oh, yes, absolutely. why? he s back. you should have seen your face just now, you looked into the prompter, and your face sank a little bit. you mentioned earlier about savannah playing the guitar. yeah, show it! show it! love it! wait, wait come on, now. if you play that, i am never coming back. today s show, you are teaching natalie how to play guitar, right. yes, we had a guitar suit together. that is so good!
think things about republicans. john boehner does not need to go on national television during this time of crisis, and this is a time of crisis. uh-huh. and take cheap shots at the president like that. again, for republicans at home watching, ah, he said the same thing about harry reid two weeks ago. maybe they just maybe they just don t understand on capitol hill. maybe they don t understand how much this is shaking the world s confidence in the united states of america, in the dollar, in our political system. maybe in washington, d.c. they don t understand that we are literally in an economic fight for supremacy over the next century with china. maybe they don t understand that the more this goes on, the more we strengthen china s standing in the globe. the more we strengthen our rival savannah, maybe they just don t get it. maybe they ll ask, recognize
about and we re not ready to yield. people can get the votes together and in the absence of being able to put together a coalition that will pass, i think we are where we are. so what happened on friday night? savannah, we had the white house saying john boehner wouldn t return my call. we had john boehner saying he did a bait and switch. $400 billion in revenues. we agreed to it in principle and then asked for more. right. i ve been trying to sort through this all week and everybody has a different answer. it s the republicans. it s the president s. whose fault is it? i don t know who s fault. felt like a telephone game. boehner interprets it we need $400 billion more. i already gave you $800 billion or whatever, and the white house saying, no. we were just inquiring, do you think you could push your guys? let us know, calls back if you can do it or not do it. the takeaway, watching from the sidelines. come on, people, get it together. it s just feeling like romper
landing? i am virtually certain i cannot answer the question within the parameters set before me. i was just kidding. the ideology convictions on the two sides, which has proven to be unshakeable, have proven to be unshakeable. and they are looking at each other and saying this is what it s about and we re not ready to yield. and people cannot put the votes together. and we are where we are. what happened on friday night? savannah, we had the white house coming out and saying john boehner would not return my call, and john boehner did the whole bait and switch, and he said 400 billion in rev news,
this is about american jobs and the american economy. and if we don t do something serious about controlling our debt, it s hanging over our entire economy like a blanket. that s why i believe that taking serious steps towards solving this problem will affect, breathe more confidence in our economy and help create jobs here. i would prefer to have a bipartisan approach to solve this problem. if that s not possible, i and my republican colleagues in the house are prepared to move on our own. today? today. good morning. it s 8:00 on the east coast. take a live look at new york city. welcome back to morning joe. back with us on set we have john heilemann and savannah guthrie. savannah, the asian markets, a little jittery right now.