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and yoknow how those bosun's chairs are? you're supported by both strands of rope and you're like that. and you wanna go up a little bit, you unhook it, you...click-click-click and you hook it right on and you kind of swing right there. you wanna go back down a little bit, you missed a little bit of paint, you...click-click-click. you tie it right on there and you kind of swing by the two strands and you're painting away, right? well, it turned out that harry had a weight of 200. and later on, we found out that the breaking point of the rope was 150 pounds. it turned out the rope had a dry rot inside, looked like a pretty good rope but it would break with 150 pounds of tension. you hear me? okay. is the rope gonna break? is harry okay? let me ask you a question. or let me ask you to ask your neighbor a question, what's the tension in the rope? how many of you are saying the tension in that rope is 100 pounds? this side's pulling up 100, this side is pulling up 100. he's being pulled up by both sides, and 100 and 100 is two.

of free spirit and flower children of the late '60s and arrived here in aociety that was much mo, yoknow-ouo things the way it had to be done. not as much as sort of free spirit about the american society in those days. >> you traveled across america. >> yeah. >> afterwards and -- >> on a greyhound bus. >> what was that like for a twaaz --oung frehrl when i look back, my mother should never have let me do it. but yes, i traveled the united states of america for two months on a greyhound bus. you could in those days buy a single ticket and b on a bus as long ayou wt ty ste, intesting people, went from martha's vineyard to san antonio, villa south carolina where i had friends back up to utah and across again. it was fascinating. it's an extraordinary country. >> what will hapn if greece were til? hnsth global economy if part of the eurozone ends up breaking off? >> i don't think the eurozone will break up. i really don't see that. i don't believe in that. i think that the europeans are much t serus andus ab t overall project, sometimes i wish they were more focused about an -- the practical s

yoknow iideao that well for sergeant shriver after running with mcgovern in '72.hat he wants to get out there and be more oufrt. whether that cates aio t kn e n question at one point mitt romney and paul ryan really liked one another and really thought they were going to gel. we have not seen that yet and, frankly, they need to do that in october if they are to begin to turn this campaign around. >> is this important to you? do you think they need to lk li they like each othe look like a duet?cs >> i haven't seen anything that says they don't like each other. they seem to be getting along with each other on the bus. >> there's one person who we call conviction politician. that's ryan. nobody would ever cal m rovinolitician ever. they are not to be confused. thank you. >>> when we return are, when i return, let me finish with the democratic party's big opportunity to become a huge political party after this ection after this election. you'reatg ardbl," a acr liti you can try strategies from independent experts and see what criteria they use. such as a 5% yield on d

we had a child in our program that, yoknow, had some serious behavioral problems, and i felt that there was a need for an assessnt. i felt that the child could be autistic. and, you know, this is obviously a devastating thing for a parent to have to deal with and to accept, and so i dealt with that as compassionately as possible, and it took a long tim for the pares of this child to be able to accept that, you know, that this was a reality, first, and that there was a need for the child to be evaluated and to be referred for services. and i also stressed that it was good for the child to be in this program and that it was appropriate and that we cared about this family, both the child and the rent. and so, after a while, ere was this feeling of trust that we established, which is--something that's very important is establishing trust wi parents. you know that, yes, you are operating out of concern for my child, and you are not fiing him just a difficult person that y want to shfle off somewhere else. and after a while, this parent was able to accept that this was sothing that was necess

yoknow, and i think what should i have said to her?should i have said something encouraging? because i knew what was going on. should i have said a prayer? should i -- you know? i don't know. it's -- she's -- she's an employee. she's doing her job. there's something wrong with the airplane. call work. now let's do our thing. and what they decided to do, which is amazing and shows a huge amount of courage, is when they know their end is near, but they said, hey, we're not going to give up. i think we should never forget that. >> when did you find out they didn't make it? >> well, we can see the faa had it on the scope and we could tell that it was 93. the thought of crashing did not enter my mind. >> reporter: when his shift ended, so did ballinger's 44-year long career. he tried to go back to work but became so overly cautious, he began making up reasons to keep planes on ground. he retreated for six months to this warehouse where he restored his old sailboat. he was put on 100% disability and retired. he's been sailing with his wife s

it's about, yoknow, maybe half a dozen states now where we' seeing democtic senate candidatesasicallycppts you have to look at larger trends to explain it. one of them i think is almost undiscussed is how the question about who can handle the economy has changed. it used to be obama was suffering a big deficit next to romney with that. since several weeks ago, probably tied to the conntion, those numbers have turned and brand with respect to the economy has become more popular than the republican brand. >> mourdock who has been a hardliner, he's been trying to embrace the moderate positions claiming he's more open to compromise, claiming he will protect social security and medicare. but this is not the same mourdock whoefd ar r hema. are richard lugar and others paying their price for the extremism? >> i would add to what sam said, part of the aftermath of 47%-gate. it's tough to make the argument you're best on the eco wn you think you should only be working for half of the people on the economy, right? that's how the comments were perceived. to your estion, ed, i want to ad this is

yoknow, the idea of bussing the kids away from the community rather than restoring the community has this abscess of inner city america to fester as violence. and most of us don't drive there at night. in the streets, the only way you can make a living is selling dope. that's about it, you know. people sling dope to get paid, right? and they get paid, right? excuse me, do people get paid? i think they do. it pays on the front end-- but on the back end, what do you pay with? man: your life. your life, exactly. though statistics sh that violence disproportionately impacts the poor, there have also been incidents of violence in more affluent communities. gail wyatt: i think that violence in our society is very common... and very perplexing to many americans, because it's reached the upper echelons. as long as it occurred in people of color or poor people or homeless people, criminals, you know, it was something that people could say, "well, it's those people." but when you see it occurring in suburban areas and in affluent families, and communities, i think it really begins to shake the

yoknow, there's republicans that i'm going to help and send kids to school.t upset that they used my music to inspire them to care about their country? no. if they choose to use my music for whatever reason, that's what it was made for, for people to listen to. i don't want to be selfish, hey, don't play my music at your conference. that ain't cool. because it's all for the same thing. we're trying to fix america. they have a different way. i have a different view. they want to support mitt romney, i want to support barack obama. but in hopes that it's all for the greater good for fixing our country, that's cool. >> the school that you created last year, tell me a little bit more about that and the students who you're helping. >> i watched this documentary called "waiting for superman." and it broke my heart, because my mom went to roosevelt high school and stevenson middle school. and the more i watched that program, i realized that superman wasn't going to come, because he is a fictitious mythological character with tights. and he ain't coming to my neighbo

and yoknow why? because the democratic alternatives to the sequester and the one put forward by the president takes the same balanced approach that's been recommended by bipartisan commissions. they say that in order to tackle our deficit we should make additional cuts, but we should also eliminate a lot of special interest tax breaks for big oil companies, that we should ask the very wealthy to go back to paying a little bit more in taxes about what they were paying when president clinton was president. last time we balanced our budget. so the president has submitted that. in fact a year ago the president sent down a plan right here on how we could take a balanced approach to deficit reduction. just yesterday in the rul committee on behalf of my democrat ig colleagues, we pro-- democratic colleagues, we proposed a substitute that would replace the sequester with a mix of cuts. cutting some of the agriculture subsidies. but also raing revenue by cutting some of the big breaks for big oil companies an

>> reporte wolf, as yoknow, in recent days, mitt romney has come underriticism, not just by democrats neglect to mention the war in afghanistan in his speech to the republican convention. well, today there was no such oversight. on this anniversary of september 11th, mt romney arrive at his arter toind firefighters at chico's o'hare airport holding their own remembrance. it was an unexpected moment for a tigly scripted candidate, a reminder that some days are bigger than a campaign. next, it was on to reno, and a national guard convention, for a speech that appearedo ve a du purpose, both burnis romney's foreign policy credeness an ersighthat the obama ministration has hammered for days. >> our goal should beo a successful transion to afghan security es by the d of 2014. >> roey's mntion of afghanistan came less than two weeks ter democrats point out he neglected to mentr in his speech at the gop convention. >> it's more than an omission. reveals a severe of understanding about thebs president. it doe't refle well on what kind of leadership he would br frany, it's just unbecoming of s

yoknow what? i was saying last week there are 45 days. there aren't really 45 days left. they've got to turn this thing around or they lose. this is what jason riley wrote in "the wall street journal" yesterday. media blame game. this from aonservative blication, by the way, eme right-wing trolls. "the wall street journal." just like "the wall street journal's" been warning mitt romney's campaign for a month now that he'd better do something or else he's going to lose. "since pulling even in the polls after the paul ryan pick and the cotiasnt t romney campaign has stumbled repeatedly. yet mr. romney, who is losing by five or more points in iowa, colorado, wisconsin, michigan, ohio, florida and virginia, sees blue skies ahead. askehow he intended to turn his campaign ound, mr. romney esneturnaround.s," ,t and romney surrogates were out over the weekend blaming the liberal media for the campaign's troubles. the press didn't treat ronald reagan and george w. bush any less unfairly, and both men managed not onlyo win the presencyutge re-elected. mr. romney would do better to

especially from the elites in every countr yoknow i'm ofri politics, but it is a fact that around theo the growth of their own countries. >> maybe we should start there. welcome back to "morning joe." we ran across the street. we are liv now at the clinton global initiative. joining us now is fmer idbili. tve o the show this morning. >> thanks, mika. >> there is only one elite and only one topic to start there. >> what is that? >> i think probably is pressing on the president's mind more than anything right now. >> do you think joe talks too mu? he arkansas razor backs. it's bad down there. you have to go down there and coach. what do they do? >> doesn't seem like they have muchf a line either side of e ball. that is what it looks to me like. aracdee great a gat receivers and nobody else playing real well. >> it's too bad. >> they have two great really good running backs and they are not doing so great this year, so i think it looks to me like a line problem but you know when you change -- i don't care what anybody says. you n'teehe same system exactly and work the same way if you cha