Where the sergeant at arms will soon introduce the president and i say soon as one of those sort of variable words because we already know from our producers who are monitoring the timeline sent to us earlier in the day they are by our producers calculations some eight to nine minutes behind schedule. On hand tonight both houses of congress, several Supreme Court justices, the joint chiefs and president s cabinet. One cabinet member will not be present in case of catastrophe and tonight the secretary of energy will not be here, so weve seen an advanced copy of the speech and president obama plans to call for 2014 to be a year of action as he puts it. He plans to ask congress to work with him to create opportunities for folks who are still struggling after the Great Recession but the president will also make clear, we are told, that he is willing to go around congress when he must. We expect him to outline a dozen or so executive actions, one of those in order to raise the minimum wage
Oh, man. That could be the daily show. That could be snl. But its actually real. Who is it . Yes, it is congress. Good morning, everyone. Time to wake up, sleepyhead. Its friday, october 4th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set is, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and associate editor of the Washington Post Eugene Robinson here with us in new york. Thats nice. Msnbc political analyst and visiting professor at nyu, haired ford junior and in washington its time to have your corn flakes. Senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent for the huffington post, sam stein. And John Heilemann is in a gutter somewhere, but hell be here in a moment. Get directv. Knows what hes doing. Well get to the latest on the Government Shutdown in a moment. First, that dramatic scene on capitol hill streets yesterday where a woman who is suspected of trying to run down a white house barricade was eventually shot and killed on the streets near the senate. It all began yesterday afternoon with repor
Sunday night. That stokes investor hopes for a fiscal cliff deal and this coming just a few hours after harry reids comments sent the dow into a tailspin. We have complete coverage in this developing story which is happening tonight as we speak. Also, as supplies from the obama team, ep achieve lisa jackson stepping down. Can the Coal Companies finally breathe a sigh of relief . Guess what happened in britain when the uk banned handguns. The surprising result that could change the gun control debate. The kudlow report start ises right now. The big news tonight, still the developments in washington on the fiscal cliff, eamon javers joins us with the details. Good evening, meshel. Capitol hill sources tell cnbc that congressional leaders are planning to go to the white house tomorrow to meet with president barack obama and it is not entirely clear at this point when that meeting will take place and details are still being hammered out and we saw today a blistering series of rhetorical ja
Those big gains for tax stocks, some saying it is the dot. Com bubble all over again. Varney and company is about to begin. Stuart big problems for bitcoin this morning. One of the largest bitcoin exchanges shut down. The exchange is website, nonexistent, twitter account wiped clean. We just got this statement, a decision taken to all transactions for the time being, we will be closely monitoring the situation and will react accordingly. Several bitcoin exchanges reporting but they were trying to file for bankruptcy after months of technical problems and reports of a major bid theft. A new price of bitcoin tumbling below 500. First time since november. Is this the end of it . Charles no, it is going through growing pains. I want to tell you what this is, magic the gathering on line exchange. It started as a place for people to trade magic cards. Then it morphed into the bitcoin exchange. This had problems a couple weeks ago called these intrusions and things they couldnt explain. A lot
Governor but if you have a noncorporate of legislature is hard to get your agenda passed. You raise a good point. Lets talk about how we got into this mess. Haley barbour i believe when he was chair of the Republican Party made a decision that democrats didnt pay enough attention to which was in the best in electing legislatures, legislators and republican governors for a lot of reasons he wanted to do it but when reapportionment comes up we can bridge line in congress and have a bunch of people that believe what we believe which happens to be the tea party in Haley Barbours case govern america or at least be obstructionist to american progress. They did it and they did pretty well 20 years ago. That is why we are in the mess we are in. One of the points that i made to democrats is listen im just speculating here but one of the challenges to taking back Congress Might be that they gerrymandered these districts so effectively after they did that its really tough to win and so if you ele