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Happen it to mitt romney to republican race as cross the country. "the daily beast" says the gop is suffering from self-dell lugs syndrome. joining me are three quarters of nbcs newest show "the cycle," krystal ball, toure, and s.e. cupp. >> steve is here as the holy ghost, right? >> anyway, okay. so krystal ball, i want to start with the latest comments from todd akin. they kay claire miss cass kill unlady-like. >> unbelievable. >> among them newt gingrich, rick santorum, jim demight not, high ...

It was uncanny. >> is xhesmells like breakfast the west vaillage. because people were thrcalling to 311 they had all this data and they looked at the weather patterns and figured out it was coming from this spot in new jersey where they turned out to make -- it was a nice smell though, it wasnt a bad smell. >> it was lovely. >> they were making fake maple syrup there every couple months. >> i did not know that there was an aunt jemima wing of al qaeda. you learn something new every day. >> my pl...

The romney campaign has been run or not run throughout. he seemed to signal when he picked paul ryan instead of being the generic default candidate, they were going to talk about specifics and play to the base and make the args umt that s.e. cupp wants to here. now he goes in a different drekdz. in the medicare debate they seemed unprepared to answer the questions. they signaled, no, were going to make the hard choices and talk the tough talk about medicare and we need to reform entitlements. wi...

Groups falling on deaf ear s at the republican convention? certainly isnt for the lack of trying. have you heard about homocon? i didnt think so. the party hosted tuesday night in tampa bay by conservative group go proud was billed as a must-have ticket. with grover norquist on the guest list you might think there would be a loin ine to attend running out the door. buzz feeds chris went. how was this received in tampa, what big names were there? >> yeah, thomas, it was a big event, and people fr...

After another. like the one thing he doesnt want to do is tell us how his budget plan is going to balance by the deductions and the loopholes he is going to close because a lot of those are going to be very unpopular particularly with the middle class. so its a fine line for him to walk. its a very difficult task. but if i have to bet, id bet he comes through. i bet this will be a good convention for the republicans. theyll suppress any floor fights. i think christie, ryan, romney will do b, b p...

Sort of aura and i think they thought that this was the opportunity to do it. >> is there really evidence to call the president angry, though? >> i do think this is a stretch and i think its potentially a miscalculation. its true, the strategy here is they want to have a level playing field on the likability question but the key for them is not so much to try to tear obama down to where romney is right now. its to try to build romney back up to where obama is, because romney has really sort of h...

Rightly so. any way. forgot im leading this segment. coming up, what paul ryan -- he sat down can s.e. cupp before most people knew who he was. s.e. is talking about paul ryan, next. they have names like idle time books and smash records and on small business saturday they remind a nation of the benefits of shopping small. on just one day, 100 million of us joined a movement... and main street found its might again. and main street found its fight again. and we, the locals, found delight again. ...

Romney pull ahead. >> congressman ryan has given a vague definition. they called when they talk about their plan, not just their budget plan but their plan across the board. they call it gutsy. im serious. now, look. whats gutsy about giving millionaires another tax break? whats gutsy about gutting medicare, medicaid, education? whats gutsy. >> i know congressman ryan. hes a good man, a family man. hes an art tick lat spokesman for governor romneys vision but its one that i fundamentally disagre...

Criticism is escalating over accusations by republican congresswoman michele bachmann that a top aide to secretary of state hillary clinton could be a threat to national security. senator john mccain defended huma abedin on the senate floor yesterday after five republican lawmakers, including congresswoman bachmann charged that abedin is an infiltrator for the muslim brotherhood. >> these allegations about huma abedin and the report from which they are drawn are nothing less than an unwarranted ...

Terrible person. >> but i do think that theres some assumption in parts of the republican party that, if youre a muslim american, then you are a threat to this country. i think that is very dangerous. >> i think that assumption is very dangerous. i think thats not fair. >>well, i think that thats part of what peter kings hearings were about. you know, look, i think that this clearly was, i think, to grab attention. michele bachmann is very good at that. >> doug thornell, s.e. cupp, thank you ver...