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Said to donny last hour, somebody who says i understand we have a problem. >> bring chris hayes in on this. >> i think it would have sent a great signal not only to the markets but also to politicians on capitol hill that the white house is serious. they have not acted serious. weve had this ongoing discussion for some time. theyve let you down time and time again on time lines. they still arent serious about this. they are not -- if they were serious about the debt -- anybody serious about the ...

Already been down that path. go ahead, mika. >> all right. president obama -- >> im sorry. i wanted you to go to mark halperin. lets look at these papers. s&p sounds the alarm on u.s. debt. also "the wall street journal" talking about the same thing the u.s. warned on debt load. "the wall street journal" has a story, "s&p lowers the u.s. debt outlook. "the new york times" and wall street. a serious story. >> okay. so last hour we were talking about how the white house is handling this. mark halp...

>> were going through it. both sides will come to the table. >> we heard from chuck todd at the white house and others at the white house that the white house is waiting till 2013 because its about politics. want to get re-elected and then they might get serious about the debt. isnt that what youre reporting? >> i dont think thats true. they switched a little bit back thinking they need to at least need to create the circumstances where it happens this year. >> donny? >> we were talking about mo...

Im serious. >> this is how the brzezinskis -- >> that was me. >> thats what you get. >> i spent a lot of time in the corner. >> look at this picture. >> as a result, im disciplined and well behaved. >> heres mushka and mika. >> an offense that would put me in the corner would be blurting out at the table, speak out, toilet talk never good. >> here are the brzezinski kids. can we get to the news? >> i love this picture. these are cool pictures. >> so thats your corner. lets hope you dont go back ...

So dont tell us that theres not a fire. dont worry about this. why dont they use this as an opportunity to say, you know what were going to do? were going do what nobody has done in the white house for a very long time. were going to get responsible on the debt. is this really nothing in the white house. are they going to say this means absolutely nothing? are they stupid or do they have their head in the sand. this is not nothing and its insulting for them not to say it is something. >> i think...

>> talk about this. what does the debt mean to me? heres a perfect example. youre a businessman. you want to start a new business. you go out to the bank. if you have good credit. they say, come in. we want to give you money away for free. its like eddie murphy from "saturday night live." if youve got bad credit, its going to be 10%, 15%, 18%. the united states is getting their money for free. if this keeps going its going to be 4%, 5%, 6%. devastating. >> any smallman, any person understands th...

Self-fulfilling prophesy. the markets react one way and the american populous reacts another. theyre not going to spend today like they would last friday. those latest approval numbers to me are very, very scary about what they think is going on in the economy. if they thing this way, it is. >> i agree -- i completely agree about the disapproval ratings but i think theres very strong evidence both right now and literature that says that is linked to stagnating and declining average personal inco...

United states better -- >> they could say this is serious, weve been telling you its serious for a long time and now its time for the morons on capitol hill to firks it. saying its not a big deal sends a message to the markets across the world that were still clueless. >> well, i hope they have something more serious to say about it today and its depressing for people to watch the statements from both sides, the white house and the democrats on the hill and the republicans on the hill saying its...

>> it is not good news. even though the white house is saying they have political differences. no, it has nothing do with politics, everything to do with economics and numbers. u.s. unload on the debt. comes from financial times. "the washington post" also, "s&p lowers its u.s. debt outlook." don donny, you are an extraordinary successful businessman. >> much, much more than mitt romney. >> you are bigger. two inches. mitts only 61". thats an old rutles joke. they didnt say they were bigger than...

Him he was going to balance the budget within three years. record dicits. ran up record, and is ithcoind. this is clearly a fundamental teneof the rublicans a oplepeeetotart learning this kind of information so they can counter what are just flat out lies, particularly the claim by republicans that they are not raising taxes on anybody. they raise taxes on the working poor isnt much of our economy run on how people feel? its hard for the president to make the country feel good and feel confident...