click or call. bill: last thursday we had debate over mitt romney s appearance at the naacp convention in houston. john mccain received some jazz when he visited the naacp four years ago. mr. shelton said that was not true. roll the tape. if i am making $17,000 a year, i cannot afford my housing. i cannot afford gas and food and to provide healthcare for my children. what are you going to do, senator? bill: can you decide if that s jazz or not. but there is no question that when senator mccain tried to engage the african-american community at a different event, it was tough going. i voted against a federal holiday in member of dr. king. [boos] i was wrong. [heckling]
bill: last thursday we had debate over mitt romney s appearance at the naacp convention in houston. john mccain received some jazz when he visited the naacp four years ago. mr. shelton said that was not true. roll the tape. if i am making $17,000 a year, i cannot afford my housing. i cannot afford gas and food and to provide healthcare for my children. what are you going to do, senator? bill: can you decide if that s jazz or not. but there is no question that when senator mccain tried to engage the african-american community at a different event, it was tough going. i voted against a federal holiday in member of dr. king. [boos] i was wrong. [heckling]
i m going to eliminate every nonessential expensive program i can find, that includes obama care and i m going to work to reform and safe boo! that was mitt romney and vice president joe biden there talking about health care at this week s naacp convention in houston. and the lively audience that often led cheers and boos. i know you are fired up to talk about his speeches, but before we get to that, do i want to play something that minority leader nancy pelosi said about mitt romney s motives. it was a calculated move on his part to get into the naacp convention. do you agree, do you think it was deliberate? it was not a bad strategy, whether it s deliberate or whether they re just spinning it in that way to show off at the convention to say i m not
i m sorry, mika. it s your show. it s all right. he is a fashion plate. i found it a curious selection. this is from a guy that walks around with a [ inaudible ] all day. we re developing a fashion segment with eve and we ll bring jonathan on for that. it s not ready yet. okay. from washington, msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the republican national committee, joe, you re not alone, michael steele is here with us this morning. there you go, joe. i m with you, babe. good to have you. let s get to the vice presidents. i m going back to joe biden because he got such a warm reception, maybe not from joe scarborough, but yesterday, at the naacp convention in houston, a day after mitt romney addressed the same audience, biden took the opportunity to paint a very clear picture of what the supreme court would end up looking like under a romney presidency. imagine what the romney justice department will look like. imagine when his senior adviser
above politics. from the very moment that barack obama took his hand off that bible on that cold january day in the mall he s done just that. he has put country first. [applause] when the economy was about to go over the cliff i watched him make some of the toughest decisions any president has had to make since franklin delano roosevelt. he saved the nation s financial system. in doing so he prevented a worldwide depression. it wasn t a popular decision but it was an essential decision and he was right. along we need the national phones aol system to function and credit to flow again. he stepped up to rescue the automobile industry. it was not popular. it was not popular [applause] but it was critical and he was right. jon: vice president joe biden addressing the crowd at the naacp convention in houston. if you want to watch the