ann wall of chicago is one of my most trusted staff members. she has been my senate floor director for more than two years. a few c-span viewers may recognize ann as a regular on the floor of the senate. those of us who have worked closely with her on both sides of the aisle know that she is one of the smartest, hardest working and most gracious members of the senate community. no matter how early in the morning or how late at night, ann wall is always there with a smile and a good answer. if an agreement needs to be worked out, ann is there to offer a fair and constructive solution. next week, ann wall starts an exciting new chapter in her life. my loss is the gain of a former senator from illinois, president barack obama. ann is going to the white house to work as a special assistant to the president. i'm going to miss working with her, as everyone on my staff will. fortunately, we're going to continue to see her often on capitol hill in her new job representing the president of the united states. a little about her background will explain how

wall street. >> great people. >> patti ann, the portion of graduates who described their first job as a career has fallen 30% since 2008. do you sympathize with them or do you say screw them? >> a lot of us, let's face it, -- we -- aren't we all waiting for our lives to start? >> how dare you? we are the crown news of the news empire. >> some people won't be back. >> they know i am kidding. this one girl who majored in english lit, what did she think would happen? she is in a rock band now and that looks like a fun thing to do. this is a good time to do it. and you do develop certain skills no matter what you are doing and hopefully it will translate later on. >> bill, were you telling me in the green room you think this country is screwed. >> yes, but it had nothing to do with this. >> my two-word review of this sounds familiar. i was a print journalism major. if you are a print journalism major it is in generation limbo. for three years i was temping waiting for a magazine to hire me. to g to what patti ann was saying how you apply something from every job you have. i was a a feces filer. while

. >> host: i want to go back to the scene were talking about a minute ago, about ann's philosophy. not build wallsd find kinship in beauty. i do want to psychoanalyze a person who's not here to defend yourself. but i wonder if maya is missing the word love in here? love is a powerful motivator in all human life, all human if students. do you get a sense that this may be something stanley ann never experienced in a way that resonated with her children were philosophical pursuit that perhaps the most you needed to be more bitter than she was portraying people in different places. beauty and kinship or two things. did she miss on a her life? get a sense of that? or does it even matter? >> guest: buckets defined differently by different people. what exactly are talking about i'm not -- they might be helpful if you do find a little bit more what you're asking. at least in the term love. >> host: within her two marriages come within a relationship with her children, their separateness at times, this distance. she's often described and not even sure he would even validate this as her surrogate existence

host: i want to go back to this thing we were talking about a minute ago about stanley ann's philosophy not to build walls are on a whistle and find beauty in unexpected places but i went as i will always a person who isn't here to defend herself but i wonder if she is missing the word love it is a very powerful motivator in all human life, all of human existence. do you get a sense that maybe that was something that she never actually experienced in a way that is that resonated with her children are designated in a philosophical pursuit that perhaps to have love you need to be more rigid than she was were you need to find people in different places? beauty and can ship or two things. did she miss out on love and her life, do you think or does it matter? >> guest: well, i think that love probably gets defined differently by different people coming and so what exactly you're talking about i'm not, you know, it might be helpful if you define a little bit more what you're asking. the and the use of the term of love. >> host: was it with her marriages in the relationship she had with her children, the separat

wall street journal".com. look to talk about afghanistan and libya and your experiences, ann.our experiences. >> thank you very much. jenna: we'll be right back with more "happening now." jon: word of warning to the apple corporation. right now amazon.com is launching a kindle tablet that provides one-touch access to amazon's vast inventory of book, music and movie titles. at 199 bucks it is half the price of cheapest models of apple's popular ipad. fox business network dennis kneale live from midtown manhattan with more. dennis? >> reporter: everyone looking for the ipad killer. after all the apple product is already slain the likes of motorola and rim and hewlett-packard. along comes amazon with the anti-ipad, for less than half of the starting price of an ipad, amazon is betting that people will want less power, fewer fancy features but the price is so cheap they won't be able to resist. for 200 bucks you get a 7-inch screen not 10 inch screen like on ipad. weighs less than a pound. hire's the thing. 100,000 titles of movies and tv shows. you don't get wireless cellular ser

ann coulter tweeted, governor perry losing debate with his own tongue. last night's debate led to another call for new jersey governor chris christie to enter the race. "the wallrgues in a column that the gop nomination is still up for grabs and there for the taking for governor christie. governor christie appeared yesterday with indiana republican governor mitch daniels at ryding university. both governors disappointed their fans when they announced earlier this year they definitely will not run for president. christie offered his thoughts on why republicans still want him to run. >> i think what the country is thirsty for more than anything else right now is someone of stature and credibility to look them in the eye and tell them that. and say, here's what i want us to go to deal with this crisis. and the fact that nobody, yet, who's running for president, in my view, has done that effectively is why you continue to hear people ask daniels if he'll reconsider and ask me if i'll reconsider. >> joining me now, "washington post" columnist and msnbc analyst, eugene robinson. thanks for joining me tonight, gene. >> great to be here, lawrence. >> gene, as you know

walls that could be made opaque at the flip of a switch. >>> protestors at uc-berkeley are vowing to return this morning after a tense 8-hour showdown with campus police yesterday. anneat's prompting all the protests there. anne, good morning. >> reporter: well, they are upset about the situation that students all across the state are upset about, the rising cost of a college education. so they had an open occupation at tollman hall for several hours yesterday. this morning it's clear but they vow to return today. here's video on youtube shot by the daily californians of the students protesting the increasing cost of an uc education there in tollman hall. then officers tried to shut down the billion for the night around 10:30 and protestors tossed chairs and bottles at then wearing riot gear. police moved in and arrested as you saw there at least one person. now, check out this video. it is the students fighting with police earlier in the day. they had made some makeshift shields that resembled very large books. they were made of cardboard, foam and plastic. and at one point they actually pinned an officer and tried to take bullets off her belt. >> another person beh