new george w. bush library. let s bring in congresswoman barbara lee, and former special assistant to president george w. bush, dillon glenn and the managing editor. you made this remarkably difficult decision to vote against the authorization for the use of military force within just a few weeks after 9/11. you were the only member of congress in both houses to do so. i wonder what your reaction was to watching the celebration of the bush presidency today at the library and all this talk about difficult decisions. chris, first of all, that resolution that came to congress was three days after the horrific events of 9/11, on 9/14, which tells you how much time the president and congress had to make decisions about a response to these very terrible events. it was a blank check. it was a resolution written in a way that gave any president,
everybody knows that sst what he was going to say, and he was not going to be caught for lying under oh. okay. but general, because we re coming up on a break here. yeah. really quickly, should he have said something after 9/14 when he went out? should he have said look, guys, you didn t understand me. the president is talking about a video, but i said al-qaeda connected. should he have said something in those six weeks? he should have said something. she shoul he should have saig on the 14th. thanks for being with us this evening. always a pleasure. coming up, the whistle blower that blew the lid off the petraeus affair. who is this woman, jill kelley? later, did two of the top ranking army generals interfere in a parent-child relationship? did they use their positions to protect a woman and her custody of her children? of the childre.
contingency. i would like to know about the cable, the explosion back in june. i would like to know why that was all unanswered. then we have the evens of 9/11. you know, what happened that night. then after 9/11, we have the sort of weird series of events, we have at the u.n. ambassador sent out. why she was sent out i don t know. she doesn t seem like the person to be sent out. certainly, she was the wrong person because she carried the party line, at least what i see about this business about the spontaneous protest, as well as the video. then you have general petraeus. he goes 9/14 with the same story. you have the president going on every entertainment exaggeration, he went on letterman and the view. that s weird. you have the problem with eligible petraeus and broadwell, the girlfriend. we don t finish that relationship poisoned how he did his job. how did she get classified documents. where did she get that and whether or not, you know, when did the affair begin, did it begi
nascar or a bus. this shows how far we have to go to think outside of the box. if this is something that keeps the fire company open and people safe, this is something you want to consider. chicago also sold ad space on the bridges to bank of america while philadelphia rented out a transit station to at&t and brazil, indiana let kfc advertise the chicken wings on the fire hydrants. all right. let s talk a different kind of money. that s what we will spend for the barbecue on the fourth of july. apparently july fourth will be easier this year on your pocket book. the majority of americans plan to celebrate with a cook out and no surprises there, but according to a special big inside analysis, the average price of an independence picnic is down to $59.14. as for the total spend on cook
the labor report released its news and national unemployment rate stands at 9.14 percent. we asked the white house for the latest assessment of the numbers and they sent us this statement. everything is coming in frozen. yes, they believe it is coming up roses. but for a lot of folks, they felt the thorns. but the down in economy impacted small businesses. joining me is three people who lost their businesses. good to have you here. alicon, you inspector new york and had a good job and had an interesting job serving people who had lots of money and then the bottom fell out and the business went bust. tell me what happened? it was the summer of 2007 . the business had started growing and i was hiring another people and thinking