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Video: Do Tea Parties help or hurt GOP?

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:13:35 GMT

Nov. 6: Msnbc’s Chris Matthews speaks with author P.J. O’Rourke and Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post. (Hardball)

Video: Officer who quit over Afghan war speaks out

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:54:15 GMT

Nov. 6: Former Foreign Service officer Matthew Hoh joins msnbc’s Chris Matthews to explain his decision to resign in protest. (Hardball)

Video: Full jobless picture even bleaker

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:42:37 GMT

Nov. 6: Msnbc’s Chris Matthews shares the evening’s bad Big Number: a jobless rate that factors in those who have stopped looking for work, or have settled in part-time jobs. (Hardball)

Video: About face! Crist denies backing stimulus

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:40:39 GMT

Nov. 6: In the midst of a tough primary fight, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is changing course. Msnbc’s Chris Matthews reports. (Hardball)

Video: Did religion play a role in Ft. Hood shooting?

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:39:07 GMT

Nov. 6: As military officials piece together what may have driven an Army psychiatrist to turn on his comrades, msnbc’s Chris Matthews and Nihad Awad of the Council on American-Islamic Relations discuss the incident. (Hardball)

Video: Does Pelosi have enough votes?

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:26:45 GMT

Nov. 6: Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and Brian Bilbray, R-Calif., join msnbc’s Chris Matthews to discuss the impending House vote on health care legislation. (Hardball)

Video: More on shooter’s identity

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 23:09:14 GMT

Nov. 5: Sen. Kay Bailey-Hutchinson, R-Texas, shares information about the shooter, who was believed to be unhappy about being deployed to Iraq. (Hardball)

Video: Gov. Perry: Texas suffered ‘significant loss’

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 23:07:48 GMT

Nov. 5: Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, talks about the shootings at Fort Hood, ordering the flags across the state to be flown at half-staff until Sunday. (Hardball)

Video: Fort Hood usually a ‘disciplined’ place

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 22:39:23 GMT

Nov. 5: Retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey calls the shootings in Fort Hood, Texas the “most tragic peacetime incident.” (Hardball)

Video: Ft. Hood shootings: Was terrorism a motive?

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 22:25:59 GMT

Nov. 5: Hardball’s Chris Matthews talks to NBC News Terror Analyst Roger Cressey about possible motives in the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas. (Hardball)

Video: Next steps for health reform

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:12:43 GMT

Nov. 3: Politics Fix: A Hardball panel discusses how moderate Democrats will respond to a final health reform plan. (Hardball)

Video: Spinning their losses

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:05:44 GMT

Nov. 3: A Hardball panel debates how the Democratic Party will explain their losses in New Jersey and Virginia. (Hardball)

Video: Bloomberg’s win came at a high price

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:49:25 GMT

Nov. 3: Big Number: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent over $100 million on his campaign. (Hardball)

Video: Winners and losers from Tuesday’s election

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:46:14 GMT

Nov. 4: Sideshow: Hardball’s Chris Matthews recaps the National Journal’s scorecard of Tuesday’s elections with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin appearing in the “loser” column. (Hardball)

Video: Lessons learned from Tuesday’s election

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:43:14 GMT

Nov. 4: NBC’s Chuck Todd and Charlie Cook discuss what voters can take away from Tuesday’s election results. (Hardball)

Video: What do the voters want?

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:29:36 GMT

Nov. 4: Hardball’s Chris Matthews speaks with RNC Chairman Michael Steele and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs about the effects of Tuesday’s election results on the Republican Party and the Obama administration. (Hardball)

Video: White House on the defensive

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 06:17:11 GMT

Nov. 4: Politics Fix: A Hardball panel discusses Tuesday’s election results and how the White House will interpret the Democratic losses. (Hardball)

Video: A wake-up call for Democrats?

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 05:46:41 GMT

Nov. 4: Msnbc’s Ed Schultz and the Politico’s Charles Mahtesian talk about the Republican wins in Virginia and New Jersey will affect the Democrats for the rest of the year. (Hardball)

Video: Looking toward the midterm elections

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 05:44:31 GMT

Nov. 4: Hardball’s Chris Matthews talks with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and radio talk show host Mark Williams about how Tuesday’s elections will affect the 2010 congressional elections. (Hardball)

Video: Obama before and after the election

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 01:08:44 GMT

Nov. 3: Politics Fix: Meet the Press moderator David Gregory and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Cynthia Tucker discuss what candidate Barack Obama would think of President Barack Obama, one year later. (Hardball)

Video: Republican leaders, beware

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:52:01 GMT

Nov. 3: Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, D-N.Y., and msnbc’s Pat Buchanan discuss which Republican politicians will become the next targets of far right conservative members of their party. (Hardball)

Video: Some Americans prefer Bush to Obama

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:47:35 GMT

Nov. 3: Big Number: According to a new CNN poll, 34 percent of the country would take former president George Bush back over President Barack Obama. (Hardball)

Video: Palin not allowed to give concession speech

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:46:28 GMT

Nov. 3: Sideshow: Authors of the new book, “Sarah from Alaska,” claim that on the evening of Sen. McCain’s concession, the McCain campaign prevented the former vice presidential candidate from giving a concession speech by cutting the lights onstage. (Hardball)

Video: Who’s in charge of the GOP?

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:38:48 GMT

Nov. 3: Former New Jersey Gov. Christie Todd Whitman talks about the future of the Republican party. (Hardball)

Video: Infighting threatens the GOP

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:37:30 GMT

Nov. 3: Gov. Haley Barbour, R-Miss., talks with Hardball’s Chris Matthews about whether Tuesday’s election results will divide the Republican party into moderates and conservatives. (Hardball)

Video: Complications arise for Obama’s Afghanistan decision

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 23:15:07 GMT

Nov. 2: Politics Fix: President Hamid Karzai has been declared the winner in Afghanistan’s run-off election after his opponent dropped out, so how does President Barack Obama send more troops to a country whose leader is considered corrupt and illegitimate? A Hardball panel debates. (Hardball)

Video: Cheney forgot key facts

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 23:06:01 GMT

Nov. 2: Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff and Mother Jones Magazine’s David Corn talk about former Vice President Dick Cheney’s repeated claim of memory loss when the FBI interviewed him about the CIA leak case. (Hardball)

Video: Will Virginia return to red?

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:48:23 GMT

Nov. 2: Big Number: For the past eight elections, the party controlling the White House, also seems to lose Virginia’s gubernatorial race. Will that change on Tuesday? (Hardball)

Video: Kosovo honors Clinton

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:47:19 GMT

Nov. 2: Sideshow: Former President Bill Clinton visited Kosovo on Sunday for the unveiling of an 11-foot statue in his honor for ordering the 1999 NATO bombing campaign which ended the crackdown on the country’s ethnic Albanians. (Hardball)

Video: Backlash against Obama?

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:46:07 GMT

Nov. 2: Mayor Michael Nutter of Philadelphia discusses whether Tuesday’s elections will be a reflection of how well the Obama administration has maintained their campaign promises. (Hardball)

Video: Decision time in key races

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:45:10 GMT

Nov. 2: Newsweek’s Howard Fineman and the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson discuss whether the Republican Party will embrace more moderates or go the route of grassroots conservatives after Tuesday’s election results. (Hardball)

Video: Lieberman to campaign against Dems?

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:17:27 GMT

Oct. 30: Msnbc’s Chris Matthews, Atlantic Media’s Ron Brownstein and David Gregory, moderator of “Meet the Press,” discuss the Connecticut senator’s assertion that he’ll stump for Republicans. (Hardball)

Video: Measuring the stimulus’ political impact

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:57:49 GMT

Oct. 30: The White House announced that at least 640,000 jobs have been created or saved because of the economic recovery plan, but is the president getting due credit on the economy? Msnbc’s Chris Matthews, CNBC’s Jim Cramer, and Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post discuss. (Hardball)

Video: 3rd-party candidate to win N.Y. 23?

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:44:16 GMT

Oct. 30: What are the chances that Doug Hoffman will take the hotly contested race? Msnbc’s Chris Matthews breaks down the odds. (Hardball)

Video: Grayson still in hot seat on health care?

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:42:39 GMT

Oct. 30: A new Web site is looking to raise money for a Republican challenger to the lawmaker who claimed the GOP version of health care was for Americans to “die quickly.” Msnbc’s Chris Matthews reports. (Hardball)

Video: Washington’s blame game rolls on

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:39:24 GMT

Oct. 30: Some conservatives are fed up with President Barack Obama blaming the country’s problems on former President George W. Bush. Amid this debate, msnbc’s Chris Matthews, Salon.com’s Joan Walsh and Republican strategist Leslie Sanchez sort out who, if anyone, is actually to blame. (Hardball)

Video: Obama to repeat JFK’s wartime choice?

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:31:38 GMT

Oct. 30: Will President Barack Obama mirror the former president and escalate U.S. involvement in a deteriorating overseas situation to satisfy critics at home? Msnbc’s Chris Matthews speaks with presidential historian Doug Brinkley and Evan Thomas of Newsweek. (Hardball)

Video: Clinton gets tough overseas

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:13:55 GMT

Oct. 29: Politics Fix: A Hardball panel talks about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s trip to Pakistan. (Hardball)

Video: What kept Hillary out of the V.P. spot?

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:01:32 GMT

Oct. 29: A new book by Obama campaign strategist David Plouffe explains that while Hillary Clinton was among the final six being considered for the vice president spot on the Obama ticket, concerns about Bill Clinton kept her out of the top three. (Hardball)

Video: Races to watch on Tuesday

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:55:37 GMT

Oct. 29: The Chicago Tribune’s Clarence Page and msnbc’s Pat Buchanan talk about the upcoming Election Day in Virginia, New Jersey and other local areas. (Hardball)