Monthly Archives: January 2009

LiveBlog for Monday, January 19, 2009

• President-elect Barack Obama will take part in a community renovation project in the Washington, D.C. area today to honor Dr. Martin Luther King. Michelle Obama, as well as Joe and Jill Biden will also take part in the project. Today is the federal holiday commemorating the birthday of King. • Thousands of people packed…

LiveBlog for Friday, January 16, 2009

• Austin Hill, author of “White House Confidential: The Little Book of Weird Presidential History,” joins us via ISDN at 6:30am Pacific to talk about inauguration history. • Frances Callier and Angela Shelton, aka Frangela, joins us in studio at 8:30am for another edition of Fridays with Frangela! • A US Airways flight went down…

LiveBlog for Thursday, January 15, 2009

• Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA), one of the honorary co-chairs of the 2009 Presidential Inauguration, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to talk about the inauguration. • Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), one of the honorary co-chairs for the 2009 Presidential Inauguration, calls in at 8:05am Pacific to talk about the inauguration. • The Senate will vote…

LiveBlog for Wednesday, January 14, 2009

• David Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent for the New York Times, calls in at 8:05am Pacific to talk about his new book, “The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power.” • Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk about the inauguration and her plans to help homeowners…

LiveBlog for Tuesday, January 13, 2009

• Today is Chris Lavoie‘s birthday. • Illinois Senate-designate Roland Burris said yesterday that he is “truly humbled and honored” to learn he will be seated in the Senate later this week. Earlier in the day, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Illinois senior senator and Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin said the Senate would…

LiveBlog for Monday, January 12, 2009

• President-elect Barack Obama wants to make it easier to monitor how the second $350 billion installment of the financial bailout is spent and says homeowners and small businesses should get some help. Obama’s economic team is asking Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson ask Congress this week for access to the rest of the bailout fund….

LiveBlog for Friday, January 9, 2009

• Frangela (Frances Callier and Angela Shelton) join us in studio at 8:30am for another edition of Friday’s with Frangela! • President-elect Barack Obama yesterday said Congress must take “dramatic action” on his economic aid package as soon as possible, warning that a failure to do so would have devastating long-term consequences for the nation….

LiveBlog for Thursday, January 8, 2009

• Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America and author of “Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush,” calls in at 7:30am Pacific to refute the constant stream of lies in Ann Coulter’s new book, “Guilty.” • President-elect Barack Obama today will call for “urgent action” on a plan to jumpstart the…

LiveBlog for Wednesday, January 7, 2009

• Israel was set to pause its Gaza offensive for three hours today to allow food and fuel to reach besieged Palestinians, and the country’s leaders debated whether to accept an international cease-fire plan or expand the assault against Hamas. • President-elect Barack Obama forecasted close to a trillion-dollar deficit and potentially more trillion-dollar deficits…

LiveBlog for Tuesday, January 6, 2009

• Lead Franken recount attorney Marc Elias is tentatively scheduled to call in at 7:06am Pacific to discuss the legalities surrounding Al Franken’s senate win in Minnesota, and what a Coleman court challenge means. • CNN’s Chief Business Correspondent Ali Velshi calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk about his new book, “Gimme My Money…