i want to bring in chris matthews and steve kornacki. you just heard congressman farenthold say maybe a texan. we both got a look on our face. who are their real prospects right now? who could they call on to fill this job? >> this is the thing. every name that you can think of is being floated around right now. but the closest parallel to this situation that's useful to look back at is what happened during the clinton impeachment saga at the end of 1998, bob livingston from louisiana, was all set to become the next house speaker. came out that he'd had an extra marital affair, he goes to the floor and abruptly resigns. it's complete chaos. there was one potential heir apparent there, tom delay. he was not acceptable to the whole congress. before that nobody outside of capitol hill had ever heard of, and it was dennis hastert. he was known as a uniter within the republican conference. he had good relationships across the board. he had been close to tom delay. he became the consensus choice that emerged from that. that's one direction it

also with me, msnbc host and political correspondent steve kornacki. luke, i couldn't hear what was said and he looked anxious to make the plane and i think a joke about watching the packers game. >> reporter: yeah. paul ryan i think was readily to get out of town because he's the center of attention for the last 24 hours and it's not a place he wants to be coming the topic of becoming speaker of the house. this is a job that he's passed on on numerous occasions and so far on paper he is a soft no. however, as i can tell you, kate, from trailing him for the last day, he is not explicitly said on camera, no, i don't want the job. i'm not interested. it's been the soft statements, this sort of saying, look, nothing has changed. i want to go home. why is that? ryan right now from people i have spoken to close to him is sort of biding time. he'll go home for the columbus day weekend and see how things play out throughout the course of the next week. the leadership wants to let out the hot air and ryan taking a calculus of how the conservatives are lining u

>> if he wants listener baseball go to steve kornacki podcast. he was talking about something that john boehner said when he took the gavel in 2011, return to regular order. it means that bills instead of being crafted by the leadership behind closed doors and long painstaking negotiations between four or five players what he wants to return to is when a bill would start in committee. so it starts off in a subcommittee and to a full committee and amendments are added to it. once it comes through the committee process and then to the house floor and then maybe amendments are added there. he wants a return to what congress was a while back which was a long process. the problem with that is that in recent times when things have gotten so partisan it is difficult for the process to come about because often times poison pills are attached to pieces of legislation that have to pass, something like funding the government, extending the debt limit and bill that makes it impossible for either party to support. it limits the amount of problems that can ari

i'm going to bring in steve kornacki on the set. "the washington post" is reporting that boehner has been personally calling paul ryan trying to convince him to take the job this afternoon. saying he's the only person that can unite the party? >> yeah, talk about a dilemma. if that is true, talk about a dilemma for paul ryan. he clearly doesn't want this job. what i would like -- >> he came out and said i don't want the job. >> for good reason. every four years sometimes when there's a presidential candidate you know is going to lose and he has his dream vice presidential pick and he does everything he can to avoid being asked. you don't want to have to say no. john boehner if this report is true is putting paul ryan in that position where he'll have to say no. the old adage when the president asks you to do something you can't say no. >> it's interesting we have representative peter king on a short time ago. a republican who has been with john boehner, a friend of john boehner. he mentioned paul ryan. i said to the congressman he s

i'm steve kornacki. "hardball" starts right now. >>> tonight, big casino.moon in vegas. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington -- actually, i'm in the spin room, that's what they call it out here, at the wynn hotel in las vegas, the site of the first democratic debate. believe it or not, the first one. this is the hot ticket on the vegas strip

for more on hillary clinton's strategy heading into tonight, we turn to steve kornacki. eve? >> well, let's take a trip down memory lane, give everyone flash backs to seven or eight years to when it was hillary clinton and barack obama. maybe joe biden, john edwards, they were all campaigning for the democratic nomination. they had 20 debates during that campaign, hillary clinton was in every single one of them. we thought we'd look back at the highlights of the debates to look at the risks that hillary clinton faces on the stage tonight, but also the risks that her opponents potentially face as they think about how to attack her on decide whether they want to attack her. so let's start with the moment maybe you remember now. this was in october of 2007. this was a debate in philadelphia, msnbc was sponsoring it as you can see, tim russert was moderating it. and the question that came up involved driver's licenses for illegal immigrants. it was something that the democrat governor of new york was talking about it. hillary clinton seemed up able to give a firm answer on it

steve kornacki is here with us in the studio. steve, everybody's scrambling to figure out what we are about to witness. >> yeah, and i just spoke with somebody a few minutes ago who very much wants biden to run and doesn't know what the announcement is going to be. but obviously it's a potential clue that the president is going to be there. because this is such a sensitive subject for him if joe biden were to get in this race. his vice president running against his former secretary of state, so many obama people who are already aligned with hillary clinton, the president himself went to great lengths to get former president clinton to speak at the 2012 convention to give that ringing endorsement of him, called him the explainer and chief afterwards. if joe biden were going to be announcing a presidential candidacy today, it is a little hard for me to believe that president obama would want to be there for that. in any way, just to be present for it, whether he's speaking or not, that would be sending a signal of some kind of suppo

msnbc political correspondent kasie hunt and steve kornacki start our coverage.g to be watching for tonight? >> jose, good morning. we know this is going to be potentially a turning point for hillary clinton's campaign. it could also be a turning appointment for the democratic party. hillary clinton served as barack obama's secretary of state but as the campaign's evolved and she's come up against bernie sanders she's made some moves to the left. one of the questions i have for tonight is whether this is still barack obama's democratic party. >> like nearly everyone in the news media, the three of us are totally in the tank for senator obama. >> reporter: the last time hillary clinton was on the debate stage, then-senator barack obama was such a media darling, the president was mocked for it. >> maybe we should ask ba ram if he's comfortable and needs another pillow. >> reporter: six and a half years later, obama is leaving the stage and the democratic field is racing to the left. >> my trade policies will break that cycle of agreements which enrich the few at th

and steve kornacki. and of course you can watch lawrence tonight on the last word, that's 10:00 p.m. eastern time on msnbc. >>> right now, paul ryan's behind closed doors, trying to convince the conservatives on the house freedom caucus to spd support him for speaker. >>> plus, the secret meeting in moscow between syrian president assad and russia's putin. >>> one day before hillary clinton's testimony at the benghazi committee, we'll talk to a member of that committee. guys, i'll be writing code that helps machines communicate. (interrupting) i just zazzied you. (phone vibrates) look at it! (friends giggle) i can do dogs, hamsters, guinea pigs... you name it. i'm going to transform the way the world works. (proudly) i programmed that hat. and i can do casaba melons. i'll be helping turbines power cities. i put a turbine on a cat. (friends ooh and ahh) i can make hospitals run more efficiently... this isn't a competition! skwhat are you doing? i just gotta scrape the rest of the food off

joining us now is msnbc political correspondent steve kornacki. steve, i'm so excited to talk to you about this right now that i could pop. thank you for being here. >> sure. >> in all your days covering politics statewide and nationwide you've seen a lot of drama and surprises. can you sort of rank this in terms of how big a deal this is? >> yeah. the only thing that comes to mind that's comparable to this is at the height of the bill clinton impeachment drama in december of 1998 when republicans had a speaker in waiting, bob livingston from louisiana. he was all set to take the job. then it turned out that he had an extramarital affair. this as republicans were trying to impeach bill clinton over his extramarital affair. he went to the floor of the house. nobody saw this coming at the moment. and he resigned on the spot. and there was just total chaos in the house on top of impeachment playing out. and the way that all sorted out in the end was you had this sort of vacuum thin. with livingston gone, newt gingrich had just stepped down as the spea

steve kornacki is here with us. steve, while the president was talking, i started collecting copies of the statements coming out from democrats and republicans. but republicans have been more vocal today. >> a lot of the republicans especially running for president. you start with jeb bush. jeb bush had some supportive words for the president but also he says, he is glad that president obama has dropped his plan to abandon the region entirely. if he is truly committed to fighting terrorism and securing a stable afghanistan, he shouldn't shortchange where our military commanders have said they need to complete the mission. marco rubio also weighing in, who is staked out very hawkish turf in this republican race responding not so much to the fact that there will be a drop to 5,500 droops at the end of 2016, early 2017. he says, i welcome president obama's decision to maintain the current level of u.s. forces in afghanistan. i do not agree, however, with his decision to prematurely announce a further drawdown before he

steve kornacki, thanks so much. let's turn now to the republicans and the continuing war of words between donald trump and jeb bush over george w. bush's responsibility for the 9/11 attacks. >> i don't want jeb bush to say my brother kept us safe because september 11th was one of the worst days in this country. >> i don't know why he keeps bringing this up. it looks as though he's an actor playing the role of a candidate for president. mr. trump talks about things that -- as though he's still on "the apprentice." >> joining me now, nbc's katy tur at 9 site of tonight's trump rally in anderson, south carolina. katy, great to see you. >> thanks. >> so do we expect more of this line of attack tonight? >> reporter: i do expect to hear him talk about this again tonight. i think it's interesting that we're 14 years after 9/11 and suddenly responsibility for the attacks is back on the table. back up for debate within the public sector through the lens of this election. i don't remember the last time i really heard this lin

joining me with more on that, msnbc political correspondent and host, steve kornacki.t have you dug up? >> well, this is just on the heels of what may have been chris christie's best debate performance last night. newspaper considered the newspaper of record nationally, one with a lot of readers in his home state is just up in the last few minutes, an editorial calling for chris christie to withdraw from the presidential race. basically the argue is that as a presidential candidate, christie has neglected his duties as governor of new jersey, writing the point is that new jersey is in trouble, this is "new york times" editor jal, and the governor is pursuing a presidential run that is turning out to be nothing more than a vanity project. his numbers are in the basement and he is nearly out of campaign cash. this is his moment to go home and use the year left in his term to clean out the barn as speaker john boehner would say. the "new york times" calling on chris christie to withdraw from the republican presidential race. in fairness, we should point out, the "new york

. >> with me now is steve kornacki. good evening. >> how are you? >> i'm great. i'm just trying to look at the poll numbers. biden in and out of the race. the recent wall street journal poll has hillary at 49, bernie at 29 with biden in the race. take biden out and she gets above and he gets a bump. 58 to 33. it's a 20 to 25 point difference there. is that bump going to continue? >> i think the real significant thing here is in the early states in iowa and new hampshire and recently bernie sanders had taken the lead over hillary in new hampshire. i know a few polls show her reclaiming the lead. a very close race. her advantage over bernie sanders has been single digits. the threat that biden posed immediately was if nothing else he was taking more support from hillary clinton than he was from bernie sanders. so you look in the early states where hillary clinton was already struggling, if you add joe biden to the mix it threatened the possibility that it could lead to a sanders victory in iowa and maybe in new hampshire and maybe a sanders victory in both first tw

let's bring in lawrence o'donnell, host of the last word and steve kornacki kpp. lawrence, i guess i get down to this. it seems from the beginning of this saga there have been two areas that the critics have focused on and somehow tried to connect to somehow a charge of delinquency to some kind of basic character failure. the one is that there were requests for more security forces that never reached hillary clinton's desk apparently and this weird back to the future thing where somehow a dispute over how the tragedy was described to the press on the sunday shows afterwards somehow had something to do going back in time to the deaths of the american foreign service officers themselves and the security forces. somehow they are trying to spin. maybe you can explain this to me. somehow she killed those guys because of the way they spun it afterwards. they seem to do that over and over again. this weird thing with the hard right, this thing called conflation where they take 9/11 and turn it into benghazi or take john kerry's opposition to the war after coming home as

i'm joined now by msnbc host and political correspondent steve kornacki. walk us through the article and the response. >> this started august 1st, the date this column ran. it was in the wake of beau biden's death. this is about the conversations as beau biden was dying. and she's quoting what she says are joe biden's thoughts. so there's a lot of mystery back then about where did she get the descriptions from, where did she get the thoughts from. politico today say they have multiple sources that this came directly from the vice president himself, that he leaked this to the "new york times," to maureen dowden. it says that in truth, biden effectively placed an ad in the "new york times," saying it was a calculated effort to drum up support for a potential presidential campaign. the vice president's office is bitterly contesting that characterization. this is the statement from the vice president's office. it says, the bottom line on the politico story is that it is categorically false and the characterization is offensive. as you said, though, kate, what

. ♪ ♪ >>> hi, everybody, i'm steve kornacki sitting in for chuck todd.ot more to come tonight on our new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll that was released just a minute ago. it's a poll showing that nearly half of all republican voters are backing either donald trump or ben carson. plus, sources say the clock is ticking and the wait could soon be over as vice president joe biden may be just hours away now from deciding on a 2016 run. also tonight, alabama republican congressman mo brooks, a member of the benghazi committee, who is already floating impeachment for hillary clinton if she wins the white house, all of that coming up tonight as well as a special report from chuck on how detroit is jump-starting its economy. but first, let's hit the press box, kristin welker is tracking the veep at the white house. carrie dan has much more on the big new poll. katy tur is with the trump campaign down in south carolina, and luke russert is on capitol hill with the latest on the race for speaker of the house. but let's start with how close the vice president

i'm steve kornacki in for chuck todd.w to troubling news for an american journalist imprinced in iran. iranian state tv reports today that "washington post" correspondent jason rezaian held now for more than 14 months in iran has been convicted. "post" executive editor martin baron is calling the conviction an outrageous injustice. for now, many details remain unknown. nbc news tehran bureau chief ali arouzi joins us from london. what do we know so far about this conviction? >> reporter: steve, the iranian legal system is notoriously opaque so we don't know very much and i doubt jason rezaian knows very much of what's going on. he is being kept in solitary confinement, very little access to the outside world. what we have been able to piece together is what state media has put out over the last 14 months and they have accused him of some very serious charges, accused him of collecting confidential information in iran and passing it on to hostile governments, of writing a letter to president obama, of endangering national

joining me now, msnbc host and political correspondent steve kornacki. so i get very suspicious of conventional wisdom, particularly in politics, and this as we cover the horse race and the narrative, he's leading and -- hillary clinton, she's dead, oh, amazing, rising like a phoenix from the ashes. is everyone overreacting? are donors overreacting? is the press overreacting when they talk about the dire straits jeb bush is in? >> i tend to look at it the other way. the original conventional wisdom is now being corrected. because the original conventional wisdom was to treat jeb bush like george w. bush in 2000. george w. bush stepped onto the scene in 2000, the shock and awe term you heard for jeb, his expectation at start of this year, that's what george w. did and at this point in the 2000 cycle in the fall of 1999 it's amazing, if you go back and look at the polls, in the republican primaries george w. bush was polling at 60%. his nearest competitor was john mccain down at 12%. and you look at it right now, jeb bush is at about 7%. so we are finally

joining me now, moderator of "meet the press" chuck todd and steve kornacki here in the studio. i don't know where to begin. all day long it's been this back and forth of people sending us comments and trying to bat this story down. chuck, let's start with you. what is your read at this hour? >> well, i think it's important. there is no denial for what it's worth that the vice president was maureen dowd's source. that's not been -- that is not been part of the specific denial in this. let's set this aside. i think this is a dangerous game to get into journalism trying an out a source. it becomes a rabbit hole thing. i obviously -- the vice president's office is very sensitive to this charge and certainly they took it as a shot across the bow. >> right. >> and it does fit with a larger thing that is going on behind the scenes in talking to people that i know close to this situation which is there are now people trying to convince the vice president not to do this. there are plenty of people encouraging him and now people doing their best at this last minute to try to discourage h

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we'll bring in our own steve kornacki and eugene robinson, washington post columnist and msnbc analyst. gentlemen, welcome to you both. and steve, starting with you, what did you choose to lift out of this interview, especially in light of the democrats big outing last night? >> well, it is interesting, i think i picked up on a lit bit of what you were talking about there, this kinder, gentler donald trump. a more magnanimous donald trump. in terms of what the motivation is there or the strategy, i think it's a recognition on trump's part and the trump people's part that they have solidified a quarter of the republican electorate. we have had in the last month there was some talk maybe his poll numbers were starting to slide back. maybe people finally had gotten sick of donald trump. that hasn't happened. he really has solidified 25% of the vote on the republican side. the problem is when you dig deeper into the numbers and we find this in our own nbc news/wall street journal poll. when you ask a question of all republican voters and you say, just theoretically, could you see yourself

for more now i'm joined by msnbc's steve kornacki who is on set with me.eactions coming from the left a tornado right on th on the right from this. donald trump sent out a tweet directly to kevin mccarthy. great, kevin mccarthy drops out of the speaker race. we need a really smart and really tough person to take over this very important job. then we have jeb bush who gave his reaction on camera a short time ago. take a look at that. >> i'm most surprised. i think kevin mccarthy was a -- was a good person and a good man. i'm surprised that he dropped out. i don't follow that that carefully. i'm not going to interject myself into a political vote inside the house caucus. >> that was him in iowa, jeb bush, speaking a short time ago. i think he followed up a little bit more, but that's just me. what do you thing thk this does the ability to win general elections. the ripple effects this has to show instability in republicans leading the way of governing. >> sure, well, first of all, one of the ideas, there's all sort of scenarios floating around about where do

. >> for more on the carson campaign, we're joined by steve car kna kornacki. what does it mean politically? >> we talk about donald trump's sort of sagging in iowa right now. but obviously, the bigger part of the story is ben carson's rise an you say it's three -- the four new polls and another one this afternoon, a college poll with a double digit lead to ben carson. the newest monmouth of 32-18. looking closer, it is amazing. the favorable/unfavorable scores. ben carson get this among iowa republicans, 84 to 7. favorable unfavorable. donald trump sitting there 53/38. jeb bush upside down on that one. 42-46. >> huge for carson. >> donald trump having a difficult time, you know, how do i handle this, address that? that's the context i think for these comments about religion over the weekend, bringing up the fact that ben carson is a seventh-day adventist and i don't know about that. i'm a presbyterian. that's as middle of the rose road as you get. in 2007 mitt romney was the front-runner in iowa and questions of evangelical christians go along with a mormon pr

appreciate it. >>> i want to turn to msnbc political correspondent now, steve kornacki. s debate tomorrow and i think trying to take stock of what's happened in the last few days, weeks in advance of it, sort of in what i would call the inoculation dance phase of the predebate activities. what that basically means is the candidates who are going to be on that stage tomorrow night take a look around and say where am i vulnerable to attack from my opponents and what can i do to prevent that attack or to lessen the severity of that attack during the debates. mentioned that with hillary clinton the last few weeks, you were hillary clinton looked at your vulnerabilities in a democratic debate, one would be she didn't have a position on the keystone pipeline, now she is against that, that puts her in line with a big chunk of the democratic base. she didn't have a position on the tpp, the transpacific partnership. now she's come out against it, now that puts her in line with bernie sanders and a lot of the democratic base in that one. wall street issues, something bernie sanders

msnbc host political correspondent steve kornacki has been following this. steve, good morning.of exactly what we're learning about trump and his long-term plans, vis-a-vis a super pac. >> that's right. donald trump has made no outside funding attempt poll of his 2016 campaign saying he can't be bought and paid for, calling his fellow republicans puppets for their acceptance of outside money. but a new report from "the washington post" this morning suggests that trump himself may be more closely connected to a super pac that is collecting big sums of cash on his behalf than he's let on. here now to discuss the article is one of its authors, a reporter for the "washington post." he joins us from washington, d.c. tom, welcome. start first by giving everyone a taste, i think people following trump are familiar with this, but when the subject of money and politics and campaign financing comes up, this is what we have been hearing donald trump say. let's play a clip of that. >> the donors, the special interests, lobbyists have very strong power over these people. i'm spending all my

joining me now, steve kornacki with a deeper look at that first poll conducted by nbc news.ial debate. what have you got for us? >> hot off the presses, our own inhouse nbc news online poll. let's take a look. as carrie just said, this is the horse race right now. hillary clinton on the democratic side after the debate continues to lead by double digits over bernie sanders, 45% to 31%. and you can see, as carrie said, from a month ago, joe biden has lost one-third of his support in the democratic race, from 15% down to 10%. what's interesting, though, is we can pinpoint where this lead for hillary clinton, where this double-digit lead is coming from. it's not even across the board. let me show you what i mean. if you break this down by demographic group, look at this. among whites, among white voters on the democratic side, this race is basically tied right now, 41%-38% hillary clinton. among hispanics, it's a close race, 42%-35% for hillary clinton. and look at this. among african-american voters, this is where hillary clinton's strength is right now. she leads bernie sande

steve kornacki is here.ou have taxes, parts of immigration and now tpp where she's pushing back against the administration. >> let be clear, this is a imagine reversal on hillary clinton's part when you look at those polls who have struggled in terms of whether they can trust her, wondering what she believes in. the problem for her is as secretary of state she called the start of this trade agreement, her words here, she called it "the gold standard." now she's changed her mind. this what she told pbs "newshour" last night trying to explain this. >> are you saying as of today this is not something you can support? >> what i know about it as of today, i am not in favor of what i have learned about it. what i know, and again i don't have the text yet we don't have all the details, let look at the details of this. people say it's a classic clinton flip flop, clintonian, but where she's had this challenge in the primary, where joe biden is looking to get into this race, what does this do to her positions within

steve kornacki is with me. >> christine draconi, the chief executive officer, the coo of the campaigntly out. this comes as the bush campaign is having a broader restructuring. they're posedly cutting back by 40% the amount of money that they're spending on staff. she was apparently making $140,000 equivalent a year. she is not been a public face of the campaign. so this is somebody when you're the bush campaign and put a massive organization together anticipating this point in the year a front-runner, have more money coming in, the top of the polls, these sorts of things, this is a logical place to start cutting back if you need to cut salary. >> the narrative that started -- scratch that. this narrative that continued after jeb bush's most recent campaign performance at the campaign itself on life support, it would not seem that this announcement does meche to help that. >> this carries the news and hearing it of trouble. what happened with us at the start of the year the superpac, the sort of independent thing on the side raised a ton of money. the numbers for the third quarter whi

we're here in the studio lawrence o'donnell, eugene robins robinson, steve kornacki. lawrence, last to speak before our last break. what did you make of this exchange? >> as we ended, when a hearing moment ends, on a witness being able to say, i don't know what this has to do with why we're here, and for the witness to be right is a failure of the committee. you know, i was giving grades to members in the early rounds and peter roscum got a "c," he got an "f" for than spent his entire time fighting with former secretary of state about the issue of was anyone on your team trying to claim credit for you? was your press secretary, whose job, by the way to try to get credit for you, was that person trying to get credit for you? these people are here to investigate serious matters. every one of them, every one of those members, has people in their employ, in their washington office, back in their district -- >> to make the most of their achievement -- >> whose job, to give credit, if something happens it's because of the congressman. the idea something suddenly unholy abou

steve kornacki has been with us all the way through and watching and listening and offering his services. steve, as we look at the career of vice president joe biden, once we get past the fact that you, the president and vice president all were wearing versions of the same neckwear today, you mentioned what happened to him as a hot oriter, as the young senator in the democratic party. he also had a problem way before there were social media take-downs. he had a problem with his own words. and he had a problem appropriating the phraseology of the british politician, neil kinnick. people of a certain age can still recite it, why am i the first biden and generation of bidens. and a lot of the times when it came to a crux moment for him, there was a faltering. >> i think that's definitely part of the pattern. i mean, we say it, in 1987 when he dropped out of the presidential race, he was just about to become the front-runner on the democratic side. and really one of the reasons he was the front-runner was taking the lines from neil kinnick. the thing about that was, he has been taken by this

the wild card of course, if he doesn't get in now he'll never have another chance. >> msnbc's steve kornackithanks for the breakdown. really appreciate it. and we are asking everyone to weigh in on today's bing pulse question. what you think about this. will vice president joe biden finally decide to get into the presidential race? now, if our previous update only 9% of you voted yes. 91% said no. so look at the dramatic change we see now. 27% say yes. 73% say no. keep the votes coming in at pulse.msnbc.com. we're going to have more results coming up later in the hour. we turn our attention now to republicans where the feud between donald trump and jeb bush is getting even more heated. it's over 9/11 and trump suggesting former president george w. bush is to blame. this morning trump continued his attack on jeb bush by tweeting this -- "jeb is fighting to defend a catastrophic event. i'm fighting to make sure it doesn't happen again. jeb is too soft. we need tougher and sharper." that's on top of what he said this morning on fox news, suggesting if his immigration policies were in place they

steve kornacki, thank you, sir. the other side of things, we've got hillary clinton making two stops in the hawkeye state today. steve, thanks again. she wrapped up her first stop at the community forum in mount vernon a short time ago. she hit on a variety of topics but took aim at the gop presidential candidates. and their comments about guns. >> and then you've got people running for president on the other side who say, well, you know, we just need more guns. and the idea that you need more guns to stop people who are committing mass shootings is not only illogical but offensive. >> meanwhile, with the potential of vice president joe biden throwing his hat into the ring, sometimes it overshadows hillary clinton's campaign. new york magazine reports the clinton camp is prepping opposition research against the vice president. gabriel sherman is writing in that article, the research has turned up material on biden's ties to wall street, his reluctance to support the raid that killed osama bin laden and his role in t

i want to bring in msnbc host and political correspondent steve kornacki who is back with a look at theeaker's term. we've been talking all day about our favorite boehner moments. >> his career on capitol hill was a generation. it was 25 years from 1990 to 2015. you think about how it all ended, we think about the last few years and how he was undone by the trouble maesh makers in party. what we forget was at the very beginning it was john boehner who was the troublemaker. >> the american people are going to settle for nothing less than full disclosure. this institution is under indictment. we have an opportunity this week to come clean, to make a step forward, to increase our credibility with the american people and we ought to do that. >> john boehner, a generation ago, a freshman congressman from ohio fighting to expose what became known as the rubber check scandal. house members bouncing checks without having to pay fees. >> the magnitude of abuse is staggering. >> it was the early '90s. the democrat have controlled the house for four decades, but boehner was a new kind of republica

so joining me now is the host of msnbc's "up with steve kornacki" and so great to have you here, andars to be a change in statement from donald trump who appeared on fox news with this to say. take a look. >> do you object to migrants who are are getting ow of the middle east and north africa? do you object to them coming to the usa? >> i hate the concept of it, but on the humanitarian basis of it, you have to, because it is living in hell in syria, and so you have to have something done. >> and so is this a flip-flop and something trouble or brand on message? >> no, listen, donald trump likes to the say he is not a politician, and that is part of the appeal, but politicians read polls and change the position, and what has changed since he made that statement on fox news and last night in keene, new hampshire, polling on the subject of should the united states admit 10 million syrian refugees and the poll is overwhelmingly conclusive where they sand. 53% oppose to accepting the refuge refugees, but looking at it, 71% of the republicans are opposed this, and only 24% support it, and o

tracy, thank you so much and steve kornacki. podcast at itunes.com/another round. it's good stuff. thank you. >> thank you. >>> speaking of hillary clinton, the bombshell surrounding a former investigator accusing the benghazi committee of targeting the former secretary of state. we're asking you whether you think it's time to bis band the committee. 96% said yes, 4% said no. now 87% think yes and 13% of you say no. the pulse is live. check it out. pulse.msnbc.com. >>> he was just 17, that's it, 17 years old, convicted of a crime he didn't commit. now he's free and he's practicing law. msnbc's ari melber will introduce us to a man that turned injes us the into a life of service. >>> and then the slide that has baseball fans buzzing. more on the play that got the dodgers chase utley a suspension, a punishment his agent is promising to appeal. when a twinge of back pain surprises him. morning starts in high spirits but there's a growing pain in his lower back. as lines grow longer, his pain continues to linger. but after a long da

and i'm joined now by political correspondent steve kornacki.noticed. >> it ties into the numbers you just showed. the rational in large part to date has been hillary clinton might be weaken, candidacy might collapse, after the debate performance last week, her poll numbers are up, so it is now imperative for joe booiden to present some real contrast with hillary clinton to make the case to democrats. this is why you should nominate me, this is why i'm different from hillary clinton. also, from biden's standpoint, to anticipate attacks that might come from hillary clinton and o knock late himself against them. we saw a lot of that going on potentially today, this morning, so for example, yesterday, joe biden made comment where he said he doesn't consider republicans his enemy. that was interesting because in the debate last week, hillary clinton bragged that she considers republicans her enemy. she says that's something she takes pride in. biden reiterated those comments this morning, and he also gave something of a shoutout to of all people, di

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and political correspondent steve kornacki. steve, talk first with you here. already the predictions that ratings will not be high. some of the fire from the republican debate despite what some have seen as cnn's attempt to hype it up with the one chair left for joe biden here. but in reality i think it was one headline that says it is a low-risk/high-stakes in that all eyes will be on hillary clinton. not so much for the adversarial comments between these candidates but whether she can portray her policies in an effective way and not be as bernie sanders is calling her, a flip-flopper. >> right. when you're the front-runner like hillary clinton going into a debate like this, it is like the first rule in medicine -- do no harm. you want to walk out of this thing in the same position you walked in to it with. with hillary clinton the one risk i guess is if you look back, she has a history in presidential debates, she was in nearly two dozen of them back in 2008. there was that one moment that stands out in the fall of 2007. she was asked a question about driver

ben carson, donald trump, one and two, ted cruise getting more than 50% when you add "up with steve kornacki" their percentages. this is a republican party looking forward to the outsiders rather than the establishment. >> you have a busy day ahead of you, appreciate you stopping in. we'll send it back on over to you. >> all right. thanks. >>> donald trump will be in virginia later today. the republican presidential front-runner will hold a campaign stop at the richmond international raceway. he expects 10,000 people to show up for the event at 7:00 tonight. trump is the second gop presidential candidate to visit virginia's capital this month. ohio governor john kasich held a town meeting at the university of richmond last week. chuck, was going on with our weather? >> felt like late september yesterday with temperatures in the mid to upper 70s with sunshine, today it's feeling more like mid-october. the winds usher in a keerl pattern which is here to stay for quite some time. here's how the next 24 hours are looking. 66 at noon, breezy. cool and 67 tonight. tomorrow morning, chilly in the 4

msnbc host steve kornacki is here. steve, good morning.ose, let's get started. we have some movement to tell you about on both sides of the aisle, both the democratic and republican race, some significant movement. you mentioned lincoln chafee dropping out of the race this morning. one of the things he cited in dropping out of the race is the fact that hillary clinton's had such a good week, a well-received debate performance. joe biden saying he's not running, her performance in front of that committee yesterday. well, look at this, here's another piece of good news for her. this is fresh off the presses, quinnipi quinnipiac's latest iowa poll shows hillary clinton, who was trailing bernie sanders in this poll by a point a month ago, now she's opened up a double-digit lead in the lead-off caucus state. iowa democrats telling pollsters they believe by a solid margin there that hillary clinton won that debate last week. clearly, that has helped her there. and you see martin o'malley lagging with chafee dropping out. it is fair to ask how lo

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. >> joining me now, msnbc host and political correspondent steve kornacki and nbc's luke russert onart with you, luke. what's going on? >> reporter: yeah, well, deep here in the bowels of the u.s. capitol, jose, and right behind me, the house gop conference is meeting, presumably trying to figure out a way forward for them to get a leader. and from the members i've spoken to coming out of that meeting, they've said that it's been a positive mood. they gave a round of applause for kevin mccarthy, but the talk has been more centered on trying to unify as opposed to any individual candidate stepping up saying they want to put themselves forward for speaker. there's been a talk of policy as well. and the general consensus is, is that members are going to go home this week for the columbus day recess, let everything cool off for a little bit, and then come back in a week and try and figure out a way forward. the pressure on paul ryan, though, is mounting. and you heard it right there from jason chaffits, someone who wanted to run for speaker, saying if ryan gets in, he'll get out. the go

msnbc host and political correspondent steve kornacki is here with more. is speaking out on this issue. this is something that hillary clinton's campaign now is trying to get as much attention to as they can. what happened yesterday was that richard hanna, he is a republican congressman from upstate new york, he was on a local radio show in utica, new york, and he said that the house benghazi committee, this was the committee that republicans created, they said, to look into that attack on the benghazi consulate in 2012 that left the u.s. ambassador and three others dead, he said that that committee's work, he has decided, has been geared towards trying to hurt hillary clinton politically. let's listen to what he said. >> sometimes the biggest sin you can commit in d.c. is to tell the truth. >> yeah, yeah. >> you know, i -- this may not be politically correct, but i think that there was a big part of this investigation that was designed to go after people, and an individual, hillary clinton. >> now, of course, jose, this comes after kevin mccarthy who had b

steve kornacki is an msnbc host, also a political correspondent. steve, first of all, what do we make of that statement? second of all, how is jeb bush, of all candidates, having money problems? >> well we saw the quarterly reports that came out last week. there was a very big warning sign for jeb bush. in the last three months of this campaign he raised less than three other republican contenders. remember, one of the sort of selling points of the bush campaign at the beginning was going to be shock and awe. that was the term that was thrown around by his people. they were going to shock the rest of the field with these massive sums of money. that has dried up, probably in a lot of ways bus of the poll numbers. the poll numbers have not been good for jeb bush. we can take you through just this morning, a brand new number from iowa, the leadoff caucus state of iowa, this is the des moines register poll considered the gold standard poll in iowa, you can see that ben carson's in the lead there but look way down the page. jeb bush tied with rand paul a

nicolle wallace, steve kornacki, good to have you both here. thank you. >> more on the front-runner on the democratic side, hillary clinton, nbc's kristen welker is in new hampshire where clinton is campaigning today. kristen, good morning to you. >> reporter: hey, matt, good morning to you, that's right. secretary clinton will be far from the debate stage, instead courting voters here in new hampshire, but she's got her own battle plan heading into tonight. with republicans set to go on the attack tonight, secretary hillary clinton is preparing to counterpunch releasing four sleek new ads during tonight's gop debate in iowa and new hampshire, 309-second spots aimed at prebutting the republicans by painting clinton voters touting equal pay and college affordability. >> i'm hillary clinton, and i approve this message. >> reporter: new ad campaign comes as clinton is gaining strength. a new poll in iowa shows she's trouncing vermont senator bernie sanders by a whopping 41 points. 65% to 24%. it's the first poll of its kind conducted on the heels