christina romer will not be on the list. didn't really fit in with well the administration the first time. the name i hear among women candidates is lale brainerd, over there now, very well respected on the international front and delta lot with issues having to do with the european debt crisis and very much hands on when it came to these deals that the eu was striking with greece, so really familiar with that territory and with that crisis and that of course is one of the big issues there. i think she would be more likely than any of those but, look, the front-runner, current chief of staff, former budget director, i hear some hess tans sigh a little inside the white house and some in the wall street community not big fans of lou and even among some on capitol hill and i do, it is my understanding, there is a larger outreach effort going on by the white house to look for some more candidates. >> report. chuck todd, do appreciate you as always. >> you got it. >> don't miss a day of the daily rundown. if you miss t you miss a

at larry summers because christina romer was suggesting you had to go over $1 trillion. that was necessary. and there is, summers said, there is no way you are getting that number through congress. the romers of the world look more correct. if we are able to get some more better place today. there is a counter argument that on paper may be that is true, but there is only so much that government can do to process that money in a constructive way. you are hitting the ceiling of diminishing returns. you don't know who is exactly right. as far as speed of government action is concerned, the government is too slow to act. this is a case where they did not wait until rock bottom. freefall. it was not the exact, perfect number, but it was pretty good. >> my view is all of these problems that are already there. the failure of the future of the free market is not a bug. static state. that is where we have been for five years. if you like this, there is plenty more coming. week's election. >> let me ask you about a question that addresses the differences between liberals and liber

the romers of the world look more correct. are able to get some more in there, we might be in a better place today. there is a counter argument that on paper may be that is true, but there is only so much that government can do to process that money in a constructive way. you are hitting the ceiling of diminishing returns. exactlyt know who is right. as far as speed of government action is concerned, the government is too slow to act. this is a case where they did not wait until rock bottom. they actually stop the freefall. it was not the exact, a perfect number, but it was pretty good. >> my view is all of these programs cement into place the problems that are already there. the failure of the future of the free market is not a bug. all these things leave us in a static state. that is where we have been for five years. if you like this, there is plenty more coming. no matter who wins in next week's election. >> let me ask you about a question that addresses the differences between liberals and libertarians. and we will get to

of humor, and it was all very dirty, and that was the one thing that got my students to really love romer and juliet" and the parents thought it was good and my students understand there were magnificent dirty jokes and words that they understood and their parents didn't. milton was one of the first that got it and help the other students to see you really need a good vocabulary and if you study the words that shakespeare uses, you can learn a lot of things that your parents probably wouldn't appreciate, but that you would, and so milton was fun. he understood puns. he understood every time i told a joke that went over everybody's head. he was one of the three people in the class that had the look in his eyes that said "i at least get it mrs. kelar". i get t we kept in touch over the years after he left presidio and when milton was ready to serve with the community we talked about what he could do. milton came to my house and talked to my husband and i dennis and he talked about the school board, not the college board where he was distinguished and twice e elected, but the hard politics o

romer versus the other thought lawsuit and and finally the supreme court said that you cannot deprive a class of people of their civil rights and that was on the issue of whether they can just be treated equally as people not on the issue of marriage but hopefully will one day like we did with black people marrying white people it seems like a no brainer now but that required a supreme court decision to what extent do you think. we just have a minute or so left or to what extent do you think that the amount of religious money that is poured into these things in the past is now either dissipating we're being ignored yeah well it's exciting to see the proponents of gay marriage be able to raise more money than their opposition now the it's shifted a bit and i think it's just because people you know that's not all coming just from gay people that's like ten percent of the population you know there are allies and friends and supporters and people who just don't want to be told who they can marry we're all stepping into this and getting involved and that's very exciting well it's her new l

dr romer is also the author of a new book language intelligence lessons on persuasion from jesus shakespearelincoln and lady gaga ok great i'm looking forward to ok so let's get back to the language here in in fact dr dr rome the. one of the dinner talking points. is that the sun's activity correlates more closely to global temperatures than c o two levels do we brought this up with the growth of the ocean a little earlier is that the only variable well this particular myth has been you know debugged by countless studies the suns we've been warming you know a tremendous amount over the past century but the intensity of of sunlight sun solar radiation has not increased substantially it goes up and down there's eleven year cycle but you know you know as dan said i don't think there's any major climate scientist in the world who who thinks that the sun is a major contributor to the change in the temperature that we've seen in the past century or so the a couple of days ago on fox and kevin i'm hearing you know i hear a couple of days ago on fox there was it was michelle malkmus somebody was say

some people on the left are mad at larry summers because christina romer was suggesting that you had to go over 1 trillion. and summers was like a, there's no way you're getting that number through congress. the christina romer's of the world look more correctly it were able to get more into, we might end up at her place today. there's also a counter argument that on paper and maybe that is true, but there's only so much the government can do to process that money in a constructive way so maybe you're hitting the ceiling of diminishing returns at that point. you can only run one test at a time so you don't know who is exactly right. but i will say as far as speed of government action is concerned, usually the government, they are too slow to act. this is such a rare case when they didn't wait until rock-bottom. they didn't wait until everything had shed. they stop the freefall of what was happening and made wasn't exact perfect number, but it was pretty good. to get into a positive territory when we were into negative territory. >> my view is all of these programs just cement into pl

i would pick tim romer or dick lugar. you've got bipartisan ship, somebody a lot of people could work with, including then senator obama who traveled around the world with him talking about nuclear disarmament. i think that is someone the president is comfortable with and the senators will be comfortable with. i think that's very important if we're going to retake the center. if you can't get susan right one of the hoosiers. >> one of the hoosiers wins. every fantasy draft every cabinet fantasy draft is talking about the hoosier twins. i say james cunningham, the ambassador to iraq, was to israel. james cunningham. susan rice, from fantasy to reality, i say in reality the likely choice will be susan rice for this job. the secretary of defense you had a hoosier in the secretary of defense. i do see duke lugar here. you think that he will cross the aisle, the president will go for a republican secretary of defense? >> he could go for olympia snow, who was on the intelligence committee. you could put snow over at defense. i

lints to what people like patty murray and christina romer are saying. what barack obama said at that press conference when he said if there was any scenario in which we could fall off a fiscal cliff. he said sure, we could imagine that scenario, if congress doesn't agree. agree with whom? with him. he's saying it's my way off the cliff. and that is a way to go off the fiscal cliff, blame the republicans, stampede them into god knows what. cap and trade, card check. another stimulus plan. that ain't no bull market, larry. >> i think all those fears are actually now slowly being discounted in the stock market. and i agree with you. >> more to come. >> president obama answered that question all wrong because he kind of left the door open that maybe he'd let the cliff go through. anyway, don luskin, thank you very much. >> thank you, larry. >> rockets continue to rain on israel. another hamas leader is taken out. >> thank you. >> is it time to take the shackles off and let israel just finish the job? and folks, don't forget, free market capitalism, it is th

it would certainly be, i saw the other day christina romer said, you know, raising the eligibility age for medicare could be okay because the affordable care act is going to cover people up to that age, which my feeling is, that might be but we are nowhere near being able to say for sure that that's going to work in a way that will support people in that age. and i think we would want to think about, and basically saying how we make these programs work better to allow people to take full advantage of their own aspirations, we really want to look closely at what's happening, what are we doing for people in that age range of say, 58, 62 up to 65. jamie galbraith when i was at the american prospect, we published a great piece suggesting with the pressures on young people, the difficulty for young people find employment, maybe we should just actually make it much easier for people to, -- fall out of the workforce at age 62 in order to encourage the. i think is one interesting idea. we are servicing a lot of people in that age range, that's what a lot of the long-term unemployment is concen

and then mike romers said -- mike rogers, mr., can you explain why you just told us it wasn't you and you had no idea who did it? so that's why i asked if she gave you a name of who briefed her. >> no. we have not been getting a name, but i would say, megyn, that i still think that there needs to be more sufficient answers as to what agency changed the talking points and who did that, and those are some of the questions we have answers -- we expect answers to. and also why they did that. it's absurd to me to think that you would omit the reference of al-qaeda. so we didn't want to tip al-qaeda off? and particularly since it's very important that the american people not be left a misleading impression which is what happened here. and not only did it happen, if the intelligence community knee why buy the 22nd this was wrong, how come we weren't told sooner and why didn't ambassador rice say what she said was wrong sooner? megyn: some suggesting the attacks on ms. rice are based on her gender and her race, and that's what's really d

christina romer, president obama's chief economic advisor. has written in most circumstances a tax equals increase that equals about 1% of g.d.p. actually lowers g.d.p. by about 3%. harvard economist marty feldstein has written a 1 dollar increase in tax rates costs the economy about 76 cents in growth. there is a global perspective on this, too. other countries have gone through these fiscal problems and they have chosen to cut spending in some cases, raise taxes in other cases. there is a harvard economist, alberto halacena who has studied 17 countries in the developed world, this is over the past 25 years, and he has looked at how they have attempted to reduce their budget deficits. based on i.m.f. data which is international monetary fund, he concluded the tax-based deficit reduction was, in his words, always recessionary, always. by contrast, reducing deficits by cutting spending and enacting pro-growth reforms, including tax reform, actually spurred economic growth, according to his study. i think that's consistent with our own economic

not only has the israeli military been measured, you have to romer -- remember they left gaza. hamas is a terrorist organization and now last best partner in the peace process has but the american people and congress in an untenable situation by going around the process, petitioning the united nations to set up the international criminal court to marginalize the jewish state. you have lost your best partner in terms of economic growth and political stability. the palestinian people reside in the west bank -- if you go down the road being described, abusing the international criminal court to marginalize the jewish state and make idf members were criminals, you will have no one to blame but yourself for losing the money, but the most important thing you will have lost is the respect and support of the american people, why things are indispensable when it comes to peace. >> have you spoken to senator levin? i'm curious, why not just cut off the aid? >> we have not informed senator levin yet. this is a reaction in real time to what we think is a very provocative destabilizing of t

singled out for differential treatment so that just sets it up i think for justice kennedy who has a romer philosophy, so that is my most hopeful expectation. >> chad, turning around but could you, from a strategic standpoint, is there are risk in bringing these issues to this court? >> i think anytime one files a lawsuit there is always a risk that you can either win or you can lose. i absolutely believe that we are on the right side of this issue. we have the actual constitution in our favor. essays on the trial with 12 days of brilliance that chief judge walker oversaw. we are not opposition. is forced into a court of law, where truth and fact are the only things that matter, unlike a political campaign, and where there's a truth serum ended when a so-called expert witnesses under oath, truth or should i say equality tend to win the day. you have seen seen this across-the-board by the way and if you look at all of these victories, not just a prop 8 victory but the doma victories, many of these are by judges that were not perceived to be less than liberal judges. many of them were appoin

it would certainly be, i saw the other day christina romer said, raising the eligibility age for medicare could be okay because the affordable care act will cover people up to that age which is, my feeling is, that might be but we are nowhere near being able to say for sure that that's going to work in a way that will support people in that age. i think we really want to think about, in basically saying how can we make the programs to work better to allow people to take full advantage of their own, of their own aspirations and really live a better life. we really want to look closely what's happening, what are we doing for people in that age range of say 58, 62, up to 65? jamie galbraith when i was at "the american prospect", we published a great piece by him suggesting that with the pressures on, difficulty for young people finding employment, maybe we should just actually make it much easier for people to, to step, all or partially out of the workforce at age 62 without the penalty that kicks in order to encourage that. i think that is one interesting idea. we're certainly seeing a lot