disappointed. wait. you re with i ll never print this magazine, right? it s questionable. good morning. top of the hour. 6:00 on the east coast. welcome to morning joe. what is it? wednesday? june 23rd. it s only wednesday! can you believe that? no. i actually asked somebody in the elevator coming up, is it friday? i almost asked that yesterday. on the set with us is colonel jack jacobs. the author of if not now, when? good to have you here. good to be here. a spectacular successful book. also newsweek editor and need to know on pbs, jon meachem is back bus. a long week for us but a much longer week for general mcchrystal. maybe a shorter week for him. starting yesterday morning. good point. let s get the historical context, first. because, yesterday, john, the analogies we drew. can you think of a higher profile conflict with a major general and commander in chief chief macarthur and obama and mcchrystal? one is lincoln. if you re not going
theoretically steal the oil and divert the gusher to two new intercepting wells. which in turn will catapult it to waiting container ships. this blueprint is stabilizing but with up to 50 million gallons already in the water, a partial stoppage of the oil in place, and more reduced leakage to come, of the crisis goes on, endangerment spreads and most of it poisonous. some critics are asking where s the president? not the bp president but the u.s. presidthis hemispheric crisis? we learned today, he he hasn t even spoken with the chief executive officer of bp. how could it be that the person who s actually doing the work to try and cap this spill hasn t even spoken to the president of the united states? it s the president s job to be leading this entire effort. governor romney contrasted obama with other crisis managers. rudy giuliani mayor of new york, 9/11. jfk, u.s. president cuban missile crisis. that s what leaders do. these guys at bp have done very bad things and o
nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight from san francisco. good evening. we re coming to you from the embarcadero along the san francisco bay tonight. a little bit why we re in northern california later in this broadcast, but we want to start with some major developments in the gulf coast oil disaster. for the first time, bp says it has managed to start siphoning some of the gulf gushing from that underwater well into a tanker ship. but newly identified underwater plumes of oil, one up to ten miles of long and hundreds of feet thick, that threaten to do far more damage than many had feared. nbc s mark potter is in venice, louisiana, with more on today s developments. mark, good evening. reporter: good evening, lester. with an engineering success, there s a ray of hope that at least some of that oil spill will be reduced now, but that s being tempered by the new environmental concerns. after weeks of defeat in trying to control the underwater oil leak, the succe
embarcadero along the san francisco bay tonight. a little bit why we re in northern california later in this broadcast, but we want to start with some major developments in the gulf coast oil disaster. for the first time, bp says it has managed to start siphoning some of the gulf gushing from that underwater well into a tanker ship. but newly identified underwater plumes of oil, one up to ten miles of long and hundreds of feet thick, that threaten to do far more damage than many had feared. nbc s mark potter is in venice, louisiana, with more on today s developments. mark, good evening. reporter: good evening, lester. with an engineering success, there s a ray of hope that at least some of that oil spill will be reduced now, but that s being tempered by the new environmental concerns. after weeks of defeat in trying to control the underwater oil leak, the success today was seen says an important breakthrough. engineers were finally able to insert the end of a nearly mile-lo
eyes are going to be on california. some hot primaries coming up in juneth, next month. number nine, utah senate, the republicans. lee versus bridgewater with republican leaders cold to a bob bennett write-in, one of the candidates who knocked off the first 2010 incumbent will likely be the state s next u.s. senator. south carolina governor. it s a crowded field. today sarah palin formally endorses nicky hailey before she heads to north carolina. and jenny sanford who is divorcing the current governor follows a dr. phil appearance with campaign stops, as well. the south carolina governor is of course, a presidential king maker. arizona senate, mccain versus hayworth. hayworth won t let mccain s forget mccain s attempts as the immigration reform. mccain is trying to convince voters he s one of them. take a look at this ad. of all the illegals in