bring in right now a guy who knows a heck of a lot about the faa and system, steve rattner. ed pilot. flying for a very long time. steve, let's first ask, give us background on the notice to air mission system. what is this system that apparently has melted down right now? >> yeah. so this is not the main air traffic control system in which planes talk to controllers on the ground or get instructions, this way, that way, land or take off. this is, i don't want to call a little piece. it's a critical piece of a system in which pilots receive updates on important information they should know about weather, about runway closings, about airport changes, about this or that. used to be called notice to airmen in the modern air now notice to air missions, have a a vernacular. without those notices available to pilots for last-minute announcements that may affect their flight they had to shut down the entire system. >> i understand these warnings so detailed down to possible hazards from birds around airports. it is, for international flights, apparently, notices can run dozens of pa

steve rattner is a big tipper!the kids. want to ask about tipping first. >> i do. >> what do you think about this whole tipping a.p. article? >> i'm with you guys. i find it an enormous pain in the neck to go into a store buy a cup of coffee, a muffin and be expected to tip. i think what they should simply -- also very sympathetic to workers. tough jobs. don't get paid a lot of money. in favor of raising prices, paying the workers more, and let's get rid of tipping. interestingly, a group of restaurants high-end restaurants in new york tried this eliminating tipping, raised prices. nobody liked it and went back to tipping. maybe just stuck with it. >> there you go. okay. >> kind of the bottom line right there. >> again, it's -- the workers deserve it, because -- again, especially when the wages are so low. steve rattner, let's talk about now the reason you came. that is, of course, the debt ceiling and same as it ever was, same as it ever was. >> you didn't have me here to talk about tipping? all right. then i'll t

. >> joinings conversation along with joe, willie and me, economic analyst steve rattner.tional affairs analyst and executive editor of the ethe recount" john heilemann and real clear politics, amy's daughter joins us this morning. good to have you all onboard. willie. >>> the united states one day away from reaching its borrowing limit having to take extraordinary measures to keep paying its bills. calling for a straightforward bill only giving the government money it needs to pay on existing obligations. republicans wan certainly concessions. some demands include balancing the budget over ten years and as well as dollar-for-dollar spending cuts. >> debt ceiling off the table? >> i don't see why you would continue to past behavior. wouldn't do props and and wouldn't do a budget? totally off the table. who wants to put the nation at some threat of a debt creeling? nobody wants to do that. we're asking, change our behavior now. sit down, he's the president. we're the majority in the house. the democrats are majority in the senate and exactly the way the founders designed co

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i want to play for you something steve rattner, who has been flying for 30 years, had to say today. >today, even a tiny single engine plane, you will see vastly different equipment, more sophisticated, using all gps technology, things like that, in that cockpit. if you walk into an faa control tower today, you will see pretty much what you would have seen 30 years ago. >> how much of the frustration that flyers feel goes back to washington and where the federal government needs to start spending their money? what's your assessment? >> i would go back a step further. the american people need to be wise and informed voters. to vote for people to represent them in washington who have -- who understand that understand making investments will pay great dividends. we should be not -- we shouldn't be afraid of making large investments that will rebuild systems rather than putting continual band-aids on an old system. >> it will be 14 years since the heroic landing. yesterday, the carolina aviation museum renamed. how could it be 14 years? i wonder how you reflect on that day and, frankly, ye

"morning joe" economic analyst, steve rattner. good morning.ost certain to come and go. it's an initial deadline as you were telling us yesterday. we have time to figure this out. what happens today when this dead limit deadline goes, and the markets react how? the rest of the world reacts how. >> the markets will react relatively benignly because everybody knows this is sort of the warm up, if you will, and history will tell us that in every single case, we had a debt limit fight, it went down to the wire after the so called extraordinary measures were put in place, after they bought time in effect by taking pockets of money they had access to and other things they could do. the best estimate is july. could be june. could be august. history would tell you it usually tends to be a bit later than they think. you're going to see a dance, and everybody repeating their same positions all along. the white house will negotiate, republicans want major changes, and then, you know, at 11:00 p.m. some night in july, with luck, with luck, we'll actually g

i think the data is going to be worse. >> steve rattner, thank you very much.ast the top of the hour. let's get right to the top story, the house of representatives is set to vote again today on its next speaker after republicans failed to unite around a single nominee for the second straight day, after three separate ballots on tuesday, all ended in no nominee receiving the 218 votes needed to be elected speaker. house lawmakers tried for a fourth, fifth and sixth time yesterday with no success. like on tuesday, a group of 20 republicans yesterday remained staunchly opposed to gop leader kevin mccarthy's bid for speaker. instead of nominating ohio's jim jordan like they did on the first day of the congress, the group of republican defectors, this time chose florida's byron donalds as their alternative to kevin mccarthy. >> he is respected. he is trusted. he is capable and he achieves results. byron has a big mind, and he's big in stature as well. he's very nice. by i will tell you this, in a negotiation, in a negotiation with chuck schumer, i sure wouldn't wan

steve rattner doesn't ever remember it going out, says it's never gone out.t's like a thousand year flood, isn't it? we're having the thousand year flood at the same time canada is having a thousand year flood. their system goes out the same day. >> i think that's weird. >> i mean, i'm not saying it's a conspiracy, but i'm saying maybe we shouldn't just look at this and say, oh, well, it wasn't hacking or it wasn't somebody causing a problem with the systems. how could they both go out on the same day? >> well, as someone who was on the sound stage in burbank in '69 when they were filming the moon landing, i can say with some authority, no, there were definitely skeptical looks around the table when tom was delivering that report that this coincidence happened. and by the way, they have said it was somebody opened an attachment or document or something went wrong technically, which i read did someone send you that attachment or document to take the system down. i'm not sure we have heard the end of this investigation. >> i agree with that. >> i agree with tha