can you imagine? that must be the structure that he was building. we keep on showing pictures of it. a fine job he was doing, right? a fine carpenter but the nails go in the wood, my friend. he wants to go back to work. oh, my gosh, i would say hire someone on that one. let s take a look at what s coming up on new day, chris cuomo and kate bolduan join us. what s going on? there s clearly a reason i ve never used one of those. more gun than nail. lucky for him, he s okay. obviously, we re going to be talking this morning about the shutdown. we have an interesting development going on. we re going to are republican congressman mike grimm on. he s said he s ready to sign a clear resolution. he s ready to fund the government and deal with the obama care act afterwards. he said there s a growing number like him in the party.
to be just sitting there. he didn t have that darn it, do i have to do this. it wasn t just, i find this inexcusable. he said the words, i am angry which he doesn t use too often. we ve talked about whether he should get angry more. just to back up a little bit. this story broke on friday. it is wednesday. in real terms, that s not a long period of time to come to a major decision about what are you, lawrence of arabia? you re thinking long terms now? that s a long time. the fact that he didn t do this friday. we live in a 24/7 world in which a minute is a long time. let s listen to the president. let s agree on something. he did a good job. the statement he made less than an hour ago. a fine job. i ve reviewed the treasury department watch dog s report. and the misconduct that it uncovered is inexcusable. it is inexcusable and americans
an hour ago. a fine job. i ve reviewed the treasury department watch dog s report. and the misconduct that it uncovered is inexcusable. it is inexcusable and americans are right to be angry about it and i am angry about it. i will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency. but especially in the irs. given the power that it has and the reach that it has into all of our lives. and as i said earlier, it should not matter what political stripe you re from. the fact of the matter is that the irs has to operate with absolute integrity. the government generally has to conduct itself in a way that is true to the public trust. that is especially true for the irs. so here s what we re going to do. first, we re going to hole the responsible parties accountable. yesterday i directed secretary lu to follow up on the i.g.
bucked them up. any sense of that? guest: it bucked them up but i would not say turning things around. they are careful in the building behind me because i suspect they realize the jobs report for june next week, could have a bigger impact open the election. they psyched. i don t wand to underplay that. they think it is a huge victory but they say, in private, that health care has not been the dominant issue on the campaign trillion but jobs. the economy. and, look, i am excited i got a touchy feely question from you. neil: we don t get together that much, buddy, thank you, ed henry, fine job as always. well be all over in tonight with lib coverage with the grass of the grand son of fdr, andd
guilty on the only count on which it was able to reach a verdict. the justice department has put out a statement today saying that while it is it is his duty to bring challenging cases and believe the prosecutora fine job in this case, that these dis dismissing these charges at this point is in the interest of justice. so that mean john edwards will not be retried on these five counts. and that his legal problems are over. this is not exactly a shock. when the jury was polled, the government had failed to get more than four guilty votes on any of the counts so it had been anticipated that the prosecutor was not retry the case. but this with this judge, with this order, judge eagle made it official today. all right. thank you so much. next up here, as americans struggle on main street, we ask has the culture that established