host: we talked to jane hamsher from firedoglake. what would you and jane agree on? guest: i know she started out her compreer in journalism in san francisco. i'm a native san franciscan. we spent some time in san francisco and journalism. journalism is not an easy career. we need good journalists in america. i talk about the freedom of speech in the book. i do talk about this a little bit. at this point our history with newspapers struggling financially and a lot of them i think are just going to go down, we're transforming into a country where the media and all these electronic venues, including the internet, and there is a profession and vocation in journalism that takes certain disciplines and skills that have to be trained into a person. i think it's very important that as we go forward we have people with professional journalistic skills working in the new media. as we transform from newspaper to new media, and it has to be adversarial against the government, look, journalists needs to do is check on the power of government and the sense of liberty of people. h

but on abc's "top line," liberal blogger jane hamsher says he's been taking them for granted. >> you sort of assume these people would stick with him. he's having trouble across the board. >> reporter: what do you say to progressives who say, if that's their attitude, i'm staying home in november. >> i don't think they will, because i think what's at stake in november is too important to do that. >> reporter: but the president also needs to shore up sort port with independents, so, for the mination, a fight with the left may not be all bad. george? >> that's right. that's why gibbs didn't fully take the comments back. thanks very much. >>> "on the money" tonight, 24 hours ago, we told you about the glum new economic outlook from the federal reserve and confirmation that the recovery is slowing down. that helped trigger a deep selloff on wall street. the dow had their worst day since the end of june, down 265 points. >>> there are harrowing new details coming out of alaska tonight about the plane crash that killed five people, including former senator ted stevens. rescuers who raced t

our guest is jane hamsher, terence jeffrey, and a special week-long series on energy concludes with thomas rooney, the president and ceo of the solar energy company. "washington journal" is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern every day on c-span. >> in a few moments, more on the investigation into the causes of the deepwater horizon oil rig explosion in the gulf of mexico. in 2.5 hours, a discussion of the effect of the stimulus package. after that, the reform of the european economy. later, a rally with colorado democrats. >> more now on what caused the deepwater horizon oil rig explosion in the gulf of mexico, part of a joint investigation by the coast guard and bureau of energy management. when this is included the wife of a deep water rig worker who died in the explosion. she said her husband was concerned about dangerous work conditions. this is a little more than one hour. morning, it appears that there is some confusion about the designation of interests. interests. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> court report