what did you see in terps of people coming out to get help? >> we have eight shelters open and enencourage people to get there earlier than tonight. we had mandatory evacuation from the coastal areas and this morning and throughout the day encourage them to get out. and we have a driving restriction on. and people feel they are to evacuate because of flooding and exempt from the driving restriction and going to a shelter, it is better to stay home at this point. >> i am reading and paying attention to the maps and forecast that you have gotten and inundated by rain. i know you are feeling the impact of the flooder. the twister situation is tough at night particularly. are you under the state wide woonering in the last hour. >> there are a number of warnings that are still out there and thea have moved to to newcastle county can we hope that party will be general partner soon. not much to apt. but focused on the wind and rain and flooding. these hurricanes sometimes have tornados attach to them. >> you have had reports that you haven't been abl

you having trouble understanding the meaning of all this bad financial news lately, let me put it in terpse familiar w the economy is essentially planking right now. try not to think of this as a crash. think of it as a special wall street addition of "wipeout," okay? >> everybody is trying to make sense of these markets. luckily, the "new york post" explained it with today a cover story "crazy stox like a hooker's drawers, up, down, up." i personally look forward to more of this kind of analysis such as "london just like a hooker's genitals burning" and "somali refugees like a hooker's libido always hungry" and "new york post front page hooker will say anything to get your money. >> i saw a man from the tv show hoarders having a yard sale. bert wanted to marry ernie just for the tax deduction. >> with the crazy stock market influx, the price of gold has shot up to almost $2,000. yeah, in in other words, flavor virginia flavor's mouth is now a millionaire and about to retire. >> the economy is so bad i saw cap'n crunch drinking captain morgan. that's how bad. the economy is so bad chinese

he's only going to, for lack of better terps, kick the can down the road. we are going to be in the same position -- he's going to throw the gop under the bus and tell them it is their fault. >> sean: i think are 100% right. blaming the gop is standard operating procedure. look, last week reading the politico monica, they are going to kill romney. perry comes on the scene saturday. there has beenthon stop attacks. nbc news took a cut of rick perry saying there's a black cloud that is hanging over america with that debt. and they took black and separated the comment to insinuate there was some racism. chris matthews used the term bull connor, talking about perry. obviously he has the media to do his bidding. how effective can he be at a billion dollar campaign demonizing people? >> this is why it is so damaging to the obama brand. the brand that got him elected in 2008 was positive. all about hope and change. now it was whispy and meaningless but still positive. this time he has to go negative because he can't run on his record. what these attacks on perry t

and there are the terps, from maryland.americans watching, one word coming to mind. >> broken. >> broken. >> broken. >> busted. >> this place appears broken. >> busted. >> but at least the coffee makers work. >> would you like coffee? >> this place runs on coffee. gallons of it in every office. lanchly because there is no time to make a starbucks run. house speaker john boehner's smoking habit continues to fascinate and confound -- >> are they editing out all the smoking? >> reporter: an increasingly health conscious nation's capitol, the rare smell of cigarette smoke greets you the moment you enter his suite of fiss. and listen to how boehner's senate nemesis finds a way to casually mention it while showing off a painting of mark twain in his office. >> be careful with it. for example, speaker boehner can have none of the pictures in his office. why do you think that is? >> i have no idea. >> he smokes. >> oh, my goodness. had to work that in here. ♪ why is everybody always picking on me ♪ >> reporter: and with smoking at

but it does suggest, what is the moment here in terps of american history, - terms of american historyoment of high unemployment and economic crisis over seas and italy at particular risk right now think that the government can't respond effectively. >> chris: the buck may stop with the president. but the republicans drove a hard bargain and the polls indicated that voters don't approve of that and a new york times poll found 47 percent disapproved of obama's handling and 46 approved . 56% disapproved of congressional democrats and 72 percent disapproved of republicans. public opinion of the tea party are negative because they drove the hard bargaining. >> the polls are what they are . the polls don't like how at a are handling this. david beers thought the market place and interest rate would be minimal. >> chris: the official. >> the analyst. but they are parts of the report. they don't like politicians bickering and there are other credit ratings that have not lowered the u.s. rating. what politicians say is important but what they do is more important. but the republican driven pla

the president will call in speaker boehner and mitch mcconnell after labor day and on this issue in terpsf helping positive change in the middle east, that is something they can agree on. >> talking about stirring the pot. qaddafi appears not ready to leave? >> i think it looks at this point he will and rebels will succeed in deposing him . happen after that period of chaos and instability and put pressure on the administration to engage . i admire bill's optimism. it is a proxy conflict with iran and great to force assad out of there. libya was a unique experiment and the white house made it clear it is not going to replicate that in syria. president assad knows that . i think you have a dynamic where we -- he's going to have -- can he take credit if qaddafi is deposed. obama said given the situation in syria which is comparable but doesn't appear he will amass a coalition and also use military strength and repliicate the libya operation. i don't think he will. i think he made it clear he won't . so it is a tough moment even if qaddafi is desupposed. >> post qaddafi libya raises question

it opens in thee terps augu s s august 19th.ng so far? >> here or in england? >> jimmy: where have you been? >> i've been here a few days. summer in england is horrible. one time it's sunny, one time it's raining. people in england, when the sun comes out, they take their shirts straight off. the guys derobe. and because the weather's been so up and down, they take their shirt off, then it starts raining. >> jimmy: i got you. you've been here in l.a. for, what, just like a week or so? >> i two here on the 29th, i think. >> jimmy: okay, good. it's been very hot here. >> always nice here. yeah, yeah, yeah. i walk around with my shirt off in my room. >> jimmy: that's good. [ applause ] now, you -- you flew over here, i presume. you did not swim over here? >> yeah, i've done thatnce before. it not a good idea. >> jimmy: long way to go. >> plane ride, yeah. >> jimmy: and something odd happened to you on the plane? >> yeah, no, i was -- like, the journey is a hard flying, it's like 12, 13 hours. and, yeah, i was sitting on a plane and

representative bachmann -- i don't want to be sexist and pit the two women against each other, but in terps of leadership skills like michele bachmann who won the straw poll over the weekend. how do her leadership skills translate and how do you compare it to the men? >> michele bachmann was in trump tower one month ago. i was very impressed with her, i have to tell you -- >> greta: why? >> her demeanor was absolutely great. her way was wonderful. i thought she was terrific. i think she ran a fantastic campaign thus far. people who were taking her lightly are not taking her so lightly. sarah palin we know. the question with sarah is whether or not she is going to run. and i personally think no. yet, there are a lot of people who like her. you look at polls and she's very popular in the polls and certainly in the republican party polls. so i don't know whether or not -- >> greta: how about the men? bring the men into this description. >> i think pawlenty was great to be dropped out. i think he missed his opportunity when they gave him in the softball question about romneycare and he refused

let's everything they've ever asked for in terps of federal investment in their districts and say, yes. and do it. >> it would be like telling rick perry this number of jobs in texas that you've been bracking on come from federal defense jobs that go to texas. but -- >> exactly. >> partly it's frustration that some seem to be expressing along the way at the way the president negotiates with republicans. he is trapped because the ipd pents want to see him a compromiser and get something done. the base wants to see him go up against them. this is the president describing his negotiating strategy as if he were negotiating how to pay for the shopping bills with michelle. >> in my house if i said, you know, michelle, honey, we've got to cut back. we're going to have you stop shopping completely. you can't buy shoes. you can't buy dresses. but i'm keeping my golf clubs. that wouldn't go over so well. >> maureen dowd points out that perhaps michelle should be sent in to negotiate with speaker boehner and the republicans. >> she might get a 9-1 deal. i don't think that's very strong. i think i

sochbs the snowstorm earlier this year when a lot of people in new york and new jersey thought that terp as on top of it as they should have been. some are saying, wow, did they overcompensate with this storm? >> i think -- the answer is probably, yes. but i think it's a better safe than sorry as a politician. you'd better overprepare and have people say it wasn't as bad as bloomberg said. than underprepare and have a panic on your hands. did they maybe say it was too much? sure. in weather situations we never know until it gets there. it is a better safe than sorry at all times when you're a politician otherwise can lead to political disaster. >> interesting moment on the trail because ron paul the republican presidential candidate actually slammed fema the federal emergency management agency which is somewhat surprising in the context of whether or not people should get federal money to rebuild. here's what he had to say. >> it's a system of central bureaucratic planning which is deeply flawed. fema has been around since 1978. it has one of the reputations for bureaucracy ever. i win e

so far there has been a few hiccups in terps ms of moving fs around but things are run pretty smoothly with our main goal getting people in places where it is going to be safe and dry and where they can be fed and hydrated. 1200 people from atlantic county were overnighted at the sun national bank sender in trenton as we discussed yesterday. they were brought there last night and throughout early morning hours of this morning. this is a transitional point, as i said yesterday, staging area, where they were given food and water, there were no cots available there. so folks who were there over the night had to sleep in seats in the arena. but we assured them from the beginning this was a temporary situation. all those folks have now been moved out of the sun center and there is no one, as far as i know now, currently housed at the sun national bank center. they have been moved predominantly to two places. to rutgers campus in new brunswick. and to the manon arena in morris town, new jersey. i want to thank president mccormick of rutgers. rutgers, when we called, stepped up immediately. n

he didn't have i was going to have an enormous impact immediately terps of higher interest rates fore treasury -- trying to borrow for is creditors trying to get a mortgage or car len. but it could impact -- or car loan. i asked given the situation which is more likely we get our aaa back or a further downgrade? he said our look is negative. it was more about the political disfunction in washington the economic numbers. he said given the political stalemate in this town the chances are greater we'll see a further downgrade. >> shannon: somebody who may find themselves in the middle of it, paul ryan you asked him about this super committee that is going to come together. these members of congress that supposed to find more cut to get us closer where we need to be whether he would be on if asked? >> he said he hasn't been asked. he said if he is asked, he will join it. let me make a prediction, if there is one thing, take your money out of stock market, bet he will will be on the committee. he's mr. budget, trusted by the house republicans. he will be one of speaker boehner's three cho

when they were working to get terps, wamu essentially failed. what soviet was acquired what was failing. after we had our, six european nations have come in and had to nationalize certain banks. we made a judgment. we had to do something very dramatic and move quickly. we were tired of dealing sequentially with one failing institution after another and dealing with it. we said how do we do something that does not look like nationalism, does not have the tanks to it, does not have government control, let us tonight -- design this, i hoped and expected we beget two to 3000 banks to accept. as soon as we announced the, critics and people asking questions and immediately started saying, you know what, you cannot let banks get away with the security have to put restrictions. you have to make them landed more. we said, more than what? more than at the top of the bubble? more than they would have wanted the failed? how our response to make them landed? you have to put this restriction and that restriction. as soon as that happened, the bank started to

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