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leading off tonight, well, this is the week. today's tuesday. by friday a.m. we'll know two things we don't know now. does president obama have a convincing jobs plan? and the hard commitment to sell it to the american people, and to fight the republicans tooth and nail to get it passed. or make them pay if they try and stop him. great question. question two -- can governor rick perry prove himself the obvious conservative challenger to president obama next year? comes down to two events. the big obama speech thursday. the big republican debate here tomorrow night. by friday a.m., re...

politico's editor-in-chief co-moderates the debate with brian williams and john heilemann. look at the first big set of number, gentlemen. these are amazing. start with the bleak numbers for president obama from our nbc/"wall street journal" poll. here's a new low. when it comes to job approval, the best number can you have, just 44% approve's how he's handling his job as president. 51%, now a majority, disapprove. also a personal low when it comes to his handling of the economy. no surprise. 37% approve. i don't know who they are. 59% disapprove. 54% think he's facing a long-term se...

plan to get americans back to work one week from today during a primetime speech. nbc's mick viqueira is live at white house. mike, timing is everything. we knew before this week that the president wanted to unveil his plan after labor day. >> reporter: right. >> and now you've got the buzz going that this coincides or may overshadow the republican debate. >> reporter: lo and behold, 8:00 p.m. next wednesday night, a debate scheduled right here on msnbc, coincidentally. jay carney, the president's spokesman asked repeated questions about that timing wondering if the president was int...

new jersey and hard-hit vermont. hold on. the government tries to stop a merger between at&t and t-mobile saying it would raise prices for consumers. and a 9/11 coloring book. its publisher says it's falling off store shelves. it depicts the attack and osama bin laden and it's for kids. that's in our "newsnation" gut check. "newsnation" is following developing news. president obama and his jobs plan. the president will lay out his plan to get americans back to work one week from today during a primetime speech. nbc's mick viqueira is live at white house. mike, timing is everyth...

run. and it's just been announced that french president nicolas sarkozy, along with british prime minister david cameron, will host a major international conference in paris on september the 1st to discuss the transition from military to civilian cooperation. that's a poignant date as colonel gadhafi came to power september the 1st, 1969. and at this very moment nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel is on the ground in libya with the latest. richard? >> reporter: a degree of chaos is starting to spread in this city. gadhafi gone, his compound taken over, ransacked by rebels. ...