opinion that mitt romney is a fake. he is a phony. he is playing a role. he checked off the box today that he went to the naacp. as you just laid out, i had not heard this part of the story. apparently now he traveled with his own posse of black people to then be able to characterize he had some conversations with some black folks who are supportive of his campaign. as hilary pointed out, they weren t members of the naacp. this is the biggest okie doke that has come along in a wile. part and parcel of the insult that he laid out today, as was characterized, using the president s name in a disrespectful, insulting fashion as a part of the health care reference. it was clearly a throw away line. i heard the audio, and he was almost brushing past it, and then the avalanche of boos came on because of what he was saying.
he checked off the box today that he went to the naacp. as you just laid out, i had not heard this part of the story. apparently now he traveled with his own posse of black people to then be able to characterize he had some conversations with some black folks who are supportive of his campaign. as hilary pointed out, they weren t members of the naacp. this is the biggest okie doke that has come along in a wile. part and parcel of the insult that he laid out today, as was characterized, using the president s name in a disrespectful, insulting fashion as a part of the health care reference. it was clearly a throw away line. i heard the audio, and he was almost brushing past it, and then the avalanche of boos came on because of what he was saying. i mean, this is pretty
biopsy threshold the number of men with abnormal test results would double putting more men through unnecessary treatment. president obama spoke at a democratic fund-raiser in atlanta last night and began feeling like 2008 all over again. back in campaign mode, obama took on the gop as the party of george w. bush. they don t have a single idea that is different than george bush s ideas. not one. instead, they re betting on amnesia. that s what they re counting on. they re counting on that you all forgot. they think that they can run the okie doke on you. bamboozle you. nbc news capitol hill correspondent luke russert is in new york joining me now. that was a dnc fund-raiser, he was speaking to a well-oiled crowd here. is this what we re going to hear through november?
okie doke on you. bamboozle you. norah o donnell is msnbc chief washington correspondent. the president having some fun there with a very supportive crowd and norah new poll numbers i want to put on the screen. the republicans hold the advantage this november, not surprisingly. 48% of registered voters say they favre a republican candidate, generically. 43% favor a democrat. look at this, a percentage of republicans say they re very enthusiastic about voting this november, compared to just 22% of democrats who expressed that same feeling. is this in simple terms a referendum on the president and his policies? that s why you see the president wants to make this about a choice, not a referendum. that s why he s sharpening his message, dipping back into the 2008 playbook and making this all about blame bush.
works. that tweet responding to kim s annual new year s speech where he claimed that the entire u.s. is within north korea s firing range, that the nuclear button is always on his desk. the president s apparent threat igniting alarm online. some even questioning his mental fitness. what s striking, stephanie, here aides at the white house that i ve spoken to say that the media per usual is blowing the president s tweet out of proportion, that sometimes a tweet is just that, a tweet. sometimes a tweet is official communication from the white house, which is what we were told by sean spicer several months ago, so you can blow it out of proportion or not. an official remark from the president of the united states about his big button. okie doke. all of this happening as north and south korea seem to be moving closer to new talks. kelly cobiella is in seoul. any reaction there to the president s threat? ir reporter: no, not so far from