did you have a good weekend? great week end. mika went to the u.s. open and got rained out. yeah, great family time. we sat there in thrain wearing bags. oh, no. that s not good. went down to alabama. you guys had a good time. the tidet rolled. was it wonderful? pretty darn good. beautifulwealth sner. gorgeous. alabama was absolutely beautiful. it was a great game. what did you do after the first three minutes of the game? what i always do. ate hot dogs. you didn t. you did not eat hot dogs. thing with mittle kids, because i want to teach them how to get into sports. ery point a lot of times, the mascots do every pushup. i eat a hot dog for every point. had 24 h dogs. that s not true. you re just saying that. i can t get anything past you in new york, guys.
office. idate for any interesting. good ad, using the former calling jerry brown a liar and saying he raises tes, i d say that s a pretty good ad. jerry brown fires back with monica lewinsky. that s going nuclear. jerry brown attacks bill clinton these guys never liked each other. you go back to the 92 debates, it s uncomfortable. it does remind you of how good clinton is though. he is good. mike, tell us abouthis twitter war. mika reported at the top of the hour, robert gibbs and john boehner going back and forth 140 characters at a time. what s going on there? this shows how tunistic this white house is being. boehner made a comment on face the nation opening the door to negotiation on tax cuts. robert gibbs jumped on it. he s going to be on the morning shows pushing thpoint trying to argue that boehner has changed his position. yesterday robert gibbs did four
i m serious. this isn t evenan ideological question. who dreams that up? i don t know. i don t know. we reoing to tax investments that create jobs. eventually though, within the next five, six years, they re going to have to raise taxes on something to pay for the past which raises a legitimate question in my mind. let me stop you then. you said metime, what n the next five or six years? yeah. great. guess what? we re at 9% unemployment, 15%. can t do it now. barack obama ev en said during the campaign, if the economy ws bad, he probably wouldn t raise taxes on he can say the rich now. i say the job creats. now is not the time to do it. sure, if they if they have to do it, let s go back to the clinton era, but not now. the other element, in gibbs s statement that mika just read, i think a lot of people are sick of hearing aboutthe failed policies of the past. do you know how tough it was when we got here?
happy monday. mika, that s what i keep thinking about myself. what this. that one day, one day i m going to get more popular. my mom tells me. you re so popular. you re the most popular boy in school. no, my mom says i m not because they re jealous of me. one day, like health care reform 21st century is only 10% over. that s right, that s right. one of these day, i m going to be oh, no. you are now. just like willie geist. you re missing peteb breen, aren t you? alex doesn t even kw how to press a button to read e-mails. good rehearsal. that s all i ll say. who is alex d anyway? i don t know. i think he was an intern last week. can we get pete back? now look at him. place.he i saw a flint of it in your eye. i know that look.
the post 9/11 situation. it s fundamentally difriferent. as americansee there isn t the terrorist presence or thre in afghan that warrants what they re doing, i think american political support will wither. richard, a big day at the council today. to get faisal to talk not simply about the mosque and the alternatives.er there s a larger issue. why is it that muslims around the world are as radical as they are? why is it such a high percentage of the world s terrorists are muslims? what s going on inside the debate in the muslim world? what do outsiders need to do to steer this? this is one of the central challenges. that is fascinating. mika, richard, the council has a great guest to. i was watching on friday. we had the abraham lincoln of the 21st century talking about this, donald trump.