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Succeed, of course, you have this hanging over everyones head, which includes pretty deep and arbitrary cuts across the board. so an agreement would be, obviously, the best solution, but as you indicated, were trying in a very short time to overcome, you know, constraints that the congress has not been able to overcome in a longer period of time. but were working harder to do that. >> mark haleprin? >> good morning. >> good morning. >> we saw scores of your colleagues, including a lot of republi...

Greek prime minister has stepped down, financial firms doing better than ever, and were talking about herman cain. and why do you think his poll numbers are up? >> tell us how herman cains going right now. weve had the story on the prompter for nine minutes. i know you dont want to talk about it, but go ahead and talk about it. how can you not like that guy? very likable guy. >> the harassment allegations surrounding businessman herman cain may be beginning to have an impact on his republican pr...

Feared as when the credit unions back in the 1990s got their people calling. they are an extraordinary -- ive never seen lobbying like the credit unions. so its very funny. im seeing these people dressing up and hitting bongos hitting the credit unions. i love bongos. can we talk about herman cain for a second? >> just for a second, though. because its really silly the whole thing. >> the media elites, the manhattan cocktail party circuit people like mark haleprin and me have been saying that he...

1990s. if they prove true, hes a bore, a bully, maybe a bit of a predator. three more reasons he shouldnt be president. but we didnt need them. we had at least 999 already. that sometimes got lost in the discussion as did the sad prevalence of men in high places seeking to take sexual advantage of subordinates who are at least behaving insensitively. if cain is among them, its relative to his fitness to office. is there anyone at this table who thinks that hes going to win the nomination? >> wel...

He also, by the way, is very skilled at feeding the conservatives, red meat or outright demagoguery when he says lets abolish the congressional budget office, lets cut off electricity for the judges we dont like. im not sure he made that point, but came close. he has an ability to deal with these issues which i think is why hes the next guy up. >> he could be the next guy up. mark haleprin, for people that have only heard gingrich speak in sound bites, i will tell you -- stop that, look at your ...

Debt. everyone knows we have to cut it back. the question is, how are we going to allocate the pain and ensure that societies hang together? thats what kind of links together all of this. so in the euro zone, who is going to take the stress? who is going to pay for greeces every indebtedness? and who is going to pay for the fact we have this crazy financial bubble here in america and somebodys going to have to take the pain. >> mark haleprin? >> im going to ask you about the greek government. an...

Loving "danny boy" to the tune of "stairway to heaven." ♪ theres a song i love, and its called danny boy ♪ ♪ and i only sing that song not this one ♪ >> welcome back to "morning joe." live look at the capitol. mike barnicle and mark haleprin are still with us. also in washington, associate editor of "washington post" and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. good to have you all on board this morning. were going to start with politics. lets get through this cain stuff and get to the p...

Things drip by drip, the jobs bill, will play for this president? perhaps politically smart? >> i think it may help the president. i dont think its going to help the senate democrats or the house democrats. i mean, mark haleprin, we had paul ryan on here yesterday and he said two very important things for republicans. one, we have passed 15 bills, 15 job bills, they are sitting over in the senate. you dont like them, you dont think theyre good. harry reid, democratic senate leaders, bring them u...

That. >> whats going on? >> well, mark haleprin. i dont know, that is truly bizarre behavior. but mark haleprin got it and loaded eight minutes -- >> yeah, theres a longer segment. they had -- mark had eight minutes up on the page. >> what was your take after seeing the eight minutes? >> well, mark said that he was loose and unplugged. and i think thats fair to say. thats a rick perry thats not like the rick perry that anybody -- that people are familiar with. its kind of like a cartoon version ...

Courting new hampshire voters. he was loose. mark haleprin said on the page he was loose. >> you said he has back pain? >> well, im saying he has back pain. he suffers from back pain. >> what does that suggest? >> im suggesting nothing. i refer you to mika on all matters regarding pharmaceuticals. >> what do you think? >> pharmaceuticals and a little bit of -- >> wow. holy cow. >> nothing wrong with that. not that theres anything wrong with that. >> mark warner and saxby chambliss next on "morni...