former montana brian sweitzer made huge news on this show a few weeks ago by hinting he intended to run for president. only he is not only following through, i will explain how i think he is the only candidate so far willing to challenge hillary clinton wage. president obama had a lot to say during his press conference yesterday about the revelations this year about the nsa mass monitoring of phone calls. there has been a ton of movement this week to discuss one of the election years and the one coming up is going to be especially interesting one, the primary season in particular. you only have to remember the christine o donnell, the shirin engles the joe millers of a uncanle years ago, to know that no republican incumbent senator is a sure thing anymore. plus i have rested my played jacket away from crystal ball. we ve got a new stack of note cards, excellent questions to put both you and our expert political guests to the test. another challenging and exciting install. of
0 but you have to put on your poker face. that was really more for the negotiations. i m not trying to defend him. i know what he said behind the scenes. i know how he is. i know he s not going to allow the debt ceiling for america to default on the debt. i heard him yesterday and, come on, this is an act. did you get that sense? sure, a little bit. i think it will get resolved. i also saw john boehner squirming. there are a number of cases where he said, i m not going to let the country default. i m not going to hold up the c.r. clearly this hard right wing of of the party has encaptured him. and basically this is the way it s going to be. i have done negotiations and every one goes right to its deadline. we ll be here at 8:00 on october 17th waiting for this to be resolved. in the end i think boehner will get it dissolved. he doesn t want to pass a clean debt ceiling bill now though i agree that it would pass if it went to the floor. okay. at this point, many republicans contin
presidency this way. where are the grownups? why do the leaders in this republican party refuse to stand up and put an end to this nonsense the way senator mccain really tried to do. maybe they re scared of facing some irrational voters back home. take a listen to a consistent at the moderate and soft-spoken former republican mike cassel s town hall in 2009. i want to go back to january 20th, and i want to know why are you people ignoring his birth certificate? che [ cheering ] he is not an american citizen. in world war ii, the greatest generation in the pacific theater. in the country. and i don t want this flag to change. i want my country back. i don t want our flag to
0 the most of your cashflow. i m nelson gutierrez of strictly bicycles and my money works as hard as i do. this is what membership is. this is what membership does. immigration reform has a new best friend, the tea party. wait, what? it is town hall season for meetings of congress. it s been the loud and aggressive demands by tea party to defund obama care even if that means shutting down federal government. you ve probably seen the heated debates, including robert pittenger. this is the town hall story we already know about, events like that. a much different town hall story may be taking place, one that hasn t gotten much attention. how immigration reform is playing back home. the comprehensive overhaul package providing citizens after establishing strict new border control passed senate with a bipartisan majority in june. it looks like it would have the votes to pass the house, but only if republican leadership lets it come to a vote, which so far has been completely out of the
mike, the busiest man in showbiz. morning joe starts right now. times have changed and so have i. i m no longer just a candidate. i m the president. [ applause ] and that means i know what it means to send young americans into battle, for i ve held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn t return. i ve shared the pain of families who have lost their homes in the frustration of workers who have lost their jobs. if the critics are right that i ve made all my decisions based on polls, then i must not be very good at reading them. and while i m very proud of what we ve achieved together, i m far more mindful of my own failings, knowing exactly what lincoln meant when he said, i have been driven to my knees many times by the overwhelming conviction that i had no place else to go. [ applause ] but as i stand here tonight, i have never been more hopeful about america. not because i think i have all the answers, not because i m naive about the magnitude of our chal