something to hide on this question t does go to the central issue of the mueller probe. if the question is about collusion, then the russia tower and russian interest provides a possible answer, a possible motive of why he would be so eager both before being president and becoming president to steer american policy in ways that are beneficial to the russians. karine, the chairman and women of these committees seem to have been given a hand by the incompetence and unwillingness of the republicans who came before them. they have. and now they have to change that hand and actually do their jobs. one thing you said, nick, about how the president sees this. for decades, all of his life, he s gotten away with it as a citizen. he sees being president as king. he doesn t understand this is a democracy and can you not do these things and you re not above the law. that s one of the problems that i think he s having. he can t come to terms with that. another thing that bill was saying as well
getting married to someone, that s a great idea because as a two parent family the prospect of living in poverty goes down dramatically. okay, so, there we all were right in the middle of a discussion about gun control, between our two presidential candidates, suddenly out of nowhere, one of them out of nowhere starts talking about single parents. it was odd enough to hear from a nonsec question t the bet way to address gun control is to control guns. joini in in joining i was looking at the president s face there on that clip and he s got a sort of neutral expression as he s
joining me now, mark murray, nbc news political editor. that answers the question t can make a big difference. one phrase. it did make a big difference when you looked a mitt romney. also worth noting his favorable, unfavorable rating still remains below water, where more people have a negative opinion of mitt romney than a positive one. when you look and the mir s ballot standing, he went from five-point deficit two weeks ago to a three-point deficit now. we are seeing some tight thing in the race the totality of the entire poll, whether it is that 47% comment or what people have actually seen and heard about mitt romney the past two weeks was a pretty negative outlook. as i understand it and you ve noted i believe in first read today this new romney ad, i want to play tax direct answer perhaps to those people in the public concerned about that comment. let me play it. more americans live in poverty than when president obama took office.
changing things and then, you know, campaigning meant governing right quick. but you know i go back to something i say every time, that people have to remember that, you know, thanks to two books, one by robert draper the other by michael grinwald we know between the time obama was elected president and the time he was inaugurated, republicans met at least twice, the leadership met at least twice to hatch a plan to just, you know, obstruct the incoming president no matter what. even though the economy was falling off the cliff it was all about obstruct him in 2009, to take back the house or both chambers in 2010 and win the white house in 2012. no matter what they didn t want president obama to succeed. they saw it as a success for him rather than a success for the country. i questiguess the question t have or quotes that will haunt him, the closing of guantanamo, comprehensive immigration reform. the problem with all that is the answer is republican stood in
do they land any body blows or stay away from each other? this is big question t had been mitt romney s strategy to let rick perry implode. their hope that perry will make some mistake. that romney will be viewed as viable, more electable, nonetheless conservative candidate who can be the republican nominee that can beat barack obama. that had been the strategy. we ve seen a more aggressive push from the romney camp really the past week with his trip down to south carolina. some of the language he used seems to be taking shots at rick perry. the real question whether or not tonight on this stage in rick perry s big debut will mitt romney go at him head-to-head. bill: that s a good question. ron paul and perry have been going back and forth a little bit too, two texans. don t forget about that. right. bill: last night on o reilly, laura ingraham was working for bill. she had karl rove on getting whole bush/perry relationship. here is how rove described