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Theorist dressed up as a real estate mogulist for halloween. donald trump trying to launch an october surprise. what do you make of that, my friend? >> it's a little baffling what exactly -- i understand the birther b.s. he's trying tos press but i don't understand what he's trying to press with the idea we need to see the president's college records and application as if one keeps one, except this really -- really ugly idea that the president didn't deserve to go to the universities that he went to in some way. i actually don't know what the theory of the case is he's trying to do except get ...

>> obama says -- romney says it's american. same thing he's saying, if he says it out of his mouth he's un-american. >> you know we have to go to break unfortunately. something you said jared, i thought is important. the social mobility question. we are trailing europe, australia and canada in terms of whether or not you can be lifted out of your economic bracket, to say from poverty to the middle class to the middle class to dare to dream the 1%. >> that goes against what i think of as american dream. >> we have to go to break but after we come back we'll look at the ps's late night calendar ...

James baldwin said i love america more than anybody and why i reserve the right to criticize her. there is a tradition of speaking honestly to the issues that affect the american dream that keep it from being shared widely that is really patriotic at its roots but unfortunately the debate is so narrow and so shallow that everybody has -- you know, politicians are like bad wide receivers. they've got to spike the ball after every catch, promote themselves -- >> you are the king of metaphors. not even a question. in the beginning about alan west to say nothing of the politician alan west is, the...

To do if you're the president is because that was nuts. >> this is also true. >> and won't be the end. >> but what it does speak to and what is perhaps or definitely more of a substantive conversation is that, you know, it's game time and this race is tight and, you know, i talked to michael steele before this program began and said your party has a race and you pointed to me and said your party has a race. it's tight and important to note that the president is going to log 5300 miles in the next 24 hours. he's going basically everywhere. going to iowa, colorado, l.a., las vegas, to florida, t...

Ohio. the president has his firewall, ohio, iowa wisconsin and he's going to -- he's building his whole campaign around making sure that firewall stays in place. romney's got to find a way to crack that firewall. this is -- chuck todd i thought put it perfectly. the president has the map. the obama team, they've got the map in place to kind of pull together those pieces. the romney/ryan team have the momentum. the question is does momentum overtake the map or the map suffocate the momentum? that's going to be the next couple of weeks be here that are in play right now. this thing is close. the...