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Airports. And its a war of music. Well take you to the worldwide battle with more than a few political notes. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. In the tweet you said that there might be tape recordings. That i cant talk about. I wont talk about. All i want for comey to be honest. President trump sends a message to james comey. All of a sudden youre raising somebody nobody had imagined and saying youd better watch out. That sounds more like a mafia boss t...

Airports. And its a war of music. Well take you to the worldwide battle with more than a few political notes. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. In the tweet you said that there mige ht b rtapeecordings. That i cant talk about. I wont talk about. All i want for comey to be honest. President trump sends a message to james comey. All of a sudden youre raising somebody nobody had imagined and saying youd better wah out. That sounds more like a mafia boss tha...

Underground museums. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The Navy Destroyer, the uss fitzgerald, was badly damaged in the collision with a merchant ship off the coast of japan. The search continues for seven missing sailors. Three sailors have been airlift off the ship. Among them the captain. What do you make of the president s tweet . Im hoping he will not cause a crisis, but the echoes of watergate are getting louder and louder every day. Air ...

Aggressively to turn them out to vote. Romney specifically referenced the africanamerican community, hispanics and young voters as beneficiaries of obamas large essaying the Obama Campaign was generous in what they gabe to the groups. According to abc news, romney had this to say about obamas gifts to latino community. What the president did is he gave them two things. One he gave them a big gift on immigration with the dream act and the amnesty program. Romneys targeting of the gift takers, afr...

Questions as to whether or not the military is achieving the stated objective. Theres no doubt a great deal of anxiety mongs the people here. Also in israel living under the direct threat of rocket fire. And there is the concern of how egypt will react. What is the word there on how they are reacting . Well, we already heard from egypts president and the foreign minister. They have condemned the emergency meeting in the arab league to explore popular options. Egypt says it will open the border w...

Size doom if it a deal isnt cut by years owned. But washington, both side have dug in their heels, and the answer may be that suddenly the sliding down the fiscal slope does not seem that bad. Maybe thats why the republicans leaders like speaker of the house john boehner were able to put off making a counter proposal to the president s offer until today. Crossing the red line on the talks by rejecting the demind that the republicans accept a hike in the marginal tax rate for those with income ov...

The breaking news. The abc News Washington post tracking poll now has mitt romney ahead by three points and more crucially, hitting the 50 mark for the first time. In our own cnn poll of polls, governor romney currently enjoys a onepoint lead, 4847. As you no doubt know, the race will boil down to a few key states and tonight, we also have new numbers from the nbc wall street journal poll in colorado showing the race there tied. In nevada, the same poll has president obama out front by three, wh...

President obama out front by three, whereas in virginia, new polling from fox has mr. Romney up by two. Thats a ninepoint swing in his favor since september. Now, not coincidentally the campaigns in the last several days have stopped in all of those states. Take a look. How would you like to have this as your flight plan . This is a map of the last 48 hours of Campaign Appearances for president obama. Now heres governor romneys itinerary. Nevada, colorado, virginia, iowa and of course, ohio, ohi...

Discussion on a topic familiar to him, journalism. The panelists are john avhon, editorinchief of the daily beast, marisa buchanan, dave cullen, a freelance journalist, matthew far welshing writer for Rolling Stone, alex gelber, citizen nyu journalism school, lou san reid, eric bates, editor at first look, the intercept, ruby cramer, correspondent for buzzfeed, will dana, jack grey, senior producer at cnn, anderson coopers 360, and jeremy. Here to act as the emcee is ben smith who was hastings l...

Joining me today, correspondent for the Guardian Anna marie cox and former director of speech writing for the president i cant get the words out, im so excited, columnist for the daily beast and cofounder of fenway strategies, jon favreau and Washington Post columnist and msnbc Political Columnist eugene robinson. Joining us now is chuck todd who is also, of course, host of msnbcs the daily rundown. Before we get into the actual policy here, i want to talk about the sort of birdseye view as far ...