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These Republicans Are Tiptoeing Toward a Green New Deal Eleanor Clift © Provided by The Daily Beast Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos Getty If you had told climate activists a year ago that the country was on the cusp of $25 billion for electric transmission lines and a smart grid, $7.5 billion for charging stations and $3.5 billion to help weatherize the homes of low-income homeowners, they would have been ecstatic. These are the kind of big-bucks investments th...

Because he has all of these different controversies he has to deal with. you wonder are there enough lawyers at the white house? >> no. no, there are not. robert costa, thank you very much. jon meacham, thank you very much. robert, stay with us. still ahead on "morning joe," we go live to the white house where the president holds another event to push the republican health care plan. as we await the score from the congressional budget office, this morning, we will talk to the man who used to l...

Plan amends the democratic plan. just take that republican pile of paper and stack it right on to the other pair of paper and that is your health care bill and that is going on. >> they are repealing it. >> they are not repealing it. >> taking away. >> they are amending it. >> tax cut bill. >> tax cut bill. keep remember that. >> a lot more to get to. ahead we will dig into where the health care bill stands. john kasich sake vice president mike pence is not correct about something he said about ...

discuss all this. then we go overseas to egypts election of muhammad morsi. what can we expect from an islamist president? two of the top egypt experts tell us. next, how do you count and catalog 1.2 billion people? ill ask the man creating a revolutionary biometric i.d. for every one of indias citizens. also, the housing bubble caused the crash. will the coming housing boom finally power this anemic recovery? first, heres my take. what to do about syria. western military inter...

im erin burnett. we are getting exit polls from wisconsin where republican governor scott walker is fighting to keep his job in what likely is the most expensive recall election. the results of the election will say a lot about how the state and the country is going to go in november. that, of course, is the $64 trillion question. john king with the exit poll numbers. what is crossing right now? >> could be the $80 million question. the results are fascinating. we are going to be up la...

They dont do inside humor. they are playing for a broader audience. and a lot of the comedians write very inside jokes for the beltway, about the boehner-cantor rivalry, which kind of works in the room but doesnt necessarily translate outside because they are trying to get to the inside. there was a bit of that. >> to your point, the joke about peter orzag. there is a leak in the room. i think he left his mouth on. >> can i just say, that was so inside? i just got it three days later after you -...

curious things, places where a guy named "jimmy who" began his journey to become president carter. places where inevitable winners like hillary clinton and howard dean lost. places where somebody could rewrite the story that this republican race has come down to mitt versus newt. somebody like ron paul. >> newt gingrich has been on both sides of a long list of issues. sometimes in the same week. >> its wrong to go around and adopt radically different positions. because then people have...

the iowa caucuses are curious things. places where a guy named jimmy who began his journey to become president carter. places where inevitable winners like hillary clinton and howard dean lost. places where somebody could rewrite the story that this republican race has come down to mitt versus newt. somebody like ron paul. >> newt gingrich has been on both sides of a long list of issues. sometimes in the same week. >> its wrong to go around and adopt radically different positions. beca...

Our deficit over the next several decades. experts say this reform will cut the deficit even more than the congressional budget office first estimated. peter has also helped us single out more than a hundred programs for elimination that have out lived their purposes and made hardy situations that will save tens of billions of dollars. he helped draft a budget for next year that freezes all discretionary spending outside of national security for three years, something that was never enacted in t...

Businesses, its good for the entire economy, and i urge the senate to act quickly so that i can sign it into law next week. now, as we finish our work on wall street reform we are also mindful that weve got significant work to do when it comes to reforming our government and reducing our deficit. as part of that work today i am proud to announce the nomination of jack lu to be the next director of management and budget or omb. before telling you a little bit about jack i just want to say a few w...