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Columbia university, dr. jeffrey sachs and just back from his third annual road trip "time" political columnist joe klein and apparently he didnt give me my gift. >> first lets talk, we have -- >> folks in chapel hill have granola for you. >> i like it. >> remember the jam? >> great song. so joe, you went out on this tour and everywhere you go theyre like -- >> "morning joe" watchers. thanks, guys. >> helping joe heads that throw -- >> thanks for helping to promote this. a lot of viewers e-maile...

And contrast at the all womens university. and mitt romneys commencement address over the weekend at liberty college. first lets talk about the president. the timing of it and really the effectiveness of it. you heard the young women going out to face the world for the first time without their parents. at this university in the heart of new york city. >> this voting bloc of women will be key to president obama in 2012. exit polls in 2008 show he won by 7 percentage points over john mccain. in ou...

Why cant you just say yeah, he is a christian. he says he is and he goes to church. >> that is all i can go on, i have told people this many times, i accept him as what he says. if he says he is a christian, im not going to say he is not. all i know is what jesus christ has done in my heart and how he changed my life. >> here is presidential historian with us michael beshloss. i thought we would get through the campaign without going here, but here we are. and chris said earlier, once is an acci...

Money, koch brothers money, nra money, sierra club money, should be allowed but should be regulated by congress. that raises a lot of skepticism from people like me and others. explain to me why we should tolerate nonprofit, union koch brothers money any more than we should tolerate corporate money. >> first lets talk about what it does do. it says the corporations arent people and can be regulated by the people through congress but also specifically says that for profit corporations who are for...

I think what we are seeing is that you have your presidential election, the president becomes president, and then he realizes that he has responsibilities to protect the country look very different from inside the oval office than in anticipation of getting there. >> lets talk about some of those decisions. libya, president obama is trying to do something that seems a little different in libya, which is to say that the united states wants to help. it wants to be supportive. but this is not an ar...

Responsibilities to protect the country look very different from inside the oval office than in an advertise pace of get willing. >> lets talk about some of those decisions. libya, president obama is trying to do something that seems a little different in libya which is to say that the united states wants to help. it wants to be supportive. but this is not an area that defects our core points such an extent that we want to be the lead player. so he is trying this process of letting the europeans...

We will be get back to the coverage of the destruction of the south 15 minutes from now. we will check in with reynolds wolf who is in tuscaloosa, alabama. first lets talk about the news out of afghanistan. bodies of nine americans are back on u.s. soil. afghan military pilot shot the eight servicemen and one contractor. chris lawrence joins us live now. chris, we heard this morning from the widow of one of the men killed in the attack. what was said? >> thats right. she attended whats called a ...

Are you go willing, do you want to put u.s. ground troops on the ground in libya? >> first lets talk about why muammar qaddafi must go because the other alternatives are unacceptable. the first is a long stalemate and civil war are that will create conditions in libya conducive for al-qaeda and other terrorist groups to come in and take advantage of it. the other is that qaddafi defeats the rebels and then you are talking about impacting oil prices to everything and the u.s. interest in this cou...

I know house republicans, eric, with holding an interactive forum on jobs today. we want to hear about that? just a moment. >> first lets talk about the budget. majority leader cantor, are you going to do a continuing number of crs or will you have trouble with fresh henn and other conservatives who at some point will face a showdown with the president? >> joe, good morning. good morning, mika. listen, i think very clearly we all want to get this thing resolved. im hopeful this is the last stop ...

Its a good thing we elected a democratic president. now i want to bring it the pulitzer prizewinning journalist behind the graph we showed you. he won a pule hitser price, and he wrote "free lunch." david, first lets talk about that graphic. could that really be right? hinchts theres very, very little coverage of this. the reason i put a column on tax.com about this is journalists missed this as a story. remember, the republicans pledge, we wont raise taxes on anybody. they raised taxes on eve...