simpson. >>> it has been 23 years since rupert murdoch made one of his many important moves. it is called fox, it has in times dominated the ratings. but in the beginning it wasn't clear if it was even going to survive. in 1992, seven years after fox started, ktvu's randy shandobil brought us a report with rupert murdoch. >> reporter: the hollywood establishment is being attacked from down under. cbs, nbc and abc had a basic strangle hold on prime time, australian media magnet rupert murdoch used his movie studio 21st century fox as a launching pad for his network. the first show was late night with joan rivers. other shows didn't draw well either, and then fox executives lost rivers' replacement in a contract dispute. many assumed murdoch would take up his signs and leave. >> nothing was working at all. not even married with children. i told him he could lose millions before he would turn the corner, he said if that's what it would take, that's what it would take. >> reporter: they knew he had the money. the question was, murdoch's perseverance and his taste. he has perpetua

simpson 2.the casey anthony trial is probably the most followed, most watched and most controversial since that o.v. verdict nearly 16 years ago. here to discuss with me now gloria allred, judge laifrry siden, anna nicole smith custody trial and yale ga planter. mr. ga planter, you lefted o.j. simpson and charlie sheen. what is it like to defend such a person with such a negative public opinion up start. >> it's like you're swimming upstream. you have to confront the media, all the talking heads every night. it's very difficult to get a verdict like this in this type of the case. kudos to the defense. they did a wonderful job. >> i mean, it was extraordinary. judge sidler, you judged the anna nicole smith trial, one of the most high profile in recent years. there are, it seems to me, you can take your choice with any of these trials. when it's high profile, when it's famous, predicting a verdict is almost impossible, isn't it? >> yes. these jurors were strong. they had integrity. they didn't all

simpson simpson -- mr. simpson: i thank the chairman. i yield to the member emeritus of several subcommittees, the gentleman from california, mr. lewis. the chair: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. lewis: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, mr. chairman. i want to express my deep appreciation of the chairman of the subcommittee as well as the ranking member, especially for the number of public hearings they had reviewing all of the programs of this subcommittee. taking us back to regular order in almost unprecedented form, making sure the public gets a chance to talk to us about their view as to how these programs are working. as we meet today, the country is faced with a crises regarding our debt. should we raise the national debt ceiling or not? and that debate is swirling around whether we should reduce spending or we should increase taxes to fund additional spending desired by the administration and the former majority. it's very, very important to know we are at a crises point in terms of spending. with that backdrop,

simpson mr. simpson: i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. simpson: i appreciate this discussion on wolves because it is something that is near and dear to the people of idaho. i was the speaker of the house in idaho when the gentleman from washington supported wolf reintroduction in washington -- in yellowstone and idaho and montana and wyoming. something that idaho, wyoming and montana frankly didn't want. but nevertheless, fish and wildlife service said that's what we are going to do and that's what they did. idaho and wyoming and montana have done the right thing in restoring these wolf population. they came up with a wolf management plan that was approved by fish and wildlife service. it was approved. but then it was taken to court because it didn't include wyoming, and the judge said, not based on science, we're trying to get back to science, but the judge said you can't just delist in idaho and wyoming montana. you have to include wyoming. since that time i understand that fi

. >> angela simpson is one of the four women assigned to atom 100. >> simpson, i think, is a very scary individual. she's probably the only one in there that i take every precaution in the world to make sure my staff and myself are safe. >> i heard they said i was possessed by the devil. that's hilarious. isn't that beautiful? i told my kids when they were babies they saw a guy [ bleep ] behind a circle k. i told them that's how cops grow. so, yeah. i didn't know they would next week go [ bleep ] in the alley and try to grow a cop. that was not my intention. >> she seems to have a true gang type mentality. snitches get stitches and ditches. no cop is a good cop. she'll stare you down and the hair on the back of your neck standing up. >> i've asked god a lot to spontaneously combust officers. just to watch them pop. >> where does that come from, your hatred of cops? >> that's not something i'll discuss. >> but simpson regularly illustrates her hatred of law enforcement officers through her drawings. >> here's one for my brother. i've got to send that to him. it's from the pigs in a blank

by that, i mean senator allan simpson.f you read my e-mail, you wouldn't think everybody loved me, i can tell you that. some classics there. i wouldn't want to share them with the general readers. >> that may be, but we love you. and anybody who listens to you loves you. so let me go at it this way. you are the master -- you're the master at reading washington tea leaves. behind the rhetoric, the back and forth that we just saw with president obama and speaker boehner, is there any progress being made? how do you crystallize this? what do you think? >> i think it's what we call out here in the west a chicken dance. you get out there and you fly all over the joint and puff out your chest and blow hard and see if you can attract one of the chickens on the other side. i don't know who they're trying to attract here. but this is just part of the ritual as i see, because joe bide season still in the room. you got to pray for joe biden. joe biden is in that room. got six, maybe five. whatever it is. if those guys come out with s

her name is angela simpson. >> simpson i think is a very scary individual.'s probably the only one in there that i take every precaution in the world to make sure my staff and myself are safe. she is the one in this whole jail that creeps me out, for a better word. >> i was the first person on the crew to get introduced to angela simpson, and upon meeting her, the first things that came out of her mouth when i approached her, she pretty much told me to go "f" myself. for someone to say, go "f" yourself, it's like, all right, welcome to jail. >> simpson is a very scary person. she is just by the nature of her crimes and the way that she has been here and just her manners and that, she just doesn't seem to have a lot of those inhibition controls that most people would, and because of that she can be very much a threat to staff. so we have to keep her in a very controlled setting. >> simpson was accused of kidnapping, torturing and murdering a man she believed to be a police informant. she has then said to have dismembered the corpse, set it on fire and throw t

simpson case. >> not guilty of the crime of murder. she says finding casey anthony not guilty is even worse. >>> rewriting the sacred words of the founding fathers. how dare anyone try. two great scholars say it's how the old boys would have wanted it. getting the inside scoop on madison and jefferson. >>> then, dominique strauss-kahn isn't likely to face a jury in new york. one of the most prominent men in france weighs in on american justice. >>> not a good week for prosecutors. the dominique strauss-kahn case unraveled. casey anthony acquitted. do we need to rethink how high profile cases are initiated and how the media has its thumb on the scales of justice. my guest, allen is one of the most distinguished lawyers in the country and a professor at harvard law school. thrilled to have you on the set. are the cases, is it a coincidence or demonstrative of something deeper in our judicial system. >> it represents both. a deep functioning of the system. our system doesn't work at the beginning. we have elected prosecutors and elected j

simpson guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. think that verdict was a terrible, terrible miscarriage of justice. i am less certain about this case. i think the jurors' comments showed that the jurors did what jurors were supposed to do, they listened to the instructions from the judge and they weighed whether the government proved its case. and i could definitely see, particularly on the first degree murder count, how they found the evidence wanting. obviously anyone who listened to this case, who heard about this mother waiting 30 days to report her daughter missing, i mean, you couldn't them but be outraged. you couldn't help but think this is a bad person and a bad mother. but that wasn't the charge. the charge was first degree murder. and i could definitely see how the jurors found that she was not guilty given the proof that was presented. >> and we had this debate after the o.j. verdict. we've had it after other controversial verdicts. marcia, it calls into question for some the efficacy of the jury system. should it? >> l

simpson. he is senior to you. mr. hastings: i thank the gentleman for yielding and i appreciate the gentleman's remarks. i would remind him that from the time we did get control of the congress from 1995 until your side gained control after 2006 election, the then chairman, the last chairman of the natural resources committee, richard pombo of california, that was pt issue he was working on. and in 2005, we did pass the reform out of this house. it did not go any place in the body so history tends to repeat itself. my point is that yes, -- and here's the problem. the problem is that through all the efforts of chairman pombo of trying to get this enacted and couldn't get it through the senate, what the appropriation did, kicked the can ahead. mr. dicks: regaining my time, i just would say, nobody's stopping you. hold your hearings, have your meetings. call your witnesses, but don't stop listing 260 candidate species until you get the job done. mr. hastings: will the gentleman yield? mr. dicks: of course i yield. mr. ha

but put in place credible medium term plan and bowles simpson is a pretty good prototype. put that in place. >> i agree with everything that has been said with one exception, bill's idea of a national development bank. we see that, we see it kfw and germany. we see the gynea development-- chyna development bank, an instrument of quasi fiscal inacvity. i n't think is very effective policy mechanism. i grant you, i worked project administration could have, was useful in the 30s, maybe useful again but development bank is something that i wouldn't endorse. but you don't make-- somebody doesn't page-- s&p doesn't make policy recommendations but you need a fiscal plan, it is about 7% of gdp and if you don't get that, there is just going to be less room to maneuver next time we have a crisis. >> thank you all, a pleasure to you have on the broadcast. back in a moment. stay with us. new developments emerged today in the controversial phone hacking sndal which has rupert murdoch's media empire called news corp. under sooej. rebekah brooms of news corporate international resigned a

simpson and bowles chaired it. they comprised.y produced a blueprint that makes members of congress wince. touching political third rails. this was shared sacrifice. nothing and no one was off limits. not entitlements, not the military, not the wealthy. as allen simpson told me yesterday, unless you punch a hole in every sacred cow, they'll just wander the fields forever. so the report garnered 11 of 18 votes of support, short of the 14 necessary to trigger congressional action. if simpson bowles couldn't get committee approval what makes us think boehner-reid will? here is my idea wp while congress stands around waiting for leaders to negotiate deals, most of which are dead on arrival, why doesn't someone ring the bell in washington and have the vote we never have. at least then the american people would know who was really ready to see the

we had simpson-bowles. all president obama had to do was come out and say let's just do all we can on the simpson and bowles and put it back out here. those people, both of them erskine and senator simpson, spent along with the rest of their colleagues an immense amount of time talking about the real pain and the real way to address it. and yet we passed it and we're going to pass something on to another commission. i do think and hope that we will take that out. i perceive it just as dangerous as putting up a balanced budget endment and telling me, mr. chairman, that we're going to have one day to look at something that we don't know what it is and we have been in this room many times. and you on that side and you were on the other side and we've talked about not having an opportunity to see everything. when we hit the wall, whatever that wall is, at some magical hour, a whole lot of stuff wl come over here, however it is that the agreement is being struck. and we won't know many of us that our rank and fi

that's created by mike reese who is the producer and writer of the simpsons and has been with the simpsonor 18 years. so mike is joining us for incredibly fun program called jews in twos -- toons and we will show three classic episodes of jewish cartoon characters including crusty the clown from simpson and an episode from south park called passion of the jew. these are amazing episodes iconic episodes of jewish characters or jewish themes and mike reece the producer of the simpsons is going to be sharing some of his anecdotes from lives in the trenches. that's july 25 on monday. >> i'm glad you covered that and that by the way we should say in case we don't get to any more than that is a tribute to you. i know you too modest to say so. so now the themes, poland and the jews. why poland and the jews? >> interesting films bubble up both feature films as well as documentaries on poland's troubles and challenging and very now kind of revived relationship with its jewish population. not just historical films. we have contemporary documentaries as well. one special one is enter ps film called

senator simpson has no problem saying what he thinks with his candor, and he joins me now. alan, nice to have you on the program. >> it's a pleasure. i enjoyed last night. we happened to see each other at a very nice event. and i got to see how effective and skilled you are. >> thank you so much, senator. let me ask you about the events this week. so this week we saw president obama scold congress and particularly republican leadership for not coming up with a plan to raise the $14 trillion debt ceiling. was this the right tactic? can you talk to us about the dangers that we face today? >> well, they're very real. everybody -- i can't tell you in the year that erskine and i worked and the commission, wonderful people both sides of the aisle, whether they voted for it or not isn't the issue. i'll agree deficit denial is dead. how many times congresspersons in office would come up to us and say "save us from ourselves." now that's pretty -- and they're not joking. they can't do it. don't ask me all the reasons. ask them. but reelection is a great thing out there. they don't w

what we have said is, a lot of the components of rolle simpson -- bowles-simpson, a lot of the recommendations we have taken. others, like on offense, we have taken some but not of the recommendations. -- some but not all of the recommendations. the bottom line is, this is not an issue of salesmanship to the american people. the american people are sold. [unintelligible] >> you have 80% of the american people who support a balanced approach. 80% of the american people support an approach that includes revenues and cut its. the notion that somehow the american people are not sold is not the problem. the problem is, members of congress are divided ideologically into various positions because they boxed themselves then with previous statements. this is not a matter of the american people knowing what the right thing to do is. this is a matter congress doing the right thing and reflecting the will of the american people. if we do that, we will have solved this problem. >> i wanted to ask about the two trains that seem to be rolling down the track down the hill. later mcconnell has laid out an elab

simpson and this trial but o.j. simpson had baggage.t i brought baggage. people are going to say that conduct of the forensic investigators at the scene were going to bring baggage. well, this case didn't have any of that. this case didn't have racial overtones. this case really in -- and it was almost in a vacuum of your average case when the victim is missing and a close family member where forensics and d.n.a. in the home environment really means very little. so it's all the crime scene. so the crime scene's deteriorated and this jury had an unreasonable expectation of just exactly what forensics and i hear a lot of people talking about the impact of all these crime shows. i agree. well, here's another impact. when you take that tv into a courtroom and you start making people look at these trials in a way that there's a higher level of scrutiny and interest, i think there's a bar that becomes raised for the jury to find guilt. >> excellent point. >> it's really unfortunate. i just -- i cannot believe, i cannot believe that they looke

simpson: that is the gentleman makes a good point. but given the allocation that we have and the low funding level, frankly we just don't have the money to do what she's requesting. her offset is to take money out of the capital improvements and -- capitol ma improvements and maintenance program -- maintenance and improvements program, that's a program that's already been cut by $94 million in this bill. we've had to make tough decisions and while we haven't eliminated funding for this, obviously, we don't have that kind of money to put back into it and every program is going to have to -- is going to have to suffer some cuts. i don't think we should be taking money out of the capitol improvements and maintenance program or allocation that's already been cut by nearly $100 million, so i would oppose the gentlelady's amendment and hope my colleagues would oppose it also. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from california. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the op

>> i support a simpson-boles. >> gregg: that is a tax increase? >> they wipe out tax expenditures and lower the rates. and i support dynamic scoring would be tremendous for the economy. >> gregg: i'm confused, i must confess, as recently five days ago, you seem to be advocating a smaller $2 trillion deal as having a better chance of passing. now all of a sudden, you are in favor of $4 trillion deal, what has changed? >> if congressional leaders can't pass everything that the president wants, we should have a gear ratio of at least $3 in spending cuts to every dollar that the president wants. the ideal situation would be the big deal, the simpson bowls deal because $4.5 trillion deal and that would reassure u.s. allies. >> gregg: you don't feel like you pe betrayed people that you are not going to raise taxes, do you? >> my job is to expand this economy and to do it in an effective way. not to give speeches capitol hill but to advance the economic interests of the united states. >> gregg: by raising taxes, are you costing jobs? >> i think that lowe

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senator simpson joins us from wyoming. bet. >> you said, and i quote, if there's anybody in america who wants to solve the son of a bitch, show me your sacred cow and shoot it. i have seen bruised cows, but none get shot, yet. >> it's sad. i admire the woman, i was listening in the earlier part of the program. she went to the flash words, they are going to take care of the seniors, poor, vulnerable and veterans. who doesn't want to do that? come on. let's get off that kick. we said, look, if you don't do something to social security to make it solvent, we are not balancing it on the backs of seniors, we didn't steal the trust fund. do nothing and you will waddle up to the window and get a check for 23% less. if that's sensible, the drinks are on me. that's nuts. the defense department got fat. contractors between 1 million and 10 million. a health care plan for 2.2 million retirees. the premium is 470 bucks a year, no co-pay and takes care of all the kids. let's get serious. let's quit saying the republicans are throwing b

>> well, we do use the bowles-simpson template, if you will. so if you're familiar with the bowles-simpson template,hat is the basic foundatn from where we are building. but what we are doing is going into each issue-- from social security to the health care system, entitlements, all of the entitlements, to discretionary spending to defense spending and to the revenue issues- and we are finding... i guess what i would say is creative solutions that maintain the objective of achieving deficit reduction in each o those areas but still allow the competing ideologies to find success me the process. in other words, we are finding ways that help us bridge those gaps and develop win-win solutions. it's not easy. that's why it's taken so long. but we are making that progress. >> can i just add one thing all of us have really operad i think in enormously good faith. senator coburn took a sabbatical we're hopeful he may come back. there's lot ofenators that are very interested and it's really been challenging. but whate've done th the bowles-simpson appr

bowles-you simpson set the standard.he next ten years. the paul ryan plan that you remember got to about the same amount of deficit reduction, $4 trillion. the obama plan is $2.5 trillion of deficit reduction and now what i call the biden talks they are at zero they have talked about a trillion dollars of spending use. they are a long way from the number that we've seen from others. even if the bowles-simpson plan were adopted we would have $6 trillion more debt than we have now. let's look quickly at where the cuts come from. bowles-. simpson would cut spending. ryan would cut taxes by 4.6 trillion. obama 1.7 trillion. biden at maybe a trillion. if you look at revenue increase, bowlesh simpson had 1.2 billion revenue enmeant. obama had 750 billion of tax increase an bid inis at zero for all the reasons we've been debating. very quickly lastly if you look at where is the deficit reduction coming from, under bowles-simpson, 30%. ryan is minus 15. biden is at zero. the president is playing the game from his 30-yard line. t

. >> greta: we had the bowles simpson committee. the american people think fine, but you didn't pay attention to the last one. >> this would have an up and down vote on recommendations and tackle this issue of entitlement reform. i think it is something we need to get done. it has to include that process or it going to be difficult to get republicans onboard. having said that, in april the president wanted a clean debt limit vote. he has come a long way. i think that's because republicans have driven him there to address the real problem which is the debt. >> greta: senator thank you. david plouffe joins us. why did the president want to speak to the american people tonight? >> first of all, eight days from now, if congress doesn't act the nation would default for the first time that would cause huge economic catastrophy. so i think it is important to let the country know we are getting close to that. most importantly, we are at a moment in washington where both parties seem to be committed to deficit reduction. a lot agree on the s

but, yes, absolutely, i was on the simpson bowles commission.g to reduce our debt. but to do it on the backs of moderate and low-income people, especially our seniors, no, that's not the way to go. we don't need to do it that way, especially when the wealthy are getting away with huge tax breaks left and right. >> how do we get past this point, though, congresswoman? because the problem seems to be that every time we reach this point, one of two things happen. either lawmakers on both sides say, well, let's not do it now under all this pressure. we'll get back to it later, and you and i both know, you never do, or they say, yeah, we have to cut things, but not this. and everyone is saying that. that's why voters are going crazy over congress, because they're saying nobody will act like an adult. >> actually -- that is not true. actually, it's the republicans who haven't put one thing on the table. democrats have set, you know, all kinds of proposals on the kinds of things that we could make some cuts in, you know? and we would move forward. but

he kind of endorsed the bowles simpson plan which he stl has never fully endorsed but the goals of it, he did endorse in the last couple of weeks so they didn't quite expect that, the republicans in that sense and then that's when they started to retreat from retreat on could up history of '95, think mitc certainly looks at that is bill clinton want to be a looks at 95 i more with was good republicans then. been good, possibly could for house the day he votes to get >> rose: boehner at that to newt >> tt's right. he was in leadership at the think he sees know, the figured it out won. republicans won. is the guy is ying to here and i different set. he was of a different mindset. >> hans, do you agree with this is the political take plac 2012, that presidentas sense of the resignation. >> well, it's not all resignation implies sort of and don't way to alter forward. i think what you have seen in the last weeks, there is the essentially for comes, happens. you get biden deal deal or would be the $4 trillion those out trillion pretty now, the way them. saying they the what happens recrimi

simpson's verdict did little to stop public suspicion.eing acquitted of killing his ex-wife nicole simpson and ronald goldman. today simpson is in jail convicted for a 2007 robbery gone wrong. >> not guilty -- >> reporter: since robert blake's 2005 acquittal of charges he killed his wife bonny lee bakley. he has maintained a low profile except for being kicked out of a memorabilia event. as she joins the infamous ranks the public will no doubt watch her every move. >> she's been so reviled that people aren't going to be able to change that view of her. she'll be back out, but she's going to live in a prison the rest of her life. >> a prison, cath len zellner of suspicion and scrutiny. she says wherever casey anthony go, people will be there and think she's guilty. abc news coverage of casey anthony continues tonight on a "nightline" prime time special at 10:00 p.m. eastern. >>> and coming up right here on "good morning america," unleashed fury. the new breed of protection superdog. why people are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to

simpson, he was acquitted in 1995 of murdering his wife nicole brown simpson and her friend ronald goldman consequences. paying out a combined $62 million to the victims' families as a result of a civil suit. o.j. is serving nine years in prison for a 2007 armed robbery in las vegas. in 1992 four white police officers were found not guilty of assaulting rodney king who wassing black on a los angeles roadside even though the beating was caught on camera, as you can see by a bystander. the rationally charged outcome sparked the massive l.a. riots that left 53 people dead and cost a billion dollars in property damage. two of the officers were eventually convicted. and michael jackson's behavior before and after his 2005 child molestation trial may have underdetermined him many the eyes of the public, but the jury let him off. the king of pop went into hiding in the mideast for several years after his acquittal. at the time of his death in 2009 he was preparing for a big come back tour. it was the subject of a posthumous movie "this is it." what's next for casey anthony? we'll get our first gl