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page. get on up here, amanda. she's been with us all summer and before and she's leaving us today. where do you go from here? >> i'm going back to school. >> all right. >> going to pursue medicine and public health. >> so not journalists. she's like i'm out. i am out. >> she's learned a lot. >> we drove her into the arms of the doctors. we loved having you here, thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> good luck down the road. >> thanks. >> all right, guys. if it's way too early, it's "morning joe." have a great fourth of july. we'll see you back here on monday. well, the first hurricane of 2014 is here. arthur is officially a category 1. and the east coast braces for some july 4th plans that are likely to get postponed. also this morning, where exactly are the independents on this independence day? some key third party players have shaped our history in the last century, but are there more of them running for office now
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than you might realize? plus, as a border battle unfolds over the latest influx of undocumented immigrants, homeland security secretary jay johnson says there's a humanitarian aspect that the country has to come to terms with. we're going to get reaction from one of his predecessors at dhs, former pennsylvania governor, tom ridge. good morning from washington, it's thursday, july 3rd, 2014. this is "the daily rundown." right before the independence day weekend begins, we'll also have more details on the june jobs report. a blockbuster one, at least these days. a 288,000 increase in jobs. another drop in the unemployment rate, down to 6.1%. the lowest since the economic crash of september, 2008. we'll have much more on that throughout the show as well, but let's start with the developing situation off the coast of the carolinas. the first named hurricane of the season is churning closer to north carolina's outer banks. and it's likely to be a disruption this july 4th weekend for millions along the eastern
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seaboard. arthur strengthened to a category 1 hurricane early this morning and is now packing winds of about 80 miles per hour. arthur is expected to pick up some speed throughout the day. 25 north carolina counties are on high alert, including the region's most popular holiday vacation spots along those barrier islands. meanwhile communities in five states from north carolina to massachusetts have already rescheduled fourth of july fireworks, and fema chief craig fugate is pushing for people to take this seriously, despite the so-called weakness of it being a category 1. >> the big question right now is going to be people heeding evacuation orders. we really want people if you're in an evacuation zone and the officials have said it's time to go, it's time to go. if you live from brownsville all the way up to maine, it's hurricane season. get ready. >> so let's check conditions in north carolina with the weather channel's jim cantore who joins us live. jim, i think the biggest fear of
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this hurricane and the impact it could have is you have a lot of people vacationing who don't understand the power of even weak hurricanes. >> reporter: no, they don't. this area floods very quickly. the part of the national seashore that we're on is the part that's being asked to evacuate, so the northern part of the county is not. people can stay put there and enjoy their vacation plans in about 24 hours. really this is coming in overnight. the big difference is, is most people when they come back, whether visitors or residents are not going to find homes washed away. what they're going to find potentially is this highway behind me, highway 12, which is the main evacuation route, these are cars right now that are actually leaving the island, it's going to be under water. three, four, five feet perhaps. we know this happens all the time, even in a weak tropical storm or nor'easter or winter storm if you will. so we want people off this road and out of the flood zones and that's why they gave that evacuation order. it really looks like it's going to be an overnight storm here in the outer banks, so the worst
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weather will be overnight. what can people expect? power loss, probably some tree and line damage, even though i think that's going to be minimal here. they built for category 1 and 2 hurricanes in terms of these power lines. once this time tomorrow morning rolls around, 9:02 eastern time, we'll start to see this thing pulling away and winds will be out of the northwest so conditions will probably improve rapidly. the big question is how much water, how much sand is going to be on highway 12, which is so susceptible to flooding. once they clear that, we'll be able to get people back in here. >> all right, sounds good. jim cantore with a fairly upbeat report from north carolina. thank you, sir. let's get more on the storm's path now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. so, bill, what's been interesting about this storm is we discussed yesterday, it's not making that right turn. >> the hook, no. >> it is not doing that and you explained a little bit of that yesterday. but i noticed it is -- is it just me or is the storm path moved slightly to the west? >> maybe a little bit of a jog,
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just a little bit more towards nova scotia, a little further off the maryland and delaware coast. let me show you what we're talking about and what chuck was talking about. a lot of times these storms come up like this, do the outer banks, go out to sea and never affect new england. this one will actually have some effects in new england. you can see the storm itself, there's the large eye. still a ragged eye. it looks like it will be a category 1 at landfall sometime around 8:00 p.m. to midnight. the closer view shows you the myrtle beach, wilmington area, this is the eye at the bottom of the screen there so we have another six to ten hours before the worst impacts are beginning to be felt and the winds really increase. again, about 2:00 a.m. is when it should be somewhere over the outer banks and parallel the coast from wilmington up to atlantic beach this evening up until about midnight and that's when we'll do the wind damage and wave damage on the coast. this isn't a huge hurricane. it's not going to have great impact. this is an area of the country it hits all the time. as far as the northeast coast, the cone of uncertainty is off the coast.
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we're not going to have a direct impact here. because of the horrible thunderstorms we had yesterday in this region, there's so much water in the streams and rivers, we have flood watches from d.c. all the way to the north. we'll get another round of severe storms that are widespread. 52 million people at risk of severe storms from d.c. to virginia, all the way to northern new england. then we're going to add some of the moisture from this hurricane to that friday, and we're going to get a lot of flooding problems out there, chuck. so again, we're not going to see devastation, but we are going to see a lot of fourth of julys runld, especially in new england from rain. >> well, and the big concern is you have people who are not used to storms like this, because they're on vacation, they're doing that, and that's the part of this that is of concern. >> keep them out of the water. >> exactly. bill karins, thank you very much. now i want to turn to the other breaking news of the morning, which is the june jobs report. boy, were they some big numbers across the board. let's go to the tape here. 288,000 jobs were added last month. the unemployment rate down 6.1%.
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not far from full employment, folks. that's the lowest, by the way, the unemployment rate has been since the fall of 2008. this report also included revisions that pushed the april number, ready for this, over 300,000. i believe that's only the second time in like seven years that we've had a number that high. job gains were widespread. business services added 67,000, retail was up 40,000, restaurants, bars, up 33,000, health care up 21,000, manufacturing up 16,000. the economy has shown clear improvement this year as compared to last year. over the last six months, we've averaged 231,000 jobs added each month. that's better than the last six months of 2013 when we added an average of 185,000 jobs a month. and all this is despite the fact that the economy technically shrank in the first quarter of this year. gdp decreased at a rate of 2.9%. that does not seem to have slowed the growth of jobs. you also have other parts of the
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economy, pending home sales in may jumped more than 6%, more than four times the rate analysts were expecting and the highest increase since 2010. auto sales surged in june pushing the annual selling rate to its highest point since 2006. wall street is on a roll. since hitting a low on february 3rd, the dow has gained more than 1600 points, about 10% of its value. both the s&p and dow are at record highs and the dow is likely to pass that 17,000 mark as early as today. we're going to dig even deeper into these numbers and have the chairman of the white house council of economic advisers, jason furman, in his first interview post jobs report right here later this hour. up next, it is independence day here on "the daily rundown." we're going to look at third party candidates who shaped our past and the one that say could reshape our future. but first a look ahead at today's politics planner. north carolina governor mckroery will hold a briefing on
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back now with my first reads of the morning. it's almost independence day, so it's always a didn't time for me to check in on independent candidates. where are they? third party candidates. if this ever was a time when you'd figure third party candidates would thrive, this is it. according to your latest poll, 57% said they would vote to oust their current member of congress. 63% say the country is on the wrong track. they have said that for ten straight years. democrats' approval rating is just 38%. the republican party's approval rating, 29%. at the same time a january
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gallup poll found 42% of americans identified not as gop or dem but independent. but despite the country's obvious hunger for someone new or something to break this two-party stranglehold on our dysfunctional government, the public is still somewhat wary of going totally outside the two pain political parties. our own poll found in a generic three-way race third party candidates are still third, but with 27%. if we look back at the history, there's usually some spark that does change the political dynamic. in 1912 teddy roosevelt ran as a progressive and came in second, paving the way for a relative free-for-all in 1914 as progressives, socialists and prohibition candidates managed to gain significant support. social and political turbulence gave george wallace another brief moment in the sun in the '60s and '70s. two decades later ross perot put independence back in the spotlight when he ran for president in 1992. >> we have a government that
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doesn't work. it's supposed to come from the people, it comes at the people. the people need to take their government back. >> perot got the most for a third party candidate. some say he may have cost george h.w. bush his re-election. there are 260 independent and third party candidates that ran in house races in 1994. but that actually pales in comparison to 2010 where it drew 443 nonmajor party candidates. that was the most for a midterm since the '30s. and yet despite a number of intra party battles, there's not a lot of major third party candidates out there. looking ahead to this fall, we've identified four candidates that have a good chance of at least influencing their races in a big way. even if they're still relative long shots to win. in hawaii, the former mayor of honolulu is running as an independent party candidate in a bid to knock off democratic incumbent neil abercrombie and
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former republican lieutenant governor duke iona. >> i'm in the middle. i'm where most people are. every survey has shown most people consider themselves independents. >> a june poll actually found hanaman running third. we head to maine, a state that has elected two independent governors, including the current senator, angus king. now it's elliott cutler trying to avenge a loss to paula paige and hoping he can upset democrat mike micheax at the same time. i asked him how he thinks he can govern in such a partisan atmosphere. >> the two parties have moved to the left and to the right. most legislators in the state of maine are looking for leadership in the middle. they would like to succeed. they'd like to get things done. >> turning to senate races, the long-time lawmaker who escaped
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an scam is running in south dakota. he's hoping to add to the number of independents serving in the senate. >> this will bring to three the number of independents in the senate, and i think that by electing more independents, it would be a signal on the part of the people that it's time -- >> that you'd maybe develop your own caucus? >> well, you could, yes. and finally, here's a prospective third party candidate, tom ravenel. he may jump into the south carolina race tomorrow. you may know him from the bravo series called "southern charm." he's also a former state treasurer. keep in mind the odds of winning isn't the only way to measure third party candidates, their influence matters. a number of campaigns have told me they're seeing a surprising amount of transaction for some third party candidates. a lot of them are functioning as a none of the above option. in this kienlnd of political atmosphere, they're polling higher than normal.
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if these candidates are getting 6% to 8% as opposed to the usual 2% to 4%, they're going to have an impact. in arkansas you have a libertarian and green party candidate running for the senate, both of whom could take votes from the two named party candidates. and the concern specifically among some republicans is that some of these candidates take just enough votes to allow the incumbents, incumbent democrats in red states, to win races without reaching 50%. joining me now to talk a little bit more about this, "the washington post" reed wilson, molly ball and nathan gonzalez. reed, i want to start with you. you do a lot of delving into a lot of the state races. it is surprising to me that we haven't seen more mainstream independent candidates because the atmosphere is begging for it. >> it really is. but the fundamental advantage that the parties have is this sort of incumbent structure, the volunteer infrastructure, the getting people to a phone bank, turning people out to vote on
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election day, that costs a lot of money to build. for somebody like michael bloomberg, if he were to build some national atmosphere, it would take him hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions of dollars to do so. but in a lot of these states just a couple percentage points can make the difference. john tester in both races got less than 50% of the vote and libertarian candidate running won by more than the difference between tester and his two republican opponents. >> terry mcauliffe is governor of virginia with less than 50% of the vote and it helped him with his base there. molly, i want to go back to the idea that this atmosphere is attracting real serious independent candidates. i think the guys we highlighted are fairly serious figures, but there's not many of them. >> well, and i mean part of the problem for independents has always been that being an independent is not an ideology. the independents face -- first of all, they're not necessarily moderates. a lot of them are disillusioned partisans in an age when the republican party is unpopular
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among conservatives, a lot of them are far right conservatives who have left the republican party so independents are -- a lot of independents are conservatives, not moderates. these are people who are sort of protest voting against the two-party system but that doesn't mean they all believe in the same things. so when you're an independent candidate and you have to say what you stand, for it's hard to bring that group together. >> and yet at a time when the process is seen as the impedestrianmeimpe impedime impediment, right? the issue isn't the ideology as the dysfunction with washington. when you deal with voters, whether republican or democrat, they actually do agree on the same problem that they think impacts washington, which is they can't seem to get anything done. >> right. but to molly's point when people say i just want to get things done and stop the gridlock and when they do compromise and get something wait, people are like i didn't know my taxes were going to be raised or my benefits were going to be cut. i didn't want that compromise. what we've seen electorally is
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for an independent to win, you almost have to have a complete collapse of one of the party candidates to allow that space. >> the only time or an independent candidate like jesse ventura caught fire, he was in the debates. minnesota was a state that was open, that allowed them into the debates. and that can be a game-changer. perot got renewed transaction because he was in the debates. >> that's what republicans are specifically concerned about these days. going back to montana, the first debate between senator john walsh and congressman steve danes included the libertarian candidate. republicans hate that. in a lot of states you're seeing a significant amount of traction for the libertarian specifically, not necessarily an independent candidate. >> molly, that's what i'm hearing on the ground and it's not just on polling, it's when they're doing door knocking and that's what really concerns them. because they're sitting there saying, wow, it's the disillusioned conservative in particular that could be the key to democrats holding the senate. >> and that's why so many of
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these -- this is another story about the divisions within the republican party. so many of these potential candidates are seen as potential spoilers for the republican, specifically democrats are relatively unified. although ironically the two independents in the senate caucus with the democrats, it is the democratic party that's relatively unified. and to reed's point, the independents always get called a spoiler, but from their point of view, all they need is a platform and then they can sell what they have to say. >> what are you seeing in house races? are you seeing this bubble up, that there are more people just filing and that in itself -- so these ballots are getting more crowded? >> i think nts some way similar to the senate that in some of these races that could be very close, you could have the third party candidate taking enough votes allowing someone to win -- >> 20, 25 house races where you're going to see -- >> we only have about 50 total competitive house races. >> i have a theory that we're going to see more -- in the
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competitive races, more winners with less than 50% than we've seen in a long time. >> particularly because you look at a state like colorado with mike kauffman, it's been one of the closest races and i think it will be close again. so you could have a third party candidate making a difference there. >> all right. reed wilson, molly ball, i think a lot of people think independents is the work of media folks. >> we're complicit in the problem. >> we are a little bit but the two parties need a shake-up. coming up, white house reaction to some much-needed good news for the economy. plus even more twists in the mississippi senate race that just won't end. i'll tell you what challenger chris mcdaniel is up to now. first, today's tdr trivia question. remember, we are in the state of wyoming this week with our look at the 50 states. there are just two pairs of u.s. current snats from tsenators fr same state who have run against each other for the senate. who are they? the first person to tweet the correct answer will get the
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voter irregularities, an unidentified caller kept interrupting with comments like these. >> i'd like to know if black people were harvesting cotton, why do you think it's okay to harvest their votes? why did you use black people? why did you use black people to try to get cochran elected when they're not even republicans and you're treating them as if they're just idiots, that they'll vote for cochran just because they're black? that's ridiculous. >> cochran campaign surrogates hung up shortly after the interruption while other people on the call stayed on the phone debating who might have been making those remarks. today it remains unclear who the voice on the call was. before the call started, a conservative blogger named chuck johnson had tweeted out the conference call number and password, urging people to crash the call with him. to break this all down, i'm joined now by someone who's become a familiar voice and face on the show here, sam hall, the assistant managing editor and columnist for the clarion ledger newspaper in jackson, mississippi. sam, i've been quoting you a lot the last couple of weeks when
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you wrote simply that this race has gone off the rails. this is yet -- i don't know how you would describe it now. i mean somebody has died, has committed suicide based on circumstances surrounding this race. this is only serving to really become an ugly footnote in mississippi political history. >> yeah, we've run out of adjectives to describe this race. and, you know, for the longest time we were couching it as the second most -- the second wildest race that we've ever had. it was a governor's race where someone came out many years ago and actually accused the front runner of entertaining transvestite prostitutes. and this is actually taking the cake from that. >> that seems quaint compared. let's talk about the allegations themselves, sam. i assume you guys are looking into some of these numbers.
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is there -- is there enough votes, can he find enough votes, actual voters who voted in the democratic primary and voted in the republican runoff to get his challenge heard? >> i guess it's possible, but if you took the numbers that he put out there on face value, then i would probably say it would be close. but the numbers that he's quoting out of heithe county, probably about half of that number is actually what they found would be considered irregular. if you went ballot-by-ballot challenge you're not going to get all 1500. he doesn't necessarily have to have 7,000 votes that have to be challenged or that are challenge worthy to have a judge order a new election or new elections in specific counties, but that's probably going to be the threshold that most judges are going to look at. so i think it's going to be hard to do.
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even if he did, i don't think you'd see a statewide election. i think most likely what you'd see are certain counties having to go back and revote. >> that's interesting that you point that out there. you really think that there is a reasonable likelihood that if he can prove enough irregularity in a couple of counties that he can actually get a judge to order a new election in those counties? >> i don't know that there's a reasonable likelihood that he will find those votes, but i think that more than likely what you would see is instead of an entire statewide election is that if he found a sizeable number of votes in certain counties, that i don't see a judge saying they're going to revote the entire state. they would go back into where there were problems with the election, if he could prove that, and they would just revote there. >> hey, has anybody gotten to chris mcdaniel and said the longer you drag this out, the more you're ruining any future you might have in mississippi republican politics?
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>> oh, yes. i know that that was a big discussion that they had internally just within the 24 to 48 hours following that election. and i think that's one reason you saw a lot of these groups, you know, leave immediately. you saw the tea party patriots hung on for the longest as far as taking the time to really look at the votes and where they came from and just to study whether or not there was really worth it to do a challenge. and, you know, they left eventually. >> wow, that says a lot. >> that's been told to him. but now i think the people around him are the ones who have been with him from the very beginning now, and they're the most emotionally invested in this as well. >> emotions definitely seem to be trumping rational thinking on some of these decisions. anyway, sam hall, managing editor over there at the jackson
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clarion-lern clarion-ledger, thank you. >> thank you. milestone hit on the dow just now, crossing 17,000 for the first time thanks to strong u.s. job numbers. the dow, by the way, the stock market is only open until 1:00 today because of the holiday. the economy added 288,000 jobs in june. the unemployment rate ticked down to 6.1%. it wasn't that long ago investors were cheering the dow 16,000 hit on november 21st last year. the s&p and the nasdaq are also moving higher. we'll have much more on the jobs numbers with reaction from the white house coming up. up next, we're going to turn to the battle at the border. the first secretary of homeland security, republican tom ridge, joins me here live with his take and why he opposes much of his own party on immigration policy. if y've had chickenpox, what do you think the odds are of getting shingles? those odds are high enough. really... so our business can be on at&t's network
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murrieta, that southern california city that's become the newest flash point of the national border crisis. just last night hundreds of angry residents flooded a high school auditorium for a town hall meeting. >> we can help you send a message to washington, d.c., that we're not going to put up with this. >> please, use the word "illegal aliens." they came across here illegally. >> that meeting comes after protesters in murrieta blocked busloads of these undocumented immigrants trying to reach a processing center earlier this week. republican congressman blake farenthold had a surprising response to those protesters on our show yesterday. >> i think the protests are uninformed. there's a facility that houses several hundred of these children four blocks from my home in corpus christi, texas. it's not a problem for the community. this is a humanitarian crisis the whole country needs to step up and help out. >> speaking exclusively to msnbc's rachel maddow last night, homeland security secretary jay johnson said his
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department is moving in the right direction in handling the crisis. >> i've spent time with unaccompanied children as young as 8 years old, 5 years old, who have been on a 1,000-mile journey to come to this country. you can see in their eyes vulnerability and fear that i recognize as a father. and so there's a humanitarian aspect to this situation that we simply have to grapple with and come to terms with, and so our response to this needs to reflect our laws and our values. >> joining me now, former homeland security secretary tom ridge, the man who is charged with being the first one of that unwieldy department. how are you, sir? >> good morning. >> good morning. jay johnson, would you be doing anything differently? >> well, i think he's going to do what the president wants him to do. i think his problem is solved. if we could figure out how to solve the larger problem, which is immigration reform.
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i think he's going to do what he's been instructed to. but i know jay johnson and i think that he in his heart of hearts would prefer that republicans and democrats find a way to finally end of the polarization of this issue that leads to the confrontation of adults in front of kids from el salvador and guatemala saying we don't want you to come into this country. so yes. although i do think that deporting children who are trying to escape poverty and violence in some of these countries is really problematic. >> what do you do? if the united states doesn't deport these children back, there is this concern that it ends up sending -- putting up -- look, that the rumors that are being spread around down in central america are true, that if you get into the country, into america, they won't kick you out. >> part of the problem, you do have to lay some of the responsibility and i think significant responsibility at the white house. i think there was a
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pre-re-election executive order that said we're not going to deport children. >> and legally it had nothing to do with those central american kids and all that, but it allowed the rumor to spread. >> it was not a rumor, it was a fact. that's what he said of the and vice president biden said it's not quite the same situation. but frankly what the president needs to understand is that not only do political leaders and leaders of foreign countries but parents in some of these countries pay attention to what he says and what he does. remember, there were boatloads of cuban kids, children that came to this country. castro let them come in and their parents said go to america, it's a special place. tremendous leadership out of that group. it's just the wrong thing for us to be doing. at the end of the day, the epicenter of the problem is no solution. anybody that's opposed to a solution continues the status quo, and shame on them. >> i want to play another piece of sound from secretary johnson from last night. >> i spent time with unaccompanied children as young as 8 years old, 5 years old, who
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have been on a 1,000-mile journey to come to this country. and you can see in their eyes vulnerability and fear that i recognize as a father. and so there's a humanitarian aspect to this situation that we simply have to grapple with and come to terms with, and so our response to this needs to reflect our laws and our values. >> all right. obviously you believe on the president's part that this executive order may have inadvertently caused this new crisis with these children. what about the house republicans here just throwing up their hands and saying i'm not doing anything? >> i think there's plenty of culpability on both ends of pennsylvania avenue. at the end of the day, i think there's been failed leadership in both the executive branch and the legislative branch. i think one of the observations that the president made is that he said he gave the house time and space to work their will. >> which is what they asked for.
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those leaders did ask the white house for that privately. >> that's exactly right, and i give him credit for that. but i think he has to go back and take a page out of ronald reagan's book and bill clinton's book, you've got to be personally engaged. time and space didn't work out. how do you engage them? >> bring them together and butt their heads together if you have to. >> when you inherit a problem, since you're the ceo, it's your primary responsibility to be the catalyst to solve the problem. so if the time and space doesn't work, i know the president loves basketball. it's the full court press. you get engaged and you get it done. and obviously the house was willing, i think, potentially to do some incremental changes. the senate has the full comprehensive bill. obviously they're irreconcilable, but i think you need to find ways to move it along. maybe not the comprehensive approach, but it's interesting to see if the president would say, okay, no path to citizenship.
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we will legitimatize their presence. but my republican friends have to get off this enforcement first, whatever that means. it has to be comprehensive in some manner, shape or form. >> tom ridge, trying to bring some sanity to this. i appreciate it. sorry, apologies, your mic was spotty in and out. that's our technical difficulty. >> always a pleasure to be with you, not a problem. thank you, chuck. up next, the president's top economic adviser, jason furman, will be here live. long before he was vice president, dick cheney served as wyoming's lone member of congress. in our tdr 50 look at wyoming this week, we'll look at his rise, including a long-lost campaign ad that was so revealing, it never made air. but first our tdr 50 soup of the day comes from jeffrey's bistro in laramie, wyoming. today they're serving up tortilla soup. we'll be right back. ♪
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fwook vice president biden's first run for the senate in 1972 and it remind us that the veep's predecessors, dick cheney, also made his first run for congress back in the '70s as well. cheney has a distinction in american politics. he's the only former presidential chief of staff to win a race for congress after his time at the white house. the year was 1978, more than a year after president ford lost to jimmy carter. a 37-year-old dick cheney told "the washington post" that a person who thinks it's a comedown doesn't understand the unique features of putting your name on the ballot and persuading thousands of people to support you. politics is not necessarily a hierarchy, especially in a democracy. so cheney chris crossed the state to grow grassroots support and politely declined ford's offer to campaign for him. though ford did appear at the state convention at cheney's request to help him. but the campaign had an unexpected scare when cheney experienced his first heart attack on a campaign swing in cheyenne. after six weeks of rest, the
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incident was the driving headline of his continuing campaign. as "the washington post" noted in august of that year, quote, the heart attack comes up at every campaign stop. cheney now seems to be better known for his weeks in the hospital than for his two years in the white house. and cheney's campaign even shot a tv spot to try to deal with what was apparently a political problem for him. >> having had a mild heart attack led me really to pause and reflect, and upon reflection we decided we did in fact want to continue the campaign primarily because we all enjoy being part of something larger than ourself, something that goes younbeyond our own persona self-interest, something as big, for example, as representing the people of wyoming in the united states congress. there's ample precedent for people that had heart attacks. dwight eisenhower and lbj and i intend to be one of those. >> but that ad never actually aired. as cheney reflected in his memoir, my instinct was that the
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finished product would make people uncomfortable. cheney wound up winning the september 12th primary with 42% in a three-way race and still calls it the toughest election of his house career. his november win was a walk compared to that primary. he won with 59%. hope you enjoyed that little trip down memory lane. turning back to the june jobs report that showed a gain of 288,000 jobs, the markets have responded by surging past the 17,000 mark. all major indicators are in green this morning. so let's bring in jason furman, chair of the white house council of economic advisers and he joins me now. jason, good morning to you. let me just start with -- >> good morning. >> -- your analysis here of what happened today and the fact that it appears that you are vindicated in what you said the first quarter gdp was all about, that this contraction was a unique episode in the recent history of the american economy, that weather was so catastrophic that it actually shrank the economy but it didn't slow down the economic recovery. that's an amazing thing that
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happened, but it appears to be the case. >> it does appear to be the case. you know, i often say we don't want to make too much about any one month's numbers. we now have five months in a row above 200,000. that's the first time we've seen that since the late 1990s. you look at the first half of this year as a whole, it's the strongest first half of a year also since the late 1990s. so there is no doubt that the economy is strengthening and that this is good news. >> obviously there's always concern it feels as if one part of the economy is recovering faster. we look at dow 17,000, we look at sort of where wage growth is. the uneven part of this recovery, that it feels as if maybe it's more on the coasts, more with college educated, that middle america, both geographically and within the economic ladder aren't recovering as fast. >> yeah, i look at this report and i see two real challenges
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for us in terms of public policy. one is caused by the recession and that's the unusually high number of long-term unemployed people. that rate is 2%. rate is 2%, itt it was going into it. we really need to be doing more about that. then i see something that's gone on for decades and precedes the recession and that's something that hasn't been solved yet and that's the stagnation of wages and that explains everything the president's trying to do from infrastructure to performing our tax structure to raising the minimum wage. >> i want to ask you a question got a new normal that hasn't been fully factored introwhy this economic recovery has been sleeter to gain traction. that is the part that the american public is state offing more, doesn't spend as much, this isn't a consumer driven recovery. are you still seeing that, or are we seeing signs that maybe
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the congre excuse meer is comin back? >> households went into this recession very leveraged. and this means borrowing less, saving less and spending more. that's one of the big challenges of getting yourself out of a financial crisis is that process. we have seen that process work its way tlig for more households, more for households at the top than at the middle or the bottom. so consumer spending has been strengthening and i would expect it would continue to stay robust. >> we might be an acceleration point in job growth? >> we're at a strengthening point over this last six months and i feel better about where fiscal policy is, i feel better about where we are in the deleveraging process as well. >> jason furman, thanks very much. trivia time, only two pairs of current u.s. senators from the
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being the new kid on the block can be intimidating. take your kids on a walk through the online neighborhood. show them sites you feel are acceptable. teach them how to deal with cyber bullies and encourage them to navigate safely. the more you know. well, it's the end of a short week, so it's time to meet our rising wyoming star. liz cheney, her short-lived senate bid was a bust. but she's likely to be a big player in wyoming in the coming months. our other democrat on the list is anna cuprielle.
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>> the first latina ever to become a state democratic party chair and it's in wyoming. don't be surprised if she runs for elected office in the years to come. now let's go to the republicans in there republican dominated state. state republican tim studson. he's had a fast rise. our insiders stay he could bethe next speaker of the house. and last but not least on our list of rising stars, rosy berger. she's the house speaker pro tem in the legislature, she recently played a big role in shaping the state's budget and continues to push for fiscal responsibility. that's it for this edition of the daily rundown, coming up next is craig melvin.
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the first hurricane of the atlantic, 2014 season churning its way up the east coast right now threatening several areas along the north carolina coast, it could make landfall tonight, we're just moments away from a news conference, with north carolina's governor and emergencies officials on the potential impact of hurricane arthur. you might remember pat mckrquare said don't put your stupid hats on. mandatory evacuations affecting parts of the outer banks region. women car rains is tracking the storm. we will get to sarah in just a few minutes. first of all, how has this storm changed over the past 24 hours. >> thankfully it's changing over what weec
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