committee s failure to reach a deal on the debt but the president took the microphone to say no way, i ll veto any attempt by congress to undo the automatic spending cuts unless the congress comes up with a bill to replace $1.2 trillion in cuts. so is this how the debate will be framed in the 2012 presidential race? plus, when you hear republican flip-flopper, you think mitt romney, right? check out newt gingrich. his website has shiny, new explanations for why he s changed his positions on the health care mandate, on global warming, on t.a.r.p., on what he called paul ryan s right wing social engineering medicare plan and luckily for newt, all of his new positions line up nicely with the conservative republican primary voters. well, also the veto the video that went viral this weekend. campus police pepper spraying peaceful occupy protesters out at uc dave this california. the university s police chief was placed on administrative leave today and many students are call
we re live here at constitution hall, here in the nation s capitol, where in just a little bit more than 24 hours, the republican presidential hopeful will face off for the first time in a major debate on national security, foreign affairs and the economy. he will be mod rating the event co-sponsored by the her kaj foundation and american enterprise institute. on the eve of this critical contest an eye-popping shift? the republican con taft. a new cnn poll just released minutes ago, shows newt gingrich on top of the republican pack for the first time. look at this wp 24% of republicans asked, if the former house speaker is their choice to be the presidential nominee, compared to mitt romney there is a dead heat, with gingrich and romney nationwide. other candidates, all in single digits. our chief political analyst, still at constitutional hall looking at numbers, gloria, gingrich is doing amazingly well. in several cateries much better than mitt romney. he is. and that hel
wow, what a way to start the week. good advice for all of us. seriously. welcome to morning joe. it s monday, november 21st. oh, my gosh, is this thanksgiving week? are we getting ready? yes, with us onset, senior political analyst mark haleprin. national affairs editor, john heilemann. hi, john. hi. and director of the earth institute, jeffrey sachs. disgusting. disgusting. absolutely disgusting. no sense of any meaning in all of this. absolutely revolting, actually. and especially when what they re protesting against is the incredible abuse of power, the criminality on wall street and so forth that he, yes, taking his millions of dollars, it s shocking. someone needs a bath, and i don t think it s the people from occupy wall street. that s all i m going to say. i got nothing else. i m so disgusted by that that something horrible s going those are my belts, i m sorry. i was having trouble dressing this morning. i sort of like that. bringing out discarde
wow, what a way to start the week. good advice for all of us. seriously. welcome to morning joe. it s monday, november 21st. oh, my gosh, is this thanksgiving week? are we getting ready? yes, with us onset, senior political analyst mark haleprin. national affairs editor, john heilemann. hi, john. hi. and director of the earth institute, jeffrey sachs. disgusting. disgusting. absolutely disgusting. no sense of any meaning in all of this. absolutely revolting, actually. and especially when what they re protesting against is the incredible abuse of power, the criminality on wall street and so forth that he, yes, taking his millions of dollars, it s shocking. someone needs a bath, and i don t think it s the people from occupy wall street. that s all i m going to say. i got nothing else. i m so disgusted by that that something horrible s going those are my belts, i m sorry. i was having trouble dressing this morning. i sort of like that. bringing out discarde
she is the ceo of the gen youth foundation, will cain is the cnn contributor, cloudy with a chance of rain has been your forecast. anything that s going to part the clouds? i don t think anything will part the clouds until europe clears up, which might be a while. we re probably in for stable, slow growth, but there s more risk to the downside than the upside. let s talk about europe. just this week it became more difficult and expensive for spain to wore ro money. we re looking at bond yields and this is telling us there s potentially a funding problem in europe. explain why that is so important? europe is a quarter of global economy. european banks are interlocked with our banks. so we want them to fix this, but i wonder, they might need a new constitution before this is over and do they have the political wherewithal to get a new constitution? you think we had political problems on debt in this country. at least we have a constitution that s pretty darn good. the