i like chris matthews. one particular day i was watching, and he mentioned the word immigrant and obama in the same sense that a story about an immigrant that i think the person on the panel said no, obama was born in hawaii. he said no this is a story about an immigrant or he is not an immigrant. a casual viewer may take that information and say, i'm not going to vote for obama, he's an immigrant. that's just lazy journalism. i think the question -- i think the idea, the concept of immigrant just floated out there. granted, most of us knew he wasn't but i just don't dig was a story about an immigrant. hawaii is a state. where did the word immigrant come from? and fiber, his father wasn't even an immigrant it he was an exchange student that he wasn't an immigrant. so it's the words that are used back in form to be the assault, you know. it's not in your face like fox news. that's an assault. that sing in your face barack obama is this, this and this. it's the casual subtle thing like maybe showing a republi

host: a follow up on my earlier question with chris matthews. chris matthews apologized for the statement the next evening. guest: i know chris and it did not seem right to me. i think it was a knee-jerk reaction. our military academies are the source of our strength. they are leaders to commit themselves, many of them -- in my case, 37 years of the nation. i hope they have the support of the american people. host: we were hearing house and senate hearings from robert gates. this headline which summarizes his message to congress. there are no deadlines. there are no deadlines in terms of when our troops will be out of afghanistan. guest: that is the point i was trying to make. we will look at it in july 2011 and the kendeigh transition out -- and begin the transition out. it depends what the conditions are. if we have some success, this gives a clear signal to the afghans, get your act together and get your security forces up, get beat corruption under control -- get the corruption under control. if there is success i think you can reinforce tha

host: a follow-up on my earlier question with chris matthews. chris matthews apologized for the enemy camp statement the next evening. guest: i know chris, and i did not think it was right to me. i figured it was a knee-jerk reaction, so to speak. our military academy is the source of our strength. their leaders commit themselves, many of them, in my case, over 37 years of service to the nation. i just hope that they have the support of our american people. they are outstanding young men and women. host: house and senate hearings over the last couple days from defense secretary robert gates. this headline in "the washington post" pretty much summarizes his message to congress, which is "there are no deadlines in terms of when all of our troops will be out of afghanistan." guest: that is the point i was trying to make. we will look at it in july of 2011 and begin the transition out. it does not mean everybody comes out. it depends on what those conditions are, and i think if we have some success -- i think this gives a clear signal to the afghans

chris matthews apologized for the enemy camp statement in the next evening. >> i've known him. it didn't seem right. i think it was a react, so to speak. look, our military captain are the source of our strength. the leaders that commit themselves, many of them for my case over 30 some years of service to the nation. and i think just hope that they have the support of our american people. they are outstanding young men and women. >>>> host: the house and senate hearings over the last couple of days. >> that's the point i'm trying to make. we will look at it in 2011 and begin the transition out. doesn't mean everybody comes out. depends what those conditions are. and i think if we have some success, i think this gives a close signal to the afghans, get your act together, get some training going, get some security forces up, get the corruption, and trafficking under control. show some signs by july of 2011 in the next 18 months. there'll be a reaccessment. if there's success, and you can see some success, i think you can reinforce that success. but it's going to be afghans that h

october 17th michelle goes on hard ball with chris matthews. has an interview with chris matthews. after interview accused wanting to investigate members of congress, pro-american, anti-american. you and i go back and forth what michelle actually said. how media portrayed in minneapolis she had said she wanted to investigate members of congress. firestorm breaks loose. her opponent raises $800,000 in 24 hours. moveon.org and other groups get involved in michelle's campaign. "minneapolis star-tribune" run three days of stories about it. she is lead stories on ail three tv stations six straight newscasts. gee, we should pay attention to this what a shock. we're bright political consultants. we decide to do three things on sunday night which is october 18th. we go into the field to take a survey. and we prepared two ads we want to go on the airbased on survey coming back as we thought. we get the survey back tuesday morning. she is down 6 points. we've seen a 20-point net movement in six days inside the campaign. even more disturbing was that, about 30% of the electorate had yet to he