points after his speech. >> he shouldn't have talked at all. if that's all you're going to say, just let geithner do your business. >> president obama cannot wave a magic wand and make everything better. >> there's concern that the s&p downgrade may do something to consumer confidence and there be ease us a little closer to the infamous double dip that everybody's worried about. >> s&p's president defended the downgrade in an exclusive on cnbc. >> why downgrade the debt when it's about the political process? >> our role is to call the risk objectively. >> credit rating is about to be about the chance of you not getting paid back, i think the chance of that is zero. that the united states will not pay its debts. >> today it's ben bernanke's turn. investors will focus on today's fed meeting looking for good news and some signs that there's a plan to turn things around. >> things can get worse before they get better.

>> msnbc contributor advised vice president joe biden on economic policy. now he's a senior fellow at the center on budget and policy priority. great to see you. >> thank you, contessa. nice to be here. >> we're watching for this fed meeting at 2:15 eastern time. what tools does the fed have left to help turn this economy around? >> qe 2.1. qe stands for quantitative easing. this is the main tool that the federal reserve has right now because the interest rate that they control, their other main tool is bumping around zero, you can't bring that down any further. quantitate v easing a couple of fancy words that basically mean inject more liquidity, more cash, basically into markets in the hopes of bringing down interest rates. in this case we're talking about interest rates for longer term bonds, the long end of the yield curve as we say. and the idea is that if interest rates are lower, investors who are kind of at the margins

trying to decide what to do, might take the plunge. >> and the president is getting a lot of the blame for what's happening on wall street right now. and the gdp. there are even columnists tieing the 400-point slide yesterday after his speech to his what they call rather lackluster words of comfort on the economy. but really can the president make a move without congress. at this point, should he call them back into session? >> i think he should by the way, i think the criticism of him is pretty much nonsense. anytime anyone tells you here's why an intraday trading occurred, you should walk the other way. i think the president did a pretty good job with what he had. he's got to really get the following message across, which i think he did a pretty good job of yesterday. the president should be saying as he did, i've got some deficit redestruction credibility behind me now and therefore what i've got to turn to is the real economy. forget markets, debt ceiling,

budget deficits, baselines, credit ratings, forget all about that. and talk to people about what matters most to them and that's the real economy and jobs. now will congress block him especially house republicans on these initiatives? very likely they will. but does that mean he sits on his hands? no. he's got to get out and explain to america as you said, people are looking for a plan. the president's the guy to bring it to him. >> there was a plan before he had a debt reduction committee that came forward. their plan a lot of experts said this is a great plan. let's go with this. and yet we didn't. what can the u.s. government do at this point, especially considering a lot of the volatility that we're seeing on wall street right now is because of what's happening globally not necessarily domestically. at this point what can government do to try and calm the markets? >> let me be more specific, when i say plan, i am not talking

about a debt redestruction plan. i'm specifically not talking about addressing that issue, which i believe this joint committee and this budget control act that the president just signed addresses. does it get you far enough as far as s&p and others are concerned? perhaps not. but what i think the markets as well as american families are looking for right now is a plan on jobs. on pay checks, on their living standards on the economy. there are numerous things a president could and is talking about. i think more of that is what's needed. >> jared, it's so good to see you. thank you. i appreciate your time today. >> my pleasure. >> that big question of mine, can the u.s. government truly solve these economic problems considering all the other factors? you can get to me on facebook, my twitter email. a heart wrenching day for the families of 30 american service members who were killed in afghanistan over the weekend.

the remains of their loved ones have just arrived at dover air force base in delaware. tom costello is there. he joins me now live. what a tragic day for these families, tom. >> reporter: it is tragic. it's tragic not only for the families, but also for the people here at dover air force base who have a very difficult job ahead of them. they've got to take those 30 individuals and also eight afghan special forces troops who were with those 30. 389 men in total. they have got to take the 38 men and try to identify the remains of each individual man so that they can then give those remains to family members and loved ones across the country. they are the remains of these 30 men, 38 men arrived on two c-17s here at dover air force base in the 10:00 hour east coast time. we are expecting this dignified transfer, procedure or ceremony or what have you this afternoon in the 2:00 hour. that's going to be a private

affair. no media is allowed. we are expecting the chairman of the joint chiefs will be here as well as the secretary of defense lien panetta. and perhaps some family members who want to be here for this occasion. and this would all be a very private affair because while the media have been allowed on occasion to attend these dignified procedures or ceremonies, in this event because all of these men died together in a horrific crash, and they have not yet identified and separated out the remains for each individual man, they felt it was only appropriate that family members should have the ability to say yes or no to whether their individuals remains are going to be allowed to videotaped or photographed by the media. so because they felt like nobody could give that permission yet, they decided that it was best to keep this private. no complaint on this side of the fence, i will tell you as we honor these men and the sacrifice that they have given this country.

again, 38 men in total have arrived here at dover air force base and this ceremony occurs later this afternoon. contessa, back to you. >> tom, thank you. british prime minister david cameron has called up to 10,000 more police officers to deal with the escalating violence engulfing britain. the violence and looting have spread beyond london's borders. this began as the response to the police killing of a young father last week. now it's morphed into widespread thuggery. >> these are sickening scenes. scenes of people looting, vandalizing, thieving, robbing. scenes of people attacking police officers and even attacking fire crews as they're trying to put out fires. this is criminality, pure and simple. >> we have the latest now from london. are things calm in daylight hours? >> reporter: well, yes and no.

there was tension this morning. firefighters were out in these pockets still putting out the fires from last night. crowds of people have gathered. within the crowds there is some tension there. some people are look for fights. some people are drunk looking for people to argue with. so the feeling is there. as far outright rioting that tends to have stopped late at night. once it gets dark they tend to set huge fires. there's a lot of trouble. police calmed things down from what we saw yesterday it flared up again in the afternoon. that's what everybody's worried about right now. there's been a buzz on social media yet again. naming times in some cases. naming locations. police are trying to get to those areas to be proactive. sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. nobody really knows at this point what to expect. that's the real bad feeling that seems to be across london tonight. we just got word that there is some trouble breaking out around

birmingham, which is far away from london, another city altogether. people are worried it's going to happen here, too. >> i was on youtube today. almost all of the most viewed news videos right now have to do with the london riots. a lot of them are home videos where people are pointing out look at all these looters and no police to be found. do people on the street feel like there's enough force reacting to the riots? >> reporter: no. no. i mean people -- we see them being interviewed crying and saying they thought that they might die because some were trapped in their homes when fires were being set around them. some had their homes burned to the ground. other people saw fires happening and violence happening, called police repeatedly, called firefighters and the police and firefighters were either overtaxed or couldn't get there in time because it was too vie leapt and dangerous for them. we know that certain crews of firefighters were attacked. so the police are ready to admit they have not been able to get

control over this. supposedly tonight prime minister announced that's all going to change. we asked, is it going to change tonight? is it going to stop tonight? with 16,000 police on the streets, supposedly that's a lot more than were ready for the royal wedding. can you imagine if this was going on during that period of time? police are also supposedly going to use more severe tactics tonight which they haven't yet, plastic bullets, armed vehicles -- >> right. >> reporter: we haven't seen any of that preparation yet everybody's hoping that they'll put this down tonight without too much violence against the citizenry or in return which is how it's pretty much gone up until now for three nights this would be the fourth. >> michelle, stay safe out there. thank you for giving us the update. tnchs manhunt is on for a family on the run. what the sibling fugitives dubbed the dougherty gang are

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in. folks prick up the phone. they're calling in with information. not just about the vehicle, but about possible sightings. unfortunately at this point nothing has panned out. but the fbi has released their digital billboard campaign which has been extremely successful in the past. hopefully that will spark someone's mind and someone's interest in that they will pick up the phone and call. >> do these brothers and sister do they have a criminal background? >> they do have a criminal background. one of them actually was just placed on probation. just 24 hours before all this took place on august 2nd for ten years for a crime against a child. so that's sort of -- that may have been what sparked this outrage of them going on the run. they also i did confirm with the sheriff's office just within the last hour they do have another sibling who is alive. that sibling is not involved in this and they had another

sibling that died. right now at this point just the three of them on the run wanted for attempted murder of that deputy. also bank robbery, grand theft along with some other things as well. >> what's their mom saying about this, the shooting, the big police chase that we saw from dash cam video and now them hiding on the lam where people don't know where they are? >> mom says that she received a text message. she spoke out about that. something to the effect of i don't have it in front of me, we all have our time to die. so that combined with a lot of other people sort of just wanting them just to turn themselves in. they don't want this to turn up -- obviously they've shot at one person, allegedly. one deputy 20 times. at least 20 casings were found. one person i spoke with from the sheriff's office earlier said that's just a minimum. there could be more than that. you have to remember when they went into that bank in georgia,

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cuba. she had to cut the swim short about halfway through because of wind and strong currents. sad. all right. let's take a live look right now at the markets. we're less than halfway through the trading day now. as you can see we're operating in positive territory. again, above the 11,000 mark. the dow jones up more than 200 points. the s&p is up almost 30. and the nasdaq is up on the day 83 points. in washington, the federal reserve is meeting this afternoon, but congress, well, it's on its summer break. cnbc chief washington correspondent john harwood joins me live. let's talk about what's happening globally. it's moving the markets and we're talking about what the government can do, what the president can do, what congress can do to tackle these economic issues. is it fair? >> sure it's fair. over the weekend tim geithner, the treasury secretary when i sat down with him said he thought there was still room for

government and central bans to act. today is the day to hear from the central bank, the federal reserve. i think they've had through quantitative easing at least as powerful if not more powerful an impact on the economy since barack obama took office than anything the president did. so that's one source of potential action. secondly, i think the white house is breathing a big sigh of relief that the markets are back up today. that calms everybody down a little bit. and i think they're sifting through all of their options. whether it comes to calling congress back, although i think that's quite unlikely. democrats think it's counterproductive. but coming up with new plans to stimulate the economy and confronting the congress. >> jared bernstein for his part came on and told me that he thought the president should call congress back into session. here's congressman charmly rangel of new york. >> even if we didn't do something the president should call us back.

we've got to work to get jobs for the people and training for those people. people want to believe. we have given them no reason to believe that's the reason why our credit went down. >> is there any reason to believe that even if congress came back early from this august recess that they could do real work? that they could get to some compromise or agreement on a jobs bill? >> no. and that's why i think the white house ultimately won't do it. i've been talking to other democrats today who say it would be counterproductive. what are they going to call us back to do? republicans are going to block most of the things that republicans want. as one aide told me, better to let the president command the stage by himself blame the republicans for going on vacation rather than call them back and look weak. i do think that one thing jared bernstein told you reflects a sentiment among democrats time to fight with congress. if they're going to block you anyway, might as well go at them

hard and take advantage of that 82% disapproval of congress. republicans may be overestimating their political strength right now that's what democrats think. >> thank you for staying on top of it. decision day in wisconsin. the polls are open in a recall election that might be a sign of what's to come nationwide in 2012. remember all those protests, the anger, the outrage over wisconsin republicans' plan to curb union rights? that's six months ago. today there are six republican state senators on the ballot in a recall election. and this has the potential to swing the balance of power back to democrats. by the way, three democrats are also up in recall elections as well. joining me state senator luther olsen, a republican who's on the ballot on this recall election day. senator, good to see you. >> good to be with you, contessa. >> do you think people are voting today based on these collective bargaining rights for government workers, or has this really morphed into labor versus

tea party divide? >> well, i think the democrats and the union folks are voting the union part. the other folks the republicans i believe are voting to support us in what we did to balance the budget without raising taxes, our job growth agenda and things like that. i think it's two different reasons folks are going to the polls. >> you haven't had a democratic challenger in all of the 16 years i understand that you have served. yesterday, i talk odd the democrat who's the first to challenge you and here's what he said. >> wisconsin has -- in the midst of a historic set of events. unfortunately this year too many of our representatives have simply been a rubber stamp for -- handed down by our govern and majority leader. >> representative fred clark obviously thinks in a republican district like yours that he can make some headway that he stands

a chance. were you prepared for the vocal backlash against the governor scott walker and the wisconsin republicans on this collective bargaining issue? >> well, you know, there was a lot of noise. we're going to find out tonight if that was a majority or just a lot of noise from a few folk. it's interesting when we had all the demonstrations in the capital how many out of state folks were there. now, sure, honestly it's a big issue and we're going to see if the majority supports us or not. if they're going to support us for making tough decisions or going to say, well, we said we wanted to go to the ballot box, but we're not so sure. >> speak of outsiders coming in to support the effort, you've been criticized by state democrats for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from the yuber conservative rich political action guys, the koch

brothers. there's some criticism about having a tea party bus come in to support your efforts. do you find that a valid criticism? >> well, i mean, i don't think the koch brothers gave me one cent, but i'm not sure. i'm pretty positive they didn't. and the tea party guys were going all over the state. no different than, you know, you look at my district and you find out of state license plates on cars from union folks from missouri, arkansas, kentucky, all over the place. so this is a national issue. this was started by out of state big union moneys that said they're going to recall us. that's what's happening. we're just responding. >> all right, well, i know that turn out today could be a big factor in who survives the recall elections and who doesn't. senator, thank you so much for spending a few minutes with us today. >> thank you. it's been my pleasure. ed schultz will host "the ed show" live from madison,

wisconsin, tonight at 10:00 eastern right here on msnbc. you ever see those bumper stickers that say my child is an honor student? those parents are taking pride, even a little bit of credit for their kids good grades. there's an increased push for parents to take blame when their kids skip school or flunk out. why shouldn't it be the vote? maybe you should have a sport a bumper sticker when your kid is failing. >> some of this comes from teachers, right, who are tired and angry about taking the blame. everyone says our schools are a mess, our teachers are to blame. lawmakers are listening. check this out, there's some laws in alaska parents can be fined if their kids are truant. in california parents can get misdemeanor charges if their kids continue to cut class. there's forced parenting classing for parents of gang members who understand attendance isn't so great so

far. and then there's proposals in indiana a propaez ol to force parents to volunteer three hours per semester at their kids' school. in florida parents would get report cards for how involved or not involved they are in their kids lives. >> it's so funny with matters of education. there's a lot of matters about accepted conventional wisdom if you spend more money, it makes for better classrooms and better grade results. or if you have smaller class size. maybe they're finding those things don't matter as much as we thought they did. what matters and what is consistent is how involved parents are in their kids' education. >> that is what's behind this. there is no question. even in ie village when we ask, in the middle ground parents say they have to be involved. the question becomes on one side should we be legislating. people are saying ridiculous. how are you going to enforce the

laws. others say parents should be held accountable. it's the only way our kids are going to succeed. >> one more thing here, lots of parents of teenagers right now who are probably wringing their hands in frustration, if you ever tried to manage what your teenager does it's an impossible challenge. what about the parents that are working three jobs and don't have time to supervisor because they're trying to keep a roof over their families' heads. >> what about their kids who are doing their kids' work for them because they want them to get the a and the other parents who refuse to do that they want the kids to see they have to do it for themselves. no one's going to be in their jobs or lives doing work for them. how do use legislate that? who gets the report card in that case? >> it's a curvy road the path to educational success. thank you. be sure to join msnbc this sunday at noon for a special two-hour program "a stronger america making the grade" live from detroit. it will be hosted by tamron hall

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dover today. all this debt and downgrade talk has left americans in a fairly foul mood. just 24% of people in a recent poll say members of congress deserve a return trip to capitol hill. and according to the "usa today" gallup poll fewer than half backed president obama's re-election bid. crystal wall also ran for congress and joe watkins is a former aide to both presidents bush. we could see a repeat of 2010, crystal, when the theme was kick the bums out. >> well, the thing to look at is what makes a wave election in a presidential year is very different from what makes a wave election in a midterm year. in the midterm congressional approval ratings really mart in. 2012 it's going to be about what happens at the top. it's a bit like if you were trying to predict in a movie was a blockbuster by looking at extras.

you want to look at the top of the ticket. president obama still looks like he's in good shape for the general election. >> we have no clue who the republican nominee might be. >> that's true. >> the poll numbers romney 24%, ron paul 14%. michele bachmann 13%. this is anybody's field at this point. >> people are looking at republicans because they don't dislike president obama. they like him, i think. what they don't like is the fact that they're not working. 58.1% of americans are working right now. that's the lowest number in 28 years. real unemployment is closer to 16.1% because if you factor in the eight million people that are working part time that's a lot of folks that aren't fully employed. they are angry. the voting populous is angry. >> can you lay that all at president obama's feet or does congress bear the lion's share of the blame. >> the buck stops at the president's desk. they think the president is a good man. but they want to work.

>> the question is for you not where the buck stops in your opinion, where do the american people think the buck stops. right now they believe that a lot of our economic woes are due to the bush administration. the president's i approval rating has ticked up a bit. >> but that doesn't do anything. the fact that people think that maybe the bush administration was responsible for some of the woes of the current administration is not a defense. >> people need to trust the economy again. >> the political outlook for president obama looks rather gloomy. it's true that in a a matchup with an unnamed republican candidate he still beats that unnamed candidate. but the numbers are so close. sthast a statistical tie. >> almost anybody can win. >> president bm has had some rough patches. his approval ratings have slipped as low as 41%. interesting that all time low is higher than the all time low for

any president since j.f.k. >> we haven't re-elected a president with higher than 7% unemployment. right now we dipped to 9.1%. >> reagan was re-elected in a landslide when unemployment was just below that. >> i think this is a rising number that you have almost 25% of the people that says let's re-elect congress in. this case how much of the blame will congress get versus the president? >> individual members of congress are going to pay in the fall of 2012. there's no doubt about it. people tend to like their local congressperson. some members are in really safe districts. with the voting populous this angry, some members are going to pay. >> joe, crystal, appreciate you being here. side bar now, today all the rage. al gore is arguably the world's number one climate advocate. that's been the case ever since "an inconvenient truth" won an oscar. >> the scientific consensus is that we are causing global warming. >> the former vice president can get pretty worked up over

attempts by climate deniers to convince everyone else there's no such thing as global warming. in fact, here's gore during an event hosted by the aspen institute. >> they pay pseudo scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message, this climate thing it's nonsense. manmade co 2 doesn't trap heat. it may be volcanoes. [ bleep ]. it may be sunspots [ bleep ]. it's not getting warmer [ bleep ]. >> tell us what you really think. arizona senator john mccain is known for his feisty demeanor, also known as mavericky. the maverick got an earful from some angry tea party conservatives last week. >> we need to raise taxes on the -- >> one woman demanded an poll from mccain after he called members of the tea party hobbits during the debt ceiling debate on the senate floor. okay. here are the pictures of

hobbits. you can see why somebody might get their feelings hurt. mccain said the hobbit quote came from "the wall street journal" article. he apologized if he misunderstood what it really meant. but he refused to apologize for telling debt ceiling deniners they're in a fantasy lands. michele bachmann's all the rage among conservative republicans, but it's not exactly what the editors of "newsweek" meant when they put her on the cover of this week's issue with the headline the queen of rage. in a statement the editor said michele bachmann's intensity is galvanizing voters in iowa right now and "newsweek's" cover captures that that. >> have you seen it yet? >> i have not. >> it's a close up with a wild eyed photo with the headline queen of rage. >> we'll have to take a look at that, won't we? >> are the media letting us hear your voice and what really is the power behind your campaign, is it rage? >> well, i think the power behind our campaign is hope.

and a future that's all i believe in. i told you that i'm an iowan and i was born here. >> she doesn't sound like the queen of rage. kept her cool here. some of her supporters are livid. they say that picture makes their heroine look crazy. even some bachmann opposers called it inappropriately. bachmann's campaign said she's not interested in getting too a conversation about "newsweek." we'll be right back. ♪ that "old flame" you should have called. ♪ that leap of faith you never took. but there's one opportunity that's too good to miss. the lexus golden opportunity sales event, with exceptional values on the lexus is. but only until september 6th. see your lexus dealer. toi switched to a complete0,. multivitamin with more.

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texas governor rick perry is reportedly days away from announcing his 2012 intentions. the burning question will he or won't he? wayne slater is a senior political writer at "the dallas morning news." good too see you today. >> great to be with you. >> will he? is he running for sure? >> yeah, unless there's something extraordinary happening. his intention is to make it very

clear on saturday that he's in this rasz. he's going to be speaking to a group of conservative bloggers in south carolina. the second primary state, then he's going to head to new hampshire, the first primary state. sthast the same day that iowa holds the straw poll. so the sunday newspapers will be about the republican straw poll in iowa on a day that rick perry made it clear he's in the race. that's the plan. >> why is he choosing to be in new hampshire and south carolina on that day rather than iowa? if it's about headlines and all of that, wouldn't he make more headlines by being in the thick of it with the rest of his opponents? >> you're right. he would have. but this is a late starting campaign. two months ago rick perry had no intention of getting into this race. you don't just show up at the iowa straw poll on the day before the iowa straw poll. this is a test of organizational strength. you get a place and a tent ant you woo your potential voters.

rick perry got in too late to make the impact he wants to make. he doesn't want to look like he's competing there at the same time he'll be showing himself somewhere elsewhere the news coverage will have plenty of rick perry. >> i understand that other people have organized a campaign for the straw poll. does he have a campaign organization that's ready to go? >> he does. it's been thrown together quickly here in austin. he's been meeting for several weeks with big dollar potential donors here in austin. put together sort of a network of financial contributors. he's been making phone calls to religious conservatives and republican grassroots organizers in iowa and south carolina in new hampshire. his chief political guru the karl rove of the rick perry campaign is a guy named dave carney a smart political operative from new hampshire. he's got an organization ready to go. >> wayne, good to talk to you.

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