stores walmart opened were in rural areas of america, and so for the folks in those communities, it was great to have shopping, but it wiped out it was like a tsunami. it wiped out the local businesses. hmm. so there s always been a balance with walmart. right. which is that customers enjoy it. competitors end up on the ropes. and that is the way to success. charles, thank you. we appreciate that. that is a wrap-up of this hour with alex witt. be sure on assure to gin me at 2:00 eastern. that s all up next on msnbc. up next, there s my friend chris hayes. [ male announcer ] it s simple physics.
eligible for funding. where are those dollars coming from? you the taxpayer, courtesy of the $3 checkoff on your income tax return. joining me now, gary johnson. thank you for joining me. alex, thank you for having me on. i m glad you re here. it s no doubt here this money will come in handy for you. when you compare this to the mitt romney vast sums of money, gop s $100 million take in june, you simply can t put up a real fight. is your goal here to act as a spoiler of sorts looking back to the ross perot era, 20 years ago and trying to take votes from president obama or mitt romney. the goal is to actually win and offer a third choice and that third choice is the candidate who will promise to submit a balanced budget to congress. that would be me. look, i m the guy when it comes to civil liberties, i m the guy
we were back in 2007. with many forecasting slow growth and little change in the jobs picture, many see growing political peril for president obama. never been able to win an election since world war ii, with the unemployment rate higher than 7.4%. to do so, he would have to make history. reporter: alex, the economy is back front and center. everybody expects it to stay that way with a few side roads here and there. one of these super pacs aligned with affiliates, crossroads gps, announced yesterday they are going to have a $25 million ad buy in swing states attacking the president on those jobs numbers. okay, mike, thank you. big nuds here at msnbc, nbc latino.com launched this week. this week s office politics, i talked to the man in charge of it all, chris pena.
we had a good start to the crop and then in a matter of three weeks, this crop has just gone south. reporter: farmers along with everyone else trying to gauge and ride out this latest heat wave. and back here at central park, this is the third heat wave this year so far in new york city. cooling centers will be open of course but the biggest advice health officials are saying, stay hydrated and stay inside if you can. alex? michelle franzen, thanks for that live report. what are you doing to stay safe? you can talk to me on twitter, i ll be reading your tweets throughout the day. as michelle said, stay safe. your grocery bill is about to go up. we ll tell you when and why. walmart turns 50. a new report suggests it has changed america but how and has it changed the value of your
one where he s behind is the handle of the economy. the romney campaign will focus in on that. the obama campaign, there s not much they can do to turn things around between now and november. they ll try to take a bigger approach to say we re not actually shedding as many jobs as we were when obama first took office. do u agree with that, alex? is that the best approach and do you think the transportation bill holds potential for real boost on jobs? i think the transportation bill s impact is going to be pretty limited at this point. i think the president maybe his best strategy is to ignore the jobs report and do what he s been doing, taking the long view on this. he suggests it took this wasn t a problem created overnight, it kind of started even ten years ago, maybe at the start of the bush administration. and it s going to take a long time to dig out of it, even if they ve made progress, it s