. >> juan: perry mason. rep he hencable people because in the american system they, too, deseven some defense. >> kimberly: you are right. >> juan: should we throw him out -- >> kimberly: no. no one is saying he was competent. dana made that case. his political persuasion and background is that of a prosecutor. so usually when you go to hire someone at the d.a.'s office as i've done before. do you have prosecutorial experience in no, i don't. >> greg: the bigger thing is, not just the fact he's doing his job. he does legitimately believe that the american taliban was not a terrorist. wearing unformnate halloween costume and he was arrested. that is the real thing. it's not about doing his job. he should do his job to defend people. >> kimberly: we go around real quick. department of justice. public affairs chief, tracy small. we talked about this earlier in the program during the week. should he is be -- quick question for everyone -- fired or resign for her complicit behavior with the media matters? >> eric

no lawyer, no perry mason is better than having the facts on your side.wo things, number one, getting to the american people with people and advertisements of the man on the street, the people who many. which may have supported barack obama, but are talking straight to the camera, talking about the things that didn't work under barack obama, and then using barack obama's words. i mean, take the words of barack obama just like you just did in that compilation and showing the american people this is what barack obama promised and had is what he delivered. today, sean -- >> go ahead. >> today the president, he finally did an interview with a legitimate news outlet called univision down in miami, and he finally sat down, he wasn't with a pimp with a limp or some of the other interviews he's been doing lately. [laughter] >> and the president said, the president said that one of the things that he learned as president, he can't fix it, you can't fix washing ton from the inside. he undermined the entire basis of his presidency. the next thing he said, and talk a

we are not einstein or perry mason but we can understand enough to know that premiums would go up, thatcompanies would prepare in advance of taking on all the extra insureed and hike their fees and we realized that big and small state, local institutions, too, would have to do the same. >> enough about me. back to someone who fully agrees who is saying the same thing back then, steve moore. you did not have to be nostradamus to know this, if you pick up all this coverage and the money to kick in from younger folks who have the coverage, that will not come in, until after this, the premiums will go up and go up a lot. >>guest: that is right. this is the least shocking news of the week that the health care premiums are up. >>neil: go ahead. >>guest: here is why it didn't work and a lot of benefits have not kicked in yet. the costs are going to go up even higher. look, obamacare is based on trying to repeal the law of economics. if you increase the demand for something by putting more people in the health insurance system but do not increase the supply, you do not have to be a generalious

perry mason's over, back to you. >> more of this at the bottom of the hour, carl. >> i want to see your tonight. that was great. >> that's where the 1% eat. i go to mcdonald's! i want my toy and i want my 16-ounce drink. >> thanks, guys. we'll see you soon. >>> when we come back, retailers have been on a role, but the sector's been pulling back over the past few days. is it time to sell? we'll find out after the break. ] when this hotel added aflac to provide a better benefits package... oahhh! [ male announcer ] it made a big splash with the employees. [ duck yelling ] [ male announcer ] find out more at... [ duck ] aflac! [ male announcer ] ...forbusiness.com. ♪ ha ha! >>> interactive brokers, the professionals gateways to the markets. >>> disappointing numbers coming over overseas retailers like burberry and h & m over the last week. could they be the canaries in the coal mine? the president of sw retail advisers and the senior portfolio manager at rockdale investment management. good morning to both of you. stacy, good to have you back. >> great to be here. >> coach and tiffany wer

mason compares them. >> what time you got to be back at work? >> tim perry is a labor statistic again. second time in the past four years, he's out of work. >> it just seems like there's so many jobs that i apply for and i hear nothing from them. >> the 44-year-old lost his first job as a forklift operator at the wilmington, ohio facility of airborne express in 2008. >> felt like the world kind of ended. >> perry was one of some 8,000 workers let go when dhl and airborne shut the facility. he had spent 20 years, more than half his life working there. >> what did you think your job prospects were at that point? >> didn't know what i was going to do. i planned on retiring then. >> retrained as a heating and air conditioning technician, perry found work with this dayton company. >> how did you feel when you got that job? >> relieved. i felt real good about myself again. >> but the pay was lower. perry has a wife and four children to support, two with type 1 diabetes. >> this year when csx offered him a train conductor's job with first class health insurance, he took it. then last month, 1

or whoever created the original perry mason show. trials are naturals for telling stories. whether it is in novel form as john grisham or in, movie form, or in nonfiction. why are novels, excuse me, why are trials such an attractive form for the reader? i'm not sure for the reader. i will tell you why they're an attractive form for the author because in the first place trials have dialogue and this is something that you don't find a lot of in nonfiction. this is one of the appeals of novels. people talk to each other back and forth. it is rare that you find a work of nonfiction where you get much in the way of dialogue, unless it is writing about a trial. because in a trial you get dialogue. furthermore, unlike the ordinary conversation of you and me where you wander around the topic and do this and that and start all over and this, in conversation the dialogue always has a point and there's a built-in conflict. there's a protagonist and an antagonist and there's a resolution. there's either a conviction or an acquittal. so a large part of my story is this treason trial and

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joining me is jeff mason, author and msnbc political analyst joan walker of salon.com, melissa harris perry the election is in 39 days but early voting has begun in more than half of the country. which could account ultimately for a third of all votes cast this year. so it's probably not a good sign the republicans are still pointing fingers openly questioning governor romney's strategy. that is bringing him to pennsylvania at this very hour. that's a state where he was down by 12 points according to a poll from quinnipiac university. other polls out show president obama and romney locked in a tight fight. according to the nbc

joining me is jeff mason, author and msnbc political analyst joan walker of salon.com, melissa harris perry, and buzz feed editor in chief ben smith. the election is in 39 days but early voting has begun in more than half of the country. which could account ultimately for a third of all votes cast this year. so it's probably not a good sign the republicans are still pointing fingers openly questioning governor romney's strategy. that is bringing him to pennsylvania at this very hour. that's a state where he was down by 12 points according to a poll from quinnipiac university. other polls out show president obama and romney locked in a tight fight. according to the nbc news/"wall street journal"/marist poll, president obama has a slight lead in nevada and north carolina but basically within the margin of error. and in virginia, a new poll from suffolk university/nbc 12 puts obama slightly ahead of romney, also within the margin of error. so, how can romney turn it around? it may not be easy. some people within this romney campaign have concluded he's not actually a very good politician. here