>> well, as you know, keith, mr. boehner, the republican leader, made it clear from his remarks the other day that he recognizes that the american people will not stand for the idea that 98% of the american people's tax cuts are going to be held hostage to get in a big break for the top 2%, a break which we know adds $700 billion to the deficit and will slow down long-term economic growth. so this is a very clear and defining issue. stan greenberg talked about that. and i think it does let people know throughout the country whose side are you on. and when you've got mitch mcconnell coming out and saying you know what? 98% of the american people, their tax relief has to wait until we do something for the top 2%, even though it puts it on our national credit card, and we all are going to be paying years and years for those tax cuts for the very wealthy, that's an issue that clearly defines the candidates and the parties. >> congressman, wouldn't calling these tax cuts what they actually are, the obama middle class tax

keith what is úappening over there? >> e are live at the connecticut here in pikesville and cammus hoping to celebrate a victory here tonight. they are setting up the room now and it does come with experience liie chief opponent. he's 4 term councilman.. picked up endorsement from the baltimore sun who says he's one needed to now begin the ough waters ahead in county government. meeting and greeting voters on the way to the poll. now he started is round of polling -úplaces at forth garrison. once he has been popular with that he served on the council for the 16 years. >> so i just want to kind of start off in my home roots here and work our way around the couldn't anddtouch base with a lot of old friend and new friendss too. people have been very upbeat. very encouraging and it's exciting. still have a lot of energy and looking forward toogreat day and great night. >> the whipper of the democratic primary will face former state delegate ken holt november 2nd. live in pikevil pikeville, fox 45 news at 5:30. >>> thank yo

i'm keith olbermann. good night and good luck. and now to discuss tonight's primaries and why a certain tea party past is about to catch up with her on msnbc, ladies and gentlemen, here is rachel maddow. good evening. who are your special guests tonight? >> my special guests tonight include -- >> chris matthews and lorenz o'donnell. >> keith olbermann and lawrence o'donnell and chris matthews all coming up in just a second. can you hold on for a moment before i come back to you? >> i'll just wait here. thanks for staying us with at home on what promises tock a very, very business election night. the last big night of primaries for this year's elections. tonight's the night we learn the final matchups. with news from new york, new hampshire, delaware, maryland, massachusetts, rhode island, wisconsin, and the district of columbia. will insurgent conservative movement candidates keep picking off the republican establishment? will the sharron angle and rand pauls of this election year have more company as candidates no one can quite b

. >> i've got to tell you, keith. i have been skeptical and critical of this president in terms of his commitment and vocation and putting the right energy. but today there was no recriminations in the room. there was no looking back. the president, i could see in his face, eyes, body language. he's ready to fight and do the right fight for young americans in all but title. 3, 4, 5-year-olds, we have educated them. they are class value dick attorne -- valedic valedic valedictorians. i'm glad he's the president of these united states. >> republicans are saying democrats are playing politics. that the dream act is to boost turnout for the midterms and shouldn't be attached to the bill as graham and mccain say. is the president saying he's ready to fight the battle on multiple fronts? >> he seemed clear. you have run excerpts from last night's speech. he didn't only talk about immigration or bilingual education. he gave a spirited defense and he's going on offense. he's really speaking to us in very clear, stark terms wh

>> well, here's what we did learn, keith, and you referred to it before. it was a terrible travesty for republicans. newt gingrich was the one who essentially pulled the plug. he did not like the deal that bill clinton was offering on the budget, and he said, okay, we're not going to play. we're going to shut down the government, and it turned out that the public did not like the government being used as a pawn in a partisan battle over the budget. i mean, the constitution does not say that one party can shut down the government. it gives one party, and there are checks and balances and all sorts of other things that a party can utilize but not shutting down the government. and this proved to be a disaster for republicans in the '96 election. i remember a lot of democratic candidates across the country in congressional elections, they used pictures of newt gingrich basically to knock down their opponents. >> let me ask you about this data that came in from the treasury department that seemed to project this total yawn. 8% lower fiscal deficit for the first

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>> well, as you know, keith, mr. boehner, the republican leader, made it clear from his remarks the other day, that he recognizes america will not stand for the idea that 98% of american tax cuts will be held hostage to get a big break for the top 2%. a break that adds $700 billion to the deficit and slow down long term economic growth. this is a very clear and defining issue, stan greenberg talked about that. i think it does let people know throughout the country. whose side are you on? and when you have mitch mcconnell coming out and saying, you know what, 98% of the american people, their tax relief has to wait until we do something for the top 2%, even though it puts it on our national credit card, and we'll all be paying years and years for the tax cuts for the very wealthy. that's an issue that clearly defines the candidates and the parties. >> congressman, wouldn't calling these tax cuts what they actually are, the obama middle class tax cuts and then forcing republicans to go out there and vote against them i

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>> thanks. >>> last night on msnbc's "countdown with keith olbermann" keith asked david k. johnston what he thinks republicans on capitol hill are opposed to middle class tax cuts if, as keith says, that strategy would improve the economy and, in turn, put more money in wealthy american's pockets. >> this is the time of ideology and the idea that tax rates are what's important. what's important is how we spend our tax dollars and whether our tax system is encouraging investment in things that produce jobs or is it encouraging to buy unproductive things like real estate and to move your factory to china so that you can make more profit by hiring low-cost workers there while destroying work here. so we need to get away from this desba debate that this is class warfare. if it is class warfare it's being waged in both directions. and to distribute the. it encourages more investment here at home and more jobs. and right now we're focused on the tax system that just lets you save money so you can spend it in unproductive ways. >> be sure to join keith olbermann each night as he c

. >> hi, keith. this new poll 71% of republicans to some degree or another onboard with the tea party. does the figure deserve some nuancing or is it just about right as an overall barometer? >> no. i think it's pretty close but frank lutz the republican pollster who was with newt gingrich in the old days of the contract with america in the '90s told me that it probably does need to be unpacked a bit. there are a lot more tea party party who have come into the republican party. that's one reason the number is where it is. but he cautioned me to note that just because even republicans might say they have a favorable view of the tea party, doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to vote for tea party candidates in specific places. like alaska, where according to a new poll in "time" magazine, lisa murkowski is running neck and neck with joe miller, the tea party candidate. and maybe not in nevada where sharron angle is really out there and maybe not in delaware, same with christine o'donnell. so yo

>> keith, that's a very good and fair question to ask. here's what i did. president bush had two rounds of tax cuts. 2001 for individuals and 2003, the one he said was really important to stimulating the economy. we reduced taxes on capital gains and most dividends by a quarter. so what happened? if you just analyzed the five years from 2003 to 2007, the peek year, throw out the other years in the economy, the results are still awful. americans made almost a trillion dollars less income than if we had stayed at the income levels of 2000. >> so the last point leads back to today, why exactly is there any debate over whether the richest people in america should pay 35% or 39% on their income above a quarter of a million when so many of them don't seem to be paying any percent on any taxes at all? >> keith, there are a lot of people with large incomes who have a responsible view of the welfare of the country. unfortunately there is a group of people who are determined to cut their taxes and at the top you could benefit, if you made $100 million a year, you're

good evening. >> hi, keith. this new poll 71% of republicans to some degree or another onboard with the tea party. does the figure deserve some nuancing or is it just about right as an overall barometer? >> no. i think it's pretty close but frank lutz the republican pollster who was with newt gingrich in the old days of the contract with america in the '90s told me that it probably does need to be unpacked a bit. there are a lot more tea party party who have come into the republican party. that's one reason the number is where it is. but he cautioned me to note that just because even republicans might say they have a favorable view of the tea party, doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to vote for tea party candidates in specific places. like alaska, where according to a new poll in "time" magazine, lisa murkowski is running neck and neck with joe miller, the tea party candidate. and maybe not in nevada where sharron angle is really out there and maybe not in delaware, same with christine o'donnell. so yo

this is really too bad, keith. we need this kind of argument in the country constantly about the role of the government. you have to have people who believe enough in government. i blame for this collapse of the conversation. people like john mccain who is the republican stand for barack obama. he went to the tea party side to get the nomination in his state. you ran the list of senators there who were objecting, i didn't see mitch mcconnell, the republican leader. the reason why we didn't is he had the pants scared off him by rand paul who won the nomination in kentucky against connell himself. the people who went in an earlier time to step forward to be the adults in the republican party are too scared to do so. >> to get more here, there used to be somebody else who is utterly absent. that is the word shame. here in new york, mr. pal deano's campaign as a badge of honor. at the risk of sounding like an republican of old, where is the outrage? >> i have to say new york is new york. it's a little bit of a special

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>> well, as you know, keith, mr. boehner, the republican leader, made it clear from his remarks the other day, that he recognizes america will not stand for the idea that 98% american tax cuts will be held hostage to get a big break for the top 2%. a break that adds $700 billion to the deficit and slowdown long term economic growth. this is a very clear and defining issue, stan greenberg talked about that. i think it does let people know throughout the country. whose side are you on? and when you have mitch mcconnell coming out and saying, you know what, 98% of the american people, their tax relief has to wait until we do something for the top 2%, even though it puts it on our national credit card, and we'll all be paying years and years for the tax cuts for the very wealthy. that's an issue that clearly defines the candidates and the parties. >> congressman, wouldn't calling these tax cuts what they actually are, the obama middle class tax cuts and then forcing republicans to go out there and vote against them in a

. >> good evening, keith. thank you. >> is this what it looks like? is senator demint busting a tea party on backs of both parties? >> the tea party's been working to take over the republican party. so it's clearly a maneuver that allows us to see what the tea party wants. and honestly, keith, it's not so different. jim demint said right here that he is the party of no. that the tea party, the republican party doesn't matter. he doesn't want anything passed. what this move effectively does is slows down all legislation in the senate. >> but any senator has the right to do this, including senator demint. why is this so extraordinary? and why have we not seen somebody do this before in these polarized times? >> they call it a senatorial courtesy. but what jim has done here, senator demint is anything but a courtesy. it's been an extraordinarily discourteous maneuver, a tactic for the american people. the reason this is different is that while we do this sometimes, our senators do this sometimes whether it's to pass -- whether it's to expedite legislatio

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>> well, keith, yes, there are some. you can have an author. maybe my next book, i can make enough money to come on your program for it. there are people who may own a chain of fast food stores or a particularly successful group of liquor stores. but they're a small proportion of this. there are about 15,000 "s" corps have an average revenue of $18 million, and partnerships that have an average income of $137 million. >> these rich guys paying the top rates, they'd have to pay a lot more in taxes if obama doesn't renew the bush taxes, right? >> well, yes and no. they do, after all, have access to tax shelters. there are all sorts of fine rules. the reason the tax code is so thick has nothing to do with ordinary americans, it has to do with favors bought with campaign donations. but, yes, overall they will pay higher taxes, which will go to provide better infrastructure, so they can move their goods and services, educate people so they have people to buy their products, et cetera. >> just putting aside for a second the orwellian quality of this

keith daniels, fox 45 news "late edition". >> all right, keith. winner innthe tight democratic race for baltimore county executive. 100 percent of precincts reporting. kevin kamenetz got the nomination with 52 percent of the vote. councilman bartenfelder conceded the race with 44 percent. and kevin kamenetz mt with supporters todayyat the campaign headquarters. bartenfelder called to ccngratulate him. and kevin kamenetz said he ii noo looking aheed to november the two. >> it is really time that we put our differences behind us, and i reach out to everyone, and in baltimore county, to heal our3 division, join together, because once again, i believe we will be democrats united. >> kevin kamenetz willlface former republican state delegateken holts in the general election. >> for the candidates it was frustrating marred by slow returns. election officials say it was huuan error. after polls closed, some workers locked them. and forgot to tally the votes inside. the issue was remedyed this morning. >> there was surprrsingly low voter turnout tt tuesday

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continuing with me now is keith olbermann. keith, i know too much. i've strategized tax bills in the senate when i was working the senate finance committee, i've seen both sides of this argument, i've been through it. i don't know. is the vice president right? you just have to let the people who run the playing field make the strategic decision in the congress? >> but what is this decision? is this decision designed to encourage voters in a particular state things will work out the way they want it, even though there's not going to be a vote? is this about harry reid in nevada? is that the idea behind it? because obviously the work of miss angle there has put mr. reid back into the race when he didn't have a chance when he was facing the chicken lady. he can win that and go back to his seat if he doesn't make a major mistake. what my worry is this decision has been made to protect a couple of senators with the expectation, don't worry, the polling shows voters understand we're with them on this issue even though we do not presently have the guts to e

but first, here's the man with the good news, keith mills. >> some good news. the real man, anquan boldin. what a game he played. and now, bring on the steelers. the ravens beat the cleveland browns. the ravens raised their record and set up for the big match next week with pittsburgh. ray lewis does the squirreled dance. this is some nice football. a nice touch to anquan boldin. the start of a big day for boldin. check this guy. this is peyton hillis. look at. he rushed for 144 yards against the ravens' defense. 14-10 at the half. joe flacco to boldin again. 3 fats down passes for joe flacco and boldin. what a difference a week makes. >> you are happier this week. those games happened. nobody wants to go when their and throw four interceptions. it happens. there are a lot of good players around the league. times teams do not play well. you have to do everything you can to get better. >> i had a problem last week. i felt something needed to be said. we had a different mentality going into the game. everybody took it personal. especially the offense after the pe

you know what, keith? i was delighted to come out of that meeting. i'm a believer. he's going to do a lot. >> you spoke of your skepticism. last night he spoke of other's frustration with him. the hispanics who campaigned hard for him. is he getting into the fight hard enough? is this late to some degree? is it soon enough? >> i think everybody understands that there has been a wall built by the republicans. so, look, next week i think it's going to be pretty decisive. keith, i better be able to answer that question, right? we'll have a conversation next thursday. let's see, there were 11 republicans that have either co-sponsored the dream act -- 11 currently there -- that have either co. sponsored or voted for cloture to allow the dream act to be voted upon. we don't need one of them to vote for the dream act. not one of them. if they will not obstruct the path, i know there are 51 or better democrats to get the dream act passed. we want them to be with us. we think it's the right thing to do. but don't obstruct the path. as the president said, why do they also hav

. >> good evening, keith. thank you. >> is this what it looks like? is senator demint busting a tea party on backs of both parties? >> the tea party's been working to take over the republican party. so it's clearly a maneuver that allows us to see what the tea party wants. and honestly, keith, it's not so different. jim deminted right here that he is the party of no. that the tea party, the republican party doesn't matter. he doesn't want anything passed. what this move effectively does is slows down all legislation in the senate. >> but any senator has the right to do this, including senator demint. why is this so extraordinary? and why have we not seen somebody do this before in these polarized times? >> they call it a senatorial courtesy. but what jim has done here, senator demint is anything but a courtesy. it's been an extraordinarily discourteous maneuver, a tactic for the american people. the reason this is different is that while we do this sometimes, our senators do this sometimes whether it's to pass -- whether it's to expedite legislation o

>> keith erickson: uh-huh. >> pelley: erickson and her husband keith are not people with a lot of money, so in desperation, they sold their home in order to wire $15,000 to morales. the ericksons say they arrived in a rundown mexican clinic for a scheduled spinal injection of stem cells, but morales gave her a stem cell i.v. instead. >> keith erickson: so, he ended up coming in and hanging an i.v. off the tip of her thumb that was barely viable. >> pelley: muna, show me with your hand, if you can, precisely where that i.v. went in. right at the tip of your thumb. >> muna erickson: yes. >> pelley: what did you think? >> keith erickson: i thought about taking my wife and taking her home, but she was so set on getting these stem cells, i... i think she would've had a complete mental breakdown if... had i just boarded her back on a plane. >> pelley: muna, did you get somewhat better? >> muna erickson: no, i got worse. >> pelley: back in monterrey, mexico, morales and stowe came to a hotel room, where they met patients michael martin and steve watters. they were expecting to see another down

daniels, fox 45 news late edition". >> all right, keith thank you. if you ake up tomorrow to weather damage in your area. see it, shoot it, send it. your cell phone to pics@foxbaltimore.com. >> and as you head out tomorrow morning, get the latest about which streets re flooded possibly. and then the best detours of course. tomorrow morning on fox 45 morning news. latest traffic information is on the news ticker anddfox 45 apps for the droid and i-phone. fox 45 morning news begins at five a.m. >> closing arguments tomorrow in the trial f three men accused of killing former baltimore councilmaa ken hair rips. %-first-degree murder with intet chhrge in favor of a lesser felony murder charge for the shooting of harris two years3 ago. >> hagerstown police say the handgun a 2-year-old boy accidentally shot himself with, belonged to a federal agent. the gun was stolen three weeks -arlier from the officer's car. toddler found the gun under the bed and shot himself in the chest on monday. he was still in critical3%condi. the boy's 16-year-ood brother and 17-y

>> well, keith, yes, there are some. you can have an author. maybe my next book, i can make enough money to come on your program for it. there are people who may own a chain of fast food stores or a successful group of liquor stores, but they're a small proportion of this. there are about 15,000 "s" corps have an average revenue of $18 million, and partnerships that have an average income of $137 million. >> these rich guys paying the top rates, they'd have to pay a lot more in taxes if obama doesn't renew the bush taxes, right? >> well, yes and no. they do, after all, have access to tax shelters. the reason the tax code is so thick has nothing to do with ordinary americans, it has to do with favors bought with campaign donations. but, yes, overrule, they will pay higher taxes, which will go to provide better infrastructure so they can move their goods and services, educate people, so they have people to buy their products, et cetera. >> just putting aside for a second the orwellian quality of this whole thing, that peace is war and big busines

>> well, you lead it out, keith. any seventh grader can do this math, and clearly glenn beck hasn't been able to. this is a nation that's becoming increasingly diverse and pluralistic. and if we want to build a movement, and i think, you know, glenn beck has been doing that, i guess. you have to be able to build a broad, progressive movement that's broad based. if you have to do the math, we already have a successful model. barack obama won with enormous portion and enormous share of the vote, and that was a coalition built of young people, minorities, people of broad interests all over this country. >> how much of the enthusiasm, thus that we see from the right, particularly in the last few months, how much of that is actually coming out of fears about what it means for them -- means for them to join everybody else, basically, in being a minority in this country? fears about the death of whatever values and culture they think are unique to them? >> i think it's ludicrous to fear being a minority in this country. i'm

an accident at keith avenue . right now as we look at the maps, a complete check -- 95 southbound past caton avenue exit. the left lane and shoulder continue to be blocked there. on the very top side of the beltway, inner loop at the jfx, an earlier crash has been moved off to the left shoulder. anne arundel county, northbound 295 earlier crash at arundel mills circle now blocking the left lane and shoulder. traffic only gets by to the right lane. another accident reported southbound 97 at benfield boulevard. on the west side of the outer loop it will take you 13 minutes from 795 to 70. traffic is pretty much at a crawl there. 95 southbound, six minutes from whitemarsh boulevard to the beltway. 895 looking a little better, only eight minutes from the split as you approach 295. back to you. >> thank you. >>> 6:33. this is the big day today. the day that people get to play the one-armed bandits in cecil county, on 95 by the big water tower in perryville. our first casino. linda so says we can start playing today. >>

"countdown with keith olbermann" starts right now. >>> which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? ♪ those fingers in the till that will ♪ ♪ that holier than thou shrill, it's witchcraft ♪ >> the newest skeleton, the complaint to the federal election commission, from a second ex-staffer that christine o'donnell turned campaign contributions into household income -- like magic. and she made herself disappear yesterday. >> late friday night, her campaign canceled, saying o'donnell was exhausted and had to return to delaware. >> she canceled on us yesterday. she said she had scheduling conflicts and couldn't be here. >> and then there is the $1 million moment. >> i dabbled into witchcraft. i never joined a coven. >> she turned him into a newt! and there's hong kong animated news about her, and yes, that is her talking the kid out of choking a chicken. and yes, the mice brain video has been found. >> mice with fully functioning human brains. >> so after her, what's next for the tea party? repealing laws protecting gays and ending separation of church and state, what e

keith? >>weel, jeff the race is so ttght it raises the significance of absentee ballots, latest turn in tte race, after workers here at the election board struggledú so hard, to get all of the primary ballots counted. >> at the city boord of elections, direct armsttad polling place in the city state's attorney race. no problems.ss jones said, but >> no problems at all, other than rumorssmaybe that things are issing. %-everything is accounted for. >> the boord of elections, now reporting, that 100 percent of the primary bbllots have been counted.ú with challenger greg bernstein ú%ging out incumbent patricia patricia jessamy by 1300 votes. but to be clear, paaricia jessamy has not conceded the race. however, require campaign spokeswoman released this statement that reads ii part. we stand by the democrattc the campaign feeling it is nota. exactly over. relying, perhaps, on absentee ballots. election officials say requests forrabsentee ballots came from more ttan 3600 baltimore democrats, ww

live in north balttmore, keith >> thank you, keith. >> if you see flooding in your area, we want you to see it, shoot t, send it. upload pictures and ideos to our website. just go to foxbaltimore.com and click on he see it, shoot it, send it icon. you can also send ppctures directly from your cell phone to pics@foxbaltimore.com. >> this is heavy rain can cause lots of probllms. >> how much rain can we expectt3 and when will it rain the hardest? is here with a look at the weather moving ttrough maryland. >> good and bad side. good side is the rain has broken upcoming ver he bored from her virginia to maryland. running into dryer slot of air in ennsylvania. but heevy rainfall over rich land and south of us. zoooing out the picture here. a little bigger view. carolinas, tornado watches issued down there. we could see it shifting up to our region for tomorrow afternoon.ú with pooential forrinstability in the atmosphere as we see the system move up. %-system, see the trough, activy is riding on. this troughhis just also associated withhthat area of low pressure riggt now, ccnsidered ttop

keith how does it look there? expected to come downstairs, come down here and greet hese troops, in about two minutes. his supporters and fund raisers are hhre. standing bb. waiting to hear from their candidate. now, they are release what i think they call unofficial numbers. -hese are campaiin numbers from the campaign. they say with 133 precincts reporting out of more than 200, kevin kamenetz has gathered 60 percent of the vote. so, as far as they are concerned, thhre is cerrainly reason to e optimistic. -gain, you have fund raisers here, supporters here, they have the balloons here, they are waiting for their ccndidate to come down. at last check, two minutes. i know kevin kameeetz was waiting until he received more definitive numberr. i thought i saw him coming through the doors.3 anyway, moreedefinitive numbers before he speaks. again, the energy now is up. the mood upbbat. and, of course, optimistic. two minutes they say. that's the countdown. they are at the podiuu now. they are clapping but we don't see hi

i'm keith olbermann, good night and good luck. mao to discuss why lady gaga brought a former west point cadet to the video music awards rather than, say, dylan g. lucas or the go-gos, ladies and gentlemen, here is rachel maddow and dressed normally, i see. good evening. >> i have my bubble suit coming up later. >> i had the meat shirt but i left it in the office. >>> thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. on tonight's show, as keith said, for the first time ever we shall broach the all-important world-changing subject of lady gaga. lady gaga now makes our news because she has started poaching rachel maddow show guests to take as her dates to awards shows. you know how people say we couldn't be more excited and they mean that as hyperbole? i don't mean it as hyperbole. we could not be more excited or our health would be at risk. we are very excited. that story is coming up later on this hour. we begin tonight with a new reminder of what is making this such a brilliant year for the news about the country's poli

keith? >>well, jennifer, liveeat the hess gas station on jabba road, jury convicted coyle today. he is the man that found the gunman to do the killing. >> at he balttmore countt courrhouse, the first of sii people, charged in the planned killing of a gas station owner, is convicted for his role in the murrer. >> i think we proved our case pretty well.3 >> baltimore county state's attorney, on the jury's verdict for shamemus coyle, guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to coomit first-degree mmrder in the shooting death of william porter. porter's wife karla has been charged with orchestrating the killing. coyle, is karla's nephew. >> he was the individual that we proved that put karla porter in touch with the gun. >> prosecutors believe walter bishop, coyle's best frenis he gun sunshine told the jury that coyle arranged two meetings between bishop and karla orter3 and acted as the go-between for his aunt. a jury took less than two houus, to convict coyle. >> i am disappoinned in the jury veedict. >> defense attorney harris believes the jury got it wrong he said his client

i'm keith olbermann. good night and good luck. please join us for the live edition of "countdown" every weeknight at 8:00 eastern/5:00 pacific. >>> sounding off. president obama goes face to face with americans frustrated with the economic slump. >>> feline fiasco. a woman in england faces the music for tossing a cat into a garbage bin. >>> and terror in the stands. horrifying moments as a bleacher packed with spectators collapses in brazil. good morning, i'm lynn berry. those stories and more are straight ahead. this is "first look" on msnbc. >>> we begin this morning with on the defensive. at a town hall held by cnbc in the nation's capital, president obama held his ground while frustrated citizens took turns taking shots at his economic strategy. the president repeatedly defended his policies while fielding pointed questions from americans who fear the worst from the economy. nbc's steve handelsman has more. >> quite frankly, i'm exhausted. i'm exhausted of defending you, defending your administration. >> reporter: self-describ