child a day, can mika allow children to go hungry across the country because -- >> i don't think that. >> how can you say no to the kids? i don't think that's the case. it's a poll dancing license. >> don't think of it that way. >> mika, change the subject. >> i am shocked and saddened. mika is taking the kind man's offer. >> what do you think? >> i think it's vertical joe gau. i see no reason why -- >> here is the deal. miley cyrus, too young to work the poll. mommy, too old. and certainly not something that i -- i will have to think about

>> mika?me for the "morning meeting." >> if it's way too early, what time is it, willie? >> "morning joe." but now it's time for the "morning meeting." >> welcome, everybody. nice to see you. topping our agenda today, the president losing the message war on health care. a new cnbc poll showing the public is talking about the health care reform. we are talking to jim cooper about the health care. >>> and the doctor breaks his silence, grant it, by the way of a youtube video. but what the heck. why would you do that? >>> meanwhile, a model murdered in california, and the star of a reality show is the main suspect. yes, truth is stranger than fiction. >>> what is going on with the weather? late summer humidity spawns all sorts of unplezantries. >>> and it's 9:00 a.m., so pull up a chair and join the "morning meeting." >>> we start this morning wlt latest on health care for obvious reasons. democrats breaking away and poised to go it alone if they need to. a new nbc poll shows the president may be

mika's inappropriate moaning at 6:55 every morning. we call somebodyali at 5:40. we woke mika up and we talked about this on the show. she likes to sample from the cabinet.

where do we wrap it up, mika?hington. good morning, everyone. top of the hour. a lot going on today. a heated debate on the set. >> yes, it's great to have everybody here with us for "morning joe." mika brzezinski and joe here. i want to read really quickly an e-mail from mark mclaughlin. mark and his wife came up, visited us. the one friend i have in the world. he said my 40-year-old son came in my room last hour and saw me watching you and mika debating and asked, why do adults fight? also harold ford jr., pat buchanan and the diva of all divas. >> oh, lord. >> you demanded this position. >> according to the terms of my contract, this is the seat i'm supposed to have. >> and you always talk first accord the to the terms of the contract, and last. >> that's important. >> we're going to show some polls. i want to get harold's response. there's a poll out that talks about how all these protests have moved people in the health care debate and we want to get harold's response as well as everybody's around the table.

. >> well, mika, that's right. as i said, senator kennedy, frankly, back in 1968 after his brother, robert, was assassinated was not a controversial figure. he was a well-liked kennedy. he had a -- big gregarious fell oh wonderful smile. he had not become, if you will, the icon of american liberalism and the -- figure on the left that the conservatives made so much money off of by -- in fund-raising and things like that. but for those 50 years or 40 years after that, everybody who came in touch with him were finding out now and everybody who had an encounter with him, i met him and he invited me over to his home and he did not need to do that but i -- ex-nixon aide or ex-reagan aide. everybody's personal encounter with him was -- i mean, they looked back on it well. they looked back on it well. and i think that's true of everybody that's coming up there now and this city here, in washington, certainly up in boston. >> pat, stay with us. we want to say good-bye to our good friends, mike barnicle and congressman bill

mika, no, i'm not. that gets people really mad. front page of the "new york times" talks about hank paulson having frequent conversations with the head of goldman sachs, his former company, many more conversations than he had with other executives that were dealing with the bailout issue. does it -- is there some sort of connecting of the dots here that we should be doing in our minds especially when it comes to trust in the very people that were supposed to be getting us out of this mess? >> absolutely horrible because goldman has been portrayed, not the tri-lateral commission. >> i think the word evil was used. >> if you were paulson, what the heck were you doing? the western world was falling apart. you couldn't call merrill because they have been trying to come up with a term that means less than truthful but i can't. you could not talk to aig because as the justice department is finding there was not a lot of truth being told there. morgan stanley frantically trying to find a buyer for anything tha

by the way, speaking of which, mika is throwing out first pitch for the dodgers. >> mika, mika, mika,she is throwing out the first pitch of the red sox game, first game of september. >> a whole jealousy thing you guys got. >> you guys are mocking me. >>> up next -- >> what is good for me is good for "morning joe." . >>> up next, dr. nancy snyderman. >> embarrass me in front of my children. >> i know you're mocking me. i'll figure out what you're doing at some point. you're watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. i'm racing cross country in this small sidecar, but i've still got room for the internet. with my new netbook from at&t. with its built-in 3g network, it's fast and small, so it goes places other laptops can't. i'm bill kurtis, and wherever i go, i've got plenty of room for the internet. and the nation's fastest 3g network. gun it, mick. (announcer) sign up today and get a netbook for $199.99 after mail-in rebate. with built-in access to the nation's fastest 3g network. only from at&t. ♪ bicycle, what are we waiting for? the flowers are blooming. the air is sweet. and zyrt

we learned so much today, mika, but what did you learn? yeah, claire mccaskill embraced the challenge many are facing. and then the left saying these people are saying -- come on. sometimes democrats gets sloppy. i have seen it firsthand. buchanan has seen it firsthand. i never had salad dressing smeared on my head. >> yeah, arlen specter, he let that guy talk to him in the face, and it did him a world of good. >> yeah, the front page of "new york times," and it shows arlen specter staring down a man screaming and out of control. there are ways for democrats to turn this to their advantage. now, no way to stop divas from being divas. we learned that today. savannah guthrie -- in between, and every break, she is swearing and yelling and

>> they ask what mika is like, why isn't mika here. >> so not true. >> we do this. >> it's hell out thererogram. >> it's surprising. you've known her 20 years. she was upset. she seemed pretty angry. >> i think there's more doing on there. we have to get behind the scenes to figure out why she had that strong reaction. >> was it sort of hangover from a weekend in north korea? >> she looked a little tired, too. it was a long trip. >> how about you work really hard to make a name for yourself doing the job that you're doing, and then someone asks your husband's opinion about that job. >> the translator, apparently, is the one who got it wrong. >> exactly. the question was, are the sox go to beat the yankees by the end of the year. >> mangled it. >> one of the worst translators since jimmy carter in 1979 was accused of telling the polish people -- >> stop it. >> that was a low line for translators. >> i'm not a jelly doughnut. >> but for carter, it was just a terrible year. remember the killer rabbit. >> the collapsed jogging at camp david. >> collapsed jogging at camp david. you know why. 2

you're absolutely right, mika. in one of these town hall forums should ask the president today in montana, mr. president, you often say that doing health care reform is essential to economic recovery. make him explain that because that's been the mantra out of the white house since the inauguration, since before inauguration, and it is most likely true, the crushing health care costs that are weighing down the economy adding to the deficit. the president needs to explain that so that the folks out there who are leapfrogging, and i think it was john who mentioned this, the two strains of the debate going on now where you have people who are concerned about socialism. there are a lot of people who were concerned not just about socialism but the direction of the country and the economy, and he's got to explain how the two are intricately linked. i think that's the right word i'm looking for, to bring people along but right now, again, there's no there there just yet for anyone to grab on to. >> all right. we're going

." >> mika looks disgusted. >> i just think. i'm sort of more interested in homeland security secretary that is pressured to raise the terror alert level. >> carlos watson -- >> in order to win an election which is always something i thought was going on. and now look at this, carlos watson is here. >> i'm glad to be here. good morning. >> good morning. it is not way too early. >> what is that, anyway? >> that's a terrific new show. >> jeffrey lyons says it's going to work. >> we should have him on this show. we should have him on msnbc to talk. >> i'm doing new show, i'm happy about it. >> i always thought you should have. >> the weird thing is it's on right before you, i threw to you. >> that's so weird. how do you do that, willie? >> phil is very open minded about these things. >> we're proud of you, kid. >>> let's go to the top story, may i? i don't know why you gloss it over as not a headline. god. all right. top story of the morning in a new book, former homeland security secretary tom ridge says he was pressured by top bu

i'm sure mika's going to -- let's just say i don't want to be here monday when mika gets in.ink so. >> yeah? >> i think she likes open, openness, honesty. >> it's her paris hilton family. >> you should do a pillow fight on the set, willie and mika. >> beat the hell out of each other. >> we have another e-mail, chris has, about savannah. praising the academic achievements? >> no. >> oh. mean? don't read it. >> what is it? >> i'm very thin skinned. >> not savannah's thought she doesn't jump in so much but you're opposed figures. to work with you must be awe inspiring. how can she get any words out of her mouth when you're sitting right next to her. >> why are you so great? >> if you don't think that's not a question i grapple with every day -- >> what is it like to be so hilarious, willie. >> oh, stop. am i? >> all right. >> enough, enough! all right. >> kurt and michael are great, too. >> she is not married yet. with lines like that. >> i know, i know. >> this is not a speaking part for me, right? i'm just supposed to sit here. >> just smile. >> okay. i can do that. >> you can

do-overs do exist. >>> what's up, mika?you learn today? >> i learned a number of things. i learned that the miss universe competition -- >> no. come on. >> -- is on sunday. >> it is. >> and if you're riding around an inner tube -- ♪ we are the world we are the people ♪ >> look at them. bringing the world together. a there's a great reason to love this. >> yeah. >> abraham lincoln once said -- >> idiot. >> this is what we were talking about. >> exactly. >> this is what he really meant. >> exactly. >> donald trump. make sure we make the inner tubes deep enough. you know he did that. >> this is a great american -- >> you know he planned that. >> america shining once again on the world stage. >> what did you learn today? >> i learned that -- >> totally gratuitous -- >> -- gender identification can be a touchy subject. >> it is. poor man/woman in south africa. >> difficult to bring it up but important to talk about. >> it is. >> "the new york times" has a picture of him/her. sure looks like a him to me. >> do we have that video?

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there i own the northeast with mika with me. okay, mika, if you say so, i'll vote for you. but they kicked colin powell out of the party. you know what i learned on this book shower in it's fascinating. speaking in new england. i had a lot of people come up to me, a lot of older gentlemen especially come up to me and say "i used to vote for republicans when they were like you." said "i'm really conservative, i'm like a libertarian i'm so conservative." they said "no, you're not a hater." and what i realized on this book tour, two things, one good, one bad. the good thing is that moderates even people left of center, will low pressure to you if you don't come to tell them barack obama's a communist and sonia sotomayor is a racist. they will listen to you when you can have a debate onphilosophy. >> rose: who said that sotomayor was a racist. >> i forget now. i've played a lot of football, charlie. a lot of republicans said she was a racist. >> rose: so your friends... >> sadly on the other side... you call them my friends. sadly on the other side, hard core republicans. let m

so mika will be back on monday.. >> and i'll be out in the hamptons this weekend. >> you know what they say. it only takes a spark to get a fire going. 1,000 points of life. that's what we're about here at "morning joe." >> it really is. >>> a look at today's top stories. the senate today is set to hold a confirmation vote for supreme court nominee judge sonia sotomayor. her seat on the bench is nearly assured after another two republicans announced their support for her yesterday. meanwhile, the senate will also vote today on a plan to add another $2 billion to the cash for clunkers program. drivers will have until september to trade in their gas guzzlers for more fuel efficient vehicles. for the first time in 4 1/2 months, american journalist euna lee and laura ling are waking up as free united states citizens today. the two arrived yesterday after former president bill clinton negotiated their release from north korea. >> we were taken to a location and when we walked in through the doors we saw standing before u

mika is off.y that always has -- his timing always couldn't be worse. >> a hair off. >> always just a hair off. >> the building always blows up two seconds before he's about to -- willie geist with the news. >> time for a look at today's top stories. >> by the way, can we go back to this shot really quickly, guys? that may be the grayest group of people. >> it's good analysts say it brings out your eyes. >> brings out personality. forecast, gray. >> nbc news is confirming president obama will nominate federal reserve chamber ben bernanke to a second term. >> happy days are here again. >> the president credits bernanke for his leadership during recession saying, quote, he approached it with calm and attention. he helped put the brakes on our economic free fall. mr. bernanke will join the president on martha's vineyard for the announcement this morning. we will have live coverage at 9:00 right here on msnbc. >> that's fascinating, willie, this is a guy six or seven months ago who quietly around wash

. >> i thought you were inappropriate when mika was here. crowley explains the meaning behind cheneyism and who is running in foreign policy. we'll look at the must-read opinion pages. yes, mika has faxed them in from the south of france. make sure you listen to our radio show. this is my verizon small business specialist, now, i know the catering business but when i walked in here i wasn't sure what i needed. i'm not sure what i need. tom showed me how to use mifi to get my whole team working online, on location. i was like, "woah". woah ! only verizon wireless has small business specialists in every store to help you do business better. you're like my secret ingredient. come in today and connect up to five devices on one 3g connection. now only $99.99 when you think about all you can do in an all-wheel-drive subaru... you'll find there is a lot to love. that's why we created the subaru a lot to love event. where you can get a great deal on any new 2009 subaru. and see theee really is a lot to love. hurry in and lease a 2009 impreza for $17

. >> mika will book you on the spot. apparently david shuster has been watching. >> i will do it. it's great to be here. >> you can see "morning joe" every day here on msnbc. we're going to talk more about that breaking news, those two american journalists in north korea freed after a visit from former president bill clinton. es >>> welcome back. we're following big breaking news out of north korea where the a.p. just confirming that the two american journalists there sentenced to 12 years of hard labor, euna lee and laura ling are free. this after a visit from former president bill clinton, he has met with kim jong-il among others and north korea accused them of spying and illegally entering the country. word is now they have been released or ordered to be released after a visit to korea by former president bill clinton. and we obviously are getting a lot of reaction and waiting for reaction, official word from the white house. but right now we have a planned guest with us and that is of course transportation secretary ray la hood, we booked the secretary to talk about cash for c

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mika, great to have you here on this morning. listening to joe biden last night talking about his friends and foes, i think about what we have seen this past week. a week that comes at the end of a very long hot, ugly political summer. ted kennedy, the liberal lion of the senate that's actually brought republicans and democrats together this week. whether they agreed with him or not politically, talking about a man who could work across party lines and even while fighting john mccain talked about last night. even while fighting you, loving you. >> absolutely. john mccain and orrin hatch both had beautiful things to say about their relationship with ted kennedy that had nothing to do with politics and everything to do with politics. >> and there were -- jon meacham is with us. "newsweek" put out a special commemorative edition. an absolutely beautiful edition. you guys turned it around in 10, 15 hours. it tells the remarkable story of this man, these brothers, this family. >> heroic family in the greek sense of the word. biden poi

okay. >>> you know, it's so nice that even when mika's not here, we still get crazy comments.king news is going to shape the political debate, especially if we continue going in that direction. coming up, we'll be joined by joseph kearns goodwin. he's just returned from afghanistan. >>> and later, the stories you've talked about all week. the stories that will change your life. willie's week in review. keep it right here on "morning joe." five co-workers are working from the road using a mifi, a mobile hotspot that provides up to five shared wifi connections. two are downloading the final final revised final presentation. - one just got an e-mail. - what?! - huh? - it's being revised again. the co-pilot is on mapquest. - ( rock music playing ) - and tom is streaming meeting psych-up music from meltedmetal.com. that's happening now with the new mifi from sprint, thmobile hotspot that fits in your pocket. sprint. the now network. >>> this is a great segment. mother and son, in the immediate days after september 11, 2001, men and women in america signed up to serve their country,

. >> mika has done it. >> yeah, she did that but did not realize she was. it was a drug. >> so you go in your pajamas to our show, but on the dylan ratigan show, you wear these. what is that about? >> well, it's not about prada. >> willie geist, if it's way too early, what time is it? >> time for "morning joe." but dylan ratigan is up with the "morning meeting." >>> topping the agenda today, the torture prosecutions also required. new details about what was done by u.s. operatives to for suspects being released. >>> meanwhile, dramatic rescue caught on tape after an enormous wave from hurricane bill sweeps more than a folks off a pier, and it killed a 7-year-old girl. new details in the death of a model, now her reality star husband has been found dead. his mother-in-law speaks out in an exclusive interview. >>> and michael steele coming out with a new gop line of attack on health care reform, and protecting our seniors. we will get a response from a key democratic in the house. pull up a chair. >>> we begin with the office of professional responsibility. i

little puppy dogs will die loanle lonely tonight, all because mika is putting her pureness above humanity. >> yeah, we have to forgive ourselves. >> i said for the charitable donation of $100,000 i would do it. >> i learned "way too early" is on way too early. >> i have to go back to football. you can meet great man on television. i was introduced to joe gibbs. >> thank you so much. i learned, happy birthday, pensacola, as well. 450 years. willie, if it's way too early, what time is it? >> it's time for "morning joe." but the "morning meeting" starts right now. >>> today, we will talk aboutçó questions of ted tenabout ted k health. >>> also, a midair collision caught on tape. disturbing new video of that crash over the hudson river. plus new information about what was happening in airport control towers at the moment of impact, and also not encouraging. >>> meanwhile, the huffing ton post that spells out the details a back room deal between the white house and drug companies. we will speak with a reporter that broke that story coming up. >>> protecting the president, a man being investiga

. >> and mika will be back, and she will be sober. that's important. and we have the heart breaks, and we had to go to a heart break at the time, because all the cable operators go to commercial. but i could listen for three hours. >> all right. they are now showing a shot of new york city. i am not sure why. i guess that means it's time to move on. let's move on now to our good friend and -- well, a tortured soul. dylan ratigan. willie geist, if it's way too early, and if it's time for awkward good-byes, what time is it? >> it's time for "morning joe." >> good luck in your future endeavors. >> thank you. >> dylan ratigan takes over now. >> with the "morning meeting." >> she was found alive in antioch -- excuse me. >> the father of elizabeth smart, my guest, as live pictures from the john f. kennedy presidential library, where an hour ago the public is allowed to pay tribute to senator ted kennedy, and thousands standing in line for hours. this morning, we are hearing from his family as well. >>> will you be grounded by swine flu this fall. homeland se

. >> what did you learn today, mika? >> i learned because the red sox got beat, it's not over. i love them. >> well, what did you learn? >> i learned absolutely nothing. no, i learned it's getting nastier on both sides, and the white house needs to listen to lawrence o'donnell. he has been through this before. >> i have no suggestions. i have no idea what to do that. i admit that. >> you really do think that's what they are going to do, muscle through it without public support? >> that's what they are going to do. >> and then spend the next few years to get back on the good side of the american public. >> think will have a billion dollars. >> if it's way too early, what time is it, willie? >> it's time for "morning joe." but right now, it's time for the "morning meeting." dylan ratigan takes over. >>> thank you so much. the lovely gang, especially the lady in pink. i am dylan ratigan. welcome to the "morning meeting." topping the agenda, town hall after town hall being interrupted. the president's message is being disrupted. rumors are running out of control. death care, panels

the rest of the country seems to be other than mika, willie and me.ve unified america so why is this country so obsessed with this particular train wreck? i think it's because of moments like this, that are delivered without irony. >> two and a half days, we had about three to five paparazzi who snuck around outside of our house just like they did at home. what do you do? i'm living my life and if they have to be there and take pictures, great, but i'm not going to keep my kids inside and stifle their existence. >> how sad. i put my kids on a reality show and somehow the paparazzi follows them around. well you know, maybe once president clinton's done in north korea trying to free those two journalists there, he can head to jon and kate's household and try to free america from this latest reality addiction. >>> when we come back, what, if anything, did we learn today? undefeated professional boxer floyd "money" mayweather has the fastest hands boxing has ever seen. so i've come tohis ring to see who's faster... on the internet. i'll be using the 3g at

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you know, willie, it's kind of interesting when mika's here she e-mails and he calls in. savannah is in here. we e-mail axelrod all the time. >> he doesn't like you guys. >> i'm in the vineyard for the next couple of months, if this is willie or joe. savannah is working the angles over here. keep that up. >> i was checking my horoscope. >> we're at the top of the hour. a special edition of "morning joe." we have mike barnicle, chris matthews, savannah guthrie. ted kennedy passed away last night and we've been remembering him for an hour this morning. he is, as david axelrod said, mike barnicle, the greatest, i suppose most prolific senator when it comes to legislation in the history of this republic. >> i don't think there's any doubt about that. chris matthews mentioned earlier all of the things he has been responsible for big and small. as time goes on and as pieces are written and as people remember, there will be elements of nearly everyone's life in this country that you can point to and in some ways say legislation that he wrote in 1966 or 1992 impacted help your ch

. >> this is like i said to joe, running for re-election, not that you don't always look fabulous mikanow who looks beyond fabulous, pat buchanan. he's with us -- he cut his hair. >> should i get a memo or something? >> look how good buchanan looks this morning. >> took about five minutes to do joe, as you can see. >> you are going for "dancing with the stars." >> i think he got a lot of offers after that.

i'm mika brzezinski, along with joe scarborough and willie geist.ridley is here with us this morning. good to see you. >> you know what, the family's back together. we started it all right he

joe scarborough and mika brzezinski. >> look at that. >> michael vick, you saw michael vick last night. >> compelling? >> yeah, please don't hurt animals, i didn't believe him. >> you are serious? >> i am serious. >> just bad pr pushing it. >> he did his time. >> he did his time. he can go play, right? >> but he suffered for it. >> he lost m

joe scarborough and mika brzezinski here.sley somehow has gotten into the middle of everything. >> really. >> he's said more erratic things in the past several months than he probably has in his entire career. >> maybe -- >> the face of pat buchanan and negotiator in health care reform. what does that say -- we'll just call it the party of nixon. your old man's party. >> that tells me that health care reform is in trouble. >> pat, i was reading up yesterday, because we're hearing about co-ops instead of a public option. i'm going to say that even the experts have no idea what co-ops are. >> yo, nobody knows exactly what they are, whether they can put that together rapidly.