Today On The Ed Schultz Show

Ed Schultz broadcasts from New York City!

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-NY, joins the 2nd hour of Today’s show to discuss credit card legislation.

Sen. Kent Conrad, Chairman of the Budget Committee, joins the 3rd hour of Today’s show to discuss the Financial Markets Commission.

John Nichols of The Nation joins the 3rd hour of Today’s show to discuss Dick Cheney and torture.

President Obama is meeting with executives from the nation’s top credit-card companies. We’ll bring you the story.

New details show Condi Rice approved “waterboarding”. We’ll bring you the details.

GM plans to shut down most US plants for 9 weeks. What will it do to workers and sales?

A new poll show more Americans think the country is going in the “right direction”, than the “wrong direction.” We’ll talk about what Obama can accomplish with the suppport.

Today On The Thom Hartmann Show

Topic: “Being conservative in the Obama Era and more” Thom has a conversation with conservative author/pundit Dinish D’Souza www.dineshdsouza.org

This Morning On The Stephanie Miller Show

Some sad news to report this morning.  It doesn’t look like Steph’s dog Puff made it through the night.  Jim and Chris will be hosting the show today.  In Puff’s honor, please consider becoming a Guardian with the ASPCA.  Thanks.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) calls in at 6:05am to talk about the torture memo debate.

Comedian Michael McDonald calls in at 8:30am to talk about his upcoming gig at The Improv in Hollywood, CA.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned yesterday that Pakistan is in danger of falling into terrorists’ hands because of failed government policies and called on Pakistani citizens and expatriates to voice more concern. Pakistan is a nuclear-armed state.

Ramping up his campaign to crack down on credit cards, President Obama will meet today with executives of 14 leading companies to press his case for new consumer protections. Meanwhile, the House moved forward on a bill Tuesday to ban “arbitrary” interest rate increases, prohibit excessive fees, and order more disclosure.

Condi Rice, John Ashcroft, and other top Bush administration officials approved as early as the summer of 2002 the CIA’s use at secret prisons of harsh interrogation menthods, including waterboarding, a technique that Attorney General Eric Holder has described as illegal torture.

Brushing aside the president’s suggestions, congressional Dems pushed ahead firmly yesterday toward investigations into the Bush administration’s harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects including hundreds of instances of waterboarding and other abusive practices.