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it's 4-nil. unbelievable. brazil's world cup is surely over. this is utterly beyond belief. trying to make sure and they do make sure. seven! an utter humiliation. >> good morning. that's one way of putting it, or as my teenage daughter said yesterday watching this game, it's disgusting. they said it was disgusting. good morning. it's wednesday, july 9. welcome to "morning joe." we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle. i feel like it's been forever. >> it has been. >> it's been too long. host of "way too early," thomas roberts. you're so energetic. when the show starts, "way too early," i pop out of my seat. you start screaming. >> i like to scream. >> it's a burst of energy. >> screaming helps. >> all right. "morning joe" contributor mark

halperin with us. in washington associate editor of "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. that was disgusting, wasn't it, gene? >> it was amazing. it was shocking. it was stunning. i couldn't believe it. i've never seen a team fall apart like that. >> joining gene in washington anchor from nbc world news america, katty kay. did you see the match? >> i think the "wall street journal" is calling it a blitz creek. i'm not sure i would use that particular term. >> germany versus brazilch. then oscar scored and ruined my bug. >> seven goals gets scored -- >> four goals in six minutes.

>> people stop complaining about soccer. nobody ever scores. this was terrific. >> early touchdown. >> point after. field goal. >> look at crying. that's like a red sox game. >> we're used to it. the brazilians aren't. >> the chanting was incredible in the first 11 minutes at least until it started go off the rails. i couldn't tweet fast enough to keep up with the goals. >> were you live tweeting? >> i was. >> was it pele. >> twitter says most tweeted event ever. >> at my house we talked away, couldn't hurt anymore. it was too painful. >> i could not look anymore. >> why was it so painful? >> it was an ob lit ration.

>> when i sabra zil fell apart, that must be what happened. look. germany beats brazil by six goals which never happens. nobody has ever scored seven goals in a world cup semifinal. germany only beat the united states by one goal. does that mean united states is better that brazil? i don't think so. instead of fortifying themselves and fortifying the defense and kind of getting it together after the first german goal, i think they just kind of fell apart, and then there was a second one, and the flood gates just opened, to state the obvious. >> they didn't have neymar. he was injured. and silva was out because of penalty. >> why are you smiling? they didn't have that. the threads, the fabric of brazil fell apart.

>> soccer i think has finally made it. the u.s. is out. every paper, every paper you pick up, international. look at this. "new york daily news," it's the front page. here the post has this great story that my husband wrote, invasion of the tiny terrors. drones flying all around the city, around building tops. he had incredible video from one of those drones. they're toys, but they're menaces. >> adorable little menaces. >> it's a real story. i think they have a little problem. it's called like big buildings and people on streets that can't be hit by them. i'm not sure how they're going to figure that out. anyhow, let's get to the news. a bunch of big headlines this morning. we'll start with president obama arriving in texas today where he'll meet with governor rick

perry over whether the two will shake hands for a photo op. i think we're beyond this flap, but i guess not. the president will attend fund-raisers and meet with local officials but won't visit the border. while some democrats are adopting a wait-and-see attitude, others are calling on him to take a more active role especially while in texas. >> the borderlines deserves apartmental visit. i think the visit by the president is reaffirming the border lands are vital and important. >> i'm sure president bush thought the same thing, he could look at everything from up in the sky and he owned it for a long time. i hope this isn't the katrina moment for president obama saying he doesn't need to come to the border. he should come down. >> actually we should get something done. president obama is asking congress for an emergency, 3.7 billion for outreach to central america. it will also go to immigration

judges and border patrol agents to deal with the influx of some 50,000 undocumented children. mark halperin, we were talking a little bit before the show as we were getting ready. big picture, there's been an attempt on both sides definitely by the white house to get something done on immigration. nothing has been done which is why we are here today. whose failure is this? >> lots of people want comprehensive immigration reform which means dealing with people here illegally, more than 10 million. big business wants it, labor, house republicans don't want a bill like that. this problem needs to be solved more immediately. i think the press is obsessed with him going to the border. i don't think he'll go. but this money is a lot of money. what's it going to be spent on? what are the american principles at stake? i think the president, as hard of an issue as this, what is at stake here? what are we balancing, what do we say about a country about

whether we're dealing with this or not? how can we spend that money well? >> gene, it's been so difficult to figure out which side of the better point on immigration. it's one of those issues. it's coming down to now arguing over a handshake or whether or not the president should go to the border. if the president feels strongly about his attempts to get something done on immigration and if the republicans have failed or if boehner has failed or if they have stymied the process as many argue, why not go to the border and say this is what i wanted to do, and the republicans are in the way and use the opportunity to bring light to the issue while actually being there? >> i don't know. i don't know why not go to the border except that the white house doesn't like to to present optics. they feel we're about substance, we're not about optics. that's just for you guys to take pictures on, but it wasn't really solve anything. i think optics do matter.

i think in this case he could draw more attention an focus on an immediate problem that needs to be solved. you ask what is the money for? one thing it should be for is providing a way to handle with the influx on a humanitarian basis and also to decide the cases of these children. they all have to be looked at to see if they qualify for asylum, if they get sent home? how does that happen? to do that process now can take years for each child. that's unacceptable. >> i think any opportunity to kind of show the humanity and the lives of these children would be important. optics often looks like a shallow argument in terms of pr, but isn't there an opportunity here to show how the republicans have failed these children with the president using perhaps the

trip? >> as mark just pointed out, business wants it, labor wants it, most americans want this situation resolved. >> religious groups. >> religious groups, catholic church, a lot of religious groups. the house republicans seem adamant in joining forces to get anything done on this issue with regard to the president of the united states. katty, there seems to be anecdotally a larger issue involved. i don't like the word optics about the president going to the border or not going to the border. but the amount of misinformation being thrown out there about who these children are, where they're from, why they're here is just voluminous. it would seem to some that the president of the united states, in addition to asking for this money -- the president asked for billions to deal with the border -- some sort of statement addressing the questions just raised, who these children are,

why they're here. they are not flooding local school systems. they are not flooding local hospitals. people are walking around this country thinking this means the end of the united states of america because there are 48,000 children currently on our border. >> yes, and all the local papers down there and the national papers as well are full of the stories of local people being asked to take in these children and look after them, as if this is some type of crime being committed against local residents. i can see the white house didn't like the idea that they were playing politics with this, and now they don't like the idea that they have to play catch-up to the press which is saying you should go to the border. that kind of speech you're talking about, mike, talking about the individuals and the humans that the president has tried to do, making the speech down on the border might not be a bad place to do that. clearly what is happening now on the border, the number of

children coming over, need to deal with this crisis immediately, it seems to be putting off the president's chances of executive action to deal with some of these family issues of parents of kids who were born in the united states, for example. some of the things that the president wanted to do by executive order, it's hard to see those things being done in the near term. we were talking about it two weeks ago. now it's hard to see -- >> now extreme politics involved here. go ahead, tom. >> we can thank republicans for how children are being dealt with because of a 2000 law, passed under president bush, the trafficking reauthorization act detaets how children crossing without their parents are treated. they automatically get to apply for asylum. that was passed under president george w. bush. rick perry probably knows all

this. a lot of politics are coming under way. there's a federal law in play that dictates exactly how unaccompanied minors need to be handled. >> now we have all this, renewed talk of -- i'm going to read this straight. >> you really are? >> i am. hold on. just give me a second. >> want me to hold your hand. >> there's renewed talk of the president's impeachment for some republican circles. "the washington post" points out it could cause headaches for the party in the midterms. iowa senate hopeful, and i had so much hope in joni because of her whole castration thing. i liked that. it was good branding. it was good. but then she goes here. joni ernest trying to down play a video that has emerged suggesting impeachment back in

january. here is a look. >> he is continuing saying executive order, making appointments without authority. yes, absolutely he is overstepping his bounds. i do think, yes, he should face those repercussions, whether that's removal from office, whether that's impeachment, but as a u.s. senator -- absolutely. as a uchltd s. senator we have to push that issue. we can't be silent on things like that. he has become a dictator. he is running amuck. he is not following our constitution. >> but in a statement, the ernst campaign says, quote, if any president over steps their bounds, there are procedures in place for congress and the american people to hold him or her accountable. impeachment is a strong word and should not be thrown around lightly. >> there you go. meanwhile former alaska

governor sarah palin says it's time to impeach president obama over the immigration crisis. palin claims he has intentionally allowed a growing number of children and families to illegally cross the border. since 2008, the vice presidential candidate made her plea to lawmakers and candidates and video on facebook. >> enough is enough of the years of abuse from this president. his unsecured border crisis for me is the last straw. it makes kind of the battered wife say no mas, that's enough. it's time to impeach. on behalf of american workers and legal immigrants, we should opinion poepz any politicians on the left or the right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment. the many impeachable offenses of barack obama can no longer be ignored. >> who wants to take it? >> one can laugh about calling

for impeachment. the fact is the democrats do have a midterm problem of how to get their advantage on a lot of issues front and center. the energy on the right about impeachment over immigration and irs, benghazi, all these things. the political reality is we're kind of frozen until the midterms. right now people on the right -- >> i want to highlight something. i'm not laughing. this scares me actually. it's disturbing. i'm sorry. i'm not trying to be -- that whole sound bite we just played and the impact i know it has really scares me. >> thank you john mccain. thank you john mccain for unleashing that on the united states. >> president clinton was impeached. people called for president bush's impeachment lots. we're at a time in this country where i can't foresee a president not having charges leveled at them.

>> that's where we're at. >> polarized time. one-time republican governor charlie crist is on a quest to unseat rick scott. this time he's running as a democrat. while others democrats are trying to avoid being connected with the president, crist is full of love for the commander in chief. he told the "wall street journal," quote, i love him. i think he's a great man, a great leader and a great president. how do you think he's going to do, mark halperin? >> he has a good chance. again, if it's a republican year which is shaping up to be right now, i think he'll have a tough time. he's running against governor scott who is not very popular. he has a decent chance. >> a lot going on that we'll get to on hillary clinton. are we going to do that now? want to wait tower? saving it. >> let's save it. >> it has to do with sort of a duck dynasty thing.

not duck dynasty. we talk about a dynasty issue. she's confronted about it. >> denver carrington. john forsyth. >> she compares herself to former presidents. it could be a hint as to something that might be going on with her. please. still ahead on "morning joe," president obama has time for billiards and beers in denver but not enough time to visit the border. critics are making that parallel. the official white house response in our 7:00 hour. plus, did a-rod have permission by major league baseball to use performance-enhancing drugs. we'll take a look at the new book making that claim. up next, a special delivery for passengers stranded on the plane. did pizza make the difference for everybody there. a first look at the world's largest water slide.

it looks like fun, but no, huh-uh. here is raphael miranda with a check ton forecast. >> good morning mika. good morning everyone. while we're still recovering from a major severe weather outbreak in the northeast, over 300 reports of wind damage. right now a quieter start to the day. a couple of showers moving through, but nothing significant. the problem is that cold front that brought on that severe weather yesterday is still hanging around, so the humidity is still there. temperatures still between 85 and 90 degrees. you can see in all the major cities, 91 in philadelphia and the tropical moisture is still hanging around. storms could fire up later on today, especially in the afternoon and evening. that could certainly impact travel. also watching out for severe weather across the plains and the southeast. it's going to be a store read day in places like orlando, miami, into atlanta as well. beautiful weather. high pressure dominating the midwest. finally going to break out of this humidity but not until tomorrow here in the northeast. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. vo: this is the summer.

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4g lte network. it is time to take a look at the morning papers, in our parade of papers, the "los angeles times," donald sterling appeared in court yesterday in a cass challenging the sale of his los angeles clippers team by estranged wife shelly sterling. once on the stand, the 80-year-old shifted between angry and sarcastic out bursts and a soft spoken demean more. both sides claim sterling's testimony helps their case. >> we saw the real donald sterling, the judge sees the real donald sterling now. he sees that this guy just makes stuff up. >> i think the claim that he

lacks competency is a sham. it's absurd, and i think that should become more obvious to all of you today. >> we look at "the washington post," six miles of the deadly smallpox virus were found in a storage room at an fda room in maryland. the vials were not compromised. this marks the second time this month the federal agency mishandled a deadly pathogen. smallpox was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions. washington state has allowed the sale of recreational marijuana. so far 25 retailers received their licenses to sell pot legally. just five stores opened yesterday. some owners are still facing issues with permits, financing and securing suppliers. colorado began selling marijuana legally earlier this year. a look at "usa today," a frontier airlines pilot being

praised after ordering pizzas for his passengers. they were stuck on the tarmac because of a weather delay. >> is that your flight, mike? >> no, a us air flight and no pizza. they made us clean up the plane. >> this plane was bound for denver but diverted because of something going on with weather. cheyenne, wyoming, is the place where this was happening. the pilot took matters into his own hand and reported 50 pizzas paying out of his own pocket. >> oh, my gosh. can someone do the math? >> there's a topping question. >> about 500 bucks. >> half pepperoni. j.k. rowling release add short story catching up with hairy potter and his friends. the 1500-word story was posted on her website features the

34-year-old harry potter who works in the ministry of magic. rolling has be rolling, this is the first time she's written about harry potter since the final book was published in 2007. >> poor ron is losing his hair. >> harry is a little gray. >> is there a magical pill you can take. the kansas city stall, the world's tallest water slide is set to open trou. the brat, german for insane or slang for the wedgie maker was set to open in may, but delayed three times due to safety concerns. it's over 168 feet tall, features this 50-foot drop. reaches speeds up to 65 miles per hour. straight down. >> no, no, no.

my god. >> you're on a little raft. >> that doesn't feel like -- >> there's water. they sprinkle some on you. >> that looks like fun. i'm not doing an amusement park ever again. >> good barbecue in kansas city. let's go to politico, chief white house correspondent mike allen here with the morning playbook. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> no article in politico that says the key to democrats winning is simple, they need a bubba strategy. what can the party learn from bill clinton? >> this is the other end of the telescope of the 99% argument. how do democrats who have done very well about pointing out the rising inequality, the problems with the 1%, how do they then talk to the 99%? this article on politico by mason adams says democrats, as

bill clinton did, as mark warner did in virginia, need to find a way to talk to bubbas, and the technical definition of this if you're a political strategist or pollster, they say these are southerners with limited means, less education. how do you talk to them about their problems, this rising under class in america that we've talked about on the show so often, steve rattner shows, on his charts. how do you talk to them without being disingenuous, condescending that's the challenge for democrats. you don't went an election in this way but part of putting together a winning coalition for democrats. >> one other politico headline, very early on seat for republicans in 2016, cleveland. it comes down to one issue for the gop, you say, mike. what is it? >> that's money. republicans are trying to take more control of a nominating process that i think we all can agree got out of control four

years ago when you had newt gingrich as the favorite today and rick santorum as the favorite the next week. they want to avoid that. so with their debates, with their primaries and now with their conventions, all three of those moves by the republican party are trying to take more control. so with the money, you've got access to money earlier. you can raise money for the general election earlier. conventions got pushed back. they used to always be earlier. they got pushed back almost to labor day when candidates were taking public money, taxpayer money and could only get it then. now that they're funded privately, they wanted to do it earlier. interestingly, david plouffe, president obama's campaign manager tweeted yesterday republicans are making a mistake by moving to late june, early july. he says the only two things that you control when you're running for president are the vice presidential pick and the convention. if you do them too soon when people aren't paying attention, you lose that ammo.

>> thomas just handed me the headline, "usa today." "cleveland rising" what's next for the city once known as the mistake on the lake? is this is good call, mark halperin? >> i think david plouffe is absolutely right. if you do it that early, you risk burning your candidate out. i think cleveland is a great choice. they haven't had a political convention in ohio in like 50 years. republicans have to win ohio to win the white house. i think june and july is a huge error. >> we're going to cleveland. politico's mike allen, thank you. coming up, more on the stunner in brazil. the host nation shocked in the semifinals of the world cup. how brazil fell to germany in record setting fashion. "morning joe" sports is next. ♪

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>> did you ever see the movie das boot? >> this is what it's all about. time for sports. sharp german team destroyed any

brazilian hopes of making it into a world cup final, netting five goals before even a half hour had expired. now, the 5-0 halftime lead is highlighted by the german striker miroslav klose, who scored his record-breaking 16th world cup goal. germany added two more in the second half before brazil finally gets on the board in the 90th minute. a kid named oscar scored. the 7-1 final is one of the biggest losses in world cup history. germany's seven goals is the most ever scored in any world cup semifinal. they move on to the final, and they're going to face the winner of today's semifinal matchup between the netherlands and argentina. any predictions? >> i have a prediction. given the reaction to brazil's loss among brazilians, each member of that team will have to leave the country. >> they made that announcement yesterday, the german fans were told they would be safely escorted out of the stadium. i was more worried about the brazilian player. >> all european final. >> you think? >> oh, yeah. >> going for the netherlands? >> yes.

we're going to talk about baseball now. pittsburgh cards and pirates tied in the bottom of the ninth. 3-2 pitch. >> it's back-to-back nights! walk it off, baby. >> kolten wong gets st. louis the walk-off win. the reds with men on the corners in the bottom of the ninth. >> winning run at third. nobody out. hamilton, a broken bat, flare. the reds have won it! they've won it! >> drops one just shy of foul territory. cincinnati wins 6-5 in walk-off fashion. >> in detroit, juan uribe hits a two-run homer to give l.a. a 5-0 lead. how do they celebrate? by blowing bubbles?

break out the bubble maker. maybe the dodgers should focus less on bubbles and more on baseball. they won't score another run as detroit goes on to win it 14-5. the curse of the bubbles. >> to los angeles, toronto and jose bautista walking back to the dugout. >> that looks like our newsroom after "morning joe." thomas gets really angry. >> i throw my jamba juice around. as we talk about the home run derby, the captain announcing the top three picks yesterday. reigning champ yoenis ses pe ped dis, brian dozier and adam jones. he's going to be joining bautista. cespedis. >> for the national league team.

troy tulowitzki has chosen todd traz years, yas sill pug and johncarlo stanton. that is your hooked on phonics lesson. >> thank you, thomas. good job. don't trash our newsroom. >> his nickname is joey bats. >> you missed it last week? he went nuts because he went so angry. >> he cares. up next -- >> it's the baltimore robertsons. hillary clinton pushes back on the notion that if she successfully runs for president america would turn into a monarchy. she addressed that? did she parallel herself to a former president? don't go away. we'll be right back with more "morning joe."

♪ we've got a must-read coming from "the washington post" in just a moment. first, hillary clinton is playing down claims that the return of the clinton name to the white house would mean america is turning into a monarchy. in an interview with german outlet dare spiegel, she panned the suggested that politics have come to be dumb knitted. there were two roosevelts and adamsons. it may be that certain families have a sense of commitment or a predisposition to want to be in politics. i ran for president. i lost to somebody named barack obama. i don't think there's any guarantee in american politics. my last name did not help me in the end. according to quinnipiac polling hillary clinton receives 58% of the vote in a potential democratic primary, far ahead of senator elizabeth warren and vice president joe biden. she also beats all the likely

republican candidates from anywhere from seven to nine percentage points. gene robinson, what do you make of how she answered the question? also i've been seeing stories popping up about other potential candidates, other women candidates on the democratic side for president. i've mentioned one along the way. it almost seems like some on the right are propping them up because they would like to see that happen strategic cli, they just don't want to go up against hillary clinton because the machine is so unbelievably strong. >> the machine is strong now. recall the machine was unbelievably strong in 2008 as well. that didn't work out very well for hillary clinton. this is a different year. this is a different situation for her. and it looks -- other major democrats are not going to get out there until they see what she's going to do. as long as she keeps playing it like this and kind of running

without saying she's running, it keeps everybody else out and keeps her in the lead. what else is she going to say about the dynasty question other thanks you know, people could argue that, well, perhaps, it's grandiose to compare oneself to the roosevelts and adamsons. we're talking about running for president, they ran for president. that's the context. secretly i guess she still hopes jeb bush gets in. the whole dynasty question, just deal with it, people. >> that would definitely even it out. joe? >> you know, mark halperin, she's not campaigning like a roosevelt. obviously this is just in a book tour launch. i'm stunned by how clunky it's been. i have to go back to what gene just said. she was supposed to be invincible in 2008. i thought the clinton machine was invincible in 2008. we learned otherwise. these last few weeks have been very revealing about hillary

clinton the campaigner. i must say as a republican there's not as much fear of hillary clinton today as there was a month ago. in fact, you almost want to run against a clunky candidate that's carrying around that dynasty level. >> joe, i'd like to answer that in two ways, first in english and then in german since we've had a lot of german stuff on the show. the biggest development in the 2016 race, republicans do not fear anything like they did before. she's never going to be a great candidate. she's never going to have the fingertip feel of politics of her husband, barack obama or george bush. i think the story to some extent is the people around her failing to prepare her for the most obvious questions imaginable, about her wealth, about her paid speeches, about the question of dynasty. she's not given very good answers. mostly performed fine but most of the questions have been easy. >> mark halperin, i remember you

saying this two years before mitt romney ran. you were saying the same thing, that you were stunned, that mitt romney after all his years in public service, was not prepared about basic questions about his wealth, about health care. you just wonder, mike barnicle, how hillary clinton was so ill-equipped to respond to basic questions on a book tour. >> what's interesting, joe, at least to some people, her referencing the adams family, the roosevelts. >> that sounded funny. >> you liked saying that. >> clearly she's been out of the rotation for quite a while. she was secretary of state, wasn't asked any political questions. when she's asked a political question, her frame of reference is oddly askew. katty, in listening to this conversation, i'm wondering if any candidate out there who was

even thinking of the presidency is prepared to deal with the undercurrent that is in the country today and it's not about politics so much as it seems to be about a lot of people wondering are the wheels coming off the united states of america? >> you can argue that the wheels in washington came off a while ago, mike, and who would want to get involved in this race. i think for hillary clinton it's going to take a little bit more candor, frankly. her response to that question and to some other questions is slightly disingenuous and slightly dismissive. jeb bush gets asked this same question about dynasty. i've asked him that question. he's much more frank about it. he has a much more honest answer which is, yeah, it's kind of weird, right? in a country of 300-odd million people, what does it say about our gene pool that we draw from the same two or three families? i think that's a refreshingly frank answer and a recognition that there's a problem here and

it suggesting something about america, and he's not sure whether it's the right suggestion. i think just to stay, well, actually there's nothing here, move on, in the way hillary clinton seems to have done on that dynasty question. it suggests there's a slight lack of honesty or candor about her answers. i think she's going to have to develop something a little bit more frank to deal with that. >> too careful, too cautious, too calibrated. >> that's what it comes down to. i still think yesterday's story has legs on some issues about the legal case that she dealt with years ago. all right. i want to get to one must-read, by dana milbank about the state of the republican establishment. he wrote, the last imperial japanese soldier to surrender after world war ii hid out in a jungle in the philippines for 29

years refusing to believe the war was over. he finally turned himself in wearing his sword, cap and patched uniform. he died at the age of 91. his passion for lost causes lives on in the person of chris mcdaniel, a failed senate candidate in mississippi. one pictures mcdaniel emerging from the black creek wilderness 29 years from now, his flag shredded by alligators finally seceding to cochran. i've argued before that it's no longer about ideology, but about temperament. the division now is between those who would govern and those who would sooner burn the whole place to the ground and in this struggle mcdaniel carries a torch. what do you think, joe? >> i think dana, first of all, had a great time writing that op ed. congratulations to dana milbank for being able to do that research and bring it into an op

ed. gene robinson, i've been saying for a couple of years now that it's not about ideology. it is about resentment. we saw that this morning in the news story at the top, sarah palin going out talking about impeachme impeachment. she knows he's not going to get impeached. it's about resentment. it's not about ideology. i do think dana has that right. >> i think he has it right, too. resentment is a good word because i think that does fuel a lot of the tea party passion. some of that resentment is -- it is actually kind of interesting because this feeling that i think others who are not members of the tea party, including some democrats share that the feeling that there's -- that the system is either broken or engineered

for powerful interests and not for ordinary people, but dana is absolutely right about the intraparty split in the republican party in chris mcdaniel. he can hurt thad cochran. i don't know that he can make him lose, but he can hurt him. if that keeps happening across the country, this won't be as good a year for the republicans as they hope it will. >> the politics of resentment, mika, nothing new. it's been with us for a very long time. it's just that it's damaged the republican party a great deal over the past two, three, four years. and i think you're having a lot of people that are ideologically conservative that are tea party republicans understanding that you can't change the country if you don't win elections. if you don't win legislative battles, if you don't win the pr war. that's something that chris mcdaniel obviously never figured out. >> you see it in the calls for impeachment of late.

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in the sky above gaza, the missiles weren't all going one way. hamas kept firing rockets into israel. >> sirens have sounded and israelis have told them they have between 15 seconds to one minute to run to shelter. >> in gaza, there were no warnings. >> israeli force haves streamed toward the gaza strip preparing for a possible ground invasion. >> we have to stand up and fight. >> with anger over the border crisis at a boiling point. >> the president asked today for nearly $4 billion to deal with the surge of children crossing into the u.s. illegally. >> i don't believe he particularly cares whether or not the border of the united states is secure. >> it's going to be a tough sell, republicans accuse the president of asking for a blank check. >> the tipping point in this drive towards impeachment has been the immigration issue. we're not going to put up with

this lawlessness. enough is enough. >> welcome back to "morning joe." joining the table, we have the president of the council on foreign relations richard haass. richard, germany-brazil, wow. what do you think? >> this will actually be bad for the president of brazil. they have an election in october. what is likely to stem from this is already tremendous doubt about the cost of the games. this actually has political consequences. >> joe, germany's big dance. take a look at this. most goals scored in a semifinal. we have the numbers for you. joe, you take this. seven, most goals scored all time, 223. worst loss, 7-1. six minutes, joe, four goals. >> it was absolutely stunning. it's hard -- i was trying to explain to some people yesterday

when we were watching the match exactly what this would be like. it would be like having the two best nfl teams show up, everybody that loves nfl football waiting for the game expecting what the great showdowns and then having the score be 63-0 at half-time. it happened so quickly, four goals scored. this happened against brazil. gene robinson, richard haass would usually be laughed out of the council on foreign relations if he said a sporting event could have political implications. in brazil, the national identity is so closely attached to football that this will actually have an impact on a nation who has believed that they were going to win the world cup since they were awarded this, and they have not lost at home since 1975

in any competitive match. gene, i know you're a big football fan. when you were watching this yesterday, what were you thinking? i couldn't believe what i was seeing. >> i couldn't believe it either. nobody could. the germans couldn't believe it. they were as shocked as anybody else. you are right about brazil. brazil has won the world cup five times. every world cup they go in expecting at least to contend, if not to win. to have it in brazil, in the host country. they lost the only other time they hosted the cup in 1950, they lost in the final match to uraguay. this year they were going to win and erase that earlier trauma which most brazilians are too young to remember. it's kind of part of the national history and lore. to spend all that money,

billions and billions of dollars which was controversial at the time building stadiums that could turn into white elephants and when the country needs hospitals and schools, all that is going to come back again. people are going to be in a really bad mood. >> a really bad mood for a long time, mika. argentina lost to falk lands, brazil lost two world cups, 1950 and 2014. they'll remember it. they'll be talking about it for 50 years. >> this is like being a knicks fan. >> the foreign policy implications of the world cup. that's very "morning joe." let's get to the news. president obama arrives in texas today -- >> was that an insult? >> it was sort of, backhanded. no. it was good actually. the president's attending fund-raisers in texas as we've been reporting and meeting with local leaders about the immigration issue. governor rick perry says he will not visit the border amid the immigration crisis and is now --

the president is also asking congress for an emergency $3.7 billion to pay for outreach to central america, also to pay for new detention facilities, immigration judges and border patrol agents to deal with the influx of some 50,000 undocumented children. while some democrats are adopting a wait-and-see attitude on his border plan, others are calling on him to take a more active role. congressman henry way ard of texas says they should have seen it coming a long time ago. congressman, i'll start off by saying i think there have been attempts to get immigration reform going and they've been blocked by other members of congress on the other side of the aisle. putting that aside, what are your thoughts on this -- is it bickering going on about whether or not the president should go to the border, or is there an opportunity for him to shed light on the failure of the

republicans by going there and shedding light on the issue. >> certainly i'm in support of full immigration reform. we know the republican house has blocked that. nevertheless, we have an issue, a humanitarian crisis, and homeland security concerns at the border. i certainly feel if there's a crisis, somebody has to address this issue. in this case i think the president should do this. he's going to be in texas, but he's going to be 500 miles away from the border which makes it even worse when you're so close and you can't take air force one to go down to the border. when he talks about meeting with local leaders, last night i got calls saying who are the local leaders? they're certainly not the local leaders from the border. >> joe? >> congressman, joe scarborough. >> hey, joe. good talking to you. >> great talking to you again, too. thank you for your great work on this. could you explain to americans that don't understand the

humanitarian crisis why this could be president obama's katrina, as you put it? >> the facts are very simple. this happened over a year ago. it didn't just happen last night. it's happened over a year. the uptick has been there. in fact, if you look at may of this year, 48,000 people were detained by border patrol in texas only. 48,000. 9,700 of them were children coming in without parents. june, just this last month, it almost did exactly the same. 47,000 people were detained and over 9,700 kids without parents were detained only at the texas border. so the numbers are not stopping. this is why we have to be a lot more aggressive. certainly i hope that now that this request has been made by the president, that we can work with the republicans in a bipartisan way so we can address these emergency dollars as soon as possible.

>> you know, congressman, there are a lot of republicans that want to get this fixed. there also has been a lot of right wing chatter about conspiracy theories, the president opening up the border. we know that's not the case. can you explain to america what's happened over the past year? why are we now seeing such an influx of young refugees, young people wanting to immigrate to the united states? what has happened over the past year in particular? >> it's not the conspiracy theories that republicans are talking about that brought the young kids over here. it's a combination of things. we know the root problems are poverty and violence down in those areas. i think it's the 2008 human trafficking law that allows a loophole for people to take advantage of it. the smugglers have found that loophole. in fact, in talking to border patrol intelligence, they have told us most of those young kids primarily are brought in from

guatemala -- the border of guatemala and mexico in buses down to south texas. remember the 47,000 people that passed this last june through texas. 38,000 of the 47,000 came through south texas. they're flooding that zone by the smugglers. >> congressman henry cuellar, thank you so much. >> thank you so much. joining us now from the white house, ses zil celia munoz, good to have you on the show. >> good morning. >> a lot of critics are putting this dire situation, especially pertaining to children on the president. they're calling on impeachment on far ends of this. there's issues over a handshake, whether or not he should go to the border, something that you've been confronted about and struggled with a bit. where are we on this and whose

failure is it? >> well, it's a combination of factors, but from the moment it became clear in may that the numbers this year were going to be very, very different from previous years. the president called out the entire federal government to respond. he asked fema to coordinate. so we've engaged dhs, hhs, department of justice, department of defense to help us open shelters from the kids, to surge our resources at the border to make sure we're doing right by the process for new entrants but being effective in removing the folks who will ultimately not be allowed to stay in the united states. we've engaged the whole government. we've made it clear that this is an urgent humanitarian situation. the president has focused his attention and energy on what's going to have the most impact in getting in front of this, making sure people in central america have a very clear message. the smugglers are lying to parents telling them if they put their kids in the hands of traffickers and get to the united states that they'll be able to stay. this is not true. the vice president was in central america, secretary kerry has been in the region,

secretary johnson was in guatemala yesterday making sure people understand that point. >> you just had a democrat say this was barack obama's katrina, a democratic congressman who knows the situation as well as anybody saying that this was barack obama's hurricane katrina. obviously there are a lot of people, especially the hispanic caucus who don't think this president is doing enough. is that fair? >> i think it is -- it doesn't make sense to compare this to a natural disaster. this is a humanitarian situation that we have been on top of from the very beginning. it involves the entire federal government, involves our partners in central mayor xa who have acknowledged that we all share a responsible to make sure we stop this situation before it starts, we discourage parents from putting their kids into the hands of smaug hers. this is an incredibly dangerous situation for the kids. the uptick in numbers is smugglers are telling parents deliberate misinformation. >> mark halperin.

>> you say the administration has been on top of it from the beginning. would you say to date the administration's policy in dealing with this has been effective? >> well, we've done multiple things. with respect to unaccompanied children. under the law we have to make sure we shelter them properly and put them through the process. with respect to families, adults bringing children, we've stechd up detention facilities to detain and remove people more quickly. >> has it been effective? >> look, we will know when we see what happens to the numbers. the point is we have to send a clear deterrent signal at the same time that we properly deal with children who have just been through a harrowing journey alone. i've been down to the border. i met with children who have been through this situation. the girls that i spoke to had all traveled with smugglers, all the way across the country, as well as mexico to the rio grande valley and crossed the river alone. i spoke to a boy of 13 who held on to the top of a train for days as he was crossing mexico.

>> go ahead, mike. >> let me ask you about our relations, the united states relations with a supposed ally, mexico. these children, 48,000 last month, are bused from the border of guatemala through mexico to texas. what about the border of guatemala. what is mexico doing to help us? >> so this is why the vice president was in the region on june 20th meeting with the heads of state and leaders from, not just the three central american countries where please migrants come from, the president of mexico was in southern mexico earlier this week making important announcements about how they intend to be helpful with respect to the border. for weeks now folks in the region have been saying they understand we have a shared responsibility to make sure -- >> that's a pretty long bus ride through mexico.

why is the bus not stopped and turned around. >> it is a pretty long bus ride. i just don't understand it. >> first and foremost this is a dangerous situation for kids. it's really important we think about it from that perspective. these are children being put into the hands of smugglers who are misleading parents into thinking that, if they can get to the united states, they'll be able to stay. it's not true. >> if it's so dangerous and if it's such a horrible situation, which it is, why isn't the president going down there? you talked about other people. why won't the president go down and visit the border? you have a congressman who said this is the president's katrina. he's having two fund-raisers in the state of texas. if it is such a horrific situation, why won't the president go to the border. >> are there any plans to rethink that? >> let me say a couple things about that. the president's instructions to his team and his own efforts have been to stay focused on what's going to be most impactful in dealing with this

urgent humanitarian situation which is why we've don't all the things i've described. the second thing he's doing, today he's meeting with community leaders, faith leaders who are trying to be part of the solution here. these are people who have been supporting our work in the shelters, who are interested in opening up more shelters for children. he's talking to folks actively engaged in the situation and trying to be part of the solution here. there are people trying to turn this situation into a political football. i understand that. i work in washington. the president is going to stay focused. >> why would a democrat that represents a majority democratic district who understands the situation better than anybody else being trying to turn this into a political football? >> that's a great question for you to be asking somebody else. what i can tell you is the president of the united states is going to stay focused on what's going to have impact. these are kids we're talking about and families. we're approaching it from that perspective. >> thank you so much for being with us. greatly appreciate it.

>> chuck todd, the president is staying focused in texas on three fund-raisers. he has a democratic congressman that knows the situation better than anybody else. he has the hispanic caucus, a lot of people saying come to the border. this is your hurricane katrina. we just had a white house spokesperson come on, very articulate in what the white house is doing and why everybody cares so much. i just can't help but go back to 2005 and hear the bush white house talking about all the things they're doing for hurricane katrina while the president is staring from 35,000 feet from an airplane. >> seems like an unforced error. the more they're asked about it, the more they dig in their heels. they think this is just a symbolic thing. you guys in the media are gining this up. >> it's not republicans. you can ignore republicans.

it's democrats. >> they could have decided not to go to texas. this s hey, guess what? your planned trip to texas is coinciding with a crisis. you go to natural disasters. you tour flood damage. you tour tornado damage. this is a disaster. it's not natural. it's a man made disaster, baugh disaster nonetheless. i don't get it. i think it's one of these unforced errors. the issue is bad enough. the politics of immigration is complicated enough. this is a mess. they're worried about the politics of it because they're worried about offending members of their own party. worried about offending their base on the immigration issue. that's why they haven't really had the president out there saying a majority of these kids are going to get deported back. they're not using the president's image to do this. i think they're concerned about alienating parts of their base. again, this seechlgs like an

unnecessary fight to have with the press and with republicans. >> you're right, mike barnicle. why isn't the president, members of the administration being tougher on mexico? they're the ones that are allowing this to happen as well. >> joe, you can't escape the fact that you have a country, a supposed ally, mexico basically saying we don't want this to be our problem. we're going to make it the problem of the united states. they have effectively done that. they are not alone on the world stage, richard, in putting us into a situation -- this is not nearly as leathally dangerous as we face around the rest of the world, especially in the middle east. your view, sir? >> this is a nightmare on so many levels. the u.s. economy could be growing over time, so much faster, if we had comprehensive immigration reform, if we're doubling or tripping the number of high talented, legal immigrants, if we were giving a pathway to citizenship for the 12 million americans who are,

quote, unquote, living in the shadows. this takes the issue and parks it on the border issue, on the security issue and mafx it very narrow. this is bad for the society. it's bad for the economy. mexico is not doing what it could and should, and they also have real law enforcement challenges there. this is a national security problem. it's an enormous economic problem for the united states. chuck called it an unforced error. it's also a forfeited opportunity of the first order. >> let me ask you, joe, about forfeited opportunities. we have bickering over handshakes, bickering over impeachment, bickering over whether or not meetings should take place. we do know the white house has been sending a team there systematically over time dealing with this crisis. let's not pretend they've been complete complete completely awol on this. let me ask you about the opportunities here and those that may have been or are being

forfeited. it reminds me a little bit of the bp spill but worse. like there is an opportunity here to set up a command center or do something optically to shame those who have not risen to the occasion, to shame those who don't seem to care about the children, to shame those who won't look at this issue until it totally boils over and becomes a crisis. if the president has a good position on this, why not go for the optics? >> you're exactly right. there are great parallels to the bp spill where the president just thought he was above it all, that he wasn't going to engage in theater, and we had somebody close to the president saying the president doesn't do theater. he doesn't do theatrics. really? really? >> i like his ideas. i want to hear them. >> did teddy roosevelt not do theatrics? did george washington not do

theatrics? it matters whether a president is staring out of a window 35,000 feet over the floodwaters of new orleans or whether he's on the ground. it matters whether a president has a bull horn at ground zero or looks lost in the louisiana press conference. >> when they don't show up -- >> hold on a second, though. mark halperin, you know this is not an ideological issue. there are many republicans in the house that do not want to pass immigration reform. >> yes, there are many. >> but you've got the "wall street journal." you've got the chamber of commerce, and you have got a lot of republicans that the president could put his arm around, just like george w. bush put his arms around democrats back in 2006, 2007 and his failed attempt for a comprehensive immigration reform, and the president could make a bipartisan showing on this issue on the border. it would be a significant

moment. >> the bp thing is a great comparison. he's being tech kratic and defensive rather than taking the moment to lead. surf the fact that there's great press and public interest. use the moment to your advantage. don't go to fund rarais-raisers. >> invite us there. >> saying we don't do theater when the office calls for leadership, even if it hurts you in the midterms. >> the chinese character that says crisis and opportunity are the same. >> we have ridiculous allegations being made against this president on this issue with people on the far right. come on, this is not that hard. >> let me ask chuck todd. chuck, do you think -- the situation where crisis meets opportunity and crisis keeps going up, opportunity diminishes. isn't it that the white house might be so tired, so weary of

all of this and they're in effect just mailing it in. >> no, they're not mailing it in. >> that's what it appears. >> what it appears is this is an administration where events are controlling them. i can't remember the last time i feel like they controlled a set of events. the answer is the same, whether it was va, whether it was the health care debacle, whether it was isis in iraq. boy, this all came up on us faster than we expected. we've had our eye on this. boy, we didn't expect it to be this bad or this quick or didn't expect it to be this substantial. look, i think the last six months have painted a picture of an administration that looks like they're struggling to run the government, that they're struggling, that if they are going from crisis to crisis. as mika was trying to point out, and i think it's fair to say, the administration is making an effort to deal with these things. congress is doing nothing. congress is 535 pundits at this point. all they do is have an opinion about what to do. there has been -- they can

complain all they want about a lack of leadership and a lack of competency and things at the white house. i think there are some legitimate criticisms there that the white house feels caught on their back feet all the time and this littlery ridiculous border issue. congress has taken no leadership issue on this. >> mika, the only thing i would say to what chuck's point was and your point was, there are two ways to look at that as well. you've got house republicans that are passing bills and talking to themselves. you've got harry reid's senate doing the same thing on the other side. so republicans are passing a lot of legislative fixes in the house of representatives that harry reid is not going to go out and get through the senate and the senate and the president are doing the same thing. so you've got government talking past each other. what the president can't control is what happens on the other side of pennsylvania avenue. what he can control is in a

crisis like this, not holding three fund-raisers in texas that he's holding right now. i'm sorry. i don't know what these events are. let's put it up on the screen. i think we've got them. i don't know what these events are. i don't know why they're so important, but he's going to be in dallas raising money. he's going to be in austin raising money, he's going to be in austin tomorrow raising money. if you're going to do that, you've got to go down to the border. if you're not going to go down to the border, then cancel the fund-raisers. it's pretty simple. they can point at republicans all they want to. it's not republicans zag saying this. it's democrats and the hispanic caucus that feel like this president has not served them well over the past six years. >> i still think he could. chuck, thank you very much. does the argument against alex rodriguez change if major league baseball gave hymn

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♪ >> we strongly condemn the continuing rocket fire into israel and the deliberate targeting of civilians by terrorist organizations in gaza. no country can support rocket power aimed to civilians. we support israel's right to defend itself. >> the white house defending israeli air strikes amid the growing crisis in the middle east. israeli defense forces say they hit about 160 targets overnight in response to a growing number of rocket attacks by gaza militants.

amid the violence, family members of the teenagers whose murders sparked the unrest exchanged sympathies. the mother of one of the israeli victims says she shares the grief of the mother of the palestinian boy killed in an act of revenge. aim min mole dean is in tel aviv with more. >> good morning, mika. in this second day of operations, the israeli military says it has launched about 160 air strikes in gaza. that brings the total number of operative strikes on the territory to about 400 now. palestinian medical sources say as a result of just those first two days of bombings, more than 35 people have been killed including nine children and six women. it gives you a sense of how quickly this situation here is escalating.

as a result of the rocket fire out of gaza, many are speculating that hamas has the ability to strike deeper and further inside israel. there was this daring operation by palestinian fighters who tried to land on the coast inside israel before the israeli military shot them back. inside gaza, a very different story. there is no early warning sirens and bomb shelters there. people there extremely nervous about what may lie ahead. they are suffering a lot. health officials we've been speaking to says the health infrastructure of ga sa does not have the ability to cope with the huge spike in casualties and numbers. there's a shortage of blood supplies, medicine. keep in mind gaza has been under siege. that makes it more difficult to flee the area where some of the fighting is taking place and some of the air strikes are happening. a very tense situation. neither side is backing down. the israeli military is saying it is prepared to widen the

operation, calling reserve soldiers up to the military. at the same time hamas is striking a defined tone saying it will not back down until the israeli government releases some prisoners rounded up over the last few weeks in the west bank. >> ayman mow yell dean. we have even the parents of the murdered teens amidst the pain and loss acting in a unified way. my question to you is how do we begin to see an atmosphere for negotiation. what do you think the most constructive contribution that the united states could make to this process. >> the big question is what do you do with an organization committed to your destruction. we're looking at an org registration that represents an uncompromising view that israel

should be wiped off the map. you don't have here a scenario of dealing with them -- reaching some sort of compromise. this is not the case. this san organization that wants to kill you, and you have to protect yourself. this is the responsibility of the israeli government. as for the united states, i think we heard the statement we are very appreciative that this organization is standing by israel consistently. we're grateful for the support. >> so let me ask you then, sir, this morning the "wall street journal" says israel has no other choice but destroy hamas. there is no middle ground. you either have to negotiate with hamas or destroy hamas. if they continue to seek the destruction of israel which they do. as the "wall street journal" said this morning, they continue to hold their own people hostage to these attacks that only cause more misery for their own people and the people of israel.

so is israel going to destroy hamas's war making ability or negotiate with them? >> the israeli political system is very different than the american political system in many ways. two particular ways for this discussion. the first is the commander in chief in israel is the cabinet. secondly the cabinet is comprised of a number of political parties. each represents a different view. all decisions made in israel are actually a result of a discussion, lively debate sometimes, a fierce debate. we will have to wait and see what the israeli political system will produce. having said that, prime minister netanyahu is in his ninth year combined as prime minister. i think he has a beautiful record of showing restraint and responsibility and this is how the israeli government is going to act this time as well. >> let me ask the question a different way. what is success here for israel? you have a group like hamas with thousands and thousands of short and medium-range rockets.

is success going back to the 2012 ceasefire, essentially cam for calm? or does it go beyond that. is israel prepared to live with a hostile, heavily armed hamas within miles of now your major population centers? >> here is the context for this discussion. we're looking at a century-old onslaught, arab onslaught on jewish national sovereignty in israel. hamas represents this view and unfortunately leaves us no other choice but to defend ourselves. the protective edge of this operation, is to restore quiet and peace and stability in the southern region. you have to remember we have approximately 50% of our population of 8.2 million people at risk right now. as you correctly pointed out, hamas was able to amass 12,000 rockets, some of them put within

range. this is a very serious threat to israeli's economy. >> where did those rockets come from? who gave hamas those rockets? >> most of them were smuggled into gaza through the sinai peninsula. >> what countries are giving hamas rockets to kill israelis? >> we know some of the weapons from syria, some from iran. they collect their weapons from all possible and relevant sources. we are determined to deprive them of the ability to disrupt our lives so dramatically. the way to do that is by attacking repeatedly and systematically and consistently. >> katty kay in washington has a question. >> mr. ambassador, i just wanted to ask you what you thought destroying hamas would actually entail. obviously the air strikes against gaza do include

civilians in the casualties. we are getting reports this morning that seven palestinian children are among those who have been killed overnight. there is peril, of course, for israel in trying to launch any kind of ground operation against gaza. it's a dangerous process. you have tried to reduce the number of civilian casualties. frankly, if you're going to really try to destroy hamas, you are going to have a lot of civilian casualties, a lot of children are going to die in gaza. as you said before, hamas places its fighters in schools in amongst the civilian population. how do you go about that? if that's the option you're trying to achieve, how would you possibly do that? >> we're fully aware of this. obviously we're not set out to destroy the entire community. there's a beautiful story in "the new york times" about the effort we're making to alert families and civilians in the gaza strip before we strike. >> even with those efforts we're

still looking at children being killed this morning. >> unfortunately, what other choice do we have? when hamas is putting millions of israelis at risk, when hamas is paralyzing our entire economy, inflicting major economic harm on israel not to mention the psychological trauma to our children, what other choice do we have? what other country would have accepted that situation? so hamas, their decision to escalate leaves us no other choice but to respond. we try to do it in the most surgical fashion possible. >> ambassador aharoni, thank you so much. we'll be talking much more about this. joe? >> richard haass, let's talk about the situation that the israelis face. it's an absolutely terrible situation. you have a population, as our previous guest just said, who a

large faction of it is exhausted by war. they would have no problem with a two-state solution. they want a two-state solution. they hate occupation. and they don't have the stomach, as we saw from this mother who beautifully and eloquently wrote the grieving letter for the palestinian boy who was killed, said this goes against our beliefs, goes against the torah, goes against what we stand for. where are we in israel when you have hamas right over the border firing the rockets? what is the solution? >> at the risk of being even gloomier, i'm not sure there is any solution available. americans like to think of solutions to problems. right now it looks more like a condition to me. this looks like simply a reality. >> does hamas have the support -- i know they won a popular election. do they still have the support of their people? >> they could probably do okay

in an election. i think they could win an election in gaza because you couldn't create a situation of free political activity. i don't know how well they would now do on the west bank. >> do the majority of palestinians support the destruction of israel as a policy? they know that's not possible. hamas continues to talk about that. >> a lot of palestinians are prepared to co-exist with israel, would happily accept a two-state solution. a lot would depend on the details of the palestinian state. there are a large number of palestinians that would prefer a one-state solution. they look at the demographics and there's not a lot of desire to have a separate jewish state. for israel, the strategic dilemma is not just its own internal politics which you properly say are so defensive void divided. the opponent is too weak to make peace and at the same time large numbers are unwilling to make peace. >> gentlemen, we have to take a

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legitimate need for a banned substance they're allowed to use it for one season. >> but he did opt out after the key game of the world series. >> but the interesting aspect of the layers association deal is that it does include or used, to i'm not sure whether it still does, certain prescription drugs which you can apply to use like adderall. >> that's right. and that's the main reason these which every sh exemptions have come up because the vast majority go to players with attention deficit disorder. some critics feel like this is a

way around the ban on amphetamines. what has sort of gone unnoticed until we saw this transcript and realized one went to alex was that every year one to two has gone to players with what is called hypo gonadism, which is a basic inability to produce testosterone. >> this topic has been covered before. who did you talk to who they ever talked before, what documents did you see people t hadn't seen before? >> i had the documents from biogenesis which were given to me by whistleblower that started the whole story last january when i did a piece on it. so we is a giant stack of documents, hand written notebooks from the clinic and we knew tifing into this there would be a lot of untold story in this. what surprised us two things i think, one, the direction the scandal went over the last year.

when baseball and their department investigations came into florida, south florida, dozens of private investigators, a h-rod had his team of hired gs probablying to probability himself and it erupted in to this steroid expo say. and then second when we had a chance to get a look at the transcripts from the confidential arbitration hearings, we found a lot of startling information including these exemptions. >> baseball is trying hard to clean up drug use. >> surprisingly. >> and do you think it will get to the point where you can say with certainty that the sport is 100% clean? >> i don't think so. and i think one of the biggest -- probably the biggest obstacle is the financial incentive for players. even after this unprecedented suspension of 15 players, a lot benefited financially from

improved statistics in the years that they were with biogenesis. brian braun signed $100 million plus contract extension the use that he failed a test. jhonny peralta signed a $50 million contract immediate will of ly after coming back from suspension. and until that zu incentive is removed, i don't think you will 00 be able to get rid of doping. and players, they're more of a flew en affluent and they can hire like guys like bosh. >> the book is blood sport. thank you so much. fascinating. that's why you're writing it. there is always more with this. it's like the gift that keeps on giving in a really horrible way. tomorrow on morni"morning joe," richard sherman will be here onset. what? what he's doing now that he's a super bowl champion. and what his mother has to do with it. oh, my goodness. she's going to join us, too. "morning joe" will be right back. [ sizzling ]

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it's 8:00 a.m. on the east coast, 5:00 a.m. on the west coast as you take a live look at new york city. with us onset, we have mike barnicle, thomas roberts, mark halperin, and in washington, eugene robinson and katty kay. seven goals? >> tofour goals in since meants. people complain nobody ever scores. this was terrific. >> a good point. >> point after field goal --

>> look at the crying. that's like a red sox game. seriously. >> we're used to it. brazilians aren't. >> the chanting was incredible up it started to go off the rails. and i couldn't tweet fast enough to keep up with the goals. >> were you live tweeting? >> i was. >> most tweeted sport event ever. >> at some point in my house hold, we walked away. couldn't look anymore. it was too painful. >> why was it so painful? >> it was just an obliteration. i mean it was. >> that's he what happens in sports. >> what happened though? this wasn't supposed to go like this. >> when i say brazil fell apart, that must be what happened. look, germany beat brazil by six

goals, which is just -- it never happens. germany only beat the united states by one goal. so does that mean that the united states soccer team is better than brazil ? i don't think so. they just crumbled. instead of fortifying themselves and fortifying probably the defense and kind of getting together after the first german goal, i think they just kind of fell apart. and then there was a second one and the floodgates just opened. >> unbelievable. >> and silva was out because of penalty. so they didn't have -- >> you're smiling. >> they didn't have that. so those threads, fabric of brazil fell apart. >> so soccer i think has finally made it. every paper you pick up, international, new york daily

news, it's the front page. so people are finally getting their -- of course the new york "post" has this great story that my house wrote, invasion of the tiny terrors. drones all around the city flying around building tops. and he had incredible video from one of these drones. they're toys, but they're menaces. adorable type any terrors they call it. it's a real story. >> until they deliver the package. >> i think they have a problem. it's called big buildings and people on streets that conditions be hcomplaint be hit. but a bunch of wbig headlines p president obama will meet with governor perry. the president will attend fundraisers and meet with local

officials. but won't advivisit the border. while some are adopting a wait and see attitude, others are calling on him to take a more active role. >> the border lands deserve a presidential visit. i think a visit by the president is reaffirming that the border lands along the southwest border are vital and important to the station. >> i'm sure president obama thought the same thing, that he could just look at everything from up in the sky. so i hope this doesn't become the scene moment for president obama. he should come down. >> we should get something done. president obama is asking congress for an emergency $3.7 billion for outreach to central america. it will also go to new detention facilities, immigration judges and border patrol agents for deal with the influx of some 50,000 undocumented children. mark halperin, we were talking before the show as we were

getting readied, big picture, there has been an attempt on both sides to get something done on immigration. nothing has been done. whose failure is this? >> lots of people want comprehensive immigration reform which means with more than 10 million here illegally. big business wants it, labor wants it in most cases, president wants it, republicans, some republicans do, house republicans do want a bill like that. this current problem needs to be solved more immediately. i don't think the president will go to the border. but this money is a lot of money. what are the american principles at stake? what are we balancing. what do we say about it as a country about whether we're dealing with this or not. how can we spend that hone wemo well.

>> it's difficult to figure out which side has the better point. it's coming down arguing over a handshake. if the president feels strongly about his attempts to get something done on immigration and if the republicans have failed or if boehner has failed or if they have stymied the process as many argue, why not go to the border and say this is what i wanted to do and the republicans are in the way and use the opportunity to bring light it to the issue by actually being there? >> i don't know. i don't know why not go to the border. except that the white house doesn't like to present optics. they feel we're all about substance, we're not about optics. and that's for you guys to take pictures of, it doesn't really solve anything. i think optics do matter. i think in this case he could draw more attention and more focus on an immediate problem

that does need to be solved. you ask what is the money for. one thing it should be for is providing a way to handle the influx on a humanitarian basis and also to decide the cases of these children. they all have to be looked at to see if they qualify for asylum, if they get sent home, how does that happen, what happens to them in the interim. and to do that process now can take years for each child. and that's unacceptable. >> i think at any point to kind of show the humanity of the lives of these children would be important. and optics on which looks like a shallow argument in terms of pr, but isn't there an opportunity here to show how the republicans have failed these children with the president using perhaps a trip? >> as mark just pointed out, business wants it, labor wants it, most americans want this situation -- >> religious groups.

>> catholic church, a lot of religious groups. but house republicans seemed a tod adamant in joining forces on getting anything done. but there seems to be a larger issue involved. i don't like the word optics, but the amount of misinformation being thrown out there about who these children are, where they're from, why they're here, is just voluminous. and it would seem to some that the president of the united states, in addition to asking for this money, it's in all the papers today, the president asked for billions to deal with the border, some sort of statement addressing the questions just raised, who these children are, why they're here. they are not flooding local school systems, they are not flooding local hospitals. but people are walking around the country thinking this means the end of the united states of

america because there are 48,000 children currently on our border. >> yeah, and all the local papers down there and now the national papers, as well, are full of the stories of local people who are being asked to take in these children and look after them as if this was some type of crime being committed against local residents. i can see that the white house didn't like the idea that they were playing politics with this. and now they don't like the idea that they have to play catch up to the press which is saying to them you should go to the border. but that kind of a speech that you're talking about, mike, talking about the individuals and humans as the president has tried to do, but making that speech down on the border surrounded by these kids height n might not be a bad place to do that. clearly what is happening on the border, seems to be putting off the president's chances of executive action to deal with some of these family issues of

parents of kids who were born in the united states, for example, some of the things that the president wanted to do by executive order. it's hard to see those things being done in the near term. we were talking about two weeks ago. now hard to see how it might get done. >> and there are extreme politics at play which we'll get to. >> real quickly, we can thank republicans for how children are being dealt with this this situation because of a 2008 law that was passed. the exact name of that passed under president george w. bush is trafficking victims protection reauthorization act. it dictates exactly how children crossing the border without their parents must be treated. they actually get to apply for asylum. so that federal law dictates how these kids need to be treated. and that was passed under president george w. about youbu. rick perry probably knows all of this. a lot of politics are coming into play, but there is a federal law in play that dictates exactly how unaccompanied minors need to be

h handled. >> and there is renewed talk of -- i'll read this straight. >> you really are? >> hold on. give me a second. >> want me to hold your hand? >> there is renewed talk of the president's impeachment. >> what the -- >> for some republicans circles. as the "washington post" points out, it could cause headaches for the party in the midterms. iowa senate the hopeful, and i had so much hope in joni because of her whole castration thing. s of goit was good branding. but now trying to down play a video that has emerged of her suggesting impeachment back this january. here's a look at what she said. >> he is continually using executive order. he is making appointments without authority. so, yes, absolutely he is ov

overstepping his bound. and i do think, yes, he should face those repercussions. whether or are nnot the that is removal from office, impeachm t impeachment. but as a u.s. senate, absolutely. we have to push that issue and we can't be silent on things like that. he has become a dictator. he is running damuck. >> but in a statement, her campaign says if any president oversteps their bounds there, are procedures in place for congress and the american people to hold him or her accountable. impeachment is a strong word and should not be thrown around lightly. >> there you go. >> meanwhile, former alaska governor sarah palin says it's time to impeach president obama over the immigration crisis. palin claims he has intentionally allowed a growing number of children and families

to illegally cross the border. the 2008 vice presidential candidate made her plea to lawmakers and candidates in an op-ed and video on facebook. >> enough is enough of the years of abuse from this president. his unsecured border crisis for me is the last straw. it makes kind of the battered wife say that's enough. it's time to impeach. and on behalf of the american workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician, any candidate, on the left or the right who would hesitate this voting for articles of impeachment. the many impeachable offenses of barack obama can no longer be ignored. >> who wants to take it? >> well, one can laugh about calls for impeachment, but the fact is the democrats do have a midterm problem of how to get their advantage on a lot of issues front and center. the energy on the right about

impeachment over immigration and irs, benghazi, all these things, the political reality is and we're kind of frozen until the midterms, and right now people on the right, they are jazzed up. >> i want to highlight something. i'm not laughing. will sca this scares me. i'm sorry. not trying to be -- i really -- that just whole sound bite that we just played and the impact i know it has really scares me. >> thank you john mccain. thank you john mccain. for unleashing that on the united states. >> president clinton was impeached. people called for president bush's impeachment lots. we're at a time when i can't see any president of either party not having charges leveled at them. it's a polarized time. just happens to be a democratic president right now. >> one time republican florida governor charlie crist is on a

quest to unseat rick scott. but this time he's running as a democrat. and while other democrats in tight races around the country are trying to avoid being connected with the president, crist is full of love for the commander of chief. he told the "wall street journal," quote, i love him. i think he's a great man, a great leader and a great president. how do you think he'll do, mark halperin in. >> he has a good chance, but if it's a republican year, which it's shaping up to be, i think he'll have a tough time. but he has decent chance. still ahead, donald sterling is back. and combative as ever before. we'll take you inside the courtroom as he fights to keep control of the l.a. clippers. just stop, right? give it up. >> absolutely. $2 billion? come on. . put the money in your pocket and walk away. plus how to get tickets to one of the year's biggest music events. where your money isn't worth a

thing. and the politico playbook. but first, a check on the forecast. good morning. still cleaning up here in the northeast from a massive severe weather outbreak last night. over 350 reports of wind damage now. right now it's quiet in the northeast. that's the good news. but that cold front that brought that severe weather still camped out across the northeast. so look for more showers and storms to fire up later on today. it's still going to be hot and humid, as well, with high temperatures between 85 and 90 across many of the big cities. 91 to your high in philadelphia. up to 87 in new york city. d.c. with a high of 88. the bigger picture shows showers and storms across the southeast, as well. atlanta, new orleans, down into miami, all could see pop-up showers and thunderstorms. looking for nice weather? that's in the midwest. high pressure from chicago to hips lo minneapolis. comfortable in the 70s and even below average there. out west, monsoon rains in the southwest, but remaining quiet

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los angeles clippers team by estranged wife shelly sterling. once on the stand, are tthe 80-year-old shifted between angry drougoutbursts and soft s demeanor. >> you saw the real donald sterling. the judge sees the real donald sterling now. he see this is by just makes stuff up. >> the claim that he lacks competency is a sham.by just ma stuff up. >> the claim that he lacks competency is a sham. it's absurd and i think that should become more obvious to all of you today. >> so we look at the "washington post" and six vials of the small box virus were found in a storage room in maryland. they will be destroyed. this marks the second time this month a federal agency has mishandled a deadly pathogen. smallpox was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions

of people during the 20th century. seattle times, washington state has become just the second state in the u.s. to allow the sale of recreational marijuana. so far 5 25 retailers have received their licenses, but just five stores opened yesterday. some are still facing issues with permits, financing and securing suppliers. colorado began selling marijuana legally earlier this year. >> we look at the "usa today," frontier airlines pilot being praised after ordering pizzas for his passengers. they were stuck on the tarmac because of a weather delay. >> was that your flight? >> no. i had a u.s. air flight and no pizza. they made us clean up the plane. >> keep you busy. this flight was bound for denver, but was diverted because of weather. cheyenne, wyoming was the place where the severe thunderstorm was happening. so the pilot took matters in to his own hands and ordered a

reported 50 pizzas paying for it out of his own pocket saying it was his duty to take care of those aboard. >> can someone do the math? >> there's a topping question. >> could be 500 bucks. >> half pepperoni, half veggie. j. k. rowling has released a short story. the 1500 word story was posted on website pottermore and features harry potter who you now works at the ministry of magic. rowling has been writed about the fictionary world cup to coincide with the fifa world cup in brazil. the first time she's written about harry potter since the final book was published in 2007. >> harry has a little gray. and a mysterious scar. >> is he that old? that means we're like middle -- okay. go on. >> isn't there a magical pill

you can take to get hair back? the world's tallest water slide is set to open tomorrow in kansas city. the verruckt, german for insane or slang for the wedge die maker was set to open three times. it reaches speeds up to 65 miles an hour. >> no, no, no. >> oh, no. >> 65? >> yeah. >> so -- >> that's like a roller coaster. >> you're on a water. there is water. they sprinkle some on you. >> it looks like fun, but the whole thing doesn't work for me. i'm not doing an amusement park every again. let's go to politico. with us mike allen here with the morning playbook. mike, good morning. there is no article in politico that says the key to democrats winning big in november is

simple. they need a ball bust strategy. >> this is the other he said of the telescope of the 99% art. how do democrats who have done very well about pointing out the rising inequality, the problems with the 1%, how do they then talk to the 99%. this article says that democrats as bill clinton did, as senator mark warner did in virginia, need to find a way to talk to bubbas and the technical definition of this, they say these are southerners with limited means, less education. how do you talk to them about their problems, this rising underclass in america that we've talked about on the show so often. steve rattner shows on his charts. how do you talk to them without being disingenuous, without being con decembercondescending.

you don't win an election this way, but part of putting together a winning coalition for democrats. >> and one other politico headline here, very early rnc for republicans in 2016, cleveland, it all comes down to one issue for the gop you're saying. what is it? >> well, that's money. and republicans are trying to take more control of the nominating process that i think we all can agree got out of control four years ago when you had newt gingrich as the favorite and rick santorum as the favorite the next week. they want to avoid that. so with their debates, with their primaries and now with their conventions, all three of those moves by the republican party are just trying to take more control. so with the money, you've got access to money earlier, you can raise money for the general election earlier. conventions got pushed bag. they used to always be earlier. they got pushed back almost to labor kay.cg. they used to always be earlier.

they got pushed back almost to labor kay.kg. they used to always be earlier. they got pushed back almost to labor kay. now that they're funded privately, they want to do it early. interestingly, david plouffe, who was president obama's campaign manager, tweeted yesterday, the republicans are making a mistake by moving to late june/early july. he says the only two things that you control when you're running forrd are the vice presidential pick and the convention. if you do it too should not when people aren't paying attention, you lose that ammo. >> thomas just handed me the headline in "usa today," it says cleveland rise in republican convention, johnny football and even talk of lebron. what is next for this city once known as the mistake on the what i can. >> i think david is right, if you do it that early, you risk burning your candidate out. you have to pick your running mate early. i think cleveland is a great choice. you pick it for the mechanics, not hotel rooms. but hasn't been a convention in ohio for like 50 years.

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welcome back to "morning joe". a live shot of times square. now it's time to go downtown to business before the bell with brian sullivan. a lot to cover. let's start with the citibank settlement. >> according to the "wall street journal," it looks like citigroup is close to a $7 billion settle the wimen settle. government over faulty mortgages. perhaps a long protracted fight was not worth the pr hit. so $7 billion there. >> speaking of long protracted fights, what is happening with the amazon battle? i understand we have some more news on that. it's so ugly.

>> you and mika are authors, so you've probably been in the middle of this kind of stuff before. they're fighting with hachette. now amazon is saying, okay, we'll give 100% of your revenue on ebooks to the authors. hoping to sway authors to their side. hachette saying that is a pr stunt and they couldn't afford it. and amazon firing back saying you're part of a $10 billion conglomera conglomerate, you can afford it. so this fight over ebook sales has gotten ugly and amazon trying to recruit the authors to its side. i'm sure you have some comment on that as authors. >> no doubt about it, this is an ugly battle. and mika has an ugly battle with her iphone. it was 3, then 4, then 5. mika didn't like the iphone. she says it breaks. mika, you breathe on it and it breaks, right? but good news possibly for the

mika brew ziurzynskis of the wo. >> they will recall all the ones that broke, right? is that what is happening? >> or don't drop them. >> a good point. >> i wish i had my phone. i have a cracked glass. >> i'm sure they will give to everyone for free to update their devices that were faulty, right? >> sarcasm noted. but you are seeing video of somebody -- that is purportedly the new iphone 6 glass display which as this video is showing, is supposed to be unbreakable, unscratchable, solves your problems, makes you better looking, raises your iq, whatever else it does. we've all had cracked screens. i have one right how. so hopefully if that is accurate

vid video, and again, we don't know, that would be good news. the other answer would be don't drop it. don't throw it at co-hosts onset. >> she has to do that. let's talk really quickly, too, rumors about the screen also being larger, like mika has a samsung that is the size of most -- >> a shoe basically. >> a 40 inch plasma screens. will the iphone 6 be larger? >> that's the rumor and this at the speculation because couplers like mika have proved they like these phones. they call them fablets. but the ipad is supposed to be a big growth driver for apple, but as the ipad gets smaller and phones get bigger, it's conceivable to think why would consumers need an ipad. >> i will tell you this, when

the ipad mini came out, i thought it was -- i just thought it was unnecessary. i was wrong. the ipad mini actually is starting to be -- i know mark halperin uses it all the time. it is a great size to slip into a coat pocket. you can type on it. >> you also have lack of news papers in men's bathrooms which is a positive. >> thank you so much. >> you get the ipad mini keyboard and you're all set. as far as the i was phone phone concerned, two tips. get a cover for your iphone in case you drop it. the other thing, cultural, i'm not charging anybody with thied in major cities on sidewalks with small children who would rather hold on to their iphone with their hand than hold on to hair child's hand. put your phone in your pocket. that way it won't drop on the sidewalk.

>> i've heard of hints from heloise. now barnicle's bits. >> thank you so much. greatly appreciate that. and thank you for the po information about news papers no longer this men's bathrooms. more morni"morning joe" straigh ahead. vo: this is the summer.

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for the past two years, musicians and celebrities have come together for a concert dedicated to eradicating poverty by the year 2030. msnbc and nbc news have joined forces with the organization behind the movement to broadcast the special event. and here with us now is the ceo of the global poverty project hugh evans along with ranon daily. so what is the goal? >> the sgol we're all focused on the end of cextreme poverty, bu this year three major themes. first girls education, getting more young girls into school, second vaccines and immunizations, and thirdly we're looking at water and sanitation particularly in india and what we can do to get great aer acce.

>> lots of big names will be at the concert. >> we have the most amazing lineup this year. it's quite incredible. we're pleased to announce that this year's 2014 global citizen festival is going to be headlineded by jay-z together with no doubt, together with carrie underwood. and we also have a very special announce frment from a major partners, a long term friend of ours, hugh jackman, he has a special announcement for us today, as well. >> let's take a look. >> hugh jackman here. i'm really excited to be a host this year of global citizen festival in central park. thousands of global citizens will gather together to convince world leaders to he said extreme poverty by the year 2030. and this will be the biggest year by far. and we're so excited that nbc and msnbc will be our partners to take our message around the world.

we will see you in september. >> he didn't do that selfie while he was driving, did he? >> we'll allow that just because the cause is good, but don't try this at home. how great is this, jay-z. >> and the reason why i'm looking forward to covering this, the model is ever more substantive than what i've seen. i'm immersed in skepticism on this kind of passing around a tin can and having movie stars do it. this is alwais a little differe because tickets can't be purchased. you have to go into this online community and perform actual acts of activism. signing petitions, pushing for legislation, making your voice heard, going into leadership with these narrow areas of policy focus and try to instigate change. you focused on polio for

example. be mob wants to focus on polio in government. you've urged them to up their pledges. and they have actually done it. there was a big spike in the last fiscal year. >> good strategy. >> and it fits with that's the identity of my show. >> very cool. >> so five hours in central park. >> the roots, carrie underwood. >> spectacular show. how does that translate into getting fresh water, clean water to india? >> let me give you you an example. this year we're giving away 48,000 free tickets. and you can't actually just buy those ticket. you have to earn them. so you glow to glob al citizen action.com. today we're encouraging people to tweet the prime minister of authorize way a norway and encourage her to make a new commitment. historically norway has been a major donor well wide and we want to encourage them to make a

leadership pledge in support of the global lines of vaccines and up m immunizations on stage. so we're hoping she will come to central park together with us and make hundreds of millions of dollars announcement in support of the world's poor. so not guaranteed, but that's what activism is all about. and i should say while i'm here with you, mika, it really is a credit to you and the team at "morning joe" because our partnership together with nbc came about because you and your team have been so generous in supporting us. >> we're the ones who are honored. and i love the strategy involved here. because you're right, young people will say, oh, i want to go jay-z, they will buy a ticket and miss the whole point. and if you engage people the level that you were talking about, you pull them in. and how do you -- once you're in, you love it. >> and i think people want the music, they want to be involved in this kind of a movement and

that's why it's smart that nbc is airing it. >> when is it? >> september 27. >> so it if people want to be part of it, be how specific about what they should do from came through september 127. >> so log in, creates your user profile. and start taking action. we've given you eight actions you can take today. if you take all of them, then you'll enter into the lot theory to win a free ticket to the global citizen festival. then every single week, we'll be releasing more actions and more points between now and september. so you have many opportunities to enter the draw. if you don't win this time, you can win next time. you can bring your friends. this is about building a movement. last year we had over a million actions on global citizen. >> i'm setting up a profile right now. >> thank yoyou mika. >> on your phone that you hate. >> that's okay. it's not an iphone. >> global citizen festival.com.

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as we mentioned in the morning papers, washington state is experimenting with marijuana in a new way. what is so funny, mike? >> nothing. >> he treats the whole show like a comedy. >> i'm serious. >> everything is just a little joke to mike. >> so the music with a on, the shows was about to start and he goes just read the prompter. he's like my first news director. >> read it the way you did yesterday in your rebellious manner. >> no, that's okay.

it could mean big money apb bia challenges for the state. >> reporter: this green scene is now a familiar sight. >> i'm not a regular pot smoker, so just because it's legal, i thought it was worth enjoying. >> reporter: washington's first recreational marijuana sales mirror what happened this colorado six months ago. today caring kind, a shop this boulder, says it's making $250,000 a month off a diverse set of customers. >> we've got your mom, your aunt, your uncle, your grandma, your grand paropa rolling your n tank in here. >> reporter: pot advocates boast tax revenues and tourism are up. >> our parking lot is a microcosm of license plates from all over the world. >> reporter: this week new york became the 23rd state in the u.s. along with the district of columbia to legalize the use of medical marijuana. washington and colorado are

currently the only two states that allow recreational use. but the united nations world drug report points to concerns the number of american teens using cannabis is rising. >> having a good time at the expense of the community or those around you will be the norm. and that just breaks my heart. >> reporter: this year, 12 kids have been treated at colorado children's hospital after getting sick. so to now edibles are not for sale. the stuff that is smoked is legal, and demand is high. >> this is so incredible in my lifetime, i never thought it would happen. >> up next, what if anything did we learn today.

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of my college television set. >> all right. joe, if it's way too early, what time is it. >> time for "morning joe". the daily rundown is straight ahead. thank you so much for watching. take the money and run. president obama gets an earful about a texas trip that is essentially about fundraising. no plans to visit the border. but he has added a meeting with governor rick perry on the crisis amid mounting pressure. meantime, wash cycle as in the washington, d.c. crisis cycle. trying to understand crisis management in the age of obama, a do nothing congress and the new media. plus, is it a tax cut rut? governor sam brownback and how he's making the case his budget move was