dodd-frank and here he is in really a very tough, humiliating appearance on the hill. >> yeah, this seems to me to be some level of damage control both for mr. dimon and for jpmorgan. obviously the tempest in a teapot comment is not the kind of thing that goes over well when you've got unemployment at 8.2%. you have 69,000 jobs created in may. this was a comment, someone who makes millions and millions of dollars a year saying don't worry about it, everything is going to be fine, i think grasping the reality of what he had said in the context in which it lands. this is not a time when everyone in the country is going along their merry way economically. so the 1% which mr. dimon clearly is a part of, when they kind of look down and say don't worry about it, everything's going to be fine, the other 99% take umbrage. i think he was trying to make some amends today.

>> here were his comments. >> when it came out, there were so many pieces to it, all we have been urging people is don't think of it as binary. think of it as traffic laws. some cars should go 65, some shouldn't. some streets should be different, some lights should be bright, things should be done right. we have the widest, deepest and best capital markets in the world. it would be a shame to shed that out of anger. >> this as president obama trying to get out in front of mitt romney and the republicans on jobs and the economy, and this is the president's take on the republican message at one of the many fund-raisers. this was a fund-raiser last night. >> i love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. i inherited a trillion dollar deficit. it's like somebody goes to a restaurant, orders a big steak

dinner, martini, all that stuff, and then just as you're sitting down, they leave. and accuse you of running up the tab. >> so that's the obama, the latest obama message is that the republicans are trying to stick us with the check or i'm trying to figure out exactly the analogy. >> look, you heard the kind of raucus applause. that's because this is a democratic fund-raiser. these are people who love obama and will vote for him no matter what. the issue is not whether he can convince those people about what he inherited and what he's done positively to make things better, but if he can convince unaffiliated independent voters who live in the midwest, michigan, ohio, iowa, wisconsin, can he convince those folks that he inherited something bad, he is making it better, is it where he wants it to be, no, but it is going in the right direction. it's a much harder sell with

that group than the crowd that he was speaking to last night. >> save that thought about ohio, because we'll talk about that later in our next 24. thank you very much. the united states is accusing syria of sending attack helicopters and other weapons to the assad regime. moscow says it is not sending helicopters or any other weapons that could be used against the opposition, something the u.s. says is patently ridiculous. richard engel is nbc's chief foreign correspondent and is following all these developments from cairo. richard, we have seen this develop as we were discussing yesterday over the last 24 hours. hillary clinton out front accusing russia, russia denying it, but the fact remains these are game changers, as you pointed out yesterday, these helicopters. >> reporter: the helicopters could be very significant development and you're hearing now, hillary clinton talking about the helicopters. today, the russian foreign minister accused the united states of sending weapons to the syrian opposition, therefore, undermining the stability of syria, something that has

already been clearly undermined. the united states state department just denying that, saying that no american weapons were no funding from the united states for weapons is going to the syrian opposition. but going back to the helicopters, yes, it's very significant. hillary clinton talking about helicopters. helicopters being used in syria to crack down on the opposition. today, the french foreign minister going out further than any world power, saying that a no-fly zone should be something that is under consideration and that specifically refers to helicopters and other aircraft. i think you have to go back and think about what happened in iraq in 1991 after the war there. saddam hussein was able to use helicopters to kill about 100,000 people and helicopters can be very devastating, and if you start to see more helicopters in use, more aircraft in use killing large numbers of civilians, now that you have france talking about it, a no-fly zone, hillary clinton talking about it, it

could be a changed dynamic, maybe even a no-fly zone. >> the no-fly zone of course was used with great effect by nato in libya but has not before this been discussed in terms of syria. everyone said -- >> no. >> -- the situation in syria was very different. >> reporter: everyone talked about it being different. there was talk about being a civil war, that the united states wouldn't get involved in a civil war in that country. the united states already got involved in between sunnis and shiites who have been fighting each other in iraq and i have been told by u.s. diplomats they do not want to extend american troops on the ground in syria, but to have a no-fly zone, you wouldn't necessarily have to put boots on the ground. you can do something more along the lines of libya, where you have a few cia agents, covert advisors, directing targets and most of it done by the air under some sort of international cover. but we're not there yet. so far it's just france talking about it.

>> in fact, the state department, u.s. officials consistently denying that there is going to be any further involvement beyond nonlethal aid, humanitarian aid, communications gear and obviously intelligence sharing. thank you, richard. with the u.n. now saying that it is a full-scale civil war as richard engel was just reporting, former secretary of state colin powell today warned the u.s. should not join the fight. >> the question always comes down to well, should somebody go in and intervene, and that someone almost always turns out to be the united states. i don't think we can do that. i don't think we should find ourselves in the middle of this because remember, it's not just a matter of intervening. if you take out this government as we learned in afghanistan and iraq, you now become responsible for the country. i don't think that should be our responsibility. >> new hampshire republican senator kelly ayott is a member of the armed services committee, part of a bipartisan senate move to condemn russia for arming the assad regime. senator, thank you for being

with us. where do you stand now, mitt romney has called for arming the rebels. hillary clinton has resisted that, strongly resisted that, but is blaming russia for helicopters that the state department again today said are en route to syria. what is the senate going to do? >> well, i can tell you right now, first of all, what secretary clinton said yesterday, i fully agree with her. it's outrageous that russia is providing these attack helicopters to syria but let's not forget, they have been the number one arms supplier to the assad regime. they continue to do it. they blocked u.n. resolutions and in addition to that, they have -- russians are on the ground helping train the syrian army. so if they're going to continue this tactic, instead of being productive and helping resolve this, let's not forget, innocent children and women are being murdered there. the u.n. reports that children are being used by the assad regime as human shields. this is very, very outrageous,

what the russians are doing. we're not going to be left with a choice if the russians continue to fuel the assad regime with helicopters and arms to murder its people that we have to get greater involvement in it. so the russians should back off now because they are escalating this conflict tremendously. >> you have been very close with the romney campaign. you're on the list, everybody says, to be considered for vice president. do you agree with romney, foreign policy advisor john bolton who wrote that we should basically tell the russians in no uncertain terms they can forget about any kind of sustained good relations with the united states as long as it continues to back assad. he continued to say we should resume full scale indeed accelerated effort to construct the limited missile defense system designed by george w. bush, announce our withdrawal from the s.t.a.r.t. treaty, that moscow and beijing think about that for awhile.

it does sound if you follow john bolton's advice, former very controversial u.n. ambassador of course in the previous administration, some would say you would be cutting off your nose to spite your face because we would be withdrawing from arms treaties that many people believe in bipartisan administrations that people believe are good for the united states. >> here's where i agree with ambassador bolton. we need to be tougher on russia. right now, what we see happening in russia is not only is putin thumbing his nose at us in terms of providing these weapons to the assad regime to murder its own people, but look at the stalin-esque crackdowns on his own people in terms of putting people in jail just for speaking out. it's really outrageous what's happening in russia right now. i do think we need to be tougher with russia, because we cannot continue to condone any type of behavior by russia in fueling the violence in syria. let's not lose sight that they

have also cooperated with cuba, venezuela, other bad actors around the world, including they have been part of helping iran with their nuclear program and they should be tougher on iran as well. >> well, there has been some progress on that front. russia has joined in on some of the agreements for sanctions and some of the negotiations, but aside from iran, should president obama be meeting with russian president putin next week? do you think he should be canceling the meeting at the g-20 or should he simply be going to that meeting and taking a harder line? >> i think that he should go to the meeting and take a very, very hard line with putin and be very clear to him that we are not going to accept russia continuing to send arms to syria and that there will be grave consequences to our relationship if they continue that. the president does need to get tough with putin, because we have seen that the reset the president had hoped with russia has not succeeded.

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jamie dimon admitted a lapse in jpmorgan's internal controls today in his testimony to the senate banking committee. a short time ago he spoke to cnbc's mary thompson. >> you are the most respected banking ceo in this country. how could you let this happen? >> i would say was. >> nbc's capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell joins me now. pretty dramatic testimony today. jamie dimon under fire.

what is the sort of effect in terms of legislation, in terms of regulation, dodd-frank? >> well, he came here to do a few things, to apologize for mistakes that happened in his firm that involved at least $2 billion on the low side of the firm's own money that was invested in ways that proved to be more reckless than intended to protect the firm, so he came to talk about that and to take responsibility also for the way he had originally characterized it as a tempest in a teapot. he changed his story on that, being much more kind of embracing of what a big mistake this was. what some democrats certainly pressed him on is would more regulation, smart regulation, have prevented that, would it be more helpful in the future to ward off these kinds of things, and he did give some acknowledgment that some regulation might have caught this problem before it got to the $2 billion and beyond level. at the same time, he expressed a lot of concerns about would regulation get in the way of what he says the markets do

themselves. he pointed out that the whole big financial collapse of a few years ago, that many of the problem things that triggered that don't exist anymore, including subprime mortgages. when mary thompson was saying you've got the best reputation, much of that comes from that crisis, where he was able to steer jpmorgan through that without having some of the problems that led to the collapse of other banks. they actually bought some of the troubled firms. so his rock star image took a bit of a beating today. at the same time, he certainly brought the confidence that you don't often see with witnesses testifying before congress. >> he also declined for proprietary reasons to give details of some of those big london trades because those still have to be unwound, of course, and it could be great risk to jpmorgan chase as they try to minimize the damage. thanks very much for joining us today. up next, the politico briefing. wall street voting with its dollars. do you see it ?

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by the white house. now they are fighting back by donating to mitt romney. joining me now is jim vandehai. your political analysis is it's not only 37.1 from wall street to 4.8 million for obama, and obama clearly had the edge four years ago, three years ago, but the difference also is that people are switching over and that you're seeing former obama people now in the romney camp. >> yeah. 21 different big donors from the financial sector that were with obama in 2008 are not with him this time. they haven't given him a penny. in fact, they have given money to mitt romney in his super pacs. i don't think the fact that romney is getting more from the financial sector than president obama is that shocking. i think what alarms democrats is that the gap is so big and that so many financial sector sort of swing donors, folks betting with both sides over the years, are all going for romney. they feel that that sort of represents this broad-based frustration among the business

community with the president, with the agenda, with his approach to the economy, and what that gives republicans, it gives them this awesome source of wealth to go after when they're trying to fund these outside groups that can take in unlimited donations. that's the reason republican outside groups think they can take in a combined $1 billion which is unheard of in american politics. >> it's the lack of accountability or transparency from those outside groups, this is perfect for wall street in that they don't have to 'fess up and say whom they are contributing to. >> right. it depends how the outside groups are structured. some have to disclose, some don't. certainly if people want to do it without disclosure, there is plenty of avenues. what you're seeing are more and more business folks being willing to give these big checks and let it be known publicly they did that. it used to happen a lot when republicans could take soft money back in the '90s. once soft money was gone, a lot of those big donors got out of the game. now they are getting pulled back in and there's plenty of places

for that money to go. that's one of the big concerns when you talk to folks around president obama, that is they feel republicans won't only be a parody when it comes to fund-raising, they might raise when you consider the outside groups with them, they might out-raise the obama administration by a pretty significant amount when it comes to the campaign. >> you can see the pace of campaign fund-raising also picking up of course as well. thank you very much, jim. coming up next, tennis icon billie jean king on the battle of the sexes four decades later. plus, making sure that every child has a fifth birthday with the head of u.s. a.i.d. this is "andrea mitchell reports." [ male announcer ] what's in your energy drink?

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off if mitt romney were in charge. the speech comes as some leading democratic strategists are grumbling that obama's economic message could be turning voters off. democratic strategist james carville. >> when the white house and the campaign talks about the progress being made, people take that as a signal they think things are fine and people don't feel that or believe that. >> mark halpern, editor at large for "time" magazine. here we go again, mark. the former clinton team and others are concerned that the message is all wrong. how do you assess this at this point in the campaign? >> whenever a presidential campaign hits a bump, you see the air is filled with calls for change. you can change tactics, strategy, personnel. one thing or another. this operation, the obama operation in chicago and washington, i think is much less likely to do it. bush 41 made changes, clinton made changes, kerry made

changes, dole made changes, mccain made changes. the reason i don't think this operation will do it, for a lot of reasons, one way i think to get them to dig in and not make changes is when people from bill clinton's world make the suggestion. the clinton people say zig, the obama people say we're zagging and that worked pretty fine. there's a lot of call for them to make change. i think the speech tomorrow will be interesting. to see if there's any fundamental change. they still believe in the end that mitt romney cannot beat barack obama and i think they will put a lot on trying to continue this to make this a contrast election and talk as much or more about what's wrong with mitt romney's past and future than they do about what the president wants to do in the future and what he's done. >> although at some point, it becomes conventional wisdom becomes more broadly felt and there certainly is a feeling that they have hit a bump, more than a bump, that the president's performance last friday in the briefing room and other indicators, the whole attempt to go to boston and they

were drowned out by romney protesters, there have been a couple of points where they didn't seem to have their mojo here. >> this is the low point for the president's campaign in quite some time, certainly since governor romney became the nominee. axelrod and messina, influential people in this campaign along with the president, they are not panicers. they don't care what's in, with all respect to the "washington post." they don't care what's in the "washington post." they care about their research and their eye on the prize. 270 electoral votes and how to get there. they continue to believe the message they're on is right, that mitt romney in the end will not be someone who can beat them in enough battleground states to take this. until their national polls show the president's solid or moving up, the pressure will grow. there's unhappiness on capitol hill to some extent, they continue to pay a price for not having the close relationships within their own party as some presidents have, that you need in times of trouble.

but they're ignoring it and i think they will continue to ignore it. if the polls come out, the next round of polls and he's down, i think he may need to find a way to change tactics, if not strategy and personnel. >> one of the things that's really notable is that they don't have a whole lot of surrogates. they don't have a whole lot of people in the senate, for instance, allies who will come out and be reliable surrogates for them. i'm not just talking about corey booker and bill clinton and people getting off message. republicans have also been off message. but other white houses have had chiefs of staff and press secretaries who will go on the sunday shows and we just saw a picture that was clearly the wrong picture, we'll explain in a moment, but it just seems that they don't have people who can defend the president and be out there day in, day out. >> you hear that from democrats who are surprised the president's been running for re-election in one level for four years. i was in boston yesterday talking to folks from the romney campaign. you hear it from them. there are a lot of people who are frequent obama surrogates

who go on tv, who the romney people love to see out there, they don't think they're effective and there aren't any they find particularly daunting. i think that's a problem. you have a chief of staff who is a talented guy and great inside player but he's not james baker, someone who can go out there and change the dynamic of the race. in the age of twitter and cable tv and talk radio, it's very hard for any of the president's current surrogates to rise above the din and not be drowned out either literally by hecklers in person or by the strong push-back on the other side. i don't think surrogates are going to decide this race. i don't think twitter feeds are. maybe twitter feeds will. no, i don't think they will. but it is a case that it's surprising, of all the advantages the president was able to build up, he doesn't have a clear dominance in that area and the romney folks have some surrogates and are training more. >> i would argue they should put jack on television. he's a great surrogate. >> let's start a countdown clock.

until he does all five sunday shows. we will not rest. >> thank you very much, mark halpern. despite global efforts, every year seven million children die before their fifth birthday. imagine, losing nearly as many children as the entire population of new york city. tomorrow, secretary of state hillary clinton and health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius are teaming up to launch an international effort to find solutions central to this mission. thank you so much for being here, raj. let's talk about the importance of making sure children live past their fifth birthday because once they pass that point, then you have a real fight against the infant mortality rate. >> we basically know if kids around the world reach 5, they are likely to become adults and likely to survive and thrive, to learn well, to grow up in a community where they have a lot of opportunity. but even then, as you point out,

nearly seven million kids, more than seven million kids every year perish before the age of 5 and what's extraordinary is given the new state of technology and knowledge, know-how and experience, even in some of the toughest parts of the world, most of those lives are now preventible. we can effectively prevent child death around the world. >> you brought some examples, some props here. show me what steps we can take. very easy, not expensive steps. >> sure. i wanted to illustrate that most of what it takes to save these kids' lives costs less than $30 and fits inside this backpack. recently, new vaccines, this is a rotovirus vaccine for diarrhea and pneumonia vaccine. these can save four million lives over the next five years if provided to kids around the world. the obama administration has supported an innovative public/private partnership to do just that. this is an orange flesh sweet potato, actually orange on the inside because it's rich in

beta-keratine through our feed the future program, president obama's food security effort, we have actually helped create these kinds of sweet potatoes. they are organically produced in uganda and elsewhere and protect kids from vitamin a deficiency and helps support them living and thriving through childhood. these are just zinc tablets. tomorrow at this major international meeting, we will announce a new partnership to produce more zinc and more tablets for young kids because even though it's pennies per dose, it can help save kids who get diarrhea when you use that along with oral rehydration salts, salts you mix with water and it's taken like gatorade. these things seem very simple. we don't lose a lot of children in this country from many of these diseases but diarrhea, malaria -- >> you have a bed net. >> i do.

the u.s.'s effort to distribute these across africa and parts of asia saved 220,000 children from dying every single year. we know that. that's been validated by independent studies from boston university and elsewhere. we know this costs $6 and a kid can sleep under it for years. then this is a new device that we created. this doesn't look like advanced technology because it's not. as you know, this is a bag mask. you can put this on a little infant, put their mouth right in this piece and do suction to help babies breathe. we have launched an effort called helping babies breathe together with private companies that now produce this device for about $8. if you walk into an american hospital, a similar device made with much higher quality materials would cost 10 or 12 times that amount. if we can get these basic items, new technologies through new partnerships with the private sector, with faith-based institutions, to millions of kids who don't have them, we think we can literally end preventible child death.

>> you have photos and testimonials from a lot of famous people age 5. let's take a look at some of the pictures you've got on your website because these are all people involved in this and people who care. i'm trying to think of who some of these kids are. >> that's tom coburn, i believe. that's susan rice. >> adorable at age 5. >> i believe that's nancy pelosi. she sent us her photograph as well. >> katherine mcphee, one of the u.n. ambassadors on this. >> secretary clinton. >> secretary clinton, now former president bill clinton. that was in hope, arkansas. do we have your picture in there? >> we do. we have nearly 1,000 photographs. >> that is someone i recognize, me and my older sister.

yeah. it's hard to take, but yeah. >> our effort is really about making sure every child gets -- >> and raj. >> take that one down. i am not proud of my fashion choices when i was 5. it makes the point, i have three young kids and when they get injured or hurt, we get to go to the hospital and it's a difficult circumstance. imagine around the world when these kids, when a family loses a child or loses two or three children -- >> completely preventible. >> preventible. not only tragic, it affects the ability of communities to grow and educate themselves and move themselves out of poverty and be stable over time. >> we have to leave it there, thank you so much. great to see you. it took only 37 words inside an education bill to give women their first chance for equality in sports. that section of the bill title nine was signed into law by president nixon 40 years ago this month. there is still a lot of room for

improvement. tennis legend billie jean king, the first woman athlete to be honored with the presidential medal of freedom which was thrilling for all of us, joins us now. thank you very much. billie jean, what is left to do? i remember the battle of the sexes and you and bobby riggs and that was i guess 39, 40 years ago. >> it will be 40 years next year. we'll be celebrating that next year. that was one year after title nine was passed. >> it was galvanizing. you were the wimbledon champ and you took him on and he was trash talking all the way to defeat. >> total trash talking but i'm always a big believer letting the racket do the talking. i knew it was about social change because what i really want to do by beating bobby riggs was starting to match the hearts and minds of people to the legislation of title nine, and i hope that it was a good kickoff because you know, in 1973, we couldn't even get a credit card on our own without a guy signing for us or with us.

so it was like oh, come on. it was amazing that all the things, we were making 59 cents on the dollar in 1973. we've come a long way. >> what were women making when you won wimbledon compared to the men? >> i don't remember what we were making. i know in 1971, i had to win 30 tournaments to win over $100,000. that was a big deal. i was the first woman athlete to do that in '71. >> amazing. >> finally, we have the same money at the majors with the guys, which is good, because it sends a strong message. people always say it's about the money. it's not about the money. it's about the message, about the empowerment. that's what title nine's about. now we have 54% of women enrolled in colleges and universities and our job is to continue to provide opportunities. we have 1.3 million less opportunities, girls do, in high school to be in sports than boys. we still have a long way to go. but the important thing, the important thing is that we keep the girls in the game,

particularly with obesity. i mean, i'm 68 years old now. i just got a couple years ago, got knee replacement because i was getting to where i couldn't even walk a block and my whole life was closing in on me. so health is huge in this country and i cannot tell you how important it is to keep exercising for our health, besides nutrition and other things. how are your joints? are you 100%? >> not so great. still exercising too much, can't run the marathon any longer as much as i would love to. the fact is that title nine had an impact way beyond sports because in subsequent supreme court decisions, it affected women in employment, women's access to other educational opportunities. >> it wasn't about sports. the reason everybody thinks it's about sports, because we're so visible. that's why women in sports can do so much to change things. we can change the way people think about things. every single person's an influencer. every single human being.

but because we're visible, we have a wonderful blessing and opportunity to help because men and women are in this together. if a male has a daughter, i would hope he would want his sons and daughters to have the same opportunity. we must always continue to think about both genders as we do things, that both genders always have, both men and women always have equal opportunity. but the girls still are behind the guys in opportunities, particularly women coaches, for instance. under 50% of women are coaches of women's collegiate teams, which is really terrible and for men's teams, we're under 3%. so we've got to keep girls in the game. we've got to keep people going. but it's important, too, that if you're a boomer and you're older, please take good care of yourself. i've had eight knee operations. i'm just lucky i've got good knees in me now. i had knee replacement and it's just changed my whole life. i'm back on the tennis court, i can walk forever.

it's really important once you get to a certain age, whatever you're feeling, even young people are now getting replacements. they're finding they can continue to do whatever they want, running marathons, doing all kinds of things. i wish i had just done it earlier. you can go to rediscover.com and hear my whole story. i listened to people, they stop me in the street all the time. i'm just lucky i have these in me because they have lasted 30 years in the lab so i know these will probably outlive my life. which is really important. i just want to keep exercising and title nine, i'm very thankful, we're celebrating it. we will be celebrating it later on the hill. i want to thank you for all you've done to influence others, all the great things you've done. we are so indebted to you. i want to thank you. >> and i to you. my gosh, you are the role model. thank you, billie jean. we will keep it up. >> i loved your book, too. >> thank you. thanks for the plug. suffering from withdrawal? stay tuned. our next guest may have a cure.

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next on "news nation" developing news. accusations that jerry sandusky threatened an alleged victim by saying he would never let him see his family again, that is just some of the testimony from yet another witness in the sandusky trial. plus, president obama has planned a big speech on the economy set for tomorrow in ohio. james carville and some other democrats say the president needs to change his message. to what? and film maker spike lee, never shy to give his opinion, is giving his thoughts on the president's re-election chances. it's just one of the things we thought you should know. a country at war fighting over rights for women and class warfare. we're not talking about modern day in the united states but we're talking about edwardian england, the period that starts around 1914, a period dramatized in the pbs hit series.

>> it's a great house. they're a great family. >> do you know the new heir? >> i thought mary was the heir. >> don't you care? >> i have given my life to it. >> why are you so against him? >> he isn't one of us. >> now there is a new book about that fascinating time called "park lane" which tells the story of a politically active young woman and her maid, two women navigating under very different rules in a rapidly changing world. the author is frances osborne. is it fiction, frances? "park lane" has an eery resemblance to your great-great grandmother, heiress to a railroad fortune. there are all sorts of parallels. tell me about it. >> i discovered -- the story,

"park lane" is based on a real house in park lane which was the home of my great-great grandmother who was the heiress to a railway fortune. i discovered about her when i researched my old book, which is the story of her daughter, my great grandmother, who divorced five times and this led me into the edwardian era which is such a fertile ground. it was a time of so much change. it was the end of the old world and the beginning of the new modern world as we knew it. the changes afoot were extraordinary. they were political, you had suffragettes burning down buildings, starving themselves to death. you had great social change, it was the end of -- sort of narrowed the divisions between upstairs and downstairs, between masters and maids. also, you had this extraordinary sexual revolution that took place as the first world war took off. it seemed as though the duty to remain a virgin until you were

married became replaced with y s replaced with the duty to give the soldiers at home a good time. it started with groups of girls chasing soldiers down the street. there's a story of soldiers leaping on to a bus to escape the girls and the girls leap onto the bus so the soldiers run to the roof of the open top bus even though it's pouring rain. as a result of this, you had morality patrols going down the street. you would have elder women chasing soldiers around with torches looking into alleyways and corners to find couples who were everywhere. and it was the end of the first world war we got this modern woman we might call the flapper who often had her own job, went out all night without a chaperone. misbehaved, had sex with people before she was married, dressed in short skirts and you know, times had moved on. >> you know, "park lane" fits right into an american revived love affair here in america with

all things british. we just had the diamond jubilee. you were there. the other part of your life as busy as you are, you are married to the second ranking person in the british government, chancellor of the exchequer. so you were at all of the events today and another event in nottingham i think, another event involving the queen and kate and will. so the marriage, the wedding, everything. to what do you attribute this american revival offing and glow -- what do we call it. >> anglophilia and we have the olympics coming up, as well. >> there's been so much going on in britain. we had the royal wedding which was spectacular and deeply moving. i think people all over the world really felt involved in the love story between prince william and princess catherine. this was followed up this year, we've had the queen's diamond

jubilee which has been extraordinary. i went to see the pageant of boats and there were hundreds of row boats and canoes going down. some people in fancy dress. these tiny boats really at the time battling against the elements because the weather was so bad. and then you had the concert, which was just fantastic and you know, really a sort of world very much a world class event with the great singers that were there, and of course, the service in the cathedral was deeply moving. and the queen looked very deeply moved at the time. of course, the only mar to the whole events was that sadly, prince philip was taken very ill in the middle of these events which must have been very hard for her. it's a bit similar for anglofhilia, a sign of the old world. a sign of continuity, of a feeling that things worked and they will go on working. and it's also a bit in a way of a sort of escapism from the day

to day of life. >> exactly. well, your day to day of life is the very complicated. you live at downing street and you managed to write this book "park lane." a great read. we look forward tore seeing you soon. >> thank you. >> thanks so much, frances. thank you for being here. we'll be right back. sorry. sore knee. blast of cold feels nice. why don't you use bengay zero degrees? it's the one you store in the freezer. same medicated pain reliever used by physical therapists. that's chilly. [ male announcer ] new bengay zero degrees. freeze and move on. that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus veggie nutrition.

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or double miles on every purchase, every day! what's in your wallet? i'm tamron hall. "news nation" is following breaking news this hour. alled threats from jerry sandusky to one of the young boys he's now accused of sexually assaulting. a former foster child told jurors he was only 11 years old when sandusky pinned him to the ground, pulled his pants down and abused him. he says the former penn state coach then warned him "if i told anyone, i would never see my family again." nbc's john yang joins us live from outside the courthouse in bellefonte, pennsylvania, that is one of the witnesses we've flared today. obviously this testimony like in the past, emotional and compelling to say the least, john. >> that's right,