hack into the police, i can get it because they've picked it up for me. >> now you've got it. >> sam biddlem gets tonight's last word. thanks, sam. >> thank you. > mitt romney dreams the impossible dream. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm michael smerconish in for chris matthews. leading off tonight mission impossible. if someone played the mission impossible theme as mitt romney took the stage today at the naacp, it would not have been inappropriate. trying to persuade a black audience to vote out the first african-american president, no easy task. say this for romney, he didn't pander. he proved that by telling an unsympathetic audience he would repeal health care reform. check out the reaction. >> i'm going to work to reform and save -- [ booing ] >> why did he do it? we'll get into that at the top of the program. >>> among the issues of the great importance to the naacp audience are the new state laws restricting access to voting. and we now know what effect new laws in florida and iowa are having in making it harder for likely democrats to vote. >>> also, speaking of health

markey was here last night, reporting on his investigation on cell phone data, and joining me now is sam biddle right for gizmodo. sam, there's so many strange things about this, including that we don't know how long cell phone companies keep this data. the aclu reports that the problem is cell phone companies refuse to reveal how long they keep it, mostly. sprint says they keep it for 18 to 24 months. at&t says they've been holding on it for indefinitely. >> and we have to take them at their word when they say it's only been so long. and like you said, there's no end date. so they're holding on to this stuff really until they're forced to delete it. >> and it's kind of, they're getting it within what used to be their wiretap powers. but they're getting it without warrants, most of the police departments they ask for it, they just hand it over. >> right. if a police agency comes and says there's some sort of danger or threat, which is such a nebulous criterion to begin with, they hand it right over. >> so for that to be a legitimate inquiry, you're trusting the police officer who's actually doi

. >> sam biddle of gizmodo.com gets tonight's last word. thanks, sam. >> thank you. > mitt romney dreams the impossible dream. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm michael smerconish in for chris matthews. leading off tonight mission impossible. if someone played the mission impossible theme as mitt romney took the stage today at the naacp, it would not have been inappropriate. trying to persuade a black audience to vote out the first african-american president, no easy task. say this for romney, he didn't pander. he proved that by telling an unsympathetic audience he would repeal health care reform. check out the reaction. >> i'm going to work to reform and save -- [ booing ] >> why did he do it? we'll get into that at the top of the program. >>> among the issues of the great importance to the naacp audience are the new state laws restricting access to voting. and we now know what effect new laws in florida and iowa are having in making it harder for likely democrats to vote. >>> also, speaking of health care for the 33rd time. the