glenn: we started with a couple ideas. youtube is not the problem. but the name does have part of it. melting pot. how do we get out of this mess? we have to be a melting pot again. find what unites us. get back to the melting pot. you have to be a leader. we have an invedable leadership vacuum in this country. re-establish it but remember that you take the lead. we change ourselves to fix the country and our world. after the greatest generation, the parents and
glenn: we started with a couple ideas. youtube is not the problem. but the name does have part of it. melting pot. how do we get out of this mess? we have to be a melting pot again. find what unites us. get back to the melting pot. you have to be a leader. we have an invedable leadership vacuum in this country. re-establish it but remember that you take the lead. we change ourselves to fix the country and our world. after the greatest generation, the parents and
who will be terribly overshadowed? there s a couple ideas they re talking about but a leading idea among the small group of people making this decision is someone who will not be overshadowed and who is very popular on morning joe. who s that, who s that? the new jersey governor chris christie. oh, my. a strong republican presence, someone who has been popular for his willingness to stick up for what he ran for, to take on unions. so they like the idea of having a big, bold republican presence out there. has chris christie agreed to do this? that would be they re thinking about a few other things, two or three freshmen do it and there s a group of republican insiders who are pushing for a senate freshman, mark arubio of florida. that s the finalist list. i would be very, very surprised if chris christie did that. you are walking into a political ambush. every time you do it.
is supposed to come up with a new number. we ll see if it comes up before or during the president s oval office address later tonight. we re standing by for that. let s get to the spill sdwoen zone, a fresh look at the oil tainting the gulf coast. ed lavandera is back with a boat tour with louisiana s governor. how did it go? it was interesting, wolf. the governor really speaking in terms today of we are in the midst of a war. meaning the people here along the gulf coast. and really he wanted to highlight some of the efforts, the ideas that have been created here locally and sold to bp and the federal government, although they say it s taking quite a bit of arm twisting and convincing them to let them do a couple ideas they were highlighting today. the governor took us out to one location about 15 miles north, northeast of where we are in grand isle, louisiana. this is significant, wolf, because this is the governor says, the deepest that they have seen oil into the louisiana