Page 56 - On Set News Today

The important thing is we recognize its got to be health care, not sickness care, which weve always done in the past, so what weve done is started with our employees and ban smoking on our campus, dont hire smokers, and we give free smoking cessation to the entire community. weve seen the incidence of smoking in cleveland go from 28% to 15% over a five-year period of time. the other thing weve said look, our employees need to have good food and weve changed the food throughout the entire organiz...

Back to the bush administration and the collapse of that relationship and it only gets worse and yet mike is right, theres still a level of having to deal with russia on things they will care about as well. i look at the headline and the picture in "the new york times," imagine if this was when the movie "white nights" came out and talking about the soviet era and cold war. thats not what were talking about. we do have common interests here, but this becomes kind of a sphere of influence game, t...

Baryshnikov and gregory hines. >> yeah. yeah. i remember it. not one of my all-time favorites but i remember it. >> okay. >> are we going to talk about "against all odds" next? >> oh, my god. >> making fun of us? >> lets get all the phil collins inspired movies together. i would love that. we have a lot -- >> "in the air tonight" use that music coming into the next segment. >> little "miami vice" action. a lot to talk about. in washington this morning, there are a lot of people talking about how...

>> he spelled it out. >> he hit it on the head. >> that goes up to ask not what you can do for your country. >> were all freaky. just showed his freaky-ism the wrong way. >> weiner spoke about his on-line sued nim carlos danger in an interview with univision saying it was a joke in my personal life between me and one person. he did not elaborate. >> i dont get it. personal life, is there more? i dont get it. >> we dont want to know. >> theres a lot more but i dont want to know more. he needs to ...

Ceasely and get -- seriously and get ahead of the problem nfls looking into testing, nbas doing the same thing. tennis has a very thin drug policy, that needs to be totally revamped, and i think every sport needs to look at what theyre doing can. jenna: youre clean though, jeff, right? >> i am. [laughter] jenna: just want to make sure. jon as well. totally drug-free on set. although, jon, youre looking busty these days. -- buff these days. drug-free. jeff, thank you very much. nice to have this ...

Its 8:00 a.m. on the east coast, 5:00 a.m. on the west coast. time to wake up. you have to get to work. a live look at new york city. back with us on set, we have steve ratner, harold ford jr., richard hass and in washington, robert gibbs and david ignatius. lets start with the news now. we begin with the economy. this week, president obamas national economy tour resumes. as investors on wall street wait for julys jobs report, which will be released this friday. tomorrow, the president will sp...

Gates into the prison, breaching the exterior perimeter as gunmen attacked guards with rocket-propelled grenades. the guards were unable to regain control of the prison until military helicopters arrived to provide aerial support. ten policemen and four militants were killed during the assault. so far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. lets bring in our next guest now, here with us now from washington, columnist from "the new york times," thomas friedman, who is the author of ...

So i would submit thats when it started. >> philip, what do you think about that? at the end of the day, george zimmerman did follow trafb martin when they told him not to. people in some corners are feeling, what should -- something different should have happened. >> i spoke to a lot of people nmg case. they it are torn, they feel for this individual. it doesnt feel he did something wrong at the on set. george zimmerman was doing profiling, whatever that may be. that doesnt negate the fact once...

Thats going to do it for me. "morning joe" starts right now live from washington. ♪ hey, good morning. welcome to "morning joe." its thursday, july 11th. you take a live look at capitol hill. you know its really, gene robinson, a picture that makes my heart swell with pride. you look at what those kids on the hill are doing every day. >> i know. >> the peoples business. i get -- >> it -- >> its like 1965 and lbj. one piece of legislation after another. spitting it out. its like an assembly l...

We put together a segment for you folks. hope you enjoy it and find it entertaining and informational. a few moments with new york city comptroller eliot spitzer. take it away, eliot. ♪ >> huge, enormous, massive, nuts, bigger, bigger, too big, thrust, it goes deeper than a that, a stick is a rhinoceros. i think hes on to something. >> is that how were starting the show this morning? >> my god. >> it is wednesday wednesday, july 10th, as you look at an empty summertime square. with us on set m...