you might still get laid, but you re not going to feel that great about it. top of the morning on the east coast. it is friday, july 1. welcome to morning joe. with us on set, national fair editor john heilman. and the director of the earth institute, dr. jeffry sachs. how are you all doing? great. the mets are hot. on fire. i ll be there on sunday. country is on the verge of economic break, but you need to take a break. take a break and rest. and do what? watch baseball. a fun weekend in baseball. dr. sachs, how are you? blasted republicans for not making a deal. now, the republicans are striking back. the push for raising taxes on the wealthiest americans. republicans say this is not an option, slamming the president on capitol hill yesterday. what i would like to see them do is agree on the outline of a ten-year plan. whoa, whoa, whoa. that was the wrong soundbyte. that was bill clinton tj, did my phone call to you this morning shake you up
fortune magazine. he s for himself. the president wants to trim 4 trillion over 12 years. here we dgo. here we go, mika. watching the president throw his first punches and paul ryan on the other side, where are we in this battle? then i go back to those great you re too young to remember this but these guys aren t. great cosell interviews between mohammed and joe frazier. we re not in the first round, where ali is yapping and saying he will do this and frazier on the other right now, this is you talk about silly season, this is silly season. mark halperin, this was really underlined by some shocking information that came out last night from the cbo about this great budget bill that was going to save $38 billion this year. it saves 1% of that. maybe. maybe 1% of that. they re still playing with numbers, these republicans and democrats. silly season. when the economics of that are explained to some of these new members of congress, they may not be willing to
home, i don t want to suggest i am, quite frankly. if i go home and get a gun and shoot you, that may not be legal under new york law you d have lots of explaining to do. i d be in a lot of trouble then. but i couldn t do that under a definition of self-defense. okay. so, that s what i was trying to explain in terms of why, in looking at this as a judge, i m thinking about how that question comes up and how the answer can differ so radically given the hypothetical facts before you. the problem is, is we think, we doctors think like doctors, hard to get out of the doctor skin. judges think like judges and lawyers think like lawyers and what american people want to see is inside what your gut says and part of that is why we re having this here. i want to move to one other area. you ve been fairly critical of justice scalia s criticism of the use of foreign law and making decisions. and i would like for you to cite for me either in the constitution or in the oath tha