went silent. when he started to speak about this, it was surprising. it was very surprising. he listed off a few things that jay carney is ready to answer all your questions. we re going to tackle immigration but first, this. and then you could hear the silence. it s interesting. sabrina fulton, trayvon martin s mom put out this statement and tracy martin, trayvon s father said we re deeply honored and moved that president obama took the time to speak publicly and at length about our son. so as you heard jessica say, the president hasn t talked directly to the parents but the parents did put out this statement. the question is, will this just be something we talk about for a couple days or will this statement have a place in history, much like his 2008 campaign speech on race, much like kennedy on catholicism and johnson on civil rights? will this have a place in history? we ll have discussion coming up. across the country, as we told you at the top of the show, protesters are ge
the lesson of 9/11 was as we saw the last two weeks, state and local are the first responders, the ones who will save lives. they need to know what might be coming down the pike. juliette, the idea that not only tamerlan put on the list, but the mom put on the list, how often does that happen so there wasn t be an official alert. it seems if 500,000 or more people on the list, spread out across the country, i can t imagine that in a typical situation there wouldn t be cause to inform, hey, we just put son and mother. this guy in cambridge, we put him. extimist, russians worried about him. his mom on the list too. checking them out. right. the numbers i m looking for, i would love to know right now, are how many people did the russians say look at once if not twice? we ve been debating this. common for russians to do or not? we need that number. secondly, how often are mother and son on the list and third
mother. well, that was president obama referring to the well renowned differenter of his former chief of staff, rahm emanuel, now mayor of chicago, of course, he has two high-profile brothers, ari, a powerful agent, the inspiration for a character on the show entourage and eleak yell, a doctor and white house adviser are. dr. emanuel has written a book about life with his brothers and recently spoke about it with brian williams on rock center. what did mom put in the clear zal three different brothers three different areas, how did that happen? how can i raise my kids this way. after this interview, how i do not raise my kids this way? not manual how do you raise your kids? point of fact, don t try this at home. only the emanuel manual and shouldn t be considered a manual for any don t try this at home. doctor emanuel joins me from
very good writer. i was not at all. i spent six years working diligently at my writing and was helped by many people along the way, including my roommate in college, my mentor in oxford, and rick hertzburg when he was at the new republic. who really helped me and kept pounding away. you have good ideas and you re a crappy writer. work at it. but it takes time and you have to be willing to keep it up. did i say 15 hours a day? i work five hours a day. rapid fire. first of all, why did you write this book? and were your brothers okay with it? well, everyone can blame maureen dowd, because she kept saying what did mom put in the cereal? and then i also began just writing stories for my kids. i wanted them to know. and what are you working on now? well, my massive online open course has just started on health policy to educate everyone about the american health care is. i think i have 15,000, 16,000 people taking the course. wow.
so she, you know, was very emotional. i think we were all thinking the worse possible things during the course of the time when we were looking for her, and not nothing what thknowing what the reason was. bill: this is a major mystery. what happened to cal ripkin s mother. we don t know who the kidnaper was. we thought we might have an idea. you saw the sketch on the screen earlier. we wanted to share with you. cal ripkin jr. s mom put in her car about a week ago, this is the sketch, and the police have it and are working from it down there in baltimore. five minutes past of the hour. this is breaking news across the country, tempers boiling over the state of the economy. brand-new reaction from the campaign trail to a new jobs report released a short time ago. unemployment ticking up for the month of july 8.3%. the economy added 163,000 jobs,