no shariah law there. >> reporter: all i have to say, john, if you're a nevada voter, you have to really dislike harry reid. i don't know. it's a gift that keeps on giving for comedians, i tell you that, john king. >> we'll see you back on monday. that's all for us. we hope to see you monday. "parker spitzer" starts right now. happy friday, and i really mean that. i'm kathleen parker. >> and i'm eliot spitzer. i have an issue burning a hole in my stomach. i have to talk about this economic crisis is worse than anything is telling you. they came out with new unemployment number. you moe what it is? it's 12.9%.

12.9, about 20 million people who are out of jobs. here's what's going on. the bureau of labor statistics, the government agency that puts these numbers together, it's not so much that they're lying to us. they just don't include 5.9 million people that they say are marginally attached, people who are too discouraged to keep looking or they haven't looked in the past four weeks, because they know there's no jobs for them. good news out there, a tiny bit, you know what? 34,000 additional jobs last months, you know where? drinking establishments. it's clear what's going on, we're drinking away our sorrows, but folks, this is not happy hour. kathleen? >> elliott, i want to do my part after this announcement of gloom and doom to help the economy. >> this is not a happy story.

>> i'm going to a drinking establishment right after work. why do you know this? and why isn't it more widely known? >> i get an e-mail from a good friend. a lot of people know this. these numbers are there in the government report that's issued. you have to read into the footnotes. what's happened over time, everybody focuses on the 9.6 numbers, which excludes the other people that should be counted. >> but your figures include college students, people just out of college looking for jobs? they haven't looked very long. >> it would include anybody who's actually genuinely seeking a job. these are -- these numbers count the people who want a job who can't get it. >> what about people who are just underemployed, meaning that they -- >> we don't count them. good point you're racing here. if you included people that we call involuntarily part time --

in other words, i want to work part time, but i'm only working five hours a week at a fast food, deli -- if you included them, then the number would break through 18%. they're working a little bit, so we don't count them. that would give you the biggest number. the issue is why do they not include all these other people in the number that gets out there. one other number in there. i know you make fun of me all the time. >> i have some numbers of my own. >> the other number that matters is the average duration of unemployment. then what you're saying to people is when you've been unemployed for half a year, getting back into the work force gets harder and harder. the number is we have 9.5 million workers who have been unemployed for over half a year. you fwraek that down more. if you're over a certain age and unemployed for that long, boy, does it get harder to get back into the work force, so we have a real crisis here. >> i don't want to mess you up here, because i hear your

thesis. i was looking at the cato institute figures, of course that's a libertarian organization. they would be against government programs. >> i always look at job creation. if it's government job creation, it doesn't mean nearly as much to me, because long term private sector jobs are going to create more wealth, greater tax revenue. >> good to hear, but the cato institute shows if you consider only those jobs that have been lost, rather than jobs that haven't been found, people who have been fired, it's more like in the 6% range. i think you ought to show that figure just as a little contrast for those who are thinking of rushing out to happy hour. fortunately we have a guest that can help to figure this out. >> and he's going to drill down deeper into the numbers. nobel winning economist paul krugman. he is brilliant. >> but let's talk with politics with two people. it's time to go "in the arena."

christy freeland, and bill glenn. >> welcome to both of you. welcome, welcome. >> as we say down south, nice to see you. >> a convention of the southern folks. >> you know why you say it, what if you met previously and didn't remember. >> we know in the south, that is rule number one. >> paramount to not to be rude. >> if you know someone and say nice to see you. >> that's why everybody says it. >> a lot easier up here. we don't worry as much about it. >> sarah palin last night in palm beach, that bastion of ordinary americans announced shy would run for president if the american people want her to. so you remember it used to be when a door opened and i was expecting a voice from above. now it's just american people, i

don't know how much that would be. what do you think, can she win? >> i think what's important is that everything on the republican side is a part of the conversation. look, i don't know. >> that's a very diplomatic answer. why does she say that now? why distracted this moment by suddenly keeping herself in the limelight? >> look, she's one person in a party that's made up of millions. while she's got a higher profile than most -- >> well, she's the king maker or the queen maker. she waves her magic wand and voila. >> i think it's a significant comment from her, and i think

she's been consistently underestimated by metropolitan elites like ourselves. >> and speaking of which, christine odonnell has a new ad out, and she says, i did not go to yale, i did not inherit millions. >> i'm a witch? >> no, no, that was the wrong one. i'm sorry. let's look at this ad. >> i didn't go to yale. i didn't inherit millions like my opponent. i'm you. >> i didn't know you were running against christine

o'donnell. >> did yale ask her to do that ad? who's going to win more? christine o'donnell or yale? >> christine o'donnell. >> i'm with you on that. >> it's anti-ivy league, anti-rich kids, all that. >> and there's something real behind that. i think the anxiety, the anger of the american middle classes real. it's about the hole lowing out about the middle class, these jobs we were talking about, and that's going higher and higher. people are scared and angry. >> i'm going to ask you to figure out what democrats do, why hasn't a democrat filled that space? >> it's a mystery to me, quite frankly. the president spent a better part of 18 months to two years focused on an issue he may have thought important, but the public, the people -- the families around the kchen table were worried about jobs. >> it was important -- that issue was important to real people, but he just didn't communicate it. >> i disagree with you.

>> it just wasn't the primary concern. >> the primary concern for 40 million americans is can i keep my job or get a job? they still haven't spoken to it. a stimulus package that feeds money to the states, doesn't directly impact the consumer, doesn't directly impact the states, we come to find out doesn't add to the bottom line of the gdp, people are concerned. >> isn't it also about communication? isn't it also about the fact that this president is a technocrat par excellence? he went to harvard, and it shows. i'm not saying that's a bad thing. he's a very analytical, believes in analysis, thinks if we put the smartest people together we'll get the right answers. that may be true, but that's not in sync with the americans right now. >> bill clinton went to yale, the best politician --

>> so did george w. bush, by the way. >> this is a shot at george w. bush? >> i think it's a shot at though people that believe that the country is represented by new york and california, not what's in between. there is a disconnect. it will play itself out, i predict, in 28 days, and probably not in a good way for democrats. >> it happens to be largely true. >> it happens to be largely true. >> so they don't feel connected. >> just because the anxiety is true doesn't mean that the policies that that anxiety translate are into a good thing. actually at the end of the day, probably having a super-educated president surrounded by super-educated advisers is probably not a bad thing. if you were running a hedge fund, if you are in silicon valley, do you want someone who has a ph.d. in math to work in your company? probably. >> i'm perfectly -- are we asking too much that he also be a fabulous communicator 24/7?

>> it's called democracy, right? >> the voters get to -- >> i'm coming from a different place. i agree with the premise of christine o'donnell's whole argument, that ruling elite has failed, without any question for the past ten years it's been self-involved, self-focused, enriched itself, it's taken care of wall street, lawyers, and investment bankers, and not real people. we have seen a hollowing out of this economy. i blame both parties for that, and i made this clear, fire tim geithner and i would do it over and over until they put money back into the real economy. >> i couldn't agree with you more. i don't see the pursuit of policies, with all due respect to health care and its importance, i think if you're sitting around the kitchen table, it's tough to make the jump from health care to -- unless you're grappling with a -- >> not if it were communicated differently. there was a way to communicate

about health care that said, look, actually, ton unemployed in america is to be worse than unemployed in any other rich country in the world. this is astonishing, if you lose your job you lose your health care? how can that be? how can americans tolerate that? isn't it scary to be american? >> newt gingrich said something the other day. he made a statement. do we have a tape of this? >> i think this tide is just continuing to build. i think the 10.1% unemployment number by gallup is going to be devastating. toad stamps versus paychecks is powerful. i'm going to predict we're probably over a 60-seat pickup, the largest pickup since 1932. >> republicans just need 39 cents -- 39 seats. >> we'll take the 39 cents as well. >> do you think thinks remotely possible? >> obviously i believe that is the case, and most popular

consensus from the pun dits, from the report and charlie cook and those guys, to just general people that recognize, hey, democrats held a lot of seats that were actually seats held by republicans. john mccain and george bush carried 80 seats now represented by democrats. they start off at a position of strength, if you will. i would argue that the president historically always faces a challenge of losses. you add that with the text of an extraordinarily difficult economic climate, and it's a recipe for a tsunami. i, you know, quite frankly don't need they've done a lot tactically. you can change the narrative in the next 28 days.

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you didn't know you would be nominated here. >> terrible, terrible idea. at the top of the show it's either 12.9 or maybe even higher. how serious is this embedded structural problem? >> the unemployment problem is enormous. it's terrible. that does terrible, terrible harm. structural has a very specific means. it's a term of art. structural means it's unemployment that you could not solve just by increasing demand, that you have unemployment that even if the federal reserve

prints a lot more money we have people who are unemployable. there is no sign we have a lot of that. think about it. we're talking about things like infrastructure spending. 1.5 million construction workers, we are choosing not to have the policies to put them to work. i think that's a terrible dodge, saying it's beyond our control. it's not. >> you think there's an answer? >> if we had no constraints and complete unanimity, in 18 months we could make the unemployment problem go away. there is nothing wrong -- americans have not forgotten how to work in the last three years. so let me ask the political question, where in the white house is the opposition to saying in a loud, clear way,

this is the answer? >> i think -- what happened was the white house right at the beginni beginning, january 2009, went for an underbowered stimulus, because -- in part because they thought they couldn't get a bigger one through congress, then made the political decision not to say it's all we think we can get, but instead the decision -- that it was exactly right. they've never found a way to step off that initial claim and say, look, we're sorry, this wasn't big enough, we really need more, and now they're stuck. it's very, very hard for them to talk about the issue in any coherent way. >> i want to try to clarify something for the average viewer at home. you're a big fan of deficit spending. to get something, we have to spend more, but for the average american at home who may already be in debt, the idea of spending when you don't have money doesn't make a whole lot of sense. can you explain why that's a good economic model?

>> it's not in all times. once the economy recovers, businesses are spending because they're use the capacity, you want to try to pay down the debt, but right now, nobody wants to spend, businesses don't want to spend, consumers don't want to spend. the economy is deeply depressed. the only player out there who can get this economy moving is the government. now is the time for the government to borrow, spend, get this economy moving, and then be responsible and pull back, but only after we've got this thing going. >> this is primarily a matter of sequence? >> yeah, it's a question -- give me a situation in which the unemployment rate has dropped to -- it doesn't even have to be full employment, but down below 7%, a situation where the federal reserve is thinking maybe we need to raise interest rates. that's a time when the government can start to pull back, but right now, it's even

self-defeating in pure budget terms, the budget pulse back, tax revenues will fall, this isn't the time for austerity. >> so what should government invest in? >> actually that's less of a critical question. in a way, what ended the great depression? the great depression was ended by massive government spending on something that was not only uses, but destructive, name by world war ii. it should be on useful stuff. we should be building another tunnel under the hudson river, roads, bridges, fixing our sewer systems which are creaking and falling apart. there's lots of good stuff to spend on, but above all, spend. >> which of course is the great threat on partner, depending on how you see it. what is the answer to the trade deficit. what is our best answer to this? >> well, there's a generality

issue of the rise of china, which is -- that's mixed, and i think in a lot of ways that's a good thing for the world even for us, but right now, the chinese are deliberately keeping their currency undervalued. in effect -- in effect they're subsidizing their exports and protecting against imports. it means they are quite literally stealing jobs from the rest of the world. things aren't always like this, but the way they are now, the chinese policy is predatory, destructive, and at the moment they see no reason to stop because no one seems willing to take action against them, but i'm willing. >> i've seen your columns, where you basically say to the white house, come on, to use our phrase, man up, get tougher. tim geithner mumbles a few words every now and then, and then nothing. >> they're afraid of two things, one which i think is wrong, the other i understand. they're afraid the financial

markets would be upset. that's a terrible way to make policy, try to run your policy to, you know, to maintain confidence sort of unrelated to the realities. the reality is getting tough on china is the right thing to do, and i think the market will recognize it. it also is a big step. we would be talking about a level of really getting tough on trade policy that we haven't done for a long time, really we haven't done since richard nixon took action. people are afraid, if you start to say we're going to play tough, maybe the whole world starts going crazy, but there comes a point where you have to act. we cannot be the people who bears sole responsibility for maintaining civility in the world economy while the chinese take advantage of it. is there concern the chinese would no longer buy debt a real concern? >> no, we are awash in savings

with nowhere to go. as my friend and colleague the economist dean baker says they have an empty water pistol pointed at our heads. >> this is the perfect time to go to the plate and start swinging? >> the same reason that makes the china ease policy so destructive make this also a period in which the chinese have no leverage over us. cash, which is what they have, there's too much out there. we don't need theirs. >> we have to take a quick break. don't go away. full with politics is next. paul, thank you so much. >> thank you. ♪

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sometimes you word if they're waiting for you to fail? >> i can't imagine the pressure. it must be horrible. >> how did you do? >> did great. the yankees send up a recruiter. >> you mean like president obama? you can forget this curveball. definitely need a little stimulus package. >> he is a great athlete. we should remember that. he is fluid, he is agrees you have. >> he's soaking it up. that's a nice motion. good motion. he had heat on that pitch.

that got us in hot water. >> but you love that charlie crist video. >> we do. >> maybe there's a lesson for you there. >> oh, that is ugly. all right. we'll be right back. waiting in our hotel room. we were told to be there at 4:00. i turned to my wife and i said, talk about room service. [ woman ] alright, so this tylenol 8 hour lasts 8 hours.

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scott simon and his wife klein are convinced mer kales happened. they adopted air that you elise from china. five years later they went back to pick up her sister, elina. that's what simon describes "baby we were meant for each other." scott simon is the host of npr's

"weekend edition." he's also a good friend. >> i don't think i've ever asked you, what was the conversation like when you and klein decided to go to china? >> we were sitting at -- we had been through -- we tried to start a family in the traditional abraham and sarah manner. >> i vaguely remember that. >> until we are black and blue. not as much fun as it sounds, certainly not for my wife. we found a couple rounds in a clinic, and it was sitting at a table like this. we thought, you know, we both have been around the world, we know there's children in the world already, overseas and in our country who need families, and we sure need to love them. >> that's whether we decided

enough of that. >> first of all, you're a wonderful writer. if you would let me indulge myself, a paragraph early in the book. if i don't do this as you intended me to be heard, forgive me. this is a novelist writing. raindrops rattled the roof of our small bus, seeped through the windows and pitted the windshield with great wet gobs. a sad die sighed julie, white the cityscape, slabs of brown and gray with wet laundry flapping rolled by our windows. five sets of strangers were together on the bus, about to share one of the most intimate moments of our lives. we had cheer i don'ts, wipes, and diapers in our hoonds.

aisle sorry, that is beautiful writing. now, when you went to pick up elina, she went with you? there's a particularly moving moment in your book? >> yes -- well, in my life. >> we were waiting in our hotel room. i turned to my wife and i thought, talk about -- and you get a picture. and they put her on a round table like this. she did not look like the baby whose picture we had seen. mea wife immediately said, are you sure she's the right one? we weren't hung up about one or the other, but we didn't want -- we were beginning to hold her. >> you're already in love.

exactly. you didn't want people to say, you have -- it turned out to be the right one. greatest moment of my life. she reached out to elina -- i'm sorry -- she reached out with her hand and held it tenderly. with a tenderness that we still sometimes don't see from her, and she still her hand and she accepted, it doesn't matter. and it was the greatest moment of my life -- thank you. >> i know you, scott, so i brought some tissues. >> it's the greatest moment of my life. in that moment, she reminded us of everything. yes, it doesn't matter. it absolutely doesn't matter. how this girl -- this little girl began, where she was from, none of that. it all disappeared.

>> and they're adorable and they're complete sisters. >> yes, they are. >> another favorite passage, when elise became an american citizen. can you tell us about that? >> gosh. >> tissue? >> yes. thank you. yeah, we came in through chicago, and -- your hometown. >> my hometown. this is something i recommend to every american citizen, by the way. if they ever have the chance to sit in one of these arrival lounges in an international airport, homeland security i get it would be. we were sitting there with families from poland, kenya, bermuda. the man with the smokey bear hat says simon family, we go up there, he's got our paperwork and he said, your paperwork is in order. he said, when you pass that line, your little girl will be a citizen of the united states. and he reached his hand up elise's chin and said, welcome

home, sweetheart. >> that's on page 13. i happen to know. everybody in the control room is in tears. so we're going to close it. >> that's probably my tie. i know it does terrible things to the color monitors. >> thank you so much for come. >> thanks, kathleen. >> we'll be right back. pick a national leader and tell you what tattoo that person should wear. >> my tattoo is for all politicia politicians, and i think it should be on the palm. it should say remember the open mike. it's in honor this week of jerry britain, who forgot the danger of -- >> i'm going to write that on my hand right now. as a manager, my team counts on me to stay focused.

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party, an offbeat conversation with people who have strong pins on a whole range of topic. christina is back, the global editor at large for reuters. >> that's right. >> and steve karnaki, the news editor for salon.com. you've been here before, so thank you both for coming backer roll lewis, a columnist for "the daily news" and cnn contributor. and ed rollins who's been in politics, what, since you were 2 years old? >> start with lincoln. >> and you've won most of your races, a good batting average, and catherine political contributor. thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> earlier nancy pelosi said our challenge is to tackle the issue of big insurance, big oil -- and that got us to thinking, what tattoo should that person wear?

>> joe biden, and i don't know where on his body, but big bleeping deal. that was one of his best moments. >> but you know, he was right. >> well, it's a lot of language. >> a big chest. >> or a big bicep. >> what was your response when he said that? >> from the vice president? >> no, we would never do that. that would be inappropriate. >> wasn't that a refreshing moment? >> because it was correct. it was true. >> what i've always said good joe biden's gaffs, more often that not, i fend them refreshes. he's offmessage in a way that's more understandable that when most politicians are on message. >> we criticize him -- >> 1% of the vote in iowa. >> he has a remarkably successful vice president and actually a real person. we talk about does obama connect with people?

>> ed, do you have a tattoo? >> yes. >> i think somewhere i've known nancy pelosi, and somewhere on her arm she has tough and brave. that's what she is. i've watched her for 30 years survive starting with california politician, where i grew up with her, and she is a very effective speaker. what she did on that tattoo remark, she said if you're going to run against me, go do it. just win your seat. that's a brave comment from any speaker. >> is she the best speaker of the last 20, 30 years? >> by far, by far. >> high praise and you're on the other side of the aisle. >> definitely on the -- >> do you think john boehner will be the next speaker? >> i do. >> one of the marl goro man, if it's not there, in honor of the time when he passed on you checks to members of the house on the floor of the house, like it was an open auction. >> if you're going to do it, you might as well do it there. >> i remember when he used to pass out bottles of booze on the

floor. >> how does the tattoo look again that really orange skin? >> you have to get the colors right ivlgts yes, he was born tanned. >> what's your tattoo? >> for all politicians, i think it should be on the palm. it should say remember the open mike, in honor this week of jerry brown who forgot the danger of -- >> i'm going to write that on my hand right now. >> why tattoo your will have when you could do it sarah palin style. >> i have it for -- it was a bad one. >> will that reverbal rate around. >> and certainly if i were on meg whitman's side, i thought their response emphasizing all the women of california should be dismayed. i thought it would be smart. >> one thing is very important. we're not sure it was him.

he was the second part of the conversation. i'll do anything i can -- >> give you what actually happened. >> what happened is they were talking about a labor union thing. they made a phone call, and basically the process of hanging up and they were still talking, and the other end was recording it. and so it was -- when i got off the phone, i thought they had disconnected, someone called meg whitman a whore, and then the governor maid a counter-comment, so there were two conversations, and the stories are he said it or someone on his line said it action and i think you ought to give him the benefit of the doubt. >> political whore was what they were talking about, her cutting a transaction. >> transactional politics. >> but nonetheless, nonetheless it's not a word you use. >> and that campaign has been sort of in the gutter with the whole, you know -- the maid, the illegal immigrant stuff, this has not been a high-brow campaign. >> not been for $140 million

campaign. >> well, this will distract people from the illegal maid, right? >> let's switch gears for a second. earlier today or a couple days ago, newt gingrich said 60 seats. i've got a crazy theory. i think the white house wants to lose the house. it needs a foil, an enemy. agree or disagree? >> i think you're basically right at this point. when you start looking at the senate. if you house goes, then you probably want them all to go. after the 1994 any temples when his party suffered a drubbing. the problem is this. newt gingrich made himself an easy mark for bill clinton, he made himself the face of the party, say a lot of things about john boehner, but i think john boehner and mitch mcconnell, they're more benign. i think the dynamic might have been different where they had that train wreck.

where they shut the government down. the public liked clinton more than gingrich. >> the most difficult thing the president would face if you have both houses against you, the idea that bill clinton who could sit down and negotiate with gingrich and trent lott is not in the dna of president obama. what's going for happen. if they lose the house, the pelosis of the world will basically say you weren't progressive enough, we've lost or conservative members and you better get more liberal. they'll be the this morning in the tail more so than anybody else. >> i disagree about this. whether they want it or not, i think they probably been going to lose control, but i think it's really bad for this white house. partly bhu the problem was i'm going to be the bipartisan guy.

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welcome back to our political party. one more quick whip around the table. we've been covering some earth-shattering stories, is christine o'donnell a witch? what story are we missing? >> from my focus, all focus on o'donnell has distracted everyone from the fact that patty murray is behind the polls. the fine gold race, and the raese race. >> this is a decoy theory. >> huge story, which broke in the middle of the week, which is the fact that foreign corporations are using the american chamber of commerce -- u.s. chamber of commerce to funnel all kinds of money. it's a gigantic loophole. we have money from india and bahrain for sure, all these folks, including countries where lots of jobs have been outsourced. this should be a national -- we

shouldn't wait until we know business men are in iran. >> steve? >> we're talking about the republicans taking over, a great cautionary tale this week about the dangers of going too far with the small government rhetoric. there's a small town in semiprivatized their fire department, which means if you want fire service, you have to pay for it, some guy says, i don't want to pay for it, his house catches on fire, the fire department says we're not going to help you. so it spreads, and the guy's house burns down. >> in the history of new york, it happened every other day. all these are fascinating issues. we have a party here every night. we'll be right back. thank for you joining us. ss in the tightest spaces. more innovation, more great values. craftsman. trust. in your hands. thanks.

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i'm randi kaye. parker spitzer is back in a moment. first the latest. there's a new development in the case of david hartley. he's the texas texas man whose wife claims he was shot and killed by mexican pirates on the lake which straddles the border. the day he disappeared, they were stopped by texas police for a motor vehicle violation, a police dashboard camera recorded the inns didn't and show you two jet skis on a trailer. this video could bolster her story. doubts have been raised because

neither david's body nor his jet ski have been found. they could break through to the miners tomorrow. once the shaft is stabilized, a doctor will be lowered to check on the miners before they are brought to the surface. coming up convex anderson cooper" we'll hear from a variety of people, teens and parents, former bullies on why they did it, and from victims on what it's what it's like to be bullied. >> it gets better, i'm sure, you know, a lot of people have been bullied and celebrity types and public figures. it's okay. there's a light at the end of the tunnel. >> bullying, no escape, a special town hall down in partnership with "people" and cartoon network. that's tonight at 10:00 on "360." that's the latest. now back to "parker spitzer."

before we go, our post script. john lennon will be turning 70. hard to believe it. >> i can't help of thinks of a certain story that begins "all children except one grow up." he meant peter pan, but he could have been talking about john lennon. the sweet boy that sang "if i fell in love with you" just as he was singing to me ♪ i must be sure from the very start ♪ ♪ that you would love me more than her ♪ his clothes changed, his glooss changed, his music changed, but he was always revolutionary. he even wrote a song about it. ♪ you say you want a revolution ♪ ♪ well you know ♪ we'd al