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>> can i say as well, i think if theres a larger point, and mika, what youre seeing, take immigration, seeing it now with health care, what you see a lot of conservatives in congress railing against, are these larger, sweeping government programs. we saw on the campaign trail in 2012, republicans railing against the president for the expansion of assistance for the poor and how these programs swell to make an anti-you know record argument on the economy for president obama. here on immigration n...

Because of the enemies that spitzer made on wall street and scott stringer is a popular manhattan borough president. it will be interesting to see how that goes because while we can all sit around here and i think you did a great job, halperin did a great job, joe did a great job of asking those questions and finally revealing those layers kind of pulling back the onion layers, but still, you know -- >> thomas is quick. >> the voters may forgive but the enemies wont. >> its the ken lagowns of th...

Fly. its safer. all right. now give us the new poll numbers. >> new poll numbers. eliot spitzer, early lead in the race for the new york city comptroller according to a survey released yesterday, 42% of registered democrats support the former governor. 33% backing scott stringer, that is stringer being the manhattan borough president. 44% believe that spitzer who resigned amid a prostitution scandal is a changed man and 67% believe he deserves a second chance. so five years later it seems people...

>> well -- >> eliot spitzer the next day. >> do i feel bad for scott stringer? like a week ago his life seemed so simple. comptroller. >> thats politics. >> he was on yesterday and did very well. >> yeah. >> impressive guy. but -- >> guy with 100% name recognition comes into the race. >> and self-financed. >> thats the way it works. >> no. i think hes going to do it. and again, there is, though, i wonder about anthony weiner, al hunt, when he was down here he wasnt known as a guy that got a lot ...

Of these things and know how to fair it out the genuine from the crazy and the crap and well see what they do at the polls. >> before we talk about eliot spitzer getting elected he has to get himself on the ballot, about 4,000 signatures on a petition. >> by tomorrow. >> apparently hes having a little trouble doing that. all the candidates have until tomorrow. its 3750 signatures to be exact. spitzer said he hopes to collect more than 7,000 signatures but that may be easier said than done. accor...

Someone asked her where the middle east was. >> on her cooking show. >> if she could figure it out. >> i would like to see a palin/wallace reunion. lets make this happen. >> she has a following and it has endured. >> it would be interesting to see what she does. >> coming up on "morning joe," nbcs political director chuck todd joins us and jean chatzky, well talk to the aforementioned scott stringer facing eliot spitzer in that race for new york city comptroller and later actress and tv host ais...

Time as governor is how it ended. >> to every new yorker, and to all those who believed in what i tried to stand for, i sincerely apologize. i look at my time as governor with a sense of what might have the prostitution scandal that ended spitzers governorship meant he was not around to work on the issue he championed and built his career on at a time when it came into its own. eliot spitzer announcing in "the new york times" this weekend he is now reentering politics and public life. hell be ru...

With a sense of what might have been. >> a little more than a year after elliot spitzer assumed the governorship, news broke he had hired prostitutes which led to two cringe worthy press conferences during which he acknowledged the charges then resigned. that was in march of 08 when the sheriffs of wall street was forced to leave office in a prostitution scandal. six months after that in september that same year, wall street and really the whole financial industry and really the entire u.s. econ...

Means who will pay soaring costs for private schools -- >> front page of your paper yesterday. >> right. >> about single moms. >> i see parents making extraordinary sacrifices to send their kids to the best schools when they can, but parents who dont have that ability, are sending their kids to public schools and -- >> losing all around. >> the decline in this country. >> thats our new future. >> 20 years of the city of giuliani and bloomberg. giuliani did important work, changes in times square...

Function. yes, some of them need to be reformed, stream lined, brought up to date. need to be more culturally sensitive to living in america. i would be very concerned about the imams who trained them. what are the kind of sill by they are preaching. what theyre preaching. we cannot just simply paint with this broad brush. we need to be very careful about because it tends to demonize the entire muslim community. >> laura: which is not what the intent is. scott, lets talk about this controversy i...