it may look like frankenstein in the end and i think they will keep something together. >> not to compare the two, but the frankenstein in this case, we're told, could be mitch mcconnell that's behind the scenes, the republican leader has a plan that you could all hold your nose on vote on and that would allow the president po raise the debt ceiling on his own and congress would have the power to override it if he does so, but the votes wouldn't be there, and if you do so. so tell still have the president's fingerprints on it. >> if that's what we have to do, that's what we have to do. >> would you be open to it? >> i'm open to it, i don't think it's the best course. i think we in congress should take responsible for the the debt. i mean, we love to talk about how congress has the purse strings which we do. >> right. >> that means we have the responsibility to manage money and we've not done a good job of that in a long time. now the numbers, as well as anybody in your audience does, too, so, if that's what it takes, that's what it takes, but it really is similar to advocating some of our

she described hill as a quote, drunk hippy moving like frankenstein. bart is in the process of interviewing about 40 witness autos oakland mayor as well as police chief walked one of the toughest neighborhoods today tone courage residents to take streets back from crime. they were promoting upcoming national night out this, year will fall on tuesday, august 2. the city hopes to increase last year's par tis taigs. the mayor is encourage bid results of a vote taken by police officers to modify their labor contracts. this concession helping erase the city's $58 million deficit. >> there are contracts that didn't have to negotiate. and this is a year ago, i think they're coming to a point to work together. >> and the owningland police officers association says officers will be losing nearly $15,000 per year under the contract. and the deal calls for officers to begin paying 9% into pension and holds off on pay raises several years. >> officers will be giving back holiday concessions this, is a huge hit foremost members. the negotiate negotiated contract wi

also, i get to be a dog, i get to be spider-man, bride of frankenstein, medusa, the only one i don'tand it really frustrates me! (applause). >> stephen: do you think that there is any bias in any of the media? because you seem to be expunging all guilt from the record of the media here. >> only if you think that bias has to be political. there are big biases in the media. >> stephen: what's your bias? you work for npr, i assume you have a pro tote bag agenda. (laughter) what is your bias? >> i have a pro transparency agenda. i generally like less secrecy, more sunshine, although i do have a fairly large selection of tote bags. sorry. >> stephen:s where the worst bias you seen in other media? >> i think that first of all there's bad news bias. that's the notion that... that makes you think the world is much scarier than it is. and that's a very bad thing. >> stephen: how bad? could it kill us? (laughter) >> because if you're worried about things like socialism and sexting then you're so distracted you won't worry about the fact that it's easy to carry a bomb on to a train. so there's

frankenstein, so get up here and get acting! >> with pleasure, dee!t let me set the loop, and here i come! (yells) (screaming) >> oh, whoops. that's not... >> i am shattered to pieces! >> are you acting right now? >> no, i'm not acting, you bitch! i think i've broke my hip. why is this damn stage so slippery? (groans) >> all: charlie! charlie! >> hey, there he is! charlie boy! >> this floor is slippery, man. >> old school slippery 'cause i waxed it real good with this awesome power waxer that the school provided me. i did this whole place in, like, two hours. >> oh, nice. >> whoa, that's impressive. >> yeah. >> dee inspired me. she said, "you're an awesome "janitor, charlie. "you can make this whole school slippery." i said, "sure, i'll give it my best shot." then she's, like, "let's be best friends." and i was, like, "sure, i'll give that my best shot, too." so we're best friends now. >> yeah, that's quite a conversation you had with her, isn't it? >> mm-hmm. what do you guys want? >> oh, well, we, uh, we came to ya because we wanted to tell you that

think the somewhating made sense and scoobd hill as a quote drunk hippie who manufactured like frankenstein. bart says one officer had a taser that was not used. >> in sacramento state lawmakers are considering a bill to repeal the death penalty and to replace it with life in prison without possibility of parole. during hearings today democrat argue that the death penalty does not reduce crime and is a drain on state rae sources. >> california death row is the largest and most expensive in the united states and it is not helping protect our people. it is helping to bankrupt us. >>reporter: there are 7 14 people on death row. at the annual cost of 184 million dollars. republicans say life in prison without parole doesn't serve as deterrent for repeat offenders. >> they could care less that's where most of the friends are. they get l they have they don't have to work. get free hot and cot they are fine. >> man who author california death penalty in 1978 is now against it. government is on a collision course with mainly deadline. up next. what has to happen before america credit runs out. batt

it is the wolf man versus frankenstein. who is really going to get fired up? these are shorthand for the incredible narrow range of things we actually have for. >> these are all leaders. mitch mcconnell has only been in the senate for 26 years. it feels like a sentry. did you write that? >> i think that will play my coat off their masks welch on that one. we are not trying to make light of politics. politics is important. there are things worth fighting over. far to the problem we have is that people have tribal loyalties to team blew and team read. -- red. you do not come across chevrolet families. i think with the rise of these leaders, we have seen an evacuation of political identification as a core value. people are still die-hard democrats. they still believe this very much. every survey shows that people have looser identifications with these parties. john boehner is someone who is now operating around. -- is now parading around. my main residency is an ohio. he voted for t.a.r.p. and the child left behind. these are all massive government programs witho

shot him and didn't think it made sense and described hill as a quote, drunk hippy who moved like frankenstein. bart says one officer had a taser that was not used. >> there is a new push to abolish the death penalty here in california. this time the arguments are not focused owe on moral issues but financial ones. and. >> gal gal -- california voters could decide the fate of more than 700 notorious criminals locked up in death row. >> capitol punishment is an expensive failure. >> the assembly public safety committee approved an initiative that would abolish the death penalty in california making the most severe punishment someone could get is life in prison without parole arks plying not only to few you're crimes but change sentences of those on death row now to permanent imprisonment. opponents say we cannot afford $184 million per year price tag. >> california's death row is the largest and expensive in the united states and is not helping protect our people. it's helping to bankrupt us. >> a recent report found death penalty cost taxpayers $4 billion since reintated in 1978. and only 13 p

she didn't think it made sense and described hill as a quote drunk hippy who moved like frankenstein. bart says one officer had a taser that was not used. bart is in the process of interviewing 40 witnesses. >> a bacterial outbreak at california pacific medical center let to the shut down two of floors of the hospital. 10 patients were infected with the germ and became ill. this happened in late june. floors closed for five days of cleaning. nine of the patients have been released. and people don't usually get sick but antibiotics make people more vulnerable to the bacteria. >> central subway plans need to be scrapped and redesign add cording to a civil grand jury. the report says the project is not answer the city's transportation problems and does not reduce operating expenses. the central subway designed to extend metro service to chinatown. however, the report criticized the proposed route saying it could worsen the rate. the grand jury predicts it will add to the city deficit, and may push transit maintenance to quote, the breaking point. >> we're learning more about yesterday's

. >> i look like frankenstein. >> reporter: with 80 million patients in the u.s.urgery every year, that's a lot of scars which is why this professor of surgery at the stafford school of medicine has spent years working with his team to develop a new bandage that dramatically minimizes the appearance of scars. these photos show it's working. on the right is what a patient's scar is what it looks like. on the left is the other half of the same scar on the same patient's who wore the new bandage. the difference was amazing it. >> was 80% to 90% better. >> reporter: the doctor says this serves as a cast for the wound proerks texting and healing it. >> all we're doing is giving the minimum amount of inflammation that it needs to heal that scar and eliminating the extraneous inflammatory celling that cause the bad scars and this area sees no mechanical stimulation at all. >> reporter: which means no pressure telling it to form scar tissue. patients have also reports two other benefits. they can easily move and they have less pain. the fda is now deciding whether to appr

and there they are the ones that heard the evidence not the propaganda and speculation and the frankenstein-like mob that ensued throughout the last three years. but, they her the evidence. what -- they heard the evidence, what our system is based on. >> sean: that lynch mob, i think people seeing the atrocious comment of casey had every right to be out ed. she didn't report this to the police. her conduct dancing is obscene to me. the question is he is admitting an accident occurred. and that it snow bawled out of control. in other word -- snowballed out of control. in other words, he's indicating that they know what happened, right? >> he's indicating what we think his client told him, we have no proof of we won't know unless someone asks jose and he won't tell. it is going to be up to casey anthony to set the record straight. look at those dastardly 84 computer searches for chloroform. it turns out there was one search, for three minutes. and for three years we've heard about the heart-shaped stickers on the tape and how obscene that is, how disgusting that is, how dare this woman suffocate h

i wasn't sure if i could create this frankenstein monster. >> charlie: why did you want to do. >> that'shat i keep asking myself. it was a frolic i was going off, a nice adventure to take on. i was just turning 60 and thought let's do something exciting. looking back now i think perhaps there were deeper reasons for it. maybe banville needed to push in a different direction. a friend of mine in dublin says beckett said he took up french so he could write without style. my friend said maybe that's what he's doing and perhaps it is because black writes a very direct straightforward style and i don't thinanybody would say that about bville. >> charlie: is there something sexy about writing crime thrillers. >> it did amuse me to think what the viewers would say. >> charlie: yes, extly. >> on the day that the sea was the booker prize in september 2005, my agentas able to hand over to my publisher, he was having lunch with my pubsher. he was able to hind an envelope containing the new john banville book. i would like to have been there to see my publisher's face because nobody knew it was comi

like the pitchfork mob in every frankenstein movie ever made. she brought that out in those who watched this trial, and there were many who did watch. as much as it's argued that media saturation fueled the obsession with this story, and it's true it was everywhere. just look at this. >> casey anthony -- >> reporter: it was really the story itself that drew us in. the state against casey. who just wasn't getting a whole lot of presumed innocent. and yet she didn't look like a monster. and the family we came to know mostly through its sworn testimony or in those voyeuristic jailhouse phone conversations, they looked like you and i and peoplele we know. >> i want to see all of you but i want to see the one person that i've been so far disconnected from the longest. >> reporter: and not unlike folks who stood in line for hours to get a seat in the courtroom. >> i just feel emotionally attached to the case for little caylee. >> the trial of the century, our century. so that's why we're here. >> there are millions of families a lot like the anthonys

element of the boehner plan, the mcconnell plan, and the reid plan that comes together in some frankenstein that goes to the house and then is voted on because basically what the mcconnell plan allowed republicans to do a no vote. essentially disprove a debt limit increase down the road. and that was easier for people to get through. it's legislative maneuvering and we're talking about things that go over most people's heads even here in washington. but, i think the three plans may merge together in some way. >> laura: all right, bret. thank you so much. let's go back to ed henry. ed, earlier today you were talking about the president's schedule next week and we're fast forwarding to next week because this thing could drag out longer than any of us thought. next week he has something on his schedule, ed, in chicago. tell us about that and why it is so important. >> yeah. my ears perked up when jay carney said look, next week basically there is only one thing on the president's schedule. basically one or two things every single day. only thing next week on the schedule is wednesday going bac

hyde it's the wolf man versus frankenstein. who is really going to get fired up over nancy pelosi on the one hand or john boehner on the other. they are proxies or short-hands for the incredibly narrow range of choice that we actually have in elected officials in this country. >> these are all leaders. >> yes. >> "representative mitch mcconnell has only in the senate for 26 years, though in fairness it feels like a century." did you write that, was that you? >> i think i'm going to blame my co-author, matt welch, on that one but i would certainly agree with that, and -- and i'm not trying to make -- we are not trying to make light of politics, politics is absolutely important and there are things worth fighting over, but part the problem that we have in this country is that people have tribal royalties to team blue and team red in a way that we don't have these loyalties any more to any other -- nobody drives -- you don't come across chevrolet families or even toyota families anymore, and i think with the rise of these kinds of

we are now witnessing a new frankenstein monster from the liberals. >> 3 e.u. tuu-turns in a single. was it a sign of the government rushing into policies and getting them wrong? >> it is unusual for the government to have so many u- turns so early in a crisis. it played badly with the tabloid press. the newspapers did not like what the justice secretary was going to do. if you look at the health reforms, that was the reality of coalition politics kicking in. the liberal democrats kicked a stink over them. as for the collections row, in the end came down to money. the community secretary was not able to do it. it was the inalienable right of an englishman to have the remains of dinner cleared away at least once a week. >> the euro is going through its biggest crisis ever because of the debt of certain countries. the biggest so far has been increased. protests began when austerity measures were announced to cut spending and increase taxes. help was given to the greek economy. everybody wanted to know if they were contributing to bailing out greece. >> britain is

. >> reporter: and thanks to the archivists, we'll always have frankenstein's hands. >> it's alive, it'sacula's abby. >> i am dracula. >> reporter: in the preservation lab specialists meticulously salvage what they can from rare films like this one from the '40s. >> it's kind of giving life to these films again, especially in that period. >> reporter: but the largest section of the library is its 3 million plus sound recordings archives. >> this was recorded in august of 1936. it's the original master of louis armstrong and jimmy dorsey doing swing music. >> reporter: that's incredible. and it's made of what? >> it's copper-based. can you see the copper base. >> look at that. >> reporter: universal music group recently donated 200,000 recordings, including masters from luminaries like ella fitzgerald. ♪ les paul. ♪ and bing crosby. >> this is the original studio lacquer for the 1947 recording by bing crosby of "white christmas." ♪ just like the ones i used to know ♪ what's interesting here is if you look closely, you've got three different selections here. number one and number three are

increases the money from 3 billion to 111 billion and we are witnessing two billion pounds a new frankenstein monster all to pacify these liberals. >> three u-turns in a single turn. is this a sign of a hasty government rushing into policies and getting them wrong? >> quite unusual for a government to have this many u-turns so early in its life. if you look at sentencing, that played really badly with the tabloid press "the daily mail," the type of newspaper that didn't like what kenneth clark, the justice secretary was going to do. if you look at health reforms, well, that was the reality of coalition politics kicking in because the liberal democrats kicked up a stink. and as for the bin collections, that came down to money. so the >> the ripples of the great financial crisis continued to play out. the euro is going through its biggest ever crisis. the biggest so far has been greece. protests in the towns and cities of greece have continued. bailouts for given to help the economy. everyone wanted to know who is contributing to bail them out the greeks? >> britain is not in the euro and while