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host: this came out and the "washington post." you have been talked about as anti-obamacare this is a quote from a young mother who found a job after in the year -- nearly a year of unemployment. they are not really giving him a chance. how it feels like that this is piling on. and you look at the latest polls, 80% of blacks express approval at the job that obama is doing even as support has slipped among other groups. host: that same woman had a job for a program that is now defunct. host: part of the stimulus package. guest: that is now defunct. with that deficit reduction cuts that have been approved, this is a declaration of war on the poor.

under "the washington post," steve mcmahon and pat buchanan. what do you make of the fact romney bragged about the fact that he got better credit rating from the s&p out of massachusetts but never noted the fact he got because they raised taxes in the assembly up there? >> that wouldn't be something he would want to bring up and put out front. perhaps you think that might be advantageous to him, but it wouldn't be, chris. romney will be hit on think, the taxes, the real taxes, were enacted in the governorship before his, which was a democrat, and then he took advantage of that and got the state's credit rating raised, which i think was a good thing and cut taxes 19 times. i read that, read that closely. i don't think it's really a real issue that someone on the conservative side of the republican party can use to gray effect against romney. >> what do you think, from the liberal sides of things, an issue that shows hypocrisy? got a good credit rating but not by a wild notion he never raised taxes? >> senator kennedy used to say he wasn't pro-ch

. >>> joining me now is jonathan capehart, "washington post" editorial writer and msnbc contributor. >> hey, melissa. that was incredible. i was watching intently. sorry for not being prepared. >> not at all. now, look, it is said that a presidential campaign is basically like a job interview, a very long one, right? and so we hired the president in 2008, and now his contract is up for renewal. this in 2012 might be sort of a job performance review. what kind of review do you think he's going to get from the american people? >> i think that the president is getting sort of a mid level review to almost negative review from the american people. if you look at the latest polls, particularly the one on his handling of the economy, where it's now i think a gallup poll where he is down to 26%. the gallup daily tracking poll has him bouncing between 32% and 31%, and all of the other polls have his job approval rating down to about in the lower 40s. and the american people are upset and they are angry and they are frustrated, and they are anxious. is the proper word. and so i think that they

through greg sergeant at "the washington post," "the tulsa world" reporter who wrote this account later released the full context of senator coburn's remarks. and the full context does not help. it does not soften the remarks. quote, his intent isn't to destroy, it's to create dependency because it worked so well for him. as an african-american male coming through the progress of everything he experienced, he got tremendous benefit through a lot of these programs so he believes in them. if he wasn't black, he wouldn't believe in government programs. black people have dependency? so that's -- yeah, yeah. and a week when the newest entrant into the republican presidential race rick perry said he does not know if the president obama loves america and that good journalists should ask him that, they resurrected the favorite storyline that barack obama could not possibly win over white voters, since the fact that he has since won a landslide in 2008, i think it understandable that the part of coburn's remarks is getting attention today is the part where he says that barack obama is wrong abou

the "washington post" is dead right.ou can't look at individual stock prices, we could be up 500 today, down 500, but ultimately, this is all because of people who are betting against the market, betting with it, but the direction is down, not up. its direction is down because of no confidence in washington. >> let's just recap what we have lost in the last couple weeks of this down market. just give me the big numbers. >> well, $8 trillion, one number that's floated around, where we are right now, obviously it changes minute to minute. if we don't get something coming from next week, from the foreign ministers, from the big finance ministers in germany and italy, we'll revisit exactly the levels we had earlier this week. andrea, the situation has to do with a lot of, in this country, belief that what happened with that debt ceiling has made it so we're just so dysfunctional that consumers aren't spending. we are literally seeing consumers cut back. lots of corporations are cutting back. just because they feel that thing

i was deeply concerned to learn in an april 2011 "washington post" article that the final decision on the transfer of the uighurs detainees had been made during a white house meeting eight days before my meeting with mr. olsen. according to "the washington post" article, the first concrete step towards closing of a detention center was agreed upon during an april 14, 2000 - session at the white house. it was to be ase dolph moved. they were going to show up here and we were going to announce this said one senior official describing the swift secretive operation that was designed by the administration to putting up any political outcry that could prevent the transfer. mr. walls goes on following the publication of this article in april and i personally call mr. olsen to ask whether he was aware of the time of any meeting with him on my meeting with him on april 22nd, to thousand 9 that a decision had already been made on the transfer of the detainees. he told me that he was aware of the decision prior to our meeting. i believe i was intentionally misled by mr. olsen and other administr

host: juliet eilperin of the "washington post."have questions, the numbers are on the screen. juliet eilperin talk about what are sandy is. explain how this is different from what we see coming off of oil rigs out in the ocean. guest: the initials extraction phase is more akin to strip mining them what people think putting itsaig, mechanism into the ground. you have this this this material called that an end -- viscous material called bittenen. there is a mechanism that brings it out of the ground. they have to clear land in order to do this, it including forests. they can do more horizontal drilling now that it is up and running, then you have to process it and a more intensive way than if you are extracting crude the way that you're in texas. host: and that leads to -- this is from the alberta geological survey. the area we're talking about, mostly around the portrait murray area, but there is a large area the size of florida? guest: roughly that area. host: 50 meters to 100 meters deep. the art two ways to get it out of the gram

investigators determined he wasn't a number three, and according to "the washington post," not even a former member of al qaeda. next came khalid sheikh mohammed. who was captured in pakistan in march, 2003. he too is now a resident of guantanamo bay. abu faraj al libi served just over two years before getting captured in 2005. he then joined his predecessors in guantanamo bay. hamza rabia was killed six months in pakistan, then came the longest-running al qaeda number three, abu laith al libi. he was two years on the job before he was killed in january 2008. that gave sheikh al masri his lead before killed, after being killed, followed by, as we said, rahman, whose killing was reported this weekend. now, there's a lot of issues around these predator drone strikes, how many innocents they kill, how many times they target these people and get an innocent target. there's a lot of stuff to wonder about. the legality of these killings, it's very, very dubious to say the least. are they assassinations prohibited by american law or is this acceptable method of war against a terror group tha

patti maury will be joined by john kerry and montana senator max baucus, joining me now, "the washington post" columnist and brookings institute senior fellow, e.j. dionne. thanks for joining me tonight. >> good to be with you. >> there is confusion abroad in the land that we are a staunch capitalist society and the free market guides all until we decide it's all the president's fault and we are in a soviet economy and he's just getting it wrong. can you help america with the understanding of what government can do and most interestingly, what can government do now during an august recess when government can't agree on anything? >> well, i think it's a free market economy unless there's a recession and the democrat is president. i mean, i think first of all, the notion of having congress come back, nothing could be worse for obama right now to get caught up in that vortex of dysfunction. his numbers went down in part because everybody hated the whole picture, having them out of town for awhile is a good thing. there are things for obama to do and the striking thing is he's let the republicans

joining me now is "the washington post" columnist e.j. dionne. thanks for joining me tonight, e.j. >> good to be with you. >> e.j., i am one of those who have to laugh when i read lines in places like "the washington post" or anywhere else that suggest that there is some area where the republicans might be reasonable and reach some agreement with the president, that there's some target of compromise for the president to aim at. do you think he should be aiming at this theoretical space where the republicans might be able to agree with him, or should he be going for the best policy? >> you know, my award for the best cheeky headline of the day goes to the fire dog lake website, "obama unsure on whether to propose jobs ideas that can't pass or jobs ideas that can't pass." the point being if he proposes something really big, the republicans will reject it, but if he proposes something small tailors to them, they are probably going to reject it too, and so i don't see any reason why he shouldn't go out there and be bold, and there are a lot of reason

here is the "washington post." independent, maryland. caller: good morning. there has been a lot of talk about how people have held this holding hostage. 95 democrats are against it. this bill increases the debt. economists have predicted about $4 trillion added the next decade. the cuts are only in the current rate. next year, the budget will be even worse and larger. if we had a credit to hit right now, it would be better than 10 years down the road. thanks, c-span. host: here is the headline in the new york times. what this deal means for aids for states that are struggling right now. -- aid to states that are struggling right now. virginia tops the list, followed by maryland. new mexico, hawaii, wyoming, conn., and massachusetts makes up the top 10. good morning. caller: thanks for taking my call. there are some of points that i believe should be made. it is something that was in a speech on the senate floor about budgeting. when either the harry reid or john boehner plan talks about making cuts in spending, they are not making cuts. they are spending les

eugene robinson, a columnist and for "the washington post," and howard fineman, huffington post's editorial director and both are msnbc political analysts. eugene, you wrote, president obama's promised jobs plan needs to be unrealistic and unreasonable at the very least and if he can crank it all the way up to unimaginable that would be even better. i take it from what you wrote what you're really saying is, hey, nothing's getting done in the next 15 months? >> well, what i'm saying is, go for it. you know, the plan should be what ought to happen, rather than what he thinks he can get through a republican house that's not going to let anything get through. they're not going to pass anything that he sends up there, because they don't want to. a, they don't believe in it, and b, they don't want to help him out. >> if he throws the hail mary and you get more intransigence from the gop freshman class, where do we assistant for the next 15 months? >> the next 15 months both sides can take their case to the american people and let them decide, hear the arguments pro and con, some sort of large sc

. >> one of the things we will be talking about throughout the show is the "washington post" poll which showed huge majorities of people do not have any confidence in the political system and nearly three-quarters don't have confidence in our leaders, democrats and republicans, to fix the economic troubles. there does seem to be a spreading sense that this thing is bigger and more complicated and more troubling than our leaders have been able to grasp. >> completely. i'm glad you put it that way. "new york times" this morning has a lead story in the upper right-hand corner saying is this 2008, that being the time we began the great recession. this is uniquely weighing on washington in that i think a lot of people who own stocks would say where's the president, why don't they reconvene congress, what's going on. the vacuum in leadership is cited over and over again by

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it's on the front page of "the washington post" this morning. f.a.a. to receive temporary funding, whether federal workers will get any back pay is unknown. it ends, the stalemate that cost federal workers almost two weeks of pay also short-changed the treasury of more than $300 million and those airline ticket taxes. the senate is in today in a brief session, and there's some expectation that they will deal with this f.a.a. using the house legislation passed earlier. let me go next on this question about recovery to twitter, who writes, no recovery without consumer confidence. no consumer confidence without jobs. no jobs without government intervention. forget debt, hire now. opposite point of view from bob in florida, who sends us this email. it was our own government spurred by the g.o.p. that let the oil companies gouge us, let the credit card companies deny us, denied affordable healthcare and allowed rampant fraud, and they wonder why we have nothing left to spend on anything unnecessary. next is a telephone call. earnest, good morning to you. in

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. >> suarez: we talk to "washington post" sports reporter sally jenkins about the diagnosis of alzheimer's disease for legendary basketball coach pat summitt. >> brown: from the "economist film project": we get the story of two elderly drivers, still behind the wheel. >> next month, i'll be 97. i've been driving for about 89 years. i think i'm beginning to learn how to do it now. >> suarez: and we have another in our interviews with republican presidential candidates. tonight, former utah governor jon hunstman. >> i believe that on some issues we've gone too far to the right. and i believe that we've got to be more common sense oriented. we've got to be focused on solutions. we've got to be a party of solutions and big ideas. that's how we're going to attract people, and that's ultimately how we're going to win elections. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> we pumped $21 million into local economies, into small businesses, communities, equipme

. >> i heard david ignatius in "the washington post" say that the syrian army is stretched to the breaking point. >> i would assume -- i don't now -- but i would assume that there is a deal of discussion in some quarters in the syrian army about ditching this guy and putting up one of their own. this is the way things happened in the middle east ally. -- a lot. as a country, that would be the way to survive this and make some sort of deal with some opposition faction or not. i mean, the middle class has been very hesitant to get on board in syria, because it did not really want to be a victim. it is a victim whether it likes it or not. >> if it cannot work in egypt, it cannot work in syria because of ethnic divisions. the army, the leadership, political and military, is all allawite, a despised minority trade 10% of the population has ruled for almost half a century with an iron fist. if these allawites -- they will hang together or hang separately. he will hang in until the very last moment. it will not be mubarak, it will not be a shah, it will be to the debt. everybody understands that

host: the "washington post" has the story about president obama. 's scheduled -- cancel scheduled events and went to dover air force base in delaware he saluted american soldiers. here is the of the " washington times." this is a big story about a crash in afghanistan. below that, aside story about obama going out to dover air force base. he says, accompanied by his top team, the commander in chief watched the remains of the falling troops -- he spent seven minutes visiting with 250 family members before going to pay his respects aboard each plane. we're talking this morning about the federal reserve's move yesterday to keep interest rates at near 0% 4 two years. steve joins us from scottsdale, ariz. on the republican line. caller: what they did basically is like putting a band-aid on a very large gaping bleeding wound. what we really need is a tourniquet. we have to try to court these businesses, bring them back to the united states. we have to have manufacturing jobs here and started drilling. we have to do the mining and everything in our power t

this had been owned by the "washington post." we would be honored to have you come and join us. >> do you remember who that was? >> i do not remember her last name. barbara was her first name. they engaged in contract negotiations. it is relevant to our conversation that i was already working at fox news channel since 1997. it was ok with npr. it was ok with the "washington post." >> when was the first moment that you crossed words? >> she was the executive producer of the afternoon news show. "all things considered." i never worked for them. occasionally, pieces would be taken from the work i was doing. i never had much professional interaction. i never had lunch with her. when she became the top news executive in the middle of some changes, and she picked up this baton of criticism of why are you working for fox. previous generations have been through this issue. there were some people who said why is the leading personality for npr also working for fox? everyone had come to the conclusion, there's no problem with it. they migh

he's a white house reporter from the washington post.morning. >> good morning, alex. >> so your article suggests the president to negotiate differently. do you think you could have taken another approach? >> well, it's a very difficult question and that was the difficult issue facing the white house. these democrats at a minimum wanted him not to reveal the bottom line so early, setting up a confrontation where one side, as bernie sanders told me was pushing an agenda and the white house said let's meet in the middle. let's come up. >> he has presented himself as a pragmatic leader who uses compromise to bridge the gaps. do you think he's not given up too much ground? >> well, this is the image of president obama that many people like. if you look at his job performance on many key issues, including the economy, by the way, they still like him personally and this is what many in the white house think is a big advantage of him. well, you have a lot of screami screaming on both sides. you have the president distancing himself from both par

joining us now, ezra klein, columnist for "the washington post" and bloomberg news.e to see you tonight. >> nice to see you, melissa. >> you say allen kruger is the obvious pick for the president, what makes him so obvious? >> it is the entire history of how the president picks these economic positions, so the thing about allen kruger, he's a labor economist, a guy who studies the job market and he's good at it, one of the best labor economists in the country. he's breathed a lot of new life in the field when it fell a few years ago, but allen kruger is also a long time clinton and obama administration appointee, he served with geithner, summers, all these guys for a long time, so if you look at the way the obama administration has been picking for these positions, goolsbee following roemer, daly following emmanuel, people they know, they pick from inside the administration. when you look for an economist who's a good economist but knew these guys and served there before, that was allen kruger, so the downside of that is you have another economist in there who is par

joining me now, msnbc contributor and "the washington post" columnist ezra klein. thank you for joining me tonight, ezra. >> good evening. >> we started this conversation on friday when i joined you on martin bashir's show that you were guest hosting, and we talked about this payroll tax question, so i'm excited to get to extend this conversation with you. >> we should have a tax hour once a week. >> oh, okay, all right. now, extending the payroll tax will cost the government about $115 billion. there's no doubt republicans are right about this in the sense it will increase deficit, but how do you score it on its stimulative affects versus extending the bush tax rates. >> first, it's nice to see republicans admitting tax cuts cost money, from what mitch mcconnell was saying a year ago, that's an advance. the payroll tax cut is much more stimulative than most. here's why, the payroll tax, as you mentioned in your introduction here, it affects only the first $106,000 of your income. the people it ends up helping out are the people that have to spend their income to m

when the washington post reported a guesstimate of mitt romney's net worth, the romney campaign wrote to them to correct the washington post's guess and said they wanted it to be made clear that an accurate range is between $190 million and $250 million. they'd like to be on the record about that, please. this strange story popped up yesterday, a story about mitt romney stealing all of barack obama's big dollar wall street donors. the people that usually tip off a news outlet about that sort of thing is the campaign doing the stealing, not the campaign being stolen from. there's no direct evidence this is a romney campaign planted story in the hill, but it is a pro-romney story about romney donors and comes complete with this blind quote. "it's not healthy for rich people to feel maligned." but then after all this happens, this is why i think this has to be deliberate. all right, mitt romney went on fox news yesterday, he's out on the campaign trail so fox has to put him on a satellite feed, what is the image the romney handlers allow to be used for the back drop of their candidate? l

i'm not sure. >> gene robinson, pulitzer prize winning columnist for the "washington post" post and msnbc contributor. thank you very much. >> great to be here, chris. >>> for one group of republicans this is an incredibly important vote, even if they are not voting on it. mitt romney. i'm looking at you. just ahead. one more thing about the crisis, perhaps the only good thing to come out of it with this vote. the vote in the house you hear applause. the same applause for 3:30 seconds. we counted it. because what the members are clapping for is this woman. that right there is congresswoman gging gg. returned to the chamber for the first time since she was shot seven months ago. gabrielle giffords's colleagues couldn't believe it. he said it's ewe you, it's you. other members cried. congresswoman giffords travelled to washington to vote in favor of the debt deal. she said i had to be here for this vote. i could not take a chance that my absence could crash our economy. >> it provided the means and motivation to bring a critically wounded dock woman back to work among her grateful colleague

steele is of course former chairman of the rnc and anita dunn, and the correspondent at the "washington posti-washington fever, everybody's reading the polls. let me throw up a couple more. here's obama's approval on the economy, congress's, 12%, gallup has a new poll out ranked 25 out of 25 sectors ranked. this is the toxic atmosphere that i get the sense that folks here in washington, they read the polls, but i don't think they believe how bad it is out there, do they? >> i think it has been banned for quite a while. it's obviously very bad at this moment. but it's been bad for a long time. and i think people kind of look at it tier and say, okay, yeah, it's bad and then kind of forget about it. i think you're right that out in the country, there's a much different sense about what washington is or isn't doing and a much deeper anger and frustration than the politicians are prepared to accept. >> anita, the challenge for the president is going to be how to channel that anger. and yet, it feels as if washington's in worse shape than it was when he entered. >> well, washington has been in ba

"washington post," december 8th, 2009. what makes this different? >> it's a continuation, as you know when you were sworn into office, the economy was hemorrhaging jobs. to the tune of more than 700,000 a month jobs lost. all tolled in the recession, millions of jobs lost. we have been digging ourselves out of that whole. through the actions he's taken with congress and the economy has been growing but too slowly and has been creating significant number of private sector jobs, over 2 million in the last 17 months but not enough. that was a deep hole. we're still climbing out of it and we have to keep doing things that grow the economy and create jobs. >> the administration believes the president will have the credibility to publicly sell this plan when he's been trying to sell jobs plans for years. >> he's had some success in selling jobs plans in his time in office because one of reasons it's so good and important to be out here in iowa and out in the country is you hear from folks that they are feds up with washington's inability to act, fed up wi

and campaign veteran mike murphy, nbc news political director chuck todd, columnist for "the washington post," eugene robinson, and senior political reporter tracking the republican field for "politico," jonathan martin. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning from iowa. big political weekend as we cast the republican race for the white house. news this morning that former governor tim pawlenty who came in a distant third in the straw poll in iowa, held a conference call with supporters moments ago and told them he plans to announce this morning that he is dropping out of the race at this early juncture. joining me fresh from her iowa straw poll victory, republican presidential candidate, congresswoman michele bachmann of minnesota. welcome back to "meet the press" and congratulations. >> thank you, david. thank you. >> here is the headline in "the des moines register," the sunday edition -- "bachmann takes first," one of the big headlines in a busy political weekend. are you now the front-runner in iowa? >> oh, i'm grateful that we won the straw poll, but we see this

carolina tumulte, "washington post." syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. steve, start with you. today the white house seemed to be trying to get its footing here after a good day on wall street yesterday. and then just got wallloped by another horrible roller coaster at the end of the day. >> i'm not sure today, i think consensus is that today's performance on wall street had much more to do with things that were happening overseas with rumors about french banks and whatnot. still, not a good day for the white house, never a good day for the white house when the dow goes down anything like it was. i found most remarkable, jay carney press briefing they are emphasizing a, quote/unquote, balanced approach, which everybody understands to be raising taxes. now the president himself has said in the past repeatedly, raising taxes in a recession is the last thing you want to do. you can't consider it. it would hurt the economy and suck demand out of the economy is the way he put it. here today, you have the president in what is an economic downturn, distressed ec