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and finally, you betcha, the romney runninging make looks to be a safe choice, no sarah palin this time. any chance that goes safe is an overreaction. the bland leading the bland. i'm chuck todd. chris matthews is off this week. welcome to the show. with us today, dan rather, gloria borger, kathleen parker and david ignatius. first up, the tragedy in denver came at the end of a week that was notable for how small and petty the campaign was getting and only seemed to highlight the smallness. dan, look, you have been through a lot of these rodeos. looking back at the last week of politics, it was awful. and then friday happens and all the campaigns started acting responsibly again. >> but that won't last long. this does perspective, this puts this into perspective. it signals to us once again just how bland and mostly irrelevant the campaign rhetoric has been. yes, the initial responses were on the news, that won't last very long. >> gloria, look, these are moments and sometimes they're outside and they have a long lasting impact. we think they will. the president has to play consoler and

. >> like that guy said, you betcha. >>> the latest on the power outages. some people are still struggling in this heat. dominion power in virginia is down to 200 customers in the dark and the heat. that company expects to get everybody to get their power by midnight tonight. pepco and bge still have a few. >>> richard jordan spent the day with some of the unlucky ones. >> reporter: it is down to the wire. most of the power companies said it would take a week before everyone had that power restored. now the last-minute push is on to get every single household back online. the lights are on for most, but there are thousands still in the dark and sweltering in the heat. courtney fletcher says the week has been exhausting. a 3-year-old and 1-year-old to take care of without electricity has forced the family to pack up and stay with relatives. >> with the heat, you can't major bottling, warm milk, food, no refrigerator. >> reporter: but pepco workers are restoring power. those that did without for so long are thrilled. >> we're glad it's back on. >>ed powerless

you betcha. president obama plays the contrast card, painting a picture that puts mitt with the wealth yechlt the koch brothers and the hamptons in one weekend. really, mitt? >> i am not proposing anything radical here i just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income tax rates we were paying under bill clinton, back when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history and plenty of millionaires to boot. >> well, that's president obama today, announcing he wants to extend the bush era tax cuts for the 98% of americans who make less than $250,000 a year. yes, it is a political move. he really wants the support of middle class voters. but it's a smart maneuver aimed at mitt romney, who we all know is enthusiastically supportive of the wealthiest americans. i love this. >> what the president is proposing, is, therefore, a massive tax increase on job creators and on small business. small businesses are overwhelmingly being taxed

>> you betcha.mpany famous more the shows says that the snafu may have been causeded by a corrupted file resulting in a computer glitch that launched every single firework. garden state's co-owner august santore. >> i wish i could unring a bell, but i can't. >> reporter: in short the intense show was a disappointment to some, but not all. >> i was not expecting that. that was awesome. >> what a good start. you don't often see the grand finale at the beginning. >> reporter: on the internet they call it a epic fail, but it happened too late to be included in this -- ♪ somewhere over the rainbow >> reporter: the ultimate fireworks compilation set to music. ♪ wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind you ♪ >> reporter: at least no one was hurt in the san diego blowout. the coast guard had a technical term for the fireworks fiasco. >> premature ignition. >> reporter: leaving one person

. >> you betcha. >> stephanie: okay. >> guys and gals. >> stephanie: tampa's well-known strip clubs haveeepers came to town business was rollicking. >> i'll bet. >> bible thumpers. >> get them some [ bleep ] bars, yes, they do. david in st. louis you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi dade. >> caller: hi, steph, how you doing? i'm a retired union worker. i can't understand with romney's trip to poland. he's going to meet with a guy who unionized the shipyards when he's such a union hater and job killer. we're getting harassed constantly by republicans on the telephone with these ads and these -- all of this kind of crap that's making me sick. i'm ready to change my number to 314-eat-poop. >> stephanie: or 867-5309. >> hi, billy. >> caller: listen, guys, again today you're misrepresenting the problem that conservatives have with eric holder. >> stephanie: oh yes. because of fast and furious started under george w. bush. >> caller: it is about his obstruction of congress. >> stephanie: yes. >> caller: and his obfuscation of the malfeasance of his lord and master. >> stephanie: yes. >> c

. >> reporter: you betcha.n state fireworks, a company famous for its shows, says the snafu may have been caused by a corrupted file resulting in a computer glitch that launched every single fishing, garden state's co-worker august santori >> i wish i could unring the bell but i can't. >> reporter: at least unring the car alarms. the short but intense show was a disappointment to some but not all. >> i was not expecting that. that was awesome. >> that was a good start. >> you don't often see the grand finale at the beginning. >> reporter: on the internet they call this an epic fail. too bad it happened too late to be included in this. >> oh, oh, oh! >> reporter: somewhere over the rainbow ♪ the ultimate fireworks fail compilation set to music. ♪ i wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me ♪ >> reporter: at least no one was hurt in the san diego blowout. the coast guard had a technical term for the fireworks fiasco. >> a premature ignition. >> reporter: leading one poster to quip i swear to

>> reporter: you betcha.ks, a company famous for its shows, says the snafu may have been caused by a corrupted file in a computer glinch that launched every firework. >> i wish i could unring a bell, but i can't. >> reporter: at least unring the car alarms. the short, but intense, show, was a disappointment to some but not all. >> i was not expecting that! that was awesome! >> that was a good start. you don't often see the grand finale at the beginning. >> reporter: on the intent thr they call this an epic fail. the ultimate fireworks fail compilation set to music. ♪ i wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me ♪ >> reporter: at least no one was hurt in the san diego blowout. the coast guard had a technical term for the fireworks fiasco. >> a, quote, premature ignition. >> reporter: leaving one poster to quip, i square to you, this has never happened to me before. even after the fireworks were spent, the music played on. ♪ what so proudly we hail ♪ >> reporter: in the land of the free, fe

you betcha. and the lack of providers in some areas, questions about do people get the quality of care? they always need in the oversight but for many people, medicaid is a lifesaver that they cannot live without. host: a final comment by tweet. a question comes in to us from an oversight g.o.p. can you think about the establishment of medicare and the medicaid innovation with c.m.s.? guest: sure. that's received millions, hundreds of millions of dollars. to enable states to try new things, to try new payment delivery models. and that's been one of the questions going forward is how can we make this program more efficient? the system has been medicaid pays doctors and hospitals directly for each treatment. some people think that just drives more unnecessary treatment and drives costs higher. so a lot of states want to experiment with different ways of paying giving a hospital of what we call bundle payment, one payment for all the services that a patient may need, the prehospital of hospital and

eggs over medium with bacon and wheat toast and the wait res said would you like grits and he said you betchaherner, i endorse the grits order. >> there he is off to a rock and roll start there in akron, ohio. we are no matter where, we are in this country trying to deal with extreme temperatures we are experiencing, girding ourselves here in washington d.c. for 1 and it may be up to 106 predicted tomorrow. joe rome is the climate progress editor at the scepter for american progress and a good friend of the program joining us on the news line this morning. hi, joe, good morning. >> hi, bill. >> so subject the numbers ted you live the numbers, 3,000 temperatures records broken in the last week alone. many parties of the country having 4, 5, 6, 7 days in a row of 100 degrees or more. what's going on? >> if only scientists had warned us something like this might happen. >> this is what global warming looks like. obviously, as the average temperatures rises because we keep pouring billions of tons of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, the heat waves are going to be on top of that rising avera