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Liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. whats your policy? back to "hardball." now to the "sideshow." notes, what notes? thats what gop congressman steve kings aides are saying after a debate earlier this week. why? keep a close eye on the iowa congressmans hands in this clip from the no notes allowed debate. >> i write bills, i introduce bills, i turn them into amendments and i succeed in getting those amendments passed. in fact, by a measurement of congressmen jeff flake -- >> well, pause,...

They basically said hes been voted a bad boss in the past, and theyre arguing he doesnt have -- actually i spoke to brandon hall one ever his campaign aides, one of bermans, and he said brad sherman doesnt have -- this demonstrates he doesnt have the temperament to become a member of congress. this is something the berman guys are going to try to use. this has been a race that sherman has been in control of for a long time. weve seen some maybe desperate -- >> i thought sherman was ahead. >> she...

Alex, real quickly, we have a supreme court openings perhaps in the next presidency. its just a matter of mortality. there are older members of the court, about four of them now in their mid-70s, some in bad health. theres a good chance the next president will make a couple appointments, maybe even three or four. and so the yes of roe v. wade is not settled in this country. its a bit fragile at this point. >> and the republicans take -- the republican ticket takes a states rights position on thi...

Look at this, broken bat, joba chamberlain, hits him in the pitching elbow, a big red contusion on his elbow, had to come out of the game. x-rays luckily negative for chamberlain. 13th inning now. manny machado, this kid is incredible. he was on third base after he hit a double. and now j.j. hardy driving him home. machado strolls in from third base, 2-1. one last chance. this is a-rods spot in the lineup. bottom of the 13th. he is pulled back to the bench. and this is the pinch-hitter, eric cha...

This is the biggest failure in the campaign on both sides. >> amen. >> is that neither side has made any significant attempt to balance the budget. and what ryan and romney are calling is outrageously stupid. what the president is doing is inadequate. >> okay. al? >> good description. nothing partisan about that description. you know, al, the governor brings up a point. im not sure that i agree with how he describes the two sides, but i will say that when joe biden -- lets just take these two is...

Cbs poll shows biden winning by a wide margin. i think it was something like 50-33 or something like that. i think the cnn polls a little weird here. theres something funny about that. >> i think the cbs poll is. >> im hearing the cbs poll. im not sure if people even watched the debate that were polled in the cbs poll. >> it was undecided debate watchers supposedly. so the interesting thing is, you know, i think biden did what he had to do, which is to get the ticket back on target. >> yeah. >> ...

Sex. you are a person right there basically. he goes on in the gop platform which if you think it doesnt matter, human life amendment to the sktion. theyre supporting it. and they support legislation to make clear that the 14th amendment protections apply to unforeign children. there you have exactly the opposite of what mitt romney said this week when he was interviewed when he said theres not going to be any legislation coming. here is legislation to give 14th amendment protections that we all...

Biden. >> yeah. >> but, look. i think there was something else that, you know, what you saw from biden over and over again was gosh, i cant believe these guys. they just dont ever tell the truth. and i cant let him -- instead of i think at times it would have been okay to dig in, be intense and take apart the argument. tom said it, this is the excesses of being a longtime pall. one thing biden missed, and you saw it in the exchange over unemployment in scranton and janeville, lets look at the ec...

The base, and listening to mika, she makes some great points. if youre the base, biden spoke to you last night. >> listen, it comes down to this 37 democr this. democrats had a reason to cheer. they were able to take themselves off the floor where they had been for the last week. >> they got off the panic button. >> joining us, nbc political director and host of "the daily rundown," chuck todd. >> reporter: morning, guys. >> break it down for us. what do you think the bottom line was, the takeaw...

Say, youre wrong. first of all, ask why hes smiling at the end of that. listen, that answer was off-putting for two reasons. one, he threw the intelligence community under the bus. and its just not a smart thing to do. the second thing is, yeah, ill come to you, howard, in a second. and the second thing is -- and ill just direct it to you, howard, he got the facts completely wrong when he said nobody told us we needed more troops. the state department was told. we heard this, the people that wer...