randi weingarten joins us. we will talk with tucker carlson of the "daily caller" about the republican presidential race. and then a look at the health of the other end largest banks. yalman onaran of "bloomberg businessweek" is our guest. ♪ host: jenin the pagano appears before the senate to the sherry -- janet napolitano appears before the senate judiciary committee this morning. in other news, from "the wall street journal," this morning, the pentagon restricting the amount of detainee is coming out of guantanamo bay. as a sign of growing popularity, fantasy sports leagues have launched a political action committee. it is october 19, a 3 hour program for you today. in an interview with abc news that took place yesterday, president obama compared the occupy wall trapped -- walt -- occupy wall street's movements and that he party -- and the tea party. what did you see previously when it came to the tea party as far as the tone of the rally and messages delivered? 202-737-0001 for those of you who support the o

>> on today's "washington journal," a discussion of state and federal education funding with randi weingarten. then we will talk with tucker carlson of the "daily caller" about the republican presidential race. and then a look at the largest banks. yalman onaran of "bloomberg businessweek" is our guest. "washington journal" each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. janet napolitano will testify about homeland security oversight. live coverage from the senate judiciary committee at 10:00 a.m. eastern. after that, natalie cole will be at the national press club talking about hepatitis c. the singer was diagnosed with the disease during a recent blood testing 2008 -- during a routine blood test in 2008. that gets underway at 1:00 p.m. eastern. >> because i am a businessman, of which incidently i'm very proud, and was formally connected with a large company, the subsequent errors of the opposition have attempted to picture me as an opponent of liberalism. but i was a liberal for many of those men heard the word. and i fought for the reforms of theodore roosevelt and woodrow wilson before anoth

you, randy weingarten and others, but let me bring into this discussion, msnbc political analyst richard wolffe. richard, you are watching what is going on -- michael, stay with me, don't go anywhere. the politics of this is what? could this be on the other side of the political spectrum, the balance to the tea party? >> well, it's certainly the energy and organization you were talking about at the top of the show. it also frames what we're seeing. actually we start with the tea party itself. there's this enduring resentment at how wall street and the financial sector has behaved, not just because of the meltdown, not just because of the profits, but also because of how they're behaving right now. you know, some of the president's most strident critics right now are the banks, the financial institutions who say he's antibusiness, he doesn't get it. how dare he even question whether bank of america could charge people for using the debit cards. they want to roll back everything that's been done, which by the way most of the people on the streets would say isn't nearly enough. so you have

the president of the american federation of teachers, randi weingarten, joins us. then we will talk with tucker carlson of the "daily caller" about the republican presidential race. after that, look at the help of the nation's largest banks. yalman onaran of" is our guest. "washington journal" each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. janet napolitano will testify about homeland security oversight at the senate judiciary committee at 10:00 a.m. eastern. after that, natalie cole will be at the national press club talking about hepatitis c. the singer was diagnosed with the disease during a routine blood test in 2008. that gets underway at 1:00 p.m. eastern. >> it is very obvious to me that with all the priorities we have, and they are all worthy, till further notice every decision the national government makes, every close call made in favor of economic growth, in favor of growth of the private sector. >> he worked as an adviser in the reagan white house, omb director and george w. bush's administration, and as governor of indiana, he introduced spending cuts tha