Steve York

Top Talkers: Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are said to have killed over 100 people in the country's Houla region on Friday. U.N. envoy Kofi Annan is also set to meet with al-Assad to discuss violence in the country. The Morning Joe panel including New York Magazine's John Heilemann and Morning Joe economic analyst Steve Rattner discusses.

He's a superhero - with the tights and cape to prove it! Steve (John Ritter), a struggling New York actor costumed for a job posing as Captain Avenger at a movie premiere, walks into a corner market...and into a holdup. One smash! boom! pow! later and the Big Apple is hailing Steve. Not as a hero. As a superhero. Reel life turns real for Steve in this comic charmer celebrating the hero in all of us. One of the most likable stars ever to grace large or small screens, Ritter is hilarious and touching as a workaday guy who discovers righting wrongs is a whole lot of fun. So much that corrupt politicians want to cut in on the action and use Steve's fame to their own advantage. Will Steve cave to their scheme? This is a job for a superhero who knows right from wrong!

In honor of Memorial Day, the Up w/ Chris Hayes panel - including The Nation editor Liliana Segura, BusinessInsider.com editor Michael Brendan Dougherty, New York Daily News columnist John McWhorter, and Newsweek/The Daily Beast online contributing writer Michelle Goldberg discuss the meaning of the holiday and are later joined by US Marine Lt. Col. Steve Beck as he recounts his experience as a casualty assistance officer assigned to inform families about the death of a loved one.

...comes on like thunder! It's a winner! - Joel Siegel, WABC-TV/New York 'fuckBest movie of the summer!' - Steve Kmetko, KCBS-TV/Los Angeles From the engine roar and fever pitch of professional stock car racing, Days of Thunder explodes with the most spectacular racing action ever captured on film. Tom Cruise plays race driver Cole Trickle, whose talent and ambition are surpassed only by his burning need to win. Discovered by businessman Tim Daland (Randy Quaid), Cole is teamed with legendary crew chief and car-builder Harry Hogge (Academy Award. winner Robert Duvall) to race for the Winston Cup at the Daytona 500. A fiery crash nearly ends Cole's career and he must turn to a beautiful doctor (Nicole Kidman) to regain his nerve and the true courage needed to race, to win and to live.

The man with the patch is back. Call him Snake. Kurt Russell rejoins filmmakers John Carpenter and Debra Hill to do to the Big Orange what they did to the Big Apple in Escape From New York - with even more futuristic thrills and slam-bang action! Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken (Russell). His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device. Don't miss the excitement as Snake surfs Wilshire Blvd., shoots hoops at the Coliseum, dive bombs the Happy Kingdom theme park, and mixes it up with a wild assortment of friends, fiends and foes (Stacy Keach, Steve Buscemi, Peter Fonda, George Corraface, Cliff Robertson, Pam Grier and more). Escape From L.A. is a 'go-for-broke action extravaganza!' (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times).

The New York Times Frank Bruni, NBCLatino.com commentator Alicia Menendez, Salon writer Steve Kornacki, and BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith are joined by Time Magazine s Mark Halperin as they outline Mitt Romney s record as Massachusetts governor.

Markets are parsing every word out of Europe for signs the central banks might be ready to aid the markets. CNBC's Steve Liesman discusses the details of his interview with New York Federal Reserve president William Dudley.

'I think the European leadership is very committed to European Union,' says William Dudley, New York Federal Reserve president, discussing Europe's economic problems, the Volcker Rule, and why U.S. banks now have more capital and cleaner balance sheets, with CNBC's Steve Liesman. Sallie Krawcheck, former Merrill Lynch Wealth Management CEO, weighs in.

'If you look at the 6-month moving average over payroll employment, you do see things have accelerated a little bit, which is a good thing,' says William Dudley, New York Federal Reserve president, explaining why he expects economic growth to pick up and is cautiously optimistic on the U.S. economy, with CNBC's Steve Liesman. Sallie Krawcheck, former Merrill Lynch Wealth Management CEO, weighs in.

'The Federal Bank is certainly not in the business of holding these assets so it makes sense to return them to the private sector,' says William Dudley, New York Federal Reserve president, discussing the Maiden Lane assets, the fiscal cliff, Fed transparency, and monetary policies, with CNBC's Steve Liesman.

William Dudley, New York Federal Reserve president, tells CNBC's Steve Liesman why he expects economic growth to pick up and is cautiously optimistic on the U.S. economy. If that continues, he doesn't think the Fed will need to do more to fuel the economy.

CNBC's Steve Liesman reports the New York Fed has delayed the sale of $1.7 billion in Maiden Lane III assets.