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David said he will cut his husba mustache all for a cure. an organization susan axelrod runs to help cure epilepsy. we just got another $50,000 donation in from, mika? >> ambassador. >> uae ambassador. thank you, yusef. we appreciate it so much. >> were really close now. >> mike will be up in boston, i guess, wednesday. >> wednesday night. >> for this event. were going to go over the $1 million barrier. >> yes. coming up this morning, chuck todd and margaret carlson will both be here shaving t...

Youve been out there -- where the embassies are fortresses, and the american diplomats are removed from the people. this is a major policy question. >> so joe -- >> its a serious question. but this has nothing -- >> all reports that chris stevens had written that he needed more security are false reports? >> i dont know that those reports exist. i mean, there was some controversy about the level of security. >> at the mbembassy. >> that you needed at the embassy in tripoli. >> and they had. >> t...

Reforms that weve been talking about. theyre not going to be damaged. >> by the way, the storefronts arent going to be damaged by raising capital gains rates from 15% to 20%. i want everybody to be rich. im a capitalist. i want everybody to make $250,000. barack obama says thats rich. whatever. i want everybody -- i love people being successful in this country, but again, if youre making billions of dollars, again, theres something immoral, mika, about these people paying 14%, 15%, 16% on their ...

>> right. >> i think that the vast majority of people -- and theres a majority in the house of representatives, a centrist majority for a balanced approach. >> i think he does. actually, mika, i agree. he kept talking about a balanced approach, a balanced approach. we also said the campaign was a campaign about nothing other than raising taxes on the rich, but i do think he might have -- i think joe makes a great point, he might have a mandate for moderation because he kept talking about, quote,...

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To support all sorts of things that drive you crazy. >> yeah? >> mm-hmm. yeah. >> how about just take the money -- >> its really hypocritical, mike. >> and democrats say that they also are going to expand what theyre doing with super pacs. theyre going to get into advocacy for the presidents agenda, looking at house races, more local races. so theyre seeing that it works, and theyre going to play. >> i think mika, willie and i are going to start our own super pac. >> im sure you are. >> and were...

But i think they are. i think theres movement. you have three now. youll have more. >> speaking out -- >> by the way, senator tom coburn was the first one to do it. >> last year. >> remember? yes. and so -- >> so what do democrats need to give on? and really give. where they dont want to. >> theyre going to have to give on entitlements. i think raising the medicare age, were all healthier and we live longer than we used to. get it up there. i dont know. 68, 70. you know, somewhere. >> you know, ...

Day -- >> is hard labor. >> -- issed ha ethe hardest of labor. >> mikas been explaining health care reform and medicare and how they go together for years, joe. >> she has. >> to you. yeah. if only hed listen. >> if only id listen. >> hey, joe, you know, everything we keep hearing, if the white house could cut a deal with senate republicans, then it would already be done. you know, ill be impressed when we see house republicans breaking grover norquists pledge. thats not what were seeing yet. an...

Slowly died with citizens united, hold on, freedom, bad. okay. we got it. all right. thats written down. well, mike, this is kind of confusing to me. they like super pacs now. >> its amazing what winning does. and theyve seen that if republicans are going to play, theyre going to play, too. and i can tell you that republicans, even though theres been a lot of conversation around the table, about what republicans actually got for their close to a billion dollars in outside money, theyre pushing a...

0 the fsu quarterback, just like 1,000 quarterbacks this weekend that i saw. they were all wearing these mustaches, and theyre repulsive. >> i know. i know. >> they are repulsive. >> whats that about? >> they look like theyre from, you know, its like why dont you just bring the sudafed on the sidelines and a bunsen burner, you know? come on, man. >> its -- >> whats wrong with them? >> its the age of the ironic mustache, and its a dark age, i would say. >> its ugly as hell. >> its sort of the por...