about what happens. we can t say over the problem with charter schools is they only serve some kid when is you are advocating for caps on the eveningive schools. you cannot say we want more resources to go to kids when in this city joel kline is spilling $100 million a year to pay for teachers who are not actually teaching. i get why that s good for the adults. explain how that is good for children. how is it good for children? ultimately michelle has her facts wrong. i don t want this to to be an issue between michelle and myself. the bottom line is they are trying to eliminate them back in 2004. where teachers have been taken from the classroom. i tried to eliminate them back in 2004 and i m glad we have been able to do that. the bottom line is this.
education nation. the united states wants a world leader in public education and it s now failing our children. of the world s 34 developed economies, american students ranked 24th in math, 17th in science, 10th in literacy. the public knows this all too well. in the wall street journal poll, an astounding 77%, more than 3/4 of the question give our schools a c, d, or an f grade. the man with a daunting challenge is here with me now. education secretary arnie duncan. for for participating in the conversations for education nation. as the key leader, you are showing us the way. let s talk about the rankings. finland, south korea singapore have 100% ratings of getting the top third students to choose to be teachers. we have something like 21% of the top third graduates going into primary education. how do we change that? we have to elevate the profession and make the teach prog fegzprofession. they are getting the hardest working and the best of the best and they are stayin
not fully estranged from him. we have to go but goldman sachs and government equally trusted by faith collapsed in every major institution. that s the biggest miscall collusion of obama. both have been in the cellar after the 2008 meltdown. voters just disgusted all around. right? ron . brownstein, thank you. lucky we didn t ask the media. i don t think the media fares much better. taking the pulse of the nation, time political columnist joel kline from pennsylvania to california. he s been on the road since labor day talking with voters and politicians in an election year with a political environment is worse than it s been in years and joe joins us from the road in madison, wisconsin. i think day eight, joe. great to have you here. love it is. i love the whole thesis of your trip here and i m just going to read so people know.
delay moving forward on these -f on tax relief for the middle class. with me w nbc s chief white house correspondent and political director chuck todd and also my co-host on the daily rundow nice to see you again. howdy. hello. feels like thefo white house is ready for a rumble with john boehner. we even expect the president to bring this up again this afternoon talking with the fairfax family about the economy. that s right. look. they think they have developed a foil in john boehner. right? the premise of ten days when the president went to cleveland, ohio, last week to go to the same city that john boehner went to a couple weeks before and trying to put a face on the republicans but wh s odd here, savannah, about the back and forth between the white house and john boehner about tax cuts ignores the political reality which is this proposal, this compromise, that supposedly happening or could happen and it s i think there s a lot of ifs in that one, caveats, ther
murkowski. wait a minute! i m sure that is a common alaska name. senator, thanks dad, appears to have been beaten bay candidate with little money and no real political connections. say, a sarah palin endorsement. who the hell is joe miller? i m joe miller. the true choice for senate in alaska. i m sorry. he is the son of the other alaska dynasty, the brawnys. welcome to morning joe, everybody. it is thursday, august 26th. joining us this morning, we ve already snapped adam. business column ust for the new york city andrew sorkin, author of this incredible book? really? oh, my god! you keep going. i appreciate it. wow. msnbc political analyst pat buchanan back with us this morning. right. you were on fire yesterday. i m a little scared. that s great. we have a lot to talk about. look at the top of the new york times. a question for you and for you. we find out karzai s top aide dirty and he has been on the cia payroll for a decade. that is a the new yo