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LiveBlog for Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
• Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform and the economy.
• Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about Veterans’ Day, health care reform, the economy, and his run for Senate.
• Karl Frisch, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to co-host Right Wing World.
• Hal Sparks joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific for another edition of “Humpdays With Hal.”
• Former President Bill Clinton told anxious Senate Dems yesterday to pass a health care bill soon because the U.S. economy can’t resist the toxic combination of exorbitant medical costs and nearly 50 million uninsured for much longer.
• Caution returned to the stock market yesterday as investors decided to slow an advance that has lifted the Dow Jones industrial average 475 points in five days. Stocks fell in light trading, though the Dow tacked on 20 points to close at a new high for the year.
• A senior government official tells ABC News that investigators have found that alleged Ft. Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan had “more unexplained connections to people being tracked by the FBI” than just radical cleric Anwar al Awlaki. Names and countries of origin are likely to emerge soon, according to officials.
Tags: Anwar al Awlaki, Bill Clinton, Dow Jones, Ft. Hood, Hal Sparks, Health Care Reform, Joe Sestak, Karl Frisch, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, Maxine Waters, Media Matters for America
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LiveBlog for Friday, November 6, 2009
Friday, November 6th, 2009
• Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform and the economy.
• Christian Weller, economist with The Center for American Progress, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to give us an update on the economy.
• John Fugelsang joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific for “Fridays With Fugelsang.”
• Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform, the economy, and texting while driving.
• Military officials are starting today to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 at Ft. Hood, Texas. The suspected shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, is on a ventilator and unconscious in a hospital after being shot four times by military police.
• Chanting “Kill the bill,” thousands of conservatives rallied at the Capitol yesterday against health care reform. “This bill is the greatest threat to freedom that I have ever seen,” House GOP leader John Boehner told the crowd.
• A drop in unemployment claims gave investors new reason to be optimistic about the economy and sent the Dow jumping by over 200 points to close above 10,000 yesterday.
Tags: Center for American Progress, Christian Weller, Economy, Eliot Engel, Ft. Hood, Health Care Reform, John Boehner, John Fugelsang, John Sarbanes, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan
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