among the lawmakers who have already announced plans to retire kent conrad of north dakota and jim webb of virginia plus the independent senator joe lieberman of connecticut and jon kyle of arizona, kay bailey hutchison of texas. president obama is on his way back to washington right now after visiting some of the country s biggest tech gurus out on the west coast. today he visited intel, the computer chip giant. the president picking up where he left off in his state of the union address, pushing his plans to use technology to help america, as he put it, win the future. james rosen live on the chill tonight. james, the president also showing is he willing to work with folks who criticized his handling of the economy. yes, shep. the chief executive did some top tier corporate recruiting today. he tapped intel ceo paul to serve on the president s council on jobs and competitiveness even though he has faulted the administration for creating too much uncertainty like ceos like himself.
escaping the state to delay a vote. they get paid to come to work, and they should be coming to work. shepard: now we are learning more about why this budget problem actually exists. tonight, full coverage of the battle in the badger state. [chanting] shepard: in washington, a fight over health care. republicans say if they can t repeal the president s plan, they will just take away its money. my objective is to defund it entirely. shepard: but democrats argue that would cause chaos. the republicans have become a wrecking crew. shepard: tonight, the vote on capitol hill. plus, a sick patient came to this hospital for a new kidney. got bun one all right. but there is a slight problem. doctors put in the wrong kidney. tonight, how it could have happened and the fallout from this medical mistake. but, first from fox this friday night, an entire state government is now paralyzed. lawmakers are in virtual hiding and protesters by the tens of thousands are screaming t
chuck. senator, welcome to the show. jon kyle announced his retirement. thinking about running for number two spot? jon kyle will be their shoulder to shoulder with us for two more years. we ve got many more important battles to fight. yeah, when he leaves the senate, the whip s spot will be open. and i m going to be part of that contest. mark halperin, i don t know, guys from texas, i don t know if they know how to run the senate. it s not clear they do, but they re going to give it a try. and the house. i don t know if they re cut out for that. we try harder. no doubt about it. how did the president do handling the egypt crisis this past week? i thought he did about as well as you could expect. look, very tough, tough spot. but i thought they were flexible as conditions changed, and i don t really have any particular criticisms. chuck todd, we were talking earlier about the fact that hillary clinton s state department got thrown under the
i m someone who got in this because i was sick of watching the country go the way it was going. on social security you re either for raising the retirement age or cutting benefits or some combination of raising taxes? how can you claim leadership when it comes to reducing the scope of government. like i said, i think we need to have everything on the stable. i m not going to say i ll commit to raising the age of social security f. we do nothing, we know it s broke. we have to put everything on the table and make decisions f. we continue the path we re going, we re going bankrupt. okay. good morning. it is monday, february 14th. do you know it s valentine s day? this is your last warning. with us onset, msnbc and time magazine senior political analyst mark halperin and financier and private equity investor and former car czar for the obama administration steven rattner joins us this morning. we had a busy weekend, steve and i. yes, you and steve were jet setting
film because ta horan is doing its level best through threats and intimidationses, more specifically in canada most recently to stop it. what is the most important information that viewers will take away from this film? i think what they ll get out of this film is a sense of just how radical the ra scream in irathe regime iniran is and hows been. its not watching people that were interviewed like me or jon kyle, but watching ahmadinejad and other members of the regime. what becomes clear is that they have very grand ambitions, they really mean it when they say they want to see a world without america. they want to wipe israel off the map. and this is part of not just a matter of political ambition, and this is the hard people for people to grasp, but there is a theological, a weird and odd theological element that i do think they believe.