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10:00Financial Rescue Plan Update

Guest host: Susan Page

A look at the $700 billion bailout plan lawmakers agreed to over the weekend.

Guests

Julie Hirschfeld Davis, congressional reporter, The Associated Press

James K. Galbraith, economist; Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. chair in government/business relations and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin's Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs; author of "The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too."

Vincent Reinhart, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute; former director of the Federal Reserve Board's Division of Monetary Affairs.

Greg Ip, U.S economics editor, The Economist

11:00Ken Silverstein "Turkmeniscam" (Randon House)

Guest host: Susan Page

An investigative reporter goes undercover to find out just how far lobbyists in the nation’s capital will go to get work. The true story of how some Washington lobbyists fought to represent a Stalinist regime in Turkmenistan.

Guests

Ken Silverstein, Washington editor of "Harper's" and former investigative reporter for the "Los Angeles Times."

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