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stephen moore, a good friend of the show, editorial writer with the "wall street journal." this week, as expected, president obamas jobs plan failed to pass the senate with an election in november 2012, just over a year away, are we looking at another major overhaul in congress and perhaps the white house? are we looking at a situation where voters might say throw all the bums out? >> yeah, we are. ive been looking at these numbers. you have, too. ive never seen incumbents in washingto...

other of playing politics. stephen moore, a good friend of the show, editorial writer with the "wall street journal." this week, as expected, president obamas jobs plan failed to pass the senate with an election in 2012, just over a year away, are we looking at another major overhaul in congress and perhaps the white house? are we looking at a situation when voters might say throw all the bums out? >> yeah, we are. ive been looking at these numbers. you have, too. ive never seen incumb...

Wide at its base. thats like a train that wide, bearing down on your neighborhood. and so when you stand there in the center of it, what you see at first is just nothing. you see just absolute devastation. there are houses that literally seem to have been disintegrated, not blown over, not the roof torn off, just gone. but what you see soon after is you get to the shelters and you talk to people in the streets, they are cleaning up and gathering photos and so forth, is that folks are really comi...

Or am i reading that wrong? >> well, they see this as a standoff and theyre willing to outwait him. mubarak has been in power for 30 years. it may take longer than 17 days to get him out of power. in tunisia it took four weeks. people here are resolute. their numbers only continue to grow. many of the participants here tell me what can we go back to? we have been denouncing the mubarak regime for three weeks now and our faces all over tv. we will be targeted. there is no choice. this is our chan...

Many of the participants here tell me what can we go back to? we have been denouncing the mubarak regime for three weeks now and our faces all over tv. we will be targeted. there is no choice. this is our chance and were not looking back. >> sharif, tell us about the people who are protesting. do they go home and eat dinner? i mean, are they destitute? are they -- do they just have the shirts on their backs? how do they function? what is it like day to day in egypt from what you can see how they...

Senior producer for democracy now. he has been back in the city reporting on the uprising there since saturday. thank you so much for joining us tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> most of the reporting coming out of egypt says that this protest movement, this uprise something pretty organic and leaderless. it is not being led by any one group. having been on the ground there all weekend is that the impression that you have? >> i would have to agree with that. this is a leaderless movement t...

He has been back in the city reporting on the uprising there since saturday. thank you so much for joining us tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> most of the reporting coming out of egypt says that this protest movement, this uprise something pretty organic and leaderless. it is not being led by any one group. having been on the ground there all weekend is that the impression that you have? >> i would have to agree with that. this is a leaderless movement that cuts across political plins, ac...

Every day, you get a little something out of him! >> theres no question that harry reid speaks very -- many times inartfully, but in terms of what he said about latinos, the sentiment that he was talking about is that democrats have been fighting for middle class and working class families and i actually think its ironic that my friend senator santorem is trying to divide people along class lines when republicans are fighting tooth and nail for the top 1 percent of the wealthy people in this cou...

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It. >> yes. and let me say this. i think that it is important that we see these coalitions across racial lines, class lines, labor civil rights come together but we must also make those in the congress that claim to be democrats, progressives, stand up. this cannot just be a fight for those that are no courage and afraid to be attacked by the other side. >> thats absolutely true, reverend n wisconsin we have another struggle going on. the recall efforts to recall governor walker are in full swin...