deadly clashes in cairo as protesters rebel against the military regime and lack of progress since the ouster of mubarak. good afternoon. i m andrea mitchell. the dust up over religion is the latest controversy in the republican race. chuck todd is with us. it seems to be a distraction but an important distraction because of the calendar. you look at iowa, south carolina, large numbers of evangelical voters, mitt romney needs to get past those races and he is being challenged. there is belief in romney lore, and the reason he ultimately lost iowa, that mike huckabee got there, that somehow mike huckabee took advantage of an anti-mormon whisper campaign. when you look at the campaign, de-emphasizing social issues, and de-emphasizing resources in iowa and south carolina, that it is a way to not have to confront this issue where there are a lot of evangelicals that are uncomfortable with mitt romney s faith. now not uncomfortable, suspicious. they also thought the romn
the windows encouraging them. and the arab spring turns ugly in autumn. deadly clashes in cairo as protesters rebel against the military regime and lack of progress since the ouster of mubarak. good afternoon. i m andrea mitchell. the dust up over religion is the latest controversy in the republican race. chuck todd is with us. it seems to be a distraction but an important distraction because of the calendar. you look at iowa, south carolina, large numbers of evangelical voters, mitt romney needs to get past those races and he is being challenged. there is belief in romney lore, and the reason he ultimately lost iowa, that mike huckabee got there, that somehow mike huckabee took advantage of an anti-mormon whisper campaign. when you look at the campaign, de-emphasizing social issues, and de-emphasizing resources in iowa and south carolina, that it is a way to not have to confront this issue where there are a lot of evangelicals that are uncomfortable with mitt romney s
to say that when they move to try and repeal health care a week from tomorrow, that the hit on the deficit will not matter. that kind of film flam is exactly what the american people came to expect the last time the republicans were in charge. all right. good morning. it is wednesday, january 5th. we are in washington as the 112th congress will be sworn in today. welcome to morning joe. joining us on the set, msnbc political analyst pat buchanan, msnbc chief washington correspondent norah o donnell, and political reporter for the huffinigton post, sam stein. good to be here, isn t it. what is film flam? they ve got to come up with better film flam. van hollen went on to say those young whipper snappers. i won t stand for film flam up here, bright and early. let the games begin as somebody said here. norah, that s an unusual tough joust. enron-style accounting from republicans before they take control. i guess it s no kumbaya. you can see they re already at
they take over the house. 12 republican house lawmakers are at the tart lumber company in sterling, virginia. they ll roll out the pledge and talk to small business owners. luke russert is on capitol hill for us and, luke, give us the thumbnail sketch here. what is in this pledge? the pledge has to deal with five other areas. it has to deal with jobs, the economy, reforming congress and congress spending national security and some of the specific things you ll see in this pledge from the republicans today, they ll rule out the following. they want to reduce government spending and go back to 2008 levels that has to do with national security. they want to repeal the national health care law and mortgage giants fannie mae and freddie mac and they want to make the bush tax cuts permanent. those are some of the main facefa facets and president obama is coming on stage right now and we ll hear from him and his national security speech. the president, when you recall when he fi
world. his stuff is great. wait until you see it all. good morning, everyone. welcome to msnbc saturday. i m alex witt. it s 11:00 a.m. on the east coast and 8:00 a.m. out west. developing right now, swedish authorities are looking to question the wikileaks founder. an arrest warrant in sweden is issued for the man behind the famous whistleblower website. and nbc s reporter is in london with more. good morning. what are you learning today? reporter: good morning, alex. sweetish authorities have issued a warrant for his arrest on suspicion of molestation and rape in two separate cases. they re saying that they re urging him to contact the police and say they re seeking the arrest as part of the investigation. this doesn t necessarily mean that the charges will be find. what it means is that they just want to question him. the australian denied the allegations on the wikileaks twitter page saying that they re without basis and the issue of this moment is deeply disturbing.