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. ♪ delicious pringles multigrain. ariety of flavors, multigrain pops with pringles. >>> you were unable to get your own caucus behind your bill a few days ago. do you intend to remain speaker of the house? >> i do. when you look at this final agreement that we came to with the white house, you know, i got 98% of what i wanted. i'm pretty happy. >> welcome back to "the ed show." that was speaker of the house john boehner talking with cbs news. now boehner may say he got what he wanted, but many of his fellow republicans don't think this deal goes far enough. but the tea party did succeed in influencing the debate. they put the focus on spending cuts and got revenues off the table. they convinced the president and key democrats to agree to a deal that has angered some progressives. joining me now is tea party freshman congressman tim mulescamp of kansas. you voted no on the deal today. why? >> not enough. i know talk about -- >> not enough cuts? >> not enough of a lot of things, al. not just enough can you tells. the cut

. ♪ delicious pringles multigrain. multigrain pops with pringles. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> bob: welcome back to "the five." we were going to talk about something else, but the produce rer making us talk about republican presidential candidates again. okay, let's get on to this. this is so exciting. let's talk about which one of these do we want to talk about? huntsman. huntsman is a nice fella. let me ask dana this question. huntsman has problems in the campaign. weaver, people don't foe who he is but a political consultant for years and i've known him for a long time. it seems every campaign he goes into, a bomb goes off. now he is having a problem with huntsman's wife. [ inaudible ] i wish the republican presidential craziness would get over. >> dana: this started with an article in politico where a disgruntled campaign volunteer spilled some beans. whether or not they're accurate beans remains to be seen. but it did cause some stir, because there is internal fighting. nobody likes anything more in politics than the internal fight

. ♪ delicious pringles multigrain. avors, multigrain pops with pringles. >>> i'm jonathan capehart sitting in for martin bashir. the republican side of the super committee is revealed today, and the markets dip once more is this team really going to achieve meaningful change? plus, a pl"playboy" palin tell all. plus are those wedding bells we hear on sesame street. >>> a close call for passengers on tour. one minute they are sight-seeing and then this. >> oh, my god. >> insane. big chunks of ice start breaking off and falling into the water nearly taking out the people on the ship. a 60-year-old woman broke her leg during this ordeal because she fell down after the wave rocked the boat. kevin cohen videotaped the glacier crash and joins me now from los angeles. thanks for joining us. >> how you doing? >> i should call you steady hands. i don't know how you were able to keep that together, man. getting that video. when did you know you were in trouble? >> well, i was actually more afraid of the wave after that big tower

. ♪ delicious pringles multigrain. th a variety of flavors, multigrain pops with pringles. >>> welcome back to "newsnation." we are back with live pictures from holland, michigan, and in a few minutes president obama will talk about how improving vehicle efficiency can help create jobs and make the economy stronger. he is at the battery plant right now, and he is touring johnson's controls plant which is the advanced battery facility, but you can bet that all ears and eyes are on what this president has to say as we are up today at least the dow is, but we know that the rocky road we have experienced and witnessed all week long. and the president is in michigan, a state where ton employment rate is 10.5% which is well above the national rate of 9.1%, and in fact, the president's focus as i mentioned is on green jobs and he is visiting a firm in holland, mish ganl, which makes the batteries for the hybrid vehicles. the firm received a $300 million investment from the stimulus program and created 150,000 jobs in michigan

. ♪ delicious pringles multigrain. iety of flavors, multigrain pops with pringles. >>> welcome back to "hardball." time now for the "sideshow." first up, it's nots new to launch an attack on washington in an attempt to garner support from voters especially recently. the gop candidate michele bachmann seems to taking this to a whole new level, and with a few interesting spins. just weeks ago the candidate explained that her reasoning in working for the irs was "because the first rule of war is to know your enemies." going a step further, bachmann credited define intervention towards washington for the recent earthquake and it damaging hurricane irene. questionable. and bachmann took to mocking the intelligence of her colleagues in washington. let's listen. >> i'm also privileged to sit on the permanent committee for the intelligence in the house of representatives, and i know that's odd, probably an oxymorin, how's a pubic representative -- >> what's makes her odd one out of all government employee, the whole irs plan is

. ♪ delicious pringles multigrain. ♪ with a variety of flavors. pops with pringles. >> quite honestly, it isn't that difficult to turn the economy around. the solutions quite honestly aren't that tough to figure out. what we've been missing from both parties is the political will to just get it done and do it. >> that was michele bachmann giving her prescription for the economy. joining me now is man who has a lot to say about the direction of this country, trace atkins, country music star and all-american guy. good to see you. proud to be here. name of your new album. one thing i learned about you, many things i learned about you in our month of incarceration with donald trump, a living hell, an interesting time to talk to someone like you who is a very proud american and who had been watching what happened post- 9/11 to your country and everything else. when you see what's going on now with america, do you feel proud to be an american still or is that pride getting dented? >> well, i'm certainly proud to be an american but can i be proud of what

. ♪ delicious pringles multigrain. ♪ with a variety of flavors. multigrain pops with pringles.no. you know... ♪ we're not magicians ♪ we can't read your mind ♪ ♪ read your mind ♪ we need your questions ♪ each and every kind ♪ every kind ♪ will this react with my other medicine? ♪ ♪ hey, what are all these tests even for? ♪ ♪ questions are the answer ♪ yeah ♪ oh >>> welcome back, everyone, to our continuing coverage here. the clock is still ticking toward default. if the u.s. doesn't raise its debt ceiling but the details appear to be falling into place to finally get it done. you see the clock there. we have heard from the president, leaders in congress. they say they have struck a deal to raise the nation's debt limit and cut the nation's spending. there are still some very important votes to be taken by members of congress but i want to announce that the leaders of both parties in both chambers have reached an agreement that will reduce the deficit and avoid default. a default that would have had a devastating effect on our economy. the first part of this agreement will cut a

. ♪ delicious pringles multigrain. a variety of flavors, multigrain pops with pringles. >>> we're back. is the republican presidential field more leery? >> we have helped the people of afghanistan establish freedom from the taliban, but now we're at a point where they're going to have to earn and keep that freedom themselves. this is not something we're going to do forever. >> in terms of where we are now, ten years reproved, i was there last summer with governor perry, by the way, and met with general petraeus. he thought it would take about two years from last summer to have an orderly and successful wind down of our mission in afghanistan at least in terms of significant troop withdrawal. president obama accelerated that faster than either general mullen or general petraeus recommended. i would have accepted their recommendation. >> i say a polls of piece is free trade stay out of their internal business, don't get involved in these wars and just bring our troops home. >> big applause for congressman ron paul, huge

. ♪ delicious pringles multigrain. th a variety of flavors, multigrain pops with pringles. >>> this morning we are looking at the s&p downgrade of the u.s. credit. a foreman member of president obama's team and now an msnbc contributor discussed the credit downgrade last night with rachel maddow. >> first of all, they're one of three. it's easy to just think, oh, my goodness, the u.s. debt has been downgraded, end of story. no. as long as the other two have us a triple-a, which they do and this they asserted they'll keep at least for a while, there are lots of things that probably don't happen. if all three downgraded at the same time, lots of pension funds, for example, would automatically have to divest. they would have to get rid of their treasury holdings. >> they have rules that say you can only invest in triple-a. >> bingo. >> those rules don't necessarily apply. in most cases they don't which it's just one of three takes us down that one notch. >> that was jared bernstein on the rachel maddo show last night. >>>

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. ♪ delicious pringles multigrain. with a variety of flavors, multigrain pops with pringles.ill: the little league world series champs are back home in california. they beat the japanese in the finals. the u.s. team has won it six of the last seven years. the city of huntington beach plans to honor the parade at an official parade september 10. those guys will have a blast. signing autographs, taking pictures. well done. martha: congratulations. let's talk about what's going on up in space where we are trying to have a win as well. there are new fears of a posse evacuation at the international space station. nasa says it may need its astronauts to abandon their space outpost after a russian rocket carrying supplies up there blew up last week. >> we prefer not to operate in that condition for an extended period of time. martha: there are some assumptions we want to talk to tom jones about, former nasa astronaut. tom, always good to see you. when i first heard about this last week that the russians had trouble getting the supply capsule up there and it explode, i thought what d

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. ♪ delicious pringles multigrain. >> welcome back. 13,000 residents of one mexican border down now have no police to protect them. the drug violence in mexico so chaotic it's forcing the entire police department until asense i don't know mexico to quit. the town which sits 100 miles south of the border. co-founder of the chertoff group. a global security form. nice to see you this morning. >> good morning. good to be with you. >> where does this put the united states and our border security this morning? >> it highlights one thing, which is what we're seeing down in mexico is like the so plain knows on steroids. this sopranos on steroids. a woman sought political asylum in the united states. we are seeing deterioration of the security to the point that the very foundation of law and order in mexico is at stake. if the united states does not act more swiftly to assist calderon and his administration we could have a failed state on our southern border. >> tell us about what would happen if we do have a failed state on ou