one of them falls short in alabama. plus, politics and plagiarism. you know what that is never a good pair. find out who is landing in the crossfire on that one. first, our washington speak of the day, investigate, checking into a the background of a person for office to make sure there is no skeleton lurk. the investigate happens before the person is offered the jobs. two sets of vetting, yesterday the president announced the appointment of jack lou to be the next budget director, he has been vetted once, he is in a confirmed senate position at the state department to manage their budget there, however this is a different job and yesterday the white house was being a little bit defensive about whether his time at citigroup running a hedge fund, whether that needed to be revetted, essentially, before he accepted this job. those questions in the press briefing are what can be called
also wanted to hear from president obama. the judge said no they wanted to see the notes from his fbi interview, which he gave before he was inaugurated as president and the judge said no. so, we will just have to wait and see who does finally appear went defense mounts its case, beginning on monday. i think things aring about about to get real interesting, sounds like the illinois governor wants some company there in that chicago courtroom. john yang, thanks for reporting, i know we will check become with you. the tapes will be good enough alone. president obama is dipping into the clinton personnel files for this choice to replace peter orszag at the office of management and budget. jacob jack lou held that omb job at the end of the clinton administration and the white house is not shy to remind us he was the last budget director to leave behind a surplus. let s bring in the budget man himself, douglas holtz aiken, former director of the congressional budget office. doug, i g
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