. >> al: and whittling the lead. george mason by 8. battling that. and despite the contact pearson will convert. >> glenn: pearson passed up the jump shot and in. >> al: and hitting 2 3 pointers. back from bowles. off the left hand portion of the window. that's great work for bowles. four assists now. he is a great offensive. >> glenn: well parker saw limb lead him. you have to do because you have to expect to double team his partner bowles. >> al: hancock. and johnny williams. >> glenn: he has impressed me this year, hancock. he has something that's unusual for a freshman. a great off financessive feel to the game. and he has a knack of the game. >> al: and that's a long, long for wells. >> glenn: not going away, al. >> al: not going away. you look at this james madison team they are 10-11 record. 3-7 in the caa. most of the losses have been at the buzzer. and wright answers. , watching them. mason is better defending the perimeter than madison. you can see it. it is ease is i for madison to get to the rim. >> bowles called for traveling. that takes

rodriquez surely convert will whittle it down to a pair. >> good effort from georgia state earlier. will they be able to keep it up? it is their third consecutive road game. they have been on the road away from campus. road games for georgia state is a trick. most of the conference resides in the virginia, maryland, delaware area. difficult for them, to the least. this is a difficult stretch for them. >> vcu is within a point of georgia state. panthers also learned they are not getting out of georgia any earlier than 7:00 tonight. all flights tonight are canceled. >> out of bounds. last touch to georgia state. vcu with the ball and a chance to take the lead. >> full court trap not working on that. not forcing any turnovers. they switch to a half court trap. sanders comes outside and forces the first give away of the game for the panthers. >> rodriquez lurking in the weak side corner. gets to the rim. left-handed try is good. his teammates call him the most athletic player on the squad. >> nice finish with the hand. they have to find a way to stop that ball. you cannot allow that kin

we may be whittling away at it not thinking about the deficit. for the moment that uncertainty.the rest of the world is to our advantage. a dangerous play, over the course of the year. you could get pops in the dollar as uncertainty creeps up because we're not through the crisis and the after shocks of the storm that hit us. >> showing you devalue of the dollar versus one euro, and the dollar intext and a lot of other gamps people look at to show this period of dollar weak pz's in some say it's because of the dollar, now that the, the crisis is over -- >> other things to invest in. >> exactly. exactly. and the better interest rates abroad than in the u.s. as the u.s. comes back and the rest of the world looks weaker you could see reversal there. i'm not predicting that but the risk high enough i wouldn't bet on currencies. i'd vote on export relating companies in the u.s. >> i take a different perspective. look how the dollar performed. you just can't say blanketly it was up or down. i mean, the storm currencies last we're were the brazilian rial

from a peak of 25,000 without power yesterday, the local utility company has whittled that down to only about 3400 people. lester, they say they expect to have all them back online sometime today. >> garvin thomas, thanks very much. now here again is jenna. >>> thanks. turning to politics, and a controversy involving senate majority leader harry reid. he already faces a tough re-election in his home state of nevada. and now revelations about some private comments he made about president obama's race during the campaign are causing a stir. more now from nbc's mike vacara. >> reporter: leading up to the election in 2008, harry reid, leading senate democrat and vital obama ally made a case for his fellow senators presidential prospects in racially charged terms. as reported in the new book "game change" reid privately said the nation is ready for a black president, especially one as, quote, light-skinned as obama who speaks, quote, with no negro dialect unless he wanted to have one. soon after his quotes became public, reid issued a statement saying i sincerely apologize for offending any

laughter chris whittle to want to get into the technicalities between the different groups of people. >> [inaudible] [laughter] we have little accent and a different cuisine and places but this book is simplified. this book goes through many versions. i spent four years on this book. it became very painful in the way it was good -- i could take the time in a ways i wish the book was as it was in the beginning because it was a very enthusiastic. i was covering so many things about moravia, slovakia, different ways how the government and organizations work but then my editor said this is impossible for the kid or young american person to comprehend. you have to get the essence. i was trying to get the essence how everything seemed to be hopeless, and i thought maybe it's the beginning of something else, and i realized there are so many things missing and so many things are simplified. it's the same white i sort of were still have a political life i have friends whose parents died in the present of the communist. i have friends it would be a completely different story but i didn't want t

i'm trying to whittle my waist. can i spot reduce if i work one area? what you want to do. if you want to tone and get stronger, you can by focusing on crunches for your abs or situps. you'll see over time that your abs are getting more toned. if you need to lose weight, you need to do both. but certainly you can tone and strengthen through focusing on certain areas. >> great investment. >> if you have to buy a set to match every one of your outfits the way jamie has done, it will get expensive. you also recommend to check out on cable and the internet and maybe the video store because there might be some help that you can find that. >> cable providers are great. mine has on demand free workouts. it's a great way to mix it up, to get a bit of variety so you don't get into too much of a rut. because you want to keep it interesting. >> i think the privacy of your own home, too, must be very attractive to people, especially if you've overdone it a little bit over the holidays, to be able to start at home. >> you don't need special clothes. you can kind of

the reason i see it as more uncomplicated is because most of the people in the drug-trafficking whittled our everyday smugglers trying to put food on the table and pay their bills and many of my law enforcement people i interviewed were actually quite critical of the u.s. war on drugs policy. they were doing this work as a job so i think we need to get beyond the sort of a one dimensional or two dimensional idea that we can simply say the good guys are here and the bad guys of course or in mexico. none of this would be happening if it wasn't for the u.s. drug consumption. >> something i really enjoy about the book is how you allow people to speak in their own words. i imagine it took quite a bit of editing but the richness of detail present in this book is wonderful. it tells itself and it's a very complicated story and i would like you can to be read a few paragraphs from of the profiles to get the audience a sense of the kind of information and insight you gain by reading these stories. i also like, you mention in the introduction there are a lot of facts and stories. there's interplay

they've seen a 12 point lead whittle to three. warren got fouled by tillie.he other. probably on foster. daymeon: warren comes back inside immediately. he goes to the rim. and gets a tie. that foul was on tillie. number four. you made a good point. your fourth foul on tillie. along with that, you get baskets at the rim and so you're hitting teams twice. matt: l.s.u. gets their points at the free-throw line right now while they're having difficulty scoring. come out and a fresh three coming for utah. daymeon: the three-point line, want to stand outside and shoot threes all day but going into the basket, you can control the game. matt: warren, 9-11 from the free-throw line tonight. 51% free throw shooter on the season. he is 9-11. and i believe only one other free throw shooter of the tigers outside of warren. henderson, long three. rebound controlled by bass. daymeon: that's how you go get a rebound. that's what they talked about. they said the other players on the team don't have to do so much as far as scoring. do little things to help the team lead. matt: l

and we've allowed corporate parks to whittle away at workers bargaining power, to undermine the quality of the remaining jobs. finally, the structural absents of good jobs means a shortage of sustainable demand to drive our economy. we want an entirely different kind of economy. let's talk about what we need to do. we must directly and immediately take on what is wrong by creating millions of good jobs now by rebuilding our economic foundation and giving working people the freed to form unions again and to make all of our jobs good jobs. [applause] we must pass genuine health care reform and we regulate our financial economy, so that the finance is the servant of the real economy and not its master. [applause] so that we have an independent consumer financial protection agency and so that we never again take the public's money and use it to rescue bank executives and stockholders. the head like to commend president obama's leadership in insisting on a viable and strong, independent consumer protection agency, which is crucial to real financial reform. now, the afl-cio leiby five-point p

was a great deal of pressure from congress and advocacy groups to which will downed the list -- to whittle down the list. there were susan cries about the number of names of the list, mistaken identity -- were cries about the number of names on the list mistaken identities. host: is the list smaller today than it was when you are in the white house? guest: the master tide this is bigger now. when i left, we were closer to 500. that is now higher. there was always an attempt to refine the list and make sure you did not have wrong names on there, bad names. part of it is the commercial interests. part of it is you do not want to unnecessarily burdened travel for the american public. it is important for u.s. commerce. host: how often did you look at that list? when you are in the white house your position was similar to john brennan's, except to get the position. guest: he took the position i had, but he is also the homeland security adviser. in theory, somewhat similar. host: would you look at the daily, because supposedly gets fed into a computer every night. guest: i would start and end ev

. -- our middle-class, and we allowed corporations to whittle away to undermine the quality of the remainingobs. finally, the structural absence of good jobs means a shortage of sustainable demand to drive our economy. we want an entirely different kind of economy. let's talk about what we need to do. we must directly and immediately take on what is wrong. we need to create millions of good jobs now, by rebuilding our economic foundations, and giving working people the freedom to form unions again and make all of our jobs good jobs. [applause] we must pass genuine health care reform and reregulate our financial economy so that the finance is the servant of the real economy and not its master. [applause] so that we have an independent consumer financial protection agency and so that we never again take the public's money and use it to rescue bank executives and stockholders. i like to commend president obama's leadership in insisting on a viable and strong, independent consumer protection agency which is crucial to real financial reform. the afl-cio's 5-point program will create more than 4 m

time to create enough jobs at home to maintain our middle class and we have allowed corporate tax to whittle away at workers' bargaining power to undermine the quality of of the remaining jobs. finally, the structural absence of good jobs means a shortage of sustainable demand to drive our economy. we want an entirely different kind of economy. let's talk about what we need to do. we must directly and immediately take on what is from by creating millions of good of jobs now and rebuilding our economic foundations and getting working people the freedom to form unions again and make all of our jobs good jobs. [applause] we must pass genuine health care reform and reregulate our financial economy so that the finance is the servant of the real economy and not its master. so that we have -- [applause] as we have an independent consumer financial protection agency and so that we never again take the public money and use it to rescue bank executives and stockholders. i like to commend president obama's leadership and insisting on a viable and strong independent consumer protection agency which is c

and that you could, you know, whittle down to enormous detail of what that means.ion is doing is going to ultimately be for the good of the individual citizens. now, i am a registered lobbyist. i've been one for 17 years. i can understand the concerns that this president has. i'm not surprised by them. i think it's unfortunate. i mean, you're looking at someone who frankly -- i think i'd be a pretty good servant of this administration in a formal capacity but it's not to be and i'm comfortable with that. but i do think there are specific instances where an individual's knowledge and experience are such a vital tool to this administration that's shutting them out completely i think is a disservice to the public good. again, i can understand why they are making the distinction because there are good lobbyists and there are bad lobbyists. and you need to be careful with how that authority and power in the administration would be used. i think there are ways to structure it so that it could be used for the public good. >> thank you. >> other questions? justin? >> getti

and we've allowed corporate parks to whittle away at workers bargaining power, to undermine the qualityf the remaining jobs. finally, the structural absents of good jobs means a shortage of sustainable demand to drive our economy. we want an entirely different kind of economy. let's talk about what we need to do. we must directly and immediately take on what is wrong by creating millions of good jobs now by rebuilding our economic foundation and giving working people the freedom to form unions again and to make all of our jobs good jobs. [applause] we must pass genuine health care reform and we regulate our financial economy, so that the finance is the servant of the real economy and not its master. [applause] so that we have an independent consumer financial protection agency and so that we never again take the public's money and use it to rescue bank executives and stockholders. the head like to commend president obama's leadership in insisting on a viable and strong, independent consumer protection agency, which is crucial to real financial reform. now, the afl-cio leiby five-point p

was a great deal of pressure from congress and advocacy groups to which will downed the list -- to whittleown the list. there were susan cries about the number of names of the list, mistaken identity -- were cries about the number of names on the list, mistaken identities. host: is the list smaller today than it was when you are in the white house? guest: the master tide this is bigger now. when i left, we were closer to 500. that is now higher. there was always an attempt to refine the list and make sure you did not have wrong names on there, bad names. part of it is the commercial interests. part of it is you do not want to unnecessarily burdened travel for the american public. it is important for u.s. commerce. host: how often did you look at that list? when you are in the white house, your position was similar to john brennan's, except to get the position. guest: he took the position i had, but he is also the homeland security adviser. in theory, somewhat similar. host: would you look at the daily, because supposedly gets fed into a computer every night. guest: i would start and end ev

many saw their benefits whittle away. the impact knocked the wind out of state government.enue fell is staggering $778 million short of projections. the biggest one-year drop in missouri history. the state government did what every family had to do. we tighten our belts, which stretched every dollar, and we reined in spending. we did not bellyache about it. we just did it. [applause] . we reduced our utility bill by 6%. i had to cut $600 million out of the state budget, but i did so. in terms of efficiency, we're not done yet. state government has been creating boards and commissions for this centennial or that special interest. some do good work, while others do not do much of anything. they just kept growing and growing, until they turned into bureaucratic subsidies. in an effort to root out waste and inefficiency, i have already eliminated 13 of these boards and 2700 positions and i call on the legislature to get rid of -- and to order 70 positions. and i call on the government to cut more. [applause] working together, we have been able to avoid meltdowns we are seeing i

was a great deal of pressure from congress and advocacy groups to which will downed the list -- to whittleown the list. there were susan cries about the number of names of the list, mistaken identity -- were cries about the number of names on the list, mistaken identities. host: is the list smaller today than it was when you are in the white house? guest: the master tide this is bigger now. when i left, we were closer to 500. that is now higher. there was always an attempt to refine the list and make sure you did not have wrong names on there, bad names. part of it is the commercial interests. part of it is you do not want to unnecessarily burdened travel for the american public. it is important for u.s. commerce. host: how often did you look at that list? when you are in the white house, your position was similar to john brennan's, except to get the position. guest: he took the position i had, but he is also the homeland security adviser. in theory, somewhat similar. host: would you look at the daily, because supposedly gets fed into a computer every night. guest: i would start and end ev

folks who hung onto their jobs saw their wages and benefits whittled away. the impact of those economic blows knocked the wind out of state government. revenue fell a staggering $778 million short of projections - the biggest one-year drop in missouri history. so state government did what every missouri family had to do: tighten our belts, stretch every dollar and rein in spending. we did not bellyache about it. we just did it. we focused on our priorities, worked together, and made some real progress. unlike 29 other states, we balanced the budget without raising taxes. how did missouri do it? we made state government leaner. in one year, i will have reduced the state workforce by nearly 1,800 positions. we used technology to make government more efficient and effective. we cut costs by renegotiating contracts. i ordered state department heads to conserve energy, and we reduced our utility bill by six percent. i had to cut $600 million out of the state budget, but did so without losing sight of priorities like education and public safety. and in terms of ef

and that you could, you know, whittle down to enormous detail of what that means.t it's a sense that what congress is doing, what this administration is doing is going to ultimately be for the good of the individual citizens. now, i am a registered lobbyist. i've been one for 17 years. i can understand the concerns that this president has. i'm not surprised by them. i think it's unfortunate. i mean, you're looking at someone who frankly -- i think i'd be a pretty good servant of this administration in a formal capacity but it's not to be and i'm comfortable with that. but i do think there are specific instances where an individual's knowledge and experience are such a vital tool to this administration that's shutting them out completely i think is a disservice to the public good. again, i can understand why they are making the distinction because there are good lobbyists and there are bad lobbyists. and you need to be careful with how that authority and power in the administration would be used. i think there are ways to structure it so that it could be used for th

was a great deal of pressure from congress and advocacy groups to which will downed the list -- to whittle down the list. there were susan cries about the number of names of the list, mistaken identity -- were cries about the number of names on the list, mistaken identities. host: is the list smaller today than it was when you are in the white house? guest: the master tide this is bigger now. when i left, we were closer to 500. that is now higher. there was always an attempt to refine the list and make sure you did not have wrong names on there, bad names. part of it is the commercial interests. part of it is you do not want to unnecessarily burdened travel for the american public. it is important for u.s. commerce. host: how often did you look at that list? when you are in the white house, your position was similar to john brennan's, except to get the position. guest: he took the position i had, but he is also the homeland security adviser. in theory, somewhat similar. host: would you look at the daily, because supposedly gets fed into a computer every night. guest: i would start and end