and the emotional moment everybody is still talking about. tonight, the astonishing, unexpected return of gabby giffords. i ll ask her best friend in congress what s next. gabby melted everybody s heart last night. and glenn beck said he also could be assassinated because of what he wrote in his last book. so what s he written now? i ll ask him. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. president obama signs the debt deal. the country dodges a bullet avoiding the frightening specter of a national default. so why is nobody in washington or wall street or anywhere else for that matter happy about all of this? has battle made compromise a dirty word on capitol hill? here to explain, john king. john, i ve never it seen a more miserable reaction from almost everybody in the world to what is supposed to be a good deal. well, piers, i like to use the goldy locks rule of politics. is it too hot, too cold or just right? we have this compromise. is it just right because nobod
allowed to raise the debt ceiling without being held accountable for it by the american people. the tea party direction of this congress the last few months has been very, very disconcerting and very unfair to the american people. is the tea party really calling the shots? i ll ask the people who started it. and the emotional moment everybody is still talking about. tonight the astonishing, unexpected return of gabby giffords. i ll ask her best friend in congress what s next. gabby melted everybody s heart last night. and glenn beck said this also could be assassinated of what he wrote in his last book. so what s he written now? i ll ask him. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. president obama signs the debt deal. the country dodges a bullet avoiding the frightening specter of a national default. so why is nobody in washington or wall street or anywhere else for that matter happy about all of this? it has battle made compromise a dirty word on capitol
and the emotional moment everybody is still talking about. tonight, the astonishing, unexpected return of gabby giffords. i ll ask her best friend in congress what s next. gabby melted everybody s heart last night. and glenn beck said he also could be assassinated because of what he wrote in his last book. so what s he written now? i ll ask him. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. president obama signs the debt deal. the country dodges a bullet avoiding the frightening specter of a national default. so why is nobody in washington or wall street or anywhere else for that matter happy about all of this? has battle made compromise a dirty word on capitol hill? here to explain, john king. john, i ve never it seen a more miserable reaction from almost everybody in the world to what is supposed to be a good deal. well, piers, i like to use the goldy locks rule of politics. is it too hot, too cold or just right? we have this compromise. is it just right because nobod
just to bow out again? well, to be fair. he is good copy and we love to talk about him and a lot of good plot lines to run in the trump orbit, but he gets asked and he refuses to shut that off by saying, no i m not going to run. i think that he has been doing this for the last four cycles and somebody did some research and shade that if you go back 16 years donald trump was talking about it then. he was going to run in 1988 and 1999, and you talked about running as well. sure. he never does it though. he never does it and we all come and courting and asking and that keeps him out there and keeps him viable. i don t think that he wants to subject himself to the scrutiny that now goes with it. he also attacks his own party quite a bit. so, is it viable that he could run even if he wanted to and give him the benefit of the doubt and say yes, he wants to run, but can he do that after coming out to bash your own party like that? well, at this point, he would have to run as an
consider running as an independent. all right. joining me now is nationally syndicated talk show host michael smerconish who is also a msnbc contributor. and jeff, the one thing i know for sure and probably the only thing that i feel i know to a certainty about the 2012 cycle is that that man will never run for president. i happen to think that the reason he does want into run is the reason he says he is most anxious to run which is that he can t wait to show us his tax returns and the financials which by the way he could show us to day. but it is a total ruse for publicity. he had the publicity and he bowed out, and why now again, just to bow out again? well, to be fair. he is good copy and we love to talk about him and a lot of good plot lines to run in the trump orbit, but he gets asked and he refuses to shut that off by saying, no i m not going to run. i think that he has been doing this for the last four cycles and somebody did some research and shade that if you go back 1