former white house senior adviser david plouffe tweeted this about a possible tagg romney run for senateus behind romney campaign and wannabe pugilist looking at senate. obama voters for him? hard to see. that's true, but his father did win. >> a different version of his father won. that was the story of the 2012 election, right? the mitt romney of 2002 and really the first i'd say year and a half of his governorship was a popular guy in massachusetts. he was engaged in the job. he was responsive to the concerns of sort of the general election audience in massachusetts. and he decided in 2004 when he threw a lot of money and personal time into an effort to really make inroads for the republican party in the state legislature, it backfired, he said the heck with it, i'm going national. his popularity in massachusetts tanked after that. >> bob, if tagg romney does decide to run, he may face a primary chal lek from the vaunted fox news medical a team dr. keith ablow. here is a quick look at some of the great doctor's greatest hits. here they are. >> i did not evaluate joe biden. you have to

tagg to run for senate. maybe he was just the wrong romney. republicans in massachusetts just itching to get a romney, some romney, any romney back on the ballot this year. 23 points. but almost as quickly as the ann or tagg romney excitement had built up, it started to crumble. and by this afternoon, tagg romney announced himself in complete sentences with full actual words that he is not going to run for that seat. and i don't think ann romney is going to run either. and that leaves massachusetts republicans in a tough spot. no scott brown, no unspecified member of the romney family. right now the surest thing that massachusetts republicans have is dr. keith ablow, a fox news expert on psychiatry. he recently cowrote a book with glenn beck. he announced that he will totally run for senate in that special election, as long as massachusetts republicans unify around him and nominate him with no primary. what could possibly go wrong? that seems like a foolproof idea. did i mention he cowrote a book with glenn beck? but it's not just in massachus

tagg romney, mitt romney's oldest son.ey was a key adviser during his father's presidential bid, and he lives and works in the state. john berg is with suffolk university in boston. >> it's kind of a mark of desperation. first they tried to get his mother. she made it clear she didn't want to. the joke being around is it will be the horse next. >> reporter: a source close to the romneys tells cnn tagg is thinking about it but it's unlikely. even if he runs, could he win in a state his father lost by 23 points last year? >> i think he would have a real uphill struggle. from the point of view of the republican party, it does get a name in there and, you know, with some visibility and might be better than nothing for them. but i think that his chances of actually winning are pretty low. >> reporter: still, the speculation isn't going away. even some of his own family have suggested in the past that tagg would be the next romney to run. >> who wants to follow in your grandfather's foot steps and in your dad's foot steps and be

tagg romney, another one of the high profile republicans to drop out of the running for kerry's seat. former senator scott brown, bill weld and former lieutenant governor of massachusetts terry heely have all announced they're not going to run. that means so far only two democrats, congressman ed marky and steve lynch have said they're going to make a bid for kerry's seat in the special election. >>> despite a grueling confirmation hearing, the chances of chuck hagel becoming secretary of defense are greater than 24 hours ago because john mccain and three other colleagues of his indicated they would oppose the use of a filibuster to try to block the nomination, rejecting an idea floated over the weekend by senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and others. move by mccain and others now suggest hagel is going to have enough support to be confirm. the nomination is expected to go to the full senate floor this thursday. >>> last night in the book touring supreme court justice sonia sotomayor made a rare television appearance. she was on the colbert report. she talked about her childhood

it's not necessarily -- >> boston herald reported on tagg romney. t see the romney brand working well at this point in time. >> that may be right. i suppose we'll get an early test of whether the project is working. i think that the other thing to keep in mind about scott brown is he doesn't want to, after having run in the special election, run in a regular re-election, run in another special election and another regular election. if he gets the governorship he's got it for four years and at this point he's got to be sick of running, running. >> claire mccaskill ran a ridiculous amount of senate races. >> if he loses again in a senate race, he's done. this is self-preservation. >> i would just say whenever we're this sure of something, this far out, that we're often wrong and things happen, candidates -- better candidates than we think, worse candidates than we think. even in massachusetts we can be surprised. >> that's right. you never know. >> i'm enjoying watching "house of cards" on netflix. give it a try. >> how do i do it? i'm not a netflix pe

earlier today, tagg romney's name was floated as a possible gop senate candidate in massachusetts. he's since bowed out. guess he saw what happened to the last romney. . >>> and then there's this. gop donors are turning to karl rove to help weed out far right candidates in upcoming races. really? isn't he the guy who blew $300 million in the last election? whose super pac had a 1% success rate? yeah, that guy. and, boy is the tea party upset. freedom works slammed rove's group saying the empire is striking back. calling him orwellian. it's full-on gop warfare. it's gop civil war. joining me now is michael steele and dana millbank. thank you both for coming on the show tonight. >> good to see you, rev. >> michael, karl rove to save the party from the tea party, do you buy it? >> no, i don't. and i don't think many of the not just tea parties, but grass roots conservatives will. instead of taking those dollars out of the states and hunkering them down here in a newly created super pac in washington, how about investing in the state party organizations around the country to help them

there is also a guy named tagg romney. maybe it's time to pass the torch to the next generation.ook, in addition to all the reasons already put forward or all the explanations already put forward, i think this is a tea party setback. brown as a senator, as voting senator didn't always vote with the tea party by any stretch of the imagination. but he was a tea party darling in a big way in 2010. >> yeah, he was. >> in a big way. and so now he's gone. and it's just another setback for that wing of the republican party and that movement. and as everyone says, it's clearly going to be a democratic seat. >> we all know this man was larger than life. a man with keen political instincts above all. he was new yorker, former new york city mayor ed koch died early this morning of congestive heart failure. he was 88 years old. after serving in congress, mayor koch was elected to three times in city hall from 1978 to 1989. koch never married and had no children, but as his "new york times" obituary put it, he was survived by new york itself. koch liked to ask people, you know, how am i doing

add tagg romney's name to the list of republicans who aren't running for senate in massachusetts. kerry healey and bill weld also both said no. texas governor rick perry is running radio ads in california to try to bring business into his state. >> building a business is tough. but i hear building a business in california is next to impossible. this is texas governor rick perry and i have a message for california businesses. come check out texas. >> and speaking of business, herobuilders.com is taking advantage of this white house photo of president obama shooting skeet. they have completed an action figure, complete with a clay pigeons t-shirt. it is online for $19.95. and in case you missed new jersey governor chris christie on letterman last night. >> i've made jokes about you, not just one or two, not just ongoing, here or there, intermittent, but -- >> i didn't know this was going to be this long. >> and if you read only one thing this morning, bloomberg news has tracked down one of the world's youngest female billionaires. her story is fascinating. she's only 30. she's been

tagg romney says i'm making too much money. the son of the former gosh and the former presidential candidate says no, it's the cash. these are not the only republicans who have passed on the opportunity to pick up a democratic seat. former state senator and a former lieutenant governor have also said no. the latest entry is fox news personality keith ablow, who is probably best known as glenn beck's tv psychiatrist. >> i did not evaluate joe biden, but if someone said to me listen, we want you to do what is really required to know what happened there, you have to put dementia on the differential diagnosis. get your own white board like glenn beck, right? because you've got to immunize yourself. because when i was on his show back at cnn when we first met, i was amazed by how willing he was to come forward with his pain. >> pain! that's the key. dr. ablow says he will only declare his candidacy if no other republican challenges him. he wants a clean slate. state representative dean winslow says he is forming an exploratory commi

. >>> tagg, not it. mitt romney'son says he will not run for the vacant massachusetts senate seat. he released a statement yesterday saying, "i love my home state and admit it would be an honor to represent the citizens of our great commonwealth. however, i am currently committed to my business and to spending as much time as i can with my wife and children." then there was the "boston herald's" weekend reporting that republicans want tagg's mom, ann romney, to run for that seat. she has not commented yet, but republicans probably shouldn't hold their breath on that one. but there is one republican tossing his hat into the ring, congressman paul broun. he is one of the most conservative members of the house, expected to announce his candidacy coming up tomorrow. >>> meanwhile, bill clinton says that betty white, that's right, betty white is the answer to the country's problems. >> having served as president of the united states for eight years, i know how profoundly demanding the job can be. so when i think about the

tagg romney. >> stephanie: oh, that. or ann. >> stop it. this is hard. >> ann: stop it. it. >> ann: stop it! >> stephanie: speak of somebody who i think will be back in elected office, outgoing secretary of state hillary clinton. >> i am very proud to have been secretary of state. i will miss you. i will probably be dialing ops just to talk. >> stephanie: go take a nap and then let's go. hillary, 2016. >> she's already getting the infrastructure in place. you know that. >> stephanie: take a nappy. we got this! all right. senator mike from nebraska will support chuck hagel for secretary of state. senator roy blunt republican of missouri says -- >> i don't intend to vote for him in the committee or on the senate floor and there are so many inconsistencies yesterday that were explained by -- i would have to look at the whole context of what he said -- i said at the time. >> that was blunt. >> stephanie: that was blunt. he's very troubled. very troubled. troubling, troubling nomination there. [ ♪ hypnotic ♪ ] very troubled. >> troubled by bluntness. >> stephanie: okay. jay c

. >> i have breaking news tagg romney has been elected to the u.s.ter ] >> you heard it hear first, dickmorris..com.org.net. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: okay, michelle malkin. >> out here in the real word the medical device tax is causing layoffs across the country, the fact that so many people who were intending to go into medicine are no longer going into medicine. and the fact that so many small businesses doctors who were individual practitioners are either bailing and retiring all together or going into concierge care. people are shutting down their practice as they used to be constituted, dropping insurance all together, where now only the wealthiest can pay for care. congratulations obamacare heck of a job. >> stephanie: wow. first of all that's michelle malkin talking about brain drain on fox. secondly, there are no more doctors. >> yeah, it's going to be hysterical when we talk about obamacare, because it's so close, october of this year you'll be able to enroll in obamacare, and the moment the first applications come in collectively the righ

>> well, we know tagg romney isn't. that's a rumor that lasted about an hour and a half yesterday.y, the former lieutenant-governor might be a strong candidate. wouldn't it be surprising if democrats didn't win that senate seat? wouldn't you be surprised? it is massachusetts. pretty democratic state. >> bill: particularly now. i think republicans -- they haven't given up on the seat but they clearly did not have a strong second best, right. they were counting on scott brown and he just -- he had one race and another race. he would have had to win this time and then run again next year. it was just too much. >> we do think he's going to run it next year. we think it will be for governor. and you know, massachusetts really has a history of electing moderate republican governors like mitt romney and bill weld. so he would have, i would think be a pretty strong contender for that job. >> bill: i think he would have a better shot at governor after losing by eight points to elizabeth warren. top democrat strategist told me i think scott brown saved the senate for democrats. another bad b

. >> tagg romney was in for about eight hours. >> stephanie: i love it when a plan blows up!rent news center, jacki schechner. >> we all know by know how much i love me a good rick scott story. well, the florida governor looks like maybe spending $100 million to get re-elected or at least that's his plan. money that would go toward countering his significant unpopularity in 2010. governor scott spent $73 million to flood the florida airwaves and eek out a narrow victory. scott's plan for 2014 is to replicate president obama's extensive use of targeted outreach from state specific data and analytics. scott's anticipating having to go up against former governor charlie crist who switched parties and will be running as a democrat. before he became governor, you may remember that scott was once the ceo of the hca hospital chain which was charged with extensive medicare fraud and had to pay $1.7 billion fine which was the largest at that time. the u.s. postal service announcing today that it's going to stop letter delivery on saturdays beginning august 1st. you'll still be able to

mitt romney's son tagg -- tagg. [ laughter ] >> steve: you're it. >> jimmy: he is denying reports thatthis year saying the timing isn't right. just like when his dad tries to clap along to a song. ♪ celebrate good times come on celebrate ♪ ♪ celebrate good times come on ♪ [ laughter ] >> jimmy: no one does that. >> steve: nobody does that in the world. >> jimmy: you guys, the state department announced that john kerry, the newly appointed secretary of state will sign all official state department tweets with his initials, j.k. [ laughter ] you can see the confusion here. >> steve: yeah. >> jimmy: because j.k. is also internet slang for just kidding. let's just take a look at a few of his tweets. you'll see what i mean. here's the first one, "i'm thrilled and honored to uphold the position of secretary of state, jk" [ laughter ] here's another one here. "just saw 'hansel and gretel.' loved it. j.k. j.k. that j.k. i really did love it. j.k." [ laughter ] i have no idea what he feels about that movie. here's the last one here. "when i sign my tweets with j.k. i mean my name, john kerry. j

one more bit of news late today, nbc news learned to tag romney as won't run. tagg was interested in the seat. we'll be right back. >>> the only way we can reduce gun violence in this country is if the american people decide it's important. if parents and teachers, police officers and pastors, hunters and sportsmen, americans of every background stand up and say this time, it's got to be different. we've suffered too much pain to standby and do nothing. >> welcome back to "hardball." today, president barack obama took his argument for gun control outside washington telling the minnesota crowd that the power was in the hands of all americans to get something done. it's not to get misguided rhetoric or let that confuse the issue. let's listen to some more from the president. >> tell them there's no legislation to eliminate all guns. there's no legislation being proposed to subvert the second amendment. tell them specifically what we're talking about. things that the majority of americans, when they're asked, support. and tell them now is the time for action. that we'r

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the 63-year-old romney has never run for public office before, and there are also rumors the family's oldest son tagg is interested in the vacant seat. >>> and leon pennetta comes to the defense of hagel. he says, quote, the political knives were out." he says the questions focused on his past statements and not enough on the future of the defense department and the war on terrorism. and he added hagel has good ideas on how to protect america >>> chuck todd is filling in for david gregory this week on "meet the press." he will interview pennetta as well as general martin dempsey, and he will sit down with bob costas, and you can catch "meet the press" at 10:30 here on nbc 4. >>> this past week twitter might have accessed the profiles of around 250,000 users, and we have more on how security companies are working to keep those sites and your information safe. >> at the offices of a security consulta consultant, a constant vigil looks for signs of attacks on them and clients. they look for ways to step ahead to block intrusions from succeeding. >> very often we see companies have not invested in respon

romney may run for office. >> i guess it may actually be tagg.tate rep named dan winslow who looks like he might get in the race. but bill weld has taken himself out because he is bill weld. >> stephanie: you say the herald has been utterly traumatized by the loss of governor mcdreamy. >> the herald alsoal certs that ann romney has become this enormously popular figure during the presidential campaign. >> stephanie: right, you say i think we're far too exhausted to withstand the romney campaign the last time around. >> ann romney: stop it. this is hard. you want to try it get in the ring. >> stephanie: all right. >> she will cut a bitch too. >> stephanie: oh robin roberts can testify my friend. i love when you do the break down of sunday shows and talk about what is the point calie ferino. >> right. >> stephanie: you said krugman and calie got into it about the best way to put people to work she explained that in her experience public sector do not have jobs that do not pay real money. >> that's exactly right. they don't produce anything. in that