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They portended it to be. >> joining me now is alena maxwell for sirius xm and nbc political analyst. rick tyler, also an nbc political analyst. and former assistant to president obama chris lieu. he is a senior fellow at the miller center. welcome to all. good to see you. lets get going on this one, rick. the senator was attempting to downplay senator harris there. do you think hes beginning to see her more of a threat based on her performance? specifically a debate threat. >> sure, it seems lik...

Display. this is a community joe biden needs to win over in order to become the democratic nominee and so im not sure how his strategy of sort of lying low and doing only the events he really wants to do is going to work out for him in that way. at the same time, though, im not really sure that he can win over that crowd ultimately and i think that its still early enough in the process that you could see one of these progressives to his left break out and really give him a run for his money. rob...

Candidate. he has a great credentials as governor, sort of that, you know, tough talk and we need to make some difficult decisions type of governor and will be that type of presidential candidate. the fiscal responsibility message that the republicans feel so strongly about in terms of discipline, reducing the debt, deficit, building businesses and jobs he has that in his background. he is viable. the only thing from a constructive standpoint, lets take a look at it, governor mitt romney has bee...

many ran to seek safer ground, but boy, the devastation is coming to light today. >> thats right. 12 hours later life has changed in joplin, missouri. a powerful tornado ripped that city apart. the red cross said 75% of the town is virtually gone with reports of at least 30 people killed and dozens more injured. 50,000 people live in the city. no phone service, power lines are down, cars and trucks smashed and flipped. the governor calling out the national guard and declaring a state o...

Those numbers say theres not a front runner yet. but we also know that debates can make a candidate or break a candidate and someone can break away from the quote unquote dwarves in the process. >> republican strategists are always saying that the message they feel theyve got is winnable for them as we look toward 2012. do you think theyre right? >> if i were them, id be saying that. all the polling data i see right now suggests to me the presidents in pretty strong shape. the economys going to ...