evelyn anderson is the owner of asheville playgrounds in asheville, north carolina. we first introduced you to evelyn during one of our makeovers. gene marks, small business columnist for "the new york times," and brian cohen, chairman of new york angels and an entrepreneur yourself. thank you for joining me, all of you. >> good to be here. >> evelyn, i'd like to start with you. as we head into the conventions or as we're at the conventions, what are you hoping to hear from the candidates? >> well, i don't know if either party really addresses the needs of very small businesses like our own. i think that, you know, we operate at a small scale, but i really would like to see support for the middle class, the people who buy our products. if people have more disposable income, i believe that they will be able to purchase more things, and that would support and help small business. >> and so if i'm hearing you correctly, what you want to hear is what is your plan for helping the economy? >> yes, what is your plan for helping to bring the economy back to the way that it u

let's go to a state level where a flyer showing paul newby speaking at asheville's tea party event.e hopes, the asheville tea party, compared president obama to hitler, supports states rights and null if i indication and claims 70 socialists in congress. this is who the supreme court justice is speaking for. >> this is what they accuse of us. as if we need hitler or socialists to tell us the problem that we are facing in this country. this is just instead of jim crow, it's sophisticated cousin james crow, esquire. >> joe madison, thanks for being on our show tonight. >> you do the same, reverend. >> we'll be right back. you can't argue with nutrition you can see. great grains. great grains cereal starts whole and stays whole. see the seam? more processed flakes look nothing like natural grains. i'm eating what i know is better nutrition. mmmm. great grains. search great grains and see for yourself. they became targets of horrific anti-guy mailers, so extreme we can't even show them. last night the extreme fight came to an end when new york finally held the state primaries and the re

but all that they lost on the road in asheville against the tennessee titans. -- in nash fell against the tennessee titans. he means business when he says this team has to be clear about its preparation and focus because philadelphia has a better team this year than tennessee did one year ago. >> you have to watch the tape and there are plenty of things to work on. the score is not necessarily indicative for my football perspective of what you see as a coach. we have lots of things we need to do to get better to improve between the first and second week. what of things if we're going to compete in against a very talented eagles the ball team. >> a big shakeout ahead in college sports. all sports but football -- much more at 11:00 tonight. stick around. stick around. >> live at morgan state university, city police are still on the scene of a shooting that happened a little more than an hour ago. university officials tell us one person was shot on campus in the stomach and was rushed to hospital. no word yet whether the person is a student. the search continues for a gunman. he has been

protesters also gathered in 50 other cities today, including san francisco, asheville, north carolina, and hawaii. >>> and when nightly news continues, this monday evening, an important new health warning tonight for parents. what too many kids are eating far too much of and the serious risk it poses. >>> and later what we're learning tonight about who snapped those photos of kate middleton, and how it was a prying lens went undetected. >>> tonight we are learning just how early in life the problem of high blood pressure can develop. 67 million american adults have it, and we learn more today about how the problem is starting with our kids taking in way too much salt and the reports are bad. our report from chief correspondent robert bazell. >> reporter: she insists on a healthy diet for her kids, because of a family history of strokes and heart attacks. it includes limited salt. whole foods have very all right salt, and fresh vegetables, lean meats have very little salt >> reporter: but too few families are making this change. the center for disease control recommends a certain amoun

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it beat out asheville, north carolina and ithaca, new york, among other accounts. >> the nation's capital has been named one of the friendliest city for pedestrians and bicyclists. d.c. officials announced the pedestrian and bicycle information center is a walk- friendly city. . we are closing in on platinum. >> 6:11 is the time. check in with adam caskey. >> we have a lot of trails around here, so that should put us at the platinum level. 67 at dulles airport this morning, 72 in reagan national, 66 in gaithersburg. in the '60s to low 70's for the most part. a little patchy fog. partly cloudy today. we will have a few highs in the low 90s today especially south of washington. there is cooler air to our northwest. in rapid city and denver and omaha, in the 70's today. the cooler and drier air will make it to us by sunday. there is rain on the weekend that i will talk about straight ahead. now to angela foster. >> on the roads we are looking at it a lot of easy flow. heads up on train problems. on marc trains there are switch problems. 30 minute delays on some of the penn line trains and th

why don't we go to the blue ridge mountains in asheville, north carolina. >> that is a beautiful spotne of the destinations you get to see all the color spectrum in fall. every possible color imaginable two big highlights, the blue ridge parkway, which is one of america's favorite drives, you can bike that or drive it get off and go hike and climbing you built mother biltmore estate largest private residence in the united states, built for george vanderbi vanderbilt, has an amazing art collection and formal garden. >> look at that. that shot is gorgeous. >> gorgeous. >> colorado. >> oh, come on. >> just hearing the word. >> oh. rocky mountain high. >> indeed. lots of yellows. >> tell us about that area. >> the grand mesa national forest was a big pick for us. you can go up a chair lift there and see all the fall foliage all below you. it is a wonderful experience. >> wow. >> the area full of great lakes as well and lots of wildlife, where you really start to see moose and elk. great destinations for hiking, go camping as well. it is terrific. >> black hills of south dakota. >> you get

asheville, north carolina, republican candidate mark meadows says, "i'm not romney." lynchberg, virginia, "video fallout proves taxing for romney." detroit, michigan, "romney's 47% remark: will it sink his campaign?" andrew kaszynski at buzz feed has been doing these roundups of swing state newspaper's front-page headlines. so it's a great way to get a snapshot of how things covered in the national press are actually translating on the ground, where the voters who will decide this election will actually be reading about it in their local paper. and the romney campaign's media problem becoming a national problem, a coast to coast nationwide problem is evident now not just in newspaper lines like you just saw across the country, but also in the polling. every day now, we're getting new waves of polling data from the nine or so states that make up the swing state map for the election. these are the latest numbers as of today. in new hampshire, mr. romney currently holding a three-point lead. that is a rasmussen poll. in virginia, it's president obama up by seven. in flor

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dallas is on the phone from asheville, north carolina. the new york times calling this the least productive congress in a generation. caller: thank you, steve. you are doing a great job, as usual. i am tired of seeing all the illusion that is in the left and right politics of our country. anyone that ever does any real research as far as conspiracy theory and no matter what evidence is presented and what goes on from way back, everything that's happening along the way is ratcheting down on the rights of the american people. it's destroying the humanity of our planet. it is high time that the people really get a sober look at this thing and talk to their neighbors and really figure out how we are going to be able to get our representation anin government back into the people's hands and away from the criminals. host: thanks for the call. this story -- senator tom coburn, as the republicans blamed democrats for inaction in washington, yesterday. [video clip] >> what we have had, i would remind my colleagues, is a history in the senate of do

here and the full court -- i want you to join me in a little shout out to a good friend down in asheville from her yesterday. she's got every radio in her house tuned in to the "full court press." >> congratulations! >> bill: aunt vera. taken care of by cousin elabor. big shout out to cousin elaine and aunt vera. god love you and get all of the democrats in north carolina -- >> i hope she heard michelle yesterday. >> bill: i suspect that aunt vera may be one of the 47% however. >> yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. now mitt romney is for 100%. he's going to support 100% of americans. [ laughter ] >> bill: peter is with us as a "friend of bill" this hour and as well as aunt vera. michael calderon from "huffington post" along. he's a media reporter that will join us just a little bit later. but first -- dan. >> on this thursday, other headlines making news, this mock debate between bill o'reilly and jon stewart where half of the proceeds are going to charity are sold out. if you really want to go, you can find tickets on sub hub at $250 all the way up to $1200 per ticket for this debate. for secondary

clyde is undecided, in asheville. -- in: i' nashville. caller: i am undecided because they don't have ron paul as a choice. my take is both of these people are lapdog for somebody and that bothers me. caught up with answering to powers. just like the lady from south carolina, like she said, mitt romney, his decisions are made for him. i think barack obama, the lord knows he has some issues. host: how did you vote in 2008? caller: i voted for barack obama mostly because of sarah palin. i campaigned for john mccain against george bush until he started changing some of the positions that he had maintained his whole life. i would have followed that man. host: all right. president obama talk about the 2008 campaign. [video clip] >> i am the first one to confess that the spirit of that are brought to washington that i wanted to see instituted, where we were not constantly in a political slugfest but focus more on problem solving, i have not fully accomplished that. have not even come close in some cases. if you ask what my biggest disappointmen

quickly, let's say hello to dave from asheville north carolina. >> caller: how is it going?> caller: listen, about how if we're better off or not from george w. bush's policies and i really think what needs to be driven home is they're not george w. bush's policies. they're republican policies. they're the same as they've been for a long time. i think something like that will gain a little more attraction because there's republicans and democrats who don't want to hear anything about president george w. bush. i don't think there's a whole lot of traction to that argument as much as there is these are republican policies. >> bill: good point. thanks so much for the call. governor i think that to the extent that it is a way of reminding people that they may have been george bush's policies but the romney/ryan plan would be to bring the policies back as i said on steroids. >> for me, the campaigns are very much about the future and so the choice is -- i believe that the president is laying out a series of policies to move us -- you know, forward. but i think you would have to s

. >> host: j., asheville, north carolina, please go ahead. you were on with michael beschloss. >> caller: yes, mr. beschloss coming you spoke earlier of lyndon johnson's deep fears and doubts and agonizing about vietnam. could you please discuss the gulf of tonkin incident and johnson's reaction to it and what his administration hoped to gain by it? >> guest: here's an example of where these tapes will change our knowledge of history. because beginning of august 1964, we all knew lbj had gotten a report from the pentagon saying that there may have been an attack on an american ship in the gulf of tonkin. johnson was running against barry goldwater which criticize him for being soft on communism. but we didn't really quite know what happened next because this happened behind closed doors. thanks to the tapes, you hit his telephone conversations with robert bakker, the pentagon, and others. and what happened that day is tragic to think about. johnson gets the news. he says to mcnamara essentially bob, get some people to find out whether this is

. >> host: j., asheville, north carolina, please go ahead.ou were on with michael beschloss. >> caller: yes, mr. beschloss coming you spoke earlier of lyndon johnson's deep fears and doubts and agonizing about vietnam. could you please discuss the gulf of tonkin incident and johnson's reaction to it and what his administration hoped to gain by it? >> guest: here's an example of where these tapes will change our knowledge of history. because beginning of august 1964, we all knew lbj had gotten a report from the pentagon saying that there may have been an attack on an american ship in the gulf of tonkin. johnson was running against barry goldwater which criticize him for being soft on communism. but we didn't really quite know what happened next because this happened behind closed doors. thanks to the tapes, you hit his telephone conversations with robert bakker, the pentagon, and others. and what happened that day is tragic to think about. johnson gets the news. he says to mcnamara essentially bob, get some people to find out whether this is a

. >> host: jay, asheville, north carolina, good afternoon. >> caller: yes, thanks for taking my call. it's real pleasure to speak with you sir. i have short comment and a question. we have been involved in this afghanistan cesspool now for 10 years. if we had had a military draft, because right now only a miniscule percentage of our population has anything to do with the military. but if we had had a draft, all along, do you not think that our involvement in afghanistan would have ended a long time ago? i mean if a great many mothers and fathers had to face the prospect that their son and or daughter would be over there an be killed or i am maed for essentially nothing, do you not think that the war would have ended a long time ago? >> guest: i'm not sure it would have ended a long time ago but what i do think you've put your finger on the essential point that we need to get corrected in this country. in fact less than 1% of the population in uniform, all volunteers. many of them from rural areas. many of them from very working class families, too few of them with any training beyond