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rahm emanuel s vacated chief of staff post is being held temporarily by roust. w rouse. who has the ability to occupy this important position? you voted. it s betty white. put a tiger in your tank. welcome back to morning joe. we re live in washington. live look at the white house and with us now, nbc news you were at the white house yesterday. yes, i was, joe. what were you doing at the white house? chuck todd joins us. valerie asked me to moderate a panel to get more on women owned small businesses growing in this country. it was fun. we had a great panel. marie johns from the sba, dr. rebecca blank on the left and teresa daytner runs a construction company, has six kids, runs a huge corporation. her husband works for her and a had to teach him how to ask for
no connection. that s interesting. good to know what they re talking about. good morning. it s october 5th. we re here in washington d.c. one of barack obama s funniest line, these speeches you go to, and they re so boring barack obama saw john boehner out there and they have a lot in common. he s a person of color just like i am but his color has never been found in the natural world. that s good! a speechwriter. was that the speechwriter in you that remembers that? i had to cover that at msnbc while everybody else was at dinner. the it was hilarious. the president loved the line so much he started laughing in the middle of it. that s what i love about watching him give those speeches. he always he ll get halfway through the line and just start laughing. it s kind of like me starting to tell the joke and not knowing we will get to the end of it. we have willie geist. i think it s good john boehner didn t go on there and say barack obama is a mar
more jobs are being created but don t tell that to small business owners. the national federation of independent business optimism index was down significantly in april with weak sales and a sluggish economy keeping them from hiring. this comes as washington prepares to celebrate national small business week with a number of events, awards and presentations. marie johns is deputy administrator of the small business administration. and ken yancy is a chief executive officer. great to see both of you guys. thank you, j.j. thank you, j.j. the optimism index was negative, negative, negative and then suddenly we saw positivity in it. it is a little more volatile now than it had been the past few years. marie, what do you think is going on? here s what s going on, j.j. we are coming out of the worst economic downturn from the great depression. and the good news is that small businesses are leading the way. you know the statistics. half the people working in the country today are work