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David gregory and savannah guthrie join the conversation. little later, startling statistics about poverty in america. we ll get to these numbers, first let s go to bill karins with a check on the forecast. good morning, mika and joe. you missed it in new york city. what a rare event, 100-mile-per-hour winds blew through lower manhattan, queens, brooklyn and staten island. take a look at the pictures here. you see the impressive lightning strikes. there actually was video that shows a funnel cloud. that s the big shelf cloud, a rolling shelf cloud they call it with straight line winds that was swallowing up chunks of brooklyn there as it moved through. it was just a wall of wind and also rain. incredible stuff. that s new york city in the far right-hand corner. let me show you what s going on also, today. hurricanes are the big story. igor and karl. karl will take the headlines today, making landfall north awful vera cruz as a category 4 tropical storm today. this will do major destr ....
sol ol lynn ski. it s too early for that. oh, my god. again, sam, what i want to make sure because people will e-mail you why did you go along with them on tax cuts, but you re not going along with this. but it s interesting how this discussion has evolved. even barack obama said during the campaign, if the economy is bad, we may wait a couple of years to raise the tax. listen, i ve written about this and has robert gibbs e mailing me saying we don t expect we ll have to issue a veto. we think we ll get our way. they re pretty confident in the white house. they think it s a winning issue. we ll see. the political playbook is up next including a look at what democrats really want the president to say on the campaign trail this fall. the new number of people living in poverty is out. it s a figure we haven t seen in over 50 years. later, if it s friday, it s time ....
Almost six million manufacturing jobs, the best paying jobs for working folks in america vanished, disappeared. we re exporting our manufacturing base to china. that s not the kind of exports you re supposed to be doing. the reason you are is because all foreign goods can come into this country without any tariff. the american goods carry all these american taxes on them. you try to sell them abroad, you have guys who are economic nationalists. our guys, it s free trade, free trade. take a look at the consequences $6 trillion in deficits. if you look at the arc of this economy over the past quarter century, there is no arguing that the very concerns you expressed 25 years ago have all come about. i don t know how we stop it. we ll lose every manufacturing job we ve got. you know how we stop it is, we call it economic ....
Policy in the morning. good news is i caught a good power nap from the run yesterday. so now i m well rested while you re talking taxes. let s go to patrick gavin with a look at the playbook. good to see you. good morning, willie. let s talk about president obama, what role he ll play in the midterm elections. some don t want him, some do. he s getting advice from fellow democrats on what he ought to be doing and saying this fall. his fate is very much tied into the candidate s fate and the democrat s fate this midterm election. my colleague interviewed 20 prominent democrats to give obama advice. some of the advice, real quickly, he has to stop sort of explaining all the bad economic numbers, stop saying that, in fact, the economy is going to turn around eventually. instead james carville says what he has to do is, a, take it to the republicans. make sure you focus on their track record and two, make the argument of how you re fighting for the common man. the other thing to ....
new hampshire there s a right-to-life movement not as powerful, more libertarian. there are some folks even there can we also say it s the same move. in different clothing. it s not like no, no. tea party is by and large economic. no, tea party says it s economic. go look at the demographic, go look at church attendance, the views on abortion of the active tea party and they re ostensibly indistinguishab indistinguishable. i m telling you gay rights they are not. on gay rights they are not. on abortion they are. in 94, the tea parties were called perot people. they didn t want to hear about abortion, they wanted to hear about guns. they didn t want to hear about gay marriage. they wanted to talk about the constitution, talk about limited federal government, less taxes and they wanted to talk about deficits. and keep your social issues away from us. if that if that s the case, if that s what fuels voters, that s actually a winning ....