. >>> and later, jared bernstein and dave weigel on today's major news from the fed. if you care about jobs and job creation, today was an absolutely huge day and we're going to explain it all. stay tuned. you're watching "the ed show." wç >>> welcome back. you're looking at live pictures from cairo, egypt, right now, just outside the u.s. embassy. protesters are still massing at this hour. if anything happens, we will bring it to you immediately. >>> but to go back to the underlying policy of the pictures you just saw, you know the comments here that are getting all the attention are mitt romney's original comments attacking the obama administration for a press release, released by the egyptian embassy before the attacks in libya had even begun. but when i went back through all the things that were said here last night to prepare for today, that wasn't the comment i found most extraordinary and it's not even the comment that i think should be most meaningful to this election. yesterday, at his press conference the one where he doubled down on these remarks, governor

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. >> jared bernstein, dave weigel, thank you for being here. that is "the ed show" tonight. i'm ezra klein in for ed schultz. read more of may work at the "washington post" blog at www.washingtonpost.com/wonkblog. follow me on twitter @ezraklein and facebook.com/ezraklein. > the rachel maddow show starts now. >> what you talked about about ron paul, i've been trying to get my head around for a long time. what you said is so clarifying. i'm glad you did that, man. >> it's high praise coming from you. >> thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. for most of the day the news has been focused on egypt and on yemen and the protests of u.s. embassies in those countries and in about nine other countries around the globe today. these protests flaring in response to a cure, obscure, anti-muslim video of still murky origins. nbc's richard engel is going to be joining us live from cairo shortly be the latest news from there. see, these are images from cairo. people still gathered near the u.s. embassy, still rather hairy situation as you can see there. we'll be check

. >> jared bernstein, dave weigel, thank you for being here. that is "the ed show" tonight. i'm ezra klein in for ed schultz. read more of may work at the "washington post" blog at www.washingtonpost.com/wonkblog. follow me on twitter @ezraklein and facebook.com/ezraklein. >>> the rachel maddow show starts now. >> what you talked about about ron paul, i've been trying to get my head around for a long time. what you said is so clarifying. i'm glad you did that, man. >> it's high praise coming from you. >> thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. for most of the day the news has been focused on egypt and on yemen and the protests of u.s. embassies in those countries and in about nine other countries around the globe today. these protests flaring in response to a cure, obscure, anti-muslim video of still murky origins. nbc's richard engel is going to be joining us live from cairo shortly be the latest news from there. see, these are images from cairo. people still gathered near the u.s. embassy, still rather hairy situation as you can see there. we'll be che

joining me now from the site of the dnc in charlotte, dave weigel and editor of the cq roll call daily briefing dave hawkins. we have dave and david. are we clear on this? here we go. good to see you both. dave, i'll begin with you. the voting decision in ohio. how much could this decision, if it stands, affect the voting? >> well, democrats think this is worth up to maybe 80,000 votes. they mention during the arguments in this process that about 80,000 people end ed up voting in those final three days before the elected. that's what this decision did. the new law restricted early voting for everyone who wasn't a military service member, somebody living abroad in the three days right before election day. that was when democratics got into gear in 2008 and that's really a lot of their strategy especially in ohio where they expect to be outspent to rev up the grassroots, the highest octane it's ever been. so this is very much a win for them. >> okay. so, david, with these decisions, you have texas, which is a solid red state and ohio is a crucial swing state but beyond ohio, are there an