what we ve heard is the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint. that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. joining me now is politico s chief white house correspondent mike allen, the co-author of inside the circus available now. also joining us salon.com senior writer and msnbc political analyst steve karnaki. now, i want you to listen to something that mitt romney said today. and i want you to figure out take your time on this we get a little game showy here, reality showy here at 10:00 p.m. try to figure out whether he was talking about president george w. bush or president barack obama. let s listen to this. how the president thinks
and everybody says that they bonded very well. rob portman also is comfortable when he was out with him during the ohio primary. another argument for pawlenty, he helps with evangelical christians, which romney is going to need. not so sure about george will s number two, bobby jindal, the louisiana governor. i would put your money on that ain t happening. mike, your ebook, flying off the virtual shelves. it s huge. inside the circus, one of the best-selling ebooks of all time. of all time? and people like the idea of going behind the scenes while it s still going on. in real time. inside the circus. how do we get it these days? nook, itunes, ipod, ipad, kindle. it s everywhere. happy good friday. we apologize that our audio engineer took good friday off and leaving all the mics open today.
these services against their religious faith. why are we forcing as a government institutions of faith to do something that s against if i m a presbyterian working as an e.r. nurse, i m going to be denied contraception that the church wouldn t be paying for? it would be paid for by the insurance company. this whole notion that republicans are trying to deny people contraception is ridiculous. they can go to pharmacies. this is in the president s health care bill. this is nothing the republicans did. joan walsh? first of all the associate came out for the compromise. they like what president obama did. second of all, it is merely regulating insurance companies and saying they should provide contraception without a co-pay. frankly because it saves them money. it s been ridiculous that all of these years we ve had to pay steep costs for contraception because it actually saves the insurer money and the employer money. and there was always a religious exemption. churches were alwa
many of whom love to take down opponents standing in their way. the incredible story of romney, santorum, gingrich, and the rest is all condensed into a readable ebook called inside the circus the second in a series from politico. and with me are the co-authors evan thomas and politico s mike allen. gentlemen, you talk about the image issue that has surrounded the romney campaign and outside romney campaign adviser told you in the book, they haven t been able to grapple with the central issue and central challenge they face as a campaign. that is, that in the absence of a candidate who has any poetry, who has any ability to connect on an emotional level. how do you create a bond? if you re a super charismatic candidate like george w. bush or john mccain, they ran without a bold agenda. they had more emotional level, value levels way to connect with voters. this guy doesn t have it. he has all the warmth of a wall street ceo. evan, is it essential that at some p point he connect or
in november. roll it. he wasn t want to share his real plans before the election, either with the public or the press. by flexibility, he means what the american public won t know won t hurt him. his intent is on hiding. you and i are going to have to do the seeking. what did i count, twice that reference to the speech? yes. and in many ways what we saw from mitt romney is he s really trying to go to these journalists and look at his promises and his policies and see what they match up. you know what else is interesting? i m sure the blog sphere is going to blow up, he took a shot at the blogosphere and says he wish people would go back to the old guard journalism. people would have more than one source, there would be editors and journalists. thank you so much. let s talk about new orleans. four former new orleans police officers should find out if they will soon be spending the rest of their lives in prison for killing unarmed seivians in the aftermath of hurricane