once said barack obama is a good man. not words they want to hear. huntsman's upstaging by the likes of rick perry and michele bachmann may be a reflection on his coming into the race late. you can follow me if you can spell smerconish on twitter. that's "hardball" for now. thank you, chris, for allowing me to fill in. he'll be back on monday. "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" starts right now. the weather forced the president's helicopter to take a detour on the way to camp david tonight, and the forecast for the president next week is even bumpier. >> president obama moved his big jobs speech from wednesday to thursday night. obama gave in when he realized something important, he could just tivo jersey shore. >> the economy is projected to

be, a year from now, exactly where it is today. >> no new jobs in august. >> when i heard it, i thought holy cow. >> a big, fat zero. >> ouch. >> i think woody allen captured the situation best in "annie hall." >> i think what we got on our hands is a dead shark. >> do we have a dead shark? >> not going to be a good day for the president. >> not a good day. >> now we have tropical storm lee threatening the gulf coast. >> been a bad month. >> crazy and busy, significant september. >> the president wants to provide more work for the underemployed, especially the underemployed in the house of representatives. >> republicans like eric cantor are threatening to hold victims of hurricane irene hostage. >> second wind, big time. >> the white house may have to think bold now. >> a congressman who says he won't even bother to listen to the president's jobs plan. >> there's no reason for him to call a joint session of

congress. >> delivering a speech in front of a joint session of congress, i would respectfully say isn't work. >> by 8:35, every single republican presidential candidate had sounded off. >> mitt romney led the charge. >> it's been three years, and he's out. >> and will rick perry blow mitt romney away by the end of the hurricane season? >> rick perry makes his debut on the national debate stage. looks like rick perry is running to be the president of texas. >> palin plans a labor day weekend blitz. >> she's been an unpredictabiliunpredictable character. >> sucking wind, big time. >> we are talking about sarah palin. >> jonathan capehart. zero. that's how much job growth we had in the month of august. the new bureau of labor

statistics of unemployment report show the economy added a net of zero jobs in august. that's the worst jobs report in 11 months. there were other ominous numbers inside the monthly update, including a drop in hourly earnings. next week, congress will return to washington and on thursday morning, the new congressional super committee will meet for the first time to work on job creation. well, no, that would make way too much sense for congress. the new congressional super committee will, instead, be working on killing jobs, which in washington speech is now called deficit reduction. the last significant deficit reduction effort was led by president clinton, after the economy emerged from a recession and was growing steadily. deficit reduction in an almost-flat economy with zero job growth could lead to net job losses, especially the losses of government jobs, which will have to be cut if government budget cuts are enacted. at the end of the first day of

work on deficit reduction, the president will address them and the rest of congress on job creation and deficit reduction. advance word from the white house seems to indicate that the president seems to believe he can come up with a plan to do both at the same time. meanwhile, the rest of the world is re-thinking the austerity craze that has swept western governments recently. "the washington post" reported today that the swift implementation of pay cuts and layoffs in europe may put countries like spain and italy at risk for missing the very deficit reduction targets that budget cuts and other austerity measures were meant to achieve. choking economic growth results in less tax revenue and more demand for government services, so less money coming in, more money coming out. thursday night, congress will be nothing more than the in-studio

audience for the speech the president is giving. earlier this week he sounded like he had no elusions about his ability to get a republican house of representatives to take action. >> congress needs to act. if congress does not act, then i'm going to be going on the road and talking to folks, and this next election very well may end up being a referendum on, you know, whose vision of america is better. >> speaking of going on the road, the white house announced the day after the speech to the nation the president will go on the road to make his case again in richmond, virginia, a city represented in congress by house republican leader eric cantor. joining me now are robert reich, former labor secretary in the clinton administration, now a professor at berkeley and author of "after shock," and ezra klein, "the washington post"

columnist and msnbc contributor. i have to ask you, on a day like today when those numbers come in, i assume the labor secretary sees the job numbers just before the president. does the labor secretary actually call up the white house and report them, deliver the bad news personally? >> no, it's not just bad news. sometimes it's good news. in the 1990s, you may remember, very, very good news under the clinton administration. i didn't have that job. look, there's no question, today's news was unremitingly bad, zero new jobs. i mean, the trend is all in the wrong direction. >> do you have a sense of why we would have seen that flat job situation in the month of august, what's happened lately? >> there were a couple of special things, verizon workers were on strike, that's jobs not counted, they were lost. also, on the other hand,

minnesota, those workers went back to work, about 23,000. but even if you control for all of that, this is still a terrible job report. it's maybe a net of 23,000 new jobs, but you need 125,000 just to keep up with the growth of population of working age people who are looking for work, so however you slice it, however you want to look at this, this is awful. >> ezra, this is not the number the white house was looking for before the president gives his speech next week, so he's going to be, as we say, starting from zero, on thursday. what does this do to the president's approach? >> probably won't change the approach. there was no number they could have gotten. we could have lost 500,000 and congress wouldn't have moved far and house republicans would say this shows we need to deal with job-killing regulations now, but what the white house needs to do and what this gives them the opportunity to do, this is the number they need for their

speech because it is a great pivot moment to say the super committee cannot bring out a report that does not include jobs. we will not sign a report or pass anything that comes out, cuts the deficit, and does not deal with job creation. if they do that, they'll combine the pivot moment with leverage they have over the process. that will effectively make the trigger apply to congress, and at this point i think the situation is more than dire enough to merit that. >> all right, professor rice, teach me, teach me how we do deficit reduction and job creation at the same time. i'm going to take notes now, go ahead. >> okay, lawrence, you take notes. you can't do it at the same time. what you can do and what the president hopefully is going to say is i'm going to present, and i want to sign a credible, long-term, ten-year plan for bringing the budget deficit down and debt down certainly as a proportion of the entire economy, but in the short-term, this year, next year, maybe the

following year, until we get unemployment down to a reasonable level, 5%, 6%, i want more spending, i want more investment. we have to have a big program of infrastructure, a w.p.a., civilian conservation core, all kinds of stuff, and i'm going to fight for this big program of job creation in the short-term. now, here's the problem. you know, americans, it's a little complicated to talk at the same time about long-term deficit reduction and short-term measures that will actually create more deficits. it's hard to explain that to people, and therefore it's going to be quite a -- well, let's just hope that thursday night the president pulls it off. it's the most important speech of his presidency so far. >> well, including the tricky component that some deficit spending now can actually help you close the deficit in the long run. >> absolutely.

lawrence, absolutely right. the reality here is if you don't get growth back, if you don't get jobs back, the ratio of the debt to the total economy gets worse and worse and worse. if you get jobs back, people become tax paying citizens again. if you get growth back, the entire economy starts moving forward like it did in the 1950s. remember after the second world war, the ratio was 100-30% debt to gdp. then we brought that down because of the rapid growth of the 1950s. >> ezra, is there a single elected person in washington that would agree to what bob reich just said? >> no, not one. we have not heard of one. what's remarkable about this, i think, is that republicans who say they believe in deficit reduction, even just say they believe in spending cuts could get more if they agree to stimulus now. it's also because for liberals,

stimulus is a deliverable, something they desperately want, desperately need, and something republicans can put on the table, and if they put it on the table, liberals and democrats could agree to more on spending cuts and long-term deficit reduction. any economist in the country would say that's an awesome deal. but particularly now when we can borrow at a negative interest rate. so there's every reason, even if you take the republican's agenda seriously. you give the president an accomplishment, bipartisan accomplishment and better economy. whether or not they think about it in those terms, they have been very reluctant to do that thus far. >> bob reich, the president elicited a threat earlier this week when he said look, if they don't want to do business with me, i'm prepared, in effect, to take it to election, not try to legislate anything now, take it to the voter. at what point do you advise the president, here's where you

forget about the congress and take it to the voter. as labor secretary, you've been in the moments with the president where you've had to decide trying to push this thing or go to the voters with it. >> i would go to the voters right away. why not, lawrence? if the president comes up with a bold plan proportional to the size of the job's crisis we have, obviously, republicans are going to say no and the president ought to be prepared to go to the nation and start selling him. tell them he's going to mobilize and fight, he's fighting for working people and not going to allow republicans to be part of another do-nothing congress. give them hell like harry truman did, but this president has not shown to be that kind of a fighter. maybe he'll become one when his back is to the wall. maybe when the american public's back to the wall, but now i don't believe it. >> feeling our backs to the wall right about now. >> robert reich and ezra klein

of the "the washington post" and msnbc contributor. thank you for your time tonight. coming up, the republican presidential candidates pounced on today's jobs report, but what did they say they would actually do to create jobs? richard wolffe joins me. and later, frontrunner pressures on rick perry. will he be leading the pack after the first presidential debate wednesday? and is perry on the verge of getting an endorsement from sarah palin in o to support memory and concentration. plus vitamin d to help maintain healthy blood pressure. [ bat cracks ] that's a hit. one a day men's.

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republican national hispanic assembly this morning in tampa. >> i don't know if you saw the news this morning. there were no new jobs created in the last month, no new jobs. we stand near a threshold of profound economic misery as a nation. four more years of the same extremely misguided policies could be disastrous. career politicians got us into this mess, and career politicians won't get us out. >> the fast-fading michele bachmann tweeted "americans don't need speeches, they need jobs." which doesn't exactly sound like the kind of tweet that's going to reverse her slip in the polls. talking to reporters this morning from the bottom of the polls, former utah governor jon huntsman tried to use colorful language to energize his colorless campaign. >> our nation's economy is

sucking wind big time. we need a plan, a bold proposal. the president has had two and a half years to get something out there, he hasn't. in two and a half months we got the boldest of proposals, something the country desperately needs. >> huntsman's economic plan received a rave review, the journal said huntsman's plan is better than anything so far from the gop presidential field. the plan is called "time to compete, an american jobs plan," which is really just a tax cutting and deregulation plan. joining me now is the author of "reviv "revival," richard wolffe, thanks for joining me tonight, richard. >> my pleasure, lawrence. >> the huntsman plan, huge hit with "the wall street journal." is this like the health care plan being a big hit in the last presidential campaign? >> either that or the bill

bradley campaign. also had a great health care plan. >> he did have a great health care plan. >> it says something about the republican party when the "the wall street journal" editorial board is somewhere in the middle of republican politics. huntsman's plan is moderate when you compare it to where the tea party extremists want to take this. it's similar in some degree to the bowles simson. you cannot get anyone in congress to vote for ending the mortgage interest tax relief. >> right, his plan in some specifics calls for lower tax rates across the board, income tax rates, just leaving us with only three, 8% for the lowest, 14%, and 23%. but to get there, he eliminates every single deduction and credit in the personal income

tax code, so he eliminates the biggest one, the mortgage deduction. as you've said, it means it would also eliminate the deduction for health care that if you receive health care through your employer, that would be taxable income, and so it's a fairly easy thing to rip apart. if a plan like that made its way into the general election running against someone who wants to take away your mortgage deduction is someone who wants to, in effect, destroy the current value of your home. >> hits the middle class and hits the housing market, which has been one of the biggest drags in the economy. these republican candidates, and huntsman is the most reasonable of them, but in general they are saying we get the economy more than this crazy democrat. we know what business wants, and yet their economic plans would either hurt the housing market

or would cut the government jobs that have done so much good for rick perry's job record in texas or it would just kill jobs in general because there is no growth in anything other than the public sector right now, because the private sector has been spooked by the republican tactics over things like the debt limit. >> of course, there's the mandatory, you know, defang that horrible epa, environmental protection agency that's ruining the country and killing jobs. never mind job growth and wealth in the country has exploded since the creation of the epa to levels uncontemplated before, especially top-end wealth, but now to rick perry. is today, like most campaign days so far today for perry and the republican campaign, the really good day for rick perry since he's the job king at this stage of the republican campaign, zero job growth number lets him trumpet everything he's

claimed to have done in texas. >> this should be the best day of any of the republican candidate's news agendas and moments, terrible numbers for the white house, and the president has a bad record on jobs he has to defend. when you look at rick perry, though, there's the texas echo that's the problem. never mind if you strip aside the headline numbers and get into that, most voters understand this economy, this bad economy, is the result of republican policies and the bush administration. poll after poll after poll has said that, and if you want to go into the details, over eight years of president bush's policies of deregulation and tax cuts, all the things rick perry said created jobs, jimmy carter created more jobs than bush did in two terms, so once we get into the debate, over the headlines of perry's positioning, we're going to have this played out and people will recall, as they are already in

polls, that the bush policies weren't too good. >> we now have projections that the jobs picture a year from now in the presidential campaign is going to look pretty much like the jobs picture does today. if that holds and if that is true and if perry is the emerging nominee for the republicans, it seems like it will clearly be a jobs campaign at that point. what is the obama campaign think it's going to be able to do against perry on jobs? >> well, i think what they are expecting is this is not going to be just about jobs, it's going to be about the role of government when times are tough, and if you assume the economy is the same. that's a big assumption. in 2007, barack obama thought it would be about iraq, it wasn't about war at all, it was about the economy. a year is an extremely long time in politics, but what can government do when times are difficult, should government be

cut or is government the last best hope? that's how this is going to play out, at least that's how the white house hope it's going to play out. let's take it to the people and see what they think too. >> richard wolffe of thanks for joining me tonight. >> you bet, lawrence. this programming reminder for next week, msnbc will have the next republican presidential debate next wednesday at 8:00 p.m. eastern from the ronald reagan presidential library. coming up, the best way to predict potential lines of attack on rick perry at the debate might be to read a book written by rick perry. and later, even in a week like this, the late night comedy writers found something funny to write about. probiotic cap a day helps defends against occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas and bloating. with three strains of good bacteria to help balance your colon. you had me at "probiotic." [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health.

the governor of north carolina now says damage from hurricane irene will go beyond $400 million in that state. a week after that storm made landfall, there is trouble looming on the gulf coast, tropical storm lee is expected to make landfall this weekends, and the mayor of new orleans is not taking any chances. the weather channel is in louisiana. >> good evening, lawrence, here in new orleans and along parts of the gulf coast, they are bracing for the arrival of tropical storm lee. it's moving north at 2 miles an hour, so landfall isn't expected until some time on sunday

morning. in the meantime, plenty of heavy rain and once it makes landfall it is going to limp through louisiana and into mississippi. rainfall totals of six to ten inches, some local totals are ten to 20 inches. nothing like what we saw with irene, because here it's flat and the soil is sandy. keeping an eye on the protection system, everything in fine shape there, and the mayor of new orleans told residents to clean out the storm drains ahead of this heavy rain. >> the city of new orleans has taken all necessary precautions, as i said earlier today, issued a declaration of emergency so we can have enough flexibility and authority to act as quickly as possible. >> it's going to be a washout here for the entire labor day weekend. we'll keep an eye on this on the weather channel and on msnbc through the weekend. coming up, the world trade

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call 800.axp.gold to apply. if there is a better signal of my plans for the future of not running for the presidency of the united states, it's this book. anyone running for the presidency is not going to go take on these issues with the power that i do. >> and now you know what rick perry looks like when he's lying. it turns out that he was planning to run for the presidency of the united states, and his book, "fed up, our fight to save america from washington," is following him everywhere he goes in this campaign. the book is full of statements he's now desperately afraid of

repeating on the campaign trail, things like "massachusetts is free to experiment with state-run health care." turns out republican primary voters don't think states are free to experiment with state-run health care, that's why rick perry is now the frontrunner instead of mitt romney who brought what republicans call state-run health care to massachusetts. in the book, perry also says "by any measure, social security is a failure." perry will never repeat those words on the campaign trail, especially to people living on social security. he won't say it in florida, not anywhere, because social security recipients are determined voting block. they always vote in large numbers. they don't need inspirational speeches to get them to the polls. they are voters who like to vote. they are voters who are eager to vote, and they are voters who

don't like to hear social security threatened by politicians like perry, who know nothing about it. if no republican candidate can stop rick perry, might the author, rick perry, stop rick perry? joining me now, co-author of politico's article today about this book, senior writer maggie haberman, thanks for joining me tonight, maggie. >> thanks for having me. perry keeps getting caught in the pages of his own book. today, i did, just when i sat down at this table before the show, i flipped it open randomly to any page, because i believe i can find something nutty on any page. i landed on page 41. i promise you, i swear, and it says -- "this leads me to the great milestone on the road to

surfdom, the passage of the 16th amendment." what's he talking about there, and when is it coming? >> it's going to come if we don't take all of these things back and revert to federalism, according to this book. i think this book is a tremendous potential problem for him in the general election, as you said, it's also a problem in certain primary areas. in florida, as you noted, this is not a good thing. seniors get alarmed about a change to social security. they do not want to hear it compared to a bernie madofmadofe scheme. he's considering appealing it and he has not backed off of that, he's also not reembraced it. that's the problem with rick perry with this book. he's going to have to decide if this is what i think, this is what i say. these are my words, this is my name on this book and i'm a

fighter and i say what i stand for, then he's a mitt romney, and what's the difference? >> we saw michele bachmann's superpac that she doesn't have any affiliation with but is friendly with, they came out with an attack ad against perry. it seems bachmann world is the place to look for what you would expect to be some kind of attack coming out of this book. the trouble is, bachmann world is at least as crazy as this book. >> i think that there is no question that people have grown to expect sort of out-there statements from michele bachmann, and this certainly runs to the right of anything michele bachmann has said. i think where you will start seeing a lot of these criticisms are from the democrats, and at some point, probably pretty soon if perry survives our debate next week, politico, msnbc debate, you'll see a mitt romney

superer pac airing ads about this book. >> he's kind of scatter shot. on my random flipping of pages, i noticed him taking a shot at woodrow wilson i thought was unfair. >> one of many. >> does he take down any republicans? >> he does. he gauges senators lisa of alaska and one as not conservative enough. this is not a good thing to have codified on paper. you know, you buy yourself problems when you create your own paper trail this way of the. >> when you wrote about the book today and did your reporting on it, did you find out if perry has fired whoever wrote the book for him? >> no, in fact, it was a team of people and one of the people he acknowledges warmly in it is his top strategist, rick carney,

running the campaign, he is based in new hampshire, but it's hard to divorce yourself from that. this is a book that has rick perry all over it, even if it's not his writing on every page. >> the idea is to give the author this big, national surge in attention that poises them to run for president. i don't even remember this book being published. i'm a good nbc employee, but i don't see every minute of the today show where he appeared and talked about the book. i discovered it only now that it's haunting him. >> we helped underline it for you. look, it did get some attention on the national stage. he was making clear he had a national profile, but he was also clear, i wouldn't be saying these things if i was running for president. he, himself, acknowledged it would be dangerous. so the basic question is why did you say that and what did you mean when you said that and why

are you now running for president and these things are okay? it is very complicated. >> maggie, quickly before we go, can you help us with the big rumor of the day, which is sarah palin might endorse rick perry tomorrow in iowa. you're on the perry beat, what's going on? >> i don't think anybody has any idea what sarah palin is going to do, except sarah palin. i think john fund was on to something, she will do the opposite of what everyone does, but it makes no logical sense for her to run, she's played the media like a fiddle. perry would stop mitt romney and michele bachmann, who is someone with whom she has clearly, despite her denials, had some issues with. >> not going to sleep tonight. thank you for joining us tonight. still ahead, a video that captures the magic of what the twin towers once meant to new

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time. here's the best of the week. >> dick cheney, you all remember vice president dick "ka boom" cheney. he's written a book and said he'd do it all over again the same way. he would still, honestly, still feels strongly about this, he'd still invade the wrong country. he's so country. and dick says that the reason he wrote the memoir is because friends encouraged him to do it. what? this guy has friends? what? >> contains some startling surprises. for example, did you know this, he is still alive. i was stunned. believe me, this book is not for the faint hearted. it was written by the faint hearted. interesting, cheney's book was

released today, but people are already criticizing it. today, president bush -- hey, you're lucky, he actually shot me. >> in a recent interview, dick cheney said his new memoir would have "heads exploding in d.c." especially if you read it while on a hunting trip with dick cheney. >> it's entitled "eat, pray, waterboard." i want a copy of that. lot of insight, a lot of people in washington are surprised about everything that dick cheney reveals. for example, dick cheney was actually born in a hut in kenya. >> not aware of that. >> yeah, he had his first heart attack, he's had a history of heart problems, first problem occurred when he saw bush naked. he also admits to fathering

beyonce's baby. >> i finished reading dick cheney's new book last night, i don't want to ruin it for anybody, but in the final chapter, he kills harry potter. i was stunned. in the book, cheney defends his controversial national security and domestic policies. if you want to find the book, past the self-help section in the self-serving section. >> after pressure from republicans, president obama moved his big jobs speech from wednesday to thursday night. obama gave in when he realized something important, he could just tivo "jersey shore." >> vice president joe biden has been in china meeting with the vice president of china. hey, what factory do you work in? those are nice sneakers, did you make those? president obama's uncle omar was arrested in massachusetts on

suspicion of drunk driving. every president we elect, there's always one embarrassing member of the family. jimmy carter, his brother. george w. bush, it was george w. bush. the rhetoric is heating up between republican rick perry and mitt romney. these two don't like each other. perry has opposed many of romney's positions, but to be fair, so has romney. >> how about the republican candidate, michelle o'bachmann. >> michele bachmann. >> yeah. she says that the hurricane was god's message to washington, d.c. suppose god's saying to himself why do i attract all the crack pots, why? interesting, michele bachmann said that the hurricane irene was god's way of getting back at washington, d.c., and she said that was just a joke. she said oh, that was just a joke. okay, it's not as funny as her

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time for tonight's rewrite. the new york city skyline was tragically rewritten ten years ago on 9/11. on that day we lost the boldest architectural flourish in the skyline. when they were finished, they took their place in the skyline, the new york times architecture critic wrote the port authority

wrote the ultimate disney land fairy tale blockbuster. the towers may not have awed the architecture critics, but they were a hit in hollywood. when you read about the escalating costs of movie making, you may not realize that almost everyone in the movie business spends a great deal of time trying to keep production costs low. one way of doing that is avoiding shooting movies in expensive places like new york, a lot of movies pretend to be shot in new york and were actually shot in toronto. in the business it's called shooting toronto for new york. they also shoot toronto for washington, d.c. and boston, because toronto is just cheaper. shooting toronto for new york became a lot easier when the twin towers disappeared. the twin towers shot was the unfakable shot. you couldn't get it in toronto or anywhere else. during their lifetime, the twin

towers became the badge of movies that were shot in new york. they found their way into the frames of the greatest new york directors, mike nichols, woody allen, sometimes very, very subtly, and they always made their statement, they always said new york ever bit as strongly as the accents in the movies. dan meth, a new york director has cut footage from the towers taken from their 30-year movie career and posted it online. you can find it on our blog, because you will want to see this more than once. dan posted this note along with the video. from 1969 to 2001, the twin towers made countless cameos in hollywood films, sometimes featured prominently in the foreground, sometimes lurking in the distance. this montage celebrates the towers' all too short film career with songs that capture

the passing decades. man, i miss them. keep an eye on the lower left of your screen for the titles of the movie clips that you're watching. when you see the towers as our great directors saw them, it will once again be hard to believe that they are gone. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> spectacular view, isn't it?

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