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Irresponsible base to task for their lack of enthusiasm and told them to, quote, buck up. the progressive blog firedoglake responded, really, dude? thats your message? i cant stand you, now go vote for me? and so the battle for the soul of the democratic party is joined with just five weeks to go before a possible republican takeover of congress. joining me now to discuss the obama interview that has driven todays news cycle is "rolling stone" executive editor eric bates who was in the room with...

>> just dont whine, were going to start with eric. eric, lets start with another quote in your interview, where the president says, if people now want to take their ball and go home, that tells me folks werent serious in the first place. if youre serious, nows exactly the time that people have to step up. now, here we have another "rolling stone" quote thats causing trouble. this is after general mcchrystal ended his career with "rolling stone" quotes thanks to you guys. was this one of those th...

With president obama who in a "rolling stone" interview out today took his, quote, irresponsible base to task for their lack of enthusiasm and told them to, quote, buck up. the progressive blog firedoglake responded, really, dude? thats your message? i cant stand you, now go vote for me? and so the battle for the soul of the democratic party is joined with just five weeks to go before a possible republican takeover of congress. joining me now to discuss the obama interview that has driven todays...

And the georgia congressman who compared the health care bill to ha he called the war of yankee aggression, now says if we cut our dependence on oil, people will die. people will die. check out the "sideshow" tonight. lets start with the numbers game in the oil spill. eric bates is the executive editor of "rolling stone" magazine. im so impressed by this piece. tell me what you think was the lowballing by the u.s. government? first i want to give you this -- heres how the oil leak estimates ha...

President obama in the oval office along with other senior s&p executives. theyre aware rather belatedly what a disastrous pr campaign theyve made. the eric bates was talking about the low-balling of the estimatesments and i think theres an attempt here, not just with the suspension of the dividend or the probable suspension at least for a couple of the months of the dividend, but also putting the $2.5 billion pounds into an escrow account. theres an attempt to try perhaps belatedly, and staunch...

Emotional political climates. each side of the atlantic. >> i think actually, in all fairness to your observation, its the same as mine. but i think that the president hasnt been angry. but i think the media has been very tough. this network and others in print have been very tough on this situation. because it looks like bps calling the shots. it looks like the president has been lenient in accepting their numbers. and this shocking news that were sharing tonight, sir, that coming from lisa mye...

Interior department. thats whats needed. >> is there a sense that if a change were to be made, the whole thing, what limited effective parts of the response, would they grind to a halt if ken salazar was thrown out on his ass tomorrow? >> i dont think salazar is that involved in overseeing the response. im not sure it would make a difference. its a question of politics. obama came into office running against the drill baby drill crowd. salazar appeases that crowd because hes a big proponent of d...

Katrina, or photos of abu ghraib, in the same way. this kind of direct, if not contradiction at least, very alarming imagery running simultaneously with the presidents own appearance. >> do you think the networks were afraid of bush? >> i think that there, its striking that theres been this piling on of obama in the use of that footage. even while he was giving a presidential address. in a way that i dont really recall seeing under bush. >> i wasnt afraid of bush, if you noticed. thank you very ...

First "rolling stone" magazine executive editor eric bates, the article "runaway general" is in the magazines latest issue. i have to say as a journalist congratulations. this is an amazing scoop, and i have to ask you about the particulars. here they are as weve been able to get them from your article. tell us if this isnt the heart of your report. a mccrystal aide in your article is described as saying -- he describes the generals first one university one meeting with president obama this way,...

Disaster in which the companys reputation is sliding away along with every eco-logical we need to preserve in the gulf? >> you know, since theyre burning off about 8,000 or 9 thousand to you barrels a day on the q-4000 offshore, im not sure the lack of recovery and the peat moss thing was the issue, but clearly the peat moss does work close to shore and level water. i think it was more bp just dismissing every evidence but their own. its not in my own backyard kind of thing. its not invented her...