0 congratulations. i fully support the friday wedding. it s a strong move. we need to see more of it. have the wedding, get that out of the way, then another night of parties. good call. what else do you have? john on twitter says i m wondering if i can finally have a chuck todd. still. we made one mention of the chuck todd button. it blew out of proportion. we had newt gingrich handing them out to the crowd. we have a couple left. we need some kind of contest. i ll work on that. i love willie in the a.m. playing madden 13 and watching way too early, but an important correction, it s the b button not the y button. i tried to make a cool reference that you hit the y button. screwed once again by my producers. i can t even get that right. morning joe starts right now. they can hold it. contiguous. right angles to each other. orthagonal. do we look at polls? a couple other things going on here, bernanke. trying to do whatever he can do to force a job recover
what i said was exactly the same conclusion the white house reached, which was that the statement was inappropriate. that s why they backed away from it as well. they didn t say they were showing sympathy for the attackers. i think it was not directly applicable and appropriate for the setting. i think it should have been taken down. and apparently the white house felt the same way. no direction response when the president said you shoot first and aim later? well, this is politics. i m not going to worry about the campaign. good morning. it s friday, september 14th. welcome to morning joe. let s just turn the page, everybody. we re moving on from it. he s moving on. we re moving on. he is moving on. just turn the page. it should not make you worry about anything. it s just politics. i m not going to worry about it. right. i m not going to worry about the campaign. with us on set, msnbc and time magazine senior political analyst mark halperin and na
he dncncererininhahaotot ththprprident bill clinton expected to speak here in a bid we will show you a snippet of that as he comes on while i am talking and president barack obama could be making his way into the arena in just a bit. the crowd here behind me is going wild for sandra flow could just hit the stage remember she is the one that rush limbaugh called a slut when she mandated for government funded birth control. let s talk about the biggest story going on right now the change of venue for president barack obama speech tomorrow night. the news came down early in the day the front of bad weather would force the dnc to shut down the president s open air venue thursday night. we were disappointed we couldn t make it work but ultimately it public safety comes above everything else. i wouldn t say i am mad but i am disappointed a lot of people came a long way i drove 10 hours yesterday and it s kind of frustrating that i won t get there. instead obama plans a conference c
mike madigan is the king of illinois politics and this is his kingdom. nearly 30 years walked capital all had his name in lights knows how to work everybody who is anybody in the chambers. a great deal of power being speaker of the house but some people say true power outside of public view master puppeteer pulling strings. speaker wanted me to make sure we talked about the legal side of things regarding the bill no better example than a rare sunday hearing scheduled when most people had their eye on the chicago bears game pension reform it is about abusive and gross use of the statute i have seen in the state after house and senate legislators reacted to wgn tribune investigation exposed and pension abuse. overwhelmingly passed tough rules to stop lobbyists from getting a teacher s pension by working one day as a substitute and clamping down on union bosses. madigan himself bloated with the highly publicized bill. attempt to clean up 4:00 sunday meeting popped
cain says it s time to set the record straight. i will talk about all future firestorms. here s one thing people don t know about herman cain. i m in it to win it. i m not going to be discouraged. well, mary snow has the latest developments and mark preston is looking at the political fallout. mary, let s go ahead and begin with you. what caused cain to reverse course all of a sudden and decide to hold this news conference? you know, kyra, last week when herman cain railed against the press for bringing up these allegations of sexual harassment he was highly critical of anonymous users, but that all changed yesterday with a person who came forward who now brings a name, a face and specific allegations. and, you know, yesterday when sharon bialek had this news conference, herman cain s campaign came out with a general, broad statement saying that all allegations of sexual harassment against him were false. by last night, the campaign had started raising questions about s