The protection of children first. Thats and where does that start . What should they do . Well, at a bare minimum they should start by putting out the names of the credibly accused predators that are in the midst of the church today, which is, what, about 30 bishops here in the u. S. Have already done. They should immediately make it very clear that anyone any bishop or topranking Church Employee who is found enabling or concealing sex crimes will be fired. And then they should follow up on these kinds of rules and actually fire those who have engaged in it. I mean, they should definitely, for example, remove Bishop Bishop flynn from kansas city, whos been convicted of abusing sorry. Hes been convicted of endangering children. Okay. And he still holds his place. Well, this is certainly an opportunity for the Catholic Church to move on the issues that were talking about. No question. Barbara blaine, thanks for your time tonight. I appreciate it. Thats the ed show. Im ed schultz. A progr
0 ever in the whole history of the dow. it came within 15 points of the record. now, the record was set in october 2007. notably, before the financial crisis. before the american economy imploded and almost took the world down with it. the dow today came within spitting distance of prefinancial crisis record highs, the highest of all time. amazing. and of course the stock market on any given day is not an indicator of the general health of the economy as a whole. but that race to the top at the stock market today comes alongside a bunch of other good and surprising economic news. today we learned, for example, that the number of americans seeking unemployment benefits fell by 22,000. so fewer people on unemployment. that s a good thing. it is a good sign. it means the job market may be picking up. also today, news that american businesses are placing more orders and revving up production because they think the economy into effect. this is a self-imposed horrible idea that is horrible o
0 the crisis that we must avert. that congress must take action to avoid. and if they don t, crash, horrible consequences. congress, save us. tomorrow is the deadline. we are officially in the 11th hour. this is the last minute. this is the moment when everything is supposed to be getting fixed, when congress is supposed to be up all night sweating it out. actually, today congress went home 2:07 p.m. and 13 seconds the house stands adjourned until monday. 6:30 p.m. and 20 seconds, the senate stands adjourned until monday. they re gone. the whole point was to make them fight with each other and fix this thing down to the wire. they left in the afternoon. to be clear, they did not go home because they fixed it or because they decided that we wouldn t do this thing or because they decided actually this thing is no big deal. it is still the same looming thing that they all say we shouldn t do. $85 billion. boom. austerity. all at once. the pentagon is supposed to absorb half of those cuts.