tax cut. i love that clip. we didn t actually i don t know that you could see it. but there s, either actually removing the flag from the floor as stenny hoyer is trying to bring up the senate bill. joining us now is luke russert who covers capitol hill for nbc news. give us a little bit of background on this is a fluid situation as we know. what is going on? well it s now a game of optics alex. whichever side feels they re going to win the pr war is going to end up winning this fight. but the house gop is in a very precarious situation this morning. for a few reasons. number one, the article in the wall street journal, it was almost the authority of kind of sophisticated republican politics, really slamming them for this fight. that will resonate with a lot of rank-and-file members who don t want to be on the wrong side of the wall street journal. on top of that, they re not get anything support if their colleagues in the senate. mitch mcconnell has been silent a
going to focus on the key issue this election season, the economy with jared bernstein, chief economic adviser to vice president biden. jon: happening now in our fox news room, we are getting brand new political polls from key battle ground states, plus breaking news is coming in from across the country and around the world, our domestic desk covering the united states, our international desk watching events unfolding around the globe, and our media desk, bringing in all of the video and live pictures for you, 24 hours a day. jenna: well, today is the last big round of primaryies before november, and midterm races heating up in battle ground states across this country. molly henneberg is here with brand new poll numbers for us. le molly. reporter: hi jenna. great to have you here in washington with us today, we re thrilled to have you here. fox news is going to have a new round of polls from battle ground states every tuesday up until the midterm elections. this week, one
from tennessee and the author of the new book, more davids than goliaths, democrat harold ford. congressman from indiana and the chairman of the house republican office, mike pence. vanity fair s national editor, and nbc s andrea mitchell. from nbc news in washington, meet the press with david gregory. good morning, it has been 111 days since the explosion of the deep water horizon hoyle rig in the gulf of mexico, the leak has been plugged, but there are many questions that remain here with us now, live this morning in an exclusive interview, the president s top environmental and energy adviser carol browner, welcome back to meet the press. the split screen, the before and after, is striking. we ll put it up now. when the oil was gushing, this is what it looked like on the left and now it has been plugged on the right. the headline in the times pick union down in new orleans really begs the question, end in sight as cement pumped into the rogue well. is the cr