so i've decided to break out the willard meter. to judge romney's statements on a scale of 0 to 4 willards. zero means he's telling the truth. four means, well, he's really, really not telling the truth. and we're ready to try it. let's start with governor romney's speech today. >> if i'm the president of the united states, we're going to stop this out of control spending, this prairie fire of debt. >> that's a two willard. sure, you might help the debt fire, but it would be hard when you're pouring gasoline on it. your tax cuts would add over $2.5 trillion to the deficit. let's try another. >> 3 1/2 years in as president with america in crisis, with 23 million people out of work or stopped looking for work, he hasn't put forward a plan to get us working again. >> well done. 4 out of 4 willards. really, the president doesn't have a job plan? tell that to the 31 million americans who watched him pitch the american jobs act to congress. but let's be honest. romney's been pushing the willard meter to the limit since his very first ad.

so i think willard should host a pot luck.ight here. the trees are the right height. >> next, don't brag about your plans for an underground mansion and elevator for your car. >> tell you what, $10,000 bet? >> be careful not to ask personal questions. >> hi, how are you,ly shake your hand away anyway. you don't have your make up on yet, good to see you. >> and we know you don't have the best track record with dogs. if a neighbor's dog gets loose, don't let it get in front of a car or on top of one. and lastly, don't insult what people bring to the pot luck. >> i'm not sure about these cookies. they don't look like you made them. >> no. >> no, they came from the local 7-11, bakery, whatever. >> willard, i hope you take this advice seriously. we really want you to get along with your neighbors, and we definitely don't want you moving east to washington after november. you see, willard, even i want what's best for you because it's best for the country. thanks for watching, i'm al sharpton, "hardball" starts right now. >>> anti-de

in an election defined by fairness, how can willard romney win?g to turn this into a referendum of if people are happy or not happy with where we are. last year, for example, we sold 11 million cars in this country. in year we will spell 14 million. but the republicans are rooting for a downturn, opening to turn this election into a situation where people say i'm unhappy, susan boyle try this guy no matter what his defects. i think the balm campaign has been very smart, they're downing this into a choice, same thing you're doing on the air here. here is this guy and who he is. he has an economic plan that would give himself a $5 million tax cut. and it would increase the deficit, and it would cut spending so sharply and so fast. >> now joan, romney -- let me show you this, he released his financial disclosure form on friday. it showed that he earned about $190 in speakers fees. he owns as much as $500,000 in go. he put $1 million in his son's company, we don't be grudge him his success, that's fine. it's his policies that make it hard to swallow.

and the other what willard bennett said the ability to rally an army in defeat. he meant something larger than that. he meant something which communicated itself to an army, a confidence, faith, the certitude that they're going to succeed, intellect, and character both. ulysses grant did what he had to do. he understood the costs and he accepted them. i told my friend, bud robertson, that i had never forgotten and none of you will ever forget the story of the union soldiers the night before cold harbor. i can imagine no more poignant testimonial than what we ask of 18-year-old and 19-year-old people when we send them to war. grant was an imperturbable man. he had schooled and trained and educated himself to absorb and accept whatever his experience threw at him. he was a product of his own conscious manufacturer and lifelong surveillance. this is a very victorian virtue. we don't hatch it much in the united states anymore. young people, adolescence, and the case of grant, let's say, 13, 14, 15 years old, you may know people like this who decide what they want to

and that's certainly true for willard mitt romney.get this picture of willard and his posse, the old bain gang, back in 1984? but they were his buddies back then, and they're still standing by his side. this man has given romney almost $780,000 for all his political campaigns. this fella served as governor romney's secretary of administration and finance. and this guy is still one of romney's best pals. and one of his most trusted political advisers. and who could forget about another bain buddy who told the new york times we should have more inequality in america. he said quote, the wealth concentrated at the top should be twice as large. and having a small elite with vast wealth is good for the poor and the middle class. these are willard's people. the 1%. they help make him what he is today. they help form his world view. and what a bad view that would be for the country. romney supports the paul ryan plan which could devastate the middle class. a new report shows americans making between 50 and $100,000 a year would have to pay al

. >>> plus willard's billionaire boys club. what the wealthy donors backing his campaign really want. >>> and an award winning actor from the hit series "breaking bad" becomes the latest victim of the so-called stop and frisk policy. it's the new racial profiling, and it's spreading across the country unless we do something about it. you're watching "politicsnation" on msnbc. it's very important to understand how math and science kind of makes the world work. in high school, i had a physics teacher by the name of mr. davies. he made physics more than theoretical, he made it real for me. we built a guitar, we did things with electronics and mother boards. that's where the interest in engineering came from. so now, as an engineer, i have a career that speaks to that passion. thank you, mr. davies. mcallen, texas. in here, heavy rental equipment in the middle of nowhere, is always headed somewhere. to give it a sense of direction, at&t created a mobile asset solution to protect and track everything. so every piece of equipment kno

willard can pal around with a union bus and guy whose budget hurts the poor. he can even campaign with the governor who puts corporate profits over people. but he can't pretend to care about the middle class. he can't say he cares about every town. it is clear what his motives are and it is clear which party really cares about the middle class. >> to me being middle class not a number. it is a way of life. it is a value set. it is about a minimum standard of living. it is about being able to own your home and not just represent it. it is being able to live in a safe neighborhood where your kids can walk the streets. where there is a playground. that's not polluted. where you can send your kid to a decent school, knowing if they do well they have a chance to go to college. if they have that chance you have a chance to get them there. that's what being a middle class person is. that's not asking too much! that's who we are! that's what we believe! that's what you are about! >> joining me now is joan walsh, editor-at-large for salon.com and msnbc political analys

through some mix-up, nobody met grant's train he had to make his way to willard's hotel unescorted. the national capital with its crowds of ambitious, greedy men were instantly repulsive to grant. however he himself hardly qualified as imposing. the modern, popular view of grant is that of the quintessential american, the hero of the republic, the simple son of a tanner who entered west point reluctantly, he fought personal problems after being driven from the army but found himself in a magnificent way, and led the union forces to victory and the civil war. in late winter 1864, however, grant hardly looked the part of a supreme army commander. 5'7", weighing 135 pounds, grant struck one observer as, quote, an ordinary scrubby little man with a slightly seedy look as if he was out of office on half-pay. he had no gait, no station, no manner. a massachusetts officer thought grant mild, unobtrusive, modest, and naturally silent. many in that generation of army officers accustomed to napoleonic postures regarded grant as little more than a man in shoulder straps. even a female visitor

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>> i thought it was willard scott at first. don't do it, willard, your heart! if willard goes, i'm officially the oldest person here at the "today" show. >> he really is crying like a little girl. that is so true. god love him. that's love. and his daughter is having a blast, too. >> all righty. if you are looking for love -- and who isn't -- you can now go to a sniff party. >> yeah. a lot of people do online dating. people say, why would i do that when there's a pheromone party. you submit your slept-in t-shirt so it smells like you and pass it around to potential suitors and they sniff it. if they like what they smell, you're hooked up. they're in ziploc bags. >> jerry has a problem with that. i have a big problem with it, too. you know how awful it was when you were a little kid and they choose teams and one person is standing there? what if nobody wants to sniff you? that's cruel. >> why would they not want to sniff your bag? >> because they don't like the way you smell. what if everybody teams up and you're alone. >> that would be terrible. >> in your unde

and willard romney has i'm bracing extending the tax cuts. he wants to take it astep further and give the wealth even more tax rates. on average, millionaires have saved more than $123,000 in taxes each year thanks to the bush tax cuts. but middle class workers, americans making between $40,000-$50,000 average $647 in saving. check out this chart on the causes of the national deficit. see the part in the middle taking up most of the space? those are the bush tax cuts. here is the big one. jobs creations. are they kidding? we all know how that went. and the president is not even entertaining the possibility of extending it. the white house says no way, no how, not even temporarily. joining me now is robert reich, a labor secretary and now a ethics professor. he is author of "beyond outrage" let me start with you. by asking can they keep saying these same lines even though we know how destructive the cuts have been? how do they keep running the same line? >> they learned an important lesson, that if you tell the same big lie, and you have enoug

hoisted up the stairs of the willard. so he should have gotten an idea, he said maybe he should have been dropped. sort of one television film he was played by john hausman. do you remember john hausman? >> oh, yes. >> from "the paper chase." they obviously did not cast young actors but let's talk about both of their nose for talent. you talked about beauregard, and you mentioned mcclellan as the successor and the great hope. how did each grow? start with davis in this and by the way you can talk about lincoln in this endless search for talent, with i had so many permutations. >> i'm not sure that davis really did grow in the search for talent, and it's i think the answer to that lies in the personality of the man, however much confidence he might have put in his generals in the field. he always had greater confidence in himself i think in his own approach to what needed to be done strategically or tactically and which ever theater of the war he was concerned with at the moment. and he was pretty severely limited by the o

willard mitt romney actually made it law in massachusetts.defining day and it could have a major impact on the election. that's next. why not make lunch more than just lunch? with two times the points on dining in restaurants, you may find yourself asking why not, a lot. chase sapphire preferred. [ chuckles ] [ chuckles ] ♪ [ honk! ] ♪ [ honk! ] ♪ [ honk! ] ♪ [ male announcer ] now you'll know when to stop. [ honk! ] the all-new nissan altima with easy fill tire alert. [ honk! ] it's our most innovative altima ever. nissan. innovation that excites. ♪ >>> we're back on "politicsnation" with more on today's historic supreme court decision. republicans like willard mitt romney didn't waste any time renewing the party's promise to repeal president obama's health care law. >> i disagree with the supreme court's decision and i agree with the dissent. what the court did not do in its last day in session, i will do in my first day if elected the president of the united states. that is i will act to repeal obama care. >> but back in 2006, listen to wh

i'm proud to welcome willard sterne for ethan allen. he's remembered for his attack on fort tie conned rogua in 1775 and his time spent in england and by chronicling it from a precocious adolescent to the paramilitary force on the eve of the revolution mr. randall has gone beyond the mix, rendering an accurate portrait of one of the least examined patriots. he's the author of numerous books including bog raves of thomas jefferson and george washington. he's been nominated six times for the pulitzer prize and a newly happily retired history professor from sham plain college. please help me in welcoming him to politics and prose. >> thank you very much. thank you for coming out. tonight in the thunder and lightning. my point of departure is right from the introduction. if we know anything about ethan allen, usually it's only that he took fort ticonderoga wherever that is and however you spell it and they're joined by some mystical cord, but we know little else about him and that is why i wrote this book. i lived for over 25 years in vermo

frances willard in the nineteenth century was a leader of the christian temperance union. we think of temperance as a very outdated cause but at the time it was a feminist issue because it was fought to -- during was implicated in family violence and desertion and all the leading feminists were in the temperance movement but frances willard was able to attract a lot of religious women. initially this was not a popular cause. it wasn't that men were against it but many women work against suffrage because -- for complicated reasons. if you appeal to them -- abstract ideals they were unmoved. what frances willard did was show how women could protect the homes they dearly love and protect their families and she attracted mainstream religious women into the movement. there's a wonderful sociologists who has shown how women made the greatest progress when there was a conservative wing in the movement and they worked together and that is a big problem today. we don't have a conservative wing. we don't even have a moderate wing. only a radical wing. the official voice of women is

even if it's a girl. >> willard? you couldn't even go with mitt? i mean, honestly? he doesn't even use willard. hey, we'll take it. that's as close as you can get. thanks to all three of you. >>> the iphone debuted five years ago today. it might be to blame for the slow descent of what is still my beloved. >>> hundreds of homes destroyed in colorado. we have a stunning picture that came in today to give you a sense of how dramatic this is. before and then after the fire struck. we're going to go to colorado next. automatically filter just the right amount of light. so you see everything the way it's meant to be seen. experience life well lit, ask for transitions adaptive lenses. you know what's exciting? graduation. when i look up into my students faces, i see pride. you know, i have done something worthwhile. when i earned my doctorate through university of phoenix, that pride, that was on my face. i am jocelyn taylor. i'm committed to making a difference in people's lives, and i am a phoenix. visit phoenix.edu to f

jeb bush, and current presidential nominee willard mitt romney. leaders in the republican party, but what does it mean to be a leader in the gop today? on tuesday, mitt romney attended a fundraiser in las vegas with donald trump. he continues to raise questions about whether the president was born in america. here is romney's weak response when he was asked about the comments. >> i don't agree with all of the people that support me, my guess is they don't agree with everything i believe in. >> that's just a lack of leadership. today, he did it again. >> i disagree with it. i think -- there is no question that the president was born in the united states of america. i don't go around telling all my supporter what they should think or say, but he knows what i believe about this. >> this is a man unwilling to stand up to attacks on president obama just so he can get votes from the extreme right wing fringe. today, jeb bush struck a very different tone against far right orthodoxy. remember last year's debate when they refused a deal that would cut $10

but willard shouldn't be talking. breaking out the tapes again. >>> plus the right wing freakout after the big decision. rand paul hints at a revolt. and mike compares it to 9/11. we're taking a close look at this one. you're watching "politicsnation" on msnbc. high schools in six states enrolled in the national math and science initiative... ...which helped students and teachers get better results in ap courses. together, they raised ap test scores 138%. just imagine our potential... ...if the other states joined them. let's raise our scores. let's invest in our teachers and inspire our students. let's solve this. you're entered for a chance to win a trip to the olympic games for life. to cheer the summer athletes to new heights, starting in 2016... as you experience every moment, every emotion, every four years... for the rest of your life. visa. supporting athletes and the olympic games for 25 years. people everywhere go with visa. >>> still ahead, romney slams the health care law as a tax increase on the american

so the worst things are for john q public, the better they are for willard m private. >> the federal chairman ben bernanke said today unemployment will remain above 8% through the end of the year. >> this is bad news. >> pore bad job news and a weak economy it is. >> the economy is not getting better. >> stephen: whoo! the economy is not getting better! (cheers and applause) all right, that's enough, jimmy. people are hurting. unfortunately for mitt romney not everything is coming up dead roses. some key swing states are actually rebounding. and the republican governors of those states naturally want to look good. and they're reluctant to get on the gloom wagon brings us to tonight's word. (cheers and applause) >> one of the twin states, florida, was devastated by the recession but as recently rebounded under the leadership of republican governor and grown-up bat boy rick scott. who recently tooted his own horn with this ad. >> across florida here's the news. companies are hiring, expanding, putting more floridians to work. florida's unemployment rate continues to get better. now at

remember when willard mitt romney couldn't stop praising bill clinton.as running as a democrat. well, somehow i don't think he's going to be name dropping the former president any more. not after clinton's blistering attacks during a series of obama fund-raisers last night. >> his opponent who says that he's got a better idea was a governor of a state that was 47th in the country in job growth, and his plan, his plan, is to go back to the bush program. except on steroids. >> former president didn't stop there. he took the whole gop to task. >> he's had to get all this done while people as recently as last week were still saying he wasn't born in america. he's had to get all this done with a house of representatives that had one of the tea party members claim that 78 to 81 members of the democratic caucus were members of the communist party and neither the presidential nominee nor any of had leaders rebuked him for saying that. nobody has seen a communist in over a decade. >> and then president obama came out to make it clear he's not going to stop fighti

that leader is mitt romney. >> are we talking about the same willard? the one i know is afraid to take a stance on anything. the harder you look, the less substantive he appears. in fact, he's fading before my eyes. this weekend he dodged questions on the president's new immigration plan. it was quite a disappearing act. twice he was asked if he would keep the president's policies. twice he refused to answer. as for all those tax cuts for the wealthy, well, he couldn't give a real answer on that either. >> you haven't been bashful about telling us where you want to cut taxes. when are you going to tell us where you're going to get the revenue, which of the deductions are you going to be willing to eliminate? which of the tax credits are you going to be -- when are you going to be able to tell us that? >> well, we'll go through that process with congress. >> he's a regular vanishing act. of course romney's whole campaign has been built around avoiding the big questions. he admitted that his tax plan is so vague it can't even be scored. and forget about w

steven willard jr. in prison for the robbery while robert mccallie gets 12 years for the dairyland bank robbery and for robbing another bank in the area. >> it's not until afterwards the shakes start coming and you really realize the gravity of the situation you're in. >> since the incident, warden peery's dash cam video has been used as a training tool for other patrolmen. >> now when i sit back and i'm reviewing it in a training situation and with other folks, i have mixed feelings. i understand that those decisions had to be made and it had to end up the way it did because of frenzer's actions. but it still doesn't take away the fact that there is sorrow there. you had to take another person's life. >>> coming up, a police precinct ambushed. when "caught on camera: shots fired" continues. an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement, if your car is totaled, we give you the money for a car one model year newer. liberty mutual auto insurance. [ creaking ] [ male announcer ] tr

even if it's a girl. >> willard? couldn't even go with mitt? i mean, honestly? he doesn't even use will larld. hey, we'll take it. that's as close as you can get. thanks to all three of you. >>> the iphone debuted five years ago today. it might be to blame for the slow descent of of what is still my beloved. >>> hundreds of homes destroyed in colorado. we have a stunning pitture that came in today to give you a sense of how dramatic this is. before and then after the fire struck. we're going to go to colorado next. ♪ why not make lunch more than just lunch? with two times the points on dining in restaurants, you may find yourself asking why not, a lot. chase sapphire preferred. >>> so the iphone is five. i didn't say the iphone 5 is out. said the iphone is five. as in five years old. now, the original iphone, let's just -- i mean, remember how fat it looks relative to the way they are now? it went on sale back on this day in 2007. at the time, iphones were about $200 more expensive than any smart phones. it went on t

that leader is mitt romney. >> are we talking about the same willard? afraid to take a stance on anything. the harder you look, the less substantive he appears. in fact, he's fading before my eyes. this weekend he dodged questions on the president's new immigration plan.

. >> please thank michael oh sullivan and willard kempton with the university of delaware. thank you for a wonderful discussion. >> former congressmonday viswas one of the former to endorse barack obama. then a hearing on the energy department's loan guarantee program. the agency revoked a permit for a west virginia coal mine. that hearing alater. friday, supreme court justice talked about the term including the health care case. >> no court has attracted more attention in the press, academy and the ticket line outside the supreme court. a line that formed three days before oral argument commenced. some have described the controversy and they may be right if they mean the number of press conferences, prayer circles, protests going on outside the court while oral argument was underway inside. and though our cldeliberations e private, my favorite among press pieces wisely observed at the supreme court those who know don't talk and those who talk don't know. watch the rest of her comments online. at the c-span3 video library. >> from the heritage foundation a political forum.

snow hill willard and this is finally starting to push off toward the south and the east. that's some good news this morning. temperatures are in the upper 60s especially around millersville and mid-60s in northeast and owings mills. let's check the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we are dealing with an early morning house fire that has shut down clackston at reisterstown road. traveling in the area you want to use quantico as your alternate route. no one has been injured in this fire. if you are use the -- traveling through the fort mchenry tunnel or harbor tunnel no delays but major construction begins tomorrow on 895. you will want to stick with either the fort mchenry or key bridge as an alternate. as far as the northwest corridor is concerned, here's a live look in white marsh many no problems to report 4 minutes from route 43 to the beltway. and in parkville at harford road foggy in this vicinity. traffic is starting to peck up but you are looking at an 11 minute ride from 95 up to 83. that's a look at your abc to tim

damion willard, drafted by the trail blazers. parishioners at a catholic church are asking for help, after thieving broke in and stole some of their music equipment. the robbery happened yesterday. the janitor noticed the doors were left open with audio speakers left outside. he went inside and saw that musical instruments were missing. the priest says church members paid for the instruments by having fund-raisers. the instruments are worth about $16,000. that's our lady of guadeloupe church in san jose. >> next couple days, a dip in the temperatures. >> clouds in the morning. and early next week, things warm up nicely. >> it looks nice. >> good night. >> announcer: it's "the tonight show with jay leno," featuring rickey minor and "the tonight show" band. tonight, jay welcomes -- tyler perry, from "the amazing spider-man," rhys ifans, the music of keane

man: this 10-inch water main in willard park is 73 years old. man: at wssc, we're having a year of record -- a ramp up slope of water main breaks that soon is going to reach exponential. man: the damage has been done. and this is the culprit. brunhart: today, 25% of our 5,500 miles of underground water pipes has reached the end of useful life. by the year 2020, 85% will have reached the end of useful life. woman: what to do? wssc is working on that costly problem right now. brunhart: it's not only true here, but it's true throughout our nation. narrator: across the united states, cities and towns are facing the challenge of aging and outdated drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure. it's a national problem. but it needs to be approached system by system. allbee: let's frame the systems in terms of the proper context. we have around 16,000 wastewater systems. we don't have a single wastewater system -- we have 16,000 of them. we have about 54,000 drinking water systems. narrator: issues facing new york city are very different fr