they're running adds focusing on senator bill nelson of florida, senator claire mccaskill of missouri, senator jon tester of montana, senator ben nelson of nebraska, and senator sherrod brown of ohio. >>> governor jerry brown has been called to jury duty in alameda county. the governor got the normal instructions call tonight, call tomorrow night and call to find out if he has to serve in the jury. the governor served on a jury 30 years ago. that's when governor brown served as foreman that

democratic senator claire mccaskill, republican senator thune, republican of south dakota, and senatorlaire senr [ melody ] the bar is raised for everybody in an ap class, from the teachers to the students. i had a student the other day that said... "miss stacy, this class is changing the way that i look at things." sparking that interest and showing them that math and science are exciting... it's why i teach. ♪ i know they can, even when they think they can't. ♪ that's a reason to switch. big savings -- it's a good look for you. [ blower whirring ] [blower stops] the safety was off. out there with a better way. now, that's progressive. >>> joining me, senator john thune, republican of south dakota, and senator claire mccaskill, democrat of missouri. welcome both of you to "meet the press." well, this is really where the action is right now. it's in the senate. senator thune, as a republican here, somebody who's reportedly in play, what has to be in this agreement to get you to yes? >> well, i think a couple things, david. first, no taxes, spending reductions at least equal to the amou

i think he's got more sure footed then claire mccaskill. >> i think i'd rather be claire mccaskill, onlyican field in that race is uncertain, unclear. dennis steelman is an interesting potential challenger but has weakness. todd aiken, just under a quarter of the state, only for that reason would i rather be claire mccaskill. >> one of the things in this cycle is that this cycle of senators in 200, 2006 was big years. there is a ton of democratic and incumbent seats up. >> and they want squeakers just because of the environment. >> and that brings us to the next four republican opportunities. we bring these in uphill battles. right now the republicans are probably ahead but they may not be. and i ask you this, of these four, new mexico, michigan, ohio, florida, which of these is a toss up in 20122? >> i think bill nelson is extremely, em treemly vulnerable in florida. he's somebody that has had extremely weak opposition. the state has been turning away from him and he's had very, very weak opposition. this time he's not going to have a bill mcconnell or somebody ending up being somebody

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. >>> joining me now senator claire mccaskill, she's a democrat from missouri and somewhat who likes to speak her mind. senator, nice to see you this morning. >> thanks, chuck. >> all right, the outlines of this deal that we're hearing about that would have cuts up front and the revenue conversation on taxes taking place over the next 18 months with penalties, if nothing gets implemented, is a broad outline. i know you want to see details. what do you think? >> well, you know, first of all, i've been working on cuts for a long time, and jeff sessions and i came close to passing a cap on spending even before last november's elections. so, i think that cuts are very important. having said that. i think it's going to be very important that we get some kind of compromise from the house. it is ridiculous that these guys won't even budge on writing checks to big oil. they're more willing to decimate medicare than they are willing to take a dime away from the most profitable corporations on the planet, that's taxpayer money, that's going to those corporations. so, i do think that compromise

. >>> and claire mccaskill and karl rove are having a tweet in battle. mccaskill said that karl rove a wave and friendly hi in st. louis airport. even though he's up on tv distorting my record, still wanted to show good manners. karl rove says, saw claire mccaskill at st. louis airport, and she waved but wasn't happy. must be at crossroads. can't they make the tweets shorter? those are the things we thought you should know. [ p.a. announcer ] announcing america's favorite cereal is now honey nut cheerios! yup, america's favorite. so we're celebrating the honey sweetness, crunchy oats and... hey! don't forget me!! honey nut cheerios. make it your favorite too! . >> welcome back to "newsnation." summer vacation means summer camps and relaxing for students, but experts say that some students can experience a summer slide, and they say that by fifth grade low-income children are two years behind because of a lack of summer learning opportunities. meanwhile, new studies indicate that u.s. students are falling behind in the global education and the skills and

. >> we invite you to watch "meet the press" and among the guests will be clair mccaskill of missouriffe. >>> princess ann's daughter has tied the knot marrying her long time love in a private ceremony in scotland. they cell britted into the wee hours of the morning. stephanie, this time yesterday, you were hoping to get an invite. there were a lot of cute rugby guys funneling in. >> for didn't pan out. i tried hard, but in the end the doors it were closed. i knocked and no response. we all watched william and kate get married three months ago. that wedding and the party cost $30 million. by comparison, this wedding was $800,000. no doubt it was still a royal affair. it's a good year to be a royal. weddings, wonder for public support. the crowd outside let it be known. the royal finery was on display for the second time. big clears for the newlyweds, the duke and duchess. for this wedding, the pressure is off. they are relative unkboens. this is the queen's granddaughter. her husband is the captain of the rugby team. they said it would be private. >> no occasion where the queen and pr

they're running adds focusing on senator bill nelson of florida, senator claire mccaskill of missourir jon tester of montana, senator ben nelson of nebraska, and senator sherrod brown of ohio. >>> governor jerry brown has been called to jury duty in alameda county. the governor got the normal instructions call tonight, call tomorrow night and call to find out if he has to serve in the jury. the governor served on a jury 30 years ago. that's when governor brown served as foreman that foreman. >>> so far we're doing good. doesn't mean we're exactly right, just means we haven't had a lot of crashes. this morning on highway 4 we have slow traffic coming up through antioch and also some slow traffic on 680 through pleasant hill. nothing major, 80 still looks pretty good from vallejo to richmond all the way out. there's a back up at the richmond bridge toll plaza heading west. this morning if you're driving in hayward already some bunching up near highway 82. still looks pretty good crossing 880 heading over to the bay shore freeway. this morning's commute looks good on northbound 280. nort

they're running ads that focus on bill nelson of florida, claire mccaskill of missouri, jon tester ofmontana, ben nelson of nebraska, and sherrod brown of ohio. >>> congressman david wu is confirming that he will not seek reelection next year. this comes as a house ethics committee launches an investigation into an encounter with a teenage girl. there's a report that he left a voice mail at his office accusing him of the unwanted advances. >>> time now 5:19. let's go to sal. he's watching everything including the golden gate bridge. >> we're going to start there because there's a little bit of mist and fog on the bridge there. southbound 101 traffic moves very nicely if you're coming througsouthern marin you shouldn't have any problem. morning commute is going to be okay as well, if you are driving to the bay bridge toll plaza or to the san mateo bridge toll plaza. both of them are pretty good. then off you go on the san mateo bridge if you're driving to the peninsula. looks pretty good, we're off to a nice start. if you happen to be driving into the south bay any time soon we do have

what would democratic senator from missouri claire mccaskill do?s performing live all hour, every deserves music and that's the name of that song that he's playing right now. ♪ everyone deserves its music ♪ ♪ sweet music ♪ yes they do now ♪ everyone deserves music ♪ put your hands together ♪ oh, ♪ [ male announcer ] 95% of all americans aren't getting enough whole grain. but actually, it's never been easier to get the whole grain you want from your favorite big g cereals. from cheerios to lucky charms, there's whole grain in every box. make sure to look for the white check. >> brian: democrats are on the hill and fuming reportedly after hearing from sources that president obama and house speaker john boehner are close to a major deal on raising our nation's debt limit and not raising taxes. >> steve: missouri democratic senator claire mccaskill joins us live from washington, d.c good morning to you, senator. >> good morning. >> steve: great to have you. we understand that there has been a revolt, top democrats met yesterday with jack lieu. a lot of

take a claire mccaskill, she won't be on it. >> sean: we can't win with that they are trying.t has done nothing. >> i think there's another way to lack at this, there's a different in leading and putting out a plan and being willing to be the pinata and take the blows for it. >> sean: i've never seen somebody so over his head than this guy. >> where is the leadership? it is not there. >> sean: coming up, did the gang of six proposal cause the president to demand billions more in tax hikes and lead to this deadlock? we ask to key members. >> the constitutional loophole that the president could invoke by himself. how will that hold up in court. we have a constitutional [ charles ] when you can make a person smile when they taste the food that you cooked, it does something to your heart. i think what people like most about the grilled food is the taste. the flavor comes from that oak wood. the shmp, the fresh fish, the steaks. it locks in the flavor, it seals in the juices so that when you put the fork in it, it just goes through it like butter. it's beautiful. [ laughs ] i'm pro

i know one of your colleagues, clair mccaskill was tweeting minute by minute. there was a huge, almost pent-up frustration. have you known what's going on in the talks at the white house? >> not exactly but in general. it's been disappointing for me to see things slide back into a smaller plan. the argument i've been making to people around here is that if the credit rating downgrades our debt and interest rates spike for the american people and for the people that are borrowing -- are buying our debt, nobody is going to remember what pledge anybody made about anything. what they're going to know is that we were the first group of 100 senators that actually drove our death rating into the ditch. that's what they're going to care about. that's why we need to do, not just get past the debt ceiling which we need to do, but also put this country on a path of fiscal sustainability. >> when you look at our nbc "wall street journal" poll, and we ask specifically, on the two third rails if you will, inside boat parties, taxes with republicans, entitlements with democra

take a claire mccaskill, she won't be on it. >> sean: we can't win with that they are trying.president has done nothing. >> i think there's another way to lack at this, there's a different in leading and putting out a plan and being willing to be the pinata and take the blows for it. >> sean: i've never seen somebody so over his head than this guy. >> where is the leadership? it is not there. >> sean: coming up, did the gang of six proposal cause the president to demand billions more in tax hikes and lead to this deadlock? we ask to key members. >> the constitutional loophole that the president could invoke by himself. how will that hold up in court. we have a constitutional expert coming up. [ male announcer ] from nutritional science comes centrum. with vitamins and minerals balanced to support your energy... ♪ ...and healthy skin. everyday benefits from advanced formulas. discover the complete benefits of centrum. with new extra-strength bayer advanc aspirin. it has microparticles, enters the bloodstream faster and rushes relief to the site of pain. it's clinically proven t

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also claire mccaskill, there's another one that's not really a lefty. johnson tester's okay and sherrod brown is great. >> sorry, senator nelson, no more reckless spending, no new taxes, and no more blank checks. >> tell senator bill nelson no more blank checks. sorry, senator mccaskill. no more reckless spending, no new taxes, and no more blank checks. >> tell senator sherrod brown -- >> we've got to take away barack obama's blank checks. >> sorry, senator tester. no more reckless spending, no new taxes, and no more blank checks. >> well, who did write congress and speaker boehner's speech last night? take a look at what a blank check looks like. president obama. that's right, he isn't asking for a blank check to spend more money, he's proposed $4.7 trillion in cuts and boehner basically told him to go to hell. $4.7 trillion. shared sacrifice is what the president of the united states has been talking about, and you know what would have been in that $4.7 trillion? medicare, medicaid, social security. but you know, that deal was gone. that was the deal

i know that there's a lot of concern on the part of democrats we heard it from claire mccaskill there about the president's willingness to take a scalpel to medicare, for instance. what's your stand on this? >> we're very resolute. those of us in the new york congressional delegation that we will not stand for massive cuts to medicare, medicaid. we're fighting back on the graduate medical education fight. new york teaching hospitals train 15% of the nation's doctors. and we heard a rumor that this may be on the chopping block. it would devastate new york's hospitals in terms of providing care in terms of people losing their jobs. we're not just going to say any agreement is better than no greechlt frankly i think if the republicans continue to give the president a hard time, he ought to invoke the 14th amendment which simply says that the public debt shall not be questioned and move on with it. i don't think that the ultraright can hold us hostage because they won't even close any kind of tax loopholes or agree that people that can pay a little bit more should pay more. this could not

security and medicare, the president is not specifying what he would absorb with there, nor is clair mccaskill, as well as this tax question. labrador as a house republican was worried about that second stage somewhere out there you come back to the same debate with this special committee trying to get tax increases through. >> the irony is there's another trigger out there -- that is the bush tax cuts, those rates expire at the end of 2012. what happens there? is that a trigger that's going to get tax reform an force this special committee to do it? >> tax reform is a smart idea. i mean it's smart in the political sense in that there's actually a fair amount of support for doing it. and they were getting close when the president and boehner were discussing the larger deal and it got caught up in some rates. but i think the notion, even among progressives that everybody has some skin in the game might be important. >> i'm going to sopo to the sen floor. harry reid has taken to the floor and i think he's going to give us an update. >> they wondered how they'd take care of their families if the

the very latest with david plouffe and claire mccaskill and john thune discussing the latest discussionseet the press." >>> that will do it for us on this sunday morning. richard lui and janice huff, thank you very much next week on "today" i want to toronto and climbed the tower and scaled the top of it. that's not even sort of a joke. we'll have that for you. >> you know they have an elevator. >> yeah. they didn't tell me that until after. >>> also, don't miss brian williams' special "inside congress" a special "dateline." cc1:

claire mccaskill has a more personal goal in mind and she believes he's using the debt debate to try that happen. >> here's the solution to the problem. let's let the democrats do it and we want them to do it three times before the next election. and it will be okay with us if they do it as long as we don't have to touch it. this is all about trying to take out me and a few others in tough states so mitch can become the floor leader. >> let's talk both aspects of this, jamal taking the claire argument here a little bit, jennifer, though, to set us up for what claire was arguing there. let's set the stage. there's 33 senate seats up, 23 are held by democrats. and a bunch of incumbents in red or swing states nervous about votes like the debt. >> absolutely. first of all, a lot of these incumbents were elected in 2006, a wave year for democrats. now they have to face voters with barack obama on the ballot, something they didn't have to do six years. they are nervous just about any vote, because as mccaskill says, this is all part of mcconnell's grand scheme. it could be a resolution on

claire mccaskill, you think she wants to do this three times next year? i don't think so. >> there's a positive to be looked at. a week and a half ago we were in an argument about whether to vote on it. we are now at a point where it doesn't look like we are going to default on our debt. for us to voluntarily default, it would be a hardship around the world and here. as a former governor, you would understand as well as any, you can see a path to an answer that encourages people. >> it's a path to an answer. it's also very disappointing. we had the opportunity to do something with the deficit. it took people of good will on both sides compromising. the great rolling stones song, "you can't always get what you want." we could have done something good for the country. we are kicking the can down the road. yes, we are avoiding default, but god knows when it's going to get done. >> mike, there's a headline, beyond the beltway and yawns on budget talks. can we put it in the simplest of language? why does it matter when it feels inside the beltway right now? >>

i've offered something at the beginning of the year with claire mccaskill from missouri.had a budget for 798 days. we haven't gone through the budget process so look i couldn't agree more. it's the most dysfunctional place i've ever been in, in my life and my hope is over the next month or so we can rectify that, move ahead, do some great things for our country while we have this wonderful opportunity to do so. >> senator durbin i want to bring you in, member of the gang of six, working on this for a long time. the meeting tomorrow with the president what is going to be different this time? house speaker john boehner questions the usefulness of the meeting. >> i think it's a good, valid question. i've been involved in this for a year and a half, the whole year on the president's deficit fiscal commission, three republican senators vote with us, a buy-in, bipartisan buy-in for a way to reduce the deficit. the gang of six got with us, unfortunately senator coburn walked away from it. we tried to engage other members, democrats and republicans. we both have to sit down and b

we spoke with senator claire mccaskill, who has been keeping an eye over that funds and reconstruction for years in afghanistan. >> i know the troops are doing everything they are being asked to do, and in return, we owe them a duty to make sure that american dollars are not in any way flowing to the enemy. if they are not willing to allow us to look over the shoulder as this money flows into the afghan economy, we ought to say to them maybe we don't let that money flow. >> fred, there's an agency that tracks some of the problems, and they forwarded 21 leads to the afghan government, and the afghan attorney general's office only followed up on four of them. >> chris lawrence, thank you so much. we appreciate that. >> yep. >>> here is your chance to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. carol costello is in washington with today's question. should politicians participate in religious events. what are folks saying? >> it's a hot question, fredricka. the country is drowning in debt, and jobs are mia and lawmakers are too busy to help, so why not pray. and there is an event dubbe

. >> reporter: missouri democratic senator claire mccaskill said on msnbc mcconnell is, quote, losing he's proposed democrats take all the blame for raising the debt ceiling with three votes over the next year which, of course, would be political suicide for red state democrats. sources say the president is demanding republicans either give up their refusal to increase tax revenue or give up their demand to cut spending as much as they raise the debt ceiling. eric cantor's refused, so senate majority leader harry reid took a swing at him. >> house majority leader eric cantor has shown that he shouldn't even be at the table. and republicans agree he shouldn't be at the table. one republican told politico last night and hill publication, quote, he lost a lot of credibility when he walked away from the table. -childish. end of quote. -- it was childish. end of quote. what's that all about, mr. president? >> reporter: cantor's spokeman said of reid, quote, it's not surprising reid wants to raise taxes with so many americans out of work, same players back here at the white house at 4:15 th

we spoke with senator claire mccaskill who has been keeping an eye on iraq and afghanistan reconstruction projects for years. >> i know the troops are -- are doing everything they are being asked to do and in return, we open them a duty to make sure that american dollars are not in any way flowing to the enemy. if they are not willing to allow us to look over their shoulder as this money flows into the afghanistan economy, then we ought to say to them maybe it's time we don't let that money flow. >> reporter: one of the problems is had is they use informal financial institutions instead of banks in afghanistan. they sort of operate outside the law. there was one instance in the report that says a u.s. contractor tried to transfer about $3 billion, but the hiwala kept the money and refused to distribute it to the communities it was actually intended for. >> we will follow the investigation into this issue. chris, thanks. >>> michele bachman and her migraine headaches. paul, why is this still a story? >> reporter: still a story for a couple of reasons. the congresswoman from minnesota and p

. >> missouri democratic senator claire mccaskill in an appearance earlier on msnbc's morning show says she cannot figure out leaders thoughts on raising the debt limit it would require three separate votes to do so before the 2012 elections. she went on to say, "i think mitch mcconnell, frankly, has lost his mind." turning to defense against attack on the nation's computer systems. a broad strategy was introduced today about formally condemned -- formerly declares cyberspace a new area for warfare, much like land, air, or seed. -- sea. a coalition of food companies, including general mills, con agra, and kellogg plans to make an announcement today about food safety. >> this weekend on "book tv" on c-span2, reliving experiences in iraq. and richard wright looks at the railroad. and eisenhower in 1956, david nichols looks at the balance of power in the cold war. >> every weekend, american history tv on c-span3 highlights the 100 anniversary of the civil war. -- the 150th anniversary of this award. the battle of bull run will be commemorated with 48 hours of programming. every weekend on

>> claire mccaskill. they feel about being cut out of the loop on the deals. >>> why did rahm emanuel walk out of this local interview? oh, dear. >> he did calmly, with a smile on his face. he's not that kind of a guy. >> not at all. >> i'm that kind of a guy. we'll be right back [ female announcer ] now you can apply sunblock to your kids' wet skin. new neutrogena® wet skin kids. ordinary sunblock drips and whitens. neutrogena® wet skin cuts through water. forms a broad spectrum barrier for full strength sun protection. wet skin. neutrogena®. it's schwab at your fingertips wherever, whenever you want. one log in lets you monitor all of your balances and transfer between accounts, so your money can move as fast as you do. check out your portfolio, track the market with live updates. and execute trades anywhere and anytime the inspiration hits you. even deposit checks right from your phone. just take a picture, hit deposit and you're done. open an account today and put schwab mobile to work for you. [ male