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10:00Federal Stake in U.S. Banks

The partial nationalization of U.S. banks is the latest dramatic step taken by the Administration to address the financial crisis gripping the world. A look at details of the plan and the latest economic proposals from the Obama and McCain campaigns

Guests

Eamon Javers, correspondent, Politico.com

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

Jared Bernstein, a senior fellow and director of the Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute and author of "Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (And Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries)"

Deborah Solomon, reporter, Wall Street Journal

11:00James Bamford: "The Shadow Factory" (Doubleday)

A national security expert explains how the power and scope of the National Security Agency has grown since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. He explores the loss of privacy and whether it has made American's safer.

Guests

James Bamford, author of �Body of Secrets,� �The Puzzle Palace,� and �A Pretext for War.�

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