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Times are hard right now. we are moving in the right direction. i know its getting close to an election. but there are times where you put elections aside, this is one of those times. >> and good morning. its tuesday, july the 20th. and with us in washington today, a big show, mika, very exciting. of course -- >> trouble is brewing already. >> makes it exciting all the time. >> oh, really? >> margaret carlson is here with us. >> yeah. >> always great having you. >> such excitement to be up at 6:...

We have no intention of abandoning our long-term mission of achieving the kind of afghanistan that president karzai set forth in his speech. >> welcome back to "morning joe." with us now from kabul where hillary clinton the secretary of state is attending an international conference on the future of afghanistan, nbcs chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell. and andrea mitchell, one of the topics youre covering is corruption there. how would you characterize the hope of working with ...

Go have a beer. wally backman, ladies and gentlemen. coming up next, who are you? you and you? were going to show the confrontation with the congressman, an apology, some neck grabs. its so great. were going to show it to you. plus mikas opinion pages. keep it on "morning joe." (jennifer garner) theres a lot of beautiful makeup out there to cover up flaws and make skin look pretty but theres one thats so clever, it makes your skin look better even after you take it off.

You want. theyre fighting each other perhaps for second place, fighting for the conservative voters, but its almost like there are two primaries here. mitt romney versus barack obama and the more conservative candidates against each other. >> and you know, mika, something we said around the table a year ago that this election was not going to be about the republicans versus republicans, it was all about barack obama. and i just, especially in iowa, i dont get one candidate attacking another cand...

Through the front door and goes, hey, you mind if i come in and hang out? of course, tims a god and theyre like come in, come in, and made all the difference. hep launched the show. >> theres no surprise to that. tim was there at the launch of a lot of things, and everyone knows everything starts in iowa. >> it does. >> everything starts in iowa. >> including us. >> exactly. exactly. >> weve got big news to report this morning. some polls showing really -- >> well, there he is. >> i was hanging ...

>> you usually have ideological pronouncements. when we came in in 1994, we came in and we were going to roll over the democrats. we were going wipe them out. we looked at bill clinton as irrelevant. we looked at the democratic party as old and tired and bloated. and it was the same feeling that barack obama and his troops had in 2008 and what theyve learned is what -- what they learned this year is what we learned in 1996. >> dont you think some of the new republicans are coming in with the ide...