zuckerberg will become one of the richest men in the world. would you want to leave the results of an election up to a coin toss? doesn t sound like a viable option, does it? turns out it is. we ll take you down to texas. a flick of the wrist will decide an election there. it may look like your grandfather s 1960s rocket but it ain t. an insider look at the next frontier at intergalactic travel. are you ready to friend facebook? in the next hour investors will get their first chance to buy a piece of the social media empire. the most talked about initial public offering in years. alison kosik is at the nasdaq market site where the buzz is building. hi, alison. yes. consider this the super bowl of market events. facebook will open up its shares to the public for the public to buy today. in the next couple of hours. there s been a lot of hype with this. the question is will facebook live up to the hype? i m going to talk about all of this in a bit with you. can t wait
people. and wall street people may not realize this, but wall street tends to be a liberal group. you think they make a bunch of cash, so you naturally think they must be republicans they get crazy. megyn: it s full of democratic donors, but they re not opening up the coffers this time. are well, certainly not yet, and what s interesting in those numbers that you just showed there is, you know, even if they were to contribute at levels comparable to 2008, the president still would have an immense shortfall. he s off almost 20% in campaign contributions. they contributed in total about $15 million through election day in 2008, they are about $3 million now. megyn: the other thing is just thinking back to those numbers of, you know, from march of 2008, the democratic primary was still going on back then. hillary clinton was still in the race. right. it was still a race. megyn: you have to wonder whether the number would have been even higher for him back then if she had been out.
that was then senator obama speaking about race four years ago in march of 2008. last week, the president waded into the trayvon martin case days after wall to wall news coverage of the story and said if he had a son, he would look like trayvon. michael, i want to go to you first on this. obviously is the election of president obama was a landmark moment in terms of race in this country. do you think it the president has moved the ball forward in terms of the racial discussion? well, i think he s dealt with what the defense gave him as they say in basketball. the obama administration is acutely aware that many americans don t want to deal with the issue of race, don t want to talk about race. when he spoke about henry louis gates and his arrest at harvard, there was a well spring of bad sentiment unleashed against him. since then, he s been quite cautious about it. clearly they talked about it in the white house, how should we respond. quietly they ve gone about addressing issues o
ensure the world commodity oil markets will koomt with him. that s like karl rove speaking of our friend karl rove and bush said in march of 2008 that the economy will be fine by the summer. he just didn t say which summer. so timing is everything in this game, right? the summer of 22. here s what strikes me, the president is trying to walk a fine line. on the one hand, this kind of move. it appeals to independents. we can t miss that he said this in new mexico. we re about oklahoma to texas. where santorum is going today. this is going to upset the sort of greener parts of the base who don t want this pipeline. so how is the president going to walk that line? well, i think they ve already have expressed their disappointment, the environmental groups about this decision. i think the president s best line of political defense on this, taking it aside from the politics arguments, is that he does have an all of the above
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