. well, why can t we all just get along? it may seem like members of congress don t even bother to try and the growing political gap is not just dividing washington, but the whole country. mike viquiera is the resident expert on all of d.c. s quirks, but i tell you, mike, it s a serious message. serious stuff. that s why i thought we would take a look. with a front row seat to this, call me naive, but i think the system works. in a world where negotiation is a sign of weakness where the only thing worse than partisanship is compromise and gridlock is not a game, it leads us to economic ruin. i was wondering why can t we be friends?
happen when is we are at a cliff and go over or a war or economics. the fiscal cliff? maybe that will force it. mike viquiera, you are the best at these. peeki i speaking of the gospel of washington, there is a book that to help you could the political world that has a few fun twists and lists that you are supposed to enjoy. joining me in studio, my man for the record. enjoy being the key word. for the record, we were going to be the first place. that are is true. breaking news dumped you not once or twice, but thrice. you are the last place, i understand. the point of the book and we joked about this before. there needs to be politics for dummies. yeah, yeah. i thank a lot of people
former president bill clinton will head two events. from there now to wisconsin, a final push, two days ahead of the recall election there. republican governor scott walker and milwaukee mayor tom barrett are visiting the very same campaign stop near green bay, that s happening right now. more reaction on today s jobs numbers and what to do about the economy on nbc meet the press. massachusetts governor duvall said president obama has done better job creating jobs than mitt romney did when he was governor of massachusetts. no one, including the president believes that the job gains are coming fast enough. it s clear that he s bucked the trend as distinct from governor romney who rode the trend, trailed the trend when he was governor of massachusetts. doesn t mean he was a failure as governor. the fact is we had a stronger economy then. we were out of recession when he came to power. more from nbc s mike viquiera at the white house. good sunday to you. let s get the latestest, the
say in response to duvall patrick. i don t tun what their plan is. when you don t have a good record, you know what you do in politics? you attack your opponent and try to shift the blame. what the president needs to do is come out and say how are we going to repair this economy. stop blaming congress. he was the guy that was going to unite the country. you don t need to have a fine-tuned radar to sense that the debate is changing in the wake of the numbers on friday. obama campaign officials were asked about it repeatedly on the sunday shows. change in the dynamic potentially over the course of the next several days here, alex. mike viquiera from the white house, thank you. joining me for front-page politics, nia malika henderson and msnbc slate contributor. we heard governor kasich saying that president obama has failed to come up with a jobs plan. it s a talking point that the romney surrogates have repeated
and been pilloried by supporters of gay marriage. you ve seen more solidarity coming from activists who you know, don t feel that positively about this religion. a lot of liberty graduates are going to come out of there saying that mormonism is not christianity. according to some of them that it s almost cultish. but they re in the same fox hole on a couple of, a couple of social issues. that s what he was emphasizing, i think it worked. how about you, erin, do you think the issue is a moot one now? it might be, we ll see. well we ll see you both again later, thank you so much. new today, jp morgan s ceo jamie dimon spoke exclusively with nbc s david gregory on meet the press. jamie dimon has been under fire since disclosing that the banking giant had a $2 billion trading loss. dimon said he was dead wrong when he disclosed concerns he had about the trading house last month. joining me is mike viquiera.