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With iran, deal with syria, and deal with others. >> you dont have to worry where nuclear weapons are going if you have putin. >> were not talking about russia unraveling, were talking about russia becoming more politically and economically open. >> so you think theyve moved past where they were in the early 90s? you think theres a stable if not putin, you any theyll have a -- ive heard the mob runs rampant over there, it is extraordinarily corrupt. >> youve got depopulation given the demographi...

Your health care cannot stay the same given the cost, trajectory, and inability for people to afford it much less the federal government as the biggest payer in health care. i think mitt romney understands that. he has said hes going to sign a repeal of the bill, and certainly in the house weve demonstrated our commitment to repeal that bill. >> its clear that he has flipped on the issue, though. and its maybe perhaps hard for some to understand exactly where he stands on this issue and some oth...

Virginia, and then you move on to ohio and these polls have the president ahead of romney by ten points, actually by 12 points in ohio. mark, i would ask the question this way. does anybody inside the white house believe that they are doing this well? does anybody believe? >> not -- >> that theyre up 17 points. >> i think the polls probably show a bigger lead than actually exist for the president. theres no doubt hes ahead in the battleground states and at or above 50%. and that the republicans ...

Like the secretary of state in indiana. its usually not voters. its elections officials. the voter i.d. is not going to eliminate integrity problems by elections officials. and so it is a solution in search of a problem. >> and now thats -- i respectfully disagree with you. fraud has been a problem in american politics for hundreds and hundreds of years. >> but not fraud by voters. >> yeah. i mean fraud by politicians or by precinct people that want to ship people in and figure out a way to get ...

However, are broken up by congressional district, meaning santorum will ultimately leave the state with roughly the same number as romney. welcome back, everyone. mark haleprin and harold ford jr. are with us along with michael steele in washington and tom brokaw joins the table. thank you so much for being onboard this morning. >> tom, you dont want to overstay the result of an election. but it seems to me last night, right now with you onset, im going back through the years. and this michigan ...

Buchanan in 92, but it was really in 96 that really, i think, the republicans with pitch forks just decided were not coming out for bob dole. and it killed him in the fall. >> and thats a big issue. they have to get control, first of all, of the delegates and make sure they have enough and get control of the convention. and theres going to have to be some people who are honest brokers between the various factions of the republican party. and there are now a lot of them. and if the objective is t...

Congressional district. meaning santorum will ultimately leave the state with roughly the same number as mitt romney. good morning, it is wednesday, february 29th, welcome to "morning joe." with us onset, we have msnbc and time magazine senior political analyst mark haleprin. we also have the executive editor at random house and pulitzer prize winning historian jon meacham. and in washington, msnbc political analyst michael steele. good morning to have you on, michael. >> good morning. >> and we...

>> it does. he looked good last night, mark. >> one of the things that romney did. youre right, santorum had self-inflicted wounds. but did what he did to gingrich, went directly at santorum. and hes shown, first with gingrich and now with santorum they have feet of clay too. santorum voted to raise the debt limit and voted on behalf of unions. >> he voted for the $7 trillion medicare drug plan without paying for dime of it. >> but by showing that for the tea party and the pitch fork people, the...

People and -- mr. >> got a couple cadillacs. >> more days than not, hes got to avoid saying that. he said something yesterday about the base if hillary clinton said four years ago, she would have been killed on. i forget the exact words, im not going to say things to excite the base. he said you can say outrageous things and excite the base, but im not going to do that. >> youre talking about your primary voters. and i think hes got to stop. >> michael? >> no, mark, youre making the point. and t...

Momentum, go to the base with that and say i get it. im ready, lets do this. and hopefully begin to -- coming on the other side of that -- putting together the pieces thats going to be a building blocks for a victory in november. >> mark, you talk about political athletes. i guess the best way to talk about romneys campaign is its three yards and a cloud of dust. theyre just grinding it out. and they plan to keep grinding it out until tampa. >> they have a very decent operation. strong in some p...