real and meaningful has been lost. we to want talk about that era he embodied, what was good about it, what wasn t and we want to talk about how politics are covered today, what s good about it and what isn t. we have a panel here that can speak to both jack germond s rare and today. bob franken, syndicated columnist and former cnn correspondent, msnbc contributor perry bacon jr. who covered the last three presidential elections for time, washington post and nbc sister site thegrio.com, and eleanor clift, the daily beast who has covered every presidential campaign since 1996 and appears on the mclaughlin group with jack germond. your credentials just dwarf mine all, but that s perfect. i want to hear from you guys. wolf, i ll start with you because you knew jack germond so
goldie taylor, always good to see you, perry bacon jr., boris epstein. thanks so much for being part of the brain trust. thank to you as well. next saturday, 2:00 eastern. first, disrupt with karen finney. have a great evening. you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin® because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. zyrtec® love the air. an arm wrestling match that mr. clean realized the way to handle bigger, tougher messes was better leverage. that s why he created his new magic eraser handy grip. it has a handle that firmly attaches to the eraser so you get better leverage and more oomph with less effort. it s the perfect magic eraser for making stuff that s big and tough not so tough, after all. mr. clean s handy grip the newest member of the magic eraser family.
before a microphone was no joke. flashbacks of this day in 1984 when president ronald reagan made some off the cuff remarks while preparing for his weekly radio address about outlawing the soviet union. that joke turned into an international embarrassment, increasing tensions in the already fragile relationship with russia. sound familiar? are we witnessing the start of perhaps a new cold war with russia? the brain trust is back on this sunday. goldly taylor, msnbc contributor, perry bacon jr., msnbc contributor and boris epstein. thanks for coming back. i didn t get your take on russia, perry. 201, we see tensions building between president obama and president putin. this is senator jock mccain s
straightforward and honest. that s right. look at where we are now. obama didn t criticize putin. he criticized him on a comedy show, jay leno. it tells you how far things have come. i forgot about the soul comment. perhaps his soul has changed, perry bacon. the headlines for the week, gold did i ta goldie taylor for next week. my headline is president obama in for a long, hot summer or should i say summers? i think that what s happening with larry summers as the potential nod for fed chairman is wrong-headed, misguided for any number of reasons. but i think he s close to this president. he s shown quite a bit of loyalty as part of this inner circle and may very well get the nod. that will in fact upset the president s base in ways i don t think we can cal late. it sounds like you re a
the two meeting over pints. we re going to have to patch things up. if we can sit down. i m inviting him for a beer. any time he d like to sit down. i m running for the senate for new jersey, i don t have time at the moment. i don t suspect i ll be there any time soon. i ve got work to do here. okay, he said he d look him up. will republicans be able to bridge this ideological gap? let s bring in perry bacon jr. from the washington post, jackie kucinich. and the managing editor. the co-host oh, teasing. wow. anyway. look, either day, chris alisa, it is easy to write this, oh, my