0 in the white house wise to their game. joining me now is msnbc politcal analyst david corn from mother jones. and john feehery. you can throw in your ideas. my idea is this. he picked chuck hagel after watching two or three weeks of him trying to be destroyed by the right wing. he let them hang fire. give me your worst about this guy. do it all and i m going to stick it in your face because i want a guy that thinks like me. he may be a notch or two to my left. take it. is that a sign of willing to fight this time? i think obama is the type of guy who picks his fights. sometimes he comes out and goes for the bipartisan compromise. doesn t work. he ll flip and do a fight. health care. great example. he tried to cut a deal with republicans, tried too hard according to some people on the left. left out the public option. then when he had no deal, what did he do? he rammed it through using methods that republicans screamed about. schumer s a question mark. i think he ll vote for him.
here s what s happening. congress will be tobacback in sn on monday. rich mcconnell has reached out to vice president joe biden in hopes of breaking the impasse. with just hours yet to go, congress has yet to reach a deal on the fiscal cliff. the senate does reconvene at 11:00 a.m. this morn, monday. i m veronica delacruz, let s get you back to the program. take a ride on any prostitution track in any big city in america and you ll see waves of young women trading their bodies for quick cash. but what you don t see is the
0 of people killed. how do you stop from doing it? ill all comes so pervasive in our society. how do you stop it? i think events like this, tragedies like this, we ve all been changed by this to some degree. we find it too easy to accept one child being shot here and being shot there. events like this make us wake up. you going to stop people from seeing django, the tarrantino movie, or jack reacher the idiot movie by tom cruise? how do you stop people putting out idiot movies one person being killed after another? you can t. but the people suffering from mental illnesses so they can t go out and get assault weapons as easy as buying a pizza. it s ridiculous. there s no other nation on the planet that allows these weapons to be proliferated throughout our society as much as we do. there are few societies that bury as many children year after year after year from gun violence. governor rendell, what would be a good record for the president and vice president i know you
we begin this morning with tracking isaac. folks from new orleans to the florida panhandle are watching and waiting as tropical storm isaac makes its way into the gulf of mexico. forecasters say by the time isaac makes landfall it could be a dangerous category 2 hurricane. nbc s jay gray reports. reporter: isaac continues to intensify in the gulf. wind and rain thrashing florida for much of the day. we re very vulnerable. we re only about two feet above sea level. reporter: thousands are without power. emergency officials have ordered mandatory evacuations in several coastal communities. to this point florida s only seen a glancing blow. a large area at risk here. reporter: isaac is a massive storm with tlinds stretching out over 350 miles. as the forecast path of the storm shifts, so does the focus here. governors have declared states of emergency in florida, alabama, mississippi, and louisiana where evacuations have already started in plaquemines parish. it is i
we begin this morning with tracking isaac. folks from new orleans to the florida panhandle are watching and waiting as tropical storm isaac makes its way into the gulf of mexico. forecasters say by the time isaac makes landfall it could be a dangerous category 2 hurricane. nbc s jay gray reports. reporter: isaac continues to intensify in the gulf. wind and rain thrashing florida for much of the day. we re very vulnerable. we re only about two feet above sea level. reporter: thousands are without power. emergency officials have ordered mandatory evacuations in several coastal communities. to this point florida s only seen a glancing blow. a large area at risk here. reporter: isaac is a massive storm with tlinds stretching out over 350 miles. as the forecast path of the storm shifts, so does the focus here. governors have declared states of emergency in florida, alabama, mississippi, and louisiana where evacuations have already started in plaquemines parish. it is i