field. martha: robert champion died last november. prosecutors say he was beaten so badly that he was bleeding internally. at least 11 band members are facing felony charges in his death. bill: a lot of pride in that school with that band, too. what blow that is. new questions today over a $6 million grant awarded to a project run by a close friend of the obama family. health and human services gave the grant to chicago s urban health initiative, which is run by president obama s long time friend and frequent golf buddy eric whittaker, former new york city. al fonz d amato is with us. good morning to you. this initiative is connected to the university of chicago medical center. michelle obama has a connection there, vallerie jarrett has a connection there, david axelrod has a history as well. i mean, on the surface, what s it look like to new. look, they have this
and came down the line. thank you, al d ata d amato. martha: president obama is trying to sell the jobs plan but will his friends show up to the party? why some high profile democrats are keeping their distance. bill: also all those candidates hitting mitt romney. how did mitt hit back, we wonder. you have a problem with allowing someone to finish speaking, and i suggest that if you want to become president of the united states, you got to let both people speak. so first, let me speak.
have caused a lot of violence in the streets. we ll keep an eye on that. bill: what do you think of that. president obama embrace the occupy wall street protests in new york, and in an interview with abc news, the president compared those protestors to the tea party movement. listen: i understand the frustrations that are being expressed in those protests. in some ways, they re not that different from some of the protests that we saw coming from the tea party. you know, both on the left and the right. i think people feel separated from their government. they feel that their institutions aren t looking out for them. bill: what about all that, former new york senator al fonz d amato, fair comparison? total nonsense. it s not a fair comparison. the fact of the matter is people are frustrated and there s a great deal of sympathy in the nation with