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in a democracy and especially ours you should be able to disagree with the president, disagree with the administration, disagree with the reelection effort. but on the other hand, when youre a surrogate for that administration, for that re-election effort, you should be a little more careful in how you talk about certain things. i mean, cory booker is a man of principle. he believes firmly in everything that he says. so i dont fault him for feeling the way he felt. but he shouldnt be s...

why the race will be close. i think theres a narrative fashion here. for president obama this is not 2008, whether its the gap among young people, a lot of that inspiration and hope is being dashed by the idea that one way or the other hes been gobbled up by washington. so its a different sort of fight that hes got to wage. when he went up against pu president bush. >> the biden comments make me think its going to be obviously hard drabble, but will it get nasty? >> i mean, it would be...

president bush. >> the biden comments make me think its going to be obviously hard drabble, but will it get nasty? >> i mean, it would be nasty. its going to be a close-fought race, and that usually portends a nasty race, they try to take each other out by whatever means necessary, and romney has shown himself willing to do that. and i think theyre trying to frame a tough argument against governor romney saying hes a right wring extremist. >> we have already started to see some of the ...

report contributor robert costa of the national review, rolling stone executive editor eric bates, msnbc analyst and columnist for "the hill" karen finney. three new polls of the general election matchup lead to one conclusion, unclear where this race stands right now, but this november its going to be a nail-biter. gallup shows the race in a statistical tie, a cnn/orc poll, gave obama a nine-point lead, and reuters/ipso has the president up four, outside the pla pla margin of error. k...

november its going to be a nail-biter. gallup shows the race in a statistical tie, a cnn/orc poll, gave obama a nine-point lead, and reuters/ipso has the president up four, outside the pla pla margin of error. karen finney, nail-biter. >> yeah. >> we talk about -- i mean this is something we talked about when we were having meetings to discuss this very show. >> how about that. >> one of the things we talked about a general feeling perhaps on left that mitt romneys weakness as a candid...

Wireless internet coverage around the united states. >> and yet, we do not and are not very close to getting it at all. oh, well. well leave it there. penguin bites aside, thanks again to richard, sam, catherine and bill. thats all for now. ill see you back here tomorrow at noon eastern/9:00 a.m. eastern when im joined by carole king, robert costa and eric bates. you can findous at dpfacebook. hello, andrea. >> hey, alex. thanks so much. we are highlighting the battleground battle here in colora...

question to you to maybe time the ire youre feeling because i brought up the fact that you were once richards intern. i will not comment on that. i thought this was interesting. not interesting insofar as the media picking up on the secret service thing but the president is talking about immigration reform which a lot of folks on the left see as sort of a broken promise and could be a doub double-edged sword. the fact hes blaming it on the republicans, how does that play out? >> you kn...

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legitimate leader. >> this whole process has fatigued people to the point theyre lgs to vote for romney. this i thought was the biggest news of the day. there is a new poll out that shows, its "usa today" poll showing that in swing states it, obama is leadingne-42% assuming he is the nominee. but among women in swing states, obama is crushing romney is, 54 to 36%. lets talk about that a little. >> i think the rise of this entire health care debate or the rerise of this health care deba...

and were going to win pennsylvania. i have no ubtbout that. >> santorum is pulling out five ops today in wisconsin, fighting for ery last gop vote. ron mott is live for us in milwaukee. the last few elections have been gop-rich coming from the suburbs, basically. is that a good sign for governor romney and what does rick santorum do with that to close the gap? >> reporter: yeah, certainly a good sign for governor romney. and rick santorum is reaching out to his base. those are typicall...