post. i didn t read that story. i don t know the intricacies. you d have to ask rubio s office. alley c all i can tell is you h understands the imgrant experience. he s one of the best spokesman for the the possibilities of america and i think whatever the story says, he is going to be and continues to be a star in the republican party. okay. well, thank you very much. we ll get to that story. a lot more tomorrow night. when we return, let me finish with calm, businesslike leadership. president obama is showing that in his number one duty, actually, protecting the country. you re watching hardball.
other in big tough on illegal immigration, i went to a hearing on the hill just yesterday where you had the republicans just pounding on janet napolitano for not being tough enough on immigration. the effect of the effect of all of this of course is to give legal immigrants and american citizens of latino decent particularly voters the impression that republicans just don t like them. i don t think this is necessarily a problem right now in the 2012 election, but this is the fastest growing and arguably the most important voting bloc that will be deciding politics for decades to come. why they want to antagonize them, it s like a form of ritual suicide. when does it become an ethnic slur slur? some people say illegal aliens which was is strong language. that doubles it down. ler s already illegal, let s call them aliens. others call them illegals. i watched that debate the other
back on it. when the american people watch this story tonight, let s look at it from a totally american point of view. we watched the overthrow and killing of a guy who devoted a part of his career to killing us. he was our enemy. no doubt about it. and at the end of the day, that s why the american people will certainly welcome this news or should welcome this news. it came at a great cost for the libyan people, but at the end of the day, it s beginning a new carpet in libya which the united states can benefit from. to have a country that s democratic, a country with a great amount of resources, but more importantly, one that can share the values of what people want. a democratic country, a pluralistic one, and what that can spring more democracies in the middle east. this was not an invasion, as we saw in iraq. it was an organic movement by the libyan people. president obama talked at 2:00 eastern about the victim of gadhafi s death. he did remind us of why we were there. let s
flat tax. both plans will help the wealthiest americans, and the republican party is already in trouble, looking like they can t shake their image as the party of the rich. for that, we re joined by strategist steve mcmahon, a democrat, and todd harris, of course, is a republican. steve, let me hear you right now about this. first of all, can we all look at this fight now? i think it s fascinating. let s look at part of the rick perry new ad campaign going after mitt romney. perry ads are good. people who are consulted by the romney administration were also being consulted by the obama white house. all we did was look at white house visitor logs. i ve spent my life in politics. i hate to lose. i don t think i ve ever hired an illegal in my life. we hired a lawn company to mow our lawn and they had illegal immigrants who were working there. i m running for office, for pete s sake and i can t have illegals. you just don t have credibility. hypocrisy. there are a lot of reasons no
grabbed rick perry s shoulder on tuesday s debate, he became the latest in a long list of debate space invaders. remember when rick lazio did it to hillary clinton or remember al gore s awkward confrontation with george w.? it never works well for the aggressor. you re watching hardball, only on msnbc. babe , lo ok. [ reporter ] .passengers, emergency crews are prepared. they re in place. all we can do now is watch. wait. wait a minute. there s a truck. tough to tell from here, but whoever is driving that truck is right below the plane now. this is this is just unbelievable! the broken landing gear landed into the bed. [ male announcer ] the midsized nissan frontier with full-size payload and towing. innovation for doers. innovation for all. no, i wouldn t use that single miles credit card. hey, aren t you. shhh. i m researching a role. today s special. the capital one venture card.