greece. ali, let s begin with you. just about an hour from now president obama is due to hold the news conference right there at the summit. greece, as we know, a linchpin. before you tell us why americans really need to pay attention to this, if you don t mind, just give us some perspective on this morning s new jobless numbers that i just talked about. okay, well, because i love you, kyra, we worked so long, i ll make this a choose your own adventure. what do you want from me? upbeat and positive or down beat and optimistic? i want you to be balanced and give me both. the reality check, no nonsense ali velshi. here s what we got. we expected 100,000 jobs to be created and we got 80,000. in my world, that s not that big of a deal. the unemployment rate went down to 9%, again, not a big deal. it tells us less about the economy than a whole bunch of other indicators. but as you said, the big deal was the numbers for the previous two months always get revised and they wer
strags struck a deal with u.s. auto makers to more than double fuel efficiency standards it 54.5 gal miles a gallon by the year 2055. a dismal week on wall street as washington wrestled with the debt ceiling debit and new reports showed anemic economic reports over the last six months. now back it hardball. now back to hardball. welcome back to hardball. watching the battle on capitol hill these past few weeks. outside interest groups have also been eager to throw stones at their opponents in this debt fight. millions of dollars spent on ad buys attacking the president, but if the country defaults and the economy suffers, don t the president s re-election chances suffer as well?
welcome back to hardball. watching the battle on capitol hill these past few weeks. outside interest groups have also been eaker to throw stones at their opponents in this debt fight. millions of dollars spent on ad buys attacking the president, but if the country defaults and the economy suffers, don t the president s re-election chances suffer as well? nbc political analyst and an associate editor and columnist at the washington post as well as an msnbc analyst. gentlemen, i want to show you previews of coming attractions. actually, house speaker john boehner is set to speak from capitol hill. so stay right where you are s we re going to take the speaker s remarks. rather quickly. today s report on the economy reminds us that our economy is still not creating enough jobs. americans are worried about
like senate democrats deciding to pass along major tax hikes and then sending it to the house going pass that, if you don t pass that it s your fault that the country defaults, don t you think? i think house republicans are saying remember why we were elected. we were elected to get america s house back in order. these house republicans are saying the same thing to the country. saying please remember we have to stop sending money that we don t have. let s get our fiscal house in order. no. these republicans were elected to create jobs. and we have not seen that yet. instead we have had idealogical battles that are turning the united states of america into a deadbeat dad that won t pay its bills and to some degree even if they get a deal over the weekend and we avoid the crisis on tuesday, the damage has really been done. the message that s being sent by these tea party freshman is that
and then sending it to the house going pass that, if you don t pass that it s your fault that the country defaults, don t you think? i think house republicans are saying remember why we were elected. we were elected to get america s house back in order. these house republicans are saying the same thing to the country. saying please remember we have to stop sending money that we don t have. let s get our fiscal house in order. no. these republicans were elected to create jobs. and we have not seen that yet. instead we have had idealogical battles that are turning the united states of america into a deadbeat dad that won t pay its bills and to some degree even if they get a deal over the weekend and we avoid the crisis on tuesday, the damage has really been done. the message that s being sent by these tea party freshman is that the united states government cannot function properly. here you have they re insisting