majority of people in this country are that s what they re looking for. they re looking for someone who, as my friend harry smith said, has shoulders big enough for us to cry on. i don t see anybody like that on the horizon. it s one thing to emulate someone and admire someone and try to live up to the standards you see that they set, but that s not what i see here. i see people trying to twist and contort themselves into the shadow of someone else. that s not admiradmiration, than identity crisis. don t miss the last word with lawrence o donnell weeknights at 8:00 p.m. on msnbc. here s some other news make making headlines today. a dramatic rescue played out in
well maybe not the people who applauded. but actually i think even in their hearts they are, they probably just don t know it yet. you know, we just obviously marked the anniversary of 9/11 yesterday and i was thinking yesterday that on 9/11 my mother and i stood at my father s bedside. he was already bedridden by then. and we told him something terrible had happened in the world. something terrible had happened to america. and everyone missed him so much because he would be able to say something that would comfort us. and i really believed that the majority of people in this country are that s what they re looking for. they re looking for someone who, as my friend harry smith said about in describing my father, has shoulders big enough for us to cry on. i don t see anybody like that on the horizon. i don t see that in our president. and i at one time thought i did. i don t know what happened there. i don t see it. if you had some time with the republican candidates to kind of
but actually i think even in their hearts they are, they probably just don t know it yet. you know, we just obviously marked the anniversary of 9/11 yesterday and i was thinking yesterday that on 9/11 my mother and i stood at my father s bedside. he was already bedridden by then. and we told him something terrible had happened in the world. something terrible had happened to america. and everyone missed him so much because he would be able to say something that would comfort us. and i really believed that the majority of people in this country are that s what they re looking for. they re looking for someone who, as my friend harry smith said about in describing my father, has shoulders big enough for us to cry on. i don t see anybody like that on the horizon. i don t see that in our president. and i at one time thought i did.
but actually i think even in their hearts they are, they probably just don t know it yet. you know, we just obviously marked the anniversary of 9/11 yesterday and i was thinking yesterday that on 9/11 my mother and i stood at my father s bedside. he was already bedridden by then. and we told him something terrible had happened in the world. something terrible had happened to america. and everyone missed him so much because he would be able to say something that would comfort us. and i really believed that the majority of people in this country are that s what they re looking for. they re looking for someone who, as my friend harry smith said about in describing my father, has shoulders big enough for us to cry on. i don t see anybody like that on the horizon. i don t see that in our president. and i at one time thought i did. i don t know what happened there. i don t see it. if you had some time with the republican candidates to kind of reeducate them about your
everybody. as happens in many context when you try to please everyone you don t please anybody. now it is important to keep up our good communications with egyptian military. we can take credit for having kept the military restrained. and keep on top of things. you reported that demonstrations and clashes with police in algeria and this is clearly something to watch. in 1992 islamists won parliamentary elections and the military stepped in so there could be a possibility of being closer to an islamist take over in algeria than in egypt at the moment. alisyn: sounds like the next hot spot to keep an cry on. thank you for joining us. dave: they make the ultimate sacrifice but banks hurting some of the bravest. a soldier who was foreclosed while he was serving in iraq. and a gymnast s stunt goes