download the iphone or android app for program and schedule information and pod cast of past programs. how is that for a lit ration. now it s my pleasure to intro introduce our speaker, columnist, and writer. jonathan alter. a writer and a contributor to the bloomberg. author of the new book we ll talk about the center holds: obama and his enemies. as i he s an analyst and contributing correspondent. you ve seen him on nbc and msnbc. he worked for almost thirty years writing more than fifty cover story. me wrote for the new york times, the wall street, vanity fair, and the new republican. he s the author of other books fkd he is a, in my judgment, probably one of the preimminent experts in this country on president obama. we are pleased and honored to have him here tonight to speak about his new book. our thanks to jonathan alter for joining us. [applause] the floor is yours for twenty five to thirty five minutes. great. thank you very much, joe. thank you to everybo
[ male announcer ] engine light on? come to meineke now for a free code scan read and you ll say.my money. my choice. my meineke. that is early start for this morning. starting point with soledad o brien starts right now. welcome. our starring point this morning, the world welcomes pope francis. he is from the first from the new world. the first jesuit, the first latin american to be elected pontiff. we re live in rome this morning and also in buenos aires to a look at a man who will lead the catholics. one month after a karncarni cruise ship got stuck, another one is stuck as well. we will tell you what passengers are saying right now on their boat. a standoff under way in upstate new york right now. police surrounding the suspect wanted in a t shooting spree that killed four people. we are live on the scene. he s a man who may have led to the down fall of mitt romney s presidential campaign. hear from the bartender who filmed the infamous 47% comment. we ll te
let me finish with this. when you look at the faces at st. peter s square how can you not have hope? those faces glisten with the excitement and possibility that the world s largest church could have a leader who will deliver us to an era of openness, honesty, compassion, and social justice. all this could happen because francis i, that s the name he took, holds tremendous power. as we watched him tonight present himself, we saw how he was calling the shots minute to minute, not operating according to the prescribed choreography directed to him by the vatican officials there. i believe that s a good small sign perhaps of things to come. the last thing we need is a pope locked into the woodwork over there. as a catholic i am so hopeful. i want a pope who cares about the welfare of the humble people, those without power. whether a poor farmer in latin america or an alter poor trapped. and that s hardball for now. thanks for being with us. the ed show with ed schultz start
let me finish tonight with this. a sixth of our country is now of hispanic background. 1 in 6 and growing, imagine the enhanced dignity they must feel today after what happened late yesterday in rome. the election of pope francis is something so new it may take a while to get our heads around it. it won t take that long for people who come from latin american backgrounds. all the people here in our country from central america and the caribbean, they must be thrilled. and the cardinal from buenos aires was a surprise last night. he wasn t even mentioned of the possible popes of the newspapers. my sense is he ll be very offbeat from what we re used to in politics in this country. usually you hear someone from the suburbs say i m a liberal on social issues but conservative on economic issues. well pope francis is the opposite from you. he s conservative on issues like marriage and equality, but progressive on poverty and justice. some old style democrats who are pro life but
a pope from the americas. the catholic church chooses jorge bergoglio to be the first jesuit to have the catholic church. what praise for his work with the port, the new pope has long been dogged by accusations that his role during the dictatorship in argentina. goolsbee with a leading argentine journalists who expose the new pope s connection to two just what priests by the dictatorship as well as his alleged role in helping to hide political prisoners from a visiting delegation of the inter-american human rights commission. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. the papal conclave has selected cardinal jorge mario bergoglio of argentina to be the new pope. he replaces pope benedict, who shocked the catholic church last month when he became the first pontiff to resign in almost 600 years. bergoglio has taken the name pope francis, the first pope from latin america and the first not to hail from