Good afternoon. Im richie louie in for craig melvin. Youre watching msnbc, the place for politics. Just 17 days until voters go to the polls to decide whether president obama deserves another term. Two days until the ultimate faceoff between governor mitt romney and mr. Obama. And this time the focus will be overseas. And one in four. Thats how Many Americans say they do not believe in Global Warming. Coming up, well talk to bill nye, the science guy, about how these people are impacting president ial politics. President obama and mitt romney are spending the day in debate prep. Today the Obama Campaign released a new tv ad saying mitt romney cannot be trusted on education. Mitt romney on education. All the talk about we need smaller classroom size, look, thats promoted by the teachers unions to hire more teachers. President obama has a different view. He believes smaller class sizes and Great Teachers are a key to a stronger economy and a stronger middle class. Vice president ial nomi
Slaughter of innocent people while theyre praying in a synagogue. If the world doesnt unite against terrorism and give zero excuse for terrorism, this will haunt the world. A spokes map for hamas praising what happened as justifiable revenge for the death of a palestinian bus driver found hanged in his bus. But palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack. As did israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu saying israel will respond with a heavy hand, his office posting on his twitter account. The attack the latest amid tensions in the city with a wave of kidnappings and killings in recent weeks. We have at spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu. Thank you for joining us. Do you see a cause for larger responsibility in these attacks, beyond just the crazed men who entered . Most definitely. I mean you put your finger right on the important point here. The islamic extremists murdering with brutality across the region, whether its isis cutting off heads in iraq and syr
dropped out of the race and adelson threw his support behind a romney superpac, restore our future, with twice the amount of money he gave to gingrich. because when you are worth $38 billion, $92 million of those is just pocket change. in fact, that amount would translate to the median u.s. household of a donation of about 95 bucks. which brings us back to this weekend. at least four republican governor, including christie, are heading to las vegas for a four-day-long conference sponsored by a lobbying entity called the republican jewish coalition. this is held at the venetian hotel, of course, owned by sheldon adelson. he ll be in attendance. he s reportedly on the lookout for a more mainstream electable candidate this year. those scheduled to address the coalition include former governor jeb bush, governor scott walker, and governor john kasich of ohio, and, yes, governor chris christie. fresh off a two-day-long tour of television screenings just about everywhere, touting what he say
adelson threw his support behind a romney superpac, restore our future, with twice the amount of money he gave to gingrich. because when you are worth $38 billion, $92 million of those is just pocket change. in fact, that amount would translate to the median u.s. household of a donation of about 95 bucks. which brings us back to this weekend. at least four republican governor, including christie, are heading to las vegas for a four-day-long conference sponsored by a lobbying entity called the republican jewish coalition. this is held at the venetian hotel, of course, owned by sheldon adelson. he ll be in attendance. he s reportedly on the lookout for a more mainstream electable candidate this year. those scheduled to address the coalition include former governor jeb bush, governor scott walker, and governor john kasich of ohio, and, yes, governor chris christie. fresh off a two-day-long tour of television screenings just about everywhere, touting what he says is his exoneration in the
the new york times reporting that a romney superpac is making a $12 million ad buy in nine states. the states include eight battleground states plus michigan where. is all this money coming from? joining me is nbc news s deputy political editor. the associated press just ranking the top fundraisers to the obama and romney campaigns. the top fundraiser for the president is jeffrey katzenberg, the film producer and ceo of dreamworks. he has raised $2.5 million. when we look at all that money, what does this say about who is supporting president obama? well, we know that the president himself is trying to raise a lot more money from small donors like he tried to do in 2008. but of course that s very difficult when you re running, when the environment is what it is. and the economy being what it is. i think he has leaned a little bit more, we ve seen, on some of the hollywood types who have been able to try to bring out some big crowds to some of the events that we have seen.