host: marilyn geewax, thank you.bout an hour to go in" this morni -- "washington journal" this morning did you go to the united states institute of peace panel on the election. we have juan zarate coming up, a former counterterrorism adviser to president bush. we will talk about some of the other issues that we have been discussing this morning, terrorism, etc. but we have about 15 minutes worth of open phones. we will put up the numbers did lots of public policy on the table this morning, or any other public policy issue you would like to discuss. you will be right back to take your phone calls. actually, we will take those phone calls now, it looks like. i was a little confused. go ahead and start dialing in. as we get you dialing in, i am going to reach over here, because i thought we were going to take a break and i would have a chance to reach over and grab those articles. so part in that. we will begin taking those calls in just a minute. we have some articles that are unrelated, basically, to some of the topic

you are on with marilyn geewax of n.p.r. caller: yeah. i just feel like the media, there's such a divide in the way that people believe now. you have the democratic belief system, you know, as i can see it is that government is the answer. and then you have the republican belief system that the private sector is the answer. or the entrepreneur spirit is the answer. what i -- i've been in business for 30 years. and what i see happening now -- i have friends across the u.s. there are so many businesses that are on the verge of closing even just from the fear of new taxes like here in oregon we are going to have a new tax that's going to be what they call like a gross income tax or something that because all the corporations aren't paying. and so the thing is when you have that kind of media that's promoting a certain belief system on most of the networks and then you have the other side which maybe is the glenn beck side which is giving numbers that are saying these things and then these people are saying these things, isn't there a fact th

you are on with marilyn geewax of n.p.r. caller: yeah. i just feel like the media, there's such a divide in the way that people believe now. you have the democratic belief system, you know, as i can see it is that government is the answer. and then you have the republican belief system that the private sector is the answer. or the entrepreneur spirit is the answer. what i -- i've been in business for 30 years. and what i see happening now -- i have friends across the u.s. there are so many businesses that are on the verge of closing even just from the fear of new taxes like here in oregon we are going to have a new tax that's going to be what they call like a gross income tax or something that because all the corporations aren't paying. and so the thing is when you have that kind of media that's promoting a certain belief system on most of the networks and then you have the other side which maybe is the glenn beck side which is giving numbers that are saying these things and then these people are saying these things, isn't there a fact th

you are on with marilyn geewax of n.p.r. caller: yeah. i just feel like the media, there's such a divide in the way that people believe now. you have the democratic belief system, you know, as i can see it is that government is the answer. and then you have the republican belief system that the private sector is the answer. or the entrepreneur spirit is the answer. what i -- i've been in business for 30 years. and what i see happening now -- i have friends across the u.s. there are so many businesses that are on the verge of closing even just from the fear of new taxes like here in oregon we are going to have a new tax that's going to be what they call like a gross income tax or something that because all the corporations aren't paying. and so the thing is when you have that kind of media that's promoting a certain belief system on most of the networks and then you have the other side which maybe is the glenn beck side which is giving numbers that are saying these things and then these people are saying these things, isn't there a fact th

a look at the latest unemployment figures with marilyn geewax. and we will discuss counter- terrorism efforts with juan zarate. richard holbrooke talked about u.s. military and economic recovery efforts in afghanistan and pakistan at a brookings institution for on this afternoon. he is the president's chief adviser in that region, and a long-term u.s. diplomat. this is about one hour. >> good afternoon, everybody. we're very honored and appreciative that ambassador holbrooke took some time off from his duties on the other side of town and being on the other side of the world to spend about one hour with us this afternoon talking about policy in afghanistan and pakistan. there are never boring moments in his life. there certainly haven't been any in the course of the time that he has had this job. i figured that was a figure that i was doing you. that i was doing you. you could use a little more. of course, this is a particularly busy week and a particularly difficult week. ambassador holbrooke has got a number of members of his terrific interagen

host: marilyn geewax is author of, right now, a 12 step program for defeating the obama agenda. first up. republican line? caller: good morning mr. steel. i'm going good. i'm a small businessman. been in business 34 years and i'm one of the 70 percent of the population or businesses that generate the jobs that everybody talks about and all they talked about as far as initial >> caller: and all they talked about as far as in this administration is found a way to borrow money that i can't pay back in order to grow my business. my problem is my customers don't have jobs, or they are not spending money. >> right. >> caller: that's probably the problem that small businesses, we are not doing the business. because our customers are not spending the money because they don't have it. now we talk about polls, it's conservatives, democrat, and independents. the last poll i saw, we had 40% of the nation is conservative. and 36% is independent. that bothers me that the republican party now doesn't even go into the polls? >> well, i think that's the point. you know within we're kind of getti

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host: marilyn geewax is author of, right now, a 12 stefor defea first up. republican line? caller: good morning mr. steel. i'm going good. i'm a small businessman. been in business 34 years and i'm one of the 70 percent of the population or businesses that generate the jobs that everybody talks about and all they talked about as far as initial administration. finding a way for me to borrow money that i can't pay back to grow my business. my customers don't have jobs or they're not spending money. that's probably the problem 70 percent. small businesses have. we're not going to do the business because our customers are not spending the money because they don't have the money. my concern with the republican party s the fact that now we talk about poles and it's conservatives democrats and independents. the last pole i saw, we had 40 percent of the nation is conservative. 20% in there is democrat and 36 independent. it bothers me the republican party doesn't even go into the poles. if guest: well i think tha@@@@r$ and nancy pelosi is on the hill. how do you do that when your l