milbank and perry bakon. the top issue, economy and jobs 62%, the next the federal budget deficit, 11. how is this forming the campaign at this point, dana, and are the candidates talking enough about it? >> i think they can't talk enough about it. the truth is no matter what they say, it's going to be decided by how people are feeling. i think that's why that poll is important. let's face it, the economy is fairly lousy but it's not a snapshot in time, it's whether people are optimistic and whether they think it's getting better. >> so you think those numbers are good for the president? >> the first number is pretty lousy for any incumbent but the president has been suffering from that for a few years. if people have the perception things are getting better, they'll give more credence to his policies and less credence to romney's argument his policy failed.

>> let me show you another part of that "new york times" poll with mitt romney with a three-point lead over the president. here's the interesting subpolling from gallup. 55% think the economy is going to get better under a romney presidency. 46% if president obama gets re-elected. so, perry, what do you make of all these numbers? >> that's a dangerous number for the president. i hadn't seen that number as distinct and large as that one is, but if that's the number that's reality that's a big problem. most people are very worried about the economy. president obama is well regarded personally. voters find him more likeable than romney often. but if people think their job might be in danger or their friend's job might be in danger in the fall, that's a big danger. 8.1 unemployment is pretty high and that's the one factor that could make romney president. >> and you've got all these

headlines, the concern about greece and what it's going to mean for the yeurozone and california and their big deficit and jamie dimon under pressure. the senate holding hearings on the $2 billion loss. this is some concern about wall street reform. some say it hasn't gone far enough and there's one big thing looming in lawmakers' minds. take a listen. >> if a bank goes south, goes down, we know that ultimately it's the taxpayers, it's middle income families that end up holding the bag because we've lived through this movie before. >> dana, is that the fear, things start to go back and we start to hear the "b" word, bailout? >> i don't think anybody is thinking that's what this situation will lead to, but this economy is so fragile, it doesn't take a major shock to make things turn back in the other direction. that's why an election in greece could have this rolling effect on the euro, on the european union and ultimately on the world economy. it wouldn't take a lot to make things turn in another direction

and make people feel the economy is stagnating or deteriorating. that's why every little piece of news, whether it's jpmorgan, whether it's california or what's going on in europe could have an impact on this election. >> do all of them, perry, contribute to what -- and you can tell us whether you agree or disagree with dana's point, this is going to turn on how people are feeling. feeling about their future and the economy come and how they all play into that? >> i do think it has to affect them in some way. it's not that greece's economy is bad, it's therefore the european the economy is bad. i don't think people are analyzing what's happening in california's budget situation. they do care about are companies hiring and is the jobless rate going down. those two things are going to matter and these world events

affect that a lot. >> i want to bring in senator merkley. senator, good morning. >> good morning. it's great to be with you. >> we said in about 30 minutes, jamie dimon, jpmorgan's ceo goes before investors. do you think he should resign? should his salary get chopped? should he be taken off the board in new york? what should happen here? >> well, the key isn't jamie dimon. the key is whether or not we have a structure of rules that keep banks in the banking business and out of the hedge fund business. that's what the volcker rule is all about. it says if you want to be a hedge fund, go do that. but if you want to be in the position to benefit from the discount window and to benefit from subsidized deposits, then you're in the lending business. you make loans to businesses and families and that's a key role in our economy. so i want to focus a little bit less on him personally and a little more on a structure that will sustain an expanding

economy over the next several decades. >> let me ask you about the volcker rule which keeps them from making these speculative bets. would it have prevented what we're seeing here? >> absolutely. we say that the only hedging you can do in terms of minimizing your risk is for specific identified risks. in this case, the disguise is portfolio hedging. that is not allowed under the statute. unfortunately, the regulators have put forward draft regulations after two years of intense lobbying by wall street that creates and expands loopholes, so we do need to make sure that the rules that are put out in july do not have these loopholes. that's essential. otherwise the firewall between hedge fund investing and banking will be irrelevant. >> let me play a clip for you of the president, because he was asked about this on "the view." here it is. >> jpmorgan is one of the best managed banks there is. jamie dimon, the head of it, is

one of the smartest bankers we've got. and they still lost $2 billion and counting. precisely because they were making bets in these derivative markets. we don't know all the details yet. since these banks are insured, backed up by taxpayers, we don't want you taking risks where eventually we might end up having to bail you out again, because we've done that. been there, didn't like it. >> bigger picture even beyond jpmorgan, if banks are still making risky moves, could we as taxpayers have to bail them out again? that's the question constituents want to know the answer to. >> it would be absolutely wrong for that to happen. but the question will be raised if we don't put in place a firewall that keeps banks in the banking business and not in the hedge fund -- listen, it's very tempting when you're head of a large bank saying i have all these deposits the rather than going through the difficulty of

making loans, let's gamble on things going on in the world. in the short term we can do what jpmorgan did which is to sell insurance on securities and bring in steady revenue. every now and then those bets go bad. let's say you're deep frying a turkey for thanksgiving. you do that on the patio, you don't do that in the living room and risk burning down your house. that way it catches fire and there's no real damage if it's on the patio. that's hedge fund investing separated from banking. the only risk is that the investors lose their money, whether it's wealthy investors or it is the proprietary assets of a firm. melts down, they melt themselves down, they made the bets, fair enough. but doing it with subsidized assets from the taxpayer completely destroys the lending credit market so essential to the health of our expanding small businesses and the success of our families. that's the issue. the firewall needs to be in

place. >> and look, i appreciate the fact that you said you don't want to make this about jamie dimon, but there are a lot of people who sit back and they feel like a lot of people make a lot of money on wall street and they get away with a lot. should there be that accountability for jamie dimon? if you are in that audience today as a shareholder, what would you want to hear from him? what question would you want to ask of him? >> well, i would want to hear that we're structuring our bonuses so that when this bank succeeds, our management gets paid and when we make mistakes, we don't. that sort of accountability. i would also want to hear a commitment to be in the banking business. if you're an investor, you want to be in the banking business, great. otherwise if you want to be in the hedge fund business, put your money there. this attitude jamie dimon has of -- by the way, major banks have wound down a lot of their proprietary trading desks. but they have tried to insert

those operations into their so-called risk management or their wealth management or their market-making units. and so hiding the proprietary trading puts us in an even worse position. there's no way jamie can with a straight face say that this was risk management. they saw an opportunity to make money selling insurance on credit default swaps. they lost. aig went through this not so long ago. it was a major factor in the meltdown. we're all fortunate this is not of a size to take jpmorgan down and destabilize our entire economy. but if we don't put this firewall into place effectively in july, then we all run that risk. >> senator, thanks so much for taking the time. >> you're welcome. >> let me bring dana and perry back in. guys, you know there's a lot of anger out there over bankers and financial guys making a lot of money. here's a new ad from the obama-backed super pac, priorities, usa. take a look. >> with romney and bain capital the objective was to make money.

he promised us the same things he's promising the united states. he'll give you the same thing he gave us. nothing. he'll take it all. >> and then stephanie cutter was on "the daily rundown" and she drove home that point. listen. >> mitt romney's business experience wasn't about job creation. we knew that. mitt romney finally admitted that. it was about wealth creation. >> dana, effective? >> well, sure. this is the strongest argument i think that can be made right now. you know, you can sort of see when newt gingrich started this attack on mitt romney a while ago these sorts of ads would be coming with the ominous music. and it does fit in with the whole occupy wall street sentiment, which was out there, dialed back a little bit, but there's a lot of potential for populist anger out there and romney has set himself up by some of the remarks that he's made. so it is one way in which the obama campaign can turn economic angst to their advantage. >> was it wrong, do you think, perry, he keeps calling himself a job creator.

and the fact of the matter is that even his defenders will say, look, that ad, while it may be accurate, he was not -- bain capital's business was not to create jobs, it was to make money for their investors. by calling himself a job creator, did he kind of set himself up for this? >> he did. the alternative was to call himself a governor who created a universal health care plan so i think this is the better option for him. but that said, he's going to have to explain how does the experience really tell you how to create jobs in america. investment firms like bain are in the business of making money, building wealth. i don't think romney has clearly explained. he won the primary without having to convince people about bain because he had more money in negative ads. in the general election obama will have a lot of money to make a sustained argument about bain capital in debates, in ads, on television. romney hasn't explained that experien

experience. >> there was that other ad from the obama campaign just yesterday that hit mitt romney for his time at bain for closing a steel mill. here's how a romney spokesman responded to the tactic. >> i think these attempts by president obama to distract from his own poor record on the economy is the biggest smoke screen since mt. st. helen. >> perry, is that a good answer? >> i don't think that's going to be a good answer. if you notice any discussion that comes up, whether it's bin laden, contraception, student loans, the romney campaign says we're not talking about the economy enough. they have to address issues specifically and have their own responses beyond president obama is distracting. the election is about more things than just one. >> perry and dana, gentlemen, thank you. >> thanks, chris. ron paul says he's going to stop actively campaigning in the upcoming primaries effectively ending his presidential bid, but paul says he will continue to seek delegates at the state

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an emotionally riveting day at the john edwards trial. his eldest daughter, cate, could take the stand and her testimony comes a day after a judge dealt a blow to the defense, blocking key testimony from a former federal elections chairman who believes edwards did nothing wrong. i'm joined by savannah guthrie and kiaran shanahan who just stepped out of the courtroom. what's going on in there? >> interestingly, the defense was able to put the fec commissioner on the stand, scott. the defense got a few good

things out of him. he was able to tell the jury how complex the federal election laws are and that in his 38 years of experience, both at the commission and in private practice, that he has never addressed the situation where a third party is asked to pay the debt of another third party. so while the defense didn't get what it wanted because the judge pretty much shut down his testimony, i think they got a few good little things that will help the defense. >> which may move up the testimony of cate edwards. we're hearing that she could testify as early as today. there has already been a lot of emotion in this trial. we have seen tearful witnesses, we have seen cate be tearful. as you have been observing, how has this emotion been affecting the jury? >> i think there's really been some dramatic testimony, sort of unscripted, but they have been totally on things unrelated to the six charges. the jury has paid close attention to the crying situations this we've had. the defense has done a pretty good job of redirecting this

case from the smut, if you will, and the government's attempts to undermine john edwards from a credibility point of view to focusing on the federal campaign laws. unfortunately, that's just pretty dry stuff right now. so by calling john edwards' daughter, i think the government -- i mean the defense will be able to put a little more emotion back in the case, humanize john edwards a little bit and share some insight to what was going on in the family as this drama was unfolding. >> is that what's going on here, savannah? he looked like such a bad guy from all this testimony. can cate help redeem him a little bit? >> i think that's one of the reasons the defense is calling her. first of all, she will bring jurors into the family dynamic. the defense has said all the reasons the prosecutors are offering for why john edwards could cover up this money because he knew it was against the campaign finance laws, an equally reasonable explanation was he was covering up and

hiding because he didn't want his wife to find out the extent of his affair. but the second point you make is also an important one, it's the subtext here, right? cate edwards is one of the aggrieved parties. she's the person whose family was affected by the decisions of john edwards. to the extent jurors are looking at him as a scoundrel, as a bad guy, as a liar, a betrayer. here's cate edwards, the daughter. if she's willing to forgive him and testify on his behalf, perhaps jurors will take that into account as well. >> do you think this is a tricky one for the defense? obviously you want to get all that out of her. at the same time, you don't want to seem to be, i don't know, pandering or pushing too much. >> or victimizing her all over again, using her in a way where now it's the daughter that has to carry this great, great burden. i think it could potentially be fraught but perhaps it also brings an emotional side to the case. if she can forgive her father. if that kind of testimony can

come in, it might be ultimately helpful. i wonder if he's a witness they would like to call instead of having to call john edwards himself. >> well, the witness they called but who they couldn't get the big picture from who they would not allow to testify to say, look, this was in no way illegal, that's basically, i guess, the heart of what they blocked. >> yeah. if that former s.e.c. commissioner had been able to testify, he would have been the star witness. he would have said i used to enforce these laws and i don't think it's a crime. having an expert testify like that basically takes the place of the jury. it's an expert coming in and testifying to the ultimate legal issue in the case that the jury is supposed to decide. >> losing that element of his testimony, does it make it more likely john edwards will take the stand? >> more likely that he takes the stand? i don't know. i don't know if one has to do with the other. what john edwards is going to testify to is different than what an s.e.c. commissioner

would testify to. >> kieran, what are you hearing about the possibility of john edwards taking the stand in his own defense? >> i think the general feeling is that having lost a large part of their defense with the commissioner, puts more pressure on john edwards to carry his own water. that is to say that he should take the stand in his open defense, try to look the jury in the eye and convince them that he didn't know that he was required to file these because he didn't believe that he had to and that what he did was not against the law. so i think -- and i've represented in the past both lawyers and elected officials. it's very hard to keep them off the stand. john edwards has made his life quipsing jurors to see things his way. >> you and i both covered him. he thinks that he's somebody who -- and look, his record as a trial lawyer, he can be a very convincing guy. >> can you just imagine his calculus? first of all, he's a politician and he's a lawyer, an old trial lawyer. i'm sure he's thinking i may still have that old magic with the jury if i could just explain

it to them. look, if he takes the stand, it completely transforms the case. it makes it a one witness case. the whole thing rises and falls on whether or not these jurors find him to be credible. as we've seen throughout the course of a three-week government case, he's got severe credibility problems and all of them will be put front and center again. >> credible and likeable, so we shall see. thank you. in what will most likely become an issue in the november election, a colorado house committee rejected civil unions for same-sex couples in a special session. the vote was mostly along party lines, including one gop lawmaker voting against it, even though his son is gay. this was the second time the bill failed. the first time was after a republican filibuster. are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and me sure that we were on schedule.

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to politics now. it is primary day in two more states. polls are open in nebraska and oregon. retiring senator olympia snowe says partisan gridlock in congress has virtually stopped all work from getting done. she was on "morning joe" today. >> we're not doing the routine business let alone the major questions. we have relegated it all to lame duck status. people understand that. they understand what's going to happen to this country. the one word that people raise with me constantly is that they're fearful about the future. >> here's one bill you probably haven't heard about. congressman jared polis is introducing the slice act to stop unhealthy pizza from being served to students and from tomato sauce being classified as a vegetable. slice stands for school lunch improvements for children's education. that's making me hungry. if you read only one thing this morning, my must read biz a small but apparently growing trend to raise money for charity by selling oddly shaped food on

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making news this morning, a shocking security breach at one of the country's busiest airports. an illegal immigrant has been charged with assuming the identity of a dead man to get a top security job at the airport where he worked for almost 20 years. he guarded some of the most secure areas of newark until monday. after officials found out he's in the country illegally and he has four other aliases. large wildfires are burning in two western states. in phoenix, some good news for residents there, this morning. winds are expected to clear the smoke from several blazes as firefighters battle a big one north of the city. in colorado, reinforcements have been called in to fight a

fire 20 miles northwest of ft. collins. calls have been made to residents to prepare, if the fire spreads they'll have to leave. this morning we're hearing the 911 call made by father of 6-year-old isabel celis who vanished from her home in tucson almost four weeks ago. >> i need to report a missing child. i believe she was abducted from my house. >> is mom there also? >> she had just left for work. i just called her and told her to get her butt home. >> isabel's father has been told to stay away from his other two children, but officials won't say exactly why. those boys, ages 10 and 14, are with their mother. while there are no official suspects, police have not ruled anyone out. former news of the world editor rebekah brooks will face obstruction of justice charges over britain's phone hacking scandal. brooks was rupert murdoch's chief executive. her husband faces similar charges for an alleged attempt to hide evidence. a three-man crew blasted off from kazakhstan with an american

astronaut on board. they're due to arrive at the international space station on thursday. and msnbc's own chris matthews takes his hardball style to jeopardy. we'll show you when we go down to the wire in 20. at the top of the hour president obama will appear on "the view." his fourth appearance on the talk show for women. at the show's taping the president made news about possibly repealing the defense of marriage act. >> my justice department has said to the courts we don't think the defense of marriage act is constitutional. this is something that historically had been determined at the state level. and part of my believing ultimately that civil unions weren't sufficient. >> will you personally fight to repeal that act? >> well, look, congress is clearly on notice that i think it's a bad idea. >> todayshow.com courtney

hazlett joins me now. i was in the neighborhood where the ricky martin fund-raiser was being held yesterday. normally new yorkers just stop. they don't complain about the traffic, it seems like. how did he do? >> he did incredible. like you and i were saying, when he's on, he was really on. this was more than just a performance at "the view" yesterday. this was about hitting a section of america that probably isn't watching you and i right now. probably isn't comfortable talking about doma over the dinner table or things that may be discussing jpmorgan chase or a conversation they're not really part of. he really reaches out to such a swath of especially women when he goes on these talk shows and he also gets to show his lighter side too, which is a fantastic thing to do as the election begins to ramp up and he needs to connect with voters. one of the ways he did that yesterday was by way of taking part in a little pop culture quiz that joy behar gave him. you'll be surprised how well he

actually did. take a look. >> number one, which kardashian was married for only 72 days? >> that would be kim. >> very good! okay. >> because it was a ballplayer. i know the ballplayer. that's how i know, from watching basketball. >> now this one, you may not know. i'm hoping that you don't, as a matter of fact. >> get ready. >> what's the controversial sex book that's on millions of women's bedside tables? >> i don't know that. >> okay, good. next. >> but i'll michelle when i get home. >> you know, i really love it when he goes on shows like "the view." you mentioned this was his fourth appearance. the second time as a sitting president that he's been on the show. yes, that was fun and everybody got a chance to laugh and say, oh, hey, the president, he catches kim kardashian's antics too. but really it's a great way of advancing the conversation in

ways that i think the president doesn't get a chance to otherwise. he doesn't dodge questions when he's on there either. a lot of people criticized him early on in those appearances for just going to a safe place. those women, they do ask questions and they ask follow-up questions and do their best to get straight answers out of the guy. here you see today we're talking about it even before it airs. >> and he knew kim. i don't know, should i be embarrassed i didn't know the answer to that question? >> because there was a ballplayer involved. >> exactly. >> i could have guessed. there's a bunch of them, right? i want to bring in the political reporter for roll call, erin mcpike and washington post columnist dana milbank is back with us. did you know the kim answer, dana? >> well, it's easy for me to say so now, isn't it. >> now to the serious stuff. the president shoring up his support among women with his appearance on "the view." he also had a commencement speech at bar nard college which

is an all women's school. i want to just play a little clip from that. >> how far your leadership takes this country, how far it takes this world, well, that will be up to you. don't just get involved. fight for your seat at the table. better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table. >> is that a commencement speech or did you think as you heard it, a political speech? >> i think it's a little bit of both, chris. i think it should be noted that the president asked to speak at barnard. he asked for this several months ago and this is what he wanted to do. this is the message he wanted to deliver there. the white house has not made it a secret that female voters are very important to their strategy to winning a second term. this plays into that as well as some of the points he highlighted in his speech. >> in your latest column, you call president obama the first female president and you go on to say, monday's activities veered into pandering as obama

brazenly flaunted his feminine mystique. did he go too far? >> i don't know what too far is. it's an election season and the idea is to win. >> so there is no such thing as too far? >> based on everything we've seen from both sides, there's no such thing as too far. it seemed to me a little heavy-handed to bump a woman from giving the commencement address at barnard and then praise women there and go on to "the view." he secured the all-important betty white endorsement. but it's just been one policy after another. the violence against women act, the contraception. all of these are in their own right important, but it's just been the collection of issues. it's very clear that the president is trying to exploit the gender gap which is working to his advantage. that's what you do to win an election. >> i couldn't help but notice he mentioned not only his wife, his mother, his grandmother, his mother-in-law, his two daughters, hillary clinton, hilda solis.

am i missing anybody? >> no. i would point out his two daughters he mentions all the time. malia and sasha have come up a lot in this past year in a way we didn't hear them coming up in 2008 when they were very little. now he's using them to say it's how he arrived at some of his decision. last week when he came out and affirmed his support for same-sex marriage he said he talked to malia and sasha and they couldn't believe that friends of theirs who had parents who were same-sex couples would be treated any differently than their own parents. he talked about them in reference to the trayvon martin case. he talked about them in reference to the sandra fluke controversy. he's talking about his daughters a lot. women's issues are very important to him and he personalizes them. >> this new "new york times" poll shows the president is trailing mitt romney by two points and down five percentage

points since april. do you buy that? >> not completely. i'm going to wait and see more polls. i know the nbc/wall street journal poll is going into the field later this week. i'll look for that and other poll results. i think voters need some time to digest some of the big news that's happened the last couple of weeks. they need to see some of the push the president has made in terms of these issues. voters don't immediately digest something and then it's shown in the poll results. usually there's a weak lag on a lot of these issues so i'm going to wait a little longer to see what the next round of poll results show. >> given the gender gap, the president has to win women, right, to win re-election. >> he does, and he will. it's a very of how much he will. the vast majority of polls show him with a significant advantage there. on the gay marriage issue, it's a much larger gender gap so that will probably reinforce the democrats' advantage on that issue. but he assumes he will win women and lose men. it's a very of how large that

gap is. >> we look at all these issues and they are important to women, contraception and so on, but ultimately they're the ones who control the pocketbooks in many households? they're outearning men at least more than the past. we're getting more female graduates, more ph.d.s, more master's degrees as the president pointed out yesterday. erin, do you think it's the economy or do some of these other issues sway voters? >> people do look at other issues that are very important to them. i know immigration is something that obama talks a lot about because he's making a push for latino voters. so he's talking to certain constituencies about other issues that are important to them other than just the economy. but you talk to women strategists and they will tell you time and time again, it does go back to the pocketbook, and that is why the romney campaign has been very effective in using ann romney to push that very

message. >> thank you all. facebook, speaking of money, facebook is raising its asking price. mandy drury is here with what's moving your money. so they go public friday. this is going to feed the frenzy. >> the new ipo price range, chris, is 34 to 38 a share as opposed to the previous range of 28 to 35 a share. but you know what, here are a few little sobering factoids for you. a facebook poll shows 50% of respondents felt facebook was a passing fad. as to whether it was a good investment, only fwup% said yes. 50% said the company is overvalued. the problem is always moneyization. the ads are part of the way that they make money. as for mark zuckerberg's ability to run a public facebook, only

18%. word is facebook plans to stop taking orders today for its ipo, possibly, you know, that would be two days ahead of schedule as they're swamped with all the orders that are coming in. >> so the clock is ticking. meantime if you have to make that phone call to put in your order, i guess there's a new survey on cell phone service that's not so great. >> right. according to the american customer satisfaction index, customers were generally less satisfied with their major domestic wireless carriers this year than the same time last year. you have sprint nextel, its score fell to 71. it did inch past the oar carriers. and verizon wireless which won the top spot among its peers every year since 2004, it fell 3% down to 70. at&t ability score rose but tied with t-mobile for the worst score in the category. the reason for at&t's low score last year, chris, was the

uncertainty surrounding its proposed merger with t-mobile, which, by the way, ultimately did not even go through. here is the thing. smaller wireless providers such as trac phone and u.s. cellular, they performed better than their larger competitors in the survey. >> mandy, always good to see you, my friend. thank you. >> absolutely. the social security administration is out with the top baby names of 2011 and there's a political twist. for girls, number three emma, number two isabela. the number one most popular girl name is sophia. and let's hear it for the boys. number three, william. number two, mason. the most popular in 2011 was jacob. now, here's the political part. according to npr, more progressive communities in blue states actually prefer old-fashioned names while socially conservative folks in red states tend to choose more creative or androgenous names.

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hi, everybody. i'm thomas roberts. the agenda next hour, the continuing backlash over the billions lost by the nation's largest bank, jpmorgan chase. does this loss illustrate the

need for more regulation or is it just another day on wall street? congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz will join me. bernie sanders has a firm take and he'll join me with his pla nation of a new proposal to end what he calls the fox guarding the men house. and john edwards' oldest daughter, cate, takes the stand today to defend her father. will her testimony help her dad avoid taking the stand? we'll have that and more. chris. live pictures from the west lawn of the u.s. capitol where president obama is about to speak at a memorial service to honor law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. 72 officers were lost in 2011, that's 16 more than the year before. we will have those remarks for you live. all right, hardball versus jeopardy. a rare sight. let's go down to the wire. our own krchris matthews is use to asking the questions on "hardball" but the tables were turned on a d.c. power edition

of "jeopardy." >> full name of the u2 pilot shot down over the soviet union in 1960. chris. >> who is gary powers? >> we need the full name. >> who is gary powers? >> no. >> lindsay? >> who is francis gary powers? >> yes, that's it. full name. lindsay benefits. >> former white house press secretary robert gibbs won the night. lady gaga is being forced to cancel our sold-out show in indonesia. islamic hard liners and conservative lawmakers said her sexy clothes and dance moves will corrupt the youth. they denied the permit for her june 3rd show which was to be the largest of her asian tour. some pretty incredible video of rare gorillas in the wild. less than 300 of them in the wild. researchers set up cameras in a protected sanctuary to capture this footage. amazing. that does wrap up our hour of "jansing & company."

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