education system a boost. he joined governor christie and mayor booker at learning plaza in morning, both acknowledged the gift earlier on morning joe saying they were committed to making the donation count. what will define our success will not be the incredible generosity of mark zuckerburg. that s an amazing tool in the tool box but the architects have to be there. we agree on so many things that our view especially on the view of education we need to take this on and we need to take it on directly and we need to do it for the kids of our state. all right. well, you can go to education nation.com to find out more and we ll be back in a minute. we are waiting mayor michael bloomberg who will be live from education plaza when we return. and lawrence o donnell to preview his new show the last word premiering tonight 10:00 p.m. eastern. we ll be right back.
school or any other reason, shoot me an e-mail at waytooearly@- waytooearly@msnbc. we ll read the best responses as always later in the show. the next 30 minutes will be a cram session. a lot to tell you about today including one leading united states congressman calling stephen colbert s capitol hill testimony the other day an embarrassment. plus, new york governor david paterson confronts his saturday night live likeness face to face in the snl season premiere. what critique could the real paterson have for the phony one? 5:30 a.m. here in learning plaza in the heart of new york city. the white house and democratic leaders in congress are both acknowledging that a vote on the expiring bush tax cuts will likely not take place until after the midterm elections. house speaker nancy pelosi had
nation here on learning plaza. willie, you know what happens when somebody steps on a dog s tail? they bark. your man, the governor of the garden state is upsetting people all over the place. and they re going crazy because he s just doing what he said he was going to do. and then we ve got cory booker coming in, and what s happening in newark is exciting. new jersey politics, your hometown, home state. their relationship speaks to what we ve said many times on this show, there s one issue where republicans and democrats seem to be able to get together. two presidents in a row, one republican and one democrat with a hunger to shake up the education establishment. we won t have the change we need without people like governor christie and the last two presidents who are demanding change. mika, you look across the political spectrum and really just about everybody supports
we re out here on learning plaza. time for a dose of the news you can t use. as you know if you ve watched snl over the last couple years, they ve done a running david paterson sketch where they ve killed him without mercy. two nights ags go on the season premier, mr. paterson himself, the real governor of new york showed up to face off with the guy who has been playing him. stop, stop, stop. [ cheers and applause ] say, i see you re still sporting the beard. yes, aim. i shaved that off a year ago. are you blind? touche. give governor paterson credit for being a good sport. he was a good sport. coming up on the top of the hour, secretary of education arne duncan, new jersey governor chris christie and newark, new
61 yards to the end zone for the score. he threw for three touchdown, ran for another eagles win, 28-3. much more from the nfl coming up on morning joe. baseball, yankees and red sox in the sunday nighter. top of the ninths, yanks up 2-1. to shut the door. no, bill hall, rbi single, goes under the glove of a-rod. red sox score to take a one-run lead. wow, they re about to sweep the yanks. bottom nine, robinson cano ties it at 3-3 are an rbi single. bottom ten, same score, tied up. bases loaded. 3-1 count. he walks in miranda for the game-winning run. boy, did the yankees need that. they avoid a sweep. they re now a half game behind the rays in the east. the rays lost yesterday. as we said, we re out here this morning on learning plaza as we at nbc have our eyes on education this week. there s so many remarkable success stories across the country. of people fighting to change the