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also analyst richard wolffe and democratic strategist krystal ball.g, richard, what happens to the republican challenger? aren't they kind of hoping on bad news economically? a lot of good stuff is out there right now. >> could be a little bit. especially if you built your entire premise of your candidacy on beating obama on the economy, and that's the position of mitt romney. you know, if you're rick santorum, maybe there's something else you can go for, manufacturing critique, you can go after the social values, but for romney, the whole premise is i understand about the economy, this guy's never even seen the working economy. so, you know, the economy turning around doesn't just affect the underlying numbers, it's the fundamental premise. think back to the election, by the time he got to the general election, it wasn't iraq, people didn't care about iraq, they cared about the economy. so if the story changes over time, which it surely will, not just because politics never stays the same, but because the economy doesn't either. if this story changes

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host laura flanders, "washington post's" ewe ugene robinson, and msnbc political analyst, richard wolffequite the crowd reaction tonight to juan williams' questions. and eugene robinson, you were there. what's your impressions of what you saw and heard? >> well, i'm not actually in the hall, but my impression of what -- that was incredible! you know? i mean, i knew there would be a reaction, but they went after juan in a way that, frankly, recalled the south carolina of a few decades ago and not the sort of new south carolina that we all think we're living in right now. >> and does -- richard wolffe, does newt gingrich think that he's going to gain favor with conservative voters in south carolina with his brash response to juan williams? >> yes. and i hate to say this, but he's probably right. i mean, you're not talking about the general population here, the independents who go up and decide general elections across the country. yes, this kind of pandering, condescension, just total brushoff of what is a very legitimate concern. you know, the caricaturing of juan williams as being some s

richard wolffe and ezra klein will join me next to discuss them.ow much less he pays if his tax plan were enacted. >>> and next, congressman keith ellison is here to tell us what he thought of the president's address. stay tuned. [ gargling ] oo-ay-ow. savings. savings. savings? progressive was the first to offer online quoting. you can do better. first to show comparison rates. ding! the "name your price" tool. oh! gosh, don't mind if i do. who was the first to offer pet injury coverage? we were. and when did you know you wanted to sell insurance? i said i wouldn't cry. um... whee! it's flo time. now, that's progressive. call or click today. >>> welcome back to "the ed show" our coverage of the president's state of the union address. president obama talked about the steady turnaround of the economy. >> in the last 22 months, businesses have created more than three million jobs. [ applause ] >> last year they created the most jobs since 2005. american manufacturers are hiring again. creating jobs for the first time since the late 1990s. >> let's tu

richard wolffe and ezra klein will join me next to discuss them. much less he pays if his tax plan were enacted. >>> and next, congressman keith ellison is here to tell us what he thought of the president's address. stay tuned. >>> welcome back to "the ed show" our coverage of the president's state of the union address. president obama talked about the steady turnaround of the economy. >> in the last 22 months, businesses have created more than three million jobs. [ applause ] >> last year they created the most jobs since 2005. american manufacturers are hiring again. creating jobs for the first time since the late 1990s. >> let's turn to congressman keith ellison of minnesota, co chair of the congressional progressive caucus. great to have you with us. a lot of newscasts -- >> always. >> a lot of newscasts are not led with the numbers that the president just talked about. he came out and laid out what he called the facts tonight. how important was it for him to do that? >> it was essential. americans need to know what he really has been doing. but

let's go to gene robertson and also richard wolffe. eugene, you first. do you think the gingrich campaign feels pretty good about themselves tonight? >> i think they feel okay. they certainly obviously wish there had been crowd reaction. newt plays well off the crowd. and that sounded like a guy making the best of an okay debate performance and a debate where there weren't a lot of fireworks whereas he's the guy that likes the fireworks. >> richard, let's just say the report about the $5 million is not accurate. let's say it's less than that. where does that put newt gingrich in florida? >> there is only so much money you can spend on ads between now and voting time in florida. i don't know that you need the full 5 million. i'm sure they could bankroll and borrow it and get themselves through the election in reasonable shape. the fact they haven't put up any ads yet shows how much of a beating gingrich is taking. i think his edge in the polls is giving people like rick confidence in the polls tonight. gingrich did struggle off freddie mac. he should have

joy-ann reid, jonathan alter and richard wolffe weigh in, you're watching the ed show on msnbc.tay with us. >>> and it's psycho talk tonight, i got a bone to pick with former minnesota governor tim pawlenty. during our coverage of the new hampshire primary last night we interviewed the romney supporter and failed presidential candidate. we were talking about whether mitt romney was a vulture capitalist, when t-paw insulted my show. >> i watched your shoes last night, i had insomnia, stayed up late, nothing else to do, i had to iron my shirts, nothing else to do so i watched your show. >> well, tonight i'm going to have to cancel psycho talk. i have a bedtime story for you, tim. it's all about your good buddy, mitt romney and his plan for america it's called "goodnight, mitt" this is a wonderful book. >> in the great 12 million dollar beach house, there was a telephone and 250 million bucks and a picture of greedy multi-millionaire schmucks on the wall. there were three little capitalists cronies and a bowl full of pious baloney and a little old lady saying don't privatize social

martin bashir, joan walsh, richard wolffe.ewt gingrich is better at romney at hating president obama, that is what it's coming down to. >>> we'll talk about his dog whistle politics, next. ♪ let's go ♪ ♪ cruise like a norwegian ♪ i just saved a ton of money at staples. great job, dave. suck-up. [ male announcer ] in a small business, it's all you. that's why you have us. at staples, we have low prices on everything your small business needs. staples. that was easy. >>> coming up next, newt gingrich gets called out for his dog whistle politics. john boehner tried talking points don't match up with the facts about the economy. jonathan alter helps me preview tomorrow's state of the union. don't forget to t >>> welcome back to "the ed show." let's face it one of the reason gingrich won saturday was because he's better than mitt romney at vilifying president obama. >> president obama has been historically the most effective food stamp president in american history. >> congressman james clybo rrn talked about the coded language gin

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stefan wolff sentenced this summer from the frankfurt stock exchange. >> the betetter than it expectedxport data has not been able to give a boost to german shares after industry production has been reported, an investor protection in germany went down. the dax also went down into negative territory, driven also down, of course, by concerns about the european debt crisis. in between this week, spain and italy will issue new bonds. this, of course, gives much uncertainty here for traders, because investors are still fearing that the debt crisis may even weaken in shares further on. >> stefan wolff in frankfurt, where we can stay for a closer look in monday's numbers. germany's blue-chip dax ended the session down by about two- thirds of 1%. euro stoxx 50 closing 0.5% lower. on wall street, the dowel in late trading, up by about 0.5%. on the currency markets, the euro currently trading at $1.2760. the detroit auto show is getting under way in motown this monday, and while many firms are hoping to stage a comeback, a german car makers will be looking to build on their astounding success.

martin bashir, joan walsh, richard wolffe.t gingrich is better at romney at hating president obama, that is what it's coming down to. >>> we'll talk about his dog whistle politics, next. ♪ let's go ♪ ♪ cruise like a norwegian ♪ i just saved a ton of money at staples. great job, dave. suck-up. [ male announcer ] in a small business, it's all you. that's why you have us. at staples, we have low prices on everything your small business needs. staples. that was easy. >>> coming up next, newt gingrich gets called out for his dog whistle politics. john boehner tried talking points don't match up with the facts about the economy. jonathan alter helps me preview tomorrow's state of the union. don't forget to tweet us using #edshow. we're right back. ♪ ♪ what's he looking for? i think he's looking for savings. ♪ i can't watch this anymore. stop! there's an easier way! we compare your progressive direct rate to other top companies so you get a great price. no more running around. ha ha ha! wouldn't you love to see the world through his

the book is what it is, whatever that means. >> richard wolffe, the president looks perfectly calm in that situation, as he always does, looks perfectly gentlemanly. and it looks to me to be one of those images of republicans being unreasonable in the face of the reasonable man. >> yes. well, look, for a start, to pick up on howard's rule about never punching down, the president about being president is the only way to punch is down. there is no punching up from being president. so if you are going to punch, you've got to actually try and do it in a reasonable way. at least he's not the one doing the finger wagging. but the important thing here is that here's a president who -- look, he's in a bubble, that's for sure. he's not used to people misinterpreting what he says or being rude about him in books. in fact, when he wrote about president bush in "the audacity of hope," he wondered out loud whether the president was really in touch with things and it all seemed very strange. clearly, for governor brewer, she thought leaving their phones outside the oval office was some kind of conf

katrina vandal heuvel, richard wolffe. thanks for your time this evening. >>> remember to answer tonight's question at the bottom of the screen and share your thoughts on twitter @skrn edshow. >>> newt gingrich is going after mitt romney and willing to join forces to take him down. >>> later, i predicted rick santorum would win iowa on monday. well, i was close. he did win the night. just a few votes short. where does santorum go from here? jonathan alter, joy-ann reid and bill burton coming up. stay with us. multi-benefit plus deep clean. you feel it working, so you know you're ready for whatever the day brings. compared to ordinary toothpaste, you feel a deeper clean. up to a two times cleaner feeling. new crest complete. feel it working. try bayer advanced aspirin. it has microparticles so it enters the bloodstream fast and rushes relief to the site of your tough pain. it's proven to relieve pain twice as fast as before. bayer advanced aspirin. >>> coming up, newt gingrich ditches his positive campaign and goes on the a

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. >>> joining me now, msnbc analyst richard wolffe, the author of "revival" the struggle for survivalite house. >>> and maria teresa kumar, an msnbc contributor. richard, how good a week was this for the president? >> well, you have to look at both sides of the coin. for the president he looked acti active, like he was being pragmatic, taking his agenda forward. the other side is what we saw on the republican side. it's interesting how his opponents stack up against those measures. they don't want to see the consumer protection board come into effect. they are very ready to go into another war with iran, on a low level of provocation, and also leads you to question whether or not they're serious about deficits. what are you talking about the deficits for? so you put those two together, and thefuls has defined things pretty well for himself. whether people or not hear it, i don't know. >> maria teresa, you like i have dealt in the progressive community with a lot of people that have even gotten angry with us, because we want let's look at our choices. >> right. >> how much do some of t

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he joins me and richard wolffe is an nbc political analyst as well as contributor. so, gentlemen, it's good to have you with me. john, i want to start with you. this isn't our first time watching one of these things go down in terms of the primary, so i think certain people are going to have whiplash seeing the fact huntsman is coming out so strongly already for mitt romney, but explain how you think he came to this. it's one thing to drop out and another to throw your support behind somebody right way wa. >> i think he dropped out because he recognized there was no constituency for him. probably difficult because ipg if he squints and looks forward, he feels in his heart there would be a general election constituency for him. these people are human and it's hard work. in addition to being very expensive. it's really hard work physically and psychically o to campaign with no prospect of succeeding. as far as romney, there is for somebody who is projecting themselves as above politics and lonely ideal iist, last week, h was saying mitt romney was unelectable, then to

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that is the position of the german president, christian wolff, who has admitted his error. in an interview on german television, he said he has not broken hill law and the situation had to be seen in human terms -- broken the law and the situation had to be seen and human terms. >> [speaking foreign language] >> you have to stand in front of your family and explain how intimate details -- how private things -- when that gets dragged into the public eye, one has defense mechanisms. you feel helpless. i asked the publication to be postponed by one day so that we could talk about it, so that the publication would be factually correct. >> our correspondent in berlin says it is unclear to what extent his reputation has actually been damaged. >> it has made a bit of difference. it is slightly less likely that he would go now. we simply do not know. absence of a revelation, the papers this morning do not quite except his tone. the tone was -- i'm sorry i left that voice mail. his justification, that it was in intrusion into his private life -- a loan he kept private from a busines

joan walsh, richard wolffe, the gop race in the long run.next. >>> "psycho talk" coming up next. donald trump says his ducks are in line for a presidential run. >>> faced with facts. eric cantor and his press secretary choose to believe the fancy about ronald reagan on taxes. follow us on twitter usi using #edshow. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." ron paul is in the republican race for the long haul. how do we know? well, he's not going to fade away after iowa. win, lose or draw. he has a strategy to be a thorn in the side of the republican party establishment right through to the convention. here it is. a map put together by buzzfeed.com showing 12 states holding caucuses instead of primaries. as republicans try to choose their nominee. it gives paul a path to racking up delegates with strong organization and careful planning. this is what he's doing. in ten of these caucus states, paul could rack up more than 400 delegates out of the 2,300 needed for the gop nomination. so if he can't actually win the gop nomination, at least he could th

. >> richard wolffe is an msnbc political analyst, joanne reid, managing editor of thegrio.com. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> richard, should we be surprise it had seems to be the general election here the way these two are going after each other? >> not really but it is for very different reasons. you know, the obama campaign believes that the other republican candidates have done a terrible job of putting romney through his paces and pointing out his record and going negative on him. so, they feel that they need to step in and do that right now and for romney this is obviously a chance to prove his conservative credentials by taking on obama, which is what is a huge priority for republican voters and not have to deal with some of these tricky questions about the policy flip-flops he has done. so, they want to go at it, but it is still a little bit premature. >> they have got their surrogates out, certainly the president, we heard kiki mclean a little bit earlier and a similar line of attack from debbie wasserman schultz yesterday. listen to this. >> demonstr