the factor begins right now. hi, i m bill o reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. scrutinizing ben carson, that is the subject of this evening s talking points memo. dr. carson having some trouble. today s campaign admitted that he story he told about being offered appointment to west point is not offered, cnn reporting dr. carson s biography where he describes himself as an angry boy who was close to committing violent acts may be suspect as well. network trying to corroborate carson s story that at age is he tried to stab a boy related to him. the person that i tried to stab, you know, i talked to today. said would they want to be revealed? they were not anxious to be revealed. and it was a relative of mine. and i didn t want to put their lives under the spotlight. it s a smear campaign, but, you know, i m not going to play that game with them. they can do it all they want. now, dr. carson is smart to hit the controversy head on. when i was attacked earlier this
0 she said, it s a crummy job. mike didn t have the same impression. first, you. on the david remnick piece, read through it and the incoming in so quick and so fast and you never get to be the president you want to be. george w. bush was going to have a restraint in foreign policy and barack obama was going to do all of these different things and, instead, he is talking about nsa and gitmo is still open, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. right. what did you think when you were reading the piece? and talk about why it s a crummy job. i think you run for president and the entire objective is so humanize your candidate to show the kind of person they would be be, how they would transform the office of the presidency. that is our romance novel, right, in american politics? we want to fall in love with our candidate. every single thing about being president is dehumanizing. the scrutiny of the press corps forces all of them into near isolation. the low gistics of the white house, th
0 hostage for a ransom they can t win through an election. okay. there we go. here we go. 6:00 on the east coast. welcome to morning joe. it s thursday, october 3. the government is still shut down. with us on set, the chairman of deutsch incorporated, donny deutsch. i love donny. unfortunately not furloughed. we tried. it is not a joke. vice president executive editor of msnbc.com richard wolf. good morning. good morning. in washington, former white house press secretary and msnbc contributor robert gibbs. very serious. and chief foreign affairs it just keeps going on. andrea mitchell. great to have her on. what an amazing show. that was crazy stuff. did you get any flak? i was getting phone calls last night late. i mean different from the phone calls you usually get late? these are different. unfortunately these were about politics. i m not interested in that. get ready for another show. anyway, we asked and i want to i felt kind of bad. a li
the author makes the point the diminishment in the importance of the traditional family has damaged american culture. this is a little over an hour. now it s my privilege to introduce our principle speaker this morning. dr. allan c. carlson is the distinguished fellow for family policy studies as the family research council, and that is in addition to his full-time job as founder and president of the howard center for family, religion and society in rockford, illinois. among the special roles he s played in his distinguished career, that of general secretary of the world congress of families, numbers one and two, which were held in prague and geneva respectively. dr. carlson received the ab degree from college and a ph.d. from ohio university. now, the biosheet i was getting ready to read from this morning said she was the author of four books. actually, dr. carlson s been very prolific in his publishing. he informed me that his newest book is actually his seventh, and he s
bipartisan compromise available. the negotiation has happened he sat down with senator mcconnell and senator reid and urged that process to begin. they worked hard on a yearong. when they felt like they couldn t do it by the end of the year they recommended this two-year two-month compromise. republicans and democrats overwhelmingly agreed. they should take it up and pass it. laura. two questions. one is, can you tell us how long the conversation lasted with the speaker? about 10 minutes. i don t have an exact time for you, but it seemed like about 10 minutes. and so obviously more was said than what you said in the readout if it was 10 minutes long. i m not going to give you a transcript if that s what you mean. but, look, the president unless they just both repeated themselves over and over. (laughter.) the preside was very clear in stating what i told you he said. i don t think he could be any clearer. i guess what i m trying to figure out is both sides hav