author of the illustrated book how an economy grows and how it crashes and in singapore we go to jim rogers he's an author and financial commentator and another member of our cross talk team you know on the hunger all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i would seriously encourage you to do that again one during the last during the midterm elections other tea party people saying that obama is building a socialist state ok but on the other side side of the political spectrum a lot of people are saying that there is a welfare state but it is for the rich it is not for its for a very small segment of the population of the united states and it's been being a it's been built for over the last forty years and they continue to benefit very much from the state how do you react to that. well there is some truth to it certainly a caricature of obama some sort of foreign born to colonial socialist it's ludicrous but he certainly has participated very aggressively and the policy trend of the last couple of decades which is to let the rich do over wh

born with knee pads on all the way up to old age here some two old people running around in there jim rogers of his kids are learning mandarin he was ahead of the curve on this yeah i bet his kids don't have an ipad no they stand tall to their chinese occupiers. so as you know i was showing these photos of the trickle down. yes headline reads millions of britons living beyond their means so this is a new survey and found that almost seven million brits are living beyond their means and refuse to alter their lifestyle despite the recession roger edwards who conducted this survey found that even in an age of austerity the public's spending shows no sign of waning as the average u.k. adult continues to spend beyond their means and rack up debt worryingly this is mainly due to that average salary being far short of that needed to lead a comfortable life mona david cameron did a means testing over there in the u.k. when he found out is that nobody has any means what exactly so that people are going into debt because they can't even afford the basic services and food and water and think you know b

jim and his wife toni wrote in asking how anyone could not love super tramp. they are huge fans. turnss out the story got back to the super tramp founder roger hobson. o the studio. thank you for coming in. we are thrilled that you are here. i have to say that this started as kind of a lark as someone wrote in. >> a little tongue in cheek. >> can you please explain why super tramp is still all over the radio. we had some fun with it. you wrote in and stated they are great and they meant so much to me and my wife. >> this goes back -- of a been a huge super tramp fan since 1975 is the first time i heard them. i was in the military in 1977 and i found myself over in england. that is what i really got into them. i just loved the music. it has been going on since then. >> were you a fan before you met jim or did this develop as the relationship developed? >> i had heard their music. i wasn't a music person. that is how he courted me. i fell in love with super tramp because it represented our relationship. >> so being a fan, you never got a chance to see a concert until juste recently. >> yes, april, on her birthday. she had arranged something here and i

rogers, to jim henson. >> where's barbara john? >> that was a teenager. it has someone like martin luther king jr., but also regular people. barbara johns was a high school student and civil rights activist. barbara johns at a time when in 1951, basically saw a school bus ride by her and her school bus was broken down. there was another one that was full of the white kids going to the good school. they had no books, no materials, horrible school. she organized a walk out. we are going to protest it. forget about it. she's one of the unknown people. her test case as they walked out was one the cases used in brown v. board of education. where did it come from? a teenager. a teenager is one of the people responsible for it. so the book is filled with, a guy named frank shankwits. he found out about a boy with leukemia that also wanted to be a police officer. he had a motorcycle made. he find out the boy with leukemia goes into a coma. he goes to the hospital room. as the boy is unconscious, he says, i want to put motorcycle wings on him. he pins the motorcyc

rogers to jim henson, all showing what we're capable of. >> who is barbara johns? this. >> barbara johns is a teenager, and i wanted the book to have famous people. it has someone like martin luther king jr. or abraham lincoln, but i wanted to have regular people, and barbara johns was a high school studentl and almost an unwitting civilw right activist. what happened was barbara johns, at a time when in 1951, basically, saw a school bus ride by her, and her school bus was broken down, and they saw another bus ride by that washe full of the white kids that were going to the good schools, herhe school was a horrible school, and she organized a walkout. she said, you know, we're going to protest it.w we're going to say, forget aboue it. shei is one of the unknown people, and her test case as they walked out was one of the cases used in brown v. board ofc education. and where did it come from? a teenager.e a teenager is one of the people who's responsible for it. so the week is is filled with -k there's a guy named frank, and he's a police officer. and he found out ab

jim mcdermott in just a moment. >>> well, fox news president roger ales says npr is nothing but a nazi outfit and the republicans in congress, well they're carrying his water. i'll take on ales' head first tonight in "the playbook." >>> lefties are telling president obama to do just that, go left. billionaire democratic donor george soros says, it might be time to look elsewhere? what's that mean? is he talking about 2012? that's a heck of a statement. we'll get into it. we'll tackle that one in tonight's "battleground" story purchase. >>> and i was wondering where in the heck was the directingster today, he wasn't on the radio, he wasn't around to respond to reverend al sharpton's comments of being kind of smacked up for the the racist things he's been saying on the air lately. >>> but this is the story that has me fired up tonight. as we head into the holiday season, special time for americans, should point out that millions of americans in need just got stiffed by the republicans in congress. a bill to extend unemployment benefits fell short of the two-thirds' margin needed to pass the house. the vote today was

. >> jim car or so carolina is not fazed accusing them of a spinning and nonstop roger the incorrectormation. >> this meant a whole lot of money to misrepresent what the plan really is. >> he says the health care reforms will be with collation a long, long, long time. >> post-election fighting between rebels and government forces has sent a least 10,000 refugees against across the border. you can see them here streaming thai authorities are sheltering before the forget they held their first election against the ruling military in the united nations and united states have criticized the bolivia of those elections. the americans to amend the knox has been indicted a first lender for saying she was beaten by police when questioned about her slaying of her roommate. here is video of knocks arriving to court her lawyer said she never meant to slander anyone she was just trying to defend herself she's serving a 26 your question term. we will take our break, more headline straight ahead. a live look as we go, this is a san mateo bridge, highway 92, traffic looks good. those of this tale is

jim, thanks for that. the fbi says the terror threat was real and the suspect planned a grand attack. let's bring in nbc's counter terrorism expert. good morning, roger. >> good morning. >> the suspect is 19 years old. mohamed mohamud, this naturalized somali who was in contact apparently with someone from pakistan. what do we know about the people he might have been talking to? >> well, carl, this is the most interesting unknown question now -- unknown answer to it which is who was he? this is someone who was in the united states. he attended high school from 2007 to 2009. then went to yemen and then pakistan. when mohamud tried to contact him, he contacted him at an internet address traced back to the northwest frontier in pakistan which is where most of the terrorist infrastructure is. what we are seeing is another example of a pakistani nexus to a lot of the u.s. homegrown extremist plots. finding this individual, i think, is going to be a high priority for u.s. counter terrorism. >> authorities think he was probably acting alone, not under direction of a larger foreign group. what is the likelihood that he was part of a larger cell? >> i think i

jim. [applause] >> thank you very much for that kind introduction. it's my pleasure to have this assembled group of guests. i would like to briefly introduce them. steven biddle, who is currently the roger burt og senior fellow for defense policy at the council on foreign relations. before joining the council in january of 2006 he held positions at the u.s. army war college strategic studies institute at the university of north carolina chapelhill, the defense analysis and harvard university. dr. biddle is a member of the defense policy bhoord and has presented testimony before congressional committees on various issues related to the wars in iraq and afghanistan. he served on general stanley mcchrystal's initial strategic assessment team in kabul and in 2009, and general david petraeus' joint assessment team in baghdad and in 2007, and is a senior advisor to general petraeus in washington in 2008-2009. his book, military power explaining victory and defeat in modern battle, prince ton university press, 2004, won a number of very prestigious prizes. he has published a wide var rice of journals both policy and academic. he holds a phd in public policy from harvard university. and i would