Good evening. And welcome to mtp daily. Im chuck todd. Heres at winceals oyster house in mobile, al pam here because whatever happens down here in alabama on tuesday is going to send shock waves through American Culture and politics. Voters are about to decide if an accused child molester is going to join the u. S. Senate and a moment when all of washington is reeling from Sexual Harassment allegations. This is the dilemma facing the gop do they want roy moore to win down here . Or do they want him to lose . There are folks in the party trying to figure out which is worse. Not the president. Moments ago he boarded air force one and headed for the alabama border to hold a Campaign Rally at 8 00 p. M. Eastern tonight. Its clear, its purpose, to fire up roy moores base. This white house is now allin for moore. Which really is a stunning whiplash, because their position on moore has gone from this just a few weeks ago is this senate seat that important . Theres no senate seat more importan
american history, watching congressman john lewis, who s very personal courage and sack railway sacrifice 50 years ago made possible the election of president barack obama. both spoke at the foot of the pettus bridge and their words moved many to tears. it s a reminder that history is not past the struggle continues. in just a few hours thousands are expected to march across that same bridge once again, taking up the ongoing effort to ensure that american democracy is as real in practice as it is in principle. this morning we ll reflect on the president s speech and look ahead to the reason for today s march. i ll be joined by some of those charged with extending the legacy of selma, including the naacp s cornell brooks and the secretary of housing and urban development, huljulian castro. these are ongoing struggles. adds you mentioned, people from around the country are in selma today to make the same journey activists took in 1965 when they were attacked tear gassed and
remains the weakest from any recovery since the great depression of the 1930s that is a precise state of the state of this recovery. 8.3% is the unemployment rate. it did not decline anymore. that is not a good rate at this stage of the recovery. i have one more item for you, martha. that is the debt situation. february, a record deficit, $229 billion. never been higher than that in any month ever. 229 billion in that one month. now that means that we re going to have to probably borrow more money, raise the debt ceiling before the november election. that is politically very, very important. so it is a modest recovery. we re running deeper and deeper into debt. those are the headlines on the economic front this morning. martha: stuart, we ll be chewing over that a lot this morning. thank you so much, stuart varney of the fox business network. we ll see you soon. gregg: let s put this in some context here. the jobless rate has exceeded 8% for 30 straight months. that is the lo
us from fox business network. how would you characterize this report over all, stuart? you have to say thus far this is a very modest recovery. this is not a booming recovery by any means. the fact, martha recovery remains the weakest from any recovery since the great depression of the 1930s that is a precise state of the state of this recovery. 8.3% is the unemployment rate. it did not decline anymore. that is not a good rate at this stage of the recovery. i have one more item for you, martha. that is the debt situation. february, a record deficit, $229 billion. never been higher than that in any month ever. 229 billion in that one month. now that means that we re going to have to probably borrow more money, raise the debt ceiling before the november election. that is politically very, very important. so it is a modest recovery. we re running deeper and deeper into debt. those are the headlines on the economic front this morning. martha: stuart, we ll be chewing over that
you are misquoting it. what i said is that union members that agreed with his political message that we should not allow ourselves to be i didn t tell them anything. what would be wrong with you going in there and saying to your union crew, i m glad s pal pam and glenn beck invoked dr. king s policy. whenever his policy is mentioned and his name that would have been good with the country. what would be wrong with what i said? i have to agree with you? it is defining. people have the right to say we disagree with what they are saying politically. that is not divisive. now, we have a country that i don t agree with you, i m being divisive? bill: it s legacy as your own