labels just aren t selling the way they used to. take, for example, n sync s 2000 album no strings attached, which sold 2.5 million copies in just its first week. that was the height of the record industry, but that s a heyday long gone. bye, bye, bye now we ve seen, you know, number-one albums sell less than 1,000. so i mean, that can give you a pretty good gauge of where the industry is. don t be frightened reporter: for leah it was her song in a public service announcement that caught benji s attention. through pledge and her fans she was able to release an album in october. her best shot yet at finally breaking through. they know better than i do like what fans want. they ve studied it. when i get my arms around you, boy reporter: singer rachel yamagata had big label experience under her belt, and many of her songs have been featured on hit tv series like grey s anatomy. because i remember what we
let s start with the keystone pipeline and why this is such a sticking points. the state department has estimated the numbers are all over the map for how many jobs it would create. but the general feeling is somewhere between 5,000-,000 jobs, which is better than zero jobs. why is this such a sticking point? i think what happened with this pipeline was the president was fully behind it. an got a call from the governor of nebraska and said can you revisit a few things to make sure this is safe for nebraska s drinking water. i think the administration will approve this pipeline. but we shouldn t be tying the payroll tax highway to this. these are two separate things the republicans would be balking over. when you want to take a tax cut for the richest 1%, no holds barred, no strings attached.
well, let me put it this way. i knew that wall street was going to come after me with everything they had. they want to make sure that i m not the next senator from massachusetts. but it seems like the strategy now is the kitchen sink strategy. you know, throw anything you can at her and let s see what happens. you know, let s keep in mind what was going on just a little over three years ago. karl rove was part of the inner circle while george w. bush is telling congress and a nation, we ve got to bail out the big financial institutions, his secretary of the treasury is handing out money to the largest financial institutions. no strings attached. i go down to washington and i m calling him out for it. i m calling him out on executive bonuses, i m calling him out on the fact that they are giving this money away no strings attached and i get attacked for it. okay. then we roll forward three years. now karl rove takes money from wall street in order to attack
they re giving this money away, no strings attached. and i get attacked for it. okay, then we roll forward three years. now karl rove takes money from wall street in order to attack elizabeth warren for being cozy with wall street? this one just goes beyond anything i had never imagined. be sure to watch the last word with lawrence o donnell at 10:00 p.m., only on msnbc, the place for politics. and now here s an early look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 11,997 after skidding 198 points yesterday. the s&p sank 26 points. the nasdaq tumbled 52. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo, the nikkei dropped 128 points while in hong kong the hang seng plunged 521. well, disappointing news out of europe s financial summit sent stocks into a nose dive thursday. shares fell early after the european central bank president
massachusetts. but it seems like the strategy now is the kitchen sink strategy. you know, throw anything you can at her and let s see what happens. you know, let s keep in mind what was going on just a little over three years ago. karl rove was part of the inner circle while george w. bush is telling congress and a nation, we ve got to bail out the big financial institutions, his secretary of the treasury is handing out money to the largest financial institutions. no strings attached. i go down to washington and i m calling him out for it. i m calling him out on executive bonuses, i m calling him out on the fact that they are giving this money away no strings attached and i get attacked for it. okay. then we roll forward three years. now karl rove takes money from wall street in order to attack elizabeth warren for being cozy with wall street? this one just goes beyond anything i had ever imagined.