it didn't seem to trouble people about scott brown.ut i think what his problem is, his campaign is now saying that this is an example of how elitist elizabeth warren is, because she didn't have to do something like that. and i kind of want their theme song to be that donna summer -- she works hard for the money? >> they're trying to bring it back to -- >> right, exactly. >> i want to know, just your bottom line, who won the back and forth when she took opportunity to mention that he'd posed naked for -- nude for "cosmopolitan" years ago when he was in law school. and then he made the personal shot at her. >> yeah. >> who won in that exchange? >> i think she did. his is personal. >> this is what i find fascinating. brown is not a politician. he is one of the best pure -- like a quarterback. with a barber coat, a car and truck. >> you know what his problem is, we could talk about their working class backgrounds and so forth, but the math is tough for him. he's running in massachusetts. a lot of people are pulling for barack obama and bro

>> you know, i'll survive a few jabs from scott brown. >> do you think he should apologize? >> i'll survive. >> wow, and "the boston globe" reports that brown went back on radio last night to say his earlier statement on warren was a joke. that's what he says. so in a competitive race, does a back and forth like this help either candidate? susan million writes for "u.s. news&world report," david corn writes for mother jones and alex wagner is an msnbc political analyst. i want to start with susan. who's won this thing so far, this lick back and forth about making fun of somebody's physical appearance, saying it's a joke? she sort of -- didn't exactly start it. that republican youngster started taunting her, go ahead. >> yeah, i think if anybody withins, it's probably elizabeth warren. i mean, first of all, i think we all know that a woman would never be able to run for office like this if she'd posed nude for a magazine. it didn't seem to trouble people about scott brown. but i think what his problem is, his campaign is now saying that this is an example of how elitist elizab

>> i'll survive a few jabs from scott brown. >> do you think he should apologize? l survive. >> wow, and "the boston globe" reports that brown went back on radio last night to say his earlier statement on warren was a joke. that's what he says. so in a competitive race, does a back and forth like this help either candidate? susan milne writes for "u.s. news & world report", david corn is a washington bureau chief, of course, for "mother jones, and alex wagner is an msnbc analyst. i want to start with susan. who has won this thing so far, this little back and forth about making fun of somebody's physical appearance, saying it's a joke. she didn't exactly start it, because that republican youngster started taunting her, go ahead. >> yeah, i think if anybody wins, it's probably elizabeth i mean, first of all, i think we all know that a woman would never be able to run for office like this if she'd posed nude for a magazine. it didn't seem to trouble people about scott brown. but i think what his problem is, his campaign is now saying that this is an example of how elit

they're in scott brown's message to students, with no atritributn to her at all as if she said the things. senator brown's staff said they used elizabeth dole's website as a template for their own website and that speech inadvertently got copied over on to scott brown's new website. here's the thing, though. look at the elizabeth dole quote again. in the original elizabeth dole quote scott brown supposedly accidentally covered over in a technical website glitch, that technical website glitch included carefully trimming out the part of the quote where elizabeth quote says, i am mary and john hanford's daughter. having scott brown proclaim that on his website would be worse. it was a technical glitch, a computer error which doesn't exactly go over because of the trimming of the quote which doesn't happen automatically. the excuse -- this excuse about the automatic transfer of this quote between websites somehow is being mocked openly in massachusetts local media. so then today scott brown decided he'd try explanation number two. quote, it was a summer intern that put together the site. at a

center fold was mentioned in a question to warren. >> to help pay for his law school education, scott brownn? >> i kept my clothes on. >> brown's campaign says warren's answer was offensive and an insult. on a boston radio show wednesday, the senator jabbed back. >> have you officially responded to elizabeth warren's comment about how she didn't take her clothes off? >> thank god. >> some democrats and women's groups angrily said brown's comment was more suited to a "frat house" and a dig at warren's appearance. a race getting personal. >> i'm not sure that elizabeth warren's remark was entirely innocent, but there's been a towel-snapping quality to scott brown's campaign so far. >> reporter: brown's upset victory last year stunned democrats who want desperately to knock him out in 2012. warren who worked for the obama administration as a consumer watchdog has never run for office before. >> i'm going to do this. i'm going to run for the united states senate. >> reporter: brown's campaign has labeled warren elitist. he deafened his '80s center fold. >> i did opportunity, i never would have

in 1982, but it's what scott brown said back that's raising eyebrows. it's friday, october 7th, 2011. this is "the daily rundown." i'm chuck todd. let me get right to my "first read" of the morning. and let's start with the jobs numbers. employers added 103,000 jobs in september. it left the unemployment rate unchanged at 9.1%. now, the president has been pulling out all the stops to sell his jobs bill. he's been traveling to schools, bridges, rural america, plans to take another bus tour in swing states like north carolina and virginia. then, of course, the white house news conference where the president argued that his jobs bill is an insurance policy against a double-dip recession. >> what i've tried to do is say here are the best ideas i've heard, not just from partisans, but from independent economists. these are the ideas most likely to create jobs now and strengthen the economy right now. >> the president has tried a number of ways to rally public support for the bill, but polls show he's still struggling to connect personally, and yesterday he l

that nude center fold was mentioned in a question to warren. >> scott brown posed for "cosmo," how did pay for your college education? >> i kept my clothes on. >> reporter: brown's campaign says warren's answer was offensive and an insult. on a boston radio show, the senator jabbed back. >> have you officially responded to her comment about how she didn't take her clothes off. >> thank god. >> reporter: some said brown's comment was more suited to a frat house and a dig at warren's appearance. a race, getting personal. >> i'm not sure her remark was entirely innocent. there's a towel snapping quality to scott brown's campaign. >> reporter: the upset victory to succeed ted kennedy stunned democrats who want to knock him out in 2012. warren who worked as a consumer watchdog never ran for office before. >> i'm going to do this. i'm going to run for the united states senate. >> reporter: brown's campaign labeled her elitist. >> i did what i had to do. for not having that opportunity, i would never been able to pay for school or gone to school. >> thursday, warren brushed it off. >> you don

centerfold was mentioned in a question to warren. >> to help pay for his law school education, scott brown for "cosmo." how did you pay for your college education? >> i kept my clothes on. >> reporter: brown's campaign says warren's answer was offensive and an insult. on a bozston radio show wednesday the senator jabbed back. >> have you officially responded to elizabeth warren's comment about how she didn't take her clothes off? >> thank god. >> reporter: some democrats and women's groups angrily said the comment was more suited to a "frat house" and a dig at warren's appearance. a race getting personal. >> i'm not sure that elizabeth warren's remark was entirely innocent but there's been a real towel snapping to scott brown's campaign so far. >> reporter: brown's upset victory to succeed ted kennedy stunned democrats who want desperately to knock him out in 2012. warren, who worked for the obama administration as a consumer watch dog, has never run for office before. >> i'm going to do this. i'm going to run for the united states senate. >> reporter: brown's campaign labeled warren eliti

is it really worth scott brown spending time on this kind of an issue? be really worth scott brown coming to somerville, because he hasn't been there since he's been elected. and since he's been in elected office, i think scott brown has been on holiday. if he would come to our city, we would show him when he celebrate nor holidays in civic events than any other city in our country and we're proud of it. >> but don't you think, sir, that this school principal might have been better advised to spend her time worrying about the academic performance of her students as opposed to sending an e-mail, albeit to colleagues, but an e-mail like this talking about holidays? i mean, what's the point? we've got kids, as you know, who are failing and struggling in school. >> well, i think it's a fair point, martin. and for full disclosure, three of my four sons go to that school and it's a great school and she's a very good principal. as you said, it was sent to her colleagues. i would have used a different form of words and different words in describing that concern,

listen to her comment at the debate followed by scott brown's reaction to a local radio host. >> scottosed for cosmo to help pay for college. how did you pay for your college education? >> i kept my clothes on. >> have you officially responded to elizabeth warn's comments about how she didn't take her clothes off? >> thank god. i didn't go to harvard. i went to the school of hard knocks and i did whatever i had to do to pay for school. >> reporter: the thank god comment driewt critic out. saying it was sexist, saying he was cite california her ear appearance. the democrats say scott brown's comments meaning women can be laughingly dismissed on their looks. elizabeth warren didn't seem offended. >> i work hide way through college and i respect anyone who did the same. >> reporter: later the night scott brown made the comment he talked to another radio host and said he was just joking about this. the maine republican senator susan collins came out and supported scott brown in this whole debate. this thing is clearly getting a little ugly. megyn: she takes a shot at him. he takes a shot b

elizabeth dole's name replaced with scott brown and there were some other minor tweaks, but brown's officepage plus awe doe biography and didn't need to borrow from elizabeth dole. >> thanks very much for that. >>> new theorys about why the iranians wanted to kill the ambassador to the united states. i'll ask dianne feinstein what she's learning today. and herman cain strengthening his hand as leader of the republican pack. we'll take a closer and harder look at whether he can go the distance. and there's a good chance that warren buffett pays this smaller percentage in federal income tax than you do. new information about tax breaks for the super rich may leave you outraged. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. breaking news, political headlines and jeanne moos all straight ahead. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> president obama says one way or another, iran must be held accountable for an alleged plot to kill the saudi ambassador to the united states. he said that true even if officials at the highest level didn't have details of what was goi

let's play a little bit of the original tape where she was asked about scott brown. and he responded. >> to help pay for his law school education scott brown posed for cosmo. how did you pay for your college education? >> i kept my clothes on. [ laughter ] >> have you officially responded to elizabeth warren's comment about how she didn't take her clothes off? >> thank god. [ laughter ] >> now, he's really take an lot of heat for that comment, for the alleged sexism in it. what is your take on this exchange? what it tells us about this race? certainly going to be one of the more entertaining senate races. >> i live in massachusetts, so i'm fascinated by this anyway just as a massachusetts resident. massachusetts has one woman in the congressional delegation. they've elected basically almost zero women over the life of the commonwealth. massachusetts voters don't like to send women to d.c. for some reason. and so i don't know why that is, but there's already an uphill battle there for elizabeth warren. but scott brown making a comment like that, particularly with the

she's running for the senate seat in massachusetts currently held by republican scott brown. s, not the least of which is that he posed almost, almost in the buff. in cosmo magazine. warren got asked how she paid for college and she said, well, i didn't take off my clothes. so then, scott brown comes back, gets asked about it on the radio, says, thank god. it's clear this one is going to need a referee up in massachusetts. we're all looking forward to a very interesting campaign. needless to say, both candidates, don, are likely to keep their clothes on, at least we hope. >> i'm blushing here. can you show that at almost 4:00 in the afternoon? >> almost. >> let's move on in talking about other bear facts. the '85 chicago bears finally got their visit to the white house after all these many years. >> a good story, right? are you a bears fan? i'm a bears fan. you know this story. here it is for everybody else. '85 bears won the only super bowl in team history, but never made it to the white house to visit with president reagan at the time during the shuttle challenge disaster. t

>> i kept my clothes on. >> well, now here's scott brown's response. >> have you officially responded to elizabeth warren's comment about how she didn't take her clothes off? [ laughter ] >> thank god. >> in the meantime, gabby giffords returned to washington again last night, attending the retirement ceremony for her husband. giffords is still in rehab but strong enough to pin a cross on her husband's lapel. >>> we're used to seeing shakira like this, her hips shaking and her singing, but she's been appointed by president obama to serve on his advisory committee to improve education in the hispanic community. >>> a former commander of u.s. troops in afghanistan, general stanley mcchrystal, is saying we began the war with a frightingly simplistic view ten years ago today. >> on my orders, the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations on the taliban regime in afghanistan. these carefully-targeted actions are designed to disrupt afghanistan. >> that marked the start of the longest war in u.s. history. 1,790 u.s. troops

republican scott brown holds it now, but his likely challanger, elizabeth warren, is a favorite who couldan she did a year ago. glen, it looks like it's safe to say that elizabeth warren is a shoo-in for the democratic nomination. is that safe to say? >> i think it's pretty safe to say if you look at her stature in recent polls around here as well as fund raising. she raised $3 million in the first quarter which was far more than the guy who just got out of the race and he's doing way better than people still in the race. so with those indicators, she's headed for the nomination next year. >> if she gets the nomination, how strong of a challenge will she be for scott brown? >> well, i think certainly here in massachusetts and across the nation, democrats feel like they got caught blindsided in january 2010 when scott brown won ted kennedy's seat, and now they are very anxious to try to get it back. i think second only to the presidential race, there will be a lot of attention on this race here. >> she appeals to the progressive -- the most progressive wing of the democratic party. there a

arthel has selected a remark by senator scott brown of massachusetts. as you may know, he once posed for does metropolitan magazine to get money nor college. apparently that's still an issue campaign against elizabeth warren and others. >> you have officially responded to elizabeth warren's comment about how she didn't take her clothes off? >> bill: are you very offended? >> i'm offended. >> bill: wasn't that a white comment. >> it's not white. here is something. scott brown ought to know better that a comment like that is going to come across as sexist. and also seeing as he has already gotten a pass in the world of double standards having been elected after posing nude decades earlier. >> bill: he was only 12 years old or whatever. >> i don't have a problem that he posed nude to pay for college. i don't have a problem with that. >> bill: you are fine with it? >> i'm fine with him posing. if he were a woman. had a woman done that it would have been held against her. >> bill: you are right on that. that's a good point. wasn't that a little off the comme

here is what she said. >> scott brown posed for cosmo to help pay for his college. y for your college education. >> i kept my clothes on. bill: you could say that was the moment from that debate. brown fired back during a radio interview yesterday. here is what he said. >> have you officially responded to elizabeth warren's comment about how she didn't take her clothes off? >> thank god. bill: so, there was an outcry from democrats and a few women's groups. warren said she brushed it off saying she could survive a few jobs from scott brown. she's not asking for an apology. an interesting race isn't it. martha: i think they are even now. they are pretty even. all righty. we'll revisit that. let's talk about something that is a little less entertaining at the moment that is the monthly unemployment report showing that the jobs market is basically at a standstill, a hundred thousand jobs were added in september. half of those were verizon workers straoeurbging, then they went back to work. the number is tolding steady at 9.1%. the white house saying it is unacceptably h

scott brown may have gotten in to more trouble with his latest comment. the national organization of women have condemned his remarks about warren and suggested he drop out of the 2012 race. i don't think that's going to happen. for the guy who stripped for a magazine to take such a low-blow at a female opponent is desperate psycho talk. >>> president obama is showing some fight as he takes his jobs bill in front of the american people and john boehner doesn't like it when the president gets tough. >>> and later, sarah palin is not running for president. will she fade away or will she still play a role in the 2012 campaign? lizz winstead and eric burns give us the verdict on sara from alaska. so it looks like...makeup. but trublend has skin twin technology to actually merge with your skin. how easy breezy beautiful is that? trublend...from covergirl. have given way to sleeping. where sleepless nights yield to restful sleep. and lunesta can help you get there, like it has for so many people before. when taking lunesta, don't drive or operate machinery unti

let's listen. >> to help pay for his law school education, scott brown posed for "cosmo." how did you pay for your college education? >> i kept my clothes on. >> incumbent scott brown got wind of that joke and had choice words for warren in a radio interview yesterday. >> have you officially responded to elizabeth warren's comment about how she didn't take her clothes off? >> thank god. >> "thank god"? that's how they say it in massachusetts. and this campaign is just getting started. next up, how's this for a bad dream? what if you were running for president and nobody showed up, only press, no voters. that's what happened to vp candidate gary johnson when he arrived at a new hampshire high school to speak with voters last night. the room was empty. rather than split, johnson and the five reporters stuck around for a q&a session. so what are the future plans of gary johnson if he does not end up in the white house? >> so it's president or nothing? >> well, by president or nothing, yeah, yeah, if i'm not successful, you're just never going to hear from me again. >> never g

scott brown may have gotten in to more trouble with his latest comment. national organization of women have condemned his remarks about warren and suggested he drop out of the 2012 race. i don't think that's going to happen. for the guy who stripped for a magazine to take such a low-blow at a female opponent is desperate psycho talk. >>> president obama is showing some fight as he takes his jobs bill in front of the american people and john boehner doesn't like it when the president gets tough. >>> and later, sarah palin is not running for president. will she fade away or will she still play a role in the 2012 campaign? lizz winstead and eric burns give us the verdict on sara from alaska. follow the wings. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." thank you for staying with us tonight. the president and jobs. will he get any help? the president is focused on his jobs message help knows the american people are on his side, the polls show it and he knows the republicans don't have a plan to get americans back to work because they haven't unveiled it. they just wan

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night in the state's first debate for the democratic nomination she served forbes magazine named scott brown wall street's favorite senator and i was thinking that's probably not the word i'm going to get. so. if. she served her well which is why we need to keep we need her in the senate you put up a bad michele are you hypnotized bachmann on the campaign trail in iowa bachmann was asked by a supporter when we impeach president obama and get him out of the way as though people can just you know each a president if they don't like him but is there pushing back on the man's uninformed remarks ackman jumped on the crazy train with. are you sure he really is well i shouldn't be i'll tell you if you get married. as for why the president would be impeached bachmann didn't clarify but let's assume something crazy happened bachmann got what she wanted when the president was impeached it's likely she wouldn't be there to vote for court and congressional quarterly congresswoman bachmann has missed one hundred fifty votes in the house since announcing her candidacy for president so maybe she is the one

"new york times" about elizabeth warren and scott brown. of humor is the first casualty of any fiercely fought campaign, and brown vs. warren, if she gets the nomination, will be one of 2012's fiercest. his victory in the special election in early 2010 not only stunned but galled democrats. a photo genic, inel tyen tyupst seat left vacate by the death of ted kennedy and it could prove decisive in preventing republicans from wresting control of the chamber. both parties will flood the state with money. warren on monday announced an impressive two-month tally of $3.15 million in donations and both parties' candidates will be shoe horned into the election cycles of biting cliche's and conceits whether they fit or not. warren and brown don't at least not neatly. >> katty kay, massachusetts is going to be a critical senate battle. probably the most fascinating next year. >> yeah, because the republicans if they want to take the senate need to hold on to massachusetts and they think that in scott brown they have what they believe is the perfect ca

in massachusetts, she is using class warfare rhetoric and as a result, has vaulted ahead of scott brown in those polls and raising unhealed amounts of money. terrific for her. where you're wrong, bill, where you go wrong it not in understanding this crosses political lines. that a majority of americans right now think the republicans represent the rich, that the taxes should be raised on those who make more than 200,000, and that the class warfare strategy of president obama they say it's bringing the country together. people are just mad at wall street. >> bill: i mean, if that were the case, why is herman cain in a new cnn poll beating president obama head to head? the folks are going, that's right. president obama is correct, it's not his fault. so wall street -- you know. >> they're sick of everybody. >> bill: why is president obama a bum if it's wall street's fault? >> because remember, he's the one that supported tarp, too big to fail, and people see him tied -- a lot of people who are in this occupy wall street movement are not too pleased that obama hasn't been more aggressive i

you had republican senators be it from new hampshire defending scott brown here. you are right. ing to be one of the senate contests to watch. warren has not sewn it up yet, but most likely warren versus brown. brown is one of the rock stars in the republican party. on the other hand, massachusetts is a very deep blue state. in a presidential year when barack obama will be on the ticket. it could be mitt romney for massachusetts as a republican nominee. that has the makings for a very close and entertaining race. >> entertaining, well said. they decided to go there and it made for a good sound for us. have a great weekend. >> you too. >> freedom for a woman who spent 26 years on death row. that tops the look around the nation. at one point, gale owens came within two months of being executed for hiring a stranger to kill her husband, but it was commuted to in prison last year after she claims she committed the crime because she was a battered wife. she said she did not use that defense when she was tried because she did not want her young sons to know about the 23z and sexual abu

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house democratic leader says republican senator scott brown is quote clueless about women. brown is well known for posing for this picture nude in a magazine when he was goinglaw school. and during a debate last week, his democratic rival elizabeth warren said, she kept her clothes on while she was going to college. in response to that, brown said, quote, thank god! and that is the comment that has angered pelosi. >> i think lawrence is squirming a little bit in the weather department. wondering what we are going to say to him next. >> talking about clothes on or clothes off, yes. >> clothes on today. >> clothes on day today. that's right as we are seeing a lot of clouds out there right now. getting reports of delays of at sfo also some reports of light showers early on today we could see a few more showers around the bay area as you we have this weak system sliding through most of that energy moving up into far northern california but by the afternoon some will sag further south. temperatures around the bay area right now 50s and a few 60s. skies generally mostly cloudy out

. >> who else is up is scott brown in massachusetts. >> he is the one -- >> in question. >> that's reallyeresting. >> that's who schumer was hinting at, although he's a big elizabeth warren person now. that's the one i'm told, well, he may come over to them. >> maybe he gets them to 50. >> but is that, you know -- >> democrats plus scott brown -- >> it's a 50/50. phil musser, that mottles the message for, frankly, both sides. gridlocked senate again. >> that's the bottom line. as you saw from senator ott, if you can't win over new england republicans on this jobs package, then you're obviously going to see another partisan fault line. the message to the country is more internal partisan bickering and a lack of a clear path forward. i think this bill's a nonstarter at the end of the day and we'll see if -- >> but the obama campaign put out a memo this morning from david axelrod, and they make the case, you always focus on the president's jobs numbers. yeah, they're not great, but this has done more damage to the congressional republican brand. do you buy this? >> the congressional republic

. >> to help pay for his law school education, scott brown posed for "cosmo."ow did you pay for your college education? >> i kept my clothes on. >> can you officially respond to elizabeth warren, how she didn't take her clothes off? >> thank god. >> what did you make of all of that? 4 >> the response that you just gave, thank god, i think spoke volumes how clueless senator scott brown. it spoke volumes of disrespecting women. i bet you he would like to take that comment back. i think that she was asked a question, and i hope it's joking, if it is, he will take that comment back. but women know, they hear a comment like that, it tells you a lot about someone. >> nancy pelosi, thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> the revolution is being televised on facebook and twitter. the occupy wall street protests are suddenly all washington can talk about. the roundtable will weigh in again. teamwork. when it comes to preparing for your financial future, it helps to have a team that performs well together. pacific life offers life insurance, annuities for