school s main office. how do you begin even discussing this with children as you can tell it s hard for adults to talk? yeah. i mean, this is an unbelievable tragedy. as a father of two elementary school aged kids, it is so hard to understand and wrap your arms around this. i think what parents need to be aware is with really young kids, elementary school aged kids, you want to keep it very brief and simple. you don t want to go in to any graphic detail. you want to answer whatever questions they may have and you want to be able to provide them with reassurance. of course, there s no way to guarantee that the world is safe to your kid and when a kid is an elementary school aged child, you want to make things black and white for them and let them know that even though this tragedy occurred, they are very safe. their schools are safe and they will be okay. because kids very young have a very hard time appreciating and understanding probabilities. they re not going to do well with an an
past four years. it s worthy of debate. it s at least worthy of appreciating. four years after what you re looking at here, four years after that historic night when the nation elections our first african-american president, we re in the position to make a decision not that will result in a historic election like that one. we re in the position of making a decision that will be a national verdict on what has been a historic presidency. from health reform that we have been seeking for a century, to the saving of the american automobile industry, to the ending of the iraq war, to the killing of osama bin laden, this has been a presidency of his torque consequence. and again it s not just because of the man himself. it s because of what this particular man did in office in this particular four-year period. so four years ago, it was grant park in chicago. tomorrow night, it s chicago again. president obama will be at the
not, a lot has happened these past four years. it s worthy of debate. it s at least worthy of appreciating. four years after what you re looking at here, four years after that historic night when the nation elections our first african-american president, we re in the position to make a decision not that will result in a historic election like that one. we re in the position of making a decision that will be a national verdict on what has been a historic presidency. from health reform that we have been seeking for a century, to the saving of the american automobile industry, to the ending of the iraq war, to the killing of osama bin laden, this has been a presidency of his history consequence. and again it s not just because of the man himself. it s because of what this particular man did in office in this particular four-year
phoney religious freedom attack or the phoney apology tour attack, we have ended up with a campaign that has not much been about assessing the real things that really have happened these past four years. whether you agree with them or not, a lot has happened these past four years. it s worthy of debate. it s at least worthy of appreciating. four years after what you re looking at here, four years after that historic night when the nation elections our first african-american president, we re in the position to make a decision not that will result in a historic election like that one. we re in the position of making a decision that will be a national verdict on what has been a historic presidency. from health reform that we have been seeking for a century, to the saving of the american automobile industry, to the ending of the iraq war, to the killing of osama bin laden, this has been a presidency of his
no response. he has no answers. maybe that s why the guy who gave the keynote address at this convention is praising his opponent. the president has been great. the president has been all over this. the president has been outstanding. i appreciate that type of leadership. appreciating the president s leadership in this crisis is obviously nonpartisan. i can t remember a day when mitt romney seemed less relevant to americans. except maybe yesterday. joining me now is steve kornacki co-host of the cycle here on msnbc. he used to cover governor christie and he s writing about how the hurricane has frozen the race for mitt romney. and joy reed, msnbc contributor and managing editor for thegrio.com. thanks for both of you for being here tonight. good to be here. steve, you write about this today. what do you make of christie?