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weekend. a very good morng, everne. this is "msnbc saturday. we have all of that plus new devepments in the death of miael jackson to report. bu firstlet's go to the president's trip to ghana the president says his tr is designed toshow that africa is not separate from world affairs. right now t president is scheduled to start a tour of the hospital theren ghana. ahead of h address to ghans parliament live, we'll give you that. we'll also get the latest repo from accra, ghana. i'm joined now le from d.c., jon cker, washinon correspot forreuters. a good morning to you, john. >> goodorning to you, alex. >> in the next hf hour we're going to have the president' spch broadcast live. we're going to be broadcastg that. what do you expect to bethe focus ofis speech. >> the presidentas held up ghana for the rest of africa. it's a country whh has had

good economic growth it's a president that understands th s understands, aording to president obama, the rule law. this ian opportunity forhe president to talkabout hiswn background, the son of african immigrant, and michelle obama, the dee sen accident of african slaves, and i think it me as lot to thewhite house, to this presiden and i wou note surprised to hear president obama talkbout that as well. >> erall how successful has his trip been? >> well, the present has done a number of things in russia. the fit part of his trip, he struck a deal with the president of russia as well as the prime minister of russia, putin, to reduce strategic arms by aout a third. in italy i the g-8 summi there was a deal to reduce the amount of glol warming i the next deca decades. at the vatican the preside met with the pope and promised a

pledge actually to reduce the number ofabortions in the u.s. and, of course,s final visi tohana where it symbolic more than ything else. so think that the president, the white house, will be very accomplished during thpa week or so. >> oy, john let's get a look ahead. of course, on monday we have judge sotomayor who's going to go bore the jicial committee to hear the confirmatn hearings what do they want to do? block her nominaon wod that possibly happen? what are the greater implications he? >> i don't thinkhey're going to try to block the nomination of judge sotomayor. membernot only would she be the second woman on the supreme court joing ruthdar ginsburg. she would be the first hispanic on the supreme court and the hispanic popation in the u.s is tstest growing. i think what they want to do is ask her tough point questions onwo particular issues.

one on gun contr. the n has been ry opped to her nomination. they view her as a person who oppos second amenent rights the right t bair ms. they also wan to queson her in rerds to a case that the u.s. supre court has recently decided. that washe se invol the newav firefighrs, overturning a decisn on which judge sotomayor ruled. and that is adecision which h to deal with racial preferences anhas a maj impact on t way people hire and fire people in ts untry. >> hmm. ay. i want to quickly take a l at the president's popularity because it's slipping. it's down now to 58% approval this month. 61% last mth. the big op comes from independence. what are the greater implications here? do you thinkhis has to do with the economy? >> absolutely. and this is a national umber. also saw more striking numbers in the battleground states. it's always a battlround state of ohio. we she preside's popularity jumfrom about 2%

down to 49%. and this has a lot do with th fact that there haveeen so ny jobs lost, millions of jobs lost over the past few mons and i think that thepresident is ll awarehat thi is a problem not only for independ t independents b certainly for trying to turn around the u. econom and that's why there's so much talk right no alex, of th possibilitof a second economic stimulus. >> yeah. 'll get with yo about at next hour then. hn, thanks so much for that. >> thanks a lot, alex. >> a new report findsa report wasflawed. it was mandated by kocoress last year and delegad yesterday. it's not car how much useful information was gathered. the sh white house acknowledges that it conducted waantless wirets but most of it remainsclassified. a new twist to the aig

bonuses. it's reported that they're as the federa gernment to approve a plan to hand out $250 million over the next nine months. the post reports the payouts include millionsn payments owe eeto top executives just in the comingdays. there was a plic outcry earlier this yeawhen about 65 million in retention bonuses wereaid to aig emoyees. some optimism from dget talks erging from californ toy. both sides say theye made progressn trying to ce to a soluti to close the state's $26 billionshortfall. they can'tgree on a bunt so there's no money to y the bills. the major banks say they will no longer hon the state's ious. >> is is the harsh reality in the crisis that we face. >> it's stupidity at a level that i have not seen i government sce i arrid in califoia 15 years ago. >> both sides head ck to the

rgaining table today. let's goow to me new developments this morning the michae jackson investigation. los angelepolice chief william bratn now saying until the reportomes back he's not ruling out the pssibility that jackson's deh was a homicide. we have theatestdetails. good morning to you, gina. how much longer untilhe toxicologyeports get back? >> reporter: well, you know. good morning, alex. the last we heard from the coroner's officehich was about a couple weeks ago, thos reports were supposed t take veral weeks. what hpens now isthat time li is becomi more uncertain because reports aced yestery that coroner's instigators are now serving subpoes to practically ever doctor tt has been involved in the singer's care recely. this is in an attempt to piece together his medical story and perhapmore signifantly to find o what kind of drugs he was taking to treat wat kind o ailmen but depending on what that coroner's investigation finds, which, again,may take

longer thaw longth toxicology reports areupposed to take, that ishe cue that the lapd investigators will tke to determine the veigation, the course that they will take. of course, the chf has not ruled out homicide. okay. y, jih, what a the velopment of thecustody hearing? that's been pusheback a while. what's behi all this? >> that's right. learn late friday afternoon that the custody hearingwhich had been scheduled all along for monday was postponed. of course, this waspparently at the request ofoth de both kathene jackson and debbie rowe. debbie rowe, is the biological motherf jaon's two older children. until now she has not expressed any interest publicly or via any crt docunts to indicate that she wantedustody of her two children, but accordinto the attorney for katharine jackson, she is definitely involve in these

talks, and this postponement delays -- gis them a little bit more time, bi them some time to work outheir differences. to work out some sor of ctody arrangement outde of the blic court. al? >> okay. jinah kim in los ngeles. thanks souch for that. the police in the panhand are asking peoe to be on the lookout for an old red van that maybe kiring the killers of a wealthy couple of 12 children. ntered their home fromhe back and front doors. ey shothe couple. they didn't injurehe eight children inside. i were kwn for adopting children with devopment disabilities, many born t drug-addicted mothers home invasion.eve this was a let's g back to politics now. e president who's partway throug his whirlwind trip to ghana, we have savannah guthrie aveling with the presiden she joins us lve from acc.

at's on the president's agenda? did i say it rit? aca. >> reporr: it's actually accra. one of the first thingse learned when arriving late last night, the president, the first lady, the daughters, the whole entourage arrivedlate last night. you mentioned, th is a really sho stop. some are asked why ghana. if you're going to come to on one african country, why this one? the simple answer is the white house looks at ts a one of the best democracies at work. there was a highly contested election where the opposition won and yetthereas a peaceful transition of power. so the whe house wants to highlight so of the good things hning in afca. the president is going speak to parliament. he's tourin the hospital and will speak inbout an hou it wille a very short vhlt

he's expected to go also t the cot of ghana and see a former slave ing post. su to be a very emotional visit. he's being welcomed here like a native son. they're cited to seehe president. >> anyetails on what he's going to say toliament? >> repter: well, we haven't seen a copy of the speech yet but i think we'l see him preview some of the remarks on africa at the g-8. they're in line fillions dollar food aid that was announced to help farmers come more oductive but he had a little bit of tough medicine saying a lot ofhe tendencies sometime is to blame colonial and erty. he's notimishing it all he say look, my onlyousin n't get a job witut paying

bribe. no matterre he goes, whatever audnce it is, he kes toeally take on some of the tough issues and try todip ploy mtticly present som of the tough issues for the country and also take responsibility. i think we'll hit some ofho kis of themes. some are disappnted. they're going to try to get th speechut to as my people as possible. th'rhaving watch prties at embassies around the continent. >> of course, we' be carrying that live. hope heets there to the cape coasttle before t en of thebrocasting. it would bereat to take pictures. thank you so much,savannah. we'll ta to you again. still ahead, the youtd cry over a greg-digging team that has devastated hundreds of families. alsoore on the economy and a big disapintment for the retail industry. later, truth oentap. the bottom li about bottle water anwhether it's really better for you. [ enginene revving ]

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me fallout today from the private swim clubn philadelphia that turn away a group of africanmerican and his spann children whoigned up t use the clue. they say it wod, quote, change th-- joining us w from philadelia, the reporter for yy good moing to you. >> reporte good morning. >> ffr those just tunin in just reap it for . there was no misbehave your. yes. the children went to the swimming pool at the vaey

club. they were swimming. so of t children said they heard remarks made by club meers, racial commes. and then a feways later the club turn the agreement between the club andhe camp and the childrere noonger allowed swim there. the execute direor has expresd some concerns and a numb of people have also expressed concerns that the decision was racily motivated >> okay. i want to sayn behalf of the club which denies any racism, here's part of their exclamation. here's what was writn. they're eply troubledby the allegationof cism, which are ly untrue. unfortately we quickly learned we underestimated the capacity of our facility and realid we coult accommode e number of children from thesecamps. what has the fallout beenor this and what's expecd from thisriminal inveation or not criminal -- investigatio >> so the state human relations coission spoke to t chairman yestday.

they s said eyreetting the allegations to determine whether it's something tha they need to look into. senator arl specter has called on the u.s. attorney generas office to look intohe mter to determine whether theclub's actions were a violation of the civil rights act. the have beenprotests in front of the club. the have been a lot of antidiscrimition groups a officialsho have expressed concern that the club made the decision for racial reasons and yesterday the present of the head of the valy cb spoke and said that was absolutelyot true. >> oky. well, butelizabeth, is there eviden that overcrowding is a legitimate crn? because from the valley club's perspective you're going to say, well, you know, there are a lot of kids here who are members and they've got to use the pool, have accessto it. is the pool large enoughto accommode everybody? >> ion't know exactly wheth the po is large enough specifically t aommodate everyone. i know yesterday in a stateme the head of the valley clu said

that really the reason thathey terminat the agreement the camp was because ofafety concerns and that was his primary concern as to why t agreent needed to be ended because he expressed concern about the number of children who are not experienced swimmers, the size of t po, and the number of lifeguards who a available take care of them. >> elizabeth, do we know if the valley club has ever offered its facilities t other like cps, day camps, sumr camps, and if any others have been terminated in the past as wel because o overcrowng? >> thelub has had reements withther camps. the director of one cat specifically said h camp has a large number of chdren, minority children. her agreement was ao ended with the club, and she said that she di not have any problem with it. she did not feel it was racially motivated and she undeto it

needed to be terminated. >>hank you so much. new this morning the top commander in afghastan says it will take a lot more troops th whresident obama has pland to win thear in afghanistan. thatcy according to a report in "theashington post" this moin colol, good morning to you. >> good morning, alex. >> we ve the president planning to have 68,000 troops in ahanistan by this fa. rey concerned that tis is not ough. what's going on here? >> well, you can ner have too many resources. i'm amused by the previous administration how the president always said th commander says they have enoughtroops. you can never have enough troo. there's anothele you have to go by when you use the military instrument o power. th is that it always takes re resourcesoold on t an objective than it is t take it in the first ace. i've taken lots of objectives with other soldiers andost about half of them, got ru off. why? ha enough troops to take it,

not enough to holdon. the estites that it'sy gog to take 68,0 for an enormous country that'sfrag anted, thing it's uerstand estited. mcchrystal, i don know. 's been in it a long time. >> i re a report tt british soldier, more have died in afghanistan. it make mess wonder how dire is the situation. >> it's ver difficult and it's getting worse. right now the's a big operion in theouth near kandahar a that's to get control ofhe area ere most of the opium ppies are growing. this financiall fuels the taliban and al qaeda. less you're able to conol that, you're not going to be able to contl anything. things are tou and th're goto get worse before they get better. thanks so much for that. tonight's launch to the space shuttle "endeavr"

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the on page of lal newspars are all welcoming obama. vendorsre selling flags with his face on it to african cloths with his fe on it. ations areplaying obama-thed son. his arrival came aftereeks of anticipation lding up his visi on the streets of accra, the party started long before the guest of honor arred. members of this fan club, fans for obama, h bn celebrated all week. >> welcome home. welcome to africa. welcome t ghana. reporter: they believ possible visit will inspire the entire nation. >> what does this torch represent? >> it's the coming of obama to signify at we're going to

change the way we think. >> ghanaians are weekendinim like a so it makes no dffence that president oba's family is from a differentcoy. >> barack obamas keny. >> you can see the front pagef every ca paper h obama on it. e streets are full of billboards and signs and the radi are even playing obam music. >> it's a song welcoming obama. >> reporter: the obas will be welcomed outside the capal as well when they tour a former slave case in cape coast. hundreds of thousands of afrins wererought here in transit, never to see their homes or families again. the visit wl be symbolically poweul in part because mrs. obama is a descendant of slaves

>> it's like a full circle experien. were the powerlessho left here an the powerful are coming. >>eporter: now that tour of the slave stle i expected to be the emotial high tour of the visit. did the tour myself. it's art-wrenching and something tt will stayith them all of tir ves. >> i had to sit forwd and look at it, you know, when i got to that, wahing your report on that. it's going to be very emotional. i will ask you later in the morning a little bit about your experiences there ghana. so, ank you for coming back and thas for report too. it's not even noon there. i said good afternoon. it's late morning. almost noon. >> not a bad tim difference. four hours. >> thanks. stay tuned. we'll have the ve coverage of thpresident's address. it's scheduled 8:40. meantime tempers are flarg

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knowwhat? dr. murray was check on his patient, he checked on him and he tried to do cpr when he realized he sn't doing well the real reason now is more information comes out i was one of those who reported that an employt the jackson house ha seen dr. murray a few weeks before hiseath administering an ivto jackson in his bedroom. now, we don't know whatthe iv was. he could have beenydrating hielf or taking a vitamin soluon. at's what the employee was told. t it certainly ises the equipment of iv equnt at the house, raises the question whetr dr. murray was providin it. and now if he was the perso who was administerny type o anesthiaoichael jackson, his problem is he's a cardiologist. not even a back couoard certifi >> if he's a personal pysician laving with him, shouldn't it go withou saying that hehold be aware of everything that michael jacksois saying?

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msc is the pce for politics. we'll bring you esident obama's live report. for more on the trip i joined by chieforrespondent with john harwood. good rning, john. why did the president choose ghana for his firstvegas here in africa despi his personal ties to kenya? >> i think what he's trying to do, alex, is se a message across t continent that he wants to identify wi and elevate e right kind of politil change in development in africa. 's country that's done fairly well which is so problematic. so barack obama is sending that message. of course, he'll always have those ties to kenya. he visited kenyas a senator. got a tmendous response. he's trying toend a different

message right now. >> i was rding something about nigeria says he felt a snub. can keep in mindhere are 50 other appry can countries or and you haveo pick one. th's the way it is. let's speak on wht. it's been describedy what's described as lukewa. overall, john, dyou think this has been a scessful overseas trip for the white house? >> sure. i don't think it's a tremdously consequent kwen chal trip. u didn't have a l coming o of the g. you didn't have all that much coming out of the trip with his meetings with the others. i think e president's goin to be quite happy to g back home because the most important things in his presidency right now, as you know, alex,are healthare legislation, an to a lesser degree, energy. anhe has to try to pul democrats together, maybe pl in some republicans and make some progress there. so certainly the president, while he's been overseas,has goone eye back home.

>> yeah. younk that'sit? he's going to hit e ground running with heah care and that's it? because he says heants to get something done how likely is that ppening? >>e said in his news confence yesterday that he wants it done byugust -- the gust recess, and it' his to priority. i ink he's got a better chance of achieving that in the hoe, which is more caple of acting quickly in the senat you have big ideogical agreemen and fis sof call and practica disagreement, who's going pay it, how big is the plan. last night they taed about taxing the ric people. thatsn't going to go over as well when you step backnd lookt theig pre demoat are pulling toikt d trying to keep this thing going. is it your suggestion that folks o make350,000 bucks and , that's w would be rgeted with the extra tax?

>>xactly right. and tha would be consisten with presint o's plan not to taxhose making less tan that. that's one of the pitfalls that th senate had been exploring, to tax thos with more lavish plans. labor unions are agains it. d they said you promised not tax peopleit $250,000 or under income. that still could be an issue he has to wrestle with down the road because that proposal hasn't disappearedentirely. t they're saying we've got differt way of duch that, taxing onlythe rich. at's not so ey to pull off. john harwood also pulling off the great interews. thank you. u can log on . let's on water wars. how do you take urs? bottled or tapped? americans e wild about water.

st year we consumed 8 billion gallons. but is boted waterreally safer? bett for it's somethingoness looked into this week. and i'm joined right now. michael,ood morning. >> good moing. >> youe certainlylogged about ths. let's get your answer. what's safer? >> we can't tell. the basic problem isthe regulations fotap water requirthat the source of t water is tested for contamants, and there has to be a repor on what they fi at least once a year and th have to use certified laboratories for the fo & ug administration tha regulates , there are n kwiermts so you don't really ow. >> how is that that there's no requirements. something that we're spendin so muoney on, con seling billions and billions of gallons of everyear and we don't have know what's invold? >> it' treated -- it's regulated by the fdas a food.

and we d't really have the regulary authority to require th tose certifi laboratory os when they test and to report contaminants. and also here's this ise with de, thisplasty sizer which is an endoine diupter. epa set andards for that. it's 16 years later and they ven't do anything. >> nine years ago in 2000 inow that consumer reports tested bottled water what were the finding rests there? >> well, wefound back then that if the bot olater met fda standards, it was pretty much sa, but we did find a couple of troubling things. rst eight out ten of the large jugf five-gallon jgs of wer thaterein polycarbonate, in eight out of ten we could detect bpa in the water. people are concerned aboutthat.

it's beinganned from childr's item we also foundn aso found in tene tested there was arsenic vels. >> arsenic. >> but was bew the 50 parts per billion level which wasn fdand epa standard. since 2006 epaaset a stdard of ten parts per billn and two of those samples codn't meet that standard. so there should be -- those standards shou be upted for the fda as well. >> what do you drink, michae >> drink tap water here in n york city. it's perfectly ne >> thank you f that. brunots the g screen budoes it go o of boundnds to ininin the laughshs? you are watching msnbc s satdada key saunder's nature vle

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