a lot of people on both sides of the aisle, including the liberal columnists are giving it a big yawn. and clinton, speaking of columns you wrote a very interesting one about mark leibovich s book this town, and you talk about how the power brokers are operating and d.c. where the average citizen lives and certainly different worlds, but is that indicative of the problem of the leaders that they are refusing to work together while the people they serve suffer. yes, if you look at the income gap that exists of the people in the district, it is one of the high nest the nation, and there are people living literally 10 to 15 blocks from the white house in strict poverty and that is the case all over america. if it is the case in d.c. where the president lives and works, it is obviously the case in america, and the way that you look at d.c. shows the way the rest of the nation exists as well. can i ask you, representative
we saw the pictures there of everybody doing the massive flash mob dance. it looked as you said, simple steps, but putting 3 million people together in sync is another thing entirely, but the enthusiasm was a common thread. it is all good. claudio lavana, thank you so much. in a new candid interview president obama is sharing the mission of the remainder of his presidency. he is going to focus on the economic struggles of the middle-class. i want to make sure that all of us in washington are investing as much time, as much energy, and as much debate on how we grow the economy and grow the middle-class as we have spent over the last two the three years arguing about how we reduce the deficit. nbc s kristen welker is at the white house for us, and another good day to you. pretty in-depth interview here, and what more are you taking
the upon arrival monday. he was headed to downtown rio and you probably remember the amazing pictures of the crowd almost mobbing the pope. and now, of course sh, they mus have learned a lesson from that that and then the trip continued in a much more orderly fashion, but this was a hugely successful first international trip for the pope. he has been driving down coca cabana four nights in a row, and each single night millions of people just kept coming for him, and of course, he addressed important religious issues here. he wants to reinvigorate the church in latin america, and in a church at the cathedral here, he told the bishops, look, you need to be more like missionaries and get out of the church and go get the faithful instead of waiting for them to come the you. and now, of course, the pope is going to be gone, and we will see if it has any effect whatsoever on the churches of south america, alex. i am so excited to say that
crashed into a barge on the tappan zee bridge, and the groom or the bride and the best man to be were thrown from the boat and missing. one body has been found and four others were seriously injured and they are all in the hospital right now, including the groom to be who suffered serious head wounds and has not been able to speak according to the family. the driver is jo-jo john, and he is 35 years old and the police have charged him with vehicular manslaughter and vehicular assault and they have reason to believe that he was intoxicated at the time. here is in critical condition, and he was arraigned in his hospital bed yesterday, alex. okay. katy tur, nbc, with us with those socioing details. and controversial star jones is very busy and she has a new project in the fall that you will hear about first, but we begin to talk about the interview she got with o.j.
and now, of course, president obama making those comments in the wake of the trayvon martin trial. president obama also slammed congressional republicans for what he called their austerity approach to dealing with the budget, and republicans have called for a scaling back domestic spending and also repealing president obama s health care laws, and alex, the budget battles are around the corner and of course, one of the biggest ones is going to be the debt ceiling fight and we know it is a knock down-drag down fight and we expect it to be another one in the next few weeks. the president is hitting the road to chattanooga, tennessee, tuesday where he is going to call for investment in manufacturing. thank you, kristen welker at the white house. we have more political headlines. secretary jack lew will weigh in on the latest talk of a possible government shutdown over the government. congress needs to get the work done and fund the kinds of things that the american middle-class ne