he s the author of tip and the gipper. also in new york democratic senator from new york senator chuck schumer. so we have quite a group. caught the shuttle last night. let s get moving. we ll start with you chris matthews. chris, score it for us. how did it end up politically. in 25 seconds or less. i think it s about tactics not philosophy or health care. i think the tactics of the right the hard right really failed. their quest here for greatness. people didn t like the tactics. i think we ll still argue about spending and we should. we ll argue about policy and health care as we should and that will continue. the tactic of basically stopping the government for your own political points and then risking in fact hurting our standing in the world economically that s a big price to pay. i don t think the ends justify the means. chuck todd i ve been very tough on ted cruz every day but it s over.
hostage, jessica buchanan. she s at a hospital in italy. she s going through what s callcal called a reintegration. it requires time. it s to max mime health and welfare. the question is could she be coming home soon. wish her well nonetheless. special delivery. can you say hot sauce? i woke up to the story and thought, oh, my man, what a delivery. politic and tacos, folks. hundreds and hundreds of tacos going to the office of the mayor of east haven, connecticut. i think you know who s behind this, why it happened and what s the reaction to it. we have an amazing video. a snow blower rider fell hundreds of feet. what he did after the crash. there were three angles on that. let me tell you. it looks like he s completely busted up or we wouldn t be showing you the video. we wouldn t have be showing you the video. i like good x games, i tell you. a real daredevil. let s go to the x games of politics, shall we? it was the gop s final four, and they were pulli
the fact is, your white house said that if you got the stimulus, the $800 billion, that unemployment would stay under 8 percent. in fact, with the stimulus, unemployment has stayed over 8 percent for the last 42 months, 3 1/2 years. guest: chris, first of all i was in the running around saying anything other than we have to be persistent. it took years to get in the mess. chris: you talked about recovery summer. guest: you should show me the tape of me saying that. i have been consistent about the fact we need to be persistent in ourest but what we cannot do is go back to, moody s an lifed governor romney s plan to the degree you can because there are not enough specifics to score it, they say it could tip us back into arecession because it ratchets down the things we need to keep the economy growing.