reid! can republicans send majority leader harry reid back home and remove democrats from power in the house? how will their embrace of the tea party play out on election day and beyond? with us exclusively this morning, the man at the center of it all, the leader of the republican party, chairman michael steele. plus, we ll look at the latest polls. who s up, who s down, and who s pulling out all the stops? as the president spends the week, trying to rally the democratic base out west, the right declares war on national public radio after the abrupt firing of news analyst and kmn commentator, juan williams. we look at it all with our expanded roundtable, david brooks, e.j. dionne, former democratic congressman harold ford jr., msnbc s rachel maddow and cnbc s rick santelli. congr ford jr., msnbc s rachel maddow ford jr., msnbc s rachel maddow and cnbc s rick santelli. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. here we are, final countdown to election day
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a long time to fix. so, maybe if we just sit on the sidelines, say no to everything and then point our fingers at obama and say he s to blame, they figured that maybe y all would forget that they caused the mess in the first place, and they would be able to ride anger all the way to election time. chairman, what s your answer to that? your vision of what the story of the last two years has been? well, actually, it sounded more like a pity party than a rally. i can t believe the president is sitting there, with hindsight, saying we didn t cooperate, republican leaders did not cooperate with the president. i think from health care to the environment to the economy, republicans in the house and the senate had made very clear this is what we would like to do. let s talk about health care reform that includes tort reform, doctor/patient relationship and not put government in the middle of that. let s talk about job creation by stimulating small businesses and not the federal g
a long time to fix. so, maybe if we just sit on the sidelines, say no to everything and then point our fingers at obama and say he s to blame, they figured that maybe y all would forget that they caused the mess in the first place, and they would be able to ride anger all the way to election time. chairman, what s your answer to that? your vision of what the story of the last two years has been? well, actually, it sounded more like a pity party than a rally. i can t believe the president is sitting there, with hindsight, saying we didn t cooperate, republican leaders did not cooperate with the president. i think from health care to the environment to the economy, republicans in the house and the senate had made very clear this is what we would like to do. let s talk about health care reform that includes tort reform, doctor/patient relationship and not put government in the middle of that. let s talk about job creation by stimulating small businesses and not the federal g
reid! can republicans send majority leader harry reid back home and remove democrats from power in the house? how will their embrace of the tea party play out on election day and beyond? with us exclusively this morning, the man at the center of it all, the leader of the republican party, chairman michael steele. plus, we ll look at the latest polls. who is up, who is down and who is pulling out all the stops? as the president spends the week, trying to rally the democratic base out west, the right declares war on public radio after the abrupt fighting of analyst juan williams. we look at it all with our expanded round table, former democratic congressman harold ford jr., msnbc s rachel maddow democratic congressman harold ford jr., msnbc s rachel maddow and cnbc s rick santelli. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. here we are, final countdown to election day 2010. with us exclusively this morning, the chairman of the republican national committee, m