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wayne dyer: thank you it's nice to be back on pbs. kathi: yes, and the eighth show for pbs. wayne: eight, eight of them i can't believe that it's been 10 years. kathi: i know. wayne: it's been wonderful and we've raised a lot of money for public television and we're still doing it which is great. kathi: and helped a lot of people at the same time. wayne: yes, absolutely. kathi: you know i want to ask you, how long does it take you to think about an idea like no excuses, or "excuses be gone", before you're actually able to produce a special for pbs and a book. wayne: well it's really hard to say but it goes on for months and months and months, sometimes years i think about it. an idea will marinate inside of me. sometimes i carry a quote around in my pocket and i just think about it look it out and say, i'm going to write a book about this. and then we're going to do a public television special about it and all kinds of ideas start to flow through my head. usually about a year, a year and a half, two years you just never know. kathi: and i like your story of how you mock up t

thank you for sharing that with us here at pbs.ursuit than anything i've ever done. but i feel like i have a right to try it because it's music. >> yes. do you have a special pbs memory? anything that comes to mind? >> just that tote bag. we love that tote bag for the beach. you can store other tote bags that-- >> that's true. >> if you take other tote bags, you can fit six others tote bags. i'm a wnet fan. >> are you? >> yeah. >> okay so you have a-- >> channel 13 we call it. >> well, so basically what you're telling me is that you are a contributor to public television. >> yes i am and i invite everyone to call that number that most definitely is at the bottom of the screen. and possibly get yourself chris botti live at the boston symphony hall. is that what it's called symphony hall? >> yeah. >> so can you digitally lay that in? that's gonna cost too much pledge money if you digitally lay it in. >> i don't think so. i don't think so. thank you very much for talking with us. >> thank you. >> i really think that the dvd is the bes

we will see you next time on pbs.always, keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, and visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: try me next time for a conversation with a rising star in the music world. that is next time. we will see you then. >> there are so many things that wal-mart is looking forward to doing like helping people live better. we are mostly looking forward to building strong communities and relationships. with your help, the best is yet to come. >> nationwide insurance probably supports tavis smiley. tavis and nationwide insurance, working to improve financial literacy and the economic empowerment that comes with it. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television]

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provided by the annberg foundationthe corporati for public bradcasting, and by contributio to your pbs station om viewers like yo thank you. once gain, liv from washington, sittg in for gwen ifill this week, jhn dikerson of late maazine and cs news. john: good evenin president barack obama turned 48 this week. he didt get big present he'd been asking for doctor pasge of health ca reform in the use and senate -- but he got a few pretty gooalternatives. sotomayor, his pick for the supreme court, s confirmed wi the support of nine republicans, and we arned today thathe unemployment te has dropped a little bit. from 9.5% 9.4%. there have beea few pieces of ecomic news like thi late that, while not fatastic, have at least been notawful. john arwood, dos the whte house think the've turned a corner here? >> no. but they'rehaving a party right now. thewhite house knows that first of all missi accomplish is the worst thing u can do in an ecoomy like this. the uemployment rate even though it ticked do this month is likelyto go up for a few monthsand not rally come down ina serious wayuntil ne sp

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by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, sitting in for gwen ifill this week, john dickerson of slate magazine and cbs news. john: good evening. president barack obama turned 48 this week. he didn't get big present he'd been asking for doctor passage of health care reform in the house and senate -- but he got a few pretty good alternatives. sotomayor, his pick for the supreme court, was confirmed with the support of nine republicans, and we learned today that the unemployment rate has dropped a little bit. from 9.5% to 9.4%. there have been a few pieces of economic news like this late that, while not fantastic, have at least been not awful. john harwood, does the white house think they've turned a corner here? >> no. but they're having a party right now. the white house knows that first of all mission accomplished is the worst thing you can do in an economy like this. the unemployment rate even though it ticked down this month is likely to go up for

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nightly business report" is made possible by: this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> susie: good evening, everyone. the nation's unemployment rate fell for the first time in a year, and president obama said today that the worst of the recession may be over. the labor department reported that american businesses cut 247,000 jobs in july, the slowest pace since last august. the unemployment dropped slightly to 9.4%. president obama welcomed the news as a sign that the economy is improving, but cautioned that more work needs to be done to reach full recovery. >> as far as i'm concerned, we will not have a true recovery as long as we're losing jobs, and we won't rest until every american that is looking for work can find a job. i have no doubt that we can make these changes. >> susie: here in new york, we talked with people still waiting for the change the president is promising. scott gurvey met with some new yorkers today to find out about their job hunting efforts. >> reporter: in spite of today's employment report, there wa

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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. six months in, it appears things in washington are more complicated than clear. the president's poll numbers are uniformly headed down. his health care plan is snagged in the house and senate and the success of his economic recovery plan subject to debate. vice president joe biden speaking in chicago today to the national urban league to defend it. >> housing starts are up for this month. does that mean we're out? no. does that mean there won't be more foreclosures? no. but we're beginning to move in the direction we have to. the unemployment rate still is unacceptably high. but not growing nearly as fast. less good is not good but less good is better than worse. gwen: ok. that makes a funny kind of sense. is less good enough to get the health care reform passed? that's the big question facing the white house and congress this week, starting with the white house, chuck, how are they doing on this? >> well, it'

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