in a fiery speech at a youngstown manufacturing plant yesterday, the vice president addressed the challenges facing the middle class, something he suggested mitt romney knows very little about. >> i resent when they talk about families like mine that i grew up in, i resent the fact that they think we're talking about we're envy, it's job envy, it's wealth envy, and we don't dream. my mother believed and my father believed that if i wanted to be president of the united states, i could be, i could be vice president. my mother and father believed that if my brother or sister wanted to be a millionaire, they could be a millionaire! my mother and father dreamed as much as any rich guy dreams! >> absolutely! >> they don't get us! they don't get who we are! >> the vice president was introduced by a former paper plant employee who lost his job after a company owned by bain capital took over. romney's tenure at that investment firm has emerged as a major topic in this campaign. republicans say that in a free market, sometimes businesses go bust, but the vice president argues that position overlooks t

this is youngstown. this is where the vice president was. in the general election, then senator obama carried it quite convincingly. this was hillary clinton country. you have white, blue collar workers. i am going to bring the state back. hillary clinton carried ohio big-time. president obama winning where you have african-american population. white blue collar workers, a big problem for barack obama. why will this be a battleground in the fall? because it always is. this is the 2008 election. senator obama winning a decent margin, 52-47. that's pretty close. george w. bush just barely winning. what's different about 2008 and 2004. look down here. hamilton county, cincinnati, president obama then senator obama carried it then. make that go off. president bush carried it in '04 and 2000. the suburbs around cleveland and columbus and cincinnati, those are the big battle grounds in a general election in ohio. watch for the candidates to be there in the weeks ahead. governor romney not in ohio. he was in another huge battleground state. he had

he was at an advanced manufacturing facility called m-7 in youngstown, ohio. it used to be an older manufacturing facility. mike garvie and his wife took over, converted it. they're doing metrology now, three-dimensional imaging now, it's a great company and people realize that's the future. >> so where are the democrats weak in ohio? with what do you have to do? your friend sherrod brown, trying to get another term as a senator. they've already thrown $6 million at him. i mean, heck, it's not even june 1st. they're throwing money at him like crazy. so is that the weakness, maybe not being able to match the money? what do you think? >> well, you have these roaming billionaires who want to get involved in these races whether it's against sherrod brown or somebody else. the bottom line is we've got to be organized. what's good about ohio, we've just come off the collective bargaining campaign last year. so the coalition of police, fire, teachers and others, nurses, are all together and ready to do the deal again this year. >> your thoughts on, guy from ohio, hou

. >> let's show more of that fiery speech at a youngstown manufacturing plant.e took aim at mitt romney for his tenure at the investment firm bain capital. >> this is a choice between two fundamentally philosophies, and that's about whether or not we rebuild the middle class and continue to hope those at the very top and hope things work owl well. romney made sure the guys at top played by separate rules. he ran up massive debts and middle class laws, and folks, he thinks that experience is going to help our economy? let's take a look. with these guys past is p prologue. he's a patriot, a generous man and gives to his church and has a beautiful family, but he doesn't get it. he doesn't get what's at the core of all this. it's about people's dignity. >> i say populism doesn't work, that actually works. there are two things. one, he doesn't get it, which republicans always trail democrats in that. does such and such understand your problems, your family's problems. there's another thing, jim. this is really a message, and it's the first time i've really heard anyb

it's sparking showers and back up through youngstown. but this boundary will encounter that drier air that has already drifted into western maryland. so i think the showers will fizzle out as it gets closer. could we see an isolated shower? it's possible. the front will mainly come through dry. it will doctor our temperatures by about 10 degrees into the day tomorrow. mid-70s, sunshine, drier air, tough to complain about that. i'm telling you, big changes on the way and sunshine on tap. so if you forgot the sunshine today, tomorrow, you're going to need them on friday as we go into our black eyed susan day. a little suburbs offshore. not set to impact us through preakness saturday. overnight 55, clearing skies, winds turning northerly. tomorrow a two-degree darn tee. tomorrow night the 40s as things get cooler. here is your seven-day forecast as we look ahead. warming up. we just bumped up the weekend numbers. i think 80 or so both days. it looks quite sunny as we go from friday into saturday and looking into next week, looks like unsett

joe biden is talking in youngstown, ohio.that place has been absolutely devastated by the model of post industrial capitalism brought to america by companies like bain capital. that's literally what happened. private equity firms went out and facilitated the outsourcing and streamlining of the industrial base of the country and left a lot of the country looking like youngstown. >> alex, joe biden is trying to reduce all the talk of romney the rich guy. romney the job killer to one basic generic point. let's listen to this. >> he's a patriot. he's a generous man. he gives to his church. he has a beautiful family. but he doesn't get it. he doesn't get what's at the core of all this. it's about people's dignity. >> he doesn't get it. that would be the bumper sticker, the anti-romney bumper sticker. >> and there's no better emissary for that message than joe biden. that was snap dragon and peonies. they've been skeptical of joe biden. that was an incredible speech that he gave today. and it wasn't just the part about mitt romney,

there's a whole bunch of stuff near pittsburgh, youngstown, ohio, most of this is moving away from us take a look at temperatures now. still pretty mild, 63, 45 dew point. south, southeast winds. we've had a lot of easterly winds that bring that moisture off the ocean. the barometer holding steady. showers early, 59 ocean city, and a 58 over in easton. right now they had clear skies there but will cloud up overnight. right now, southeast wind has come down. tomorrow, the winds out of the south. that will bring us warmer air. with warmer air and sunshine, things can get percolating in the atmosphere. this afternoon showers and storms from chicago down to portions of tennessee valley. most of that's out of the way. this will regenerate along this front. you see the showers out in ohio we mentioned. we had them there. the next front will move across our region later in the day tomorrow into maybe late tomorrow night into wednesday before it slows down. looks like it's going to stall out. that means more rain expected on wednesday. then it begins to clear out and get cooler and drier some

some of the showers and thunderstorm activity around butler youngs tab and we are looking at --youngstown and we are looking at portion of pennsylvania and ojai wrote. 61 in edge -- ohio. 61 in edgemere. we have winds out of the south today at about 5 to 10 miles an hour. and we will get gusts up to about 20 to 25 miles an hour. so it will be a breezy

these are a live look at vice president joe biden on the trail today at a factory in youngstown, ohioe the white house's criticism of romney's bain record according to vice president's prepared remarks. he's expected to say this about romney's work in the private sector. romney made sure the guys on top got to play by a separate set of rules. he ran massive debts and the middle class lost. and folks, he thinks this experience will help our economy? where i come from, past is prologue. so what do you think he'll do as president? governor rendell, joe biden has certainly landed himself in the middle of it in the course of the last few weeks but he is still i think to ladies and gentlemen degree an effective emissary for the white house. do you agree? >> yeah, he is. first of all, most importantly joe's been a very good vice president. would that the president and the powers that be had listened to him on afghanistan i think we'd be in a whole lot better shape there. he's been an sev vice president. does joe occasionally say something he shouldn't say, sure. but he's not your classic vic

as we look at the radar they are getting nailed in pittsburgh and points west toward youngstown ohio this much more active pattern, we look for this around our area but not until probably midweek. we are talking wednesday before we see a really active radar picture more than likely. today it was this. gray, just kind of ugly looking may day. it felt okay. temperatures up into the low 70s. humidity moderate. tough to find any sun in kent island today. north of naval academy. taking ocean city where it got briefly brighter late in the day but again, nothing to really write home about. look at the current tome, 63 baltimore. 59 at the beach where we are checking out the camera and 63 in winchester tonight. mild night. a light southeast breeze, quiet, not a lot of change tomorrow. active weather will bet closer but overall i think we are looking at another gray situation . the clouds continuing to over spread maryland as we speak tonight with that more active weather. the main weather maker still locked up over the midwest. relatively slow moving pattern. area of low pressure starting to

he'll be in the crucial swing state of ohio, visiting a plant in youngstown and then a car dealership in martin's ferry. >>> the u.s. coast guard academy will hold its 131st commencement sair is money today. it's located in connecticut and secretary of homeland security janet napolitano will be giving that keynote address. >>> and the stars, they'll be in france beginning today for the famed international com film festival. it happens in the french riviera. the first film to be shown stars bruce willis, bill murray and ed norton. the festival runs through the 27th. >>> you can now see for yourself most of the evidence the jury saw in the trial of george huguely. it's all on display at the virginia wows. we'll have new reaction to it and why some say the whole thing was unnecessary. >>> the sign says all you can eat, but a wisconsin man claims that wasn't the case when he went. now he says he's fighting back. >>> and a texas family has a miniature version of the grand canyon in their own back yard. it's only getting worse, and, lynette, it is weather related. >> it is weather related.

you can see around pennsylvania, youngstown and butler and ohio right now.thunderstorms also pushing in across the area. but close to home, we are dry. and for the most part we will stay that way through the morning hours maybe an isolated shower or storm to pop up going later into the afternoon especially the evening time frame. but you are getting out the door this morning right? you don't need the heavy coat. we can see the temperatures at 59 degrees and catonsville at

as we look back off toward the north and west in pourings of ohio and also pennsylvania around youngstown and butler and pittsburgh more of the same and bethel park. but as we go a little closer to home, this is where we are nice and dry and like megan and charley said, yes, we are starting to see a little sunshine out there. so let's start out in ijamsville with the temperature coming in around 58 degrees. and the winds out of the south at 5 miles an hour. and they will pick up going throughout the day and right now laurel's temperature at 59. and we are looking at the winds out of the south at about 4 miles an hour. and we are starting to see the clouds out there earlier this morning. but, as that sun arrives, we will see again a few peeks of sunshine after you wait for it, the cloud move through and that's what we are going to see going throughout

the vice president was in youngstown speaking to a factory floor saying mitt romney is a corporate raider, more interested in profits than the needs of, whoers. a quick response from the romney campaign saying he had a net job creation both as a businessman and a governor. the meeting took place in a couple of months for the speaker of the house to be at the white house. the president warning congressional leaders he would not tolerate a replay of the debt ceiling fight that led to the nation's first ever credit rating downgrade. this all came about during a luncheon at the white house with congressional leaders. house, senate democrats and republicans. he called the political deadlock last year not acceptable. but the speaker of the house saying he will not go along with raising the debt limit unless there are real reforms and significant budget cuts. here's more on how aural of this came about today with jay carney giving a readout following the session that took place at the noon hour the a the white house. >> talk about the atmospherics of today's meeting. and also, did speaker boehne

he's going to be touring a plant at youngstown and visiting a car dealership.s going to be in martin's ferry. >>> the aberdeen proving ground will be holding an armed forces day. the theme is heros on the homefront, recognizing our local heros, both military and civilian. >>> and the wife of former syracuse assistant basketball coach bernie fine is holding a news conferawyers says she'll address what she's calling scanned lous lies about her. her husband is accused of abusing former ball boys. >>> at penn state, the sex scandal continues. attorneys on both sides of the case against former coach sandusky are scheduled to meet with a judge today. they'll be talking about the status of the case. sandusky is not scheduled to appear. >>> it is now 4:45. we got a full day for you. megan is out live at the cathedral of mary our queen. we still have a lot of weather and traffic to talk about. >> we do. >> storms monday. yesterday things turned out pretty well yesterday afternoon. >> not bad. we saw some sunshine in a lot of spots. as we went into the evening time, we d

. >> and in youngstown, ohio.e a listen. >> my mother and father dreamed as much as any rich guy dreams. [ applause ] they don't get who we are. they don't understand. they are not bad, they just don't get it. >> that's why, listen, because of that you either love or hate him. but this resonates with a lot of people. >> you know what? it does. it is a very emotional moment. i think you need to do more than get us fired up. we need a plan. we just don't need to feel fired up. plans. we already got the emotion. what we need now is the direction. what exactly are we going do? >> that will have to be the last word. thank you. appreciate it. no fighting this week. >> we have pictures of that in chicago? we do not. i thought we did. 5 okay. they are leaving the stage. the class photo just happened. murphy's law. you talk about it and they leave the stage. we will bring it to you. let's move on. she may be the most unforgettable beauty contestabout to not win the title and that's because she used to be a he. in the begin

what vice president biden saw in youngstown, in lordstown, ohio, what he hear in dayton and columbus and mansfield, and in toledo and rossford, in perform arma, when i hear these workers say they understand that this auto rescue, where the government invested -- these companies are paying these investments back, but the government invested because nobody else would have -- it saved all these jobs. it's why manufacturing is beginning to turn around. there are other factors, of course. one of ne them is the the persis enforcing -- one of them is because the president of the united states is enforcing new trade laws. the preyed stood up to the chinese when the chinese were gaming the system on tubular steel used for drilling natural gas. all of that has mattered to this manufacturing job growth. we're not there yet. we need the administration to step up on a real policy for manufacturing, a real strategy. i think they're starting to do that on better tax law, better trade larks better enforcement of trade laws, on sages manufacturing when we can partner with them, not picking winners an

today, vice president joe biden went to a manufacturing plant in youngstown, ohio and unloaded. >> i resent the fact that we're talking about envy, job envy, wealth envy. that we don't dream. my mother believed and my father believed that if i want today be president of the united states i could be, i could be vice president. they dreamed as much as any rich guy dreams. they don't get us. they don't get who we are. this election is going to be a choice between two fundamentally different philosophies. that choice is about whether or not we're going to rebuild the middle class, or continue to help those at the top and hope everything works out well. romney made sure the guys at the top got to play by a separate set of rules. he ran up debts. he thinks that will help our kmi? let's look. past is prologue. i want you to think about what he will do as president. laying of workers, layering on debt, helping those at the top while every else fends for themselves. we can't afford that. things really are starting to come back. there are signs of life, hope, and heart in the heartland. jobs a

let me just start with a sound bite from president -- from vice president biden in youngstown today. my mother believed and my father believed if i wanted to be president of the united states, could be. i would be vice president. my mother and father believed that if my brother or sister wanted to be a millionaire. they would be a millionaire! my mother and father dreamed as much as any rich guy dreams! [ cheers and applause ] >> they don't get it! >> i just love that guy. [ laughter ] >> we get him. we just disagree with him. >> don't you think that joe should be able to grow up and be like president -- i knew his mother by the way. fantastic woman and cuff. >> do you think that he's -- he his release this week after the early outing of the president on the gay marriage issue -- >> so biden. we love uncle joe. not only does the hostage taker want to burn down the house, they want to fire the fire department. >> you guys love having him out there. we love having him out there. [ laughter ] >> we love joe biden. >> there's a new public policy poll that is coming out of north carolina,

biden, he's the joe populist, he is a rare form -- in rare form in the capital in the rust belt of youngstown, ohio. take a listen. >> my mother and father dreamed as much as any rich guy dreams. >> absolutely. [ applause ] >> they don't get us. they don't get who we are. i don't understand, it seems to me. again, they're not bad. they just don't get it. >> that's why -- listen, because of that, you either love joe biden or you hate him. but this resonates with a lot of people, l.z. >> yeah, you know what, it does. it's a very emotional moment as will cain would like to say, very emotional. but i think you need to do more than just get us fired up. we need tangibles. we need a plan. we don't need to feel just fired up but where we're going when we get fired up. these are the things when we get past this, you know, rah-rah stage, this is what americans want to hear, plans. we already have the emotion. what we need now is the direction. what exactly are you going to do? >> thanks, l.z. and will. cory booker, by the way in the truth about bain capital, the subjects of our no talking point subjec

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today in youngstown, ohio, vice president biden will hail what the white house call as manufacturing comeback. this is what biden's going to say in ohio. romney made sure the guys on top got to play by a separate set of rules, he ran massive debts and the middle class lost. where i come from past is pro log so what do you think he'll do as president? this morning team obama raised $43.6 million in april. that's down slightly from the campaign's $45 million combined haul in february and $53 million haul in march. it does not count the clooney evened rai-- fund-raiser. that will be in next month's report. and the karl rove gps is up with a massive buy. >> president obama's agenda promised so much. >> we must help the millions of homeowners who are facing foreclosure. >> promise broken. one in five mortgages are still underwater. >> today i'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office. >> broken. because he hasn't even come close. we need solutions, not just promises. >> by the way, this is one of those issue ads. what does that mean? it can b

that will not harvard, that will hurt youngstown, ohio because of bad debt burden. this meat-axe approach sounds good and is a concise message but i don't think it reflects the complexities of the problem we're trying to deal with. i hope this amendment is one way of us going about it, to say let's as those folks doing really well, making profits, we have oil barrels of on the chart there, they are doing well. we need to ask them to help was a little bit here, to help soften the blow to some of these cuts so we don't have to make the dramatic cuts that otherwise will be made. i don't think that is too much to ask and when you look at the polling, the american people say yes, it may be needs to be $1 revenue to $5 in cuts. when you have a presidential candidate leading the party say there is not even one in 10, that is unreasonable. that is an unreasonable position to have when we have such complicated problems. i appreciate what the gentle lady has done with this amendment and i supported and ask others especially those on the other side of the aisle to open up thei

vice-president biden spoke to worker at a high tech company in youngstown ohio he says romney believers as long as the people at the top of the economy do well everyone else will be okay. biden said despite his quote great respect for romney he disagrees with that philosophy. >> but he doesn't get it. he doesn't get what's at the core of all this. it's about people's dignity. >> the vice-president also campaigned at a chevy dealership that was saved during the auto industry bailout. >>> featuring two of the san francisco giants biggest stars. they helped debut the spot at at&t park they encourage parents to pay close attention to the ratings on the virginia games their children play. they say they themselves pay closer attention now that they are parents. >> as prevalent as video games are today there's a lot out there not all of them are going to be appropriate for an 8, 9, 10-year-old. >> we know how sneaky kids can be and try to pull a fast one on you sometimes. >> psa is schedule to run on tv and radio station in the bay area. >>> voters in richmond will get to vote on a soda tax ne

he was in rare form this week in the capital, in the rustbelt of youngstown, hoe home.ant you to take a listen. >> my mother and father dreamed as much as anyone rich guy dreams! >> absolutely. >> they don't get us! they don't get who we are! they don't understand, it seems to me. again, they are not bad. they just don't get it! >> that's why -- listen, because of that, you either love joe biden or you hate him, but this resonates with a lot of people, l.z. >> yeah, you know what, it does. it's a very emotional moment as will cane would like to say. it's very emotional, but i think you need to do a little bit more than just get us fired up. we need tang iblgs. we need a plan. we don't need to feel fired up. we need to know where we're going once we get fired up, and once we get past this rah, rah stage and people start debating, these are the things that the american people will want to hear, plans. we already got the emotion. >> yeah. >> what we need now is direction what. exactly are we going to do? >> thanks l.z. and will. cory booker and the truth about bain capital

this is joe biden yesterday in youngstown, ohio. >> my mother and father believed that if my brotherr sister wanted to be a millionaire they could be a millionaire. my mother and father dreamed as much as any rich guy dreams. they don't get us. they don't get who we are. >> what about the argument that they, mitt romney, doesn't get us? doesn't get working class or middle class america? >> i think we get joe biden and barack obama very well. vice president biden hasn't been in the private sector since gerald ford was president. he has spent his entire adult life in government. he said the other day 18 speech he's glad he hasn't been in the private sector because then he would have to be accountable. this is the person the president dubbed the shera of spending which turned out to be a joke. we have a president who called his predecessor george bush unpatriotic and irresponsible for a deficit and debt level he left, now barack obama has made that exponentially worse. that's hypocrisy. this president wasn't ready to be president, he failed in getting this economy turned around, hald hi

now, here he was at a manufacturing plant in youngstown, attacking mitt romney's business background.nk we're talking about we're envy, job envy, wealth envy, that we don't dream. they don't get us. they don't get who we are. they don't understand, it seems to me. again, they just don't get it. >> joining me now is nbc latino.com contributor victoria desoto and chip. when it comes to this populous message, victoria, is he a weapon for the president? >> he is the president's secret w weapon. this is something neither the president can connect with or romney and he has the advantage of time. we're three and half months away. he can have biden out there, president obama stumping for him with three and a half months in advance. >> then there's ooh the romney economics. it says as lodge as the government helps the guys at the top do well, workers of small businesses and communities, they can fend for themselves, but the country will be okay if the big guy is doing well. >> you know, chip, the message he's sending is romney thinks his rich friends should play by a different set of rules. is

and it's that sliver of voter, youngstown, ohio, toledo, ohio, cedar rapids, iowa. >> we can overstatengry they were at corey booker. two weeks in a row on "meet the press," joe biden a surrogate, the most important surrogate going off message to say the least, and two weeks later corey booker, offmessage, as a surrogate, not because he's an independent player but he was on that show because they expected, and he had sort of committed, to being a surrogate for the campai campaign. >> you've got it right. the fundamental problem was you cannot undermine the most basic pill of the obama attack, mitt romney's career in the private sector tells you he doesn't understand average people. you can't say that equals attacking a pastor that the president has distanced himself from. you do that, you will be making an apology video. it is 100% likelihood. >> well, there you go. >> apology tour, series of videos, a whole movie. thank you very much, chris cillizza. thank you, chuck todd. president obama does seem to be everywhere these days. but not if you're the chairman of the senate budget commit