he's a guy that a lot of people might be looking for as a possible number two on the ticket. >> joe scarboroughthank you very much for interrupting your weekend and joining us here. and of course you can all get your fix of "morning joe" every weekday morning here on msnbc. thanks, joe. >>> and the results are now being tallied. the ames straw poll could spell the end of the line for tim pawlenty as -- and some of the others, as well as joe was saying. keep it here for the breaking news. >>> we've got a few political tidbits being reported. right here in ames, nbc campaign reporter jack kent. he said that rick santorum said in his tent that he intends to sign iowa congressman steve king's pledge. he would repeal president obama's decisions if he were made president. coming up, david gregory here, offering his analysis, plus a preview of david's interview tomorrow morning with the lady of the hour. michele bachmann. ry important t. perdue perfect portions is great on busy nights. five chicken breasts individually wrapped, so you can use what you want and put the rest in the refrigerator. and the

our colleague made the point on "morning joe" and it was joe scarborough who said very few pages of newspapersad the headlines of those 30 men fighting for us quite honestly and yet again we are hearing this term afghanistan, the forgotten war, and we have heard that when the war was in iraq, and how did we get back here? >> well, you know, it has been ten years now, since the war started, and our troops have done everything that was asked of them, but the mission right now is ambiguous. if the mission was to take out al qaeda, there are less than 100 left in the country and yet we have 100,000 forces there, and they are asked to secure land which is ungovernable for hundreds and thousands of years and then with the turns in the economy taking, the economy has been on the front pages, and so, you know, that termed the forgotten war, and the people have, the afghanistan war has not been on the headlines much, and it is sad that it takes something like the death of 30 service members to bring it back to public's attention, but i think that is what happened here. >> and so, it brings it back, or

conversation today from former governor and former senator and former goldman sachs ceo with joe scarborough. >> first of all, we ought to send out signals of confidence. it's easy to sit on the sidelines when you're not governing. i would love to see the president call the leaders of congress back to washington in the next week, walk out together and say we're going to do the grand bargain. >> what a great signal that would send. >> it would send an enormous confidence setting tone for the market. >> why not call them back? >> reporter: andrea, as you know, there is not a single leader who did more, worked harder went more the extra mile than president obama did to put that grand bargain together. he has helped sign this important downpayment on deficit reduction. he's made clear in every way possible that he wants a grand bargain. that that requires having both entitlement reform -- >> this is a crisis. why not? why not have john boehner come back to washington and have them sit down and try to pick up where they left off? >> reporter: andrea, the issue, let's be very clear, the issue is n

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. >> joe scarborough jumped on the japanese economic right about 89, 90 because he saw a soaring decade let me tell you something, buy it all in the nikkei, everything i've got in the nikkei. don't call me for a decade. >> then he woke up in the year 2000, looked at your statements -- >> it was the same as in 1988. what are you going to do? but i'll tell you what, that eastern stock it's coming back. >> pan am. >> and when it comes back, i feel good about pan am. i feel good about eastern -- i mean, these are sleepers right now. they will be coming back. i'm big into airline stocks. >> tower records. get onboard now. >> i have them all. >> bloomberg, that idea he had about immigration the other day on the show, talked about letting people stay five years. they're creating jobs, let them stay. if not, send them back home. these are the creative ideas we need. >> we need to do that and, also, i'm telling you, we are -- we are killing ourselves when we allow people from india, china, across the world to come get their ph.d.s in our universities, which are the best universities on the plane

>> if pat buchanan would be for it and joe scarborough would be for it, i guarantee you ed rendell you here. mika that has mind set of the obama administration. we had john kerry, lovely guy, respect him but he came on on friday saying the media should stop covering the tea party. come on. let's climb down from mt. olympus. they are politicians. at the end of the day, if you say if you go home and can campaign about corporations paying 0%, less than you pay, truck driver, i know it, you have done it, they will vote for you. this can be solved if the president figures it out. >> i agree with your skepticism. it's worth a try. and two, let's assume we try, we do what joe says and the tea party rejects it 100%. then you have won a great political fight. >> you have. >> let's follow up on this for a second, harold. if i were a democratic president and republicans did not want the 38% of the largest corporations in america paying anything in taxes and if they wanted to make sure that warren buffett continued to pay less in tax rates than his secretary, ed rendell and i would go across the c

joe scarborough's twitter account will show perry shooting a gun.ek. >> you hit it on the head. this is will ferrell playing george w. bush. it's a re-enactmentme. >> will ferrell playing josh brolin. rick perry is pulling off a bad george w. bush imitation. >> the notion of attempting a miracle, if you dig deeper, it's not the greatest miracle for a lot of people. his main problem is his health care bill in massachusetts. it's what obama did nationally. i don't see how republican voters, could repeal the law and get beyond that when it comes to mitt. >> the real focus shifted to the economy, jobs and debt. mitt rock knee led strong suit. if he can get to the election -- >> get through the republican primary. >> because of so many other issues. what's happening in the party is we almost always nominate the guy who lost last time. go back to nixon in the '60s. this time, it's four teams within half a game of first place. it's just there is no front-runner. almost anybody can win, that includes michele bachmann. >> is that a good thing right now? >> h

see you back here on monday along with joe scarborough. have you heard about the quake?hose things. here is how it looked at 1:51 p.m. eastern time when it hit. these will scenes from across the country. >> what is it? it's an earthquake. >> this standard protected -- >> i have been through earthquakes in seattle. >> i think we have an earthquake, boys. we are having an earthquake. we just had a quaky earthquake. there's another tremor. 1:52. holy mackerel. that's my first. >> the whole thing, really, yeah. we are from england. i have never experienced anything like that. >> omaha, tranquil conditions. why is everything shaking. look at the lights. let me get away from under here. >> thought we would take this opportunity to show the new customer wing. what was that? >> the guy in virginia shooting a furniture commercial. his staff abandoning him as he tries to carry on. that's how it looked from your desk, live on the air yesterday. >> yeah. that's the metaphor. andrea, stay with us. we're going to have a live report from richard engel and jeremy will join us. keep it h

>> joe scarborough is not a fan of mitt romney's campaign in the last couple of weeks. >> the last couple. >> if you don't have something to say, don't say anything. what did you learn? >> i learned that senator biden is still the most powerful democratic senator. >> yeah. >> what did you learn, mika? >> you need to heed your own advice. >> wow. >> she stormed off. >> she did storm off. >> stormed off. so what are you doing this week? >> what are you getting into? >> you want to co-host the show? we could

you have to understand morning joe is not named after joe -- what's his name? >> scarboroughomething else. and it is an awful, awful act. >> like coffee? >> no, just don't ask for a morning joe. >> or if you do wear goggles. >> oh my gosh. take a break. no problem. >> are we done? >> yes, kind of. >> last week you said starbucks was now like perv .com? >> yes, it is. i am telling you. come with me, and you will see what i am talking about. you go in there and there is a bunch of freaks and everybody looking at you weird, sideways, dressed like him. >> that is like coming to "red eye." >> yes, kind of like this show. >> i am siting in the green room and waiving creepily at people. >> and you can see the guy wearing the same shirt as he wore the day before and he is pretending to be on the computer. >> it was a different pacely. >> and now my whole point is i have to explain to the bosses why i went to perv .com. >> they have dates on those. >> and i am fired so i can't explain anything. >> are you done there? >> yes jie. i will see new the back half of the show, my friend. com