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we'll be talking to him later. good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. volatility is the name of the game on wall street. a fourth straight day of wild swings. good news on the u.s. jobs front has temporarily trumped fears that the european debt crisis is spreading to france. john harwood is cnbc's chief washington correspondent and joins me now. john, we have been seeing these turns, ups and downs but basically right now, slightly better than expected weekly jobs report, and at least a meeting in europe next week of the key leaders. so that is slightly calming things down. what about the political impact here, though? >> pretty clear that nobody knows exactly where this economy is going and when. i think you can expect that both the president, republican leaders in the congress as well, are watching these moments in the market, the movements in the market, hour to hour, and that's affecting their calculations

about what to do next. at the moment, the fact that the market's turned up is a calming thing for the white house in particular, because the president takes the position like a quarterback on a football team, whenever anything goes wrong, the fingers get pointed at him. i think that makes them feel there's a little breathing room, diminishes some of the calls for calling congress back right now when you don't have that same level of crisis atmosphere. >> speaking of congress, nancy pelosi has now joined in so now we know all 12 members of that super committee that's going to be meeting on the budget with a very short timeline, ten weeks to come up with more than $1 trillion. her picks are jim clyburn, javier becerra and chris van hollen. now we know who will be on the house side and who will be on the senate side. how would you assess this group and its ability to get something done? >> i think these members are all political veterans, professional politicians who have the ability

to do what circumstances are going to warrant. i actually don't think, andrea, the individual identity of these members is important as the broader political atmosphere. leadership in our system now ultimately makes most of these calls, i would expect that to be true on the super committee, whether you have the pragmatist arm like camp and upton or the hardliners, hensarling, toomey on the senate side. so i do think one big relates volatility we were talking about, the administration is looking at ways to spur economic growth. that is a separate discussion from what to do about deficit reduction medium and long-term. one of the questions facing the white house, are those separate packages or do you roll them all together and try to load all of that on to the super committee? we'll see what they decide on that score. >> in fact, given what's happening in the economy, there may be less pressure to actually meet those targets and do at least near term deficit reduction because many would

argue that's the last thing people need, other than long-term credibility that it's going to happen at some point in the future. >> or you could do near-term stimulus and then double up on the amount of savings at the special committee. >> all decisions that have to be taken in the white house and at treasury in coming days. thanks so much, john harwood, from capitol hill. now joining me from wall street is jim cramer, "mad money" from cnbc. let's dig deeper into what's happening on wall street today. obviously, a slightly better than expected weekly jobs number, but still, we've got a lot of turmoil to come. we have not bottomed out, have we? or have we? >> no, i don't want to say we bottomed because our problems are two-fold. one, do we have an imminent recession because of all the different problems in washington. i'm not going to say the problems are on wall street. i'm not going to say the problems are with companies. it is washington, and the second thing is the central bank of europe, are they in real crisis

and are their banks in france and italy about to fold. these are the concerns and the actual gyrations in the stock market have very little to do with what's really happening when they're up or when they're down. unless we get resolution and know what's going on. >> one of the things we will be talking about throughout the show is the "washington post" poll which showed huge majorities of people do not have any confidence in the political system and nearly three-quarters don't have confidence in our leaders, democrats and republicans, to fix the economic troubles. there does seem to be a spreading sense that this thing is bigger and more complicated and more troubling than our leaders have been able to grasp. >> completely. i'm glad you put it that way. "new york times" this morning has a lead story in the upper right-hand corner saying is this 2008, that being the time we began the great recession. this is uniquely weighing on washington in that i think a lot of people who own stocks would say where's the president, why don't they reconvene congress,

what's going on. the vacuum in leadership is cited over and over again by ceos and it's clearly, this is a problem of confidence. the "washington post" is dead right. you can't look at individual stock prices, we could be up 500 today, down 500, but ultimately, this is all because of people who are betting against the market, betting with it, but the direction is down, not up. its direction is down because of no confidence in washington. >> let's just recap what we have lost in the last couple weeks of this down market. just give me the big numbers. >> well, $8 trillion, one number that's floated around, where we are right now, obviously it changes minute to minute. if we don't get something coming from next week, from the foreign ministers, from the big finance ministers in germany and italy, we'll revisit exactly the levels we had earlier this week. andrea, the situation has to do with a lot of, in this country,

belief that what happened with that debt ceiling has made it so we're just so dysfunctional that consumers aren't spending. we are literally seeing consumers cut back. lots of corporations are cutting back. just because they feel that things are so awry, so out of control, that they don't want to spend money. >> that's why we turn to you. thank you so very much. don't miss "mad money" with jim cramer weekdays on cnbc. republican candidates are trying to build momentum before saturday's big straw poll in iowa but some of the oxygen is being taken up by a pair of potential candidates, or at least one who is almost in the race, one we don't think is going to get in. rick perry and sarah palin, both crashing the party. chuck todd is nbc news political director and host of "the rundown." chuck, it's just too much drama. rick perry and sarah palin showing up, perry obviously

coming out this weekend but palin, what do you think her game is? >> reporter: well, with palin, you know, there's a gathering, 700 credentialed media going to ames, the whole political world on the republican side of the aisle is here, and you know, dipping her toe in the water. she's done this before. she's going to do it again. we knew she was coming here over labor day weekend and instead, she seemed to move that up. but the real -- what you are noticing is the impact already of rick perry. so for instance, michele bachmann suddenly decided to go to the same event that rick perry is going to be in in waterloo, iowa sunday night. you see mitt romney starting to engage a little bit. today i was just at the state fair, he was on the des moines register soap box, they actually stand on soap boxes, and he was having to deal with hecklers. it was clearly an ambush, a planned protest from democratic side of the aisle of some opponents of his, but he was having to engage and defend

himself on taxes, and he was getting into the back and forth a little bit so you're already realizing he can't be the aloof guy on the outside watching the michele bachmanns and tim pawlentys fight it out in iowa because rick perry is big-time as he gets in here. he'll have to start engaging. >> let's play a little bit of that tape. we've got some of the footage of mitt romney on the soap box being heckled. as we point out, these were two democratic hecklers yelling at him. >> you get to ask your question, i get to give my answer. you don't like my answer, you vote for someone else. barack obama is killing this economy. barack obama is why 25 million people don't have jobs and can't find jobs. >> wall street greed. wall street greed. >> okay. next question. yes, sir. >> well, the iowa state fair and mitt romney giving as good as he got.

>> reporter: he is. in fact, the irony, the next question when he moved over there, he thought he was going to find relief. the next question was about this story that has to do with him using the tax increases and loopholes that he got rid of when he was governor of massachusetts and asking him to differentiate between loopholes and raising taxes, and he tried to walk that line a little bit. he gave, you could hear his answer a little bit, he seemed to give a defense saying look, loopholes are when somebody is taking advantage of something in the tax code that wasn't intended to be and if there are those things in there, i want to close them, and then he says but i'm not going to raise taxes. the question is, does that pass muster with the grover norquist. just hearing him today, the entire theme of it, even the question about social security was about would you raise the payroll tax, would you raise it higher so the rich have to pay more in this, and this issue of taxes on the republican side and then eventually if he is the

nominee, and with president obama, you see he is struggling to walk the line here. it will be a tough issue for him to defend. i'm getting the wrap. i did come to the state fair. i brought goodies. this is cajun fried cheese. cajun fried cheese. then of course, that's lunch. then for dessert, it's really heavy, the fried snickers. >> i'm worried about your cholesterol. >> it's smart that you're coming out. you better come over and eat some fried food. >> well, you're there, we will see you there tomorrow and thanks so much, chuck todd. watch that diet. what is behind tim pawlenty's iowa battle game? we haven't heard much about him so far. why is that? joe musser will join us from des moines. is michele bachmann being forced to choose? we have a profile. join us tomorrow when the show goes on the road, joining chuck

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tim pawlenty may have the most to lose in tonight's debate. he has been campaigning in iowa for months but is still struggling to pack a room. meanwhile, the other presidential candidate from minnesota, michele bachmann, is getting crowds. phil musser is senior advisor to the pawlenty campaign and joins us now. good to see you. is this make or break for tim pawlenty? we will see you guys tomorrow morning. is this really the moment of truth for your campaign? >> well, we're really excited to see you out here.

chuck was trying to entice you with fried food before this segment but look, we feel really good about this. this is an important moment. this is planned to be an important moment for our campaign for a long time. the governor has really enjoyed engaging with iowans all over the state. he has been traveling around on an rv, meeting a lot of people and communicating about his record and results. it's been resonating. when people meet tim pawlenty, they understand this is a guy with his heart and his head connected. he's got smart ideas for the country. he's got a plan. we're excited about both the debate tonight and also about the straw poll on saturday. be a great chance for him to see a lot of the people he's met along the trail. >> what do you make of all this energy and excitement surrounding so far michele bachmann? >> well, michele bachmann is, you know, got a lot of energy and i think has done a good job of getting around the state, but as it relates to tim pawlenty, we think we've got a record of

results that really compares favorably to what she's offering. michele bachmann, you know, has had a meteoric rise. whether she's able to translate that support i think is an open question. but we're focused on our campaign, not on hers. as it relates to this straw poll, you know, we've got ron paul who as far as we can assess has got a professional army of people aimed at winning straw polls working on his behalf and michele bachmann has seen a surge of support. we are focused on meeting people and as people meet tim pawlenty and hear about his record, they like him. we're excited about where we sit. >> where do you have to place? do you have to place third or fourth in order to stay in the race and not risk all your money drying up? >> look, this is an important moment for us, obviously we need to show progress and i think there are a lot of different scenarios that can unfold. i'm not going to engage in kind of prehandicapping the result before the votes are being cast and counted. frankly, there are a lot of people who are still engaging,

being talked to as we speak here now, who are thinking about their straw poll plans and their fair plans for the weekend. we're focused on going out and carrying our message to a lot of people, and we're excited about where we sit. we feel we will show good progress and that our message will connect and resonate. that's the mission for us in the short term. that's what we're focused on. >> what's the strategy, there is a debate, mitt romney will be there and the other candidates, what's the strategy now? when tim pawlenty said he's going to use the hammer, bring the hammer down, does that mean he will go after his fellow republicans tonight? >> look, i think the governor first and foremost is going to talk about his plan for the country and talk about the ideas and leadership and record of results that he would bring to the country, so he's going to be focused on that. obviously this is an important time to be able to offer definition with different candidates and talk about why you're the best candidate to lead the free world. look for the governor to make that case, articulate it clearly. i know he's really excited about the opportunity to be on stage.

i just came back down from ames a little while ago. we're looking forward for the chance to speak to a lot of republican voters in iowa and nationally about a lot of the good things that he's done. we're excited and looking forward to tonight. >> are you looking forward to rick perry being in the race? what's the impact of that? >> he's a friend, governor pawlenty and governor perry are good buddies. obviously he's getting ready to get into this race. what i would offer is iowans out here take this process seriously. so if governor perry decides to run for president, he'll have to go through a lot of the same things a lot of these other candidates are doing. that's a thorough and vigorous process. that's what i think tim pawlenty has enjoyed so much is the opportunity to meet and look in the faces of a lot of real hard-working american people, understand their situations in their lives and help offer positive ideas and solutions. tim pawlenty governed as a conservative in a blue state

successfully for two terms. governor perry has got some good things in his record, too. he had a little easier run with the republican legislature. if he gets in, he'll have to answer all the same questions we have been going through for awhile on our end as well. >> i'll see you tonight. thanks so much. it is not all fried cheese on a stick in iowa as mitt romney found out moments ago. we were there when a crowd got rowdy.

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caucus goers. tell us what you saw. >> no, you had a little bit of both. the first couple rows of folks got here early and you definitely saw a couple people in matching shirts. the guy who was the main person shouting wasn't one of them. we got here early and that gentleman said he was a democratic voter, but was there to kind of get his chance to pose his question to governor romney. in the crowds behind the cameras, you did have more of a sympathetic crowd. you got into a little bit of that shouting match back and forth between some of the democratic protesters saying scrap the cap and romney, pro-romney folks shouting his name in the back. >> out there with mitt romney at the state fair today, thank you so much for that update. in 2004, of course, governor mitt romney successfully lobbied standard & poor's to raise the state's credit rating. this has been known, it's a point he brings up on the campaign trail. >> washington has put us on a road which has led to a downgrade, the first in america's history. i will endeavor to do what we

did in massachusetts, which is to receive a credit upgrade as opposed to credit downgrade. >> but politico has dug deeper, after a freedom of information act request, politico has learned that romney made the case that the state was more credit-worthy partly because he had raised taxes. the "t" word, during an economic down turn. politico's chief white house reporter joins us from des moines. this is really sort of -- could set off a brush fire among fellow republicans. take me through it. >> well, politico's ben smith put in a freedom of information request for this 2004 report and in then governor romney's power point, he gave to standard & poor to successfully save that credit rating, he pointed to a balanced approach. that's what president obama's buzzword has been for the idea of having some new revenues as

part of his equation. the romney campaign says the then governor didn't push to raise taxes, but what we learned from this is that governing is harder than it looks. it's harder to be in washington trying to come up with some sort of grand bargain as opposed to being on hay bales in des moines as we saw mitt romney today. as we saw in those clips, mitt romney really ate his wheaties before this appearance, not only mixing it up a little with some of the people in the front row but also trying out some of his new lines, including saying that we need to send citizens to washington, not just politicians and a hard shot at the president, he said if you want to create jobs, it helps to have had one. >> mike, it's really interesting. i should quickly point out that a representative of the romney campaign says loophole closings are not tax increases. the state closed a loophole. that's called tax enforcement.

that might not meet the grover norquist test but we'll wait and see how that evolves as the candidates debate. see you tomorrow morning on the politico breakfast with tim pawlenty and on our show right there. thanks so much,mike allen. >> safe travels. fried butter on a stick is the new thing. >> that's great for your heart, too. the doctor will be right around the corner. new poll numbers now about the blame game going on in washington. they're not pretty. the "washington post" eugene robinson with us next. [ male announcer ] where'd you get that idea?

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>> on dealing with crowds, we are looking also at the use of existing dispersal powers and with any wider power of curfew is necessary. mr. speaker, whenever the police face a new threat, we must have the freedom of the confidence to change tactics as necessary. they must have the political backing and support to do so. >> now the work begins of rounding up even more of those suspected in the violence. nbc's martin fletcher is in london with more details. >> reporter: well, the rioting is pretty much over. now is the time of reckoning. police operating all over the capital, arresting suspects identified as looting, stealing, setting fires, attacking police and other crimes, and prime minister david cameron said the police will find and punish the guilty. he also said he will ask america for help, that britain can benefit from america's experience fighting gangs. 1200 people arrested so far, half of them under 18. security camera pictures are being circulated with the public

being asked to identify hooligans. that's pretty much old school technology these days, though. they're also using new facial recognition technology that's being developed for the olympics next year. it feeds suspects' faces to an updated face matching program. the prime minister had harsh words for the police. he said when the rioting broke out, there were too few police on the streets and the tactics were wrong. he said they're facing a new and unique challenge so now police may get new powers. they could be able to take masks off masked men who are trying to hide their identity and there could be a clamp-down on social media and the use of blackberrys. many of the movements of the rioters were coordinated by blackberry messenger. in a moving moment today, the father of a boy killed yesterday by a hit and run driver again appealed for calm. he called on parents, saying if you value your children, keep them at home. andrea? >> martin fletcher, thanks. michele bachmann has been electric in iowa, drawing big crowds as she crisscrosses the

state ahead of this weekend's straw poll. but can she attract a broad enough appeal within her own party outside of iowa while staying true to her staunchly religious conservative background? that's a key question. according to a new profile of bachmann in this week's "new yorker." we are joined by the author of that report. ryan, fascinating details that you found in all of your reporting, in your interviews with michele bachmann, because there have been religious candidates before but she seems to have a fiercely religious view. is she trying to soften that now that she eventually, were she to become competitive, wants to appeal to more mainstream voters? >> yeah, you're right. we've had pat robertson in 1988 do very well in iowa. we have had candidates with this sort of ideological makeup that bachmann has. so she is trying to broaden her appeal, right. ever since she got to washington in 2007, she has taken more of an interest in some of the economic issues. she was one of the leading republicans to rail against

t.a.r.p. in 2008. in sort of quiet forays into iowa this year, she spoke at churches and talked about her religious background, and you know, she essentially started organizing the evangelical community in iowa which is important in the caucuses. now she is making a transition. she wants to talk about economic issues, about spending, about the fiscal issues that have really generated the most passion in the republican party at this moment. >> evangelicals know where she is. she's got that base. >> she's got that base. rick perry may complicate that for her a little bit if he gets in the race, because he has just as much, he can talk about his background and we saw what he did in texas recently. so he can excite the evangelical community but yes, she is making a classic pivot that every candidate who reaches a certain level makes. people who are religious conservatives, social conservatives, who care about those issues, they know what bachmann is all about. they know what she did on gay marriage in minnesota and they like her for those reasons. she is making this transition.

>> one of the things that you pointed out in your profile is that she supported jimmy carter, partly i guess because he was a reborn christian and that appealed to her. she attended his inaugural. people might not know that. then of course, things change but the controversy also this week about a different cover story, which was the "newsweek" cover which didn't delve that much into her background but the cover many people thought was sexist, unfair. this was jon stewart, hardly a fan of michele bachmann, i suspect, but this is his take on it. >> you got to go pretty far out of your way to find a [ expletive ] photo of michele bachmann and you did. you used that photo in a petty attempt to make michele bachmann look crazy and that's what her words are for. >> in fact, you have plenty of evidence in the piece that she really is very, very conservative, more than just conservative, that she has some

views -- >> she's way far out there on the right wing of the party. i frankly am trying to think of four campaigns i've covered, she is the most extreme candidate to make it as far as she's made it. she's the front-runner iowa. that's a big deal. i would say the most startling finding i made in the course of reporting was that for several years on her website, she recommended a book by an author named steve wilkins. wilkins is a civil war revisionist historian and in the book, has some really inflammatory outrageous things to say about slavery, essentially defending slavery as an institution that was built on, in his words, mutual respect i believe is the phrase. this is a biography of robert lee that she recommended her constituents must read. at that point, they didn't respond to questions about that so she's yet to be asked why she recommended a book that is objectively pro-slavery. that will be an issue she has to

deal with in the coming days and weeks. >> it's a great piece. thank you so much. just hours after the ames straw poll results get in, michele bachmann will be david gregory's guest on a special edition of "meet the press" live from iowa. check your local listings for times. and a big vote of no confidence in the new "washington post" poll. huge majorities, in fact, most americans now are giving up hope that most government officials can come to the rescue. nearly 80% say that our political system simply is not working. joining me now to break it down, eugene robinson, pulitzer prize winning columnist with "washington post." so this poll was really startling in that so many people, not just wrong track, people really are giving up hope in government and its ability to fix not only the economy, but almost anything. this affects both democrats and republicans. it's not just an anti-white house or anti-obama or

anti-member of congress. it's really startlingly broad. >> it is. it's incredible. in fact, i'm writing about it in my column for tomorrow. 73% of respondents said they have little or no confidence in our leaders, our elected leaders, to solve our economic problems. that's just astounding. then again, given what's happened over the last few months, you've got to ask about that 26% that still does have confidence, what have they been paying attention to, what movie have they been watching. it's really been not a good performance. >> i think it really does bring to bear what's happened here in the last month or so, or month or longer. the debt ceiling crisis and the way people responded to it really seems to have taken its toll. >> it took a huge toll. it was juvenile and more to the point, it was not what people

really care about. in poll after poll after poll, this specific poll doesn't get into this, but poll after poll after poll, all year, americans have been saying we care about jobs, jobs are our number one issue. well, we just had this sort of melodrama about the debt ceiling, totally unnecessary, self-created. it wasn't an externally generated crisis, it was a crisis that was cooked up here in washington, and it was on a subject that's very important, that is obviously important, people do care about it, but it said nothing about the unemployment crisis that is wreaking havoc from coast to coast. >> one of the things that was so striking about this is the way the blame is spread evenly. 30% blaming obama and the democrats, 30% blaming the republicans, 32% blaming both. it seems to me the risk is here for all incumbents. >> absolutely.

we've seen what we thought were anti-incumbent elections and of course, there's an eve between now and the 2012 election so who knows what's going to happen. but if the election were tomorrow or next week, it would be an anti-incumbent election like nothing we have ever seen. as you said, this is equal opportunity blame by a slight margin, voters say they have somewhat more confidence in obama than they do in congressional republicans, in terms of their prescriptions for dealing with the economy, but obama just gets up to 33%, i think the congressional republicans to 18%. not good. >> gene robinson, this is a real warning sign. whether they will change direction and whether the white house takes it to heart and changes vacation schedules, that remains to be seen.

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coming up on "news nation" at 2:00 p.m., the president will speak from michigan. in the next hour, we're waiting to hear from the country's leader as the up and down roller coaster on wall street continues and the big question that also lingers, what will the administration do to create jobs? politico's barbara simon will join me live. plus, i'll talk with randy winegarden, president of the american federation of teachers about why there are three million jobs in this country left unfilled even though there are nearly 14 million americans out of work. "news nation" is just 15 minutes away.

now to the growing crisis in east africa. secretary of state hillary clinton today promised millions of dollars in additional aid to the famine-stricken horn of africa. >> on monday, president obama announced that in light of the current crisis, we are making available an additional $105 million in emergency funding. today, i'm announcing another $17 million on top of that, with $12 million designed specifically for helping the people of somalia. >> at least 1,000 malnourished children in the war-torn city of mogadishu are in critical condition. the famine has displaced nearly a quarter of the somali population and is only getting worse. with us, somalian born artist, poet, singer, k'naan, who is trying to prompt action in his homeland. thank you so much for joining us. you had a moment in minnesota i

think last month with bono where he took you, brought you onstage and gave you some real props for what you're doing. tell us what you can do as an artist for your people. i know you will be returning to the region next week. >> for me, i would prefer to just be making my music and not have to be responding to such a devastating situation but i am, you know, i am somali and i have a deep connection to my people and my roots and have an understanding of what is at stake, what is being lost. to a lot of americans, this is just images of what seems to be an intrinsic african problem, you know, kind of an inherited quality to african failure, but i don't think that that's the case. i think that we're losing a prideful, artistic, poetic, sophisticated people.

>> k'naan, this is a manmade crisis that has been years in the making. now we've had the problem of course of al shabab, the terror group, which was blocking food relief. they have apparently retreated from mogadishu. is there any success now in getting the supplies to the people who desperately need it? >> i think a part of why they left is to show the desperation of what is taking place. this is a place that has been fought for by all sorts of different military groups. this has been going on for 20 years. you've got to imagine it's like watching the london riots, you know, taking place every day for 20 years and without any central government and being neglected entirely by the global community. i don't know how the english would have behaved, how they would have turned out and i

think that that's what's happening. we have to look at this as a very human, very close to home situation because, you know, we can so easily dismiss it as a very far away, african problem. we're used to images of famine. but i think this is a very close to home, you know, neighbor for neighbor moment and the world needs to step up. >> what can you as an artist do to try to sound the alarms and make people realize that there is so much that can be done, that aid can get there and we have seen in our reporting from kate snow and richard engel and other correspondents there that in fact, some of the supplies, some of the world food program supplies, once they get there, can save lives. these children can be reclaimed. they come back from near death. >> yes, they do. i think that's part of the

problem is we use the cynicism of things being too dire for us to be inactive, for us not to move when needed. we, people are doing something, and we are doing something, and aid agencies are doing something and the somali people all over the diaspora have gotten together in a unified movement like never before and fielding their own people and sending the doctors home and doing everything they can to do what they k and right now all we need is to get for major governments to come in and hone in on this, you know, really, really devastating situation. and just find a solution to. this i mean, i you know, i make music and i have an audience, and bono has been a great friend and helpful companion throughout all of this, and what we are

doing so just trying to change the absence of media in this, because we haven't been seeing any reporting for the quality of the devastation, quality of the reporting is completely inadequate right now. >> well, thank you very much. bono called you a special spirit for your people, and we have to thank you and safe travels on the trip next week. >> thank you so much. thank you, andrea, for having me. >> thank you for being there. and what political story will be making headlines in the next 24 hours sek int. hts for 25,000 miles, but... [ man ] there's never any seats for 25,000 miles. frustrating, isn't it? but that won't happen with the capital one venture card. you can book any airline anytime. hey, i just said that. after all, isn't traveling hard enough? ow. [ male announcer ] to get the flights you want, sign up for a venture card at capitalone.com. what's in your wallet? uh, it's okay. i've played a pilot before. a network of possibilities.

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which political story will be making headlines in the next 24 hours? msnbc contributor and managing editor of postpolitics.com chris cillizza joins us. well, the fix is in and it is at java joes. hey, it is all about -- >> well shgs r, rwell, we are, >> it is the iowa fair and the debate and it is palin's arrival and all of the above. >> yeah, we might as well call it the next 72 hours, because we have a debate, the straw poll, a

and sarah palin in the state, and rick perry which is going to give his intentions to run by saturday and a lot of stuff going on in iowa. this is going to be an epicenter throughout the campaign, but certainly over the next 72 hours. in the next 24 hours, i will be spending my time waiting for andrea mitchell with this -- my fried twinky. >> oh, a fried twinkie and what else would you do with a twinkie other than fry it? >> i have cut ten years off of my life with that one bite. >> don't do that, don't do that -- we all need you. thank you, chris cillizza. that is going to do it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." and tomorrow, we are live in des moines not eating i hope, and among the guests are ann selzer and christy vilsack who is running for congress and debbie wassermann schultz, and charlie cook and my colleague chuck todd

as well. and no twinkies for you. >> no, maybe next hour. well, there are calls for president obama to push congress to return from break and deal with the turmoil on wall street and the economic crisis. i will talk to walter simon and sam stein, and both will join us. plus, why are there more than 3 million jobs right now unfilled in this country when we have 14 million americans out of work? help us to understand this. randy wine gardguarder is the president of the american teacher's federation, and she is here to help us understand that.

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everyone, i'm tamron hall, and the "newsnation" is following two developing stories in this hour. in little more than an hour, president obama will speak from a battery company in michigan about jobs and the economy and his plans to revive the economy. and in the meantime, it is the economy that put