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tonight i'm going to ask a republican what painful cuts his party's willing to make so the wealthiest 2% in this country can get a tax break. plus, call it revenge of the moderates. centrists like republican strategist mark mckinnon and new york mayor michael bloomberg are pushing back against what they see as a rising tide of extremism within the republican party. will this fight strengthen the party or tear it apart? the latest into the investigation of what caused the huge bp spill in the gulf. we discover republicans in the senate are protecting bp from subpoena power and hav...

define the republicans before they can define themselves. it's already begun with negative ads filling the tv screens. on everything from lawsuits to divorce proceedings. will the strategy work? will it throw the republican tea partyers on the defensive? that's our top story tonight. what advantage the democrats have is the country is with them on ending the tax cuts for the wealthy. tonight i'm going to ask a republican what painful cuts his party's willing to make so the wealthiest 2% in this country can get a tax break. plus, call it revenge of the moderates. centrists like re...

disagreed with your policy. >> all right. . 6:00 on the east coast. interesting, mr. biden i. that's joe biden. >> yeah. he says it. just says it. >> he does on colbert. how about that? >> good morning. on the set with us this thursday morning, national political correspondent for new york magazine john heilemann. >> hi. >> who is the author of "game change." let me just say he feels like talking this morning. >> he does. >> okay? and then we have got msnbc political analyst harold ford jr. who is the author of owner more daves than goliaths." you had a party last night. >> look at t...

over 100 years and they had all men and the world -- the country did not go to rack and ruin. i think that the more gender parity we can get, it helps normalize the whole atmosphere on a court. >> how is it with the lawyers that appear before you? >> they do not call you by the wrong names? >> in the proportion of women. >> that was much smaller, too. it was tough in the early days. the young women were a phenomenon at that time and they were fairly regarded and that was in the early 7 -- early 1970's. quite a number of them were successful and they were always fair minded around. th...

we're not creating jobs. i know it's gloomy mubz but it's important to remember that the tax credit gave you interest free on your mortgage for one year. who would be stupid enough to buy a home last month? >> exactly, it was kind of a false high when we had that deal and once it was gone, we have the drop. >> you've got to think, takes a while whether you want to buy a home. you should have moved. i think we can't judge by this month. in two months, then i get it. as someone who just refinanced, i'm thinking maybe i should have bought a place to take advantage of that. >> i asked ab...