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Over-the-top things about the 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 unf...

Good evening from our msnbc headquarters here in new york. im rachel maddow, alongside our panel for the night, steve schmidt, a chief strategist with the mccain/palin campaign four years ago. he is now an msnbc political analyst. the host of "the ed show" on msnbc, the great ed schultz, lawrence odonnell, host of the last word on msnbc. lawrence is a former senior senate staffer and the host of politics nation, reverend al sharpton, a former presidential candidate himself. you will be hearing f...

a desperate housewife is knocking a desperate candidate. litt bill burton and joan walsh with the problem with the latino vote. the fight for fairness headed to the floor of the senate. robert reich on todays big news for the buffet rule. good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching. newt gingrich is taking a pounding in florida. hes been outspent by mitt romney 5-to-1, poll numbers have taken a dive. but even gingrich knows what kind of red meat the conservative republica...

>> the latest with e.j. dionne. >> bill burton and joan walsh >> bill burton and joan walsh with the problem with the latino vote. the fight for fairness headed to the floor of the senate. robert reich on todays big news for the buffet rule. good to have you with us tonight, thanks for watching. newt gingrich is taking a pounding in florida. hes been outspent by mitt romney 5-to-1, poll numbers have taken a dive. but even gingrich knows what kind of red meat the conservative republ...

a desperate housewife is knocking a desperate candidate. litt bill burton and joan walsh with the problem with the latino vote. the fight for fairness headed to the floor of the senate. robert reich on todays big news for the buffet rule. good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching. newt gingrich is taking a pounding in florida. hes been outspent by mitt romney 5-to-1, poll numbers have taken a dive. but even gingrich knows what kind of red meat the conservative republica...

>> bill burton and joan walsh >> bill burton and joan walsh with the problem with the latino vote. the fight for fairness headed to the floor of the senate. robert reich on todays big news for the buffet rule. good to have you with us tonight, thanks for watching. newt gingrich is taking a pounding in florida. hes been outspent by mitt romney 5-to-1, poll numbers have taken a dive. but even gingrich knows what kind of red meat the conservative republican audience wants. >> somethin...

anywhere. you can find people writing about the ad but the ad itself is like not obvious on youtube, not that easy to find. i started to think bob dole was like saying sarah palin saying i could see russia from my house. it was something used as a joke against her on saturday night live, but we all talked ourselves into the idea that she really did say it. starting to think this was the same thing. turns out no. bob dole did a viagra ad. we found it. god bless the nbc archives. >> cour...

anywhere. you can find people writing about the ad but the ad itself is like not obvious on youtube, not that easy to find. i started to think bob dole was like saying sarah palin saying i could see russia from my house. it was something used as a joke against her on saturday night live, but we all talked ourselves into the idea that she really did say it. starting to think this was the same thing. turns out no. bob dole did a viagra ad. we found it. god bless the nbc archives. >> cour...

Talking points memos reports mayor smith said, "there was no sense that he was running to or from anything. in fact, he said the president stayed and had a pleasant conversation with smith, whos a republican, and phoenix mayor greg stanton, a democrat." what does this tell you? >> again, it tells us that governor brewer is trying to play with the facts in order to enhance this photo opportunity. >> and then she does the media tour. >> exactly. >> shes doing the grandstanding all of this. that pi...

Erased by the fact that you have your finger waved in the presidents face. weve had an ongoing conversation, ed, with you, yourself, other folk on your show, about the ways in which republicans and other folk on the right are coing some of their language around situations of race. this idea that somehow a black man, just by being a black man, is going to be threatening is really, really problematic. the bottom line here is this is one of the most mild-mannered, moderate folk that people have eve...