erick, he s talking about the unemployment benefits. some people say it s the right thing to do in a bad economy but if you don t jooffset the costs for it, you re adding to the deficit. right, remember their pledge to america. if they vote for this package, they ve broken their pledge before they even take the majority. i don t know how they re going to do it. mitch mcconnell wants this vote now because not only does he think he can t get as good a deal in january but he he can t get as good a deal when there are more republicans around? yeah, because, you know, they re afraid the republicans, particularly the senator, desperately afraid the tea party guys are going to make them look bad. if you go back to health care, remember, democrats had the numbers. scott brown wins in massachusetts. it was like, oh, my god, what s going to come down? his victory forced those conservative democrats to get in line and actually back it. this is the same thing in reverse. is there any
credit. they say it s pay back because both visa and master card stopped taking payments on the wiki like site after it released thousands of military documents. is your credit at risk or your privacy? joe johns. supporters of wikileaks organization and its founder julian assange are suspected of launching attacking on a number of targets including mastercard.com and visa.com. the motive is retaliation because the attacks seem to be directed against companies that took action against wikileaks after its release of sensitive american documents. these are being referred to as distributed denial of service attacks. basically, a bunch of computers accessing a website all at once with request for service. on a twitter page identified as operation payback, activists, numbers unknown, wrote about getting unspecified weapons ready and now here we are. a statement was issued by visa saying, visa s processing network, which handles cardholder transaction, is functioning normally and
democrats to advance the bill to extend unemployment benefits, passing a hurdle by a 60-44 vote. scott brown, a and b is no, susan colin and george voinovich. it will extend long-term on and when the benefits and cobra until may 5. the wall street journal lead editorial argues extending these benefits is an incentive not to work. we want to get your thoughts this morning. the phone numbers are on the screen. here is the editorial. it says here, quoting lawrence summers that was lawrence summers writing in his concise encyclopedia of economics published in 1999. do you agree with the wall street journal or disagree? you can start dialing in now. the brookings institution, whose panel of economic activity reported this month jobless insurance extensions correspond to 0.7 or 1.8 percentage points of the 5.5 percentage point increase joining us on the phone is martin kady of the politico to talk about what the senate did yesterday. they approved a cloture vote, a proced
billion plan voted on yesterday with a more liberal version that includes the public option. the latest on dems versus dems and keeping republican olympia snowe on board. finding a villain. democrats take aim at insurance companies as the two sides erupted in open warfare. we talk about it with former dnc chairman, howard dean. her new life. our first look at jaycee dugard all grown up and back with her family. how she says she is doing now after being held captive for 18 years. a real life castaway. we will talk with the congressman who chose to spend a week alone on a deserted aland. is capitol hill so bad that he chose to spend his time in the middle of nowhere? plus, felony franks, ex-cops behind the counter and chain gang chili dogs on the menusome that crossing the line? the big picture starts right now. good afternoon, everybody, good afternoon, tamron, i m david shuster live in washington. oochblgts aim tamron hall live in new york. we begin with breaking news
which is there are a lot of members who as you noted are undecided. we re told there are a lot of serious concerns. listen to susan collins from earlier? there s about eight to ten republican senators who have serious concerns about this bill, and so at the end of the day, i don t know whether we ll pass it. interesting here, we know there s a handful of senators that have a real problem with this. what susan colin is says it s there s a lot of senators with serious concerns, what this provides is an opportunity to ask thog senators, look, don t come out as no, instead you have time now to bring us your proposals, bring us what you want changed, at least hold your fire, keep your powder dry.