create new jobs. but it takes time for those jobs to work themselves through the economy. you re talking about other shocks to the system here, which really are undermining people s confidence in the economy. talk about some of those. well, you know, the odd thing is that if you look back a month, two months ago, the economy was really braced for a recovery that was more robust than most people had predicted. then all of a sudden at the beginning of may we seem to have run into a brick wall. we saw a precipitous decline in consumer confidence and in business confidence. and a lot of it is brought on by the fact that we have these shocks to the economy. what a shock means is that there is it a normal pattern of spending and investing doesn t occur, all right? one of the shocks is creating a lot of uncertainty is just this persistent european debt crisis. yes, yes. another one is the gulf oil spill. that crisis, crisis after crisis, shock after shock. right. and interestingly
much. the odd thing is here when a volcano explodes, there is both a negative and positive impact as well. jeff goodell recently set out to learn more about cutting edge technology and reversing the effects of climate change. he joins me as we kick off green week on msnbc. when you have this ash in the air, it blocks the sunlight. you talked to scientists who are looking at similar ways of trying to reflect back some of that sunlight. one of the things that scientists are looking at is putting small particles high up into the atmosphere which can then act as tiny mirrors to reflect away sunlight. only a small amount and you can actually cool down the planet. they re also talking about making the clouds more reflective. how would they do that? all you have to do is shoot up some of the ideas, to
taxes though they get something in return for that. there is also an odd thing in polling about taxes. one shows 69% of americans chose 20% as the maximum tax rate anyone should pay. of course, the maximum today is 35% and under president obama it will go up to almost 40%. that suggests the tolerance for higher taxes is pretty low. megyn: what is rich? when we talk about the rich paying all the taxes, what is that? reporter: almost no one who makes $50,000 or less should be paying anything. if you have child tax credits and you have children and you take advantage of several tax credits you are not going to pay anything. there are a lot of people on the lower end of the income scale who make a profit off the income tax system. they get what in washington parlance are refundable tax credits which means you get a
do their job. lastly, a woman robs her bank because it was on her bucket list. also on the list, jump out of a plane, eat an ostrich burger, kill 42 people and drive a race car. it is true. you can t say it is true. you have to deny that. deny all you want. the odd thing is she now says robbing the bank was the only thing on her bucket list. seriously. i don t think she really understands what a list is. that s true. i m done. see you later, andy. nice to have him back. baker. baker was like the older brother i never had. andy is way outside the bar. let me welcome back our guests. remi spencer, criminal defense attorney. if charm was a treasure, i would life for that booty. and he is so sharp he sleeps on a dart board. and john gibson, the host of the john gibson show.
wasting their time. we don t trust them to do their job. and so, you know, we ll get some crazy old white coot on a pickup with a 50-cal machine gun cruising his neighborhood to do god knows what. but calling it exodus is just simply another way of linking it to this bible-based, reconstructionist, crazy movement in our country that essentially has ceded from the union within our own nation, as i talk about in my book. we have a bunch of people who don t believe in america anymore and the odd thing is they wrap themselves in the flag, call themselves patriots. and this is just crazy, and of course it fits in with this larger trend you see for instance with the blackwater people, who are private army, run by a reconstructionist fanatic christian guy who have gone all over the world working with the cia but not under the control of the real government. well, this is just sort of the rube version of that on a smaller scale but part of a larger trend and it bodes very ill for our country a