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ticking clock. troubling signals overnight from the congressional super committee charged with cutting $1.2 trillion from the nation's budget. there's only one week left before severe mandatory cuts kick in if they don't come to an agreement. secretary panetta saying those would result in the u.s. armed forces becoming a paper tiger. tracie potts has the details live for us this morning. it looks like gimmicks are the big talk. >> reporter: well, you know, you were talking about the defense department. actually half of those cuts, if those automatic cuts kick in, would come from the ...

ticking clock. troubling signals overnight from the congressional super committee charged with cutting $1.2 trillion from the nation's budget. there's only one week left before severe mandatory cuts kick in if they don't come to an agreement. secretary panetta saying those would result in the u.s. armed forces becoming a paper tiger. tracie potts has the details live for us this morning. it looks like gimmicks are the big talk. >> reporter: well, you know, you were talking about the defense department. actually half of those cuts, if those automatic cuts kick in, would come from the ...

>> at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized, at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who happen to think differently than we do, it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds. >> all right. good morning. it's 6:00 on the east coast. welcome to "morning joe." it is thursday, january 13th. that was president obama at the memorial service last night. we'll have much more of that ahead. with us onset, msnbc politica...

good morning. welcome to "today" on a saturday morning. >> it's nice to have you in the studio because i know you just got back from new orleans yesterday where obviously a lot has changed. some for the better, some for the worse. >> it's an uneven recovery, but it was five years ago this morning, myself, brian williams, a bunch of us heading to the airport. it was a cat 5 at that point making a beeline to new orleans and they were evacuating. we couldn't even land in new orleans. we ended up in baton rouge and then fanned out. but we'll be talking a lot about that. a lot to get to, ...

welcome to "today" on a saturday morning. >> it's nice to have you in the studio because i know you just got back from new orleans yesterday where obviously a lot has changed. some for the better, some for the worse. >> it's an uneven recovery, but it was five years ago this morning, myself, brian williams, a bunch of us heading to the airport. it was a cat 5 at that point making a beeline to new orleans and they were evacuating. we couldn't even land in new orleans. we ended up in baton rouge and then fanned out. but we'll be talking a lot about that. a lot to get to, including a co...