you're asking me to come to lansing, michigan. >> i'm there.ill be there and we'll do something on this program because that is an admission of guilt what you saw on fox news. they had no vision that that's where the automobile industry is going to be some day. you did. virg, great to have you with us. share your thoughts with us on "ed show" and twitter and we want to know what you think. >>> a republican staffer thinks this is a healthy diet. the food fight continues in washington and congressman keith ellison is here to set the record straight. >>> gubernatorial candidate e.w. jackson drops another duzy. >> i'm telling you that slavery did not destroy the black family. >> our rapid response panel takes on his latest claim, coming up. stay with us. with the spark miles card from capital one, bjorn earns unlimited rewards for his small business. take these bags to room 12 please. [ garth ] bjorn's small business earns double miles on every purchase every day. produce delivery. [ bjorn ] just put it on my spark card. [ garth ] why settle for le

and cara stiffler were considered model employees at weyco, an insurance consulting firm outside of lansing, michigan. anita, 14 years on the job, cara, five. they sat side by side, sharing workloads and after work the occasional cigarette. but at a company benefits meeting two years ago, the company president announced... >> "as of january 1, 2005, anyone that has nicotine in their body will be fired." and we sat there like-- like, in awe. my first reaction was privacy. the hair on the back of my neck stood up, and i thought, there is no way that in america that this could happen. and i spoke out at that time, "you can't do that to us." and then he said, "yes, i can." i said, "that's not legal." and he came back with, "yes, it is." >> and it was. in the state of michigan, there is no law that prevents a boss from firing people virtually at will. at weyco, that meant no smoking at work, no smoking at home, no smoking period. >> good afternoon. weyco. >> weyco gave employees 15 months to quit, then they were subject to random nicotine testing. you fail, you're out. >> did either of you say,

assembled in lansing, michigan. >> that's right.chigan. >> i'm going to pop the trunk so you can see inside. it's got all the bell and exhibits. it seats eight people? >> it has eight passenger seating. i was on a family road trip in a car like this, i sat here, i had my legs croats there. it's a wonderful place to sit. it's got things to use pandora. gets great gas mileage, even though it's a big car. >> that plant in lansing, michigan, ememployees 3500 people over three different shifts. joined bilgiest s the dodge avenger. i'm going to get in the driver's seat in this. thank you for that. it's about $19,000, the controversies up there is -- the traverse is $30,000. it's got a lot of bells and whistle blowers. >> lot of safety features and technology. we like to think of it as america's most affordable mid-size sedan. if you hit the menu button, you can see all kinds of features. sit sirius travel on the bottom. it will give you the latest movies, where they're located, fuel prices, all kinds of things. >> the fuel prices, even ou

conference like this i started in in media long time ago too in sixty eight a sort of yard sale in lansing michigan was the number one station in town it had news there seven years and at a p.d. and another station but back then as a news reporter if i was caught talking to one even talking to one of the sales people like me fired there was absolute fire wall we have five guys in news a local station in a town a quarter million people state capital but a small town five guys now there's nobody now it's all network news there's nobody and that was because up until nine hundred seventy eight stations required to in order to get their licenses renewed to perform community service which meant news all the news divisions lost money but that was the cost of a license that's gone we now have since seventy eight we've had infotainment or eighty seven excuse me and it was eighty eight that c.b.s. put their news division under their entertainment division could it be that those polarizing voices the father coffins the joe mccarthy these were actively being talked back to by the media because the med

and i'm hopeful and we're doing our work in dunkirk, new york, and in lansing, new york, to stand for repowering those power generation facilities with the natural gas as the applications are pending in albany but i'll tell you, what i'm concerned about, is if you shut down those plants and this war on coal that just came out yesterday from the white house if you shut town those plants, my taxpayers that i care about in dunkirk and lansing, are going to see their real property tax bill go up anywhere from 50% to 60%. these are hardworking americans that are already under the burden of a tax burden that comes out of washington, d.c. by way of income taxes, but there's also tax burdens in our states and one of those primary tax burdens is a real property tax bill. i'm hearing from seniors, from people across the district who say, tom, i can't afford it anymore. and you shut down a power plant and you take away that tax base from my people and the remaining taxpayers who most of the time have been there for generations, will see their tax bill they real property tax bill go up 60%. that'

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host: max is in lansing, michigan, independent line. caller: hi.t i am wondering about is exactly what the obama administration's role is in all of this. obama has been catching a lot of flack for the whole thing, and i'm not necessarily here to defend him. but i'm wondering, wouldn't the intelligence committee, headed by my representative mike rogers, have been the ones to make this call and request in the first place? how many of the decisions to get information like this and other things under the patriot act or espionage act or any of these things -- how many of these decisions were obama and how many were the decisions of mike rogers and others on the committee? guest: you bring up a two really good questions. the first is what was the role that congress played in authorizing these. to that question i would say that congress had a very big role to play in approving the measures like the patriot act that enable the surveillance to crop up. that is why you see people like diane feinstein who have come out strongly in favor of the surveillance as

in this study, basically, and all of those countries, the percentage of public lansing over the next 50 years increases by 2-3 percentage points. three percentage points on the slide. in the sensitivity analysis they do, it is between 2-3%. this is a rorschach test as to whether or not you are an optimist or a pacifist. if you're a pacifist, i'm sure matt will be that, and steve will, you look at that and you say, oh my god, doubling and tripling the percentage of the economy. there is no possible way we can do that. if you are an optimist, you say, given that population is aging, and the number of people with disabilities is likely to increase by three fold, this is not so bad. that is particularly the case because if you think about it, if you look at the data that mark was showing earlier, total health expenditures in the u.s. increased by four percentage points between 2002 and 2010. while no one celebrates of that, it did bring the end -- it did not bring the end of society as we know it. the second point is that private long-term care insurance is in big trouble. it is unlikely