up next on booktv patrick creed and rick newman talk about the rescue efforts that's a place at the pentagon following the attack on september 11, 2001. the crashing of american airlines flight 77 caused a fire in the pentagon which local firefighters fought for over 24 hours. this is about 30 minutes. .. i hope you all will enjoy. we are going to review with the things i read some passages from the book and the key points. i handed off to my co-author, rick newman. >> thanks, pat researched this and thought for about three years. i didn't know until the end of 2005, when pat found his way to my agent to represented me in new york and i just finished writing another book about the aviation unit in vietnam. and i was looking forward to another project in my agent called and said we heard from the skype was interesting material about the pentagon. would you be interested in taking a look at it? i started flipping through and said wow, this is really something. i was covering the pentagon on 9/11. i'm a reporter for "u.s. news and world report." i was there for weeks afterwards. i never thought

rick newman is from "u.s. news & world report." rick, i want to talk about how we can fix this problem. what does it mean for our economy if the middle class is falling behind? can we have a meaningful recovery without having a recovery for the middle class? >> it's obviously bad news. incomes have been falling, real incomes after inflation, for the last are ten years. that was going on before the recession and the recession intensified that. and this is a national problem. i mean, we do have a problem that affects the whole economy. this even affects people in the upper tiers because we need an entirely productive economy, not just an economy that's productive in small segments. >> i'll push you into politic for a minute. you hear it's the president's policies that are hurting the middle class. you're saying this has been going on for a long time. >> absolutely. this trend predates anything president obama has done. i think we put too much importance on the ability of politicians to either fix it or the blame we give them for maki

i will head up to the co-author, rick newman. >> patrick research this and so forth are used if we didn't know each other and i think the end of 2005 when he found his way to my agent who represented me in new york and i just finished writing another book about aviation unit in vietnam. and i was looking for to another project. my agent called me up and say we heard from the sky, he has interesting material about the pentagon. would you be interested in taking a look at it? i started flipping through this and i said this is really something. i was covering the pentagon on 9/11. i'm a reporter for u.s. news. and it was my job to cover the pentagon on that day, and i was there for weeks afterward. i never thought about going and asking the firefighters what they saw, or the fbi agents what they saw. and pat who thinks like a firefighter, for better or worse, he was interested in his or look at this from a side angle. so i thought there was a great approach. we found all kinds of things that we just never, you never would have thought about because of course new york overshadowed everything

. >>> let's bring in rick newman, the chief business correspondent for u.s. news and world report. rick, good to have you back. jobs report, does it surprise you here? >> it's not surprising. i think it basically shows that employers in july were almost in a state of paralysis when it came to their payrolls. i don't think that's surprising at all. you mentioned the debt ceiling fiasco in july. i mean, just to go back to that time, the politicians in washing on or some of them were threatening the economy with a default on american debt. business people understood how serious that was. even though they understood that there was a posturing involved in that. they understood that that would be an intentionally serious and intentionally negative event if it were to happen. they basically did nothing. who would expand their payrolls in the face of a potential disaster like that unless you had to. we saw in the immediate aftermath of that was consumer confidence plunged, business confidence plunged. we're seeing the result of that in the report that just came out this morning. >> and the

joining me now rick newman. >> hi, alex. >> has the u.s. economy underperformed since 9/11? >> i think you could say it has. this is putting a aside the recession that we're recovering from. in 2001 before the attacks the u.s. economy accounted for about 23% of world gdp. that's now down to about 19%. that's likely to keep falling. that's not just because of the recession. that's because of other countries such as india and china will becoming more prominent in the world economy. we need to keep in mind stra teemgic and military power comes from economic power. we've got chronic high unemployment here. this is not a good thing. yo you talk about india and china being mitigating factors to this. what about the cost of wars in iraq and afghanistan? >> they're not as devastating as a lot of people think. that is reflected in what's happened to the national debt that we've been hearing about for the last year. in 2001 the national debt was about $6 trillion. that was a very manageable number. it's a huge number, but it was manageable as a percentage of dpd. it's approaching $15

[applause] >> up next on booktv patrick creed and rick newman talk about the rescue efforts in the pentagon following the attack on september 11, 2001. the crashing of american airlines flight 77 caused a fire in the pentagon which local firefighters fought for over 24 hours. this is about dirty minutes. >> the many myths and total lies perpetuated over the years. this is a book for people in learning the truth or at least as much as could be uncovered about both the historical and the fictional crockett and how the two often became one. hopefully, readers will gain some new historical insight into the actual man and how he captured the imagination of his generation and later ones as well. so now, a few spoonfuls from crockett, the lion of the west. and the first is just a graph or two from my preface. the authentic david crockett was first and foremost a three-dimensional human being, a person with somewhat exaggerated hopes and well checked fears, a man who had as we all do, both good points and bad points. he was somewhat idiosyncratic, possessed and often unusual views prejudices and op

newman, how to avoid those bank fees. let's show you quickly a refresher course if you missed it. he said you have to know your bank's rules. the second was complain and i know from twitter, some of you are. the next one is accept the loss of some privileges. two more to go. don't chase officers. offers. rewards from other banks and finally, find a better bank. we're going to put that list and my entire conversation on my blog. there's the url. cnn.com/brooke. now, this. >> hr representatives words were letting you go due to your weight. >> that man claims he was fired from his job because he was overweight. can you say lawsuit here? but there's more to it than that. if you have ever had a job, you want one, have extra pounds or maybe are just trying to lose some, stick around for this man's story. we'll share that with you and you know it's friday and friday means you get to ask me some of your questions and for some reason, one of the questions i got was are you really as nice as you are as you are on tv? here's my answ

. >> rick newman, we love you explaining some of this stuff to us. we appreciate it. come back any time. >> glad to do it. >>> thank you. take a listen to this. >> the apartment has become affectionately known as the sanctuary. >> a firefighter loses his best friend. a high school student loses his mom, a woman lost her fiancee and a construction worker lost his brother. a film crew followed each of the individuals since the 9/11 attacks. this documentary is emotional, inspiring. up next, i'll speak with the director of "rebirth." jim whittaker is behind cinderella man. he'll tell us about this film. >> i have to remind myself. -- have i got a surprise for you! [ barks ] yeah, it's new beneful healthy fiesta. gotta love the protein for muscles-- whoo-hoo! and omega-rich nutrition for that shiny coat. ever think healthy could taste so good? [ woman announcing ] new beneful healthy fiesta. >>> want to share a 9/11 documentary that does not look at the terror group that launched the attack nor does it simply focus on the horror of that day. it's called rebirth. this docu

and sunday marion fontana, patrick creed, and rick newman, lawrence wright. this weekend deal of surprise when the washington post reporter suggests the federal government's efforts to protect america after september 11th are secretive and dangerous and need to be exposed. interviewed by a former undersecretary of defense. also, personal and political more. dick cheney talks about his experiences during 9/11 and the lessons he has learned since then. you can look for the former president interviewed by bob woodward. our complete schedules online at booktv.org. >> former homeland security secretary and 9/11 cochaired testified thursday on the challenges and progress made since the september 11 the tax. also testifying, the comptroller general of the government accountability of this. new york's picking chairs the committee, just over three hours.ni >> good morning. land the committee on homeland security will come to order. meeting to hear testimony assessing the status of homelanc security on the occasion of thee tenth anniversary of the september 11th, 2001

. >> rick: oh, you don't drink coffee. it's good. >> this is the newman's own. these are the colombian. i have the caribou, this is a coffee bean and tea leaf. these two were neck in neck winners in this. this is a more complex, stronger coffee. if you haven't had it, you might want to -- it kind of takes an acquired taste. also market shares. that's how we -- >> rick: how do you do a test like this? it's so subjective. everybody takes their coffee a different way. >> well, it sounds very much like wine tasting. because this is also the same kind of thing. it's a grown crop, coffee beans have good and bad years, believe it or not. >> rick: really? >> our top coffee from last year didn't even make the list this year. this is how they do it. it's a blind test. meaning they don't know what they're tasting at all. everything is done exactly -- all the coffees are made the same way, made in the same kind of coffee maker and they're served black. nothing in them. >> rick: that's how we're drinking it. i don't see any of the big major brands. >> no. >> rick: why not? >