be on offense. also a moral argument to be made. who are you to tell someone they don t deserve to take their kid to a doctor. it is bad for the country. that doesn t make sense. yeah, the whole language of entitlements, giveaways. don t think it works, for so many people, working people consider a necessary part of every civilized life. trying to have their family have health insurance. karen finney, saturday, sunday on msnbc. thank you for joining us. thank you. coming up. never charged after the rape investigation was dropped against winston, the new york times took a closer look at what happened and they found real problems, interesting important stuff here. need a hotel room until you re sure you do. bartender: thanks, captain obvious. co: which is why i put the hotels.com mobile app on my mobile phone. anyone need a coupon? i don t.
martinez s political team came out with a strong counterattack today. their statement opened three lines of push back. one nay attacked the media calling mother jones magazine an extreme left wing blog. using four-year-old material. two, they stressed these leaks are not only unauthorized but they re tied to potentially illegal conduct. private conversations undoubtedly sent to mother jones by individuals or their allies who are either under federal indictment or have had their homes raided by the fbi and three they say this is part of a smear campaign by the national left. the national left is trying to smear the first hispanic woman governor in american history. they view her as a threat. as surprising as national enquirer reporting, elvis is still alive. joining me is senior reporter at mother jones, who broke the story. and eugene robinson. columnist for the post. msnbc analyst welcome to you both. andy, out of the gate. let me get your response to the
i haven t even been sworn in for my second term yet. i ve fot work to do here, and that s my focus. my focus is on the people of new jersey and the job that they gave me. and so all those considerations are, you know, the kind of hysteria that goes around this because everybody s in that world gets preoccupied with that job. i am not preoccupied with that job. i m preoccupied with this one. and as you can tell, i ve got plenty to do. it s not like i ve got some spare time to spend. hoo joining me now, karen finney, host of disrupt on saturday and sunday on msnbc, and msnbc political analyst jonathan alter. lots of angles here. karen, you first because you ve been on staff. you ve worked for political figures in the past. how much of a downfall is this for chris christie if he wants to lead the country if this happens on his staff? it s a huge down fall, but i think part of what it is, we don t know what we don t know. if everything that he said today
sunday on msnbc. we re happy to have it on air. everyone should watch it because i think we, even those of us in the media and in the reporting class forget about human stories being at the root of this. it s a shot in the arm in terms of who we are as americans, it makes you feel good about people who want so badly to be here and who are incredibly accomplished through drive and belief in this country and what it offers, so congratulations on the film. it s called the dream is now. we have a website, thedreamisnow.org. . coming up, is north korea launching a missile? and is it launching it any time soon? a live report from nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell, live on the korean peninsula, next on now. no. okay. this, won t take long will it? no, not at all. how many of these can we do on our budget?
here. thank you so much for being here. you have to go. you have to get ready because alex is also hosting a special education nation show titled the parents teachers association tomorrow, sunday on msnbc at 6:00 p.m. eastern. up next, started more than 25 years ago and raised millions of dollars. mission to keep family farm others their land. musician willie nelson, of farm aid, is on the road again, and is here to talk with us next. now, that s what i call a test drive. silverado! the most dependable, longest lasting, full-size pickups on the road. so, what do you think? [ engine revs ] i ll take it. [ male announcer ] it s chevy truck month. now during chevy truck month, get 0% apr financing for 60 months or trade up to get the 2012 chevy silverado all-star edition with a total value of $8,000.