glenn, arianna makes a couple of key points.ost noticely that all of the last one, iran's fail to acknowledge the existence of israel and their explicit desire to bomb israel. >> responsible people judge things by actions and not by rhetoric. there are all kinds of rhetoric rish issuing from, for example, the united states. john mccain stood up in the middle of the presidential campaign and sang songs about bomb, bomb, bombing iran. if you look at the reality of the actions of various countries what you see is the united states currently is occupying two nations on either side of the iranians on their eastern and western border in afghanistan and in iraq, because those are the countries we invieded and bombed and are now occupying. over the last five years, the israelis have bombed lebanon and syria and slaughtered huge numbers of civilians in the gaza strip. by contrast, which is the last time that iran invaded any other country? you have to go back several centuries. the last several years attacking iran militarily. if you wan

first, arianna, a little more on iran?hat it's disheartening how little has changed, after all, george bush has a lot of responsibility for the fact that so little has changed, since he pursued the wrong enemy, going after iraq, simply empowered iran, has made it a much more significant player in the middle east and has made us take our eye off afghanistan, off north korea. it isn't just by accident that nothing has changed, but a lot of things have gotten worse. don't you agree that even iraq is hardly the kind of jeffersonian democracy that the bush administration helped to create? >> overo the past few months, i think that going after the wrong actor, argument has to be dropped. one of the things we've been learning from watching democrats in congress have been responding to president obama is that all the actors are the wrong actors. as the focus is shifted from iraq to afghanistan, turns out democrats in congress don't like that either. and president obama, of course, is somebody who is very reluctant to use a muscula

arianna, thank you. barry, thank you.ce that is on the front page of your -- >> great to have you on. >> thank you. american held hostage, read it on the huffington post this morning and all day, bailout nation. we referenced arianna's book and jonathan is not going anywhere. msnbc live coverage of the president's speech on the financial crisis after noon eastern time and dr. nancy will host and i will join her for that hour and we will discuss what the president says at that time. again, read our take on the meltdown specifically on the huffington post this america. americans held hostage still 365 days later. contessa brewer has the balance of the news. what is going on? >>> investigators belief they have found this body of missing yale yoompt grad student an ni le. police say someone hid her remains in the wall of the lab where they worked and where she was last seen alive a week ago. friends say they just can't imagine what happened. >> it doesn't make any sense to us all. i can't imagine anybody mad at annie, much le

arianna, republicans are calling today's proceedings a big stunt.hey right sf. >> republicans are asking for censure motions whenever a democrat goes over the top so that was fine. what is amazing is how long this has gone on and the unpress debted amounts of money that joe wilson and his opponents have raised. >> 'is that amazing? isn't that par for the course? >> what is interesting is there rules about what you can and cannot say and liar is not among the things you can say. you can say nit wit and a lot of things, but not liar. >> what do you think? >> i think that the trouble is that there is a lot of anger out there and there is. joe wilson had his moment and it's beyond that at this point. the big crowds that came out really showed that anger that people feel from the melt down a year ago and what what it's done to their lives. we had detroit and we had the banks and we had the foreclosures. i think it's taken all this time for things to think through. joe wilson is an icon of that group of people in a sense which is a big amount of people wh

if you have something to read, don't give it to arianna huffington.et your own web site, do-it-yourself, you will get readers. >> i am going to second that. kevin is dead on on that. that is why it is largely junk, celebrity driven crack. it is. if you have a famous name, you can mix yourself up a drink and write your random thoughts of the afternoon in the worst pros possible and it will be posted with your picture. for those of us who care about writing, which is all good writing is rewriting, sweat over every word, who believe in reporting, we talk about the internet, the blotters are parasitic in the sense that they don't report usually. they don't even pick up a phone. they feed off of traditional news organizations to spin out their thoughts, most of them in sit. for those of us -- lot of them. for -- >> a lot of what you're reading the papers -- >> when you go out and report a story, you are given -- giving another person a voice and if you are doing it right, you're giving a voice to people who, without your presence, would not have a fully. t

i mentioned air ran that arianna's quote earlier. what is the plan, alex?ther phrase. if it's sunday, it must be president obama. in fact, the president did a sit-down with john harwood a couple of days. the president takes a series of five, no less than five one-on-one interviews with the sunday talk show hosts including nbc's "meet the press" and then monday he is going to return and goes to the late show where he is the only scheduled guest appropriately so as the president. the president's push follows a new poll on his approval rate and here are the numbers from q research which finds the following. that is down nine points from february. it has been lower, though. 58% say he has the ability to get things down, down from 70% in february. it's about -- >> with all due respect, look at what the numbers say. that's like watching the chicago bulls at the peak of michael jordan's career and being worried that michael jordan only scored 28 points that night instead of 44. are you kidding me? george bush would pay a king's ransom for the worse number on that