republican party. i think it s important for another reason. that is, we ll have a foreign policy speech today by mitt romney and that issue s going to come up, the first major confrontation after that speech and an area we see some foreign policy tangling for the first time. joe biden, what s the temperature of the porridge? we ll go with just right. my point is, what do you think that what s the advice he s getting? if you re in that room, when s the advice? how much more aggressive than the president? more aggressive than the president but i mean he has a lot of opportunities with the ryan budget. the challenge for the president is he didn t take, didn t hold mitt romney to his positions. he can hold paul ryan to his positions, vice president can hold him to his positions without, you know, being seen as overly aggressive. needs smiles and jokes as he does it. that is a target-rich environment and i think he should take the targets. what kind of vibe do you
satisfying people across the country in the primary races. he s won the race. he s won the race. is he therefore the right guy? yeah, absolutely. he s the person that, that is going to go up against barack obama, it s pretty clear, and we need to win this race. but that s an endorsement, isn t it? if that s what you want to call it, you can call it whatever you want. karen, you know your husband. has he just endorsed mitt romney? not at this point, no. even jim demint who endorsed romney in 2008 has refused to endorse him this year. the bottom line is mitt romney hasn t convinced conservatives he s legit. florida senator marco rubio was supposed to be the guy who could shore up romney s conservative credentials by joining him on the ticket as the vice president. well, rubio is a great attack dog. he s gone after the president of the united states on everything from the economy to teleprompters. but watch what happened while rubio was delivering a foreign policy speech
romney? not at this point, no. even jim demint who endorsed romney in 2008 has refused to endorse him this year. the bottom line is mitt romney hasn t convinced conservatives he s legit. florida senator marco rubio was supposed to be the guy who could shore up romney s conservative credentials by joining him on the ticket as the vice president. well, rubio is a great attack dog. he s gone after the president of the united states on everything from the economy to teleprompters. but watch what happened while rubio was delivering a foreign policy speech today. above all else, the 21st century provides us the opportunity for more freedom. a world where more people are free to grow their economies, free to pursue their dreams, free to become prosperous. i left my last page of the speech. does anybody have my last page? did i leave it with you? i apologize. above all else, the 12st century provides us the opportunity for me freedoms.
rubio was delivering a foreign policy speech today. above all else, the 21st century provides us the opportunity for more freedom. a world where more people are free to grow their economies, free to pursue their dreams, free to become prosperous. i left my last page of the speech. does anybody have my last page? did i leave it with you? i apologize. above all else, the 12st century provides us the opportunity for me freedoms. i thought he already read that! i m joined tonight by howard fineman, nbc news political analyst and editorial director of the huffington post media group. i just had to throw that teleprompter thing in there, howard. you ve got to know your script, i guess. i m sorry to tell you, i left behind the last page of my speech tonight, i m sorry. well, you ve got enough material in your first two, i know, for sure. all right. why can t they just seal the
you know what you do in washington, d.c.? you roll him over legislatively. and that s happened in washington, d.c. for some time. we ll see if the president will do that. i will guarantee you already republicans in the senate, there are conservatives in the senate that want a jobs bill passed. and there are some legislative parts of this legislation that, again, republicans have supported in the past. and before we go to a break, i want to touch on afghanistan. you know, mitt romney s going to be making a major foreign policy speech today. it ll be interesting to see how he frames that part of his speech given comments he d made before. but pat buchanan, i think we know how we feel here at the table about where we stand in terms of our presence there. but ten years now. today. the war began ten years today. did you expect we would still be here? and do you think we still should? no. i think almost all americans were really for going in there and taking down the taliban