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So are they going to go negative? are they going to stay positive? what -- what do they do? >> hes going to do at least a two track, and youve been asking for some positive plans for him. mark haleprin mentioned last week the economic speech thats coming up, thats going to have a lot of red meat in it. hes going to go hard on cutting the deficit. hes going to have a lot of spending restraint. the conservatives will like, so at the very least hell have that. at the same time that he or others are...

Weakens mitt romney, you know, just in political terms, thats not a bad thing. >> do you agree with that? >> i do not believe that the catholic church or anybody else will accept this waiting game, well tell you next august. ill pay you on tuesday for a hamburger today. joe biden is not going to be believed on this because hes been overruled on this thing. hes shown he couldnt win on this argument. nobodys going to believe it when he comes on, a good guy and says well try to work it out. yeah, r...

Political analyst mark haleprin. and in new york, willie geist, an msnbc contributor, mike barnicle. so you guys were all at cpac yesterday. and sam, you actually said you were ready to contribute to a certain candidate. >> yeah, joe the plumber. he won a huge endorsement yesterday, herman cain got up, gave a rousing speech said joe the plumbers -- >> joe the plumber. >> its that simple. >> but you say, though, herman cain was a rock star. >> hes made for these moments. the only thing i found ki...

Different, and it would be the one here. but theyve been consumed by this fight with komen for the cure foundation and they have other things on their radar, as well. and so what youve ended up happening is exactly your point, which is that an incredibly effective and not totally invalid campaign by the catholic church to put a spotlight on this that is going to probably end up, im guessing with some sort of modification to the policy, right? >> but mark haleprin, you have two competing interest...

Help you with a short sale to sell your house and move. but the biggest thing is what we call principal reduction. and you know from florida, youve got 2 million families that owe more on their houses than their homes are worth. >> right. >> and thats the one thing we havent been able to get started in this crisis. weve gotten people lower payments, but havent been able to reduce principal. the single biggest reduction of principal in the entire crisis. >> do you have an estimate of how many peo...

>> well, welcome back to "morning joe." >> oh, look at you. >> im here. >> can we see that picture of you and herman cain again? >> it was a rough night last night. >> have we put that up? oh, look at that. the happy couple. >> i -- >> you look so comfortable. >> i went to cpac. i went to cpac, eugene. mark haleprin is still with us here in washington. joining the table, we have the host of msnbcs "hardball." author of "jack kennedy: elusive hero" and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson, and...

Bit, that would let the wind out of the sails in a way i dont think is comfortable for his campaign. >> i think for rick over the past year and a half, mark haleprin, and you followed him a good bit speaking to crowds of 14 and 15 and donut shops in western iowa, to step into cpac, to have a heros welcome, freeze was there last night, hes energi energized, ready to write more checks. ill tell you what, i think rick is going to find this crowd to his liking. >> he had huge crowds in oklahoma over...

>> well, because the other groups are pretty much vote a certain way. jewish voters tend to be liberal, tend to be democrats, they tend to be african-americans, tend to be democrats overwhelmingly. catholics really differs, they dont vote as a block. they just dont. theyre suburban, increasing suburban, irish, italian, black, all kinds of ethnic groups involved. and theyre very, they just are swing voters. you look at that 53% that president obama won by, how many of that 53% can you give away? ...

Under 25. and they get passionate and they get loud and itll be pretty, pretty cool to see how it works out over the next three days. >> al, let me ask you the great question, youre obviously a florida gu republican party, good friend of ours, jeb bush, his name is going to be coming up over the next couple of weeks. mark haleprins talking about the possibility of a brokered convention. do you think we can drag jeb bush into it by the end of it? >> well, listen, as you know, hes a friend of both...

Know, president obama getting great numbers on friday but having a rough week this week on a bunch of issues that they would probably consider to be side issues they never expected to come up. but the second big story this week is mitt romney. i wont say mitt romneys collapse -- >> or rick santorum, but either way, its a story. >> mitt romney has had a terrible week. if you look at the editorial pages today. mark haleprin was talking to me before the show, the conservatives arent panicked, but t...