that woman. and bravo to her for standing up to him and bravo to the other guy for actually stepping in and saying, wait a second, you re the person who did this. i mean, people are not buying this argument, but republicans are very good at trying to create a shiny object over here to distract us from what the real issue is. and talk about class. this woman who s a park ranger, it s a great job, she s doing a great job, apparently. look how she handled it. she said, it is difficult, she agreed with the congressman, it is difficult to turn people away, i m sorry we do it. and then he kept at her, using her as a tackling dummy and then he said, you should be ashamed. and she said the greatest thing in the world, i m not ashamed to be doing my job. good for her. anyway, richard, who s got the class in that situation? the elected birther, by the way. let s start with the fact that he thinks the president is the from kenya somewhere. he s not exactly a great american, this guy who h
that woman. and bravo to her for standing up to him and bravo to the other guy for actually stepping in and saying, wait a second, you re the person who did this. i mean, people are not buying this argument, but republicans are very good at trying to create a shiny object over here to distract us from what the real issue is. and talk about class. this woman who s a park ranger, it s a great job, she s doing a great job, apparently. look how she handled it. she said, it is difficult, she agreed with the congressman, it is difficult to turn people away, i m sorry we do it. and then he kept at her, using her as a tackling dummy and then he said, you should be ashamed. and she said the greatest thing in the world, i m not ashamed to be doing my job. good for her. anyway, richard, who s got the class in that situation? the elected birther, by the way. let s start with the fact that he thinks the president is the from kenya somewhere. he s not exactly a great american, this guy who h
anyone in this area into complacency. we know sandy is on the way just inching up the atlantic coast right now, but still delivering quite a punch down in the carolinas where they have already seen strong windses with gusts over 50 miles an hour. rain that continues to pound the area. in some places more than six inches already. and again, this is a storm that s just moving up the shoreline right now. it hasn t made that left turn. and approached landfall, which will happen likely here in the new jersey area. okay. nbc s jay gray there. nbc meteorologist bill karins has the latest forecast. bill? good evening. up to this point sandy has been a nuisance for the southeast coast and the midatlantic the last few days with minor damage. right now sandy is about to make history. sandy is about to stop heading out to sea. it s about to stop dead in its tracks and head towards the coastline. and that s why the weather is going to get worse and this is a historically rare event we are about
important issues of the day. and the president says, well, governor, i happen to have read excerpts from the book that you wrote and the last time we had a meeting in the white house in 2010, i thought it was a pretty cordial meeting. we all said it was a cordial meeting. i read your book and you said you were condescended to and we didn t let you in the room and we took away your cell phones. what s going on here? at which point she starts, you know, waving her finger. and the way the democrats say it is they were, they were basically set up. this was a stunt by her. but i would also say, one of the cardinal rules of politics, especially when you re president is, don t punch down. jan brewer s jan brewer. barack obama s the president of the united states. i don t know that it was great for him to end up having his finger being waved at by her. but that s the way it worked out. any reporting on what she was saying during the finger-waving moment?
he was taking aim at president obama, which shows he s looking past the primaries into the future. let s listen to what he had to say. he s in iowa right now. we re out in the cold and the wind because we care about america. he just finished his round of golf. this kind of comment sort of points to him feeling like it s a lock. this goes to what your last guest just said. folks may not feel intensely about romney, but they feel intensely about beating barack obama. if you can play to that and get folks fired up on the concept he s the one to beat barack obama, he might be more likely he ll get the nomination. it goes with the strategy of don t punch down. a candidate now who is in the front seat in the polls, if he can focus on the president and not get tangled up with the other candidates. thank you for joining us this