to characterize what we ve seen from the president s campaign. the president seems to be running just to hang on power. i think he ll do anything in his power to try and get re-elected. president obama got in the act yesterday during a speech on energy policy slipping in a reference to the romney dog who endured a family trip on the roof of the car. that s what he said about wind power. you can t drive a car with a windmill on it. now, i don t know if he s actually tried that. i know he s had other things on his car. joining me now with more on what s going on, joy reed, managing editor of the grio.com and msbc contribute per what a pleasure to see you. great to see you again too. talk about the last 24 hours, the dialogue and the semantics are really getting quite ugly on both sides. it must be summer. these campaigns seem like they need to fire it up. i think the problem i think for, let s start with the biden comment. i think it s a good start. it s a good start. thi
prove harm or somebody lies in order to get a benefit or to get elected or to steal something, if congress merely bans lying about something, what s next? lying about having a college or high school diploma? lying about being a rhodes zl scholar, being an msnbc and thor? that i think is bothering the justices. clearly congress in the past or supreme court has said that congress can make some kinds ever kinds of lies against the law, lying to federal agents, lying to cause somebody emotional distress. the question is can con res ban a mere lie when there s no sign it causes any harm. they re struggling with this, but it seemed like the majority of the court is trying to find some way to declare this law constitutional and uphold it. all right, pete, thank you very much. coming up in about 15 minutes, that s going to be our gut check. we ll find out what you think about the supreme court hearing this case. new developments in the
buffett? he should just write a check and shut up. wow, it is one of the things we just thought you should know. and breaking ground, former first lady laura bush joins president obama to celebrate the new national museum of african-american history. but we begin this half hour with republicans increasing frustration over their field of presidential candidates. in an article in politico today roger simon writes that the gop has been unable to find a candidate saying that is the field is not just weak, it is barren. what ushers forth from the throats of local republicans is not a cheer but a sigh. roger simon joins me now to talk about his article. thanks for your time. thanks for asking me. well, obviously, we ve had many republicans on and you see them on msbc and michael steele and the west say they re really happy this is a weed out process. this is how you get the best candidate to face off against the president in november. well, that s what they say on tv. that s how
michael eric dyson, an msnbc political analyst and professor at georgetown university, good afternoon, sir. good afternoon, mr. bashir. thank you. the president clear had i has decided that he wants to put an end to the innen equality within our society but even as he attacked the do nothing congress, wasn t it really mitt romney that he had in his sights as he talked about insuring a fair system of taxation and equal opportunities regardless of whether one s born into a very wealthy family like he was? no doubt about it. it may have been congress that was in the cross talk but mitt romney was in the crosshairs. i think that obama brilliantly and shredly focused in on mitt romney s discourse and the discourse surrounding him. all this rhetoricing about wealth and earning his own way up and not being ashamed of what he s got to pay in taxes because he s done all of this on his own is poppy cock. the republicans speak about class warfare anytime you try to
i have never been involved in a felony. he was. we have got a triple panel to kick things off. in washington, democratic strategist julian epstein and here in new york, a special guest appearance live by ana marie cox, correspondent for the guardian and the always welcome and more local joy ann reed, msbc contributor and managing editor of the agreeio.com. julian, the president is detached from reality. isn t that a bit rich coming from mitt romney? i think it s a time-worn and increasingly silly argument. if i had one complaint about there president, it would be he has not taken enough credit for his own economic successes. if you look where we were when he came into office the economy was shrinking at almost 8% a year. it s now growing at almost 2, 2.5% a year. we were losing 800,000 jobs a month, now gaining a couple hundred thousand. 22 months of consecutive private sector growth creating 2.3