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working to improve financial literacy and the economic empowerment that comes with it. >>♪ nationwide is on your side ♪ >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: peter beinart is the senior political writer for "the daily beast" and a regular contributor for "time." his latest book is called "the icarus syndrome." peter, good to have you on the program. >> nice to be here. tavis: i want ...

control of the war in afghanistan, or keep him and risk looking like hes lost control of his generals. heres another issue. do the comments by mcchrystal and his aides reflect the feeling on the ground in afghanistan towards president obama? is anyone surprised over there by what the general and his that the general scuttlebutt? well ask nbcs richard engel. also a federal judge in new orleans blocked the federal governments six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling. the judge said job...

disappointed. >> wait. youre with ill never print this magazine, right? >> its questionable. good morning. top of the hour. 6:00 on the east coast. welcome to "morning joe." what is it? wednesday? june 23rd. its only wednesday! >> can you believe that? >> no. i actually asked somebody in the elevator coming up, is it friday? >> i almost asked that yesterday. on the set with us is colonel jack jacobs. the author of "if not now, when?" good to have you here. >> good to be here. >> a spec...

Interviews that this reporter got the real story? >> no. >> in other words -- >> okay, good. your reaction >> you read the story and you see that this is -- this is a fly on the wall story, not a single interview in which somebody made a comment after the fact or forgot themselves. this is over days and days, the general and his top team telling us all sorts of things, i think very honestly, about how they feel and how they see the war effort and the white house and the presidents team, so it wa...

Stone" article on mcchrystal about how the general pushes the envelope. quote, mcchrystal relied on the skills he learned as a trouble-making kid at west point, knowing precisely how far he could go in a rigid military hierarchy without getting tossed out. well, there youve laid it out. eric, youve laid out basically the conundrum president obama faces tomorrow morning when he meets general mcchrystal who hes called back from afghanistan. the guy has said things. hes allowed staff around him to ...

Governments six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling. the judge said jobs were at stake. whats more important, jobs or conserving the continent? well take that one up. plus, those following poll numbers. president obamas approval ratings are in retreat, but one "hardball" regular says not only isnt that a surprise or that isnt a surprise, it was expected, and that it could all turn around if just one thing happens. let me finish tonight with the difference between being elected president and b...

leading off tonight, insubordinate. it may not amount to truman versus mcarthur but make no mistake. the loose-lipped criticism by general stanley mcchrystal and his staff of president obama and senior members of his administration is a matter of major import. mcchrystal has been order back home to washington to explain the comments he made to "rolling stone" magazine. as a somewhat different journal "stars and stripes" puts it, president barack obama faces two grim choices on wednesda...

Taken me slightly from left field to hear that in britain the view is quite the opposite, that hes showing too mung anger, showing too much passion. there are two very different emotional political climates each side of the atlantic. >> i think actually, in all fairness to your observation its the same as mine but i think that the president hasnt been angry but i think media has been very tough. this network and others in print have been tough on this situation because it looks like bps calling ...

What are they up to? >> it appears to be publicly public relations driven. as you know next wednesday, tony hayward, the chief executive of bp is meeting president obama along with senior bp executives, they are aware i think belatedly what a disastrous pr effort they made here to some of the things that eric bates was talking about, and i think there is an attempt here not just with this suspension of the dividend or the probable suspension at least for a couple of months of the dividend but al...

up to 100 times worse than bp confessed initially. the latest on the spill -- the numbers and the damage at the top of the show. rahm emanuel once famously said you never want a serious crisis to go to waste. why doesnt the president seize this moment, make this disaster his environmental 9/11 and push through an energy bill that forces this country to embrace green technology? plus the curious case of alvin greene. he won south carolinas democratic senate primary despite having no...