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and how we can help you. call 1-800-336-4990 to take one of these easy steps toward better hearing. that's 1-800-336-4990 call now! i've been diagnosed with prostate cancer. i'm going to be fine. we caught that early. >> breaking news at this hour. senator chris dodd undergoing cancer surgery in days. he's on the senate banking committee and leading the charge on health care. the blair house project. president obama's entire cabinet meeting in just hours. it's report card day. who's making a grade and who's not. a twitter here and the twitter there. now she's on facebook. but is sarah palin playing coy about what she's doing next?

her august appearance at the reagan library now in doubt. it was a mistake. new comments from octo mom now regretting having eight babies at once. and another letter from mark sanford about his affair and marital woes made public. but why this one may be crossing the line. good afternoon. i'm tamron hall in new york. >> i'm donny deutsch. >> a big shocker for so many people. chris dodd just announced that he's been diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer and is scheduled to have surgery during this august recess. >> i feel fine. i'm going to be fine. we caught this early and look forward to getting back out on the trail and doing my job. >> jonathan allen, good to see you. obviously, our hearts go out to

senator dodd, his wife and their young daughters. the personal life aside, you heard senator dodd make the point that he's lucky that he has a health care our lawmakers have and wants to give that to the american people. >> he's got an opportunity to use something from his own life to make an argument he was already making, that lawmakers have been making about the kind of care that congress gets and how that compares to the public. it's a little bit of a comparison. obviously, there's not an attending physician in everyone's house, but the point remains the same. he's got good health care. he got a screening apparently and found this, not because of an issue, but because of regular screening. >> so he masterfully rigs this debate with his own struggle.

i thought he was saying, i'm not out of this game. >> he'll be back before he goes away. he's got a small business round table in hartford with kathleen sebelius on monday. so we're going to be hearing more about him, more about health care from him even before he goes down to have surgery and recover, which is only going to be a couple of weeks. he plans to be back before the august recess is over, working on health care. his committee's already done his work on the bill. they're waiting for the senate finance committee and house of representatives to join them in getting something done. >> i think this is an examine principle. a prime example of preventive medicine. i think people without health care, this is something -- he

caught it, he's going to be fine. i think dodd, being the smart politician he is, is going to use this as a platform. until speak see flesh and blood representations, the stuff gets opaque. >> senator kennedy did the same. he points out that without the health care and availability of things he has, it's the same thing. isn't that interesting. two powerful senators both dealing with illnesses. one obviously more severe than the other, but hitting home with this health care. >> i had breakfast with dodd last year, he's still such a young guy. he's got two young kids at home. we wish his family well. a bonding session of sorts for the obama administration is happening this weekend. president obama, vice president biden and all 22 cabinet members will be meeting at the blair house for a retreat to mark the

first six months in office. the administration will take a look at what's been accomplished and agenda ahead. two of the top priorities, health care and a economy. and yes, there are signs the recession is easing. today, the commerce department announced the economy contracted at a pace of just 1% in the second quarter. better than expected and much better than the first quarter. also, the dow jones is on track for its best july in 20 years. president obama says he's guardedly optimistic, but will not rest until it is fixed. >> it took us many more months to fully dig ourselves out of recession that we now know was even deeper than anyone thought, but i will continue to work every day and take every step necessary to make sure that happens. >> mike viqueira at the white

house and they know you can talk, but until people get to work and we see a slow down in the loss of jobs, it won't hit home. >> all the academics and economists are fond of saying it's a lagging indicator, but that doesn't give anybody any traction. 15% in places like michigan as we speak. the president's ever mindful of that, always reminding folks that it is a lagging indicator. the gdp might go into a decline. but still, the unemployment rate is expected to recover more slowly. that is typical of every recession and that has been noted as the worst since the great depression. yes, the president will walk over for dinner -- we'll having

a really auntie em moment here at the white house. the economy -- >> mike -- go ahead. >> this meeting is a six-month thing. the white house says it's happened since the eisenhower administration. the good news, bad news, the president's poll numbers flipping somewhat. afghanistan, the commander wants more troops. that's going to be unpopular. the good news, the recession appears to be slowing down. today, the verb the white house is doing is curben. >> i was surprised at obama's

taking credit. he said this little kind of jump, stopping, was a result of his stimulus programs and a lot of economists think it's too early for that. there was to me, some real dark clouds there. it came back to the consumer. the consumer spending fell at 1.2%. consumer confidence dropped from 49 to 46 and the consumer's psyche is still broken. even though employment has been a lagging indicator, this has been a credit-inspired crisis. >> i'm sorry. i'm very concerned, too. let me just answer that. i think no matter -- you interpret it as -- they are very eager. they've been talking about green

chutes for months. i think they were a little more forward leaning. i think you still see a lot of caveats when the white house and president answer these questions. doctor to see michae jackson alive. why he was nearly $800,000 in debt and did that affect his decisions and caring for michael. and the octo mom now admitting it was a mistake.

a little late. imagine now, growing up and finding out what your mother thinks. this is the big picture. we're going to have those comments and donny's feedback. that's coming up. ♪

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welcome back to msnbc. president obama said the economic recovery plan is working thanks to programs like the much talked about cash for clunkers. >> the program lets drivers cash in their old cars for newer, more efficient models. the budget was already running out. the house has just approved an additional $2 billion to fund

it. >> thanks to quick responses, we're going everything possible to continue this program and continue helping consumers and auto industry contribute to our recovery. >> joining us now, michigan governor, jennifer granholm. this is the best example of the stimulus really, really working. yet, we still have nay sayers that call the program another example of the government picking winners and losers. talk about a party pooper, this is a home run. >> the consumers are winners, the economy is a winner and those who manufacture in this country are winners because of the huge impact of manufacturing a vehicle has on jobs. i aploud the house, the president. i hope the senate does the same thing. for any of your viewers who are from other states than michigan,

because i know our senators support it, i hope that if you want to take advantage of this, that you call your senator and let them know that it's important for the economy as well as for the consumer's pocketbooks. >> the best thing about this, it was creative. fresh, revolutionary. hopefully, this will inspire lawmakers to not just think about how we dole out money. it was smart business. along those lines, shouldn't we test the price elasticity of this? i wonder if they only saved 1 or 2,000, they'd still be making the trades? >> whatever it takes to enshoor that people are putting money back into the economy and cars are being purchased. every million cars sold in this country represent 50,000 jobs that are supported by that. so talk about a multiplier affect. whatever it takes to get that

affect going, especially, and i would put a plug in here to buy american, by the companies that have been supported by taxpayer dolla dollars, what a great impact that has, too. >> we were just talking to mike viqueira about the recession and about signs shows the economy is getting better. what will it take for folks in michigan to really accept that maybe good times, or better times, i should say, are on the way. >> there is no doubt that employment is the evidence. that's the real indication that the economy has rebounded. we hear about the gdp and that is nice, but on the ground, we haven't seen it yet. we know, i know, and a lot of people understand, that employment is a lagging piece of evidence. we probably aren't going to -- it's going to get worse in fact before it gets better. in michigan, for example, the

auto suppliers are still reeling from the shutdowns of factories over the summer and bankruptc s bankruptcies. i'm not sure how many of those will be able to rebound unless they diversify. i think the employment, when we start to see an uptick in employment, that's when people will feel the effects of the economy rebounding. >> thank you very much. >> thanks. doesn't think of themselves as a lagging indicator. the president was saying nobody's going to rest. >> what similar initiative like cash for clunkers does the administration need to look at? this blew people away. >> it was literally boom, the next day. what else can we do to insent vise customers to move and spend? what would a retailer do or actual business? i think the more we bring in

real business, i was still d disappointed that he doesn't have any business people. these are guys that know how to make it happen. the investigation into michael jackson's death. the neck is widening and as a result, the coroner's office has indefinitely delayed the results of the autopsy. we're expecting the report now sometime next week, but no word on when we, the public, will actually know what killed michael jackson. search warrants issued at the home and offices of conrad murray show officials are trying to determine what relationship murray had with other doctors who treated michael jackson. the search warrant also says -- and quote, addict. tonight, josh reports in a special dateline.

people are now talking about dr. conrad murray, his amount of debt and how there is speculation that this would be incentive for a doctor to work for michael jackson and give him the drugs he wanted. >> that's true. i think one of the questions being asked is whether or not the $150,000 a month salary would be negotiated. one of the things we're going to report tonight was that dr. murray had serious misgivings about whether to give mr. jackson propofol. he and jackson had a discussion of that which ended with dr. murray going ahead, over his own better judgment. dr. murray made that admission to police in the days following the investigation. the whole question about this is not just about propofol. it's about other drugs that were prescribed to jackson. >> they found --

>> investigators found what looked like jackson's private pharmacy. a collection of medicines. some with labels, some without. sources say all of it led police to at least seven medical professionals. >> we are executing the search warrant on these medical offices. >> reporter: in houston, las vegas, and beverly hills, investigators have been looking through medical records, trying to reconstruct the long trail of drugs that leads from michael jackson to the doctor or doctors who gave them to him. >> right now, police are looking at about seven medical professionals. that doesn't necessarily mean they're going the find anything. it's also possible those toxicology tests will exonerate dr. murray. we're just going to have to wait and see. >> his entire defense, if there

ever was a manslaughter charge, is going to be hinged on the fact that it was a combination of drugs that this doctor was not in control of. sounds like a pretty strong defense. >> there's just no way to tell. we don't know what the tests are going to conclude. one of the final tests they were performing just a few days ago was the synergistic tests. >> thank you and you can catch an all new, two-hour "dateline" tonight. it still doesn't explain the diprivan, propofol, which was not supposed to be in the house. >> i don't think you'd ever want a doctor, lawyer, anybody in your life where they're entire financial status is built on you because then they can't make the

right decisions. >> $780,000 in debt. >> if you have a lawyer and basically, his entire livelihood is depending on you, you're not going to get the right advice. >> that would be a rock star. >> i had big clients, when one controls too much of you, you're running scared instead of saying no, this is the way it is. >> we'll see. up next, there's so much. there's not much -- >> no such thing. >> no such thing as a free l lunch. i need glasses. why business executives had to pay for your own lunch. like i have to pay for the lunch. later in the show, the popularity of the wedding dance that became a huge hit on youtube. this is msnbc.

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four of the nations most powerful ceo found out there's no such thing as a free lunch at the white house. >> according to politico, they were charged for their meal. the white house defended the move as a way to avoid conflict of interest. they ate in the president's private dining room, just steps away from the oval office. the white house did not say what was served. the spokeswoman said the staff collected the ceos' credit cards

separately. the bush administration did not charge guests for their meals. but times have changed. >> when they met with the heads of the investment banks, it was one glass of water in the middle of the table. this holds true. >> the itty quet expert suggested it was a serious breach of protocal. >> put some ham sandwiches out there. >> pay for your lunch. >> you're inviting people to your home, literally. just put sandwiches out. >> i have a problem with it. i don't want my tax dollars going to the ceos. >> by the way, as far as meals served, i think you'd have more

problems. >> pay for your tuna sandwich and your coke. >> she's terrible, what she goes through. still ahead. why can't the gop shake off the fridge that think president obama is not a u.s. citizen. if you think this debate is over, you are wrong. we got some new poll numbers that you might find startling. plus, the sarah palin chronicles. when will palin start the next stage of her career? and the octo mom admits it was all a mistake. no, not the reality show. we're going to show you what she's calling a mistake. you're watching the big picture on msnbc. h whoa! honey honey honey honey honey! okay... i mean... you can't... this isn't a stove, alright? i mean... what if i just walked

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heading into the closing bell, we have strength across the board with the dow jones industrial average up about 40 points. a new government report proving to be the strongest signal that the recession may be winding down. the government says the economy sank at just 1% this quarter. chevron took a big hit saying it fell 20%. and there is good news for "the washington post." it made a profit in the latest quarter. that's it from cnbc. now back to msnbc. welcome back. in the big picture, sarah palin

will not attend a republican women's event at the reagan library next month. a couple of weeks ago, the committee said palin was scheduled to attend the group's 50th anniversary gala, but a statement was released on her facebook page that reads -- and even requested her name be removed. that's the quote. >> in the bigger picture, where the sarah palin? where's waldo? it's been five days since she stepped down as governor of alaska and she's been laying low. she's been unusual quite on twitter after spending the last few months posting tweets.

a new poll shows alaskans are divided. that's a drop from just a couple of months ago when palin had a 54% approval rating. norah o'donnell, she was in alaska when palin stepped down and the new governor was sworn in. maybe she's got nothing to say. is that possible? >> quit making things up. >> thanks, norah, thanks. >> you're right. a couple of interesting things. she's gone dark for five days. she got very prolific, using her blackberry to tweet all the time. that was an official account. she doesn't have that anymore. and then is reversal, saying she's not going to be attending this fund-raiser for a group of

republican women in california that was supposed to be at the ronald reagan presidential library. you read that statement that her spokesperson sent to me last night, which made it sound like she never committed to attend this. i just went back and checked my e-mail to make sure and in fact, here's that meg sent me on monday, where i asked her to please clarify and she wrote this. we may attend, we may not attend. but also pointed out she asked the group not to put her name on the invitation because they had not committed. they are unable to just say no, and sort of leave these groups hanging, just like they left the republican group here in washington hanging. it speaks a lot of the sarah

palin. that's stunning. 48% now view her negatively. you know what her ratings were in john mccain chose her? 86%. and now, her positive ratings down below 40. >> current governor, 69% positive. >> but this is fascinating. this is the second big event that you have palin spokes people being coy about. sarah palin will be here, and they are, i believe, embarrassed by this. this is been one of the criticisms. she listened to todd palin, is sort of paranoid, and her handlers are not serving her well by not having a more trained, seasoned team around her. >> she promises straight talk,

but i think on this one, she sort of has a crook ed tongue. i'm not sure, having been out there to alaska, it's actually her staff. i think it's sarah palin. she is her own adviser. i'm not even sure she listens to her family. she doesn't listen to anybody. she doesn't tell her staff when she's arriving. i think she likes the surprise of it all. >> there is also been the report that she doesn't trust anyone around her. >> if anybody's getting that -- thank you. >> i said it as far as she has nothing to say. she's left for governor. if i was writing a speak for her --

>> she promised, i'm coming back, i've got a voice. >> i would go quiet. >> what about striking while the iron's hot? >> she has nothing to say. what does she have to say? she doesn't have anything she's in control of. >> but others without anything to say certainly find voices on conservative radio. >> the radio passed on her because they don't believe she's got 15 hours of talk in her a week. in today's close-up, nadya suleman says maybe it was a mistake having eight babies at the same time. >> she spoke with us weekly. he already had six kids. she said she was the target of gawkers, crying spells and a

staggering $30,000 a month in expenses. joining us now, bradley jacobs. what i was surprised object is that no corporate sponsors helped her. she has not gotten any empathy from anybody in the world. >> i think people really don't know how to feel about her yet. she's doing these interviews, selling photographs of herself, but she talks about in our interview, how she was forced to. she has 14 kids to take care of. she also wants to go to grad school and become a social worker. she has no choice but to come up with a reality show. >> some of the before jon and kate turned into the mess they are, people saw them as adorable and you hear of families wanting

to donate cribs. this turned into a freak show and i say that because she was walking in the mall and kids started yelling, octo mom, at her. >> she doesn't go to the mall much. she doesn't go grocery shopping. she also told us she doesn't go on the news or go on the web. >> she talked about lonelyness and $30,000 in expenses. she should have thought about that prior to. >> she kind of regrets it. remember she already had six kids when she transferred them into herself. she told the magazine that she wishes she could have transferred two or three. >> clearly, she's in over her head. this is about these kids. there are so many couples that

can't have children that want to adopt and maybe some should be put up for adoption. obviously, not my choice, but i if i was looking to adopt, i would write her a letter. >> if she is having that regret -- >> some have special needs, right? >> i don't think any of the octuplets -- >> under birthweight when they were born. >> that's true. she does not talk in the story about looking to give up any of them, but she does talk about how overwhelmed she is. she cries -- she has four full-time nannienannies, then a eight who are friends helping her. >> you've got to think about what's best for your kids. >> it's a very interesting

interview, but you think this was a choice and i hate to -- >> she chose them. she already had six, including a set of twins. >> we can't at this point say -- >> great interview. thank you. >> he gives us our own, play at home edition. >> thanks, bradley. still ahead. the proof is out there. here is the president's birth certificate. >> i thought he was born in iran or something. >> this has been on every show, online, available for people to see. so why the birther movement, why does it continue? >> because there are a lot of crazy radicals on the right side of this country. new polls suggest that there may be a lot of trouble dealing with the far right fringe.

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why do so many republicans still have doubts about president obama's citizenship? maybe because they're morons. a research -- i'm not supposed to be objective. >> i'll show you some of the factual numbers out there that are interesting. a poll conducted for the lib cal daily blog, finds a majority of republicans polled think the president was not born in the united states or are not sure. 42% of americans believe he was born in the u.s., but 22% say he is not an american citizen. 30% say they're not sure. david, let me start with you.

who is to blame for 42% of republicans not believing despite the birth certificate and other proof, a governor of hawaii even saying that president obama was born in hawaii and is an american citizen. >> people are people, regardless of ideology. let me tell you about another poll taken two years ago. this was 2007. democrats on whether 9/11, whether president bush knew in advance about the 9/11 attacks. 35% of democrats said he did. 26% weren't sure. the only -- >> i'll give you that. there are always conspiracy theorys out there, but i think the thing that bothers people about the birther movement is because of the racial tinge behind it. >> i think these people are

crazy. >> obama was born in the united states. if you go to your courthouse, you'll get the same kind of printout that he's showing everybody. the burden of proof is on anybody who wants to show otherwise. i can't get any better proof showing i was born in the united states than he's showing there. you have to call it what it is. the fact that even 28% of republicans think he wasn't born in the state i think is disturbing enough. people are people. when you're out of power, just like the democrats did in 2006, you cling to fantasies about how can you change it. as far as is -- i don't know. that's pretty much of a stretch, i think. >> what's even scarier than the polls are some of our elected officials. right now, there are 11 that want to sponsor a bill that

obama should have to show his birth certificate. one from texas said i don't know if it's true, but i read that lou dobbs said obama's original birth certificate was destroyed. these are elected officials. >> i think we have to in fact, call it what it is. it's clearly rooted in race. this is not a new thing. it's not a new thing for obama or race in general. we have a long history of people profiting off of racist ideas to poor white. one of the striking things is the regional divide. if you look at folks in the south that believe that obama's not a u.s. citizen. it matches up pretty well. >> beyond the ignorance that exists and david, you make a

great point, i think what hits hard in addition to the racial part of it, you have lawmakers. i'll show you a clip. elected officials who are unwilling to look in the camera and deny this birther movement. let's play a very popular conservative. >> do you believe barack obama was born in the united states? constitutionally to serve? >> you know, i am focused on unemployment right now. >> this is a yes or no. >> i am focused on job creation. i'm focused on making sure the american people can keep their health care, especially seniors. >> i'm glad you're focused. >> focused on lower spending, lower taxes. i'm just going to keep fighting. >> do you think that there would

be a democrat in congress and they would have tried to avoid the answer? >> some of them did, but to go . i didn't prepare myself to answer that and i don't want to just step in. but at the same time the guy who did that is the same guy who i think asked george allen questions during his election about whether he beat his wife. and not only that, but the tape that is shown there, he asked a number of congressmen, misidentified several of them, also selectively edited some of the interviews so where straight answers were given, they weren't -- >> you think somewhere on the tape floor all of those congress people look in the camera and say this birther stuff is nonsense? dave riker did say the birther stuff was nonsense and he ended up on the tape looking like he was am bik with biguous about i. it shows the congressman rubbnng

away and it's not the congressman he says it is. >> it's because their base is focused on this issue and if their base is focused on this issue, a number of folks in the right wing media are doing their best to make money off of racism. >> how is -- >> we got to go. david, we have to go. david, david, we watch these congressmen. i think the tape speaks for itself. >> appreciate it. from the polling number i think we will have david probably on again. i don't think that's going away. >> i'm voting for congressman bachmann would not say on camera that he should be president. >> it's hard to feel sorry for this guy. he got himself into a pretty bad situation, but is it crossing the line to publish his letter that he wrote to his minister? >> i want to see what's in the letter. and in the next hour, an astronaut who wore his underwear for a month. i did that in college once. >> tmi.

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welcome back. in today's crossing the line, he's been called the love gov, irresponsible, and derelict. also been calls for mark sanford to step down. while everything i have listed may have been fair game, today's development in what is the saga of sanford might be a little bit much. well, the associated press was able to obtain a copy of a letter sanford wrote to his religious adviser. it was written from his state computer, so thea p was able to get it, through a public records request. the letter was written may 20th before his infamous trip to argentina. in the letter sanford wrote, i simply beg for a chance to figure it out privately. please beg her for just the

first month after the kids get out of school. if i can't get this done, then there will be plenty of time for public humiliation and showing the world i am the guy in the wrong. we figured that part out. the letter goes on to say the one part where my heart at this point is not where i wish it was is with jenny. that's his wife. she's a great girl, great mom, great wife, best friend. this letter goes on and on, but it was a letter he wrote to his religious adviser. yes, he's stupid, did he it at work. mark sanford not expecting any sympathy i imagine at this point, but a letter to his spiritual adviser made public. again, it was written on the state's computer, but when does this story start to cross the line? you tell me. let me know. twitter.msnbc.com. let us know what you think. donny? >> you know what, stop putting everything in an e-mail. >> to many lessons this man has learned. almost 4:00 on the east coast. up next, a major announcement from senator chris dodd.

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