let's go to senator sherrod brown of ohio tonight and also joining us is congresswoman maxine waters of california. great to have both of you with us tonight. congresswoman, i have to ask you, if 98% of the american people -- and it's actually a little bit more than that -- are not going to get touched by this, how in the world can't the democrats get behind it? there are some reservations coming out of some of the senate and a few in the house. isn't this something easy for the democrats to sell? what do you think? >> well, i think that many of the democrats are looking for the details of the overall proposal. but on increasing taxes on the millionaires and billionaires, we have to get behind that. i think it is fair. it makes good sense. the american public supports that. they have been getting away with not paying their fair share. and i think that aspect of the proposal is going to get widespread support among democrats and i think republicans are going to have to not do what they've been doing in the past and protecting the richest 1% in our country. they're going to have to com

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in 2006 she took a leave of absence to campaign for her husband, sherrod brown, a democrat who won a senate seat from ohio. earlier this month, shultz covered a tea party event but made no mention of one of the speakers, ohio state treasurer josh mandell, two attacked her husband. she later apologized. shultz resigned from the paper this week saying her position had become untenable. she joins me now from cleveland. good morning. >> good morning. >> your husband's been a senator for almost five years. what was the tipping point that made you decide to give up your column now? >> well, first of all, i want to make it clear i'm still writing a syndicated column for creators. i'm glad for that. creators came to me in 2007. i'm also writing essays for "parade." i'm not resigning from journalism, i resigned from the cleveland plain dealer. it's the largest paper in ohio and covers my husband's race which it should. he's running for re-election. it's different from 2006 and now for me professionally, but also for how it's working out there in politics. and i just felt i was getting a bigge

joining us now in studio, senator sherrod brown, democrat from the great state of ohio. senator brown served two terms as ohio secretary of state from 1983 to 1990. it's great to see you. >> great to be back. thank you. >> the obama campaign jumping on this drive to get enough signatured by the end of the week to put ohio's new voting law on the ballot. how is the campaign helping out? and do you think ohio needs the help here? >> well, we always welcome the help from -- these are mostly activists, citizen activists, people that have volunteered for the obama campaign in the past. this is a huge volunteer effort. people from all corners of the state. signatures from 88 counties. anybody who wants to sign in ohio who hasn't yet, call the headquarters. there are petitioners in every county. they can find you or you can find them. they've never done it in this much of an orchestrated way to roll back voting rights. make no mistake, that's what they're doing, they're rolling back voting. every presidential year they try something. they've stationed people at the polls that l

senator sherrod brown of ohio. and also, congressman tim ryan of ohio, both have been in ohio all their lives. they know what this buckeye state's all about. >> you bet. >> chief reel, i've got to ask you, you were -- where were you ten years ago this week? >> ten years ago this week, i was in new york city, working night shift right now on the pile at the world trade center, searching for my colleagues, firefighters from the fdny and the, at the time, we thought tens of thousands of victims from the september 11th attacks. >> and ten years after the fact, here you are, fighting to save what? >> i'm fighting to save my colleagues again. they just happen to be aboveground and they're the ones that work with me every day. >> can you believe you're in this position? >> yeah! >> no, i can't believe i'm in this position. as i told the senator, it's, at the same time, embarrassing and disgusting. >> they're getting kicked, aren't you? >> oh, we're getting kicked. i was driving down the street the other day and had a pers

. >> well, senator sherrod brown's a democrat from ohio. welcome, senator. you're the kind of democrat i get, because you seem to be a guy that would like to get people working. and also, i think what the president's talking about, getting work done that needs to get done. not just the demand for work, but the supply of jobs out there that need to be filled. if these bridges are below code, if you have a traffic congestion that cannot be dealt with any other way, you need a new bridge. it seems to be a logical way to make a case for job creation. >> it's a lot of things. and in many ways, what we did in the 1940s, '50s, '60s, into the '70s, we built the greatest infrastructure the world had ever known, starting -- well, prior, certainly including president eisenhower interstates and all we did with bridges and highways and all that. and we've let too much of it decay. when you look at what this is about, this is about putting people directly to work building bridges, putting steelworkers to work, making cable, making steel, and then setting the table, the fo

brown who is with us live now. senator, from everything you have been told, is this big enough and bold enough, or is the president trimming back a bit because he knows he has to deal with the republican house? >> well, i think he wanted to be bigger and bolder. i think this is a good first step. emphasis on infrastructure, that's good. i think we need more highways, bridges, water, sewer, broadband,hasherharbors, but we need that. i think republicans will look at it differently from news reports, because i spent august in marietta and toledo and mansfield and dayton, ohio, and the talk wasn't about cutting the budgets. as important as it is to balance the budget, and about pay-fors and all that, the talk was about what are you going to do about job creation? the republicans heard it unless they were only at their country clubs, republicans heard the discussions too and the admonishments, if they will oppose anything but tax cuts for the rich and war, and they only want to pay for disaster relief and tax cuts for w

brown and kauffman try to do which is break up things in the first place are probably not entirely likely but i still think what they're doing here is really important because it's refocusing public attention and anger at the people who are the culprits of what we're going through right now and i think you know focusing more thing sort of a lot obama was talking about in terms of shared sacrifice one thing i would have really like to see him talk about maybe one demand that these protesters can take up in addition to be regulating the banks and getting a financial fraud settled as a financial transaction tax which would be a tax a small tax or even a moderate sized tax on the sort of financial trade that the industry makes it would do very well that actually would raise an enormous amount of money and actually it would take back some of the money that we use from the time i was there even from the tire to sort of let these people continue to live their lavish lifestyles and preserve the investors that executives you know while the rest of the economy crumble i wrote an op ed for the four

before you say fat chance, democratic senator sherrod brown is calling on lawmakers to wait until age 66 to receive a pension. right now, they can retire at age 50. i know, you are still laughing. i know why. you have heard it all before. last february, as americans faced the possibility of a government shutdown, senator barbara boxer had a dandy idea. >> if they are forced to shut down, members of congress should be treated the same way as other employees. we should not be paid. >> the government did not shut down, so they got a pass on that. seriously, if they took a pay cut or raised their retirement age, would that be patriotic? responsible? moral. we would like to hear from you. what would it say to you if congress took a pay cut? facebook.com/carol cnn. i'll read your responses later this hour. >> we look forward to that. people are going to be fired up. >> yes. >> all right. thanks so much. here is what's ahead on the rundown. the white house is being criticized for giving millions to a company that went under just months later. and we show you how an art school in l.a. is help

sherrod brown and dennis kucinich will join us. i will talk to the firefighters of the people of columbus. and we'll keep a seat open for governor john kasich if he shows up. "the ed show" from toledo continues with the folks, next. is it here? we got our best guy on it. ♪ [ computer voice ] invalid entry... invalid...invalid... invalid entry. ♪ [ shoes squeaking ] ♪ [ all ] whoa. behold. [ shaq ] the new triple double oreo. who's gonna race with that? ♪ a network of possibilities... ♪ in here, pets never get lost. ♪ in here, every continent fits in one room. it was fun, we played football outside. why are you sitting in the dark? ♪ [ male announcer ] in here, you're never away from home. it's the at&t network. and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say. >>> the folks of toledo, ohio! what's your name? >> jackie hayworth. >> what do you make of the climate here in ohio? what has to happen? >> we need jobs. we need to have a new governor. we need to have a new mayor. i hate to say that, but -- >> what do y

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brown, again, probably more liberal than the state. megyn: and, doug, you've got three different picks. >> i do. megyn: fist one's -- first one's north dakota, why? >> north dakota is a lock democrats really don't have a strong candidate, and the state is overwhelmingly republican, all of its constitutional officers and the president will almost certainly lose handily there. so i think you can put that into the republican column pretty safely. megyn: how about, okay, the next one is nebraska for you. >> yeah. ben nelson has gone against the tide there for the time he's been in the senate. problem is he voted for health care. bush won the state by over 30 points, mccain by 15 points. and with nelson now polling under 40% in trial heats, tough to see him getting reelected. megyn: it was like the cornhuskers kickback that he was excoriated for during the health care debate, and ben nelson who had been everywhere on cable news, he was always very, very easy to get, he would show up on every channel, after that he's gone underground. i'm no

your outstanding senator sherrod brown has been fighting to make this happen. and those of you here at ft. hayes have been making it happen. see, a few years back you decided to renovate this school and you didn't just repair what was broken, you rebuilt this school for the 21st century with faster internet and cutting-edge technolo technology. that hasn't just created a better, safer learning environment for the students, it it also created good jobs for construction workers. you just heard tom say it's created over 250 jobs for masons and concrete workers and carpenters and plumbers and electricians and many of those jobs are filled by the good people of columbus, ohio. but here's the thing. there are schools all throughout ohio that need this kind of renovation. there's a bridge in cincinnati that connects ohio to kentucky that needs this it kikind of renovation. there are construction projects like these all across the country just waiting to get started and there are millions of unemployed construction workers who are looking for a job. so my question to c

[cheers and applause] your outstanding senator, sherrod brown, has been fighting to make this happen. [cheers and applause] and those of you here at fort hayes have been making it happen. a few year back you decided to renovate this school, and you didn't just repair what was broken, you rebuilt this center for the 21st century with faster internet and cutting-edge technology. and that hasn't just created a better, safer learning environment for the student t, it also created good jobs for construction workers. you just heard tom say it's created over 250 jobs for may cons -- masons and concrete workers and carpenters and plumbers and electricians, and many of those jobs are filled by the good people of columbus, ohio. [cheers and applause] but here's the thing, there are schools all throughout ohio that need this kind of renovation. there's a bridge in cincinnati that connects ohio to kentucky that needs this kind of renovation. [applause] there are construction projects like these all across the country just waiting to get started, and there are millions of unemployed construction w

now, legislation that i've introduced with senator sherrod brown and senator mccaskill would end these deductions by require stock options to equal the engines pens shown on the corporate books for those same options. it would not affect the taxes paid by individuals who receive the stock options. as of now they pay for the actual sales price minus their cost. it would not affect so-called incentive stock options, often used by startup companies, and it would take -- it would make stock option pay subject to the same million-dollar cap on corporate tax deductions that applies to other forms of executive pay. now, these proposals, mr. president, will alone put a major dent in the deficit. they would ensure that multinational corporations and wealthy individuals pay the taxes that they owe. just like working americans. if we're to seriously reduce the deficit, these kind of tax reforms and the resulting added tax revenues must be part of the discussion. and i urge my colleagues especially those on the joint select committee, to embrace these ideas. again, i sent a letter yesterday to the

[applause] your outstanding senator, sherrod brown, has been fighting to make this happen. and those of you here at fort hayes have been making it happen. see, a few years back, you decided to renovate this school. and you didn't just repair what was broken, you rebuilt this school for the 21st century - with faster internet and cutting-edge technology. and that hasn't just created a better, safer learning environment for the students. it also created good jobs for construction workers. you just heard tom say it's created over 250 jobs for masons and concrete workers and carpenters and plumbers and electricians - and many of those jobs are filled by the good people of columbus, ohio. but here's the thing. there are schools all throughout ohio that need this kind of renovation. there's a bridge in cincinnati that connects ohio to kentucky that needs this kind of renovation. there are construction projects like these all across the country just waiting to get started. and there are millions of unemployed construction workers who are looking for a job. so my question to congre