it is a democrat, former presidential candidate, that s actually talking about impeachment. a little over the top. i wouldn t talk about impeachment if write the president. we talked about whether or not he should be in latin america. what i said to you what howard is trying to say is he wants to make sure that people see that split screen of the president working on jobs, while also dealing wore problems on other fronts. i don t know why that s an issue. it is a very wasn t there you would be criticizing him. no, that s not the case. the problem is let s go to norah o donnell in washington. official washington, right now, you can look look at op-eds on the left and right. politicians on the left and right. many of them from barney frank to rand paul believe this president muddled his way into libya. they are very concerned with how this war began. you are absolutely right. on the right and left in congress, they are angry and upset with the president about u.s. invol
state supreme court whose ruling could have major implications for the governor s proposed budget. the new york times recently discovered piece of film shows babe ruth like he rarely has been seen before, video was founded in illinois cellar and believed to have been shot near sioux city, iowa in 1927. shows about three minutes of ruth in his prime along with lou gehrig. you can see the video on the new york times website. even you could be excited by that. 27 yankees and 2011 red sox. we have no chance this year against the red sox. chief white house correspondent from politico, mr. michael en. he has a look at the playbook. good morning. let s dive into 2012. not the presidential election. senate elections we could see a big change in power there. what are we seeing so far? how is it shaping up for republicans and democrats? we sure are. in another sign republicans are well positioned to talk control of the senate in 2012, giving them both chambers of congress,
see the push for democracy in egypt and elsewhere. now it happened by itself. which is a good thing. and i think the administration is coming to grips with it. but the important thing is to find a way to talk about democratic change without getting into the box that president bush got in when he allowed hamas to be elected in the palestinian territories. so we have to back democratic movements, democratic values, but we also have to believe in the principles that will ensure we have no more hamas takeovers in the middle east. all right, jamie, thank you so much. when we come back, carmelo anthony makes his debut in a knicks uniform. new york, new york goes crazy. tickets sell for as much as $10,000 apiece. carmelo is about as big in new york as norah o donnell is with
able to say completely inappropriate things to and about mika. i took personal offense to that, frankly. i know you were very offended by it all. mika s response and she is on a well-deserved break and going to be with her family over the next couple days. but i was with her yesterday when the news broke. she felt very badly for the governor and said that she hates these type of prank phone calls. but, again, i know donny and a lot of other people enjoyed it. let s get to this story and of course, there s much more important stories than this as well. let s go to norah o donnell, she s in washington, d.c. norah, i understand today you made the new york times crossword puzzle for the second time. that is huge. that s bigger than carmelo anthony debuting at madison square garden. you have arrived. well, i don t know. i don t know about that but thanks very much. and joe, you re right, there s a lot of news out there.
communicators wanted to use psychological operations against iraqi americans in detroit of all places. wow. it was the public affairs people who were caught up in that, that blew the whistle, quite frankly, leaked the information to reporters like me to bring that to an abrupt halt. boy, all right. jim, thank you so much for the update. if you get anything else over the next hour or so, we d love to come back and talk to you about it. you bet. we ll see how the psy-ops are. exactly. coming up, more with pat buchanan, norah o donnell, donny deutsch, harold ford jr. and mike barnicle. up next, the new cover of time magazine with the managing editor rick stengel. we ll see what time will have on the cover next week when we come back. keep it right here on morning joe.