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President, some of them were completely over the top. i want to point out this has been part of american rhetoric, and what we have to remain focused on is not the damage to the presidents ego or the office but rather what it does in a divisiveness of the american people. how does this kind of language suggest to some americans, you get to be part of this, sort of political process and others you dont get to be part. >> at this point, ed, the american people are unfortunately getting used to thi...

Convention will be the best way to beat president obama? >> no, i dont think they do. i think its great for president obama and great fun for us, but this is serious blood-letting. ed, these two guys, mitt and newt hate each other, this is a hate-off. the more -- the long they are goes on the weaker romney becomes, and there is also, i have no love for sarah palin, but people who are really trying to sort of blacken the eye of the republican establishment, whatever that is, are really trying to ...

To beat president obama? >> no, i dont think they do. i think its great for president obama and great fun for us, but this is serious blood-letting. ed, these two guys, mitt and newt hate each other, this is a hate-off. the more -- the long they are goes on the weaker romney becomes, and there is also, i have no love for sarah palin, but people who are really trying to sort of blacken the eye of the republican establishment, whatever that is, are really trying to say we will not accept this guy....

>> new poll shows americans believe president obama understands average americans, romney and gingrich, not so much. these are pretty compelling numbers. and you think that this could be a defining issue. does that mean that possibly the democrats could take back the house on this issue? >> i think so, ed. im not sure about the senate, that will be much harder but the democrats if they make this the defining issue, have a very good chance of taking back the house. >> senator whitehouse says ther...

Eisenhower, republican president 1950s. the marginal tax rate on people whose income was equivalent of a million dollars today was even when you took all the deductions, all the credits was 52%. official rate was 91%, but even after all the deductions, they were paying 52%. this is what public and administration in the early 1950s, so for republicans now to say that this is outrageous or kind of confiscutory is absurd. i might also add, ed, in the 1950s the top 1% were taking home 10% of total i...

Sacrifice, they had all the breaks in the last ten years. republicans of course will vote against it, but polls show american favor raising taxes on the wealthy. even republicans favor it. even millionaires are in favor of it. >> absolutely. >> how hard should the democrats push this one? >> i think this could be one of the defining issues in the campaign. congressional republicans will obviously vote against it. i think every democrat should vote for this, president should talk about it its fai...

Confidence." confidence, good. oozing, not as good. when we runs, we will get our first reaction from our panel here, steve schmidt, ed schultz, lawrence odonnell and the reverend al sharpton plus chuck todd, our nbc political director and hear from the romney campaign and gingrich campaign. msnbcs coverage of the florida primary continues in just a moment. >> why would anybody in the establishment think that a massachusetts moderate, which is a liberal by republican standards, pro-abortion, pro...

How in the world is mitt romney going to continue to massage, joan, his position on latino voters in the dream act and get away with it? i mean, can he win the presidency if he gets the nomination with such a low number of latino voters viewing him unfavorably? >> i think its hard. bill knows better than i do in the key swing states the latino vote is a growing importance. the thing that is so tragic to me, ed, the dream act used to be the kind of no-brainer, everyone could agree and maybe peopl...

Toned down, i dont hear these words that lacerating when a hispanic person hears them. lets talk about a strategic immigration policy for the country that will make us more competitive, it is a very different tone than has been here there in the past and im pleased to see that as a cuban-american, as a hispanic-american, they may not be there, but im pleased to see that all candidates have toned down some of the words and some of the rhetoric. mr. secretary, ed schultz. earlier, a moment ago, yo...

Somewhere in the range of 40-80 billion dollars. this is not chicken feed were talking about. its fair, most americans support this, i think republicans will be in a very difficult place and difficult position saying no to this. >> here is republican senator john kyle on the floor today. here it is. >> president obamas campaigning for reelection on a soap the rich kind of platform. argues income inequality and check with fairness, in his narrative fair society requires more balloons or redistrib...