in today and happy to follow-up off line with any additional questions. mike halperin, couple things to unpack from that. the romney campaign has been focused on the economy as we know. how angry, how upset, how stressed out are they that immigration has become such a major priority in terms of the national dialogue? they have great faith in the notion that over time if they keep talking about the economy, that s what the election will be decided on. they put out the excerpts from governor romney s speech, and contrary to some people s expectations or hope that he would weigh in on what he thought of the president s decision on not deporting younger people, he s basically going to take the same position he s taken which is people want to know my position, what the president did, my position is i would do something comprehensive that would supersede that. he s not weighing in on the principle embodied in what the president did. i don t think it matters. it s certainly the
anti-immigration policy could come through as early as next week, so, when it comes to immigration policy, michael brought this up, too how boxed in is mitt romney by high-profile members within his own party like arizona governor jan briar around the fa jan brewer and people will have a hard time walking away from thing said in the primary. boxed in? he is like in solitary confinement on alcatraz, i was chuckling when my friend, michael, was talk. he doesn t have a hill to climb, he has mount everest to climb. why? he gave us his policy. during the primary, add very simple policy, people not here illegally should leave. that was the policy, doesn t matter if you were young, old, self-deport, grandmother, a worker, tough leave. and now when barack obama comes out with this policy affecting 800,000 or more younger illegal immigrants, undocumented workers, they could say, he can t respond to that this is a key issue here. there is no reason to penalize those percentage out of
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we ll be back with other hilarious pranks. in 1964, 17-year-old mitt romney burned down a howard johnson s. see you next time on other hilarious pranks pulled by mitt romney. good morning. it s tuesday, may 15th. a beautiful shot of the jefferson memorial and a rainy morning in washington. with us on set nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of andrea mitchell reports, andrea mitchell. we have an msnbc contributor, jonathan capehart and editor for the huffington post, sam stein. mike barnicle along with willie geist. i guess all of you have seen the flurry of polls out. the usa today/gallup poll, on the front page of usa today, which i m sure millions of you will, you see the headline, two in three say a better economy is ahead. there is some positive news. you would think that benefit would accrue to the president. right now, it s not. 71% rate today s economy conditions as poor. 29 say the economy is in good shape. the poll shows americans are optimistic ab
we have an msnbc contributor, jonathan capehart and editor for the huffington post, sam stein. mike barnicle along with willie geist. i guess all of you have seen the flurry of polls out. the usa today/gallup poll, on the front page of usa today, which i m sure millions of you will, you see the headline, two in three say a better economy is ahead. there is some positive news. you would think that benefit would accrue to the president. right now, it s not. 71% rate today s economy conditions as poor. 29 say the economy is in good shape. the poll shows americans are optimistic about their financial future. 6 in 10 predict the economy will be good one year from now. i guarantee they are not saying that in europe. 56% say the economy will get better if mitt romney were elected. 9% less. 46% say president obama would improve it if he gets a second term. when asked their opinion of the two presidential candidates, mitt romney is closing the gap on president obama with 50% of the