Today's Takeaway: Sussing Out the Political Drama Over Obama's Jobs Speech Listen Download Embed Share Share this on Facebook (Opens in a new window) Share this on Twitter (Opens in a new window) Share this via Email Top of the Hour: Northeast Struggles After Irene, Morning Headlines Rethinking American Infrastructure Venus Williams Pulls Out of U.S. Open What Does It Take for a Dictator to Surrender? Tripoli's Drinking Water Problem Is Our Blood Pressure Rising With the Foreclosure Rate? Top of the Hour: Libyan NTC Meets With World Leaders in Paris, Morning Headlines The Political Theater Over Obama's Jobs Speech World Leaders Meet in Paris for Libya Summit Justice Department Sues to Halt AT&T Merger With T-Mobile Angry With An Airline? Try Tweeting Police Begin to Pull Out of Ciudad Juárez Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin on Rebuilding After Irene FEMA Administrator W. Craig Fugate on Responding to Irene President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the U.S. economy from the State Dining Room at the White House in the District of Columbia, on August 8, 2011. ( JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images / Getty ) Produced by PRI and WNYC