Comments. they say hoffa s comments do not require a response from the white house. i understand that there is a ritual in washington that, you know, somebody says something and you link and associate them to anybody that has an association with him or her somehow has to validate or not validate. mr. hoffa speaks for himself. he speaks for the labor movement. the president speaks for himself. i speak for the president. hoffa stands about it remarks. owe issued a statement that read in part, my comments on labor day in detroit echo the anger and frustration of american workers who are under attack by corporate founded politicians who want to destroy the middle class. we all have to vote in order to take the these anti-worker politicians out of office. that was from jim hoffa. he said he would never apologize for standing up for the american worker. the obama is considering leaving 3,000 troops, maybe a
Hathaway. i think we re going to go back to comedy. eddie murphy joins the likes of bob hope, johnny carson, chevy chase, billy crystal, chris rock, john stewart, whoopi goldberg, all those kind of people. some people suggesting this is a reach back into the past too much. i disagree. here s what funnier guy will farrell tweeted, really excited at the thought of eddie murphy hosting the academy awards. attributed to lots of people from 1982 to 1993. come on. give him a break. the daily show is back after two week vacation in august. and they walk right into a good one with jimmy hoffa s comments. as he opened for president obama at the labor day event in detroit, john stewart returns with puppets. teamsters union leader james hoffa jr., sure, no relation. took the stage to warm up the crowd from president of united states as only a foreman can. everybody s here s got to
I m glad you re up for this this morning watching on msnbc. shoot me an e-mail or tweet me and let me know what you re doing up this early. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this wednesday, september 7th. a lot to tell you about today including a response from both the white house and jim hoffa on the comments he made about congressional republicans at the president s labor day rally. plus, former presidential candidate tim paul lenwlenty co alive. we ll show you some great tea party a bit later. first, let s get to the news at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock. tonight, presidential hopefuls head to the ronald reagan library in california for
Tax credits to businesses for hiring new employees. there is common ground. they can act on that and he should stress there is common ground. room for bipartisanship, but he also needs to say some bold things about what a democratic president believes should be done to create jobs so the voters can make an intelligent choice next fall. it s not too early to do that. okay. yeah. one thing i like about john, historic sense. roosevelt had three stages. i think the american people would understand that. first of all, relief. people desperately looking for work besides more unemployment. and, two, recovery and then reconstruction. don t get the three layers confused. he s got to do something about the jobs right now. what president obama said this weekend in a speech of what it could include in terms of both republicans and democrats can get behind. he said, the president speak at a labor day rally in detroit teasing about what his strategy will be coming off this speech.
Historic sense. roosevelt had three stages. relief. people desperately looking for work besides more unemployment. recovery and then reconstruction. don t get the three layers confused. he s got to do something about the jobs right now. what president obama said this weekend in a speech of what it could include in terms of both republicans and democrats can get behind. he said, the president speak at a labor day rally in detroit teasing about what his strategy is coming off this speech. let s listen. we re going to see if we ve got some straight shooters in congress. we re going to see if congressional republicans will put country before party. we ll give them a plan and then we ll say, do you want to create jobs? then put our construction workers back to work rebuilding america. do you want to help our companies succeed? open up new markets for them to sell their products. you say you re the party of tax cuts? well, then, prove you ll fight