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You know we introduced and msnbc introduced to the world the four folks, thats right, the four folks that will be replacing your friendly neighborhood host, me. we promised today we would allow them to speak, so here they are. toure, steve, krystal and s.e., its nice to have you guys back. what are your moms think about the fact youve got your own tv show? >> my mom is actually more excited that im dressed up right now. >> grown up clothes. >> now, you, i was sitting, i had the drink with phil g...

>> midnight to 2:00 a.m. hours? >> if i could live my entire life between the hours of 1:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m., i would own the world. unfortunately, when i walk up, i crash. >> what about you, s.e.? how will your life change? >> ive always been really busy. >> is it going to keep going? >> i dont know how to say no so people ask me to do things, i say yes. i dont know how this happened. i need to say no more often. >> dont know how to say no. >> to work opportunity. im going to do as much i can...

Midflight emergency, but they kept us calm and informed through the emergency landing. others like conservative columnist s.e. kopp expressed frustration. tweeting the plane turned into a vomitorium. for five hours and after all that, im still in vegas. all the passengers did make it out of vegas that same night but on a different jetblue plane. and the faa has opened an investigation to find out what went wrong. diana perez, abc news, new york. >> as you can see on the tweets, the glass half fu...

Paranoia, anti-law enforcement -- >> its happening. it would be paranoia if its not happening. its happening. >> its paranoia. >> okay. okay. s.e., i got to ask you, i mean, if you are a reasonable gun owner, that is sitting in the middle o tf the country watchin this, is it not a little bit suspect, i mean, that -- and to the question of anything dealing with firearms. regardless of how insignificant it is. there is a pushback and that there is this -- >> a defensive -- >> this incredible defen...

This is about catching the bad guys. thats an important point. >> thats the interesting thing, heather, is that every -- i mean, s.e., id love to get your thoughts on this, too. any effort to in any way touch the issue of weaponry, guns in this country, is always met with extreme resistance from the nra. this is, you know, you have folks that are gun, you know, gun advocates, effectively saying this amounts to a gun ban. i mean, this is something that doesnt even touch -- not rifles, not revolve...

Documentary is not someone who has done a particularly -- hes not tried to sell his legacy. hes a very kind of quiet guy. when it comes down to it, he made significant steps as president. when you contrast his time in office versus his sons. in terms of economics, he turns a surplus -- im sorry, george w. bush turned a surplus into debt, he made major tax cuts where his father raised taxes and got rid of pay go which of course forced spending cuts to be offset. a legacy of his fathers. a really ...

Fabric and a check on corporate power, on government power, i mean, its really -- were going to look back on this period of time as one that really changed the american democracy, the way we havent quite reckoned with. >> we dont have time to talk in detail about the pacquiao/bradley fight. senators john mccain and harry reid are maybe working together, josh, to get bad stuff out of boxing. >> we can all agree pacquiao got jobbed. its an issue that unites us all. boxing has a minor corruption pr...

Trigger sort of gut reaction to these issues. >> i dont accept that. >> well, thats okay. both sides contribute to this. because after a big shooting like gabby giffords or trayvon martin theres huge hysteria and paranoia about guns and we have to ban begans. gun owners react -- >> nobody says we have to ban guns. show me one word thats come out of my mouth or the mouth of the brady campaign -- >> i dont follow everything you say. >> theres nobody thats anti-gun. were anti- -- >> nobody is anti-...

Privatization seems to be the mantra of republican parties. it limits accountability, enhances the private sector perhaps at the expense of taxpayers who want their kids to get a good free education. >> indeed. s.e., i want you to listen to a clip of mitt romney speaking in a radio interview in philadelphia today on the subject of education. take a listen. >> i can also tell you that in the studies that have been done across the world and our nation, that changing classroom size by a modest amou...

Thats right. >> her achievements have been discredited by a number of different individuals. >> i read a study today in salon.com, not a conservative media outlet, that discussed the value of larger class sizes and in fact, small er classes are expensive and not proven to be the most effective means of improving the education of a child. mitt romney is absolutely right that those studies exist. and at best or minimally that its sort of unclear about the value of small class sizes. >> you agree w...