thank you. >> neil: what did you think of charlie rangel's comments?ll, charlie is always going to say things his own way, but i was more intrigued by what you said relative to the dropping in on the convention that invited the vice president to take the shots or call for shots. that's been revised. but one of the things that i think you've been speaking of on a regular basis, and i think the american people want to hear more of it. and that is the money problems of this nation, the economy, and how do we get it together. which ever of these parties and candidates comes to address that, and not to assume the people are stupid, not to stomach they're fools, not to assume they don't understand prices of gas, joblessness, and other things that are affecting them, if they continue to believe they can feed them the pablum of we're the good guy, they're the bad guys, the nation suffers. >> neil: is this ticket suffering because of joe biden? >> well, it didn't just start. i don't think it's suffering because of biden. i don't think biden brings that which yo

what's behind charlie rangel's comments here?eaking his mind or agenda in your opinion. >> i actually agree that i don't think joe biden should have used the word chains. i'm not in a fan of rarnl imagery when the republicans talk about obama mat nazi. all of that stuff belittles the experience of jews and belittles the experience of black people. what is more offensive is donald trump, romney surrogate going around demanding the president's birth certificate. >> he is not a congressman. this is a sit being black congressman talking about the vice president and what's behind it. >> ranking member in the black caucus and hispanic caucus who has fought for civil rights issues. >> why is he doing it do you think? >> it was offensive. he was talking about slavery. tear rand awere talking about this earlier. charlie rangel has been on the outs dealing with the party since he lost chairmanship. to have the first black governor come out and say that this was wrong, he should not have used that, and i am so tired of liberals going before

who spoke to him in a bipartisan event, and you had people who said, i really liked charlie rangel but that paul ryan, he's such a smart guy. that's the connect. he does it on a personal level. so for someone like romney who had trouble connecting personally with the voter, ryan is a very good selection. >> obviously, ryan needs to get his sales pitch on because selling medicare and andrea mitchell, we talked about this before, the third state in this bus trip is florida. and it is my understanding that when governor romney was reaching out to various people to sort of get their opinions on the members of the short list, that governor romney said, yes, it would sort of acknowledge, i know this is going to create challenges in florida. >> it is going to create challenges in florida and other states. pennsylvania is a state with a very large elderly population. and other states as well where you have seniors concerned about medicare, other people of course concerned about medicaid and food stamps, which are also severely cut in the ryan budget. but the medicare issue, it has been cos

congressman charlie rangel is calling here in a minute and he's been talking tough about last night's speeches speaker. also we will talk about small business owners who continue to lose out to the big banks on wall street. we will talk to neil barofsky about that. and of course isaac is still wreaking havoc. our own jeff flock continues his live coverage from the state of louisiana just moment trs now. -- just moments from now. at the top of the hour, lauren simonetti with stocks, every 15 minutes. >> we finally have moves after some steady trading all week. we are down 111 points right now on the dow jones industrial average. if you look at the level, we're below 13,000. we haven't been 13,000 since early august. in fact, now for the month of august, for the dow, at least, the nasdaq and the s&p are higher for the month, but the dow is now negative for the month of august. so you can see it's looking pretty ugly on this thursday, the day before jackson hole, but amazon.com is a bright spot today. it did hit an all-time high $250 a little bit earlier. the kindle fire, the best seller

>>neil: what did you thinks of comments of charlie rangel?uest: he will say things his own way but i was more intrigued by what you said relative to the dropping in on the convention by the vice president, to take the shots off, or the call for shots. that has been revised. one of the things that i think you have been speaking of, on a regular basis, and i think the american people want to hear more of it, that is money problems of this nation, the economy, and how we get it together. whichever of these candidates and parties comes to address that, and not to assume that people are stupid, or assume they are fools or to assume they do not understand the rice of gas, joblessness, and other things that are affecting them, if they continue to believe they can feed them that they are the good guys and we are bad, the nation suffers. >>neil: is this ticket suffering because of joe biden? >>guest: it did not just start. i don't think it is suffering because of biden. i don't think biden brings that which you would like to have with the ticket. that

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i was there last week when he was talking to a delegation of folks from illinois, he followed charlie rangel, one of those bipartisan events. you had people come out of there, i real like charlie, but that paul ryan, he's such a smart guy. that's his ability to connect and he does it on a personal level. so for someone like romney who's had trouble connecting personally with the voters, ryan is a very good selection. >> and obviously ryan needs to get his sales pitch on, because selling medicare and andrea mitchell, we talked about this before, the third state on this bus trip is florida. and it is my understanding that when governor romney was reaching out to various people to sort of get their opinions on the members of the short list, even governor romney would say, yes, would sort of acknowledge, i know this is going to create challenges in florida. >> it is going to create challenges in florida and other states. pennsylvania has a large elderly population and other states as well, where you have seniors, concerned about medicare, other people concerned about medicaid and food stamps, wh

in 2009, march of 2009, charlie rangel introduces in the house this bill to put a 90% -- a 90% incomes for any of these wall street guys who get bonuses, who all -- in companies that also received t.a.r.p. funds. paul ryan found a tax increase he would vote for. and by the way, unconstitutional. senate didn't even bring it up. everything about it was crazy. he voted for that tax increase. >> but remember, for the bush budgets, he'd say, it wasn't his fault. now the story is, well, i was a junior member and i had to do what i was told. and gee, the fact that i've been in washington some 20 years, that doesn't make may creature of washington. i'm actually a leader of washington. >> two bills passed. >> so you've got to get with the new program, there, lawrence. there's some new talking point os out there. >> everything he has brought to a vote in the house of representatives, none of it has become law, since he's been chairman. he passed one little thing about taxation of arrows, literally. he, himself is an archer, an archery hunter kind of guy. but there's a lot more we're going to le

. >> but that's kind of -- >> charlie rangel said you bet your ass he was saying that. >> one of thee ought not be fork y focused on the utterances of the left or the right as policies. for me, does vice president biden pretty regularly absolutely put his foot in places i'm -- >> yeah, right. sure, absolutely. >> in racial territory. >> and absolutely in racial territory and besides that, i'm still not completely over the anita hill hearings. i've got my issues. that said, vice president biden's position on the violence against women act, his position in this administration. the actual policies tell me something very different than where a vice president would be. >> when we're talking about welfare reform and putting the work back in welfare reform, some of the language around that is very much geared toward dog whistle politics without recognizing a huge and growing population hears it a very different way. >> that's never appropriate. the point is, what it means to be black republican and to your point -- >> i get recognized everywhere i go. >> i want to stop the conversation on j

i was one of the original authors of this measure along with jim mcdermott and charlie rangel. and i know how much work over the last week has gone into this in terms of the work by chairman dave camp, by karen bass, and by others who have worked to get this bill out of the senate. i wanted to make a few observations on this measure and the impact it has had. i chair the africa subcommittee when we passed the african growth and opportunity act, it was bipartisan, it was historic, before africa policy was just a policy. with agoa, we created a trade policy for africa. with agoa we have seen exports and imports double into sub-saharan africa. and i have had the opportunity to see this program's benefits hundreds of thousands of jobs, most held by women, created in the apparel sector. boosting very poor countries in africa. and agoa has also strengthened the rule of law in africa because that's one of the conditions that when we wrote this bill and marked it up, we put that conditionality on, that eligibility criteria. i just wanted to remind the members for a minute, and this is

charlie rangel calls jim. >> it is going to get me in trouble some day. >> a mime. >> jacki schechneres. now i can actually see you. let's see. so he's a mimic. he's a virtual method actor when it comes to impersonating his fellow politicians. >> wonder who does mitch mcconnell? >> stephanie: he played -- he's versatile jim. he has played in debates preps barack obama al gore, jon lieberman, john edwards and hillary clinton. >> did he wear a wig and dress? >> no wig no dress. interesting. not interesting but interesting. this is what the media -- >> that's what i want in a vice president. >> not really. >> portman could pretend to be romney so he could put on a romney wig and not make gaffes. >> stephanie: oh, he also -- a haunted hotel. i don't like the ones we went to when we were kids. put your hand in the spaghetti. they're eyeballs. no, they're not. they're eggs. >> they're grapes. >> ooh, it is -- oh, no, it's dust. >> stephanie: wow, we have quite a line-up. we have a turk coming up. >> really? >> stephanie: it is the head turk. coming up in just a few minutes. jacki schechner,