sitting there smiling like he doesn t have a karp in the world. he, obviously, has the confidence of barack obama and is, obviously, repeating what he has heard from the president, right? there are three things about this that i think don t make sense. number one, you hear robert gibbs say we watch a lot of cable news. i thought the thing about the press shop what they bragged about their campaign efforts they didn t watch cable news and stayed out of it. this is one of those tempest in a teapot for that reason. number two, i can t figure out. i m sure the white house does not like the professional left and i m sure they feel the professional left is too focused on the public option and not on the fact they got health care forum and too focused on liz wedge warren and not focused on the fact they got financial regulation but why say it in a publication like the hill. what is the possible upside when you re considering that move? and my hunch on this is that it wasn t a planned attack
money for the democratic party and created this way where barack obama came in and was able to have success and there s a whole bunch of former democrats that worked on wall street and sort of one thing led to another and they were able to split that money. but what it s really bizarre about this is thernts doing a lot of this there is sort of this there is this fear they are going to do it and the reality is those guys aren t going to do these things that business is worried about. you re wondering is it a game of posturing? is this just a negotiating ploy? look. image does matter. the belief that you re not doing something harmful does matter. you don t want to be named a fat cat. no one wants to be a fat cat in this country. you can t be called a racist and don t want to be called a fat cat. every single guy on wall street is suddenly from new jersey. chris christie could raise $5 hundred million tomorrow to run for president of the united states. do you really think a guy w
welcome back to morning joe. want to update everyone. severe thunderstorm warning for the district of columbia including the white house. we are seeing thousands of lightning strikes. already heard reports of trees down and 60-mile-an-hour winds around silver springs and damascus. thunderstorm warning will continue for at least the next half hour. over the district of columbia. you can look at the radar itself. the worst in rockville and now the worst right over downtown d.c. up to silver springs. anyone traveling 495 loop up i-95 to the baltimore area give it another half an hour to an hour. we ve heard reports of 2 to 3 inches in rain in 30 minutes and flash flooding in the area. a lot of the roads are impassible. the lightning counter in the middle screen there in the black with the white text. 5,000 lightning strikes in the d.c. and baltimore area in the last hour alone and will create a lot of power outages in the region, too, let alone the airport delays we will see that will p
if only i had a path. you know, i ve been to a lot of funerals where they worked it out, but this damn sure ain t no funeral, is it? all of you have had experiences where you just wish you had a friend or someone to talk with, or someone to be with, and i ve been fortunate that i ve had my wife and my daughter who not only have stuck with me, but have given me the encouragement and sometimes given me a break by not even talking to me! how about al? we got to get al sharpton on to talk. is he great? i love that man. by the way, that was very touching. i i mean that. that was very touching because usually when something bad goes, everybody scatters. i got great respect for the people that were there. i always liked charlie. he s an american hero. his story in the korean war. he is guilty as hell but it was very moving and i m dead serious. as guilty as hell.
anybody nervous. they were similar, though. you re right, though. a lot of the corruption charges come out of the enter cities inner cities where guys have been able to take short cuts and get away with it. they are the great deal makers. exactly. and able to do great things as well. everybody has a blind spot. willie, you and me, it s heroin. but others have nay way. not sure where that came from. mom, i m just joking! it s self-deprecating humor at will willie s expense! yeah! that would explain a lot. that would explain a lot. still ahead here, mad money s jim cramer and bill bennett and our friend harold ford jr. did you see this yesterday? sextuplets gone wild on the today show. just a dorsch of some of the great news you can t use. for those of us who have lactose intolerance,