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But the main point, ed, here is the point you just made. this country today has 16% real unemployment. 25 million people without jobs or underemployed. what the country is demanding is a real jobs program to put the american people back to work. the republicans have nothing to say, except the same old mantra, let's give more tax breaks to billionaires and let's cut programs for working people and the vulnerable and the sick. so i think the president is now -- i'm sorry? >> well, i want to ask you about president obama. i mean, he is saying things he has not said in the last three years. he's b...

Americans come to help americans. they don't affect democrats or republicans, these storms, they affect everybody. if you go through my district, which is probably one of the hardest hit of all of these 52 districts, ed, you'll see that people can't get back into their homes. many of the bridges have probably been really, really minimized, so that we cannot use them any longer. we need that money from fema and we need it up-front. because we don't know what the real damage is in this storm. we do not know. we have no idea of the health matters, the environmental matters, let alone the destruct...

This president stand up and make it clear he's prepared to take on the big money interests, prepared to take on the multicorporations. those guys are doing phenomenally well. corporate profits soaring, richest people doing better than thaifr ever done while their effective tax rate is the lowest in decades. meanwhile, we have massive unemployment. what the american people want to hear the president say, and he's beginning to say it, is we're going to put people back to work, we're going to ask the wealthiest people in this country to start paying their fair share of taxes. also, i would like t...

Number two in george bush's own doj come forward. that's why we've seen the former ward of this death row come forward and all call for a stay. and my heart right now goes out. it goes out to the macphail family who lost a hero 22 years ago. it goes out to the davis family who is sitting here, feeling helpless as their loved with one is murdered inside those prison walls. and it goes out, really, to the children of this country, who deserve to grow up in a country knowing that justice is done here. and the reality is that, tonight, it is very hard to find that anything but that justice has fai...

Reporting that the supreme court has denied a stay of execution. for more on this, let's go to pete williams, nbc news justice correspondent. you're looking at pictures right outside the jackson facility in jackson, georgia. pete, it's being reported by reuters that the supreme court has moved on this. what do we know? >> well, we're all reporting that, ed, and it's a very brief order from the court, as these are. i will read it to you in its entirety. it says, the application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to justice thomas and by him referred to the court is denied. tha...