california was one more of 30 states based on a now discredited science called eugenics, the idea toe gene pool by breeding out undesirable traits. >> between who was fit and unfit. >> reporter: in 1929 and 1947, forcibly sterilized more than 20,000 people more a wide range of reasons including premarital sex, true anisi, alcohol, low iq, physical deformity, even masturbation. >> the only thing that was deviant. passed on to generations. california was considered the epicenter of the eugenics movement. >> it was to create a perfect society of blond blue-eyed people. >> that caught the attention of nazi germany. they passed their own sterilization law and according to scholarly program, went to california for praise. >> hitler got his whole notion of eugenics from california. >> reporter: introduced legislation to finally repeal the california law. he said we need to remember what happened. >> so that we never repeated again. >> reporter: it doomed his adult relationship. >> three years it ruined with, as it turns out, i couldn't have children. they took off. >> reporter: once married

that's the theme that the president can continue to strike, eugene. made the joint speech to congress after labor day the white house is getting traction politically and policy-wise with a republican congress. the president is going to continue hammering on that theme, trying to break it out of its component parts. you know, we can't wait mem that they have originated here at the white house, they feel that has gotten marginal impact. next week they will head to scranton, joe biden's hometown and the key theme that the president will be talking about a lot section tending the payroll tax cut, due to expire at the end of the year. of course, that fight already shaping up in the wake of the super committee failure, eugene. >> mike, the payroll tax cut is one thing that, of course, the president and republicans would have to agree on to get done. >> right. >> the rest of it with his executive orders and his speeches around the country that aren't political but really are political, that's -- that seems to be frankly more aimed at 2012. >> well, certainly

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. >> reporter: reasons based on a scientific theory called eugenics which became popular in the 1920se jen cysts believed poverty, promiscuity and alcoholism were unherted traits. a simple theory with a radical solution. sterilize those the state would have to take care of, and improve society's gene pool. some of america's wealthiest citizens of the time were eugenecists. dr. clarence gamble of the procter & gamble fortune helped found the human betterment league which produces brochures stocking fears of "morons" mixing with the general population. looking back was this a well-intentioned idea with the best science at the time, that then just went awry? >> i don't know if that was the best intention, to weed out negative things in our society. you're playing god over a whole group of people's lives. and i don't think we're supposed to play god like that. >> reporter: 31 states had legal eugenics programs. by the late 1960s, tens of thousands of americans had been sterilized. it began as a way to control welfare spending on poor white women and men. but over time, north carolina shif

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eugene peroni is portfolio manager at advisors asset management. he's with us from philadelphia. >> thanks, tom, nice to be back here. >> tom: so resilient this market is. but is it sustainable? is the buying sustainable through the end of the year into 2012? >> i think that it is i mean it's not to say that we're to the have mstly told by the improving behavior and structure technically of so many individual stocks representing the leadership. >> tom: i want to ask you about the technicals in a secondment but fundamentally we're at the end of the another earnings quarter and we're doing the outlook, of course, not fourth quarter and some of those earnings growth estimates are coming down in the fourth quarter for the fundamentals. does that concern you? >> not greatly. i think the most important that the stock market is how do the earnings compare to street expectations. because the market is always anticipates or wants to anticipate when it's in its best form. so even though the earnings forecast might be coming down, if earnings actually exceed

and it look like you're going to join me in eugene for the usc/oregon game.t will be a pretty good football game up there. usc, good team. >> kirk: that will be a great game. usc again, the kind of team that's off the radar. but oked impressive today against washington. >> brent: magnificent job of milking this clock. with a 13-point lead. he is a terrific game manager. keeps the pressure. another one who has played well. there is chip kelley. just an unbelievable record here at the pack 12. chip kelley still trying to keep thomas at the line of scrimmage. see if he's going to call a time-out or if he's going to go for this. >> brent: going to milk it down a little bit. >> kirk: wants the time-out. now he takes his time-out. he brought the game clock down to 5:14 before he called it. now he sends the kicker on to the field. >> kirk: on second and third down, kept the ball in the middle of the field. dance? you do a mime thing? maybe a little moonwalk? answer a pretend phone call? well, whatever it is, get it ready, pal-cuz' it's time to enter the built ford t

let's bring back eugene robinson, mike pap antoneny, also joining us on the phone steven a.es penn state recover from this? this story season the going to go away any time soon. a lot of legal ramifications will be drawn out. >> it's going to take time. the board has to do its own investigation. what went so horribly wrong in that athletic department, in that institution? and then they're going to have to slowly, i think, come back appropriately. and if that means, for example, drastic change in the athletic department, totally cleaning house, calling off a sport for a year or something -- i mean, you call off the football program for a year or something. it could be a radical thing to do. but it could come to that depending on what they find? >> honesty right now more than anything. they have to be honest, they had a county district attorney who chose not to prosecute, that's got to be answered why. a campus investigator who didn't have enough backbone do say, i'm not going to drop this investigation. county police who valued football -- >> this is dave -- >> it goes from t

let's bring back eugene robinson, mike pap antoneny, also joining us on the phone steven a.mith and b.j. schechter. how in the world does penn state recover from this? this story season the going to go away any time soon. a lot of legal ramifications will be drawn out. >> it's going to take time. the board has to do its own investigation. what went so horribly wrong in that athletic department, in that institution? and then they're going to have to slowly, i think, come back appropriately. and if that means, for example, drastic change in the athletic department, totally cleaning house, calling off a sport for a year or something -- i mean, you call off the football program for a year or something. it could be a radical thing to do. but it could come to that depending on what they find? >> honesty right now more than anything. they have to be honest, they had a county district attorney who chose not to prosecute, that's got to be answered why. a campus investigator who didn't have enough backbone do say, i'm not going to drop this investigation. county police who valued foot

eugene robinson. [applause] >> thank you so much. thank you. thank you, everyone, for coming, and thank you, marcus, for that wonderful attraction. marcus is a great journalist who has what i think has to be one of the toughest jobs in america, adding a great daily newspaper in the era of the internet, an era that is not being kind to great daily newspapers. maintaining the quality of the journalism and the ambition and a compass when of the loss in the post. he does it eloquently and has been doing it for several years now. he has not been over, as most of us would be, or crushed by the pressure. so i -- let me first applaud him and thank him for his position. [applause] i am going to talk a bit about disintegration which is just out in paperback and how that book came about. what it is about and then open it up to questions, and we can have more of a conversation for the second half of this time that we have together. disintegration, by the way, is just out in paperback. coming out right now. so anyone who was interested to my think the nice

i want to bring back "the washington post" eugene robinson.ntrasting responses? there people feeling pessimistic about the nation and yet they want to retain the president? >> i think you have to present an alternative. i think it makes perfect sense. they think the country is on the wrong path. they have questions about whether president obama will be able to make things better. however they obviously have questions as to whether mitt romney or the other republicans in fact are going to improve things either. the policies that republicans are offering, this is my theory at least. they are policies that people are familiar with. people are paying attention and until they hear something new and promising from those who would be president, i think this is hard to get them to say that they are going to throw out the old president. >> i want to play you a comment that president clinton made this morning on "morning joe" and i would like to get your response. listen to this. >> we have lots of room for debates between the liberals on how to bring m

eugene is going to guest host martin bashir's program.tonight. >> great to be here, lawrence. >>> newt gingrich's plan to abolish child labor laws actually gets him in the "rewrite" tonight. >>> and the "daily show's" john hodgman is here to react to tonight's republican presidential debate. living healthy can be fun. see? he's taking his vitamins. new one a day vitacraves plus omega-3 dha is a complete multivitamin for adults. plus an excellent source of omega-3 dha in a great tasting gummy. one a day, gummies for grown-ups. like a ramen noodle- every-night budget. she thought allstate car insurance was out of her reach. until she heard about the value plan. shop less. get more. make one call to an allstate agent. selling fishcakes from the back of his truck, and in 1942, of course, they were sent away. after the war, as a japanese coming back from camp, he started a little store on main street in seattle. of course they needed some money, and bank of america was the only bank who would talk to my father. and we've stayed with bank of am

why it's so dangerous. >> eugene robinson has a question. eugene?w from the euro and go back to the drachma? there's an argument that in the long run, that could be better for the average greek citizen. there are lots of arguments it wouldn't be. do you think that's a possibility? >> there is absolutely a possibility that happens right now. and you've got banks in london and new york doing all kinds of side drills trying to prepare for that. that really is a concern right now. >> and the implications of that, if that were to happen. let's go through the two options and what we'll be left with. >> well, i think it's still unlikely to happen because the implications would be so scary. but one of the things you have to realize right now about what's going on, for the last couple of decades, people thought you could predict the future by plugging in a few numbers into the computer, and it was all about economics. right now, it's not about the economy, it's about politics and society and culture and really big social stresses. and just as everyone's been

joining me now, columnist for "the washington post," eugene robinson.tegist, former chair of the national republican committee and adviser to george w. bush, president bush, ed gillespie. democratic strategist and former white house press secretary for president clinton, dee dee myers. and republican strategist, los angeles resident, mike murphy. welcome to all of you. i just like to point that out, because they're, you know, paradoxical to a lot of people. and you are that. >> exactly. >> here we go. this is the latest poll. this is how it looks in the republican race for the white house, why you've got to follow this day in and day out. newt gingrich is on top at 24%. romney, 22. cain at 12. this is reuters. here's the copy of the "weekly standard." get ready america, because, is newt gingrich is the new comeback kid? it is worth pointing out that back in may, gingrich starts, he comes on "meet the press," and gets himself in a lot of trouble on the right when he was reacting to the paul ryan plan to reform medicare and the budget. this ask what he sa

eugene robinson is still with us.host of "andrea mitchell reports," andrea mitchell. and former u.s. comptroller general and head of the government accountability office and founder, president, ceo of comeback america initiative dave walker joins us this morning. really great group to have along with willie and me. a lot to talk about. we'll go straight into the super committee. real quickly, there was also a news conference today, students from the university of california davis are going to be holding that news conference, of course, amid the mounting out rage over the pepper spray incident. police using pepper spray on nonviolent students last week. newt gingrich posting strong gains in the last few weeks, according to the latest national polls from quinnipiac. we'll try and get to that in a bit. >> sums it up, mia. while you're reading through the story, the front page of "usa today." "super fail." talking about the super committee. >> that's it. super fail. did anyone think they were going to win? >> i thought th

eugene robinson, always a pleasure. thanks a lot. >> great -- >> up next, congressman tom price of georgia tries to defend wasting time on useless resolution designed only to attack the president. i'll remind the congressman where his focus should be next in "psychotalk." >>> and paul ryan continues to blame the president for inciting class warfare. you want to know who's inciting class warfare? look in the mirror, buddy. if you've just signed up for medicare or will soon, there's no time like the present to consider all your health insurance options. does medicare alone meet your needs? would additional coverage be better for you? well, now is a good time to take a look at an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. get started by calling for your free information kit and guide to medicare. as you probably know, medicare only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. a medicare supplement insurance plan helps cover some of it. that could save

eugene, oregon. junior "b" league hockey playoffs are in full swing. >> there's the pros, there's the minors, and there's junior hockey. they love the game. they've been playing it their whole lives, but they're not necessarily going to make it big. it's kind of the last frontier of organized hockey for kids. >> we're under way. >> tonight's matchup is between the hometown eugene generals in white and the visiting seattle totems in green. john strong announces the game. >> there had been some nasty games between the teams. there had been some fights. >> this is game four of a best of five series, and the generals are looking to eliminate the totems tonight. >> you always had an extra element in these elimination games where you had one team that was very desperate, like a caged animal, and it was going to be an absolute battle. >> you know what tonight could mean if they lose, their season's done. >> the two teams face off and the seattle totems strike first, taking an early lead. >> in for a goal! o

eugene robinson, always a pleasure. thanks a lot. >> great -- >> up next, congressman tom price of georgia tries to defend wasting time on useless resolution designed only to attack the president. i'll remind the congressman where his focus should be next in "psychotalk." >>> and paul ryan continues to blame the president for inciting class warfare. you want to know who's inciting class warfare? look in the mirror, buddy. [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition? ♪ [ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smoothie. could've had a v8. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resource has the ability to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. at our kearl project in canada, we'll be able to produce these oil sands with the same emissions as many other oils and that's a huge breakthrough.

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and juan columnist eugene robinson. good morning, newt gingrich now leading the republican field in a new poll out this morning, of the 2012 campaign figures prominently in the debt fight on capitol hill. it is untdown time for the supercommittee, with a wednesday deadline for a vote. the bipartian committee has until tomorrow to present a deficit reduction plan to congress and the congressional budget offe. we've got two key membe of that super committee here live with us this morning. can they reach a deal within the next 36hours? joini me now, two members of the super committee, senator john kerry, democratof massachusetts. senator jon k, republican of arizona. welcome to you both. senator kyl, let me begin with you. deal or no deal? >> well, there's no deal yet. but, both senator kerry and i are certain we're that going to quit until the stroke of midthiet. >> but whe is there potential for a breakthrough? anywhere? or is this going to fail? >> it's been very hard so far. i think it's illustred by the last thougs ma

and you write about it in today's "washington post," eugene robinson.into the streets, in midtown manhattan, famously jaded new yorkers were eager to talk about occupy wall street. button holding people at random. i also found a lot of agreement with the protesters, even if not everyone had the same idea about just what the protesters were saying. the occupiers of zuccotti park swear they aren't going anywhere and they'll get back into the park one way or another. but they've done something more important. they've gotten into people's heads. i think that's a good point. i mean, i always hate to see anybody get hurt and obviously the mayor's got a job to do, the police have a job to do and this is friction we hope doesn't bubble up into more. but you're talking about the concept. >> you know, it's vague, it's all over the map, you can't just stay in a park with tents forever. that wasn't really a plan. what interests me about these protests is that they've kind of put this question of fairness and inequality on the agenda in a way it wasn't before. and i