At an Iowa campaign rally, President Obama pressures Mitt Romney to explain how Bain Capital prepared him for the presidency. MSNBC's Krystal Ball, E.J. Dionne, and Ari Melber join MSNBC's Martin Bashir to discuss the week in Bain and Romney's upcoming Vegas event with Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich.
President Obama goes to Iowa and drops the hammer on Mitt Romney. Tonight, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) talks about what Romney's “cow pie of distortion” would do to the country.
Donald Trump's crazy conspiracy theories are causing major troubles for the Romney campaign. Errol Louis, host of NY1's "Inside City Hall," and Dr. James Peterson, Director of Africana Studies and Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University, weigh in on Romney’s refusal to cut ties with his out of control birther surrogate.
Republican strategist Steve Schmidt and Salon.com's Joan Walsh join Hardball to discuss the return of the birther movement and Donald Trump's role in reviving the conspiracy.
Republicans are trying to win the presidential election before a vote is even cast. Judith Browne-Dianis, Co-Director of Advancement Project, will have a report on the latest voter suppression effort in Ohio.
How much will Mitt Romney's car elevator cost? Our panel - Mike Papantonio, host of "The Ring of Fire" radio show, Dr. Caroline Heldman, Professor of Politics at Occidental University, and Jimmy Williams, former Democratic senate staffer and MSNBC Contributor - will weigh in on that and much more.
And in the Big Finish, new polls show Tom Barrett within striking distance of Scott Walker in the Wisconsin recall election. Ruth Conniff, Political Editor of The Progressive Magazine, joins Ed (who is in Minneapolis tonight) from Madison with the latest.
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he's not going to explain anything
Ha Ha Ha Haaa - What A Couple -O- PYUKES !!!!!! Hey !!! WOW - What A Team !!!!????????
mitt won't turn down anyone who offers to help him, even someone as crazy as trump.
what a pair.
I would think the reporters would ask Obama to explain his budget...
Why Should The Reporters Ask President Obama About THE Budget ??? WHY Was This "Subject" - "THE BUDGET" NOT Brought Up When Gw/CheNey Were In Office ????? Hmmmm ????? So Shut-Up -GOMER !!!! In Fact - WHY Didnt YOU Bring Up The Budget When Gw/CheNey Were In Office ?
Maybe because as incompetent as they were, they always had a budget. Verses your party, no budget since goofball has been elected. Help me, have we ever went 3 years without a spendig plan? Or call me a name, whatever your IQ level allows?
LOL
think your budget strawman is missing its legs, who again is responsible for the budget? think that is congresses job.
am pretty sure there is a few lines in the Constitution stating something like that.
rusty,
you have your own ideas about why a budget wasn't passed, so why don't you tell us what you THINK is true.
oh wait, we already know what you think. you think it is all President Obama's fault.
at the very great risk of informing you for nothing, i will do it anyway.
the repubs made a promise to themselves when they "signed a pledge" to say "no" to every economic policy.
quite frankly, i am very tired of all the obstructionism by the repubs. history has shown us that REPUBLICANS are majorly responsible for the debt, at least from nixon on. now that we have a democratic president, and an african american one, the repubs, WHO CAUSED MOST OF THE DEBT, all of a sudden are deficit hawks?
w. bush and clinton were able to find ways to work the democrats and repubs, but President Obama cannot lead those who have pledged to EACH OTHER not to be led, not to contribute to the economic recovery that w. bush and his cronies caused.
there is a very logical explanation to your question.
blue dog democrats side with repubs on many things, where President Obama needs votes on revenues and defense, blue dogs vote with repubs. liberal democrats vote for increase in revenues, and decreased spending in defense. other than the fact that the repubs don't want to vote "yes" on any economic policy to give President Obama a "win", democrats are NOT in lockstep like the repubs are.
repubs love to say that the democrats refuse to cut spending, but they have made cuts. it is never enough for the repubs. even when President Obama wanted to go big in cuts, in exchange for revenues, they said "no". they want all cuts in 12% of the budget, no cuts in defense, and they don't want to raise revenues.
this tells me that the repubs really aren't that concerned about the debt, they would rather portray President Obama as a "failure", as "unable to lead".
in regard to the 2011 budget, the repubs mocked the seriousness of their responsibility, and sent a cancellation notice, which read, "we regret to inform you that the congressional budget planned for the fiscal year 2011 has been cancelled due to washington democrat's out of control spending spree".
democrats have agreed there need to be cuts, and have done so, but repubs refuse to "compromise", because as boehner said, "i reject the word". now the repubs are trying to back out of the defense spending cuts they agreed to previously.
i don't get how you don't see this. we cannot continue with the democrats making all the concessions, and repubs refusing revenues and reneging on previously agreed to cuts from defense.
the repubs hold the deficit as a bargaining chip, when they have never done so in the past. blue dog democrats vote with repubs on taxation and defense. liberals will not vote on bills that do not have an increase in revenues.
repubs love to put forth bills with no tax revenues, which thye know liberals will never vote for.
I see rusty is making desperate comments. We are talking about trump and willard....I guess he/she doesn't understand the two idiots either.
I look at the picture of those corporate wanna be kings side by side, so arrogant. Trumps disrespect for the President and Romney so out of touch with anyone but the upper crust and those that would bankroll his campaign. He is and all ways will be for the upper crust ! They stand for everything that got us in this mess. A vote for Romney is a vote for disaster to befall us once again. I do not want to relive the nightmare of the Bush years again!
If Rommey pick Trump as VP and it would be a laughing stock to this country, except the wing nuts.
Can you imagine between the two of them alienating the entire world......except of course, the wing nuts.
Romney refuses to cut ties because psychopaths are fearless. When exposed to grave danger, they do not experience the normal range of physical and emotional reactions that a normal person would, such as trembling, involuntary urination, or a pounding heart. They never panic. They frequently engage in criminal acts because they're not afraid of getting caught. They frequently take foolish risks because they are not afraid of getting hurt. This is not to say they are oblivious to the potential consequences of their actions. Rather, the thought of pain and punishment does not provoke an emotional reaction in them and thus has a weak restraining effect. Their lack of fear also contributes to their often extraordinary talent for lying: republicans believe the psychopath because he is so unflappable in the face of scrutiny.
Romney tell bald face lies daily. Absurd lies, exaggerated lies, enormous lies.
think its more the Stockholm syndrome.
More like Narcissism. They are so full of themselves they don't know what fools they are.
Ed- You are a naturalized citizen two ways. 1) Jus Soli, born on US soil. Any of the 50 states, any US territory or on a US public vessel anywhere in the world. 2) Jus Sanguinis, by blood. If both parents are US citizens and at least one of them has lived on US soil at some time, you're an AMERICAN citizen or if one of them is an American that has lived in the US for at least 10 years, 5 of them after the age of 14 and the child has lived in the US continuously for at least 5 years between the ages of 14 and 28. It seems to me that if the Presidents Mom fits the the second definition there is no doubt that the President is an American and a legal president. Maybe you can shed some light on his Mom's background and end this ridiculous notion.