today millions of americans know him only as a caricature, a tyrant in a tutu, a cross-dressing crank. president roosevelt, great liberal, gave him the power to wire tap, to bug, to break into people s houses to steal their documents. gave it to him. when the supreme court said no more wire tapping, hoover said torques hell with the supreme court, keep doing this because we re going to be at war. every president who thinks he s at war, and almost all are thinking that way, will kick the constitution into the gutter. and hoover was the method with which to do this to protect the president and his national security policies. and one of the things you do note is it was basically, is it true, every president in some way with hoover or authorized hoover or pushed hoover to cross the line. everyone except harry tru ma.
nomination. let s look at this poll everybody is buzzing about. nbc/wall street journal. it came out last night. on the top, herman cain former godfather pizza ceo. mitt romney the former massachusetts governor at 23% and rick perry you can see dropping down to 16% in this poll. now, kyra, one thing about this poll that was done before the presidential debate the other night and cain s advantage there, that four-point advantage that is within the sampling era. another poll came out last night. this is by reuters and this indicates pretty much a tie at the top. romney at 23%, cain at 19%. again, it s within the sampling error. herman cain catching fire in the polls national and state one reason is 999 that tax plan he has been talking about nonstop. he was the star or at least had the most attention at the presidential debate the other night. another debate, our own, coming up next week, kyra. also, paul, it s been a rough stretch for the president. so, what are we hearing f
good morning to you. it is thursday, september 1st. can you believe it? this is your a.m. wake-up call. this is carol costello joining you live from new york. it s a big day. the president s big speech on economy will be a week from tonight. he wanted to speak a day earlier but house speaker john boehner said there wouldn t be enough time to do a security sweep of the house chamber. others complained it was on the very night of the republican presidential debate. he could go head to head with drew breesz and aaron rofrmgers. the nfl opener is that night. they talked about what a big deal this speech is. this is a different kind of speech. it s not about talking the the american people as much as it is laying out. it s laying out for congress a clear plan, very specific, saying here is the here s my proposal from the white house. now it s your turn to act. and so they re taking it directly to congress. they re going there because it s his one shot of sort of delivering t
rounded up, a drag net that stretched from florida to rhode island. they had to go over to italy to get one. the fbi says it is their biggest mob bust in history. our next guest knows how much hard work goes into that arrest, eliot spitzer, host of parker spitzer thanks for getting up with us this morning. years of hard work, wire tapping, all this and you have the indictments in front of you. show everybody how much paper it is. i don t know if it means they re big cases but a lot of paper. yes yesterday was a dog a bo pony show. seemed like a day of gloating for the fbi. deservely so. a lot of defendants, biggest day in terms of the number of mobsters they dragged in on one day, but the question is, are these the biggest names they ve ever gotten. you know you had the era of john gotti, paul castellano, car lo gambino, people who ran industries, trucking, the fish market. that was an era, 1015 years ago, when the mob dominated whole
deal, where you ve put something in place for a long time. that s what george bush did. obama now has done the caving without getting the benefit. to he s broken the read my lips pledge without the plus side. so how do you get something out of this. that cost bush obviously in 92 with our friend pat buchanan running against him and he ended up losing. but if you re a progressive this morning let s figure this out he s tripled the number of troops in afghanistan, he s extended all of bush s tax cuts without even a fight. gitmo is still open. he s still engaging the nsa wire tapping. they told us they re going to give him khalid shaikh mohammed and he ll have a civil trying in new york. now he s not going to have a trial at all. you can go on and on. the drone attacks.