he specializes in residential remodel work as far as i know and is a real kitchen expert and rachel whiting is a good friend who is going to cook today. shem has a blog called a kitchen of her own.blog spot.com and for the first time in her life rachel has her own kitchen. what is that like? >> it's fantastic the it's really tiny like a lot of san francisco kitchens. but it's going to have a stove and oven which i love. >> no remodeling, in the works? >> not yet, no. >> a lot of people have their own kitchen and want it to reflect their own needs and used -- uses and desires and a lot of other things in their life. what drives people, andre, to want to remodel their kitchen? >> there's lots of reasons. really kitchens have become the most important room in the house and people use it as a means to express themselves. they use it for investment purposes and kind of become a status symbol. people want really handsome kitchens that reflect and express their own personal style. >> i see a lot of people come into the building department with dreams of renovating their house so that it's a palati

and rachel, white house editor for politico. good afternoon to all of you.e know as well president starts and mitt romney starts we will, of course, cut you off mid-sentence and we'll pick you back up on the other side. let's star with the president in florida. crucial state for both candidates right now. florida's unemployment rate higher than the national average. 8.6% versus 8.2%. foreclosures are rising again there in florida. keith, what does that mean for president obama's florida strategy? >> this is going to be a close race, you know, if you look back in 2000, george w. bush narrowly won this race by 537 votes in that state and gave him the election. in 2008, barack obama won florida and that was a pivotal race for him. i think in this election, florida could be a deciding point. you know, florida, ohio, and virginia, the three states everybody's focusing on. so if they can win florida, get the senior vote, get the latino vote, get the other constituencies, they can make a win in the election in the electoral college. >> hogan, let's talk about the s

and rachel, white house editor for politico. good afternoon to all of you. again, i want to let all of you know and viewers at home know as well president starts and mitt romney starts we will, of course, cut you off mid-sentence and we'll pick you back up on the other side. let's star with the president in florida. crucial state for both candidates right now. florida's unemployment rate higher than the national average. 8.6% versus 8.2%. foreclosures are rising again there in florida. keith, what does that mean for president obama's florida strategy? >> this is going to be a close race, you know, if you look back in 2000, george w. bush narrowly won this race by 537 votes in that state and gave him the election. in 2008, barack obama won florida and that was a pivotal race for him. i think in this election, florida could be a deciding point. you know, florida, ohio, and virginia, the three states everybody's focusing on. so if they can win florida, get the senior vote, get the latino vote, get the other constituencies, they can make a win in the election in

rachel 20 and the only slave of a mr. weatherly who escaped to canada in 1856. assisted by george cope, a well known white grocer. the evidence suggests took in cray shell to cope. but cray rachel frequently visited cope's shop and home and according to some witnesses spent an inordment that amount of time in cope's room. cope would later admit that she had become his wife in heaven. they planned her escape with the understanding that once the anxiety caused by her escape he would join her in canada. when a month later, weatherly went to canada to persuade rachel to return she handed him cope's letters. they would be used by weatherly in his suit against cope for his aid in the escape of rachel. when the case came to trial the jury deadlocked because there was too much amalgamating and kidnapping difficulties. i never heard of amalgamating difficulties. months later cope was found not guilty but he had languished in the state penitentiary for two years. but if writing letters was a risky business it was a risk many were willing to take. frequent visits from former slaves who asked her to write letters to their fam

her name is rachel jacob, the officer was hit in the leg, will recover and as the white honda left the galaxy nightclub, police were able to pull the car over a mile away. all three inside and a gun was recovered. >> this is the 5th time in a little more than 18 months that a police officer has either been shot at or shot. this is unprecedented. >> the officer had the bullet removed from her leg and expected to make a full recovery. 24-year-old andrew dash under arrest tonight in frostburg. he's accused of bringing three women back to a home for drinks raped one of them fired a gun at all of them and they say he met them on friday night and greed to go to the home. two broke free to get help from police. >>> thousands of people are facing the grim possibility that they may have been infected with hepatitis c. all of them now waiting to find out. abc 2 news david curly has the very latest. >> reporter: this man labeled a serial infectors living in jail. 30 people are living with the results of his alleged crime, a dangerous disease. this new hampshire man who doesn't want his name used

whites in the united states in 2012. i think that it's a losing theme in the selection. >> lean forward with the rachel maddox show weeknights9:00 eastern on msnbc, the place for politics. >>> here is your first look at how wall street's going to kick off the day. the dow opens at 12,908 after climbing 103 points yesterday. the s&p gained 9. the nasdaq spiked 32. >>> taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo the nikkei rose 68 points, while in hong kong the hang seng skyrocketed 319. >>> well, the s&p 500 leapt to its highest level since may wednesday as traders chose to ignore bad news and cherry pick the good news coming out of earnings. intel lowered its growth forecast late tuesday, but gross margins were healthy, so the stock rose more than 3%. honeywell jumped almost 7% on healthy profits. emc jumped over 9% after reporting a preliminary second quarter profit, and its vmware unit was up 12%. vivus jumped almost 10% after regulators approved its weight loss drug. on the downside, rovi plummeted to its lowest level in three and a half years after slashing its annual forecast and being downgraded by two bro

white house ever again. >> that cannot be more succinctly and brilliantly stated. lawrence wilkerson, thank you for your time. >>> that's "the ed show." "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> thank you very much. thanks to you at home for joining us. there is a celebrity in the

white house ever again. >> that cannot be more succinctly and brilliantly stated. lawrence wilkerson, thank you for your time. >>> that's "the ed show." "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> thank you very much. thanks to you at home for joining us. there is a celebrity in the world -- i don't know if you've heard of him or not, his name is justin bieber. he's a celebrity that became famous as a child, as a young teenager who looked young for his age even when he was 13 or 14. well, now he is 18, and so he is going through the awkward phase where someone known for being a charismatic and popular child star tries to alert the world that they have, in fact, gone through puberty and they'd like to be seen as an adult now. the child star becomes an adult thing is an unsettling and difficult transition, and even when it works, it still is sometimes weird. it's always been that way. when shirley temple reinvented herself after being the highest profile child star ever, shirley temple rather unexpectedly came back as richard nixon's appointee to be the american ambassador to the united nations. shirley temple? yes, shirley temple. the rapper lil

white house ever again. >> that cannot be more succinctly and brilliantly stated. lawrence wilkerson, thank you for your time. >>> that's "the ed show." "the rachel you at home for

so black and white today over and over and over again and all of those network interviews, i was doing nothing, nothing, then see him getting paid for definitely doing something. >> but rachel, as someone who sat on a board, it's interesting board members to be good board members and we get told this by management all the time, there's a bright line between what management does and a board does. but what a board does is very important, frankly not only to the governance of the company, the direction they are taking and major decisions they are taking. even though you may not be involved in the day to day management of bain or the companies you discussed before i came on, you're certainly involved in the direction and the major decisions that are taking place. so i think it's somewhat disingenuous to say he wasn't involved if he is acknowledging he it did do board work as a result of his involvement on behalf of bain's investment. >> shannon o'brien, the 2002 democratic massachusetts gubernatorial nominee who ran against mitt romney. thanks for your insight. this rabbit hole is yet deeper but you've helped us figure out some. >> one of the former partners, ed conard is going