you give love a bad name oh, the jersey s coming out this morning. newark mayor cory booker joins our panel. you know if you signed up the whole political thing you could coanchor the show. if you decide presidential bid is not that interesting, we would love to have you. you don t get love a bad name. thank you. see, he flatters me. you guys don t flatter me. you are back. we love having you. you ve advised the buchman campaign and romney campaign. ron braun seownstein, you re so. that s happening. tim pawlenty, of course, the former minnesota governor and also former presidential candidate will be joining us this morning. and alice stewart, press secretary. she s going to talk to us. reince priebus, chairman of the rnc and kevin dewine is slated to talk to us as well. we re going start by looking right at the numbers. mitt romney landing six victories on super tuesday. it was a nail biter in ohio. 38% to santorum s 37%. ultimately like the difference of something li
hard-earned money. some simple thingsckpñ you can our financial experts will fill us in on how to live on less. but first, let s turn to washington, shall we, where this time next week we could see some government agencies shutting down because they will be out of money. lawmakers are still arguing over a new spending plan to keep everything up and running. they re off this weekend after days and days of bickering, the biggest sticking point here is over money for disaster relief. republicans in the house say any monies for fema must be offset by alternative energy programs. democrats say, huh-uh. that s the danger to this country is the $14 trillion deficit and the $ 1.6 trillion we add to it every year. wake up! wake up! you can t kill these programs. this is the solution you are killing. the senate majority leader harry reid sans intends to push for a vote monday on the compromised package. deputy political director paul steinhauser explains why republicans are in
out a plan palatable to both sides, and there s a separate push for the balanced budget amendment. the president suggested this morning that the u.s. doesn t have time have for any proposals. we don t need a constitutional amendment to do our jobs. the constitution already tells us to do our jobs and to make sure that the government is living within its means and making responsible choices. so it this notion that we re going to go through a multi-year process instead of seizing the moment now and taking care of our problems is a typical washington response. we don t need more studies. we don t need a balanced budget amendment. we simply need to make these tough choices and be willing to take on our bases. everybody knows that. so august 2nd is the looming deadline. that s the day when the treasury warns the u.s. will have to decide which bills it will pay and which ones won t get paid. with no talks scheduled at the white house today, house republicans offering up their o
about good guys and bad guys, we turn to frank bailey s book and wow, the image is devastating, backed up by 250,000 e-mails which apparently he s saved, which is a stunning number. i must be getting that wrong. he says, i m convinced her priorities and personality are not only ill-suited to head a political matter or occupy national office, about you would lead to a disaster of, well, biblical proportions. wow, that s an insider saying that. what does that tell you about palin? i think you have to remember a couple things. one, the book does have 50,000 e-mails there. it s a scathing tell-all, but the palin camp looks at people like frank bailey, like this book, as they really kind of take inspiration from it. as i said before, now he s one of the bad guys, trying to keep them down. they really do it sounds
giving the family slack. what role did he play? take me behind the curtain. you know, todd pushed the palin brand a lot. he would tip us off to her mood and what ideas we should spring for the day. he would send e-mails. i found myself the book talks about how often todd would push me to do one thing, sarah would be denying that i was doing it. certainly something that i got embroiled in in 2008 was full of those moments. you talk a lot about how todd is saying don t tell sarah and sarah is saying, don t tell todd. that s right. what was it like in the palin camp after the katie couric interview and what did she really think of her job in alaska? stay right there. we ll also get to the live coverage of the severe weather