wexler first lit up the charges and the progressive right after he had been forced off the paper.and he wrote a two-part article for the progress of which was a kind of a, you know, in rehearsal for his book, the age of suspicion. were he lays out all these things have flatly lies about the journalism, totally. he pretends that he did not participate in some of the best pro labor material because he was too smart to but if anyone who looks at the microphone knows that wexler was riding terrific, really terrific staff in 1940 and 1942 and it behalf of the trade unions, the left-wing lunes -- unions included and pretended he wasn't too smart to be a communist dupe in any way he started on the american progress of. at the same time tim crawford who had written for the paper almost simultaneous with wexler is resignation from pm published an article in the new leader, the socialist party publication that was also anti-communist, that accused pm of upping in the control of the communist of our. he didn't sign him name, he called himself curled collins, like an proffered, everybody knew

and before that, he worked -- for 12 years at wexler & walker and for a while it was ann wexler's firm while there he was and you know about wexler walker because we had joe molina talking about coalition-building. it's widely respected. he searched in the george h.w. bush's re-election campaign. he's been in the white house in other positions. and he has a publication that i've uploaded to blackboard for you. i recommend it for you on government relations. some of -- how many of you have read it. oh, good, so most of you have read it. [laughter] >> they are on top of this. they are very busy. we're going nine days on this. he's a graduate of university of tennessee. and most importantly, he has a degree in public policy from indiana university where i got my ph.d. and i'm very proud of the fact that he's a distinguished alum. and he was a pmi. it's a presidential management intern. now it's pmf, presidential management fellow. i recommend to all of you to think about applying for this because you come in at a very high position, you at omb, and you're on the fast track if you don't sc

would expect to see a reprimand of tsa personnel. >> tom blank former head of tsa policy, now with wexler thank you very much, tom. >>> a new political ad is taking aim at the president and his handling of the christmas day terror attempt. it is paid for by the group keep america safe which counts liz cheney among its board member and reports to take an hour by hour look at the president's response to the bomb attempt in the style of the tv show "24." >> but what already is apparent is that there was a mix of human and systemic failures that contributed to this potential catastrophic breach of security. >> how long did it take you to realize the system failed? >> john decker is a washington correspondent for reuters. good morning, again. >> good morning again to you, alex. >> how damaging do you think an attack like this is? did the president's actions leave him vulnerable on this issue? >> well, it left him vulnerable among those americans for whom national security, homeland security is a very important issue. certainly with the folks like rudy giuliani who is critical of the president

a very ambitious james wexler, trying to make his career. making the exit by great communist subversion of the newspaper. this call was controlling p m and forcing it to be irrelevant. i have no doubt there was a communist party supervisors. a sympathy for the common man, a passionate friend of the labor movement. specific moments like the first period during the time of the pact supports the labor, the communist party was not able to do. after a war was declared the communist party sounded like the hearst press in attacking those strikes. the strikes are bad for the war effort but let's understand the grievances of the workers. also there were factional differences in the incipient civil rights movement. p m was on the naacp side of things. on the other hand there were people who have a party. the last of the daily anti fascist papers was the conference. p.m. veteran and great writer tom o'connor became the editor in chief. he was called and refuse to name names and died of a heart attack at the age of 38. i am told by his former roommate h

joining me live now from washington, d.c., tom blank, former head of tsa policy, currently with wexler public policy associates. good morning again, tom. >> good morning, alex. >> okay, so, the arrest in the case, what did you think when you heard the news? >> well, that's really a very positive thing, and i think the authorities ought to throw the book at this guy, because what he did cost the airline industry literally tens of millions of dollars a year in these kinds of terminal dumps, not to mention the inconvenience to the traveling public, but across the system he really made a really serious mess of things. >> okay. let's talk about the security breach itself. you know, put it into perspective for us. when you say causing a mess of things -- here's a guy who runs past the terminal, shuts it down, but talk about the domino effect there. >> well, the domino effect is that you're going to have mishandled bags because flights are delayed, you're going to have missed connections for people, you're going to have to go through an awful lot of rebookings and handle a lot of logistical i

wax wexler, the whole number -- mr. wexler, the whole number of the house is 434.suant to section 9 of house resolution 976, no organizational or legislative business will be conducted on this day. messages requiring action will be laid before the house on a subsequent day. bills and resolutions introduced today will receive a number but will not be referred to committee or noted in the record until a subsequent day. executive communications, memorials and petitions, like-wise, will be referred and numbered on a subsequent day. pursuant to section 10 of house resolution 976, the house shall stand adjourned pursuant to section 2 of house concurrent resolution 223 until noon on tuesday, january 12, 2010. >> and was instrumental in developing and organizing the course from which this came. he joined the world bank in 1995 in bucharest as an economist, or he worked on macro economic monitoring, trade, agricultural, and rural development and finance as well as poverty and social protection issues. the next speaker is going to be ron haskins, a senior fellow at the brook

here at wexler & walker at my firm, there are four of us. of those campaigns. beyond the four of us, for each of the campaigns there's a dedicated public relations firm. that could have upwards of half a dozen to a dozen individuals working on that campaign. there's always legal counsel. a law firm which will have between one to three, maybe more, lawyers working on the campaign. there are other lobbying officials. -- officials. -- firms. we have cochairs and it helps draw press attention and press attention. they generally cost resources, cost money. so they usually have firms that they're associated with that are part of the staff. they will have staff that are part of our staff. there are strategic research firms that are often part of the staff. so at the end of the day, we have about maybe 15 to 20 folks on a day-to-day basis working in some capacity as consultants on these projects. that is not counting the individuals at in some cases one of the campaigns i'm involved in now, there are 32 individual paying entities. and they all have,

here at wexler & walker at my firm, there are four of us.at are working every day, you know, nine, ten hours a day on each of those campaigns. beyond the four of us, for each of the campaigns there's a dedicated public relations firm. that could have upwards of half a dozen to a dozen individuals working on that campaign. there's always legal counsel. a law firm which will have between one to three, maybe more, lawyers working on the campaign. there are other lobbying officials. -- officials. -- firms. we have cochairs and it helps draw press attention and press attention. they generally cost resources, cost money. so they usually have firms that they're associated with that are part of the staff. they will have staff that are part of our staff. there are strategic research firms that are often part of the staff. so at the end of the day, we have about maybe 15 to 20 folks on a day-to-day basis working in some capacity as consultants on these projects. that is not counting the individuals at in some cases one of the campaigns i'm involved in

before that, he worked at -- for 12 years at wexler/walker. you know about that, because we have joe come in to talk about coalition building. it's a bipartisan firm. widely respected. he served also in the george h.w. bush reelection campaign, he's been in the white house in other positions. and he has a publication that i've uploaded to blackboard for you, i recommend to you on government relations. how many of you have read it? okay. good. most of you have read it ahead of time. they are on top of it. no, they are very busy. we are going almost night and day on this thing. his graduate of the university of tennessee. and most importantly, he has a degree in public policy from indiana university when i got my phd. i'm proud of that. he was a pmi, presidential management intern, now it's presidential management fellow. i recommend to all of you, you come in at a very high position. you're on the fast track if you don't screw up. you didn't screw up. you've done very well. welcome. >> thanks, jim. good afternoon. i'll start the session off by