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sitting in tonight ezra klein. good evening, ezra. >> good evening, lawrence. how are you doing? >> thanks. thanks for taking over. we're done here. >> happy to be here. and thank you to you at home for sticking around for the next hour. rachel has a well-earned nigh off. this has been a dramatic week for the 2012 campaign but not because a lot of exciting things are actually happening. it's more because there are a lot of exciting things not actually happening. for instance, on tuesday, in a long press conference that can really only be described as epic, new jersey governor chris christie forever left his mark on the 2012 race by announcing he would not be part of it. >> in the end, what i've always felt was the right decision remains the right decision today. now is not my time. i have a commitment to new jersey that i simply will not abandon. so new jersey, whether you like it or not, you're stuck with me. >> then yesterday there was another big development in the 2012 race, and that one also came in the form of something not happening. this time it was former half-term alask

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thanks for joining me tonight, ezra. >> good evening. >> ezra, what is the state of play in the senate? are we going to get to a vote? what's happening? >> we'll get to a vote, we're not going to get much beyond a vote. as you mentioned, this is a procedural vote. the idea is to vote to see if we can have a vote. vote to see if we can break a filibuster vote. the republicans are going to filibuster the bill. that seems pretty clear. then we're sort of basically where we are now. >> it will take 60 votes for harry reid to proceed. he can't win this stage with 51. we've been to this party before. it's rough for the democrats. but the president has tried to put pressure on the republicans. the senate democrats have tried to put an additional pressure on the republicans by paying for this bill simply by isolating incomes over $1 million. getting rid of that grab bag of tax proposals the president had in the bill. is that a strategic improvement on the bill in the senate? >> it certainly is a strategic improvement for the bill when democratic senators want to campaign on it in the coming ye

melissa, it is wonderful to see you. >> hi, ezra. glad to join us. >> so do you think -- do you think this is right, what herman's cane plan do the unspeakable, raise taxes on the things we buy and move taxes from the rich to the poor? >> well, so first, deep breath. right? i suspect that the cain campaign is as surprised to be in a potentially front-running position as the rest of us are. remember, people run for president in all kinds of different ways and for different reasons and part of -- you know, sometimes people are really running for vice president or they're really running for a cabinet position. they're running hoping that their primary bid will actually gain them status and credibility within the party. but in this particular circumstance the republicans have had such a hard time getting a candidate that is a clear consensus front-runner that all of a sudden cain finds himself out there with a plan that is certainly half baked. now, that said, if he were elected president of the united states and he were elected somehow

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bush did. >> ezra klein, "washington post" columnist and msnbc contributor, ezra, thanks very much for writing about this today. thanks for being here tonight. >> thank you. >>> there's a story in today's news about drug testing the rich. a story that we almost decided to title "my cup runneth over." we decided against that title in the interest of taste. my cup runneth over for a drug testing story? the story is about drug testing and drug testing specifically the 1%. it's still genius even without that title. that would never make it on our show in any context. look, every day we're using more and more energy. the world needs more energy. where's it going to come from? ♪ that's why right here, in australia, chevron is building one of the biggest natural gas projects in the world. enough power for a city the size of singapore for 50 years. what's it going to do to the planet? natural gas is the cleanest conventional fuel there is. we've got to be smart about this. it's a smart way to go. ♪ >>> i'm not the democratic president or the republican president, i'm the president. >> the pres

ezra survived because of the heroism of her mother who was trapped alive with her daughter and ezra'ser was clutching her to her chest when rescuers cleared a path through the rubble to the little girl. >> translator: the mother put her into my hands. when we told her the baby was taken to the hospital by ambulance, she was even happier. >> reporter: ezra, whose name means purity in arabic, has started her young life overcoming amazing odds. her rescue gives hope to turkey and people around the world praying that their loved ones will also be saved. >> diana, ezra was rescued earlier today. do we know where she is? >> she was flown to ankara with her mother. and they're apparently doing well. we spoke to the mother's brother, the uncle. the baby's doing well, she's doing well. it all seems to be good for a baby who was born three weeks premature and just survived an earthquake. >> her mother actually handed her to rescue workers while she was still trapped, right? >> exactly. basically they managed to tunnel a route through to the mother and the grandmother. apparently the grandmother

ezra was rescued earlier today. do we know where she is?with her mother. and they're apparently doing well. we spoke to the mother's brother, the uncle. the baby's doing well, she's doing well. it all seems to be good for a baby who was born three weeks premature and just survived an earthquake. >> her mother actually handed her to rescue workers while she was still trapped, right? >> exactly. basically, they managed to tunnel a route through to the mother and the grandmother. apparently the grandmother was lying on top of the mother because of the way that the rubble collapsed. they had to send in a very thin rescue worker because this tunnel they managed to dig was so thin. and the mother was able to literally hand over the child to this man. and the man said, you know, i have a son already, but the moment when the child was put into my hands, it felt like i had a second child. he was so ecstatic about the whole experience. he was able to bring the child to safety, put it in an ambulance and then go back and inform the mother and the gran

bush did. >> ezra klein, "washington post" columnist and msnbc contributor, ezra, thanks very much for writing about this today. thanks for being here tonight. >> thank you. >>> there's a story in today's news about drug testing the rich. a story that we almost decided to title "my cup runneth over." we decided against that title in the interest of taste. my cup runneth over for a drug testing story? the story is about drug testing and drug testing specifically the 1%. it's still genius even without that title. that would never make it on our show in any context. dayquil but my nose is still runny. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn't treat that. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your runny nose. [ deep breath] awesome. [ male announcer ] yes, it is. that's the cold truth! >>> i'm not the democratic president or the republican president, i'm the president. >> the president today speaking in north carolina, criticizing republicans for what he described as their reflexive partisan opposition to his jobs plan to even ide

ezra klein, what's happening here?le don't have anywhere to go. >> in a big way. >> and obviously cain is benefitting from it. this is not going to sound great for the cain fans on my twitter feed. but i have too much respect for the republican party to believe that's going to continue for very long. people here talking about the nine nine nine policy. nobody has any idea how much revenue that would raise. usually that's what you want to find out. >> what's that? >> the 999 policy he keeps bringing up. 9% sales tax, 9% tax on personal income, 9% consumption. you can see what the shift is there, right? it's a big shift to progressive tax in the sales tax. but nobody knows how much money it would raise. and you hear about it, and he says it's a regression analysis, which it isn't. there's a lack of policy seriousness at the core of that campaign and compared to the perry operation, i think that's going to trip him up sooner than later. but generally speaking, i think romney's the luckiest candidate we've seen in a little

. >> i want to bring in msnbc policy analyst ezra klein now. ezra, another interesting part of this poll found that voters in iowa and new hampshire believe that electability and experience are less important than the candidate who shares their values. so, what might that mean for mitt romney? >> it means nothing good for him, right? but i'm not sure it's actually true, all right? everybody wants a candidate who shares their values and everybody wants a candidate who's electable, and voters tend to have an interesting way of telling themselves that two things are the same. so, people getting behind herman cain don't think he's unelectable, they think herman cain shares their values, and herman cain in sharing their values is also electable to a broad swath of the country. he's not a politician, he's an outsider. so i wouldn't look too deeply into the distinctions, because my sense is it collapses when voters become supportive of a candidate. >> it does point to a couple places where the other republican candidates think they can hit mitt romney

joining me, msnbc policy analyst, ezra klein. good to have you in studio. to be going down there a little later on but who are these 99%? >> there's this great website called we are the 99% and they are sending in pictures of themselves holding these handwritten signs. >> we've got some pictures to show people. >> and they're really effective. what you're hearing these people saying over and over again, it sounds so radical, occupy wall street. these are just people who are struggling. they're buried under college debt, under home debt, they're working two jobs. suddenly their workplace closed down. they're people who tried to do the things we told them to do to get ahead in today's economy and it's simply not working for them. when you read it that way, when you see that that is what is animating a lot of this movement, you begin to get the sense it could grow quite a bit larger than people are expecting. >> it's one of the things we talked about when there were all these european demonstrations. what would it take for americans to get fed up and say i'm m

. >> ezra kline is the columnist and a contributor. in your article will obama occupy wall street and you quote your colleague peter wall and reporting that the team is looking at putting this into the strategy. how are they planning that? >> by having mitt romney win the nomination for the presidency. he has become in recent months the favorite of wall street where obama was in 2008 and raised an enormous amount of money. goldman sachs was the largest company. now mitt romney is vastly outraising him. they said look, we regulated wall street and did a lot of things they don't like. they will give us an easier time of it. is it what you want? >> the president is on a bus tour and pointed out that some of them might want to see. that is probably not going to happen. he certainly can find a way to strategize even though you were down there and a lot of people don't identify with one party or the other. >> right. i should say i think the book had conflicted feelings about obama and they are not associated with either of the two parties. i

joining me now is washington post columnist, ezra klein. i am looking at my tweets. it's amazing the reaction you are getting, and one-half of the tweets i receive say this is laughable, and these people are a joke, and the other half saying shut up, they do have a mission, and it's split on even how to process what we are seeing here. >> yeah, i have been here for a couple hours, and people here, some of the conversations you have are mind bending and some are sophisticated, and pragmatic savvy, and some want to end the reserve and some support barack obama and some say the system is hopelessly corrupt, and anybody not taking it seriously, i think it's a very open question what it will become. obviously, there's a sentiment out there that we in the country, there is 9% unemployment, and 16% under employment, and of course there is fury at how the decisions are being made by the folks in power. the sentiment is real, but what it turns into is an open question, but the sentiment is real. >> and really, to stop your day to come down here and let alone to sleep on the g

sitting in tonight ezra klein. good evening, ezra. >> good evening, lawrence. how are you doing?. thanks for taking over. we're done here. >> happy to be here. and th

i'm ezra klein. rachel will be back tomorrow. follow me on twitter at twitter.com/ezra klein. it is now time for "the ed show." good night. >>> good evening, americans. welcome to "the ed show." from new york, the 99% are out protesting across the country. today president obama acknowledged the occy wall street movement and the potential affect it might have on the next election. but herman cain didn't seem to get the message and is calling them un-american. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> i would with love nothing more than to see congress act so aggressively that i can't campaign against them as a do-nothing congress. >> reporter: the president is hammering republicans on jobs and republicans continue to attack the 99% movement. >> if you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself. >> tonight, van jones, laura flander and john nichols on today's occupy protests. house republicans refuse to condemn rick perry's name hunting camp and rick perry is speaking out on the issue. we will play the tape and get reaction from democratic stratist harold cook. mor

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i'm ezra klein. rachel will be back tomorrow. follow me on twitter at twitter.com/ezraklein. >>> damage assessment. a fresh snapshot on the nation's unemployment situation is about to be released as the frustration builds among protesters. >>> massachusetts may have surveillance shows a female store owner being tacked. >>> gabrielle giffordss gets a warm reception as she returns to washington. i'm lynn berry. those are straight ahead. this is "first look" on msnbc. >>> we begin with waiting for word as the government releases its september jobs report later today, the president is looking for dramatic ways to show he's in touch with americans who are taking to the street in protest all across the country aiming their frustration's nation's banks. nbc's tracy pend oreilie potts >> reporter: some of that has spilled over as lawmakers try to work together and figure out if they can pass all or maybe just some of the president's jobs plan. >> you can hear me in the back. >> reporter: the occupy wall street protests have spread from n

. >> join meg now "the washington post" and msnbc's ezra cline. just what washington needed, one more reason to snipe at each other. now that occupy has gone global, do you think it's harder for washington to ignore? >> i don't think the global part is going to be very, very tough for them to ignore. i guess the real key here is that there are a lot of folks in washington who don't want to occupy wall street. certainly easier for eric cantor to ignore if president obama wasn't making mentions of it in his speeches. occupy wall street, which is not a democratic party and i think a lot of the organizers have a real distaste for democrats, but for the democrats it is something of a godsend because it's putting a type of democratic friendly populous back in the frount of the news. and you hear now and you saw with david over the weekend, we're going to adopt the message for our 2012 re-election campaign. >> i do find it fascinating in their own way both sides are spinning to their advantage. david axelrod saying republicans, you get them into office,

ezra and the mom are doing well. they were flown to ankara for medical attention.certainly a dire sort of time here, because we're getting into that fourth day, that time when a lot of the health organizations say that it will be very hard for people to survive here. and the focus again is going back to the survivors and how to meet their needs. you've got international aid that is now coming in. and even israel is sending prefabricated homes here as people in this region get ready for snow. savannah? >> all right, michelle franzen on a cold night in ercis, turkey. thank you. >>> back here the political headlines today, mitt romney trying to set the record straight in ohio, but may have opened himself up to new accusations of flip flopping. while holding an event, he said he's 110% behind governor kasich's law to restrict union rights bon day after he said he didn't have a position on it and wouldn't comment on the ballot measure to ratify that law. >>> another indication that michele bachmann's campaign may have hit hard times. the congresswoman did not personally

bride-to-be is have bit as much of a catch as ezra, a joy to be around.w of "weekends with alex whit". >> president obama can bring home the troop, he can bring home the bay con? why one of the gop rising stars is finding himself in the middle of a controversy some 60 years in the making. we're also going to go back in time with dylan rhadigan, sporting a thomas jefferson wig, what that has to do with the mess our economy is in right now. we'll explain all that. that one is a keeper coming up here, chris. >> rhadigan in a jefferson wig, sounds great. >>> what do we now know we didn't know last week? we know moammar gadhafi's long bloody rein is over. we know he'll never have to stand trial before the international criminal court and account for his times crimes. the difference between a death at rebels and a sentence of international court of law is the difference between vengeance and justice. we know in the past week the u.s. killed the son of anwar alackey in a drone strike and we know because we've seen his birth certificate. he was all of 16 years ol

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a little baby, two weeks old, a little baby named ezra pulled from beneath inthe wreckage here. a short time later her mom was pulled out and then her grandmother. three generations giving hope to others that their loved ones may still be alive. hundreds are still missing and thousands displaced from their home. complaints tonight that there aren't enough supplies or blankets or food. aid workers say they're bring working to bring in more of those supplies and tents. >> sheltering, it is very important. >> reporter: the focus now is trying to reach as many as people as they can that can still be alive beneath the rubble now heading into a third night with freezing temperatures. meantime, family members are also waiti ising for word about their loved ones. in turkey, michelle franzen. >>> the former libyan dictator moammar gadhafi is now buried. his body was removed from their warehouse freezer and taken to a grave site in a desert. a modest islamic ceremony at the grave site. only a few people were allowed to attend. authorities will not reveal the location of the grave because

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and coming up on "news nation," we've got a people with us, ezra klein, as well as one of the leaders, if you will, of this movement. and we really want some answers. one last thing, andrea, they've been getting donations from across -- all over the world. i believe it's around $30,000 plus in small donations from people coming in, who really identify with this cause, even though they don't have this stated motive or stated outcome they would like to see. >> tamron hall in the middle of it all. we'll be watching. don't miss a special edition of "news nation" with tamron hall live from the occupy wall street protests today at 2:00. >>> and what is wall street saying about all of this? for more on that, i'm joined by cnbc's ron insana. has it gotten their attention, ron? >> andrea, i don't really think so. from wall street's perspective, the bigger issues they're dealing with right now is whether or not europe will, in fact, coalesce around some sort of plan to finally put this sovereign debt crisis to bed. whether or not greece will default. whether or not a key belgium bank is in seri

ezra klein made this. and this explains the whole big new idea in america. this is actually a map of the hole in the american dream. this is actually a map of the hole the american dream fell down, never to be heard from again. so this section here, okay, this section here, the late 1940s around the end of world war ii, okay, to the mid 1980s, to ronald reagan time. we got a lot of new economic policies starting ronald reagan time. that time, from about the end of world war ii, through to ronald reagan time, that is the american dream. this distance here, this is the american dream. because this blue line is median income in america, and, yeah, it wobbles a little bit, but it's basically going up. it is an a fairly, fairly steady climb. and this other line, this one, this line is the income growth of the top 1%. the richest people in the country. now, their income from the end of world war ii, up until reagan time, is growing, but it is not growing as fast as the income of the rest of the country. and that's good, right? they're already doing great. they are

joining me now is ezra klein from the "washington post" and msnbc.ust took place. how will republicans defend this vote? how do you see this? >> well, they'll keep doing what their general line has been. that they now stay problem isn't deficit spending. obviously the president is attempting to pay for his bill. they stay president is that it is temporary. that we are doing temporary jobs measures and that has failed in the past and it is a very increasingly odd argument. we have a temperature appear jobs problem. nobody thinks this will be permanent. one thing you do when you have a temporary break is you give states money to not lay off people. you start having this public drag on the labor market. but that's been their argument. frankly, their old argument ended when the democrats decided to begin paying for their bill. >> bottom line here the republicans rounded up just enough democrats to kill this. it was 50/50. the other thing is that where does this leave president obama and the democrats right now in trying to get jobs moving in this country