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>> isnt that interesting? >> there are two very different emotional political climates. each side of the atlantic. >> i think actually, in all fairness to your observation, its the same as mine. but i think that the president hasnt been angry. but i think the media has been very tough. this network and others in print have been very tough on this situation. because it looks like bps calling the shots. it looks like the president has been lenient in accepting their numbers. and this shocking news...

And the georgia congressman who compared the health care bill to what he called that war of yankee aggression, now says if we cut our dependence on oil people will die. people will die. check out the "sideshow" tonight. lets start with the numbers game in the oil spill. eric bates is the executive editor of "rolling stone" magazine. editor, rick, eric bates. im so impressed by this piece. tell me what you think was the lowballing by the u.s. government? first i want to give you this -- heres h...

Contradiction at least, very alarming imagery running simultaneously with the presidents own appearance. >> do you think the networks were afraid of bush? >> i think that there, its striking that theres been this piling on of obama in the use of that footage. even while he was giving a presidential address. in a way that i dont really recall seeing under bush. >> i wasnt afraid of bush, if you noticed. thank you very much, eric bates, i was very much against him on the war. great reporting by yo...

myers report last night that the government has been lowballing the spill numbers and you have a disaster far worse, up to 100 times worse than bp confessed initially. the latest on the spill -- the numbers and the damage at the top of the show. rahm emanuel once famously said you never want a serious crisis to go to waste. why doesnt the president seize this moment, make this disaster his environmental 9/11 and push through an energy bill that forces this country to embrace green te...

lowballing the spill numbers and you have a disaster far worse, up to 100 times worse than bp confessed initially. the latest on the spill -- the numbers and the damage at the top of the show. rahm emanual once famously said, you never want a serious crisis to go to waste. why doesnt the president seize this moment, make this disaster his environmental 9/11. and push through an energy bill that forces this country to embrace green technology? plus the curious case of alvin green, h...

>> with me now live nbcs chief white house correspondent chuck todd. chuck, big records words from the president who, the last couple of months, in fact, in the last week or two, has gone back and forth how much to talk about the economy turning a corner but it sounds like he is feeling good about it. >> they are. but than morning, the morning press gaggle, press secretary robert gibbs said the white house still expects unemployment to hit 10%, that, you know, the trend that they want ...

because it doesnt make a lot of the sense. >> heres the latest in a string of democratic health care events broken up by angry opponents. some say riled up by industry groups who want to kill reform. senator mccain weighed in on twitter and says town hall meetings are an american twa edition. we should allow everyone to express their views even if we disagree. michael steele adds this. were not encouraging people to be angry -- the national congressional committee is calling them reces...

to announce she was going to break the surly bonds of "american idol." >> it was one of those moments, joe -- >> shes going to a better place. >> you miss cronkite. >> im thinking home shopping network. >> i was having dinner with a party of 20 people. i was entertaining. >> of course. youre a man of the people. >> that tweet came across. in unison everyone was stunned. you remember 1963. >> dallas, "the challenger" and paula abdul. you know what, though, people forget the beatles came...

Saying on tv. >> you think its a joke? >> thats not my job. >> did you know he did that? >> no i wasnt paying attention. >> so youre briefing the president on the reasons for war, theyre selling the war, using your stuff saying that you made that case when you didnt. so theyre using your credibility to make the case for war dishonestly, as you just admitted. >> look, im just telling you -- >> you just admitted it. they gave false presentation of what you said to them. >> on some aspects. >> nucl...

Thanking o., must redeclare for romney or take blame for next four dire years. >> which to me is the kind of hysteria on that side that oh my god, i mean i get the interim republican problem with chris christie appearing like a rational person with the president. but really, to suggest that that -- that his recommitment to romney will have any serious affect to make up the space that theyre apparently behind says to me theyre deeply concerned. >> weve talked about how this whole thing is balanci...