jonathan martin reports that rahm emanuel, the top kick at the white house, quote, warned liberal groups this week to stop running ads like that against democratic members of congress. with us now jim dean, the brother of former dnc chairman howard dean, and the childrairmf democracy for america which is sponsoring that ad you just saw. are you saying that ben nelson is in bed with the mutual of omaha and the other insurance companies out there in nebraska? are you saying he's in bed with them? you say he's taking their money. is he in bed with them? >> here is what's going on -- >> you're saying that in the ad. so just say it now, jim. what's the different if you can say it in the ad and saying it now? >> chris, this is part of a much larger campaign that we've been involved with in our million mex members of our community have been involved with. it's a campaign of letters to the editor, petitions, 150 to 200 meetings with congressional staffers. all aimed at getting citizens to take responsibility over this debate and take responsibility over this process. the democratic party is a bi

joining me is politico's jonathan martin and "the washington post's" anne kornblut.you're first. what do you make of this whole thing about the good economic news out there that the president gets no credit for? i'm in the stock market. i have suffered like others before, and i have seen this comeback back up to almost 10,000 now. he gets nothing for this. the fact that consumer confidence, which was once closer to the bone, is way up. the fact that the fed chair has done such a good job in pumping up the money supply and pumping up the economy and averting the great depression. no credit. >> well, i don't know if he gets no credit, but i do think people are kind of a lagging indicator, people's feelings about their job security, about their portfolios. i mean, it takes a while for people to really feel like that's secure, and additionally you're sort of proving a negative here. they're saying what we did is -- it could have been a lot worse. we don't know how bad it would have been had we not done all this. there's no way for them to demonstrate that. there's no way

jonathan martin, and ann cornfield. join us tomorrow at 5:00 and 7:00 eastern for more "hardball." right now time for "the ed show" with ed schultz. >> i'm ed schultz. 6 this is "the ed show." good evening, americans. live from 30 rock in new york, it's "the ed show." i want to see the president get hands on the cia prisoner abuse scand scandal. in president, now is not the time to cower to those folks. we're loaded up on the story with two top judiciary committee members. join me in just a moment. >>> plus, guess who is moving into the neighborhood? moammar gadhafi. residents in engelwood, new jersey, not happy who comes to dinner. we'll have the neighbor at the back of the hour to tell us what he really thinks. >>> and rnc chairman michael seale lands in psycho talk again. wait until you see what he back flipped on this time. medicare it will give you whiplash. be prepared. get your cell phones ready for tonight's text phone survey. but tonight, first, op-ed. all right, the details in this newly released cia report flat out disgusting. threatening to kill someone's children or se

jonathan martin thank you. join us again tomorrow for more "hardball." with arlen specter's primary challenger. "countdown" with keith olbermann starts right now. >>> which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? the status quo at any price? the far right and big pharma, hospital monopolies, move to disrupt anyone who stands up for the patient instead of the corporation. the desperate last-ditch effort to derail health care reform and ensure monopolization today, tomorrow, forever. inside the senate deliberations with senator sanders of vermont. inside the so-called grass roots protests. the ones funded by an industry spending a million bucks a day to protect its profits with chris kofinis. there's been a truth leak. the president's stimulus plan is -- working? >> i think you could say it is a short-term improvement in the economy and i'll be glad to give him credit for that. >> fortunately this is not a sign of the apocalypse. mr. mccain still thinks we're all doomed. more fortunately, the smoking gun has been found. barack obama's birth ce

so i spoke with politico.com's senior political reporter jonathan martin about that.ing i asked him about was the democratic national committee ad posting online. i want to play it for you. take a look at this. >> their goal is to stop the change americans voted for overwhelmingly in november. >> it will break -- >> i hope he fails. >> this mob activity is straight from the playbook of high-level republican political operatives. they have no plan for moving our country forward so they've called out the mob. >> and i want to know why these people ignore -- >> call the republican party. tell them you've had enough of the mob. >> that's one side of it. let me get your take on this, jonathan. what is going on behind the scenes? is this truly the democratic process at work, or an attempt at disrupting public meetings? >> i don't think the ad you showed is airing on tv. only web video. nevertheless, a few things. first of all, i think it's the democrats nationally are trying to do a political jujitsu, trying to gain strength for something that appears to be working against

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>> i mean jonathan story also had in their the president was going to meet with advisers next week on this and as i said in a gaggle this morning on less that is a meeting that includes martin on a golf course, that's -- >> i did not say that. >> can somebody go get me the newspaper -- >> that was not supposed to be on the budget. that was just supposed to be on the -- >> mabey john thune could clear up for both of us [laughter] >> are you going to take questions? [laughter] >> sounds like he needs to. [laughter] let me discuss a little bit -- obviously our focus as i said yesterday is on continuing this process in a bipartisan fashion. you heard the president say that again today. he has reached out and spoken with members of congress, including members of the finance committee over the past several days. >> republican members of congress? >> yes. he talked with senator olympia snowe yesterday, talked with senator conrad yesterday, and as we've discussed, talked with senator baucus on friday. that is our focus is continuing to work this in a bipartisan way. i know the six senators on the finance committee have a conference call slate, according i think even to jonathan's r