party chairman's leadership, remember mitt romney won on election day, oh, no, no, then it was a tie, no, actually, turns out rick santorum won. no, i'm sorry, i quit. the new iowa state chairman is known for being a vociferous reporter of ron paul. one iowa republican telling politico, quote, he's not a guy you have a lot of confidence in. we spoke to a veteran iowa observer today who confirmed to us there's considerable angst in iowa right now among republican party activists and conservative activists about their new chairman's ability to get the job done in iowa. state parties are important. the first thing that we think about are things like getting out the vote and the basic logistics for the presidential race. it's also everything else on the ticket. it's every other race that will be on the ballot in november. every single member of the house is up for re-election this fall. with redistricting, a lot of those races are way more up in the air than they otherwise would be. so in states like are a total mess at the sate party level, what's plan "b"? if some key state republican part

this year. under the state chairman's leadership, mitt romney won on election night. then it was a tie and it turned out rick santorum won. i'm sorry, i quit. the new iowa state chairman is known for being a supporter of ron paul. one telling politico, he's not a guy you have a lot of confidence in. we spoke to a veteran iowa observer who said there's angst among the party about their new chairman's ability to get the job done in iowa. state parties are important. the first thing that we think about are things like getting out the vote and the basic logistics for the presidential race. it's also everything else on the ticket. it's every other race that will be on the ballot in november. in states that are a total mess at the state party level, what's plan b? if some key state republican parties literally are not able the pay their rent so it does not seem like they will be able to do anything for the elections this fall. what's plan b? plan b is this guy. the $200 million war chest that karl rove has committed will start producing anti-obama campaign ads this month. if you're a sta

that he didn't endorse mitt romney in his i'm getting out speech. that left newt gingrich for any remaining santorum supporters to support newt gingrich instead. with newt gingrich pledging he will show up in tampa to collect his nomination but not doing all that much work anymore toward trying to get that nomination. with ron paul's campaign soldering on and attracting large crowds on college campuses but with nothing really to show for it in terms of momentum toward the nomination or states won or delegates accumulated, it now seems like it's okay to say it's done. it is worth admitting that we're sort of back to where we started, which is the most interesting question in all of partisan politics right now, the defining question of the american right in this age is a question that has remained totally open, totally unanswered and totally fascinating since february 2004, which is when it was confirmed that george w bush would not replace dick cheney on the ticket. that was critical because nobody ever thought that dick chenye would run for president himself. the succession questi

it came. the news is the de facto crowning of mitt romney. his even remotely conceivable, long shot opponent conceded the race today. >> we made a decision to get into this race at our kitchen table against all the odds, and we made a decision over the weekend while this presidential race for us is over, for me, and we will suspend our campaign effective today. we are not done fighting. we are going to continue to fight for those voices. we will continue to fight for the americans that stood up and gave us that air under our wings that allowed us to accomplish things that no political expert would have ever expected. i walked out after the iowa caucus victory and said, game on. i know a lot of folks are going to right, maybe those even at the white house, game over. this game is long, long wam from over. >> for rick santorum the race is over as of tonight. oddly, after saying today that his presidential campaign is over, rick santorum did go what he had another campaign event tonight with religious rights, anti-gay figure james dobson. maybe it's a sign of how he wants to keep a han

convention in st. louis this week. mitt romney is scheduled to speak on friday. i think the combination here is only going to escalate and make this a much bigger political issue than any of us expected a couple of weeks ago. >> i think you're right. you think we've been transfixed by it thus far, i think that is set to increase now. michael isikoff, nbc news national investigative correspondent. michael, thank you very much for your time tonight. >> thank you. >>> all right, supposedly, supposedly there are about 2,000 members of the communist party usa. turns out that a huge proportion of that membership is made up of members of congress. it's true. i heard that somewhere. that's next. ♪ i'm michael bazinet, president of creative digital imaging of bangor, maine. we have customers all over the united states. we rely on the postal service for everything that we do. the eastern maine processing facility is vital to our operation and our success. if we lose this processing facility we could lose clientele because of increased mailing times. we would have to consider layoffs as a result

national convention in st. louis this week. mitt romney is scheduled to speak on friday. i think the combination here is only going to escalate and make this a much bigger political issue than any of us expected a couple of weeks ago. >> i think you're right. you think we've been transfixed by it thus far, i think that is set to increase now. michael isikoff, nbc news national investigative correspondent. michael, thank you very much for your time tonight. >> thank you. >>> all right, supposedly, supposedly there are about 2,000 members of the communist party usa. turns out that a huge proportion of that membership is made up of members of congress. it's true. i heard that somewhere. that's next. are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule. the first technology of its kind... mom and dad, i have great news. is now providing answers families need. siemens. answers. do you really think brushing is enough to keep it clean? while brushing misses germs in 75% of your mouth, listerine cleans virtually your entire mouth. so take your oral health to a

ground, having its national convention in st. louis this week. mitt romney is scheduled to speak on friday. i think the combination here is only going to escalate and make this a much bigger political issue than any of us expected a couple of weeks ago. >> i think you're right. you think we've been transfixed by it thus far, i think that is set to increase now. michael isikoff, nbc news national investigative correspondent. michael, thank you very much for your time tonight. >> thank you. >>> all right, supposedly, supposedly there are about 2,000 members of the communist party usa. turns out that a huge proportion of that membership is made up of members of congress. it's true. i heard that somewhere. that's next. but my smile wasn't. [ female announcer ] new crest 3d white intensive professional effects whitestrips. it goes below he enamel surface to whiten as well as a five-hundred dollar professional treatment. wow, that's you? [ female announcer ] new intensive professional effects whitestrips. you're probably muddling through allergies. try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief

between the parties. i mean, mitt romney says he doesn't want ta talk about republicans rolling back contraception or being super anti-abortion that people have been complaining about in the war on women idea. he says he just wants to talk about women in an economic context. well, here's a perfect case, equal pay. women being able to sue if they are getting paid less than a man for doing the same work that that man is doing. you can't get more pure. this is what romney says he is specializing on. this is what his message of the week is. we still have no idea whether mitt romney supports that. would he have signed it if he was president? most republicans voted against it. what should we read into the fact that the surrogates that are talking on this issue themselves voted no on the fair pay act. mr. romney once the wisconsin primary embattled republican governor of wisconsin scott walker. not only does scott walker not support the equal pay for equal work concept, he did just repeal wisconsin state level version of the equal pay act. he repealed that law on the same day that he signed

needed to fix that. they stepped back up to the plate and put out a statement that mitt romney would not repeal the fair act if he became president even though he wouldn't say whether he would have signed it himself and then that of course constituted strike five because those surrogates that the romney campaign rolled out did not themselves vote for the fair pay act. so they don't particularly support it either. trust them. here's the things, though. the whole concept of whether or not the republicans are waging a war on women, it's not an impressionistic thing. the whole reason anybody has been talking about a war on women is not because of any personal factors that work here. it's not because of language or who is being pc or not. it's because of what republicans have pursued as a policy agenda and the fair pay issue is a great one on which to talk about the difference between the parties. i mean, mitt romney says he doesn't want to talk about republicans rolling back contraception or being super anti-abortion that people have been complaining about in the war on women idea. he sa

. romney has been all over the map on gun issues. the latest version of mitt romney proclaims himself to be a life-long member of the nra. he essentially give his stump speech but he did add in a few lines about guns. what he added in about guns was a really hard to understand few lines. >> we need a president that will enforce current laws, not create new ones that will only burden lawful gun owners. president obama has not. i will. >> okay. in order to understand just what mitt romney was trying to say today about guns, it's a very important issue. in order to understand what he's saying here you have to diagram his sentences. take that line we just played. >> we need a president who will enforce current laws. >> we need a president who will enforce current laws. so far so good. the next thing he says. >> not create new ones that only serve to burden lawful gun owners. president obama has not. i will. >> president obama has not, what? has not enforced current laws or are you talking about the second part of what you said. he's not created new laws? technically mr. romney is

neighbor's leading gun lobby. the main featured speaker at today's nra convention was mitt romney. mr. romney has been all over the map on gun issues during his career, but the latest version of mitt romney proclaims himself to be a life-long member of the nra. mr. romney essentially just gave his stump speech at the nra convention today, but he did add in a few lines about guns. and frankly, what he added in about guns, was a really hard to understand few lines. >> we need a president that will enforce current laws, not create new ones that will only burden lawful gun owners. president obama has not. i will. >> okay. in order to understand just what mitt romney was trying to say today about guns, it's a very important issue, right? in order to understand what he's saying here you have to actually diagram his sentences. take that line we just played. >> we need a president who will enforce current laws. >> we need a president who will enforce current laws. okay, so far, so good, but then the next thing he says? >> not create new ones that only serve to burden lawful gun owners. presid

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address this. >> here is a republican take on it. i support equal pay for women. that's mitt romney in a new interview with abc news. that portion of which has not yet aired. we've got the transcript. you see, everybody agrees in theory. this is one of those issues where it sountdss like everybody is in agreement, i don't think they are all in agreement. it's one thing to say you support the outcome. that somehow women and men should be paid equally but given the fact they are not paid equally now, should we fix it? should there be a policy implemented to fix that? diana sawyer asked mitt romney in detail about this and he is refused to commit on the issue. i think this is incredible. this is right from the transcript fp if you were president, if you had been prosecute would you have signed the lilly ledbetter pay law? >> it's a legislation i have no intention of changing. i wasn't there three years ago. would you have signed it? i'm not going to go back and look at all the prior laws and say had i been there which ones i would have supported and signed but i support equal pay for woma

position is really what he thought all along. we know that the mitt romney for president campaign is trying to do this, because they have explained that they are planning to do this. it was that etch a sketch moment, right? but the important thing about the etch a sketch moment was the question that the romney campaign spokesman was answering when he explained their etch a sketch plan. >> is there a concern that the pressure from santorum and gingrich might force the governor to tack so far to the right that it would hurt him with moderate voters in the election? >> well, i think he hit a reset button for the fall campaign. everything changes. it's almost like an etch a sketch. you can kind of shake it up and we start all over again. >> the question is, to get from the republican primary campaign to the general election, what are you going to have to do? and the campaign has already said that it will hit the reset button. lit shake the etch a sketch. it will abandon previously held positions to run governor romney instead as a moderate in the general election. and when mitt romney an

election. and when mitt romney announces those new policy positions to try to seem moderate in the general election, will he admit that it is a change from his previously held position? no, that's the beauty of the etch a sketch strategy. they will have hit the reset button. the etch a sketch will have been shaken. history will be erased. they will be starting with a blank slate. and so, time stamp! we are going to date this thing. we are going to seal this thing. and we are going to lock it up in plain view on our website, i guess, forever. so the original positions that he is changing from will not be lost to history. so, news viewer of the future, i want you to know that today, april 18th, 2012, mitt romney was in north carolina. he had an awkward explanation that he was in north carolina to pre-butt the president's speech that's going to happen in north carolina at the democratic convention, which is several months from now. i know, it was kind of an awkward explanation, was regardless, he was in north carolina today. and that's important in terms of timing in the state, becaus

conflatedd evangelical universities where mitt romney spoke. mitt romney spoke at regent in 2007 when he was trying to run an even more conservative specifically socially conservative campaign for the presidency. this time around, mr. romney has all but locked up the nomination, perceived to be not running quite as hard a campaign this time around but i think more perception than reality. today, it was announced mitt romney will finally make it not just to regent university but also to the other televangelist university, the one you remember was founded by jerry falwell, because it ends in l where liberty starts. liberty university founded by this guy. their commencement speaker this year is this guy. the reason this is important in terms of understanding how mitt romney is running this campaign against barack obama, what kind of campaign this is because the chief distinguishing feature of liberty university in american conservative politics is liberty university is the hard liner institution against the homosexual menace. some parts of the republican party are moderating on the issue of gay

hard to treat him as a major political figure with a shot at the presidency. this is mitt romney's competition. heading into tomorrow's contest in the presidential primary, mr. romney is favored in the latest polling to win the state of marylandly 25 points. in washington, d.c. there's not real any polling but it may help to know that rick santorum is such a serious candidate, he didn't bother to get himself put on the ballot in washington. he didn't even ask. in wisconsin,e said he might sneak in and have an upset victory in wisconsin and sure, that is possible. even the pro-mitt romney late developments in wisconsin in that primary tomorrow reflect the main dynamic in the republican race this year, which is not about the strength of mitt romney as a front-runner. it's about the weakness of his rivals. the milwaukee journal sentinel in wisconsin did endorse mr. romney today. there is not going to be the kind of endorsement that is quoted by the romney campaign. i'm sure they will find way to excerpt it to make it look like it was awesome but what the endorsement says is this, quote, he's the

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. mitt romney can't be trusted. we have to draw the contrast now in about who is standing with women in this country and protecting their freedom and their privacy and who are those that will say one thing, say one thing but literally to get elected trump their own value system. >> why do you think there was a tipping point on this issue on the right? we've seen the strength of the anti-abortion movement wax and wane over time. we have seen the number of republicans that are willing to be pro-choice. something happened in 2010 where the number of anti-abortion restrictions in the states spiked. we're at that same level again, that same pace now this year even though it's an election year. we did see this collapse around the long standing republican n consensus that there ought to be exemptions around rape and incest. why did this start happening so quickly? >> they ran on one thing and kind of did a bait and switch. you saw this cumulative effect of women seeing it. the american public said, enough. stop this. i think they are feeling that pressure. again, the bottom line is, they ca

news now projecting that mitt romney has won the state of rhode island. the same story in neighboring connecticut. nbc news projecting that mitt romney will win in connecticut, and in the state of delaware, nbc declaring that mitt romney has won in the great state of delaware. although delaware is the second smallest state in the country with only 17 total delegates at stake for the entire state, it has has a little bit of significance in terms of today's news the tonight's republican primary in particularly. newt gingrich told nbc news if he didn't finish a close second to mitt romney in delaware that he would have to quote, reassess his campaign. that led to some speculation that if the delaware race is a blow out for mitt romney tonight, we might see newt gingrich formally suspending his campaign and effect ily quitting the race this evening. mr. gingrich spoke in the last hour. he did not quit the race. we'll have more on mr. gingrich's remarks tonight and his future in the race coming up in the show. mr. romney's speech is not taking place in any of the states that were voting to

just came out, without ever saying the name "mitt romney," president obama made news bay sy saying this. he said ", i don't think that the republican party's nominee is going to be able to suddenly say, everything i've said for the last six months, i didn't mean. i'm assuming that he meant it. when you're running for president, people are paying attention to what you're saying." see the etch a sketch is implied there. president obama skewering mitt romney there for what has already started to happen on the republican side of this general election, which is that mr. romney is abandoning a lot of the hard right positions that he took to win the primary and he is instead adopting a whole new and in some cases opposite positions that he's going to try to run on in the general election. at the same time that president obama went after mr. romney for shedding his skin and dropping his own positions and picking up new ones, because it's convenient, the president also in this new interview goes after the republican party as a whole for how far and how fast that party has sprinted to the right,

people. the obama campaign sees that as a vulnerability. their narrative today, hitting mitt romney for being advised by these george bush people. the counter from the romney campaign? >> we have dan senoh, ambassador prosper -- >> two of the three advisors the romney campaign put out to counter mr. romy will have a george w. bush for ren policies, two were george w. bush for ren policy advisors. dan senor was the guy telling everybody the war was awesome and the other to be america's ambassador to the world on war crime issues while the administration was setting up secret prisons and torturing people. >> unless you believe mitt romney's foreign policy will be anything like george bush's foreign policy let s ts the geo bush foreign officials advising mitt romney that that is not the case. chris hayes, up with chris hayes you can watch every saturday and sunday. nice to have knew always a pleasure. >> is this a situation we have two worlds that don't overlap, having the iraq war spokesman speaking on your behalf doesn't seem like a bad thing to republicans? >> i have pondered this for a

president obama beats mitt romney by eight points. if you add virginia governor to the romney side of the ticket then obama still beats romney but by seven points instead of eight putting governor mcdonald on the ticket does give mitt romney a one-point boost in virginia. obviously that's not enough. that said i'm sure the romney campaign expects the numbers to tighten and maybe a one-point bump from governor ultrasound might be good enough. even though he's not allowed to run for governor and he's not declaredfully other off, he started running, i'm bob mcdonald, vote for me tv ads. vote for you for what, big guy? he clearly wants to be picked. nestled within the obviousness of bob mcdonald's desperationç what the republican party is doing. what they are acting like in policy making terms, it's impossible to figure that out. republicans have introduced more restrictions on abortion rights than at any time since roe very issues wa erer issues wade. this year another 75 anti-abortion bills have passed. democrats are taking note of this trend. democrats are taking note of the anti-abortio

campaigns pick. honestly, nobody knows who the campaign will pick more mitt romney until the pick is made. and more importantly, perhaps, the vice presidential pick usually means nothing to the campaign, other than the first initial blip once the announcement is made never has a fact on the presidential horse race except very occasionally in a negative way, john mccain. this is all unavoidable in election years. it's fun. i think it does have one useful and substantive purpose, which we are experiencing right now. watching people jockey to try to get picked as vice president turns out it can be a really clear window into something that's otherwise hard to figure out which is what are the limits test. what are the bright lines on policy within a party? what policies are acceptable or desirable to a particular political party? what's a policy position that you're not allowed to have if you want to rise in stature in your own party in way that being picked as vice president would mean? we're good in this country at covering the horse race. the who's ahead side of politics. we are less g

at the presidency. but this is mitt romney's competition. and heading in to tomorrow's contest in the presidential primary, mr. romney is favored in the latest polling to win the state of maryland by 25 points. in washington, d.c. there's not really any polling but it may help in your predictions to know that santorum is such a serious candidate he didn't bother to get put on the ballot in washington. it is not like he tried and was rejected. he didn't ask. in wisconsin it is contested. mr. santorum told reporters he may sneak in and have an upset victory in wisconsin and sure that is possible. but even the pro mitt romney late developments in wisconsin ahead of the primary tomorrow reflect the main die nam nick the republican race this year is not about the strenth of mitt romney as the front runner but the weakness of his rivals the milwaukee sentinel did endorse mr. romney today but this is not the endorsement that is easily quoted by the romney campaign. i'm sure they will find a way to creatively excerpt it to make it look awesome but it says, quote, he's the clear choice in an u

p.m. eastern. in maryland nbc projects that mitt romney is the winner by a significant margin. in maryland we have 9% vote in. mr. romney with 53% of the vote. mr. san to rtorum with 27% of t volt. in washington, d.c. mitt romney is projected as the winner. mr. santorum didn't bother putting his name on the ballot. ding beginning and ron paul behind him. rick santorum not an option for district of columbia republican voters today. in wisconsin, polls have just closed now at 9:00 p.m. eastern. nbc news is characterizing the race in wisconsin as too early to call but with mitt romney leading rick santorum. the call right now in wisconsin, it's too early to call. the wisconsin republican primary is 100 years old today. actually, yesterday it's 100 years old. the first time wisconsin had a primary was april 2nd, 1912. republicans picked bob three years ago. they picked a guy named george norris. it was not until wisconsin republicans had been picking presidential nominees for 44 years. it was not until it will mid-1950s that wisconsin republicans picked somebody that went onto win the

that. the mitt romney campaign put you out as a surrogate to sure up people's feelings about this issue and could noi say whether mitt romney would sign that bill. you voted against the fair pay act. it's about policy and whether or not you want to fix the structure discrimination that women face that republicans don't believe is happening. >> it's policy is the argument. >> it's policy. wish you were as right about what you're saying as you are passionate about it. >> that's really condescendsing. this is a tistylistic issue. >> may i share one fact with you. look at single women working in america today between the ages of 40 and 64, who makes more? men or women on average in men make 40,000 a year. women make 47. look at some economics. my point is that we're manufacturing a political crisis to get away from what this election wants to be about. >> manufacturing a political crisis. what i wanted to talk about there was policy. about why republicans would not support a common sense solution to a very specific part of the problem of women making less than men. on the way to tryin

bad news for mitt romney tonight out of the great state of wisconsin. the good news, of course, is the biggest news. nbc news now projecting that mitt romney, the former governor of massachusetts, has won the wisconsin primary. the biggest prize of this entire election night. at this hour with 93 prosecut% vote reported in wisconsin, romney with 42% of the vote, santorum with 38% of the vote, ron paul and newt gingrich running a distant third and fourth behind them. so that's the good news for mr. romney. that win for mr. romney in wisconsin tonight puts him one step closer to securing the republican presidential nomination. it escalates the calls for his rivals to drop out of the race. it solidifies his image as the presumptive republican president ideal nominee. it's all good for him. the bad news for mr. romney is that he might be going to jail. i don't think he will, but theoretically, i mean, mitt romney campaigning in wisconsin today appears to have broken the law. i'm not kidding. what you're looking at right now is a mitt romney campaign event this morning in waukesha, wisconsi

chemistry between paul ryan and mitt romney, that on the campaign trail in wisconsin, mr. romney had also joked that paul ryan was not his son. which is a little less eyebrow raising than joking that paul ryan is not his spouse. but it does remind you that there's actually a very big age difference between paul ryan and mitt romney. paul ryan is 42 years old. mitt romney is 23 years older than that. he is 65. he is the same age that george w. bush is now, which means that mitt romney is of the vietnam generation. we think of mr. romney, i think, as younger than that, in part, i think, because he's very handsome and he's very fit. but he was 19 years old at the height of the vietnam war. mr. romney was healthy, he was of the right age, and he was therefore, theoretically, quite draftable for vietnam. but he did not serve, either in the active duty military or in the guard or reserves, like george w. bush did. mr. romney, instead, lived in france during the vietnam war. he was a missionary for his church in france for nearly three years during the height of the vietnam war. now, of course,