. >>> coming up this morning, senator sherrod brown, chuck todd, harold ford jr. also the debt and obama's popularity. first, an update on the heat with bill karinss. >> august means football practice. the heat wave needs to go away soon. yesterday 114 degrees in little rock. the hottest all-time temperature they have recorded. 97 in atlanta. 109 the forecast in dallas. we are going to see a little bit of cooling off from denver to kansas city. a lot of people had a cool night, a cool morning. temperatures in the 80s. leave your umbrella at home. it should be a dry day. we are watching tropical storm emily. you have to feel bad for people living there. it's going to be a rough 24 hours for them. this storm brushes the bahamas, then turns off the coast. no direct threat to the united states. probably see the worst conditions. we track that for the weekend. sunrise in new york city. you are watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. this is my band from the 80's, looker. hair and mascara, a lethal combo. i'm jon haber of alto music. my business is all about getting

i saw you interviewing sherrod brown. you're right, not even the notion revenue, and these silly and loopholes of the corporations get for corporate jet or oil companies and even that was off of the table and not a penny of revenue and enormous win for republicans and enormo enormously bad for the president. bill clinton, when he balanced the budget and put together the economic plan it was 50% revenue and 50% spending cuts which was seen by independents who bill clinton was focused on like a laser beam as you will e careca john, independents like that sense of shared fairness and the president has a difficult hand dealt to him frankly, but i don't know that he played it very well. if you look at the last eight months, john, has been extraordinary and back of december 10th, if the memory serves the president agreed to a bipartisan deal to cut the taxes and enormous amount straight to the debt, $858 billion to pass a tax cut seen as republican priority and then in april, spending cuts were passed to continue the operations

senator sherrod brown of ohio. on the house side of the capital, allen west is with us. he came to washington as a part of this tea party movement. you voted yes in favor of this legislation, you are a military veteran, i believe you're a member of the armed services committee. >> yes. >> one of the concerns many of the conservatives who voted no tonight, many of the concerns they have rs in their view, they cut too much defense nowing and raise the prospect of cutting defense later. why were you comfortable saying aye? >> one of the things we have to look at, unfortunately is having this measure held over our heads to make sure we do the right things. we had a meeting with the armed services committee, republicans with the speaker, i made myself very clear in hoping that we can get one of the senior members, the subcommittee chairman to be a part of this congressional committee to make sure that we do the right things so sequestration never comes to fruition. >> another question, i know we've spoken in the past. taxation, you ran on an election, in which you said you we

i talked to sherrod brown last night, from ohio. he will vote yes. he wants to say he voted for deficit reduction. liberal groups are angry with him because they think the super committee opens the door to social security cuts, opens the door to medicare cuts. but we are seeing here, you just saw mitch mcconnell and harry reid disagree. mitch mcconnell said you might not believe it, my tea party friends, you might vote no but you won here. you won because we have changed the tone, the tenor and direction of the debate in washington, it is now about cutting spending. harry reid got up and said he finds it very, very disconcerting, the impact of the tea party. well, we'll see how this plays out but on the point of impact, mitch mcconnell's right. the lawmakers have changed the debate in washington. you mentioned senator hatch. this is his speech. 1286 words. i counted them. i used a computer. i used a computer. to say why he's voting against it. we all know senator hatch. he used to do deals with the late senator ted kennedy. he's a deal maker. but his

he's seen as sort of a sherrod brown labor democrat. president obama is not like that. tell us what his problem is in terms of political connection with rustbelt guys and women and a lousy jobs outlook which the business community isn't doing much about despite the bush tax cuts? >> chris, let's start with the 2008 presidential primaries process. ohio, pennsylvania, hillary clinton won, it's not as those these areas have ever been great for barack obama. yes, pennsylvania by double digits, ohio by five, more of that was the national wave. to your point, why is it tough? these are older states. these are whiter states in terms of overall population these are states. >> we're looking at pennsylvania to wisconsin. >> michigan, throw iowa a bit in there. you know, all of those states -- indiana, illinois in the northeastern corner, all these are places where the economy is very, very tough. now, the economy is tough, of course, across the nation, but these are places where the manufacturing sector has either disappeared or taken a massive hit. they feel the economic anxiety

twice colleagues came to the floor and engaged in it colloquy and i remain grateful to senator sherrod brown and mary landrieu for my support. all so it contains some repetition. what do you want? eight to the half-hour's. [laughter] and this is not an accident. in giving this speech i was more than aware that most people were not going to be listening to it in its entirety. i suspected that most people would tune in for half an hour or an hour then move on with their lives. i made it a point to keep returning to my basic themes. was i surprised about the kind of intention -- attention that the speech received? are you kidding? the phones in my washington and vermont offices never stopped ringing. in vermont everyone of my eight staff people did nothing else all day but respond to calls, thousands of calls and e-mails. the senate television web site crashed because of the huge number of people who wanted to watch the speech live on line and currently c-span2 had an exceptional day. according to "the new york times" my speech was the most twittered event that day. what a distinction, most twi

twice colleagues came to the floor and engaged in it colloquy and i remain grateful to senator sherrod brown and mary landrieu for my support. all so it contains some repetition. what do you want? eight to the half-hour's. [laughter] and this is not an accident. in giving this speech i was more than aware that most people were not going to be listening to it in its entirety. i suspected that most people would tune in for half an hour or an hour then move on with their lives. i made it a point to keep returning to my basic themes. was i surprised about the kind of intention -- attention that the speech received? are you kidding? the phones in my washington and vermont offices never stopped ringing. in vermont everyone of my eight staff people did nothing else all day but respond to calls, thousands of calls and e-mails. the senate television web site crashed because of the huge number of people who wanted to watch the speech live on line and currently c-span2 had an exceptional day. according to "the new york times" my speech was the most twittered event that day. what a distinction, most twi

twice colleagues came to the floor and engaged in it colloquy and i remain grateful to senator sherrod brown and mary landrieu for my support. all so it contains some repetition. what do you want? eight to the half-hour's. [laughter] and this is not an accident. in giving this speech i was more than aware that most people were not going to be listening to it in its entirety. i suspected that most people would tune in for half an hour or an hour then move on with their lives. i made it a point to keep returning to my basic themes. was i surprised about the kind of intention -- attention that the speech received? are you kidding? the phones in my washington and vermont offices never stopped ringing. in vermont everyone of my eight staff people did nothing else all day but respond to calls, thousands of calls and e-mails. the senate television web site crashed because of the huge number of people who wanted to watch the speech live on line and currently c-span2 had an exceptional day. according to "the new york times" my speech was the most twittered event that day. what a distinction, most twi