steve kornacki will be with us in a moment. more of the state of the union continues. stay with us. >> i served in congress with many of you. i know many of you well. there are a lot of good people here on both sides of the aisle. and many of you have told me that this is not what you signed up for.

here in studio steve kornacki host of" up "with steve core nami.ple hours. the calls, it was spreading like wildfire. you tweeted earlier as romney supporters talked to each other. feels like how wall street trades on rumors. they were thinking yes, now they think no. and it is no. let's talk about it. >> look it does sound to me that somebody had the larger conversation for mitt romney. let's play out what a mitt romney campaign would have looked like for the next six months. if he had decided to get in every day

here in studio steve kornacki host of" up "with steve core nami. talk about a whirl wind the last couple hours. the calls, it was spreading like wildfire. you tweeted earlier as romney supporters talked to each other. feels like how wall street trades on rumors. they were thinking yes, now they think no. and it is no. let's talk about it. >> look it does sound to me that somebody had the larger conversation for mitt romney. let's play out what a mitt romney campaign would have looked like for the next six months. if he had decided to get in every day was going to be a day where the story would be hey, look who's not with mitt romney today. either a staffer, we saw that yesterday, jeb bush signed up his iowa director from the last two cycles or major donor, or frankly his lead in the polls. he looks good in the polls now, but as the campaign would have heated up his numbers would have only gone down simply as other candidates started getting attention. he was going to have to deal with this fact alex. in the next six months he was going to be doing

steve kornacki you've been breaking down the data behind perhaps what the romney team was looking at. not only the donations, potential donors but also what people are saying. potential voters. >> let's start on the donor side and pick up the point that mark murray was just making. this pressure that jeb bush created, the need to raise money and get started quickly if he was going to run. let's look what's involved in that. this is the statement that jeb bush made back in december when he said he was interested in maybe running for president. read it carefully, i've decided to actively explore the possibility of running for president of the united states. actively explore the possibility. if that sounds legalistic it's for good reason. it is because jeb bush is up for something we haven't seen in presidential politics before. he's taking a gamble here and it involves big money. jeb bush has started his own super pac. you always think the candidates are supposed to keep a distance from that legally, that's true. jeb bush however is actively exploring the possibility of running. he's no

steve kornacki. thank you so much. >>> is terrorism over there? those terror raids are continuing now across the continent. we're going to look at who's being rounded up right now and what the threat is coming from. >>> and what's the likelihood of an attack here at home? of course, that's always on our minds, we americans. >>> plus, mitt romney has strong republican backing for a third presidential run. that's the in numbers, by the way, on the republican side. ted cruz and his hard right crowd don't like it much. >>> and today after a tense hearing on the topic of race relations, president obama and his cabinet are commemorating martin luther king day as we all should be doing. while a majority of americans believe dr. king's mission for america has been achieved, not surprisingly, a majority of african-americans do not notice that. >>> and finally, if you missed yesterday's game between seattle and green bay you missed an incredible comeback, of course, led by someone with, i've got to say it, one great name. this is "hardball." the place for p

steve kornacki and reflt you can watch weekends at 8:00 a.m. eastern here on msnbc. john mccain put down pro testers in signature style at the senate arms services committee hearing. they went after henry kissinger and george shultz then got up and instinctively told them all to shut up. he was acting like the former marine he is and was. that's when john mccain finished them off. >> never seen anything as dis disgraceful and outrageous and depickable as the last demonstration that just took place. you're going to have to shut up or i'm going to have you arrested. if we can't get the capitol hill police in here immediately. get out of here you low life scum. [ applause ] >> the protesters threatened kissinger and waved handcuffs near his head. he never witnessed such physical intimidation of a witness in 30 years in congress. ♪ go! go! go! he's challenging the very fabric of society. in a post cannonball world! was it grilled cheese? guilty! the aquatic delinquency is a larger issue to this ♪ you did it again, didn't you? yup. ♪ if you have moderate to severe rheumat

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steve kornacki, thank you. we'll be back in a moment. zleerchlts here is how the "new york times" spoke of abdullah. the surprising tenor of the mainstream coverage of his death, next. >>> today, saudi arabia buried sing abdullah in an unmarked grave per tradition. his death prompted unusual reaction. the u.s. relationship, and our strategic military partnership. vice president joe biden will be traveling in the coming days to saudi a arabia as a official event. what is surprising is the coverage of a man that whatever the rest of his record has a leader was, an unelected dictator who publicly whips people. the "new york times," king abdullah, a shrewd force. a they say his right brought about marginal advances for women. they said 2011 the regime has grown peven sharper. he said saudi tanks to help them crush the arab spring uprising in 2011. joining me now is ame now is ayman. they are not a particularly enlightened place, correct? >> that is beyond fair to say, it is a very accurate statement. >> i'm bending over backwards to be fair.

joining us now is steve kornacki. i mostly wanted you here because i wanted you to see the michael ducaucus -- >> i loved the sweater. >> he is a von trapp. >> is there a gold standard for municipal governance and leadership for storms like this? >> i think there is two components of it generally. the ones seen as doing it successfully. one is that things have to run smoothly. to a certain expect that is not in your control. part of the story in 1969 is that lindsey had really poor relations with a lot of city workers. there was a lot of speculation that sanitation workers said we're going to screw him with this one, we're going to miss streets, and take our time. you can't have neighborhoods not getting plowed. the other thing is communication. being very visible. giving the appearance of being in control. being on television, michael ducaucus. there was no cable tv. they have their radio tuned in and they're hearing him and he is a calming presence through the whole storm. >> is the political communication skills --

. >> would you miss your child's birth to be on steve kornacki's game show? really hard question. i don't know. >> so big career break. you're going to -- like something huge could happen in your career. you have to be there at 6:30. your wife calls at 6:15 and says water just broke. what do you do? >> i will say this. this is a relatively new thing where athletes are attending the birth. we were talking about this offset just before. this past year or two years, major league baseball paternity where they can leave for the birth of a child and be gone. before that athletes were missing births all the time. i don't think it's a good thing. so it wouldn't be that unusual for sherman to do this. that's my way of not answering the question. happy marriage. >> anyway. thank you guys. we'll see you later in the show. tom brady will lead the patriots in tomorrow night's super bowl. one reporter who got the assignment of a lifetime to hang out blind the scenes with the all-star quarterback. he will tell us what he saw. that's ahead. and remember when barbara bush sai

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i'm steve kornacki in for chris matthews. let me start with that roundup of suspected islamic extremists in europe today. two dozen have been swept up as authorities crack down on potential threats all across the continent. in belgium, 13 people were detained some returning fighters from syria. authorities there say they dismantled imminent terrorist attacks on a grand scale. the suspects had police uniforms and radios. they were reportedly planning to kill police officers. this comes after a raid on one location led to a gun battle into the death of two militants. meanwhile, in paris, prosecutors rounded up 12 people who were being questioned about whether they provided edd logistical support to the men who carried out the attacks on "charlie hebdo" and the kosher supermarket last week. and in germany, two turkish nationals were arrested accused of recruiting those to go fight in syria. the country's intelligence service has warned of planned attacks against major train stations in berlin and dresden. also tonight big news o

. >> that was the steve kornacki argument earlier. >> rand how much damage does this controversy do toball which has had a lot of controversy of late and also to the impebding super bowl? >> well reactions have been varied. there was a sports caster who said he believes if it's proven the patriots did, in fact underinflate these balls purposefully, she believes the sanctions should be more strict than they were in bountygate. of course, there were allegations of payments for players to injure other players. to me i think you're taking quite a leap there to say they should be punished further for underinflating balls than for trying to hurt a human being. one thing that is clear, we certainly love talking about the patriots. if there's a cheating scandal, even better. and this is one of those things we're getting a lot of mileage out of. >> indeed. it is kind of an irresistible story. rand getlan thank you so much. b.j., stick with us. we're awaiting that conference by patriots quarterback tom brady. that'll be in the 4:00 eastern hour. what will he say? jonathan is on the edge of his s

joining me nbc news correspondent the great kelly o'donnell and steve kornacki. i want to start with kelly because you're smiling and you're irish. i love politics because although you can predict some stuff, a lot of it's phenomenal, it's personal. all of a sudden a guy goes to bed at night and wakes up as a totally different person, hell with this, i'm getting out of here. what happened with romney? >> i think there was a disconnect in the world where romney has been living in where he lost in 2012 where you had major donors and major supporters and people he encountered who said, you would have made a great president, we really believed in you. you were right on this issue or that issue. then you had the grass roots and the sort of people removed from romney enough to say been there, done that. i was in iowa over the past weekend. there was a real resistance to trying romney again. a disconnect for respect for what he had accomplished, the person he is and how he had served the party because he campaigned on behalf of many candidates. then that separation to d

steven kornacki also joins us host of msnbc's "up with steve kornacki." steve, i want you to start with this polling number. give me your assessment on what's moving. this particular poll shows a dramatic uptick for the president in just the last four weeks. >> yeah, i mean i think the economy is the main thing that's driving it and i think when the economy starts to move from the right direction and people start to feel the economy is moving in the right direction they start to look differently at other aktss the president is taking. you talk about cuba, talk about im immigration, talk about the forward looking thing he's been doing in the last month. i think people start filtering that through more, economic opt michl, opt michl of where the country is going now and look at the actions in a slightly different light. it reminds me bill clinton when the economy really started to turn, hum in the 90s. he was stuck in the 30s and 40s to over 50 eventually the 60s. a similar thing happened with him. a similar thing happened with ronald reagan where unemploym

now, the host of "up against the clock," steve kornacki. >> thank you jim cutler. and welcome to a very special opening round edition of "the up against the clock," 2015 tournament of champions. all three contestants you see here today, well this, is actually not true. i'll explain this in a second. jessica and luke won their qualifying matches earlier in the season. maybe you remember those games. krystal ball as the returning national champion from 2014 out tomatically placed in the tournament. >> i thought i was world champion. >> we change the title. galactic why not. she is the number one overall seed. the next three weekends opening round match-ups. the winner from each of those games will compete in a very special national championship edition or world championship edition of "up against the clock." one bit of news about the rules. they remain the same for tournament play, but we're supersizing the round. instead of 100 seconds, they will now be 105 seconds. maybe an extra question or two there, depending on how fast you are on the buzzers, contestants. the

and now, the host of up against the clock, the never under-inflated, steve kornacki. >> oh thank you,g in at home for another exciting tournament edition of up against the clock. today we continue to narrow the field down to those final three who will play for the world championship, just two weeks from today. with us today, three contestants, josh brian, susan, all of them to be here today had to win their qualifying contest, and then be approved by our selection committee, a very rigorous process. congratulations to all of you for making it this far, but only one of you will advance to the finals. just to quickly go over rules for the studio audience and anybody joining us for the first time. this is a very simple fast-paced current events and politics news quiz. three rounds 100 points in the first, 200 in the second they get harder as we go along, contestants can ring any time. you will be penalized for wrong answers. take that into account and because this is tournament play we are supersizing the rounds today, 105 seconds long instead of the usual 100. contestants, i hope you ca