. >> the coop tweeted me, kelly rippa tweeted me back. >> jimmy: the rip?rsial for her. [ laughter ] and then i thought -- >> jimmy: you have no controversy there. [ laughter ] >> oh, she -- >> jimmy: and then -- [ laughter ] >> he's afraid of the controversy -- >> jimmy: i am a little afraid of controversy. no, i love ellen barkin, i follow you on twitter, and i tell everyone follow you -- >> you follow me, and you won't tweet me back? >> jimmy: no, i didn't even -- i didn't even hear this question, "how do you -- help me get followers." i don't know --know to. it's like saying "what's the meaning of life?" >> you just write back. >> jimmy: i can't answer that question. >> you just write back, "hey, friend." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i'm going to tweet you tonight, "hey friend." >> hey, friend. >> jimmy: and then i'm going to send you an email -- >> follow ellen barkin, she's my friend, i promised her an ipad, i lied and never it to her. [ laughter ] whatever. >> jimmy: but it's not true. my gosh, uh -- [ laughter ] i want to talk about your new show, "the ne

i'm standing on storm team4 weather deck, on my phone wait for you to tweet me. asking me on twitter, can i get one of these. storm team4 weather mug. it was a big hit last time i filled in morningside. so i thought i would do it again. why not? here's how it works. all you have to do is be the first person to follow and tweet me. vjohnsonnbc4. it's fun. if you do you get the weather signs, technology, and nature news tweets from me all day long, forecast, too. great way to stay in touch with nbc washington and weather. 76, your temperature right now. we've got overcast skies. wind is calm and light out here. i wish there was a little bit of a breeze. it might make it feel better. storms in northern delaware. light showers that have been dying out just south of us around 95. got around fredericksburg. patchy fog, high humidity this morning. your temperature, 81 by noontime today. 83 is what we're going to top out with the high temperature for today. and storms could lead to drenching downpours around the area. that could lead to some flash flooding again as was th

a big congratulations to mike bates for tweeting me the right answer first.lcome back once again. maria cardona and amy holmes are with me talking politics. amy, cnn has learned that in the vice presidential vetting process, the romney camp asked for ten years of back tax returns from potential vp candidates. now, as you know, he's been criticized for only releasing two years of his own taxes. so doesn't this make it just a bit hypocritical here? >> mitt romney knows what's in his taxes for ten years. he wanted to know what was in paul ryan's. i think it was due diligence to find out for his veep pick everything that he could about that candidate, and if you remember, john mccain was roundly criticized for not learning more about sarah palin. so it seems that the republican candidates -- damned if they do, damned if they don't. >> maria, what do you think it is? ten years of back taxes. >> absolutely. here's where it becomes incredibly hypocritical. mitt romney to, amy's point was doing absolute due diligence. he wanted to make sure that his vice presidential

if you see weather happening tweet me. vjohnsonnbc4. talking about this morning, how are you going to spend your labor day. tweet me that and we will talk about it. a lot of folks saying absolutely nothing. there's rain. watching down south. light showers and quantico. south of wood bridge. these have been kind of dying out. making their way off to the east and northeast, waldorf maryland. clinton, if that holds together. light showers occurring right now. but again, showers occasional showers throughout the day. that's what's expected. and then thunderstorms and heavier rain coming our way for the afternoon. there's the spin. that's what's left of isaac. and that rain still extends down to the south days after isaac's coming inland. we've got rain around mississippi, around alabama and coming into northern areas of georgia. if you the have some travel plans. for us today, your future weather, here we go. throughout the day, showers even a few thunderstorms. especially west again for the afternoon. some wet weather expected early tomorr

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e-mail me or tweet me. let me know what you're doing up. text the word awake followed by your response at 622639. we'll read the best responses as we always do later in the show. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this monday, september 24th. president obama on his oft analyzed relationship with benjamin netanyahu. plus our friends, the "game change" boys go hollywood. alfred and highly man rush the stage at the emmys after their movie swiped a whole bunch of statues. >>> let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here's "30 rock" in new york city with the election a month and change away, mitt romney is vowing to spend less time raising money and more time reaching out to voters. that was his message to reporters while flying to a rally last night in colorado where he addressed a crowd of nearly 7,000 people. today he and his running mate paul ryan launch a three day bus tour through the battleground state of ohio. that's where a new pole shows romney trailing 51/46 among likely voters. survey by the university of cincinnati in

tweets? msnbc's richard lui joins me. ocrats have set a record out there. >> yeah, good day, thomas. looking at the numbers, a new day, a new record. the big dnc party was a 9.5 million tweet convention, a number not seen before. a big part of that was from yesterday which set the single day convention record with four million tweets. the man who now has the highest tweets per minute of all convention speeches, president obama. he hit over 52,000 tweets per minute right after the end of his speech. his number two was also number two for the night. vice president biden reached just under 18,000. a good number on any other night, but this was no other night. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible, liberty and justice for all. >> representative gabbi giffords got 3200 tweets're minute and for some, it may have been too tough to text through tears. our final results for tweets, the star of the rnc finished fifth. back to you.

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find me on facebook, and tweet me. my handle is@alli velshi. i want to hear what you think. have a great weekend. >>> hello, every. you're in the cnn newsroom. the fury over an anti-islam internet film made in the u.s. is spreading to more countries. today, protesters took to the streets in australia. hundreds of people demonstrated outside the u.s. consulate in sydney. the protest turned violent when police pushed back protesters from the consulate building. authorities used tear gas and police dogs to disperse the demonstrators, four people were hurt. and this was a scene in india. there were also protests in tunisia and afghanistan today. but cairo, egypt, a city rocked by violent protests earlier in the week today was quiet. here's a look at just how widespread the unrest has been. pros in more than a dozen countries this week, including libya. libyan officials believe islamic militants used it as a divergent to attack the consulate. we're live now in tripoli in the investigation. what have you learned? >> well, fredricka, it's starting to become clearer now the more off

you can tweet me at randi kay cnn and i will read some of them this morning. >>> and the scrutiny onfl th weekend may not be on tony romo or the regular focus, because it is on the nfl referees. they have referees now in place that refereed last high school games and some of them even worked in the lingerie football league where, yes, women play in lingerie, and joining me is former running back tiki barber to be on to talk about this. >> good morning, randi. >> and we want to know how much impact even the regular referees have on a game? >> well, i think they have a lot of impact. you have seen over the past few years there are some games that are questionably decided by a referee's call as opposed to the play on the field where some people has been rubbed the wrong way and we can talk about the labor dispute and the lockout that the nfl has instituted on the referees and think it is about money and benefit, and it may be, but it is also about control. one of the tenets that is not talked about a lot is that the nfl also wants to add three more crews which is 21 new referees and the

e-mail me or tweet me. what are you doing up at this hour? or do text the word awake followed by a response to 622639. we'll read the best responses later in the show. the next 30 minutes is your cram session for this thursday, september 20th including the fast and furious gun running program. we'll tell you who is in trouble. don't you hate it when your wedding venue is occupied by the president of the united states? a iowa couple shows up and the leader of the free world is hogging the place. an explanation, later. let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock here in the city. >>> this morning, we have new numbers in ohio and virginia. a new fox news poll shows among likely voters president obama opening up leads, seven points in both of those states, ohio and virginia. meanwhile, in florida, the president has a five-point lead according to fox news. it's impossible for romney to win the votes he needs without florida, which carries 29 of the votes. a cnn poll shows the president leading romney by eight points in the state of michigan

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you can e-mail meays tweet me. i want to know what you're doing up at this hour. or text the word awake followed by your response to 622639. we'll read the best responses later in the show. the next 30 minutes will be your ptr 26.ssion for this wednday, toelou about including president obama speaking before the u.n.'s general assembly and warning iran that the time for diplomacy is, quote, not unlimited. plus ann romney on leno last night telling jay about the thriftess of her suph sban thlite in the show. first let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. and we begin on the campaign trail where exactly one week out nowrom the first presidential debate. and there is brand new polling this morning from three key swing stas twiai roncerns inside the romney campaign. of likely voters, president obama now leads mitt romney by 10 percentage points in the state of ohio. that's a doue digit lead in the state no republican has lost and then won the presiden. thpresen ne psn florida. that is absolutely a must win state for romney. mr. obama no

you can tweet me to the answer the question why are you awake. or you can text the word awe 'leahe best responses next. the next 30 minutes will be the cram session for this thursday, september 27th. a lot to tell you about including hillary clinton suggesting an al qaeda link to the attack on the u.s. consulate in libya that killed four americans including the united states aasr. plus, theatt foreign fast food craze. first, it was a mashed potato and gravy dispenser. now ice cream cone pizza at pizza hut. tell you where can you get yours while supplies last a bit later in the show. first, let's tthe news. live at 5:30 a.m., we begin with breaking news that football fans are desperate for especially after monday night football that cost the green bay packers a precious victory. abt 5 1/2 hours ago the nfl and refers unionou thea a tentative agreement that will end the lockout and bring regular officiating crews back to the fields staing tonight when the ravens take on the browns in baltimore. the deal include a significant salary raise for the of

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i've had some parents tweeting me this morning saying, you know, if my kid doesn't go to school, we'reng about 400,000 kids who might not go to school on monday, they might not be able to work. there's that whole trickle-down effect. what do you make of that? i mean, this affects a whole lot of people. >> well, one of the real problems here is not a lack of communication on our part. we have been sawyerly ta l-- sey talking to parents who are extremely supportive of us, by the way, for months. this isn't just something that happened last week, talks didn't just break down. people have known where we were for quite some time. we took a strike authorization vote in june. so this has been going on. we've been hoping that we would be taking a little -- taken a little bit more seriously about what we would like to see in schools. so we understand that this is difficult. but parents, we are hoping they will come together, work with each other, and help one another find a way for a solution. >> and the negotiations continue today. you'll be busy with those. any idea, inkling at all when you m

as i said i've been asking to you tweet me, let you know me what to think. face class action. that e-mail makes it clear she was let go based on her race. dennis posted this. here is another problem in this case. there are many more than wet seal who are doing this. tiffany hunter tweeted me, racism and racial discrimination are so common in retail it has its own sales rack, blond hair, blue eyes doesn't mean beauty. thanks for weighing in on that one. keep them koeg at randi kaye@cnn. >>> from politics to showbiz. the tore everyone is talking about. what the kings of late night are saying about clint eastwood's memorable rnc speech. on every one of our cards there's a date. a reminder... that before this date, we have to exceed expectations. we have to find new ways to help make life easier, more convenient and more rewarding. it's the reason why we don't have costumers. we have members. american express. welcome in. exclusive to the military, and commitment is not limited to one's military oath. the same set of values that drive our nation's military are t

you can e-mail me or tweet me at willie geist 1. or do tha julio jones does and tweet. the next 30 minutes will, of course, be a cram session for tuesday, september 18th. a lot to talk about today, including a vote by the teachers union that could end the strike in chicago and finally get those kids pack to school. plus, remember mitt romney as eminem? >> understand i am an exception. >> contraception. >> not a as a result you are. there will be influx. >> hispanic voters. >> if you don't believe. >> i tell you what, 10,000 bucks. >>> they've given president obama the you can't touch this treatment. yes, hammer. that clip later in the show. first, though, let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city. >>> 24 hours ago, on the same day mitt romney was trying to retool his message with more specifics about the economy, we were reporting to you a politico story about disarray in the campaign's inner circle. this morning, a videotape that could do much more damage than that politico piece. a video recorded surreptitiously and provided to the liberal ma

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you can e-mail me or tweet me @williegeist. or do what rg3 does and text the word "awake" followed by your response to 622639. we'll read the best responses later in the show. >>> the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this monday, september 10th. a lot to tell you about including mitt romney defending the absence of afghanistan and american troops from his convention speech. we'll play that for you. >>> plus, president obama bear hugged and lifted off the ground by the owner of a florida pizza joint. we'll tell you how the secret service felt about this one a little bit later in the show. >>> first, though, let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. for the first time in four months, democrats have helped president obama pull ahead of mitt romney and his republican allies in monthly fund-raising. new numbers out this morning show the president's re-election campaign along with the dnc took in more than $114 million in august. mitt romney and republicans raising just over $111 million.

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e-mail at waytooearly@msnbc or tweet me @williegeist or do what rg3 and text "awake" followed by 622639. >>> the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this monday, september 17th. a lot to tell you about including a new politico piece that's been buzzing around washington overnight about some dissension within the romney campaign. we'll have the details there. >>> plus, we have a new president. at least on "snl" anyway. fred armisen gives way to the new president obama. see what you think with a clip later in the show. first let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. violent protests are breaking out in afghanistan as we speak where crowds have set fire to police vehicles in kabul. armed demonstrators also attacked western compounds including those of private security companies. it's the latest in a wave of protests that have swept the muslim world after portions of an anti-islam film which was produced in the united states were posted online. >>> elsewhere in afghanistan, taliban insurgents killed two u.s. marines and damaged more than $200 millio