we will visit with laura flanders. stay with us with. commentary coming up here on "the ed show" on msnbc. [ male announcer ] in 189, a small town pharmacist set out to create a different kind of cold remedy using powerful medicine and natural ingredients from around the world. he called it vicks vaporub. today, the vicks journey continues. introducing new vicks nature fusion cold & flu syrup. powerful multi-symptom medicine flavored with natural honey instead of artificial flavors and dyes. so you can feel good about what you take to feel better. >>> welcome back to "the ed show" and thanks for watching tonight, live from wall street. the occupy wall street movement is about to reach critical mass and the republicans can't do anything to stop it. an estimated 30,000 protesters joined this protest movement today. big labor is now officially on board. some democrats in congress are getting on board. i was with the people as they marched this afternoon. here's what i saw. >> the priorities of government, both on a state level and in washin

let's bring in laura flanders and correspondent of the nation magazine. why are you giggling at that. that's a heck of a question. >> ed, i think you might get your first 100% result. >> are you missing something important, ed? >> we have had a 98s% a couple of times. >> i thought you were going to ask is herman cain anighed because the pizza these folks from all over the world isn't his pizza. >> laura what do you make of in the protests on wall street. they are expanding to other cities and looks like it has legs, a life of its own. the unions are involved in it. where is it going. >> it has legs, arms, a brain. i have to break something to you. this is not about party or a president. the biggest line, the biggest response that naomi klein got is when she asked is this an answer to the tea party and she said i don't know i think it is an answer to the democratic party. i they needs to be understood. while it is great the president obama was forced to respond, this isn't a movement about who's in the white house. this is about having a house. it's not ab

. >> laura flanders, what do you make of that? >> first off, it is appalling the brutality that was used against these young people and the people of occupy wall street in oakland last night. appalling. >> are we into a new phase now? >> but it is not a few phase of the protest. that's one thing i'd correct you on, ed. it's a new phase of policing. tensions were not rising among the protesters. i was there a week ago. organized, very structured situation where people were doing their own policing and dealing with some very basic needs that have been left abandoned by our public servants in this time of public austerity. the policing tactics that we used last night, again, we need to understand the crowd was as riled up as it was because of the tactics that had been used to shut down the encampment earlier that day. the protest was to protest the shutdown of the camp. again, let's think of the irony of public servants, supposedly the police, using the argument on public safety to shut down a public forum that's drawing attention to