jamal simmons is a principal at the raven group. did we get it right?ot it light. >> lois row mano and we'll be joined by jennifer reuben who writes for "the washington post" but we've got a little traffic issue this morning. lois, let's start with you and the president and this pitch that he's going to make today, sort of the first -- the second full-throated pitch. with brian williams he called it an insurance policy against a double-dip recession. in an odd way i think that almost raises the stakes for passage or non-passage of this bill. >> i think it's all about the passage for him. what his whole strategy is relying on is emotions, is getting the american public to a point where they start getting angry with the republicans for stone walling it. they want the republicans to drag it out in congress and they want all that to happen, because i mean it was almost like this subliminal weird thing he was doing during the speech where he kept saying pass this bill, pass this bill. he's trying to get the american people in this frame of mind where he says

cocoa crisp singled, here comes jamale with the single. oakland finishes with a 33-48 record. >>> sold out, those two words are seldom connected with the oakland raiders but it applies this week. now that the raiders beat the black out they can focus on beating the jets. in buffalo, oakland's offense looks good. despite some injured receivers. campbell says this sunday's sell out tells him that the raider nation believes in the team's future. >> i think our fans respect the way we're playing. it's not like we're going out there and we lost last week because the fact that we didn't show up. we showed up, we played hard. but you know we understand we're laying it all on the line for them. we're going to do everything we possibly can to keep this thing going in the right direction. >> headed north for this week's high school football game of the week. american canyon headed to sonoma valley. giants play the dodgers tonight. they're not done yet. still clinging to the fate play off hopes. >> hanging on. >> anything can happen. >> anything can

. >> jamal simmons is now with the raven group. tony katz a tea party activist and radio talk show host. thank you for joining me this afternoon. does it do anything to advance the dialogue? >> i think it's going to advance the dialogue it's going to get the people on the left, the labor members who are a bit demoralized whofl like the tea party's been running rough shot over their agenda for america is going to get them engaged and motivated. we're in the middle of a political fight. you can't be the only adult in the room. there's a bunch of kids running around acting out. so i think it's going to be time for the labor members to get in the middle of this fight and that's what jimmy hoffa was doing. >> is this the new battle now? is it now tea party versus union leaders in this country? >> first of all, jamal was right, the democratic party indeed the labor party. they are the progressive party. you ran the democrats out tom make this a fight between the unions and tea party is nonsense. just like hoffa's words were nonsense. thi

. >> your perspective on jamal, awaiting the decision on whether he will be executed or spend his life in prison. >> he should be released. [applause] one of my professors actually is working on his case, so i have been following through her visits and conversations, but i think it is the quintessential example of what is happening with the intellects in our community. he is a brilliant brother. if you have not gone on youtube and seen him offering his insight on any number of social political issues -- i mean geopolitical issues, what is happening in afghanistan and iraq, what is happening with education in this country. his analysis -- the death of his insight and analysis i think is just undeniable -- the debt -- the depth of his insight and analysis is just undeniable. it is a reflection of how comfortable and distracted many of us our -- us are that we have not created a more sustained movement around cases like this. i voted for barack obama. i would vote for him again when the time comes. at the same time, i get asked this question so often, right? are we post-race? are we past

joining us mary matelin and jamal gym monies. thanks for coming in. didn't the bush administration, and you served in the bush administration the first six years, they had a majority in the house and the senate as well, why wasn't there any really significant effort to cut spending to pay for everything it was trying to do? >> there was a significant focus, as the vice president just said, on responding to 9/11, setting up homeland security department, which we worked with the democrats on, but also recalibrating the entire culture of washington to go from the pre-9/11 mind-set, which terrorism with the law enforcement issue, but there was and the vice president and you disagreed and we're going to disagree, wolf, on this, we don't think of tax cuts as costing anything, subsequent to the tax cuts put in place, particularly capital gains grew the economy, 5% growth on average for 52 consecutive months. that grew revenues, yes there were attempts to cut costs and spending but it was costly to respond to 9/11. also there was the enron debacle and rolling

french explorer minister roland jamal says he's ready to defend gadhafi in the international criminal court which is issued a warrant for his arrest but nato will have to first libya's deposed leader is in hiding for good reason. if they find him they'll kill him like bill maher some states are now claiming the right to kill they're going against all international law. images like these are moving frige lawyers to turn against big government because sarkozy faces lawsuits over the birth of ordinary people in libya lawyers here in france accuse the presence of committing crimes against humanity his lawyer calls the libyan war renew vietnam where the u.s. sprayed tens of millions of liters of toxins old crops in the sixty's and seventy's causing brain disorders miscarriages and birth defects to this day. so they're using missiles with depleted uranium which causes cancer in tripoli i saw people crippled by nato attacks office workers who have nothing to do with the fighting that's why we're seeing president sarkozy for crimes against humanity. first denied this residence where thirteen

officers and needier thousands of trillions of turns because the ration is every year and she got jamal the other throw of elected president salvador and then the eleventh of september nineteenth seventy three the military coup with cia with which we all try to hold you know shater power killed we thousands of people that loads. this week marks this seventeenth at least seventy three other anniversary of the start of the deadly siege of world. the netting grog located around a million citizens are thought to have been killed or starved during the nearly nine hundred day long nazi blockade of the city now called think it is bad peter oliver has been hearing the stories firsthand from those who managed to survive. consul and take him to the brink of starvation the blockade of lead in grass modern day saint petersburg by nazi troops was one of the most destructive sieges history of warfare and when the german army encircled the city it wasn't the shells and bombs that the inhabitants feared most but was hunger. a good far worse when the famine strad there is nothing much terrible than fami