saying quote, our job is to determine if there was foul play involved and that's part of the investigation and if there was foul play involved whether that was related to his employment as a census worker. federal law enforcement may be involved here because it is a crime to attack a census worker on the job or because of their job. joining us now is devlin barrett, thanks very much for joining us. >> hi, rachel, how are you? >> does what i have just summarized here comport with what you have been able to learn about the case so far? are there any new details? >> that's a good description and what i would add to that is what investigators found at the crime scene is obviously very disturbing and what they're going through now is trying to figure out exactly what happened to this person. >> from what we have read, it seems that the body was found on september 12, a couple of weeks ago, there was some local

reporting at the time into what was described locally as a mysterious case. why are we hearing about it nationally now? >> i think investigators have taken great pains, both at the kentucky state police and the fbi to better understand exactly what happened. obviously the details -- the few details we know at this point are very disturbing. and could feed a larger political argument if this ends up being the result of anti-government sentiment. but they don't know that for absolute certain yet. and part of what the investigators job is to rule out any other explanation for what happened. >> because the case has drawn the attention of law enforcement, that's of course the reason that this is at the top of a national newscast right now. we're all wondering if that should be taken as some indication that this was a crime related to anti-government sentiment. are you able to report anything?

are you hearing anything about either circumstantial evidence in that regard, is there any way to know even whether federal and law enforcement getting involved is an indication that they think that might be true. >> i don't think federal law enforcement would still be involved a week and a half after the body was found if there wasn't still that very serious concern. and they don't have all the answers yet. and some of the things they know they're not going to tell us because they're concerned that there may be perpetrators out there that they would very much like to catch. but they don't know the process for certain and part of the process we're in now is proving all the other alternate explanations. >> when officials are tight lipped about circumstances, one of the ways we figure out what's going on even when they won't tell us, is how agencies behave and how one part of the government advises another part of the government to behave. has the census bureau stopped any operations or issued any warnings to its workers as a

result of this death? >> in the county where this death occurred, they have instructed their workers not to go door to door while this investigation continues. clearly there's a great deal of concern within this census worker community in that area. and they would very much like to know exactly what happened. but the investigators aren't really telling them a whole lot either right now. that's part of the investigation that they're work on. >> devlin barrett, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> we will stay on the breaking news story with more details since this is just breaking federally or nationally tonight. more details may actually become available during the course of this hour. so please do stay with us. national car rental knows i'm picky.

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amendments in senator baucus's health care proposal. when congress is working after 9:00 at night or on the weekends, there's either something really important or really tricky going on. what's happening right now in congress is the real work of trying to get health reform passed. it's not people yelling at each other in town hall meetings, it's not people yelling at each other on the floor of congress. it's roll up your sleeves, let's start legislating time. it's apparently a really bad time for some members of congress who are opposed to health reform. the term cracking under pressure comes to mind. take republican senator chuck grassly of iowa. an originally member of the senate committee's gang of six. that reform would lead to the government killing old people. despite his railing against obama care in fundraising letters to his con stitch wents. senator grassley was certainly

of one thing, he said the idea of an individual mandate forcing every american to buy health insurance, he thought that was a very good idea. >> i think individual mandates are going to have to be accepted by a vast majority of people in congress. i believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates. >> a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates. i'll support that. now, same senator. >> another area of concern, is the individual mandate to purchase coverage. i become increasingly concerned with the intrusion of -- into private lives that the individual mandate represents. >> what happened to the bipartisan consensus. you don't even have consensus with yourself, senator. it's not just republicans who are cracking up here. consider conservative democratic senator kent conrad of north dakota. senator conrad has been an

unbending opponent of the public option specifically. and yesterday he offered this thumb in the eye to the huge majority of democrats, people of his own party who support a public option. >> let me just conclude for my progressive friends who believe that the only answer to getting costs under control and having universal coverage is by a government-run program. they're not government-run systems. in germany, in japan, in switzerland, in france, in belgium, all of them contain costs, have universal coverage, have very high quality care, and yet are not government-run systems. >> not government run systems? senator conrad, this is one of those times where it's like you sort of regret that americans don't speak more foreign languages. three more credits of french might have cleared this whole

thing right up. in fact the indisall of the country's rattled off by senator conrad that he listed as the gold standard, all have a level of government intrusion that their systems that would make the average tea partier wretch. in france, every legal resident of france gets their health insurance from the government. so kent conrad is citing the huge success and low cost and quality care of government-run health insurance in another country as a way to prove that he wouldn't have government run health care here. it's like arguing that your neighbor looks superhealthy after going to the gym all year, and what that means for you is that you should definitely eat more tv dinners. so we have got senator grassley going to war with himself saying he's increasingly concerned about the stuff he's been advocating for.

we have senator conrad arguing against government run health care by pointing out how awesome it is and we have maybe got a winner in senator jim bunning, who "the washington post" reports had a big rant about how health reform would trample on american civil liberties and then promptly followed it up by promptly falling asleep. the senator who had been resting his chin in his hands had fallen fast asleep. as the giggles rippled through the chamber, an aid shook bunning who woke with a start. and there's a picture of senator bunning napping in the hearing room. beyond declaring war on themselves, incoherence and public sleeping, what else have they got up their sleeves? joining us now is msnbc analyst and senior washington correspondent and political columnist for "newsweek," howard fineman. howard, it's nice to see you,

thank you for joining us. >> hi, rachel. >> the premise that there is a lot being done to reform health care, but there's not a lot of firepower in the arguments against it. they're just hoping something will stick, is that how you see it? >> in the case of senator grassley for example. i think he's going to argue when barack obama says tomato, chuck grassley is going to say tomato. there was a point in by barack obama was skeptical about a universal mandate himself, therefore grassley was for it. now that obama, having kind of looked at all the pieces on the checker board says i think it's a good idea, now grassley is against it. the common thread here is that grassley being against whatever obama is proposing. >> a lot of liberals aren't huge fans of an individual mandate either, but that makes ideological sense in terms of

what we know about liberalism. are conservatives really going to go to the barricades against mandates? they're going to rally against individuals taking responsibility for their health care, isn't that what they have been arguing for? >> i think you make a very good point and i think they're trying to make every argument they can think of, including that one. i think that the conservatives including grassley are worried about their own energized political base. grassley's up for re-election in iowa in 2010. he's sort of popular, but not nearly as popular as he was. he's looking over his shoulder at his own right wing. that's what's happening with him, that's what's happening with all the other republicans on that committee. >> let me ask you about something that happened in the house. house minority whip er eric can says health care is taking up too much time in congress, that

we can't get anything else done. is there something else that republicans want to be working on? >> no. that was kind of a silly statement by cantor. republicans would love to take all the rest of the year on health care as they try to kill it. and don't have a big urgent agenda of their own that they're trying to pursue. they just don't. they basically with a few small glimmers of exception been in opposition and slowed down in opposed mode using every tool at their disposal, both rhetorical and procedural, that's what barack obama and the democrats are facing. >> let me ask you a big picture strategy question that includes the president. what do you think is the connection between the president being like flash gourdon right now, what's the connection between him being everywhere and this legislating that's happening on this huge policy issue? >> that's a very good question and i don't know that there's a

close a relationship as barack obama and his advisors hope or think that there is. i mean, visibility will only get you so much. barack obama when he was a kid loved spiderman and the incredible hulk, but being everywhere, being on call, that doesn't necessarily make it. what barack obama needed to be doing earlier on in my view, is having a set of really clear, crystal clear proposals, tough proposals, one that his party backed and then he needed to hit congress over the head with it, early and repeatedly in a political campaign really against the congress. that's how you have to make this crazy congress, the way it runs these days or doesn't run, that's how you have to make it move. mere visibility won't cut it. >> senior washington correspondent for "newsweek," thanks for your time tonight,

howard. former vice presidential candidate and former half term governor of alaska sarah palin delivered a long lecture in hong kong in which she said that the financial crisis could have been avoided if only wall street had had fewer rules. but they had only been able to cut loose a little bit more, let wall street be wall street. nobel prize winning economist paul krugman joins us with his views, i suspect they may be different. but up next, health reform and what is stopping it. laths night we led reports about congressman mike ross of arkansas, the leading blue dog conservative democrat in the house against public option and other health care reform. congressman roth gss got what ld like a way too sweet deal when he shared profits with a drugstore chain.

congressman ross still has not responded to our requests to appear on this show, which are absolutely sincere. but we did release statements today attacking propublica telling the arkansas democrat gas set today about the drugstore chain with whom he did he property deal. he said, quote, they're not into politics, they're into running a successful business. my being in congress had absolutely nothing to do with it. they're not into politics. anyone could have cut them a sweet deal like this from that drugstore chain. that company doesn't care at bull what happen all what happens in health care. a couple of years ago right after congressman ross got paid all that sweet, sweet deal money for that property. the head of the drugstore chain that paid him the money, told the arkansas democrat gazette said universal health care will ruin our health care in america.

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presidential nominee sarah palin can officially add a third line to her foreign policy resume tonight underneath her house's own proximity to russia and met the president of columbia that one time. she can now list, gave a speech in hong kong. a couple of things to know about this speech which was delivered to a room full of financial executives, number one, the speech was closed to the press. however we do have some appropriately grainy footage from somebody's handy cam. >> i will call it like i see it and i will share with you candidly about main street, main street usa and how perhaps my view of pain street representing perhaps a lot of other people, how that affects you, your business. >> second interesting thing about this speech, sarah palin brought along as her advisor the controversial top foreign policy advisor from the mccain-palin campaign, he made himself famous

for, at least famous for d.c. at least, when it turned out that his lobbying firm signed a new contract with the republic of georgia, on the same day a that john mccain spoke to the president of georgia and released a statement supporting georgia in what was about to become georgia's armed conflict with russia. the implication was that georgia paid mccain's advisor. mccain's advisor later got mccain to say we are all georgians. and for the low, low price of mccain's lobbying fee. georgia almost bought the u.s. military as an ally in a war against russia. that's cheap. and that is who sarah palin brought on board to help her navigate foreign policy in her first speech abroad. in this speech, which went on for a solid hour and a half before the question period. sarah palin argued that the economic crisis that we're in right now was caused by too much regulation of the financial

world. not a typo, too much regulation. we got into this mess because of government interference in the first place. lack of government wasn't the problem. government policies were the problem. the marketplace didn't fail, it became exactly as common sense would expect it to. the government ordered the loosening of lending standards, the federal reserve kept interest rates low, the government forced lending institutions to give loans to people who couldn't afford them. that's how we got into this mess. really? so the solution presumably is less regulation for wall street going forward? i do not mean to demean the former governor but we do have an opportunity to get a second opinion on this from the man who won the nobel prize in economics. joining us now is paul krugman, his totally readable, totally updated book, the return of depression economics and the crisis of 2008."

i know sarah palin isn't the most relevant topic, but i've got to ask you, too much governmental regulation in the markets? >> first i have to ask you, an hour and a half? >> is that what caused the financial crisis? >> hour and a half speeches, maybe. you know, the first thing is that governor palin is not that far out of the republican main stream, it not sure she's out of it at all. there are a lot of people who insist, we know government is bad, we know private sector is good, so it must have been government that caused the crisis. and the absence of any facts that actually sort of go in accord with that point of view don't seem to matter. we had a pretty tightly regulated banking sector from fdr up until ronald reagan and a number of financial crises during that period, in europe. then we had reagan deregulation,

savings and loan crisis, further deregulation, east asian financial crisis and even more deregulation, and well, here we are. so, yeah, it's a pretty amazing point of view for anyone to be holding, but a lot of people do hold it. >> your "return to depression economics" is not just about how we got into this problem, it's also about sort of how to get out. you say in the book that even if there are some tiny green shoots of good news out there, we're still facing a problem where usual economic rules don't apply. what did the depression teaches economists about how to get out of one or how to avoid one. >> to put it roughly, banking is very useful but extremely dangerous and banks have to have all kinds of, you know, fencing put around them as a protection. they have to have some

guarantees so that we know how banks run, and we also have to have regulation so bankers don't take risks with other people's money, on a heads i win, tails you lose basis. we forgot what our grandfathers learned at great expense. getting out of, now that we're in the mess, is much harder. last time we got out of it with a world war. which is not something we hope to repeat. >> the world war which wasn't as a war, but it was a huge economic outlet by the government. >> it was an enormous physical stimulus. we're getting all worked up about obama who's spinneding about half of the gross domestic product. world war ii was 40% of gross domestic product at its peak. luckily we're not confronting a great depression. i get depressed sometimes about the depression because the

lesson of the depression is that getting out of this sort of thing is outside the realm of what's politically discussible right now. >> because there are some green shoots of economic recovery right now that further government action is even less likely? the worst things are, the more politically -- >> it >> now things are not good. unemployment is high, still rising, but a sense that we have got to act or otherwise the world might end is fading away and that makes it very hard to do stuff. >> the deregulation effort that we have tried to focus on in this show, is consumer protection. the president proposing new consumer protection to regulate products like credit cards and other things that a lot of americans have. are these protections smart and do they go far snuff?

>> that's actually the smaller pieces. regulating the way -- the consumer protection ought to be the no-brainer simple things, how could anybody object? of course they are. the reason consumer protection has become a touch stone here is because if we can't even do that, how much of a chance do we have of doing the bigger stuff. >> paul krugman, nobel prize winning economist, thank you very much for your time. it's nice to see you and we should also say the return of depression economics, is also out now the paper back. my recommendation is that you should probably read it. and you'll thank me for the recommendation. today i kept my window open in my office so that i could

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today. >> we know the future will be forged by deeds and not simply words. speeches alone will not solve our problems, it will take persistent action. so for those who question the character and cause of my nation, i ask you to look at the concrete actions we have taken in just nine months. on my first day in office, i prohibited without exception or equivocation the use of torture by the united states of america. i ordered the prison at guantanamo bay closed and we are doing the hard work of forging a framework to combat extremism within the rule of law. every nation must know, america will live its values. and we will lead by example. >> from here on. that was the president today speaking before the u.n. general

assembly. but if you thought those shots at the previous administration weren't all that subtle, here's how we're going to do things differently, everybody. if you thought that was not too subtle. wait until you hear what he said about other countries. >> sadly, but not surprisingly, this body has often become a forum for sewing discord instead of forging common ground. a venue for playing politics and exploiting grievances rather than solving problems. after all, it is easy to walk up to this podium and point fingers and stoke divisions. nothing is easier than blaming others for our troubles. and absolving ourselves of responsibility for our choices and our actions. anybody can do that. >> as if on queue, right after the president took that overt shot at countries use the u.n. to amgtd like jerks.

moammar gadhafi ranted for well over an hour and a half. he called for a new country called isratine, he repeatedly called president obama or son. and he insinuated that the government assassinated jfk. and swine flu may be an american conspiracy. john mccain just this summer, remember when he tweeted his excitement about visiting gadhafi on gadhafi's ranch? what was that about. the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad took his turn at the mike and addressed his recent election. >> translator: our nation has successfully gone through a glorious and fully democratic

election. opening a new chapter for our country in the march towards national progress and enhance international interactions. they entrusted me, once more, with a large majority with this heavy responsibility. >> ahmadinejad's visit was greeted in the hall by the american, french, british, canadian and other delegations walking out and it's been greeted in new york city about railing against ahmadinejad, about the election and against the treatment of the iranians who have protested that election. tomorrow activists will unfurl a mile-long banner in ire iranian opposition. the green lighting isn't being done specifically for the protesters, it's for the anniversary of the wizard of oz.

but the protesters are happily celebrating the coincidence anyway. seeing this new american president of ours address the u.n. for the first time, seeing him raise issues that never would have been raised by the previous administration, seeing him tout his policies as a sharp break for the most humiliating practices of the previous administration, for an american audience, this is a reminder of just how much was changed by the last election. and that makes it all the more interesting and important that some human rights activists who frankly were psyched that barack obama was elected are now really unhappy with how his administration is acting. very unexpected politics, from very unexpected sources. do you want a sense of just how unexpected this all is? consider that my interview on this subject is next, is with a seven-time nba all-star tracey mcgrady. i will explain next. ñ

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quote, i would love to say we're succeeding, but we're not. we're failing pretty miserably, we're failing in darfur. thus spoke movie star george clooney earlier this month at the toronto film festival and thus the word darfur got into

the american news again. like it or not, celebrities caring about otherwise hard to cover international crises are a big reason that many americans know that crises like these are going on. and the crisis in darfur that has killed more than 300,000 people already is definitely still going on. our president meeting with some african leaders this week at the u.n. general assembly convened in new york, well, there are new reports of intense fighting this week in darfur. hopes were high among human rights activists when president obama was elected that would not only be a priority for this administration but a fresh approach from a powerfully new african-american president would make peace possible for the first time since the war and the ravages of the civilian population of sudan started six years ago. but so far, activists broadly speaking, and i'm not talking everybody, but there's been a

lot of them have been disappointed. i should also say that the pressure is not going away, in part because of those darn famous people who won't let it go away. this summer for example two-time nba scoring champ and seven-time nba all-star tracey mcgrady, changed his jersey number. nobody does that. he changed it from number one to number three. in part to promote that there is a three point program for making peace in darfur, peace, protection and punishment. three points is also the name of a documentary about mr. mcgrady's travel to darfur, what he saw there and his decision to become an activist. >> so we were talking earlier about that soccer field and you said it would be just $1,000? >> to make it like --

>> it would be a flat surface. but it would be everything that they need. >> they put the goal posts and the nets, that's it. >> that's a done deal. >> in march, mr. mcgrady and the co-founder of the enough project, john pendergast, the director of the national affairs of the national security council under president clinton, they launched the darfur dream team, it's designed to match schools o' -- joining us now is tracy mcgrady and john pendergast. it's nice to have you on the show. john, let me ask you about the big picture. there was technically a peace agreement years ago, 2006, but this war and the war on the people of darfur isn't over, it's still happening. have there been any progress? is there any way to explain things to an american audience who hasn't been following this closely? is there a way to talk about it in terms of progress? or is that an inappropriate

>> no. on the one hand i think hundreds of thousands of more people would have died had there not been this grassroots movement across the united states, this anti-genocide movement telling our government to pay attention to this issue, president bush, now president obama, talks about darfur. that's one side of the coin. the other side of the coin is the action that matches the rhetoric. you know, when president bush or president obama articulates that again ide genocide is occurringt expect there's policy action taken commensurate with the utilization of that term but we vice president seen that yet. so we're hoping, as you said in the introduction, with president obama, that you look back at candidate obama, you look back at candidate clinton, you look back at candidate biden a year ago, they were talking tough about what they would do about darr fuf once they got into office. and they vice president dohaven that yet so we're still hoping. >> in terms of the overall prospects of american activists,

americans caring about this issue and making things better and hearing john say it may have saved hundreds of thousands of lives in an inspiring thing. how did you specially decide to do this? you have been involved in a lot of humanity and charity work, boys and girls club, supporting military families, but was it hard to make a decision to get involved in something so international, getting involved in something so far from home? >> it really wasn't. i'm a guy that -- i don't live on the earth just to walk it. i live on here to make a difference, and, you know, i've done a lot of things in the community of houston and florida, within the states, but i wanted to do something more on a global level. this was huge. i mean, it was a no-brainer for me. especially once i got over there and saw how bad it was, you know, you can't come back and not do anything. and i kept my word. my word was to make sure i got the awareness out back here in the states, and i promised all of the refugee people that, you know, i was going to do that

because it had that big of an effect on me once i left. >> when you think about the way that america as a country, not just the government but as a country, can exercise max mihm leverage to stop the genocide there, that's your fant circumstance what's your dream for what we can do there? >> frankly, november, whatever the date was when obama was elected, as a candidate, he had been so clear about the need for american diplomatic leadership. and in this case, in darfur, the answer is not sending in the 82nd airborne. the answer is real serious american, political diplomat ic engagement in support of peace in sudan. i have no doubt we have the diplomats able to do that. we need to marshal that political will and provide the kind of resources to do their job. and it's not very -- you think about what the most cost

effective things in the world can possibly be instead of sending billions of dollars in aid and peacekeeping troops, spend a few dollars up front in diplomatic help and watch that war end. >> diplomatic help and diplomatic pressure. tracy, one last question for you. because well known people, athletes, celebrities, have totally been so important in terms of keeping the pressure on and keeping this crisis in the public eye, have you been able to persuade other athletes, other basketball players, other people that you know because of your stature to get involved? >> absolutely. i think a lot of guys that heard about what i was doing over there instantaneously just wanted to be a part of this program. they were moved by it. a guy -- derek fisher from the los angeles lakers is a part of it, baron davis from the clippers. and a couple of more guys who want to be a part of this because they understand that these are innocent people that are getting harmed, and they want to do something about it. and i think those guys, i thank

them for really reaching out to me and wanting to be a part of this whole program. >> houston rockets guard tracy mcgrady, john pendergast of the enough project. thank you for your time today. good luck with the darfur dream team sisters school program. i should tell our listeners that the darfur dream team is online as you might expect at darfurdreamteam.org. very cool for schools and individuals to get involved. gentlemen, thank you. good luck. >> thank you. we'll ribt back. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 he neglected to mention tdd# 1-800-345-2550 he also makes money when i lose money, tdd# 1-800-345-2550 withdraw money or do nothing with my money. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 tdd# 1-800-345-2550

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we turn now to our really alternative competent, kent jones. >> you know, communitiless have to get a little more creative

about serving the needs of their people. here's a very special success story right here. >> okay. >> with the flu season upon us, senior residents of castlebury, florida, are getting flu shots courtesy of a generous local business. ♪ girls, girls, girls >> yeah, one of those local businesses. let the healing begin. thanks, guys, but, why you? >> at this time with rising costs to health care, it's a great way to give back to the community. >> give it up for giving back. plus, there's a complimentary buffet lunch, and the flu shots are administered by registered nurses in the vip room. did i mention the civic-minded strip club is called rach until. >> i think rachel should be commended for doing this for the seniors really. >> i agree. but health care at a strip club? why not. that would be a public option even republicans could get behind. patients could receive treatment at the club during the day, and

then receive a voucher for at night when a single payer system would kick in -- usually $20 right here. so good on you, rachel. because a health care plan with brass poles and prints is better than no health care plan at all. >> it's what they designed this story in order to be on this show. >> absolutely. >> we'll be a strip club. we'll call ourselves rachel's and then give free flu shots to old people. spectacular. well done, kent. we need you on this program for this very purpose. all right. cocktail moment for you. >> yeah. >> dalai lama. >> love him. >> went to memphis yesterday to go to the national civil rights museum, which is very cool. but it is not as cool as how the mayor of memphis greeted the dalai lama in memphis. this is amazing. watch it. >> excuse me. >> i've always wanted to say, hello, dolly!

>> first he taught the dalai lama how to do a fist bump, then he said, hello, dali! how impressive s "countdown" with keith olbermann starts right now. which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? markup or holdup on the health care bill? one amendment, two hours of debate. more than 500 amendments to go. penalty to the gop for delay of game. >> our job is to sit here and do it as long as it takes. >> i've got plenty of questions. >> senator sherrod brown of ohio on the need for speed on capitol hill. from delelay to distraction. republican leader eric cantor said there are more pressing priorities than health care in this country. to make his point in his first town hall, he tells a woman pressing for the public option for a sick relative to turn to charity for help.

yes, we can meets the u.n. general assembly. >> the time has come for the world to move in a new direction. we must embrace a new era of engagement based on mutual interest and mutual respect. >> tonight, on the world view of his young presidency, our special guest, her majesty, queen noor of georgia. and then there's moammar gadhafi, a wild speech, but the drama about where he's going to sleep in the u.s. could be its own new reality show. where will gadhafi get to pitch his traveling tent? and going global. sarah from alaska takes her show on the road all the way to hong kong. >> and i call it like i see it and i will share candidly with main street, usa. >> she goes all the way to china to bring up death panels. could she just stick to facebook and skip the jetlag? all that and more now on