industry and the industry is now reliant on feeding the paranoia about government out to get you because 50% of americans don't own guns any longer. in fact, it is a small percentage of americans who are hoarding and stockpiling guns because they have been fed a paranoia of government by the nra. the nra has taken an extreme position in this debate in part because of the business model of the gun industry that funds the nra is dependent on a small number of people buying more and more dangerous weapons. >> you're marketing trick as a gun manufacturer is how do i get someone who already has a gun to buy another gun? >> that's right. >> and that's why -- that's where the paranoia sensation has to come into the marketing. you better buy it now or they might deprive you of the right to buy this thing. >> and also the assault weapons have some of the highest profit margins of any guns sold. these are multi thousand dollar weapons opposed to a cheaper

pistol that used to be the common weapon of 50% of american households. those pale in comparison to profits madoff the ar-15, the bush masters, so this is a different business model that existed in the gun industry and the nra as we have shown in reports released from our office is making millions of dollars from the gun manufacturers in a way they didn't decades ago. they're tied together here. >> and we saw progress recently in colorado where it is at least as difficult to legislate in this area as it is in washington. they're on the way to limiting magazine capacities to 15. is that the kind of thing gives you hope for what's possible in washington? >> absolutely. i mean, the american public has decided where they are on this. you're talking about 90% of americans that want universal background checks. 80% of gun owners. majority of americans want to see these assault weapons off the streets. i mean, shame on congress if we can't find a way to get to where

80 to 90% of the american public is. i still think we get it done and colorado's action certainly hopefully give courage to legislators on legislators on t here. >> connecticut senator chris murphy gets the last word. "the ed show" up next." an american woman faces racist taunts and rape threats for exercising her first amendment rights. >> i don't honestly want you to tell me that i needed a gun to prevent my rape. >> conservative backlash against women turns ugly. the vicious attack on lena maxwell. she joins me tonight. paul ryan's new plan. >> you would repeal, you assume the repeal of obama care? >> yes. >> chris van holland on republicans running out the clock. republican economic policy is lowering life expectancy. i'll show you the shocking new

study tonight. >> history will be kind to my brother. >> jeb bush thinks his big brother is getting a bad rap. the big panel takes a swing at the bush baggage. >> now watch this drive. a republican congressman avoids being kicked in the head. tiger is back on the prowl. and i'll show you how asteroids might hold the key to the meaning of life. >> never said much about the meaning of life so far, have they? good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. this vile, hateful language behind me was directed at a rape victim. it contains a racial slur, a threat of sexual violence and two threats of death. it was not an isolated incident or message. zerlina maxwell said this. >> the entire conversation is wrong. i don't want anybody to be te

telling women anything. i don't want men to be telling me what to wear, how to act, not to drink and i don't honestly want you to tell me that i needed a gun in order to prevent my rape. >> so those comments caused death threats and racists attacks? here is why. zerlina maxwell is a writer and democratic strategist and was invited on fox news to talk about women arming themselves with guns to prevent rape. maxwell was asked to discuss a recent column she wrote for "ebony" magazine about sexual assault. she wrote "telling women they can behave in a certain way they can prevent rape creates a false sense of security and isn't the most effective way to lower the horrible statistics." maxwell was not promoting gun proposals on fox news but she was talking about shifting the burden away from the victims. now, it was surprising when conservative websites like the blaze ran the story with the headline "democratic strategist's shocking claim that

women don't need gun for self-defense. just tell men not to rape women." the coverage opened up the floodgates. a barrage of hateful comments to maxwell on social media including four direct threats on her life and it is very hard to understand why it would come to this but when you look at the recent history of conservative movement in this country, you see a continual disrespect towards women. there was senate candidate todd aiken and his comments about legitimate rape. he was followed by yet another senate candidate richard murdoch in indiana and his comments about rape being something god intended. well, after akin and murdoch were footnotes in political history, phil gingrey, he brought it right back up. he told a georgia newspaper, todd akin was part right and got to bad that republicans had to bring in a consultant to tell

lawmakers to stop talking about rape. it's not just what the party is saying but what they do. last year, women and men protested in virginia as state lawmakers tried to pass a mandatory vaginal ultrasound bill. as people marched outside the statehouse, republican lawmakers well, they yucked it up inside. >> transv word! transv this and transv that! and they hate women and we're the -- in that bill, she killed -- go far enough? she is crazy! >> you also had pennsylvania governor tom corbett who said women shouldn't worry about mandatory ultrasounds because they don't have to look at them. >> i don't know how you make anybody watch, okay, because you just have to close your eyes. >> the republican party has a problem with women. it has spread like a virus through the party's politicians. through the conservative media and through the followers who consume these messages. house speaker john boehner gave

this so "roll call" saying the following, "when your message prompts death threats and racial attacks, the problem goes, i think, a heck of a lot deeper than just communication. the problem is all about policies. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think tonight. tonight's question, will republicans ever listen to women on women's issues? text "a" for yes. text "b" for no. you can always go to our blog and we will bring you the results later on in the show. i'm joined tonight by zerlina maxwell. she is a political analyst and contributor for the grio.com. and katrina van dan huevel, editor and publisher of "the nation" magazine. good to have you both with us. what what happened since your appearance on television, zerlina? >> it started with a contentious debate. >> not unusual anywhere. >> right. it's a debate and you stick out your opinions. i think what is different is the intersection between guns and

ape and the underlying feeling that there is a problem of rape culture in america. i actually don't view and that's what i was trying to say in the segment. i don't view rape culture as a partisan issue. rape happens to republicans, as well as democrats. >> your point is that women shouldn't have to be armed? >> right. i think that women should not have to go out and get a gun. women should not have to not wear skirts or heels and shouldn't have to do anything to prevent rape from happening to them. i think we should refocus like a laser on the perpetrators of the rape and i think that the problem is that because we always ask women, well, what did you do to bring about the attack, a lot of women are too afraid to come forward. that is the reason i went on hannity and in that forum because it was the biggest platform. i've been writing about this for years, i'm also a survivor and i took it on my shoulders. i was speaking for millions of american women that have survived rape and

i wanted to make sure that everyone knows it's not their fault. >> okay. point being here is that hannity treated you respectfully in the conversation. >> right. >> it's what happened afterwards that happened in the interpretation. has law enforcement gotten involved in this? this is pretty serious stuff. >> i am exploring the possible options. unfortunately, there is not a lot that can be done that i'm aware of, but, you know, i'm a law student so i know a lot of lawyers. >> dakotas from the cdc say that one in five women in the u.s. are sexually assaulted. 30% are assaulted by an intimate partner. isn't this -- we're at a point of trying to make change. you were just trying to change the conversation. >> right. >> that it's about behavior and it's not about firearms. >> yes. >> they're trying to make the case and the people who were attacking you is that you're trying to suppress some kind of gun ownership out there. >> right. and that's not really the issue. i was trying to move away from that conversation. i think that we get stuck too often in asking what women should or could have done to prevent rape, and instead we need to educate and train men to not rape in the first place.

>> katrina, this overreaction to what a woman says about gun violence in america and protection after speaking her mind i mean is just amazing. i want to play a comment from republican strategist steve schmitt and get your response to this. >> i think in any organization where women are not at the table, where a skewed male in today's day and age, that's an organization that's deficient. that's an organization that's going to have problems. it's one of the problems that we have structurally in the republican party. we don't have enough women at the table. any company, any organization in today's day and age that doesn't give equal opportunity to women, that doesn't advance women to the table is going to be an organization that has difficulty competing. >> which would bring some conservatives to the conclusion that there is a creation of a subculture here that women don't matter. >> good for steve schmitt for

speaking out because i think the republican party believes that can just do some rebranding. it is very male, pale, and stale, i've said that before but it is this republican party and it's shown very real contempt for women and control over their bodies, control over their lives and what's lost in this discussion, ed, is the fact that 70% of women are in the work force. 60% of women in the workforce have kids under 3 and the republican party is opposed to virtually every policy that would lead those women to lead productive healthy lives, whether it's paid sick leave or minimum wage or protection against discrimination of equal pay or they were opposed to something that is bipartisan for many women in this country. the violence against women's act leading republicans. this is a party out of change with the changing dynamics of the country where women we need more reform and more progress to have women really at the table and we need to change the table. >> do you think these out of touch policies that the republicans have lead to such

over-the-top behavior in situations like this? >> listen. we came out of an election which, by the way, the republicans don't seem to think it matters, where we heard, and you saw some of them. people like a man running for senator in missouri talking about rape as -- that there is a distinction between legitimate and illegitimate. this culture, attacks against people like zerlina. fox is a mirror of the problems the republican party is facing and you see it in the public trust, the ratings, the audience that they are losing. >> but when a woman speaks up and says it's about behavior and you can teach men not to rape, you become attacked. >> right. >> which i think parallels a lot of the policies that they have. they attack women in their policies. >> they don't have a good policy to respond. they don't have a message so they attack. >> you know, one of the

underlying things here too is it illustrates what i was talking about, right? so i am speaking for millions of survivors out there and i'm saying that there is a problem of rape culture and attacks on women and then i'm attacked. and i think illustrates that we do have a problem. we need to talk to young men about respect, bodily autonomy and we need to talk to them about bistandard intervention. there are organizations that are already doing this that i cited in the interview. they are already doing this work. i didn't make this up. i'm not the only one saying it. i just was in the biggest forum making that point. >> and so much of the root of it is the basic right of women to control their own bodies and their access to health care. and we need enempathetic and engaged government, not one in our bedrooms and not all this transvaginal ultrasound which governors and states say get the government off your back. they want it on your back in these areas. so it's a really difficult picture, ed.

and i think the republican party has a lot of rethinking to do, and, again, kudos to steve schmitt and a very few of them in the party who understand it's not reboot, rebrand and it's a fundamental problem of having too many men running the show. they need to bring in some -- >> has it made you take a step back and not be as aggressive verbally? i mean, are you rethinking -- is that a hard position to think now? >> i'm certainly taking steps to protect my emotional health but i will not be quiet. the whole entire point of why i went on fox to talk about this issue that i am so passionate about is because so many women are afraid to talk about it, and that's because they are blamed and shamed into silence and i refuse, i refuse to be silent. >> it's very important. this is a week where sheryl sandberg, former -- now coo of facebook is writing a book about "lean in." got a lot of issues with the book but for women to speak

their mind and speak with security and confidence about their safety is and what is on their mind is critical to this country. it's been one of the great promises of this country and to see republicans that -- to see the right wing, to be honest, the right wing media and the blogosphere try to suppress zerlina's right to speak is a microcosm of a larger problem. >> they have become a vehicle. >> they are vessels. >> is there anybody monitoring that stuff that they understand the decency of it all. >> i would also argue that there is a level of economic security that is fomented on -- nra plays on fear. they say they want to take your guns away. no, they don't. >> they want you armed. that is how you're supposed to stop rape if you're armed. i don't know. there was talk about statistics out there. if women are armed, are they less apt to get raped? >> it's a ridiculous solution because it doesn't prevent rape. the most rapes happen when you're with someone you

trust and know, you're dating and married to. i've gotten a lot of conservatives that say i don't agree with you on anything but you're right about this. and that is why i'm so passionate and i want to keep raising my voice. >> okay. zerlina maxwell, katrina vanden huevel, great to have you both with us. remember to answer tonight's question there at the bottom of the screen. share your thoughts with us on twitter and on facebook. we want to know what you think. republicans continue to run out the clock. paul ryan's new plan is so unrealistic even fox news hosts can see right through it. but there are some things i've never seen before. this ge jet engine can understand 5,000 data samples per second. which is good for business. because planes use less fuel, spend less time on the ground and more time in the air. suddenly, faraway places don't seem so...far away. ♪

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welcome back to "the ed show." thanks for watching tonight. congressman paul ryan has a big idea on how to balance the budget, and we know it's a shocker because even a fox news host couldn't believe what he was hearing. >> are you saying that as part of your budget, you would repeal, you assume the repeal of obama care? >> yes. >> well, that's not going to happen. >> well, we believe it should. that's the point. that is -- this is what budgeting is all about, chris. it's about making tough choices to fix our country's problems. we believe that obama care is a program that will not work. >> well, that's right. budget chair ryan proposes repealing obama care. for the record, during the 112th congress, house republicans voted to repeal obama care, count them, 32 times.

after the house, the bill, obviously, went nowhere. so this is such a dead issue but this is what the republicans want to do. obama care repeal bills are now being sponsored by people like congresswoman michele bachmann and congressman steve king. ted cruz, new on the scene, said it will not pass the senate. this hasn't stopped congressman ryan from engaging in this useless posturing. and there's more. ryan's budget would balance the budget by 2023 instead of by 2040. it would cut food assistance from the poor. cut $770 billion in medicaid and create medicare vouchers and cut $716 billion from medicare and the same cuts that ryan proposed when he ran for president. today florida governor rick scott's plan today to accept the medicaid expansion failed in the republican's controlled state senate down in florida. now it is a big blow to the

people of florida. but the medicaid expansion has generally been embraced by states across the country as republican governors keep coming to obama care. joining me tonight is congre congressman chris van holland of maryland who was involved in a lunch late last week with the president and the house budget chair, mr. ryan. chris, good to have you with us tonight. appreciate it very much. >> you bet. >> how is ryan's budget to be considered a serious play when he's basing it on things that have been, and he will know, will be rejected in the future? >> well, that question in some ways answers itself. it cannot be a serious effort because there is no serious chance of it passing. in fact, there is virtually no chance of that passing. and interestingly, ed, what he does is he repeals the part of obama care that will provide tax credits, that will allow more people to afford health care. he does keep the part of obama care that both he and romney

campaigned against, which was smart medicare savings that we achieved by eliminating the overpayments to insurance companies. if you recall both congressman ryan and mitt romney said that that was going to somehow hurt seniors. >> yeah. >> it never was going to. but they are keeping that. they are keeping the very savings in medicare that they campaigned against, but they are cutting the tax credits and all of the provisions that make sure that people with pre-existing conditions can't be denied coverage. so in addition to it being totally unrealistic politically, it also has terrible policy consequences. >> here is more from congressman ryan. >> i think there are things that we can do that don't offend either party's philosophy and doesn't require someone to surrender their principles to make a good down payment on getting this debt and deficit under control. will the president take our premium support program and block medicaid?

my guess is he won't. we think the best way to make these programs work better but are there things you can do short of that gets you closer to balancing the budget? >> i mean, i love these buzz phrases. premium support. give me a break. i mean, ryan knows this nonsense isn't going to go anywhere so why bother unless another technique to run out the clock and divert people's attentions. your thought. >> right, well, look, translation, premium support equals vouchers which means under their plan, seniors would get a fixed payment that rises very slowly compared to rising health care costs and guess who has to eat the difference? >> that's right. >> seniors. so they deal with the budget, balance the budget on the backs of seniors. they balance it by dramatically gutting our investment in our kids' education and things that are important to help the economy grow. in the short term their budget would put the brakes on the economy by keeping in place the total sequester, the congressional budget office says we'll have 750,000 fewer jobs just by the end of this year if you keep this in place, so

it's bad for jobs and it's bad for economic growth and it certainly is bad for investments in our kids keeping those commitments, ed. >> now, in your meeting with president obama, did he try to really work with ryan? here is ryan. here is what he had to say. here is his take. >> so we exchanged very different frank, candid views with one another that were very different but at least we had this conversation. will he resume what is long believed to be a plan to win the 2014 elections, or will he sincerely change and try and find common ground? >> congressman, how would you characterize it? >> look, i think the meeting was a very good one. it was never designed to be a negotiation where we would hammer out the differences. it was designed to be an opportunity for an exchange of views, a healthy exchange of views, and that it was. but to suggest that the president hasn't reached out in the past is simply wrong. after all, the president reached out to the very top republican leader, the speaker of the house, john boehner. he thought that the speaker could help deliver the

republican caucus in the house. he couldn't. and what happened? speaker boehner said he doesn't want to meet with the president one on one anymore. so the president is expanding that conversation. and let's be clear. the president's goal is meet the commitments the president made in the campaign and he is willing to work with republicans to get it done. >> sure. so, in other words, this lunch was, this is what i believe, this is what you believe. this is where we're at. and let's see what we can do. i mean, that's really what it comes down to. >> well, there was an agreement that we would all be better off, the country would be better off if we could find a way to bridge these differences. in terms of specific road maps, the meeting was not intended to do that. hopefully, all of these conversations the president has/had will help find a path forward but, look. obviously, more talk is no guarantee that you get to a result, but, obviously, opening lots of lines of communication is a good thing. that's what the president is doing. >> congressman chris van hollen,

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welcome back to "the ed show." republicans, well, they just love smaller government, don't they? republicans love cutting public

sector jobs, and they are always the problem, you know, and those cuts, my friends have consequences. now according to the labor department survey, federal, state and local governments have lost this many jobs. 750,000 jobs since the start of the recovery. now, according to their household survey, that number is really closer to 950,000 jobs. now, without these cuts to the private sector, the numbers would have been different. the unemployment rate would really be sitting at 7.1% for the labor department instead of 7.7%. republicans also love to talk he entitlement reform, they can't get enough of it and what this budget thing is about. looking for ways to cut benefits like raising the eligibility age of medicare. the university of washington study shows how dangerous that could be for america's low income workers. take a look at st. john's county

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welcome back to "the ed show." jeb bush has made all of the rounds on all five sunday talk shows, plus spanish language network telemundo. this happened yesterday. it was an unusual move considering jeb wasn't managing a crisis or declaring his intention to run for office, but, rather, plugging his latest book. good for him. bush had a tough time all week actually articulating his right word lurch on immigration. yesterday, it was not only -- he was not only asked to defend his evolving views but also explained as family legacy. yet, the former florida governor didn't seem too concerned about the possible negative impact the bush name could have on his future political plans. >> i don't think there is any bush baggage at all. i love my brother. i'm proud of his accomplishments. i love my dad.

i am proud to be a bush. >> okay, we all got that. proud of the record. he went even further on "meet the press." >> my guess is that history will be kind to my brother. the further out you get from this and the more people compare his tenure to what is going on now, i think history will be kind to george w. bush. >> this country is still paying for his mistakes. the tragedies of iraq and the shame of abu ghraib and executive power and collapse of the united states economy through deregulation. the reckless spending combined with tax cuts for the wealthy that didn't create the jobs they promised. the passive response to the suffering following hurricane katrina. george w. bush left the white house as one of the most divisive and least popular presidents this country has ever had. his numbers haven't improved much in recent years either. historians have repeatedly ranked "w" as one of our worst leaders. as "the daily beast" points out,

unfortunately, for jeb bush, history is written by historians. let's talk to our panel. eric dyson with us and susan dell percent joe and jim moore, the director of progress texas pac. jim, you first. you've written a book about w. is there baggage? i mean, is jeb bush close to reality here? >> no. there's an old saw in marketing, ed, that the worst kind of brand to get out from under is one that the public gives you. and we know what the bush brand is now. it's bad thinking in terms of taxes. it's bad actions in terms of war and in terms of jeb himself, his first day in office, we know where he is on certain issues. his first day in office, he vetoed a very popular interstate high-speed rail project in florida. he has been over here in texas the last couple of weeks testifying about charter schools but not mentioning the fact the bush family has a self-interest and they are well

invested in the investment portfolio the profits off of private education. the bush are about self-interests to most voters in this country. >> susan, what about all of that? you can understand brotherly love but he will be remembered by historians favorably? >> the only thing worse than having a bad brand is running away from your family. that, he can never escape. he did the right thing and, of course, he stands up for his family and it would be horrible if he didn't. let's face it. when it comes to education, jeb bush has received bipartisan support on his tenure as governor. yes, he's come out on immigration reform. i know you mentioned earlier his positions being modified. he has led a bipartisanship effort in many of these issues. and more importantly, back in -- last february when he came out and said even this party is too conservative for the likes of my father or ronald reagan, liberals were hailing him saying here is a good spokesperson for the republican

party. so right now the fact is that he's a top contender for president, and he is going to -- >> i think he might have hurt himself. i mean, i understand the family love, brotherly love, but he sounds in denial, professor dyson. >> yes, as gore vidal said and the 51st state is the state of denial. reality here is that -- that, of course, he is in a tough situation there. he has got a tough pickle there. because as the one hand as susan last indicated, you don't want to diss your family so no way out for him. he can't be critical of his brother. at least not now. but, on the other hand, he is saddled with that bush legacy. the reality is that his brother will not be treated as kindly as he thinks by historians now or in the future and -- well, we can say perhaps in the future. and i think that that reality suggests to jeb bush that he has got to, what, move further to

the right because his only hope of winning is not to receive the kudos of democrats who say to him that he is a guy who is reasonable, he's got to shore up that right wing conservative bent that really has pushed him to the margins of his own party. >> he has proven one thing. he is one of the very few people who can get on six sunday shows. but he's all over the map on immigration, jim, no doubt about it, his signature issue. how problematic is this going to be and they're going to point to the flip-flop. this was not a good week for him last week. >> i think the reason he went to six different shows was to try to explain it in six different ways his immigration policy and how convoluted it's become. it's clear he has gone to the right to animate the party activists, the people that come out in the primaries, the tea party, to make them happy. that's going to do him well. it will serve him well in the primary process but if he wins the nomination and we end up with a bush/clinton sort of campaign in 2016 he's going to have trouble back in the middle talking about what he said on immigration. >> yeah. >> hispanics are simply not

going to like it. >> meanwhile, howard fine has reported that ashley judd has told key advisers she is planning on announcing her candidacy for the senate this spring. judd is denying the report but judd allies told "the huffington post" her candidacy would clear the field for major contenders for the democratic nomination in kentucky pitting the actress against the unpopular senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. susan del percio, would it be good for mitch mcconnell if she jumped into the race, if judd got in? >> it's hard to tell right now, because she does have to define herself. she only has till the end of the year to move into the state so we'll probably see a decision sooner rather than later. she has taken some tough positions. being a liberal in kentucky is not a good thing. being against coal mining in kentucky, again, not a good thing. so while she has a high name i.d. because she is, in fact, a celebrity, she does have a lot to overcome. that's not to say by the way

that mitch mcconnell is in any great shape. >> that is true. the director of the senatorial campaign committee said they are not settled on ashley judd. would it be better to go with a more seasoned candidate, dr. dyson? >> no. i think you need some star power and need some firing of the imagination. you can't judge a book by its cover. she has deep roots in hollywood. perhaps more than in kentucky's local municipalities. but she brings that kind of star power. she is able to leverage that enormous fame of hers to the advantage of people who are there. you got a democratic governor and that bodes well perhaps for the possibility that she can join him in, you know, bringing to kentucky some much needed resource but in this case political capital that could be ex-pended on people who don't usually get lined up in kentucky to be the recipients of that. she's got to take care of the mining people to be sure but has to talk about the environment and in terms of women's issues that are critical.

>> buzz staff ran them -- people who ran campaigns for clint eastwood and schwarzenegger and al franken say judd can win if she gets out there early. i think what you said, susan. jim, does star power really matter? the issues are pretty heavy. it's income and inequality and healthy and immigration and the environment. and all of those positions right there you can look at mitch mcconnell and see that he is terribly in the minority. >> we have had people who come into politics who bring a name brand with them and they start out well and they get attention and get interests and they taper off. she has a big challenge. what we don't know about her, ed, is just how astute she is on all of those issues. >> she could be rick perry. you never know. >> she could end up being rick perry. >> and especially since there's a current democrat female secretary of state that is very appealing so i think that is going to be a tough decision for the democrats to make there.

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and we are back. nobody likes washington but maybe you'll like this. new york congressman peter king is normally jabbing democrats on capitol hill but this weekend he came out swinging for a local new york business. king took part in a two-round exhibition boxing match against kick boxing champion irish josh foley. whew! he's going up against this guy. the republican congressman took a few hits to the head -- i'll leave that comment to go. to promote boxing matches at a long island pub, okay? king held his own against the champ even landing a few hits. after the fight he was just happy to walk away staying

"great fight, more importantly, i survived." yes, you did, congressman. way to go. looking at the video, i think foley may, may have been going a little easy on king. here's foley landing a big hit 30 seconds into the fight back in 2008. yeah, yeah, there's no doubt about it. peter king didn't take a shot like that. but he did do something good for the community. we should point out that foley's opponent suffered no serious injuries. one other sports note tonight. tiger woods, is he on his mark? i think he is and he's headed right for next month's masters which is a big one. woods won the cadillac championship in doral, florida, on sunday. he finished at 19 under par at at the blue monster bringing home a 76 career pga victory and if he pulls off a win in bay hill in two weeks, he can go to the national spot worldwide.

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brand new evidence that life on earth may have come from outer space. the faith based community is furling on this one tonight. they're not going to like it. there's more likely than ever a comet or meteor brought the building blocks to life to our planet. that's what scientists are saying. imagine something as simple as a meteor over russia. instead of a few weeks ago how about billions and billions of years ago. scientists from the university of california created a mini comet in lab and exposed it to conditions similar to outer space such as the temperature of minus 442 degrees fahrenheit. it got that cold in fargo a couple of times. just like our milky way, galaxy scientists reproduced the effects of cosmic raies.

it created amino acids. if they changed to earth they might have changed to more complex molecules on earth. four more asteroided passed by earth in the past week. we're going to go to derick pits. he's with franklin institute in philadelphia. good to have you back with us tonight. >> thank you very much for having me on, ed. >> explain to us what these scientists did. what did they do and what did they find? >> the thought here is that it's possible that perhaps the building blocks of life came to this planet from someplace else in the galaxy and around the universe. the way they goat this is astronomers have been able to identify organic compounds

around the galaxy. they use telescopes for clouds of star material and find these organic compounds already existing. this means they have been created by some process. now the question is could some of those organic compounds that are the building blocks for the amino acids here, could they have been transported. turns out a vehicle may have been either a comet or a meteor or an asteroid that has somehow collected this material and, brought it to earth and it's been able to develop and prosper here. that's the idea of what the possibility could be. >> what is the significance of the temperature? >> the significance of the temperature is it simulates while the environment is like.

is it possible that the organic molecules or compounds can survive in space. we have to talk about the temperatures being so low. that's about as cold as anything can be. we also have to remember that these organic compounds have to be able to survive a very long journey, maybe multiple millions of years to come from someplace across the galaxy and they have to with stand the harsh environment of space as well. if you put all of these things together that adds up to the possibility that this could happen. we also have to ask this other question. once they get here is the environment the proper environment for them to develop and propagate into something else. >> life coming to earth from a meteor is a series that's been out there. this gives it a