taking place as they fight austerity. and there are so-called unofficial meetings in 217 different cities in the country right now at this hour. 2:00 p.m. eastern time. students are being urged to leave their classrooms and join this movement. again, it has grown in 19 days. in just about an hour, thousands of people, about a dozen unions representing transit workers, and nurses and teachers as well will join the protest. they have a staging area to the north of where i am standing and they plan to march on the streets of new york to this location. protesters say they are gathering here, and they are gathering around the country, because they say they are fed up. >> there is the rich, and then the poor, and then there was us. the rich is stepping on our necks and trying to squash us down, and this is called an up rising and we're taking back what is ours.

>> it's for all of you tired of watching the banks get bailed out while we get sold out. >> these things are unacceptable while millions are on the streets starving. >> reporter: mara, we have covered a couple marvelous stories. every person you talk to has a different reason that they are here, and some of them are out of work and some of them say they watched this country in their minds go in the wrong direction, and they are affected by the tea party and whatever. the one central thing they say is corporate greed. what does that mean to them? >> well, they are united against corporate interests, and they say they consist of 99% of the americans that have not prau supered economically. and what they have done is in this news paper --

>> this is a news letter. >> yes, they have identified a list of grieve yunss. this is something that they agreed upon, and these are interests like foreclosures and using taxpayer money to fund bailouts, and there's a call for people to take to the streets and exercise their right for a peaceful assembly. they are unified against corporate interest and want something to change, and still that needs to be determined is what that means. >> and at least four different unions will join them here at this location, and they are marching, as i said from the north of us. >> yeah, there's a rally taking place a couple blocks away. they are merging forces for a much larger rally, and now the numbers have been swelled presumably by all of the union members coming out to support their cause. >> the money is coming in, which

is also a interesting part of the story, and they received tens of thousands of dollars in donations, most of which are collected online. >> what is interesting about it, they have no leadership. so in terms of managing that money, they have volunteers that stepped up and trying to manage it. they have medical facilities and free food, but this is growing much faster than they can keep up with, and they are the first to admit that. >> this is not just new york we are seeing this? >> all over the country, and there are support groups being organized all over the world, as far as japan and australia and canada, and they want to express their solidarity with the group. >> we have our own stephanie stanton watching this take place in california as well. >> right. >> let's take a look. >> reporter: i am stephanie stanton at the occupying los angeles protest where dozens of tents are set up on the lawn of city hall. hundreds of protesters have been here since over the weekend and

they say they plan to stay as long as christmas. now, many of the protesters are holed up inside their tent because it's a very rainy day here in los angeles several of them are holding court here outside, and those are the diehard protesters. the protesters would ordinarily be marching and holding signs but the weather putdamper on that. and their aim is peaceful, and they are working hand and hand with city officials and one official, one l.a. city council member put forth a resolution in support of the protesters, so several of the protesters will be attending an l.a. city council meeting today to talk about that, and also, antonio, the mayor, is set to attend the protest. >> and with me is dylan ratigan,

host of the "dylan ratigan show." tell me what you have seen different now than five days ago? >> when i come down here, i see the exact same thing. >> which is what? >> a group of people that has nothing in common with each other other than the shared agreement their country is not in control, and the narrow powers of wealth are buying their government at auction and they are not going to take it any more. it's really that simple. >> and you said this is the tea party movement before the tea party was bought out. explain that? >> i look at it like a blackjack game, and the tea party was the first wave coming to reject the oub vus corruption between business and state coming out of the bailout, and thedy tea party went into the ditch, and there was a inspiring wave, myself included thought barack obama and the democrats will address

this problem. didn't happen. this, to me, is the third wave of the energy. we don't know what it's going to do. we do know the energy underlying the frustration at our government's refusal to end the relationship between those that fund our politicians and the policies they make has to be addressed. >> and let's talk about this. we have the president pitching the jobs plan and saying there has to be fairness and equity and what people pay out. who are they then mad with? who are they blaming for where we are now? >> they are blaming a combination of large, wealthy private interests and our government and the fact that we have gotten ourselves into what is an auction based democracy. the only statistic that matters is 94% of the time the candidate that races the most money wins. the red rick doesnhetoric or re doesn't matter, and it has become an auction for power and

the action for power is the fundamental betrayal of the country. >> these people are not in line with a political party? >> this is not a political movement, but a principle movement based on the principle of the demand by the american people to restore a sense of fairness to the taxpayers' relationship with their government when their government appears to be working on behalf of exclusively those that fund them. >> mitt romney said it's class warfare? >> that's an effort to create division, and these are people want to work in harmony. and to the extent where the political sphere want to betray this as a divisive event, that's everybody's will to do, but if you listen to the people in this park, they are not after rich people, they come right up to me and say, listen, dylan, we love wealth, and we love wealth when

it is created by working together to solve problems with aligned interests, but when you take money by buying out the government, and manipulating the tax code, and manipulating trade policy and manipulating banking policy, it outrages them and outrages me. >> this movement was started by a company based in vancouver, and it's grassroots, but it doesn't start with somebody in chicago, or somebody in new york for that matter, sending out the rally card. >> yeah. >> it came from outside. >> i think this is one of those things where how it started is less relevant ultimately than where it is now and where it is headed. yes, somebody in vancouver may have thrown this out, but the nufrg is there to converge around the value system of ending government and a auction democracy. >> there are several other -- >> occupying colleges.

the kids are walking out today in school. >> i can look at any other major movement, the civil rights movement, and they had stated goals, and -- >> they have a stated goal. >> what is the goal? >> to end the ability for business to purchase our state. >> how do you do that? >> well, there's a lot of ways to do it. we, unrelated to this, started a foundation and a coalition called get money out to force a constitutional amendment that bans the ncaa rules and bands all federal politicians from taking money, and to get an argument of how you fund it, you lock it out. a lot of people are onboard with the get money out coalition, and a lot of general assemblies are adopting that as the action point, and i don't know what they will all do but there is a tool to do it and there's a wave of energy to force a debate around the amendment to breach the relationship between

business and state. >> this started on september 17th. where were these people on september 1st? were these people unemployed, and what got them here besides the e-mail that went out? >> when you talk to folks, and people had such high hopes for the president, and people had high hopes for the tea party going back a few years -- >> you think some of these people -- >> i know they do. some of these people were part of the tea party and left to help occupy wall street. and then the alliance between business and state up to this point is what is bringing everybody to the point. >> where were they after the bailout? >> i asked the same question. i asked the same question, and i ultimately believe the bailout -- the reason this doesn't happen after the bailout, because the bailout went to two plays, barack obama will do it and the tea party, and the energy from the bailout was huge and it drove the tea party and drove barack obama, but neither of them dealt with

it. what you are looking at here is the echo of the failure of the previous efforts to deal with this energetically have failed. >> not fortune tellers, of course, not in our real lives, but where will these people be in a month? will the union presence help them at all? >> i would think in the short term it helps them because of the numbers on the street and the march, and then what happens next will be proven by the intentions of the people in it, if they are focussed on their own intent and their intent is to find a positive harness to force a real debate to solve this problem, they will help us fix this country. if their intention is to purely rage against the machine, or to try and go for a list of policy demands, and engage in debate, it will shatter and fall apart. the only chance that they have to maintain the integrity of

their principle, refuse to be baited into the political and media elites debating what do you want? it's like a 4-year-old stealing the cookies, and what do they want? to stop stealing their cookies. >> i know that's a great way of breaking it down. >> i am excited that you are down here. >> i am excited to be here. it's a learning experience at so many levels than the inside of a studio, and once you come down, it's so difficult. thank you, buddy. it was a pleasure. coming up, ezra klein will join us live to find out where the money is coming from and where the support is coming from and will the unions make a difference. at bayer, we're re-inventing aspirin for pain relief. with new extra-strength bayer advanced aspirin.

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savvy, and some want to end the reserve and some support barack obama and some say the system is hopelessly corrupt, and anybody not taking it seriously, i think it's a very open question what it will become. obviously, there's a sentiment out there that we in the country, there is 9% unemployment, and 16% under employment, and of course there is fury at how the decisions are being made by the folks in power. the sentiment is real, but what it turns into is an open question, but the sentiment is real. >> and really, to stop your day to come down here and let alone to sleep on the ground here for 19 days for the movement, what was the straw that broke the camel's back? >> there are groups that have been occupying bank of americas all over the country, and groups

trying to get relief for homeowners, and this was a group that used aggressive protest methods, and got arrested and a number of reporters arrested along with them, and in doing that got coverage from folks like you and i and that allowed it to grow and grow and grow. but it could have been another one. and i think it's important -- it's not really about this particular group of people in this one park per se, but it's about them tap into something real and creating space for something people want to already do. >> and bernanke said there is justification for the protest. let's play it. >> i would say very generally i think people are quite unhappy with the state of the economy, and what is happening. they blame, with some justification, the problems in the financial sector forgetting us into this mess, and they are

dissatisfied with policy response here in washington. and at some level i cannot blame them, certainly 9% unemployment, and very slow growth is not a very good situation. >> interesting comment. he says i can't blame them. there is some justification with wall street. this is in a sense a mildly worded vin dau indication. >> a lot of the folks are targeted at the fed. the chicago group, the occupy chicago group, that appeared on the chicago property, right across the street from it. bernanke in the whole testimony yesterday, you got the idea if he were not the chairman of the federal reserve, he would be out here with a sign. he was shaking congress's shoulders, and saying stop messing around and the economy is too fragile for the nonsense. and some of what is going on

here, simply they seem out of touch. >> is washington paying attention? >> they are paying attention. john larson came out and said he applauds them, and so you are seeing an effort. a lot of democrats will go mainstream, and it's like a tea party more on their side and they want to get out in front of it and they are deeply in sympathy with it. >> thank you very much. get back in and talk with more people and we will see what happens in a couple hours. when these folks behind me merge with thousands of others who are waiting to join them here, in the meantime, justin elliott will join me as well as the daily beast, zachary caramel. we will have more news including the deadly workplace shooting out of california. we will return after a quick break.

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welcome back to this special edition of "news nation" in the heart of the financial district where protesters are preparing for a big meeting with union members around 4:30. i have a list of some of the unions that will be represented here. united ny, and strong economy for all coalition working family parties. this is some of the people. seiu 1199. the national nurses united. these are some of the names that i have received of union members who will be here very shortly. we will stay here. also coming up, we will speak with one of the participants, almost if you will one of the leading voices to talk about the movements and what he would like to see here. meanwhile, we will have an update. >> we are following the breaking news out of northern california we have been following all day.

police are looking for a man that shot and killed two people. 45-year-old almond was a disgrun dulled employee that opened fire during a safety meeting. i am joined by the news director. what else do we know about the suspect and his motives other than he was disgruntled on the work site. >> he was unhappy on the job because there are union negotiations going on at the cement plant, and he was moved to the night shift, a shift he did not want to work. some of his neighbors and friends are speculating that might have had something to do with prompting the shooting. >> do we know more specifics about how he opened fire?

was he targeting people or something moran dumb? >>. >> well, there are safety meetings, and they happen as they do a shift change, and he was in the meeting and at one point he got up and left, and came back armed with an ak-47, and i believe a .40 handgun, and he opened fire on the people in the meeting. he left the meeting area and was seen walking around the quoery, and then he left the quoery area, and then went to a community next to cupertino, and there's a hewlett pack yard facility there. >> george, thank you for the update. we appreciate it. and we will keep our eye on that story and bring you information as soon as we get it here on the

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spectacle, just like on the bridge last saturday, and just like the march at union scaquar. something is happening and this is only going to grow. >> how -- articulate that to me. what do you mean by something is happening? >> i am a socialologist, by training and education, and i call it a revolution. nobody is organizing it and it's happening, and people are coming together and people are tired of the old problems and system, and a lot of people, not everybody here, but myself especially, we are talking about new systems and new ways of life. >> it's interesting, again, i have been reading some of the reaction to the show so far, and how people are processing the questions. why is it such a hot button when you ask people like yourself, what do you want? what is the goal? i can tell you, people have been ticked off when you ask that question, and i don't get it, because in any movement, when we covered asia, what you want to

know, not the ultimate goal but the immediate goal of the people >> the fact that we don't have a goal is what we have been blasted the most important, but that's the reason this keeps growing. it allows space for people to come in and space their own concern for their own problems. it makes people wonder about this, and once they come here and talk they find themselves engaged. >> yeah, they read about some of the bloggers and what they are saying and charting the course. one of the other criticisms is the people out here felt ignored and the media did not show up until the unrest and the violence that was directed at the protesters, and you said the media is aobsolete. >> the media seems to think they are driving the people to the protest. >> i don't know how anybody can think that, because it started with the community and it's

within the community -- >> yeah, the protest is not making the movement happen. this would happen without the media being here. the fact that we view social media to communicate with people on a very horizontal level, but if i nrp charge of a major media network, that would worry me, that's something i would be afraid about, and the reason why people stick with these traditional forms of media like msnbc is mostly out of habit. >> and you are available now to the people watching because you are here, and it's not a relationship, but it's our responsibility to cover the movement, and especially now that it has reached this point. i am not here to defend the media but was curious about that, but with this said, will this movement have an impact in the upcoming election? you smile when i ask you that and there's a twinkle in your eye. >> i hope so. nobody knows where this will go or what will happen.

>> what do you compare this to? what you have studied? >> there is a structure, and there's a legitimacy with our politics and media going on right now. >> what do you compare it to? >> i can't compare it to anything. >> it's incomparable? >> yeah, in my opinion. >> we greatly opinion having your voice in the conversation. coming up, two more guests with us, zachary karabell with the dai"the daily beast." the show is free flowing as the movement. what do you think? i walked through the area, and they have food stands and support systems, and some people are singing gospel music or john lenin. >> it reminds me of being in college, and i mean that in a good way, like from a bigger perspective, and the worst thing

is apathy. the fact that you have people involved and engaged whether you disagree or agree, and from the perspective if the united states is going to pull itself out of the funk, we need that energy. >> i love that you hit on the apathy. when the tea party movement was taking off you heard a lot of people on the left and a lot of progressives saying there was no counter to the tea party movement. fast and furious. and there was no immediate counter. is this the counter. >> it's the beginning seeds of that. it makes sense that this is in new york. this is the financial capital. >> people want shout-outs about their rallies. don't forget houston or arizona. this is not here any more. >> and it's certainly a reflection of the disconnect between where rewards have gone in the society. i think we can all agree, regardless of what part of the political spectrum you are on,

the rewards for the u.s. economy for the past 24 years have gone to a very limited number of people. that's the way it is. what dew we do about that going on in the future is not a discussion we have had. >> i was having a dinner conversation with a progressive, and said this is the have and the have nots, and this is not just happening in the united states but it's happening in the world and not just something in this century, and doesn't it boil down to the feeling that this is about the have and the have nots. >> and this has been an issue throughout american history. >> it's throughout world history. >> now, in china, between who is getting the rewards and who is not, and there's the question that societies have to figure out what exactly is there, what is the ratio between aggregate wealth and individual prosperity. this is the debate you absolutely have to have. whether or not the people have to know what the end point is, it's a protest, and there's something here that is inequal

and not equitable that we need to address. and just getting the debate going rather than the partisan one in washington of how to divide the spoils one that will continue to effect the people. >> and i was talking to my colleague, and they said it's not one side or the other, but it's their side. >> yeah, and this is much more about what are we doing as an entire society going forward in the world. >> zachary karabell with the "the daily beast," thank you so much for joining me. we greatly appreciate it. >> thank you. many people holding up signs, and it's 99%, and now with me, justin elliott, you have walked around and what do you see here? >> i am hearing a sense of excitement here. there's a lot more union members than in the past couple weeks. >> the numbers are increasing and the message is getting out? >> yeah, the solidarity march

with all of the local unions organizing today and they are expecting several thousand people i am told. i talked to one retired teacher, and he said he had been at the "i have a dream speech" in 1963, and he had a button in that speech that said jobs, and he said the message has not changed that much in 45 years. they are excited about the broadening of the coalition. >> and how does wall street process this? >> it's hard to say. there was a quote in the "new york times," a blind quote of a bank executive asking a times reporter asking if he should be worried about the safety, and nobody should be worried about their safety. i think they should be worried about the populist outcry against criminality and inequality and this sort of thing. >> the police presence is quite visible, especially after we saw 700 plus people arrested and then the clash the weekend before that was caught on video,

and the police presence here, the fbi saying they are keeping an eye on the situation, and this is a sensitive area, we are at the edge of ground zero, but what do you make of the police presence here today? >> the police are out in force, and they have been the whole time, and they have surveillance -- a mobile surveillance tower. and this is costing the police too much money was said by peter vauloan of queens, and so -- >> what do they mean? >> i asked him and he did not have an answer. mayor bloomberg has not been friendly, and is the city going to do anything here? if the city goes to try and break it up forcefully, it will probably help the protest. >> you seat removal of tents, for example, and the issue of the bridge and people believing they were blocked in and corralled -- >> yeah, and there's a lawsuit filed today for the protesters

against the city of new york and the police department saying the mass arrests on the bridge were illegal. the march today, i believe there's a permit for it, and the unions got it i believe, so it will be interesting to see if there are any arerests today. >> i found a moving vision of this, a line of police officers, and they are standing on the railing and beside them was a guy with a sign and it said no more layoffs of teachers, firefighters and police officers. so that was chilling in a sense, because you see that play out this way. >> there was a couple signs going around that said protect nypd pensions. police are union members too. i don't think the police are necessarily against the protesters, it's the top city brass making decisions. >> it's always a pleasure having on. thank you very much. and another union supporting the occupied wall street is the

transit union, bruce hamilton is the president of the greater new york area locals. >> union members are here in support of the demands that wall street start paying its fair share. we are in support of the folks here. everybody here is a transit rider. we are bus drivers and people who operate transit systems all across the country. >> and transit workers were upset when the protesters were placed on the buses, and felt that crossed a line and the city said it felt a right to do. >> what they did not have a right to do is disrupt people assembling peacefully and demanding their rights. >> you will remember this referen reference, they compare it to a free for all, you have people with xerox signs, and it's largely associated with young

people, but that's not the total component. do you believe the union helps to add influence, but in a sense you have people who aren't like all of these young people when they join you, and they are just working people over 50, if you will, if i am articulating this question even accurately, and i don't want to insult your age here, but you get what i am saying? >> yeah, this is fantastic, and there are young people and old people, and they are all working people, though, we are the 99%, as everybody has been saying all over again. >> what do you want to send to washington with your presence here? >> turn around the cuts especially on transit, from our point of view. other ways, too, instead of giving tax breaks to the billionaires give tax breaks to the bus drivers, put people back to work. the way to solve the crisis is to put people back to work. >> thank you very much for joining me. a great pleasure you having on.

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for her neighbour's tennis instructor's daughter's 1st grade teacher who's also her mom. help fund breast cancer programs in your community. redeem your lids today i am martin bashir coming up at the top of the hour. will they finally do something about the president's jobs bill? as the occupy wall street movement grows, best-selling author, michael lewis, joins us, and his take on why the economy fell hard and fast. now back to "news nation." >> we will take you back to tamron in lower manhattan, but chris christie has slammed the door on the presidential bid and mitt romney now looks poised to be the largest beneficiary in his absence. edging second place finisher,

herman cain by five points, and romney holds a 4 point advantage over president obama. and deputy political director, mark murray, joins me from washington, d.c. of all the donors that held out to make this decision, how many are likely to throw their support behind romney? >> a big chunk are breaking towards mitt romney's way. one of the chief chris christie backers was home depot cofounder, and he is now backing mitt romney. you will see a lot of other money types and people who are part of the republican establishment breaking to mitt romney. the question for mitt romney, he started to get the rank and file conservative voters, which was interesting in the poll that you just mentioned. he gets support from about 22%. that's identical to where it was a month ago. as you end up having rick perry's collapse, and chris christie is out, mitt romney's

position has not changed much. >> now, rick perry, how is he able to pull fund-raising off? >> well, it has been his association with the republican governor nurz association. it's one of the chief fund-raising arms for the entire republican party, and that he knows all of the contacts, the rolodexes certainly helps him out. 17 million is a very impressive number. it's important to note that perry has only been a candidate for half of the quarter. in half a quarter he was able to equal what mitt romney pulled in in his first quarter last summer. >> mark, great to see you. thank you. minutes from now, the parents of a missing 10-month-old missing baby girl are set to hold a news conference. there's a lack of clues in the disappearance after a day-long search on tuesday. police found no sign of lisa

irwin. she was last seen sleeping in the crib after a mom put her to bed. nbc's peter alexander has the latest from kansas city, missouri. >> reporter: good afternoon to you. for the first time a short time ago today we saw lisa irwin's parents where they say their daughter was snatched in the middle of the night. we saw them with police investigators as well as the fbi. when we saw her mother, she was visibly distraught. we saw lisa's father who was there with investigators as well, and they left a short time ago carrying a plastic bag with what appeared to be clothes inside, and it's unlikely we will see them at the home anytime soon. investigators went in again early this morning, gathering evidence with the dogs sniffing

this area as well, looking for any clues of the missing 10-month-old girl that disappeared, according to the family, in the middle of the night monday night to tuesday morning. the mom says she last saw her daughter, lisa, when she put her to bed at 10:30 p.m., and when the father got home at 4:00 a.m., his daughter was gone. investigators yesterday repealing down a nearby cliff, and speaking to neighbors in the area, and doing anything they can to find new evidence. there was initially an amber alert in effect and that expired yesterday, and the urgency of the search is not over but the effectiveness of the amber alert had at that time worn off. that's the latest from here, and we will keep you up-to-date and a news conference is scheduled for a short time from now. >> we will take it back to tamron hall at the protest in new york city. >> reporter: thomas, we are still looking at a timeline of about an hour when union members will join the protesters here.

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they are railing against corporate greed and they want to see a change in the country. they believe there's a disparity, and what we are seeing in wall street with the bank bailouts, and even the tax code, some would say. we see the unemployment at 9.2%. 9.4% in new jersey, just across the water from where i am standing. so at this point, the question that we have for you, our gut check question, do you believe that this occupied wall street movement will have the same impact as the tea party movement? what is your gut tell you? goes to newsnation.com to let us know what you think about it. we have the information on the screen where you can tweet us. we are reading your tweets and will continue to follow the movement, and in the meantime, martin bashir picks up the coverage. and since my doctor prescribed lipitor, i won't go without it for my high cholesterol and my risk of heart attack.

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good afternoon. it's wednesday october 5th, and here is what is happening.

smile boys, merrily dislikes you. >> do your job, congress. >> i am not going to compromise on my principles. >> policies being promoted by the administration that are sending the signal that we are not open for business in america. >> the 112th congress, not open for business and not open for job growth. >> i would like him to come down here to dallas and explain what exactly in this jobs bill does he not believe in? what exactly is he opposed to? >> plus the 99 sprint. new protest against wall street greed sprout up in communities across america. noted author, michael c. lewis shares his view of the movement live. >> we begin this afternoon with a class photo. take a look at this.