don t talk about nothing. we have a tight block. will you be quiet now. don t tell me to not talk about vermont or i ll talk about vermont, chris. you should know the rules by now. we had a great time. and your kids. susan loved vermont. she loved it. can t we do this show out of new england? wood stock. woodstock. joining us now the chairman of the democratic national committee. and former governor tim kaine. how about virginia, can i talk about virginia? it s a fine state. and in washington, special correspondent for vanity fair maureen orth who has a blog on vf.com about sarge shriver. tell bus sarge. he was the guy that when president said ask not what your country can do for you, he the instrument by which all these thousands of young americans joined the paets corps and went
that will translate well with thinking in 2012. we all know a year from now, six months from now, we have to keep at it every day. maureen, there will be a new nbc news/ wall street journal poll out, i have not heard be i have no information from chuck todd on it, i know there is going to be a huge jump in the polls for barack obama. what a political resurrection over the past month or so? what do you think s happening? i watched his speech in arizona on the other network. down in columbia. i was absolutely fascinated. i think the american people are decent and good people and i want to be healed. they want to feel good about their government. i think they want the best things to prevail. he s trying to reach out and touch the best parts of us so we
to different parts of the world and fulfilled that promise. for them to learn about other places and to be taught a few things by us, we learned a lot more from him. he was this cool guy that had so much enthusiasm and love of life. he was a hero in world war ii. he was an ambassador to france. he ran the war on poverty. the great thing, this year it s the 50th anniversary of its founding was the peace corps. i was a peace corps volunteer in columbia. i still go down there and work there. i just got back monday. i owe it all to sarge. he really was responsible for some of the richest parts of many of our lives. hey, maureen, talk a bit, if you would, i know you can, about sarge shriver, the man, the individual, a man of faith. right. a family man. a man he was go ahead. even when sarge died when he was 95 years old. in the last years he had bad
in a big way. patents are not respektd. why are they doing that. that s their short cut to economic it s going to help their economy. for sure. it helps china, it doesn t help us. u.s. exports to china have been growing tremendously. one of the fastest growing export markets we have. you have to give and take. we ll be talking about this much more. we have a big show this morning. tim kaine is going to join us, as well as maureen orth even george clooney. up next, why is president obama disappointed with his economic team? political has a sneak peek at an upcoming new york times article. and regis philbin announces his retirement. what names are being floated around to take his place? let s go to bill for the morning weather forecast. today will be a little bit
secretary of state. i m looking forward to returning to private life, something i haven t had the experience of for a long time now. and i m proud to serve this president. i think we ve made a real difference in restoring american leadership and credibility around the world. but i do look forward to having a little more spare time and a few more hours just to take a deep breath, which seems kind of hard to have in this job. she is so great. up next, vanity fair s maureen orth and dnc chair tim kaine joins us on set. keep it right here on morning joe. [ female announcer ] it can creep up on you. dry skin.