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"the situation room". we begin with the state of unemployment in america, just three months before election day. both democrats and republicans have something to seize on in the newest jobs report. employers say they added 163,000 jobs to the u.s. economy in july. thats better than economists expected, and something for the obama camp to hang its hat on. but the romney camp is pointing to this figure, the overall unemployment rate unexpectedly rose to 8.3%, because american household...

"outfront" tonight, mitt makes a bold promise. 12 million jobs. take a look at this ad in the wall street journal. written my romneys top economic advisor. first of all i want to draw your attention to the cartoon. there is obama on a tortoise with a whip. and romney on a horse going so fast that his tie and horse tail are flying in the wind. what was it supposed to be the tortoise and the hare? the newspaper denied the catchy cartoon but every word was written by glen hubbard. here in...

a commuter airliner and two other planes dangerously close to one another. it happened at washingtons reagan national airport. and in an extraordinary move, the faa administrator and the transportation secretary came out today to talk about what happened. our brian todd is at the airport. brian. >> reporter: yeah, candy. extraordinary because for the first time were getting the hard information from americas two top transportation officials that this was really too close a call. they c...

Full time here at msnbc. george, its wonderful to have you. what do you think of this farm bill. >> i tell you this farm bill is one in a long series since the early 50s that were aim at destroying the new deal. if its discussed as welfare, nobody will understand what the original farm bills in the new deal were really all about. >> explain the difference and explain why the current way that we conceive of farm support doesnt work. >> well, you see, as you were talking about food stamps, were no...

Were given the tools to control supply so that the big corporations that buy our products would have to pay at that kind of price, you wouldnt have to have subsidy payments. >> but isnt -- but dont we -- dont we have price -- i mean my understanding is there are price supports for a variety of the big five commodities. >> no, there have not -- youre confusing the term "price support" with "income support." >> right. >> income support is like a welfare payment, a subsidy payment, where, in fact, ...

Disappointing jobs data from the government sparked a sell-off friday, impact that will likely linger today. the average price of regular it gas is down seven centers over the past two weeks to an average of $3.85 a gallon. ahead of next weeks ipo, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg and other executives will meet with potential investors across the country this week. also this week, well see quarterly earnings reports from the likes of cisco, macys and news corp. at&t will start selling home and a...

Choice." listen to the way he goes after the right here. "should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. there is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things, but their number is negligible and" -- and the president says -- "their number is negligible and they are stupid." that is not what president obama said last night....

Laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. there is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things, but their number is negligible and" -- and the president says -- "their number is negligible and they are stupid." that is not what president obama said last night. that is way to the left of anyone. that was what dwight eisenhower said when he was president. republican president dwight eisenhower, republican when the top tax b...

Laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. there is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things, but their number is negligible and" -- and the president says -- "their number is negligible and they are stupid." that is not what president obama said last night. that is way to the left of anyone. that was what dwight eisenhower said when he was president. republican president dwight eisenhower, republican when the top tax b...

Republicans think of the unemployed. people who dont have jobs are a bunch of lazy hobos who are probably on drugs. today my friend steve bennett at washington monthly pointed out another great historical detail about social security and unemployment insurance, which is that not only are todays conservatives still arguing with fdr 75 years later about whether these things are a good idea, whether or not america having a basic safety net is a good idea, whether or not we were better off before 19...