support. if he can get past the likely voters and get the base back out, the democrats have a chance. he has an interesting ad running that talks about the last eight years and what it was like and reminding people what it is now. that s the way to go in my opinion that s the way to go, mott the soft money, foreign money. that s not the real issue for these young people. an interesting conversation. coming up, harold ford junior joins the conversation. when we come back, oprah s surprise to the daily show audience and to stephen colbert as you can see it there. keep it on morning joe brewed by starbucks.
infrastructure are but pass the surface transportation act that has been stalled in congress since the end of september last year. we shouldn t be doing special one-time adjustments. we should be giving business something they can plan around, a six year bill we can plan around. neil: so your argument is year at a time the stimulus campaign at a time isn t the way to go, you want to see something with at least more lasting value. to that end, how minority leader john boehner cooked up an idea. i don t know how much track is is get getting but we will allow the tax cuts to be extended for two more years including the rich and that is it and we will stop the push to make them per ma intercept. what do you think of that? i think the taxing people into at this point in the economic cycle is probably not a good thing, increasing taxes. frankly, i don t want to get pulled into this take taxes up
at the height of his influence. he s supposed to announce his resignation likely will come as early as today. what was going on was that after a very big health care fight, i ve heard from people inside the seiu, he was tired. he achieved the one big goal he wanted to do, health care. those who followed the democratic presidential primary 2007/2008, he talked about health care. that was his really big goal. he achieved that. of course there s a lot of bloodbath going on inside organized labor, even inside seiu. some people think andy stern s methods cutting deals with corporations to get unionized contracts wasn t the way to go. you re seeing a reenergized afl-cio which had been at odds with seiu, now richard is head there. politically there s no one who was a bigger labor ally to seiu
accomplishment of all, at least we thought it was, walking on the moon. that s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. in july 1969, neil armstrong took steps on another planet at 600 million people watched on earth. imagine today if somebody told you they were working on building a time machine. that s how crazy the idea of traveling to the moon was back then. the people at nasa made the outlandish a reality. landing on the moon, the coolest nasa accomplishment so far. it is being called the iphone ap for liars and cheats. tiger text allows users to set a time limit before messages are permanently erased. they developed this way before the news broke in the tiger woods sex scandal. today show correspondent sara
national security briefings every day. he knows what the threats are. he knows these people have committed crimes, acts of war against us. they ought to be tried by military tribunal. this is unbelievable. george bush and dick cheney knew that the way to go that s why they did it over 280 people tried in civilian courts with an 88% conviction rate since 9/11. it works. us you get more convictions, upholds the american system of justice. if bush and cheney do it, it s okay, if obama does it, it s wrong. it s pure hypocrisy. doesn t it embolden terrorists if they know they can frighten people in the united states, frighten people to change their mind, change the way we deal with things? not at all. i think that we have to be strong enough to make changes when we have to. i actually applaud the obama administration for being willing to reverse itself and do the right thing as opposed to the