republican front-runner for the president. according to the latest national poll. leaving many analysts wondering if the georgia businessman s plan resonating. all that and more on american morning. good morning, everybody. it is thursday, october 13. it is certainly not a good morning. i can t get messages from people, i can t send messages. mine was down yesterday but back now. mine was up yesterday but i e-mailed this morning. our executive producer said i will be late. that s the e-mail i sent. he is panicking going where are my anchor. if you don t know what we are talking about, millions of blackberry users are without service this morning. now four-day blackout spreads to north america. the outage primarily affects e-mails and internet access, not the ability to make phone calls or text. weird. problem started monday affecting customers in europe, middle east and africa. by tuesday, it has spread to south america and yesterday customers here in the un
fired up over america s economic troubles had no one to blame but themselves. here s what he told the wall street journal . don t blame wall street. don t blame the big banks. if you don t have a job and you re not rich, blame yourself. then this past weekend, cain fired another shot at the protesters on cbs face the nation. watch. my parents never said that we hope that the rich people lose something so we can get something. no. my dad s idea was, i want to work hard enough so i can buy a cadillac, not take somebody else s. but, listen. now cain is tweaking his message and saying the protesters should be blaming someone. the white house. here s what he said last night during the bloomberg/ washington post gop debate. that response was directed at the people that are protesting on wall street. not that 14 million people who are out of work for no reason of their own, other than the economy s not growing. not the millions of people that are underemployed. they h
he left jackson s bedside for two minutes to use the restroom. the theory that seems less reasonable to me is that mr. jackson woke up and, although he was under the influence of sedative medications, managed to give himself another dose. reporter: rogers testified that jackson, who was 50 when he died, was healthier than most people his age, but the defense has argued the singer was frequently using a number of different sedatives to help him get to sleep including this propofol which is, ultimately, the drug that killed him according to the coroner s report which also ruled that the manner of death is homicide. bill: claudia cowan, we ll see where the trial goes today. beginning shortly. martha: siding with the wall street protesters, is it wise for some democrats to align themselves with these proo testers, and is there a danger if republicans dismisthem?t coming up.a
attended? guest: not one to my knowledge. ever. so, nor mine, so, tea party, and there have been several hundred arrested in new york, and 100 arrested yesterday, i believe in boston, and, yet, pelosi calls, at one point said god bless the wall street protesters, what do you think when you hear the house minority leader saying this about the protesters? guest: well, look, she has the right to express whatever she wants to express, and, maybe, there is some kind of message here in the wall street protests that i m not hearing. and to this point i m not aware of what their message is. the tea party by comparison has a distinct message: federal government is too big and too expensive because congress has been trying to do too many things. let s talk about the tea party. this are some this say it is not grandson roots but astroturf funded by big special interests. is it? guest.
tea party gridlock, tea party economics, and tea party fringe and my guest says the tea party is not to blame. g.o.p. senator joins me now, thank you for joining us, senator. the left is saying the protesters are well-intentioned, their version of the tea party. are the wall street protesters the left, far last wing of the equivalent of the tea party? guest: it is hard for me to speak with credibility because i have not attended their rallies but i attended countless tea party gatherings and they are about one thing: the folk federal government is too big and too expensive. that is all. so, it is interesting to me to hear people compare the two but i have in frame of reference because i have not attended the gatherings. the gatherings, how many were arrested? guest: usually hundreds or thousands, sometimes tens of thousands. how many were arrested at the tea party gatherings you have