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Hes a senior writer for salon.com. good to see you here? >> good to see you, too, rachel. >> the man behind the 47% video did not ever have to reveal himself, ever. he did tonight with ed schultz. do you think the republican party is still struggling with the meaning of those comments, even with mitt romney out of the picture? >> absolutely. we have seen several signs of this all along. if you remember, when it first broke, there was a school of thought that maybe, if you want to give mitt romne...

There. as a catholic i am so hopeful. i want a pope who cares about the welfare of the humble people, those without power. whether a poor farmer in latin america or an alter poor trapped. and thats "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. ""the ed show"" with ed schultz starts right now. >> good evening, welcome to theed show. tonight, for the first time anywhere, you will meet the man who video taped mitt romneys 47% comments. this is "the ed show." lets get to work. >> how much of that ge...

Myself, but i was behind this whole thing. i was bar tending that night for the romney fund-raiser. >> my colleague, ed schultz just broke the news tonight of the biggest unanswered question. the biggest remaining unknown of the presidential election cycle we just had. the romney fund-raiser scott prouty was talking about what where mitt romney made the infamous remarks that shook the campaign to the core. it affected the course of the whole election. >> there are 47% of the people who will vote...

Politics is like now? >> steve is joining us. hes a senior writer for salon.com. good to see you here? >> good to see you, too, rachel. >> the man behind the 47% video did not ever have to reveal himself, ever. he did tonight with ed schultz. do you think the republican party is still struggling with the meaning of those comments, even with mitt romney out of the picture? >> absolutely. we have seen several signs of this all along. if you remember, when it first broke, there was a school of thou...

I dont think fundraisers are ever going to be the same again. >> no, i dont understand. i think the secrecy, the privacy, is gone. anyway. i hope everyone sticks around after my show tonight and watches your show. ed schultz with the big get tonight. well be watching your exclusive interview as i said tonight at 8:00 on "the ed show." up next, disturbing testimony on capitol hill about the prevalence of sexual assault including rape in the u.s. military between people in the uniforms. do you b...

Up, he thought it was time to come out and do it now. and also with the fact that mitt romney is coming up to speak at cpac. it is a war on labor coming from the right and it is a war on people that are in the middle class and he wants to make sure that the american people know exactly that theyre going back to the same old narrative and he was willing to inject himself into it. he has had a real tough time, you know, since this tape came up. he is somewhat of a marked man and he knows it and he...

Those people. ill never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. >> those 25 seconds of secretly recorded videotape along with his lack of specifics on virtually every policy, drove a stake through the heart of his ambition to become president. now the man responsible for recording mr. romneys true feelings about half the population, a bartender at the event, was given an exclusive interview to my colleague, ed schultz. >> i simply wanted his words to go o...

That it had to be put out. i felt i owed it to the people that couldnt afford to be there themselves to hear what he really thought. >> ed schultz, host of "the ed show," joins me in the studio to talk about this. thank you for being here. its a fascinating interview that you have here and explain how you landed it and what you learned about how he was able to tape it and then release it. >> well, quite honestly, there is an emotional connection about what i believe in and the way i do my show a...

Its really an amazing story. >> ed, in your interview with him you asked him why he decided to release the tape. lets take a listen to his response. >> how big of decision was it for you to release the tape and to go through all of this? >> it was -- it was -- it was tough. and i debated for a little while. and, you know, but in the end i -- i really felt like it had to be put out. i felt i owed it to the people that couldnt afford to be there themselves to hear what he really thought. >> you kn...

Anti-american saber rattling won him a lot of kudos in the rest of latin america. and i think both presidents bush, second term, and obama in his first term, were very reasonable in just not paying a whole lot of attention to him, and not accepting his provocations, which were constant, and sometimes even offensive. i think both presidents managed that rather well. >> all right, jorge castaneda, an nbc news policy analyst, former official in the mexican government, thanks for being on. >> thank ...