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our wednesday mega panel, woerkt editorial editor jonathan capehart, reuters u.s. editor rob cox and chrystia freeland. the fact of the matter is everybody does not like this president. they do not like the republican field. 80% of the country does not approve of the overall congress. they don't trust the political leadership in this country. it is possible, one, for it to be more trustworthy. the game is if you think i'm crazy, look at him or her and then you'll really know what crazy is. that's good for a short-term power dynamics, jonathan, but obviously not a path of resolution for this country. >> no, no, no. the path of resolution is to have a president and 535 members of congress who see what the right thing is to do, realize that it is a long-term prospect and push forward. which is not going to happen. chris christie is playing a very interesting game. >> go on. >> chris christie is playing a very interesting game. remember, he gave probably one of the most definitive comments saying he wasn't running for president. he said must i commit suicide to convinc

joining me now jonathan capehart, msnbc contributor. ful piece about the booing today. and alex wagner, msnbc analyst and reporter for the huchb ton post. >> that was a low moment. >> it really wasn't. at each one, when you think it couldn't get any lower, it does. for the republican party, which has used patriotism as a cudgle, for someone to boo a member of the military, who is in iraq -- let's not forget, he didn't just do it video from his living room. he is overseas in iraq fighting in a war that this country is waging. >> he's in danger's way. >> you had him booed? you didn't have any of the nine people on stage condemn the booing, not from the stage and certainly not after. to be fair, rick santorum on fox today -- >> let me put this up, rick santorum today did say this on fox. >> i skeen democrat the people who booed that gay soldier. he's serving our country. i thank him for my service. i have to admit i did not hear those boos, but when you're in that sort of environment, you're sort of focused on the question, formulating the

>> joining me now are jonathan capehart, "washington post" editorial writer and msnbc contributor. and adam green, co-founder of progressive change committee. adam, let me begin with you. has the president called you since he's done these speeches in eric cantor's neighborhood and now in boehner's? in other words, followed your advice explicitly as given on this program that he needs to go out there on the road into the opposition territory and sell his program the way he's been selling them? has he called you up and said, hey, adam, great idea. now that i've done it, it feels really great. >> i missed a couple phone calls today, so he might have left me a voicemail. we'll see when i get back home. but, you know, this was free advice to him. i'm really glad that somebody inside the white house has also been echoing this and he took it. i think you know as well as anybody, lawrence, given your time in the senate that the best negotiation strategy is to be negotiating strongly inside the room but to have the angry hoards knocking on the negotiation room door on your side. across the

msnbc contributor jonathan capehart is in an editorial writer for the "washington post" and the best-dressedgton. and johnthan, we are talking sarah palin -- >> wait, you left out one thing, your understudy in the next 24 segment, and this is great fun for me. we are talking about sarah palin and what on earth she is going to be saying in iowa at a tea party event. people are wondering what she is going to say there and whether she will give a nod as to whether she is jumping into the race for president or continuing to toy around with the idea. and then on sunday, mitt romney is going to be in new hampshire for a tea party event of his own and starting what first read put out on the calendar which is a jam-packed september. and then labor day is when it all happens. you have palin back on the scene in new hampshire for a tea party event and then in south carolina, jim demint who is a tea party member in the senate and a very powerful person in the senate is going to have bachmann, cain, gingrich, ron paul, perry and romney all at his tea party forum there in south carolina. >> so, it is a p

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

a -- >> governor perry -- >> let's bring in our experts, "washington post" editorial writer jonathan capehart and politico expert, jim. start with you, jonathan. he didn't look presidential, rick perry, while romney shined. your thoughts? >> that seems to be the consensus coming out of the debate. damaging to rick perry. times when he looked clumsy. one of the times going on the attack in the debate. there was another moment where he talked about people who might not agree with him on allowing children of illegal immigrants in his site to have her tuition k covers. shed they didn't have a heart. rick perry needed a good day. by no means did he do better in the third debate and that alone makes romney the winner. he's the clear other person in this two-person race and wants to make the argument i'm more electable, better in debates and i'll be better against president obama and he helped make that case last night. >> that said, jonathan, mitt romney is definitely improving on the debate stage. polling well in new hampshire. if you're in the white house and looking at this is playing out right

but jonathan capehart, how do you create a market when my competitor is discounting its currency at 40%, in the case of china. >> right. >> how do i compete with that? when my competitor is taxing my imports at 25% and i'm taxing theirs at 2.5% i can tell the kids on the football team to run faster but if the guys on the other team are greasing the football, it's not -- you're not going to catch it. >> right. and you either have to come up with ways to get around the team that's greasing the football or you got to figure out ways to punish the team that's greasing the football. and so far i haven't heard anything about punishing those countries that are greasing the football or are at least not playing on a level playing field. and to get to something you were saying, these trade deals make possible for the united states to sell its goods and services but he said something interesting. he said, you know, you get to sell more iphones and then he said the profits at least come back to the united states. i think there is a recognition of the fact that the united states, what exactly does i

this is jonathan capehart. >> we love him. >> we love him. he says obama's fight, go big or go home. the jobs plan obama will unveil will be a great first sign of his willingness to fight. pieces of it have already leaked out. my hope is that the president will reveal other ideas that he got from gene robinson and others to go big. if the republicans don't go along, he must go to the mat. >> jon meacham, explain to me, how can the president seem too passive and moderate for his base, but seen as radical, a marxist, extremist. >> it's hard to be both of those things. >> how can he be both? >> it's hard. the triumph of the paranoid stock in american politics. both sides are so entrench thad facts don't change their view. so, you have this characterture that is fact proof of the protomarxist or whatever. even govern huntsman is saying, you know, tax and spend our way to prosperity. i don't think president obama believes that but it's a view now that is accepted and i think if anything we have learned in the last three years is that obama is trap