is certainly you know jack almost ew with. do you think this is a good choice and do you think it signals that the white house knows that deficit and spending, those issues, are foremost at the minds of voters? i think he is a superb choice. jack is actually a washington phenomenon because you can t find anything nine this town who has a bad word to say about him. he s consummate professional. the staff who works for him admire him greatly and he does harkin back toon era when there was bipartisan efforts to control spending and something badly is needed now. i think they are counting on that. you are on capitol hill because you are going to be testifying on some issues having to do with the deficit and spending. we have this deficit commission that met with the governors over the weekend and we heard, i think it was erskine boles and allen simpson, one interchangeably and one called the debt a cancer but there isn t an expectation that we are going to get some sort of agreement on
jeff said he can be 27 seconds over. unfortunately, we came in 34 seconds over. he made me do it. what do you learn today, richard? cuba. interesting things are happening. 52 political prisoners about to be released, the economy is opening up for the first time in 55 years, we are seeing political change in cuba. jeff zucker? i learned you are probably going to use piers morgan against me. yeah, we are. . he took mine. call my act. you will notice that jeff zucker said mika, not going there. you re free to go chuck and savannah, i want you to know i constantly try to get to you guys at 9:00 straight up. i tell mika all the time. it is just whatever he says. go right ahead. in fact, let s let jeff throw to us. hi, jeff. mr. zucker. so jeff, i say it is way too early, you stay is morning joe. now chuck and savannah with the daily run down. let s go to chuck and savannah with the early run i do. it is pacing. i got to get there commercials we got
to offer. i pledge my own best efforts. today, i ask you for yours. thank you very much. [applause] you very much. [applause] . president obama signs an order. former republican senator an [unintelligible] this is 10 minutes. america faced challenges. one was a financial crisis brought on by reckless speculation. this helped to spark the deepest recession since the great depression for which we are recovering. the recession held to aggravate an already severe fiscal crisis. the economic crisis requires the government to make investments that added to our accumulated debt. critical investments have helped break the back of the recession but now with so many americans out of work, the path to recovery is far from complete. in the short term, we re going to be taking steps to encourage business to create jobs that will continue to be my top priority. there is no doubt that we will have to address the long-term quandary of the government that routinely and extravagantly spend
captured and talking. a top taliban leader is nabbed in a top secret raid. why this is a big deal for the u.s. tea time. the republican party comes face-to-face with the politica rebellion on the right. fire and ice. olympic organizers dealing with snow, warmth, crowd and glitches. and tonight, why the flame is in the news. on ice, tonight our profile of the american men s figure skater who really wants to be different and really wants to be the star of these games. also tonight, more on reports that a common over the counter drug might help fight breast cancer. nightly news begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. we begin tonight with news that could mean a major advance. the taliban s top military commander has been captured. it was a secret raid, a joint operation carried out by pakistani and american intelligence forces. it happened in karachi in afghanistan. the number two ranked man under the taliban founder and associate of the s