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to talk about what this means, dylan ratigan, host of "morning meeting" is here with me now.ll points. he's bogged down with health care reform. how do you get anything done? nothing's happened in a year. >> the only way anything happens -- i had discussions with elizabeth warren with all the tax payer money. she makes the most important point, that the financial lobbyists in congress have control. unless the american people e-mail and voice directly to their representatives the utter intolerablity of being held hostage of a system too big to fail is unamerican and systemic theft by virtue of the bribery and possession of our congress, that is what we are talking about. it's only the understanding of that fact, and the violence of that hostage-taking against the american people. it's only through the intensity and understanding of that aggression against this country that anything will happen. because the financial lobby is incredibly well organized and doing everything in its power to make sure nothing happens. >> we saw all those people in washington this weekend. they even

solvable than you think with just leverage and proper compensation rules and claw-backs. >> dylan ratigank you fouf for weighing in. you can watch dylan on "morning meeting" every morning on msnbc. >>> ahead with the gathering in pittsburgh, new signs the recovery in this country could take a very long time. >>> but, first, jackpot for a treasure hunter. a jobless man on welfare made the find of a lifetime when he discovered the largest anglo-saxon atrophy of gold ever found in britain and they believe it belonged to a king during the 8th century probably buried for safe-keeping. that collection goes on display tomorrow in britain. we'll be right back. show you more pictures throughout this day on msnbc. heard the saying less is more? well at allstate, more is actually less. the more policies you switch, the less you pay. discounts for combining your car insurance with... home insurance, motorcycle, atv, boat, another car, motor scooter, motor home, snowmobile... whatever i did my digestive upsets came back. but then came align. only align contains bifantis, a patented probiotic. it promo

i'm dylan ratigan. welcome to the second hour of the "morning meeting."e financial crisis that nearly crippled our country one year ago and as yet nothing has been done to repair, fix or acknowledge the deep flaws of systemic theft that exists in our country and our financial system. the president getting ready to speak. again, two hours from now on what he plans to do to make sure it never happens again but will he, in fact, deal with too big to fail and does he have the capability to claw back all of that compensation paid out on the back of the american taxpayer? >>> meanwhile, no more jeez from joe wilson who shouted you lie at president obama. should the democrats let it go? is twasn't a lie, by the way, if anybody cares. facts are also interesting. the late senator ted kennedy in his own words. his much awaited memoir hitting the book shelves today. mike barnicle will talk to us about that in a second. >>> fun with politics. at what point do the democrats have to let acorn go and maybe for good reason? it's 10:00 a.m. pull up a chair and join the "m

but right now it's time for dylan ratigan with the "morning meeting." >> and samoa, hundreds kills and president obama declaring a federal disaster. >>> and also on the agenda, another day, another battle expected in the senate finance committee over health care and free choice. the public option shot down, but what about wyden's choice? >>> and then debtors' revolt. a man quit his job as a branch manager because he says the company will not stop at making a profit even at your expense. >>> and then the president, socialism, and the kkk. it's 9:00 a.m., pull up a chair and join the "morning meeting." >>> good morning to you. we begin with new developments with samoa. here is the latest. nearly 100 people reported dead after four tsunami waves, 15 to 25 each, engulfing the southpaw civic island. sweeping people out to sea. dozens still missing. emergency officials looking for survivors, and power and communication outages are significantly hampering those efforts. and fema deploying teams to provide support and assess the damage. on the phone from american samoa, we have -- i will not b

or dylan ratigan. go ahead. >> caller: last week some of those ipos didn't go as said.uld we go more defensive in. >> talk about what it means not to go well, okay? what it means not to go well is you may have a deal like select med, which i said would be okay? right i said it would go up. it didn't go up. i told people to buy it on realmoney.com, if you are ascriber where i'm chairman, i said at $9.90, buy more. it went up to $10.50. you can ring the register tomorrow. you won't lose anything. a-1 steak sauce, kidding, it's a123. >> want to make a fortune and not have a lot of downside. that's the ipo market. pat in yul. >> caller: a big hallelujah boo-yah from judson university today. >> right back at you. ♪ hallelujah >> caller: i bought mcdonalds as an investment last october when it dipped below $50. dividend to 50 cents put the yield at 4%. recent announcement of dividend increase to 55 puts the current yield at about 3.9%. relative to my purchase price, i'm looking at a yield over 4.50%. i know the hog gets slaughtered to make sausage mcmuffins, but how do you ma

dylan ratigan will take it from here. >>> good morning. you know at stake his ambition and goals on health care reform, what does he want? not want? forget the public option, can he get the public back on his side. >>> and sarah palin using facebook to have a virtual stage. >>> and then a glimpse at what may be the real republican strategy. and do republicans object to health care reform or is it an opportunity to make him a one-term president. >>> and then lush gardens, and an 8,000 square foot escape, and a penthouse in new york, a trip inside the lifestyle of madoff before being shipped off to prison. it's 9:00 a.m. pull up a chair and join the "morning meeting." >>> rubber starting to meet the road. that's what the finance city committee is saying about the plan before the president's big address this evening. savannah guthrie to start things off. >> the president is involved in writing the speech. i can tell you as recently as monday he had given 10 hand written notes to this speech, and another draft last night. he is very much invol

. >> i am sitting in for the vacationing dylan ratigan this week. we begin with the wildfires threatening thousands of home around los angeles the official count, 53 buildings destroys. 12,000 are still in the fire's path. more than 3600 firefighters are working on the frontlines to knock down the flames. this fire is only 5% contained at this point. >> it is an extraordinary setting. i am a native of southern california, and i can tell you this area is coming dangerously close to beautiful homes. there are a lot of magnificent homes there. schools and everything that are edged up right into the foothills. and these are people that know they are based there, but nonetheless build sprawling estates. let's bring in michael okwu covering the fires. give us the prediction about how the day will go for the crews out there today, michael. >> reporter: that's the $10,000 question, contessa. nobody knows for sure. i can tell you officials are saying it won't be fully contained until another two weeks or so. they projected a specific date on this point, on s

no, give dylan ratigan an hour alone with hostages.ges. >> one more thing about michael. people lining up already for tickets to buy "this is it" the movie. it's going on sale sunday. people in l.a. lined up already today. big deal. >> i think it would be news if they weren't, for all due respect. >> maybe. blago? >> he continued his you got to believe me, i'm not lying media tour last night, stopping into jon stewart's house. >> would a guilty man say listen to all of the tapes or an innocent man say here are the tapes? because you'll hear the truth in those tapes. >> people can convince themselves of a lot of things. >> the guy is just a horrible advocate for his own case. anything he says, i'm like that's not true. >> he is making for a good celebrity, really. >> really? he's a joke. he is a punch line. who would take him seriously? >> "saturday night live" doing a fine job of it? >> yes. when embattled black politicians line obama and governor paterson are beefing you know "saturday night live" will stick their nose into it. >> why

there's a poll that dylan ratigan cited last week, you put together the people who don't believe obaman the country plus the people who say they don't know, that adds up to 41%. >> unbelievable. >> despite the estimates. 41%. >> i don't imagine the difference, i think, is that with this president, obama, i don't see him sort of either lashing out or sort of blaming vast right wing conspiracy. that's not really his style, is it? >> no, no. it's not. in fact, he doesn't want to have that conversation. this is a president who won't discuss race, who won't discuss anything that takes his eye and administration's eye off the ball of achieving whatever goal it has, whether it's winning the election or getting health care bill passed. if the conversation distracts from achieving those goals he's not dealing with it. >> jonathan, thank you very much. >> thanks, norah. >> it's interesting. i think you hit it on the head, norah. it's how the obama administration is reacting to it if it still exists, this vast right wing experience. they're handling it in a different way than the clintons seemed

right now it's time for "morning meeting" with a red hot dylan ratigan. >> thank you, william. good morning to you. nice to see you. i'm dylan. welcome to the "morning meeting." topping the agenda, the baucus bill d.o.a.? some slamming the health care reform from the gang of six. senator widen with an op-ed. he will join the meetings to talk about why this plan or why his plan will let all americans choose their health insurance and the other plans deny choice to 200 million of us. making the case for insuring illegal immigrants, andrew out of "newsweek" to talk about why insuring illegals could benefit america and end up costing us less. and if that doesn't provoke you acorn under fire. republicans threatening to choke off federal funding to the group after embarrassing video sting. is acorn really evil? as the gop says it is. acorn ceo and chief organizer joins the meeting ahead. and, debtors revolve. people refusing to pay credit card companies, taking drastic measures to stay afloat in hard financial times as if a trend or a talker in this time of massive bank subsidies. it

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i'm dylan ratigan. the president's speech and the near outburst, it was all the same from congressman wilson, heckling the president calling him a liar. a jam-packed show, reaction from howard dean, gang of six member kent conrad, democratic senator brown, marsha blackburn, the list goes on, the panel is here. it's 9:00 a.m. i hope you join the "morning meeting." >>> reaction pouring in to the president's big push for health care reform and that outburst from republican congressman joe wilson, david axelrod calling the incident unprecedented. nbc news correspondent savannah guthrie joins us live. >> reporter: we did hear kind of a new tone from the president last night. a fiery call to action to get health care reform done. listen. >> well, the time for bickering is over. the time for games have passed. now is the season for action. now is when we must bring the best ideas of both parties together and show the american people that we can still do what we were sent here to do. now is the time to deliver

i'm dylan ratigan. welcome to the "morning meeting." it's go away. bye, have fun. come over here.usy. thank you. topping our agenda, choice, no choice. amendment that would allow consumers to pick their health care plan goes to vote. talking about the health care fight in general and whether in fact those of us in the 174 million category will be given real choice in this health reform bill. again, gephardt was the house majority leader when the reform effort died some 15 years ago. >> it is now history and the unhindered expansion of capitalism will have the same fate. >> and then iran enjoying their rhetorical moment as the u.s. and other countries walked out on ahmadinejad's u.n. speech. the world perhaps closer if they weren't already, the russia, the rest are are they getting ready to turn their back on iran. a census worker found hanging from a tree with the word "fed" across his chest. new poll shows many americans have extreme views, is extremism becoming mainstream or the mainstreaming of extremism

i'm dylan ratigan. welcome back. bleak new numbers on the job market.'s youngest workers and barack obama's biggest voting bloc the hardest hit as the economy attempts to retrench while the taxpayer funds, the status quo. should the white house take a cue from the last president to face a crisis this big? and create jobs and -- and make creating jobs, i should say, his first and only priority for this country? >>> plus, we'll update you on long-range missile testing in iran as we look at why bush's rhetoric on iran was so different than the president's, even though we are learning they had the same information on what that country was up to. >>> a famous director and convicted predator. what happens to roman polanski now he has been captured in switzerland and could hillary clinton be his ticket to freedom. >>? i had to write one on the last minute on loose-leaf paper and that made me look crazy! >> plus, art imitating life. taking on gadhafi and well they should. it's 10:00 a.m. pull up a chair and join the "morning meeting." the first friday of every

i am dylan ratigan. topping our agenda this hour is that big speech. reportedly still tweaking it in the past hour. as soon as he takes the podium, we will shut up and go live to the u.n. obama may be overshadowed by libyan leader gadhafi arriving at the united nations moments ago and he has foked folks riled up in new york as he is trying to pitch a tent. ron allen is live for us at the u.n. to set things up and jeff rossen in bedford with the tenth and chuck todd back with us along with vicky ward. the u.n. general believe has been more known for comments from crack pots than leadership. who will get more headlines when the day is done, the president or gadhafi some. >> that's a good question, dylan. i don't know. i suppose different places, there will be different headlines. he suspect gadhafi is going to get a lot of attention because he is not usually here. the first time he is going to be here and speak to this body. of course, the whole lockerbie release controversy in the background of this. president obama will probably make a fairly straightf

i'm dylan ratigan.pel or a blow torch toward the baucus bill? right now, the senate finance committee starting the process of taking up amend amounts one of them would give us choice. we know afford ability is on the top of the list but without free competition why does the taxpayer have to step in and deal with the afford ability? >>> several missing in alabama and tennessee and a toddler swept away when a creek ripped apart his family's trailer home. >>> we heard from the bush speechwriter but this an authorized biography. bill clinton's relation with hillary and his underwear. why did he open your private interviews? >>> plus another installment of america the great. this is the third time we've done this on the "morning meeting." we talk a lot about lobbyists. it's a huge issue in health care specifically. maybe prevent us from getting real choice in our health care and we are telling you today about a great way to keep track of where the money is going so you find yourself by law forced to buy heal

topping agenda today, i'm dylan ratiga ratigan.ay morning media blitz and critiques are in. looks like he did not break any new ground so what is the point? you want to watch our matchup of his appearances and whether we've made any headway on reforming health care in the interest of patients and doctors as opposed to everybody else. how much would you pay for dinner with sarah palin? i'm trying to convince her to go hunting with me this fall. i'm not sure if i will pay for it, though. a woman in this country a bit -- bid more than $63,000 for a date with the former alaska golf and she won but sarah palin didn't. at least not this weekend's straw poll with conservatives. does that mean anything? i don't know. anyway. flash floods in northern georgia this is wild stuff. rescues in the atlanta area. you know, huge storms and black clouds like ghostbusters? not a joke. rolled up on the city of atlanta, flooding, a foot of rain and crazy. streets, homes, businesses under water. we are on the scene. >>> top commander in afghanistan has

"morning meeting" with dylan ratigan. >> hammering health care reform, or maybe hammering on health care reform. public option and free choice. on the "morning meeting" we are exposing the lack of competition holding you hostage to crisis and bad service. >> is afghanistan turning into vietnam? more and more folks are starting to think so. we are talking to a medal of honor winner who almost lost his life in that war about the similarities. >>> we are breaking down the stau ttisti statistics. and tom takes on the tango. did he nail the latin routine on "dancing with the stars." pull up a chair and join the "morning meeting." good morning to you. in about an hour the senate finance committee getting back to work on the front. public option will be the biggie, and choice for all of us. it pits democrat against democrat and republican against republican, and chuck todd, white house correspondent and political director joins us for the food fight we are setting up for. what is going on? >> reporter: it's public option day. pure and simple in the senate finance committee. there will be two am

my name is dylan ratigan, this is the morning meeting. you're watching msnbc.rid of or restructure the federal reserve? congressman ron paul making the case for ending auditing and altering the way we run our economy. should a bureau in d.c. decide the cost of money without any accountability? it hasn't worked super well as of late, at least for the taxpayer. prettier for the banks, though. >>> health care, what's in? what's out? can our congress release free competition, free choice? can they release the taxpayers to update the outdated systems that hold us prisoner in this country? well, the widen choice amendment is up for a vote today. we'll break it down for you. who is most against allowing us to choose what we want for health care. think union, think employee benefits, lots of lobbying going on. meanwhile a.c.o.r.n. on the offensive, how they're trying to fight back against the makers of the pimp and prostitute films that, yes, managed to expose some of their volunteers. they're willing to at least entertain the conversation. >>> and how do you spell gad

dylan ratigan is on vacation this week. >>> and the fire is standing at 22% containment.ago. flames destroyed at least 62 homes. officials listed mandatory evacuation orders from some areas. 6,000 people remain out of their homes. and tell me about the weather and how that will play a part today in the fire fight ahead? >> reporter: contessa, the weather was instrumental last night. basically the conditions you had here were perfect to get much more aggressive with the wildfire. the temperatures were lower than expected, and humidity was high, which was great for the firefighters. th

i am dylan ratigan. this is the "morning meeting." let's begin topping our agenda today.ern thunderstorms right in the city of atlanta, dumping a foot or more of rain on homes and businesses and roadways are flooding. we are live with the latest in just a second on very severe weather in atlanta. >>> mean while, president obama's sunday show grand slam. five separate interviews on five separate networks. did the pr do the president any good in the effort to try and reform the health care system? what are we trying to reform? >>> john edwards and a shocking new account of what happened with the woman that gave birth to his alleged love child. how far did he go to conceal the affair? is it appropriate for a politician to call a rich friend to have them write a check to another friend without disclosing it. >>> meanwhile, republicans trying to resurge. why the gop is no longer acting like a defeated party? do they have a leg to stand on in 2012? perhaps the road of free market and choice is wide open. it is if you ask me. >>> and the activist group needs to be investigated.

but now it's time for the "morning meeting" with dylan ratigan.

. >>> right now it's time for the "morning meeting" with dylan ratigan. >>> the headline today, clearly united states revealing the existence of a second nuclear facility in iran. we will get to that in just a second. it's time to be joined by the armed services committee, to discuss whether it adds meaningful rev ridge or not and their efforts to engage both western european allies and russia to create much more stringent sanctions for u.s. relations with iran. g-20 under way in pittsburgh today. the headline there will be all about compensation and banking. the nations of this world participated in that credit bubble and the nations of the world still have a lot of work to do to clean up the world after the credit bubble. if i can, i want to begin with the news of the day on iran. chuck todd in pittsburgh at the g-20 with what is going on. chuck, are you there? >> reporter: yes, i'm, dylan. the president with the french president sarcozy and gordon brown have said they reported they are aware of iran having a secret nuclear facility to create fuel. as you heard in the president's stat

this time of the show, what we talk about today, dylan ratigan is back.oliver stone and hugo chavez took a steamy turn in vegas. they looked lovely together. >> i don't understand that. nicole, what did you learn? >> they are leabuying a lot of s in china, and according to erin, it could be or could not be a reason to go and buy toilet paper at costco. >> what i learned today is that there are good people, nice people on both sides of the political sides, but i would rather talk about music. >> i like it. i have been getting e-mail frz across pennsylvania, and they are not showing the president's speech. are you serious? are you serious?