chris matthews, thank you. boy, it s getting late, isn t it? i screwed up chris name. we re get shanky. if trump s name was unspoken last night, impeachment was unspoken tonight. none of that came up. and lawrence o donald you started to speak truth to power last night. i want to go deep into that well. in these two stages the last two nights there are secretaries of agriculture, commerce, the attorney general, omb. this is what happens in the party because there can be one nominee and one vp nominee. yeah, and there are a bunch of vp nominees. you think the bench is good right now for the party? both nights. most of them would be solid possible vp choices, and again that will depend on how well they do with voters ultimately. i mean, that s how john edwards
Everybody in that world gets preoccupied with that job. i am not preoccupied with that job. i m preoccupied with this one. as you can tell, i ve got plenty to do. so it s not like i ve got some spare time to spend. steve, we know what all of this does for that narrative that governor christie is a bully. but what about this other narrative that has not necessarily gotten a great deal of play today. we know when governor christie was on the short list for being one of romney s possible vp nominees, we were told by some that he was not considered because there are things that we don t know about chris christie. what does this do for that narrative? well, right. what today has done, it s left a lot of questions hanging in the air. i am struck by the way christie framed this today, where he came out and penned this primarily on
Started because congressional black caucus representatives made the charge that senator mccain was racist, but, it s also an indictment of a totally incurious press. i mean, where are most reporters on important questions, issues of fact like what happened in benghazi, what happened before? why was there so little security. what did they do? what did they say they did after the fact? we still don t know. and where was president obama for all of us. probably afraid of being called racist, truly, that s what it s turned into, i think, people, the setup, if you oppose susan rice, you re a racist, not that there could be legitimate questions, not that senators don t oppose p nominees utility time. and nothing that they ve said in spades about john bolton. am i allowed to say that. you re being anti-mustache. are the media cheering for
Started because congressional black caucus representatives made the charge that senator mccain was racist, but, it s also an indictment of a totally incurious press. i mean, where are most reporters on important questions, issues of fact like what happened in benghazi, what happened before? why was there so little security. what did they do? what did they say they did after the fact? we still don t know. and where was president obama for all of us. probably afraid of being called racist, truly, that s what it s turned into, i think, people, the setup, if you oppose susan rice, you re a racist, not that there could be legitimate questions, not that senators don t oppose p nominees utility time. and nothing that they ve said in spades about john bolton. am i allowed to say that. you re being anti-mustache. are the media cheering for
Ago, who was not very well known, you want that rollout to be good. a lot of people s first instinct is to go to wikipedia, if you re not familiar with the candidate. i mean, 103 changes to rob portman s page is quite a lot. i didn t know there were 103 facts worth knowing about rob portman. i don t know if rob portman knew there were 103 facts worth knowing. but in terms of the wisdom of the crowd, i mean, there are various conspiracy theories about how involved the romney campaign is in throwing people off the scent. there s this mysterious bus tour he s embarking on, some people that s just to confuse matters. the candidate himself said, you know, do you think we d be so silly as to not sort of throw you guys off the scent? when it comes to this stuff, intrade is another area where folks go to sort of read tee leaves. and intrade is ranking the republican vp nominees. rob portman is at the top with a 30% chance. tim pawlenty s at a 20% chance. marco rubio, 11.9. paul ryan, 9.6. co