bernie sanders joins us with reaction. and the 99% movement is growing and republicans are beginning to change their tune. >> i for one am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs. >> ring of fire radio host mike papantonio is here with us. great to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. i don't think anybody got any smarter watching this crowd. moments ago eight republican hopefuls just wrapped up a debate at dartmouth college. it was boring. but i have to say it was the most detailed republican debate so far. the economy, jobs, and bailouts were the highlights. tonight mitt romney who clearly leads the field in recent polling made several statements this evening that just don't coordinate with past comments. >> would you or would you not be open to another wall street bailout? >> well, no one likes the idea of a wall street bailout. i certainly don't. >> you said that in 2008 that it prevented the collapse of the financial. >> there's no question that the risks they took was designed not to just keep

>> i think bernie sanders is one of the smartest guys in washington, d.c. is not running for re-election as a senator. i agree with bernie we ought to spend a ton of money on infrastructure, put people back to work, good paying jobs. i agree we should get tough on fair trade abuses like the chinese have been doing. i don't think we should stop free trade but i think we should get tough on people who have been abusing the trade system. i also think what the american people are looking for is a leader, someone who can get things done and bring people together. so i heard michael moore say they're looking for a leader and he's right. they're looking for a leader who can tab the different sides and bring them together. you can do that without sacrificing your principles. it is a false choice to say you either cut government spending or have an economy that benefits poor people. you can do both. you can reform government. we can take those entitlement programs and reform them without actually hurting people, save money, and at the same time do the things necessar

and i'll get reaction from the liberal independent senator bernie sanders. and startling details in the fraud case against four men accused of one of the largest government contracting scandals in history. prosecutors say it cost you and me, all american taxpayers, $20 million. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." # >>> economists say there's no hints in the newest unemployment report that another recession is starting. 103,000 jobs were added to pay rolls last month. that's a stronger than expected increase. july and august figures were also revised upward as well as to show an additional gain of 99,000 jobs over the summer. the overall unemployment rate held steady at our white house correspondent dan loathian. what is the white house saying about all the numbers heading into a senate fight over the jobs bill? >> reporter: wolf, top aides here at the white house say that unemployment rate of 9.1% is still unacceptably high. they're encouraged by growth in the private sec

so this is senator bernie sanders sanders questioning chairman of the federal reserve ben bernanke they go into a little more and you know he asks ben bernanke he have these issues been fixed renee he says for the most part yes and center says you know all right i respectfully disagree what is your beef you know that you have with what's gone on over the past few years with last three. well i think you know obviously. the. the lack of legislation and. over over you know the banks and volved and private lending and involved and. public lending whatever you know there's been a lot of. lack of regulation and also in conjunction with. the is the corporate personhood that we have been fighting against sense to beginning of time it seems like in this country but you know a lot of cream court case citizens united right right last year right right last year which allows corporations to fund any political campaigns to as much as they want. so it's really becoming a major problem and it's not going to get fixed and told that supreme court legislation gets repealed today i heard an interesting quo

and bernie sanders talk about the real slasher movie. >> are they willing to tear down the economy in order to tear down the president? >> republicans and what they want to do. >> trace the call. it's coming from inside the house. all that plus a if you supergnarl surprises. >> welcome, rev. >> hello, al. >> hey, who is that guy? >> it's a spooky special on "politics is nation, and it all starts right now. >>> welcome to politics nation. i'm al sharpton. tonight's lead, forget halloween. that's only one night. for the republican party, fright night just goes on and on. we'll talk about the herman cain's sexual harassment story in a moment, but first, who is willard mitt romney trying to get this halloween? the flipper or the flopper? george will calls him the human pretzel. ouch. today he's getting tagged as a flip-flopper. it's getting impossible to keep track of his positions. >> when the facts change, i change too, madam. what do you do? >> i need reinforcements to try to help us understand where willard really stands. so i'd like to welcome a very special guest to "politics nation

joining me now, bernie sanders. i love having this man on this program because he tells it like it is. i think he knows the answer to all the questions i asked you tonight. in this commentary. but i'll have to ask him again, how can we turn this around, senator? how are we going to do it? >> first of all, i'm going to text you right away, ed, and tell you, yeah, corporate greed is running this country. corporate greed is destroying the middle class. and corporate greed is destroying the dreams and aspirations of millions of american people. i think what these wall street occupation effort is all about, and the reason that it is hitting a nerve, is that people are catching on that there is something profoundly wrong when the top 1% today earns more income than the bottom 50% and when the wealthiest 400 people own more wealth than the bottom half of america, 150 million people. ed, in a recent 25-year period, 80% of all new income went to the top 1% which is why the 99ers are getting a little bit upset. now, you're as

and bernie sanders. so you know how's it going you know your belt we've thought it you you get these banks trillions of dollars trillions of dollars and practices we're going to do for small businesses he says well we're going to try to free up liquidity and get to the real this is are you going to get the small business money like you have a big business that's not what the fed does. well you know i mean i think there's dirt that's where the solutions are and my wife and i own a small business and i'll tell you there's a lot of small business people in wisconsin and around the country who recognize that their interest lies with their kids but their customers and with their neighbors and who want more investment not only in infrastructure but in basic public services that believe that the access to education is something that's a birthright it's not something people should have to go into indentured servitude for and the reality is small businesses have not been helped and we do need a fundamental change

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. >> tonight, vermont senator bernie sanders on the president's plan to bypass congress. and eugene robinson on the politics of it all. >>> rick perry is bringing birthers back and now he has a confederate flag controversy on his hands. "salon's" joan walsh is here with analysis. >>> with the election around the corner, firefighter safety is on the ballot in ohio. >> i have a hard time believing that the gear needs replaced every five years. that's my personal opinion. >> we'll bring you the latest. >>> and hasn't wisconsin been through enough? >> the runner did cross the line. >> tonight, my commentary on how the badgers got hosed. >>> great to have you with us tonight, folks. thank for watching msnbc, "the ed show" in the 8:00 hour. our first show. hope to be here for a long time. if you've never seen "the ed show" before, i just want to tell you a couple things off the top. i use this graph a lot on "the ed show" because this is where america is. this right here, the red line, is where the top 1% has gone over the last 30 years in income in this country. over 300%. thi

vermont senator bernie sanders is here with reaction. >> who's the enemy? >> obama. >> hank williams junior has a new statement on his hate-filled attack on the president and it's a dandy. and it's a day of mourning for a whole lot of right wingers. >> new jersey, whether you like it or not, you are stuck with me. now is not my time. >> christie is out and the rest of the republican field is still a miss. steve kornacki and joan walsh are here. great to have you with us tonight. thank you for watching. house and senate republicans are trying to sabotage president obama's jobs package any way you look at it. today john boehner and eric cantor shot down any hope, any hope whatsoever, of the house voting on the american jobs plan. >> the problem is the policies promoted by this administration that are sending a signal that we are not open for business in america. >> i think we made it clear when the president presented his plan that we were going to go through his plan, try to find those areas where we could find common ground. nobody gets everything they want

then we have bernie sanders.rouble with the network is i turn it on and we have bernie sanders on every hour and a half, jim mcdermott and then barney frank on. the left loves to talk. they don't have general elections to face. they can come on time a after time and sell the left. on fox they sell the right. we know the election will be decided by the ohio suburbs, the cleveland suburbs, philly suburbs. >> and the i-4 corridor. >> it will be down the middle in florida. winter park. it will be decided in chapel hill, no, that's democrat. >> raleigh. >> we know where the election will be. if the democrats think they can win colorado and lose ohio, keep working on that one. >> all right. chris matthews -- >> michael bennet will win and sharon brown lose? come on. >> i'll tivo or watch it live or both. >> thanks, buddy. >> the special edition of "hardball," the great democratic debate is live tonight at 7:00 eastern on msnbc. everybody from michael moore to mark penn. can't get better than that. >>> up next we kick o

thank you for your leadership, senator. >> thank you very much. >> senator bernie sanders. coming up, fire bombs, tear gas and marching on the capitol. not zuccotti park. another lovely day in greece. why it matters to us here in america. plus, oh, no, he didn't. last night's gop debate gets nasty. finally some pro wrestling action worthy of primetime. man, it was good? did you hear what he said about her and her about him? oh. but what about the debate bedeserve on, i don't know, banking, trade, energy, health care? that doesn't rate. and later for anyone who has ever embellished a story a bit, turns out your friends are probably to blame. the science behind all those little white lies. sam: i'm sam chernin. owner of sammy's fish box. i opened the first sammy's back in 1966. my employees are like family. and, i want people that work for me to feel that they're sharing in my success. we purchase as much as we can on the american express open gold card. so we can accumulate as many points as possible. i pass on these points to my employees to go on trips with their families.

bernie sanders is here. stand by. animals shot dead after escaping an exotic preserve. did authorities do the right thing? i'm not a number. i'm not a line item on a budget. and i'm definitely not a pushover. but i am a voter. so washington... before you even think about cutting my medicare and social security benefits... here's a number you should remember. 50 million. we are 50 million seniors who earned our benefits... and you will be hearing from us... today and on election day. ♪ >>> a look at cnn's republican presidential debate, which many are saying signals a major shift in the race for the white house. the gloves came off with a series of brutal, nasty and very nersal exchanges. but the candidates took shots at president obama as well. >> we've had a president reasonable for this economy and he's failed us. in part because he has no idea how the private sector works or how to create jobs cht he's made it harder for our economy to reboot and as a result, we have 25 million americans out of work or stopped look

. >>> last night on "haul ball with chris matthews" chris asked bernie sanders and former pennsylvania governor democrat ed rendell if next year's election should cause president obama to shift his economic strategy, specifically his stance on tax increases. >> the evidence is overwhelming. when the rich are getting richer and their effective tax rates are the lowest in decades and we have a huge national debt, what almost everybody understands is you have to ask the wealthy to pay more in tax tas. when corporations are enjoying huge loopholes so some of the largest most profitable corporations in america don't pay a nickle in federal taxes in some years, most americans say that's absurd. to my mind, chris, this is not being terribly progressive. this is really common sense politics which makes sense to ordinary americans. >> that's a good question. let's stay on that one point. democrats believe in government. republicans don't. the republicans don't mind starving government. governor rendell, does he have to go after the rich and their money? >> he has to go at basic economic fairnes

contracts during the past decade according to a department of defense report prepared for senator bernie sanders he said the ugly truth is that virtually all of the major defense contractors in this country for years have been engaged in systemic fraudulent behavior while receiving hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money that's another big dimension of the banking scandal somebody pointed out it's not bread and circuses it's just circuses without bread you know they're just doing the public assassinations and t.v. for people's lation like the porn associated with the gadhafi murder it's titillating for the people who are being asked to suffer austerity measures because it keeps her mind off the fact that they're starving to death for a few minutes but other than that there's no function to this and then this final headline for those two rebels there in that photo today libya tomorrow wall street well here's a headline for them max british businessman told. that to libya oh. yeah so this is from defense secretary phil. and he told the b.b.c. now that the campaign is over i would expect

bush was pushing his outrageous tax cuts for the rich through congress senator bernie sanders saw this trend of unequal influence and he wrote an article on his website saying at a time when more and more americans are giving up on the political process and when the wealthy and multinational corporations have unprecedented wealth and power it is imperative that we lacked launch a grassroots revolution to enable ordinary americans to regain control of their country exactly ten years and one month to the day when senator sanders wrote that article on september seventeenth of this year people began camping out near wall street to protest an equal corporate influence in our political system the occupy wall street movement was born and like with dog movements standing on the shoulders of the giants who preceded it. that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered this in our web sites tom hartman dark on free speech dot org. also check out our two you tube channels the links of tom parker this entire show is also available as a free video podcast on i tunes

corporations the fed didn't give them a penny and today small businesses are in big trouble senator bernie sanders was wondering what the heck this is all about so we asked fed chairman ben bernanke he that question on tuesday during a senate hearing on the point just crisis situation no why aren't you doing the small business what you did for the large financial institutions where we are addressing unemployment and i just discussed in my testimony the aggressive steps we're taking to ease monetary policy which is our main tool for us right there to provide low interest loans to small businesses in the same way you provided the large financial institutions around the world i don't think that's our role and i'm sure we don't have the authority to do that. there you have it the fed doesn't give loans to small businesses but does give loans to massive corporations this is a symptom of a form of government goes of rioting of names plutocracy aristocracy oligarchy it's the form of government that our nation's founders fought to overthrow for example the largest stockholders in the east india company in

why its next report is so disturbing and internal pentagon reports prepared for senate senator bernie sanders shows that the d.o.d.'s been hit by one point one trillion dollars in fraud from defense companies over the last ten years the over the course of a decade the pentagon paid five hundred seventy three billion dollars to over three hundred contractors involved in civil fraud cases two hundred fifty five billion dollars went to fifty four contractors convicted of seriously criminal fraud cases and senators call this a very shocking report saying of the ugly truth is that virtually all of the major defense contractors in this country for years have been gauged in systemic fraudulent behavior while receiving hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money so you want to. the worst offenders our own are probably the ones that you know best lockheed martin paid ten point five million dollars in two thousand and eight after the company was found submitting false invoices on a multi-billion dollar contract but just a year later lockheed martin was awarded thirty billion in brand new contract