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Wingers has created -- they literally have created a number of right-wing think tanks, and those guys are on tv, they're in the newspapers every day, pushing the corporate agenda, pushing the agenda for the wealthiest people in this country. >> last question and i'll let you go, senator. what do you think about -- not that you have any, a horse in the race, but what do you think about my idea of approaching the the occupy wall street crowd, which obviously has a tremendous amount of energy, and suggesting to them that the action item for 2012 is to get money out? >> well, i think that's part a...

barbara starr is hearing tonight from her sources of preparations for perhaps a final last stand by the libyan dictator. barbara, when you talk about a last stand, what are your sources telling you? >> well, they say that there is some indications they believe an assessment, if you will, that kad could be preparing for a last stand that it possibly would of course be in tripoli, his last major strong hold where he has some capability. what they don't know is what would this last stand look like. they're looking at the notion it could be scud missile launches, it could be an all-out m...

The op-ed, suzanne, is really a political document. it is statement of what their policy intentions are to the world. obviously to the libyan opposition. but it's not an action item. right? it doesn't actually advance the policy goals. it's simply articulating them. that's one of the challenges i think of having this effort to support the rebels and protect civilians, the operation by a committee, by nato, they make perfectly clear that they want to see gadhafi go. they also make perfectly clear in the op-ed that they do not believe -- they will not use military force to achieve that objective...

Right now the last shreds of bank reform are in direct danger of being stripped away by this conference committee, members of the financial conference committee debating just how much they are willing to strip out on behalf of the banks. the big action item today, determining what kind of a look at fed's books, if any, we will get. of course, most of the money stolen from us, stolen by taking worthless collateral into the federal reserve and putting out real money for the bankers and then, of course, the federal reserve reviews it to show us what they were accepting as collateral or what it wa...

Agree with that. so since i live about five blocks away from zucati park, i went down there friday, saturday, and sunday to talk debate and hopefully find common ground with folks who i thought shared my frustration. i love what you're doing. i believe that this can be turned into an action item for next year. right now what's being communicated is, we're not going to take it anymore. because this is very pink floyd, right? no mas. so now you've got these energy balls in new york, in boston, in philadelphia, et cetera. they feel the same way, which is that this country has become a bought gove...