Charging of high Interest Rates and the theory is if you dont have a lot of money i should not be charging you so enrages. We have working people with 30 Interest Rates. That is higher than a loan shark. And then to work on that. [inaudible] that is an excellent question. The number of people all over the country and i like very, very much. But he believes that we have the job the this steady with the bac30 so we could have we have cn record obstructionism. In the old days people would require the 60 votes. Is very rare. Now with any significant piece of legislation. [applause] and by the way i think senator demarco will lead the nation but in a way i had no reason at all. But i thought it was important to get it out there. And a republican colleague and that is what they do. I think we should have picked the repinelican agenda in but the American People should sit down and they would take that issue. [applause] [inaudible] spec anybody cared if they want to work but here is what i thi
Where i am and i will read the introduction to a the books then 78 hours after that. [laughter] they did not tell you that . Then we will take some questions at 4 00 in the morning. Im a long as serving independence in congressional history into may say why . That i believe most Political Parties are heavily dominated and making millions of working families dont have the life they should be having with the levels of government and i have chosen to be an independent. The democrats civil least annette and i begin my political career are running for the United States senate on a thirdparty ticket end i received the though back in 1971 iran for the third party with 2 down 01 . [laughter] not the trajectory we were hoping but i may not be very bright but i am persistent came back and ran for the senate again against my now colleague patrick leahy. He wanted and i lost a leg up 4 in the threeway race then two years later iran for governor in elections every two years in vermont and i got 6 p
So i think you have to be judicious about it and i think also whether you choose to run within the Democratic Party or outside the Democratic Party, this i do believe that i think the republican agenda, tax breaks for alien heirs and savage cuts engage the middle class and working families, these guys really do want to take us back to the 1920s where if you are old and poor you are on your own, no healthcare for you didnt matter workers had no rights, do not underestimate, these are serious people, they are not fooling around. They want to take effect to the 1920s to to a darker part of society for a handful of very wealthy people. I think their views, their ideology is way out of touch with what the American People will be. . We did not have the option of not fighting. We can beat them. Nobody believes in the ideology. Nobody thanks that children in america should not have health care, that workers should not have rights. [applause] they are a fringe movement, it is the democrats have
Power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch this september friday. Stocks are on session highs. The dow topping 22,000 for the first time in two weeks. Nasdaq trying for another record the s p 500 having its best week since april. All three major averages on track for a second straight week of gains check out movers wynn resorts trading at levels not seen in two years. The big news today, american jobs creating engine wilting a bit in august. Only added 156,000 jobs last month, below the 180,000 that economists expected. Senior economics reporter Steve Liesman is here to take us inside the numbers it is cooling, coasting, stabilizing . A lot of negative words used in the intro i dont know if i agree. Job growth did slow. Came in below expectations but is a decent report the population is growing at 80,000 thats what we should expect were almost double that number, still enough to take some workers off. Ism manufacturing, one of the highest numbers in a while more about that in
Examines the changing technology on journalism. He is in conversation with Susan Glasser of politico. Also the author of a new book overload finding todays truth in news. It is an honor to be with you. I am a little bit humbled to be given the task of interviewing such a legendary interviewer but thank you for taking the time. Time. Guest thank you, and im honored to be interviewed by y you. You are a wellknown person in journalism, and it is good to be with you. Host we are trying to make sense of the effects right now. We might as well go ahead and start with the proverbial elephant in the room, the president ial tweeter in chief. Once again, they are fairly consistent. The president of the United States said it isnt freedom of the press when others are allowed to say and write whatever they want even when it is completely false. That was not an accident. Its frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write. The First Amendment seems to allow us to wr