donny deutch is with us, and sam stein of the huffington post, and pat buchanan. i want to go to you first, willie, and then we'll go to sam. i doubt we'll be talking any news today. i'm joking, i'm joking! i want to get this out. first of all, i'm going to talk about how horrific it is. this really is as bad as -- last night and last month, as bad as any month in red sox nation. it's certainly as bad as 2003, which was horrific. >> definitely. >> it's as bad as 1986, which for me is still the absolute worst, 1986 and the mets and the collapse. but also, of course, 1978, 1967, you go back. but willie, what's your take on the night overall? i've never seen anything like it in major league baseball. i'm following four scores, it was stunning. >> flipping around with the remote control the way you do in the first three days of the ncaa tournament, it's that exciting, except you're not as invested in the teams. it's your teams, or it's the team you've been rooting against all year, the yankees, the red sox, the braves, the phillies, the cardinals, it was as exciting as

for the country. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, governor. >>> and coming up this morning, sam steine the glam shot for you. we'll give you a glamor shot and get a good picture. we'll even put a glow around you. >> all right, sam, thanks. >> go, sox, baby. go, sox. >>> just after ahmadinejad said he would release the two hostages, the government has changed its mind. that story and more when "morning joe" returns. ♪ ♪ ♪ when the things that you need ♪ ♪ come at just the right speed, that's logistics. ♪ ♪ medicine that can't wait legal briefs there by eight, ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ ♪ freight for you, box for me box that keeps you healthy, ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ ♪ saving time, cutting stress, when you use ups ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ i got it, i'm sorry. these people, huh? you know i've found that anger is the enemy of instruction. you don't know the egos that i have to deal with. you're probably right. thank you! whoever you are. i'm pretty sure that was phil jackson. quite famous... million championships... triangle offense innovator... [ male announcer ] the audi a8. named best larg

>> sam stein, what is the answer to that? you know, the idea that obama represented it was the idea you can get beyond partisanship. it was a very 2008 idea. part of the problem the white house faces is we have been through two and a half years where he can't even agree on a date for a speech on jobs. it's damaging to the president. this post partisan glow everyone was expecting has fallen apart. >> what we look at now is something this president has not dealt with. he hasn't dealt with low expectation. he came in with ridiculously high expectations. now, people are like you said, the 100 people in the room, they are not expecting much. >> do you think he'll surprise us? >> absolutely not. >> i hope he does. >> you know what is so shocking, you follow a lot of these presidential speeches, a lot of big events. there was a time when reagan went out. if he delivered a speech to the nation you wondered what he was going to say. bill clinton, you never knew what he was going to say. this president, when he does an address, democra

. >>> joining me now is sam stein, political reporter for "the huffington post." thanks for joining me tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> this is a new tone. this is -- you've been covering the white house. everyone recognized right away yesterday we haven't seen this before. >> yeah. and i think, dan pheiffer's quote gets at the dynamic in the white house. they felt very captive. imprisoned by the debt ceiling debate. the president's advisers told them between the 2010 elections and 2012 elections that was the one thing that could really trip them up. they obviously didn't want the treasury to default on its loans. now that that's behind them, they don't feel quite so imprisoned anymore. they feel like they could navigate the budget battles on the assertive. you see that when the president instead of sort of preemptively compromising or conceding points on whether it's social security or medicare eligibility age. he's actually saying to the speaker, you have to come to me if you want to get those reforms. have we got to lose? we have approached them in a compro

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clarence page, a chicago tribune columnist, and sam stein with "the huffington post." elcome to both of you. i'm not buying any of it, sam. i believe the white house selected that initial date specifically because it was the gop debate, and i don't buy what the speaker said either. perfunctory votes getting in the way or a security clearance sweep that's needed to be done in the house. what do you make of it? >> i agree on both points. i think the white house wanted a contrast. a direct contrast with the republican presidential field that nice where the president could lay out his vision and republicans squabble amongst themselves how bad it was and no one's answered the question. why couldn't boehner called back congress on tuesday? why call them back on wednesday? clearly the speaker could have accommodated. he said no and the president gave in and said, sure, i'll do it on thursday. >> clarence, all bad staff work? i ask because white house communications director dan pfeiffer went on "the daily rundown" with chuck todd and tried to clean it up. >> so did speaker boe

from this segment, political analyst howard fineman and the "huffington post," sam stein. thank you for joining me. coming up next, the republican strategist will join us. we'll look at more of the debate performances. ♪ 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. ♪ >>> we're back with a special edition of the last word. the republican debate in florida has just ended. let's listen to the front-runners, rick perry and mitt romney exchange thoughts on social security. >> those people that are on social security today, those people that are approaching social security, they don't have anything in the world to worry about. we have made a solemn oath to the people of this country that that social security program in place today will be there for them. now, it's not the first time that mitt has been wrong some issues before.

sam stein is not here to celebrate with me. so we did not see it. i actually don't -- i haven't even read it yet, so i don't really know about that. i would just say in general that in the two and a half years that barack obama has been president, it simply -- i mean, it has been one of the most substantial periods in our history, in terms of the seriousness of the challenges we faced, the enormity of the crises and the potential even worse crises that this president faced and took head on. when he came into office there were -- i mean, remember the headlines that you wrote and others wrote, "imminent great depression." "global financial collapse." "bank holidays." "nationalization of the banks." "predictions of unemployment as high as 25 percent." that's the economic environment that we faced when we came in, and that this president addressed head on with a series of incredibly challenging decisions that he took, that by any measure arrested the extreme downward slide that this economy was taking when we were hemorrhaging jobs at more than 750,000