dannel malloy will be here with the latest on his budget fight.ie ja cummings. also, eugene robinson. first, bill karinss with a check on the forecast. bill. >> good morning, everyone. we are going to watch a nice travel forecast. first off, the only issues we have is rain in minnesota and the dakotas. thunderstorms in the southeast. as we head through the weekend, not that many issues. the weather spreads to the east. indianapolis, cleveland and pittsburgh. everyone in new england, heavy rain late in the afternoon. finally, a fourth of july forecast. thunderstorms in the southeast. overall, no one's plans will be washed out. hope you had a safe one. you are watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. >>> live shot of capitol hill, 22 past the hour. joining us now from washington, democratic congressman from maryland and the ranking member of the house oversight committee, elijah cummings. msnbc political analyst, eugene robinson. guys, good to have you. eugene, i want to read from your piece from "the washington post" in a moment. elijah, we are

malloy a democrat made connecticut the first statement nation to require companies to provide aid sick leave to their employees thanks to a new law signed by the governor as many as three hundred thousand workers in connecticut will get an hour of paid sick leave for every forty hours the work force this is a basic reality in most european nations that actually care about their workers a kudos to governor malloy for understanding the people do occasionally get sick and they should be fired or lose paid as the bad republican congressman fattiest mccotter carter is now running for president which means he has to pick up his far right rhetoric appearing on fox and friends this morning mccotter call both president obama's health reform law and mitt romney's massachusetts health reform law inhumane i guess making sure that every single person the nation has access to basic health care is inhumane to mccotter that health care system that kills off forty thousand people a year because they don't have insurance is just fine republican race to the bottom is eating up and the very very ugly rush

and connie galambos malloy declined to state from oakland is an irving planning manager. welcome to both of you for being here. cynthia, explain how the commission's process of drawing lines differs from what we had before us before. >> for one, it's the first time the public has had a seat at the table. it was completely open and transparent. all of our meetings were live streamed. so anyone could see it. what we were doing and all of our decisions about the maps. >> belva: how did that make you feel? being there knowing that everything was being recorded that you were doing? >> well, much as you have, we get used to it. i think you get to a point where you tune it out and focus on the task at hand. and in a way, it has been rather freeing to know that there's nothing going on behind closed doors. there are no secrets as to how we've conducted ourselves as a mission. every piece of information that went into creating the maps is publicly available. >> belva: why did you decide that this was a way you wanted to spend your time? that you wanted to do this kind of public se

malloy. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: at this time the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from illinois, ms. schakowsky, for five minutes. ms. schakowsky: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today as a member of the progressive caucus to draw attention to the devastating effects that could be caused if the united states were to default on its debts. first, let's be clear that raising the debt ceiling will have no effect whatsoever on any new spending that the congress might do. it simply giving the government authority to pay its bills. to pay its bills. for obligations that the congress has already authorized. second, while republicans have attempted time and time again to pin the current deficit on president obama, the facts cannot be denied. it was the policies of the bush years that got us here. it was just a decade ago that president clinton left office not with just a balanced budget but a surplus. and the congressional budget office declared in 2001, quote, the outlook for the federal budget over

malloy declined to comment, but the connecticut department of transportation stated in order to savens. none of them ideal. representative prasad srinivasan is fighting back. >> we have to fill the hole. we're well aware of that. but doing it at the back of our ferry is the wrong reason. i hope for our town it does not happen. >> reporter: unless the protesters get an injunction, both ferries are slated to close next month. commuters who wish to cross the river will have to drive out of their way to a bridge, adding both time and traffic. but mainly, residents seem concerned about losing the small, yet significant, piece of americana. when you heard this ferry might be getting cut, what was your reaction? >> i understand that the state needs to cut some funds, and i was disappointed they were going to cut it. it's such an old ferry. >> we grew up here. we used it like when i was growing up, biking back and forth. the kids love it. >> you think this story resinates on a national level? >> i think people relate to it. i think they can look around themselves wherever they live and see t

patrick malloy has served four two-year terms on the u.s.- china economic and security commission. we will want to hear from him a lot about the china trade issue. was that, why do we not start the discussion? how will like to start off by asking what do think of these kinds of proposals being laid out in this report or that are politically feasible at this point? i would just throw that out there. what do you think is politically feasible in this kind of environment? >> politically feasible? [laughter] >> ok, next question. >> i kind of alluded to it in my opening statement. political feasibility depends upon political leadership here -- leadership. in political leadership comes about from individuals who have a deep feeling for and an intellectual concept of what is happening to our society at large. if a political leaders this to -- says to you that our unemployment is 9% and does not mention the 18%, they do not have a firm grasp of what is happening in our society. happening in our society. if a political leader and says we have to have more of these free trade agreements beca

unemployment will peak 0.4% malloy -- lower if we had not lost state and local jobs. it is the difference between the need to do long-term deficit reduction and the counter productive activity of forcing state and local governments to fire people in the short term and then complaining about unemployment. the chairman thinks that it is lyndon johnson's fault. i do not think that medicare is a terrible thing. i do not think it has caused the same problem. to have a decent middle-class and social security and medicare is something we should be proud of as a country. medicare costs us a lot of money. almost as much, perhaps the same order of magnitude as the pentagon, $700 billion will go to the military. members of this house and voted to continue to spend money in the camps for structure programs in afghanistan when there are people that continue to be arguing the notion that they would go beyond george bush and keep troops in iraq this year when you -- we are in such a terrible financial situation is a difficult thing for me to understand. the majority of this house an

patrick malloy has served four- year terms on the u.s.-china economic and security commission -- four two-year terms of the u.s.-china economic and security commission. we will want to hear from him a lot about the china trade issue. was that, why do we not start the discussion? how will like to start off by asking what do think of these kinds of proposals being laid out in this report or that are politically feasible at this point? i would just throw that out there. what do you think is politically feasible in this kind of environment? >> politically feasible? [laughter] >> ok, next question. >> i kind of alluded to it in my opening statement. political feasibility depends upon political leadership here in political leadership comes about from individuals who have a deep feeling for and an intellectual concept of what is happening to our society at large. if a political leaders this to you that our unemployment is 9% and does not mention the 18%, they do not have a firm grasp of what is happening in our society. if it political leaders s

patrick malloy has served four- year terms on the u.s.-china economic and security commission -- four two-year terms of the u.s.-china economic and security commission. as firm dean and between u.s. and china. -- he has observed that the relationship between the u.s. and china. we will want to hear from him a lot about the china trade issue. was that, why do we not start the discussion? how will like to start off by asking what do think of these kinds of proposals being laid out in this report or that are politically feasible at this point? >> i would rather turn to the experts. >> i would just throw that out there. what do you think is politically feasible in this kind of environment? >> politically feasible? [laughter] >> ok, next question. >> i kind of alluded to it in my opening statement. political feasibility depends upon political leadership here in political leadership comes about from individuals who have a deep feeling for and an intellectual concept of what is happening to our society at large. if a political leaders this to --