and this time, his name is bubba. good morning. it s monday, april 9. welcome to morning joe. with us on set, we have msnbc and time magazine s mark halperin. also financier steve rattner. and editor of the new yorker david realmna. a lot to get to this morning. so i m watching bubba watson, never taken lessons, one of the masters. and he s crying. he lost his dad last year. and all there s a just adopted a baby. all these great stories. and my phone starts ringing, you know, when he s breaking down and they re putting on the green jacket. and it s like, what s with these guys running around with green jackets and they re crying? i want to see 60 minutes. well, i didn t understand. you didn t understand what that was. no. can you explain the significance of the masters? we re not crying over a ball. we re not talking about the buick lesabre open in like youngstown. this is the masters. like no other. mika, you missed two of the greatest golf sh
for their ailing 3-year-old daughter bella. chris cillizza is managing editor of post to picks.com and mark hal her pin is a political analyst and time magazine s editor-at-large. chris, first to you, the battle for pennsylvania, this ad blitz that romney has unveiled temporarily pulled but the santorum campaign is going to be back in gear tomorrow, we re told. it will be back up. santorum has not spent any money at all in his home state. mitt romney understands that to bring this to a formal, this is over, no one can dispute it conclusion the way to do that is to beat rick santorum in pennsylvania. it s the only state that votes april 24th that santorum has any chance of winning. if mitt romney wins that as well as new york, connecticut, rhode island, it s going to feel like this is it. it s over once and for all. that s why you re seeing so much money being spent by the romney campaign and why this ad, yes, is down today. the ad reminding people about rick santorum s lo
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editor-at-large. chris, first to you, the battle for pennsylvania, this ad blitz that romney has unveiled temporarily pulled but the santorum campaign is going to be back in gear tomorrow, we re told. it will be back up. santorum has not spent any money at all in his home state. mitt romney understands that to bring this to a formal, this is over, no one can dispute it conclusion the way to do that is to beat rick santorum in pennsylvania. it s the only state that votes april 24th that santorum has any chance of winning. if mitt romney wins that as well as new york, connecticut, rhode island, it s going to feel like this is it. it s over once and for all. that s why you re seeing so much money being spent by the romney campaign and why this ad, yes, is down today. the ad reminding people about rick santorum s loss by 18 points in 2006 in pennsylvania, it will be up as soon as rick santorum comes back on the campaign trail which we do expect to be tomorrow. so this is a temp
and time magazine s mark halperin. also financier steve rattner. and editor of the new yorker david realmna. a lot to get to this morning. so i m watching bubba watson, never taken lessons, one of the masters. and he s crying. he lost his dad last year. and all there s a just adopted a baby. all these great stories. and my phone starts ringing, you know, when he s breaking down and they re putting on the green jacket. and it s like, what s with these guys running around with green jackets and they re crying? i want to see 60 minutes. well, i didn t understand. you didn t understand what that was. no. can you explain the significance of the masters? we re not crying over a ball. we re not talking about the buick lesabre open in like youngstown. this is the masters. like no other. mika, you missed two of the greatest golf shots ever, ever, in one tournament. oh, my gosh. when you see them, even you will be impressed. no, i don t think so. i s