i'm joined by amanda carter, and liberal blogger adam green, founder of the progressive change committeeirst here, amanda, today's tv audience is spread out over competing networks, countless cable channels and the media network. is. >> i think it's a very risky straty for the president to tout his message. that is a lot of air time to fill and these are seasoned, experience journalists and there's a good chance that health care won't be the dominant story, you have nancy pelosi, talking about political violence, jimmy carter, kanye west and even the a.c.o.r.n. thing. so there's a muddles message problem that's going to come out of this. already the sunday shows are previewing their comments with obama's comments about racism and i think that dilutes his health care message. >> adam, what about this one, the familiar charge today that the president is overexposed, what about overexposing the health care message, what about it when people say i have heard all this before and i'm tired of it? >> i don't think there's any serious risk that people who don't want to hear from president obama

thank you, adam green. appreciate your time. folks, get your cell phones out.s. do you think liberal groups targeting democrats is a good idea or a bad idea? text "a" for a good idea "b" for a bad idea to 622639. we'll bring you the results later on in the show. the liberal group, accountability now, is taking on bush dog democrats. this is a new one on me. bush dog democrats? you see, bush dogs are democrats who voted with the republicans on the defining issues like the iraq war and who are more conservative than their districts. looks like we have a new saying every night, right? case in point, congressman jim cooper of tennessee is opposed to a public option but his constituents in favor of it. 61% of them favor a public plan even though cooper is from a red state. he represents a solidly democratic district. he's got 66% of the vote in 2008. for more, let's bring in our panel. steven a. smith, journalist and commentator. also michael graham, radio talk show host. wtkk in boston. steven, is it a good idea for the democratic liberal groups to get aggressive o

. >> adam caskey is live in green belbelt. >> it is a fantastic start today. did not expect much sunshine. later today, you will want the sunglasses. it's a comfortable 63 in greenbelt with low humidity this weekend will be sunny and comfortable. let's look at temperatures to start our last day of the work week. currently, but 58 degrees in westminster. leesburg, 59. landover, up 64. comfortable morning temperatures. this afternoon, it will continue to be comfortable with highs in the low 70's. expect temperatures this morning in the low 60's with gray skies, but you could leave the umbrella at home. sunny and comfortable with high temperatures in the mid 70's. it doesn't get any better than that in mid september. >> we're looking pretty good on 95 as you make your way northbound in toward lorton. this traffic is heading towards a crash on the capital beltway. it is on the outer loop towards telegraph road. right before the lanes and divide. they are trying to move that out of the way. tap on the brakes as you head towards the springfield. back to you. >> than

green in 2002. the dodger lead the rockies by five games in the n.l. west. >> marlins and cardinals. adamnwright looking for his 19th win of the season. another solid effort for him help made one mistake, and here it was. sixth inning. a two-run blast. his 29th of the season. the marlins win 2-1. for wainwright, first loss in eight starts since august 2nd. seven innings, two earned runs. west outdueled wainwright, struck out a season-high nine. >> still ahead here on "espnews how philadelphia phillies cliff lee idea the worst team in baseball to feel like his old self. and why lane kiffin has changed his tune. andson >> taking on the nats, in trouble with the bases loaded in the fourth inning. against josh bard. in the ninth. lee's trying to go the distance, and he does. getting bard to finish off a six-hit shutout with nine k's. phillies win five. fourth career shutout for cliff lee. first in the national league. he's now 7-2 with the phils. and the phils are 13-3 against the nats this year. in just nine starts, cliff lee has as many wins, complete games and shutouts as he did in 22 star

green in 2002. the dodger lead the rockies by five games in the n.l. west. >> marlins and cardinals. adamnwright looking for his 19th win of the season. another solid effort for him help made one mistake, and here it was. sixth inning. a two-run blast. his 29th of the season. the marlins win 2-1. for wainwright, first loss in eight starts since august 2nd. seven innings, two earned runs. west outdueled wainwright, struck out a season-high nine. >> still ahead here on "espnews how philadelphia phillies cliff lee idea the worst team in baseball to feel like his old self. and why lane kiffin has changed his tune. andson >> taking on the nats, in trouble with the bases loaded in the fourth inning. against josh bard. in the ninth. lee's trying to go the distance, and he does. getting bard to finish off a six-hit shutout with nine k's. phillies win five. fourth career shutout for cliff lee. first in the national league. he's now 7-2 with the phils. and the phils are 13-3 against the nats this year. in just nine starts, cliff lee has as many wins, complete games and shutouts as he did in 22 star

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green in 2002. the dodger lead the rockies by five games in the n.l. west. >> marlins and cardinals. adamnwright looking for his 19th win of the season. another solid effort for him help made one mistake, and here it was. sixth inning. a two-run blast. his 29th of the season. the marlins win 2-1. for wainwright, first loss in eight starts since august 2nd. seven innings, two earned runs. west outdueled wainwright, struck out a season-high nine. >> still ahead here on "espnews how philadelphia phillies cliff lee idea the worst team in baseball to feel like his old self. and why lane kiffin has changed his tune. his tune. andson - ( music playing ) - a work of art. a finely-tuned machine. a sanctuary. a command center. ( both revving ) a sophisticated sedan. a sports car. together. nissan maxima, the four-door sports car. now get a new nissan maxima for 0% apr financing for 60 months. >> taking on the nats, in trouble with the bases loaded in the fourth inning. against josh bard. in the ninth. lee's trying to go the distance, and he does. getting bard to finish off a six-hit shutout with ni

adam is in singapore. becky, we've seen that wavering toward the flat line. >> it's a bit of green on our screens. basic resource stocks have been the weakest, down in negative territory, so to speak. lonmin had an amongst the biggest supporters. we have seen those coming off the lows of the session. we also see some of the stocks in the move this morning. property related companies, for instance, seem to be doing not too badly. we heard from barclay's earlier on, barclay group, not barclay's. barclay telling us that they have seen the housing market stability continuing over the past four months of the year and that has sent shares of that company higher by 1%. amongsted the top gainers amongst the ftse 100 so far today. plus, bg group higher by 1.7%, in fact, at this stage. similar to the reaction sort of bp had big signs a few days ago. bg is performing pretty well today. patricia, how is it looking in frankfurt? >> it's looking better than earlier on. the chart behind me looks more dramatic than the actual move. we are flat line bing, but at least we are back into the green so far. it is a car

green is in the house. chair person of 1112 ben strickland and chair person of local 1714 will adams. [ applause ] well, listenductive discussion with some of your workers about the challenges your facing both here and in your communities and how we can meet them. we talked about the economic troubles that you have been weathering here since long before our current crisis. if you have chairs, feel free to sit down. you don't have to stand this whole time. [ applause ] let's face it. we've been going through some crises since before this economic chrrisiscrisis, this f crisis hit. over the years you have seen factories close. you have seen friends and neighbors and relatives laid off. your daughter and sons have had to move away in search of jobs and opportunity. i know it was painful around here earlier this year when three shifts at this plant were cut down to one. today the local unemployment rate is unacceptably high in this region. second highest in ohio. so i know at times it seems like this community has been on the brink over and over and over again. there are some who see this pain and suggest that som

adam now. >>> well, overall, a weak session for the asian market, at least for those that were open. but one of them, of course, managed to close in the green, not without volatility. and that was the shanghai composite, closing up by .2%, the market was fairly negative. the number of winners to losers about two to one there. a lot of concern about money flooding into ipo markets. the metallurgical corps, $5 billion ipo in terms of shanghai and hong kong managed to gain 28%, but coming off the morning highs and there's certainly a lot more in the pipeline. 13 companies have been approved. and the chinese security looking at another 11. fuel stocks continue to be weak. firms are cutting back production because of rising inventories and falling prices. but did see strength. apparently the chinese regulators are loosening the restrictions, allowing more to travel to gamble a fairly big week to the golden days in china. on that note, back to the u.s. with julia. >> thanks so much, adam. >>> well, there's a smaller number of reports on the economical d calendar this weekt that doesn't make them less important. and the fed meets on wednesday. tod