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>> at 10:00 here on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. out west. msnbc news has confirmed retired army general and capitol hill veteran alexander haig has died. haig served as chief of staff for presidents nixon and ford and later in president reagan's cabinet as secretary of state where he became best known perhaps for his response to the 1981 assassination attempt on the life of the president. we're speaking with andrea mitchell an pat buchanan. with a good morning to you both. i'll begin with you first, andrea. how crucial was secretary hague during the transition from president nixon to p...

Ahead of germany, france and cana canada. that one gold medal for canada, won by alex billadeau. he won in the freestyle mogul skiing. they had a giant party for him last night. this is inside the stadium. it holds some 60,000 people. the whole country of canada turned out to celebrate this guy. and as i told you last hour, they already have a kmstam weap his face on it. he has become a national icon here. >> wow. all right. willy geist, thank you very much. we'll talk to you in just a bit. let's take a look now at today's top stories. a lot going on today. indiana senator evan bayh adding h...

washington post". big news. >> that's about it. >> that's not about it, but -- >> it -- >> do we have that quote? are you going to read that quote? one of evan bayh's friends basically said -- yeah, the left got their wish. they don't like moderate democrats. >> okay. >> you're going to have a conservative republican in indiana now. there's a lot we can say about this. good thing the show's three hours long. >> puts another democratic seat in turmoil, but the question of evan bayh as tribune of centrish, telling the obama administration, you guys are off track, he voted on a lot of t...

Very difficult job, obviously, and that is because you have very did i ver jent in our caucus, let alone dealing with the kaukds and their ideological percent situation. nonetheless. composing or putting together a piece of legislation that is able to win a wide swath of support is difficult. the part that is frustrating, at least from my spers spers tif, if the goal is to get unanimous support for the republican party, it's just not going to happen. >> all right. we are going to have to leave it there. >> tonight, vancouver, canada, is the party center of the world because of the opening cere...

worked for scott brown may have come back for a guy that got him cheap oil. >> right. >> they've got a war with expensive oil prices. >> he's made notes about regret about not running. >> he said so. >> as you go towards 2012, there's going to be a lot of interest in massachusetts. >> don't you think that the democrats are going to say, this can't be easy. you better run the best guy you've got? >> you can imagine the kind of conversations inside the family, the ted kennedy's lifetime dream derailed by massachusetts after -- >> health care. >> -- after kennedy would put the hat in th...