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Joe. rainy day in washington and new york. live look at the white house where the lights are on and the sun is trying to come up over the city. eugene robinson is still with us. joining the table now, nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of andrea mitchell reports, andrea mitchell. and former u.s. comptroller general and head of the government accountability office and founder, president, ceo of comeback america initiative dave walker joins us this morning. really great group to have along with willie and me. a lot to talk about. we ll go straight into the super committee. real quickly, there was also a news conference today, students from the university of california davis are going to be holding that news conference, of course, amid the mounting out rage over the pepper spray incident. police using pepper spray on nonviolent students last week. newt gingrich posting strong gains in the last few weeks, according to the latest national polls from quinnipiac. we ll try an ....
Man. republicans haven t even been in charge of the house of representatives for a year. it s as if 2009 and 2010 and the massive deficits that were accumulated then didn t even exist. but, again, i m blaming both sides today. both sides have their feet in ideological cement. but grover norquist is a straw man. the democrats, the democrats, these same democrats that said that george w. bush abused the powers of office and, oh, the executive branch had become too powerful, are now suggesting barack obama, who, by the way, has been completely awol on this issue, is power less? a man who put a debt commission in he put simpson/bowles together and then completely threw them under the bus. mika, you and i, if i ever come back, then i ll shut up, we have to get senate democrats on this program and start asking them exactly why in the midst of america s greatest budgetary crisis in 235 years they have ....
2011 season. 250 skrikouts. 2.40 e.r.a. rookie of the year in 2006. he becomes just the second player in baseball history to win all three major awards. rookie of the year, cy young, and mvp. the other one? anybody know? no. it s in the prompter. brooklyn dodger don newcome. you were saying that. i was. harold and i were coming in. when you were holding your channel 13 tote bag? i didn t say it. tote bag talking about justin verlander. i love getting fashion counsel, willie. coming up next, mika s must read opinion pages. a little bit later, the 31 days that changed america. a new book offers fresh revelations about the attack on pearl harbor, including the profound change it had on our economy. more morning joe when we come back. americans are always ready to work hard for a better future. ....
Newt gingrich says he would use cyber warfare to bring about regime change in iran. he also said he would use military force if our government believed iran was truly on the edge of getting nuclear weapons. let s turn to politico now with us, the white house correspondent there, mike allen. he s got a look at the play book. good morning. i want to get to this ad mika mention add little while ago. mitt romney going after president obama in the state of new hampshire. let s watch. thank you, new hampshire! i am confident that we can steer ourselves out of this crisis. who s been in charge of the economy? we need a rescue plan for the middle class. we need to provide relief for homeowners. it s going to take a new direction. if we keep talking about the economy, we re going to lose, lose, lose. i m going to do something to government. i call it the smaller, simpler, smarter approach to government. getting rid of programs, turning programs back to states, and, finally, making gov ....
To make difficult choices, sacrifices. and here they are presented with both incentives on each side to make cuts. republicans presumably don t like defense cuts. democrats presumably don t like cuts to human needs programs including education and housing. yet they both allowed automatic cuts to kick in beginning in 2013. i think it s it was a terrible day. the president said yesterday this was not as bad as august. maybe because s&p didn t react immediately. i think heading into thanksgiving, into the christmas toll day, this is the heaviest and biggest retail season of the year. for the american people and the consumer to see our government twice presented with this chance not able to act, mika, i don t think they understand the depth of the blow yet. and as much as i disagree with republican candidates often, i think the president and the white house will share a larger share of this blame than probably they should. but i think at the end of the day because he is the single indivi ....