john ridley is back with us. i only got a part of the day in yesterday. a full day today. it s like working at fox con in china. the wages are lower here, though. that s the difference. joining us in washington, matt lewis, great to see you. thanks for being here as well. thank you. the view walkout. i didn t see it live. i missed history. what happened, norah? should we start with that? let s begin with that infamous walkout on the view where whoopi and joy left the live show in protest of bill o reilly s comments on muslims. here is how it went down. let me break this to you. 70% of americans don t want the mosque down there. where is that poll? what are you talking about? no, no. oh, my god. muslims didn t kill us on 9/11? is that what you re saying. extremists. i don t want to sit here now. i don t. you re outraged about muslims killing us on 9/11. you have just seen what should not happen. we should be able to have discussions without
cuts and republican all of the republican ideas that they want to, in this pledge, you would essentially have to get rid of national parks, no more small business administration loans, no more export subsidies and no no to everything. you have to get rid of everything else. aren t the tea party activists who are behind the current movement in the republican party, aren t they say no more to this stuff? well, right. this is what is so important politically right now is that the tea partiers and now the house republicans are saying we have to cut spending across the board. but then they do put big area of spending off limit. don t touch spending for seniors or the troops or veterans at this point, which leaves you with a much smaller universe of spending you can cut and makes it hard to make a significant dent in the budget deficit but they don t take the next step to go through the different line items and say we think that national park staff needs to go down and the nation
alabama. orange beach is seeing tarlike globs with oozing waves of dark brown surf. meanwhile, the clock is ticking for bp. the coast guard has given the oil giant just this weekend to wrap up efforts to contain the gushing oil n. a letter to the company the coast guard is complaining bp an pace is too slow. bp says it will respond by tonight. and president obama makes another trip to the gulf coast tomorrow. it will be his fourth to the region since the disaster began. we ll have more on that coming up. let s go now to the residents of the gulf as more oil washes ashore, many say they feel helpless as the disaster reaches day 65. to see this oil, the fish swimming up underneath it, it s heartbreaking. when they die this whole culture and this whole way of life that is, like i say, generations old, will not exist anymore. nbc s charles hadlock is live for us in venice, louisiana. charles, let s talk about the containment with the coast guard asking bp to do it more
were talking, can the conservatives put together a coalition with the liberal democrats? the liberal democrats are to the left of the labor party on many numbers. the numbers are there. if they do a deal with liberal democrats, they can run the country. but there s no way, there s no way, we can say this right now, that gordon brown will be prime minister. it s going to be very difficult, very difficult. you have a real crisis in britain. they have a deficit now larger than greece s deficit, 12% of gdp. greece s is is down a little because of the austerity. that s what this hung parliament, divided government is going to have to deal with. all i can say, sam stein, if you ve been wanting to go to europe, travel to europe, if you ve been disheartened because the dollar s been battered over the past decade, by this summer, greece may be up in flames but the dollar will be strong. should go to athens. i want to avoid the protests but it s an xik mess. it goes t
what s going on on capitol hill? that is anybody s guess. what you have to understand and imagine is a house of cards. imagine a house of cards built on leverage. not that much money there and a lot of borrowing. all this 30, 40, $50 in the market for every dollar that s actually there. now imagine high frequency trading computers or technology effectively gets involved because the banks lost their profitability years ago because of technology. so they invented these systems where they do this hyper trading to take pennies out for no reason. just to make money. now, the greek debt, fat finger, pick your favorite catalyst. if it hits a system, it exhibits behavior like this. if it hits a stable market, things have real value, you don t get what happened yesterday. it s only through the hyper speed, hyper leverage bank mark to myth economy that you get behavior like this that. i want to know about hyper influence. i was listening to criticism today, eamon, about the credit