find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike brown no holds barred look at the global financial headlines two kinds a report. is the river it's the longest in the northern caucasus so you really comes across a dollar and not paid a visit but you can just take a walk along the water so. you can get to know it and something a little bit speedy. bugler is one of the instructors here at. school he's an eight time russian champion i'm in charge of getting the next generation to follow in his wake but we have got lots of young sportsmen here and international class boats that can go up to one hundred sixty kilometers an hour. as we try to stimulate the children's capacity for work and our members take part in both european and world championships. it seemed like i was in good hands although i did need some more appropriate clothing. ok more of a racing season and then a wetsuit sort of things to come. and once i got on my life vest it was time to take my seat ok i trust you completely. and my life in this very small and snug contraption. with just a gas pedal and no brakes t

and former vice chair of the dnc financial committee, michael brown. mikeyou a list of senate democrats who are not supporting this bill. they don't believe in bill. it is dead on arrival. the president keeps lashing out at the republicans when it is his party that stent like it, why is that? >> i think you are having legitimate philosophical discussions about tax increases. you have to coordinate with it fairness. a lot of folks think the budget shouldn't be balanced on the backs of the least fortunates in our country. fairness is what this is about. >> sean: 50% of americans pay no federal income tax. top 7% pay 70% of the bill. the average person i know that pays income taxes, including myself, new york state tax, county tax, sales tax, property tax, federal income tax. i pay 55% of my income. and here come the president saying we are not paying our fair share. half the country doesn't pay, how is it not fair? >> you are looking at the fairness argument differently. from your point i under stand how you articulate it. the larger issue, most business peop

back with us on set we have mike goning ael and tina brown. >> tina, as we approach 9/11, a lot of peoplend i can tell you you get a lot of eye rolls every time an anniversary. on the tenth anniversary, people want to talk about it. >> we addressed that question and whether there would be audience fatigue, but it was too seismic an event to not become reinvolved in the tenth anniversary. we went with the blue cover with the airplane because we wanted to remember the last moment of american innocence, in a sense when we looked up in the sky and saw that plane and that's one of the things that people remember the most. even more than the image of the flaming towers, the moment of the vibrant blue sky that was innocent and so perfect and it was all shattered and the whole decade became this traumatic response to this event. andrew sullivan had a brilliant piece that talked although in the end we defeated osama, nevertheless, we lost the decade to fear. all in response to the terrorist attacks and took us into iraq and made it into afghanistan, bankrupted the country and how fear just seeped

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let's ask two experts, willie brown, a great man, served as mayor of san francisco and led the assembly out there as speaker for so many years, and mike feldman a guy from philadelphia, an advisory to the clinton/gore white house. mayor? >> yes. >> your honor, i want to quote you some stuff from the ragin cajun, carville. longtime strategist james carville wrote a column that grabbed all of our attention. what should the white house do? he says, panic. "as i watch the republican debates, i realize that we are on the brink of a crazy person running our nation." i guess he's talking about perry. "i sit in front of the tv and shudder at the thought of one of global-warming-denying, immigration-bashing, social security-cutting, clean air-hating, mortit street-procting republicans running my country. the course we are on is not working. the hour is late and the need is great. fire, indict, fight." he's got some amazing proposals out there. fire somebody, indict some people. make a case like a democrat and hold fast to your explanations. what do you make of this, mayor, because i want your thoughts? how ferocious does obama have to be to tu