home to indiana? that s my question tonight for two former u.s. senators who know the situation. plus for all those like dick cheney dining out on the false claim that president obama isn t tough when it comes to terrorists, there s this bit of real news. pakistani forces have captured the top commander in pakistan. he s the most significant taliban leader captured since the start of the war in afghanistan. he s being interrogated right now. richard engel will be with us with the latest. also remember when it was reliably liberal to be against nuclear power? not any more. climate change has led to an attitude change. what would she do if she got nominated for president of the united states. former senator john breaux from louisiana, a democrat and former senator william cohen from maine. he was a republican. he served as defense secretary for democratic president bill clinton. mr. secretary, you first, let me show you, first of all, something you re familiar with. this is
[captioning made possible by nbc universal] chris: president obama tells independent voters they re right on his agenda. he wants what they want, jobs, economic security, hope for their kids, but with the job numbers still bad can he charm the middle and win aboard some republicans? stand by your man. the treasury s tim geithner gets whacked by the right and the left. is the problem that obama s chief economic guy just looks like wall street? then finally the president needs a fewoo gd repubcansli to volunteer for compromise but the right-wing tea party is looking to knock off anyone who does. hi, i m chris matthews. welcome to the show. kedoy o llnnell covers congress for nbc news. jim cramer hosts mad money on cnbc, katie connolly covers application for newsweek and andrew sullivan is senior editor of the the atlantic. the universal advice to the president after the massachusetts vote, change the message. then thursday the president took his urgent campaign to win bac
.. but there s not that much difference between the democrats and some republicans, y vote? that s the point. and i think a lot of issues that should have been debated now, ralph is a very good at this. you may not agree with his positions with the idea is he wants to put this on the table and get it out there and people want to talk about this. he wants to talk about labor issues and trade issues and things like that and you don t really get this very much everything is clustered in the center and the idea is to spread the ideas about triet and hans has been talking about the fact that while if you have multiple parties government may not be as easy governing may not be as easy and it may be different. that may be a very good thing frankly. i mean, you look at our government. how effective are these people any way? talk about the sec and the dirty mittal situation. you talk about hey, we ve got the federal emergency management thing and katrina and there s always this