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chris matthews. welcome to the show. with us today. john heilemann, farr farr, andrea mitchell and david ignatius. first off, it was a week dominated by twitter, but the hard reality of our very economy is what is haunting the obama white house and giving encouragement to the republicans. the new issue of "time magazine" has this cover, what recovery? "time magazine" lists the five myths that shows how hard it will be to get back to how this one was. number one, the current is a blip. no matter how much the white house says it's true, two, more monetary stimulus could work if it comes to us. it keeps interest rates down, but it doesn't make people without jobs buy anything. three, private sector investment will help when it kicks in. businesses spending in emerging country is into the here. four, the people are ready to work. the fact is with new jobs, people can pick up stakes to move where the jobs are and many don't have the right training for the jobs. five, americans are entrepreneurs. that's just not the force it once was. rana this is a top portrait, are we in the downward from the american

mitchell reports," sex and the city. another new york politician makes a tearful apology. unlike eliot spitzer and chris lee, anthony weiner would rather fight than quit. >>> the conservative blogger who broke the story and prebutted the confessional tells m s matt lauer he has one picture the public hasn't seen. >> if anthony weiner decides to make this a jihad against me for his interpretation of putting me into this situation, i'll take that as a -- you said an insurance policy. i can't foresee a circumstance in which i would release that. >> facing an ethics investigation and no support from fellow democrats. can the career politician survive? >>> the white house rolls out the red carpet for german chancellor angela merkel. for talks ranging from the war in afghanistan, where they agree to libya and deep differences over how to handle the economy. >> i'm not concerned about a double-dip recession. i am concerned about the fact that the recovery that we're on is not producing jobs as quickly as i want it to happen. >>> plus, the new "washington post" poll suggests the economy is now the president's b