spending today viewing the damage and cleaning up debris in very hot conditions. farther south, atlanta escaped storms, but lived up to its nickname, hotlanta, reaching an all-time high. with a look at today s temperatures, weather channel meteorologist ray stagich joins me now. thanks, richard. more heat the big weather story as we head through the south central part of the u.s. big dome of high pressure in place. large and in charge. take a look at numbers from yesterday, and in some cases, all-time record-high temperatures . over 40 daily records, at least 4 all-time records, and at home base in atlanta for the weather channel, 106 yesterday was an all-time record high. the extreme heat through monday will be continuing, this upper level high stays in place, plenty of sinking air, plenty of hot temperatures, even on sunday, no treat. 104 atlanta, 104 nashville. 104 in washington, d.c. the story on monday, still pretty steamy. upper 90s to low 100s. we ll continue to see
dean, and the republican governor of louisiana, mentioned as a romney running mate, bobby jindal. dean and jindal square off. finally, we ll get to the politics. our roundtable weighs in on the fights ahead. can the president sell health care to a still-skeptical public? can romney lead the charge against health care after passing an individual mandate himself in massachusetts? and the legacy of chief justice roberts. with us, our white house correspondent and political director chuck todd, the new co-he is of the today show and chief legal correspondent savannah guthrie, editor of the national review, rich lowry, and columnist for the washington post eugene robinson. good morning. you can imagine health care is all anyone s talking about in washington. well, that was the case until late friday night when this ferocious storm came through so suddenly in the mid-atlantic area, the ohio valley, west virginia, and it has reached so much havoc throughout the region, 2 mil
their state electoral processes to unlimited contributions from corporate donors. i just want to get your reaction to the court s actions here? it s bad, really bad. what essentially happens is when we had too much money in politics already, we made it constitutionally protected to have unlimited amounts of money. so, any corporation, which they haven t really been doing it that much, but these loopy billionaires out there and some self-conscious billionaire as who have been able to write the big, fat checks in these campaigns, just sometimes for willful reasons, but a lot of times for investment reasons. i think the first wave we re getting the accentric ones. right now it s the loopy and we ll get more of the strategic. here s the thing we haven t been talking about so much. we saw this unload in the republican presidential primary, which is quite expected. where this will make a difference is in the low-inco low-information races. an immense amount of money comes in
with us, fore chair of the democratic party, dr. heoward dean, and the republican governor of louisiana, mentioned as a romney running mate, bobby jindal. dean and jindal square off. finally, we ll get to the politics. our roundtable weighs in on the fights ahead. can the president sell health care to a still-skeptical public? can romney lead the charge against health care after passing an individual mandate himself in massachusetts? and the legacy of chief justice roberts. with us, our white house correspondent and political director chuck todd, the new co-he is of the today show and chief legal correspondent savannah guthrie, editor of the national review, rich lowry, and columnist for the washington post eugene robinson. good morning. you can imagine health care is all anyone s talking about in washington. well, that was the case until late friday night when this ferocious storm came through so suddenly in the mid-atlantic area, the ohio valley, west virginia, and
republicans blasting the president s health care law as a new tax. it s a penalty. it s a penalty that comes under the tax code for the 1% perhaps of the population who may decide they are going to be free riders, but most people not affected. a new tax on the american people? no, not a tax on the american people. a penalty for free riders. also new today, house speaker john boehner saying hey, not so fast. even though the president tried to admit for over a year that it wasn t a tax, nobody believed it, and now we know it. but it s getting in the way of employers hiring new workers. because of these increased costs of government-run healthxd insurance and the fact that if they don t, they have to provide a tax. president obama, asking supporters to shell out more cash. a new daily beast reportñr that describes a late-night conference call from air force one asking donors to send more money and send it now. and governor scott said it won t expand the medicaid