prepped, i suppose, for the possibility of charges being filed against her. on thursday night, kansas city police announced that the parent, quote, decided to stop talking to detectives. and that same night, the parents insisted they needed a break from the incessant police questioning and they have been cooperative from day one. the father, in fact, jeremy irwin, offered to take a lie detector test, but he was told it wasn t necessary. so it seems all eyes are on the mother at this point. what s the latest on the search for the missing baby, baby lisa? has it been scaled back? reporter: yeah. they are still looking, despite several leads, no sign of baby lisa. you may have heard that fbi agents visited a nearby landfill where they searched twieses in the last week. they declined to discuss what led them to search there. the 10-month-old s mother denies knowing anything.
i want to know what you think. tonight s question. should president obama ever trust the republicans? text a for yes, text b for no to 622639. you can always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com for a comment and we ll bring you the results of the poll later on in the show. going to ohio, ohio in 2012, it is going to be a huge state. that s why we re going to be broadcasting in toledo tomorrow night then in columbus, ohio, on thursday night. joining me now is the mayor of columbus, ohio, michael coleman who was with the president today. mr. coleman, nice to have you with us tonight. i m looking forward to being in your city on thursday night with the ed show, a live broadcast. we really want to know what the folks of columbus in the heartland are saying about this. if you could just tell us, mr. coleman, are people in your city and ohio, how frustrated are they with this exercise in trying to create jobs? how frustrated and how angry, if they are, with washington?
get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question. should president obama ever trust the republicans? text a for yes, text b for no to 622639. you can always go to our blog at e ed.msnbc.com for a comment and we ll bring you the results of the poll later on in the show. going to ohio, ohio in 2012, it is going to be a huge state. that s why we re going to be broadcasting in toledo tomorrow night then in columbus, ohio, on thursday night. joining me now is the mayor of columbus, ohio, michael coleman who was with the president today. mr. coleman, nice to have you with us tonight. i m looking forward to being in your city on thursday night with the ed show, a live broadcast. we really want to know what the folks of columbus in the heartland are saying about this. if you could just tell us, mr. coleman, are people in your city and ohio, how frustrated are they with this exercise in trying to create jobs? how frustrated and how angry, if
jobs back, people have higher salaries, they re able to pay mortgages, able to go to the stores and spend. that s just not happening right now, and partly it s because of fear. now, the president on thursday night is probably going to say we need another stimulus plan, we re pretty confident that s what he s going to say. the problem i have with that message is, look, if problem with the u.s. economy and the global economy is too much debt and too much leverage, it s hard to make the case that more debt and more leverage is going to get us out of the crisis. jon: right, because who pays for it? where do you get that money, if that is what the president intends to say, let s spend more federal dollar, where do you get those dollars? i ve been in washington for 25 years, and that is a question nobody ever asks, where is the money going to come from. it s exactly the right question to ask, and i d like to see republicans say in be response, fine, you want to spend all this money on thes
struggle and this fight. but it has to be big. it has to be comprehensive and targeted. the congressional black caucus has been out among five cities. all of these cities, the unemployment is absolutely unbelievable. we had 10,000 people in los angeles looking for jobs. it must be not only targeted, but it must be something that s going to deal not only with the middle class who are losing their jobs, but all of the these minority areas and african-american unemployment, which just cannot continue the way it s going. let s talk about that. black unemployment jumped to 16.7% in august alone. so how angry are you going to be? you ve already told the tea party where to go. you said you want to see $1 trillion coming out of the president s mouth. on thursday night, if the president doesn t come up with this big plan, how angry are you going to be along with the congress congressional black