you would have thoft that $35 billion for teachers and firefighters would have resonated loudly within the senate chamber. that's what the white house thought. it didn't yesterday. republicans sticking to their guns that it's wasteful stimulus. this is not what president obama wanted to hear. he says, quote, americans deserve an explanation as to why they don't deserve those jobs and every american deserves an explanation as to why republicans refuse to step up to the plate and do what's necessary to create jobs and grow the economy right now. what you see there, that's a little lit of 2012 politics. because they have no chance of getting through, little chance of getting through the house as well, you're going to see a lot of these votes. democrats are going to bring up what they believe to be popular parts of the jobs bill and have them voted down. they believe that's very good for the 2012 politics. you see both sides moving away from actually governing and trying to get test votes on the record for things they think are popular in 2012. >> we'll continue to watch. luke russert, thank you. >> take care. herman cain is unveil eing new tweak to his 9-9-9 plan. he's announcing that change in another state that doesn't figure into the january primary calendar, michigan. cain says the new plan will help america's poorest cities like detroit. he made a big move up the polls over the past few weeks but the true measure of his success for his campaign may not be defined solely by winning the gop nomination. i'm joined now to explain. michael, good morning. >> good morning, thomas. and you're right. regardless of whether he wins the republican nomination, herman cain can still be a big winner just by running for pretty. as he shakes up the primary race herman cain raises new questions. it shows cain's campaign committee has used $100,000 collected from donors to pay cain's own company for thousands of these books written and published by cain. that's profits for himself. >> he's going ee >> the company is going to benefit and when the company benefits he's going to benefit. this has every appearance that herman cain is running for president largely to sell books and enrich his own company. >> reporter: federal rules prohibit a candidate for doing that. he says the pavements to his company are allow and were vetted by a campaign lawyer. he dismisses the perception that he's running to make a profit. >> if they know herman cain, they wouldn't even make such an assertion. how's that for political correctness? >> reporter: but the payments have fueled criticism even among republicans that he's used the campaign race to promote himself as a cam tan leader and speaker that could take off much the way sarah palin's did. on its website, the new voice sells books, pamphlets, and dvds, that chart cain's career as ceo of god fooer's pizza and motivational speaker. >> i had achieved what i had hoped for all my life. >> reporter: business week reports he has earned $250,000 this year continuing give motivational speeches. and just two weeks ago instead of campaigning, he was on a book door for his new book, "this is herman cain" published by simon & schuster. >> i can promote a book and campaign at the same time. >> so far, thomas, cain's strategy seems to be working. he's at the top of most polls. still, he only had a skeletal campaign staff and reportedly hasn't gotten off the ballot in some states. that makes the president's bid still a very uphill race. >> we're all watching. michael isikoff, thank you. >> thank you. several videos of the former libyan leader last surfaced. one shows him alive but wounded. another appears to be a gunshot to the head, execution style. that has some calling for an investigation into the deposed leader's death. adrian, what more have you been able to learn about when and where da-da fi wi where gaga fe where gadhafi will be buried. >> reporter: members of the interim government said that the burial may actually be delayed or originally they said it would definitely take place today at an undisclosed location. they didn't want to let people know, the public know where the body might be buried. now it looks like they might delay it for a little while and there may be two reasons we're hearing. one is obviously concerns that the international community has expressed over how and when he was killed. and then the other one is whether or not enough of the libyans will believe that gadhafi is indeed really dead. now, the mood here has been very celebratory but it's turned more reflective. today at friday prayers, weekly friday prayers where gadhafi's body is being held, most people were wanting to pay more homage to those who had fallen. remember what they had called the martyrs, the fighters, people who had lost their lives in this uprising. back to you. >> nbc's adrienne mong. thanks so much. the big question now, a price tag for taking out one of the world's most revealed dictators would cost according to a new report. the operation that led to the death of libyan leader moammar gadhafi cost the u.s. taxpayers $1 billion. meantime we're waiting on word i'm joined now by the washington bureau chief. it's nice to see you this morning as we all are watching this unfold. libya is currently a country without a leader, and as nato continues to honor the pledge to protect the people of libya, who is likely to emerge as the leader as this country transitions to democracy? >> well, the big challenge right now is to go through a peaceful transition, to demill tarrize the groups. this is not going to be an easy task. we have an interim government, collection of leaders who used to be part of the old regime, and some of the members of the opposition who are in exile. you have a prime minister who's respected. most of these people are nationalists. they'll be more assertive islamist groups. many of them are armed now and they're likely to constitute the challenge for this interim leadership and they're going to try to find a place in the new libya. so we have to watch the tension w libyan national lichl was formed during the days of italian occupation and colombiaenism. now one would hope it would embolden them and deepen the sense of national community. you have ideological, political and tribal grievances and they have to deal with these problems aet a time when you have a country that's bereft of any kind of distributions. judicial, political, you name it. they have to start from scratch. yes, they have lots of money in the banks, frozen assets. they lack bureaucracy. gadhafi wiped out any for the last 22 years when he hijacked the country. >> they were united in their hatred against gadhafi. what happens if your enemy's enemy is now my friend seems to work out to emerge somebody to the top there? >> i mean this is -- as i said, this is the biggest challenge. there are some countries continuing to arm these militias. this is a very darns game. . libya is not threatened by anyone. so they have natural enemies so to speak. their problems now are internal and some states co-provide some help. the egyptians, united states, europe, those countries that help the libyans have some leverage at this stage and they'll use it to provide the political help that will ease the transition. transitions by nature are very precarious. you've seen it even in egypt when you have national institutions such as the army. libya lacks that. so you have to start from scratch. >> thank you. what traditionally has been republican and territory, president obama courting the religious vote. so why now? and we're learning more about steve jobs after 40 interviews spang two years. a new book reveals never-before-released details about his romantic life, his health, and how he played hard ball with his competitors. 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>> they're looking for angles anywhere they can find thome. you're right. it has been fertile ground for them and religious voters have voted republican. however, they deployed a similar effort, president obama did, in 2008. his 2008 campaign, with pretty good results, albeit mixed. exit polls show that among voters who attended religious services once a week or more, that obama lost by 55 to 43%. that may sound like a big margin but it's better than john kerry did. and, in fact, exit polls show that president obama won along catholics and mainline protestants. so there is some reason to believe there might be room for him in this particular democr demograph demographics. >> maybe they'll want to split it and pull numbers away from one particular candidate, we're talking about mitt romney, vulnerable because of his mormon faith. >> exactly. polls continue to show some relims voters, evangelical krens more specifically, continue to have doubts about mormonism and a mormon candidate might be reluctant to vote for one. that's the negative perspective. they believe that they have a message that resonates with religious voters. >> ken vogel of politico. ken, great to see you. thank you. >> my pleasure. electoral genocide. that's what some officials are calling a new voter i. dmt law that could silence 22,000 people. melissa per riis harry is sounding off on what counseled be a big fight. i feel like i haven't seen you in a month of sundays. we're back with much more right after this. ♪ like so many great pioneers before me, guided only by a dream. i'm embarking on a journey of epic proportion. i will travel, from sea to shining sea, through amber waves of grain, and i won't stop until i've helped every driver in america save hundreds on car insurance. well i'm out of the parking lot. that's a good start. geico, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent, or more on car insurance. welcome back, everybody. thousands of americans ee bar to cast their vote in the next election may find a roadblock in their way. south carolina has passed a new voter i.d. law. 22,000 people have been added to the list of voters who could be turned around at the voting booth. msnbc contributor melissa harris perry joins us now. it's really nice to see you. >> thanks. >> let's get into this and refresh everybody's memory and bring them up to speed if they haven't heard of this. south carolina's photo identify kay says they must show a state-issues driver's license or identification card, a military i.d. or passport when they vote. why is this important to get down now? >> they're basically creating a policy to solve a problem that doesn't exist. there's this discourse from the right that voter fraud is a critical problem, that all these people are voting who should not be voting or they're double voting and it's non-existent. when you think about the problems we're really facing or in particular south carolina with its problems with the economy? the fact that they spent time to do this is clearly an impact about this upcoming election. >> certainly there has been outrage, especially from the left. i want to read this statement coming from the south carolina democratic party chair quote, saying, this is electoral genoci genocide. this is disenfrance chiesing huge groups of people who don't have the money to go get an i.d. card. how do you give the reashurnss that the state needs? >> this is an american issue, a citizenship issue. a up canal of things to note about voter i.d. if you require one and it costs money to g it a state-issued voter i.d., you're doing two things, one, basically imposing a poll tax. if you don't play money, you can't vote. that's an issue we dealt with in the 1960s. it's why the department of justice gets oversight in this. the second thing to remember is that the group os people who are disenfranchised by this are the most marginal. students, the very elderly, those who don't drive, those who may have disabilities. those are exactly the people who have the most difficult time voting in general. in a democracy we want to help people who have the hardest time, not make it even harder. there is -- it's being set up as a partisan issue but it need not be one. >> you make a good point. an american issue, not left, not right. it's supposed to be all of our responsibility. but the stats really tell the tale of how minorities are impact impacted. south carolina, 800 voters. 11,000 non-white voters in richland county. over 4,000 in orangeburg county. these numbers as we look at it, they add up, they add up. how far can something like this go nationally? >> it can go very far nationally because there are some states who don't have department of justice oversight. the department of justice gets to have a say in their voter laws, but wisconsin, for example, doesn't have that kind of history but does have these kinds of laws. it can have a huge impact in swing states for the presidential election but also a huge impact in states like south carolina on congressional elections. look, carolina state and bennett college, two historically black colleges in south carolina are a situation where nearly everyone who votes in their precinct is now out of compliance with the ability to vote. that kind of disenfranchising impact, i think, is clear, but the goal here is to keep certain kinds of people from being able to cast a vote in 2012. >> melissa, great to see you. i want to give a programming note to everybody. you can catch melissa tonight for an entire hour when the brilliant melissa fills in for the brilliant rachel maddow. a new book opens up details about steve jobs' life including his warning to president obama and what he really thought about bill gates. should the u.s.-led mission of removing him from power be considered a victory for the president right here at homesome more after this. ♪ oh, beautiful ♪ for spacious skies ♪ ♪ for amber waves of grain ♪ ♪ for purple mountain [ male announcer ] for the first 100 years and for generations to come, thanks for making us a part of your life. ♪ whoa now there's no need to hold back. new revolutionary scope dualblast obliterates strong food odors leaving your breath minty fresh. hey. [ male announcer ] so there's no trace of evidence... new scope dualblast. is best absorbed in small continuous amounts. only one calcium supplement does that in one daily dose. citracal slow release... continuously releases calcium plus d for the efficient absorption my body needs. citracal. a united nations mission to eliminate the gadhafi regime that began many march has been a success. he's dead. each city has been liberated and a transitional council has assumed a new role as head of the country. the strategy was spearheaded by president obama, limiting u.s. military engagement and working with international allies to obtain foreign policy victories. so how much political clout does gadhafi's falling give the president? chris haynes is here. let's get into this. republicans have krit signs the president's approach to libya, and when we think about what they've been saying and we even have fresh stuff from this morning, take a look at this. hearing praise about president obama's political rival, john mccain giving the president this. >> i give the president and the administration credit. the fact is that we could have ended this conflict a lot earlier if we had used the full weight of the u.s. air power. instead of leading from behind, and we wouldn't have the 30,000 wounded and thousands -- hundreds if not thousands who are killed. >> all right. so why don't we take it from there. obviously 2012, all about the economy. but there is success with the removal, the death of gadhafi and what it means for the libyan people. >> i think this is something we're going to talk a lot about on the show tomorrow, which is if you look at the obama administration's forp policy, it has been in many ways a much more competent efficient plan than the bush administration. so it doesn't seem like the goals have shifted that much. but what has shifted is the mechanism by way of doing it. so we have huge amounts of drone strikes. we don't have boots on the ground in countries. we had this libya intervention which was done through the united states security council. so i think there's a degree to which the obama administration has won victories in the vein that should make republicans happy, but, of course, it's impossible. they're constitutionally incapable of giving them credit. >> that was a little left-handed compliment. >> it's a real issue. they did not go through congress. you can start hostilities but then you have to go to congress within 90 days. they did not go. they said the war powers act does not apply here. even though they spent $1.1 billion. there were no ground troops but some of the planes could have been shot down. think are real constitutional issues over congress's control over the military agents that are completely unresolved and something that republicans don't want to talk about. >> but they'll have to if they continue. >> that's what's so interesting, right? because the criticism that's on the table for republicans to make, they say, look, they've overrun congress. at the end of the day the congress and republicans don't want to deal with this. they know who their constituents are. so what they're doing is avoiding the one substantive criticism you could make and instead go in with these, i think, preposterous ones. >> i want to get your take. this week we have the debate to talk about. i was watching this with my dad and my sister and we were kind of flabber gaftd. there must have been a lot of oxygen being pumped into that room. it was very touching is the one thing that we got out of it. touching moments between mitt romney and rick perry that we've never seen before. we had the moment where he approached her and, you know, the body language is pretty telling. especially when we look. >> i thaw t >> i thought it was good for perry. it with as shot framing the two of them as essentially equals, right? they were going at each other and i think after some thought about it while he's flagging the polls and cain is rising it refocussed the media narrative that the two front-runners are romney and perry. i think it was good for perry. i also thing it looked bad for romney to put his shoulder on the guy and i thought he lost his cool. i think generally as a rule in politics, there's a tremendous degree of discipline to sustain the 20-hour a day sket for seven days a week while running for president. he was able to maintain the discipline through that grueling schedule and i think we saw a slip-up in mitt romney who thus far has been a very disciplined candidate. >> what do you have coming up for us this weekend? we're going to be talking about libya and the foreign poll samd gop reactions to it. we have a wonderful libyan author on the show whose father was abducted by gadhafi. >> we look forward to it. just a programming reminder for you, wake up this weekend and enjoy "up with chris hayes." chris, thanks again. topping the headlines in the news now, new details about the ohio man who kept dozens of exotic animals on the property. terry thompson owed almost $70,000 to the irs. police are not saying if that's why he set the animals free on tuesday before killing himself. meantime, new pictures today show the animals that were not killed by authorities. the coroner says one of the animals most likely, one of the big cats bit thompson on the head after he shot himself. well, the latest developments in the search for baby lisa, lawyers for the missing 10-month-old parents are pushing for a confession. police say they oemt want the truth and are seeking a fresh interview. they've struggled to find common ground. and lib someday lohan finally got it right. this morning she arrived to the kmublt service at the l.a. county morg 15 minutes early. now yesterday you may remember she showed up 40 minutes late to her first day there after having her probation revoked. the starlet told officials she did not know where to go and was delayed by the media. >> he once told president obama he was leaning toward a one-term president and he vowed. now, the new biography by walter isa isaacson hits bookstores next week and i'm joined now by the tech reporter for "the washington post" to talk more about this. one of the most talked about details is job delayed surgery that may have saved his life. so tell us more on why he put off having this surgery against the advice of his doctors. >> well, it sounds like from what walter isaacson has said in meteor reports and what's been leaked this morning that he wanted to pursue, you know, home owe pathic methods, less traditional sessions, experimental diets because he didn't want his body to be violated. he didn't want to go through with the surgery. >> he also had some pretty unpleasant words for his rival, bill gates. he said he's basically unimaginabunimage naive, he ripped off other people's ideas. that's pretty harsh. >> it's one of the most historic business rivalries that's ever bun, but "the new york times" also reported that gates was one of the few people that he spoke with. so maybe toward the end they had some grudging respect for each other. >> this book is going to probably fly off the shelves and be downloaded on people's ipads for sure. thank you so much. >> thank you, thomas. steve jobs makes the latest cover of the fortune magazine. they're taking a look at the hottest and youngest names in business. here's a look at the top five for 40 under 40. facebook's mark zuckerberg, there are other interesting names on this list. we'll talk more about this. stephanie, it's nice to have you here. everybody loves lists, so it's really cool when we categorize it as the 40 under 40. let's start at the top. mark zuckerberg, explains where he falls and why he's not going to be moving off the list for years to come? >> it's only 24 years old. the thing is it's a snapshot of the year. there are many, many executives still under the age of 40 but the reason we put mark at the top of the list is he's had a tremendous year. 800 million users, on their way to a billion users. increasingly it's going to bale with some of the tech giants, apple computer, larry, number two on our list. facebook is not a start-up anymo anymore. he'd led them. >> he can lead your 30 under 30 category. but you bring up koogle and let's talk about larry page. he's the co-founder and ceo, 30 years old. reportedly wor ly reportedly. >> the competitive landscape is changing. google is learning they need to understand social. so as google tries to work its way into social networking, social media, it requires a different skill set. their employees are going to have to start thinking differently about with web and it's larry page's job. >> why did you separate the google guys? >> larry is the ceo. he and sergei started the company. sergey brin. employees, shareholders. all the different constituenciy ceo has to deal with. jack dorsey do, you expect he's going to go high oren the list? >> jack could rise for two reasons. twitter and square. he's effective will i helping run two prominent start-ups. one in the form of twitter and one in the mobile payment space, square. he has a foot in each world. there's no question he has an opportunity to rise on our list snow from pop culture standpoints it's very centering to see ryan seacrest making it on the list, 13 at 36 years old. as we thing about him being an entertainer or host, we don't think about him having a strong business sense but he does. >> he's in the process of producing 19 some television shows. he's a very savvy guy. he's been ambitious since a very early age and as we point out he is responsible for the kardashi kardashia kardashians' craze. >> love them or hate them, he wrought them to us. stephanie, thanks for coming in today. appreciate your time. >> thanks for having me. >> you might not know, but today is the end of the world, again, a doomsday preacher who said judgment day would come this past may now says it's still happening. he just had the wrong date. the frenzy surrounding the last end of the world prediction has led harold camping to tone it down this time around. we still have a few more hours of wait-and-see, but this is his first aterminate in 1994. we'll see how the day unfolds. what's going on here? 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