it's pretty. we're from dallas, texas, and we love new york! >> it is cool to be asked to play in public, to be encouraged to have fun and be nice while doing it especially because people did so improve everywhere, let me return the favor, excellent job. best new thing in the world today, definitely. now it's time for "the ed show." good evening, americans. welcome to "the ed show" from new york. lots of big news in libya. gadhafi's compound was breeched by the rebels. over here in the united states, the east coast saw its most powerful earthquake in over a century. and back on the campaign trail, michelle bachmann continues to believe in the pipe dream that she will slash gas prices as

president. senator bernie sanders is here. he does know how to lower gas prices. this is the ed show, let's get to work. >> we did k. get it back down to that level again. why wouldn't he be able to do that? >> michelle bachmann doubles down on her pledge to drive gas prices under $2 a gallon if she becomes president. her plan, there is no plan. tonight, senator bernie sanders and bill press will give us the facts on what's driving price and politics. >> america needs to be about freedom. it needs to be about freedom from overtaxation and litigation and regulation. >> first beck now perry. civil rights leader martin luther king for their own cynical political gain. the gay that king memorial opened to the public, rick perry compared the civil rights movement to the fight for lowering corporate taxes. i don't think that was what

martin luther king jr. was fighting for. and in psycho talk tonight -- >> i'll be the first person to sign up, absolutely. >> just when i thought he was the normal one in the bunch, john huntsman's backtracking has landed him in the zone tonight. great to have with you us tonight, folks. welcome to "the ed show." i just don't think it's the earthquake. i don't think it's the hurricane coming. and it's not the regime change in libya. what's the most important story in america? i think it's michelle bachmann. she still thinks she can make gas prices drop below $2 a gallon. think about that. the economy is the biggest story. gas prices really hit middle class families more than anything else. it's on every kitchen table in america and there is actually someone in the congress who says she has a plan to turn all of that around. remember, bachmann, she believes government is just all bad and can't do anything right. we're going to show you how her ideology won't help gas prices but government regulation will.

you think she'd be a democrat. bachmann made this wild campaign promise on the stum notary public south carolina last week. michelle bachmann still thinks she can make gas prices drop below $2 a gallon. she made this wild cam pan promise on the stum notary public south carolina. >> the day that president game president, gasoline was $1.79 a gallon. look at what it is today. under president bachmann, you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again. that will happen. >> wow! bachmann is getting marginally better. the week president obama was sworn in, gasoline averaged $1.89 a gatt lon. she's getting better. so what does she do? she doubles down on her promise. she doubles down on her promise on a low rated "washington times" radio show. >> well, for heaven sakes, the price of gasoline the day that barack obama took office was

$1.79 a gallon. >> wow. >> so if the price of gasoline was $1.79 a gallon just two or three years ago, certainly we can get it back down to that level again. why wouldn't we be able to do that? we're a can do america. >> you hear the host say wow. a can-do attitude. let me tell you something, that is not enough to just magically make gas dip under $2. so we go to the archives to find out some specifics on bachman as n plan. we found a video of her on the stump in iowa last month. >> just three western states have more shale oil. we have 25% of the world's coal. we have trillions of cubic quar feet of gas. you're part of the wind tunnel in the united states. we've got wind. we've got solar. we've got all of the above.

why not focus on american energy production? and you're part of that solution here in iowa. i'm for all of the above and i'm for american energy independence, not dependence on opec. >> okay. bachmann wants to drill, baby, drill in america. folks, those are the same policies president george w. bush used to push gas prices to a record record $4.61 in 2008. she wants an all of the above energy policy that includes wind and solar. but check it out. bachmann voted against the energy and job creation act of 2008. the big included a six-year extension of the investment tax credit for solar energy. and a one year extension of the production tax credit for wind energy. what is she talking about? the fact is bachmann is grasping

at straws. she knows that rick perry has stolen her thunder and she needs a game changer. a poll out of iowa shows voters are showing that bachmann is in third. congressmanbaklac bachmann, the way to drop gas prices right now. check it out. the independent senator from vermont, bernie sanders this gentleman has been banging the drum for the commodity futures trading commission to do something about rampant oil speculation for months. on friday, the senator released data from the cftc, the agency and listed names of traders and the size of their positions and the crude oil futures market. back on june 30th, 2008. bernie sanders declared, "this report clearly shows that in the summer of 2008 when gas prices spiked to more thanned 4dz a gallon, goldman sachs, morgan stanley and other speculators on

wall street dominated the crude oil futures market causing tremendous damage to the entire economy, the cftc has kept this information hidden from the american public for nearly three years. this is an outrage." well, let's go back to what happened the week after goldman sachs and morgan stanley started messing with oil speculation. there it is again. the first week of july in 2008. gas prices hit a record of $4.16 a gallon. i know this might be a little bit deep for bachmann and her followers. but the fastest way to lower the price of gas is to stop wall street from playing games at the pump. so, in other words, look at it this way. if president obama came out and said, you know, i can get gas down to below $2 a gallon. does that mean he'd finally have a republican in congress, in washington that would agree with

him and it would be michelle bachman? i mean this is how goofy this is. this whole thing about oil speculation is out of control. because there are no position limits. and there's no way that a congresswoman, a congressman or a senator is going to be able to step up and deliver a plan to the american people and say, hey, i can do this. you know, this isn't psycho talk. this is the a block. to say that i can do this? no. you can't do it without government involvement. get your cell phones out, i want to know what you think. do you believe michelle bachmann has a plan to get gas below $2 a gallon? text a for yes, b for no to 22639. you can drop a comment at our blog as well. we'll have the results later on. joining me now is bernie sanders. senator, good to have you with us tonight. i want to know about the -- >> good to be with you, ed.

>> you bet. the cftc, why the late disclosure on this information? why did it take you digging to have this to come to light? >> well, this is information that i think our friends on wall street did not want to come out. it's supposed to be top secret information. in fact, manufacture ty of the wall street were disturbed we made it public. we wanted to end this debate about whether or not excessive oil speculation is driving up gas and oil prices. and the answer is, when you have companies like goldman sachs and morgan stanley owning -- owning and buying and selling hundreds of millions of barrels of oil, dominating the oil futures market, there is no more debate. excessive speculation is one of the reasons that the price of oil is where it is today. we have got to do what congress passed legislation to do and that is mandate that the

commodities futures trading commission end excessive speculation and have limits on how much these companies can own. >> what do you make of a republican out there saying that she can lower gas prices below $2 a gallon? do you think she or any republican has a clue on how to get this done? >> quite the contrary, ed. virtually all of the republicans are doing their best to deregulate our efforts to control wall street. wall street is the most powerful entity in this country. the sixth largest financial institutions own over 60% of all the assets of this country. 60% of the gdp of this country. they are playing a very bad role in terms of excessive oil speculation which is hurting millions of people throughout this country who have to fill up their gas tank and negatively impacting our entire economy.

i'm afraid that ms. bachmann and our republican friends will do the wrong thing. they'll continue to effort to support wall street, to deregulate wall street and let these guys continue to get away with the murder that they're currently committing. >> yet, they're out on the campaign trail saying they want the full package and they have a plan to turn this around. you have gotten any feedback from morgan stanley or goldman sachs on any of this? >> no. they're not happy. i mean they want to maintain the myth that high oil prices today are as a result of supply and demand and that is absolutely not the case. these guys, we believe, control if you can believe it, 80%. 80% of the oil futures market. they are not in the airline business. they're not truckers. they're not fuel dealers. they do not use oil. all that they are trying to do is drive prices up, sell, make money and we have got to deal with that issue.

>> senator, great to have you with us tonight. keep up the fight. you're for the people, there's no question about that. joining me now is bill press. bill, good to have you with us. basically, we have seen michelle bachmann double down in desperation. she has been parentally unable to explain exactly how she would do what she says she will do. what do you make of it? >> well, you know, ed, the full story, of course, she also says she's going to get the price of a loaf of bread down to 15 cents and the price of a candy bar to a nickel and the price of going to a movie to 25 cents. ed, i might vote for her. look, it's crazy. she is delusional. nobody has asked her how you are going to do this? she doesn't have a plan to do this. she also won't admit, as you and bernie point out, here's what gets me. i have to say. this here's what's sad and stunning. bernie sanders is not being taken seriously as a presidential candidate today but some people are taking michelle

bachmann seriously. that's how low our politics r. >> all bernie has to do is announce he's thinking about it the he'll have plenty of support, i guarantee you that. are we witnessing, bill, possibly, and i think we are the beginning of the end for michelle bachmann. the polling numbers, nalt nationally, the polling numbers in iowa aren't good. you show me somebody batting third and i'll show you somebody batting shird. the fact of the matter is she lost steam. she's getting wackier by saying stuff like this and then doubles down on it. is this the beginning of the end? >> you got it absolutely right, ed. michelle bachmann in is the new donald trump. every time she opens her mouth, she proves that she is unelectable and unqualified to be president of the united states. and she's so crazy, right, she makes rick perry look almost sane. >> i was going to ask you that. who is more dangerous for america, perry or bachmann? >> boy, that's a tough choice. i have to say perry.

perry's got that faux gravitas. he's been governor of this large state, texas. so, therefore, he's got to know something where he's just about, i think he's as crazy and as dangerous as she is. >> that's why he's going to get the nomination. >> that's probably why he's going to get the nomination. i find it really amazing. i think this is a big story. you have a member of congress who either doesn't understand the process or has a plan nobody else in the country has ever heard of. that she thinks because if she were president that she would be able to get gas down. she would be that powerful. how can she do it without government intervention or a government takeover or some kind of massive regulation on wall street? she's taking a page out of fdr is it what she's doing. she doesn't even know she's doing it. this should really be material for the next debate coming up. >> exactly. you know what? huntsman said she is not on this planet. ed, she's also not pointing out the reason gas was $1.79 in december as you pointed out is

because we were in the middle of the bush recession. earlier in the year gas had been $4.05 a gallon. people don't have a job. they can't afford to buy gas. >> we were peeling off almost 800,000 jobs a month at that particular time. bill, great to have you with us. thank you for joining us. remember to answer the question, tonight's question at the bottomst screen. we want you to respond to that. governor rick perry, he's at it again. this time he's trying doekt the civil rights movement to today's republican battle for lower taxes. we've got a retired texas public educator with us tonight to talk about the real rick perry and what he's done in texas. later, libyan rebels took control of gadhafi's compound today. but with the libyan leader missing, can republicans find a coherent message on this conflict? stay tuned. [ groans ] you okay? i'm not looking forward to my flight. try this. bayer aspirin? i'm not having a heart attack. it's my back. no, this is new bayer advanced aspirin...

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it dominated the news today. an earthquake shook the east coast. the real after shocks came from the right-wing blogsphere. no major damage was reported. although there are reports tonight that washington monument may be closed indefinitely. there are no major injuries in the entire quake zone. not even in the virginia epicenter where the few cars got the worst of it. in fact, there was more damage reported from a smaller quake in colorado earlier in the day. but, still, the righties took the opportunity to attack president obama. the conservative web sites mocked the president for being on vacation. apparently they thought he needed to spring into action for this nonevent. maybe they need a science lesson. you see, according to the united states gee logical survey, every year in this country there are 1,300 earthquakes similar to the

one that happened today. go figure. i guess the president's critics want him to conduct news conferences for all of them. you know, there's a major city still dealing with a real impact of a national natural disaster. a disaster made worse by an actual failure of leadership. more on what's being done to help that city coming up later in the broadcast. éwmu.vog#wvs#q he thinks it's a 3-sheeter. i say 1-sheeter. [ female announcer ] in this lab demo, 1 sheet of bounty leaves this surface as clean as 2 sheets of the bargain brand. super absorbent. super clean. bounty.

welcome back to "the ed show." rick perry keeps hitting them out of the park.

he actually tries to connect the civil rights movement to the fight for low taxes. he was campaigning in rock hill, income south carolina, when a reporter said the town was celebrating the 50th anniversary of the friendship nine it is in, an important part of the nation's civil rights movement. perry was asked to comment on it. >> listen, america's gone a long way from the standpoint of civil rights and thank god we have. i mean we've gone from a country that's made great strides and issues of civil rights, i think we all can be proud of that. and as we go forward, america needs to be about freedom. it needs to be about freedom over taxation, freedom from over litigation and freedom from regulation. and americans, regardless of what their cultural or ethnic background, they need to know they can come to america and you got a chance to have any dream come true because the economic climate is going to be improved. >> the guy is no doubt smooth.

you can't deny it. maybe perry didn't know about the friendship nine sit in. 50 years ago a group of african-americans went to jail after refusing to leave a segregated lunch counter in rock sill, south carolina. but perry did know it was a question about the nation's civil rights movement and he chose to connect it to the republican on significance with taxes, regulations and trial lawyers. nice one, perry. it's hard to keep up with his nonsense, especially the mess he's made in texas which he o would like to really export to the rest of the nation. how about his education plan since we're talking about a little bit of history here. texas is the worst state in the nation in percentage of adults with a high school diploma. texas ranks 47th nationally in what it pays for each student's education. and perry cut billions from education rather than raise pl

retired public educator from trenton, texas. she is also a school board member, joanne duncan. she called my radio talk show the other day and was very passionate when talking about the miracle in texas. i think joanne has a different definition of what that miracle is. great to have you with us tonight. you're thoughts on how rick perry has handled the meeshg until texas when it comes to education. >> hi, ed. glad to get a chance to tell you about the real texas miracle. you know, my thought when i hear him talk about the texas miracle, i thought it was a miracle we were able to open the schools. we had a chance to really, you know, if he had used his so-called rainy day fund, otherwise known as the slush fund, to help schools we would be a lot better off. i live in a small rural area. we've cut $600,000 from our

school budget in the last two years. and we're going to cut even -- have to cut even more next year. this is a real impact on our children. >> well, you're in trenton, texas. >> it's wonderful here. our teachers and our community that we're going to have a great school year in spite of what rick perry and his cronies in austin did to the public schools of texas. >> as a former administrator and teacher, do you think perry respects what it takes to put together a sound education? do you think he believes in public education? >> no. i do not believe that public education is one of his priorities. since 2005, texas public schools have struggled to kind of find some way to finance our public

schools. we continue to add children. each year i think we're adding 40,000 children this year withm. >> so he will not raise taxes on the wealthy, is that correct? >> no. >> he won't raise corporate taxes? >> he will not raise taxes and he will not use taxpayer money we had. in our little community, we lost seven teaching positions. only because we got a little bit of federal money we were able to add three more. it takes good teachers to educate children. >> no question about it. it's a very fundamental things that been around america for a long, long time. it would seem to me that you as a school board member are at a cross roads with other members of the school board. do you raise local taxes to meet standards? what do you think? >> that's what we're going to have to do this year. that we have a proposal to raise the tax rate.

we have no other options. >> i have to ask you, what is the attitude of the people in your area when they see these kinds of cuts hang at the local schools? >> well, of course the people are very disturbed. you know, it's finally come home that we have a problem. it takes money to run a public school. and without our public school, our democracy is in trouble as you well know and continue to say, ed. public schools are what made our nation great. we must continue to fund our public schools. >> so you would say that rick perry comes from the school of thought it's more important to make sure that the wealthy do better instead of the kids having an opportunity in the public school system? retired educator. >> yeah, go ahead. >> what i was going to say is it was more important for rick perry to get his presidential campaign in order than it was to

fund the schools of texas. >> well put. retired educator joanne duncan with us tonight here from trenton, texas. small town america speaks on the ed show. the drugster just lost one of his favorite lives about the democrats. rush wants the president to fail. but not on this one. that's next. and john huntsman thinks michelle bachman n's policies are nuts but he's willing to be her vice president anyway. buddy, you're headed for the zone. ♪

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fairness means left and far left. >> well, game over. the fcc removed 83 outdated rules and even stripped the language and reference to the fairness doctrine. there will be no government mandate or take over of plig content in this country of the broadcast airwaves. now didn't happen to the bush administration, it's the obama administration that is getting government out of the way of the broadcast industry. the free market is thriving in broadcast in america under president obama. so much for the easy show prep. liberals, if you don't like what's on talk radio in america, just go buy some radio stations. ownership has its privileges. coming up, gadhafi is on the run as rebels storm his compound in tripoli. we'll tell you how the situation is playing out politically here in the united states. six years of katrina, the residents of new orleans are struggling to bounce back. how can you help them out? that's coming up.

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welcome back to "the ed show." gadhafi's 42-year reign of power in libya could be coming to an end. after a day of heavy fighting, hundreds of libyans celebrated in tripoli's green square. it is renamed martyr square. rebel forces took over the compound. the libyan leader was nowhere to be found. more than 400 people were killed. and at least 2,000 were injured in the fight to take control of the capital city. gadhafi went on libyan radio tonight claiming he withdrew from his headquarters as a tactical move and said he plans to fight the rebels to the death. his current location is unknown. president obama has shown restraint in proclaiming an end to the conflict. since it's still unclear whether they have achieved a decisive

victory. but while the president continues to maintain a steady hand, republicans want to take his job are all over the map. mitt romney was one of the biggest critics of the president for what he called leading from behind in the libya mission. but now he calls gadhafi's defeat a step toward openness and democracy. michelle bachmann tried to visit both ways. she slammed u.s. involvement in libya altogether but also said the president was too weak by following the lead of the french. let's bring in lawrence coral, former secretary of defense under president ronald reagan. he is a senior fellow. good to you have with us tonight. if you were the defense secretary for president obama, what would be your best advice at this point? >> i think what you should point out is we were able to for victory for freedom and a cost of $1 billion compared to the

$1.5 trillion we spent so far in iraq. not a single american life was lost. we got the arab world to work with us in this operation, unlike in iraq where we went in and then al qaeda, you know, came in after. it got more recruits for al qaeda. and that, in fact, we need to work with other nations because they have interest, too. they can't be free riders. i mean the british and french and italians have much more interest in libya than we do. tlr therefore, it was appropriate for them to step up. they think we've done nothing. we have flown over about 5,000 air sorts in there. so almost 1,000 a month. it's not like we haven't been doing anything. >> well, is this, in your opinion, a foreign policy success story for the obama administration? the way they have played this? because the critics suchl monix

ago were out and about. what do you make of it? >> no, i think it's a great victory. this is his first, you know, bat that will he undertook himself. i mean he inherited iraq and afghanistan. he took charge of this. we didn't ghet iraq. we have the arab league to support us. we have the allies to, you know, step up to the plate. and so we achieved our objective at main mall cost to the u.s. taxpayer. since we have this large deficit this is the last thing we need to do is spend another, you know, trillion dollars in dealing with the situation. >> why are the republicans politicizing this so much? to a tee, they have come out and criticized president obama. is it all politics or is there really a difference in foreign policy how they would have handled it? >> no, i think it's politics because with this success this keeps them from being able to say well, the democrats are weak on defense. they can't achieve our objectives. look how he handled, you know,

libya, you know, leading from behind. they won't be able that narrative is completely xwlund mind when you put that along with the killing of bin laden. how do they say this person doesn't, you know, know how to i have to ask you, 25 years ago when ronald reagan ordered the bombing to kill gadhafi in libya which was not successful, was there the political wrang thalg is going on now? the monday morning quarterbacking, the armchair guessing and the critique that is taking place. is this just familiar to you in any way? >> no. i mean, you know, we used to say that politics stopped at the water's edge. somehow or another we got politics into everything. i mean when reagan did it, people said well it's about time because this guy had killed, you know, several american servicemen in a nightclub in germany. his planes had come out against our navy aircraft carriers and

people were all for it. we were frustrated because we didn't get them. we couldn't get cooperation from the french at the time. we had to fly around around france and through the mediterranean. and somebody tipped them off whether we were on the way. so mr. core, tonight, gadhafi broadcast over the radio in tripoli saying victory or death. do you think in any way shape or form he has any kind of strength to do any further damage to the citizens of libya? >> no. i don't think so. i mean the fact that we got into -- they got into his compound today and even if he worked to get some sort of small force, given overwhelming, you know, air power, i think he couldn't do anything militarily. the real question is, you know, what is his future? i hope, you know, if they catch him and he's alive, you know, they don't overreact and that we send him to the international criminal court along with the sons or some of his other colleagues. so that they can pay for the crimes they committed these past

40 years. >> quickly, do you think we'll have involvement in libya for years to come? >> no, i don't think so. i mean it's ironic. some people are now saying we ought to send ground troops. if they ask us for help, we ought to send trainers and humanitarian aid. >> lawrence core, great to have you with us tonight. thank you for your insight. a couple of republican congressmen go to extremes to avoid being held accountable by their constituents. and john huntsman says he's willing to be michelle bachman's n vice president? stay with us. nges right now. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resource has the ability to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. at our kearl project in canada, we'll be able to produce these oil sands with the same emissions as many other oils and that's a huge breakthrough. that's good for our country's energy security and our economy.

>> where are our jobs? we want jobs. >> well, that was the scene outside republican kangman steve chavez's town hall meeting in cincinnati last night. he responded by banning his constituents from videotaping the immediating. security guards confiscated

cameras and even asked people to leave. over in illinois, randy haltgren used a different strategy to avoid being held accountable to his constituents. he ignored questions he didn't like. here's what happened when someone asked about the bush tax cuts for the rich. >> these cuts were the most affluent and actually create jobs. >> i think clearly the evidence -- let me say this, you know, i got back to the stimulus which is another thing. >> we want tax cuts. >> where is the evidence? >> yeah. >> answer the question. >> where are the jobs? >> good question. >> let's keep going. >> there is no end to this. no end. >> you know, i have to point out, i really think this is exactly why president obama did not call congress back into session in august because he

knows that republicans are going to go out and get an earful and get put on the spot for all to see. he can express how they create jobs because they barely created any under the leadership of george w. bush, job growth was the slowest hit been since world war ii. only three million jobs were created over eight years n comparison, the clin administration with the dot-com bubble, obviously, created 23 million. do not believe republicans when they say tax cuts for the rich create jobs. they are lying. coming up, john huntsman impressed me this weekend by going after some of the wing nuts. last night he proved he's just another desperate righty looking for power. and recognition. and visibility. huntsman in the zone next. ine that's helping drive the future of business. in here, inventory can be taught to learn. ♪ machines have a voice.

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and in psycho talk tonight, we have the struggling presidential candidate john

huntsman. last night i praised him for going after his fellow righties, like when he called out michelle bachmann for saying she'd get gas below $2 a gallon. >> i don't know what world that comment would come from. we live in the real world. it's grounded in reality. and gas prices just aren't going to rebound like that. >> yeah. but now hunts man put me in a hell of a spot. one day after he hammered bachmann for not being grounded in reality, he said he'd be her vice president? >> michelle bachmann continue to get real traction. if she came to you and said you're the other part of the party. together we can create sweet music. >> if you love this country, you serve her. and so even if you're in a position to better the country, to bring whatever background to bear, whatever experiences to use and n. fine tining our future, i'll be the first person to sign up, absolutely. >> first person to sign up. dude, you want the nomination or not? huntsman's love of country

apparently does not extend to the mr. mitt romney. >> you could ever imagine running as a running mate to someone like mitt romney? >> there would be too many jokes about that, no, i can't imagine at all. >> so huntsman can't imagine running on the same ticket as mitt romney but the first person to sign up for the candidate who doesn't live in the real world. i have some respect for the guy when he admitted michelle bachman was a wing nut. now he's proving you can't trust any of the right-wingers. for huntsman to say that he would absolutely be michelle bachman's second in command after admitting he doesn't think her ideas are grounded in reality is desperate psycho talk. hurricane katrina was a man made disaster. the fallout continues to this day. how can you help? [ male announcer ] meet rachel and annie.

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at the capitol, democrats

chanting we love walker, taking aim at the governor. >> is there that a threat you're taking seriously? >> no doubt about it. >> well, wisconsin's recall summer may be over after democrats won five out of nine elections. governor walker is already focused on the next possible recall election. his own. the man who took a baseball bat to collective bargaining said he anticipate sometimes people more intense folks will push for recall adding we increasingly hear that the white house doesn't want it? that's news to me. now walker is not eligible for recall until january but he clearly is very worried. and now he's tweeting for cash. i'm the next target of special interest groups in d.c. help us grow our grassroots movement to counter their attacks. special interest groups? who the heck is he talking about? he must be talking about all the outside money that karl rove brought in. or the coke brothers. for the last time i checked, they weren't supporting the

democrats. next as the east coast prepares for hurricane irene, the gulf coast remembers hurricane katrina six years later. it's devastating legacy on health care with nicole lamerox next. it's salonpas. this is the relief i've been looking for. salonpas has 2 powerful pain fighting ingredients that work for up to 12 hours. and my pharmacist told me it's the only otc pain patch approved for sale using the same rigorous clinical testing that's required for prescription pain medications. proven. powerful. safe. salonpas. my son and i never missed opening day. but with copd making it hard to breathe, i thought those days might be over. so my doctor prescribed symbicort. it helps significantly improve my lung function, starting within 5 minutes. symbicort doesn't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. with symbicort, today i'm breathing better, and that means...

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get ready, folks, they are in florida and the carolinas. they're making preparations, boarding up windows, stocking up on food. meanwhile, residence along the gulf coast, they prepare for yet another anniversary since hurricane katrina devastated the region. katrina made land as a category four storm. but the chaos and human misery that followed was the result of a man made disaster. the region is still feeling the storm's impact. over half a decade later, the city of new orleans still struggling. bill quigley measured that what he calls the katrina pain index. among the startling statistics, 70% more people are homeless in new orleans since katrina hit. 34% of the city's children live in poverty. access to good quality health care is so essential for those folks and for those who are lucky enough to have jobs but

still can't afford care. a reminder again that the ed show and msnbc is teaming up with the national association of free clinics and hosting a clinic new orleans this coming monday august 29th. i'll be broadcasting from new orleans on monday night to make a donation or to learn more about volunteering and it's so cool to see volunteers come from all over the country. i ask you to go to their website, freeclinics dot us. joining me is a person that makes it all happen. she is the executive director of the national association of free clinics. great to you have with us tonight. six years of katrina, what are the main health concerns for the residence in that region and in that city? >> ed, i'm talking to everyone. it's about access to health care. we have people that are telling us i don't have a doctor anymore. my doctor is gone. let alone -- i don't have a place to go, to take care of my debeats and cholesterol which

are the top two disease states we're going to see next monday. now there was one hospital that mefr recovered and is not in operation, is that correct? i understand you've seen that hospita hospital. >> i've been to that hospital. it's amazing to me. there are beds in it. there are not people in those beds. there are not people at that hospital giving that health care. think about that. there's no place for these residence to go. that's pretty scary when you're a mother and you don't know where you're going to bring your child. >> why does the national association of free clinics go on the road and do this? >> the reason we travel all across the country is because there are 1200 free clinics that are offering health care to those who are uninsured with no federal or state money. every single day. but we really wanted to highlight the face of the uninsured. those people who are our brothers, our sisters that, are working but still do not have access to health insurance.

>> and what do you expect to see at this free health care clinic on monday in new orleans? you know, we had the bp oil spill and the health ramifications of people dealing with that. what are your expectations? >> well, we know we're going to see about 1,000 patient it's not more. we have about 800 volunteers already signed up. we know we're going to see people who are on the brink of suici suicide. we've seen that in the past two years here in new orleans. diabetes, cholesterol, and we also know we're going to have people that are going to want to talk to counsellors. they really are still going to need to talk about what katrina and bp oil spill did to them. >> and the clinics, they're not inexpensive. they're very expensive to run. and you folks do a fabulous job. i've been really honored to be a part of it to see it happen and be allowed to report what's going on. there how far away are you from your goal? >> we're about $145,000 away from our goal. and msnbc's viewers have been amazing. but at this point in time, ed, we really need that number to

get these people that health care that they desperately need. so we're inviting everyone to go to freeclinics.us and make the donation that makes the most sense to you. so we can help these people still don't have access health care. >> i want to point out that folks that come to the health care clinics, 83% of them have jobs. this isn't about homelessness. this is about people who have got one, maybe two jobs, part time jobs that simply can't afford and have no access to health care whatsoever. manufacture the people that come in the door haven't seen a doctor in years. a number of people have found out they have cancer through the screenings. i mean this is, as american as it gets. and i'm asking our audience tonight to help out. nicole, great job. look forward to seeing you down there on monday. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> and, again, if you'd like to make a donation or learn more about volunteering at the new orleans clinic this monday, visit their website, freeclinics.us. tonight in our surve