the man from merrill lynch, that's who. things in america would never be the same again. the country would now be run like a corporation. >> we're going to turn the bull loose. >> i think the message i took out of the entire movie, michael, was this was a generational effort to concentrate the wealth in this country. attack labor. run jobs overseas. you put it together so well. have we as americans been for the last several decades been asleep at the switch? what do you think? >> i don't know so much we've been asleep. i think we've been bamboozled. i think the other side is very, very good at propaganda, they're very good at manipulating people with fear, and they've taken otherwise good people who would make good decisions and convinced them to support their bad decisions. >> one final point i want to make, whether you go after the democrats, too, you go after tim geithner here. you're not a fan of that guy at all, are you? >> well, no, i think obama, i mean, i think he did the right thing considering -- the large bank, they hire former bank robbers to come in and advis

manning and tony romo. how much help did eli have and how much is romo to blame? merrill hoge in studio. serious issues around the nfl. the latest on the jets accused of tampering with michael crabtree and how injuries are impacting several teams. the red sox closing ground in the a.l. east. hey buster olney, is it baseball or not? we're talking everything right here right now. closed captioned by the national captioning institute ---www.ncicap.org--- john: at this hour live on "sportscenter", san francisco 49ers have reportedly filed tampering charges against the jets with michael crabtree. sources tell the "new york daily news" crabtree threatened to sit out this entire season and re-enter the draft in 2010. earlier this morning jets' coach rex ryan said the allegations are ridiculous. our insider adam schefter has more on this story as we speak. he's getting miced up. meanwhile, matt hasselbeck has suffered a fractured rib according to a league source, unclear whether he'll be sidelined in the seahawks' next game, which is against the bears next sunday. chris: well, it's monday and me

this is all about the investment made, merril, in the off-season between eli manning and his receiversit's paying huge dividends. >> i'm going to stay on this trust thing. we're going to spin it over to the cowboys and tony romo. i am sure that tony romo trusts his wide receivers. do his wide receivers trust him? when you study quarterbacks -- and in our league, in the nfl, there are things you must be able to do consistently week in and week out. got to be a good decision-maker, and you must be accurate. there's a lot of ways you can throw interceptions, but tony romo last night -- he's already been accountable for this. was a bad decision-maker and was not very accurate. when you have a single safety sitting in the middle of the field, it is one guy's responsibility if you don't have route combinations there, and that is the quarterback. you've got to identify it. you can clearly see he's there. he's doing nothing to disguise things. here i am. tony threw it right to him. bad decision making, accuracy issues. there are times when receivers now start wondering, can i trust the quarter

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at merrill, he's credited with improving profits, a feat he repeated. jeff hart says gorman is the key man for the job. >> the one concern i have and i don't think it's a new concern, he does lack experience on the institutional side of the business, some of the investment banking, and that kind of side of it. >> reporter: as for the 64-year-old mac, he described the four-ine tur yur as being up and down. he says he feels great about the work he did during the credit crisis, notably securing a investment from mitsubishi, helping to stem what had been a dangerous flag for morgan stock. still ill-timed decisions by mac like increasing the exposure to mortgages and hedge funds ahead of the crisis, some say those are marks on his career. melissa, back to you. >> mary thompson, thanks so much. let's bring in david faber. thanks so much for coming out here and joining us. how do you think history will judge john mac. >> he's been around for a long time. i remember him as a lieutenant at morgan stanley, well regarded in the investment basicing world, but you have to say it's a mixed record, given

oofr a seven-year still at merrill lynch where gorman is credited with improving profits, critics say if there is a chink in his armor, core man conceded those points last night when pointing out he does spend a lot of his day working on the institutional side of the business. mack, who returned to join morgan stanley in 2005 after two years earlier, said the board looks at six or eight candidates but ultimately decided to stay with someone on the inside. mack described his own tenure at ceo as up and down, saying he feels credit when he looks at the work he did with the credit crisis. referring to the $9 become join venture he struck with mitsubishi in september of last year, a deal that helped stave off a perilous decline. the stock is dounl since mack came back to the firm. more recently, his tenure has been marked by three straight quarterly losses. once the highest paid ceo among s&p 500 companies, mack has declined bonuses over the last two years. and when asked whether or not he thinks that his role just as chairman may merit a pay raise, mack told us, he hopes so. back to you. >> thank you very much, mary. there have b

merrill lynch. the bank's management misled shareholders according to one source. orlando florida on a republican line. caller: the morning. as a black mani am sick and tired of us black folks getting caught up in this democrat and republican what ever. part of what the republicans' problem is is that they do not have enough minorities or blacks out there to talk about this issue. there are a ton of us out there, but we are never the ones that are called on the shows to discuss race relations. it is difficult when the party -- not that whites cannot talk about it, but the perception is that it is creating a reality for a lot of people. if you find blacks able to have this discussion and race relations can be discussed, i respect michael eric dyson. i would love to be able to talk about these things. he is no blacker than me, and i am no blacker than he is. we can have these discussions. host: we have to leave it there. one more call on our independent line. caller: good morning. i think more and more of us need to come to the forefront and face the fact that race is a big issue. a lot of people say race is not this and it is not that. i