swing state smackdown. this weekend's must reads.reporter from real clear politics, erin mcpike. robert trainum and columnist for the hill, karen finney. good to see all three of you. it is awesome to have you. >> hello. >> i will begin with you, erin. first to the blowup over bain here. a former partner of bain appeared on "up with chris hayes." he asked him after 9:00 when mr. romney left to run texas salt lake city olympics. >> he is the chief executive officer during this time. >> legally on documents i suppose, yes. he's not attending any meet. >> no meetings at all. he never showed up at any meetings. >> i will tell you this, it was ten years. can i remember every single meeting? no. but i remember mitt was gone. we had a management teamworking hard to manage the company. we had to negotiate for terms of mitt's departure and everybody's departure at that time and it was difficult to get any time from mitt to get him at -- his attorneys said so do that because he is so busy working on the olympics. >> okay. when you hear all of

rachel has the night off, but we have a great show, including i am excited for this, an epic chart smackdown. you diagram aficionados should get ready to rumble. before that, i have to begin with a confession. you know mitch mcconnell, kind of a jowly guy. he's my favorite politician by far, and not just because of his good looks or his southern charm. it's because mitch mcconnell is the most honest man in washington. you ask almost anyone else in a position of power on capitol hill why they're doing, what they're doing, and you get spin, spin, and more spin. they're reaching across the aisle to make the country better, that freedom is the most important freedom, then you think about the children and the freedom, and et cetera, et cetera. meanwhile, they got done ten minutes before that meeting with six mega donors and the way they're voting on the amendment because they're settling a score they have been nursing since the 2005 budget fight. mitch mcconnell is not really like that. he tells you what's going on. when he speaks i have learned to listen. in fact, of every politician and i'm not

if you're going to go with nicholson smackdown, go with carnal knowledge, my brother. >> you ball busting kas trading son of a (bleep). you can't handle the truth? that's not even the best putdown from "a few good men." >> i'm going to rip the eyes out of your head and piss in your dead skull! (laughter and applause). >> jon: if you want to go nicholson you could find better stuff in, i don't know, every jack movie ever made. >> do you like to be interrupted when you were dancing around in your little garden? i'm not going to hurt you. i'm just going to bash your brains in! i am the (bleep)ing patrol! son of a bitch. you jerk off. s inasty little bitch. (bleep), (bleep). (bleep), (bleep). i said over easy! shut up! you (bleep)ed with the wrong marine! (cheers and applause). >> jon: yeah! i would go for that guy, awesome! we'll be right back. (cheers and applause) (cheers and applause) >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight, a very, very funny actor, also-- which i didn't realize-- an author. his new book is called "the last peril, egypt's transition from the mubarak era." please welcome b

. >> the story behind the smackdown. >>> and little birds with long little legs. >> they like their ants. >> it's like a little spatula. >> a rare look at the rare spoon-billed sandpipers, next. púwnw >>> my opinion, golf just got a lot more watchable and a lot less boring. check it out. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the mini golf open championship. >> yeah, mini golf championship. >> it's a spectacular day for mini golf and a new champion will be crowned. >> is this real? >> sadly, no. this is improv everywhere, the comedy troupe. they decided to bombard a golf course with all the trimmings of a pro sports event. >> we're going to have caddies, a huge imbalangallery of fans, scoreboard. >> here's the leaderboard. they even cutaway to a field reporter. >> the weather is difficult. we have some wind making it difficult. >> can you imagine if you just happened to take your kid to play on this particular day and this happened. >> you might think your kid was really on it. >> they crowned a winner as well. >> he got it! >> they even brought the claret jug from the open championship. >>

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. >>> plus, capitol hill smackdown. we'll tell you why john mccain went all wwe on a fellow republican, michele bachmann. that's coming up. >>> so what's more likely, getting hit by lightning or jumping into the sea and landing on a shark? one man has never been hit by lightning but he came darn close to landing on a shark. he and some friends were spear fishing. a friend was videotaping it all. when he jumped in the water a great white was there to greet him. message from senator john mccain to fellow republican michele bachmann. enough. congresswoman balkman has asked for an investigation into whether muslim extremists have infiltrated top levels of the government. she specifically points to a longtime aid to secretary of state hillary clinton. the allegations have been swirling around d.c. for weeks now and mccain is tired of it. >> these allegations about houma abadin and the reports from which they are drawn are nothing less than an unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable citizen, a dedicated american and

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has the night off but we have a great show tonight, including, i'm excited for this, an epic chart smackdownyou diagram aficionados should get ready to rumble. before that, i have to begin with a confession. you know mitch mcconnell, kind of a jowly g. he's my favorite politician by far, and not just because of his good looks or his southern charm. it's because mitch mcconnell is the most honest man in washington. you ask almost anyone else in a position of power on capitol hill why they're doing, what they're doing, and you get spin, spin, and more spin. they're reaching across the aisle to make the country better, that freedom is the most important freedom, then you think about the children and the freedom, and et cetera, et cetera. meanwhile, they got done ten minutes before that meeting with six mega donors and they're voting on the amendment because they're settling a score they have been nursing since the 2005 budget fight. mitch mcconnell is not really like that. he tells you what's going on. when he speaks i have leard to listen. in fact, of every politician and i am not kidding abou

it was a fun night down the street at third and king as the giants laid the smackdown on theirdivision rivals. >>> plus, a pair of rookies just trying to make the right impression. all that coming up in sports. >>> welcome back to nbc bay area. across the bay, the a's are baseball's hottest team. but just down the street from us, the giants are making some noise of their own. posting a 7-2 record since the all-star break as they opened a ten-game home stand versus the padres tonight. good highlights for you. padres and giants at, yes, at&t park. first game of a ten-game home span. vogelsong was great. struck out clayton richards. struck out hadley. and, go ahead and have a seat as well. this man was on fire. vogelsong allowed one run in seven innings. bottom of the fifth, giants up 4-1. buster posey. three-run shot. 13th of the year. giants up, 7-1. they were not done. mark kotsay, fly ball down the left field line. melkey cabrera, show me something today. oh, my goodness. good thing the fans are looking out for them. giants go on to win, 7-1. >> guys look good. they jumped out early.

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hence the rapid smackdown of her dad. senator john mccain was also quick to dismiss the cheney, the elder. >> i'm always glad to get comments four years later. look, i respect the vice president. he and i had strong disagreements as to whether we should torture people or not. i don't think we should have. but the fact is that i'm proud of sarah palin. i'm proud of the job she did. i'm proud of the job she continues to do. and so everybody has their own views and i respect those views. but i'm proud of what we did. >> who says the republicans can't make ample and liberal use of the retro activity that romney has so recently accessed going back four years and talking about stuff, referencing cheney for torture. we, he said, being the key word. john mccain's legacy is forever linked to sarah palin. he needs to play nice if he wants continued support from the party's far right wing. let's turn to jonathon alter, msnbc political analyst and columnist for "bloomberg view ". jonathan, are republican candidates still afraid of th

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. >> there was a smackdown, can we call it that at the aspen conference, peter teal, earic schmidt, take>> they had very different takes on the benefits of technology companies, the technology industry in the united states and in fact for the world and peter teal's big point was that we talk about technology companies how great they are and they haven't gone great for the economy. they are a big failure and look at your company, google, you have all this cash, you don't know what to do with it, sitting there doing nothing, you and all the rest of you people. >> schmidt didn't take that too well. >> eric got peeved, what are you talking about, think about the jobs we created and to be fair google invested money in all kinds of things. they have a lot of cash but also are trying things all the time but it was a great theater, i will tell you that, and peter thiel -- >> peter invested in the whole world. >> yeah, peter thiel you made a ton of money on paypal and facebook but peter thiel has very different ideas and wants to create his own floating island nation off the coast of california a