straw. >> first they came for the straw. and let me tell you something, mika? >> yeah. >> you know what? i am not going to stand here and watch you talk down the united states of america. gentlemen. >> amazing how many people have watched "animal house." what have you learned today? >> we're still obsessed with anthony weiner, it's a bad thing. >> why don't you deal with your own obsession off set? >> i learned i have to read "first class" by alison stewart. great story. >> same here. sorry to bogart his answer but i want to read this book badly. >> it is an unbelievably -- mika, are you just not coming back? oh! >> that's the end. >> all right, friends, if it's way too early, it's "morning joe." but mike barnicle is here and he's going to tell you what's next. >> it's time for "the daily rundown." take it away. >> thanks for watching. thanks, guys.

president obama takes his budget bargain hopes to capitol hill trying to unify democrats behind his plan before congress clears out for the august recess. meanwhile, the republican two top party players won't quit. the philosophical fight for 2016 is playing out earlier than expe expected. also this morning, sentencing gets under way for bradley manning. what implications could his fate have for moscow's most famous airport resident edward snowden? very good morning from washington. it's wednesday, july 31st, 2013, and this is the "daily rundown." i'm kristin welker in for my friend chuck todd. this00 the president heads to capitol hill to huddle with house and senate democrats. on the agenda, selling his redefined grand bargain.

in chattanooga, tennessee, on tuesday, the president promised to cut corporate taxes in return for investments in infrastructure, education and job training. republicans rushed to respond. no deal. >> if folks in washington really want a grand bargain, how about a grand bargain for middle class jobs? how about a grand bargain for middle class jobs? >> it's just a further left version of a widely panned plan he already proposed two years ago. this time, with extra goodies for tax and spend liberals. >> all i can say is what he said today really doesn't make much sense. >> sometimes it just seems this administration never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity to grow this economy. >> republican leaders are planning to make opposition to the health care law a centerpiece of the party's message when they return home in august. but the party is split on what that message should be. with momentum building among tea

party act visits to threaten a government shutdown. unless the health care law is defended. the debate among republicans spilled on to the senate floor on tuesday. the president seized on that split. take a listen. >> you're probably not going to get president obama to sign a bill that repeals obama care. truly, our last option is to stop paying for this thing. >> i wanted to fund this bill. but i also want to do it in a way that kills it. and there is not a legislative method that we have that is capable of defunding it short of 67 votes. >> we've seen a certain faction of republicans in congress hurt a fragile recovery by saying they wouldn't pay the very bills that congress racked up in the first place, threatening to shut down the people's government if they can't get rid of obama care, wasting the country's time by taking something like 40

meaningless votes to repeat obama care is not a jobs plan. >> the battle lines are being drawn. nbc's kelly o'donnell is live on capitol hill for us. thanks for joining us, kelly. so the president mapped out his new grand bargain, what he's calling a new grand bargain yesterday. republicans are saying no deal. so what are their main complaints and how does the president move this forward? >> well, the glimmer of hope was that the president was talking about corporate tax reform. that's something that both parties do agree will be helpful to the economy. so then the real problem comes when republicans say by bringing in new revenue, let's say those corporations who have kind of parked their money overseas, would be bringing it back to the u.s. at a reduced rate. so that would flood in some new tax revenue. the president would like to use some of that for infrastructure and job creation. republicans say that kind of a revenue stream ought to be used to help lower the overall corporate tax rate for a longer

term stimulus for the economy by making it easier for american companies to do business here. more competitive. because the rate in the u.s. is currently 35%. in some other countries, it's as lowteens. the president is saying bring it down to 28%. so room for potential compromise. right now, they're drawing those initial early hard lines which are going to set up a long august, as you know. >> absolutely. inde. kelly, president obama's heading to the hill a little bit later on today. we know that white house aides have been meeting with republicans on the hill as well. is this outreach working? is it actually making any progress or is it just for show at this point? >> well, it's not so much for show in that most of the meetings have been really closely held and not covered in any way. very quietly going on. i've talked to senators who have been a part of this, who generally say they're pleased the conversation is happening. they're trying to sort of get a sense of what are the areas of agreement, what are the issues with long-term deficit reduction?

that's something that both parties want to work on. but will it really do anything? that's a big question mark. there aren't strong indications right now that something will happen. we always need a deadline around here. so the president's coming today to talk to democrats in both chambers before they head off to visit with their constituents for the month of august. sort of getting all of their talking points on the same page and having that one-on-one time. and republicans will argue their case. so the conversations are happening. that's good. the prospects for get something done really unclear. kristin. >> all right, kelly o'donnell, live from capitol hill, thanks so much. just about an hour from now, the president will huddle with tax democrats, as i just said, to map out a summer strategy before members return to their districts at the end of the week. florida congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz chairs the committee and joins us now live. the president is coming to the hill. he floated this so-called new grand bargain yesterday.

we know that he's offered up some things that democrats haven't been thrilled about in the past, including changing entitlements. what do you say to your colleagues who think that he's given away too much and is he going to have to convince them today when he heads to the hill? >> i actually haven't heard any of my democratic colleagues saying the president's giving away too much. we all rally around the president's economic message from last week, which essentially says that there are five important things to make sure that everybody has an opportunity to join the middle class, create jobs, make sure people can have a decent roof over their head, make sure they can get a good education, make sure they have access to quality affordable health care and make sure they have retirement security for when they finish their working year. and at the end of the day, we have to make sure that it is a real opportunity in america to grow your business. as a small business owner. by ensuring we can have lower

taxes for small business owners. and incentivize corporations to bring their revenue. repatriate their revenue. pay taxes. more so than many are now. lower that corporate tax rate. and make investments in manufacturing. make things in america. investing in our infrastructure. and creating jobs. that's common sense -- >> as you know -- >> -- i think everybody should be able to embrace. >> the president's plan was sort of met with a thud by republicans. i want to read you what house spoker john boehner's spokesperson had to say. he said, quote, this grand bargain allows president obama to support president obama's position on taxes and president obama's position on spending, while leaving small businesses and american families behind. that's from michael steel. so my question, is this a serious plan, something that can actually get through congress and the house? because at this point it doesn't seem as though it can. >> it's a serious plan if you're a member of congress who

understands that we've got to work together and that we can't engage in my way or the highway politics. while we watch the republican party descend into a civil war in which many of their leaders are saying about each other what even democrats wouldn't say about republicans, we are focused, through president obama on down to congressional democrats, on making sure that we put forward a policy and talk about it with our constituents during the august rece. that it is important to invest in the middle class and give everybody a chance to succeed. using those five pillars that president obama laid out. education, jobs, retirement security, health care, and making sure everybody has an opportunity to succeed. that's the bottom line. what are republicans opposed to in that? instead, we're wasting precious time. at the end of the day, all the american people want to do is work together and ensure that we can reach some common ground to

continue to grow this economy. that's what obama will continue to push for. >> i want to get your take on the fed chair. there seems to be two front-runners emerging. yellen and summers. should the next fed chair be a woman? do you have a favorite in this race? >> the next fed chair should be the person who can best help make sure that our financial and economic policy is able to be steered in a direction that's going to grow our economy and help more people reach the middle class. whoever that president obama believes is the best choice to move us in that direction, that's who it should be. >> okay. i also want to get your take on some of the other headlines that have been discussed lately. you have called for bob filner to resign. a lot of people are calling for anthony weiner to get out of the race in new york. are these two politicians hurting the democratic

what's your message to them? >> my message to filner is he absolutely should resign. that his abusive behavior is unwelcome and unacceptable in any form. and i hope that he eventually heeds the call that so many have sent his way. as far as anthony weiner, you know, when he was -- when it was first revealed that he lied and had engaged in inappropriate conduct, i called for him to resign from congress. now he's running for mayor. i think eventually when the primary rolls around the voters are probably going to allow this to take care of itself. >> but should he get out of the race right now? >> -- conduct inappropriate -- >> should he get out of the race right now? >> that's a decision for anthony weiner to make. anthony weiner's not a public office holder. he's running for office. every candidate has to make their own decisions when it companies to the controversies

swirling around anthony. he and huma have been dealing with this personal struggle. but clearly the conduct that anthony's engaged in, has engaged in in the past, is inappropriate. whether he stays in the race or not is up to him. >> congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, thank you. turning now to some other news. just when the anthony weiner story looks like it couldn't get any worse, it did. the last 24 hours represent what happens when an apparently losing campaign spirals out of control. first, weiner posted a minute long video to his website, insisting he has no plans to drop out of the race. >> sometimes people say to me, you know, this campaign is pretty rough, you may want to quit. i know that there are newspaper editors and other politicians that say, boy, wish that guy weiner would quit. quit isn't the way we roll in new york city. >> at a question and answer

section with voters in the bronx last night, weiner defended himself in a seven minute rant. here's a little bit of it. >> i'm not going to go into the corner and curl up because someone found out something embarrassing about me. did i look in the mirror? yes, i did. you know who i decided to vote for? anthony weiner. >> as the campaign's top spokeswoman was found hurling obscenities at a former intern who had written a tell-all about working for the campaign. nbc news political editor mark murray here with more. a lot to discuss. i want to read you the apology from barbara morgan and get you to respond on the other side. she said, quote, in a moment of frustration, i used inappropriate language in what i thought was an off the record conversation. it was wrong and i was very sorry which is what i said tonight when i called and e-mailed olivia, that's the name of the intern, to apologize. a campaign spokeswoman

apologizing to an intern, strikes me as a new low. >> a sign of the campaign really hitting a low. i can tell you as a reporter who's covered so many different campaigns, we get profanity-laced tirades all the time. campaign spokespeople cursing either at interns or to reporters. it's nothing new. but it typically is a sign the campaign isn't doing all that well. i've often noticed when the going gets tough for campaigns, the profanity often increases. you often see that body language. right now when you look at anthony weiner, whether it's his new video, his profanity. this is not a good situation for their campaign. >> and of course the clintons have been discussed. huma, anthony weiner's wife, worked with the former secretary of state. we learned she's going to be taking time off at the end of the summer. we want to be clear this is not being characterized as a leave of absence. still, the optics of this can't be helpful. >> the clintons don't want to be linked with anthony weiner being discussed with all of this. hillary clinton when she left as

secretary of state emerged with huge popularity. higher poll numbers than she's ever seen before. a brand they want to talk about. possibly leading into 2016. the last thing they want to do is talk about and be linked with someone like anthony weiner. i think that's one of the reasons you're seeing a lot of those quotes. people who are very upset at him. here's the situation. you even heard debbie wasserman schultz say. voters will make the ultimate termination here. >> seems like this story has legs for all 40 days. thanks. much more to come here. we're keeping our eye on capitol hill as we wait for the president to arrive for his strategy session with democrats. plus, senator ron johnson joins us on his party's response to the president's grand bargain. and the family feud that's exposing deep divisions with the

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welcome back. a group of republican senators are hoping to break the deadlock over the budget and the sequester as they seek to find common ground with the white house. wisconsin republican senator ron johnson is part of that group as well as a member of the budget committee. he joins me now live.

thank you so much for joining me this morning, senator, i appreciate it. >> good morning, kristin. >> so how would you characterize these talks that you have been a part of that you've been having with the white house? have you been able to find any common ground? if so, where? >> i think we're describing it as kind of a sounding board. it's the first step in solving any problem. if you negotiate something, you have to develop relationshipings. you need to first of all admit you have a problem. then you have to properly define it. i think we're in the admission of the problem stage. we're also in the definition of the problem stage. we're trying to find common ground. i certainly found out in business if you sit down and negotiate with somebody, it makes a lot of sense to spend a lot of time on the front end figuring out what you agree on. i guess i typify it from the standpoint as we're talking to each other, which is a good thing. and we're trying to figure out where there's some common ground. that's far better than right away getting into arguments over what you disagree on. >> i want to play you what harry

reid had to say about the talks tuesday. take a listen. >> all they talk about is what are you going to do. he's already done things. a number of people in my caucus they're not wild about. but he's put forth his proposal. the republicans refuse to come up with anything in writing. >> so what is your reaction to that? are you getting pushback from republicans? >> first, the house has passed budgets. the senate finally passed one this year. there's some detailed proposals in that. senator reid is simply wrong from that standpoint. the point being is we need to figure out what we agree on. there's an awful lot of areas of agreement. i think most americans are concerned about hollowing out our military. we do really think that the federal government, it's first priority is defense of this nation. most people think this sequester is not good for our military. how can we substitute some other

spending cuts in lower priority areas so we can reinterject those dollars into the military so we don't hollow out our military. >> speaking of common ground, yesterday, the president laid out what the white house is calling a new grand barring gab well as investing in infrastructure and jobs. you have supported some of those things in the past. where do you come down on his plan? >> he's got a framework out there so we'll have to see the details. he's acknowledging we have problems. we have an uncompetitive corporate tax rate that is really stymieing investment. really disincentivizing investment into jobs and business expansion here. we've got at least 1 trillion$1 if not 2trillion of corporate income basically parked overseas. our interstate highway system, we've seen bridges collapse, so we probably do need to spend money on infrastructure.

the president got his package that was supposed to be spent on infrastructure and it wasn't. i don't outright reject anything. i'm more than happy to listen to the detailed proposal. that's what the goal of this is. the very significant challenges facing this nation. >> i want to ask you about ideas republicans are floating. using funding for the president's health care law as a barringening chip in budget talks. take a listen to what bob corker had to say. >> it's a silly effort. what people are saying behind that effort is we don't have the courage to roll up our sleeves and deal with real deficit reduction and spending decisions. we want to take ourselves out of the debate and act like we're being disciplined to the american people. by saying we're not going to

vote for the cr. >> so where do you fall in this debate? would you support defunding obama care and not support any bill that funded it? >> i want republicans and conservatives to be as united as possible. we are absolutely united in wanting to repeal obama care, defund it, delay it. remove the most damaging parts of it. anything we can do to prevent obama care from taking solid root. i think most republicans will support. what the strategy, what the tactic -- i'm for an all the above strategy. the house is doing some pretty intelligent things. when president obama decided to delay the employer mandate, the house took a vote, well, why did we delay the individual mandate? that garnered the support of 22 democrats in the house. i'd like to see the house take more of those votes to show the vulnerabilities and really undermine, you know, certainly the support in congress for the health care law. let's face it, it's max baucus,

it's senator harry reid, that have called the implementation of obama care a train wreck -- >> corker said it was silly. do you agree with him? that it is silly to use defunding obama care as a bargaining chip? >> listen, what we need to do is move forward in unified fashion. to do whatever we can to prevent obama care from taking root. there are a lot of options. i'd like to see the house pass a bill that allows states to opt out. i would love to see a repeal of the medical device tax. president obama should sign into law. how about a law to prohibit the irs from being involved in the implementation and the operation of obama care? these are the types of things i'd like to see the house move forward so we can demonstrate to the american public how the support for obama care is eroding in congress. look at the letters the unions wrote to congress.

basically wrote a letter saying you've got to fix this thing. it is destroying the 40 hour workweek. the the more we can to in terms of raising the profile of the damage obama care's going to do to our economy, to job creation, i think that's a good thick. kind of a step by step approach to prevent obama care from taking root. >> senator ron johnson, thank you. with a big announcement expected from the fed this afternoon and just two days till friday's big jobs report, we'll get a preview of the day on wall street. next in the market rundown. we're just a few minutes away from the start of a sentencing hearing for army private bradley manning. the 25-year-old will soon learn how long he'll be spending in prison for leaking government secrets it first, today's trivia question. how many u.s. presidents were in office ten years to the day after their first inauguration? the first person to tweet the correct answer to @dailyrundown will get an on-air shout out.

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us some insight into what to expect on friday from that big jobs report that we're expecting on friday morning. this is better than people had been expecting and so there is the thought that maybe that number will come up just a little bit. we're looking at the market opening up by about 35 points. and that's because even though we got all these good numbers today, the gdp was a little confusing. the second quarter number was much better. was up by 1.7%. at the same typime, they slashe their estimates for the first quarter. so that's a little bit of a wash. but those numbers -- the fed announcement today. the markets have been waiting. kind of hovering to see what the fed has to say. we'll get that answer at about 2:00. >> we will be watching. thank you, appreciate it. up next, with protesters in the military in egypt showing no signs of backing down, senators graham and mccain are planning to travel to the region. we'll go live to cairo.

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among those testifying before the committee this morning are deputy attorney general james cole as well as representatives from the nsa, the dni and the fbi. as the intelligence community faces questions about how it goes about its business, it's also working to clamp down on workers. a judge found manning guilty on 19 counts of handing over classified material. but not most serious charge. the sentencing process is beginning this morning. msnbc's jim miklaszewski is live at the pentagon. >> reporter: the military court that sentenced manning yesterday, or actually is beginning sentencing hearing today, after he was convicted, is now beginning those sentencing hearings, and, you know, if, in fact, the judge

were to go for the maximum penalty on all of the 20 counts he was convicted that would amount to 136 years. nobody believes that's going to happen. but regrettably, for bradley manning, it is expected this 25-year-old private first class is going to spend most of the rest of this year of his life, rather, in a military prison. but getting back to what you opened with, edward snowden and bradley manning, a lot of military law experts and intelligence experts see a connection between manning and edward snowden in terms of the wikileaks connection of course. but more importantly, big questions are being raised about how two low-level, relatively inexperienced people, in the places they were, edward snowden in the private industry as a computer technologist, and bradley manning as an intel

analyst in baghdad. how do these people get access to so many so important secrets? that's something both the intel community and the military are going to wrestle with in the years to come. >> all right, jim mick miklaszewski at the pentagon, thank you. nailing down an agreement by may of next year, negotiations will resume either in israel or the west bank. this is the fourth attempt at finalizing a mideast peace deal in the past 15 years. discussions stopped in 2000, 2007 and 2010. the last attempt collapsing was within just days. secretary kerry says he's hopeful this time negotiations will bear fruit. >> we're hear today because the israeli people and palestinian people both have leaders willing to heed the call of history.

leaders who will stand strong in the face of criticism and are, right now, for what they know is in their people's best interests. their commitment to make tough choices frankly should give all of us hope that these negotiations actually have a chance to accomplish something. >> now, all sides have agreed to address the so-called final status issues which include the borders of a future palestinian state, claims of palestinian refugees to land in israel and what to do with jerusalem. ultimately, the u.s. hopes talks will include israeli prime minister netanyahu and palestinian leader abbas. secretary kerry, ambassador indyk and possibly obama himself will be available to step in if negotiations falter. the pursuit of middle east peace would be difficult enough in a diplomatic vacuum but it's tougher when you take into account the instability across

the region, specifically in neighboring egypt. protesters there continue to fill the street, calling for former president morsi's return, nearly a month after he was overthrown. what is the latest? we understand that senators mccain and graham are planning a trip there. >> that's correct. the situation on the ground right now remains somewhat tense and really it focus on that sit-in protest. the reason being obviously that every night the members of the anti-coup coalition have been organizing protest rallies not only across the country but from cairo to various different government buildings. yesterday, it was the intelligence headquarters. it has, a, created a sense of concern for the military, which has repeatedly warned them not to approach government facilities or military insta installati installations. at the same time, it has disr t disrupted traffic in a major

part of cairo. that is what is leading security officials to say their patience is rubbing out, that they may be forced, in according with the law, to break that up. certainly has eu officials, u.s. officials, human rights activists concerned if police and military try to break it up, it is only going to lead to more bloodshed. there's a lot of effort to avoid that. that is certainly perhaps one o senators graham and mccain when they visit next week. >> can you tell us about the procedures for hosting the senators when they arrive there? >> sure. it's certainly a trip that's coordinated across egypt's security branches but more importantly with the u.s. embassy. there's no doubt they'll have a chance to meet with various political leaders and certainly members of the interim government. security here for the most part remains intact. security institutions remain intact. there's a whole host of diplomatic, police and other security that will escort them. when they arrive, they'll have the desire to meet with the

interim leaders, representatives of the muslim brotherhood perhaps. the question is whether or not the representatives from many of these political parties will want to meet. we already know they shunned the number two at the state department williams burns when he arrived here. he did not meet with representatives from the muslim brotherhood. it's all about who they will have access to in addition to the official meet and greet that will happen with members of the military as well as members of the interim government. >> we know you will watch it for us. thank you so much for that report. coming up with our gaggle, just when we thought the new york mayor's race couldn't get any more salacious, it did. first, the white house soup of the day, black eyed pea and smoked turkey. we'll be right back. ssive insur. you know, from our 4,000 television commercials. yep, there i am with flo. hoo-hoo! watch it! [chuckles] anyhoo, 3 million people switched to me last year,

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control, we will actually reduce nuclear arsenals. >> that is your daily flashback to this day in 1981. the u.s. and the soviet unions signed the strategic armed reduction treaty. president obama will make the approximately mile and a half trip down pennsylvania avenue to meet with congressional democrats to discuss his legislative agenda and fall strategy. we expect tough questions from the president's home team on the looming debt ceiling showdown and the complicated rollout of his signature piece of legislation, health care reform. let's bring in our wednesday gaggle. democratic strategist jamal simmons it nbc political producer on capitol hill, casey hunt, and republican pollster kristin soultris anderson who spells her name with a "c" just like i do. casey, president obama heading to the hill today, what do we expect? and it comes just as he's rolled out this so-called new grand

bargain. >> as you know, from covering the white house, the president has had an up and down relationship, even with democrats, on capitol hill. so this really sets the stage. it's to reassure people in his party when we come back in the fall, there's a plan, that he has a stage set for these big budget talks for pushing immigration reform and for implementing health care reform. there's a lot of concern especially on the house side about how rocky implementing that health care bill is going to be. and they have a lot of political concerns about hanging on to their seats going on to the next year. >> jamal, some democrats have complained in the past the president has not done a good enough job reaching out to them. in this case he's dropping individual tax reform. what does he need to say to them to make sure they are on board with them in the fall? >> he has to convince them. he's been talking about the economy. i think democrats are very happy about that. they want him to have a consistent message on that.

there are also some outside groups like americans united that are going to be out in front of many members of congress over the course of the reset, making sure they answer tough questions about what's going to happen with obama care. the president is going to have to convince them. what they believe is if you can get people registered into the health care reform act by january 1st, it's going to be very hard to take that away. er's focused on that. >> yesterday, the president m mapped out this new grand bargain. does this have any chance of making its way through the house? are they headed toward a government shutdown here? >> i feel like i've seen this movie so many times. i also know how it ends. every time we've seen this, get right up to the brink and there's some solution. i know the president's plan he talked about yesterday is in many ways a nonstarter with republicans. it increases revenues from corporations. then turns around and wants to spend them again instead of using it for either debt

reduction or even further lower loc long-term rates. i know a lot of republicans aren't crazy about obama's offer on the table. we'll see what it looks like after august. >> a lot of debate. there's also a larger debate we've all been watching between two potential contenders in 2016, chris christie and rand paul. they've been going back and forth. i want to show you what they said yesterday. >> i find it interesting that senator paul is saying, accusing us of having a gimme gimme gimme attitude toward federal spending. maybe he should look at cutting the pork barrel spending that he brings home to kentucky. at $1.51 for every dollar. and not look at new jersey where we get 61 cents for every dollar. so maybe senator paul could, you know, deal with that when he's trying to deal with the reduction spending on the federal side. but i doubt he would. because most washington politicians only care about bringing home the bacon so that they could get re-elected. >> this is the king of bacon

talking about bacon, you know. we have two military bases in kentucky. as governor christie recommending that we shut down our military bases? he wants to be this great champion of national defense. what does he want to do, down m? >> hey, so a debate over pork and bacon! kristen, does this ultimately weaken the republican party right now at a moment when you and other folks are hoping that it will strengthen itself or is this a precursor to 2016? >> it would be helpful for everyone looking in the same direction. on the other hand, i think it's good that the republican party is dealing with this identity crisis right now. it's a lot tougher when you don't have the white house to have this unified here is what we all believe in kind of message and agreement. and that is what you're seeing right now. until a nominee in 2016 i think you'll see the various flavors of republican battling out to see who will reign extreme.

>> what do ysupreme. >> chris christie is running for new jersey governor and it's possible the position he is outlining at this point could come back to hurt him should he decide to run for president in 2016. the republicans in the field last time around in 2012 were very careful of ron paul and his supporters and rand's support is much broader than his father's are right now. >> are the democrats sitting back and loving this? >> this has to be the opening salvo of the 2016 primary. let them have at it. rand paul ought to be careful. one tried the pork attack against christie and it wasn't work out so well for him. >> trivia time. we ask him how many u.s. presidents were in office ten years to the date after their first inauguration? the answer is two.

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welcome back. let's bring back our gaggle now. jamal and casey and kristen. thank you for being here. jamal, start with you. we have been watching this new york mayor's race. anthony weiner's campaign manager resigns yesterday and we found out his spokesperson had to apologize for an intern for cursing about some leaks she had done. so is this sort of bad for the democratic party and should he get out of the race? >> i think it has absolutely nothing with the democratic party whatsoever.

i think anthony weiner is an entire entity what is happening to himself and his campaign right now. >> casey? >> it's the point the jokes write themselves and this is a serious office. >> right. >> you know what? there are creeps in both political parties. i think it's a little bit odd the democrats have been so reluctant to call for him to get out of this race. >> we are short on time. shameless plugs very fast shrast. >> i want to thank my wonderful intern zach who has been with us this summer and this is his last week and going fact backto harvard. >> good luck to him. >> joe injured herself badly in our softball game and having surgery this week. best wishes to her. >> we will be supporting her. >> beyonce was great last night and i have a piece in u.s. news.com about how the pope is like bill clinton. >> okay! we will check that out! thanks to all of us for being here and thank you for joining us. that is it for "the daily rundown." chuck will see you back here

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good morning. i'm chris jansing. anthony weiner is nothing, if not tenacious, or, depending our point of view, tone deaf, unrealistic and delusional be he is trying to turn his biggest weakness in his biggest strength. if running for mayor is tough he says it's the same toughness you need to be mayor and the theme of his brand-new video. >> sometimes people say to me, you know, this campaign is pretty rough. you may want to quit. quit isn't the way we roll in new york city. we fight through tough things. we are a tough city. there are people all around new york city who get up in the morning with a pretty tough day ahead of them and they don't quit. >> and during a fiery soliloqio, weiner insisted this campaign is getting him ready for the job he wants. >> at a certain poin