[applause] we also have ron sanders. i do not think he is here -- there you go. l represent the history and the culture of the bayview. thank you very much for your efforts on that front, ron. we have some elected officials here today. i appreciate all of you being here today. we are going to start with mayor lee. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. good morning everyone. it is my personal pleasure to be here in the bayview. as i watched these kids danced this morning, i know all of you felt as i did, this is for them. they inherit the earth, this community, and everything we do today, everything we believe in is all for them. so we want our neighborhood improved. we want our whole community improved. i want to thank the people here coming with us. senator leno is here with us this morning. i have been here all morning with malia cohen looking at the projects that we have in this area. she is part of that young talent and i get to work with, as well as scott wiener. the board of supervisors have been working with me these past seven months, and we

[applause] we also have ron sanders. i do not think he is here -- there you go. l represent the history and the culture of the bayview. thank you very much for your efforts on that front, ron. we have some elected officials here today. i appreciate all of you being here today. we are going to start with mayor lee. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. good morning everyone. it is my personal pleasure to be here in the bayview. as i watched these kids danced this morning, i know all of you felt as i did, this is for them. they inherit the earth, this community, and everything we do today, everythingwe

federal reserve and humps of billions and even trillions and go out to the country bernie sanders on the left to ron paul on the right, and makes a big issue, if new york doesn't see it, of course new york doesn't see it, the rest of the country does. >> how about issues ever michelle goldberg, a plot for domination. >> i was writing about a different issue, but the general, the way the media attacked evangelicals or misunderstands the things they say. i've asked people knowledgeable about the mainstream and dominionism is considered a heresy to mainstream evangelicals and rebutted time and time again. and do the evangelicals-- >> evangelical christian has been in mainstream regionty for two centuries and media creates an exotic invention that's crazy. >> you know, it's going to keep on continuing, the campaign is beginning. we'll be back in a second. first, keep up on the media stories every week and check out the site at the watch lis session at the top media stories and up next, the president escaped from washington. and of course, the media's tagging along. >> hello, iowa. >> in a week when his

would have gone down in complete secrecy had not been for the efforts of senators bernie sanders and franklin i was ron paul to make the fed open up their books and let us the taxpayers take a look so you still wondering why the fed's actions aren't fixing our economy. let's imagine for a second that this wall right here is keeping our economy from collapsing think of it as a giant game. but this dam is starting to crack and holes are starting to form due to all the pressure behind pressure joblessness massive student loan credit card debt student loan debt by the way just exceeded credit card debt over trillion dollars for the first time in the history of america millions of home foreclosures rising health care costs and norma's trade deficits all the things that are pushing our economy to the breaking point i think of ben bernanke he is the little dutch boy with his finger in the dike all i can do is plug up some of these holes the only thing he has to do them with is money that's all the fed can do is manipulate money that's it. plug a few holes buy it up depth for example. a few holes by giving a f

mean and that's certainly what ron paul has been saying i will say that ron paul and ralph nader and then excuse image and bernie sanders and cindy sheehan have all worked together cindy sheehan i know is friends with angela in the antiwar dot com people here it is happening and it can happen and they come together around not just the atrocities of war and the human cost of it but also the economic cost of it i do want to say i want to come back to one point we were talking about earlier which is that how do you mobilize people well you can't go into the ghetto and to and sort of convince people that they should be forced against something i find that to be sort of paternalistic actually what is really to me the problem is obama because that is most americans are not political their version of politics of the way they interact with politics is really through the head of states they don't actually pay much attention anything else there is a tremendous amount i will come back to this again of psychological identification with the president of the united states now he is extremely popular among his base which is large enou

yet to see a politician walk out who said, listen, all this we're doing, maybe ron paul to a certain extent, bernie sanderscertain extent, maybe coburn but certainly not the leadership on the democratic or republican side. >> from a perspective, always a pessimism. you know, things are generally getting worse. and ronald reagan came in, found a way to turn conservatism into a hopeful optimism. does the political need for, you know, morning in america, hope and change, does that cut against the ability to have the traits you're talking about that are needed? >> i think it does. these traits aren't just on the left or right pap good example, winston churchill, very conservative, but during world war ii, just before world war ii, very realistic and pessimistic and no one wanted to hear it in the 1930s. yes, when people talk about optimism and needing to be optimistic all the time, all that. >> great campaigning. barack obama became president on that, but obviously has no capacity for a realistic assessment of what actually is wrong with this country. go ahead imejeanne? >> and the black dog, call it, got us t

ron paul has a lot of grassroots organization. but the pawlenty campaign has a lot going on behind the scenes. sarah huckabee sandersd her dad win the caucuses last time around, is running their iowa operations. they feel they have organization unlike any other candidate to get people to vote, and show what they call forward progress. >> nbc's andrew rafferty in des moines. thank you. we'll check in with the bachmann campaign. jay any novogrod's report next hour. >>> up next, new reaction to the credit downgrading of the u.s. stocks were down in the middle east today. in the asian markets, opening later today. joining me from boston is economic reporter for slate, annie lowry. let's talk about what wall street will do monday morning. give me your prediction. >> reporter: right now futures are looking down. we'll have a better sense when tokyo opens tonight. futures are broadly down. that suggests that perhaps we'll see a continuation of the now two-week sell-off. >> okay. with further losses in the markets, does that force congress and the president to do something more? >> well, think the decline in stocks we have

ron paul, 2012. >> everybody was wrong. >> greg, you said that newt was getting pissy with baier. >> yeah? >> he was just getting pissy because his name is newt. >> bill, looking like a young colonel sanders this evening? [laughter] >> that is so true. [laughter] >> bill, you did a correction i. this is my grandfather's coat. how dare you?! >> bill, you did a correction on the word submissive. i have to say, i am not surprised at all that you knew what the real definition of submissionsive was. what else? oh, andy, you said pawlenty shouldn't try to be funny ever again? >> yeah? >> absolutely. i wanted to know, would you please make that same vow? [laughter] >> the great thing about that joke is that the minute you started saying it, i had no idea that's where you were going. >> predictable. i'm safe. >> i'll stop if you start. >> let's move on to the riots. here's the thing... you know, i know they are having trouble busting some of the rioters, but they are not that hard to find. look for reporters interviewing people with hoods and bandanas around their face. also, kevin, you said that russell brand is a middle-crass, champagne-swirling [bleep] -- you are right. you are right. he's not

ron paul. on barney's site we had bernie sanders. so here we had the far right and the far left, as a matter of fact, i think to this day bernie is the only admitted socialists in the congress. and ron paul, we all know what he is politically. well, i can remember party when we're talking about, i think it was the privacy issues, that ron paul and bernie somehow met each other around the bend. [laughter] and barney and i were like, we were just stunned they had actually agreed together, and the rest of the committee was kind of in the same phone. we couldn't figure out what was going on. so that truly made an interesting committee, needless to say. and that was a big committee. i think it was wise to shrink the committee a little bit and it was wise, i could never get denny to make it to the committee. but to their credit to barney's credit and to speaker pelosi, when the democrats took over they did make it in inclusive committee and that continues i know for the freshman. i think that's a good thing to do. so a smaller committee, bu

ron johnson, rand paul has been against this. mike lee another tea party guy from utah. i'm interesting to see who goes against it many the left. we know bernie sanders was a no. we talked about the numbers, john boehner was deliver to deliver to the house of representatives getting about i believe 166 republicans to come on board. nancy pelosi's caucus was split in half 95/95. i suspect you'll see some liberal opposition to this in the senate. over all, i don't think they have to whip this very hard it's pretty much a done deal. >> luke russert watching this on capitol hill. i want to bring in three observers here. mark fry, reed wilson and michael steele in new york. oh, no, he's here in washington. >> that's okay. >> michael steele, tea party to me doesn't know how to declare victory or are you look at this now and saying, well i don't blame them for not declaring victory? >> i think it's a little bit of both, actually. you don't want to be too premature. you want to make sure the final vote's done and you have all of your players committed to their particular position like an orin hatch or a mike lee many the senate. but i think going forward, a