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Against this president? >> certainly foreign affairs are on the minds of average americans especially on memorial day when we think about the sacrifices of so many men and women in uniform and their families. i think colin powell, a good friend of mine, is an independent man. he'll make up his mind when he decides to. however, i think what governor romney probably intended was, it is true that we have the most unsettled relationship with russia right now, and we have a leader of russia whose motivations are, to put it kindly, unclear who has a very clear history. >> all right. we're going to l...

Thank you all very much. we'll take another break here. when we come back, a special conversation about this commencement season and some advice for the class of 2012. joining me, two of the season's most celebrated commencement st selling author michael lewis, right after this short break. [ male announcer ] what's in your energy drink? ♪ power surge, let it blow your mind. [ male announcer ] for fruits, veggies and natural green tea energy... new v8 v-fusion plus energy. could've had a v8.

Rove adds, quote, there's a lesson there for mr. romney, choose the best person for the job. well, that would be the lesson if bush had actually chosen the best person for the job, but he chose dick cheney. there's a lot of free advice flying around these days on who mitt romney should choose or he should not choose as vice president including some this morning from our own joe scarborough. >> i'm just going to say it and i -- why not, this is why people watch this show. let me set myself on fire politically, he's not ready to be vice president . just like barack obama wasn't ready to be presi...

Ready to be president. just like sarah palin wasn't ready to be on the ticket in 2008. marco rubio has a great story, and what a great demographic he will speak to someday, but he is not ready to be on a national ticket in 2012. >> joining us now an msnbc political analyst john heilman, thank you for joining us. i will argue with joe about just how ready obama was to be president, i think he was as ready as anyone who's take than oath of office. but what do you make of how this has become such a wide open flow of advice and you have rove now and "the wall street journal" giving his advice, you...

Advantage of the campaign letting us know in advance, forewarning us, telling us that they are going to not just abandon previously held positions, they are going to pretend that those previously held positions were not previously held. and so with mitt romney in north carolina today, avoiding the gay marriage question, which is amazing, let us cheerfully refuse to go along with the plan for us to all forget all but the current news cycle. let us cheerfully refuse to go along with the plan that you, in the future, will be completely unaware of what happened in the headlines on a day like april...