symptoms but ignoring the disease that say government run by six major industries from energy to defense to banking, all of whom are perpetuating ei monopoly and anti-business models, sucking it out of america. our president for his part now promising to set deficit targets. he, too, likes to avoid the base issues. his targets he sees as a place to start negotiations. speaker boehner pouncing on even that suggestion. i think what we re going to end up having to do, probably, is to set some targets. and, say, you know, those targets have to be hit. and tax increases start taking place. i don t want phony gaps. i don t want phony targets. we know what the challenges are, why don t we go tackle the problems? all of this has the vice president continues to meet behind closed-doors with the gang of six, which is where the latest legislation is likely to actually be hammered out. joining us now, msnbc news mike at the white house, where are we headed? just like a chamber of
help and assistance that we can in the days and months to come. good morning. it is tuesday, march 15th. welcome to morning joe. with us on set here in washington, msnbc political analyst, pat buchanan. also the washington correspondent for bbc world news america, catty kay, and former white house chief of staff of president george w. bush, andy card in the studio with us this morning. we will show some of the headlines just to show big ones. what a big story this is. catty, you lived in japan over three years. give us your insight on some images we are seeing. i was there for the kobe earthquake that was in 1995. we are all focused on the nuclear crisis. all of those families who have lost somebody, lost parents, you re hearing the japanese talking in muted ways about their loss. but for japanese, who find expressing emotion in public very hard and it s not in their culture, that s like having histrionics. this is a society going through mass shock at the momen