Matthews: ‘I am determined to do what I can to help’

>>> our usual political discussion tonight without a strong sad personal note. i was on last night for ten hours straight from 5:00 in the evening till 3:00 in the morning. a few minutes to 3:00 i said something terrible. i said that i was glad about the coming of tropical storm sandy because of its impact on this national campaign. it was a terrible thing to say, period. i can say it was because i was tired but the fact is i wasn't thinking of the horrible mess this storm has made of people's lives up here in new york and elsewhere. it's not until you read the local newspapers that you know the horror this has reeked on people's lives. very good people's lives. i grew up in the south jersey shore. i have relatives living there still. i failed to see the damage down in new jersey, staten island and other places around here. it is truly a horror up here. no, i was too deeply enmeshes in political, number and people and stakes and all focused on who would win and who would lose. i left out the number one job of anyone on air, on television or on the radio, to think about the lives, the real lives of people. their losses, their relatives and friends who decide in this sdaers. their dreams that have been hurt and sometimes destroyed. i said something not just stupid but wrong. what i should have said is how impressive it is for people in trouble how they react to see politician working across party lines and how people like to see that. instead i suggested an ends justifies means. something identify never believed in my life. bad is bad. good is good. there is no confusing the two. i said something bad about something bad instead of saying something good which is good. people working together. look, i intended to take serious steps to show i'm sincere on this. i've heard from numbers of my family, members of my own family who live near the areas hit. they don't like what i said any more than other people like it. please believe me, i'm determined to do what i can to try to help the people that have already been hurt enough, suffered, suffering enough hardship without hearing stupid