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or what mitt romney would call a little fixer upper. latch laugh [ laughter ] >> he told when i was a kid that i would be sitting on the same dais with president barack obama, i would have said, the president's name is barack obama? remember when the country rallied around you in hopes of a better tomorrow? that was hilarious. >> good morning. it is monday, april 30. welcome to "morning joe." with us on set, we have msnbc and "time" magazine senior political analyst mark halperin, and national affair editor for "new york" magazine john heilemann. probably still hungover from the whit...

let's get right to our top story tonight. the dire warning from fed head ben bernanke this week. he told congress that our economy faces a perfect storm at the end of the year threatening our prospects for growth and recovery. take a listen. >> under current law on january 1st, 2013 there's going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases. i hope that congress will look at that and figure out ways to achieve the same long run fiscal improvement without having it all happen at one date. >> all right. so as the country's debt and spending continues to skyrock...

Growth in disparity between those who have and those who have less. the problem is, and this goes to the point that joe and a lot of others have been making and myself included over the last six or seven months, this is the corner stone of the president's argument. this is the class warfare argument emerging in the numbers. and you're beginning to see. when you go from 47% to 60% now saying that, you know, yeah, we should be coming after the rich guys, i mean that sort of sets up this argument that they're the ones that are going to solve our problems if we get more out of their pocket. >> if ...

>> we will pin him down as undecided. >> he points out what you pointed out in your column. >> which is what? >> wide swings. >> well, there's good newt, there's bad newt. >> it's not just good and bad, it's really bad. >> well, come on. >> or really strangely -- all right. here with us now and he's looking very miami. i don't know. msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele. >> who has -- >> yeah. >> back -- >> this is the one -- >> we've got a new series going. we're doing miami vice two for assisted living. >> exactly right. >> i love it...

i think, unfortunately, we're seeing some of the qualities that got him into so much trouble when he was speaker of the house. >> he has a basic policy of carpet bombing his opponent. he doesn't try to build up mitt romney, he tries to tear down who he's oning against. i give respect for the sheer volume of negativity and the sheer amount of money they raise on wall street. >> look at this segue coming in. >> that looks good. good morning. it is monday, january 30th. look at this crowd. we're live at jerry's famous deli on miami beach one day before the florida primary. welcome, ever...