party. wow. good morning. what a way to start the morning. that was it s thursday, april 12th. welcome to morning joe. with us onset, actually looks good today. msnbc contributor mike barnacle. he always looks good. laid back. looking good. national affairs editor for new york magazine and msnbc analyst john pileman and former foreign policy buzzer to the bush administration. what happened to your other titles? consolidation. i love it. streamlined. 2.0. what happened? are you okay? you look so cute. it s terrible. minor league they re a minor league team. they re a aaa club right now. the red sox are a triple what was he faking before he left? he was thinking how much does that flight cost to chicago to get out of here. he s the urban meyer of major league baseball. you leave a stink bomb and then you fly to the midwest. that s very good. urbans destroyed the gators. and then he went to ohio state and of course, theo left us with nothing in se
other. in washington the feeling is that the relationship in the past was broken because pakistan pursued interests and activities it knew were contrary to u.s. interests as in the nuclear program in the 1980 s and that washington would have to hold back. in pakistan it s felt increase i will that the united states is a fair weather friend and it has abandoned pakistan before and it will again. we see a similar tension here today in the relationship and discourse between the two, a concern that in fact the interests are contrary enough that there will be yet another separation. there are a number of elements of mutual frustration but again the point of mutual importance remains. therefore, it s worthwhile to try to explore ways of building shared purposes and understanding even if mutual trust is a little too much to expect now. there are few people better qualified to address these issues than former president pervez musharraf. he served in a pakistani army for more than 40
hatch. later, the their reserve chairman dan bernanke on the economy. this weekend on booktv, the predictions for u.s. foreign policy for the next decade. also this weekend, donald ross fell system rumsfeld talks about his memoirs. abbas milani on the shah of iran. vides full schedule on booktv.org. house speaker john boehner says he and president obama want to find common ground on education, these tax code, and trade. the speaker and other republican leaders spoke briefly with reporters outside the white house. we had a very nice lunch with the president and vice president and the president s chief of staff. our number-one issue is getting the economy going again and getting people back to work. we believe that in order for that to happen that we need to cut spending, stop unnecessary regulations that are tampering with small business s ability to hire people. there are some places where we can find common ground to address the needs of the american people. it was a
ago, i talked about the school rules. a lot of countries around the world have set up fiscal rules. some of these rules would empaneled were sequestered part of the government spending if deficits exceeded certain levels, for example. they always set up rules that forced congress essentially to meet certain targets. there was something similar to that with an approach that was used some time ago. i do not have a real specific suggestions. i do think that thinking hard about your framework and recognizing that the current approach when you try to find an offset, that is to say we are satisfied with the deficit where it is. you need to have something that is better than offset. indeed something that will allow the deficit to shrink over time rather than with the current projections are. it is very challenged challenging to do that, i understand. again, create some kind of long- term plan and within the context of that plan fitting in various programs. that is essentially what
senator from montana. mr. baucus: mr. president, before i proceed to speak on the topic, i would like to say a couple words about bob bennett. we all are deeply impressed with his sense of integrity and his commitment working for, you know, basic sound principles. and one i might say made a big impression on me is he came to my office i think on his own, or could be he was appointed to help find a way to make the senate more relevant, ways to change the senate rules to address some of the frustration that a lot of senators have. you know, people watching might wonder, gosh, why do senators think they are not very relevant. but i must say, it s because a lot of senators feel they want to get something done quickly and are sometimes frustrated by the actions of other senator who has not quite the same idea. but i was very impressed with bob s attitude. he came and talked to me, what can be done, max, what ideas do you have. it was very, very refreshing. and i remember thinkin