MS NOW August 2012 Videos

Thieves steal $30M in maple syrup

SEAL responds to Pentagon threats over book

Romney’s NOLA photo-op

Can the GOP close the gender gap?

Women headline RNC

The faith factor in Romney’s RNC appearance

How the GOP platform affects women

Gulf Coast residents still recovering from Hurricane Isaac

Harris-Perry: We are at our best when we help those in need

Romney pledges 5-step program to job creation

Harris-Perry: GOP missed irony in rendering a black man invisible

‘We Built It’ RNC highlights

The GOP’s dog whistles and race-baiting

Romney failed to mention Afghanistan in RNC speech

Will local newspapers be able to survive?

Will local newspapers be able to survive?

RNC themes in criticizing Obama

The subtext behind the RNC’s ‘We Built This’

Romney’s yacht flies Cayman Island flag

Politics amid diminishing local news

GOP caught making factual shortcuts, but do they care?

GOP caught making factual shortcuts, but do they care?

In 2009, Romney said he didn’t want Obama’s ‘liberal policies’ to succeed

In 2009, Romney said he didn’t want Obama’s ‘liberal policies’ to succeed

Media monopolies thrive as local newspapers fold

Mitt Romney’s neo-con foreign policy

Media calls out Ryan’s ‘ideological amnesia’

Media calls out Ryan’s ‘ideological amnesia’

GOP: Grand Old Past?

Plotting a one-term presidency

Plotting a one-term presidency

Clint Eastwood’s bizarre speech

Did they just say that?

Making Mitt

Fact checking Paul Ryan: truths vs. views

Bashir: Romney, Republicans party like it’s 1982

More on August 31: Strategy

Grading Romney-Ryan’s convention outreach to female voters

What size bump will Romney, GOP get from convention?

Every which way but scripted: Eastwood steals Romney’s thunder

Matthews: RNC’s biggest lie was that GOP wanted Obama to succeed

Bashir: Is Ryan the fastest candidate ever?

Romney ‘jokes’ on climate change; speechless on governor’s record, Afghanistan

Top Lines, GOP convention: Romney, Ryan, Popeye, milk, and Eastwood

Contradictions in Romney’s claims he wanted Obama to succeed

The RNC’s backward-looking tour of nostalgia

Harris-Perry: Nothing is riskier than being poor in America

Where is Lockup going next?

Romney accomplished goals set out before him

Eastwood’s ‘head-scratching’ moment at the RNC

Did America meet the real Romney?

Democrats putting final touches on convention

Political panel: Did’ Dirty Harry’ fall flat?

Political panel: RNC Review

Pentagon threatens action against ex-SEAL

Romney appeals to the disappointed

James Lipton: Eastwood ‘disrespectful’ at RNC

Why RNC not just about Romney, but reframing identity of the GOP

NY Jets owner: Romney’s speech ‘phenomenal’

Can Dems regain ground on Medicare and Bain in Charlotte?

Mitt-Ster nice guy: Did Romney’s speech help humanize him?

Eastwood’s RNC speech inspires new Internet meme: Eastwooding

Why Romney is a ‘born executor with a ton of discipline’

Axelrod: RNC felt like ‘open-mic night’ for 2016 candidates

Gov. Walker on Romney’s speech, changing face of GOP

Did Romney campaign make a misstep in final hours of the RNC?

‘Comforter-in-Chief’: What did we learn about Romney from his speech?

Was Romney overshadowed by Eastwood at the RNC?

Romney gets the job done and Eastwood’s ‘discordant’ speech

‘Not about policy, not about specifics’: The high points of Romney’s speech

Allen: No ‘game change’ in Romney speech; take away is Eastwood

MSNBC to air Obama documentary Monday

Will Democrats win over the national audience next week?

Breaking down Romney’s speech

Romney makes case to replace Obama

Assessing the RNC

Fact checking Romney’s speech

Fact checking Romney’s speech

Post-convention bounce for Mitt Romney?

Post-convention bounce for Mitt Romney?

Obama visits Fort Bliss, Texas

Obama visits Fort Bliss, Texas

Hundreds of thousands in La. without power

Awkward moments in presidential politics

What did the GOP accomplish this week in Tampa?

Was Eastwood’s speech political comedy?

What did America learn from Mitt Romney?

Finding Romney’s narrative

With extreme conservatism, what happened to progress?

Romney campaign furthers anti-Obama narrative

Reacting to Ryan

Matthews calls Romney video ‘a failure’

Second day spillover of Ryan talk

Romney to address his Mormon faith in RNC speech

Maddow: Romney ‘chided’ Obama in speech

Sharpton: Eastwood’s speech was ‘embarrassing’

Schultz: Eastwood is an ‘ironic choice’

Reagan celebrated at RNC, but what was missing?

Sen. Brown: ‘I’m going to stand on my own merits’

Hazy, crazy lies in Ryan’s RNC speech

More on August 30: About last night…

McCain, Rice, GOP delegates get their war on

Paul Ryan stokes passion among GOP, fact-checkers

Matthews: Country’s racial division ‘won’t go away, but it can be narrowed’

Bashir: GOP’s white-collar comedy tour

Twitter mocks Eastwood speech

Will Romney receive a bump in the polls?

RNC closes with the good, the bad and the Romney

Will Romney exploit the same ‘facts’ Ryan did in the biggest speech of his life?

Top Lines: Ryan, Obama posters, Zeppelin, Eastwood and Larry the Cable Guy

How did the RNC react to Eastwood’s speech?

Former campaign insider pens political novel

Romney wraps up RNC

Bashir: The GOP believe in bigger government – for war

Romney’s wealth surpasses combined total of past 8 presidents

Klein: Romney’s budget ‘is not a viable one’

Romney: from progressive to ‘severely conservative’

Maddow left speechless after Eastwood speech

Montage: RNC speakers talk about money struggles

Romney continues to run from Romneycare

Schultz: Romney’s speech was a ‘pitch to women’

Matthews:  How we deal with the teachers union is a problem

Todd calls Romney’s speech ‘optimistic nostalgia’

O’Donnell: ‘It was an effective presentation’

Bain attacks from within the GOP

Did the Romney campaign reach a pivot point?

Did Romney make a birther mention?

Barack Obama: Making History- David Axelrod Interview

Miss. officials concerned over strength of dam

Reviewing Ryan’s speech

Stage has been reset for Romney’s biggest political speech

Medicare, voter ID, and the fight for Florida

McCain’s wife and daughter react to his RNC address

Obama documentary to air Monday on MSNBC

Shameless plugs for Rundown

Will Romney give an acceptable acceptance speech?

On our radar

Gay conservative group throws “Homocon”

The challenge ahead for Romney’s critical moment

What did the Morning Joe crew learn on Thursday?

Why likability matters and can Romney close the likability gap?

Gingrich: Liberals lie better than conservatives tell the truth

Jeb Bush: Romney’s Ryan pick shows he’s willing to fight for big things

Would Citizens United, immigration reform be part of a second Obama term?

American Dream: RNC speeches and ‘delegitimizing’ POTUS’ claims to it

What NOW?!: Who will be the surprise RNC guest?

Ryan’s ‘really wrong’ speech, truthful attacks and the blame game

Mormon vs. Mr. Fix-It: What will Romney say in his RNC speech?

Getting America back to work

How can Romney connect with voters during his RNC speech?

Todd: Paul Ryan did everything a VP should do

Obama learns from his mistakes

Faking it vs. feeling it: What makes a great convention speech great

Does the future look bright for the GOP?

Lingering storm surge threat persists

Romney faces big expectations

RNC delegates eager to hear nominee

Pawlenty attacks Obama during RNC speech

Romney to take center stage at the RNC

Team Obama fights back against GOP claims

Obama tries to pull some online attention to his side

Changing face of the GOP?

Speechwriters give advice to Romney

Awaiting Romney’s big moment

Awaiting Romney’s big moment

Team Obama blasts Paul Ryan speech

Huckabee ensures Christian Conservative vote

Huckabee ensures Christian Conservative vote

Hollywood makes its way to Tampa

Hollywood makes its way to Tampa

O’Donnell: ‘It’s time for a new round of leaders’

O’Donnell: Ryan’s speech was ‘truly exciting’ for the hall

Top Lines: Ann Romney, Christie, Chevy Chase, golf and strippers

Romney’s critical chance to win over voters

Romney to address his faith

Convention showcases minority speakers

Critiquing the GOP’s Medicare plans

Mentions of Romney largely missing in RNC speeches

Mixed messages in RNC kickoff

Paul Ryan’s own path to prosperity

About last night …

National Guard helps with rescues in Plaquemines Parish

Obama hits back against Republicans in Tampa

Ann Romney’s Oprah Moment?

Obama campaign latest

Conventional chatter at the RNC

Convention conversation turns to Akin

Convention mystery guest?

Political panel: Convention speech reaction

Ryan to go before spotlight in RNC speech

Could the Lone Star State be home to another president?

What’s missing in the 2012 election?

What did the Morning Joe crew learn on Wednesday?

VandeHei: Christie’s poor speech is Paul Ryan’s gain

Pataki: Romney ‘identified with women’

Martinez: Romney has to reach out to Hispanic community

Todd: Romney, Christie speeches ‘didn’t fit together’

Romney’s Mormon faith and remembering Palin’s ‘lipstick’ speech

Mitchell: Ann Romney’s speech ‘powerful’ inside RNC hall

Big moves, bold steps: When will Romney make them?

An unhappy warrior? Sizing up Christie’s RNC speech

Can House Republicans bounce back?

Heilemann: Ann Romney did more telling than showing in speech

Rubio: ‘This election is a choice’

Spotlight on Paul Ryan for RNC speech

Is Romney ready for his biggest political moment?

Gov. Christie brings enthusiasm to RNC stage

Christie: Democrats believe in teacher unions, we believe in teachers

Christie: Democrats believe in teacher unions, we believe in teachers

Rescues in Plaquemines Parish

Rescues in Plaquemines Parish

Ann Romney, Chris Christie placed in spotlight

Did Ann Romney showcase a personal side of her husband?

Assessing Christie, Romney’s speeches

Assessing Christie, Romney’s speeches

What will Ryan say Wednesday?

Santorum makes impassioned plea for former rival

Santorum makes impassioned plea for former rival

Ann Romney attempts to sell personal side of Mitt

Ann Romney attempts to sell personal side of Mitt

GOP platform and the politics of abortion

Enthusiasm for Ann Romney

Hayes: Speakers focused on the nostalgia for upward mobility

More on August 28: Tale of two speeches

Rescue efforts underway in La.

Isaac causes extensive flooding in Miss.

Braving Hurricane Isaac

Congressman describes La. levee support

Gibbs ‘flabbergasted’ at the ‘angry’ RNC

Re-organized RNC seating chart pushes diversity

How government lay-offs has killed job growth

Brokaw: Christie was ‘who is he’

Mitchell questions Santorum on his welfare focus

Schultz: Christie gave an ‘every Republican for himself speech’

O’Donnell: Crowd didn’t act like they did with Palin

Maddow on Christie’s speech: ‘An act of political selfishness’

The importance of Ann Romney’s convention speech

Caught on Camera: Very Bad Day

Romney continues misleading attacks on welfare

Lion makes a break for it

Looking back on 2008

Is it about the economy?

RNC prepares to re-introduce Romney

Romney once promised to ‘preserve and protect’ Roe v. Wade

Denying the war on women

Campaign try to sell a kinder, gentler Romney

The conversation continues

Macks have split their vote of several budget measures

Romney gets a chance to reintroduce himself Thursday

Obama seeks to rally college-aged voters

Christie, Ann Romney kick off RNC

Diversity in the convention

Political panel: All about women

Political panel: Tax return criticism

What did the Morning Joe crew learn on Tuesday?

Kudlow: ‘I love the Paul Ryan pick’

Should Romney attempt a public image makeover?

Norquist: Ryan’s tax policies as important as his entitlement reforms on budget

Christie: ‘I know who I am’

Christie on keynote speech, how Romney can close gender gap

Very Last Word: When Christie has a script

Romney, Christie and how GOP is moving away from regional status

Robinson on Romney: ‘Let’s hear the candidate’

Heilemann: Romney shows ‘opportunism in politics is a powerful force’

What’s driving poll confidence in GOP over Medicare’s future?

Ohio officials may lose jobs over early voting fight

Assessing Romney and GOP’s strengths and weaknesses going into RNC

Matthews: ‘There ought to be a conscience’ in politics

Will Romney win his home state?

What will be Romney’s message to America?

Rained out!

Rewriting Republican policy on rape

How will Christie lay out the party’s vision?

New Orleans preps for Isaac

‘Some people in your party don’t like you’

NY Post: Christie says fat chance to Romney

Romney talks secret tax returns

Voting rights battle rages in Ohio

Unpopular with minorities, Romney targets ‘white vote’

Can the GOP rebuild its relationship with women?

Debunktion Junction: Tampa edition

Is the Republican Party’s future in its list of RNC speakers?

Romney, Ryan dodge leadership on abortion rights

Day in news: Monday, August 27

Day in news: Monday, August 27

Isaac Crashing the RNC

Governor on Isaac: Biggest risk is rising water levels and storm surge

Isaac generates concerns in New Orleans

RNC now in full swing

RNC now in full swing

Interpreting Isaac’s impact

Interpreting Isaac’s impact

What’s going on with the GOP?

What’s going on with the GOP?

Awesome: Tom Hanks poses for faux-drunken pics with a fan

New levee system faces first big test

Is the Republican Medicare spin working?

Romney unveils new twist on welfare falsehood

RNC to continue as planned as Gulf Coast braces for Isaac

Herman Cain has a something up his sleeve

A Florida Republican stands up for voting rights

Paul Ryan says term ‘forcible rape’ was ‘stock language’

Ed: ‘The polls are interesting’

Corn: Romney nomination is like a ‘shotgun wedding’

Wagner: Romney’s birther joke ‘irresponsible,’ ‘truly pathetic’

Romney’s ‘Popeye defense’: ‘I am what I am’

Voter ID laws will suppress, confuse eligible voters

Where’s the voter fraud?

Tropical Storm Isaac takes focus off RNC

How the women vote will affect the 2012 election?

Targeting the senior citizen vote

Reviewing the Romney-Ryan ticket

Rundown panel shares some conventional wisdom

Romney goes back to base basics

What did the Morning Joe crew learn on Monday?

Romney tells Politico ‘I don’t think everybody likes me’

Will Independents be swayed by Obama’s Bush talk?

Priebus: ‘This week is about telling the Mitt Romney story’

Convention memories, the gender gap and retirement

Key moments of the RNC and how they fare

Elaborate infomercial? Reconsidering a convention’s length

Day 1 in Tampa: New poll shows neck and neck race

Akin, the GOP’s gender gap, and sustaining candidate animosity

Unscripted moments from the RNC

Scarborough: GOP shouldn’t waste money in Pa. and Mich.

Expanding the Republican base

Why are the Democrats in Tampa?

Discussion grows over tone of RNC

Romney prepares to make pitch to national audience

Lobbying groups host Tampa events

Lobbying groups host Tampa events

2012 – a social media election

2012 – a social media election

Hutchison: You don’t have to like Romney to elect him president

Romney:  I am who I am

Isaac could begin hitting New Orleans late Tuesday

The politics of being black, and Republican

Political ideology vs. religious beliefs

Isaac lashes Florida Keys

Outside spending: The ‘new reality’ of the two party system

Pop Quiz: Everything RNC

The ‘Rove rainmaking money machine’

Teachable moment: Romney’s support from African-Americans

Is campaign finance reform possible?

How popular is Mitt Romney?

What Romney could learn from Pres. James K. Polk

Reinventing Willard Mitt Romney

The weight and realities of freedom

Fmr. Democratic Rep. Artur Davis slated to speak at RNC

Will the GOP actually shrink government?

Will the GOP actually shrink government?

Who controls the Republican party?

Who controls the Republican party?

The costs of urban growth

The modern day GOP

The ‘we’ in the RNC’s ‘We Built This!’ theme

Tampa mayor on changing Florida’s ‘economic DNA’

Hutchison: GOP needs to hone message to women

Parts of Lee Co., Fla. under evacuation orders

Isaac takes aim at New Orleans

Urban vs. suburban area culture wars

The future of the GOP

The racial, ethnic composition of the GOP

The history of backlash politics

The history of backlash politics

Diversity within the Republican party

Romney advisor: Activists have ‘very little’ purchase on a GOP presidency

Noteworthy number ones

Gulf Coast braces for Tropical Storm Isaac

Poll watcher network another attempt to block the vote

Obama wins on likeability

Remembering Trayvon Martin

Romney makes birther joke at rally

First lady an asset on the campaign trail

Join the conversation on facebook

Harris-Perry: Voter suppression is another form of cheating

Women in politics

Is Rubio the face of the GOP’s future?

What to expect from Marco Rubio

Is Romney out-of-step with women?

Not just physically fit, but fit for office?

Romney incites ‘birtherism’ along campaign trail

The modern-day ‘freedom riders’

The political legacy of Hurricane Katrina

Seven years after Hurricane Katrina

The fallout from Todd Akin’s remarks

The fallout from Todd Akin’s remarks

Obama’s ‘tight-rope walk’ in talking about race

Where the parties stand on abortion

The lineage behind ‘legitimate rape’

Obama, race and ‘The Audacity of Hope’

The politics of race in America

The subtext of ‘birtherism’

Legislating on women’s health

Legislating on women’s health

Dems taunt GOP with cheery billboard

Dems taunt GOP with cheery billboard

Romney, why so secretive?

Romney, why so secretive?

Coates: Tradition of questioning race is embedded in our history

Klein: Rep. King is the ‘Sheriff Joe of airport security’

Kids repeat the darndest things

GOP outreach to minorities just a ‘Dream’?

More on August 24: I’ve got a secret

Rep. Welch: Ryan talk on welfare, budget ‘bogus’

Romney to back birther baggage at GOP convention

Not all glitters with the gold standard

Under gold, who controls our money?

Challenging Pennsylvania’s voter ID law

Friends reflect on the life of Neil Armstrong

Giant space pioneer, Neil Armstrong, dead at 82

Why Romney went birther for applause line

Mum’s the word on Bain, Romney-Ryan policy details

Bashir: Romney’s birther comment shows who’s the boss in GOP

Hayes: The problem of the color line

An awful week for the GOP

Spike Lee: ‘Politics is a dirty business’

Loaded show

Mitt Romney: The Making of a Candidate – Debating Kennedy

Summer of Love and Hate

Both parties take a shine to Bill Clinton’s star power

Huckabee leaps to Akin’s defense

A turning point in gun control?

Hayes: Akin’s remarks are ‘literally medieval’

Baby wants to pump you up

Howard, Foxx, weigh in on politics

Energy policy highlights fairness fight

Cultural anxiety heightened amid series of gun violence

Romney to be nominated Monday

Romney echoes Obama in latest gaffe

Join the conversation on facebook

Ryan slams defense cuts

Money messaging

As the RNC is about to kick-off, stakes remain high for Romney

Donors to receive star treatment at RNC

What did the Morning Joe crew learn on Friday?

Mitt and Ann Romney reflect on the campaign

Romney pens op-ed about tenure at Bain Capital

Inside America’s uphill battle with China

S.E. Cupp: ‘This will be all about Mitt Romney’

Haas: Armstrong made a ‘non-admission, admission’

What is Wall Street’s opinion of Mitt Romney?

Gregory: ‘I’m really focused on biography’

Book about Prohibition Era brought to the big screen

Who will win the debates?

Gov. Scott: For Florida, ‘it’s all about jobs’

Bin Laden book heightens national security concerns

Romney: ‘No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate’

How did Ryan get to the top of GOP politics?

What do women want in the election?

Obama to campaign at college campuses

Romney a victim of bad advice in botch of Akin scandal?

Romney’s talkative about secret they want to keep

Echoes of George W. Bush’s Iraq war in Romney campaign

Self-appointed ‘poll watchers’ raise concerns about intimidation

Self-appointed ‘poll watchers’ raise concerns about intimidation

Black, Hispanic Americans apparently not part of Romney victory plan

NYC displays ‘caution’ near landmarks

NYC displays ‘caution’ near landmarks

Empire State eyewitness: ‘I heard pop… pop… pop…’

Empire State eyewitness: ‘I heard pop… pop… pop…’

Bloomberg, Kelly detail NYC shooting investigation

Conservatives divided over Akin’s comments

Conservatives divided over Akin’s comments

Texas judge proposes tax increase to fund US civil war

GOP ‘built this’ (but not really)

Isaac to rain on RNC’s parade

New poll shows more voters trust Obama on Medicare

More on August 23: Whom do you trust?

Bashir: Romney’s 0% support from black voters

Romney’s 2020 ‘energy independence’ fantasy

Dirty, angry, taxpayer-subsidized money

Polls: Romney, Ryan have ‘no-mentum,’ not enough details

SEALs divided over bin Laden raid

Swiss gov. unhappy with anti-Romney ad

Matthews: Romney is too deep in bed with GOP to ever be moderate again

Bashir: Who did build what, exactly, GOP?

Obama’s foreign policy supremacy; GOP’s ‘uncoordinated’ spending supremacy

Top Lines: Letterman, Isaac, Ryan, Murray and swine

Ed: ‘Hurricane Todd ripping apart’ GOP

Swing states to Romney: Hands off my Medicare!

Week in Review: Skinny-dipping congressman, ‘Mommy-ventriloquist’ and Akin’s apology for his ‘semantics’

Gunman, victim dead; 9 injured in NYC Shooting

Comedian Larry Wilmore talks Mitt Romney’s zero and more

Akin receives support from powerful conservatives

Romney’s energy plan focuses on drilling

Will Romney’s comments reignite the birther controversy?

Republicans on track to steal Ohio?

Obama outpolling Romney on Medicare

The Romney camp tries for Hispanic voters

Is the GOP anti-women?

NYPD responds quickly to NYC shooting

Which 2012 candidates make the grade?

Toure: Armstrong realized ‘checkmate was inevitable’

Two people shot dead near Empire State Building

Very Last Word: How crazy will this get?

Very Last Word: Adlai Stevenson in 1952

How far would GOP go to block the president?

Wagner: Is Romney ready to be the CEO of the GOP?

Author shares thesis on ‘What’s the Matter With White People?’

GOP doubles down on abortion platform

Forecasts warn of looming fiscal cliff

Pressure mounts over Romney’s taxes

Never-before-heard audio of MLK Jr. found

Military campaign to crush insurgency in Afghanistan

What’s driving this year’s West Nile epidemic?

Obama comments on Akin controversy

Prince Harry in hot water for Vegas photos

Behind the scenes on the convention

Mormonism in America

Obama winning Medicare messaging war

Political Panel: Obama’s race to 2012

Political Panel: Ryan’s Roots

What did the Morning Joe crew learn on Thursday?

President Clinton touts his record in new Obama swing state ad

Gas prices and the 2012 race

CBO issues warning, Romney responds, but what would he do differently?

Middle class suffering ‘worst decade,’ Pew study shows

Ed: Ryan’s Akin problem

Government unions robbing taxpayers, author argues in new book

100-year-old painting of Christ gets unfortunate restoration

Guy breaks into LL Cool J’s house; LL isn’t having it

TV anchor asks fellow reporter to canoodle with him

Time goes inside the mind of Mitt Romney

Scarborough jokes that Akin, Hurricane Isaac is Dan Senor’s fault

Battleground polls: Cause for concern in both campaigns?

Controversial cover-ups?

The Afghan War, the evolution of the NY Times and Akin continued

‘New back alley’ emerges as US abortion restrictions rise

Gaining support from Clinton’s popularity

Breaking down the fight for swing states

Romney shows his personal side

Akin tries to regain ground in Missouri campaign

Creating allied relationships to fight the Syria problem

Huntsman clarifies mysteries of Mormon church

Michelle Obama has ‘The Talk’

The Republican that Ann Coulter hates

Romney’s big lies on Medicare and welfare reform

Paul Ryan social policy exposes image gap

Rewriting America’s economic future

Akin and the GOP fight to control the Senate

Romney at risk of being dropped from Washington ballot

Despite dodges, Romney, Ryan haunted by extremist record

Must see TV

Must see TV

Ryan forgets he’s seeking national office

Day in news: Wednesday, August 22

Talent on running for Akin’s seat: ‘I’m not going to do it’

Democrats to steal the RNC’s spotlight?

SEIU mounts massive ground game for Obama

A new side to Mitt Romney?

Team Obama will use Medicare to ‘chop up’” Ryan ‘like Benihana’

That awkward moment…

That awkward moment…

Larry David encourages youth to vote

New Romney ad criticizes Obama’s welfare policy

Akin wants voters to tell opponents ‘your’re’ with him

Akin wants voters to tell opponents ‘your’re’ with him

Is the GOP anti-science?

More on August 22: Reality bites

Bashir: Ryan’s desperate attempt to claim foreign policy experience

Yes, Ryan, you DID vote for that defense bill

VP tale of two candidates: Ryan vs. Biden

Will a storm interrupt the RNC?

Twisted Sister: Paul Ryan, we’re not going to take it

Akin consistent – Ryan, Romney not – on abortion

Bankrupting the middle class

Bashir: Mr. Romney, watch that Dallas-sized mouth of yours

Matthews: Where did the ‘crazy rejection’ of science come from?

Top Lines: Paul Ryan, Ted Knight, Todd Akin and squealing pigs

Poll: Romney struggles vs. Obama among several voting blocs

Todd Akin: True hero of the Republican party?

Former Romney surrogate linked to ‘forcible rape’ claims

Former Navy SEAL writes book on bin Laden’s death

Republicans try new twist on old Medicare lie

NFL star Warren Sapp talks politics

Texas judge explains latest post-election conspiracy theory

GOP uses CBO Report to attack President Obama

Ryan evades questions about his anti-choice record

GOP Platform Committee approves 60 page draft

US debt to China eclipsing $3 trillion

Navy SEAL breaks protocol, publishes bin Laden book

Rating the US presidents

Crashing the convention

Remembering a comedic legend

Hero or bystander?

Bill Clinton stars in new ad for Obama

Very Last Word: How we think about abortion exceptions

Very Last Word: Women’s health takes center stage

Very Last Word: Paul Ryan, 11 days in

On tonight’s show

Mitt Romney: The Making of a Candidate – Romneys in Mexico

Mitt Romney: The Making of a Candidate – George Romney

Caught on Camera: Help is On the Way

Right trying to lock down voter suppression laws

Obama fires back at Ryan budget plan

Akin vows to stay in race despite party complaints

Ryan’s lack-luster bump in polls

Albright dishes blame on Bush

Taking out the trash takes a turn to fun

GOP platform shaped by advisor who compares gays to drug use

Akin sends GOP into disarray on abortion platform

Bill Nye on becoming the ‘Obama Guy’

Is the Romney camp ready to embrace candidate’s Mormonism?

Both sides laser focused on Florida

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Poll: Some good news for team Obama

A perfect storm for the GOP?

Scalia reveals personal insights

Political Panel: Poll politics

Political Panel: Akin fights on

GOP & marriage equality

Forbes lists 100 most powerful women

Joe Biden, party crasher

Will Akin drive women voters from the GOP?

Breaking down the NBC News/WSJ poll

Eva Longoria, Sandra Fluke on speakers list for DNC

What did the Morning Joe crew learn on Wednesday?

Countdown to college football

Todd: Convention can give Romney chance to define the Republican Party

When politics and media collide

The irony of Akin’s apology

Is Romney now witnessing effects of capitulating to the far right?

As US troop death tops 2,000, a talk on when Afghan War will end

Obama campaign manager on why undecideds should vote for him

Barnicle: Akin, GOP platform on abortion flies in face of small government

How Akin debate has had an ‘unfrocking’ effect on Ryan/Romney ticket

Some Christian groups stick with Akin

Justice Scalia opens up about decision making

GOP on Akin damage-control

New book details Biden’s gay marriage debacle

NBC poll: Romney leads on ideas to improve economy

Tropical storm threatens RNC

Todd Akin defies Romney, Hannity

Ryan fails to give Romney a bump in the polls

Paul Ryan’s secret lobbying history

GOP adds war on voting to party platform

Another Ohio county pushes for more voting

Kristol rewriting Republican tax orthodoxy

Awkward details for Romney in new poll numbers

Awkward details for Romney in new poll numbers

Customized vaginal probes for ‘Governor Ultrasound’

Customized vaginal probes for ‘Governor Ultrasound’

McDonnell, too extreme for VP, brings anti-abortion agenda to GOP platform

McDonnell, too extreme for VP, brings anti-abortion agenda to GOP platform

State abortion rights battles draw national attention via Romney ticket

Romney afraid party extremists could shut his whole thing down

Day in news: Tuesday, August 21

Day in news: Tuesday, August 21

Blaming the rape victim

Akin refuses to step down

Rape survivor writes letter to Akin

Rape survivor writes letter to Akin

Ryan’s no Palin in the polls

Ryan’s no Palin in the polls

Cruises experiment with alcohol package

Romney, right wing call for Akin’s resignation

Romney, right wing call for Akin’s resignation

Rep. Akin’s past words on controversy

Rep. Akin’s past words on controversy

Q-U-A-Y-L…

Suggestions for Rep. Yoder’s apology

Rep. Edwards: Romney, Ryan can’t keep running from GOP agenda

Bashir: GOP, Ryan pick on Akin despite shared view on abortion

More on August 21: An inconvenient truth

Rep. Lee: Akin’s remarks ‘not forgivable’

Romney, GOP at odds over abortion

Pennsylvania voter ID law fight continues

New poll shows Ryan pick hasn’t helped Romney much

Matthews to Rep. Todd Akin: ‘Why?’

Ryan distances himself from Akin

Bashir: Remember, Mr. Romney, ‘pride comes before a fall’

Reports say Michael Strahan to be Kelly Ripa’s new co-host

Girl discusses White House dinner, but Kimmel notices something is off

Top Lines: Hannity, Obama, Akin, Chevy Chase and skinny-dipping

Is Mitt Romney whining about divisiveness because he’s losing?

Todd Akin stays in race, GOP struggles with message

GOP on Akin: What ‘war on women’?

National Urban League calls on Nike to pull shoe

Ryan fails to give Romney a boost

Akin stays as GOP, Romney freak out

Very Last Word: Akin’s position is party position

Ezra answers ‘What If…?’

Targeting the poor with GOP budgets

The economic truth is in the trash

Final spin

Romney has huge money advantage but will it matter?

Should Akin step aside?

Akin refuses to leave Senate race

Very Last Word: Remembering Veronique Peck

Very Last Word: Will Akin stay in the race?

Very Last Word: Debate moderators increasingly important role

Very Last Word: The real implications of rape

Steve Kornacki Web Extra

Damage control as GOP hopes to still take Senate

What NOW?!: Inside the Obama administration

Sharpton: A party moving in the wrong direction

Akin refuses to step down despite party pressure

Does Romney campaign have a Ryan problem?

GOP calls for Akin’s resignation despite similar rhetoric in the past

Romney to release 2011 tax returns

Romney-Ryan and the future of the tax code

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Campaign echoes of 1994

Can the GOP force Akin off the ballot?

Obama, Romney’s faith under scrutiny

Romney out-raises Obama for three straight months

Battle in the Buckeye State

Akin’s final eight hours?

Akin’s Sept. 25 deadline

Apple rises, Facebook falls

Akin goes rogue… no signs of him stepping down despite calls from GOP

What did the Morning Joe crew learn on Tuesday?

Putting Obama in focus

POTUS enjoys 15-point lead among women voters, poll shows

Warren Sapp on new book, coaches, most disappointing day of his life

A director’s dream: Working with Ron Howard

How GOP displayed ‘unanimity’ in discussing Akin comments

Obama, Romney and the health of the US economy

Scarborough to Akin: You’re in denial; You’re gonna lose if you stay in race

Fight over early voting continues in Ohio

Race barrier as important as gender barrier in Augusta decision

Did Romney miss the chance to have his ‘Sister Souljah moment’?

Will Akin stay or go?

Akin’s comments bring women’s right issues to forefront again

Analyzing Rep. Ryan’s plan in the long-term

Tweet of the weekend

Poll: 82 percent disapprove of Congress

Inside Syria

Cameras view Romney family attending church

Rep. Aikin ruins Romney’s day

Bipartisanship and Romney’s secret tax returns

The Ryan-Akin connection

Ohio becomes frontline in fight for voting rights

Anti-abortion extremists mainstreamed to GOP leadership

Rewriting Liberals on Sen. McCaskill

Veronique Peck, 1932-2012

Congressional skinny-dipper lucks out with scandal timing

Ohio suspends elections board members for adding voting time

Day in news: Monday, August 20

First Lady, First mom

RNC Chair: We’re a pro-life party

Congresswoman: Extreme GOP doesn’t believe in “biology, science or humanity”

Congresswoman: Extreme GOP doesn’t believe in “biology, science or humanity”

Akin isn’t the first to say forcible rape seldom leads to pregnancy

Akin isn’t the first to say forcible rape seldom leads to pregnancy

Must ‘sea’ video: Sharks, whales and more

Must ‘sea’ video: Sharks, whales and more

War on women continues

Christine O’Donnell, the policy wonk

Yet another birther

House GOP members take alcohol-fueled dip in Sea of Galilee

More on August 20: Walking on water

Majority of voters do want to see more Romney tax returns

Bashir: What Mitt Romney’s tax returns will tell us

Top Lines: Akin, ‘legitimate rape’, Romney and taxes

Obama to Akin, GOP: ‘Rape is rape’

Re-election politics and ‘Obama’s Last Stand’

Bashir: There are Sea-doo’s and Sea-don’ts when campaigning, Mr. Romney

Matthews: A vote for Romney is a vote for all radical conservatives

Akin apologizes as deadline looms

Romney, Ryan, and a questionable foreign policy record

Akin ‘ legitimate rape’ comment trumps Romney convention build-up

McConnell: ‘Sorry is not sufficient’

Obama upstages, upbraids Romney on lies’ talk

Obama won’t back down over Akin’s rape comments

Republicans urge Akin to drop out

More controversy from Hank Williams, Jr.

President Obama calls out Romney on gross falsehoods

Scott Brown warned over Akin fallout

What you don’t know about the stimulus

Countdown to the RNC

New e-book goes inside the Obama campaign

S.E. Cupp sounds off on Akin’s ‘unacceptable comments’

Akin faces deadline to drop out of Senate race

Dating in a digital world

NOW & Later with Lilly Ledbetter and Sally Quinn

Sen. Gillibrand: ‘When women do run, they win’

Debate over women’s issues often had by men

GOP keeps distance from Todd Akin’s ‘legitimate rape’ comments

First Reads

Bad behavior backlash

Political panel: On the Trail

Political Panel: The Republican and Democrat divide

Scarborough: GOP has offended their base with Galilee swim story

Skinny dipping in Galilee: GOP freshman went nightswimming

Remembering the life of Helen Gurley Brown

McCaskill: Akin’s statement is a window into congressman’s mind

US voting system makes it easy to steal elections, National Review writer says

Air Force Week comes to New York City

Scarborough on Akin: Who thinks that way? What doctors is he talking to?

Did America’s bygone ‘golden age’ truly exist?

Todd Akin, the ‘hard Right,’ and skinny dipping in Galilee

War on women: real, persistent, damaging

Augusta National admits first two female members

Akin and the GOP gender cap: Can Romney close it?

Akin’s comments: What will be the ramifications for the GOP?

Akin’s comments reignite war on women

Akin’s comments reignite war on women

Rep. Yoder in damage control after naked sea swim

Rep. Yoder in damage control after naked sea swim

Revisiting debate on gender gap in politics

Should Akin drop out of Senate race?

Obama, Romney respond to Akin’s comments on rape

Fluke: We need to focus on Akin’s record, not just his comments

Barack Obama: Making History – Caroline Kennedy Interview

Barack Obama: Making History – Opposition

Barack Obama: Making History – Vice President Joe Biden Interview

Preview: Barack Obama: Making History

Pa voter ID law heads to state Supreme Court

Office Politics: Bravo’s Andy Cohen’s talks with Alex Witt

Music or prayer? School, group battle

Obama, Romney: Who has the most online clout?

Education jobs lost

Reporter talks to man who hid Saddam

Biden’s ‘chains’ remark fueling negativity?

Assad makes rare public appearance

Assange to Obama: ‘Do the right thing’

Swiftboating the 2012 campaign

Smerconish: ‘Only a partisan opinion could sustain’ voter ID laws

It’s been one week

Big storms predicted for January, February

Bad weather halts West Nile battle

Britney Spears tweets Mars rover

Ryan is joined by mom at Florida campaign rally

Wars take back seat in presidential race

MSNBC’s Alex Witt talks to Bravo’s Andy Cohen about his start in the business

MSNBC’s Alex Witt talks “Housewives” and the President with Bravo’s Andy Cohen

Bill Miller’s gift to the nation

What is next for Julian Assange?

Romney-Ryan ticket’s one week anniversary

Romney-Ryan ticket’s one week anniversary

Rage Against the Machine rages against Paul Ryan

Rep. Joe Walsh defends self against ‘loose cannon’ remarks

Obama campaign prods at Romney’s tax returns again

Finney: Romney’s conception of trust is ‘small-minded’

August 17: One week later, what have we learned?

Top Lines: Romney, Ryan, chains, beers, wonks and nerds

How much did Rand influence Ryan?

Ryan attacked stimulus despite requesting federal funds

Is Ryan hurting ticket on Medicare in swing states and with minority voters?

Troops in Afghanistan told carry loaded weapons at all times

Why Wisconsin Senate race mirrors Obama v. Romney

How Ted Kennedy wrote Obama’s Bain playbook on Romney

Romney can’t bridge the trust gap on tax returns

Whitney Houston’s last performance in ‘Sparkle’

Preview: Mitt Romney: The Making of a Candidate

Very Last Word: Overlooked women’s issues

Very Last Word: Medicare and the Ryan roll-out

Very Last Word: When the candidate runs things

It is on

S.E. Cupp Web Extra

Romney gets creative with Medicare facts

Romney camp rejects offer to drop tax return chatter

Rising violence in Afghanistan

The business, man, of the Brooklyn Nets

Catch a fish, no pole necessary

Romney’s evolution on the Ryan plan

Assange stuck at Ecuador embassy

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New ‘Swift Boat’ tactics against Obama?

Show me the taxes!

Back-and-forth on Biden’s remarks

Big Spenders

Senate Send-off

Political Panel: Shameless plugs

Political Panel: Back to base-ics

For the love of Rand

Together at last: Romney, Ryan set to team up on the trail

Pawlenty: Middle class doesn’t want taxes increased

New show focuses on NYC corruption — in 1864

As Facebook stocks tumble, is Zuckerberg still fit to be CEO?

Haass: My hunch is Syrians will have to figure this out alone

No more playing ‘nice,’ campaign spending and the missing middle

Why Romney and Obama both agree on big government

Why Paul Ryan could become the face of GOP for a generation

Heilemann: Romney’s tax rate less important than offshore accounts

Scarborough: Romney’s not going to win Wis., even with Paul Ryan

Wasserman-Schultz on Romney’s taxes: ‘What are you trying to hide?’

Attacks on US troops by Afghan forces worsening

Romney-Ryan struggle to set Medicare facts straight

Romney’s tax issue not put to rest

Hitting the road with Hillary Clinton

Romney’s veep pick, one week later

Romney adviser: ‘People aren’t asking about tax returns’ on campaign trail

Mitt Romney’s tax mistake

The Ryan week one disaster

Ledbetter: ‘Paul Ryan scares me to death’

Romney inconsistent on agreement with numberless ‘numbers guy’ Ryan

Ryan overlooks own $20 million stimulus request while opposing stimulus

Rewriting Rush’s debate moderator attacks

GOP targets Democratic turnout with war on early voting

Voting access, dark money give advantage to Republicans

Romney not trustworthy after Massachusetts tax lie

Addendum for fairness

Addendum for fairness

Day in news: Thursday, August 16

Day in news: Thursday, August 16

Obama campaign makes offer on Romney’s taxes

Obama campaign makes offer on Romney’s taxes

Russian punk band found guilty of ‘hooliganism’

Federal judges reject Fla. early voting changes

Is Biden being muzzled by his staff?

First Couple’s first kiss immortalized on plaque

First Couple’s first kiss immortalized on plaque

Romney flip-flops on Ryan budget plan

Romney flip-flops on Ryan budget plan

Romney-Ryan drives away with Nascar support

Republicans are angry that Democrats are angry

Revisiting Ryan’s extreme pro-life positions

More on August 16: Mind the gap

GOP swift-boating Obama on Osama bin Laden

Romney: Asking about my tax returns ‘small-minded’

Dear GOP: Obama isn’t ‘divisive,’ but voter ID is

Voter suppression in Ohio targets potential Obama supporters

Romney’s likability gap with President Obama

Matthews: Romney-Ryan is a bad bromance

Top lines: Romney, Ogre, Palin and The Dude

Blogger takes on Progressive after sister was killed by uninsured driver

‘Insider attacks’ surging in Afghanistan

Obama camp to Romney: Show us your returns and we’ll leave you alone

Romney’s VP pick puts Medicare front and center

Ed: ‘Romney’s traded his etch-a-sketch for a white board’

Romney can’t dry erase bizarre Medicare news conference

Voters running out of time in the Keystone state

Romney talks tax returns

Ryan Vs. Ryan: Who to believe?

Devo pays tribute to Seamus Romney

Fight over voting rights continues in swing states

Romney breaks his silence on taxes

Romney adopts Bush strategy on propaganda

Ryan’s views on women’s health a backlash in waiting?

Steve King hoping for a Romney-Ryan White House

Romney campaign using distraction to change conversation

Why Tim Pawlenty’s still The One

Mormonism in America, beyond Mitt Romney

Are Independent voters in full swing?

The return of the tax return battle

93-year-old Philadelphia woman disenfranchised

Private, public partnerships for education improvement

Shark attack survivors out to defend their aggressors

White boards, gaffes and some handsome candidates

Surprising number of voters won’t vote in Nov.

Very Last Word: No whining in politics

Very Last Word: Associating with Russian atheists

No exaggeration

Is the Medicare debate a self-inflicted wound for the GOP?

Jan Brewer issues executive order defying Obama immigration policy

No more ‘Mr. Nice Guy’?

Who is the 2012 election social media king?

Campaign conflicts with Ryan’s voter record

Obama campaign says hooray for Hollywood

Romney’s five-point economic plan

Romney tests new language to describe Ryan plan

Taliban behind Black Hawk crash in Afghanistan?

Pride for Rep. Paul Ryan?

Why Wall Street ‘hearts’ Rep. Paul Ryan

Election 2012: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Political Panel: Courting the Latino vote

Political Panel: Political promises

Political ad spending passes $500 million

Ecuador grants WikiLeaks’ Assange asylum

Romney drops ‘nice’ talk when discussing Obama

President Obama, Romney and Afghanistan going into the election

Small parts of the budget, the average wage and Medicare, Medicaid

Journalist reflects on love story

Time tackles mobile technology in its first-ever ‘Wireless’ issue

Goalkeeper on gold medal, tough childhood.

Friends or enemies: Romney, Obama and their relationship with business

Axelrod: ‘We didn’t authorize the [Priorities USA] ad’

Scarborough: Ann Romney should say husband is ‘honorable’ and move on

Brokaw: From a clinical view, picking Ryan was right move for Romney

No Ryan bump for Romney and POTUS’ response to ‘hate’ campaign

What did the Morning Joe crew learn on Thursday?

Cell phones and the election

Obama defends Biden

Could Medicare hurt the Obama campaign?

Medicare discussion at center of 2012 debate

Republicans running away from ties to Ryan?

The campaigns get personal

More taxing questions for the Romneys

Sherrod Brown on TRMS Thursday

Ohio Secretary of State orders uniform early voting hours

Rewriting Ryan and the GOP on Ayn Rand

Romney-Ryan Medicare challenge

Romney record in Massachusetts not much to run on

Romney failing to close Latino gap with Obama

Pennsylvania joins unprecedented wave of voter suppression laws

Guard injured in shooting at Family Research Council

Michael Dukakis on Romney’s ‘pathetic’ record as governor

Ryan announcement overshadowed other big Romney news

Day in news: Wednesday, August 15

Husted: Voting controversy ‘something we don’t need’

Boy’s head stuck in stone balcony

Boy’s head stuck in stone balcony

Is this the nastiest campaign ever?

Is this the nastiest campaign ever?

Obama leads Romney in digital campaign war

Legal challenges to Pennsylvania and Ohio laws