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border murder mystery, but where did they come from? and a legendary tv mom beloved by baby boomers across america. we remember the woman best known as june cleaver. hi, everybody, great to have you with us today. good morning, i'm thomas roberts. welcome to "msnbc sunday." it is 9:00 in the east, 6:00 out west. alex witt has the day off. another day, another campaign rally for president obama. it's all part of the mad dash to midterms with 16 days until voter head to polls. he's going to be in cleveland after working to rally supporters yesterday in boston. >> don't let them tell you that change isn't possible. don't let them take this country backwards, because we did not have the conviction to fight. >> new polling today suggesting that one quarter of those who voted for president obama in 2009 are defecting to the gop, are considering voting against democrats this fall.
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half have planning to vote november 27bdnd. the campaigns expect up to 50% of the vote this year is going to be coming in from early voting. sarah palin was working to rally republicans in california yesterday. she spoke in orange county, along side rnc chairman michael steele. >> we have some great candidates up here and around the state. we have great candidates counting on you to show up and to cast those votes to do all that you can, though, between now and november 2nd. >> while palin worked to rally the crowd in anaheim, the g candidates were hundreds of miles away. mike viqueira joins us live. the president putting in serious miles around the country. he's getting big crowds on the root and that has good and bad things that come with it. the bad is he's hearing frustration from the voters. >> reporter: that's right.
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we heard a little of that in boston yesterday. experts measure political trends in a couple of different ways. they say, in any given year one party or the other could be facing stiff henad winds or political waves. they're talking about a loss of a house, turnaround in the house on the order of 50 seats, experts are calling for now, with the president is out trying to put up a fire wall, mitigate the losses. part of the problem, a lot of the independents that voted for him in 2008 walking away, voting for republicans this time around. of course, another problem is the president is not on the ticket so no matter how much he pleads with his party's base, there isn't that motivating factor as well. speaking of that base, a lot of disappointment on some of the civil rights issues dealing with gay americans, a lot of people upset don't ask, don't tell is not off the books, other frustrations as well. during the health care debate the public option was not included in the president's final version of what he signed
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and people think he didn't fight for it hard enough. yesterday in boston, a protest from other people on the left, aids protestors stood up waving banners. here's the president's response to them during the speech. >> one of the great things about being a democrat is, we -- we like arguing with each other. but i would suggest to the folks who are concerned about aids funding, take a look at what the republican leadership has to say about aids funding. >> reporter: the president will leave today, a special treat for a lot of democrats, first lady michelle obama for the first time in two years since their campaign, the president's campaign in 2008, that landed him in the white house, she will be alongside the president today. a big rally planned. another one of the youth rallies on a college camp us, this time ohio state university. tonight in columbus, the president has a lot of travel planned, trying to put up a fire
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wall. going to oregon, nevada, california. going to minnesota, rhode island even in what is normally the democratic redoubt of new england trying to raise money, fire up the base, trying to get young people back to the polls in the face of what many are calling a republican, yes, tsunami. >> pulling out the big guns in ohio having mrs. obama come along. president's press secretary robert gibb is on "meet the press" this morning. we're going to bring you that full interview on msnbc coming autopsy 2:00 p.m. eastern. new details about tips, u.s. officials receive before the 2008 mumbai terror attacks. two wives of a businessman convicted in the attacks spoke to u.s. authorities about their husband in 2005, and in 2007. but government officials say the wives of david headley provided information that was only general in nature and didn't involve specifics about any particular plot. earlier i talked to a reporter who helped uncover the story.
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>> there's also the concern, obviously that the investigation in mumbai has shown evidence that suggests pakistani intelligence has contact with headley and involve with handling him on his spying missions in india and that raises the specter he might have been a double agent playing both sides against each ear. >> 166 people dies in the attacks. new signs the website wikileaks preparing to unleash another batch of documents. it will release as many as 400,000 classified logs from the iraq war. last july, it posted 70,000 documents about the war in afghanistan. in a newly revealed letter, gates said while the previous leak did not reveal sensitive information it had potential of putting live of afghan allies in danger. the world watched and waited and now 33 miners in chile are talking publicly. a handful of the miners held a
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news conference this week. they appears on a talk show last night. nbc's natalie morales live in chile. you appeared on the talk show with the miners last night. what are they sharing about their experience now? >> reporter: well, they're starting to reveal some of their darkest moments. even though they said on the interview last night that they formed sort of this round table, as they called it, where they said here's what we're going to say, here's what we won't talk about, and they all agreed they have this pact they're not going to talk about the most difficult time but was we started to hear a little bit of that last night. one of the miners said he actually experienced what he thought was his death. he said, you know, the hardest time when i saw myself dying. the others talked about drinking, having only the water from the machinery around them to drink that was inside the tank, drinking machine oil tainted water. they talk about videos that they sent up to the surface, the very first ones that we saw, those
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images that they weren't really letting on to the emotions that they were feeling or the experiences that they were going through. they did not want their families to be worried. all of them talks about the things they missed the most, sleeping in their own beds, getting to eat their home cooked food. but it was a revealing interview, i think in the fact that they did start to let on that this was an extremely traumatic and emotional experience. they're all saying that they're forever scarred by this. many got emotional during the interview last night. and you know, i was able to throw some questions at them as well, asking what's it like to be outside feeling the cold again, seeing the stars and the moon? and now they don't have to wear their sunglasses so much. they talked about, you know, all of that was a sense of freedom, just being cold it was a liberty, a freedom, to them.
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>> and explain to us what's going on with the plans for all of the money that's supposed to be coming in, a book deal, movie deal. where does all of that stand right now? >> reporter: well, you know, they're getting a lot of offers, a lot of people want to hear their story, everywhere they go, there's a crush of reporters and media following them. and as i said, they made that pact not to really reveal so much, but obviously it may be a difficult promise to keep now, as they are starting to let on to a few more details. they're getting offers from everywhere, go watch world famous soccer teams play. they're getting offers to go to greece. they got ipods from apple, from steve jobs. there's a lot of things that they're being offered. they do, though, say whatever earnings, whatever money they make from their interviews, various interviews, they're going to pool it altogether in a fund and hope the fund can help all of the brother whose work in the mooining industry.
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>> we're noticing some of the video, many of the miners are not wearing sunglasses, several are wearing sunglasses. is that they're looking to be more private or is that out of concern for their eyesight is still affected by the daylight? >> reporter: yeah, some of -- they mentioned the lights and the sunlight still affects their eyes so they keep it with them at all times. they're still having some issues with that. but for the most part, you know, nighttime and when they're in darkness, they're fine to be without their sunglasses. but, yeah, interesting to see all of them, to see their eyes for the first time and see the expression and the emotion and the tears because we saw a lot of tears last night. these are guys who have been through a lot and they're very much affected by that. you can certainly tell that they're going to have a lot to deal with in the coming months. >> they've been to hell and back, that's for sure. >> reporter: they surely have. police in washington state are investigating a fire that
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destroyed a mormon church. authorities say the fire was deliberate a. set. mormon temples have been targets of arsonists. the case of the american missing jet skier who was reportedly attacked by mexican pirates has take on another twist. the mexican government says the wife of david hartley provided helpful, new details about the incident. tiffany said the pirates shot and killed her husband last summer. joining me live is investigative crime reporter. the incident happening on september 30th. mexican officials are calling tiffany hartwell's new information valuable information. what more could she have told officials about the case she wouldn't have reported. >> there could have been a number of things that she remembered, possibly details about the boat, details about the suspect, maybe other witnesses that she possibly saw in the midst of trying to get away from them. there could have been something that she heard, something that
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she remembered that she was able to recall once she sat back down with officials on friday. >> is this typical, you know, someone in a criminal investigation, a witness, that is, can come back with new information, sometimes days, even weeks later? >> absolutely. and i'm speaking from experience when one of my first jobs i was held up at gun point the a deli, and you remember things, maybe not so much at that particular moment or in the first interviews after, but sometimes weeks after. there are things that you recall in your mind, maybe as you wake up, as you go through your day, that you may not have realized at the time. and as a victim, you're not trained to remember those things. but as an investigator you are trains to pull out those important details and to try to get those victims to remember what they saw. so it could have been unone of those cases where she remembers something and didn't think it was necessary at the time or even when she was interviewed again, realized it may be something that helps the investigation. >> you never know, the smallest
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detail could be the biggest break. >> right. >> yesterday we heard the mexican authorities called off the investigation. what are you hearing about that? >> i'm hearing the same thing, as well. it's very easy to tell if they are, in fact, you know, kicking off the search again or scaling back because this particular area is about two or three miles -- well, actually it's six miles from the shore. the border from texas, where it's sort of closed off in the waterway is two to three miles. investigators are always out there, always on the lake, always patrolling. they can see over and see if things are going on. but at this point it looks like things have scaled back. >> thank you. northeast residents will get a break from the heavy wind and rain that dominated the last few days. the remnants of the fall's first nor'easter toppled creighs in new england including south boston where a falling tree injured two women. want to check in with the weather channel's jeff morrow on how things are shaping up. >> good morning. yeah, that storm, that
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nor'easter, it's moving away now. it's leaving much of the country fairly quiet. one of those regions having another dry, very warm day for this time of the year is across the south, places like atlanta will get up to 80 degrees, 83 in orlando. 87 in jackson. some readings actually could approach some record high temperatures as we head through the course of the day today. i mean, it is very dry and very, very warm here. a little bit out of the ordinary. not warm across the upper midwest but not a bad day. quiet weather for places like chicago. 66. cincinnati, it's 76. st. louis, under the arch there a pretty nice day also at 79 degrees. minneapolis, more seasonable at 59. i would be remiss if i didn't talk about a supertyphoon. i want to mention this, supertyphoon nexty. this is as big as they get. it's a monitor moving towards the philippines. we're going to be hearing about this in the news over the next few days.
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>> it is massive. it's been almost 50 years since marilyn monroe's sudden death but this morning some of her most inner thoughts are coming to light in a new book of her writings. what do they tell us about her depliz? they've had control on capitol hill for four years now the democrats may be heading to a fall. what could happen at the midterm ballot box. you are watching "msnbc sunday." [ female announcer ] expensive specialty products?
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>> welcome back, everybody. john mccain is on the campaign trail after winning his gop primary in arizona. working to rally voters in california for the u.s. senate, hopeful carly fiorina. polls showed that she's locked in a dead heat with barbara boxer. al sharpton will work to energize minority voters. the african-american electorate is large enough to sway 20 house races in 14 states. i want to bri bring in byron
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dorgan. good morning. democrats are facing an uphill battle. how did your party get into the spot because there was so much promise after the 2008 elections. why does it appear democrats will lose the house? >> i don't know they'll loss the house about in an offyear election the controlling party in congress, the president's party, generally loses some seats. you know, we are in the deepest recession since the great depression. people are nervous, upset, angry about a lot of things, and the question i think out there in the campaign trail every day now with candidates battling it out is, how do you restart the economic engine? frankly, by the way we had a vote in the senate a couple of weeks ago on this question of ending the tax break to ship jobs overseas and in the senate every republican voted against the amendment that would end tax breaks shipping jobs overseas. a lot of battles that will play out over the next couple of weeks could have a significant
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impact on who wins and loses. >> you mentions the recession. can't the white house answer the public's frustrations, we have a democratic white house, a democratic house, both houses of congress, that is, how come they can answer the frustrations? >> we've had 5 million people lose jobs in the manufacturing sector alone in reason years. administration, when barack obama won the presidency and crosses the in tloesh hold of the door, had he done nothing for the year the deficit left him by the bush administration was $1.3 trillion, that's how steep the economic downturn was. was the economy going to collapse at that point? the president put in place some policies that caught the economy and it's now growing, it's not growing fast enough, of course, but we're working on that to see how do we put people back to work, how do we restart the economic engine, that's the key.
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>> could she have been more aggressive? >> the president has tried to do aggressive things. i mentioned one a moment ago if you put jobs in the tub, how about shutting the drain so you don't have jobs going outside the country yet republicans said no. they have had the ability to block a lot of important things in the united states congress and have done it effective in the senate. the president's policies averted a near-collapse of the economy, and now we're back on the road growing but we need to grow much, much faster to put people back to work. >> you're saying democrats, republicans, are obstructionist but was we know that's part of the equation in washington with the back and the forth. isn't it the white house's responsibility to work around that to directly attack the jobs issue and get them back in this country? >> well, if this president sure has tried very, very hard, in some cases successfully, in some cases not. the lubricant of getting this done in the democracy and the congress is working together and compromising and i think the republican approach during this
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entire first two years of the obama presidency i is to say we don't intend to compromise on anything. if two people aren't willing to compromise you can't get things done. despite that, i think the president's record of trying to lift the economy and save it from near-collapse is pretty substantial. >> senator, how difficult is it going to be for the next two years, for republicans gaining control of the house if they're saying it's this difficult now? >> that's the interesting thing, people out there running saying, i don't intend to compromise on anything. in fact, saying we'd like to get rid of minuimum wage, we'd like get rid of medicare. that's an agenda that's extreme. i don't think it represents most of what the american people would like to see. they want to put the economy back on track, reduce federal budget deficits, get people back on payrolls and get the country moving again, and that's what the president's trying to do. >> did you consider sticking around for one more term to give
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the democrats a better opportunity to hold on to north dakota. >> i've run 12 times over my acareer for a long, long periods of time and it's a great privilege to serve. i felt this intersection i didn't want to make a commitment for seven more years, that is this year plus six more. i think public service is a great gift given to me of north dakota. don't count out democrats in the house or senate races. there's quite a battle, district by district, state by state. the issue of who is best at putting people back to work and restarting this american economy, i think the question is going to be answered in many areas that the democratic candidates, the best capable of doing that. >> what are you doing next. >> you can't make those decisions because of the senate ethics issues but stay tuned. >> we're probably teases. senator, thank you so much. >> thanks a lot.
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>> if the midterms go against the democrats and they lose control of congress, there's speculation the president may become a solitary figure with few or no allies in his political pursuits. who is saying that? stay with me. you're watching "msnbc sunday." [ female announcer ] stay once... stay twice... earn a free night! two separate stays at comfort inn or any of these choice hotels can earn you a free night -- only when you book at choicehotels.com.
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hi, everybody, good morning. "msnbc sunday." i'm thomas roberts in form alex witt. president obama goes to ohio with the first lady michelle, a whirl wind trip in the buckeye state includes fund-raising and an evening rally at ohio state. in baltimore, an off-duty police deckive celebrating his birthday was killed in a fight over a parking space. two suspects are in custody. the officer would have turned 38 today. in india, a human stampede eight religious festival leaves ten people injured. rescuers in china are trying to reach 1 1 miners trapped. the death toll has risen to 26.
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at vatican, pope benedict canonized six new saints including the first ever from australia. those are the hour's fast five headlines. reporting from "the washington post" haraising questions about what the next two years will hold for president obama. if the president wants to make big change his may have to go it alone. we want to bring in anne kornblut, she contributed to today's article, also with us eleanor clift, contributing editor for "newsweek." in today's "post" you talk about white house insiders debating options for the next two years. who is debating it? what is this debate about? >> well, as we mapped out in the story that i worked on, largely by my colleague scott wilson, what they're trying to figure out is, after having done a lot, whether you like what he did or not in the first two years president obama's trying to figure out what he's going to do in the second two years especially if there's a
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diminishes democratic hold or if the democrats lose the house and/or the senate. scaling back ambitions somewhat from the first two years, not looking at big things as achievable as they were in the first two years but trying to figure out how to achieve priorities, such as immigration reform, cap and trade energy legislation, maybe closing guantanamo, though that seems much more difficult, and how he can go about doing that, and they're trying to figure out are they going to have to use executive power more broadly than the first two years? is he potentially able to cut deals with republicans, which was very difficult in the first two years, will that be more achievable with the republicans having more seats after november 2nd? these are some of the priorities they're trying to weigh. >> will the white house thank pub list discontent into consideration now? >> they would argue i'm sure they did the first two years but if the public discontent is expresses through elections november 2nd as more republicans in the house and senate, i'm sure that's something they'll
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take into the past. >> how have other presidents able to tackle similar challenges after big midterm losses? >> president clinton is the model, the democrats lost the house and senate two years froo his presidency, and he famously declared, after that setback, that the era of big government is over and he went on to find a balances budget agreement with the republican congress and signed welfare reform. but interestingly, when barack obama was campaigning in 2008, he looked to reagan as a traps formational president who accomplished by things and der rided president clinton's reliance on small bore initiatives what was called triangulation instead of working with republicans and stressing things like school uniforms as though he, barack obama, would be very different if they got to the white house. now he's facing the same situation that clinton did that he really does have to scale
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down his expectations and perhaps accomplish mini pieces of legislation, as opposed to the sweeping change that he envisioned. >> what are democrats wanting of the president? what would they be whispering in his ear they need to tackle, would it be jobs? >> the economy, bedeviled imfor first first half of of the first t term they argue just as important in the second half. go into the next two years, it's president obama who, himself, is facing re-election. unless there's astonishingly quick turnaround that nobody's expecting i anticipate seeing that still being his priority, even after november 2nd. >> with president's big ambitions with immigration, energy, deficit, what are his chances of getting the legislation through, if what happens everybody's anticipating is going to happen, how's he going to ride out the next two years of his presidency? >> the optimistic theory is if
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the republicans do win one of the chambers, most likely the house they're have some vested interest in governing, that they can't just stay on the sidelines and oppose everything the president wants to do. and since these republicans are being elected on a cry of let's do something about the deficit, there will be a deficit commission reporting in december which will offer up serious proposals that the president will then likely submit to congress. and then we will see if there is an area of agreement and the new budget chairman in the house would be paul ryan, a deficit hawk. and so possibly the two parties could come together on that. as ann said, it's all about jobs. and republicans used to like spending on infrastructure, they seemed to changes their mind recently but i think that's an area maybe you could see an infrastructure bank which is supported by republicans like arnold schwarzenegger and
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democrats like ed rendell, you could see the two parties maybe finding some accommodation there. if you look hard, you can find some bright spots. >> we'll continue -- >> you have to look really hard. >> eleanor and ann, thank you for joining me. the president's state of the union address is months away but we know one person who won't be there, supreme court justice samuel alito doesn't plan to attend. he says it's too political, following the conversation when the president sharply criticizes the court causing alito to shake his head in disagreement. >> investigators are searching for a missing 10-year-old say they have a new witness. reported missing october 9th but police have not been able to find anyone outside her family who had seen her in a month. it's confirms she was seen two weeks before officially missing which changes the time line of the search. sahra's mom is in custody after writing a fake ransom case.
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the jury that found steven hayes guilty of capital murder must decide if he should be put to death for killing jennifer hawk pet it and her daughters in 2007. peter alexander join me live. peter, a tough case this one that we've been following. >> reporter: we followed this for the last three years and it's hard to think of any case as chilling and cruel as this one. now, the same jury that earlier this month took fewer than five hours to find steven hayes guilty of capital murder will decide if hayes should go to prison for the rest of his life or executed by lethal injection. >> reporter: it's a i crime that will forever haunt william pe t petit. asleep in their beds when two intruders break into the basement. three years later, a guilty verdict. >> there is some relief, but my
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family is still gone. it done bring them back. it doesn't bring back the home that we had. >> reporter: steven hayes, a paroled burglar, convicted of torturing and controlling jennifer, and their daughters, 17-year-old haley and 11-year-old mckayla. prosecutors showed disturbing images, how they ties petit to the poll and how they later got away. she shows the bed post and the last act of trying to pay off the suspects. then prosecutors say hayes swhiz accomplice burns the house down, killing this mother and her daughters, still inside. dr. petit never misses a day of court, painfully reliving his family's final moments. >> most of you out here are good human beings. i think you'd probably do the same thing for your families if
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your family was destroys by evil. >> reporter: now, dr. petit has to endure a minui trial as the jury considers hayes' fate. >> the murder was committed while other felonies wrbing committed, that multiple victims were kills and that the victims were killed in a particularly cruel and depraves manner. >> connecticut has only executed one person since 1960, still it may be an uphill fight for hayes to avoid the death penalty. legal experts say his lawyers might claim he's remorseful or mentally unstable and he deserves mercy. for dr. petit, three years after loss of his entire family, the nightmare seems endendless. i miss them every day. i focus on the goodness they had, to try to get through each day. >> reporter: now the killer waits to learn from a jury whether his own life will end. again, this begins tomorrow and the jury's expected to hear two
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weeks of evidence during this, the penalty phase. according to the superior court judge, they could begin deliberating hayes' fate by november 1st. >> this is something that dr. petit says he's going to be in the courtroom every day, right? >> reporter: he was there for the whole three weeks of the trial itself. he intends to thereby for the penalty phase here. and after this ends the other suspect will begin his trial. so it truly is an endless crime, unfortunately, for this family that has to relive it and dr. petit does every day. huh revelations about the legendary marilyn monroe and they come from her directly. we'll explore that. stay with us. [ male announcer ] 100 potato chips or 100 pringles.
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once the home of the notorious ponzi scheme master mind bernie madoff and after a year on the market and multiple offers the estate sold for more than $5. 5 million. the proceeds will go toward repaying victims of his deceit. the buyer of the estate have not been identified? 50 years after marilyn monroe's death a new book shows her like you've never seen her before, fragments, a collection of the hollywood legend's personal writing. notes, poems, letters, recipes and diary entries reveal what the movies and paparazzi could never see, marilyn's emotions and secrets. the executive editor of the
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publi publish. did i say that wrecorrectly. explain to all of us what are readers going to learn from this book? marilyn is a compelling figure, to begin with. what insights does this provide us? >> she's a mysterious figure but this is marilyn in her own words, in her own handwriting, revealing hopes, fears, and ambitions. she had big ambitions for her work. >> a young woman who a lot of people may know her tragic story, but youth, grew up in an orphanage, passes around from different family members never knew who her father was. does it seem as if she was a fragmented type of person? >> i think that's true. that's exactly what the book shows. she had hope, despair. she was very vulnerable. she was very strong but she knew to draw on the vulnerability for her work. >> the woman in the images seems
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so strong, owns her sexuality. we want to put up the notes and the letters. she writes on a piece of waldorf astore rea stationery, not a scares lonely little girl, remember you can sit on top of the world. and then it in pa rent think sees it says, it doesn't feel like. >> most of the time you see that scares, lonely little girl but she wanted to transform herself into one that was strong and fierce and full of life. >> so is that the character that she became turning herself into marilyn monroe as opposes to just being norma rae? >> norma jean. >> excuse me. >> being a bit of a chameleon, hiding that inner vulnerability but you can see it in all of the brilliant comic roles where she,
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you know, playing a dumb blond but she was a smart, intelligent, sparklingy, witty person, and that is what comes across in the readings. >> it seems like she had blinders on to get where she wanted to go. she had an idea of who she wanted to be. she writes, alone, i'm always alone. do we know if she ever voiced these vulnerabilities to joe dimaggio or other men in her life. >> i think there were people she was very close to and men she was deeply in love with but again, you know it really, at the end of her life, she was always depending on herself, that comes across again and again, that she knew she had really only herself to rely on. >> and she did have so many different, fascinating men that walked in and out of her life and she was never able to find her father. >> she never knew who he was. >> 50 years later talking about this. "fragment," a beautiful book.
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welcome back, everybody. there's a lot of confusion today surrounding the status of don't ask, don't tell. the pentagon says it will comply with a new court order, but the obama administration is appealing a judge's ruling. and the pentagon is warning gay service members not to reveal their sexual orientation just yet. i'm joined now live by washington post government reporter ed o'keefe who writes the federal blog. good morning. >> good to be with us. >> the president has said he'll end don't ask, don't tell.
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why are they appealing a judge's decision that seems to go ahead and do just that? >> well, the justice department normally appeals laws on the books. for example, they also announced their appealing a judge's decision that sort of shot down parts of the defensive marriage act, another law gay right groups don't like because it defines marriage as between a man and a woman. it's consistent with what the justice department has to did. the president has made it very clear since the 200 8 campaign he doesn't like the policy pe wants it gone. but he wants congress to act on it. you've got this sort of come peting timeline where you have federal courts dealing with the issue and you have the possibility of congress later this year dealing with it as well. right now at least there's this injunction on the policy which basically tells the pentagon, you can't investigate anyone for possibly violating this policy, nor can you discharge them. and the pentagon has said they will do so. and warned troops, don't come out, don't change your behavior in any way because there's always the possibility that this injunction could be stayed or essentially removed by a higher federal court, which would put
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the policy back in place. in which case investigations and discharges could start again. >> rationalize for so many that don't understand the reasoning behind how this is going to end needs to be defined in a certain way for the obama administration. >> yeah. well, the preference for the obama administration is to see the house and senate included in the annual defense authorization bill. the big bill that basically outlines the pentagon policy for the year. and approves things like big expensive fighter jets and sort of changes the policy. the house approved it back in may. and it included a repeal of the policy in there. the senate tried last month. didn't get enough votes to continue with the debate, so they had to table it until after the election. the theory is that democrats will come back during the lame duck session, they will at some point reintroduce the bill and hopefully have enough votes in their mind to include repeal in their defense bill, which would then go to president obama, he would sign off on it and the policy would end. at that point the pentagon would
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have to go about getting rid of the policy. but the problem is, there's this study that's due to the president on december 1st. the pentagon is reviewing right now what it would take to actually get rid of this policy. there are enough republicans out there who have said, you know, i want to repeal this policy. but i'd rather wait until after that report is issued. so, conceivably you'll see the senate wait until mid-december, after the report's issued, to vote on it. that gives lawmakers enough time to say, i've looked at this, i'm comfortable with it, let's go ahead and vote and repeal the ban. >> the most ironic and crazy thing is the fact that the people that this concerns the most, the military members who are serving silently, can't even speak up and they're confused now about what's happening. >> yeah. we have had reports of confusion. there have been some anecdotal reports that anti-gay people went to recruiting centers saying, i can show up and enlist. there's confusion about whether or not they can. bottom line if anyone's confused, don't do anything differently than what you've been doing. as the pentagon pointed out, the
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injunction could be stayed, lifted, the policy could go back in place. the pentagon made it clear f you come out this weekend while the injunction is in place and gets taken away next week, we could have to launch an investigation of your behavior and discharge you from the military. >> more of the same continues. washington post government reporter ed o'keefe. great to have you with us. thank you. it's an unusual sight to see, dogs as lion tamers of sorts. look at this video. why are these canines so crucial in the development of these young cubs? ♪ asked him if he d a secret ♪ ♪ and the old man stopped and thought and said: ♪ ♪ free 'cause that's how it ought to be my brother ♪ ♪ credit 'cause you'll need a loan for one thing or another ♪ ♪ score 'cause they break it down to one simple number ♪ ♪ that you can use ♪ dot to take a break because the name is kinda long♪ ♪ com in honor of the internet that it's on ♪ ♪ put it all together at the end of the song ♪ ♪ it gives you freecreditscore-dot-com, ♪ ♪ and i'm gone... >>offer applies with enrollment in triple advantage.® [ female announcer ] last year, the u.s. alone
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