705P ET: Co-Host Simon Constable, Dow Jones:  Amity Schlaes, author, "The Forgotten Man," re the election of Barack Obama to replace George Bush vs the election of FDR to replace Herbert Hoover, re the faddishness of Keynesianism without John Maynard Keynes, re Paul Krugman's counter-attack on Amity Schles by name.

720P:  Jon Friedman, Marketwatch.com, re the SEC case against billionaire Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks, and the Cuban response, re is this the Sam Insull/JP Morgan prosecution duri the FDR administration, whe it was good politics to harass ignorant, gleeful plutocrats.

735P: Professional Roundtable with the Obama transition Cabinet and White House choices so far, with Mona Charen, NRO, Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, and John Fund, Wall Street Journal; re HRC to State still an open question, re Tom Daschle to HHS, Janet Napolitano to HS, and the report of Eric Holder to Justice and Timothy Geithner to Treasury.

 750P:  Continued re the Franken/ Coleman recount; re the end of The Bridge to Nowehere; re the elections in the GOP House.  Re Abraham Lincoln?  FDR?  James Buchanan?

805P: Larry Kudlow, CNBC "Kudlow & Company," re the auto bailout hearings and the breakdown in the major money center banks, re Citi fails, re the Obama transition choice of Timothy Geithner and the rejections of Larry Summers and Jon Corzine to Treasury, re tax cuts for the sinking S&P.

820P: Gideon Rachman, Financial Times, re the Obama team in the Middle East, is it a splitter than separates all the problems into their own boxes and solves one at a time, or a lumper that treats all the problems as one, and the one is Palestine.  Re the oil market crash and the Middle East options.

835: Financial Professionals, with John Tamny, RealClearMarkets.com, Jim McTague, Barron's, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, re Timothy Geithner to Treasury?  re the Big Three hearings in Washington, re the bail-out and GM, re the Big Three fly private corporate jets to plead for cash; re where is George Bush?

850P: Continued, re the conspiracy theory election: what oil spike?  what Lehman crash?  what AIG bailout?  what Goldman game?

905P: Cathy McMorris Rodgers of 5th Washington (R), re just elected Vice-Chair Republican Conference, re the GOP House elections, re the rout of the GOP in '08, re the road ahead for rebuilding trust and donors, re the financial crisis and Washington State farming.

920P:  Aaron Klein, WND, re the desperate, frantic, last moment, nutty negotiations for a Palestinian deal for the West Bank and Jerusalem; re the Hamas plans for Gaza; re the oil sell off and the Syrian economy; re the new rise of Likhud.

935P: Carlo D'Este, author, "Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill," re the most famous unbelievable English character of the late Empire, re Churchill's passion for toy soldiers that becomes a dominating fascination for military opera, re the endless wars of Winston Churchill from the Sudan to the World Wars and the Cold War to the Suez.

955P: Exeunt with Bob Zimmerman, re glaciers on Mars, re ISS week.

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705P PT: Sharona Coutts, ProPublica, re the the Goldman Sachs conspiracy theory of thw rold, re how Holdman sold California bonds and then advised shorting the same bonds using the exotic instrument called credit default swaps for municipal bonds, re how Goldman played both sides of the market.

720P: Henry Miller, Hoover Institution, re the vital choice of the new head of the FDA and why it matters to California agriculture, re Tom Daschle to HHS, re the prospect of universal healthcare in stages.

735P:  Professional Roundtable with Diana West, Townhall.com, Larry Johnson, No Quarter and State (ret), Max Blumenthal, The Daily Beast, re HRC to State, Timothy Geithner to Treasury (right, NY Fed chair Timothy Geithner with his boss, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, October 15, 2008) , Janet Napolitano to HS, Eric Holder to Justice, re the Somali pirtaes and the AQ connection in al-Zawahiri's video of November 19.

750P: Continued re the State Department with HRC in command, re the State budget must grow, re what is to be done with soft power, re HRC, State and Tehran, the Kremlin, Beijing.

805P: Professional roundtable with Monica Crowley, McLoughlin Group, Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (R), re the Big Three hearings, re the auto bailout vs the TARP bailout, re Timothy Geithner gets the TARP, re GM bankruptcy and the end of the 20th century.

820P:  Continued re the House GOP elections and rebuilding a cratered party, re the sidelining of John Dingel by the Dem majority, re the auto bailout part 2.

835P:  Robert Earle, author, "Nights in Pink Hotel: An American Strategist's Pursuit of Peace in Iraq," re a foreign service oficer's return to action by accepting John Negroponte's direction to write a George Kennan length report of the Iraq conflict.   Stunning, strange, channeling Graham Greene.

850P: Patrick Bartha, Wall Street Journal, re Asian farmers and the commodity prices collapse, re poverty, deflation, hunger and the whip-sawing of Asian commodity based economies.

905P: Robert Wright, Financial Times, from London, re the Somalia pirate coast and the hijacking of Saudi-owned Suezmac tanker Sirius Star (right), now held for ransom, re the 95 attacks on ships in the Gulf of Aden, re the shipping costs rise, re the emergency in Suez.

920P: Mary Kissel, Asia Wall Street Journal, re the finacial collapse in Asia, the markets plunge and unemployment rises, re the recession in East Asia, re Beijing stimulus package, re Japan's deflation.

935P: Gordon M. Goldstein, author, "Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam," re six lessons from the Vietnam war that apply to Iraq and Afghanistan, re the two momentous errors, the JFK decision (below, May 5, 1961, watching Alan Shephard Mercury 7, with Jackie Kennedy, and Bundy and Arthur Schlesinger behind LBJ)  to remove the Diem brothers in November 1963 that caused their assassinations, and the LBJ decision in August 1964 to contrive the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in oorder to bolster his election chances.  See Raymond Massey ad for Barry Goldwater 1964 that goes at LBJ's no win fix in Vietnam.

950P: Exeunt re Lou Ann Hammond and the Big Three auto-maker teams fly private jets to Washington to ask Congress and the American taxpayers for a bailout on TV.

705P ET:  Jodi Schneider, Congressional Quarterly, re the 2008 election results and the 111th Congress convening in January 2009, re the GOP House leadership contest and the strange non-fate of John Bohner (no change) and Roy Blunt (change); re Mitch McConnell survives, re so does the amazing ever running battery of Ted Stevens; re the recount in Minnesota (count every joke) and the fate of Al Franken if defeated by a kid from Brooklyn and a handful of unfound ACORN votes, Norm Coleman.

720P:  Jeff Madrick, author, "The Case for Big Government," re the myth of laissez-faire and the purpose of goverment, re the Obama administration inheriting the biggest government ever of the Bush administration.

735P: Professionals Margaret Hoover, FNC, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, and Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (R) re the election results in the Electoral College, re the failure of the McCain campaign to connect to the GOP; re the success of the Obama campaign to connect to the Blue states, re Rahm "Rahmbo" Emanuel to COS.

Emanuel to be Obama's White House Chief of Staff

750P: Continued re the election in the House, the losses, the leadership race on November 19.

805P: Financial roundtabe with Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, Simon Constable, Dow Jones Newswire, Malik Kaylan, Forbes.com, re the election and the worldwide recession, re the aggression of the central banks and the absence of confidence of the markets, re the dollar and the rate cuts, re the Change.com post of the weekend: 

 President-Elect Obama Meets with Economic Advisers, Calls for "Swift Action" on the Economy

820P: Continued re the Obama administration and the Treasury, the Fed, the global troubles overseas such as the Gulf, Russia and the Caspian Sea and Georgia, East Asia.

835P: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations, re the election and the expectations of Iran and Syria, re the staggered Iran economy, the staggered Hugo Chavez Venezuela economy.

850P:  Dmitar Sasselov, Harvard, re the spookily nearby solar system of Epsilon Eridani, a much younger twin of our solar system only 10.5 light years distant in this iron poor arm of the Milky Way, re the space comb in action to discern distant stars light and the Exos in orbit; re the status of the Kepler Eden-hunter probe for 2009.

905P: Chrystia Freeland, Financial Times, re the election results and the American, Canadian and European expectations of the Obama administration, re the financial crisis: The first in many ways.

920P: Aaron Klein, WND, re the Hamas gangsters and the Obama expectations, re the Bush administration accepts the obvious that Hamas wants the audacity of hope, re the endless Olmert mischief, re the failed Hamas abduction tunnel in Gaza.

935P:  Rufus Phillips, author, "Why Vietnam Matters," re the author's CIA service in Vietnam from the summer of 1954 when he arrived in Saigon to work for the legendary Ed Landsdale after the French evacuated Hanoi, re the chaotic, epochal struggle to maintain the Diem brothers elitist, disconnected, eventually unhinged, gangsterish government of South Vietnam (right, Ngo Dinh Diem, PM of South Vietnam, in a Broadway parade, 1957); re the critical, operatic meeting at the White House on September 10, 1963, with JFK, McNamara, McCone, the Bundys, not RFK, in which the removal or the Diems was the unvoiced context, and the debate was between losing the war with the deranged Nhu or winning it with just the passive Diem, re the author, at 88, knows everyone dead who failed in Vietnam, and knows them personally.

955P: Exeunt re the true story of the lemmings of the north and the global warming catastrophe, with Lou Ann Hammond, carlist.com re the bailout of Detroit and the end of the car culture.

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705P PT: Jane Hamsher, firedoglake.com, re Rahm Emanuel named chief of staff in first Obama hire, re Chicago veteran and partisan hawk, re the familiar face of the Obama Administration.

How Would Obama Govern.

720P: James Freeman, Wall Street Journal, re the amazing lack of regulations (not really) that wrecked the economy include the the heretofore considered draconian hands-on and ruthless regulation of Sarbanes Oxley.

735P: Professionals Jim McTague, Barrons, re Obama's first presser with eight American flags and 16 animal cracker grayheads from the Democratic elite; Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re the new improved predator "Rahmbo" Emanuel of Chicago (right, walking the mean streets of the 5th CD on November 6); Diana West, NRO, re the successful candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy in the body of Barack Obama, and other Huffpo tales of the Ouija Board.   Krugman to Obama: Ignore the Trolls, Build the New New Deal.

750P: Continued re the election results and the missing youth turnout vote and the missing GOP vote.

805P:  Professionals Monica Crowley, the McLoughlin Group, re the election results and the immediate fate of the GOP; Bill Whalen, Hoover, re the election results on California, re Arnold wants tax hikes; John Avlon re the independent vote and the youth turnout.

820P:  Continued re "Rahmbo" Emanuel and the Summer of Love in the Winter of '09.

835P:  John Matteson, author, "Eden's Outcasts," Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction 2007, re the long, bookish, searching, familial, discerning. agnostic life of Bronson Alcott, teacher, lecturer, abolitionist, father of determined and gifted Louisa May Alcott of "Little Women," re the intellectual world of Henry Thoreau, Ralph Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne in the ante-bellum North, re the search for utopian community in America before the second American revolution changed education and piety.

850P: Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re the Obama science promises, re the Obama NASA promises, re the Indian probe in lunar orbit, re the Mars rovers reawaken, re the continued too quiet Sun.

905P:  Robert Heineman, Harvard Business School, author, "High Performance with High Anxiety," re the corporate governance disaster of the credit collapse and the perfidy of the captains of industry and their lawyers.

920P: Ann Marlowe at Kabul, and Daoud Sultanzoy, member of Afghan Parliament, at Kabul, re the Taliban and the threat to NATO control, re Pakistan and the border, re the American air strikes and casualties.

935P:  Jon Meacham, author, "American Lion," Andrew Jackson at the White House, 1829-1837, and the first president not from Massachusetts or Virginia who made war on the Congress, the press and anyone else who crossed him, including Nicholas Biddle and all the money as well as South Carolina and the fathers of the secessionists of 1860 (right, in 1845, the year of his death, at the Hermitage).

955P: Exeunt re Eliot Ness and Patrick Fitzgerald and the looming melodrama of the governor of Illinois.