when you think of tom brokow and late tim russert. he was a friend of all of ours. these are libs. you can have a difference of opinion with brokaw or tim russert but there was level of civility and although you have disagreements with one another it was an honest disagreement. what we're talking about today is a brand-new kind of face that you have on liberalism. it really has been taken over by radicals. that far exceed anything tom brokow ever did. they really besmirched the reputation of them by the presence of the network the people were on. i think about all the attacks on rush limbaugh by so many on the left in the "new york times," at cnn, msnbc daily attacks on rush limbaugh. can you name me any one of those people that have attacked rush limbaugh that have pointed out what ed schultz said and condemned him for it. the show is hypocrisy. they don't care what rush said, but what they care is about getting rush which is two different things. >> sean: this is interesting thing about this. i don't want to go back into it. i know reverend sharpton, we always debate, interview c

you know some time russert with an acid spiny test. you know lost his contract with imus and the c.e.o. for arguably the most notorious downfall now former congressman anthony weiner's tweeting a photo of his most private of parts wiener certainly is one model of what not. i think that if i were ever going to cheat on my wife i don't think i would start by broadcasting it over twitter but this new broadcasting tool available to all is seductively i don't know if it makes them stupid or if they come to twitter already stupid they simply use it stupidly i think probably the way to risk russians in the true microblog is a minefield for those not cautious but make a twitter account and post you know anything you wouldn't want your mondesir wouldn't want be reported in a newspaper you probably shouldn't get on twitter so what are we putting on twitter and early study found so called pointless babble made up forty percent of tweets news only four percent is a waste of time for me. yes if you really care what sandra bullock aware of your foll

luke russert, see you later. >>> what would you do with half a billion dollars? talk to me on twitter. i'm be reading your tweets throughout this morning. >>> the supreme court battle over the health care contact act. the decision could make a big difference in the presidential election. but how? howard dean is going to tell us right here on "weekends with alex witt." [ male announcer ] you've never tried miracle whip, but one thing's for sure -- you don't like it. but you've never tried it? see the problem here... ♪ multi-policy discount. paperless discount. paid-in-full discount. [yawning] homeowner's discount. safe driver discount. chipmunk family reunion. someone stole the nuts. squirrel jail. justice! countless discounts. now that's progressive. call or click today. >>> a husband host of questions this morning, the supreme court met behind closed doors on friday on president obama's health care law. meanwhile, the political implications will be made whether the law is changed or not. joining me is medical doctor and political chairman, howard dean. good morn

>> luke russert, the king of segues. what doesn't he do. thank you for joining us.xt to luke for so long. luke and i obviously you heard us talking about this. first of all, let me properly introduce you, pennsylvania congresswoman, a member of the house budget committee, i do want to talk and we can talk about the democratic and the republican budget but i want to talk about this simpson-bowles. you were one of the 38 people who voted for, in support of this bipartisan budget modeled on the simpson-bowles. we've got the screen, scrolling through the names. 38 is not a lot of people. what does that say about the nature of bipartisan compromise in congress? >> first of all that 38, while a small number was bipartisan. 22 democrats and -- get my numbers right, republicans, it was a pretty good support from both republicans and democrats so it was bipartisan. and interestingly, we came from a broad spectrum of both sides of the aisle. so it did demonstrate bipartisan support for looking really big at how we solve the major challenges in this country, going to do some t

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luke russert joins us live. there was a poll. 79% of the people surveyed saying they're feeling hardship as a result of these gas prices. >> reporter: absolutely. that's one of the things you hear here throughout the halls of congress. both sides are trying to put forward their plan to lower gas prices. the vote you talked about today in the united states senate, that is something that has been a staple hold of president obama's mantra in washington the last few years. why should big oil companies, specifically the ones targeted today, when he exxon, bsh p, chevron, they've put that to the national floor today and it went down 51-47. ironically, four democrats joining with republicans to kill that bill. two republicans crossed over. the two ladies from maine. it shows there is a lot of concern that those prices would be passed on to consumers. nevertheless, mitch mcconnell, the senate minority leader, took this as a victory lap. listen to what he had to say. >> that was their brilliant plan on how to deal with g

luke russert is there live.nyone's come to claim any winnings in the last hour. >> reporter: no. but i will tell you, just right outside the beltway, it's turned into news town nbc. tv trucks as far as the eyes can see at this 7-eleven. the reason why? that lucky golden ticket, $640 million ticket was sold just behind me. folks are ecstatic. this is a real working-class neighborhood. a lot of folks were coming by, stopping in for a cup of coffee as they often do and a doughnut. they said, why all the commotion. this is where the winning ticket was sold. one lady goes, i bought my tickets here. we haven't checked them yet. she said, we'd better go back home. i said that's correct. a raw feeling of jubilation. a few interesting things, lester. in the state of maryland, if you win the lottery, you do not have to come forward. it would be hard to sit on hundreds of millions of dollars. but you can choose to remain anonymous if you would like to. the folks working behind me, they're very happy because they get $100,0

let's bring in nbc's mike viqueira at the white house and luke russert on capitol hill.ust got back after going to north carolina talking about jobs and energy and announcing a billion dollar initiative to promote clean energy and more 2012 preparations, yes? >> reporter: well, it's no accident certainly that the president has visited north carolina no fewer than ten times since coming here to the white house and the oval office. you really need to look at the pattern of where he has traveled over the course of the last three years to figure out where the battlegrounds are. you are absolutely right. north carolina he was the first president to win it since jimmy carter, first democrat to win it since jimmy carter in 1976. it's key to his electoral strategy now. he still has an uphill fight there. a recent poll says 50% of voters in north carolina disapproved of the way he is handling the economy. the president was there touting his green initiatives, touting the economy, touting a boost in manufacturing, and increase in foreign investment and hoping for more good news fr

bureau, luke russert.f course, about the dynamic between the president and the speaker of the house. the other gentleman who has seemingly wielded quite a bit of power in terms of the direction his party is going in in is eric cantor. i wonder if you can tell us a little bit about this idea that let's talk specifically about the mat bai story in this sunday's "new york times" magazine that it was eric cantor who looked at boehner and said we can't get the caucus to vote for this and then boehner had to sort of step away from the bargaining table. >> that's right. the way in which a lot of the cantor aides have spun this, there's this is famous divide in washington, d.c. between speaker boehner and leader kantor that somewhat i think is overdone by the media but definitely does exist. the way in which the aides started to spin it, eric cantor was the realist in the room saying there is no way he could get this through the house republican congress. when simpson boles went to the house floor two days ago and

reaction in and outside of russia some happy outpouring of support to stalin predictions at the end of russert relieved by his certainly having it say today even more so i understand that lacson day tim kirby is following the latest online chatter for r t ten. how you do it while i sit a little while ago i was talking about twitter back to you know that to maybe tomorrow morning we'll start to see some videos on you tube and well guess what they're already here i think in old man terms yeah you can see here that we have the videos where the plane there's protesters there's police this clashes who knows what's going on you know if you look at this video you can sort of look at it both ways the protesters move towards the police but then the police are there with their big scary uniforms on what i have been sort of looking over all these tweets and all this kind reminds you of people have a religious debate they should because of the debate with their religion intact they argue for a long time and then very very rarely do they change religion after the debate so it's kind of situation we have he

tom costello and luke russert emceed. >>> parents and student wlos speak spanish can get their school news on twitter. the handle is at mcps. it was launched yesterday. school officials say the new feed will help them better engage the community. >>> three years ago, dateline started following california lottery investigators as they pioneered hair undercover sting operation to see if lottery clerks honestly identify winning tickets to the players. "dateline" was invited back for their latest investigation. >> reporter: we're in sacramento, an undercover investigator is taking a $10,000 winning lottery ticket along with two loser there is to the shell statement. she leaves the tickets on the counter to see if the clerk will honestly identify the big winner. >> you can check those for me? >> reporter: the investigator goes off to shop. when she return to the counter -- >> one expired and the other ones were not winners. >> reporter: the clerk says all the tickets are losers. i can throw them all away if you -- >> yeah, go ahead. >> reporter: 10 grand in the trash. for now anyway. it's

luke russert, busy day for you. >> thank you, sir. >>> the arguments are over and now president obama's signature domestic achievement. the overall of health care, the ruling is expected in june. pete williams is at his home away from home this week. the supreme court, we don't have to rush you out of here. tell me what is going to happen. >> reporter: first of all, they initially vote and that's important because that makes the opinion of who is going to write the majority opinion and the concurrence. if they write the usual rule, and stay with me on this, they would have voted yesterday, wednesday on monday's case. monday was whether this is pre-empted by a 150-year-old federal law and then tomorrow on friday they will take their vote on the cases that were argued on tuesday and wednesday. that's the big one. the individual mandate, what are we calling it now, the opportunity -- >> something about the personal responsibility act. >> right. they would vote on that and also on the other two questions, whether that part of the individual mandate can be taken out and the rest of the law s

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. >> luke russert join us live.ort is senator john mccain giving high pressure he's ta ? he's talking about the lives lost. what kind of support is he getting? >> as of right now, it's unknown how much support he'll have around capitol hill. senator mccain is a respected figure. it was not expected. really, what he's characterizing here is a new strategy, almost calling out the president and saying the status quo policy will not work. united states needs to do more to be a leader. he wants to see military air strikes, some of what you saw in libya really try and bomb president assad forces in the north. he said that's a safe haven for the takes that have been launched. he wants to see those done away with. this comes on newer news in the last few days they have opened up to the u.n. china is trying to temper this civil war. whether or not there will be support for u.s.-led air strikes remains to be seen. there's some members that will stand arm in arm with john mccain on this. we don't know how many at this time. >>

. >> luke russert joins me now. is this just a threat to house republicans or something more?'s the big question on cap poitol hill. he's telling members of his own house gop conference because we can't find an agreement, we can't come together to put our brand on something, we're going to end uptaking the senate bill. this could almost be like a parent saying to their unruly children, if you can't figure it out, we're going to do it my way. that's what you have seen john boehner do on this transportation bill. he wants to have it. there's a lot of division. some said the cost too much. others said they didn't like the cuts to transit funding and major cities. the senate has a two-year bill that cost about $109 billion. it's a bipartisan bill. it's very popular with democrats over in the house. if that bill sees a vote on the house floor, it will pass and be the law of the land within the next two weeks. >> the house bill or the house passing its job act earlier today, why did nancy pelosi seem to diss this earlier? >> very interesting. it was a bill endorsed by president obam

ryan responding to a question from our own luke russert made it clear, he expects the nominee to followd. >> whoever our nominee will be owes the country that choice of two futures, we're helping them put this together. each of these people running for president have all begin their various ideas and reform skin -- >> you wholeheartedly believe they will accept your budget. >> absolutely. >> congressman peter welsh is a democrat from vermont and chief deputy whip. he joins us now. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> mr. ryan proposes reducing tax rates from 35 to 25% and the lower rate of 10% and also removing the alternative minimum tax rate. how does he balance the budget without raise go any new revenues. can you explain that to me? >> it is a bold plan. the question is will it work? my view, no. it is designed to fail. there are two assumptions in the ryan budget. number one, austerity leads to prosperity. the cuts is where he'll pay for the tax cuts. >> i would invite him to have a look at europe. there's the evidence. >> his budget is austerity in education, in basic scientific

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i'm luke russert in for alex wagner and joining me is our political analyst ed rendell, and maggie and ben smith. let's go to the showdown in chicago. president obama is holding two fundraisers in his hometown today while mitt romney campaigned down the road in rose mont this morning, romney may have bigger worries than president obama. he bumped up his visit to illinois to monday. this is what he told candidates. >> i need you to show up and vote, and you can vote multiple times by getting a friend to go with you. i know this is chicago, i had to clarify that. >> ha, ha, mitt romney poking if you know at election fraud. mitt romney is in slight bit of damage control in a sense, after the wins by santorum, going to illinois, an expensive state in terms of media market. he is trying get a leg up. >> is concerned, there was a poll that showed he had a slight lead. we saw this in michigan and ohio, states that were supposed to be easy for him, and santorum made it tighter. they were barely in in mississippi, he was there just enough to raise the expectations and they are actually trying a

here's luke russert with a hidden camera investigation. >> do you know what i am? i'm buried alive. i'm dead to society. i don't exist in society. >> if you walk through any maximum security prison, you're likely to hear the same thing over and over again. i'm innocent. but every once in a while, you hear an inmate's story that makes you wonder, maybe this time it's true. >> i should not be here because i didn't commit this crime. i wasn't at the scene of the crime or anything. >> meet new york state inmate number aa 2023, jon-adrian velazquez, always known as j.j., convicted of killing a police officer during a botched robbery in harlem, a conviction he's always claimed has been unjust. >> an innocent man has done 14 years incarcerated while another man who is a killer may be on the train with you when you go to work. >> "dateline" first heard from velazquez ten years ago when he began writing us letters telling us -- >> i don't belong here. and my children should not be denied the presence of a loving and capable father. seeing my son struggling for attention is killing me softly.

luke russert, thank you. >>> colorado search teams will head back into the fire zone this morning toook for a missing woman whose home was destroyed. the colorado state forest service apologized for setting the bern that triggered the wild fire near denver. a frightened family hoping the father can find a way out of that wild fire in their car. they were ordered to evacuate their home and within 15 minutes, the roads were engulfed and they made it out okay. >> president obama returns to the subject of high gas prices. in 15 minutes, the president will speak to the white house rose garden. he will be urging congress to end up to $4 billion in subsidies to oil companies. the senate is expected to vote on the matter in just about 45 minutes. we will have the president live right here for you as soon as he gets started. >> 1 in 88 children in the united states have autism spectrum disorder. that according to new numbers from cdc. the study also shows boys are almost five times more likely to have autism than girls. the cdc is hoping this new data will help communities better serve the ch

luke russert was there. he joins me now.hearing, how much of it is about bringing more tension to this situation and how much of it is actually about trying to figure out is there something congress can do? >> well, it's primarily for attention. this is something done by the democrats, the house judiciary committee. it wasn't a hearing per se. it wasn't gavelled in with official witnesses, there's no official testimony. the democrats or the minority party usually does these types of things. what they're trying to do is put attention to racial profiling. the house judiciary committee, we usually hear from them around impeachments. this is primarily where you see questions of legality around elections and stuff, so it makes sense why you would see african-americans there. and you're seeing those folks primarily and other democrats really trying to put attention on the issue of racial profiling that they felt has been sort of looked over in recent times and it now brought back to the forefront with trayvon martin. you see it in