night. we re having quite a game of phone tag. i called the speaker four times last night. i was blow droying my hair. he did not take my calls. there s huge news john boehner will announce he s resigning. john boehner, speaker of the house. we re here to do something. how can you vote for a speaker who has a dismissive and cavalier attitude? if we re going to carry grudges for the rest of our lives, we ll never get anything done. we have two trampolines here, let s start jumping around. every time i m on your program you should listen to my phone call. i do admire your jobs. you could be a beauty queen. you were friends with o.j. simpson. here we go. did you know he was going to be liable? we had some pretty aggressive things at the beginning of this debate.
from a new do nothing congress to chris christie s furious game of phone tag. here are today s top lines. apologies? me? never. congress is heading back to their favorite place to vacation, congress. you re now a member of the 113th congress. there s only one group to blame, the house of representatives majority and their speaker. i would love for someone to replace him, but who? any one of them right now is a slave to this group of hard right people. it was disappointing and disgusting. i don t trust eric cantor. this was the speaker s decision. republicans have no problem finding new york when it comes to raising money. that s why people hate washington. i was giving no explanation. if you re there, pick up, pick up. i was called at 11:20 last
she said to me, was, like, let s do this thing. that was really exciting. so it was 250 bucks and it was probably a long night in there setting up and yeah, well, the thing was it was about 20 minutes setting up. the thing with denise was, on tuesday, on tuesday which is the day after the eviction, which happened, like, early tuesday morning. the zuccotti park eviction, right? i tried to meet denise to give her her money, half in advance and half after. this was coming up on thursday. the finance working group from occupy wall street was in disarray. no one was around. i couldn t get her the money. i was playing phone tag with her and talked to her at 9:00. the first thing she said to me was, you know, i can t take money for this. this is oh, wow. this is for the people. i can t take any money. mark, while i have been talking to you we ve been trying to reach denise on the phone. i m told we have denise on the phone. denise, are you there on the phone? yes, hi.
the thing with denise was, on tuesday, on tuesday, which is the day after the eviction, which happened, like, early tuesday morning. the zuccotti park eviction, right? yes. i tried to meet denise to give her her money, half in advance and half after. this was coming up on thursday. this finance working group from occupy wall street was in disarray. no one was around. i couldn t get her the money. i was playing phone tag with her and talked to her at 9:00. the first thing she said to me was, you know, i can t take money for this. this is oh, wow. this is for the people. i can t take any money. mark, while i have been talking to you we ve been trying to reach denise on the phone. i m told we have denise on the phone. denise, are you there on the phone? yes, hi. hi. how are you? okay. and you? i m great. i m here with mark who you did the projection project with last night. and i m just wondering if you could tell us why you decided to do this with him. why you decided
had an active week. wouldn t you say? wall street reform, check. extending unemployment benefits, check. but the biggest headline grabber, phone tag with shirley sherrod. the ousted usda official whose remarks taken out of context actually sparked a national firestorm. chief white house correspondent ed henry joining us live. the president, ed, and the sherrod debacle stole the spotlight. wun think the president would be excited about talking about the oil disaster. reporter: you are right. you know, the last couple of days i noticed robert gibbs in the briefing getting pounded with some of the questions about shirley sherrod. he s actually looks like he has been happy when the conversation turns to the oil spill. that s a turning point perhaps in that story as it gets a little better. at least it is still not over with. it gives you a sense of how some of the outside forces, if you will, have really upended some bits of the president s agenda, you know, he had big victories this w