>> i learned that sam stein is a mood killer when i'm trying to go back to the roaring '50s and i want politic, of the catholic church, the producers on the show don't even bother coming to me. >> oh. wow, he's some -- a bit of a whiner. >> kind of needy, isn't he? i got to talk to your ma about that. >> speaking of music, i learned this is a great show to come on and talk about your book. cue the music. today when we were talking about this, he played "rocking the suburbs" by ben fold. it was awesome. >> unbelievable. cue is the best. >> i learned we have another photographer in the family. sophie, she's 12. look what happened in the cape cod chronicle. her picture of a bunny. and alex didn't want to show this. he wanted to ruin her day. >> because we're a minute and a half past and chuck todd is the most patient guy of all time. >> sophie, great job! >> sophie, great job. >> good picture! >> while we're at it, look at the picture. >> that's my cat emma. >> if it's way too early, it's "morning joe." stick around for the always patient chuck todd and "the daily rundown" where we learn

along with sam stein in washington. you said nothing, you were great. to chime in on the voter i.d. situation? >> yeah. i do. i think you got it wrong. i think there are restrictions here that are, you know, burning some prepredominantly minority communities. closing down polling stations, ending early voting. for college kids you can no longer in these instances use college i.d. laws. some of these people don't have any other form of i.d. hold on, one more thing. the people who don't have i.d.s, are predominantly old or minority and that's just a fact. you can say and i think you're right about this, a lot of people do have i.d.s and maybe they should use them to vote. there is a segment of the population that doesn't have i.d.s and happen to be minorities and old. >> by the way, all those things that you said making it harder for people to vote as far as by, you know, ending early voting or ending weekend voting, i think we're so far down the road there we shouldn't be more restrictiontive but my question went to an i.d. >> yeah. >> by the way, you sai

joined the table the reverend al sharpton will be here, chris hayes, john meacham, sam stein. >> wasn't that great how nimble he was on set to pull back and take his bow. >> thanks for that. >> willie's making fun of my fan. that's my number one fan other than my mother. yes. we're going to be back with much more -- >> why? >> because it's hot up in here. >> you want to make your hair look nice. >> we're back after this. when you realize you need to switch to verizon, it's a reality check. i had my reality check when i'd be sitting there with my friends who had their verizon phones and i'd be sitting there like "mine's still loading!" i couldn't get email. i couldn't stream movies. i couldn't upload any of our music. that's when i decided to switch. now that i'm on verizon, everything moves fast. with verizon, i have that reliability. i'm completely happy with verizon. verizon's 4g lte is the most reliable and in more places than any other 4g network. period. that's powerful. verizon. get the nokia lumia 928 for free. at truecar.com, we offer our users... guaranteed upfront savings. the

dutta told sam stein, i am living off fumes. joining me now is msnbc contributor sam stein. know, the rewrite is a segment of the show i usually do alone. but when i read your piece this morning, i thought it was so important we needed to get it in the show tonight. and we'll need your help with it. tell us why the scientific research like this in this country is not being funded at the levels it needs. >> well, first of all, thank you for doing this segment. science has been deprioritized because of sequestration. now we're back at 2007 levels because of sequestration that reduced about 750 grants that they could have given to scientists across the country. and basically, you're left with the potentially promising progresses like dr. dutta was doing. when he initially tried for the grants, 98% of them, he bested them. this time around he can't get funding. what we'll end up happening, in ten year's time, we'll see the consequences of them. you won't see the consequences in the next year or so. it is when we don't discover the cure for diseases that it is a bad investment. a

sam stein say hi to your mother for us. go, sam. >> i agree with your point. it's funny because when you say he doesn't have to throw rhetorical bombs to succeed he's going on "crossfire" which is like the basis of throwing rhetorical bombs. i mean just because he has a history of being, you know, grandiose and rhetorically divisive, doesn't mean his point yesterday was wrong. i think his point yesterday was right. >> it was great. >> in that, you know, within the context of this debate over shutting down the government over obama care, i think the republican party would benefit a lot if they had a more comprehensive set of plans to replace obama care as opposed to a finite set of plans they keep drumming out. >> a couple things before we go to break here. we're friends with the gingrichs, like them a lot. your practical, common sense, eloquent honesty and what we just showed will be punished. coming up on "morning joe" -- >> wait. hold on -- >> talk about -- >> hold on a second. are you talking about from nbc executives who don't like us mentioning cnn? >> no

sam stein is an msnbc contributor with "huffington post." jonathan that piece created quite a buzz. as i read it i said what's on the verge of the extinctiontion is the establishment of the republican party. >> yes they reported the morose mood among the establishmen in republican. you have social issues set in which the republican party has essentially alienated a lot of voters, hispanic voters, black voters, female voters. on the basic issues of governance you have a party that's threatening to shut down the government so it can defund obama care, the establishment doesn't library that but a lot of voice us of the party want to see that. or shutting down the government or let the nation default on its debt. any of those out comes is poor. >> this might not be evident in 2014 because all politics are local and in those hyper partisan districts for rs and ds republicans could have a very good year and give them a false since of bravado. >> those are the duelling tensions. you have a bunch of house republicans tuned to the political whims in their own districts and those whims are di

sam stein, i wouldn't let -- you can't let sam borrow the money. buy pot with it and suddenly you're in charge -- >> wow. >> this conspiracy -- >> nothing wrong with that, right? >> you said it, not me. >> i'm glad you didn't go to baseball because -- >> no. >> i want to talk about packers football if anything. >> i know. we were talking beforehand you're up here for -- >> bond rating agencies. your neighbor to the south illinois is an economic basket case. you guys in wisconsin are doing so well, sam was asking to borrow money. it's crazy. you guys are going to get a huge up on your bond rating because i guess you're just a wash in cash up there. >> four years ago we had just over $25 million cash balance at the end of the year. fiscal year '09. now we come in with over $1.8 billion. pretty sharp contrast. it's the same thing. couple years ago when i came in $3.6 billion deficit. we have about a half billion dollar surplus. >> let's talk about, then, ryan braun, what happened? >> i could see a-rod threw him under the bus. >> that's right. >> do yo

joining me to discuss this revelation and the race are "the huffington post" sam stein and democraticategist margie omero. margie, what is the net net of this? might there be blowback that causes people to be sympathetic to this individual? >> well, i'm sympathetic for anybody who has a private conversation turn into a national story. and you know, that's unfortunate for him, and i feel badly that that happened. i think ultimately, voters, though are, going to be looking at this race, not through the lens of what happened to this campaign manager a year out. but what do we know about mitch mcconnell? and he continues to be far to the right of where most voters are. not only that, he really demonstrates what is wrong with washington, the gridlock, the obstruction, the very clearly saying in his own words our number one goal is to try and defeat president obama. that was his stated policy goal. and so i think a lot of voters have just had it with washington as usual. and there is no one really who demonstrates washington as usual as much as mitch mcconnell. the fact that his own campaig

joining me to discuss this, sam stein and democratic strategist markie omero.t is the net of this? might there be blow-back? >> well, i'm sympathetic for anybody who has a private conversation turned into a national story. you know, that's unfortunate for him. i feel badly that happened. i think ultimately voters, though, are going to be looking at this race, not through the lens of what happened to this campaign manager a year out, but what do we know about mitch mcconnell? he continues to be far to the right of where most voters are. not only that, he really demonstrates what's wrong with washington, the gridlock, the obstruction clearly saying in his own words, our number one goal is to try to defeat president obama. and so i think a lot of voters have justhood it with washington as usual. there's no one who demonstrates that as much as mitch mcconned. the fact that his own campaign manager can't get excited is a symptom rather than a cause. >> sam stein, usual mitch mcconnell, i want you to put yourself into his mind and body. must you now fire this guy? >>

. >> i want to bring in richard wolf and sam stein. richard, we were talking about the europe upon union and the americans and exactably what sort of leverage they somewhere over the egyptians. there was also an interesting piece in the "new york times" discussing just how complicated our relationship with the egyptians is. the u.s. war strips have preferential passage through the suez scandal. there's a whole host of things that egypt gives us strategically in other parts of the world. >> this is a military to military relationship than just the dollar amount. the idea that america would want to just give that up is simplistic. it may sound sort of very principled and of course that's the way the politicians would like us to believe that foreign policy is run, with the exception of president bush's second inaugural run, that's not the way that foreign politics has worked its way through foreign policies. the leverage of these dollars is pretty small when you're talking about a regime that's fighting for its very survival. that's why w

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. >>> joining us now david corn of mother jones and sam stein with the huffington post. sam, what probably brought this to a head? what finally got people like gershon and krauthammer and others i singled out there over the prairie to say we'd better be careful. if cruz gets control of the opposition here of the republican party, we may be in trouble. >> i think it was the sheer overtness of it. it wasn't as if he was trying to set the stage for a government shutdown. he was sort of actively courting it. and when you're trying to shut down the government, you shouldn't be the one who says let's do it. that's what has convinced republicans this is a stupid strategy. you also have to look at the actual implications and how this thing would work. and the congressional research service did that and concluded if you wanted to defund obama care, shutting down the government wouldn't do it. a lot of this is mandatory spending that would continue going on as if nothing happened. so in terms of substance and strategy, a lot of people woke up and said, why exactly are we doing this

"sam stein. i want you to stay smart throughout this entire segment, okay? you've done it before. e it before. >> no, i haven't. never made it through a segment. >> so, sam, senior adviser to the republican tea party caucus on the hill, mitt romney, wants them to just calm down, just calm down, you guys, think this through, it won't work for us. will that kind of message get through if delivered by romney and others who have their ears? >> i think -- i think it's the right message but the wrong messenger. i think what tends to be the case with losing presidential candidates is that the party from which they came quickly abandoned them as losers n this case mishaps to have the virtue of being right and he's not the only one talking about it in these terms. i think, first of all, it wouldn't work. the majority of the funds for obamacare are mandatory and you can't simply stop obamacare by shutting down the government, this congressional research proved it. second, the problem they face right now they're actively the ones courting the shutdown. it's not like we're having a shutdown an

thank you, sam stein. up next, the return of birtherism in all of its nasty forms. you can follow me on twitter so long as you know how to spell smerconish. this is "hardball," the place for politics. ♪ [ male announcer ] you wait all year for summer. ♪ this summer was definitely worth the wait. ♪ summer's best event from cadillac. let summer try and pass you by. lease this cadillac srx for around $369 per month or purchase for 0% apr for 60 months. come in now for the best offers of the model year. >>> back to "hardball." time for the sideshow." missouri's rodeo cowboy association is under fire for a controversial performance at its state fair on saturday. the bull riding event featured a rodeo clown wearing a president obama mask and the actor was then routinely mocked over the p.a. system. take a look. >> mr. obama. >> hey, lot me tell these people about who we got helping. obama is going to have to stay there. obama, watch out for those bulls. >> hey, i know i'm a clown. he just runs around acting like one. doesn't know he is one. >> you ready? obama, they're co

sam stein is an msnbc contributor with ""huffington post"." jonathan, that piece created quite a buzz today. i said to myself what's on the verge of extinction really is the establishment of the republican party. >> that's right, michael. my colleagues jim vandehei and mike allen did a very good job i think today of reporting the really as they put it more rose morose mood among the establishment in washington. you've got a couple of factors here. number one, the social issue set in which the republican party has essentially alienated a lot of voters whether you're talking about hispanic voters, black voter, female voters. and then on the sort of basic issues of governance, you have a party that is threatening to shut down the government so that it can defund obama care. the establishment doesn't like that. certainly a lot of voices in the party want to see it or just shut down the government for the purpose of shutting down on the government or let the nation default on its debt. any of those outcomes are horror for the governance model that

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joining us now are two political analysts, david corn of mother jones and sam stein with the "huffington post." sam, what probably brought this to a head? what finally got people like gershon and krauthammer and others i sim out there over the prairie to say we'd better be careful. if cruz gets control of the opposition here of the republican party, we may be in trouble. >> i think it was the sheer overtness of it. it wasn't as if he was trying to set the stage for a government shutdown. he was sort of actively courting it. and when you're trying to shut down the government, you shouldn't be the one who says let's do it. that's what has convinced republicans this is a stupid strategy. you also have to look at the actual implications and how this thing would work. and the congressional research service did that and concluded if you wanted to defund obama care, shutting down the government wouldn't do it. a lot of this is mandatory spending that would continue going on as if nothing happened. so in terms of substance and strategy, a lot of people woke up and said, why exactly are we doing

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pentagon for cure or certain infrastructure plans, what you're doing with an across the board cut as sam stein and ryan reported is penalize a very part of the government that is running on low overhead and efficiently running, right? while bloated systems actually have the cushion. it's the opposite of what a jack welch style biscuit would do. does that aspect of it concern you on the penny plan, that they're not learning anything? >> well, the whole thing concerns me because it's a total breakdown of logic, adulthood and compassion. >> well said. >> we've used a lot of sflesver this segment. >> because congress is supposed to be about, although it sounds oxymoronic in these days, it's about making intelligent choices in balancing politics and human needs and the goals of the country. the sequester is a meat axe that rewards bloated programs and penalized efficient programs. now the penny plan would sort of do the same thing to entitlements. the way you deal with entitlements is by trying to make them more efficient while making them more humane and that at least is the promise of obama care

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. >> joining me today, political editor and white house correspondent at "the huffington post," sam stein. "washington post" columnist jonathan capehart, founder and editor at large, charlie senate, jon meacham author of "thomas jefferson -- the art of power." joining us now from cairo, nbc news foreign correspondent ayman muhyeldin. we're hearing from the spokesperson for the muslim brotherhood that they want to remain nonviolent and peaceful. we are also at the same time hearing news that there is live ammo being launched by morsi supporters and molotov cocktails. can you give us the latest on the situation on the ground? >> reporter: well, you're absolutely right. it is a very volatile situation and that introduction really kind of sums up the discrepancy in what we're hearing from both sides. on one hand we've just learned a short while ago that the ministry of interior has authorized its forces to use live ammunition. that's going to come as a surprise to many after so many of the fatalities and casualties that we saw yesterday in terms of what the security forces may have been using

. >> with me now bill carter of "the new york times" and sam stein "the huffington post."'s be clear. we're arguing or they're arguing about a script that hasn't even been written. >> that's right. and i think first of all, i have no dog in this fight but when i wrote the story and realized that fox had involvement with their entertainment arm, i thought it was certainly interesting, and sort of raises the question of who is really responsible for putting on an entertainment thing, and how does it relate to anybody's news division. >> but i think it becomes, and i recognize that you have no dog in the fight. it seems like a hard an argument for reince priebus toe make that i'm going to hold accountable those networks that air it as compared to those who produce it. when i read your piece and then heard what he had to say as a lawyer, i thought of civil law and product liability. those ho get held accountable are manufacturers and vendors, assuming it's a defective product. >> look, in the entertainment world, there are entangled relationships. and in this case, nbc picks u