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few states away, hurricane isaac slams the gulf, reminding the country that mother nature stops at nothing. its wednesday, august 29th and this is "now." joining me today, eric bates, executive editor of "rolling stone" which has a cover story entitled greed and debt. also, hugo lindgren. rescue efforts are under way in southeastern louisiana as isaac continues to pour into plaquemines parish. levees have been overflowing with water all morning. gabe gutierrez is in plaquemines parish ...

few states away, hurricane isaac slams the gulf, reminding the country that mother nature stops at nothing. its wednesday, august 29th and this is "now." joining me today, eric bates, executive editor of "rolling stone" which has a cover story entitled greed and debt. also, hugo lindgren. rescue efforts are under way in southeastern louisiana as isaac continues to pour into plaquemines parish. levees have been overflowing with water all morning. gabe gutierrez is in plaquemines parish ...

Are more likely to vote for romney because of paul ryan, 23% say ryan makes them less likely to vote for the presumptive republican nominee. that makes paul ryan a net negative. eric bates, the numbers are in. now, of course we know polls, what are they good for, who knows. however, it is interesting that if you look in sort of the past last two election cycles, sarah palin gave john mccain a 9% gain. president obama got an eight-point gain with joe biden on the ticket. shockingly, john edwards ...

What they bargain for, and then to progressive voters -- >> that could actually be a good thing given how mitt romneys environmental policy and energy policy seems to be doubling down on coal, coal, coal and drill, baby drill. but i want to open this up to the folks on the panel right now, because you know, eric, we have talked about climate change, we talked about it last week in light of the droughts that were happening. it is no longer just an environmental issue. this is an economic issue. w...

Context. richard nixon at the time, if you had asked us this question after watergate, we would have said hell, no, hell never be rehabilitated. he looks like a real moderate now. >> george w. bushs policy on things like immigration and so forth -- >> we may look back on w. as a moderate. >> thanks to eric, hugo, maggie and ari. see you back here tomorrow. until then, find us on facebook.com/nowwithalex. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. good afternoon, andrea. thanks so much. coming up next,...

to the election process. >> akin is going rogue, even telling the partys presidential candidate to back off. >> if you were in romneys position, dont you think that he may have bit this thing up and made a bigger deal about it than he needed to? why couldnt he run his race and i run mine? >> even if akin is downgraded in the coming days to nothing more than a low pressure anomaly, he spawned other storm systems by bringing the republican stance on abortion to the forefront of the debat...

>> no. i honor their particular wishes. >> fast forward a week later when the president and democrats meet in charlotte. prominent women will help take up the line of attack against mitt romney. sandra fluke, cecil richards and lilly ledbetter recently added to the speaking roster as a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows the president trouncing romney with issues of concern to women. obama 52 to 24% before akins picture came into all of this. barack obama at 52. mitt romney 2...

to dictate who runs as opposed to the election process. >> akin is going rogue, even telling the partys presidential candidate to back off. >> if you were in romneys position, dont you think that he may have bit this thing up and made a bigger deal about it than he needed to? why couldnt he run his race and i run mine? >> even if akin is downgraded in the coming days to nothing more than a low pressure anomaly, he spawned other storm systems by bringing the republican stance on abortio...

>> no. i honor their particular wishes. >> fast forward a week later when the president and democrats meet in charlotte. prominent women will help take up the line of attack against mitt romney. sandra fluke, cecil richards and lilly ledbetter recently added to the speaking roster as a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows the president trouncing romney with issues of concern to women. obama 52 to 24% before akins picture came into all of this. barack obama at 52. mitt romney 2...

People are saying what is going on. its reckless what weve been doing. just driving the world economy to disaster, pretending its not there because the koch brothers or somebody who have the largest private oil industry buy politicians and then they turn their eyes, but everybody else in the world now sees it. >> well, eric, in "rolling stone" you guys printed a series of pieces by a great authority on these matters, and this week you focus on the melting of the greenland ice sheet abruptly and ...