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makes moves to try and break away from that lazy media narrative that always tries to link her to sarah palin. it's wednesday june 8, 2011. i'm chuck todd. also this morning, congressman wein weiner, calling for him to resign. and the heaviest bombing since the libyan air strikes began. let's get to the "rundown." we begin at the white house. after pulling out all the stops at last night's official dinner with angela merkel, the president heads to northern virginia. interesting yesterday the president as a world leader does the joint presser. first question's not libya, not afghanistan, it is jobs and this economy. >> reporter: you better believe it. that's what's hanging over this presidency and his re-election bid as we get closer. you know the statistics, chuck. no president re-elected when unemployment is over 8% since rei reagan in '84. way back to fdr and the depression if it's over 9%. 9.1% as we stand here today. last friday in toledo, the president downplayed it. didn't even mention the actual numbers. the slower growth in private sector jobs. the uptick in unemployment rate. that sort of has been the communication strategy. bumps in the road. this is temporary. a lot of head wind. you were there, chuck, with the german chancellor angela merkel. not technically a state visit bull ought trappings complete with that. the drum corps and dinner in the rose gordurd garden. the president presented merkel with the medal of freedom. they've had differences, responding to the economic crisis, altogether a rather low-key event unusual that it was in the rose garden. apparently a good time. james taylors star there playing "you've got a friend." the president traveling on the jobs front. talking about it. northern virginia community college. you and i know just across the river in alexandria, virginia, talking about a public -- a partnership between community colleges and private industry trying to develop manufacturing jobs for the future. they say some 3 million of those jobs disappearing for retirement over the next 15 years and think there's an opening there. back on the jobs, back on that theme today, chuck. >> all right. we want to hear it over and over again, mike viqueira on the noisy white house lawn. >> reporter: right. new numbers out today show president obama, another poll, may not have lost his edge over some of the republicans. always defends in the poll. after yesterday's "washington post" poll, margin of error, the poll finds the president holding out in front. they have president obama over mitt romney 47% over 41%. actual gop candidate. the poll shows romney with a sizable lead. sarah palin in the primary closest, ten points behind. well, anthony weiner done almost nothing but apologize since the story of it his online account appeared. democrats are distancing themselves from the congressman and republicans demanding he step down. new york city voters remain on weiner's side, at least for now. 51% stay in congress. 30% resign. 18% not sure. kelly o'donnell, interesting to me this morning in reading the various behind-the-scenes who's trying to help nudge weiner out, tearful phone calls with bill clinton. telling us he could be a guy to do this, and ttersh phone calls with nancy pelosi. >> reporter: they thought the hoax might be a legit answer. a lot of frustration, disappointment about what he really did confess to. those long conversations over a couple of years using online platforms to have racy talks with women not his wife. one of the biggest frustrations is that there has been this long fight about wanting to have the highest standards, and nancy pelosi was a big champion of that when she had the gavel. this puts her in a tough spot. she previously defended her long-type friend wrangran range. now for day, private conversations anthony weiner had and the lies told to the public. democrats want him talking, saying privately a lot of frustration. we've seen very few go to the microphones. one notable democrat did, harry reid, asked about this whole mess. >> i know congressman weiner. i wish there was some way i can defend him but i can't. i'm not here to defend weiner. >> do you think he should resign. >> that's all i'm going to say. >> would you forgive him if he asked you? >> call somebody else. >> and that question was, what advice would you give him if he asked? "call somebody else" that is pretty terse. that sense a pretty loud signal. we may not see lots of other democrats running to the microphones to tell him to step down now, but republicans surely are. his biggest advantage, as you mentioned at home he has had enormous success over the years. in a democratic district. that may out in be vulnerable to being wiped off the map when new york loses his seat. it's complicated. >> and one north and one down state. kelly, talk pocketbook issues. explain this debit card fee vote taking place in the senate today that could mean extra money in our pockets. >> reporter: this is one of the biggest fights you've heard relatively little about. those swipe fees that retailers pay when we use our deb i debit cards, credit cards. about 45 cents each time. an intrademocrat fight saying, don't help the big banks. that fee is going right to them with no real benefit and then there are democrats more populous saying it should be dropped, cut back. there's a real fight over this. it's been a critical battle internally. a vote coming today about whether to delay it. whether to hold those fees down. it's one of those things that pits retailers and banks, and in some rural communities, chuck, the banks are small town banks. not the big wall street types. a real battle between the important constituencies and it's democrats fighting democrats on this one. >> kelly on capitol hill for us this morning. kel, packed day. thanks. >> reporter: good to see you. a congressional report is expected today that warns our attempt at nation building in afghanistan has had limited success and that when the u.s. pulls out forces in 2014, it could leave the karzai government in a state of deep financial crisis. this despite the $18.8 billion in u.s. aid over the last ten years. the report calls on the obama administration to rethink its various assistance program. according to the world bank, 97% of afghanistan's gdp is linked in some way to international aid, and military spending. sticking with an overseas theme in libya, mg-something vowing to fight to the death despite dozens of nato air strikes fighting in his tripoli compound. live in tripoli, i understand you went to see some of the aftermath today. it's supposed to be heavier in your estimation is it heavy jer heavier? >> reporter: undoubtedly, it is the largest on this city so far in the campaign. we were taken out to see the aftermath, sort of our daily reteen here. taken to a place south of the city called an agriculture area. goats a number of areas targeted. as typically the case, the explanation of what those vehicles are and what they were doing there was a bit lacking. just one of many targets in a huge bombardment yesterday. the bombs started dropping in the morning. they dropped all day long, and into the evening as well. it was so dense it actually pushed moammar gadhafi to phone in on tv. haven't heard his voice in weeks, to phone in -- he will not give in to nato. dead or alive, he will not give in. chuck? >> all right, stephanie gosk, using not a satellite and sometimes it goes in and out, but i think we caught most of your report stephanie. thanks very much for your reporting. the fed says it's running out of options to help the economy. where does that leave wall street? becky joins me. i sat through the entire speech yesterday from bernanke. two things jumped out at me. number one was, he beat the heck out of opec. i mean, for a fed chair. you know? >> reporter: yep. >> they don't say damning words, but he seemed to be beat up opec, and the second thing was this almost like, we've got to do something about housing, but there was no idea on what to do about housing. >> reporter: start with your second point first, chuck. those are both incredibly valid points. the second part being, housing's in trouble. we don't know what to do. that's what wall street heard from ben bernanke. looked like a positive day for the markets, trading up by almost 100 points. by the end of the day, the market turned things around. now, the downturn started before bernanke started speaking. we turned things back down and ended up closing down for the fifth day in a row after five weeks of losses we've seen for the markets because they heard what he was saying. concerns about housing, concerns about the economy, and, oh, by the way, don't look to the fed to be doing anything else. we think the downturns are temporary. nobody heard anything about qe-3 or more help coming from the fed, and that caused concern. the second poent you bring up is a great one. opec. the fed has been feeling very defensive about the idea they created some of these commodity bubbles. spikes in prices in oil, because they had so much free money flowing around out there. yes, bernanke is trying to pin this back on opec saying this is a supply issue. talk to the saudis. they say, no, no, no, no. this is ben bernanke and what he's done and all the easy money floating around. nobody wants to be responsible for higher gas prices for americans. that's where you see that. by the way, opec is meeting today expecting to raise production quotas, but that's really just going to be doing, making legal what they've all been doing anyway. cheating on quotas and raising, and oil prices coming back in. >> cnbc's world headquarters, becky, thank you as always. and the toughest oent in 2012, not a republican it's our economy. and lawmakers getting ready for another round of budget negotiations, will the solution be kicking the can down the road? 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>> i think agriculture realizes, and they're willing to do their fair share to deal with the deficit situation as well. look where the cuts, many of the cuts that have already occurred in spending, many have been taken out of this budget. i think that the ethanol industry recognizes, i've been working with them and with a lot of colleagues on both side up here on capitol hill to reform those tax policies as well. they recognize that they can't continue to have the v-tech in its current form. the blenders credit that applies to ethanol production. so agriculture's been at the table. i think there are things that will continue to be looked at in the ag budget. remember this. only 10 cents out of every dollar that's spent on agriculture actually goes to production agriculture and, in fact, most of the farm programs now are designed, they're connected to prices, actual prices. when commodity prices are high, the payments aren't made. agriculture, significantly less than what it ever has been brand i think that agriculture is lg, of course, to be a part of the solution, but not just a portion of it. >> are you concerned that the ethanol industry in particular is being used as a punching bag by your own party running for president in iowa, tim pawlenty? >> everybody, it's very popular, become popular at least to attack ethanol. frankly, what people have to remember is that ethanol displaces about 445 million barrels of oil every year. it's now about 10% of our entire fuel mix in this country. if you took that out you would see significantly higher gas prices. that said, i think everybody recognizes including the ethanol industry that the policies that we have in place today are going to have to change. that's why we've been looking proactively at trying to reform those and come up with a way of creating more market access for people to get to ethanol at the pump, but knowing full well we have to contribute to what is a very difficult financial and fiscal environment here in washington. >> yesterday federal reserve chair ben bernanke sort of gave a state of the economic recovery, if you will, speech of sorts yesterday. talked about various issues. in particular, gas prices and the housing issue. on housing, he talk about it as this significant drag on any sort of economic recovery. but didn't really come up with some sort of -- some sort of an answer. do you have an answer? do the republicans have -- i haven't heard and answer from anybody at this point when it comes to housing. >> i think housing is a very big part of what led us into this economic downturn. it will probably lead us out. but i think the best thing we can have for housing is a growing, expanding economy so people can make their mortgage payments. right now we've got this 9.1% unemployment, 45% of people who are unemployed have been unemployed more than six months, higher than the number in the grace depression. it doesn't seem like this administration gets that. look at energy policy, trade policy, tax policy, budgets. we haven't passed a budget in the senate for 770 days. >> i hear that, but -- there's a chicken -- we got a chicken and egg thing here with housing and it hurts consumer confidence. people feel the value of their home and voluntary programs to try to get the banks to do these things. seems as if the banks don't want to cooperate on what is clearly assets that no longer are of the same value they want to keep on their books, but nobody has the stomach to have government go after the banks on this. right? >> well i think that's true, and the banks, of course, the regulators are breathing down the necks of the banks. the banks are concerned about making sure they've got sufficient collateral on these,ality of these mortgages that have been out there. i don't know we ever fully got to the bottom of the housing bubble, and a lot of it was because there was this serial intervention on the part of the federal government. i don't think it ever found its natural floor. this will come back, but i'm not sure that additional government intervention is going to solve that issue. i think, again, the best thing we can do is get the economy going and expanding again and creating jobs, and that seems to be, although that's something rhetorically the president talks a lot about, something there's little action to support his rhetoric. >> senator, quickly, on 2012, any second thoughts? seems there's still a vacuum there? a lot of people sitting, sitting on the sidelines to activists. they want somebody else. are you at all interested again? >> well, we've got a strong field out there, chuck. it's probably continuing to grow. i think there will be other candidates -- >> you do think it's going to grow? >> well, i think there are others that will probably get into this thing. we've got good candidates. i'm -- i made my decision, and i'm looking to the future looking forward not to the past, but i think we're going to have a very competitive presidential election in 2012, and a lot of very competitive senate house races around the country, too. >> are you ready to endorse anybody? >> not at this point. we're still -- the field's developingi'm not sure it's fully set but we're having conversations with some of the candidates. >> senator john thune, republican from south dakota. thanks for joining us. >> thanks, chuck. next, why a lawsuit heard in georgia today could matter a lot more than any of the other legal challenges we've heard absence to the president's health care law. and still to come. the circus is no town. pressure mounting on congressman anthony weiner to resign. all the public talk from republicans now. the democrats may be whispering behind the scenes. first, today's trivia question -- following up on the presidential rose garden dinner. which first lady began the custom of breaking up the room into circular tables for state dinners? 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"keys to the kingdom" that saudi arabia played a key role in the 9/11 attacks and that the book's presidential administration covered up the saudi's role. senate bob graham chair of the senate intelligence committee after september 11th and now joins me. senator graham, you've seen a lot of classified information. i have to say, i remember telling me about this novel. we have to wonder what do you really know? what are you really trying to tell us about 9/11 and the saudis? >> chuck, what i'm trying to say is that it's clear that saudis had an involvement in 9/11. they provided very active, significant assistance to two of the 19 hijackers who were living in san diego. >> senator, when you say the saudis, do you mean high up in the saudi government, or -- >> as high up as the wife of the saudis to the united states ambassador, as high up as direct support from a paid agent of the saudi government living in san diego. what we don't know is whether similar assistance was provided to the other 17. what we also don't know is why did the administration go to such lengths to try to cover up the saudi involvement? those are the beginning questions of the novel. >> you know, senator, when you think about the u.s.' relation with saudi arabia, to call it complicated now is an understatement, because here we have this revolution, this wave of revolution going across the middle east, and saudi arabia is just apaleptic, with egypt, how it's pushed on yemen, how it's pushed on bahrain. do you still very saudi arabia a real ally? or the other way, does saudi arabia consider united states an ally anymore? >> i would say saudi arabia is an ally of convenience. the principle driving force in saudi arabia is self-preservation. preservation of the state and preservation of the ruling family. were have an interesting example with the last couple of weeks. at the world health organization meeting in vienna, the u.s. sponsored a resolution on smallpox. smallpox is one of the most lethal of the potentially weaponizable pathogens. the resolution called for all countries to declare either that they had no smallpox pathogen in their laboratories or that they would destroy them with a three-year period. the opposition of that resolution was led by iran, which is understandable, because they probably are trying to develop not only a nuclear program but also a biological program, but another country which stated that it strongly disagreed with the u.s. position and supported iran was saudi arabia. question, why? >> right. and that's something we haven't asked enough of. you, in the united states senate, were a strong proponent of cong tress trying to be a mo equal branch when it came to areas of war and military operations. the house of representatives and a bipartisan resolution pretty much rebuked the obama administration on libya. give me your assessment of the house's resolution on this and whether you think the obama administration has done enough to keep congress informed? i. think the administration has done enough to keep it informed. the resolution said they should have gone beyond j informing congress but gotten congressional authorization to do what we've done in libya. i disagree with the house position. in fact, we've had very few authorizations to use force in recent history of america. >> right. >> this -- our involvement in libya has been very limited, and, in fact, we've deferred to the french and the british and other nato allies to do most of the heavy lifting. >> but the book, "keys to the kingdom," i have to say, how did mrs. graham feel about some of the steamier scenes? just saying? >> what really concerned my wife was the fact that her husband gets killed early in the book and that made her sad. >> we don't want that. senator bob graham, good friend. nice to see you. thanks very much. >> thanks, chuck. all right. up next. our panel of experts is here to weigh in on all things 2012. a tea party tip brewing? michele bachmann's newest advisers starts his tenure with a bang and went after sarah palin. plus, swinging against president obama. an interesting way to cut spanneding. we'll explain his google test. first, the white house soup of the day, kind of a low-fat type of soup. sweet potato. it's all the rage now. sweet potato chips. why not go sweet potato soup. yam it up, will you? we'll be right back. 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who's going to be this person that catches everybody by surprise, whether howard dean in '04, pat buchanan actually in '06, and john mccain in 2000. is it bachmann? >> off to a great start. i'm not sure what that really gets, as ruth says, they are sort of going after many of the same appealing voters. why attack somebody who already appeals to those people? it's a risky move at best. i think, again, sarah palin's going to have the advantage that if she drops into iowa one day she's going to get the headlines and michele bachmann is not. until that goes away, it's going to be harder for bachmann to get the oxygen. >> speaking of michele bachmann, she's from minnesota. another guy running for president. he gave a big speech in the president's backyard, take a quick listen to it. >> we can start by what i call the google test. if you can find a service or a good available on google or the internet, then the federal government probably doesn't need to be providing that good or service. the post office, the government printing office, amtrak, fannie mae, freddie mac and others were all built for a different time in our country. >> all right. christina, let's take him at his word on this google test. interesting, trying to be 21st century about it. you know, it is the type of thing that people will remember. >> exactly right. i think it reminds me a little when barack obama used to say, i will put my health care negotiations on c-span, because everybody can connect with that. doesn't matter he never actually did it. doesn't matter it was not necessarily possible. it matters it was a very, very simple thing, people could understand and relate to. exactly what these going after. >> back to michele bachmann. if you're tim pawlenty -- >> tim pawlenty's problem. >> i was going to say we sit here and talk about bachmann, palin. you're tim pawlenty a two-term governor, all these things and this congresswoman is upstaging you. the biggest people pawlenty people have, is what bachmann outraises him in the first quarter. >> i'm feeling really serie for tim pawlenty i have to say, because the oxygen keeps getting sucked out of his room. so last week you had, it was all sarah palin all the tile. this week we've got some michele bachmann. he needs the space to get known and the media attention to deliver his message to voters which is an interesting message. i'm not totally with the program, but -- >> promises he may not be able to keep. >> he cannot attract voters if he doesn't attract media, and she's the -- the girls, pardon me, are taking a lot of the oxyg oxygen. >> i feel it's lamar 95. >> a similar problem to lamar. what is the real ration natural for his candidacy? what position is he taking up in the field, other than, you know, i'm the nice guy from you know-doctor. >> and i'm not mitt romney. >> right. that's not a compelling thing. michele bachmann has tea party support. all of these people have a rationa rationale. >> all right. stick around. trivia time. quickly, which first lady began the custom of breaking up the room into circular tables for state dinners? as my executive producer said, the ansel always either dolley madison or jackie kennedy. in this case, jackie kennedy. serve dinner at long banquet tables. it made room for more guests and allows the president to break away from the strict protocol rules. we had a repeat winner, but will follow a couple new people. i'll tell hue that is after this. our panel is staying right here, up next, check the capitol hill grill to see if weiner is now cooked, and introduce you to something called "the ned." you won't want to miss it. you're watching "the daily rundown" on msnbc. 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