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The great speechers, ask not what you can do for your country -- i mean, i dont even know what to say about it. >> ed, laugh if you want but this endears her to the crowd. a show of hands. they are going to do this. they are going to right palin in 2012. she could do nothing wrong. did you notice before she looked at her hand she is reading from notes. why didnt anybody pick up the fact that she -- and this president who reads from a prompter and says -- she was reading prior to the hantd thing....

9:00 p.m. eastern time, msnbc. ed schultz hosting that. and meantime, inside the convention what it has and has not accomplished. joined by domenico. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, alex. >> the atmosphere. whats it like leading up to sarah palins speech tonight? >> reporter: lots of excitement. people are really excited to hear sarah palin speak tonight. you can see behind me, folks filing in after breakfast and theyll have, in about 35 minutes, in the ballroom to my left where palin w...

Events and, you know, what we talk about as far as what represents the tea party. >> right. and you mentioned sarah palin. with tonights keynote address, who stands to benefit more? is it sarah palin or is it the tea party movement? >> reporter: well, she certainly is going to be able to use the tea party energy for whatever it is that she wants in the future. you know, theres some questions as to what her futures going to be, if she can be a viable presidential candidate at some point. still ha...

Unified in what they believe. you know, theyre angry about what they feel is the downfall of this country under this administration. you know, there are some disparate groups within this movement making up the group, but you know, they are unified in their togetherness, certainly. and the medias an easy target for them and how whether or not they think that were doing a good job or good enough job in, you know, holding this administrations feet to the fire, for one thing, for example. >> yeah. o...

Was sent to the ceo and staff and todd palin forwarded it from his bp e-mail to private yahoo! e-mail. much of this was done on private accounts. then he forwarded it from his private e-mail to a lawyer from the state and the state of alaska regulates bp, has business with it and against it every day. >> msnbc.com investigative reporter. bill, thank you very much. this could have big implications for sarah palin if she runs in 2012. this sort of thing is a possible issue. be sure to stay with ms...

Has written a song all about sarah palin and through all of crud, this song will be prominently featured. i think that we can have a listen. can we? >> yes. ♪ i say its time for some real change the kind you wont regret ♪ ♪ sarah palin she pales from the land called the last frontier ♪ >> where does that end up on the casey charts? >> somewhere below tea bagging, ed. its never good when your political sort of rallying involves a cost assume. if youve seen these people showing up in these...

There today in nashville was president obamas connections to a socialist leaders in south america. >> yeah. >> i mean, can you take these people seriously? >> well, whats wrong with someone saying that? >> they dont believe that president obama is the united states citizen. >> i dont know if he is, ed. >> wour. >> i know people still want to see proof. >> how do i know? >> there are people who say that they have not seen a birth certificate of him, proof that hes a citizen. i dont know. my guess...

So, you know, the government shouldnt be involved in a lot of things that theyre involved in. i think the other guest was expressing that. and so what we need to do is stop government from wasting our tax dollars. we have a solution for health care as well. health savings accounts co-op, that we need to let the public know that the government doesnt need to be involved in health care. but the message is, they have to be involved because they have to skim money off the surface, or significant por...

Talked to somebody that hasnt been in that situation. because i have. >> no offense, but you do kind of sound like it. heidi, well visit again. ive got to run here. coming up, bill press and earnest, former republican congressman. bill, ill start with you tonight. the tea party -- you just heard a tea partyier broadcaster saying that shes in the mainstream. do you go along with that? >> what i want to know is why isnt heidi in nashville, ed. no. look -- >> she didnt want to pay the $500. ed, t...

Fell from 10% in december to 9.7%. unemployment is now at the lowest level since august but last month we still managed to lose over 20,000 jobs and overall this recession has cost 8.5 million jobs to our economy. for more, lets turn to peter, a professor at the university of maryland. have we got a mixed bag? >> there are still clouds in the sky but i saw rays of sunshine that gave me some hope. we had manufacturing jobs for the first time in a very long time and retailing, ed, is some jobs. no...