david: wait a minute.hat like quentin saying sarah palin is his favorite candidate. >> but during his first four years unemployment was averaging 5.5%. in 1997 he cut the capital gains from 28% to 20% and unemployment 4.5% and tax revenues from the cut surged into the economy. david: people still cue that voodoo economics. >> some are slow learners. that why we need to improve the education system but i would like ever lip to tell me -- evelyn to tell me one time when reducing the tax rates didn't lead to more vibrant economy. >> the bush years. >> name one bad one. >> we got the stimulus from president bush that was a small tax for some. >> no, it was a rebate. david: hold o i think quentin has an example. where is one time we lowered tax rates and we haven't had a boost in the economy? >> even a boost -- george bush cut taxes and we got no improvements in standard for the a average american and a monster bubble that you said was a recovery and it wasn't. david: steve, does that work? >> no, that shows us

thank you, david. >>> what do you think, david?t seems that we are exactly where we were before this proposal details were released. >> politically you want to be where republicans are. it is a democrats' bill. they have the votes. if they can, they can ignore the republicans and make the bill more of a democratic bill. the republicans are able to pick off things they don't like while the democrats go after each other. politically it is intriguing. >> pick off the things you don't like and one or two things are okay but not giving a strong praise. >>> coming up in our "faceoff" race and politics. what is motivating the super heated rhetoric we are hearing from some directed at president obama? >>> a program note, this sunday msnbc will telecast "about our children" a live event featuring bill cosby focusing on parenting, education and health issues facing the poor in this country. sunday at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. i get congested. my eyes itch. i have to banish you to the garden. but now with zyrtec-d®, i have the proven allergy re

here's the problem, david. if you don't have insurance today, if you don't have insurance through your employer and you need to get a policy, it costs you three times as much on the average as it would if you had employer coverage. people simply can't afford it. one of the ways -- we want to create a pool in which people who don't have insurance in small businesses can go and get insurance at a competitive price. and a public option would be a valuable tool within that group, that package of plans that would be offered, private and public. >> i just want to be clear here because in his statement he was unequivocal. he said it must be included. a public plan must be included. is he signaling he would be compromiing on that with some level of competition? >> first of all, you have to take the whole statement. he believes the health insurance exchange where people can go, small businesses, people who don't have insurance and get insurance at an affordable price is still essential to any health reform and he believ

send it back to washington, d.c., david. david? >> do now have video apparently,ed aapparently, the aeromexico plane, getting pictures on the tarmac in mexico city, an aeromexico aircraft hijacked. mexican officials confirm this is a is -- flight that left cancun, a boeing 737 a capability of 140 passengers we have not confirm it had is a boeing 737, just a passenger jet and it is among the aircraft that aeromexico has in its fleet. officials confirming there is a plane. we believe now that this is the aircraft on the tarmac in mexico city. the passengers are on board, high jackers still there making demands to talk with the mexican president calderon and there are reports that the hijackers threatened to blow up the aircraft if the demands are not met. we keep showing you aerial google map and whatnot of the tarmac to give you a sense of where in mexico city the international airport is. this would be the first hijacking of an aeromexico flight in a long time. of course, a lot of violence on the border, but no indications which gr

here's the problem, david. if you don't have insurance today, if you don't have insurance through your employer and you need to get a policy, it costs you three times as much on the average as it would if you had employer coverage. people simply can't afford it. one of the ways -- we want to create a pool in which people who don't have insurance in small businesses can go and get insurance at a competitive price. and a public option would be a valuable tool within that group, that package of plans that would be offered, private and public. >> i just want to be clear here because in his statement he was unequivocal. he said it must be included. a public plan must be included. is he now signaling that he would compromise on that if you could still have some measure of competition? >> first of all, you have to take the whole statement. he believes the health insurance exchange where people can go, small businesses, people who don't have insurance and get insurance at an affordable price is still essential to any h

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accidents happen and we hope this one was not a serious one, david. >> indeed. tamron now and in "the big picture," there are strong indications that the president's health care reform speech last night was the public success the white house has been counting on. a cnn polls 67% of those who watch the speech now support his proposals. before the speech, only 53% of the audience supported the obama plan. and a fokous group found the president made inroads with independent voters. a survey conducted by stanley greenburg found the number of independents who now believe reform would get costs under control jumped up 22 points. the number who said they would be able to keep their insurance jumped up 26 points. and those who said it would increase the deficit, a key republican talking point, that went down 24 points. the latest television ratings show 21 million people watched the president make declarations like this one. >> the time for bickering is over. the time for games has passed. now is the season for action. now is when we must bring the best ideas of both pa

david, absolutely sad story. we talk about the fact that that surveillance video showed her coming into the build bug never leaving and wondered how could that be. now we know. she has been there the entire time. >> tragedy. so many different levels. we expect more information to be coming out in the hours ahead. >>> also, david, coming up, a new message from osama bin laden. it surfaced. hear what the terror leader has to say about po president obama and the u.s. efforts happening in afghanistan. >>> plus, a key party protest in the nation's capital. are right-wing protests against president obama helping or hurting the republican party. >>> and david, what was he thinking? kanye west swarmed onto the stage, stealing the spotlight from a young country star and her big moment. we are going to take a look at the fallout for kanye and he is going to be on a big show tonight. will he apologize? the big picture is coming up right after the break. powerful anti-aging therapies that reduce the look of lines and pores,

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david, you have been pulling teeth all day. any leaks?what we can expect. first of all, in terms of general taupe, the president will try to direct his message to the american people to clear up confusion, misinformation, a recognition he has to regain control of the debate. really answer that question, what is in it for me and what are the consequences of inaction. secondly, a lot of talk about the public plan. the president will be for it. he will say he is for it. he will make the point it is not the entirety of health care reform. it shouldn't define health care reform. that will be a message to his own base in the democratic party. lastly there are ideas, i'm told, in this speech tonight that are republican ideas that the president will use to say to republicans look, if you are for these things they are in this plan. you have to come to the table and do business. >> dee dee myers, my question of the day, for you who have worked in the white house and prepared these kinds of speeches and worked the rollouts of them, can we think of a

david, david, david, let me ask you this.another planet. i'm seeing the president of the united states attacked for basically telling kids to do their homework and brush after every meal. i'm being told that tomorrow could be a break or make night for his presidency on health care. i heard harry reid, the senate majority leader this afternoon basically saying the public option, maybe it will happen and speaker pelosi standing along side of him saying, no, it has to happen. what's the deal tomorrow night? what does the president have to do? what's he going to do? >> i think the primary thing he's got to do is get the american people on board and try to persuade them and really drum up for public support for this than exists. the problem with august is the debate got off the rails. the white house knows it. the white house understands at this point there's too few people in america who have any idea who the president wants to do about health care. he's got to change that. he's got to make it something simpler, he's got to be ab

david? >> mike, also intriguing remarks over the weekend from senator ben nelson saying he may be open to the idea of a trigger for the public option. a lot of the liberal democrats say, no, no reason to have a trigger, let's just have the public option right now. is the white house betting in these conversations with labor leaders today with progressive democrats tomorrow the white house might be given breathing room for that sort of option as sort of a trigger in order to have some negotiating room? >> well, i think it's clear, after gibbs' comments yesterday on one of those talk shows, that the president is still going to voice support for a public option both today when he speaks in cincinnati so that annual picnic of the afl-cio and on wednesday when he is on the grandest stage of all speaking before a joint session of congress and the nation. the question is will the trigger, is this some sort of fallback position where he can appease both sides? i think eventually if a trigger is in t

i'm david schuster live in washington. >> good afternoon, david. i'm tamron hall, live in new york. >>> the big picture, 9/11, eight years later. the country marks the terror attacks in new york, washington, d.c. and pennsylvania with memorials familiar but still very painful, as family members and so many others pay tribute to those who lost their lives. president obama observed his first 9/11 as this nation's leader. the president and the first lady have a moment of silence at the white house before attending a ceremony at the pentagon. >> eight septembers have come and gone. nearly 3,000 days have passed, almost one for each of those taken from us. >> we will never waiver in pursuit of al qaeda and its extremist allies, we will never falter. >> amid all the 9/11 remembrances, a coast guard training exercise sparked a lot of confusion and alarm. the drill was conducted on the potomac river near the bridge that president obama's motorcade crossed over on his way to the pentagon memorial. reagan national airport even stopped departing flights for a

, david," i'm not looking." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: welcome back. welcome back, buddy. >> that's new york. >> jimmy: you're back. yeah. you're back. [ cheers and applause ] you're back home. >> feels good. >> jimmy: yeah, absolutely, if you don't say hi, they'll tell you "you suck." >> i tried to go after him with my "mo-gycle." [ laughter ] but it only goes 12 miles an hour. >> jimmy: yeah, that's just -- >> "damn you." >> jimmy: yeah, you're just embarrassed. "ciao, ciao." [ laughter ] >> "ciao." >> jimmy: you're better off just saying "ciao." yeah, that's the way new york is. they like you one day -- have you been -- are you a yankee fan? >> yeah, i am a yankee fan. >> jimmy: so you've been to a zilon games where, like, one day they like somebody, then they just boo them for winning. they clinched. >> yeah, i know, they did, yeah. [ cheers and applause ] [ boos ] wow. >> jimmy: what'd they do, yeah. they don't want them to win that much. >> no. >> jimmy: you've won enough. that's the -- >> why are they booing

can you talk about what were the discussions at camp david? >> well, they discussed, of course, berlin, which was what ike wanted to talk about. they also discussed disarmament, which is what your father wanted to talk about. your father was eager to spend less money on armaments and more on consumer goods. and ike would have like to do that, too. both were wary, of course, of disarming unilaterally and they came to no agreement on disarmament, but i think ike -- ike revealed later in a personal letter that he wrote to mcmillan, the prime minister of england, that he thought your father was sincere in wanting to cut back on arms. and when your father returned to russia after this, he did cut back on the military budget, which was not a politically easy thing for him to do. but i think atamp david they came to like each other. would you say that's true? you talked to your father about it. >> difficult to say they liked each other. i think that they -- i think they can trust each other. why my father so humiliated by the u2 fly when an american

i'm david shuster, sitting in for keith olbermann. are five health care bills in congress, three in the house, two in the senate, four have made it through committee so far. all of them include a public option that would let americans choose a government health care plan instead of a plan run by private insurance companies interested in maximizing profits. today in our fifth story on the "countdown," the one committee seen as having the best shot at enacting its vision of health care into law took up the public option and shot it down. the smoking gun was in the hands of democrats. the senate finance committee had two versions of the public option to consider today. one of them from west virginia senator jay rockefeller would have cost the drug companies billions of dollars by paying less for drugs. the other from new york's chuck schumer opened the drug prices up for negotiation among other concessions. rockefeller's version was first out of the gate. republicans, led by ranking member chuck grassley, raised a number of options. one,

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let me ask you the same question david martin just asked. do you believe this is a smoking gun that proves iran is developing nuclear weapons? >> katie, i think without a doubt this deepens suspicions about the iranian nuclear program and what the iranian regime intend, includeing what they intend to do outside the gaze of the international community. that said, for countries like china and russia, they will hedge their bets and they will want to see more. at a minimum, though, this put it is onus on iran to explain in particular at the october 1 meeting what their program's about and what they're doing at this site. >> couric: i was going to ask you, what impact will this have on the negotiations with iran's schedule next week in geneva? >> well, this ups the ante with respect to the october 1 meeting. it makes ate critical moment both in terms of whether or not iran is willing to come clean and explain what its program is about, includeing this site. for the international community, the europeans, the chinese, the russians, it will be an i

let me ask you about david paterson sitting down with david gregory yesterday.ouse. i'll play the clip for you. he's still defiant. here's what he said. >> the president's team and others speaking on their behalf said to you, you should not run. isn't that right? >> i can't say that, david. there are people who have told me not to run. there are a lot of people who have told me not to run. >> but the white house specifically said don't run? >> i don't know that. >> you don't know that? you certainly know you don't have their support. >> well, david, the white house has a country to run, and i have a state to run. and there's politics that go on all the time. i'm blind, but i'm not oblivious. >> savannah, let's clarify. what exactly did the white house tell david paterson? >> reporter: look, actually, all along the white house has said we never told him don't run. but they did make it very clear that they thought he didn't have great chances of winning, that for the good of the party he should consider not running. so it's just one of those things. it really boil

tavis: i am pleased to welcome actor david, -- actor david duchovny, whose series "californication" premieress sunday. >> i insist. >> crack the sky was a big deal for me. please? pretty please? >> this is a blank page. >> wow. tavis: i was just about to make a smart alec remark, which is that i heard that the first episode is really good because of a great director. >> yes, that is true. tavis: the inside joke is that david is the director of that first episode. and you said to me that the actor in your scene is literally your oldest, straight from high school. howur best friend in a scene on the first show of the first season at your directing -- how cool is it to have you enter best friend in a scene like that? >> i would say, i just cannot believe i am getting paid to do this. we are doing work that we enjoy. we had a wonderful week together. at this point in the show, all the other actors and the people i have worked with are really friends. we really enjoyed working together. when i get to direct, i get to watch these actors that i normally am like this with and i watched them from behi

moderator david gregory will review his interview with bill clinton. and finally, rod blagojevich just can't help himself on his never-ending media tour. he now claims he's the anti-nixon. more of what he said in the "hardball" "sideshow." we begin with jamie rubin on the disclosure of the iran nuclear facility and president obama's response. jamie, according to several reports, we heard prior to this press conference and i think things that the president alluded to during his q&a session with the media, russia was kind of surprised with the revelation of this new nuclear development in iran. if, "a" do you believe that, and, "b" if they were surprised, does that make our position, vis-a-vis dealing with iran, stronger and why? >> first of all, i doubt the russians will end up surprised when they finished absorbing all the information that's been provided and what the iranian i sass back because in the end this will be another enrichment of iranian facility, very similar to one that's already existed. the iranians will make the same arguments and in th

but david is not saying that. >> david says that it was medication for an ear infection and that the combination of the ear medication and something called antabuse, which is for -- >> to prevent alcoholics from drinking. the combination of those things helps because his equilibrium was off. >> the question is was he wobbling because of an ear problem or because he was drinking? >> if you take antabuse and drink alcohol, you become so violently ill that you can't do anything else. >> i think this is very interesting that there's two sides of the story. you know when someone is drunk. you know when they're on medication. >> somebody's really confused or somebody's really lying. >> we've got great footage of dane cook being heckled. except he's not on stage. he's leaving the crown bar. >> you want to be on my reality show? it's been canceled. >> a guy turns around and screams -- >> tell me a funny joke! >> dane is obviously uncomfortable. >> i'm going to go kick that guy's ass. his enthusiasm has brought me to a point of anger. >> do a joke! >> relax. >> do you got the [beep] of the ni

john: david, they're playing. all right. david heads back. zakiya, how are you?nice to meet you, john. john: nice to meet you. what a pretty name. >> thank you. john: tell me something you know about clint eastwood. >> um, he is... john: 3 seconds. >> he's...oh, gosh. john: ooh, we start off with a strike already. all right. charisse, to you. >> hi. john: something you know about clint eastwood. >> um, he's in movies. john: that's up there at number-one. >> oh! john: 3 seconds. oh! two strikes! joseph, coming down to you. we don't have an answer out of the team yet. tell me something you know about clint eastwood. >> he's grumpy? john: grumpy. >> grumpy in movies. yes, he is grumpy. john: all right. show me he's grumpy. >> yes! [cheers and applause] john: from being tough. all right, i'll remember that. all right. something you know about clint eastwood. >> he has that low, raspy voice. john: the low, raspy voice. all right. show me a low, raspy voice. that's the third strike. not many points up there. >> mayor. >> mayor. john: marcy, something that you know abou

there is an endless opportunity right here. >>> we're back with david gregory. david, you first.d. i've heard it in your column. you think the white house inside you're talking to the big guys in there. are they saying they want this subject over with? >> absolutely. absolutely. the president does not want to take on congressman wilson and his attitude about government, about him, about race. he didn't want to have that conversation. the president's been very clear publicly. he thinks these kinds of matters become a circus. he watched the circus this summer, it didn't go well for him. well, it was that, but also a lot of what played out in the town halls, the president thought it was a circus. he's got limited time now to focus people's minds on what they want them to talk about. >> craziness hurts him in person. >> he's always been able to avoid it. >> jimmy carter is describing a world that for 2 1/2 years barack obama and his staff does not exist in america. will we exist in a country where race doesn't divide us? where it's not that important, where we can overlook -- >> para

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that's david letterman. i just saw david letterman. be right back. mr.einfeld, they're ready for you. yes, i was very wise to hitch my wagon to his star. jerry. hey, jerry! how you doing? nice to see you. rita kierson. nice to meet you. where's russell? he had to go to l.a. there's a problem on the set at blossom. oh, poor blossom. he asked me to sit in for him. where's george? he's talking to david letterman. david letterman's on the floor? yeah, he just walked by. well, i think we should get started anyway. yeah. good idea. how are you coming along? good, good. we've got a number of ideas. good. have you ever been to a chinese restaurant and they say 5 minutes and you wait 30? well, we thought it would be very funny to do an entire show where all you're doing is waiting for the table... because we've all been in that situation. you know, you're waiting and you're hungry and you bump into somebody you know. when is russell coming back? so that's the idea? well, no. that's one. we have many others. we have an idea where, um... uh...i, um... i get into an

she loved david. she loved school.st of all, she loved the lord and she was a living example of that. >> you know, gentlemen, i couldn't understand. i thought i understood felony crimes, being a crime victim, until i had my children. and even now at just age 2, you pump so much love, so much nurturing, so many high hopes and dreams into them, for it to end in this manner, i want you to know our prayers are with you. >> thank you. >> thank you, nancy. >> to richard herman. richard, you have defended so many murder cases. do you believe that a reward will help? >> oh, i think a reward will absolutely help. hasn't this school suffered enough? i just can't believe the torture that we read going on at virginia tech. these two young people got slaughtered like this. i don't know. was this close-up? was it a rifle? what was the caliber? what information do we have? >> right now not very much is being released, is it, mike brooks? >> not at all, nancy. and that's the whole thing. apparently one victim was inside the car, one o

it's time for "the politics fix" with david gregory, moderator of nbc's "meet the press" and ron brownstein, political director for atlantic media. we saw the president on a stage in pittsburgh. it's really a world stage for him now. does this change the dynamic of what his presidency is all about and who he is? is he now more of a leader of the western world than just the united states? >> well, inevitably in a presidency there are events that are thrust upon the president he has to respond to, shape, and he has to shape it not just for himself but as you say for the western world, for the western allies. that's what the president is in the middle of doing right now. this is the moment of confrontation, of challenge with regard to iran. this is the moment when he is able to say to the iranians, got you. we got you. we see what you're doing. now you sit down and talk and negotiate away nuclear weapons or there's going to be a dimpbts track you're not going to like. stop haranguing, stop negotiating and stop saying one thing one day and something else another. let's talk about talk about the

david? >> that's the point.ed a minute ago he would have been finished. >> that would have always been done, but people wouldn't hate him as much now. which is something this guy still has. he's a young, smart, vibrant guy. decades ahead of him. what is he going to do with his life? >> there is a story, that he goes to restaurants in chapel hill, a beautiful place to be anyway, and people don't come over to say hi, how are you doing? >> the kennedy funeral, people all come up and talk to elizabeth. it's a very bad position to be in. >> well, he went on the apology tour a few months ago, calling north carolinians. people had been his supporters, begging -- >> what does this say to us about the press corps that we get so excited over someone like him. i remember in 2004 when he gave hot speeches in iowa and he was a barn burner. you walk in the room there were 200 or 300 people in there. they would go wild. he could deliver. maybe it was in front of a jury, good in a couple hundred people. it was working, ann. wer

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david axelrod said well this isn't politics. everything the president does nowadays is politics for a better word. people are distrusting the president's motives or the administration's motives. it is not just about the speech it is about the lesson plan. i think it is unfortunate. i think -- it almost seems a shame to say what's the harm in a presidency? i think the president should be given the opportunity -- >> the governor of minnesota said there's a sense that it is being hoisted on the schools. is there la jat mat criticism? students could write letters to say how to help the president. >> i traveled to afghanistan in february of '02, we took with us letters from students in our own congressional districts along with seven other members of congress to deliver them to students in afghanistan. we asked them to do it. we thought a clever and smart and interesting way for kids to connect. i wish when i was in fourth grade the president of the united states when i was in fourth grade, it would have been 1978 or '79, jimmy carte

here's what david brooks wrote in the new york time. obama's movement includes urban politicians, hollywood donors and information age professionals. in his first few months, he has fused federal power with wall street, the auto industry, the health care industries and the energy sector. given all this it was guaranteed that he would spark a populace back lash and it was guaranteed this back lash would be ill mannered. could not spaer or theial and over the top, since these movements are always that way, whether they are led by huey long, father coughlin or anyone else. i want to know what you think of that, melissa. this isn't that he is african-american or that he has this african name, barack obama but that he represents the sort of a new tide, the cultural, well, elite if you will. >> i certainly think that david blacks as normal has hit something very important here. that is that african americans are not the only group of people against wham there have been populist movements, regardless of who was the president who introduced the

and he did not know what camp david was. and he asked his various aids in moscow, and they did they asked the embassy in washington, and they didn't know either. is that true? is it possible that somehow they didn't know what camp david was? >> but i don't think that too many americans do what means at the time. they don't know it w in my present when he said and working schedule and heat, he wanted to be treated as equal. so he was very precise looking on all this. he did not care, and he asked why they don't want to speak with m at white house and try to bring me to some camp? maybe for humiliation. and came to his mind when it was first not recognize the soviet union and, invited the delegation to pncess i'll there is temple and they reported that they send their stray dogs. so it was true. and now -- >> it's a good example of how much both sides didn't understand about each other at the time. >> at that time they gotlong with each other and know we're coming to the break. >> okay. >> after words and others c-span program

let's go to hq, david faber has this hour's faber report. david? >> thank you. you know we've been following this kraft/kat ccadbury saga. people take over, fight it out, the bankers fight. at the end of the day we sit and wait when kraft comes with the higher bid and formal offer. that being said, can't let this week go by without pointing out a couple of things. cadbu cadbury's ceo todd spitzer got himself in a little bit of hot water. he spoke apparently perhaps too forthcomingly. although now cadbury's said he was misconstrued at a bank of america conference earlier this week. it took place in the uk. now, you know, if you're the ceo of a company that's under siege, you very well may benefit from having off the record or background conversations with reporters like myself and with investors. why you then are going to go on the record with an analyst is not completely clear to me why that was allowed to happen. but that caused the whole brouhaha. cadbury stock, though, hasn't given up much. they come out with a clarification on all of this from mr. spitzer wh

david schuster has the day off. sarah palin goes global. she resurfaced today in hong kong speaking to a conference of investors. the event was closed to the media. the associate press obtained a portion of her speech recorded by someone actually inside. >> i'm going to call it like i see it and i will share with you candidly a view right from main street, main street usa, and how perhaps my view of main street representing perhaps a lot of other people, how that affects you and your business. >> the former republican vice presidential candidate criticized for her lack of foreign policy experience was making her first visit to asia. during her 90-minute speech she touched on afghanistan, u.s./china relations and health care. she was accompanied by a former foreign policy adviser to john mccain. >> was palin laying the first brick for a 2012 presidential run? those who attended said she did not mention president obama by name but called his campaign promises nebulous and saying now americans are asking more government, is that the change we