entertaining than a lot of the drivel that the media continues to cover and think it's really important i don't know i find this one little demeaning for the media personally i can t

you know i actually have a soft spot for rachel maddow i like her i think she's a good journalist i think she's incredibly intelligent but when it comes to this week she's been one of the worst offenders and we don't call a gossip after you've been covering it incessantly ad taking up the majority of your show you go through all the details talk to the congressman and get to the bottom of the story. so you tell me in your own words what has happened here. well i don't know for sure it seems like what happened was someone somehow got access to my twitter account and tweeted a joke because you haven't answered a question about whether that photo is you or not you realize that now everybody thinks the photo is you and so where there's smoke there's fire there must be a real scandal here you must be doing something creepy here congressman anthony weiner. of new york democrat congressman welcome to our consequences of utter. you know why don't we talk about something that's going on that's not being covered by the mainstream media at all and by that i mean zero coverage not a village not one s

last night while the lawmaker told msnbc's rachel maddow that he did not send the photo, he also saide can't be sure the for the okay isn't of him. >> you can change a photograph, man it late a photograph. i can't say for sure. >> a look at other news making early today in america. a texas college student is recovering from a shark bite she suffered on memorial day. the 22-year-old was standing in waist deep water offer surf side beach when she felt a painful tug on her thigh. she exited the water and discovered more than a dozen bite marks above her knee. the doctor who treated her wounds suspects it was from a bull shark attack. >>> a poolside lesson in physics at a florida high school proved to be a day in the fun for some students. hundreds competed in the 17th annual international milk jug raft race. with 10% of their grade on the line, it was either sink or swim for participants hoping they had figured out the right number of plastic bottles to keep their vessels afloat. >>> finally, june snowfall made parts of northern california look more like north pole. completely bizarre. t

it clearly in the first week didn't work and he pulled back and sort of said, oh, rachel maddow is myand talking about it. thanks very much for stopping by, glynnis macnicol, aaron barnhart. >>> next up, geraldo goes too far, ed henry gets flak for taking a new job. on the new bl? ♪ flash! ah-ahh! [ male announcer ] that's right. it runs flash. so unlike some tablets we could mention, you get the best of the internet -- not just part of it. ♪ ♪ flash! ♪ ah-ahh! ♪ ♪ flash! [ male announcer ] powerful. portable. playbook. ♪ and today, we're re-inventing aspirin for pain relief. with new extra-strength bayer advanced aspirin. it has microparticles so it enters the bloodstream faster and rushes relief right to the site of your tough pain. ♪ in fact, it's clinically proven to relieve pain twice as fast. new bayer advanced aspirin. extra strength pain relief, twice as fast. personal pricing now on brakes. tell us what you want to pay. we do our best to make that work. deal! my money. my choice. my meineke. >>> first i want to take you to nick charles, a guy who helped put cnn on map in the

did you talk to rachel maddow? we're not speaking. it's just, you know, as you just alluded to when i left, perhaps there was a little friction. a little -- you know. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, yeah. >> and i didn't want to add to anybody's tension here by saying, "hey, how are things going over there?!" >> jimmy: exactly. yeah. >> there'll be time for that later on. and you know, some day i'd really like rachel to come work with me at current when, legally, she is available to do so, of course. >> jimmy: is that right? >> yes, of course. why not? >> jimmy: yeah. well, she's great. but why -- really? >> absolutely. why not? >> jimmy: oh, man, i don't know. well, msnbc would be very mad. they'll be very upset. >> tough. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: oh, that's the way to do it. all right. did you miss being on tv and having a --? >> i'm on tv right now, jimmy. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: i know. yes, yes, yes. do you like this? >> yes, absolutely. this is a lot of fun. >> but i mean, do you miss -- i mean, there's so much stori

your own gas that you can decide who could speak on your show and those of the old saying the rachel maddow and the rest of the lineup on the mess in d.c. turns out that joe scarborough his veto power over who can speak and everybody else is shows they got a little. but really what keith mad by the week is citizen being more important than the strongest corporation right so we thought maybe his worst persons and it would be a corporation maybe the executive that has been held accountable we helped. the first time of the last million occurrence is a conductor a new york suburban commuter rail metro north actually intervene with a passenger who would stop next to it least once there was a plane or a bus or train that only talk to well but was also allegedly swearing. a lady swearing on a subway not so much of that us versus them so when we say about the new countdown is it just more of the same when we discuss this is christopher chambers lecture at georgetown university and author of the blog a natural revenge chris thanks so much for being here ok what were your first thoughts on this new s

your own gas that you can decide who can speak on your show and it was about that sold in the rachel maddow and the rest of the lineup on m.s.n. b.c. turns out that joe scarborough his veto power over who can speak and everybody else is shows they got. are really what keith mad by the week is citizen being more important than the strongest corporation so he thought maybe he is the worst person and second that would be a corporation maybe the executive that has been held accountable we helped. first sight of the last million occurrences of conductor a new york suburban commuter rail line metro north actually intervene when the passenger you've been stuck next to a least once in the way of a plane or a bus or train probably talk to well we've that was also allegedly swearing. a lady swearing on a subway not so much of that us versus them so what we say about the new countdown is just more of the same joining me to discuss this is christopher chambers lecturer at georgetown university and author of the blog natural revenge chris thanks so much for being here if you ok what were your first thou

. >>> rachel maddow joins us now. good morning. >> hi. >> sarah palin, how much longer can she swatd before she announces her decision? >> i think a long time. i think what the candidates are doing right now is essentially introducing themselves to a public who may not remember who rick santorum is or who michele bachmann is for that matter. sarah palin does not have that problem. nobody in america doesn't know who she is. i think she can wait a long time. we're a half year away from the iowa caucus. >> so if she waits that long or not, if she announces she'll run, how will that change the republican race? >> well, i think that as long as mitt romney is the unquestionable front-runner, there is going to be some hunger among a significant number of republican activists, in particular for somebody else with a big name to get in. there's dissatisfaction with mitt romney as the front-runner. and so as long as there's nobody challenging him, and it looks like tim pawlenty does not pose any threat of doing that, i think tha

you were about to be on the rachel maddow show on msnbc. you said, "heading to 30 rock to chat with rachel at 9." and then you said "that's 545 in seattle i think." the woman in question here was in seattle. >> i know. it's a terrible coincidence. and that's all it is. and frankly i didn't even know the girl was in seattle from her feed. look, let me say this. in the past on my twitter feed i had done a similar joke about other cities. >> why seattle? >> it was a pure, pure coincidence. i have no idea. >> well, now we know otherwise. in admitting the relationship with her and five others did congressman weiner really tell all? listen to some of the answers he gave after making his initial statement. >> did you have phone sex with these women? did you ever have an affair with one of these women? >> i've never, as i've said in my statement, i never met any of thee women. >> did you ever have phone sex? >> i was never in the same room. i never had any physical relationship whatsoever. >> notice he answered no to the affair but totally dodged th

and put talking points from media matters into the mouths of free zachariah, lawrence o'donnell, rachel maddows stellar. it's impeccable. if people were to analyze what's going on at the white house in terms of their talking points, and what goes on at msnbc. >> bill: the democratic machine gets their message to msnbc. now, of course, it's been -- fox news in articles, even last week have been accused of the republican, we're the republican machine. i have never -- i have been doing this 15 years. never heard from a republican. never gotten anything from them. but that is the accusation against this network which i think is patently false. but, i'm very interested. the "new york times" used to be, used to be where all this stuff emanated from. that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. >> no. they have so many, you know, organs that are working for the same purpose. the huffington post was created to become the drudge report of the right. >> bill: that succeeded in doing that. >> that's exactly what they wanted to do and what they want to do is try to make sure that stories don't make their way

. >> rachel maddow said this isn't a congressman having to resign because of bad behavior, but because of the media treatment of his bad behavior. does that go too far? >> yes, i think it does. this is currently a self-inflicted wound. but it's the first future sex scandal. it's the new blue dress. the fact is the steady stream of photographs helped keep it in the news. he made it worse by lying for a week. it was politically untenable, absorbed 17% of all news coverage in its third week. it's because it had a tawdry aspect a political aspect and more information. >> i thought it was about 80% on cable. jennifer, clearly the fact anthony weiner lied to the media set the narrative for the way in which the press turned on him. i can't get away from the thought that somehow this stayed in the news every day even when there weren't new women, new texts, new pictures, new developments. >> if that's true, it's attributable to andrew weiner -- >> anthony. >> anthony weiner. andrew breitbart was the other player. i think the press conference was indicative of what was going on. he didn't have

. >> i want to show you something brilliant rachel maddow did last night, put on the lying politicians over the last couple of years, eliot spitzer, eric craig, mark foley, david vitter, john edwards, what separates those who survive who from those who don't? >> taking ownership sooner rather than later is an important step. the debate i've had with the radio audience is whether you are you lined up 535 men, 435 members in the house, 100 in the senate, 535 citizens would you find this bad behavior in the populous. i'm not sure what the answer might be. >> houma is a friend of yours, the congressman's wife. she did not stand up at the press conference yesterday but here is a woman who was by all accounts pursued by a lot of men, extremely attractive. you it don't get to be hillary clinton's aide -- why would you cheat on her? >> we've said that time and time again. why would he cheat on her. who among us could say how we would handle something like this unless we were in it. for anthony in the survivability, you take a step back, shut your mouth and let the work speak for you. there's n

"rachel maddow show" is up next. good evening, rachel. >>> you know, i'm having such weird flash backs to bill living through the early '90s that was upset frg ways you did not intend. >> that was exactly the idea. >> i feel like i'm wearing acid wash right now. >>> and thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. remember this? >> the bottom line is this, i've been unfaithful to my wife. i developed a relationship with -- what started out a dear, dear friend from argentina. it began very innocently as i suspect these things do. but here recently over this last year it developed into something much more than that. i think that is the bottom line. it is not a moral rigged list of dos and don'ts for the heck of dos and don'ts. it is indeed to protect us from ourselves. the biggest self or self is indeed self. >> the biggest self of self is indeed self. who could argue? that was republican governor mark sandford of south carolina admitting that he had been cheating on his wife. that was two years ago, two

>> ed, aren't people like you and rachel maddow and everybody else on msnbc fanning the flames of thise? >> no, no. this is what americans are focused on in my judgment. and i have a show and this is what i think they're focused on. i have been consistent all along on stuff like this when it happens to elected officials. i think if we can't get the truth out of politicians, what do we have for a government? no wonlder we have deficits. no wonder we went to war on a lie. i criticized bush and cheney for lying. the list goes on and on. we sit here and say well he's a liberal, a democrat, we got to leave him alone. i'm not down that road. >> i didn't say that. my distinction is that these are matters personal not public. >> i think, is your vote personal? >> yes. >> okay. >> nobody knows my vote unless i give them, tell them publicly what it is. >> good to have you with us. appreciate you coming in. thanks for watching the program. >> i do religiously. >> the inside political game for congressman anthony weiner. it could get far worse. fellow democrats are getting bullied into giving up r

rachel maddow did the chart on the number of politicians. that to me is a story most people i know are really focusing on. >> radar's editor told me they didn't pay a dime for those messages. but, you know, since you brought up breitbart, let me play a clip of him on the "today" show talking about this one picture that he did not release, and we'll pick it up on the other side. >> you have also said that you have another image. and you've described it as x-rated. under no circumstance will you release that, in other words, let's say anthony weiner supporters talk to you. >> if anthony weiner decides to make this a jihad against me for his interpretation of putting me into this situation, you know what? i'll take that as, you know, you said an insurance policy. >> does that sound like a threat to you, amy holmes? >> well, certainly it was a challenge to anthony weiner. and let's not forget that the congressman told luke russert that he couldn't use certitude in saying that that photo wasn't him which, of course, raised a lot of eyebrows, mean