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Todd white house chief correspondent and political director for nbc news and host of "the daily rundown," a lot of titles chuck, and nbc national investigative correspondent michael is cough. welcome, all. chuck, lets talk with you and chis about the politics of this. talk to michael about where we got it from huff post, mother jones, and we all getting this video tape. chuck, the political fallout initially. >> look, its -- i mean you see that, obviously, the campaign is concerned about it. the...

Behind his decision to go big on the attacks. the times says, quote, already on the defensive for not mentioning afghanistan in his convention speech and losing some ground in recent polls, mr. romney saw an opportunity to draw a stark contrast. in fact, romney was so eager to pounce on this that he personally approved and read a campaign statement before it was sent out. mr. romney needed a distraction from his flailing campaign, a way to change the subject from his sinking poll numbers. but it...

Presidential race all year. the race is commonly -- you hear dead even, neck and neck, virtual tie. thats generally how this thing gets talked about. the best thing to do is not look at individual polls here and there, gallup here, ppp there. look at these poll averages. real clear politics does it, huff post does them, where they average it together and come up with that trend line. if you look back, barack obama has been ahead since mitt romney became the republican nominee. basically its been...

the olympics. thats right. a 16-year-old chinese swimmer wins the gold medal and denies that she is doping. ye shiwen set a record yesterday. on saturday, she won gold in the 400 meter individual medley. yesterday, the head of the world swimming association called her swim unbelievable. and suggested she may be doping. the young swimmer, she told reporters late last night and we are quoting here, my achievements derive from diligence and hard work. i will never use drugs. the chinese t...

Spending over $1 billion in a fight over an ever-shrinking group of the american electorate, the only group that matters, the undecideds. and the undecideds dont like what they see. nbc news/"wall street journal" poll stesters find president ob with a 29% unfavorability rating. mitt romneys fairvevorability rating with undecideds is about half of president obamas. 44% have an unfavorable view of romney. joining me now, keith boykin, b.e. tech b.e.t. columnist and alicia menendez of huff post liv...

Half of president obamas. 44% have an unfavorable view of romney. joining me now, keith boykin, b.e.t. columnist and alicia menendez of huff post live. keith, this favorability rating were seeing among the undecideds, with mitt romneys polling only favorable to dick cheneys unfavorability rating, truly, when he was leaving office, cheney had a 13, which is about as low as you can find in polling. you just need your family and extended family to get to 13. i mean, how -- is there any way romney c...

Clinton to run in 2016. >> never told me i wanted to run, but he was so involved and into her campaign in 2008 and i cant believe that bill clinton wouldnt want to be in the middle of another campaign. i just -- thats just my guess. do i know for certain? no. but an educated guess says -- ill confide in you. he likes politics. >> he likes politics. by the way, you point out that he likes politics. arianna huffington on "huff post" has her political animals blog which now is connected, of course,...

You now make up 16% of the population of the united states of america. but, give yourself an applause, because your time is about to come. there are voices among us who fear your inclusion, but thats not new in american history theres always been a fight between the voices of inclusion and the voices of exclusion. >> joining me now, joy reid, managing editor of the agree joe.com and alicia menendez the of huff post live. joe biden in that speech had the political line of the day in nevada. lets ...

>> well, with the highlight really of the morning has been testimony called by the defense of two pennsylvania state investigators who work order this case. one of them is now retired. the defense grilling them over their techniques in how they questioned alleged victims in this case. in particular, they concentrated on one, accuser number four. and the defense was suggesting to the jury that these investigators were in essence telling the victims what to say. encouraging them. taintin...

Pollsters who conducted the focus groups, margie omaro, president of momentum analysis, and lisa menendez, a host of "huff post live. margie omaro, why did walmart conduct focus groups with these women? >> this has been an ongoing analysis that weve been talking to these moms over the course of a couple of years, through surveys and focus groups, and really, as far as walmarts involvement, its really to see what these moms think. and weve, i think, really injected the views and positions and nee...