london as police struggle to take back control of their streets. now americans are being urged to use caution when traveling around the city. good morning again. i m carol costello. three members of the congressional super committee have been chosen. nine more to go. there are 12. they will have 90 days to come up with $1.5 trillion in spending cuts. the selections and reaction to them on this american morning. all right. good morning, it is wednesday august 10th. ali is off today after working i think 15 or 16 straight days covering the markets and all that. more on the markets and the economy in just a moment. you seem a little short today. i know. i have a high chair. i think so. i like that. you re taller than i am, carol. good morning. i m carol costello. actually we have to talk about this first, london is burning a fourth night of looting and violence in the streets, parts of london resemble a war zone with burned out buildings and destruction. 16,000
mary matalin and roland martin. what have you got for us tonight? well, before we do anything, john, congratulations. we love when men play up, shoot up, shoot for the stars. congratulations on your engagement. we re also very happy for you. it s a good thing. great move on the golf course, that s what i like. on the golf course. always a sports angle. i love golf, come on. politics is my sport. this is getting to be a good sport. the government has defined a new right. let s hear from the secretary of transportation to our own jeanne meserve about the new airport rules. we re fed up with it. we weren t going to wait for some law to be passed because we know sometimes that takes a long time. we have the jurisdiction over the airlines. we felt it was incumbent upon us to pay attention to passengers. the reason that these passengers are trapped on the
how fast could this unravel economically? that s a real pressure point. in 1990 when the citizens of arizona refused to recognize martin luther king day as a national as a federal holiday, there was a boycott effort, the great public unmy song, by the time i get to arizona so i think the boycott directed at the state had some influence. and i think that hopefully you re going to see a kind of movement like that now. i think it will start to kind of recalculate the incentives for both the citizens of arizona and the politician. watch the sports angle. there may be sports teams pressured not to go to arizona for 2011. chris hayes, have a great weekend. you too. the companies that were supposed to tell us whether the investments other companies were offering were risky or safe were bought off by the companies offering those investments. and the s.e.c. could legally do
booed those protesting players. andy scholes is following this from the sports angle and joe johns from the political angle at the white house. joe to you at the white house first. this came during the president s remarks in alabama on friday night, seemingly out of nowhere, but it is going many places fast. it certainly is. very fast. and one indicator of that was the president s tweets this morning. we have three of them that are just very interesting, i think, to say it mildly. i want to read the first one to you. so proud of nascar and its supporters and fans they won t put up with disrespecting our country or our flag. they said it loud and clear. that s interesting, because just a little while later, dale earnhardt, who certainly could only be described as nascar royalty, took to twitter to apparently respond to the president to a measure and he