spiral as investors worry about the long-term outlook and this friday's jobs report. how the mighty have fallen. egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak in court on charges of murdering protesters. the ailing former leader on a stretcher today and behind a cage. plus, dire warnings in east africa. the famine spreading. relief agencies sometimied being blocked from getting help to those desperate victims. and good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. mike exclusive interview with house democratic leader nancy pelosi straight ahead. now that the house and the senate are going home, the president is heading back to chicago to raise money for his re-election campaign and to start celebrating his 50th birthday, which occurs tomorrow. chuck today is nbc news chief white house correspondent and host of "the daily rundown." charlie cook is an msnbc political analyst.

this just in they say the president is taking the budget team out for burgers on the hill. >> taking him for beers. >> more than burgers. >> we don't know exactly what they're ordering yet. the prez obama burger is marmalade, roquefort cheese. the michelle melt is carmelized onions, ruby tomato on a frosted wheat baked bun. >> i don't think michelle would allow the mayo on the president obama burger. >> they need a break, but everyone needs a break. but chuck, how does the president pivot? i interviewed nancy pelosi we're going to be playing that next. the fact is they're trying to talk about jobs. the result of this debt deal is they've got in money to play with. >> i feel like this is a broken record. we've had this discussion before. now they're going to pivot to

jobs. >> what can they do? >> there isn't much they can do. there were some things that they thought they were going to get done in july. but the debt ceiling overshadowed them and they couldn't get them through. the free trade agreement. they're little things. but the three trade agreements -- >> i asked nancy pelosi about that and she said they were against -- the white house was pushing the will. but -- >> republicans -- this was one of those bipartisan deals they were going to get. they had the votes. there were some is that they heeded to dot because there were some democrats not happy. but the point is that's what july was supposed to be. was the white house getting these done, getting those over the finish line and instead now that's put off to september. >> and the faa bill. where you've got thousands of jobs who -- people being laid off, airport's not well served. at a news conference today senate democrats played a little bit of chuck schumer later,

blamed the media for misreporting supposedly how all this has evolved. basically there was a short-term bill that the white house wanted a republican bill. and the senate democrats said, no, we want a clean bill. >> it looks like a fukushima daiichi between senator rockefeller and the house chairman dan mika. it's -- it's gotten to be -- it's so messy and it's costing $1.4 billion. >> billion with a b. >> in tax revenue coming in. you know, it just furthers the narrative of the town looking dysfunctional. >> in terms of dysfunction, we saw the evolution of the tea party coming out of the august recess two years ago. chuck, what's going to happen when members go home? >> you know, i'll be curious to see. remember the tea party got fired up in 2009 because there was some astroturf. there was an organized effort, groups out there trying to create trouble at town hall meetings. it was definitely an orchestrated campaign.

you don't sense that there's any orchestrated campaigns. i'll be curious to see especially because who shows up at a town hall meeting for members of congress? it's people that have the idealogical in concrete positions on the left or the right. and they're the ones most upset about this deal. >> my prediction is you're not going to see many town meetings. >> i think both sides between democrats after summer of 2009-2010 and republicans after medicare it's going to be very controlled. the new thing is what telephone town meetings where you can screen the calls and things like that. those folks aren't going out to expose themselves to the wrath of voters. >> one other thing, this district work period so-called district work period, the bottom line is that the house has already taken 63 days, the senate 30 days. this is a lot longer than most people get for vacations. i asked pelosi about that, she

said it's not my schedule. she's not the speaker. >> i think there's a real disconnect. i think a lot of members think that their constituents are upset with them. i think they underestimate by a factor of five the anger that's out there it's going after both parties. just talking to some members a week ago, i was stunned how -- >> it's out there. they are ticked off. thank you very much. the best in the business. as markets are waiting nervously for friday's jobs reports, the nation's mayors are arguing that the debt ceiling deal doesn't even begin to address the real economic problem. in fact, could make you been employment in their cities even worse. scott smith is the mayor of messa, arizona, and joins us now with a direct report from ground zero, the places where all of this is going to trickle down really to you. i know you and the kchbs of mayors are trying to do something about it. but the debt deal and the way

the debate has been redefined in terms of cutting the budget, means that there isn't going to be money for infrastructure, stimulus or anything else that you really need at the local level. the states are going to be impacted as their budgets get cut. >> well, that's what it looks like, andrea. we don't know how this will all play out. it seems like the focus is not only building the economy anymore. the focus is not only creating jobs. i'm not so sure you need to cut a big check to create jobs. you need to create a situation that facilities capital formation and facilities people spending money and businesses hiring. and what we've seen over the last month or so as we've argued back and forth over philosophy and ideology is that nobody's talking about what we really need to do to build this economy. we do feel that in the city more than anywhere else. that's where the economic activity happens in this country. we're very, very in tune with as you said with what ordinary people are going through and the

frustration they feel that we just can't seem to get over this hump. >> how awningry are people at congress? >> i think people are angry at the system? and congress is at the forefront of the system right now. as mayors we're in the -- i think it's a great position that we hear from our constituents on a daily basis because we affect people in their daily lives. we can't kick things down the road a bit the decisions we make whether it's failure to pick up trash or change in fee at a swimming pool we hear from immediately. i think what people feel is a disconnect. they feel that those in both in their state legislatures and especially with congress are so wrapped up in the game. are so wrapped up in the debate that they forget that their action or their inaction has real consequences. that it does impact people because there's no real feed back to congress unless you're talking about something like medicare. unless you're talking about something like a check people receive, there's not this

connection between the decisions they make and the impact on everyday living. >> mayor scott, thank you very much. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. coming this hour, my exclusive interview with house democratic leader nancy pelosi up next. send me your thoughts on twitter@twitterreports. this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. time for the your business entrepreneur of the week. this designer copyrighted her first cartoon character when she was just 12. 20 years ago later she did the same with hand painted martini glasses. her collection took off so she licensed the brand for everything from pajamas to jewelry, to towels. for more watch your business ♪ yes! ha ha! [ clicking ] ♪ what happened? power went out, want a hot dog?

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. was the tea party the big winner out of the debt ceiling debate. are republicans going to get hammered when they go home for tying congress's hand in dealing with the economy. michael steele is the former chairman of the republican national committee and joins me now. >> great to see you in person. we're usually long distance. >> i know. >> michael, this has been a

mess. and voters are angry at everybody. we're talking about the the poll when asked about congress people, people say repulsive, disgusting, messy. those are the answers that come to mind. that doesn't just mean democrats. is it going to be a pox on both their houses? >> absolutely there is. a lot of people like to lump the tea party and the republican party into one bucket, but you lose sight of what's really going on here. that tea party position or faction or group is outside of the party. so from their pers pektsive they're holding everybody's feet to the fire. not just in gop members, but house members and then more broadly speaking is the poll shows and others the general population is taked off right now. and everybody is when they get home are going to get an earful and then some. >> the tea party has done a lot of constructive things some people say because they got the conversation focused on cutting the budget. but at the same time their critics say that they have

completely gridlocked the system. that you can't operate this way. and now going forward you have the republicans say we're going to point members to this supercongress committee that oppose taxes. you have democrats say we're going to appoint people who oppose any changes to medicare. if that's the case, you're going to have gridlock and you're going to have -- kwl that's not tea party. that is the nature of the washington system. it is built and magnified gridlock. it does as a ematter of course gridlock. what the tea party did is came in and took a hammer and chisel to that process and firmly planted their feet on principle on a particular patch of ground fought from that standpoint. look, whether you have the numbers in the house or senate or not. whether the white house wants to engage or not. everyone had to focus on what they were saying. it changed the nature of the debate. going do the fall when this committee comes on, that's going to be a test for the leadership to make sure they get a right combination of members in place

to move this agenda forward. it's not just the tea party, it's the progressive wing of the economic party who's also -- >> who voted more against this than -- >> absolutely. there are competing interests here. they're pushing in the same direction. let's move forward on solving the debt problem, focus on jobs, get people back to work. >> but those are internally contractry. >> they are. they are. >> focussing on the debt problem near term is arguably not the right thing to do to get the economy moving and to get people back to work. >> i would agree with that. in fact, as chairman of the rnc we focused on the job front, the administration focused on health care. we flipped the health care, the administration at the end of that goes back to jobs. we go back -- then they want to flip to something else. that's been the problem this whip sawing back and forth on jobs. notice just this week the president's pivoted again back to jobs. the number one thing from february of 2009 to this date has been jobs.

so to the extent that yor going to start that conversation in earnest, you're going to have to really engage the small business community, larger corporations to push this issue forward. it's not going to be resolved in washington. it's going to be resolved by banks and local communities, small businesses, having the confidence that they can invest in the economy. >> what about the national candidates? sarah palin is now really kicking mitt romney -- >> she's slapping, isn't she. >> so afraid to deal with it. >> i have to stand with sarah a little bit on this. i've been really puzzled by the silence, deafen silence. this is a pathway up to go and stake some ground and line up an argument. why do you want to make the argument some time next year when you can lay the seeds you need to do that. so i think in the case of romney you see sarah palin having a few comments about that.

certainly huntsman has come out and said some things. again, not really bold statements about creating jobs and moving the economy, but just kind of like me tooism or maybe i like that, maybe i don't. it's not the way to lead at this point. >> michael steele, calling them as he cease it. thank you very much. and meanwhile, a more serious note, a subcommittee of the senate foreign relations committee has been meeting to hear horror stories about the famine in east africa, the desperate need for help. >> in the last 90 days, 29,000 somali children have died. we have a small window to reach those in need or risk the additional deaths of several hundred thousand. we are looking at about a six to eight week window. >> today's hearing was led by delaware senator chris coops who joins us from capitol hill.

>> as we heard in our hearing today, there's very little time left. so we need to make sure that bureaucratic red tape isn't preventing humanitarian organizations funded in part by the united states or raising funds internationally or from private donations from delivering the badly needed food resources to folks on the ground particularly in southern somalia. we heard from three different government witnesses and three different nonprofit witnesses about how this is probably the worst humanitarian crisis in a generation. there are half a million people on the verge of starvation. and 12 million people at risk. i understand that the congress and a lot of our country's been focused on the debt ceiling crisis over the last couple of weeks. but at the same time this humanitarian crisis has been unfolding in the horn of africa. >> the state department is relaxing the rules against dealing with terror groups because the terror group in somalia has been one of the key intermediaries and has been

blocking the refugee workers. can aid groups now move more freely and get their money moving more freely or is it still tied up in red tape? >> it's not completely clear yet. the change in policy about the administration just occurred this week. several of the folks who testified said it still wasn't completely clear whether or not aid agencies that are independently funded that don't have resources coming to them from the united states can provide humanitarian assistance in south somalia without running afoul of the united states anti-terrorism laws. as you said, the group which bears a significant amount of responsibility for creating this crisis is on the united states' terror watch list. and we've got export controls in place so the nonprofit groups who are trying to get assistance into somalia still face some lack of clarity and some legal risk. there's always thousands and thousands of refugees pouring over the borders into ethiopia and kenya and are getting

assistance and relief in very large refugee camps in those countries. if we could instead have nonprofit groups, nongovernmental groups providing assistance in somalia, it would save moneys of thousands of people from making a week long trek across the desert in a desperate search for food. >> having heard all this today, is there anything that you can now do in talking to senator clinton and the others in the state department to try to get this moving? >> senator isakson of georgia and i who cared the hearing will be reaching out to the administration. we had good and construction conversations today with folks in leadership from the department of state, from u.s. aid. they're focused on the problem. we're going to stay on it as well. what's more important than anything else is for the american people to realize there is a humanitarian crisis unfolding in the horn of africa. it puts more lives at risk than the haiti earthquake or the

japanese tsunami and nuclear problem that happened a number of months ago and really hasn't got tn visibility that i think it so greatly deserves. >> right you are. we thank you so much for doing this. i know a lot of people are taking off for vacation. you're not. your committee isn't. thank you and senator isakson. we're going to stay on it. kate snow is there for us. again, thank you for your concern. >> thank you. coming up next, countdown to ames. michele bachmann takes on the president and tim pawlenty. the politico briefing next on "andrea mitchell reports." [ automated voice speaks foreign language ] [ male announcer ] in here, everyone speaks the same language. ♪ in here, forklifts drive themselves. no, he doesn't have it. yeah, we'll look on that. [ male announcer ] in here, friends leave you messages written in the air. that's it right there. [ male announcer ] it's the at&t network. and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say.

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and you can believe it. >> politico's executive editor joins us now. is that effective? >> it's certainly effective when you think about the iowa audience. they love her conservatism. i think the base of the party loves a conservative who voted against that bill despite the fact that the majority of house republicans including the majority of those house freshman ended up voting for that bill. i think she's on very safe ground there. i also think she's trying to project herself as being decisive. she and many others have been critical of mitt romney for doing nothing on this issue until the very end and then coming out against it. i think she wants to portray herself as a true, solid, predictable conservative. >> she also got into a little bit of a thing with jon huntsman or he with her if n that he of course the only republican major republican candidate who endorsed the debt ceiling deal and said he believes that it had to be done, he apparently was

trying to explain himself on fox for having described her as photogenic. let me play that. >> you said she makes for good copy and good photography. >> listen, that -- i was trying to compliment representative bachmann. calling somebody photogenic i wish we were all that photogenic. she's an elected official. she's doing a great job and i have high regard for her. >> jim -- >> loosely translated, oops. >> i guess it's just hard for some of these guys to figure out how to describe her, how to praise her. how to criticize her without being accused of being sexist. >> right. sexist and condescending that's what they have to avoid. obviously he felt sort of trapped there in that segment trying to explain it away. the way you go after her is go

after her as a candidate and her policies and whether or not she's ready to be president of the united states. i think that is the most effective attack you can have. the problem is attacking her in a republican primary particularly in iowa is tough. you can't say she's not authentically conservative. not conservative enough. she's probably the most conservative person out there in this race. if your a huntsman trying to distinguish yourself or a pawlenty trying to breathe life into your campaign, she's a tough target. >> the pawlenty and bachmann campaigns keep making it up. campaign staff going after each other. pawlenty must feel that everything he does comes up short because bachmann is getting all the oxygen and all the copy. >> if you think of yourself being pawlenty or working for him, you've been at it for a year. you spent all this money, time, you have all this stachl. you want to win the straw poll. out of nowhere a fellow minnesotian comes in and she has a better chance of winning the

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>> for the media to say that we're ignoring the gun held to your head, why don't you give into them and let the they think go is just not fair and not right. the justice department has cracked down today on the suspicious child pornography ring that uses heavily secured internet sites to trade immamgs of children. attorney general eric holder and homeland security secretary said 52 arrests have been made so far. and tropical storm emily is bringing heavy rain and winds straight toward the dominican republic in haiti today. more than 600,000 people are still without shelter in haiti following last year's earthquake. and the red cross has started to lay down sandbags in areas with high risks of flooding. and now to my exclusive interview with house democratic leader nan sis pelosi. i sat down with her earlier today to talk about jobs, the slowing economy, the debt deal and whether she will be appointing democrats to that

subcommittee to compromise or be producing more deadlock. >> really i think that the american people are ready for us to talk about something other than to the process of how we continue the conversation. they just want to see with meat on the bones some tangible job initiatives that we can work in a bipartisan way to achieve. >> the american people want to see jobs. they want to see the economy improve. but a lot of democrats, your members the leader of the congressable black caucus feel that this deal is a bad deal and it will lead to a slowing of the economy. congressman cleaver called it a satan sandwich. you added on it's a sandwich satan with a side of satan fries. it's a bad deal. >> it's a bad deal. but it's a done deal. as my colleague steve israel says. it's a done deal and it's time for us to move on. it's the basis on which we are going to proceed and we have to get on with it. we've got to go to the table.

do the best we can. in a balanced bipartisan way to create jobs, reduce the deficit and pick up into the future. just talking about how we got here and our complaints about this bill don't get me started. but that's not -- >> let me get you started a little bit. was a president a bad negotiator. did he give away too much? >> i don't think so. i think the president was great. but again what is the point of talking about what the finished. on anything that happens around here anyone one of us could have done it better. we could have written it better, whatever it is. the fact is the president wanted a balanced bipartisan agreement. >> but he didn't get a balance. there's no taxes in it. >> that's right. nobody knows that better than i, perhaps some do. i fully appreciate that. but again, this is about how we go to the next step. jobs, jobs. jobs. we get sort of it's a cottage

industry here in washington, d.c. that we have to talk about. what we did. why we did it. it's horrible in realtime. and now we're going to continue to talk about it. >> but it was a turning point many people feel. i've covered congress many years and have never seen it quite as poisonous. i want to ask you about this -- this moment. this was the night before john boehner walked away from the grand bargain. you're in the oval office with the president, the vice president. you look angry. >>', i don't even remember this. i'm not angry. >> it's a white house photo. we should point out. you see the back of harry reid. what do you think you were saying to the president? >> i think what i was saying at the president is we've got to end this. we've got to end this. we've had the negotiations -- as i look at this picture the meeting was coming to an end since the vice president was standing. >> bringing back bad memories. >> no.

we've got to end it. whatever it is everybody knows what the ante is. now let's just end it. >> that's when boehner says the president upped the ante that night. called and said we want another $400 billion. did democratic leaders on the hill did you want more on the tax side? >> we'd like to have had more on the tax side, but not to the point of not having a deal or an agreement. first when i saw it it could have been any number of meetings at the white house. >> you had so many. >> when you identify it as that, i think at that moment i was saying, if we can do better, let's do better, if we can't, let's end it. >> did the tea party win? they have redefined the debate and now the president and your hands are really tied in terms of new spending. it's going to all be on the downside in terms of cutting and perhaps raising taxes? >> i think we see this in a little bit of a different way from our perspective here. what we saw was for the second

time this year engine a budget bill the republicans in the house of representatives did not have the votes. the continuing resolution at the beginning of the year with 179 the other day. they got 174. that's not 218. i don't go to table and say i have to have it all my way. when you don't have the votes. so how do we -- recognizing that they don't have the votes how do we work together? i think there are many americans that are bipartisan in terms of job creation like infrastructure, like china currency manipulation over and over again we've had bipartisan votes on that. like issues that relate to clean energy jobs for the future. these are all how we encourage the private sector -- >> the faa bill is not done and those are thousands of jobs. >> i don't control the schedule. >> i know. >> we should not have left here. this could be 90,000 jobs lost

over a six-week period, a month that we should not have left. we should not have gone from washington. many of us will still be here this week working. >> you're working and you're here. there's a study getting one word responses when people think of congress, people said ridiculous, disgusting, messy. how does that make you feel? >> i think the whole process makes people angry. makes people disgusted. i don't think that we should have the legitimate debate about budget priority. the sort of -- over our head or else we're going to default. i don't think that was the appropriate dynamic. but that's done and now we're moving on. congress for its whole entirety has been an institution that has been mocked. the difference now is in communication in realtime in

fact, quicker than realtime before anybody has a cannes to process what's going on people have formed an opinion and gone on. that's a very healthy good thing. it's a very healthy good thing. i also agree that from what they have seen of the sausage making close up and in realtime that they would not aprover. the public is angry that's their right. they're our bosses. >> i know that you don't control the schedule. if the public is your boss -- >> that's right. >> and all the other members, how would the public feel about knowing that the house has been out already 63 days this year and the senate 30 days. these are working recesses, also, but there's a lot of vacation time built in. >> these are working recesses. this schedule this year is a schedule that we've never seen before. two weeks in, one week out like that. it really -- you'd have to speak to the speaker about what that schedule is. but for the days that we are in, the bills the republicans have

introduced have cost us jobs. >> i just want to ask you about gabby giffords. it was such a moment you couldn't watch it without tears in your eyes. you were there. you were so much part of it. you were one of the few people who knew she was coming. what was it like and what are your impressions as to --? >> it was quite remarkable. of course, ima mom. and as a mochl, i'm not sure i would have encouraged her to do that. but she wanded to do it. she felt so -- she believed so strongly that it was important for us to end this and to remove all doubt that our country would not default. she had said that. so that motivated her to come. i did meet with her the day after and again told her how incredibly important that was. and she even agreed that it was a boost of morale for the entire

country. i told her i tole the press when that green light went up next to her name, the y, the green light next to her name that was the brightest light we'd ever seen in the house of representatives. she's an inspiration. she's courageous. she's disciplined. she wanted to get back to her therapy so she can get back here. in the strongest way possible very soon. >> do you think she'll be able to run for re-election. i know she hasn't made a decision. she's focused on her rehabilitation. do you think it's going to be possible? >> yes, i do. i feel that we're all helping to make sure when she makes that decision she has the resources to run her campaign. >> thank you, madam leader. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> you can see all of our conversation with nancy pelosi, the democratic leader online on msnbc tv. and next egypt's ousted president bedridden on a stretcher and in a cage.

the trial today against hosni mubarak right here on "andrea mitchell reports."

i'm tamron hall. coming up on "news nation", we're keeping a close eye on the markets. stocks are down again one day after the president signed the debt deal into law. what's going on with the dough especially. dylan ratgan will join me also to discuss jobs wanted. it's a special series we are launching. getting into this conversation that we all feel that washington should be creating jobs. we'll take a look at that. plus chilling new video of the garridos released as they try to lure children into their clutches years after police say they kidnapped jaycee dugard. this video was released for a reason. we will tell you and it is important news. "news nation" is coming up at 2:00 eastern. there is turmoil in the arab world continuing today.

protoasters came out en masse for the beginning of the trial of the ousted president hosni mubarak. in syria the violent crackdown on civilians got even worse. several reporting explosions and tanks rolling into the city. we're joined by retired u.s. army captain and combat veteran wes moore. thanks for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> we've been talking about this today. both fronts egypt and syria. this extraordinary display on state television. people stunned in egypt. obviously the ejet stream wants to show the former leader being humiliated this way and being held accountable for his alleged crimes? >> absolutely. this really is stunning to see the cage and to see hosni mubarak in a bed literally inside the cage going through his trial process is just remarkable. i think the egyptians feel it's an important moment to show the rest of the world, but primarily to show egyptians that justice is going to be served and quite honestly particularly for the

fact that so much of this trial has been stalled with hoel issues they want to show this process is happening and show the egyptian people that the justice that they seek is actually coming to fruition. >> as the process of trying to create some kind of democracy has evolved we've seen that the military, you understand the military situation well, the military has become much stronger and also more dictatorial. is there some concern that we're going to have less than a democratic government when they finally get around to voting? >> i think there's a very real concern. there's a legit reason for that concern. hosni mubarak was in charge of egypt for 29 years. a former air force officer eventually became vice president and then eventually president. right now in egypt they have a 19 person military commission that's running the country. i think the lot of the outrage in egypt isn't just about the past. it's a real uncertainty about the future. i think that's why you're seeing so many protests and what those

protests mean not just for egypt but for a lot of neighboring countries in the area as well. >> let's talk about syria, the u.n. circuit court council has met and we're told they have agreed on the draft at least of a statement condemning asad for what he's been doing. it's a presidential statement they cannot agree on a resolution which would have more force. even that seems weak and is not going to be taken that seriously. syria has resisted previous u.n. actions for years blaming syria trying to hold syria to account for the assassination of the prime minister of lebanon. so the u.s. now today ramping up their rhetoric. jay carney at today's briefing condemning again what asad has done. it also seems frankly a little weak. >> what we're also seeing is as the statements are coming out this year in government crockdown is continuing and actually becoming more aggressive. we look at what happened in hama. we're talking about dozens of people being killed daily. the fact is ever since march we

had over 1700 murders done by the syrian government inside of syria. in addition to that, we had over 3,000 people come up missing and over 10,000 people who have been incarcerated. the crackdown is very real what's happening in syria. quite honestly as the u.s. debates additional economic measures such as banning syrians from participating in the u.s. financial markets or banning contractors who do business in syria from having any business with u.s. contracts it still seems weak in comparison to the physical and violent crackdown to the government is putting towards its own people. >> the main reason why the u.s. has got its hands tied when we talk about syria, the difference with asad is the rest of the arab world is still very much on his side. and we don't have support to do what we did in libya. >> that's exactly right. one thing we're seeing in libya you had the arab league in full unanimous endorsement. in syria it's not the same situation. for example, if you look at

turkey, turkey is to the north. turkey is estimated over 10,000 syrians who have not sought refuge inside of tur keechl you're going to see how turkey is going to start playing a much bigger factor in whab ends up happening with syria and how long the president stays in power. >> most recently in turkey we saw the resignation of all the top jens. they've got problems as well. >> that's right. >> thank you very much wes moore. >> thank you so much. >> for all these developments today out of the mideast. what political story will be making headlines in the next 24 hours? that's next. but first, thinking object getting a parking ticket is rough here at home? be glad you don't live in litian ya. the mayor of that town took an armored tank and mowed down a mercedes parked illegally overthe weekend. it may have been staged for a stunt. but the mayor is an avid biking fan and wanted to send a stern

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jarick so which political story will be making headlines in the next 24 hours? msnbc contributor and managing editor of postpolitics.com chris cillizza joins us now. the president went out for burgers with his economic team and tonight he flies to chicago for the first of two fund-raisers, first time he's been fund-raising in a while and turns 50 and he has herbie hancock and jennifer hudson. >> it's a day/night for the president. he's at the good stuff eatery at capitol hill. i will vouch for their burgers. eaten many a blog post sitting and eating one of their burgers. >> you're making me hungry. >> has great taste in hamburgers. not done a fund-raiser, a remarcable thing, since june 30th. that obviously was the end of the last fund-raising quarter,

but his advisors say he's had to cancel more than ten fund-raisers because of the debt ceiling talks that he's devoted a lot of time there. downplaying expectations that the summer months are going to be slower, and so i don't think we'll see that $86 million quarter like we saw in the second quarter. he's still obviously something close to a financial juggernaut, but i think that juggernaut will have slowed a little bit when the report comes out in the early fall. >> and the liberal base, not all that happy with what came out of this whole deal. >> right. >> he's got a lot of people out there who are not really -- not pleased with what they have seen in washington. >> you know, andrea, if you look at polling, most people identify themselves as liberals are still broadly supportive of the president, but the donor community for democrats is heavily the affluent individuals who give that $38,000 check, they are quite liberal. they are not happy with what they view as an inadequate

compromise that the president cut. do they slack off? do they give less? it's probably less of a problem for the president given his ability to raise money, but watch house and senate campaign committees and house and senate candidates. is there a dulling of enthusiasm there? are they struggling to raise more money because of this deal. see what the impact is over the next couple of weeks. i think that's something -- i think that's something that my reporting tells me that democratic strategists are concerned about. >> indeed. thank you, chris cillizza. >> thank you. >> we'll talk tomorrow. that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports," and can you see my entire exclusive interview with nancy pelosi online at msnbc.com and on twitter @mitchell reports. my colleague tamron hall has a look at what's coming up on "newsnation." we're keeping a close look on the markets where it's another down day for the dow. we'll get the latest from washington as white house transitions from the debt debate to finding the jobs, getting the jobs, whatever you want to see.

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