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>> thanks for joining us. i'm rachel maddow, msnbc headquarters. reverend al sharpton and chris hayes as well as the mccain/palin team senior strategist from 2008, steve schmidt. lawrence o'donnell will join us as well. leading our coverage from tampa is, of course, my colleague and frie is chris matthews. a from a cuss on the floor but with the business of the nomination done, big picture, what else do the republicans need to do with all of this attention and with this big event? >> to get elected president, that's what's elected. tonight it is all about strategy, target zone, working class, ...

Gulf coast anywhere from new orleans over through, say, biloxi, mississippi. kind of right in that target zone for a category 1 land fall with some of that storm surge upwards of 6 to 8 feet, tam ron, in areas of course hit very hard by katrina almost seven years to the date. i'm in tampa, just outside the convention center, the forum behind me. so far, isaac has played fairly nice with the republicans. aside from delaying activity from the dee, making it a three-day instead of four-day convention, we really have gotten just wind and rain. none of the widespread flooding we were fearing, becau...

Begin to improve in many areas of the keys and south florida as we go throughout the night. that's the story down there. right now, very close to key west, florida. still a tropical storm. what's going to happen next? we have 48 nervous hours to see how strong isaac can get as it approaches the northern gulf states. we still have a window from port author to beaumont, i'm including them now, all the way back to pensacola in the target zone possibly with significant impacts for isaac. an inconvenience for south florida. it has a possibility to do destruction in the north central gulf. they can'...

The substance of the comments i agree with. private equity is a good thing in many, many instances. >> not knocking harold ford, but he does work for morgan stanley here. back to you, howard. there is so much marriage, you and i know it through friendships and associations, between people with the ivy league schools and met of guys and went that went into the equity business and made a lot of money, and don't like being in the target zone on equity. why would they go on television and take down, not just play defense, but play offense against the president? >> i think you have on display here,...

The future for eric holder the attorney general and whether or not he should be held responsible. this is what we found. 34% say he should be fired. almost the same number say don't fire him but reprimand him. a split. what's that tell you? >> well, i'm sitting here thinking, if i were the president of the united states, i would find a way for eric holder to step down and it would be characterized as a firing and i would move him out of the target zone too because this is focus right on eric holder and he can be subpoenaed to become before the congress. sooner or later we'll get to the bottom ...