MSNBC’s Morning Joe: Fiscal Deadlines and Economic Data on Inequality

On today’s Morning Joe, Steven Rattner discusses approaching fiscal deadlines for the US government, as well as how economic data on inequality and consumer confidence seem to be telling two different stories about the recovery.

Four in five US adults struggle with near poverty, survey shows

Top Talkers: 80 percent of American adults have struggled with joblessness and near-poverty at some point in their lives, a new Associated Press survey shows. The Morning Joe panel – including economic analyst Steve Rattner, former DLC Chair Harold Ford Jr., the Council on Foreign Relations’ Richard Haass, the Washington Post’s David Ignatius and fmr. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs – discusses the survey and the president’s message that the U.S.