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so well get to our top story this morning. willie. >> its front page of all the newspapers, pictures of president biden and governor ron desantis together one week after hurricane ian made landfall in florida, president biden warning more storms will come. the president visited florida yesterday, just days after surveying storm damage in puerto rico. in florida, president biden and governor ron desantis temporarily put politics aid -- aside as they met with residents in the fort myers ...

That is almost unimaginable now and thats not nostalgia. thats not sentiment. imagine a republican president today signing the americans disabilities act. imagine a republican president today deciding that deficit control meant raising taxes and taking the political -- paying the political price. these are real things he did when he actually had the power as he put it to help people. and in many ways i think thats the political legacy. >> also the fact that he was so principled and that he let t...

Flip-flop in the world. bob corker is -- dont tell anybody who loves him in the msnbc audience -- >> you going to say hes a politician? >> hes both politician and a republican. in the instances when donald trump has not behaved like a republican, or where corkers had profound doubts about his temperament, he has stood up in a politically, somewhat courageous way, given hes not running for rerecollection. on this issue, hes a republican and a really rich guy whos going to get a personal windfall ...

Trump has not behaved like a republican, or where corkers had profound doubts about his temperament, he has stood up in a politically, somewhat courageous way, given hes not running for rerecollection. on this issue, hes a republican and a really rich guy whos going to get a personal windfall from this. who has ideologically been both in favor of deficit control, but also in favor of cutting taxes like almost every other republican. in this instance, donald trump is acting like a republican. hes...

Whats happening tonight? >> well, i just -- very quickly on -- >> very skeptical look on your face. >> i just want to say about bob corker, the most explicable flip-flop in the world. bob corker is -- dont tell anybody who loves him in the msnbc audience -- >> you going to say hes a politician? >> hes both politician and a republican. in the instances when donald trump has not behaved like a republican, or where corkers had profound doubts about his temperament, he has stood up in a politically,...

What the cost is. when you go to the doctor for an x ray or cat scan, you dont care what the cost of that is. you care what your out-of-pocket expense is. thats the only product or service we buy like that. its a tremendous distortion of the market. thats probably a longer conversation. >> nobody spends the time on this like we do. thats why youre always welcome here. lets talk about taxes. your time in congress, you were a deficit hawk, you were a movement politician. you put out a statement af...

Come from somewhere. if youre saying it is not a cut, there are $800 billion in immediate xad will come out. that is a budgetary necessity. otherwise it doesnt pass reconciliation muster. there will be $800 billion less going into peoples health care through the program than there would be if you didnt pass the bill. their the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said the single greatest threat to our security was our debt. and honestly, chris, you know this. there is something that will have t...

Going into peoples health care through the program than there would be if you didnt pass the bill. their the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said the single greatest threat to our security was our debt. and honestly, chris, you know this. there is something that will have to happen on spending control, deficit control, that is part of discussion that will be going on over the next several months. it is common sense. >> this is a common sense approach to the vast increase in the expenditure...

Back in april of 2009, when they were just getting started with the stimulus, 62. so, its gone up 21% in about the last four years. >> alisyn: i find that wording, also amusing. who thinks the government spending is being managed carefully. 11% is actually the shocking number. >> the shocking word is managed. >> alisyn: and carefully. >> a fire hose of cash. i will say the best thing the president can do for his legacy and starting to talk, i dont think that the president needs a library and now...

Presidents team has to be careful if they use campaign tactics and try to pressure, say, more moderate democrats like joe manchin in west virginia on issues like gun control that could back fire in a red state like west virginia where he is from. there is a fine balance here, bill. >> that will be interesting to watch. back to monday though. will he get into specifics about, say, immigration or even guns, ed? >> no. aids say that he wants to make this a big picture speech. and sort of its going ...