0 it may be a little tedious, but we re going to make sure those rights are protected. and no matter how you package it, we ll be there to unpackage it and expose un-democratic principles to those that believe in democracy. thanks for watching. i m al sharpton. hardball starts right now. in the belly of the beast. let s play hardball. good evening. i m chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with some grave robbing. we re going down into the dark, cold tomb of the late romney campaign. we re going to excavate the murky truths that were the living heart and mind of the defeated republican effort. going to exhume tonight the guts of the thinking that went on and went so wrong. tonight, we get what we only guessed at, the results of which played out in the numbers of election night. the nasty, anti-immigrant politics, the attitude toward that 47%, the failure to turn out the white male vote, the reason romney picked ryan, and the wild prelude to the clint eastwood per
0 i think we can settle this 2016 thing right now. what are you, kidding? i stopped making predictions like six seconds ago. we re great when we talk about things that happened in the past or things happening now. we re really stupid. joe klein gets the last very cautious word. thank you very much for joining me. in the belly of the beast. let s play hardball. good evening. i m chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with some grave robbing. we re going down into the dark, cold tomb of the late romney campaign. we re going to excavate the murky truths that were the living heart and mind of the defeated republican effort. quickly. the obama campaign thought it was a good moment for them only because it was a bad moment for mitt romney. this was a low moment of the romney campaign, not just because of the comments, a, they didn t know how to react, and there was a lot of internal infighting with stuart stevens and matt rhoades. they didn t really get to the brot
right over the district, points west and north, it s all clear this morning. a gorgeous summer day coming. plan accordingly. great beach and pool weather. you ll need sunblock. high humidity is gone. the low humidity has returned temporarily. and we ll have highs reaching the upper 80s to near 90 with that comfortably low humidity through the rest of the day today. so, enjoy. i ll be back in ten minutes with another weather update. right now with a traffic update, here s danella. good morning. still following breaking news on the roadway. in accokeek, maryland, if you re traveling southbound 210 at pine drive, serious crash looks to be involving two vehicles. you can see police are on this scene right now still investigating. so, all your southbound lanes are blocked. and looks like it s going to be blocked for some time. northbound right now traveling unaffected. let s head over to i-95 northbound just past the occoquan river bridge. have a disabled truck in the left shoul
virginia and in new jersey and now in massachusetts. that s exactly what scott brown tried to tap into this this campaign. and tonight in his acceptance speech he said this, tonight the independent majority has delivered a great victory. and he said, this is the people s seat. and that caused this crowd to erupt. the idea is not ted kennedy s seat, but it s the people s seat. i can also report to you that vicki kennedy, the widow of the late senator ted kennedy was called by scott brown tonight. he said that he called her and he said that he hoped he could do ted kennedy proud in that seat. i thought it was a nice touch. when he praised ted kennedy, this crowd got silent. this evening it was very partisan because this campaign when he actually had a republican crowd shouting yes, we can and john kerry s next in terms of taking him out. vicki kennedy was not here in massachusetts tonight. i m told she was at a long-planned function back in d.c., but clearly this has been a v