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of herman cain's life. is one of the things about herman cain that makes it hard to imagine him as a viable mainstream candidate for republican nomination for president of the united states. it is not the only thing, though. mr. cain is out and proud about not wanting to know the names of leaders of other countries. >> when they ask me who's the president of ubeki, ubeki, stan, stan, i'm going to say, i don't know. do you know? >> when asked about foreign policy over the last decade, neoconservatism, herman cain said he was unfamiliar with the movement. of course, there's herman cain on abortion. >> my position is i'm pro life, period. >> if a woman is raped, she should not be allowed to end the pregnancy? >> that's her choice. that is not government's choice. i support life from conception. >> so abortion should be legal? >> no. abortion should not be legal. i believe in the sanctity of life. >> i'm not getting -- i'm not understanding. if it's her choice, that means it's legal. >> no. i believe -- i don't
of herman cain's life. is one of the things about herman cain that makes it hard to imagine him as a viable mainstream candidate for republican nomination for president of the united states. it is not the only thing, though. mr. cain is out and proud about not wanting to know the names of leaders of other countries. >> when they ask me who's the president of ubeki, ubeki, stan, stan, i'm going to say, i don't know. do you know? >> when asked about foreign policy over the last...
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cain denying that allegation. what he did say about being number one or number two in the polls, that is correct. herman cain had a substantial surge in the polls in recent weeks. mr. cain places ahead of mitt romney if florida, in iowa and in a pair of recent nationwide polls as well. the sudden and dramatic surges by fringe or unknown candidates, this has sort of been the way it's gone in the republican nominating process this year. it's been a very volatile race. there's one thing that hasn't been all that volatile. we'll get to that in a second. the herman cain phenomenon, the surge we're experiencing from him right now is not the first time we've had a big surge from an unlikely contender. for example, earlier this year, it was the michele bachmann surge. michele bachmann went up and up and up and peaked on the 18th of july. since the peak, it's been a long, deep decline for miss bachmann. the rick perry surge, jumped into the race, shot to the front of the pack, way up there, until roughly september 14th at
cain denying that allegation. what he did say about being number one or number two in the polls, that is correct. herman cain had a substantial surge in the polls in recent weeks. mr. cain places ahead of mitt romney if florida, in iowa and in a pair of recent nationwide polls as well. the sudden and dramatic surges by fringe or unknown candidates, this has sort of been the way it's gone in the republican nominating process this year. it's been a very volatile race. there's one thing that...
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herman cain. herman cain criticized rick perry's racist ranch name and racist rock at its gates. as you just saw. then the conservatives piled on to herman cain. rush limbaugh accusing him of piggybacking on the "washington post" smear of rick perry. matt lewis at "the daily caller" calling mr. cain's comments at best premature and worst highly irresponsible. he goes on, it's a cheap shot and a signal cain is willing to play a race card against a fellow republican when it benefits him. erick erickson calling it a slander, cain is picks up and running with to get into second place. here's how herman cain was handling questions about the rick perry racist hunting camp story. >> his question, his question of was i satisfied with governor perry's explanation about the name on that ranch where he went hunting, and i said, yes, i am. next question. >> are you disappointed any of the other candidates haven't expressed similar reactions like you have? >> relative to? >> relative to this rock on the perry -- >> no, doesn't bother me at all. >> some conservatives have said you bought into
herman cain. herman cain criticized rick perry's racist ranch name and racist rock at its gates. as you just saw. then the conservatives piled on to herman cain. rush limbaugh accusing him of piggybacking on the "washington post" smear of rick perry. matt lewis at "the daily caller" calling mr. cain's comments at best premature and worst highly irresponsible. he goes on, it's a cheap shot and a signal cain is willing to play a race card against a fellow republican when it...
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cain? >> now, you say that, and you say that -- and you've just repeated, that this plan was researched and developed by some of the leading economic thinkers in the country. >> yes. >> again, we looked at your website. no mention of anyone. >> no. i haven't put them on there. >> tell me the name of one of these leading economic thinkers who helped you come up with this plan. >> my -- the chairman of my economic advisers is a gentleman by the name of rich lowrie out of cleveland, ohio. he worked with a couple of other people quite frankly that are well known that i'm not at liberty to mention their names. >> why not? >> why not indeed. if it was such a great plan, wouldn't they like their names attached to it? wouldn't they like to be a part of history? wouldn't they like to be famous for coming up with a plan that saved the american economy? you shouldn't be so humble, secret economic advisers. we want to hear from you. we need to hear from you. because no one i talked to can really make h
cain? >> now, you say that, and you say that -- and you've just repeated, that this plan was researched and developed by some of the leading economic thinkers in the country. >> yes. >> again, we looked at your website. no mention of anyone. >> no. i haven't put them on there. >> tell me the name of one of these leading economic thinkers who helped you come up with this plan. >> my -- the chairman of my economic advisers is a gentleman by the name of rich...
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cain during a smoke bre break. whether you think this is super weird on purpose or not, this super weird thing, the inexplicable smoke ad, everybody stalking about it in mr. cain's candidacy because of it. that kind of thing usually doesn't happen with democratic ads. nobody really ever talks about democratic ads. not recently at least. generally speaking, democratic ads are not that good. i'm sorry. be mad at me. my e-mail is rachel@msnbc.com. send me hate mail. i read it. i love it. it's true. democratic ads for right for whatever reason they try but tend to look like this one. there is a funny visual metaphor here going on, but the metaphor is also very confusing. the idea is that there is an elderly man who is maybe a firefighter or maybe dressed up like a firefighter. he's dancing for women who do not want him to be dancing for them. this is supposed to be an ad about medicare. so, yeah, there's that. or there's this one which attempts to call mitt romney out on a pretty simple straightforward mitt romney-styl
cain during a smoke bre break. whether you think this is super weird on purpose or not, this super weird thing, the inexplicable smoke ad, everybody stalking about it in mr. cain's candidacy because of it. that kind of thing usually doesn't happen with democratic ads. nobody really ever talks about democratic ads. not recently at least. generally speaking, democratic ads are not that good. i'm sorry. be mad at me. my e-mail is rachel@msnbc.com. send me hate mail. i read it. i love it. it's...
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standing and enthusiastically cheering on herman cain, that is ben nelson. now a sort of democratic senator from the great state of nebraska. at the time of this video in 1991, he was the sort of democratic governor of the great state of nebraska. yay. good spotting. now, aside from his where are they now cheering on herman cain cameo in the news today, senator ben nelson of nebraska is also in the news today because he says he is going to vote with the republicans again against president obama's jobs bill. he and senator jon tester of montana already did vote against the jobs bill as a whole once but now that they're breaking it up into its component parts for the senate to vote on it again, now senators jon tester and ben nelson and maybe joe lieberman, god bless him he still exists, now these conservative democrats say they may vote against even just the specific part of president obama's jobs bill that stops the layoffs of teachers and firefighters and cops. incidentally the polling on this issue is amazing. in the new cnn poll when they asked people whe
standing and enthusiastically cheering on herman cain, that is ben nelson. now a sort of democratic senator from the great state of nebraska. at the time of this video in 1991, he was the sort of democratic governor of the great state of nebraska. yay. good spotting. now, aside from his where are they now cheering on herman cain cameo in the news today, senator ben nelson of nebraska is also in the news today because he says he is going to vote with the republicans again against president...
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of staff on his smoke break saying herman cain is awesome. mitt romney is up by 27 points
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how about herman cain? herman cain, want you, why are you here on the republican candidates' debate show? >> if i am fortunate enough to become the republican nominee, it's going to be the problem solver who fixes stuff. this is an example of mixing apples and oranges. the state tax is an apple. we are replacing the current tax code with oranges. take a loaf of bread. it does have five taxes in it right now. >> herman cain's character on the republican candidates' debate show is like the anti-intellectual, i don't have to explain anything folksy guy where things rhyme sometimes and often involve food and it all sounds very, very digestible even when it doesn't actually make sense. how about newt gingrich? newt gingrich, why are you on the republican candidates' debate show. >> i would be the candidate, sheer substance. >> newt gingrich's character on the republican candidates' debate show, the self-promotional guy that's there to remind you he has a website and you have a credit card and wouldn't you like t
how about herman cain? herman cain, want you, why are you here on the republican candidates' debate show? >> if i am fortunate enough to become the republican nominee, it's going to be the problem solver who fixes stuff. this is an example of mixing apples and oranges. the state tax is an apple. we are replacing the current tax code with oranges. take a loaf of bread. it does have five taxes in it right now. >> herman cain's character on the republican candidates' debate show is...
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thank you herman cain. then the top 0.1%. check out what their tax cut would like like under this plan. scroll down to see how far -- keep going. still going. still going. still going. keep going, going, going. come on, scroll faster. geez. yeah. that's still their tax cut. oh, there we go. okay. under this sort of flat tax, the top 0.1% of americans get a tax cut of $1.3 million. so wow. yeah. look, that's how small you have to make it in order to get it to vaguely to scale. rick perry, are you sure you want to jump on the flat tax bandwagon right now? now that people are figuring out what that would actually look like? wow. nobel prize winning economist joins us for an interview tonight. that is next. >>> the interview tonight is paul krugman. [ female announcer ] find yourself sometimes cleaning up after your dishcloth? bounty extra soft can help. it's super durable, and in this lab test bounty extra soft leaves this surface three times cleaner than a dishcloth. even with just one sheet. super clean. super soft. have you t
thank you herman cain. then the top 0.1%. check out what their tax cut would like like under this plan. scroll down to see how far -- keep going. still going. still going. still going. keep going, going, going. come on, scroll faster. geez. yeah. that's still their tax cut. oh, there we go. okay. under this sort of flat tax, the top 0.1% of americans get a tax cut of $1.3 million. so wow. yeah. look, that's how small you have to make it in order to get it to vaguely to scale. rick perry, are...
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. >> herman cain will join lawrence on thursday. you can have the last word online at our blog, thelastword.msnbc.com. watch "up with chris hayes" which airs saturday mornings at 7:00 a.m. eastern. that's early. set your dvrs. and sundays at 8:00 a.m. the rachel maddow show is up next. good evening, rachel. >> did you choose your name of the show in full knowledge of the fact people didn't know what it was would say what's up with chris hayes? >> we were hoping for that reaction. yes. >> all right. it works. beautiful. perfectly done. thank you, chris. >>> now that new jersey governor chris christie is back for running for vice president instead of running for president alongside all the other republicans not running for president anymore, like haley barbour and mitch daniels and john thune and mike pence and is donald trump considered to be a vice presidential contender? now that chris christie rejoined the ranks of all the republicans vying with a almighty marco rubio to be the vice presidential nominee in 2012 instead of the pres
. >> herman cain will join lawrence on thursday. you can have the last word online at our blog, thelastword.msnbc.com. watch "up with chris hayes" which airs saturday mornings at 7:00 a.m. eastern. that's early. set your dvrs. and sundays at 8:00 a.m. the rachel maddow show is up next. good evening, rachel. >> did you choose your name of the show in full knowledge of the fact people didn't know what it was would say what's up with chris hayes? >> we were hoping for...
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as we saw this week when herman cain -- well, not herman cain. who outed him? rick perry, the jeffress guy. outed him as a mormon. and started to play this mormon car. when people find out that mormon is really is not a branch of christianity, i think it's going to be a problem for him. when mitt romney made his speech in 2007, people compared it to the kennedy speech in '60. it was nothing like the kennedy speech. what kennedy was saying was i'm a catholic, yes, but i'm not going to take my orders from the pope. i separate church and state. that's not what mitt romney said. what mitt romney said was look, yes, i'm a mormon. that's different than the christian. but what's important is that we all believe in nonsense. we can all rally around that. >> do you think, though, that -- mitt romney now has this choice of whether or not to redo that speech that he did before about his faith. or should -- i mean, he could also go sort of on the offensive against the people who are calling his religion a cult. it seems like he's counting on this creating some sympathy for
as we saw this week when herman cain -- well, not herman cain. who outed him? rick perry, the jeffress guy. outed him as a mormon. and started to play this mormon car. when people find out that mormon is really is not a branch of christianity, i think it's going to be a problem for him. when mitt romney made his speech in 2007, people compared it to the kennedy speech in '60. it was nothing like the kennedy speech. what kennedy was saying was i'm a catholic, yes, but i'm not going to take my...
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thank you herman cain. then the top 0.1%. check out what their tax cut would like like under this plan. scroll down to see how far -- keep going. still going. still going. still going. keep going, going, going. come on, scroll faster. joez. yeah. that's still their tax cut. oh, there we go. okay. under this sort of flat tax, the pop 0.1% of americans get a tax cut of $1.3 million. so wow. yeah. look, that's how small you have to make it in order to get it to vaguely to scale. rick perry, are you sure you want to jump on the flat tax bandwagon right now? how n.o.w. that people are figuring out what that would actually look like? wow. nobel prize winning economist joins us for an interview tonight. that is next. ♪ let's go ♪ ♪ cruise like a norwegian ♪ covergirl trublend has skin twin technology. other makeup can sit on your skin, so it looks like...makeup. but trublend has skin twin technology to actually merge with your skin. how easy breezy beautiful is that? trublend...from covergirl. aflac... and major medical? maj
thank you herman cain. then the top 0.1%. check out what their tax cut would like like under this plan. scroll down to see how far -- keep going. still going. still going. still going. keep going, going, going. come on, scroll faster. joez. yeah. that's still their tax cut. oh, there we go. okay. under this sort of flat tax, the pop 0.1% of americans get a tax cut of $1.3 million. so wow. yeah. look, that's how small you have to make it in order to get it to vaguely to scale. rick perry, are...
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but herman cain is the front-runner. and herman cain is winning in part because the republican base loves the idea of getting tough on the poor. >> herman cain, i got to ask you, you said, quote, don't blame -- two weeks ago, you said, don't blame wall street, don't blame the big banks. if you don't have a job, if you're not rich, blame yourself. that's two weeks ago. movement has grown. do you still say that? >> yes, i do still say that. and here's why. wall street didn't put in failed economic policies. wall street didn't spend $1 trillion that didn't do any good. wall streetson going around the country trying to sell another $450 billion. they ought to be in front of the white house taking out their frustrations. i do stand by that. >> woo-hoo! blame yourselves poor people of america. do it for herman cain, do it for the nice middle class people applauding in the audience. well, this is the face of poverty in america. this is who's poor in our country. children. particularly latino and black children. last year, a yea
but herman cain is the front-runner. and herman cain is winning in part because the republican base loves the idea of getting tough on the poor. >> herman cain, i got to ask you, you said, quote, don't blame -- two weeks ago, you said, don't blame wall street, don't blame the big banks. if you don't have a job, if you're not rich, blame yourself. that's two weeks ago. movement has grown. do you still say that? >> yes, i do still say that. and here's why. wall street didn't put in...