huffington. she is vacationing but her spokesperson said, quote, we sincerely regret the error and apologize for it. however, mr. nelson continues to work for miss huffington. joining us now our internet cop amanda carpenter. if you were huffington, what do you do? >> i think you cut this guy loose. this is a guy, he is a contributor, he is not very popular on the site. this is the second offensive posting he had. he had another one published a few weeks ago talking about the way that jesus would sexually fantasize about miss california and making jokes about her being a christian porn star. so this guy, he books himself as a comedian, but i don't care, even if you don't like carrie prejean or sarah palin, this isn't funny and is nothing but a black mark to this website. bill: ok. so now if any right winger did this, used the word retarded in context of a down syndrome baby, they would be on all the networks, they would be blackballed, they would be crucified, and we all know the double standard

things like plit coe, huffington -- politico, huffington post, national review online to take a whole sprecktrum of -- a whole spectrum of political views. those are no substitute for newspapers. what they are commenting on is information gathered by the few number of papers left that still support actual reporting. what po lit coe and the huff -- what politico and the huffington post and all the online political blogs derive the news for their commentary from is from dinosaurs, "the washington post," "the new york times," the "wall street journal," and what is going to happen when and if the newspapers continue to invest less and less in firsthand reporting, look, these blogs are mostly people's opinions about things. that's fine. but there's no -- it's all selected out. there's no way you're going to turn to the huffington post, it's not there, if there's a trial like the hiss trial, you won't see a transcript of testimony on it. 10 years ago if you'd talked to my editors at places like the times or "the washington post," for whom i still freelance, they thought that the -- their on

if you want on the reed huffington post opinions, you can only read the huffington post. >> i want to ask about an important moment erode about in the book. it was when somebody went to the farm. >> i've not been there. >> what is the chamber's farm? let's show it and then i will ask about the importance of this in the business of the u.s. hearings. what role did the event at this farm -- this is in maryland, an hour or so from here -- where there were pumpkin papers. >> they were pumpkin microfilm. microfilm of government documents that chambers said hiss handed over to him in the 1930's. chambers does not leave the fbi to the newspapers in a hollowed out pumpkin in a canister in a pumpkin. if they had just been lying in the pumpkin, the microfilm would have been rotten. >> is going to see the house as we turn the corner. then the pumpkin papers are in that yard. >> that's right. right there in the yard. there is no trial without the pumpkin papers because it was just here say. there is where they were. these are the documents which chambers claimed it hiss handed over to him. this i

let's bring in arianna huffington, cofounder and editor-in-chief of "the huffington post.com" and alsouthor of "pigs at the trough." arianna, thanks for coming on tonight. >> great to be with you. >> if we don't pay these guys millions of dollars, how will we continue to get the same caliber of leadership that has given us aig and citi corp and so forth and so on? >> howard, that's exactly the question we should be asking ourselves. because the real issue here is how can we align the interests of executives with the interests of shareholders and the interests of the company, not to mention the interests of society at large? that's really what has gone awry. i think it's important when we talk about this that it's not about limiting executive compensation in absolute terms. it's about correcting all this wrong incentives that have been there and as you pointed out have basically made it so likely that executives put the short-term interests of their compensation ahead of the interests of the company and the interests of the country. >> will this bill work not just in reducing big compen

if you're -- if you want to only read huffington post opinions, you can only read the huffington post. a lot of people do. >> i want to ask you about an important moment that you write about in the book when somebody went to the farm, we're going to show you video. have you ever been to the farm? >> no. >> whitaker chambers farm. i'll ask you about the importance of this moment in the whole business of the huac hearings. what role did the event at this farm, and this is up here in maryland, not far from here, an hour and a half or so, where flrp so called pumpkin papers play? >> they were pumpkin microfilm. they were microfilms of government documents chambers said hiss had handed over to him in the 1930's. chambers does not lead the f.b.i. to these papers in a hollowed out pumpkin. in a canister in a hollowed out pumpkin. if they'd just been lying in the pumpkin, even the microfilm would have been rotten. >> as you turn the corner, you'll see the house. the pumpkin papers are in that yard. >> they're right there. they're right there in that yard. there's no hiss trial without the pum

>> yeah, i wrote about this on huffington post. for me, one of the issues here is that sort of proven mentality. one of the deals that's made with people of color and women is if you work hard, if you don't complain, if you do the things you're supposed to do you get a slice of the american pie. but over the last few months we've seen the best and brightest of us. as you mentioned, sonia sotomayor. the president obama with the birther movement and in this case henry louis gates. the idea it doesn't matter what you've done, it doesn't matter about your accomplishments or that you'll have spent more time on the bench than anyone else who sits on the supreme court. prove it. prove you can think like the white male perspective. prove that you really are an american. prove that this house belongs to you despite the fact the caller says that you have suitcases. you may live there. never having said to the police officer that they were black gentlemen or anything like that. that proven mentality i think is getting tiring for a lot of us w

roy sekoff, founding editor of "the huffington post." ron christie, republican strategist.nt by a senator, to talk about his party like that. does the republican party have regional issues? what do you think? >> i don't think we have regional issues. i've known senator voinovich for 17 years and he's a blunt and outspoken individual. i think the word he should have substituted was, the republican party is being dominated by conservatives which i think is a good thing. we're going to obviously be in a good position to hold his seat in ohio with my good friend rob portman. the republican party is becoming a lot more conservative, a lot more fiscally responsible, looking at social issued. to suggest we're a southern party, think the senator is perhaps more off base there. >> is this good news to democrats, to hear somebody talk like that on the other side? >> i'm happy a democrat didn't say it because we'd be in the middle of some kind of holy war between the parties. the thing senator voinovich is missing the republican party was taken over by southerners over the course of t

i'm joined by george will, david brooks of "new york times," arianna huffington of the huffington post, also paperback -- vividly titled books today, "pigs at the trough, how corrupt is undermining america. paul krugman and donna brazile, welcome back. you see lyndon johnson signing medicare, president clinton giving his mea culpas on health care in 1995. which fate does obama have in his future right now? >> bill clinton's fate it seems to me. because of bill clinton's experience, which they sometimes ascribe, this bhout white house, because of the fact it took so long to get to it. the white house, obama white house has been saying speed is essential and they're right, for the reason that emerson said that when skating on thin ice speed is safety. >> the streejs istrategic decision they made to go for everything is the right decision? >> but not with cap and trade and new energy supplies, country has a sense of overload. the president has 60 senators, he has a 70-vote majority in the house of representatives and he blames republicans. that's not the problem. his difficulties from the

host: our guest is nico pitney, from huffington post on-line at huffingtonpost.com. you can read his blogs from those reporting inside iran following the elections. caller: good morning. yes, i have a question for mr. pitney. the united states was putting a lot of emphasis on iranian relations. if we had put that much emphasis in the 2000 election, would the united states be in the situation it is in now? guest: you're not the first person to say that. there are many merps who write and say, you know, i'm inspired by the iranians. i only wish that we had been as outraged in 2000 with the florida vote, you know. who knows what would have happened if events had gone differently and people would have, you know, been p protesting. that's coming from lynette murphy who says we need to concentrate on our own voter fraud and not worry about another country's fraud. guest: well, you know, each person can worry about what they want to worry about. there are many people who care deeply -- i mean, their families are in iran. they face, you know, obviously, the threat of violenc

also, editor in chief of "the huffington post," arianna huffington, will join us.enator mary landreau, the conservative democrat, has asked the president to slow down on his push for health care reform. we're going to go live to the white house with nbc's political director chuck todd. and in a few minutes, the anchor of "world focus" on pbs, martin savidge will join us, plus, the other top stories of the morning. you're watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. ♪ >>> michael vick is ready to play football again. >> yeah! >> the nfl said come on back, ready to go. >> how about that? >> i think they're going to keep him on a short leash. >> whoa! >> oh. >> terrible. terrible. >> the chief political correspondent for "politico," mike allen is here with a look at the "morning playbook." >> mike, seriously, does mike put on crazy eyes? >> just in the tease when he gets excited when he hears his own name. >> right now he's normal. >> he's fine. he's composed right now. michael, what's going on? >> i even wore something boring for mika. >> i don't find that boring at a

by departure is, companies like yours and things like "the huffington opposed" do not pay the money to staff the white house coverage and those types of things. you get to do it without having to wash the dishes financially. i do not think it is proper. it would not have been allowed on the old days because it would have been a concept of copyrighted material that has been amended in modern times. >> i will give the two juries -- two stories that show year-old media is still essential. first is the convention of d. cunningham, largely from the work of the san diego newspaper bureau. in washington, the bureau is closed down. had it been closed down all along, he would still be in congress and nobody would know about the bravery. another one is an enormous story broken by the "washington post" about veterans. it is a giant storage, and huge public interest story. it did once in a lot of resources and lots of people. the other thing which is more difficult in the age of the blog is accessed. if you are the "washington post" didn't want to talk to the secretary of energy your secretary of

bill: the huffington post took that counsel but it was a staff member who did it.ur internet cop on it. >> good. bill: bottom line on this thing is that sarah palin has a right as an american to live her life exactly how she wants to live it. >> those voters did vote her in, too. bill: they did. they can make a determination whether she is doing the best thing for the state. she may be. she may be unable to govern the way she wants to. i don't have any beef with this at all. none. i believe if i were managing sarah palin, i could bring her back to be a legitimate contender. i think karl rove could do it ten times better than i could. >> i don't know about that, bill bill. remember when john mccain put her on the ticket. he thought she was going to help appeal to suburban women and win over the people disaffected by hillary clinton's defeat by barack obama. those women looked to her as in some way as role model and the idea that she quit and played into all the negative -- bill: six months from now. bill: she has taken another road. >> she is popular. bill: you are

arianna huffington is taking time out from her very popular website "the huffington post" to update uscorruption are undermining america" . and she joins us this morning. how many years ago was this? >> 2003. six years ago. >> enron. >> enron, global crossing, tie kor. you know, we put a few people in jail, we've had reform, but we've left the system unchanged. >> seems like a million years ago. >> seems like a million years ago. >> are there similarities to this current financial crisis that may have had seeds from that crisis five or six years ago? >> there's a direct line, because the smm was left unchanged, basically unregulated, basically that the free market would make it all work out find, that companies would do the right thing. and what happened six years later is the scale is so much more enormous. in 2003, they were playing with billions of shareholder wealth. now they are playing with trillions of taxpayer money. and my concern, harry, and the reason why i updated and brought the book out again is that we are ready to do the same thing again. we are ready to move on. "newsw

the editors of the huffington post or "new york times" are making decisions about what is on the page. they are controlling that. if i am interested in that, that is great. if i go to a website, but the stories they have chosen to feature are not of interest to me and the things that i'm interested in are buried deep inside, i will not find that. our technology is about bringing out from the wealth of information the pieces of information that might be of more interest to a given user. we bring that to a point where it is more visible to the user then if it is buried deep in the web site. >> what your background in news? >> i hate to say have been doing this in 30 years in some form. i started working for a newspaper when i was 16 years old. it was a weekly that still had hot metal. most people may not know what i'm talking about. i started just after my 16th birthday. the editor asked if i could drive. he gave me the keys to his car and told me to pick up the results of the golf tournament and write it up. he forgot to ask me if i had a license. i could drive it did not have a licens

so when the huffington post published yet another antiamerica creed saying that we shouldn't give up the whole superpower thing he writes america leads the world in arms dealing and new methods of mekka niced death conveniently leaving out all of the other stuff meaning saving millions of likes, killing dictators and stopping famine and civil conflict. of course, we also export gwneth paltrow which goes both ways. a beacon of freedom that inspires folks like the iranian. chopra oddly ignores that and instead condemns a place where needly self-fulfillment made him millions. why is this dope respected? if he were a white doctor the media would treat him like jimmy swaggart. if there is a spot light, chopra will hog it even if the spot light is meant for dead folks. look, michael jackson's pulse barely stopped and chopra was already yakking about how m.j. came to him for song writing advice. no wonder the last album sucked. it's true, it did. carl, i take you as a new age type of guy. do you own any of chopra's book? >> no, but i have seen pictures of the guy. does that count. >> greg:

the host of a radio show on the left, tanya acker, "huffington post" blogger and lawyer and greg knapp, host on the right and so is steve moltsberg. thanks for being with us. i say it's unending, this obama intrusion on business. >> it is out of control. you nailed it perfectly, it will only get worse, not get better. this man has been in office less than 2100 days, could you have imagined in your worst nightmares what he has done to the economy, wealth, markets, business, wealth, auto industry. it was unfathomable a few months ago. it will get worse. he said in los angeles at a fund-raiser, you ain't seen nothing yet. >> tan yachlt. >> i love this ahistorical approach much of the right wing takes to much of the administration policies, as we move forward, when richard nixon created the epa, i'm sure people on his side of the aisle even further right, why is government getting involved in protecting the environment when the united states passed a civil rights act, i'm sure folks were like, why do we need a civil rights division. >> the civil rights act was so people could be free, the

. >> time now to tn to our own lawrence o'donnell contributor to the huffington post, rmer chief of staff of the senate finance mmittee when it was chaired by the late senator ihan. go evening, sir. >> good to bhereith. >> the rubcans have been sliming this judge for the lt six weeks, 24 hours a day, seven days a week possibly taking of memorial d. shld we be surprised that was e prevailing strategy in the opinstatements even today? >> well you could look at that way but it's mostlyeen from the limbo ze. wh theuys knew, all the repuicans on the committee have met her some were on the commiee for her last confirmation arin th always knew what america was going to heatoday when sonia sotomayor opened h mouth for the first time. so what struck me was how careful th were about it. even jn kyl saying at a certain point he thought -- he said i hope every american is proud a hispanic woman h been nominated to sit on the preme court. th was not something you were heinin republican chorusses before. but the reason to look at it from the other sid the reason they went so easy on her and the reason

let's start with "the huffington post." they have the big sonia sotomayor web page. a special page that they have set up just for @@these gs. a lot of news web sites you will see have done that. cnn, "usa today," those are site where you can find sonia sotomayor-specific web sites. now the other thing i like about this site, the "huffington post, "is you can get a lot of offbeat news in addition to the hard news of the day. you can get some more of the side stories. here's one -- sotomayor's nephews fall asleep at the hearing. this one generated a ton of comments. and here's why -- look at these cute little guys. they're adorable. but they are sound asleep at her confirmation hearing. so definitely something that was talked about on the web. long day, though. and another thing you can do on this site, this is where you can get your live blog on the sotomayor confirmation hearing. the thing i like is if you're at work and want to catch up and see what you've missed in the past hour, you've got a time here. you can read and see exactly what you've missed out on. and fi

. >> te now to turn to our own lawrence o'donnell contrutor to the huffington po, former chief of staffthe senate finance committee wh it was chaired byhe late senator moynih. go evening, sir. >> good to be re, keith. >> the republicansave sliming this jud for the last siweeks, 24 hours a day, seven days a week possibly taking off memorial day should we surprised that was the prevailing stregy in the opening statemts even today? well you could look at it that way, but the elected republicanhaven't done that much of the sliming. it's lately from the rush limbau zone. what these guys knew, all the republicans on the cmittee have met h. me won the committee for her last confirmation hearing. they always knew whaamerica was going hear today when sonia sotomayor opened her mouth for the first time. so what struck me s how careful theyere about it. even john l saying at a cen point he thought -- he said i hope everamerican is proud a hispanic woman has been nominated to sit on the supreme court. that was not somhing you were aring in republican chorusses befo. but e reason to look at it om th

lawrence o'donnell of huffington post and msnbc, always great thanks. >> thanks. >>> somewhere the lateor gordon jump is smiling. as god is my witness, i thought feminine hygiene products could fly. we'll explain. >>> and should you really be making fun of somebody else's first name if your own first name is a synonym for a drug high? "worst persons" ahead on "countdown." depression is a serious medical condition that can take so much out of you. i feel like i have to wind myself up just to get out of bed. then...well...i have to keep winding myself up to deal with the sadness, the loss of interest, the trouble concentrating, the lack of energy. if depression is taking so much out of you, ask your doctor about pristiq®. (announcer) pristiq is a prescription medicine proven to treat depression. pristiq is thought to work by affecting the levels of two chemicals in the brain, serotonin and norepinephrine. tell your doctor right away if your depression worsens or you have unusual changes in mood, behavior, or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase suicidal thoughts and behaviors

his name is eric shawn nelson of the huffington. he will try continue to crease the population of retarded people. goes on, palm beach post, rumor has it that her son trig is really her grandson and criticism of campaigning and raising a special needs child. that was from the palm beach post september 8th. the nastiness was out there about her special needs child and her. do you condemn of that. >> well, i think this is even more a reason why that she should have said when she stepped down because she did give many reasons. i mean, she said she stepped down for national -- she wanted to study national security and energy and it was the money and, you know, they were being sued and litigation and potential scandal and all of that and here was a one chance that one person ever could say i'm stepping down because i want to spend more time with my family. and everyone would have believed it i think that she does have a special needs child. i know about this because i have a special needs child. laura: so do you condemn what that guy wro

i'm with the huffington post and fire dog lake. what's your name? well, you were able to say you're out of breath. you can tell me your name. are you democrat or republican? i'll race you. >> in addition to the sponsor and cosponsors of the birther legislation in congress then we can now add these names to the list of republican legislators who do not believe or at least will not say out loud that the president is a citizen. incredible. meanwhile, down the street at the white house briefing room today white house press secretary robert gibbs got a break from questions about the cambridge police department, health care reform, iraq, iran, afghanistan, and every other matter of actual importance thanks today to the birthers. >> is there anything you can say that will make the birthers go away? >> no. i mean, the god's honest truth is no. bill, let's understand this. i always hate to indulge in such an august setting as the white house and i mean this in seriousness, the white house briefing room, discussing the made up, fictional nonsense of whether o

. >> for more on "the democrat," let's turn to lawrence o'donnell, contributing of the huffington post and the former chief of staff for the senate finance committee. do they not agree that the democrats won, they have a filibuster-proof majority. why can't they do what they can. their issues are not buried when the republicans will never do the same thing with the democrats. >> he doesn't have the democratic votes that he needs. he's not working and hasn't been working for a while trying to get republican votes. they don't have 60 liberal democrats in the senate. if you put any of this stuff to a vote on the senate floor right now, none of it would pass. that's also true in the house. you have seven democrats. seven democrats on henry waxman's committee in the house that have stopped that committee cold. they are stuck. exactly the way the committee got stuck in 1994 when it was run by john dingell. it never delivered a bill. democrats didn't let those bills come up. >> the chairman steele, though, give democrats an out on bipartisanship to the extent they exist not that they needed o

lawrence o'donnell of huffington post and msnbc, always great thanks. >> thanks. >>> somewhere the latejump is smiling. as god is my witness i thought feminine hygiene products could fly. we'll explain. and should you really be making fun of somebody else's first name if your own first name is a sin nic synonym for a drug high? worst persons ahead. and a hint of tint that brightens eye color while defining lashes. turn up the light in your eyes. [ female announcer ] with exact eyelights from easy breezy beautiful covergirl. in a long line of amazing performance machines. this is the new e-coupe. this is mercedes-benz. n my own business.ew e-coupe. it's tough. some days this place gets a little out of control. getting clients in the door and keeping them off the floor, it is a little stressful. announcer: introducing nature made heart and stress defense fish oil. all the benefits of fish oil with super strength omega-3 epa, which may protect your heart against some of the risks of stress caused by mood. hey, life's an adventure, right? announcer: learn more about new heart and stress def

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let's bring in msnbc political analyst and huffington postcontribupost contributor, lawrence o'donnell huge drop in her popularity but she's still a force in the gop. would the party really nominate someone with those kinds of numbers? >> no. i don't think there is any chance. remember, those numbers exist in a precampaign mode. we haven't seen romney campaign against her. we haven't seen tim pawlenty campaign against her. it will be very easy to drive her numbers into much more negative territory by putting her in a presidential primary campaign. which i hope she joins. it would be a lot of fun. but, you know, she would be up there on the panel with seasoned and experienced debaters and including huckabee, who i think would run rings around her. and i think she would be in trouble very quickly. >> would be fun for us, maybe not so much for her consultants and advisers. some poll numbers also stand out here. 52% of americans feel she is honest. 48% say she shares our values and 47% say she understands their problems. do these numbers make up for a negative? is there some reason for hop

so the editors of the daily beast or huffington post or "the new york times" are making decisions about what is on the front page. and they're controlling that. and when i come to that site if i agree with or i'm interest inside the things they think, you know, the world's interested in, it's great. but if i go to a site and the topics that they've closen to feature at the front -- chosen to feature at the front are not interesting to me, i'm never going to find them perhaps. so our technology is really about bringing out from the wealth of information that's out there in news sites the pieces of information that might be of more interest to any given user and bringing that to a point where it's more visible to that user than if it's buried deep in the site. >> host: what is your background in news? >> guest: sure. i hate to say i've been doing this for 30 years in some form. i actually started working for a newspaper when i was 16 years old, a good old weekly that still had line types and hot metal. most people may not even know what i'm talking about. but i started just after my 16th

krugman and the huffington post were arguing that it needed to be bigger, but it was the gop who forcedhe stimulus cht they cut $40 billion out of aid to states. anybody that thinks that a state laying somebody off in the middle of an economic crisis is a good idea doesn't need to be spouting their opinion. >> saying the unemployment rate is up and he points out what he feels are the number crunching that you can do with the substitut stimulus, but he implies that the president is misleading the public. that he's trying to change his words, even though he's on record. do you see the same thing happening with the white house and coming from the white house? >> i think he hit the nail on the head. there are 2.6 million fewer jobs today than they were when president obama took office. the fact is, larry summers, his top economic adviser said the stimulus would kick in immediately. so the notion that unemployment's gone up, we knew that all along. that's just plain not true. we were told that this would immediately begin to make a difference and it has, except in the wrong drix. >> again, y

jason is a political reporter for the huffington post.ma stimulus was designed to keep unemployment from double digits. looks like it's going to reach there. that's a big problem, isn't it? >> i would say a huge problem. it's now presented the administration with a bit of a sticky. they have to suggest the next move. the next move i think has been characterized by many as an additional stimulus package. i think they'd be going down the wrong road if they tried to sell a second stimulus package. the need is to address jobs. they need to concentrate on writing a job fill and writing good policy. >> what about the argument that the unemployment numbers, as bad as it is, it would be even higher if the administration had followed the republican advice of simply passing tax cuts? >> that doesn't sound like an attitude that promotes the attitude of a president. promising this would keep it below 8%, now it's over 9%. the key here is when the -- you've got to stop digging. >> jason, i know you said, and many polls show that people don't have the

. >> he did an editorial piece for the huffington post. so he embraced the internet. thank you very much. we have lost a great in our business. great to have you with us. >>> a banker heads to captiol hill to advise on the state of the economy. >>> and millions enjoy a celestial event they may never see again. we'll be right back. b@ ben bernanke heads to the senate panel for a day of questioning on the economy. he told members of the house yesterday we. >> reporter: in the early recovery stage and interest memes will be low for tiso cranizitd edic for failing to prevent the financial crisis. the number overmeek can immigrants who crossed the border dropped sharply last year to the lowest level in a decade. the census data points to the economic downturn to rising unemployment and the data shows undocumented workers, who are already in this u.s. are opting to stay and that the economy will improve. >>> the longest solar eclipse in the 21st century put asia in to near darkness after dawn. many watched the once in a lifetime phenomena. in india a woman died after a stam

we know about the waterboardg allegations, but "huffington post" is pointing out it cou also be this secret scall exutive assassination ring that seymour hirsch referred t whene was at the universy of minnesota giving a little speech. hirsch alleges it was a secret program de up of elite military fo that reported to no one, they didn't report to the defense department orhe ambassador or cia stati chief. he says tha's possible may have reported to di chney. that may have been who was overseeing these. dyla >> that's one of those it's hoifying and not surprisg in thme sentence for a lot of folks i know. maria teresa kumar back in the conversation. jonathan is here. democrat, member of thehouse intellence committee going back to 003, one of seven democrats who sen a letter to cia director leon panetta arguing he misledcongress. i should point out panetta soon into the job said you' right, we misled congress but not on my watch. represtative, nice to see you. >> gd morning. >> i'm gng to startth a question i'm hopingyou'll answer and then we'll go into some you're more likely to answer.

my favorite was from the huffington post who titled the story "glenn beck's startling boast."ok, glenn beck is such a crazy person. he thinks movies are dangerous. who knows when that transformer might attack me? i must admit when i did see the bourne identity, i emptied my gun at the movie screen and apologized at the theater. i was just trying to help jason bourne escape, you know, from the giant 30-foot head on the screen there. i didn't know. sorry. once again, this is a fundamental misunderstanding by the media of what guns really are. for a lot of people in america with concealed carrying permits, guns are something that you don't just lock into a safe and pull out when you hear glass breaking at 3:00 a.m. where's my gun? you can conceal them and carry them, thus conceal carry r you don't just bring your gun into situations that you say, you know, honey, i think i might bring my gun. it might get dangerous today. 98.9% of the time, i drive. i don't need my driver's license, but i bring it with me every time, just in case i need it. sure, the movies don't seem dangerous,

joining me, julie, democratic strategist and cnbc contributor, tanya acker, lawyer and huffington postgger and amanda carpenter, and joe. thanks for being here tonight. i think obama's presence has made us feel better about ourselves. we felt a guy clearly on the move trying to make things happen. i think his actions are not what turned around the start of this recovery. >> dennis, i think somehow if the recovery were not happening, you would be blami obama, why don't we give credit where credit is due. you and i know full well the guy in charge is the guy that gets blamed and gets credit when things are going well. why don't you give it a rest and concede barack obama's presidency may have had something to do with. >> it are you conceding, joe. >> julie, you're doing the best you can. it's not because of the obama policies. hope is alive because the market is correcting itself. it came to the conclusion no matter how much democrats wish, to they can't help themselves. >> what about the numbers on wall street? >> but for the bailout goldman sachs would not have the earnings it did a fe

. >> lots to talk about with our own norah o'donnell who contributed to the huffington post and formerf of the senate finance committee when chaired by the late senator patrick moynihan. >> good to be here. >> even the senator concluded judge sotomayor's judicial record does not match her speeches. wasn't that supposed to be the focus of these hearing? >> you would think, but when you have the speeches and it has meaty stuff in it, they're going to go out. and, look, what the public has to remember about these hearings is, these are the television invention. there were virtually no confirmation hearings for the supreme court before the invention of television. all the famous supreme court justices, that you read about in the history books as a kid had no confirmation hearings at all. so this is show, and that's what they were doing, and that's why they didn't concentrate on her judicial opinion, 17 years as a judge. they concentrated on two or three speeches here and there because this is nothing but a show and that's what these hearings always are. >> senator sessions and hits crack c

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nancy snyderman and arianna huffington and karen finney are back and dr.hey from the national institutes of health and infectious diseases. how well prepared are we? >> i think we are pretty well prepared. this is a system that has been in place now for some time, that has been actively implemented with this particular pandemic, namely the h1n1 2009 novel virus, the swine flu as they call it. this has been going on from the beginning with preparedness of getting a vaccine in place. we are going to be starting the thing for the vaccine in the first to second week in august, asking some fundamental questions about safety and what is the best way to administer it, the right dose, the right number of doses so we're pushing on that hopefully, to have vaccine by the middle of october when the decision is made to administer it. >> understood. dr. snyderman, how do these type of things work? in other words a kid comes home. i think the nbc page system, any sort of community type situation whether it's retirement, schools, et cetera. when you start to see pockets o