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Characterizations of mitt romney and his record, and its now grown to massive exaggerations. >> joining me for more front-page politics, perry bacon, political editor for the grio and msnbc contributor and molly ball, national political reporter for the atlantic. molly, i want to start with you. you were on that kickoff bus tour. how did it go yesterday? >> i have to say it went quite well. ryan really blew away the audiences at all three stops in virginia yesterday. there were huge crowds. were...

Country wont be until september when they say, okay. what will you do or you do about getting more jobs, more sustainable, long-term, successful futures for my children? thats what im going to vote on in november. this is all the side dishes. >> steve: delicious. >> gretchen: what about sometimes the side dishes might give you a stomach ache. can they do irrepairable damage. >> what happens if you eat them before september, it youre already full, so you dont want to eat entree. this metaphor is ...

Of course, nbc comes up to these characterizations from information more than just the precincts that are reporting. they are looking at exit poll data and other means open making their projections. but scott walker, according to nbc news, is holding on tonight in wisconsin after this epic, epic recall fight. well be joined in a moment by my friend, ed schultz who has been covering this race. ed, weve been able to characterize this race as a win for scott walker. governor walker surviving this r...

phase of the transition, the next milestone. well set a goal for afghan forces to take the lead for combat operations across the country in 2013. next year. so that isaf can move to a supporting role. this will be another step towards afghans taking full lead for their security as agreed to by 2014 when the everyone saf combat mission will end. and police in chicago are certainly hoping that their mission is a lottese ier today, easier than it was yesterday. what a mess. protesters o...

To the characterizations, and ostensibly, it has established strong leader. >> that is important when you are talking about an incumbent running for re-election, because, again, the argument is stay the course. that is the argument against george bush when he was re-elected and the polls showed that even if people did not really like him or agreed with him, but they are not ready to switch the horses midstream here, and he is good enough, and this president is better than good enough, but it goe...

Such characterizations of controversial matters. >> itd be nice to have a pretense of fairness. and these guys, listen, alan, the supreme court at an address before congress, the supreme court never claps for the president. they are feigning neutrality -- megyn: nor do journalists clap. >> ive never seen journalists clap. >> do they feign neutrality when the supreme court members dont actually even attend the state of the union address? how thats that -- hows that for neutrality? >> why is it ha...

Assumptions about our budget that arent true, that arent in our budget, in order to have these kinds of talking points, in order to try and scare people with these points. >> >> reporter: now nevertheless, mr. obama insisted their characterizations were accurate. >> this is not conjecture. i am not exaggerating. these are facts. >> not exaggerating, hes distorting. the idea that the republican plan is planning to shut down air traffic and pave over the national parks and return to sort of laisse...

>> about six years now. ive known him ever since he started dating his wife. >> sean: weve also gotten reports that not only himself, was he a minority, had minority family members, but that he also due torred and he and his wife would tutored african-american kids, minority kids for free on the weekend. is that true? >> that is true. george would help anybody regardless of race, creed or color. >> sean: what do you make of the allegations that this is a racial incident? >> because of the histor...

Period of time? >> about six years now. ive known him ever since he started dating his wife. >> sean: weve also gotten reports that not only himself, was he a minority, had minority family members, but that he also due torred and he and his wife would tutored african-american kids, minority kids for free on the weekend. is that true? >> that is true. george would help anybody regardless of race, creed or color. >> sean: what do you make of the allegations that this is a racial incident? >> becau...

zimmerman, were learning why he had been suspended from school anticipate was not in school the day he was shot were also learning more about george zimmermans version what happened that night. a new eyewitness appears to back up at least part of it, some or all of the above may explain why sanford florida police did not arrest him and have not since it it could also signal how tough it could be to bring george zimmerman to trial and get a conviction. i spoke with angela cory who wand ...