house correspondent for politico, mike allen, here with the morning playbook. first of all, let s go back to the last story, marco rubio, vetted or not? not vetted. they re vetting him now, of course. and al is right they should have given him the courtesy vet. but they had not asked him for financial documents, not asked him to fill out a questionnaire as jonathan carl reported. this is fascinating. politico reporting today, if things keep going as they are, tim pawlenty is at the front of the bus to be selected vice president. he has great karma with the romney headquarters in boston. it goes back, andrea and i were chatting during the break, goes back to the debates, where pawlenty was criticized for not hammering romney, but you point out that now he s out there for him and he never he never was in that primary. he dropped out at the iowa it wasn t a bad tape, the embarrassment tape of him going
listen to what you just said. all of those discussions are about software. that s true. they were not that company. they didn t have a software division. they didn t have people who wrote code. they were a box maker. and once it got to be a story about chips and bits, they lost. done. time now to get to politico. with us now, chief white house correspondent for politico mike allen. yes! here with the morning playbook for us. good morning, guys. we ll start with governor stott walker in the wisconsin recall election. becoming a bit of a conservative hero or not. i ve been reading about this in the wall street journal. it appears he might be. yeah. mika, he every indication now is that he s going to win big over the democratic milwaukee mayor tom barrett. and this does three things. one, it s a real embarrassment to big let me stop you there. is that breaking news that he s going to win big? i mean, is that where most of us have come down now? does it look like he
did. i m over here. she only wants to look at the financier. we ve got to get to the jp morgan story. jamie dimon on the cover of almost every newspaper. coming up, david walker will be with us. i think he may be running for president. really? i don t know. or vice president. oh, my goodness. americans elect. also, delaware governor jack markell. kerry kennedy. and the washington post s ezra klein. up next, an exclusive first look at politico s morning playbook. but first, bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill? after a beautiful, beautiful mother s day from washington, d.c., to boston, get ready for a rainy start to your week. it s going to continue probably through at least tuesday, maybe even into wednesday in new england. right now, we are focusing in on washington, d.c. just some light showers. it will be wet on the beltway as
christ. i read the book. serious. talk about your research for that movie because you covered it on scarborough country. i read his e-book. inside the circus. god bless you. there it is, political playbook 2012. mike allen is here with the morning playbook. how is the e-book going? fantastic. thank you, morning joe. this week, the republican super pack, american cross roads is going to target independents with attack ads against president obama. the group which has more than $200 million aims to what is this going to mean for the race? they are going to have $300
just don t clutter things up. you know who doesn t clutter things up say willie. mike. money mike allen. he is the chief white house correspondent at politico as you know by now. he is here with the morning playbook. good morning. happy friday. happy friday. the weekend has begun with mike allen. mike, let s talk about one of your big stories this morning, gop fears latino revolt. you cite the often talked about march 8 poll from fox news that shows president obama beating mitt romney among latinos 70-14 with a 56-point lead is. there any chance, any way to turn that around for the republican party? well, republican senators know that they need to. and for the first time they re telling us that they want action on immigration this year. one of the leaders of this is senator marco rubio of florida. he says republicans need to be known as the pro legal immigration party.