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7:42	Chat Moderator - Hi everyone! Lesley will be answering questions in a few minutes. Thank you in advance for your participation!

7:50	Chat Moderator - Just an update: Lesley will be staying on air through the next commercial and will join us live around 8 a.m. as originally scheduled

8:01	[Comment From lesley stahl] hi everyone. I love being on Morning Joe, by the way!

8:02	[Comment From Theresa] How do you choose 60 minute stories? Can I recommend one?

8:03

lesley stahl - We have any number of ways.. Each of the correspondents has a team -- of four producers and four associate producers. Everyone on the team is expected to come up with story ideas.. which we get from newspapers, journals.. and from people like you. Yes, please write to me with the idea!

8:04	[Comment From Garland Green] Leslie, do you ever feel that morning radio and TV have begun to stop adding value to the current situation? Instead, use the situation as a platform for views and not to educate the public? I wonder what their role should be. -G

8:06

lesley stahl - I do think that the non stop analysis -- particularly in this economic crisis -- contribute to the angst and the fear. We are bombarded with the pro's and the con's of everything. No programs are allowed to get started even before the criticism starts. On the one hand, we all have more access to more information -- don't leave the blogs out of your question -- and on the other hand, there's no time to sit back and figure out what WE ourselves really ti

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