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America runs on duncan. get it right. let's get right to our panel. with us from washington, msnbc analyst, eugene robinson, a columnist for the "washington post." mother jones washington bureau chief, david corn, also an msnbc political analyst and jared bernstein, senior fellow at the center for policy priorities and former adviser to vice president joe biden. eugene, donuts and slogans are fine things. even if mitt romney can only identify one of the two, but how much longer, seriously, can he simply run on platitudes and hollow cliches? how much longer? >> well, first of all, martin, i'm p...

That you have ever seen and almost like a last gasp sort of thing. trying to put things in place before demographics take over. so put things this place as quickly as you possibly can. and that is also the reason you see things like you know, same-sex marriage. put it in place while you still, you see it changes so fast that put it on the books and make someone else have to take it off, which is a harder hurdle to overcome. >> thank you so much for joining us. coming up on "hardball," chris matthews digs deeper into a top pennsylvania republican for admitting the voter i.d. law is aimed at rom...

Of bain's activities? >> to the latter part of your question, of course not. my former boss, the vice president, nailed it in that quote and there is difference between those two words. it's not what the campaign is saying it is. >> but jared, isn't the difference that he, the jobs went as it were were outsourced, but as far as his own assets are concerned, they're offshore in swiss bank accounts. >> they supported sending jobs abroad. they're calling it outsourcing, which is something different. once you send a job abroad in that whole tangled sentence doesn't make sense to anybody, so let's ...

These laws are in place. they could represent like 80% of the votes mitt romney needs to win the election. this is no joke. >> there's no getting around the fact that people who are putting these law us in place know the effect of what the laws will do and in a lot of these cases, if you look at "the new york times" list of spades, and most of those states, about nine percentage point was the spread for obama last time. if you look at current polling, you're down into low single digits. so now, you say can i move that window? three to four percentage points, doesn't take much. you may have dis...

I-95 in connecticut. it's rated struckly deficient, but more than 200,000 cars continue to cross that bridge while we await congressional action on a $110 billion transportation bill. it's not just safety. we're talking about 3 million jobs on the line. 3 million americans who could be bringing home a paycheck as we hit the fourth of july. talk about fireworks. so with that in mind, safe journeying to all of you. i'm joined now by congresswoman karen bass, a democratic from california and a member of the budget committee. transportation funding drys up in four short days. in los angeles alone,...