and now here s your scrambled politics. it s the season for retirements. republicans tom latham of iowa and frank wolf of virginia and jim mathis son made separate announcements on tuesday. they join six other gop house reps bringing the total number of retirement announcements to at least nine but just one democrat. is it because federal employee morale is at a record low? satisfaction is under 58% compared with 78% satisfaction in the private sector. mitch mcconnell s morale might drop once he hears this. a ppp poll finds republican lead certificate least popular snar in the country. 31% of voters approve of the job he s doing. 61% disapprove. he is also neck and neck with his senate challenger democrat
president. he has more than 24 million likes on his page. and the reverend al sharpton goes from primetime to late night. take a look at this. joining me tonight are kelly o donnell and msnbc analyst here in our studio. nice to be here. and jim vander hee hoe of pyrotechnical notice period come. it s vand dehi. a big vand dehi back to you. you can catch the real reverend al sharpton on politics nation tonight and every weeknight at 6:00 p.m. eastern only right here on msnbc. both sides of the aisle believe there will an extension of the payroll tax cut. harry reid says house reps plan includes the keystone pipeline and has no chance of passing the upper chamber. speaker boehner is still adamantly against a surtax on the wealthiest americans.
from celebration to confusion in less than one day. this time yesterday we were reporting how rebels were gaining on tripoli. international leaders talking about a new political era and rebels bragging they had captured gadhafi s son. then saif appeared overnight and said he lured them into a trap. as we look at the live pictures out of tripoli, we still don t know if gadhafi is in his compound or not but nato jets are flying low over his compound. at least one explosion has been reported. nato won t confirm any bombing, however. and rebels are engaged in fierce fighting near the compound as well. as we heard just a moment ago, a rebel official reporting they have actually breached the gates there. we are hitting the story hard with multiple correspondents on the ground. matthew chance in the heart of tripoli. arwa damon reporting from the city s airport and sarah sidener and frederik pleitgen is in ben gaza. state to matthew chance who is caught up in a pretty dangerous situ
neil: we re just getting word that onb workers, office the management and budget, to put together the nation s budget for the executive branch are looking at unionizing. furthermore they have support from the administration. strong sport of the right of workers to unionize and organize up to the people working at any bargaining unit. but what happens then if they unionize and strike. i guess we don t have budgets, right? just disappears. that s the latest. there is a new poll out showing almost half of americans want lawmakers to vote no on a debt ceiling increase. a growing group of house reps are doubting how urgent the august 2 deadline is.
somali pirate during an attack on a merchant ship. we ll have more on this story in a live report next hour. in the middle, new details about the american man de naind north korea, the boston man is described as a devout christian who rallied against pyongyang, the rogue nation set to put him on trial but so far the state department has not been notified of charges against him. on the bottom, help for the unemployed as the house reps to send another jobs bill to the senate today. this one could mean billions of dollars in new construction projects for local governments. a warning to parents about baby slings, the cloth carriers that allow you to barry carry your baby close to your chest, the commission recalling more than 1 million of the infantino sling slingriders, saying this sling has been linked to three infant deaths last year. also under recall the wendy bellissimo baby sling, more than 15,000 of them sold in the united states and