it's not the republican party. it's both parties. i mean, the president of the united states barely two years into a four-year term announces re-election and proudly says he's going to raise $1 billion. last week "the new york times" said, guess what? his small donations are drying up. he's getting his money from special interests, wall street, just like the republicans. they both are on the dole. >> governor, the chuck schumer and other senate democrats have authored an idea to raise taxes on those billionaires. a surtax on incomes over $1 million beginning only on incomes above $1 million, a surtax of 5%. that would also apply to capital gains taxes. is that something that you think is a fair burden sharing that could be visited upon those massive incomes over $1 million? >> they're half right, lawrence. you ought to take that tax code written by lobbyists and special interests and throw it out the window. it doesn't work for america. when the average working guy pays more taxes than ge, something's wrong with america. we need it s

i want to start with republicans, the republican field and republican politics.ris christie, is he in or is he out? he is being covered by everyone, including your source for news and information, weekend update on "saturday night live." here it is. >> after claiming for months that he did not want to run for president, insiders are now saying that new jersey governor chris christie is reconsidering that decision. promising to do one thing, then doing the opposite? sounds pretty presidential to me. >> mike murphy, christie is on record saying, short of suicide, i don't know how to tell all of you that i'm not in the race. that was then. this is now. what's he going to do? >> you know, i have no idea. i do know we don't elect a lot of president hamlets. so it's time for a decision. the most decisive guy in politics, being indecisive, cannot last. my gut is he's not going to do it. late entry. and he is a very strong candidate. and he'd get in with a big boom. but the second and third look in a very conservative republican primary might be a problem. i'll give him

republican -- is the republican party challenging the law? why are they doing things to suppress the vote? guest: the republican party of florida is not challenging any longer. i am not sure -- i did not understand the question of suppressing the vote. the republican party is about everybody having access to the vote. i did not quite understand the question about suppressing the vote. the statement about racism and homophobia. that is the nasty side of politics and people are expressed -- people are free to express themselves. i will not get into mud. caller: good morning. this is just a comment for the chairman on the republican side. from what i can see from my locale and most of the people i work with is that the out reach of the republican party to this generation -- the generation coming up has either been nonexistent or just so tiny that it makes no difference. we are losing a generation of potential republicans. all i wanted to do was arch d party to start doing a heck of a lot more out reach. that is my comment. host: what is your org

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but on the republican side, the republican presidential candidates and republicans in the house are sortf trading the lead in terms of who's going to get the lead economic message. we keep hearing about how much people like the amazing herman cain 9-9-9 plan. now that mr. cain is polling so well, i understand we have new analysis of how that plan won't work? >> this is incredible. this is part and parcel of what we've been discussing and what you were talking about with ezra. the idea the folks are speaking to themselves in an insular way that they are definitely leaving the country behind. this new analysis out today from the tax policy center which is a very highly regarded nonpartisan scorekeeper of this stuff shows that the herman cain 9-9-9 plan would raise taxes on the lowest income people. their income is around 10,000 bucks on average. would raise their taxes by $1,600, raise federal taxes on the middle class by over $3,000, would lower taxes, take them down, lower tax payments for those in the top 1%, okay? so those at the very tip -- actually really the only group that's been d

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republican efforts to subvert our democracy are rampant around the world in tennessee an eighty six year old veteran is essentially forced to pay a poll tax since a new law there requires citizens in that state to get a photo id to be eligible to vote in the next election and then went to the d.m.v. to get his new photo id and was told he needed to pay eight bucks for it it's a clear violation of the twenty fourth amendment which clearly says that the right of citizens to vote shall not be a bridge with a poll tax or any other tax. state officials have since said this was a mistake and that if the man had simply made it clear they needed the i.d. to vote then it would have been free so i guess you could avoid pain for the right to vote as long as you know the secret code words meanwhile in michigan republican lawmakers are pushing through legislation to make it harder to register people to vote similar legislation has already been passed in florida where a high school teacher is now facing power of dollars and fines simply for how helping her students register and there and then there's

does the senators to look particularly good indicators of republican opinion, conservative republican opinion. goldwater, of course, was the republican nominee for president. floridian taft. half represents the 30's and 40's where most republicans, especially midwest republicans, anti interventionist. one of the main stories in the book is so republicans eventually abandoned that tradition. you have the success of eisenhower and republicans by the 50's, but it took a long time. in some ways it is never completely safe. ron paul today, kind of and that after patrician. nigel's -- says cool water because it was such an important figure as the republican party moves to become more conservative, southern, western, and more hawkish with foreign policy. that is what cold water was. a very important transition figure even though he lost the presidential election, and he pointed the way toward the republican nominee like reagan and bush 43. >> robert taft ran for president. >> he ran and 52. >> forty, 48, 52. >> was he not elected because of his isolationist policy? >> that is one of the reas

that is where republicans count on a republicans across the country.illich carefully at the kind of leader we want. i think we will select a good one. >> after eight years of george w. bush and a lot of similarities in the style of governor perry, as a country ready for another texas for public and? >> i think the republican party is ready for a model -- a strong job growth. more jobs have been created in texas than in all the other states combined. pro-business, working with employers to ensure their needs, whether it be electric generation, a current supply of good employees, it always been something he is proud of and we aim for. lastly, competitive education. that means we will continue to have students that come out that are prepared to lead within the state and stay there to make employment better. i think that is a good model. that is something president obama cannot begin to enunciate. >> how do you feel like your recruiting has been going? where does your focus apply going into next year? >> i think we are good going into next year. people hav

endorses the northeast republican. how does that play outside of the northeast? >> first, lawrence, let me take the opportunity to announce i also have decided not to run for the republican nomination. >> gene, i was going to tell you, if it's too late for chris christie, i think it's too late for gene robinson. >> and it is. you know, that was an interesting comment. what it highlights to me is that, you know, christie has a national reputation. he doesn't have a national constituency or national organization. and he -- the question of whether he can appeal to both wings of the party, can he bring along both wings of the party, establishment wing and the tea party wing, i've had my doubts as to how influential he is in the tea party wing. i guess we'll see. >> let's listen to the press conference that they did immediately after the announcements. mark halperin asked them the question about perry's pastor and that controversial introduction last weekend and then the slam on mormonism as a cult. let's listen to what chr

here is republican herman cain in an interview with wolf blitzed her. >> why is the republican party in basically poison for so many african-americans? >> because many african- americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. i have received some of the same vitriol simply because i am running for the republican nomination as a conservative. >> nevertheless, margaret, cain says if he were the nominee one- third of african-americans would vote for him. brainwash? >> he is doing well -- is book christie standard. he talks clearly and bluntly. i would like to find out if godfather pizza got any government help when it was starting out that was the result of the democratic officials. >> this is one way that he is not going to turn around of the two-thirds of african-americans who do not go for the republican party by saying they are brainwashed. he is going to lose it just that way. but he also conveniently misses a little history because there was a time when the republican party did enjoy great support from african-american

. >> republicans have yet to pass a jobs bill.nstead of getting down to the business of creating jobs, they're bringing to the house floor a deeply flawed and deeply divisive bill that will not pass the senate and would be vetoed if it reached the president's desk. they know that. i know that. everybody knows that. >> the american people are begging us to work together, to create jobs, to bolster the economy. and instead, we're hearing once again to consider legislation that endangers and attacks the right of women. >> democrats came prepared today. lots and lots and lots of democratic members of congress stood up today to deliver the same message about the republicans' latest anti-abortion bill, essentially saying it's outrageous that you keep focusing on doubly, triply, quadruply banning abortion and attacking birth control and access to family planning and you're still claiming to be so focused on jobs. congresswoman jackie speier of california silenced the house chamber back in february when she spoke in very personal terms ag

it's called the republican field. and republican voters agree with me, because if obama were really so weak a candidate, why would republicans keep looking for a messiah to save them? lousy economy and a dreadful war in afghanistan. but he also has some real accomplishments. he's a heck of a stump speaker and a pretty good debater and h. >> yeah. i think those are true points. the other thing is today, for example, in obama's speech, you see him lowering the bar. biden was out there too. they're saying, the economy is bad, it's worse than it was a year ago. it's worse than it was when i took office. he's basically taking the hit for the economy now, so that when it improves and upticks just a tiny bit, before november 2012, he gets credit for it. they're doing this now, they're laying the groundwork, and i think obama knows that he has to run against himself. obama can beat obama. >> let me tell you the problem with obama. if you bought a car this the year, a ford or a chevy, whatever you bought, and it was lousy, tur

what did that to for the republican foreign policy expectation? >> at the time it was a popular move. with the general boating public -- voting public there was a conservative who were very skeptical because their point of view was with a horrible dictator and long term united states presiding it makes perfect sense. we are balancing china and the soviet union, its practical, it's constructive and it's helpful and that is the mainstream view of the time. never really held by any president since. >> dwight eisenhower president after world war ii, did he said the tone for the republican foreign policy? >> he was very important because it wasn't obvious to the public and the country that supported the engaged foreign policy in the world. a lot of republicans were more on that tradition more skeptical and eisenhower made it clear when he became president he was going to lead the party in a more international direction and he stayed there and there never was the report nor. >> what would you considered to be quite's successes and failures? >> on the wh

they were what we call cloth coat republicans, weren't mink coat republicans. they did vote as if they were rich, and i think there are people out there that the president has to address before he loses then. look at the latest number from the "new york times"/cbs poll. republicans in congress favor the wealthy and say that by miniscule numbers, 29% say he favors the rich, and 69% say republicans favor the wealthy compared to 9% that his policies favor the middle class and 2% say they favor the poor and 15% say the policies treat every group equally. compare those numbers to barack obama, 28% say they favor the reach, 23% the middle class. 17% say they favor the poor. 21% say they treat all groups -- it's interesting, jen, the public is so angry, they blame the president who has been accused of being a socialist is of being a robin hood in reverse. at least some of them do. they're that angry. >> as you know, chris, every election is a choice. the problem the republicans have, whomever is the nominee they will have the anchor of this tax plan hanging around the

i'm a republican. and from what i can see, at least in my locale, and most young people that i work with is that the outreach of the republican party to this generation, you know, the generation coming up has either been nonexistent or just so tiny that it makes no difference, and we're losing a generation of potential republicans. and all i want to do is urge the party to start doing a heck after lot more outreach. and that's my comment. and i'll take it off the air. host: what is your organization's outreach to young people, mr. curry? guest: yeah, i appreciate the comment, and there's some truth to that. we are currently internally ramping up and working on an aggressive ground game to reach out to young people, universities and even high schools. we have some very strong young republican clubs. that being said, as the caller just mentioned, he's not seeing it, so we must do a better job. we're working on that and communicating with young people that we are the party of hope. we are the party that b

that the two major factions of the republican party neither of which is the average republican voter the herbert walker bush old line old money republicans who i don't know who they look you know this is the they don't really have a candidate maybe it's going to be romney and the tea party folks are just so crazy and our candidates are so crazy they paddled main line republican group realize that if these guys take power they're doom and then of course there's the neo cons in the middle who got george w. bush i mean he was one of them they are totally to. credit everybody now because their state got to get afghanistan again their stand on the outside thrown stones and so you know where where does the republican party do you know go this is as divided as the republican party is i think you would i have seen in our in our lifetimes and you we had there are elements of the split in two thousand and eight you know the the tea party right there's always always was a far right over the republican party the tea party the new should not really sure what you all call the john birch society ex

which republican. is the real republican and look at the state is this romney's well i think if you look to president obama his quest for the presidency and as far as we were out from iowa republican right and i'm saying democrats nobody would have given president obama a chance to win that election to beat hillary clinton in that primary republicans are kind in the same situation where they haven't settled on a candidate mitt romney seems to be stuck at twenty seven twenty eight percent he can't get above that number you've got herman cain going up in launching himself to be one of the front runners were perry was a front runner and fell back i think you're still seeing republicans looking at the field trying to understand which one may the light the most and may have been settled on a candidate yes there are republicans in the field they're all lousy i think i feel sorry for the republicans this time it's like you know obama is doing so badly and he can't find what you're trying to add is they are ob

she didn't leave the republican party. party. the republican party left her.ow accurate do you really think that is? in a way i know you talk later about the republican circuit term but i remember talking to elly peterson in the late 60s and she was already concerned that the nixon administration was too far to the right into conservative. today richard nixon probably isn't acceptable about to moderate republicanism. so i mean, how much did she actually change your views or do you think she was absolutely pretty much rock solid, the same philosophical outlook and ideology from the time of larry lindenberg in the late 50s all the way up until the end? >> i think she evolves and clearly in the 1960s she was concerned about elements in the republican party both in michigan and on the national level. one of the reasons why she was concerned about the possibility of phyllis schlafly would become the president of the national republican of women. the man she championed were in their romney, rockefeller bill scranton that kind of mode and they think as she said nixon

republicans slamming republicans, i loved it.t take a look at what happens when republicans attack. >> shies getting into a threat position. >> it was in your book, it should be for everybody. >> why don't you let me speak. >> whoa! >> remember what -- >> i'm sorry. number two -- [ screeching ] >> you failed as the governor of massachusetts. >> i'm speaking, i'm speaking. >> the newspaper -- >> you say that you knew what you said -- >> would you please -- this has been a tough couple debates for rick, and i understand that, so you're going to get testy. >> joining me now is democratic strategist bob shrum, nyu professor and former adviser to the kerry and gore campaigns. msnbc political analyst richard wolf wolffe, and nbc's maria schiavocampo, who will help us out with a fact check. thanks to all of you for being here. bob, let me start with you. the gloves real le came off last night in the debate, right? >> i think so. romney has had pretty much of a free right so far. the truth is he's well prepared. he did pretty well in the

gessler is a republican.d last year and decided this year he would like to stop colorado clerks from sending ballots to everyone who used to get one. as secretary of state mr. gessler pushed a number of measures designed to make it harder to vote or register to vote. in colorado's last legislative session he pushed for a requirement you'd have to show a birth certificate or passport in order to register to vote. you know, don't you always have your birth certificate on you when the nice league of women voters lady outside the supermarket asks if you'd like to register? don't you keep that in your pocket or glove box? that try failed. he's not giving up on trying to make it harder to vote in colorado. last week he wrote to the clerk in pueblo county which happens to be a heavily democratic county. he wrote to the clerk and ordered him not to send out ballots to troops overseas who missed the big 2010 election and have not voted since. he wants them to be considered enactive. quote, as my office has previously

important. 2010 republican victory was not a great embrace of the republicans. it was not some overwhelming statement that we loved the republicans and need to get them back. it was that they already did not like the democrats and they did not have anybody else to vote for. so the republicans came in with some people hopeful but nobody strongly loyal and sold the republicans are going to do the right thing. it was more the kick the bums out. that brings us to 2012. the election will be one in the middle. the election will be one in the middle. in 2004, hardly anybody in the country was undecided or changed their mind, one from voting to john kerry to george bush or george bush to john kerry. the election was primarily about who could get their people to the polls. it was a great turnout election. mechanics and operations were usually rewarded. very few people changed their minds. this year will be very different. i think the pool of undecideds will be very large and it will ebb and flow. if somebody writes something bad about rick perry, the pool will get bigger

it's a pathetic state of affairs for the republican party because tea party and republican party are days. >> mike papantonio, great to have you with us tonight. always look forward to your take. thank you. >>> the party of reagan has been hammering president obama lately calling his tax plans class warfare. but president reagan's own speeches land on the side of president obama. and we'll play you the tape. it's a dandy. >>> an important voice of the middle class is now expressing his full fledged support for the wall street protesters. the movement is spreading to other parts of the country and the message is getting louder. greed is kill the middle class. >>> and up next, ronald reagan has a lesson for republicans who accuse president obama of class warfare. ♪ ♪ ♪ when your chain of supply ♪ goes from here to shanghai, that's logistics. ♪ ♪ chips from here, boards from there ♪ ♪ track it all through the air, that's logistics. ♪ ♪ clearing customs like that ♪ hurry up no time flat that's logistics. ♪ ♪ all new technology ups brings to me, ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ >>> welcome back to

here is republican john mccain. >> the president is now traveling attacking the republican plan. i think the question might be, though, is that appropriate on the taxpayer's dime since it is clearly campaigning, and i must say again, i have never seen an uglier bus than the canadian one. >> first of all, little correction there. it's the secret service that bought these buses for both nominees after what happened in 2008. so, these are buses that were bought by the secret service. but as for senator mccain's other point, are we shocked that politics is going on between the two major parties. >>> all right the president's piece mill approach for jobs bill is starts with $30 million. nbc's christian walker is traveling with the president in jamestown. walk me throughout schedule today. goes to north carolina and i believe overnight in virginia. >> reporter: that's right, chuck. we expect the president to arrive here shortly at this community college here. he's going to talk to a group of educators then he'll speak at the ymca. as you mentioned, again urge congress to pass that $35

and here's why. [ cheers and applause ] >> the republican audience and the republican candidates have very strong feelings about illegal immigration. the new front-runner has suggested that the proper penalty for the men, women, children and babies who try to enter the country illegally is that they be put to death without trial when they come in contact with a lethally electrified fence on our southern border. willard m. romney has deflected comments about his religion with grace, but being accused of hypocrisy on illegal immigration was more than even he could bear. >> mitt, you lose all of your standing from my perspective because you hired illegals in your home and you knew about it for a year, and the idea that you stand here before us and talk about that you're strong on immigration is on its face the height of hypocrisy. >> governor romney? >> rick, i don't think i've ever hired an illegal in my life. i'm looking forward to finding your facts on that. >> i'll tell you what the facts are. >> rick, again -- i'm speaking. i'm speaking. >> the newspaper -- >> i'm speaking. >> it's

y republican lawmakers. let's listen to jay and the president. >> when mitch mcconnell says our goal is to make this guy a one-term president. >> yeah. >> does that anger you? how is that a goal? that doesn't help the country. >> well, look, i think the thing that folks across the country are most fed up with, whether you're a democrat, republican or independent is putting party ahead of country or putting the next election ahead of the next generation. >> well, i would say that was a big applause line. they cut off the tape there and i know the jay leno audience, middle brow and regular people, steve. the president is there with the high ground. >> look, one of the things that he's doing, and they have a deliberate strategy to do it, is trying to seize the high ground of reasonableness in the debate, to go out and deliver a message to the american people that i'm willing to work with the other side. i'm on your side. i'm trying to move the ball forward. i'm trying to alleviate the pain of this catastrophic