Month? october 3rd. man, this man, he s a man of the world. live big! i know what you re all about. we ll figure it all out. but you have something to say and want to tell us what you are about. head over to, among other places, your facebook page. let your fingers do the talking, dylan-msnbc is the profile name there. of course, you can always hit us up on the twitter or post a comment to our website at dylanratigan.com. meanwhile, coming up on hardball here, president obama taking aim at gop rivals. chris matthews asking whether the tough guy act will translate to action. but, next that s thunder! no, it keeps going. is that a roar? that s a roar. oh, my god, there s debris! it hit something. this is a deadly situation. we re not getting anywhere near this thing. look at the debris! a devastating tornado caught on camera by discovery storm chasers. they re returning to the scene to rebuild the community they saw destroyed six months ago. we go live to alab
november. plus, sharron angle s habit of denying what she said on tape. we will listen to the denials and then go to the videotape. love this job. also, i just went spent the entire day here on the irish isle with bill clinton and got a chance to talk to him about america s positive role in the world these days and what a former president can get done. our new nbc news/wall street poll ranks him, bill clinton, as the most popular political figure in america. clinton faced the democrats collapse back in 94678 can he help president obama avoid the same kind of collapse this year? also, why are republicans covering up for bp? duh. and who is denying subpoena power to the president s commission investigating the gulf oil disaster? same response. what s wrong with putting the oil folks under oath? and let me finish tonight with the important lessons the current president can prance learn from a former one. all that is ahead. but first, let s check on the latest polls, the
why didn t he trust his gut and should he be expressing his skepticism while his own soldiers are dying in the field? also, day three of our series on job wars our look he at the fight against and for real job growth in america. today, finding work using 140 characters or less, i twitter to land you a new job. the show starts right now. well, and then there was one with. treasury secretary tim geithner, the last man standing in president obama s economic team. and his days may be numbered as well. chief white house economic adviser, larry summers, as you probably heard by now, leaving the administration at the end of the year, headed back to harvard, presumably to teach students how to steal a bunch of money and cover it up and go back to your job. others decided to flee washington before everyone realizes the true mess that exists in this country. let s examine larry s legacy, shall we? too big to fail, more or less permanent. argue create certainty, more bailouts, these
american people are facing two economic storms that continue to gather more strength. the first one, unemployment. weekly jobless claims rising to the highest level in five months, completely erasing any jobs created by the temporary census hiring. meanwhile, a far different story story than we heard from one of our nation s top economists just a year ago. we think that the unemployment rate will probably peak early in 2010 and then come down relatively slowly after that. currently we don t think it will be at 10%. we re somewhere in the nines. there s this rosy prediction made on national tv immediately before the housing bubble collapsed sending the economy into an unprecedented tail spin. the housing prices will slow. i think it s mostly a localized problem and not something that will affect the national economy. fast forward to this morning, existing home sales plummeting 5% in june. that s with the federal tax credits that the obama administration promised would pr
legislative agenda. is the third achievable? and sorry state of affairs. last week it was joe barton. this week general mcchrystal. suddenly public figures everywhere seem to be saying i m sorry. why sorry doesn t seem to be the hardest word anymore. can you name the last president to support a mustache? here s a hint. he was elected in 1908 and succeeded teddy roosevelt. william howard taft. is 100 years since they were in the white house. let me finish with afghanistan. who are we fighting for against there and why? let s start with lin ral opposition to the president s afghan war strategy. democratic strategist gym from massachusetts sent a letter to pelosi asking she hold off on war funding. and from new york has also signed onto that. gentlemen, thank you for joining us. i guess the question is what are we fighting for in afghanistan? can you discern the president s strategy? let s hear your best version, congressman mcgovern, of what you believe is the president s war