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joe biden is real. he's genuine. you can feel his compassion. >> joe biden knows how to talk to ordinary americans. these are ordinary americans here. they have a commitment to civil rights. he promised that under his administration, the commitment would never waiver. >> cenk: michael, a lot of them gave a diplomatic answer. my question to you is do you think they meant it? it is okay the president is busy or do you think they were a little disappointed but they were talking on tv so they didn't want to say anything bad about president obama? >> you know, cenk, that's a great question. it is a question a lot of people would have had going in. joe biden opened up today. i misspoke and said mr. president was there. joe biden was the one giving the speech. he came in and he said to the crowd there right away, it is good to be home. as soon as he said that, everybody knew that they had the right guy in front of them. by the end of the day i think people did forget. i think it superseded diplomacy. people were happy with

i don't know if it's biden or -- people seem to be running late for joe biden today. i think that might explain some of the delay. there's a lot of empty chairs in that room right now. >> well, ladies, i am going to please ask you to stand by while those seats do get filled and they obviously get the lights ready for joe biden to step up to the mikes there at the naacp. donna, ana, stay with me. we will join the speech and we'll talk about it afterwards. in >>> meanwhile, it's damming, it's scathing, and it's what a lot of people already suspected. we're talking about louis freeh and his investigation into the jerry sandusky case. his report just issued a short while ago reveals that penn state officials completely disregarded signs pointing to sandusky's abuse of children and totally failed to protect the victims. take a listen. >> our most saddening and sobering finding is the total disregard for the safety and welfare of sandusky's child victims by the most senior leaders at penn state. the most powerful men at penn state failed to take any steps for 14 years to pr

jill biden and the vice president of the united states, joe biden. [ applause ] [ cheers and applause ] >> welcome! n nea delegates, are you ready for a great day? i understand the lines were better. yeah? so i was just thinking, if vice president biden wants to return as the re-elected vice president of the united states, we know how to do it right. now, it is my great honor to introduce a very special guest. actually, she doesn't really seem like a guest at all. she seems more like family, because she is a life-long educator and a former member of the national education association. most americans know jill biden as the second lady but we also know her as dr. jill biden, because she received her ph.d. from the university of delaware and she wrote her dissertation, she wrote her dissertation on maximizing student retention in community colleges, and when we talk about access and equity in education, we understand the critical role community colleges play in meeting those needs, especially for those students who are trying to balance education, work and raising a family. dr. biden und

all jokes aside here, but the vp getting all the love today is joe biden after his naacp speech. he was booed for ending his speech contrasting of course to mitt romney, who was booed for using a phrase, obama care. how would you rate biden's speech today? >> i thought it was like a ten plus plus plus plus. he was awesome. i was on twitter. it was blowing up. people were so excited to see joe biden there particularly because he did what mitt romney failed to do and that is he spoke from the heart and talked about vision, right? he said this is the vision that president obama and i have. i also think you cannot underestimate and underscore given joe biden's personal relationship with the naacp in his own work, lifetime, having

even joe biden. this is suppressing talks. >> going after paul ryan's budget, he said this is got what romney's doing. >> if you watch to demagogue it. >>> paul ryan at least, i have often said, i didn't like the voucher part of it, he just have just lowered the rate of growth. i may have spoke on for, what, 20 and a half minutes and now we got to turn it over to steve ratner to come up with these bias left wing shorts. go ahead, let's watch the numbers, let's hear the facts. good morning, steve. >> what do they have in the water up there. >> i'm just pushing back. >> i haven't even pushed yet and you're pushing back. >> poor rat never. >> you take on joe, you give him the charts andlet see what he says. >> i understand what you're saying about obama. let's litigate romney, because romney has endorsed the ryan budget. all the problems that you identified with entitlements is absolutely true, they're going bankrupt, they're stealing from our children, everything you have said, you can debate separatel

he sent joe biden. we'll talk about this in the next segment. 14.4% unemployment in the black community. 50% youth unemployment in the black community. we have discussed this privately. 11% in the hispanic community. how does he make the case to his base that he deserves another chance? how. >> he is trying to improve the economy for all americans. he doesn't want to be cataloged as the black president -- he is trying to make this economy work, he is investing in everything from health care to the green energy jobs that you were just criticizing him for. he is trying to make sure that this economy produces jobs. he saved g.m -- those are jobs. a lot of middle-class black people know the power of g.m. >> sean: last word to governor sununu. >> the mainstream media, in my opinion, has done a disservice to the naacp. they talk about the small incident, where a small number of folks boo'd the governor. naacp deserves credit for inviting him to come there. they treated him well. they were very professional. a

vice president joe biden, someone in the higher levels of the naacp calling joe biden a friend of the naacp. mitt romney, was he a friend to the organization yesterday? >> i think romney unfortunately really set biden up well here. he came there and used the phrase repeal obama care. he signalled disrespect to the president. that's not the way to win votes with this crowd. it felt like they were being used and that was just, i think, he could have done much better. >> what would you have preferred to hear from mitt romney yesterday? >> we wanted to hear what his plan was. how are you going to make it easier for small businesses to grow and flourish? deal with the credit crunch. >> you're fine. keep going. >> what's the one, two, three to deal with jobs. how are you going to create jobs in our community? talk about, for instance, the common ground between the civil rights community and the tea party in states like texas around criminal justice reform? some sort of bridge. he came there and felt like he intended to burn a bridge. that's not good. >> the vice president, it did sound at l

god bless her soul. >> the joe biden vp of comedy tour. you'll vp your pants laughing. >> i promise you the president has a big stick. >> i'm mitt romney and i approved this message. >> and a big surprise was caught on camera for a group of myrtle beach vacationers who were fishing off their back deck. >> you got the line. oh, oh [ bleep ]! oh, jesus christ! >> what he said! >> sara was pulling in her catch when a six to seven-foot bull shark snatched her fish, as it turns out, bull sharks are fairly common in south carolina waters, that's a nice way to start off your vacation. that's amazing. >>> still ahead on "way too early"? your fishy tweets, texts and emails are next. and "morning joe" now just moments away. ♪ the one and only, cheerios >>> at the top of the show, we asked you, why are you awake. producer john tower has answers. >> we've got a john? alabama, my cat got me up to change her water bowl with her two cubes of ice. >> that's one pampered cat. >> wonder if patrick gavin does the same thing for his cats. >> don't want to k

and that was a great speech by joe biden. he raises all the issues, after listening to him, i wouldn't be surprised if we did see connor on the ticket. he's still up for the vice presidency, right? >> i just want to challenge one thing, howard. i agree, he certainly connects with the base. he connects with african-american voters. he connects with white working-class, blue collar voters. we love joe. that's why we love joe. at the same time, a speech like this, though, often gets white working-class voters rolling their eyes, saying come on, man, as joe biden says to himself, come on, man, this ain't 1963 and don't try to paint false choices. >> joe, some ways it is 1963p pp what they're doing with voting suppression is shocking. >> come on. >> it is shocking. 780,000 people will be ineligible to vote in pennsylvania as a result of what the pennsylvania republicans passed. this is not a joke for african-americans in this country when you start taking away their rights to vote. that is what voter suppression is aimed at, hispa

people like joe biden. who doesn't like joe biden. that is very helpful for the president because the president is not the most, you know, emotionally engaging person when you see him on television while joe biden gives everything he has to the camera. >> susan, what can the vice president bring from the middle, the undecideds. >> you mean as far as romney's choice? >> no in terms of what vice president joe biden can do. >> jamal hit it exactly right. he really has a way of connecting with people. he's rather plain spoken. he says what he means, he means what he says. i mean he's prone to gaffes too but even his gaffes are kind of like heart warming in a way because they are really not done with any malice. >> i was going to ask jamal if he swore to his mother. i'm joking. susan thank you for your time. jamal as well. >> mourners are remembering and honoring the colorado shooting victims today. three victims will be remembered during funerals and visitations. this as 12 survivors remain in the hospital. miguel has more. >> reporter: g

do you get the feeling that every time joe biden speaks, president obama wishes biden's parents never really did do it? >> this summer, don't miss your chance to see america's funniest number two. joe biden, v.p. of comedy. >> those walls were very thin. i wonder how the hell my parents did it. but that's a different story. >> the joe biden v.p. of comedy tour. you'll v.p. your pants laughing. >> i promise you. the president has a big stick. >> oh. >>> that's what's making news in america this morning. >> stay with us for "good morning america." >> stay with us for "good morning america." have a great w captioned by closed captioning services, inc.

he sent vice president joe biden in instead. you also see why biden is a very effective surrogate for president obama in the campaign. he's actually able to say things probably president obama can't or doesn't do as effective of a job. when you saw joe biden tick through the accomplishments of the obama administration, the health care passage, the killing of osama bin laden, those are things that actually we haven't seen president obama make as effectively and so you end up having joe biden making those arguments for president obama today. >> and meanwhile the other big theme today in the campaign is outsourcing. the back and forth, "boston globe" with a new story today alleging that mitt romney actually left much later, he was signing s.e.c. documents two years after he said in his financial disclosures he actually left bain capital. and at the same time, a new mitt romney campaign ad accusing team obama of lying about outsourcing as well. >> a furious back and forth, d andr andrea. the romney campaign has called that "boston g

and this was a situation that high leveled that in an extreme way. >> joe biden does have -- it's part of his own condition of putting his foot in your mouth. and mitt romney doesn't do that and certainly for an audience like the naacp where so much of our tradition arises out of the black church, including sort of a public speaking with that sort of fire, joe biden just stylistically had won the audience over. >> always a pleasure and of course you can watch melissa harris-perry every saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >>> coming up, the battle over bain. >>> also new rumors that condi rice is at the top of romney's vp list. huh? but was the timing of this news just a diversion? ♪ [ male announcer ] ok, so you're no marathon man. but thanks to the htc one x from at&t, with its built in beats audio, every note sounds amazingly clear. ...making it easy to get lost in the music... and, well... rio vista?!! [ male announcer ] ...lost. introducing the musically enhanced htc one x from at&t. rethink possible. introducing the musically enhanced htc one x from at&t. i just wish it wouldn't fad

they're letting joe biden do it. i don't know how that will resonate with african-americans but i don't think it will hurt him at the polls. >> fred, i want to talk about your book. we have mentioned it, you had an op-ed in the "washington post" which we discussed and we talk about sort of the impact of the president on race relations in america and concerns among the african-american community which has been disproportionately affected by the economic downturn. you write obama's race neutral campaign strategy has spilled over to his approach to governing. the strategy has exacted a heavy cost positilitics once dominate strategies. though his success as a presidential candidate is a testament to the success of coalition politics as well as to the effectiveness of race neutral campaign strategies, these approaches to black politics have marginalized rather than elevated race specific issues on to the national political agenda. >> yeah. this is a contradiction because what we see here is presidential silence around iss

biden instead because, you know, joe biden really got the crowd pretty riled up there. >> he did. that's exactly what de. there was a big argument why the president didn't go. the naacp and african-americans understand that the president needs to focus on, you know, the country as a collective and joe biden was a great is your rogate. -- surrogate and delivered the message. eight more years of george bush policies. >> alice, whatever your politics, regardless of your political leanings, why have we never seen mitt romney give a speech remotely close to the level of rousingness and a word i just created why we've never seen anything like that from him. is he not capable of it. is it not his style. >> rousingness works for the speech give end by the vice president. he did an excellent job. very well received. it was like a family reunion. what was interesting to note is what he didn't talk about. he didn't talk about the 14.4% unemployment in the african-american community. he didn't talk about the 23 million americans out of work. he didn't talk about the rising debt and deficit in

then watch joe biden. you didn't play any of his speech. it was terrific. he has a comfort level with this audience and a lot of audiences, and you see immediately why he is on the ticket. he has a chilly boss, and he warms him up. he was terrific, and this crowd knows they have friends in the white house. it's a plus-plus for obama, and romney did a good job, too. >> okay. in an interview this week president obama was asked, quote, what was your biterm. this was his answer. >> the mistake of my first term, couple of years, was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right. and that's important. but, you know, the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the american people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times. >> question. was this a hot sauce answer by president obama or was this a clever way of avoiding saying anything negative about the policies of his first term? you get the question? >> yes. president obama is a guy who in his college interview is asked what's your wiggest fl

. >> well, vice president joe biden made a sex joke in his speech yesterday. he referred to the house he grew up in. they didn't have much money. and biden said the walls were very thin. and i wondered how my parents ever did it. do you get the feeling that every time biden speaks, president obama wishes biden's parents never did do it? >> this summer, don't miss your chance to see america's funniest number two. joe biden, v.p. of comedy. >> those walls were very thin. i wonder how the hell my parents did it. but that's a different story. >> the joe biden v.p. tour. you'll v.p. your pants laughing. >> i promise you. the president has

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now, serving as the 47th vice president biden of the united states, joe biden -- vice president of the united states, joe biden continues to provide leadership on the important issues facing our nation. [applause] of relevant interest to this audience, joe biden was a standout high school athlete who participated in an anti- segregation sit-in at a wilmington theater. he is married to dr. jill biden, they have three children and five grandchildren. [applause] naacp delegates, do join me in offering a family welcome to the vice president of the united states of america, joseph r. biden. [applause] >> hello. thank you very much. you know what they say, flattery is ok as long as you do not inhale. you keep this up i will start inhaling. it is good to be home, it is good to be back. ladies and gentlemen, madam chair, as we used to say that in the senate, to excuse a point of personal privilege, where is delaware? hey, delaware! i'm a lifetime member of the naacp. they brung me to the dance. i was educated, and i went to the battle with mouse. hey, mouse, how are you doing, man? mouse and i

joe biden will be giving a speech today. do you think there is going to be backlash for the president on that? >> there will not be backlash in terms of i think at the polls, but i can tell you now i talked to a number of people, board members and regular attendees and delegates who are happy the president is not there and this is the third consecutive year the president has not spoken to the naacp. he did speak in 2009 for the 100th anniversary and he will speak to the national urban league and they believe with voter suppression being a critical issue and the naacp and focusing on social justice, the president should be there. eric holder was there on tuesday, but, look, i heard it. i have heard it talked about on social media. some people say, say, he is busy, he really doesn't have to go and others say if you are going to the human rights campaign, have you gone to other groups, this is an important constituency in a tough, close election he should be there. >> and mitt romney said, hey, if i am elected i will be here ne

biden -- >> joe biden was a rock star this week! come on! you put joe biden up against mitt romney. >> he ranks up there with alexander throttlebottom! [ laughter ] john adams the depression era musical, the vice president was alexander throttlebottom who wandered in and out on stage -- you know your musical theater. >> you're causing me to sweat here! >> good! that's why i'm supposed to be here! >> i wasn't sure if it was inappropriate or not! the big issue the past two days has been chinese-made, u.s. olympic uniforms. what gives? why did the u.s. olympic committee do this? it's so embarrassing. is it too late to reverse and should they? >> yeah, they should. here's a bipartisan issue. have a bonfire get rid of them and get new uniforms. this is nuts! what surprised me is mitt not pivoting and going after that. >> because he's in the throttle dws bottom! >> i feel like the horse has already left the stable at this point. the uniforms are already out there. the basketball team is already playing in it. >> give it to an american com

>> joe biden isn't black? >> really, he was blacking it up that day. >> it's good to be home. it's good to be home. ladies and gentlemen, i'm a live time member of the naacp and i went through the battle with mouse. mouse, are you out there? how you doing, man? >> oh, my god. he was like -- hey, mouse. what's going on mouse. i was like, is this happening? i'm sorry. so you wanted an hour from romney? boy, he was like, me and mouse. >> the shout outs were very authentic. and when you say joe biden has a deep history in the naacp and the civil rights movement, he doesn't get ready for a lot of things that he has done. he was behind the violence against women act but he helped ratify the convention on racial discrimination and human rights treaty that would not have become law had it not been for joe biden's strong leadership, he's done a lot more through legislative gains. so that history is true, indeed. >> when you like someone like joe biden, he lived in the world as a regular human being. >> yes. >> somebody

>> joe biden! >> i see you out there. how you doing? >> not only was he introduced like he was a starter for the lakers but he just did a shout out to a person named mousy. i think he's doing okay. to be fair, biden did get booed too. >> let me close my friends -- [booing] >> yeah, they booed but only because they didn't want his speech to end. >> he did it like this. >> god bless you all and may god protect our troops. thank you. >> that's right. he smacked the podium and ran off stage basically everything but shouting biden out and spiking the microphone. biden had the crowd riled up, almost as riled up as romney did at this speefn he gave. but we don't have the tape? oh, because he's never had that one riled up? that's depressing. i'm done talking now. >> jennifer: i love it. thank you all for joining us here in "the war room." we'll see you back tomorrow night.

days, joe biden and his performance at the naacp. there's been a lot of talk. >> i think it's what they like about biden. that was basically at a convention speech. it wasn't a speech just to a constituent group. biden loves that. he loves riling up big crowds like that especially friendly crowds. it's exactly where the campaign wants to put them. i don't think there's going to be many people at that convention feel slighted by the -- >> jonathan, i want to turn to you in terms of, you know, we've talked a lot about the african-american vote, the naacp, whether the president is taking for granted the naacp and the african-american community given the fact that he didn't show up. do you think that this sort of biden goes in, does his work, almost a sort of preacherly speech, if you will, that biden gave. do you think that sort of quashes this sort of chatter about his relationship to the black vote? >> well, look, everyone would like to have the president of the united states come and speak to their group, and the naacp, you know, is

biden is joined by vice president joe biden who also talks to the crew. this is about half an hour. >> good morning. and welcome to the d.c. national guard. on half of the men and women of the guard, army and air, i'd like to welcome all of you here this morning. my roll this morning is to say thanks. thanks to all of you for supporting the men and women in uniform. you know when we serve, you serve. and you as a families of the men and women are all dedicated to the mission except i would like to thank you for being here this morning, and i would like to introduce a lane rogers, uso president and ceo for the metropolitan area. >> thank you, general. what a great introduction. and by t way, we'll be out with you next weekend when your aviators come home, welcoming them back. how are you doing? isn't this pretty exciting? i'm going to sit down so i can look at everybody. we have a lot of people there, don't we? and do you know why? no, we are here to salute you all because you are very important to people. that's what a vip is. did you know? that you. beca

joe biden got a different reception from the same crowd. >> yesterday, mitt romney was boo'd at the ghroow convention -- naacp. biden delivered a fiery rebuttal. >> providing access to affordable health care, to 8 million black americans who will never have had insurance. >> president obama has massive support among african-americans. yesterday mitt romney was heading into something like an lion's den with the naacp. >> i'm going to eliminate every nonessential program i can find and that includes obamacare. >> that didn't go over well. or when we told the naacp members they should vote against the first african-american president. >> if you want president that will make things better in the african-american community you are looking at him. take a look. >> he said the crowd reaction wasn't a surprise. he he wasn't going to hold back. >> we expected that but i'm going to give the same message to them as i give across the country. >> john mccain four years ago spoke to them during the heat of presidential campaign. he took a different approach than romney. >> senator obama has made quite a

and finally, vice president joe biden gives a rousing speech at the naacp calling into question the republicans' commit to civil rights in front of the same crowd that booed mitt romney yesterday. account obama/bide i don't know ticket inspire the same turnout amongst african-americans as it did in 2008? it's "way too early" for this. >>> good morning, i'm jonathan capehart in forhe vacations willie geist. i'm glad you're up with us this morning watching on msnbc or listening live. shoot me an e-mail at waytooearly@msnbc.com and let me know why you're awake right now. or you can do what romney's swiss banker does and text the word awake followed by your response at 622639. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session. there will be a lot going on today including new details out of syria where activists claim as many as 200 were killed by government forces. we'll have an exclusive report that takes us inside the massacre. >> -- >> that's it! >> further evidence that we need a parliamentary system here in the united states, at the very least for entertainment purposes. we'll explain what she was

the best way to see that is to lookback now at the 2,078 with hillary clinton and joe biden and others. some of you may recall and is a youtube question. will you meet with the leaders of countries like iran and north korea in the first year of your presidency? it goes to obama and she says yes. and he is then hillary clinton and a couple of the other candidates say no, that's wrong that they would not do that. and obama afterwards skillfully takes that to say i think that he called everyone else members of eight washington salon foreign policy. then what did the obama people do? they quickly realized that by leaving out the leaders. so after that, they would say we want to talk with -- we said we were going to talk with iran and north korea and we are volunteering to do that, and they backtrack the diplomacy. they leave out the word meeting that specifically in that case, it is a important case where obama said he would do something. he obviously hasn't met with them in three years. i'm not saying he should. in fact i think clinton is right on that debate but one way or another he has

joe biden got a different reception from the same crowd. >> yesterday, mitt romney was boo'd at the ghroow convention -- naacp. biden delivered a fiery rebuttal. >> providing access to affordable health care, to 8 million black americans who will never have had insurance. >> president obama has massive support among african-americans. yesterday mitt romney was heading into something like an lion's den with the naacp. >> i'm going to eliminate every nonessential program i can find and that includes obamacare. >> that didn't go over well. or when we told the naacp members they should vote against the first african-american president. >> if you want president that will make things better in the african-american community you are looking at him. take a look. >> he said the crowd reaction wasn't a surprise. he he wasn't going to hold back. >> we expected that but i'm going to give the same message to them as i give across the country. >> john mccain four years ago spoke to them during the heat of presidential campaign. he took a different approach than romney. >> senator obama has made quite a