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. >> joining me now richard wolffe. he is the author of "revival, the struggle for survival inside the obama white house." thanks for joining me tonight. >> my pleasure, lawrence. >> we're watching this story evolve. the white house has struggled for a bit of consistency in the details of the account since sunday. >> yeah. >> first there was the idea that there was a firefight, that bin laden was armed, that he was shooting. that's all been corrected. now we're down to the point today where there's that detail that gets thrown in officials saying they saw bin laden appear to lunge for a weapon which is the classic line that appears in every police report of every questionable shooting by police where it turns out the person was unarmed. they always kind of reach over for at least that element of it. is the white house being a little bit too frantic in the way it's letting this information come out? if they've discovered that there are inconsistencies, wouldn't it be better for them to take a deep breath and release one

and we're back with more conversations with great minds i'm speaking with richard wolffe economist author and professor emeritus at the university of massachusetts amherst as many books include capitalism hits the fan a global economic meltdown and what to do about it dr wolfe what it actually just back up a little bit. two years ago i think it was my wife and i spent a week in spain at the monitor gone collective looking at this as i recall fifty billion dollars or whatever it was the massive enterprise worldwide enterprise in over one hundred countries ten over ten thousand workers or fifteen thousand workers where the c.e.o. makes three times what the janitors make in the decisions are actually made by the workers and everybody who works there owns a piece of the cloth of this collective this cooperative is that this sort of model to replace what we described in the first part of this of the you know the guy who ones everything to replace modern capitalism that you think is the best. well yes i think it has an awful lot to offer us to put it in context you know what system is a very co

more in the middle east, we're going to talk to richard wolffe, seep your political analyst for msnbc. sorry about the confusion. things are a bit out of order. but first the photo-op we saw between the president and mr. netanyahu. no air conditioning needed in that room. chilly there. could this not as been anticipated, could it have not been expect? >> it was a bad situation handled badly by both sides. the president was really intent on embarrassing the israeli leader or alienating american jewish voters. we went and talked to the israeli lobbyists. this is a situation that's been marred by mutual suspicion right from the begin egg. i was there in 2007 and 2008 when then candidate obama had to go and assure jewish american voters he had jewish friends. it's been that bad on that first trip to israel. chilly then with netanyahu. the history with the israelis are objecting to is the american position on the sweep of revolutions that richard engel was reporting on. it's stabilize. not what the president said about border else. that, in fact, has been in line with the predecessor, pres