cash-strapped consumers this holiday season. andy gets grumpy, the orioles walk away a win from new york. the nail biter between the saints and the packers starts off this season in sometime. you re watching first look on msnbc. 8gg@ú
meeting. tonight, the president issued a new challenge to that supercommittee. the agreement we passed in july will cut government spending by about a trillion dollars over the next ten years, it also charges this congress to up come up with $1.5 trillion in savings by christmas. tonight i am asking you to increase that amount so it covers the full cost of the american jobs act. the president says he will issue a more ambitious deficit reduction plan aweek from monday which will call for reforms to medicare and tax revenue increases. joining me now is the washington post columnist and msnbc contributor ezra klein. thanks for joining me. gg@ú
wilmington, north carolina. be safe. north carolina mayor. bill saffo. number of affected people is in the millions now. peter alexander is going to have that story next. the ed show s special coverage of hurricane irene continues in just a moment. 8gg@ú
us. thank you. safety concerns are forcing officials to cancel hundreds of events along the east coast. we re going to tell you where hurricane irene is putting the breaks on this weekend s plans as we continue our special coverage of the storm right here on msnbc. 8gg@ú
scheduled for next thursday. if all 22 of the executive committee members who signed the we are going to fire you letter actually vote to fire him, then jack kimball will be out of a job. there s not yet a national storyline or a beltway storyline that the tea party may have peaked. it may be on its way out. that the republican party may be already marginalizing them and patronizing them just like they always do to their base. but there does seem to be increasing evidence of that both in real life elections and in statistics. we have some research that i m not sure is widely known, but really ought to be by anybody who is opining about politics anytime soon. that story is next. 8gg@ú