economy with jennifer granholm. as always, let's look at the week's events as viewed by some of the leading editorial cartoonists from around the country. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> live, on "in depth," the balance between liberty, climate change, and the limits of international law. your questions 4 yourposner, whose books in -- your questions for eric posner. he will take your calls, e- mails, and putin messages later booktv. c-spanb 2'sookt >> "washington journal" continues. host: we want to welcome shibley telhami, thank you for being with us. the situation in yemen, there appears to be the potential for a power vacuum that could provide a resurgence for al qaeda. guest: there is no question that it is a turning point. the president appears to have been more winded than initially expected. the fact that he left to get medical treatment in saudi arabia is important. while it is uncertain whether or not he is going to return to yemen, many see this as an opportunity for a transition in opportunity for a transition in which you ei

joining me now is former michigan governor jennifer granholm. thanks for joining me tonight. >> you bet, lawrence. >> governor, i want to take a look at some video of mitt romney's boyhood home being destroyed in detroit last year. as i read to you from a 2008 op-ed that mitt romney wrote in 2008 saying let detroit go bankrupt. that was the title of his op-ed piece in which he said, if general motors, ford and chrysler get the bailout that they're chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the american automotive industry good-bye. it won't go overnight. but its demise will be virtually guaranteed. governor, as we know that bail out was delivered. how's the american auto industry doing? >> it's such -- this contrast that you just et up here is so remarkable because in the same -- at the same time he's saying let detroit go bankrupt, don't give them the rescue that they're asking for, this was during that election year, this was at the end of 2008 when he had won here in the primary as the son of the auto industry. his father was the head

the former two-term michigan governor jennifer granholm and political columnist joe klein. out of the box here. he has a tough job. unemployment ticked up again today. the recovery is very fragile. the president is trying to tell the american people it would be worse if not for me. >> there are still some headwinds coming at us. lately it's been high gas prices. caused a lot of hardship for a lot of working families. then you have the economic disruptions following the tragedy in japan. you got the instability in the middle east, which makes folks uncertain. there are always going to be bumps on the road to recovery. >> you can't argue, governor, with anything the president just said there. however, can you win an election in a tough economy by essentially saying well then this happened, then this happened, then that happened? it is not a terribly optimistic, upbeat message. >> well, all i can say is, look what happened in michigan in 2006. i was running for a second term. we had the highest unemployment rate in the nation. it's all about a choice. and the voters want to kn

host: we're talking with jennifer granholm, the senior adviser to the pew charitable trusts. she served two terms as the governor of micgan. sheila from norwalk, conn., welcome to the conversation. go ahead. we will try one more time. caller: please doot c me off. i have a lot to say. what i want to send is i am turned off by all of the political talk sorry in advance. i turn off all of the stations because i do not want to hear that. you get me back and that old, jennifer -- i have been an independent now, tired of what the democrats were not doing, so i switched to independent. what will bring back -- i listen on c-span. i do not know what is wrong with c-span viewers. i am all gung-ho about the governor of montana. i took notes. just to give you a short run down. he had a budget surplus when times were good because they saved the money. he vetoed 40 bills. he did not cut critical programs, did notaise taxes. he was a rancher before governor. he had a master's degree in soil science. what i especially like is he cut his own salary by $11,000 and for the next two years, did

the schools have been run by an emergency manager since 2009 when former governor jennifer granholm atry to save the school system. last year the manager tried to move the school out of its building under the old emergency manager law but community protests forced him to leave the school alone. then in march the new governor, republican rick snyder signed a new emergency manager law sometimes called emergency manager on steroids. sometimes called financial marshal law. this new law from the new republican governor gave the old manager essentially dictatorial powers in the technical sense. unilateral authority. you decide it, it is so. under nick snyder's new law the manager answers to no elected officials, not the school board, the emergency guy is in charge with unlimited authority. detroit schools are broke. they may even be broken and in the state of michigan's view, the first part of fixing them is to do away with democracy and give the power instead to a state appointed overseer with unilateral power. perhaps because they remembered what had happened the last time the emergency m

jennifer granholm, former governor of michigan in court advisor for the clean energy program will talk about the economy and women in politics. all that takes place tomorrow on "washington journal." we will see you at 7:00 tomorrow. have a good day. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> coming up, a house energy subcommittee on the federal management of nuclear waste. after that, democrat patty ho cul's swearing in ceremony. swearing incul's ceremony. sunday on "newsmakers," sander levin talks about how the democrats will address u.s. debt and other issues. that is at 10:00 a.m. eastern and 6:00 p.m. on c-span. >> you can follow the house's progress on congressional chronicle. plus there is video of every house session. >> >> , a house energy subcommittee hearing on the federal management of nuclear waste -- next, a house energy subcommittee hearing on the federal management of nuclear waste. a report cites politics as a basis to terminate the program. during this one hour, 35 minute portion, there is a 20-mi