today s sound bite world, a simpler impeachment article is probably going to be more effective. interesting. so, your lesson from johnson, not stipulating where you fall on these issues, but your lesson is if you do want to impeach a president, as many in congress are on record of wanting to do, you say simple and fewer articles? number of articles, i m not as interested in. i do think an article should be clear and simple and easy to understand. this is a political process. nobody is going to vote for impeachment unless they think the voters want it, or at least most of them won t. you won t get a lot of profiles from courage in those votes. in order to mold public opinion and bring it around, simple is always going to be more effective. jeffrey, what do you think? i agree simple is better. the lesson of the johnson impeachment was don t impeach on legal technicalities.
the 30-second sound bite world in which we live in in the social media sphere we live in it s very hard to sort of push back and put that in context in a political argument. so this is something where democrats in the past are starting to see an opening we all remember the famous war on women analogy that the republicans were guilty of in 2012. they don t have that high ground as much in this capacity because they just don t know what s out there and what s to come. nbc s luke russert on capitol hill for us. great seeing you. next using comedy to fight hate. that s the goal of the first ever american muslim comedy fest happening now in new york city. we ll tell you about that. but first, check out this sharknado 3 comedy. that s my friend coming up. where is he? there s al. where is jorge? that s the big question. shares a shark. there s other people. there s a guy flying. i don t think we have him. but he s there. so i don t know what i just
sunday mr. obama vowed to prevent it. here s part of santorum s address this morning. as i sat and watch this play out on the world stage, i ve seen the president who has been reticent. he says he has israel s back. from everything i ve seen from the conduct of this administration, he has turned his back on the people of israel. israel prime minister told the group time is running out for a peaceful resolution to the threat of a nuclear iran. benjamin netanyahu s remarkses came after his meeting with president obama and before his visit the leaders of congress. netanyahu met with top senators and next hour he will meet with house leaders. now in the 1:00 hour, president obama will hold a news conference. if that shifts the spotlight, at least momentarily from republican presidential politics, well, it s the perk of being president. he s expected to announce more help for homeowners at the risk of foreclosure. one step is tailored for service members and veterans who can
minnesota, missouri and maine all hold contests in the next week and a half. the candidates have a lot of ground to cover and not much time. for mitt romney this day after his big victory in florida turned out to be pretty rock yichlt during an interview this morning, romney gave his opponents a new gift. yet another inelegant remark that s easy, very easy to take out of context. i m in this race because i care about americans. i m not concerned about the very poor. we have a safety net there. if it need repair i ll fix it. i m not concerned about the very rich. they re doing just fine. i m concerned about the very heart of america, the 90-95% of americans who right now are struggling. i ll continue to take that message across the nation. last question but i got to ask you. you just said i m not concerned about the very poor because they have a safety net. and i think there are lots of very poor americans who are struggling who would say that sounds odd. can you explain t
of the 2008 campaign. maybe what they ve decided is to tap some of the skill set that was successful in getting him elected, to now sell his proposals and his plans to the american people. a second explanation is a lot of the stuff is very complicated and can t be explained in the sort of the 20-second sound bite world in which we live. you re absolutely right. let s talk about the blend here of trying to push along parts of the jobs plan or campaigning. you hear mitch mcconnell and others say the president is all about campaigning right now. what do you make of this? this is just a nonsensical line of conversation? we know he s looking at re-election. one would assume they are all, both democrats and republicans are thinking about how to get people back to work. damned if he does, damned if he doesn t. if he got on that bus and instead went out and strictly campaigned, you know what mitch mcconnell would be saying. he would be saying, look at the president flag he is out there cam