this info has been found in an oral history recording of james baker.it baker says eastwood's name was thrown out at a meeting when bush was 18 points down. eastwood was a republican mayor of carmel, california. baker says the idea as he put it was "shot down pretty quick." >>> tough economic times for city and state governments are ushering in budget cuts in places no one would have expected just a few years back. beyond laying off teachers, firefighters and other city workers, some communities really are going to extremes. our report tonight from nbc's kerry sanders. [ bell ringing ] >> reporter: it's a sign of the times, doing more with less and in some cases doing less with less. in waconda and irene, south dakota, school is four days a week a cost-cutting move to save $50,000. >> we looked into the schools that were doing four-day weeks. we don't feel it's going to have an effect on the students' achievement at all. >> reporter: in tiny alto, texas, population 1,200 the city furloughed its five police officers and now relies on the county's 25 sher

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i went to all republicans who i knew very well of course and grew up with james baker, but, they saidanne, we can't get even 3,000, not 3 million for afghanistan and i'm so entranced with myself, i can hardly-- (laughter) >> we can't get 3 million for nicaragua. how are we going to get you anything for a little ole country half a world away. you've got a find a democrat. so i was dating charlie and there you are and charlie of course was a fly, he didn't have any interest whatsoever in afghanistan, when he began to see the significance of it, the fact was, you see, that in looking at a map, there was afghanistan, there was pakistan, and they didn't have anything. why would the soviets want them? but when you looked at the map there was at streets of hormuz passed the oil and the united states was dependent on it. this is for my country. i'm fighting for my country. >> a lot is going on in afghanistan, are we doing things the right way? >> no. >> mike: what is the right way? >> actually what we need to do is strengthen the afghans to fight their own battles and they can. we've forgotte

i mentioned he got rid of don reagan, brought in james baker. he brought in howard baker. jenna: see the birth certificate. you sure you were around? i. gregg: i go back to the taft administration. at any rate, their boat capsized and they had no life vest. how seven people including a 4-year-old child survived for 20 hours at sea. we have their dramatic story. >>> plus brand new developments in the 10-year-old investigation, why clues have been ignored by the fbi. jenna: welcome back, everyone. right now some new information on some of the top crime stories we're following for you today. starting off with this one. trial of accused underwear bomber, farouk abdulmutallab begins tomorrow. he already confessed to attempting to blow up the detroit-bound flight in christmas 2009. his case will continue. >>> we're awaiting to learn the identity after body found in a jeep belonging to a missing washington state man, david jones pedder send. he is missing last month. at the same time his wife was found dead in their home. police arresting his own son, david joseph pedder send. an

former secretary of state james baker said the bush campaign seriously considered asking eastwood toe the running mate in 1988. at the time he was the mayor of caramel, california, and bush thought he could help him win the election. eastwood said he was surprised to hear he was considered, but said he probably would have turned him down. >>> we'll get a look at a key factor in decision 2012 this weekend. today several republican presidential candidates are expected to file their financial disclosure reports. the numbers will reveal major doe norris, finance loans and where money has been spent so far. reports show president obama raised more than $70 million between his campaign and the democratic party. while he's become one of the most talked about republican presidential candidates and tomorrow you'll see herman cain right here on nbc 4 when he sits down for an exclusive interview with david gregory on "meet the press." it starts at 10:30 tomorrow morning. >>> budget cuts across the country have a number of communities going to extremes to make ends meet. a few years ago we heard

this is a story told in an oral history symposium at the university of virginia by none other than james bakerecretary of state, held a bunch of other jobs. he says the campaign of president george h.w. bush gave serious consideration to asking eastwood to be his running ma

one compelling moment concerns secretary of state james baker talking about possible running mates forlder. >> so the real candidates were dole, quayle, simpson, kemp. is there anyone else that you remember as being an important candidate? >> you don't have clint eastwood on there. make my day. >> was -- you know clint eastwood's know was thrown in at one point? >> bill: i wouldn't be laughing. they can have done worse than mr. eastwood. check four, lady gaga serenading bill clinton at his 65th byrd day party in california. >> tonight i just thought we'd all get caught up in a little bill romance. ♪ ohh ♪ caught in a big romance ♪ ♪ >> bill: you don't expect me to say anything, do you? do you? finally, check five, "the factor" wants economic justice for you, the folks who watch us. we know money is tight these days and we know holiday gift giving time fast approaching. in addition, we know that charitable giving is down because of the recession, off by $20 billion since 2007. so we have a plan. economic justice for you. first, you boy a copy of my best seller on billoreilly.com, get a

former second stair of state james baker said george h.w.eriously considered asking eastwood to be his running mate in 1988. at the time eastwood was the mayor of caramel, california. eastwood says he was surprised to hear he was considered. but says he probably would have turned it down. >> reporter: tight budget haves a number of communities cutting even the basics these days. tossing out the toil paper was up for consideration for one government. here's nbc's kerry sanders. >>> it's a sign of the times doing more with less and in some cases doing less with less. in south dakota school is now four days a week. a cost cutting move to save $50,000. >> we looked into the schools that were doing four day weeks. we don't feel it's going to have an effect on the students' achievement at all. >> reporter: in tiny alto, texas, population 1200, the city furloughed its five police officers and now relies on the county's 25 sheriff deputies who patrol 1,000 square miles. >> i feel like the town is vulnerable because we have no law enforcement. >> we'

is james baker then secretary of state put it more colloquially, noriega quote was a case of what wein texas called bad chile. [laughter] noriega enjoyed a productive relationship with u.s. in intelligence agencies and served as a conduit for u.s. aid supporting the iran contras the though even though we help the contras he was shipping arms to marxist rebels in el salvador who oppose the u.s. backed government. is known to be passing classified information to cuba, libya and warsaw. by 1987 noriega was dealing with outright terrorist organization organizations such as the radical actions of the palestinian liberation organization. despite this pattern of double dealing -- the great quote that secretary of state george shultz observed we can't buy noriega. we can only rent him. now, prior to the invasion, noriega had been consular track and members of the delta force aided by experts from the national security council and central intelligence agency. the surveillance and intelligence cell code-named code spike, excuse me monitored radio and telephone to medications and directed a net

i went to all the republicans, and did very well and grew up with james baker, but they said, joanne,t even 3,000, not 3 million dollars for afghanistan. i mean, i'm so entranced with myself i can hardly stand it. (laughter) >> we can't get 3 million dollars for nicaragua how are we going to get you anything for a little ole country half a world away. you've got to find a democrat. i was dating charlie and i said a-ha, there you are. and charlie of course, was horrified. he didn't have any interest whatsoever in afghanistan. but, when he began to see the submissiveness of it, the fact was, you see, that in looking at a map, there was afghanistan, there was pakistan, and they didn't have anything. why would the soviets want them. when you looked the at the map and there was the straits of hormuz, and through the straits of hormuz 80% of the world's oil every day and the united states economy was dependent on it and i said this is for my country. i'm fighting for my country. >> a lot is going on in afghanistan, and we have a lot of troops there, are we doing things the right way? >> no.

bush, that campaign chairman and sec of state, james baker. eastwood was seriously considered to be bush's running mate in 1988. at the time, clint eastwood was the maker of carmel. bush said he thought the actor turned politician could help him beat michael dukakis. eastwood said he was surprised to hear he was even considered. >> i didn't know anything about it. tho though, they missed a great opportunity. when i was mayor of carmel, several people, bob dole and people like that, a lot of other politicians from both parties came by and thought i was going to get involved. i guess because our president at that time was a former governor of the state. but this is all i'm interested in, is my own community here. >> bush eventually picked indiana senator, dan quayle, to be vice president. clint eastwood served one term as mayor of carmel. >>> if you want to run with the bulls, you don't need to take a trip to spain. just go to phoenix this morning. here was the practice run for today's running of the bulls. fortunately, no one was injured. more

thanks to an interview with poppy bush's former secretary of state james baker, an interview just releasedn ticket could have been very, very, very, very, very, emphasis on very, very different. >> so the real candidates were dole, quayle, simpson, kemp. is there anyone else that you remember being an important candidate? >> you don't have clint eastwood on there. make my day. which you know clint eastwood's name was thrown out at one point? >> no, i didn't know that. >> when we were way behind, it was suggested in not

the revelations comes from record lgz of james baker.t know anything about it. though they missed a great opportunity. when i was mayor of carmel, several people, bob dole and people like that, a lot of other politicians from both parties, came by and thought i was going to get involved. but i just said, this is all i'm interested, my own community here. >> he served one term as mayor of carmel, california, from 1986 to 1988. >>> this week in "office politics" i spoke with ed schultz, host of msnbc's "the ed show." while majority of americans support raising attacks on the wealthy i asked ed why it's been tough for the president to rally support for that in congress. >> this is the legislative body of the united states of america not listening to the wishes of the american people. you could put any president in there. president obama is the political target to defeat, but it's the legislative body that is saying absolutely no to the american people. >> if what you're saying is true, do you expect there to be a tremendous house cleaning n

a presidential commission headed by former president jimmy carter and former secretary of state james bakeraid in 2005, and that was a bipartisan commission report calling for photo i.d. look, if photo i.d. discriminates against minorities, they clearly don't believe that. 63% in a gallup poll of african-americans, 77% of hispanics support having people show photo i.d. at the polls. and as for texas not showing, not allowing a student i.d. to be used as an identification, there's a good reason for that. remember what governor perry's being beaten up on. he's being beat up for having illegal immigrants attend texas universities using instate tuition. well, if they can attend texas universities, they can get an i.d., but they shouldn't vote because they're not citizens. >> well, let me ask you this. some of the changes, john fund, have been in getting rid of early voting, same-day registration -- >> changing the rules. >> i understand, but why not make it -- i guess, why isn't the push for reform on this saying we want more identification and easier ways to register to vote? >> look, the real

james baker was unsure if he wanted to come over.be able to position themselves right now, attack the gop side because he has to rally his base, but also appeal to independent voters. so absolutely he must act like the underdog. >> crust for, everyone who has seen david axelrod's comment is shaking their head. was that a mistake, do you think or just part of his overall strategy? >> look, i don't think that -- that dog don't punt, son. at the end of the day he is not it be underdog. he has the power of the presidency. he's got all those kinds of things going for him. in fact, he's talking about a vision. i think what the american people are saying we need you to now implement that vision. so this underdog thing, that dog's not going to hunt. i don't think it's going to work. >> i want to talk about herman cain with you both. i do have one more question about president obama. roland, does he appear more combative since labor day? we talked about this new strategy. he's calling out house republicans by name, is this part of the strateg

considered as a possible running mate by the first president bush that from former secretary of state james bakerf an audio tape archive of the that was released yesterday. president bush also chose dan quayle to be his vice president. can you imagine clint eastwood going, come on, buddy, go ahead, make my day. >> hey, vice president eastwood? >> yeah. >> how about this? speaking of clint eastwood, i did a little something for you here. some of these are easy for you to make the connection. madison county, wisconsin, 60 and partly cloudy skies. callahan, anybody, anybody? "dirty harry! you got it! gun barrel city, texas. and heartbreak ridge, california, 78. what about spots seeing rain out there? doesn't have anything to do with the clint eastwood movies but a low pressure system around the rockies. exiting the northeast. you can see it right here. i'm not worried so much about rain today but i will tell you behind this a lot of wind is pushing in and a lot of wind advisories from northern new england as far south as places like philadelphia over to the northern great lakes. >> announcer: this w

james baker, comes from a big oil company in texas, his cabinet went to texas and the secretary of commerce for busch 41. the cabinet went to texas and this data $100,000 arrangements. -- they set up $100,000 arrangements. then you hear exxon paid no income tax in 2009 or 2010. that enabled bush 41 to come in, whose closest friends were oil people. if it were not for that, we would never had the economy ruined. the american people not knowing the effects of big oil and this government, they own the republican party and they will not let them tax the companies, which is the richest corporation on earth. this should be all over the media. thank you. guest: the caller is correct in some of things. i want to make a correction, because there is an interesting distinction. mr. baker was raising money for george h. w. bush and the texas rangers wre for george w. bush. ronald reagan was the candidate who most depended on small contributions before this d -- most successful before barack obama. he was the one candidate who received the maximum amount of public funds in our history, because he had so

james baker, comes from a big oil company in texas, his cabinet went to texas and the secretary of commerce1. the cabinet went to texas and this data $100,000 arrangements. -- they set up $100,000 arrangements. then you hear exxon paid no income tax in 2009 or 2010. that enabled bush 41 to come in, whose closest friends were oil people. if it were not for that, we would never had the economy ruined. the american people not knowing the effects of big oil and this government, they own the republican party and they will not let them tax the companies, which is the richest corporation on earth. this should be all over the media. thank you. guest: the caller is correct in some of things. i want to make a correction, because there is an interesting distinction. mr. baker was raising money for george h. w. bush and the texas rangers wre for george w. bush. ronald reagan was the candidate who most depended on small contributions before this don -- most successful before barack obama. he was the one candidate who received the maximum amount of public funds in our history, because he had so many smal

james baker, comes from a big oil company in texas, his cabinet went to texas and the secretary of commerce for busch 41. the cabinet went to texas and this data $100,000 arrangements. -- they set up $100,000 arrangements. then you hear exxon paid no income tax in 2009 or 2010. that enabled bush 41 to come in, whose closest friends were oil people. if it were not for that, we would never had the economy ruined. the american people not knowing the effects of big oil and this government, they own the republican party and they will not let them tax the companies, which is the richest corporation on earth. this should be all over the media. thank you. guest: the caller is correct in some of things. i want to make a correction, because there is an interesting distinction. mr. baker was raising money for george h. w. bush and the texas rangers wre for george w. bush. ronald reagan was the candidate who most depended on small contributions before this don -- most successful before barack obama. he was the one candidate who received the maximum amount of public funds in our history, because he had

available to us, more audio clips on the clarence thomas nomination, visit millercenter.org and hear james bakerout the 1988 campaign, brief and serious consideration was chosen clint eastwood as mr. bush's running mate. . >> dave: how would history be different. clint eastwood as the vp. >> alisyn: we can only hazard a guess. meanwhile, what's next? >> our continued coverage of is martin luther king, we'll hear from his niece about this historic day. r every financia. [ thunder rumbling ] [ thunder crashing ] and then, in one blinding blink of an eye, their tree had gen its last. butith their raymond james finanal advisor, they had prepared for even the unthinkable. ♪ and they danced. see what a raymond james advisor can do for you. ♪ [ male announcer ] with 50 horsepower, dual overhead cams and fierce acceleraon, the gator xuv 825i will shatter your expectations. ♪ nd so no one gets left behind, check out our all-new, affordable xuv 550s at johndeere.com/gator. it's a brand new day. a day when we can eat what weant, drink what we want, and sleep soundly through the night. prevacid®24hr prevent