joining us, joe scarborough. and babe buchanan, democratic strategist, dee dee myers, "new york times" columnist, david brooks and the democratic mayor of atlanta, kaseem reed. first you saw him lurking in the background of dee dee myers shot, our political director chuck todd is here with new polls in the battleground states. when team romney said the head-to-head matchup nationally is tight, that's not the full story, chuck? >> it isn't. look at the battleground polls, this is everything that's coming out in the last week in different states. i want to highlight a couple here. look at michigan, 14-point gap for the president, obviously the republican was like to try to put michigan in play. it doesn't look like it's the case. look at iowa, i want to highlight that, iowa has been a toss-up state. something in the middle of the battleground, we've decided it's no longer in the battleground, the eight-point lead you now put it in president obama's column. so he sits there 243. ha does that mean? it means he's just

joining us, host of msnbc's "morning joe," joe scarborough. senior adviser to the romney campaign bay buchanan. the democratic mayor of atlanta kasim reed. and first, you saw him lurking in the background, our political director chuck todd, here with some of the new polls in the battleground states. so when team romney says it's tight, that's not the full story. >> it isn't. look at the battleground polls. this is everything that has come out in the last week in different states. and i just want to highlight a couple here. look at michigan. 14-point gap here for the president. obviously, the republicans would like to try to put michigan in play. doesn't look like it's the case. look at iowa. and i highlight that because iowa has been a toss-up state. something that has been in the middle of the battleground. guess what? we decided it is no longer in the battleground. that eight-point lead, you now put it in president obama's column. so he sits at 243. what does that mean? it means now he's just one state away from 270. if you just give him flo

joe scarborough is saying what many republicans won't say out loud. >> i'm telling them you will lose if you don't run as a conservative if you don't start telling people what you don't believe, if you believe in anything. >> joining me now michael and msnbc contributor mike tamaski and chris kofenis. i'll start off with you and you have conservative friends for obvious reasons, but here's the deal. you heard joe scarborough say if romney believes in anything, that was what he said at the last tail end, this notion that romney etch-a-sketch back and forth is sticking with him as we are eight weeks away from the general election. it is because he's not giving specifics. >> well, i disagree with what i heard from "morning joe," and of course i've the got immense respect for him. i think his problem is he's running as a conservative now, not that he won't run as a conservati conservative. he's too conservative and there hasn't been the readjustment that i long anticipated and sign of the mitt romney that was the governor of massachusetts. he has not emerged. this is all about the small g

. >> joe scarborough and mika joe."nski on "morning "slowly and reluctantly, republics working for mitt romney are concluding thafor all his gifts as a leader and model, he is not a good political candidate in this e ra." mark?t fair, >> it fair, and you want to the numbers. wherever mitt romney goes, his unfavorable numbers go up. at 35%ida in may, he was personally. is a 48% unfavorable. ohio, he was at 35%, now 49%. it is problem. that has just been in the .everse with obama what you do? mitt does nonot have a rose garden. charles, you wrote that in happening inhat is the middleast, "ronny's un go biand foro the larger argument is astonishing." the american embassyf killed, riotster ambassador killed, rides and a tunisian -- of the s the collap the middleolicy on east. making a serious speech connecting the dots result about that, the nie approach to tyrants and region, he does one drive by was accurate, but it one, and then he gives the clintonon global reforming about aid, for godod's sake. opportunityge missed. hi

. >> i think joe scarborough this moing has sumrized howard s epcahi morning. let's listen to joe. >> wait a second. romney, ry! there we go. that's great. thank you. ou don't fix it. s. >> he is a great businessman, great turnaround guy if i had a business anywhere in the world, i'd have him run it. he's a horrible politician. he'sne of the wot. >> that had loser written all over it. we are in unanimous agreement in joe scarborough. >> that made me sad. >> joy reid and charles thank you for joining me tonight. >>> coming up, mitt romney is now contradicting himself. within minutes he said one thing to nbc nsacgeon before going on stage at a rally in ohio and saying the exact opposite. and the man who said mitt romney would be a disastrous debatetor against president obama is now giving mitt romney adven ho toat pdea. that's coming up with jonathan cape heart. and in the rewrite tonight, these three. these three. o-ulryan, mitro aon ey've been committed to putting clients first. helping generations through tough times. good times. never taking a bailout. there

. >> i think joe scarborough this morning has summarized how hard it is for republicans this morning. let's listen to joe. >> wait a second. romney, ryan! there we go. that's great. thank you. >> oh, sweet jesus. >> how do you fix that? >> you don't fix it. >> he is a great businessman, great turnaround guy if i had a business anywhere in the world, i'd have him run it. he's a horrible politician. he's one of the worst. >> that had loser written all over it. we are in unanimous agreement in joe scarborough. >> that made me sad. >> joy reid and charles thank you for joining me tonight. >>> coming up, mitt romney is now contradicting himself. within minutes he said one thing to nbc news backstage tonight before going on stage at a rally in ohio and saying the exact opposite. and the man who said mitt romney would be a disastrous debatetor against president obama is now giving mitt romney advice on how to debate president obama. that's coming up with jonathan cape heart. and in the rewrite tonight, these three. paul ryan, mitt romney and honey boo-boo. they've been committed to putting c

. >> i think joe scarborough this morning has summarized how hard it is for republicans this morning. let's listen to joe. >> wait a second. romney, ryan! there we go. that's great. thank you. >> oh, sweet jesus. >> how do you fix that? >> you don't fix it. >> he is a great businessman, great turnaround guy if i had a business anywhere in the world, i'd have him run it. he's a horrible politician. he's one of the worst. >> that had loser written all over it. we are in unanimous agreement in joe scarborough. >> that made me sad. >> joy reid and charles thank you for joining me tonight. >>> coming up, mitt romney is now contradicting himself. within minutes he said one thing to nbc news backstage tonight before going on stage at a rally in ohio and saying the exact opposite. and the man who said mitt romney would be a disastrous debatetor against president obama is now giving mitt romney advice on how to debate president obama. that's coming up with jonathan cape heart. and in the rewrite tonight, these three. paul ryan, mitt romney and honey boo-boo. [ giggling ] [ laughing ] [ laughin

. >> joe scarborough and mika brzezinski on "morning joe." "slowly and reluctantly, republicans who love romney are concluding that for all his gifts as a leader and role model, he is just not a good political candidate in this era." is that fair, mark? >> it is affair. you want to go to the numbers. wherever mitt romney goes, his unfavorable numbers go up. in florida in may, he was at 35% unfavorable. now he is 48% unfavorable. in ohio, 34%, now 49%. it is a problem. that has just been the reverse with obama. what do you do? mitt does not have a rose garden. >> charles, you write that in the wake of what is happening in the middle east, romney's "un willingness to go big is simply astonishing." >> it was a great opening this week, with embassies of flame, the ambassador killed, writes -- riots -- that is a collapse of the four-year policy on the middle east. rather than make a serious speech connecting the dots and talking about exactly that, the collapse of the policy or the result of a naive approach to tyrants in the region, he does want

from msnbc's "morning joe," joe scarborough.

. >> joe scarborough had it right when he talked about the loveless marriage between conservatives. their feeling towards romney. let's watch. >> you're from florida obviously. why do you think romney's doing so poorly in florida? >> he's just a flawed candidate. the romney people think they can run a bob dole campaign and john mccain campaign, a gerald ford campaign and win. that doesn't happen. republicans do not win by running these types of campaigns. for those idiots out there saying i'm a rhino or i'm not a conservative because i'm actually telling them we will lose if you don't start running as a conservative. if you don't start telling people what you believe -- if you really do, in fact, believe in anything. >> you know, i think joe scarborough is sort of a mainstream conservative. moves to the center there pretty often or over to the other side occasionally. i'm looking at that situation there. is this convention suffering from a lack of ideological zeal because the candidate himself for president isn't a ryan? >> i think there's a huge problem here for the republicans in

there was a tweet this weekend from joe scarborough, who is basically making a case a real conservative were the republican nominee. the republicans would be way ahead. i think the conventional wisdom here is if republicans do lose this fall that's the take-away from conservatives. we need a pure alternative next and needing to farther to the right. i get the logic of it. i remember the 1990s with bill clinton. the republican party i think its opposition was as unyielding as the opposition and there was the midterm revolution and newt gingrich and all this stuff. when they lost to clinton in 1996 and an impeachment, they started to think differently. they came up with george w. bush in compassionate conservativism. the apeople was bush could be the republican clinton. he could be the compassionate guy who could sell a message. do you see a potential for that kind of re-evaluation among republicans if they lose this election where they think about electrici electability than they haven't at this point. >> a strategist loves-thet cals. i think it's too soon, and i don't think you can say

. >> joe scarborough and mika brzezinski on "morning show." slowly and reluctantly, those who have worked for mitt romney are concluding that he is just not a good political candidate. is that fair, mark? >> it is fair. you wa to go back to the numbers. wherever mitt romney goes, his unfavorable number goes up. in florida in, he was at 35% unfavorable personally. now he is at 48% unfavorable. ohio, 34%, now 49%. it is a problem. that has just been the reverse with obama. what do you do? you could read the rose garden strategy. mitt it does not have a rose garden. >> charles, you write that " romney's and willingness to go big, to go for the larger argument, is simply astonishing ." >> it was a great opening, politically. american embassies of flame, ambassador being killed, an american riots in tunisia -- that is the collapse of a four- year policy on the middle east. rather than make a serious speech connecting the dots and talking about exactly that, the collapse of the policy, the result of a naive approach to tyrants in the region, he does

. >> joe scarborough had it right when he talked about the loveless marriage between conservatives. their feeling towards romney. let's watch. >> you're from florida obviously. why do you think romney's doing so poorly in florida? >> he's just a flawed candidate. the romney people think they can run a bob dole campaign and john mccain campaign, a gerald ford campaign and win. that doesn't happen. republicans do not win by running these types of campaigns. for those i had yoots out there saying i'm a rhinoor i'm not a conservative because i'm actually telling them we will lose if you don't start running as a conservative. if you don't start telling people what you believe -- if you really do, in fact, believe in anything. >> you know, i think joe scarborough is sort of a mainstream conservative. moves to the center there pretty often or over to the other side occasionally. i'm looking at that situation there. is this convention suffering from a lack of ideological zeal because the candidate himself for president isn't a ryan? >> i think there's a huge problem here for the republicans

and joe scarborough weighed in this morning on "today." >> mitt romney is blowing this race. it is too much for many republicans to handle. >> reporter: still many conservatives rushed to romney's defense. one calling this his gettysburg moment. urging romney to rise to the occasion and fight. romney didn't back down from the substance of his comments. instead, brian, in a televised interview, he tried to turn the tables on the president, accusing him of running a government centered society and favoring redistribution of wealth. incidentally, the person who leaked that video is former president jimmy carter's grandson, who told nbc's michael isikoff he was angry that romney had attacked the former president. >> peter alexander, traveling with the romney campaign salt lake city, utah starting off our reporting tonight. peter, thanks. >>> romney's remarks about that 47% who pay no income tax set off an immediate flurry of fact checking. and tonight, nbc's andrea mitchell has our reality check. >> reporter: it started a year ago as a conservative reaction to occupy wall street'

this is joe scarborough talking about his time with jeb bush. take a listen to that. >> i was in rooms with jeb bush when he was governor and there would be wealthy people that would say things like this to jeb bush, and he would just glare at them. and then he would say, when nobody was watching, you don't understand. those are the people we have to help. you can help yourself. you get your lawyers, whatever. these are the people we've got to help. >> those are the people we have to help, ari. i think the most damming part of mitt romney's fund-raiser video tape is my job is not to concern myself with those people talking about half of the people. >> right. scarborough's point really overlaps what you're saying which is this is not about tactics, this is not about tone, this is not about misspeaking. this is about a world view. and it's where his process as he calls it, overlaps perfectly with the policies which is leaving a lot of people behind and mistaking at least for the oppressed minority that needs help. it's remarkable. that's really th

. >> republicans like msnbc's joe scarborough are angry at romney. >> chris christie, paul ryan, they would never say that in a million years. this guy is seeming to be, he just seems too insulated by wealth and life experience. >> other republicans say romney drew a useful line. >> we have a campaign in which those that support big government are on one side and those who support the private sector approach are on the other side. >> reporter: on fox this afternoon, romney clarified. >> the problem right now is you see in this country, so many people have fallen into poverty that they're not paying taxes. they have to rely on government. the right course to help them is not just to have government handing out but government helping people to get back to good jobs. >> reporter: more than 16 million seniors are exempt from income taxes. the white house said president obama does not see them as irresponsible or victims. >> he certainly doesn't think the middle class families are paying too little in taxes. >> reporter: romney did say something both sides think. the race is down to 5% to

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scarborough argued that every muslim in the world hates the united states but you know what they hate us yeah i talked intelligence people all weekend they hate us because of their religion they hate us because of their culture and they hate us because of peer pressure if you gave every street vendor from street fender to prime minister in that region the chance to throw a rock at the u.s. embassy they would so this is the and those who are busy casting issue. i don't want all of islam like scarborough or instead busy asking why islamic radicals hate america so much even after an airstrike killed eight innocent afghan women this weekend joining me now to discuss more on what the media is missing is jeff cohen founder of the of the media watch group fair and an associate professor of journalism at ithaca college he's also the author of the book cable news confidential jeff welcome to the program or welcome back. thank you great to be with you jeff what do you see as the core causes of muslim rage against the united states to the extent that it exists and then i want to get into to what

and fox it's all though i miss them i see at least you've got joe scarborough in the morning and i know of no an analog to that it. is on the five but but but but you've got the news me doesn't quite have his own show for about three hours scarborough's got other people there too but what the. you have this increasing divide in the media you're saying why is drudge coming up with all this who are conservatives coming up with all these numbers we have this increasing partisan divide in the media now that may not be a bad thing because i believe in the competition of ideas best ideas get over what i'm saying is that you got all these people all these groups that claim not to have a partisan agenda who are saying obama is just beating romney terribly and there's actually good reasons for like that forty seven percent comment you know you can see in the polls how that hurt him and yet you've got drudge coming out here and others in the right wing saying oh everything's fine it's going to be fifty fifty it seems to me like this is all about the after the election day spin i don't know mark y

conservative pundit joe scarborough argued that every muslim in the world hates the united states but you know why they hate us yet i talk to intelligence people all weekend they hate us because of their religion they hate us because of their culture and they hate us because of peer pressure if you gave every street vendor from street film. prime minister and that leaves you a chance to throw a rock at the u.s. embassy they would so this is there and those who are busy casting a shadow on all of his long life scarboro are instead busy asking why islamic radicals hate america so much even after an airstrike killed eight innocent afghan women this weekend joining me now to discuss more on what the media is missing is jeff cohen founder of the of the media watch group fair and an associate professor of journalism at ithaca college he's also the author of the book cable news confidential jeff welcome to the program you're welcome back. thank you great to you're with you tom jeff what do you see as the core causes of muslim rage against the united states to the extent that it exists and th

joe scarborough, the host of morning joe on nbc. he's in charlotte. good morning to you. >> good morning. i'm in charlotte and i'm in a bar. >> so situation normal, nothing different for you, joe. let's talk about that speech last night. obviously obama landed on the political scene in 2004, four years ago saw him in denver going strong. yesterday we saw a different approach, not the soaring oratory, given the democrats' past-of- inspiring enthusiasm among voters. did he deliver? >> he certainly delivered in the convention hall, excited his base. did we see anything new from barack obama, any proposals with a mandate going forward? no. as we said before hand, as jeff greenfield said before on the set, they weren't swinging for the fences. michelle obama, bill clinton set this president up well. they believe they were going to believe mitt romney this fall, so they decided they didn't have to take a lot of chances. the president didn't take a lot of chances but he did what he needed to do. if this is going to be an election, much like 2004, where you h

anyway my colleague joe scarborough in a political column got to the core of romney's problem as he sees it. he says quote, if we want to win the battle in the long-term, we should be able to face the fact that milt romney's likely to lose. he's an ambitious man. let me go back to that whole question, joe, i keep thinking what's romney's mission in life. why does he want to be president? it's a fair question, what do you want to do in the world, what's your united states role. besides this time going to be tougher and all this bs basically. this guy has had no military experience in his family, he just keeps talking about how tough he's going to be. >> the scary thing about this campaign is that we don't have any idea what he wants to do or which policies he's going to support. we saw the stock market go up 200 points today. romney is allegedly running on the economy. well, for most people, the economy isn't the unemployment figures. the economy is two things, your house value, and your 401(k). housing values are going back up, and the market is almost back to where it was almost four ye

we are in unanimous agreement in joe scarborough. that made me sad. >> joy reid and charles thank you for joining me tonight. >>> coming up, mitt romney is now ntractinhif. within minutes he said one thing to nbc news backstage tonight before going on stage at a rally in ohio and saying thexact opposite. and the man who said mitt romney d dtrdeto against president obama is now giving mitt romney advice on how to debate president obama. that's coming up with jonathan cape heart. and in the rewrite tonight, o-o.t ey he. [ giggling ] [ laughing ] [ laughing ] [ laughing ] [ laughing ] ♪ we're not in london, are we? no. why? apparently my debit card is. what? i know. don't worry, we have cancelled your old card. great. thank you. in addition to us moitoring yo accounts ualiv in addition to us ououldlso set upounts free account alerts. okay. [ female announcer ] at wells fargo we're working around the clock to help protect your money and financial information. here's your temporary card. welcome back. how was london? [ female announcer

plus our political round table including joe scarborough on msnbc. >> here's a live look from the grand hotel and spa. wow. a nice day shaping up down there in ocean city. temperatures high 60s, low 70s under partly cloudy skies. currently the temperatures in ocean city, 60 degrees. bwi, 57. seeing humidity drop as high pressure starting to take more control of the area. northwest winds 7 miles per hour. temperatures are rising as well around the greater baltimore area. park and 53, edgewood, 59. westminster, they're at 54 degrees. down in annapolis, 61. also the coolest temperatures way out west. oakland, 39 degrees. frostburg, 45 degrees. folks in the mountains could see some frost in the morning hours both on monday and tuesday. we'll keep an eye on that. current weather right now. pretty much clear skies over the entire state. except if you head out here to western maryland. they're seeing cloud cover at this hour. but that should move out of the area as the day goes on as high pressure continues to push into our area. fog as well up there in the mountains this morning. but this fro

then joe scarborough, watch this. >> this is one of the worst weeks for any presidential candidate in a general election that any of us can remember. mitt romney is blowing this race. it is too much for many republicans to handle. >> and it's as bad as it gets, right? well, glen green wald wrote: then josh from blumberg continues: >> that seemed strong. david brooks of the new york times: >> man, mitt romney's firmly under that bus and very, very hurt. don't worry he's going to get some conservatives to rally. let's see if this will make any difference. >> the ideas that somehow you're declaring this, the race is over, mitt romney doesn't care about people meanwhile every a president of the united states whose policies have undermind the 47%. >> this country has created a tax code for half the people in the country no longer paying. >> the opportunity for romney and for that campaign to finally take the gloves off and take the fear off and just start explaining conservatism, start explaining liberty to people. >> i love it. it's a golden opportunity to tell people our ideas which is w

my colleague, joe scarborough write, if we want to win the battle of ideas, we should face the fact that mitt romney is likely to lose and should given that he's neither a true conservative, just an am bishops shos am ambitious man. nothing wrong with that but when except when you want to be a president. >> what do you want to do in the world? what is your view of the united states in the world despite i'm going to be tougher and all of this bs, basically, a guy who has had no military experience, he talks about how tough he's going to be. what does it mean translated into u.s. policy? what does he want to do? joe? >> the scary thing about this campaign is that we don't have any idea what he want to do or which policies he's going to support. i mean, you know, this has been, i think, an insult to the intelligence of the american people because of the lack of details, the lack of, you know, of content here. and, you know, we saw the stock market go up 200 points today and when people, you know, romney is allegedly running on the economy well, for most people, the economy isn't the unemplo

and all of these right-wing nutjobs, far right-wing nutjobs, why is joe scarborough the rhino saying that, it means they're all saying it. just because it took them a week to have the nerve to come out and say it publicly, you know, we've all been hearing this, mika. >> well, you actually raised a warning flag about two weeks ago, maybe. >> right. >> before even all of this happened with the tape. and you wrote this. this is your political column. "these criticisms --" you tweeted this. this is laura ingram who -- >> no, no. >> goes on and on and on about what you said. but you said romney will lose if he doesn't dramatically change his strategy. negative ads won't substitute for conservative ideas. >> mike barnicle, the point about 10, 12 days ago that i was trying to make was, if you have -- people like reagan and people like margaret thatcher would not have changed the world, would not have changed their parties, would not have changed their conservative movements, would not have changed their countries if they had run these timid, negative campaigns. i mean, margaret thatcher was

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. >>> former republican congressman joe scarborough and host of "nbc this morning." >> good morning. >> is this a crisis for the romney campaign or a blip and something that will have no impact? >> depends on whether they turn the campaign around. 50 days left. mitt romney will be spending over $150 million in outside ads, outside groups will be spending money. there's three presidential debate. there's no doubt if mitt romney clearly outperforms president obama in all three presidential debates, nobody will be talking about this other than how it helped mitt romney focus and turn things around. here's a problem. this is an absolutely critical time for the campaign. go back to the convention. start with that video, the high point of mitt romney's campaign was his rnc video which was so moving and made you think, you know what? i think i can relate to this guy, and then we had clint eastwood and then we had the chair, and then over this past week, it's been absolutely remarkable. you combine libya and the press conference which is polling horribly for him, the campaign shakeup yesterd

. >>> former republican congressman joe scarborough and host of "nbc this morning." >> good morning. >> is this a crisis for the romney campaign or a blip and something that will have no impact? >> depends on whether they turn the campaign around. 50 days left. mitt romney will be spending over $150 million in outside ads, outside groups will be spending money. there's three presidential debate. there's no doubt if mitt romney clearly outperforms president obama in all three presidential debates, nobody will be talking about this other than how it helped mitt romney focus and turn things around. here's a problem. this is an absolutely critical time for the campaign. go back to the convention. start with that video, the high point of mitt romney's campaign was his rnc video which was so moving and made you think, you know what? i think i can relate to this guy, and then we had clint eastwood and then we had the chair, and then over this past week, it's been absolutely remarkable. you combine libya and the press conference which is polling horribly for him, the campaign shakeup yesterd