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The government has had senior level defections and president salehs future is uncertain. with that uncertainty comes major concerns that yemen may become the next failed state. yemen has been a hot bed for extremism when al qaeda established its presence there. then to 2000 where you may remember the "uss cole" bombed in the port of aiden in yemen. 17 u.s. servicemen were killed, 39 others injured. in the wake of 9/11, president saleh cooperated with the u.s. to hunt down terrorists in yemen, al...

Parties for a long, long time. yesterday he spoke to speaker boehner and leader reid encouraging them dont let the government shutdown. the presidents playing a role. it may not be as visible and public as some like, but i think hes doing the right thing. >> you mentioned the jobless number. well put the graph on the screen here to give our viewers a sense of where unemployment has gone since 2009, the peak october of that year. now back down to 8.8%. certainly an improvement with private sector...

Irrespective of of your ideology, or your religion, right now youve got to be scratching your head. you thought you had the support of n.a.t.o. and attacking the oil towns east of libya and all of a sudden hear the president of the united states say theres not more air support just at the time youre in retreat from gaddafis forceses and the president told the nation monday night its deadly advance had been stopped. >> mike: its a muddled policy and there is some criticism that this policy is mor...

Boehner and leader reid encouraging them dont let the government shutdown. the presidents playing a role. it may not be as visible and public as some like, but i think hes doing the right thing. >> you mentioned the jobless number. well put the graph on the screen here to give our viewers a sense of where unemployment has gone since 2009, the peak october of that year. now back down to 8.8%. certainly an improvement with private sector jobs being created. an adviser to the president on the econo...

Delicate line here. he doesnt want to go too far in pushing his idea, but he wants to be there to encourage congress to come to the right conclusion. president obama is doing that. i can tell you this. he has been working behind the scenes with both political parties for a long, long time. yesterday he spoke to speaker boehner and leader reid encouraging them dont let the government shutdown. so, yes, the presidents playing a role. it may not be as visible and public as some like, but i think he...

Ground to make up. at the washington post at this rate getting back to the unemployment rate we saw in 2008 will take us until 2018. cant wait that long. we are in fact in a recovery as you can see in this graph from calculated risk. we are in a recovery. its just an incredibly slow recovery after an incredibly frightening fall. while all of this is happening, while the stock market is recovering and ceos are making bank it is regular people who work for a living, the ones who cash pay checks wh...

I was looking at something on the dale coast website yesterday or maybe the day before. i was not looking for this particular thing. it was something else. this caught my eye and has been bugging me ever since. ive decided i want to say something about it at the end of the show on friday. it is a simple thing but the kind of graph that tends to upset the common wisdom. this is the stock market going back to 1993. smoothed out a lot but this is it. the blue line stands for growth. stock market go...

Some lawmakers have talked about cutting pelt grants and cuts to education. theres the financial aid for college students. so this is just an interesting perspective on how many tax dollars go in to specific things. and you can see why its so important to talk about cuts to things like medicare and social security and also defense. i mean, it is just huge. so if you want a real education, whitehouse.gov. go there, check out this graph and learn a thing or two. as congressional leaders try to r...

April 26. tokyo says the demand for flights to japan has plummeted. take a look at this graph. you can see the steep selloff between march 11th and the 15th. keep in mind that the earthquake struck only about 15 or 20 minutes before the nikkei closed on march 11th, so you really see this is where the earthquake struck but you really see the steep selloff the following monday on march 14th here. and then, nina, you can see how its gradually regained some ground as we enter the month of april. nin...

Shut down the government just at a time when the economy is starting to recover. >> that makes sense, right? well, sadly, not to the republicans. they want cuts at any cost, even if it means a government shutdown. even more irrationally, they want those cuts, even though reports show those measures would cut 700,000 jobs through 2012. heres john boehner ignoring those two facts and pushing his budget plan anyway. >> todays jobs report is welcome news, but washington needs to do a lot more to end...