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these people who always seem to have their eye on yet another war to fight. also, we know republicans have made it their goal to destroy barack obama but did you know they started planning to sabotage him the very day of his inauguration? and its an old hollywood aidage, funny is money. so try making a buck when the audience is the white house correspondents dinner. its a tough crowd. but tonight, we have a comedy writer who once came up with ones lake this one for president obama. >> ...

>> well, they have to change argument back to the fact that the governments broke and i dont know if they can do it. theyll try. >> and the economy. >> is it like hollywood? this is high concept. >> yeah. >> thats high concept. losing the medicare money is not. thats the problem for the republicans. >> thank you. easier to understand the democratic argument. howard, david, jumping on the republican carcass. objectively. coming up, the hometown crowd of new york goes after donald trump, that 24...

♪ well, the republican demolition of medicare tops the show tonight. plus, the republican protection racket for the rich. why do the republicans protect the rich from paying their fair of taxes? you tell me. donald trumps right wing buddy and the new york mayor who says hes birther mad. f-16s trying to kill gadhafi. no way. finally, haley barbours not running for president. who is? we start with the backlash against the republican medicare kill. howard fineman is editor of "the huffi...

>> it scares me. >> theres been so many crimes around here. its so scary. >> i have a 2-year-old. thank god i wasnt out trick-or- treating. >> reporter: right now, police say they have no motives, no suspects. theyre hoping to get more information when they interview the victims who are still in the hospital. were live at police headquarters. derek valcourt. >> police say they do need the publics help solving this case. anyone with information is urged to call county police. the spee...

im froonfroon. lease yoo has the week off. >> good morning. im froonfroon. lisa robinson hooze the week off . >> we had our reeding in the earl morning hours. we reood just things and hit at b.w.i. the temperatures are down. there are frost ood advise -- there are frost advisories out there. a pretty dry reading considering these morning chilly temperatures. that number will drop by 10:00 or 11:00 as the sun begins to heat the atmosphere a little bit. it was quite breezey yesterday. pr...

rejected, a radical new plan as a baltimore teachers shut down. >> pay on student performance isnt fair -- why some say pay on student performance is not fair. good evening everyone, im vic carter. >> and im denise koch. >> baltimore teachers just rejected a new contract that would have tied teacher pay to how students perform in the classroom. it was a proposal that had both sides up in arms. >> reporter: the union says its not giving up. a radically different contract proposal brou...

Chief david cornish is here. and eric burns is president of media management tracks, all things rushs ramblings orru rumblings. you hear -- woo woo woo, like its an underwater walrus talking. let me ask you quickly, what is his measure of power over the republican party? i have a sense, we had a congress from georgia, we had michael steele, for a couple of seconds theyre off base, like like a batter tagging up. rushing back to first base for fear of being tagged off-base by rush because hes alwa...

On fridays "hardball," former new york governor, george pataki delivered a rare message for a republican, lets listen. >> youve said that rush limbaugh is wrong. that barack obama is not a nazi, right? hes not a nazi? >> yes. >> and this administration was duly elected, its not a regime. >> correct. >> its amazing, because youre not a ditto head. do you know hard it is to find a republican who is not a ditto head. if there are any out there, please call "hardball" on msnbc and let us know that y...

and the two top regulators of mms, both halliburton people. so isnt that interesting? what do you make of that? before we move on. the halliburton factor, the cheney factor. please answer my question, what role did dick cheney play, coming into the vice presidency and two top halliburton people taking over responsibility for get this, regulating halliburton? >> we know this, chris, what did happen is the whole, the whole mineral management department changed. new people showed up. >> h...

Hearing. >> congressman denny heck is a member of the house intelligence committee. simon marks, and david cornish, washington bureau chief. congressman, let me ask you about this. what do you make of this investigation and the fact that comey, the fbi director, is really kind of focusing attention, creating a special section to go into what happened between russia and the trump people? >> so one former fbi agent indicated that this represents a surge in resources. anybody associated with the tr...