mr. bashir i will ask the same questions. >> my time has expired mr. bashir i will ask the same questions. >> my time has expired mr. bashir i will ask the same questions. >> my time has expired, thank you for your testimony and the cutest trustees >> my time has expired, thank you for your testimony the cutest trustees, we appreciate that. both of you mentioned as part of your testimony, the deterioration and the outlook for the program, which is why i think all of that should be trying, as dr. blahous said sooner rather than later. i think your pie chart in your testimonies, the information you provide as showed a great portion occurred as recession, which is 30 heart. it has become pretty clear that uses jobs in america. uses workers paid their fica contributions, social security contributions. fewer workers, less money of benefits. the job one for congress should be creating jobs, helping the private sector create jobs. it doesn't just help them and their families. it helps the security because there's more money going into the social security syste

joining us is the host of martin bashir, mr. starting monday can be seen right here on this very channel at 4:00 p.m. eastern time. congratulations on that, sir. we're excited. we wish you had just been given two full hours. not that we're not excited about the new show. >> let's move on to the story. >> okay. eric, this is in your magazine. i want to get both your thoughts. we talk about the cratering of wealth in this country, the fact that 20 years of middle class wealth has been wiped out by the great recession. the other story is of course that of the long term unemployed. those numbers are up, 5.4 million, up -- 5.4 million in may up from 5.1 million in april. that is 43% of the unemployed in this country. you're talking about people who are now in the case of the folks profiled in the story, living effectively hand to mouth so the notion of staying on top of the job market and maintaining skills and sort of job preparedness goes out the window when you're literally talking about people who are foraging for food in parking

bashir. coming up the president fired up in his appeal to latino voters striking quite the contrast to his opponents moments ago. speaking of mre take a closer look at this weekend's gilded retreat in deer valley and the new report about jobs his former company may have shipped overseas. now for the last time back to tamron. >>> developing news right now out of egypt. thousands of protesters now filling tahrir square protesting what they see as an attempt by the military regime to hold on to power and interfere in the country's democratic election. egypt's first post mubarak president was supposed to be officially announced yesterday. the commission postponed that announcement until sunday. our foreign correspondent is in cairo. what confidence do the people have in the results we should be hearing over the weekend? >> reporter: well, tamron, right now the people protesting in tahrir are very disturbed by a set of decisions that have taken place over the past wk that have really jeopardized what they thought was a genuine process to a democratically elected president. cheefl chiefly among them the decision to keep a loft the p

departure of president bashir al-assad under a proposal modeled on the transition in another strife-torn arab country, yemen. the success of the plan hinges on russia, one of mr. assad's staunchest allies, which is strongly opposed to his removal. this is a case history repeating itself as farce. trying to enlist russia in a policy of regime change in syria is exactly what the administration spent months doing earlier this year and that approach was decisively rejected by russia when it vetoed a toothless sanctions resolution in the u.n. security council in february. and how is this recycled policy working out? well, last week a human rights organization disclosed that on may 26, a russian ship delivered the latest russian supply of heavy weapons to the assad regime in the port of tartus. last friday, the russian foreign minister issued a statement on the jula massacre and blamed it on the opposition. president putin, after blowing off a trip to washington in favor of a visit to europe, suggested that foreign powers were also to blame for the jula massacre. he went on to reject further sanctions on the assad regime and to deny that russia is shipping any rele

departure of president bashir al-assad under a proposal modeled on the transition in another strife-torn arab country, yemen. the success of the plan hinges on russia, one of mr. assad's staunchest allies, which is strongly opposed to his removal. this is a case history repeating itself as farce. trying to enlist russia in a policy of regime change in syria is exactly what the administration spent months doing earlier this year and that approach was decisively rejected by russia when it vetoed a toothless sanctions resolution in the u.n. security council in february. and how is this recycled policy working out? well, last week a human rights organization disclosed that on may 26, a russian ship delivered the latest russian supply of heavy weapons to the assad regime in the port of tartus. last friday, the russian foreign minister issued a statement on the jula massacre and blamed it on the opposition. president putin, after blowing off a trip to washington in favor of a visit to europe, suggested that foreign powers were also to blame for the jula massacre. he went on to reject further sanctions on the assad regime and to deny that russia is shipping any rele