it's -- matthews is yelling at olbermann, scarborough is yelling at david shuster, you have to apparently box if they like you. is -- is there no control? is it "lord of the flies?" does anyone have the -- can anyone be the leader over there? can you go in there? or is it all just piggy? what's going on? >> we're doing this, aren't we? laughter >> jon: can you gain control over these people? -- >> jon, i think every family has a dynamic all -- is this working? has a dynamic all its own, and you -- sometimes it takes a figure to come in and -- >> jon: does msnbc have to be the low hands, i guess is what i'm saying. [cheers] [applause] >> it's happening. it's happening again. this is happening, isn't it? >> jon: let's move on. [laughter] >> the people of new orleans. do you have my wallet? >> jon: the people of new orleans -- >> don't ever go here. >> jon: the people of new orleans -- the people of new orleans as they were getting through this hurricane -- >> didn't seem to mind last night. >> jon: settle down. [cheers] >> jon: the people of new orleans. what do they think of sarah palin? w

run joe scarborough. >> i'm just tired of it of being the stupid party. i'm tired of us being stupid and having stupid people saying stupid things and scaring off independent voters and swing voters. >> i mean, i think that's exactly right. we see some of that. i also saw nate silver, the pollster, an interesting tweet that made me laugh. is it possible to win a senate race with 0% of women's vote? asking for a friend. hostile towards women's issues as well as issues for black people, hispanics. >> how do you -- >> i mean, how do you have a national party -- >> the fact that -- >> -- that is pushing women away? >> every major republican figure distanced themselves from the statements, does not do anything to assuage you from saying the gop will attack women, the gop is hostile to women. >> but, well, no, they're still a pro-life party. they're saying women, you don't get to choose what you do with your body. that's still a major -- >> we're still pro-right, pro-life. >> here's the problem. let me just -- >> toure was tansanswering. >> if i can get in ther

this is a beautiful wedding in scarborough, ontario. the ceremony is over, it's time to party at the reception. the bridal party is lining up. >> you always try to do something cool and funny as you're getting announced into the reception. >> you're absolutely right. >> that's woody, that's lindsay. they're about to make their grand entrance. they had a grand idea. it didn't quite work for him. >> she tried to lift him, oh, boy, and we got a crotch shot. >> what a big, dumb oaf. if you're going to try that, give the girl a second to get her footing or take the high heels off. he just mounts her like a mule. did he rip his suit too? >> it look like his suit might be ripped. lindsay here has lost a shoe. she skinned her knees pretty badly. >> he's way bigger than her. >> he's 6'4", 260 pounds. >> why did she think she could carry that man in heels at 6'4", 240. >> the crazy thing about it is this whole thing was her idea. >> they still have to make their entrance because the crowd is still waiting for them, so watch what woody does. he th

joe scarborough a house member in 1995 recalls a young paul ryan often the only staff guy at strategy sessions. >> and paul at 22, 23, it was back 1995, january of '95, paul was at the center of the action telling us what we could do, what we couldn't do. >> reporter: in 1998 ryan was only 28 and won election to the house. as his power grew, so did his self-confidence. >> paul ryan has a supreme self-confidence of a true believer. he's also a prodigy. he's someone who has studied this stuff for his whole life and he loves to talk about it. >> reporter: he even challenged president obama on the budget two years ago. >> the discretionary spending, the bills that congress has signed, that you signed into law, that has increased 84%. >> we'll -- we'll have a longer debate on the budget numbers then, all right? >> reporter: away from washington, ryan is an avid sportsman, hunting, fishing, but how will he handle politics' biggest stage? the republican chairman is a long-time friend. >> paul ryan is a person who's real, authentic, and wants to serve this country with a pure heart and make a

joe scarborough is the host of "morning joe" on msnbc. he's in tampa as well. good morning, matt. >> so, the campaign advisors are saying that governor romney insisted about speaking about his faith and his speech tomorrow night. the mormon religion will be front and center in a way we haven't seen in the last several months. this is clearly a strategy shift. why are we seeing it? >> well, i think they understand, mitt romney cannot run away from who he is. he can't run away from his more mannism, the fact he made a lot of money at bain capital, he can't run away from his record in massachusetts and it's good news for governor romney that he wants to talk about who he is. he needs to get a lot more personal in this campaign. and there is no doubt from people that have known him his entire life that mormonism is at the foundation of who he is. his faith. is such a huge part of his life. >> but does it even matter, joe, a recent pew research poll shows that 81% of registered voters who know that mitt romney is a mormon, either don't care about it or are very comf

the consensus in washington is exactly the opposite of joe scarborough. >> thank good.the about the republican party not liking this pick. this is, after all, the same republican party that has run the brand into the ground and i think led to four pretty disas tour years. it's not playing it safe. they would have loved him to pick pawlenty or portman. a great quote from george will. >> when his speech accepting the avenue 74 republican nomination, goldwater said extremism is no vice and pursuit of justice is no virtue. a media wit at the convention exclaimed "good god, goldwater is going to run at goldwater." many thought thank god romney isn't going to run as romney. >> some like a candidate who is defined and some don't like that. >> where does the panic come from? why are they so worried about this on capitol hill? >> it is medicare. they say a voting bloc as being elderly white voters and those people are overwhelmingly thought to favor mitt romney. if that swings in biden's favor, there goes mitt romney. some people wonder how well he's going to withstand scrutiny

joe scarborough, the host of morning joe on msnbc. good morning. >> good morning, matt. >> campaign advisers say mitt romney insisted speaking on his faith and religion, the mormon religion will be front and center in a way we haven't seen in the last several months. this is clearly a strategy shift. why are we seeing it? >> i think they understand mitt romney can't run away from who he is. he can't run away from mormonism, the fact he made a lot of money at bain capital, his record in massachusetts. it's good news for governor romney he wants to talk about who he is. he needs to get a lot more personal in this campaign. there's no doubt from people who have known him his entire life that mormonism is at the foundation of who he is. his faith is such a huge part of his life. >> but does it even matter, joe. a recent pew research show 860% of voters are comfortable with it. is it an issue? >> no, it won't be an issue. i'm from the deep south as you know, campaigned in the deep south. there's no doubt evangelicals saw mormon as their al

. >> kate scarborough turns 9 years old today. >> happy birthday, kate. >> she is the sunshine of myhe is an extraordinary girl. isn't it amazing? she's an amazing girl. >> you need to see her and bring her so many presents. >> mark halperin will tell her what an amazing girl she is. happy birthday, kate. can't wait to see you. see what the forecast is like on kate scarborough's birthday with bill karins. >> that's like a hello kitty party or -- >> hey, you know, that's like a hey, bill, do your job and give us the forecast. it's a barbie party! >> you can have a hello kitty party if you want to. but you keep that to yourself. >> i think kate's going to stick with barbie. >> lunch box. >> i got to learn those lessons as my kids get older. good morning. everybody has been asking me what happened to ernesto, became a hurricane last night, headed into mexico. this will be a tropical storm boths eshg them over the next two or three days. minimal amount of damage out there. as far as the good news for today, weather change across the northern plains. it's about time too. rain this morning

joe scarborough came against the ads as being inaccurate. why are they used? there are racial codes inherent about public assistance and welfare. we can talk about the history of welfare queens and the ways in which welfare has been racialized historically. once we realize they're not accurate, we have to conclude that the romney campaign has a sinister strategy here about welfare and public assistance being only used and exploited and fraudulently used sometimes by people of color. >> you know, sam, i remember during the primary campaign it got heated, and i enjoyed it. it got so heated for a while there. people said obama was the food stamp president. that was more direct than this. i'm sorry. your thoughts on this? is this simply trying to get the certain percentage of the white non-college vote up to the level they need it at even at the cost of being ridiculed by the projected umpires of the business that know that the ads aren't right. >> the nbc wall street jump had it at 94-0 for obama. if that's meant premise, you have to get the other votes on. >> we

. >> the boy, tearing off toward his house is 7-year-old preston scarborough.er he tells haney that he took the car because he didn't want to go to church with his parents. the video is released to the media, and a few days later on the "today" show, his parents are still in shock. >> we could be sitting here for a lot different reason right now. we're happy it turned out okay. >> preston's parents punish him. no tv and video games for a while. but the law doesn't. >> preston didn't fully understand the dangers. being he was 7 years old, we didn't feel like he was culpable and that has an understanding of an intent to commit the crime and he didn't fully understand that with his age. >> you going to get behind the wheel of a car again? >> uh-huh. >>> while a child driver is punished by his parents in utah, another one is praised by police in north platte, nebraska. why? it it's a different story caught on the dash board camera of investigator roger frees on may 17th, 2009. >> call was a subject driving rather erratically. >> a dark pickup weaving toward him in

joe scarborough took great issue, pointing out that ryan's never used the language that akin used in the interview on sunday with the notion of rape, but he did use this forcible rape language in legislation that they co-sponsored. john heilemann, i think, had interestingen sight. >> they co-sponsored legislation that tried to redefine rape and something called forcible rape. that was the wildest controversial it wasn't because it tried to outlaw abortions in all cases of rape and incest, they tried to carve out and make a distinction between some other form of rape and something that they called forcible rape. you know, for most women, rape is rape. >> so, chip, does that stick on congressman ryan? no, he never said legitimate rape but the notion of forceable rape versus some other category, heilemann said it, you feel this kay w way the president said it rape is rape. >> rape is rape. nothing more horrible for a woman to go through than rape. they trial to lump congressman ryan in. >> is it wrong? if he co-sponsored legislation -- >> i think it is wrong. >> why is it wrong that he

you heard scarborough this morning.ks, martin that romney's got to come out and say akin has to get out of the race. it's not -- that's not something you would expect from a mitt romney. >> no, quite frankly, you don't expect that from a presidential candidate. todd, i went to school at the university of missouri. i'm with the missouri-based law firm, and this is a serious story. akin could lose this race. missouri is a lot like my home state of texas in that they are conservative but don't want to be embarrassed. akin is an embarrassment for them right now. this puts the race in play. claire's got a real shot. >> they have 24 hours for him to voluntarily leave, tom. and then they can easily find a candidate, probably go get sarah steelman who already tweeted, i think she's smelling that opportunity. they have a more complicated way to go. you've seen this before. forcing people off the ballot is no easy task. >> it's because they all think, hey, i'm different. i can do this. >> well, and it may be september to see how

joe scarborough, who has a lot of connections in the south says this kind of thing will be passed aroundm pastor to pastor and will have a real affect. i think at a broader level, you've got a bunch of freshman congressmen who came into the republican party in 2010 who have this stance, which is that they were not part of washington. not part of typical washington. they were going to change the capitol in some fundamental way and this kind of thing, fooling around, doing this frivolous stuff, it kind of cuts against that image of seriousness. that's like a thing a caricature of an old washington hand would do and not the thing that a bunch of young, earnest bright reformers would bring to the capitol. >> young israelis or americans go over there and love the state of israel and what it stands for. this swimming is very popular. it's part of a ritual of growing up kind of thing. >> it may be that this is innocent and that the facts as they've been presented create a misleading impression. i go back to the question though of what was upsetting to eric cantor. if the reporting's right. what

it was monday, i believe, that joe scarborough said listen, karl rove and the other heavyweights of this party will have to get out front and show this man they're not backing him. american crossroads, the president released a statement stephen law saying representative akin faces a simple choice, will he help democrats hold the mccaskill and potentially the senate majority by staying in the race. here we are now, he is still in the race and not backing down. what are your feelings? >> first of all, todd akin's candidacy is dead, whether he realizes that or not. he's probably taking a poll and will be able to determine that condition cluesively. the facts are his candidacy is dead. there's no way he can win. as long as he's on the ballot, we cannot be talking about the issues that matter most to americans, economy, taxes, debt. instead we're talking about todd akin. he needs to leave the ballot for the good of his country. we can move on to bigger and better things. >> you've said democrats will hold onto the seat. the good of the party now, that brings meese to congressman ryan. just no

joe scarborough who leans to the right quite a bit came out against these ads as being inaccurate.o ask the question why they are still being used. bottom line is there are racial codes that are inhairnent the discourse about public assistance and welfare. we can talk about the history of welfare queens and ways in which welfare has been racially historically, we have to prove the romney campaign has a sinister strategy to tap into the old codes of welfare and being used and exploited and fraudulently used by people of color. >> you know, sam, i remember during the primary campaign got heated. i enjoyed it. it got so heated a while there. people like newt gingrich saying obama was the food stamp president. that was more direct than this. i'm sorry. your thoughts on this? is this simply trying to get the certain percentage of the white noncollege vote up to the level they needed at and even if the cost of being ridiculed by the objective umpires of the business who know these ads aren't right? >> well, you know, the -- race for the african-american voter p isn't exactly a nail biter

there really is joe scarborough said on his show the other day, there really is nothing, there is no there there. when you look at wat romney campaign is saying. it's put news organizations in a position where they say do we do the traditional story where mitt romney said this, barack obama said that and some expert down in the 14th paragraph says if you think about, what romney's saying doesn't make much sense. this is -- there is a story that the associated press ran today on the subject that jumped out at me the headline, romney pushes on with discredited welfare attack. this is the headline. the first paragraph. mitt romney claims he's got a winner with his criticism of president barack obama as giving welfare recipients a free ride. never mind that his arguments are factually inaccurate. to see the associated press, the preeminent neutral middle of the road organization treating it this way, i don't think we've seen that before. >> which is great. does that penetrate when millions are being spent to push a deceptive position. >> messages that fit with what they already believe.

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our colleague, joe scarborough was saying on "morning joe" that in their meetings in the prebeginnipr pre-gingrich era, it was always paul ryan, the one staff guy that had the numbers, talking about the contract for america and the details of the problematic side. he really has been around a long time and i think if any house member could handle this, it would be paul ryan. also, are remember, the sort of sp spunkiness and who got in the president's face when the house caucus took him on. it was paul ryan who said, let's be specific. tell us what you're going to do and you saw that expression on the president's face. that's a piece of tape that we'll play over and over again. he will still run for his house seat and back when he was running for the senate and vice president. >> that's right. paul ryan will be on the ballot twice. so he will be above everybody on the wisconsin ticket and below himself on the wisconsin particular wet there when all is said and done. the other part of this pick is that it probably won't get as much attention. generationally, you know, there has been some

i think joe scarborough put it very brilliantly last week on "morning joe," when he said, mitt romneygin with "m." money, massachusetts -- money, massachusetts, and mormon. those three things. >> what about mitt?! >> we thought you could add that. >> all three of these things make up mitt romney, who he is, to his core. and he won't talk about them. so you get situations where phil rucker, my colleague from "the washington post" asking him, governor, what did you get, and he just looks and says, "uh, hardware stuff." >> yeah, hardware stuff. now, we're laughing about buckets and greek yogurt, because those are funny things. >> together, especially. >> together, greek yogurt and hardware. but there's a very real question here, which is how mitt romney will legislate if he's actually elected president. and let's go back to the tea party element here. let's remember that mitt romney's new buddy, richard mourdock, has shown a wild distaste for bipartisanship. this is what he said about compromise. >> i certainly think that bipartisanship ought to consist of democrats coming to the republi

at numbers and made quality analysis sees from actually numerical data and our good friend joe scarboroughow and love and respect looked at the way a man looks and decided to make a political judgment based on that. >> if i knew david axelrod, i might make the same calculation. i don't know david. >> he didn't like the cut of his jib, ergo the polling they're reading is -- come on. >> david favreau might not like the cust your jib right now. in fairness, david axelrod has a very tough job right now and i'm sure is putting in many long hours and has all sorts of rights to be looking a little wild. >> david axelrod has never been a gq model. >> you are making a lot of enemies today. >> just as carl robe has never looked beautiful. that's what "w" was there for. >> it is his job to be nervous. we could come up with a million theories why he might be nervous or upset. beat very two theories i want to say, one is about money. i honestly believe that we just had nick confessore. we miss the importance of money in a presidential race. it really isn't about altering the outcome. that is the story

right now people like george will and joe scarborough are wildly enthusiastic about this pick, but ion't think we know yet whether he's going to appeal to independent voters, which is a big part of what this election is about, obviously. >> i'll tell you what for me, again as a republican, that jon, who's seen his party not only go the wrong way, but also at the same time becomes less conservative fiscally is seen as more conservative, more entrenched, more unyielding and more southern. >> yeah. >> think about it since 1988, the republican party and you can look at the electoral map, we have been closing ourselves off in the south, become a party of lee atwater, newt gingrich, then -- >> tom delay. >> dick army, g.w. bush, karl rove. now look at this ticket. a guy from massachusetts, and a guy from wisconsin. now americans aren't going to walk into the booth thinking about that, but i'm just telling you, it's a critical move. we have punched out of my home territory the deep south for the first time in a long time. >> yeah. >> it's beyond the sun belt. >> the town, tonally there's no

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>> i was real excited until i found i had to serve with borroscarb scarborough. >> that would happenboth sides are now saying that the other side drove me out. the democrats want to say it was the tea party, whack jobs that drove me out and republicans want to say it was the democrats. that's really what happened. when i got here, you had a lot of the old bulls. i had a big class, 73. joe and i came in, in the class of '94. people were breathing fire and everything else. the big difference is that we didn't sweat the small stuff. we could go fight and the budget and all sorts of things when it came time to do that, but things that needed to be done to move the country forward, like student loans, the farm bill, the highway bill, they got 350, 400 votes. and there was no such thing as a republican bridge or democratic road. that's what's different today. >> boy, oh, boy. that's a sad story you're telling, congressman. i'm going to miss people like you. appreciate you coming on with us this morning. congressman steve latourette, thank you so much. >>> waging war from thousands of miles

for mitt romney the moment is now, by joe scarborough. >> yeah. >> really good.rnalities can put you in the game but it takes a real leader to cross the goal line. now it's romney's turn. it could be a speech or moment on the trail or most likely a cumulative impression left in the debates. romney has been given a great gift, something few men in american history have ever had, a real shot at the presidency. to close the deal he's going to have to convince americans that he's not just a manager or a reassuring presence, but that he's got the wherewithal to make tough fiscal choices before the american dream sustains ir rev coble damage. it's your moment, mitt. make the most of it, we're here and we're listening. >> katty, how does he do it? how does he do something in 20, 30-minute speech he hasn't been able to do in a 15-year political career? >> and five years of presidential campaigning? >> yeah. i think, you know, he's said on his policies, people pretty much know what mitt says he's going to do with the country. the bit for me that's lacking is the leadershi