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easy host chris matthews. in the details in tonight's full time and then unhappy hour blend that spawn of the hottest group anonymous and google's going to invade your privacy even more and you can't do anything about it and i explain after the break. and discover it's been. communicated with a while. and becomes very. nature can give you. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so poorly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew or you don't know i'm charge is a big. i guys it's time for tonight's tool time war that's an ira giving it's one of the most recognized mainstream media hosts out there chris matthews is the host of two very well known shows and he seems to know his stuff when it comes to politics at least the horse race part of it so not only has he worked as a journalist and reporter on capitol hill for decades but he even spent some time in politics as a speechwriter for president c

nies mainstream media hosts out there chris matthews he's the host of two very well known shows and he seems to know his stuff when it comes to politics at least the horse race part of it so not only has he worked as a journalist and reporter on capitol hill for decades but he even spent some time in politics as a speechwriter for president carter as a top aide to speaker tip o'neill so with his wealth of knowledge of course he was tapped to weigh in on president obama's speech last night along with the rest of us n.b.c.'s all star team however one part of obama's state of the union address really stuck with chris matthews. this thing that came out of nowhere to be having worked up there for all those years and covered it insider trading by members of congress i mean they much to the wind must have come out of that when they heard that here's a track it's an attack institutionally against them that there is some sort of insider trading going on up there where they're benefiting from their knowledge of what's going on in committee work and going off and investing quickly in some sort of

eastern hosted by chris matthew, reverend al sharpton, rachel maddow and lawrence o'donnell p. don't miss our coverage right here on msnbc. >>> one of the biggest factors in the florida primary has been the large number of those expensive tv campaign ads. former florida governor charlie crist talked to chris matthews about the political polls reflecting the negative tone of the campaign commercials and the impact of all the money being spent on political acts. >> i think the old expression is that money is the mother's milk of politics. certainly that's been the case this week. to the romney campaign's credit, they've raised an enormous sum of money before i think the spending is about four to one compared to gingrich. that's hard to overcome and it's making an impact here just like it did in iowa for the speaker. and it's having a profound impact in florida. it's like a circled firing squad, if you will. and i know other republicans have talked about the challenge and the difficulty this could present to the nominee facing president obama who doesn't have this will kind of bac

>> this is "the chris matthews show." >> ask not what your country can do for you. >> tear down this wall. >> can i hear you. >> the time for change has come. chris: now it comes, not so sweet carolina. under assault from gingrich, perry and the hard right. does mitt romney have the stuff to take it? and build on it? he's got the money e. the family, the looks. but does he have it inside? can he show us there's more there than meets the eye? mow down politics. why are south carolina politics so down and dirty? it's where lee atwater honed his smear campaign skills, people hooked up to justifier calls and turning a murderer into michael dukakis' running mate? what makes this state for everybody that wants to be president the messiest place of all? and they want more than anything to beat obama. is this why evangelicals say they will be solid for mitt romney? does the desire for victory in november trump their dislike of his religion? i'm chris matthews. welcome to the show. with us today, "time" magazine's michael duffy. the christian scientist monitor's liz marlantes. nbc's kelly o'd

s all star team however one part of obama's state of the union address really stuck with chris matthews. this thing that came out of nowhere to be having worked up there for all those years and covered it insider trading by members of congress i mean they must to the wind must have come out of that when they heard that here is a track it's an attack institutionally against them that there is some sort of insider trading going on up there where they're benefiting from their knowledge of what's going on in committee work and going off and investing quickly in some sort of day trading or whatever on stocks i have never heard any reference to it before in my life. they were else notice how shocked you looks when he's discussing this he even goes on to say that lots of politicians in their significant others are going to be blown away by what obama is talking about. insider trading you know this is tough stuff and i wonder what he's up to if he's got something that he's going to work on here but i'll tell you the members of congress and their wives their spouses most of her dead and then whe

hi, i'm chris matthews. welcome to the show. with us today the "national journal's" major garrett, nbc's andrea mitchell. "the washington post's" kathleen parker. and "the boston globe's" neil swidey. first up, even with his bad last two weeks, full of slipups and slowed momentum, mitt romney still looks like the heavy republican favorite. that means he's got a 50-50 shot to win the white house this november. but a "new york times" poll shows that half of the voters don't know mitt romney well enough to support or oppose him. who is he? today, we look at romney's motivations, for running. and his personality. first, let's look at these three possible motivations for mitt's run. his father, george romney, ran himself in 1968. but dropped out when he slipped and said he had been brainwashed by the generals in a visit to vietnam. second, is mitt romney driven by ideology or philosophy? and third, did he have a big career in business to build a life for himself? or was it also always a foundation for politics? neil swidey, you're on

go go back to des moines and chris matthews. cs i? >> we have eugene robinson, the "washington post" and howard fineman. howard, i'm looking that the number here, relentless stall that romney's been in now, a long time. >> 23 years. >> 23% thing is not to be ignored if this holds throughout the evening, the next several hours as the full count. we have 55% now and rick -- and mitt romney has a problem. that's three-quarters of the republican party gets a really good look at him and says, no. >> yeah. i agree with that, chris. i think that the romney people were trying to spin and the conventional wisdom of the other day was if he finishes a close second here if he is all bunched up at the top, then fine, iowa's neutered, it doesn't matter, let's go on. but just the sheer lack of lift in the romney candidacy going back four years now, he basically got all the same vote, the exact -- maybe many of the same people he got four years ago except for those who died in the meantime, that he got four years ago, so to me, it can't be, having go

chris matthew hz a question for him. it had to do with this theme about romney's business background. let's take a look. >> this is a country in which somebody can start and have that kind of great success, and begrudge him now for having been successful, i think, is kind of anti-american, don't you? >> i just wonder why a fellow who has been to boarding school and is going to elite universities and never had a sweat in his life, never had to worry in his life about putting a meal on the table, should go out there and offer himself as some sort of -- is that fair? >> so by having chris matthews and rachel maddow and al sharpton on the gang on primary nights, does that change the tone and tenor of interviews like that and of the entire coverage? >> of course. of course. msnbc has redirect its style for the entire lean forward campaign as leaning to the left with sort of a political slant, and they've had some success with that. i think they're really trying to exploit that to its most profitable end, and having chris matt

>> this is the chris matthews show. [captioning made possible by nbc universal] >> the fairness doctrine. president obama's placing his bet on the deal. republicans are placing their bets the other way that voters will say fairness but fear higher taxes. just too damn rich. is mitt romney with his $250 million, his accounts in zurich too far removed to know what life in america about? for that matter is newt gingrich who breakfasts at tiffanys and suppers at freddie mac. >> helping newt get stopped after florida. what will they do if he's not. hi, i'm chris matthews. welcome to the show. with time magazine. michael duffy. the bbc's katty kay. kathleen parker and from "the daily beast" andrew sullivan. romney's problem is that just when the problem started paying attention, he's looking too rich for the times. he's made slip-ups like the $10,000 bet. and his tax return showed just how rich he is. newt is not much closer to every man than romney is. he'll be dragging along his deals at k street and charge accounts at tiff

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let's go back to chris matthews in manchester. chris? >> thank you, rachel. i'm here with debbie wasserman schultz, the u.s. congresswoman from florida, but also, of course, the chair of the democratic national committee. here we feel a fairly, i guess, expected set of results, although there were questions early on, even today, about who would come in second. it's clear now that ron paul has taken the excitement away from the huntsman campaign by grabbing second place, making no other credible democrat have that opportunity to say i'm second to mitt. now it looks like going into your part of the country, two elections from now, they'll be in florida, my question is, it looks like romney, is this the guy you were planning to face? >> well, we've been focused on trying to build our campaign the most significant, robust grassroots campaign in presidential history. we've got seven offices around the state of new hampshire. we've had 500 events. we had 25 house parties around the state tonight. and tomorrow, when all of the republican candidates pack up and go on

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i want to go to chris matthews in des moines. chris, on the issue of whether or not ron paul's supporters are available to be courted by any means in the republican party or if they are seen as a species apart. what's your view on that? >> well, i think the republican party has, unfortunately, for it, built itself over the droppings of the democratic party for about 50 years. they picked up all the segregationists who went from the democratic party after the civil rights bill of '64 and the voting rights act. they all became republicans because the republicans were seen as the more rightist party. then of course you've got the moral majority who left after the prayer decision. they all moved over there. then you've got the neo cons who are formally liberal some of them all moved over there. they are so junk laden with these droppings for the democratic party they can't think. if they could think, if they were a dynamic political party, they would listen to ron paul because they would hear in him the voice of barry goldwater, the

chris matthews and david gregory are in des moines. when we return stay with us for full coverage of the iowa caucuses here on msnbc. >>> we are back with msnbc's ongoing coverage of the iowa caucuses which at this hour are too close to call. mitt romney, rick santorum, and ron paul bunched at the top, 27% in. as you see there all with 23% of the vote. let's go back to des moines, iowa, and chris matthews. >> well, this is an interesting night. i've got former oklahoma congressman j.c. watts with us and he is definitely with newt gingrich. i was just saying all night watching this fight between it's almost like john henry fighting the machine, you know, with newt up against those negative ads running against him out here relentlessly, how does he carry on the fight? this one man against this multimillion dollar pac that doesn't even have romney's name on it. >> it's tough. a month ago i would have told you i'm sick of the debates. i thought we were debating ourselves to death but i think that is the way newt gets an opportunity to kind

let's check back in now with chris matthews who is in des moines. chris? >> joining me right now, as you said, rachel, i've got michael steele, the former chair of the republican national committee and eugene washington, the great columnist of the "washington post." gentlemen, i want to saw tough question. what's the most consequential result tonight in terms of who wins? >> oh, in terms -- in terms who have comes out of this thing on top tonight. if it's mitt romney, it's, you know, sort of of a firmation of everything up till now didn't matter. at the end. day he got the number he needed to go forward to new hampshire and beyond to take the nomination. if a santorum wins, for example, it's the big deal, a base sending the message to romney, that 25%, you're going to need more if you want that nomination, and right now our love is with somebody like santorum. >> if romney wins, the establishment candidate moves ahead to new hampshire, wins again and perhaps wins the nomination. >> yeah. >> if the challenge comes from santorum effectively tonight. >> the b

the liberal media, god bless chris matthews, any time a conservative speaks, he is not exactly happy. here is him trying to turn this into a racial comment. watch this. >> he got a lot of applause for that. why saying that would give you a big applause. this whole thing is about race. it's about a candidate who knows just how to make his point to appeal to a certain kind of voter. somebody talking about food stamps, calling him a food stamp president when nobody is talking about food stamps knows precisely what he is talking about. it's about a cartoon, a people of getting assistance are lazy, don't want to work and are black. >> sean: one in six americans are in poverty. 50% of young african-americans could not get a job this summer. unemployed. 46 million americans needing food stamps. >> many more white americans on food stamps, but the point here, chris matthews, it has to be addressed as such and put aside as such. i think the more important question juan williams, particularly on south carolina particularly on the night of martin luther king's birthday what the role of federal p

good to have you both along with chris matthews. i mean, really, do we need to talk about that comment by ron sprebus, who i like a lot, but that was just wrong. >> contempt. >> that was disgusting. i'm sorry. take it back. you all screwed up in a big way. you all sat around in a room and said, ooh, this would be so cool to say, ha ha ha, you slapped your knees and then you went on the air and then you spit that out, you vomited that out and made a fool of yourself. are we done? does anyone want to add? >> look. >> does anyone want to add? >> i don't know that you can say that was anything more than an independent contractor using his own words and his own writing. >> so, you don't think the republican national committee sat around and planned that before he went on "face the nation" with bob schieffer? >> i don't think so, and there is name-calling there, and i don't appreciate the name-calling any more than you do. however, there is also a point under it. the president does, in the state of the union, kind of revert back to a kind

hi, i'm chris matthews. happy new year and welcome to the show. with us today, the national journal's major garret, cnn's gory borger, kelly o'donnell and david ignatius. happy new year. we have been looking forward to this presidential election year it seems forever. finally, we're on the verge of the first voting. we want to give you a road map for the rest of this year. no matter who the republicans choose ultimately, voters will have to decide whether to trust barack obama with for more years. his low poll numbers and his people say that he must begin to tear down the opposition. so it stands to be a historically negative year. right now it looks like you would have to go back to nixon-mcgovern in 1972 to find a year when americans faced their presidential ballot so dismayed by what is confronting them. major, this year, how negative is this going to get between now and november? >> the president doesn't have much of a record to run on. he intends to define the choice, not about what he has done, but what a republican would do that would be ev

reaction from chris matthews leading coverage from miami. the voters in florida tonight there are more republicans voting tonight than in all of the previous contests combined and then some. more older voter, more diverse, more latino electorate. what do you think is important to watch for tonight? >> well it is a big state. as i said earlier on "hardball" tonight, it is only one of the top four states in electoral clout that really swings back and forth between the party, except for one time in 1992, all the way took '64, they have been with the winners. florida tends to be where the country is. so, it is very important, as you point out, a big state that does in many ways, add it all up, although is very varied throughout the state, all ends up being americana. the big question, will it solve this fight? i don't think it will. there is a bat in the republican right between its head, that's romney, and its gut, and that's newt gingrich. but its heart doesn't go to any of these guys there is no reagan running. there is no ike running. there'

chris matthews was on msnbc. i just watched it earlier in the green room. i watched it with paul and he was so stupid. they were talking about how newt would address juan williams as juan. he would ask a question and newt would say, well, juan. chris matthews says, you can't describe it when you see. it but you know it. he said it was racist for him to call him by his first name. >> he went on to say there is more obligation to call me out on that to make newt less racist. i actually think chris matthews may be the dumbest person ever to be on television. i know him, i know him well. and i can say this with sincerity, he is truly a more ron, and that's how i felt. >> that's a "red eye" exclusive. >> in defense of him, -- >> there is no defending him. >> every time gingrich said juan he went -- like that. i don't know. i don't know. a little racist? maybe. >> i just dvred it and skipped through that stuff. >> you almost say it like it is a compliment. you are almost impressed. >> it is a thing of magesty. >> doesn't it speak to nature? doesn't that speak to

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chris matthews? >> i think we've just seen the terms of engagement here established for the crusade in new hampshire by newt gingrich. he's going to go after mitt romney up there on his record on health care, on his massachusetts moderation, on his taking care of decay up there basically and he's going to try to fund the campaign by a fear with people have some money against the threat of ron paul. it's going to be a campaign against newt romney financed out of fear that the republican party might be taken over by the rand paul people against defending our a lie in the middle east israel and having a foreign policy of any kind of aggression at all. i just heard newt do what he had to do. he's got to raise a lot of money in the next couple of days. and the only way he can do that is put up the big danger sign it's vulnerable to losing foreign policy, its aggressive it had under w. and reagan and saying i have to fight that fight, i need your money but i need your money to destroy mitt romney up there