that the point, elizabeth and john were still held in highest steam, elizabeth especially nobody wouldave believed our words we are peons. >> sean: after the interview we had last night it did not end well. here you facilitated john edwards' affair. covered for edwards. spent money on john edwards. >> right. >> sean: he never paid you back. >> right. >> sean: made a lot of promises to you. >> he wrecked my car. >> sean: i was a little shocked after all you had done for him. tell everybody how the relationship ended and what said to you? >> there was a -- at the very end he had fred called me and sent me a text that said >> sean: the trial lawyer. >> right who wanted edwards to be the attorney general and has since passed. he sent me a message, the bizarre thing was at this point elizabeth had taken away all the senator's car keys and cell phone the most bizarre thing. he didn't have a cell phone or a car. >> sean: except for the batman to rielle hunter. >> yes. now he was caught, it was gone. he told me to drive a mile to the right of the driveway. so, he pulls up in this black suburba

i'm here with jonathan and elizabeth. they're coming out. how was your -- what did you do today, jonathan? >> i snt the first half of the day trying to be productive and working, but cabin fever got the best of us. we had to come out and grab dinner and a beer. >> now what are you going to do? >> go have another beer. and then in a couple hours? >> call it a night and try not to freeze. >> what about you, elizabeth? >> i'm with with him. >> what has this been like for you? >> it's really boring. i'm ready for a florida vacation. >> are you ready for it to stop? >> yes. please stop snowing. please! please! this is too much. i'm moving out of d.c. just because of this. >> let's turn off the snow machine, huh? >> i'm all for that. >> all right. i'm here with jonathan and elizabeth. as you can see, more and more people are coming out as we move closer to the evening. i think people are getting a lot of cabin fever. they got to get out and move around. they got to pick up their life, vance. >> i think now that elizabeth is out

he is retracing the steps that elizabeth took to help find his son.ing by all hotels and motels along the way and any businesses to pass out flyers about gabriel. >> tammi smith has not been forthcoming with police. she's never said that craig cherry was her cousin. >> michelle, did you get a reaction about the arrest from logan? >> i did. he was extremely busy. he sent a quick text message. i'm on the road. i'm in tucson. he and i will probably touch base. he wants to continue to get the word out about his son. he is obviously very concerned, very upset and will do whatever he can to get his son back. >> you as an investigator know you have to like that tammi smith is in custody and she can answer some questions. >> absolutely. as long as she doesn't lawyer up, mike. her husband jack has not been charged. >> do you expect that to happen any time soon? >> maybe, maybe not. it sounds like it is all her dealing with elizabeth johnson. >> michelle, do you expect jack smith to be arrested? >> tammi has the most interaction with elizabeth. in jail, also be

her mother, elizabeth johnson, was arrested in december.he's charged with kidnapping, child abuse and custodial interference. she's changed the story several times about what she did with gabriel. we have no news about where the child is. >>> miami police released the sketch of a man seen with the model hours before her body was found in a trash bin. paula was last seen in early january at a nightclub in miami. surveillance cameras captured her leaving the club with a man following behind her. police hope someone will recognize her. her charred body was found in a dumpster hours later. there's a $15,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. police in florida say a 43-year-old lottery winner who went missing nine months ago was the victim of a homicide. his body was found last week buried under a concrete slab behind a home in hillsborough county. he won the lottery back in 2006. he was last seen in april. he wasn't reported missing until november. >>> the heads of the major us intelligence agency says the u.s. is certain to experienc

a father begs for help in finding 15-year-old elizabeth smart.the middle of the vanished. but nine months later, astonishing news. >> it's real. it's real. >> reporter: she's rescued by police in utah. her alleged captors, brian david mitchell and wanda barzee, immediately face a long list of charges. kidnapping and rape among them. but almost eight years later, neither one has gone to trial. both have been ruled mentally unfit. >> they're master manipulators. they're very calculating. >> reporter: now, in a shocking interview with oprah winfrey, four of barzee's six children are speaking out for the first time about their mother. and perhaps, some insight as to how a woman like this could have become a woman like this. >> i wanted to come on the show to kind of expose her for the monster she is. >> reporter: they say they themselves were victims of years of abuse. that their picture-perfect life was a lie. that they scrounged for good as children. one night's dinner turned into the next night's nightmare. >> i went to feed my rabbit. and the cag

elizabeth monroe was only about 5 feet tall, a tiny little lady. but the courage of a joan of ark.ey called her the beautiful american lady. she helped lafayette's wife and three children flee france. they saved the lives of lafayette's wife and family. it's truly a thrilling story that i hope you read. on his next mission to france, a decade later, this time for president jefferson, monroe went with $9 million from congress to negotiate the purchase of the island of new orleans. that's all he was supposed to do. so that farmers west of the appalachians could float their grain down the mississippi river for valleys markets. instead of buying an island monroe borrowed 6 million more dollars from an english bank on his own signature and doubled the size of the nation. buying almost a million acres. the largest territory ever acquired by any nation in history from another. peacefully, without a war. a million acres. and at a bargain price of 2 cents an acre. even in those days the average price for wilderness land was $2 an acre. the louisiana purchase stretched the nation's boundarie

elizabeth: g'night john boy. jim bob: g'night grandpa. elizabeth: g'night ben. jim bob: elizabeth: g'night jim bob. jim bob: g'night everybody, grandpa: g'night everybody. jim bob: g'night daddy. vo: geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more. >>> we have some breaking news, an entire block of businesses in new hampshire, have been destroyed by the fire. it was the winds that spread the blaze from one building to another. we're waiting for video from the scene. >>> all right. good morning. if you're just getting up, let's reset the weather here. here's first-warning doppler. we have windy conditions, snowy conditions but we don't have weather foul enough to stop you this day. just some lousy commuting, it's going to be a lousy commute. the conditions are not great. looking at the state satellite photo. just showed you the radar, what you want to watch is general movement going from upper left to lower right and we have bands of snow coming around the deep low over southern new england. the problem is to the east. looking at the snowfall total graphic. you can

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quick facebook from colleen, who sums it up when you get back to elizabeth edwards saying hasn't elizabetheen through enough? and obviously, she has because they're on the way to divorce. >> sure. i can't imagine -- public humiliation aside, i mean, she's dealing with so many other health issues. you'd like to think that your husband would stand by you and not betray you so publicly. >> okay. jim, always good to have you aboard, jim morette. >> thanks. >> thanks. >>> coming up, high school senior on the national honor society sets up a facebook page and ends up being very critical trashing his school. so the honor society kicked him out because he violated a pledge to be loyal to his school. but yet you look at this. what were his first amendment rights violated? how do we cut through all this? i'm going to talk to this high school senior coming up, ask him about the facebook page and the pledge he took, and we'll take your calls as well. >>> all right. good topic here. want to hear from you on it. by the way it's a poll we're taking at facebook. lay out the story first. high school studen

it reminds me of the edwards situation where at a certain point elizabeth edwards said you know what, i don't take anymore. >> yeah, and talking about sheer numbers and we're not just talking about generics, we are getting details of these steamy messages, and is basically he was very happy with her. talking about the porn star. and brooke, you wonder where that breaking point is. do we know, where has elin been, where are the kids? what's been going on with her? >> there are reports floating around, and as jane said, we're hearing that she is going to pick him up from rehab, they're going to try to patch things up. and i am shocked if she is truly going to do this. because what he has done to her is despicable, it's appalling. but at the same time, i do firmly believe in the institution of marriage. although he has violated his wedding vows over and over and over again. if she is trying to save her marriage for the sake of her family, more power to her. but really, how many women are going to have to come out of the woodwork for it to be too much for her, for her to finally leave him

the baby hasn't been seen since december 26th when his mother, elizabeth johnson, says she gave him awaynio. police don't believe smith was involved in the disappearance, but said she did mislead investigators and they say she was in contact with elizabeth as she drove from her home in arizona to texas where the baby was last seen. >> tammy was wking with her in order to -- in order to provide a place for her potentially to go. and just some help along the way. >> reporter: police say the relationship between smith and johnson goes back months when tammy and her husband first agreed to adopt gabriel. but when logan mcqueary, the baby's father, refused to give up custody, tammy smith pressured him as johnson drove to texas with baby gabriel. after johnson was arrested, smith smoke openly to the press. >> i think there's a l of people to investigate, and i haven't heard that they're investigating the few people that need to be investigated as deeply as jack and i have been. >> reporter: her attorney tells nbc news smith never intended to interfere with anyone's custodial rights and had onl

good morning, elizabeth. >> good morning, kate. >> tell me about what nancy pelosi has to say. >> she says it's going forward. she makes a good case that the current bill they're debating, she frames it as bipartisan. even though it's widely viewed as the democratic approach. republicans have a great deal of problem with it. she said, we would like to hear republican ideas, republican amendments and go over them. but either way, we're going forward. >> well over 100 republican amendments are in the bill. the house and senate bill. those who were making constructive contributions will -- can be accommodated. whether we get republican votes or not, the bill has bipartisan positions in it. if they have a good idea that works for the american people, whether they're going to vote for the bill or not, we want it in the bill. >> so either way, nancy pelosi has her work cut out for her. she must muster 217 votes in the house to approve it. the minor changes will be pushed through. that's not a sure thing. a lot of people are wondering if she can muster the votes and if so, how soon? >> i'm s

meanwhile, his mom, elizabeth johnson, remains behind bars and his father logan, is retracing elizabeth'sross-country trek in desperate hopes of finding his son. hattie coughman cbs news los angeles. >>> fallout from the extreme winter weather. those are actual blocks of snow and ice falling yesterday from richmond city hall building. the entrance to the municipal building. it was blocked off to prevent anyone from being injured. thankfully because no one wanted to be on the receiving end of that. it's almost quarter past the hour. dave price in miami beach. i don't think you have to worry about falling ice blocks this >> that's a quick look at your weather picture. we'll go long and send it back to us guys in new york. >> missed it. thank you, dave. we'll see you tomorrow in miami and later today on the show. >>> a bombshell reversal by a top medical journal. we'll have the latest on the controversy over childhood vaccines and autism. >>> only on "the early show" this morning, you'll meet a brave 14-year-old girl who fought off a shark using her boogie board. >>> we'll take an exclusive

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elizabeth warren will join us. and we'll talk more about the summit with senator john barrasso, minority whip eric cantor will also be here. what did you think about the last hour in terms of what judd gregg, what harwood things about today's proceedings? >> well, i think it's going to be something people are talking about how this is all theater at this point. i would like to see something actually get done. i would like to see some sort of agreements that people can agree on. one thing people say, yes, health care costs are too expensive and there needs to be a way to get more people covered. how you get to that is the mess in all of this. >> max baucus is quoted in "the times" saying, just having them at the table with the cameras on will force them to burrow into the issue and maybe that -- even just hearing how some of the problems, how severe they are in years to come, maybe that's something of a public service to the american public. >> you know what i think. after massachusetts, anyone -- any of the waiveri

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you elizabetherring -- fool. >> he used the word reticent so he is not that dumb. >> bill: he is nott dumb because he used the word reticent. a big word. >> this guy goats into a local furniture story in new orleans which is a hot bed of terrorism activity, i guess, i don't know. and he meets this guy. you are sitting there watching him. they are exchanging information and he thinks he is going to get the money. does all these wonderful things. >> bill: the guy stuffed 2,000 bucks -- >> selling america's secrets for 2 grand? i mean i do that for goodness sakes. i'm just kidding. >> bill: got a sofa, too. >> and an end table. matching end table. >> bill: how stupid is this guy. >> the stupidest thing is the judge's decision on this. >> bill: five years? >> he should have gotten a lot more. >> bill: you think so? >> yeah. he easily could have. >> bill: he got five years. it was about taiwan, it was selling pentagon defense department armaments to taiwan. gutfeld, you want to pile on. >> i actually think the guy was so stupid he only deserved five years. the guy thought the spy was from

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but i do know in the book -- one of my favorite letters in the book is elizabeth cady stanton writing to her daughter. and she's on the road, giving speeches. she gives two day. and it's a terrific description of what her life on the road was like. and it's not that different, i don't think, than life on the road for speakers now. the hard part is the travel. it's the getting there. and it's the receptions and the dinners around the -- that surround the speech. that's the part that tires people out and drains them. and in the book, elizabeth cady stanton's letter describing her trip, although much more arduous, is the same feeling that she has. c-span: one of the things i noticed in reading your letters is how often a reference to religion or god or jesus christ or being a christian in the letters. i counted over 30 of the letters that you've got in here. did you notice that? guest: i did notice that. and it just seems to be -- it was not my intention -- i wasn't looking for that, but it was a big part of the lives of people. and there are quite a few. c-span: here's another one. alfr

elizabeth: g'night john boy. jim bob: g'night grandpa. elizabeth: g'night ben. m bob:'night.zabeth: g'night jim bob. jim bob: g'night everybody, grandpa: g'night everybody. @y jim bob: g'night daddy. vo: geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more. >>> one thing you can say for sure is today's health care summit involved a large dose of showmanship, even stagecraft so to speak. on both sides. tom foreman reports. >> eefsh, please have a seat. >> reporter: from the opening curtain the president made it clear what he did not want as director of the show. >> i hope that this isn't political theater, where we're just playing to the cameras and criticizing each other. >> reporter: but on both sides of the stage the players had other ideas. so act one started with a turf war over speaking time. republicans calling foul. >> to this point the republicans have used 247 minutes, the democrats 52 minutes. let's try to have as much balance as we can. >> reporter: as political stagecraft that served two purposes. it implied democrats were being unfair and put the president on the defensi

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elizabeth? what who wants? >> i'll never tell. i'll never tell. any of you. any of you. any of you. >> larry: after that movie was made, mike douglas, who was in it, of course, he was the star of that movie, told me how much he thought of your daughter and what a terrific talent she was. then she made other terrific movies. >> she loved him, too, so much. >> larry: how did you come into the picture, simon? when did you meet? >> i met brittany when brittany was 17. we kept in touch over the years. >> larry: how did you meet her? >> i took her photograph. >> larry: you were a photographer? >> part-time. it was a hobby. we just became friends. >> larry: it was friendly. >> it was friendly for years. i visited her on sets, and it was a very -- she was infectious. an infectious angel. >> larry: the romance was later? >> the romance was later. honestly, brittany didn't date until she was in her early 20s. >> larry: really. >> no. she just was not -- >> sharon was there, she wasn't -- she was a late bloomer. >> that's what i was saying with late blooming, that she was always th

elizabeth became a colluder in this, allowing her own cancer to be used as a pr stunt. >> halperin andn wrote about that, he fell in love with himself and didn't need to listen to anybody else. >> gillibrand and harold ford jr., they are fighting for the big money in new york. who is winning the battle? >> i'm a big fan of gillibrand's. i'm a fan of harold's too. i think she's getting a bad wrap. what keeps being said about her is she only raises money because chuck schumer helps her. she's an amazing fund-raiser and incredibly smart. oh, no. all about chuck schumer. she also gets the kind of jilted caroline kennedy social snob. when are we going to stop thinking certain donors in new york. a lot of those jilted kennedy people are supporting gillibrand. >> harold has a lot of people on his side too. >> a lot of people on his side. but i have had enough of guys who walk the walk and are very charming and women who do a huge amount of work and know about the detail are kind of dismissed. i think they are both bright people, but i think gillibrand is getting a bad wrap. >> why are you loo

i had an opportunity to work for senators bob and elizabeth dole. it was a tremendous honor for a young guy. i got to organize college campuses across the country. we had a tremendous team effort. that led me to the leadership institute. if you know anything about conservative youth politics, i had the honor of running their schools. -- the leadership institute? >> [unintelligible] the senator len andrew issue. >> yes. there is a tremendous group of people who have come from leadership institute training. there are dozens of elected members of congress that have gone through these programs. >> what you did you start running citizens united? >> i went there in 1993 at first as the political director. i was the second employee there. i stayed there for a couple of years. we had grown tremendously as an organization and had been very successful. in the 1992 cycle, i have learned a lot about the clintons. that is where i got my head in arkansas and how the white water investigation even started. >> there is the story of billy dale, the head of the trave

. >> larry: have you spoke ton elizabeth edwards? >> no. >> larry: do you plan to? i have spoken to her. i talked to her very recently. and she sent great, best wishes to teresa and said she wanted to be in touch with her. and we talked just about general things. >> larry: what do you make of the whole thing with john? >> what can you make? it's a tragedy. >> larry: are you shocked? >> yes, and obviously disappointed. but i think everybody just feels awful about it in terms of their family, the relationship, and everybody saw it publicly. the promise, the hope. you know, and obviously capable career and -- >> larry: have you spoken to him? >> i have not. i called their home, not knowing who would answer. >> larry: what do you make -- you got friendly with her. >> i got some what. we were in different ships. we was in one part of the country and she was in another. >> larry: what do you make of the press she is getting? >> we reached a stage where we don't read it or watch and it pay attention to it? >> larry: why not? >> we are focused on trying to get things done.

elizabeth: g'night john boy. jim elizabeth: g'night ben bob everybody, grandpa: g'night everybody.oight. nutes could save you 15% or more. >>> acc congresswomen's basketball a s brought to you by food lion -- good neighbors, great prices. by gatorade, it's the heard, hustle and soul of the game. that's deep. and by hardee's made from scratch blueberry biscuits are back at hardee's. the duke blue devils leading the georgia tech yellow jackets by four and deb key bee, the one player that -- debbie, the one player has six of the points, that's jasmine thomas. >> their layup, driving hoops and getting to the line. you have to keep jasmine thomas in front. let's see what joseph will do with the defense coming out of the time-out. i think they might consider backing off the pressure a little bit. might be not while jasmine is -- maybe not while jasmine is taking a break. she didn't even work up a sweat. so talented. >> both teams making a couple of substitutions. mo bennett for georgia tech. pressure, alex montgomery in the corner. >> you do not want to pull the ball in the -- put the ba

elizabeth: g'night john boy. jim bob: g'night grandpa.n bob grandpa: g'night everybody. jim boight. vo: geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more. >> trailing north carolina by 1 thanks solely to alex montgomery who has all of her team's points. >> three for five from the floor. great start. taking it strong to the basket. >> alex montgomery has one three and a couple of twos. taking on florida state and duke, a combined 3-23 from the floor. 3 for 15 outside of the arc in the last two games here. so tonight she is already having a better game offensively than she did the last two times that she suited up in white. >> taking her first shot. drawing a foul. >> it is a terrific combination of inside/outside play for machelle joseph when alex montgomeryly is knocking down the three and playing with versatility in her exhanded offensive game. just a matter of time before she gets going. >> leading the acc from the free-throw line shooting 82% for the year. >> tremendous leader. focus and attention of all of her teammates. when she speaks th

in the disappearance but say she did mislead investigators, and they say she was in contact with elizabeth as she drove from her home in arizona to texas, where the baby was last seen. >> tammi was basically working with her in order to provide a place for her potentially to go and some help along the way. >> reporter: police say the relationship between smith and  johnson goes back months, when tammi and her husband first agreed to adopt gabriel, but when logan mcqueary, the baby's father, refused to give up custody, police say tammi smith pressured him as johnson drove to texas with baby gabriel. after johnson was arrested, smith spoke openly to the press. >> i think there's a lot of people to investigate and i haven't heard that they're investigating the few people that need to be investigated as deeply as jack and i have been. >> reporter: her attorney tells nbc news smith never intended to interfere with anyone's custodial rights and had only tried to convince johnson to bring baby gabriel back. late tuesday night, her husband spoke out. >> she will walk out of that jail. she will be

elizabeth is standing there.did this happen? what's going on? that's because elizabeth is standing there. >> dr. phil mcgraw tried to explain why young was complicity in that scandal. >> he was very, very involved in this and i guess thought at some point that america is just stupid. that they're going to believe the stories even though they know that people around them, 10, 20, 30 people maybe know what's actually going on. >> dr. phil suggested edwards thought he was invincible during the affair. steve? >> what a story. meanwhile, today, massachusetts senator-elect scott brown will probably officially finally be sworn in as the junior senator from massachusetts. so what sped up the swearing-in process? joining us right now from boston, keba arnold. we thought it was going to happen last week. we thought maybe next week. but it could happen at 5:00 today. what happened? >> well, you know, a lot of speculation over just what caused this sudden change. let's give you a little background. two days ago on tuesday, s