joining us now, tammy baldwin, democrat of wisconsin, who announced she's running for united states senate for wisconsin. senator baldwin, thank you for your time tonight. >> it's a pleasure to join you tonight, rachel. >> you have been in the middle of the fight against union rights all year. what did you make of the president and vice president bringing it up the way they did in their labor day speeches? >> it was music to my ears. i have been in the front seat witnessing what has happened in the state of wisconsin as progress that this state has made over decades was peeled back, and what happened is that the people of the state decided that if their leaders were not listening to them, they were going to speak out, and it has been incredibly inspiring to me, but, you know, we've been talking about why this is so important, why collective bargaining rights and the right to organize, but also we're fighting right now, as you've been talking about, for the very survival of the middle class. it used to be that if you worked hard and played by the rules, you could get ahead, and i hear day a

representative tammy baldwin entering the race for the u.s. one of at least eight open spots that will help determine the balance of power in the senate where republicans need to pick up just four seats to take control. again, tammy baldwin, congresswoman from wisconsin entering the senate race there in wisconsin. looking at our program schedule -- live coverage on c-span includes former mayor rudy giuliani of new york. he's at the national press club talking about the september 11 anniversary. the 10th anniversary is this sunday. his comments this afternoon at 1:00. a road to the white house coverage this afternoon at 3:40 with mitt romney talking about his jobs plan, a plan that contains 59 specific proposals. president obama will be releasing and announcing his jobs plan in a joint session of congress speech on thursday. thursday at 7:00 p.m. eastern. nancy pelosi, the democratic leader and other democrats holding a news conference also about jobs this afternoon. we'll have coverage of that too but the joint session speech is thursday at 7:

let's go up top, tammy baldwin. let's go down bottom. this is tammy baldwin.or the first time, they will enter the race and be the first openly gay member of the senate, the republican side will have former congressman mark newman entering the race and he entered last week. and we'll go to another story. and let's take a quick look. a shakeup on team bachmann, minnesota congresswoman's campaign manager is stepping down for health reasons. he's getting a little bit older. rollins suffered a stroke a year and a half ago, remember. bachma bachmann's campaign strategist will now take over on an interim basis and he went on to say, you know what? the two guys in front, perry and romney didn't mention michelle bachmann. i don't know, things look bad. let's go back upstairs where things are much more settled. >> 10 years after the september 11th attacks, wild conspiracy theories and myths still persist. countless books and web sites are devoted to claiming that the u.s. government actually was involved in the terrible events of that day but now one book is proving al