she had battled for 12 years. mondale today described his friend and running mate ace gutty pioneer. she was very close friend and we went through all of that history together, and we ve been friends ever since. and she had a tough, tough fight with that cancer. and, you know, we re going to miss her. that s a voice of walter mondale praising his friend geraldine ferraro. and joining me now are three people that are familiar with geraldine ferraro. in the rough and tumble world of new york politics, as well. representative charles rangel, joined the house in 1971 and served alongside ferraro in the new york delegation. reverend al sharpton, civil rights arcivist, and joining us on the phone is former new york governor eliot spitzer and the host of cnn s in the arena. thank you all for joining us. reverend sharpton, you worked wit her on voter rej vatigistra and ran against her.
welcome back to american morning. we talked about this a lot yesterday. at&t in its efforts to buy t-mobile. it is a huge almost $40 billion deal, and it could affect just about everybody with a mobile phone, not just people with at&t or t-mobile phones. and now at&t is saying that if the deal does go through, it s got a lot of hurdles to pass, folks who have t-mobile phones will need to replace their phones if they want to keep their wireless broadband service working. the wireless broadband service. the good news is, you will have plenty of time to replace your phone. at&t says the whole process of adjusting cell towers will take several years. and the way that phones change these days, most people will not be hanging on to their same stuff for several years. it s been a tough couple months for car owners and the next year may not get any better. could $5 for a gallon of gas really happen? here s what the former president of shell oil said last night on cnn s in the arena.
this morning, and if you click on the link to that tweet, you will be directed to his one of his websites, his campaign website which talks about the economy, what you d like to see done for the economy and also there is some talk about whether or not the president overstepped his bounds in libya and there is a fund-raising call in the context of that release. but it wouldn t be fair to say that he s fund-raising off of this impeachment talk, but he is certainly generating a lot of attention, carol. oh, yes, he is. jim acosta, many thanks. the latest cnn poll suggests that 70% of americans favor the action in libya. if most of the nation is behind the president, does it even matter what congress thinks? we ll ask eliot spitzer from cnn s in the arena in just a few minutes. if you re upset over rising gas prices in the last year, get ready for real pumper shock. last night, cnn s eedzdy hill spoke with the former president
production in the states. it is true that crude production now is lower than it was early in the bush administration, about 300,000 barrels a day here in the united states lower. but if you look at this, crude production in the united states, domestic crude oil production at the end of the bush administration, well, under the obama administration, it is higher than that now. so something to keep an eye onment don t always trust the politicians when they talk about pain at the pump. more on that tomorrow. in the arena starts right now. good evening, i m eliot spitzer. welcome to the program, in the arena. listen to this plea from a libyan freedom fighter that captures the desperate state of the redowns, a resistance, m this point tomorrow i ll still be alive. nobody knows. we need your support. is the liberation about to be crushed by muammar gadhafi and
i am not angry, i m hoping this is not a pattern, that this is something he does that s out of character. if he does it one more time? i will be extremely disappointed. this u.s. the first salvo on what we ll hear more and more of from the republican side. i m with will. i wish they would have ideas. i wish the candidates would view five seconds. don t paint the whole republican party conservative movement with one guy s statements. why not? what about the democrat party? i m getting the last word. time s running out. i m going to paint thanks for joining us in the arena tonight. thank you for joining us, thank you for watching. we ll be back tomorrow night. good night from norew york. pier piers morgan starts right now. matt damon is an oscar winner, one of people magazine s sexiest men alive, and one of the most private men in hollywood. the first rule about matt damon is you do not talk about matt damon. the second rule about matt damon is you don t