a legitimate rape, a woman s body has a way of shutting down so that pregnancy would not occur. he s partly right on that. i m an ob-gyn doctor and i ve delivered lots of these things. it is true. that easterble. give him an eye patch, too. folks, these tea party republicans are forcing people to walk the plank. joining me now is a swash buckle in his own right, bob schrum, nyu professor. he just wrote a daily beast column saying, what we have in washington is not a functioning congress, but a one-ring circus on the far right. and, also with me, cynthia
anybody else want to be sworn in as a senator today? i could watch that all day. but let s face it. joe biden is a great politician. he s likable. he s loyal. he s tough. and, most importantly, he knows how to get things done in washington. joining me now is bob schrum, senior advisor to john kerry s presidential campaign and now a professor at nyu. and maria theresa, a president and c.e.o. a voto latino and msnbc contributor. thank you for being here. let me start with you, what can you say about this tape. classic joe biden yesterday. what do you make of him? he s real. authentic. comfortable with himself. and, combined with that, he s extraordinarily effective. i think he s arguably the most effective vice president in american history. it s not just what he did on the fiscal cliff deal. it s what he did at the end of
and only going forward. it s for the hispanic community to step up and step out and let the world now and let the republicans know that in your state, if you ignore the needs and concerns of the hispanic people, you will not win. you will not win. that s last night speaking to his pan i could members of congress, bob. i just said he s going to have justice sotomayor to do an inaugural swearing in. if he s running in 2016, with the vote of the latino community being crucial, clearly, they re coming out of the 2012 election, seems like he s on deck early if, in fact, that s what he has on mind in terms of being on deck to say i m in this race. i think there will be a major presence in the push for immigration reform. i think one of the things that s most intriguing here is that the
powerful ally to the president, working as a special envoy on special missions in afghanistan and pakistan. he s a veteran of the vietnam war and back in 1971, he gave this courageous testimony about ending the war to the foreign relations committee. the panel he d oversee decades later. how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in vietnam? how do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? a warrior and statesman who knows the cost of war. that s who president obama named to be the new face of america s foreign policy. joining me now is bob schrum, senior advisor to john kerry s presidential campaign and now professor at nyu. bob, you ve known senator kerry for a long time. what s your reaction to today s announcement? well, i think the president had the right line. he s the perfect choice.
you re going have everybody spinning their thing. right. and it s hard to tell what people actually really believe because the campaigns have to go out. steve will tell you, you have to go out there and you have to talk up your game. right. and howard, i was on set with you in 2004 election night. i remember from 5:00 on everybody was saying president kerry, president kerry because the exit polls you know how to hurt a guy, joe. i think bob schrum told me. you know what, though? everybody in the media that always brings that up with bob, they don t tell him that they were saying the same thing at 5:01 p.m. and the dynamics of the race appear especially i m big on the last 24 to 48 hours. it seems to be moving slowly the president s way if you believe the polls. well, it is interesting. and they are close. they are very close. i just wrote a piece for the huffington post that i call the