>> i think republicans really like jeb bush and everyone, including barbara bush, always thought that he was the better qualified son. >> when you talk to republican governors, jeb bush's name comes up all the time. he's a close advisor to almost all of them, so he's a big power in the party. chris: i think haley barbour and the party are going to push for him. thanks for a great roundtable. that's the show. thanks for watching. [ male announcer ] martin o'malley sworn in. inherits a billion-dollar surplus, low unemployment. o'malley signs the biggest tax hike in maryland history. raids chesapeake bay fund to cover spending. gives raises to top aides. business climate ranks 45th worst in the nation. now 200,000 jobs lost. o'malley covers up jobs report that proved maryland's economy stalled. if re-elected, o'malley will raise taxes again. whether he does, is up to you.

. >> obama there are bush? >> i've got bush on y mind. the difference between bush and clinton is 22.7, but a significant difference between the two. they're going to have to do something because we have to get the budget done with. if we lose the hoe, you know, don't know. nancy pelosi calling everybody up saying you have to come back to vote. i don't know. >> l. be interesting. >> the secretary's right, my instinct was to spring up curveba and your comments about president bush's term. in terms to the pledge of america, there's a lot of progrowth policies that they have put in to help small business owners to repeal and replace health care reform so we cannot small business risk pools, so that we cannot liability reforms that will take out a lot of frivolous spending in the health care system. he will keep some of the things in the health health care bill t they supported in the first place, but will repeal things driving up the cost of the things that are affecting job creation. and yeah, they would keep the tax relief in place. >> rep

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george bush and the republican -- -- >> not just george bush. i don't like this idea that barack obama in less than two years has how bankrupt our country when our economy is not bankrupt first of all. the recession started in december 2007. the recession started december 2007, ended in june 2009, six months after barack obama took office. >> keith, i hate to break -- >> you said you want facts. >> hate to break the bubble with facts. you start with the repel of glass degreele in 1998 changed the way banks operate as institutions, chakds the way the economic bubble grew and built and burst. we have the housing problem with fannie mae and freddie mac. that's now vested almost, what, $160 billion of taxpayer money. we have a lot of problems not just bound to obama, not just bound to bush. >> that's not what caused the deficit. the deficit was caused by funding two wars and two tax cuts that cost trillions of dollars and doubled our national debt and were not paid for. that's why we have a deficit. that had happened under bush's administration not

. >> laura bush was no quiet first lady. and i went through the litany in the list of the things that were not traditional, including, you know, going to the border between burma and thighland to meet with hundreds of refugees that don't have an identity because of the brutal regime of their own country. i mean this not something a quiet person does. this is something a strong person does. that cares about human rights and you know, and cares about what our government does to support people in need. >> mcbride says the media can shape the public's impression of the first lady and says sometimes the media failed to focus on the important issues. >> you know, enough with the clothes already. there is a lot more to the planning of these trips and what goes into putting together a series of events when a first lady travels overseas. we're very blessed to have an open and free and fair press in our country. and you try your best to get the message out. and to take reporters with you or have conversations with them. and share info

how do you extend the bush tax cuts and cut the deficit? experts say it is impossible. >> it is not impossible. any time taxes decreased, revenue increased because you are putting money back into the private citizens who then go start businesses and create jobs based on the private sector, not government spending. they go spend that money on those new businesses that are starting. so it happened under kennedy and reagan. when you decrease taxes, revenues increase. >> should creationism be taught in public schools? >> that doesn't have anything to do with what i will do in congress. >> do you think it should be taught in public schools? >> nothing to do what i would do in congress. my opinion on that is irrelevant. >> let me ask you about afghanistan. the president's timetable for withdrawal, good or bad idea? >> we need to make the foreign policy decisions based on effectiveness and not time. we need to look at what's going on over there and before we make any decisions we need to examine whether or not it's weakening our own security. >> i

i'm on hyde between sutter and bush. the address of the apartment building that appears to be destroyed is 824 hyde. it is a brick building. firefighters say that 50 people total have been displaced. the apartment building and two other buildings have been evacuated. the ones on either side haven't been significantly damage but the one where the fire started which apparently started on the first floor of the building was all the way up. those homes appear to be disindividual to on all four stories. it's a dense residential area. a lot of apartments building around here. a lot of the residents who live in that building were students at art academy. again, firefighters continue to try to put out the flames. we actually saw orange flames a few minutes ago amongst all this smoke here. so firefighters all they can done right now is pour water on the top because there's no way they can enter the building. we also heard some harrowing tales of people trying to escape through the backfire escape. the back of the building. it was

expose more than the bush administration it exposed a media that acted as a conveyor belt for the lies of the administration a former top iraqi side is says baghdad is almost certainly making chemical and biological weapons the slightest claims iraq has mobile why i did wrong the countryside media monopoly militarism they go together and that unholy relationship has to be challenged has to be broken. to understand the motivation behind the corporate news coverage we have to make salmon who owns the media. corporations with entrance in the entertainment industry and in the military industrial complex control eighty percent of our media they decide what information we get and their choices are driven by profit and their political agenda we have a system with only one side the corporate side the advertising agency side the the television network side those commercial forces are doing all the talking and the other side is almost zero as entry becomes essentially impossible and the markets become more under the control of major corporations they can't just give information they have to some

bush put us in the e.r.? you're the one that's always made the case that this is a 30-year trend line. >> the last doctor was bush. it was president bush's tenure that created the -- that's why the middle class tax cut is what we need to get folks out there buying again so that we can get jobs back in the economy. >> let's talk about some of these issues with our great guests coming up including michael gersen. let's get into the arena. >> joining us tonight is michael gersen, former speechwriter for president bush, and columbia university professor. welcome to both of you. good to see you. no hug for me? >> hi, how are you? so nice to see you. >> good, good. you too. >> before we move straight to some of our favorite topics, michael would you like to respond to eliot spitzer put the economy in the emergency room? >> after six years of unprecedented growth and a fairly healthy any? >> you're talking about the clinton administration? >> exactly. but there were a lot of problems and a lot of shared responsibili

george bush's new memoir. why he actually thought his order brought down united 93 on 9/11. >>> full body. starting tomorrow, will you choose those revealing airport scans or a very personal patdown? >>> and, fulfill a dream. a young man changing the world, one wish at a time. >>> good evening. tonight, just five days from the midterm elections that will help set the course for the country for another two years. new polls show president obama's core supporters, those from 2008, have drifted further and further away from the days of bold optimism. so, last night, when one of their icons, comedic gladiator, jon stewart, questioned the president, his questions seemed to reverberate across the country and across that shift since the election two years ago. jake tapper spent the day assessing it all and with us tonight. jake? >> reporter: good evening, diane. well, that's right. president obama went on the jon stewart show last night. stewart frequently assails and critiques the right with wit. and he is often seem

i've cord president clinton president bush. and it's interesting to see different presidents over time. what strikes me is the familiarity, actually, that these areery different men, of course, bill clinton, george bush, and barack obama and yet some things are universal. being in that office, being in that position i thi regardless of ideology puts individual men and eventually women in a very familiar position. and in terms of their own personality, in terms of the way they run their white house, there's some interesting parallels as well. i sort of see president obama in a way kind of a cross between president clinton and president bush in some ways. not ideologically but in the way they run this. president clinton was very engaged in the details of policy, loved really digging into the nitty-gritty of things and understanding what was going on, intellectually curious. president obama is pretty silar in that regard. he's less likely to leave a decision open as long as president clinton did. en he makes a decision, like presi

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at least during bush there was enough hatred of bush that there was a peace movement that was speaking out about that. and with obama, since all the people voted against bush were against the war, they now kind of just go along with this and we're not getting any more peace. we're not getting out of any places. we're still having americans dying overseas and don't really know what we're accomplishing. >> here's the big thing that's not being said. it's not that they don't want to do. just that they're a bunch of chickens. they're scared to just do it because they want to remain in office. >> what do they do? >> here's the bottom line, i'm saying you can't be scared to make a mistake and you wouldn't be if you were more concerned about what you believe is -- >> larry: what are you telling me. >> what would they do? >> what would they do? >> i'm answering you right now. when general mcchrystal requested 40,000 troops, either i'm going to give him the 40 or i'm not going to be there. i'm not going to shortchange what the general requested. if the man wants 40,000 troops, you don't send 30

expose more than the bush administration it exposed a media that acted as a conveyor belt for the lies of the event strange a former top iraqi side is says baghdad is almost certainly making chemical and biological weapons the site has claims iraq has mobile why i did wrong the countryside media monopoly militarism they go together and that unholy relationship has to be challenged has to be broken. to foodie understand the motivation behind the corporate news coverage we have to make salmon who owns the media. corporations with interest in the entertainment industry and in the military industrial complex control eighty percent of our media they decide what information we get and their choices are driven by profit and their political agenda we have a system with only one side the corporate side advertising agency side the the television network side those commercial forces are doing all the talking and on the other side is almost zero as entry becomes essentially impossible and the markets become more under the control of major corporations they can't just give information they have to

leading us on whether it be mr blair who is an experience of war of television or whether it be mr bush or trying to serve his country we have lost touch with the essence of war with what it is war is at its core death the celebration of our own military prowess what is that it is necrophilia war is a poison america will seize every opportunity. in pursuit of peace. and the end. of the present regime in iraq. would create such an opportunity. is about self aggrandizement all these abstract terms like patriotism and glory that. after thirty seconds of combat are rendered hollow and ridiculous we live in a society where the mainstream media are constantly involved in numbing in anaesthetics in preventing us from being in touch with the human realities just by distraction the media politics of changing the subject putting forward images that are disconnected from human realities the myth making nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. flags bits of colored cloth that governments you are forced to shrink wrap people's brains and then

take for example, and four versus bush -- gore versus bush. i believe in our constitution, which i have in my pocket. even though i agree with -- i disagree, when they made that ruling, george bush became my president. we should leave the supreme court along and pick the best lawyers we can find. >> we will talk about don't ask don't tell. you get a first question, ms. angle. a federal judge's order to halt enforcement of the policy was hailed by gay activists as a landmark ruling in their struggle to expand their rights. don't you think it's time to end discrimination of gays and lesbians and our military? how you feel about republicans like dick cheney and laura bush coming out in favor of gay rights? >> the policies are under review right now. we should be waiting for the review of our military to make those decisions, not jumping ahead to making those decisions as senator reid tried to do by putting a provision in the defense bill. we have been very careful to define a marriage between -- as between of man and a woman through to general el

take for example, and four versus bush -- gore versus bush. i believe in our constitution, which i have in my pocket. even though i agree with -- i disagree, when they made that ruling, george bush became my president. we should leave the supreme court along and pick the best lawyers we can find. >> we will talk about don't ask don't tell. you get a first question, ms. angle. a federal judge's order to halt enforcement of the policy was hailed by gay activists as a landmark ruling in their struggle to expand their rights. don't you think it's time to end discrimination of gays and lesbians and our military? how you feel about republicans like dick cheney and laura bush coming out in favor of gay rights? >> the policies are under review right now. we should be waiting for the review of our military to make those decisions, not jumping ahead to making those decisions as senator reid tried to do by putting a provision in the defense bill. we have been very careful to define a marriage between -- as between of man and a woman through to general el

bush inherited. and his skill and his ability to bring people together and to gently lay the soviet union to rest was a tremendous, tremendous achievement. but george w. bush was of course president in a very different world. and i was also in the white house on 9/11. and 9/11 was the beginning of a big historical epic, a period in which an enemy that we did not know well, an enemy that had done something unthinkable, attacked the united states with its own planes 3,000 people dead, people jumping out of a 80 story window to try to avoid the inevitable, shadowy networks, a place called afghanistan where they were hiding the thought of a 9/11 with weapons of mass destruction, that was a very different world and a new historical epic. and it took a different kind of leadership, not ending that epic on our terms but beginning it on our terms. and i know that many of the things that we did were yal, and i know that history will judge the degree to which some of them worked. but when i think now about whe

i got a suggestion for them stop acting like bush and we won't compare you to bush i'm totally with you on that let us down professional lefties thanks so much for joining us. thank you. now we have a quick update on a developing story there's chaos on the streets of ecuador tonight as police took to the streets and attempted a coup they attacked the president and have taken over the airport in the country's capital of quito now sources say the president rafael correa was assaulted with tear gas by police who were protesting cuts to their benefits korea's been hospitalized due to injuries this is the second coup attempt on a democratically elected latin american president and less than two years now while this one failed you may remember the first was successful with honduran president manuals alliance make sure to tune into the news at seven pm to get the latest on this attempted coup from the ground. we're taking a break but still to come on tonight's show coming to america buying gold is now as simple as getting money from an a.t.m. we'll tell you where the new machine will start

it's not the bush tax cut. we're talking about what could shove us off the cliff along with the other uncertainty. we're talking about not bush tax cuts. that was ten years ago. now talking about one of the largest tax hike misamerican history. the obama tax hike. the "wall street journal" says it may be now the nightmare. the nightmare that shoves us off the edge. revisionist progressives will say the depression within the depression happened because f.d.r. didn't spend enough. his best friend one of the guys who helped design the new deal, he was head of the treasury. he testified in front of congress that was insanity. it's the same flawed logic that we're hearing today. all you have to do is look at history and learn from it. i have been telling you that the seasons are about to change. you have to wake your friends up. tell them about the mistakes of our past. before we repeat them. ♪ ♪ >> glenn: hello, america. i'm glad you're here. i want you to know first of all everything i say on the program, don'

bush has been laying low, but that is all over now with the upcoming release of his new book "decision points" and this morning the first details of the candid memoir were already leaking out. martha raddatz explains. >> reporter: so you can be alone in there, and that's where you write the book. >> well, that's where i'm planning on writing this book. >> reporter: president bush has been working on it for years, a book that the drudge report describes as strikingly personal but one that takes few shots at his critics, even steering clear of president obama. drudge reports that bush himself was the one who gave the order to shoot down planes on 9/11 and thought at first that the u.s. military had shot down flight 93 over pennsylvania. the book is all about decisions. from the decision to go to war in iraq to his opposition of stem cell research, the book's first chapter is called "quitting" where bush recalls a simple question he was asked decades ago. "can you remember the last day you didn't have a drink?" he talked to me in 2007 about his battles with alcohol. >> i had too much to d

bush added $3 trillion in eight years. [unintelligible] if you believe the government's role of to be limited -- >> go back to the bush years when the size of government grew and the deficit doubled. >> i am a senior economics and politics double major here. the question is for ms. myers, i do good but respond. could you talk a little about the dot.com bubble and the differences are similarities with the housing bubble? [laughter] more importantly, i was wondering to what extent you thought people were falsely blaming the obama administration for a seemingly and effective stimulus when the problem might be with the monetary aspect of the nation and the federal reserve keeping interest rates too long for too long? >> i had a chance to chat with her at the reception before and was very impressed with her grasp of monetary policy. i don't really have any substantive answers concerning the dot.com bubble and the housing bubble similar is. but we could talk for a long time about the housing bubble and its ramifications. liz wil

us on whether it be mr blair or who's going to experience it war of television or whether it be to bush or to trying to serve his country we have lost touch with the essence of war with what it is war is at its core death the celebration of our own military prowess what is that it is necrophilia war is a poison america will seize every opportunity. in pursuit of peace. and the end of the present regime in iraq. would create such an opportunity. war is about self aggrandizement all these abstract terms like patriotism and glory that. after thirty seconds of combat are rendered hollow and ridiculous we live in a society where the mainstream media are constantly involved in numbing in anaesthetics in preventing us from being in touch with the human realities just by distraction the media politics of changing the subject putting forward images that are disconnected from human realities the myth making nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. flags bits of colored cloth that governments you are forced to shrink wrap people's brains an

bush put us in the e.r.? you're the one that's always made the case that this is a 30-year trend line. >> the last doctor was bush. it was president bush's tenure that created the -- that's why the middle class tax cut is what we need to get folks out there buying again so that we can get jobs back in the economy. >> let's talk about some of these issues with our great guests coming up including michael gersen. let's get into the arena. >> joining us tonight is michael gersen, former speechwriter for president bush, and columbia university professor. welcome to both of you. good to see you. no hug for me? >> hi, how are you? so nice to see you. >> good, good. you too. >> before we move straight to some of our favorite topics, michael would you like to respond to elliottiot spitzer pe economy in the emergency room? >> after six years of unprecedented growth and a fairly healthy any? >> you're talking about the clinton administration? >> exactly. but there were a lot of problems and a lot of shared responsibili

bush en tÉrminos de aÑadir al dÉficit. >>alfonso, estÁ diciendo que los republicanos causaron el desastre econÓmico. >>ese es el problema. ella: sin duda que sÍ. >>ellos estÁn corriendo en contra del pres. bush en lugar de enfocarse en el momento actual y en el futuro. y el problema es que no se puede comparar el gasto pÚblico bajo la administraciÓn bush con el de esta, que ya... >>¡que muestren los nÚmeros, alfonso! Él: mira los records. hemos llegado a un rÉcord de 1.4 trillones del dÉficit. estamos hipotecados. ella: gracias lo que heredÓ el pres. obama. >>¡¿787 billones en estÍmulo econÓmico?! >>una preguntita, muchachos: me interesÓ mucho lo que dijo alfonso sobre el no apoyo a personas que han sido nefastas con la comunidad hispana. ¿quÉ le dirÍa usted a una persona que estÁ viendo que este martes 2 de noviembre hay un candidato que quizÁs no haya hecho lo que prometiÓ en cuanto a la reforma migratoria, pero el otro candidato dice que la 1070 es el camino a seguir, que apoya al sheriff joe arpa

bush, helped design bush tax cuts. thanks for joining us. there's major political debate about extending tax cuts for wealthy and average american. glen, looking at the income gap, does it take away some of the argument for extending tax cuts for the rich? >> there's two points about extension. we should extend the entire tax code until we're ready to have a serious conversation about the size of government. that's the second and bigger discussion. if in 2012 we decide we want a government as large as that in president obama's budget, we can't afford the current tax system. the bush tax cuts will all have to go. we need other tax increases. if we want a smaller government, that's a different story. that's the real question. how big do we want government to be, not the tax cuss. >> should we extend the tax cuts with an expiration date? should they all be extended? >> i think we should extend them until we're ready to have that conversation. to me it's the 2012 presidential campaign. if the american people say we would like a government of 25%

leading us on whether it be mr blair or who's an experience of war of television or whether it be to bush or to trying to serve his country we have lost touch with the essence of war with what it is war is at its core death the celebration of our own military prowess what is that it is necrophilia war is a poison america was seizing every opportunity. in pursuit of peace. and the end. of the present regime in iraq. would create such an opportunity. is about self aggrandizement all these abstract terms like patriotism and glory that. after thirty seconds of combat are rendered hollow and ridiculous we live in a society where the mainstream media are constantly involved in numbing in anaesthetics in preventing us from being in touch with the human realities just by distraction the media politics of changing the subject putting forward images that are disconnected from human realities the myth making nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. flags bits of colored cloth that governments you are forced to shrink wrap people's brains and

. >> obama there are bush? >> i've got bush on my mind. the difference between bush and clinton is 22.7, but a significant difference between the two. they're going to have to do something because we have to get the budget done with. if we lose the house, you know, i don't know. nancy pelosi calling everybody up saying you have to come back to vote. i don't know. >> l. be interesting. >> the secretary's right, my instinct was to spring up curveball and your comments about president bush's term. in terms to the pledge of america, there's a lot of progrowth policies that they have put in to help small business owners to repeal and replace health care reform so we cannot small business risk pools, so that we cannot liability reforms that will take out a lot of frivolous spending in the health care system. will keep some of the things in the health health care bill t they supported in the first place, but will repeal things driving up the cost of the things that are affecting job creation. and yeah, they would keep the tax relief in place. >>

that poll actualy -- george bush left and he was very unpopular. he had approval ratings in the low 30s. >> that's right. >> did that -- >> well, i think that's what happening really now is that the country's very divided. and mostly it's frustrated. and if you see incumbents of both parties are being thrown out because people are very frustrated about where the economy's going. what's right about that. but if you notice, the other data that you showed, people actually blame the republicans more than the democrats for the direction of the economy. >> well, except for one of the things that also sort of confused me more than stunned me is more people say that republicans are to blame for the current economic condition of the country. and more people say that republicans are better able to fix it. >> candy, the democrats are in charge. independents are driving the numbers this year. a majority of independents think it's bad for the country to have the presidency and congress controlled by the same party. they think it's bad for the country to have on

bush in 2002. guest: well, you had peter baker on last week who wrote a good piece in which he observes that it's almost surreal to sit and listen to barack obama say the exact same thing that is used to come from president bush. these are tough decisions. we have to make. he almost said i'm the decider. look these are tough decisions. things that land on my desk are inherently not easy. i think there is very quickly sets in the reality when you're on the campaign trail, you can -- lots of things you can say and you can inspire a lot of people. but when you walk into that oval office you enter a different world. and you're faced with some very tough decisions. the disconnect between that and what goes on on the campaign trail is pretty big. host: we have a couple minutes left. let me begin with today's front page of the "l.a. times." if you see this latest poll from the "l.a. times", she has spent more than $150 million. guest: if there's a state that you do not want to be a self-funder in, it is c

cover it was a spectacular show of explosions and awesome weaponry and their obvious support for the bush administration was remarkable to me. as in our recent so maker i wanted to understand how they can present war this way and i started to search for real information through independent media and their investigations i discovered the silence stories. this is what really happens when we drop bombs. media sanitizes or i mean in the case of iraq. war is hell war is bloody war is ugly and that's what we should have seen twenty four hours a day on television war is not primarily about discrete to victory it's about death and not dealt with by any of the people who are leading us on whether it be mr blair or who's an experience of war of television or whether it be mr bush or trying to serve his country we have lost touch with the essence of war with what it is war is at its core death the celebration of our own military prowess what is that it is necrophilia war is a poison america will seize every opportunity. in pursuit of peace. and the end. of the present regime in iraq. would create su

leading us on whether it be mr blair or who's an experience of war of television or whether it be mr bush or trying to serve his country we have lost touch with the essence of war with what it is war is at its core death the celebration of our own military prowess what is that it is necrophilia war is a poison america will seize every opportunity. in pursuit of peace. and the end. of the present regime in iraq. would create such an opportunity. or it is about self aggrandizement all these abstract terms like patriotism and glory that. after thirty seconds of combat are rendered hollow and ridiculous we live in a society where the mainstream media are constantly involved in numbing in anaesthetics in preventing us from being in touch with the human realities just by distraction the media politics of changing the subject putting forward images that are disconnected from human realities the myth making nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. flags bits of colored cloth that governments use forced to shrink wrap people's brains and th

bush was president. wall street was getting a trillion-dollar bailout and millions of middle-class americans had lost their jobs. 4 million of those people have exhausted their unemployment benefits and have had zero luck getting back into the workforce. and once again, senate republicans have turned their backs on the 99ers. senator debbie stabenow went to the senate floor to try to give these americans 20 additional weeks of benefits to help them out going into the winter. well, republican senator george lemieux, he blocked her. >> without knowing how much it's going to cost and how we're going to pay for it, while we are all certainly sympathetic and want to work to make people to go back to work, my home state of florida, certainly suffering with very high unemployment, we need to know what it's going to cost. we need to know how we're going to pay for it so we don't put this debt on our children and grandchildren so with that, mr. president, i object. >> oh, come on. you know, republicans, they just

expose more than the bush administration it exposed a media that acted as a conveyor belt for the lies of the administration a former top iraqi side is says baghdad is almost certainly making chemical and biological weapons the slightest claims iraq has mobile why i did wrong the countryside media monopoly militarism they go together and that unholy relationship has to be challenged has to be broken. to understand the motivation behind the corporate news coverage we have take salmon who owns the media now five corporations with interest in the entertainment industry and in the military industrial complex control eighty percent of our media they decide what information we get and their choices are driven by profit and their political agenda we have a system with only one side the corporate side the advertising agency side the the television network side those commercial forces are doing all the talking and the other side is almost zero as entry becomes essentially impossible and the markets become more under the control of major corporations they can't just give information they have to

again, between sutter and bush. is that right? >> yeah. exactly. sutter, you know, it's still early but a lot of these streets are heavily travels, you know, probably won't be a traffic issue now but there's a lot of emergency equipment out here so i would stay away from this general area right now. >> holly quan at hyde street, thank you so much. we are going it stay on top of this breaking news -- we're going to stay on top of this breaking news story. the fire jumping to four alarms. elizabeth wenger is going to talk about road closures. can you tell us maybe how traffic might be affected? >> right. holly said you may want to avoid the entire area including bush street one of the major roads leading into downtown. right now, it's on the 800 block of hyde street. between sutter and bush, hyde is completely shut down. the entire apartment is evacuated. fire crews are on scene. we were hearing of a second fire. i mentioned this in an earlier traffic report near eddy and jones. that is not a big problem. there is no traffic impact there. so the big

coverage was a spectacular show of explosions and awesome weaponry and their obvious support for the bush administration was remarkable to me. as in our recent so maker i wanted to understand how they can present war this way and i started to search for real information through independent media and their investigations i discovered the silence stories. this is what really happens when we drop bombs. media sanitizes war i mean in the case of iraq. war is hell war is bloody war is ugly and that's what we should have seen twenty four hours a day on television war is not primarily about history to victory it's about death and not dealt with by any of the people who are leading us on whether it be mr blair who's an experience of war of television or whether it be to bush or to trying to serve his country we have lost touch with the essence of war with what it is war is at its core death the celebration of our own military prowess what is that it is necrophilia war is a poison america will seize every opportunity. in pursuit of peace. and the end. of the present regime in iraq. would create su

expose more than the bush administration it exposed a media that acted as a conveyor belt for the lies of the administration a former top iraqi side is says baghdad is almost certainly making chemical and biological weapons the site is claims iraq has mobile why i did wrong the countryside media monopoly militarism they go together and that unholy relationship has to be challenged has to be broken. to sue you understand the motivation behind the corporate news coverage we have to make salmon who owns the media not all sides corporations with interest in the entertainment industry and in the military industrial complex control eighty percent of our media they decide what information we get and their choices are driven by profit and their political agenda we have a system with only one side of the corporate side advertising agency side the the television network side those commercial forces are doing all the talking on the other side is almost zero as entry becomes essentially impossible and the markets become more under the control the major corporations can just give information they h

laura bush did six events. hillary clinton did some 20 different events and where michelle obama doing about eight you can see she's closer to the laura bush model. one of the fun fact, it costs more to get into a michelle obama fund-raising than a barack obama fund-raiser. >> why would that be? because she's not out on the campaign trail as much as the president and supply and demand if there's more of the president and his price goes down? >> exactly. in these particular cases it's just more expensive to see michelle obama and she's doing the big fundraisers and the white house in some ways is trying to protect michelle obama. that's why she's not at a big campaign rally. she has to maintain that role as first lady and her high approval ratings keeping it invite only and more personal sort of setting. >> it's interesting. sophie nelson wrote an opinion spot saying she's worried about putting the first lady on the campaign trail. it was only two years ago during the 2008 campaign that michelle obama became fod

that is more jobs created than in the entire bush presidency. there were no net new jobs created by that administration. host: what do you say when people talk about the unemployment rate above 8%? when he pushed the stimulus bill, he said that an employment would be below 8%. it is not. guest: no, it is not. it was probably not a good idea to tie a bill to a specific number in the drop of the unemployment rate, but there is no question we have made progress and we are on the upswing. the way to talk about it is simply through demonstrating the results, recognizing that people still have a lot of thanks to -- angst. we are talking about the efforts that we have made on their behalf and drawing a contrast between us and our opponents on election day. while we still face the potential for significant losses, i believe we will hold the majority. if you refer to to eric bolling, dammit -- a generic pooling, democrats were the ones that turned around jobs and focused on middle families. there is a lot more confidence to make those both a priority. th

there is a threshold below 200 and you don't have to disclose them, the bush campaign did. the biggest player in this election and this year is the american federation of state, county and municipal employees, they are funneling taxpayer dollars into democratic campaigns to elect democrats who will raise taxes on americans to hire more government workers to take more of their dues to pay for -- that's a scandal. >> i have to jump in. the obama campaign had literally millions of donors. the ones they didn't disclose weren't the billionaires funding ed's groups. they were these small donors, the people across the country. now, there is a real difference here. >> how do we know. >> because there are several laws that if somebody dough anyways above $200 they have to be disclosed. as a matter of fact, a former rnc chairman was eloquent on the subject, eloquent on the subject that campaigns and candidates should play by -- have to ply by one set of rules and that billionaires funding these shadow campaigns play by another. >> that's why i opposed the bill. it's the law of the la

these bushed tax cuts. democrats are saying that they will delay that vote until after the midterm elections. republicans want to press that vote on this side of the elections. what do you make of the politics around the bush tax cuts? >> i think democrats are making a mistake. having a vote before the elections would highlight the difference between the parties, because republicans want to extend the bush tax cuts to the top 2% at a time when so much wealth and income has been going to the top, and those of most tax cuts were mostly benefiting the top 2% to begin with. and the obama administration say, no, we want the bush tax cuts extended for the bottom 98%. the budget deficit is big enough. we cannot afford to give the people at the top another $36 billion, a windfall they never expected. i think it is another fight the democrats should take on. it would illustrate the differences between parties. but apparently, the democrats are punting. tavis: what do make of republicans, republicans wanting to force