meet willard mitt romney's foreign policy team. it looks a lot like team bush. >> i will devote myself to an american sentry. >> i don't think so, romney/bush. >>> in north carolina, how about the koch brothers billionaires are helping the rep resegregate public schools. parents are fighting back. tonight we will too. "politics nation" starts right now. >>> welcome to "politics nation." tonight's lead. help wanted now more than ever. new job numbers today are driving the point home hard. employers added 103,000 job last month. it's a positive step, but unemployment rate is still at 9.1%, and 14 million americans are still looking for work. to them, each day that congress doesn't pass the president's jobs plan is a day wasted. but reps are stuck in reverse. remember what president obama said at his news conference? >> here's a little homework assignment for folks. go ask the republicans what their jobs plan is, have it assessed by the same independent economists that have assessed our jobs plan. >> well, today the homework was due,

let me show you something that willard mitt romney said. let me show you something and tell me how you feel when you hear this. >> should they have used the funds to bail out general motors and chrysler? no, that was the wrong source for that fundsing. >> now, this willard mitt romney, this week at the debate saying we shouldn't have done it. it was the wrong source for this funding. >> i would like to know what he's thinking, because i guarantee if he was in my situation, he would have wanted the loans to come through to help support his family. i have a special-needs child. i mean, my health care and everything all depends on my job for my child. i just think he's -- i just can't believe he would even think that. i mean, i've got a question for any of the republicans -- to my knowledge, reverend, i don't think they've passed one bill yet to create a job. and my question is, how can you stand up to the national anthem if you're at a ball game, how can you stand up and salute that flag, knowing that you could have killed a million point 4 j

. >>> and willard mitt romney wants to deep six his health care plan. we'll hear from the adviser who met with president obama. >> as we grew older, i think we blinked. >> plus the icon. >> you never stopped that act viv, wight? >> i don't like to give up fun. >> my interview with the great harry belafonte, who still won't give up the quest for justice in this country. "politics nation" starts right now. >>> welcome to "politics nation." i'm al sharpton, live from las vegas. tonight's lead, republicans in congress just plain outrageous. again today, president obama challenged the gop to put forth a jobs plan. >> show us the republican jobs plan that independent economists would indicate would actually put people back to work. i haven't yet seen it. >> wait, mr. president. you haven't seen it? let me show you, republicans in the house, today, fighting hard for jobs. >> we must prevent taxpayers dollars from being used to fund abortions. >> there's a good jobs plan. attacks women's rights. they're minutes away from passing a bill restricting abortion righ

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. >> let me show you what willard mitt romney says. he says president obama's astonishing failure to secure an orderly transition in iraq has unnecessarily put at risk the victories that were won through the blood and sacrifice of the thousands of american men and women. what is he talking about, governor? >> well, you know, i don't think he knows what he's talking about. the truth is mitt romney unlike senator mccain, mitt rm any never served in the armed forces. the fact is this is not over. you mentioned there were 32,000 people wounded. those people some of them are very badly wounded. and $700 billion is not what the bill is going to be. we owe to those 32,000 people who came home badly wounded to make sure that they can use as useful lives as they possibly can. so this will be a much more expensive war both for those families and for the united states government than the $700 billion. and let's not forget those 32,000 people. it happened in vietnam in my generation, all those folks came home and many of them were a forg forgotten

willard mitt romney and rick perry are turning the campaign into their own personal grudge match. >> lowest number of kids as a percentage uninsured as any state of america. you have the highest. i'm still speaking. >> romney care was obama care. >> i'm looking forward to finding your facts on that because that doesn't -- >> i'll tell you what the facts are. >> rick are, i'm speaking. >> it's not the first time that mitt's been wrong on some issues before. >> it's different than what the governor put in his book just six months ago. >> you hired illegals in your home. >> would you please wait? are you going keep talking? >> and the hits just keep on coming. this week romney released this web ad attacking perry. >> this wases before -- he was before the social programs from the stand points of he was before -- whether or not we're going to have this policy or that policy. we don't need any pair -- >> perry really did throw up all over himself in the debate. >> the fact is americans understand faith. >> rick perry plunging in the polls. >> if he would just calm down. he he seemed very

. >> ahead, willard "mitt" romney changes again. you won't believe what he's saying about the foreclosure crisis. plus, herman cane's electrical fence problem won't go away. guess the joke's on him. and occupy wall street versus the tea party. it's the debate raging for a month, and now the president weighs in. >> in some ways they are not that different from some of the protests that we saw coming from the tea party. >> michael moore responds exclusively here tonight. you're watching "politics nation" on msnbc. [ male announcer ] to the 5:00 a.m. scholar. the two trains and a bus rider. the "i'll sleep when it's done" academic. for 80 years, we've been inspired by you. and we've been honored to walk with you to help you get where you want to be. ♪ because your moment is now. let nothing stand in your way. learn more at keller.edu. yeah, maybe not. v8 v-fusion juice gives them a full serving of vegetables plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. v8. what's your number? is best absorbed in small continuous amounts

enter willard mitt romney. romney's six-year campaign to become president of the united states made a stop at a republican pro issue two propaganda call center in cincinnati this morning. romney glad handed the telemarketers and mugged for the camera. after the planned photo op, romney stopped to talk with reporters on this. >> it's great to be in ohio ted. i'm not speaking of the particular ballot issues. those are up to the people of ohio. i support the effort of the government. i'm certainly supportive of the republican party's efforts. >> hold it right there. you mean to tell me mitt romney goes to ohio, enters a yes on issue two call center and doesn't have an opinion on the most important issue facing ohio voters? this is another classic romney flip-flop. earlier this year, the former governor of massachusetts playing around on twitter tweeted his support for the kasich law. romney wrote "my friends in ohio are fighting to defend crucial reforms. the state has put in place to limit the power of union bosse

we'll talk about the herman cain's sexual harassment story in a moment, but first, who is willard mitt romney trying to get this halloween? the flipper or the flopper? george will calls him the human pretzel. ouch. today he's getting tagged as a flip-flopper. it's getting impossible to keep track of his positions. >> when the facts change, i change too, madam. what do you do? >> i need reinforcements to try to help us understand where willard really stands. so i'd like to welcome a very special guest to "politics nation." welcome, rev. >> hello, al. >> glad i could join me. let's start off with the issue of abortion. i think we can be sure how he feels. listen. >> i will preserve and protect a woman's right to choose, and i do take exception to shannon characterizing my view as being any different than hers in this regard. >> i will preserve and protect. it's pretty hard to argue with that kind of conviction. >> for you, it is. but for willard? it's as easy as argyle. >> i'm and i believe in the saintity of life from the beginning to the end. >> you learn something new every day. rev, what ab

michael i showed herman cain and what he had to say, but let me show you another candidate, willard mitt romney. let me show you what he said. he said, i think it is dangerous this is class warfare. how is it when working class people are saying we need to deal with unemployment, with el need to product or benefits whether they get loopholes and all kinds of tax cuts, that's fine but if the working class won, it's class warfare. >> we're in a first-grade classroom that used to have 22 kids in it, now 32 or 34. those children are being hurt. if we're standing up saying these policies that created this or allowed wall street and the banks, if this is hurting children, then so be it. we're going to stand up for the kids that we serve every day. but at the same time, let's be clear here. whatever happened on wall street, no one was held accountable. they got bailed out and the rest of us got sold out. now it's the kids being hurt because of it. if myoromney wants to say that, i say why not come to new york city and talk to us about the real people actually dealing with the cops or the children bein

then willard mitt romney walk into the bathroom and overheard them bringing on a crashing silence.y, it's like that movie "heathers." it's like high school. you want more from this? quote, "the day before the republican primary, huckabee mocked romney for ordering lunch at kentucky fried chicken and peeling off the fried coating and eating it with a knife and fork." this is republican presidential "heathers" the way they talk about mitt romney. when other nominees talked about romney in 2008, when they talked to reporters, romney is described in articles as him. like him in italics. once it was clear giuliani was going to drop out of the race, for example, "time" magazine reported a giuliani aide approached one of the mccain campaign senior staffers and said, quote, just tell us what you want to do, we've got to stop him. a former fred thompson staffer reports e-mails would fly around between the campaigns saying stuff like, and i quote, no matter what happens with us, we all need to make sure it's not him. thompson staffers saying the campaigns would sometimes plot strategy agains

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not the best news for the new old front-runner willard "mitt" romney. joining me now are two of the leading republican analysts, michael steele, msnbc analyst, and former chairman of the republican national committee, and ed rollins, until recently senior adviser to michele bachmann's campaign and, of course, one-time political director for ronald reagan. let me start with you, ed. with christie out of the race, the dropping like a rock, pun intended of rick perry, what does this mean? does romney have this locked, and if so, how does he get the conservatives to go along with him? >> well, we've got three months before anybody gets to vote so the bottom line here is there's a long, hard bat. it's not about national polls, it's about iowa, south carolina, new hampshire, virginia. and -- and other places across the country, not virginia, nevada, and at the end of the day, florida has now moved its primary to the end of the month. in january we're going to have a full scale, these guys and gal, have three months to get their campaigns together and basicall

mitt "everyman" willard romney. he has some explaining to do. he and his wife own a racehorse, according to roll call magazine. they own a dressage horse, which is ridden in competition. this is very interesting. i'm sure all of us who are sitting around hoping to extend our unemployment checks are also checking on our horses. dana, this is not going to go too well with his plaid shirt i'm mr. every guy. >> well, there is an excuse, and romney says it's important for her ms, and who are we to say that it's not. the strange part is they bring these horses over from france, so i'm not exactly sure why you need french horses to help with the illness. it may be some part of a trade deal that mitt romney is working out, but it's going to take some explaining. >> next up, the award for best performance in the godfather, part 999. and this goes to herman contain for his nonstop delivery of that plan of his. >> 999. >> the 999. >> the 999 plan. >> the 999 plan i have proposed is a simple bold plan to grow this economy, which i have put my 999 plan. >> 9

mitt romney, willard says he has a big 59-point plan for the economy, but it's really just gop boilerte, nothing that actually creates jobs and herman cane's 999 plan. it's just a gimmick for selling real class warfare in this country. former reagan economic advisor bruce bartlett says cain's plan is, quote, a huge tax cut for the wealthy. bartlett says the plan would make the poor pay more while massively increasing the budget deficit that exists. way to go, mr. craain. joining me now is analyst richard wolffe and jared bernstein, former chief economist for vice president biden, now a senior fellow with the center for budget policy and priorities. richard, won't we see a failure to address the jobs crisis on the stage tonight? i mean, i told my friends it's like -- i used to tell friends at a mike tyson fight. if you're looking for a substantive job plan tonight, don't get a soft drink because you might miss it. >> right. well, you know, to quote rick perry, the question is whether these people have a heart about the unemployed. that's one side of it. you know, it's often in spite of

willard m. romney has deflected comments about his religion with grace, but being accused of hypocrisy on illegal immigration was more than even he could bear. >> mitt, you lose all of your standing from my perspective because you hired illegals in your home and you knew about it for a year, and the idea that you stand here before us and talk about that you're strong on immigration is on its face the height of hypocrisy. >> governor romney? >> rick, i don't think i've ever hired an illegal in my life. i'm looking forward to finding your facts on that. >> i'll tell you what the facts are. >> rick, again -- i'm speaking. i'm speaking. >> the newspaper -- >> i'm speaking. >> it's time for you to tell the truth. >> you get 30 seconds. this is the way the rules work. i get 60 seconds. >> the american people want the truth. >> you get 30 seconds to respond, right? anderson -- >> would you please wait? are you just going to keep talking? are you going to let me finish with what i have to say? look, rick -- this has been a tough couple of debates for rick. i understand that. so you're going to get -- you're going to get testy. we hired a lawn company to mow