harold, you and i may disagree about that a bit. lincoln said the most issue facing him was determining the postmastership of bloomington, indiana. it was kind of odd. i think he didn't really come into his own until the sumter crisis. another place, forgive me harold, i don't mean to turn on the moderator here where i want to disagree a little bit with what you said in the introduction to the panel suggesting that the north was the sort of overwhelming favorite going in and the south was the scrappy little underdog. first of all, let's not forget that, of course, the north needed to win the civil war, whereas the south simply needed to not lose. but also i think the south in some respects was militarily better prepared in early 1861 than the north was. they had been organizing troops very actively in many places, actually since mid-1860 and the north was much slower to do that. one of the few places in the first weeks of the war where union forces had notable success was in st. louis, missouri, where actually these predominantly ge

wrote it for harold bloom. he first called it the death of art and. reading well is one the greatest pleasures. i am dedicating to harold bloom. i am not a poet. i want to be rich. i have had a great sex life. i am not a poet. georgia i do not like being called an act visit. i cannot be considered a vegetarian. i will give my ass up and like it. i would be inspired. i may value peace, but will not use a pen to unleash my anger. i am not a poet. i am not dying. weight loss can still be a choice. i am not a poet. i don't care much for. i don't spend me weekends read anything writing. i like to have cocktails but i do not have a drinking problem regardless of what state i wake up in. i don't need drugs to open up my imagination. i am not a poet. i can tolerate half an hour of spoken word poetry. what my cats are up to. i always carry my business cards. i am not a poet, i only write to masture bait my mind. i am trying to convince myself that poetry it save lives. it's the dust of art. and i am going to close with to poet. americano. i look at myself in t

people are doing so in schools, hospitals and all the rest to try and get the scope in size of harold's evaluation, he joins us with friend of the show, barry riddle. howard, what has you making the assertion that neither of these may have the answer and both of them may be going with the rate of change that's happening in this country. >> it's beyond the presidential candidates. it's just that i think our economy is so misshapen and so screwed up that it requires fundamental reforms beyond the he ease of capacities of the president. i think barack obama's policies move us closer in that direction than mitt romney's and it moves us backwards. we have wages in this country stagnating or falling. people aren't getting more education, that gets harder and harder. foreign competition drives down wages, but also more and more of company revenues are going to profits and not wages. in fact, wages are right now at the lowest percentage, both of gross domestic product, and of corporate products than they've been in 50 years. they have to bargaining power and that's a very difficult situation to

. >> harold, you heard it somewhere in that bite. he says even if you like barack obama, we can't afford president obama for another four years. so acknowledging to some extent that he is a likeable man. but says, on economic questions, we can't have him around anymore. >> smart of romney. this race is joined now. we have all predicted this on this show and other pundits and commentators have. the more romney stays on the economy, the more he's able to talk about the economic health of personal families across the country and small communities across the country. the more he's able to blunt this private equity background, the more he is able to blunt his personal wealth background. and i listened to the president. the president is making this a very personal story, community by community, talking about investments from the federal government in broadband lines which is important. investments in community colleges. the challenge for the president will be whether or not he can weave that local story community by community, congressiona

i guess before we get into what's going on in guantanamo bay right now coming up you wrote about harold koh and his flip flopping as well and so i can see just real quick give me your you know your take on that situation the fact that he claims he never changed his mind . well it's interesting to me about it was the profound it very clear that he was always sure he was right so when he first came into the obama administration was this thing everybody else because he kept saying oh you stupid military people don't know what you're talking about and that's as much what i'm concerned about as his flip flop because people who believe there are always right and are also the ones who are reviewing these these targeted killings without any review by a judge chances are good they're not really reviewing evidence with any distance with any humility with only. you know they know they're right and so i think it's it's really troubling to see that he kind of is bulldozing everybody else and denies that he's black denies that he's changed his mind on these issues but it's a pity because you know he

human rights and all things the greatly damaged our reputation so for a minute here let's point out harold koh he's the state department's legal adviser under the obama administration also former dean of yale law school and he was really vocal in talking about the damage that had been done under george w. bush six years of defining ocean. voyage the war on terror has damaged our human rights reputation giving cover to abuses committed by her knowledge it blunted our ability to criticize and to leaders elsewhere in the world . the next administration whether democrat or republican will have the burden of repairing this reputation to build but i've got the sources of war schloss tower. now cut all so refer to president bush as the courts are in chief just you know and so a new profile go by tarmac alvey tries to ask though how it is that he's now become one of the most vocal supporters and pushers of the obama administration's drone war which points out that code told the new york times reporter in two thousand and two that the policy of targeted killings seemed to violate the government's l

contributor editor for "time" magazine, jon meacham, former democratic congressman harold ford and msnbc's mika brzezinski. vi >>> good morning. the final 48 hours before the key wisconsin primary. >> this was an uphill battle for me if you look back three or four weeks ago. now we're looking like we're going to win this thing. >> the next three days, shake this place up. >> well, tuesday could be rick santorum's last chance to shake up the race and he joins us now from wisconsin. senator santorum, good morning and welcome back to "meet the press." >> thank you, savannah, good to be with you. >> you have spent the week bowling and shuffleboarding your way through wisconsin yet our poll has romney ahead by seven points. you call yourself the candidate of the rust belt of the midwest. can you afford to lose another midwestern state and still make that argument that you are the candidate who can win these battlegrounds in this election? >> you look at the voters that we're attracting. they were the key to the reagan coalition of winning indiana, ohio, wisconsin and places like that. they're l

harold was more for hillary clinton. >> not so far. variety of reasons, the megawealthy are not inclined to participate. democrats are trying to get $50,000, million dollar checks. >> is there anybody on the left that's going to step in and take karl rove's position on the left? >> nobody has that scale so far. when romney is the obvious nominee, they will get those big checks. there's got to be a disparity. the president is going to raise more than romney is himself. this could be one of the biggest game changers of the cycle. remember, there's no limit here. you are going to have rich republicans pitch to write $10 million checks. some might. >> mike allen, the president, obviously, got tons of money from wall street four years ago. are you finding in your reporting that it really is true, that wall street is disaffected and the super rich that all supported the president in 2008 walked away from him? >> absolutely. you knew that from your day-to-day conversations. very unhappy. a lot of it has to do with what he did in office. a lot

joining me with more on this are kim lawton, managing editor of this program, and harold dean trulearassociate professor of applied theology at howard university in washington, d.c., and national director of the healing communities prisoner re-entry initiative. professor, welcome, we're glad to have you here again. >> thank you, it's my privilege. >> good to see you again. >> the contrast in the way people saw this case in florida just couldn't have been more stark. overwhelming differences in the way whites and blacks saw it and what they saw in it. how did you see it? >> i identified with it. i have two sons. they're grown. when they were teenagers, part of their training in learning how to drive was what to do when you're pulled over by the police so you don't end up being a statistic. and i think for a number of african americans the facts of the case as they've come out and as some of the speculation has gone, it just fits so closely to a lot of our experience, even, whether we're poor, whether we're middle class. >> and that sense of continuing injustice. it seemed like this rea

were you intending to refer to searle harold evans? >> i was.i am sorry for the omission. >> it is not an omission, is that he did not give his name in the witness' statement for here -- for fear. >> he was the only amateur of the times that we asked to leave. >> was that really the reason for getting rid of him? he had been a brilliantly success for editor of the sunday times for over a decade and had shown his worth. >> yes, i would say so. he had great assistance who he did not get along with. there was mr. pager who ran the inside team and did all the great work on -- but never got the credit for it. the sunday times was fine and between sir denis hamilton and sir harry evans, they turned out a great paper. >> according to mr. emery, you also said this in relation to the undertakings you gave his secretary of state -- they are not worth the paper they are written on. did you say that? >> no. >> did you think that? >> no. certainly not. it was an act of parliament. >> well, sir harold evans was replaced by mr. charles douglas home, who is the

that's what this is about. >> ok, harold.uestion, ignoring everything that the rnc chairman said. i'm just saying because i want to keep you focused, and i want you to answer the question that candy asked. why shouldn't millionaires pay more in taxes? >> they should. we should reform the entire code. >> so you support the buffett rule? >> there's a big difference between the buffett rule and reforming the tax code. i don't quite understand how you -- if people enjoy the majority if not all of their income from investment income, you have to raise the capital gains rate because they -- you have to raise the dividend rates. i don't know how you -- i don't know how the buffett rule addresses that fully. again, as i've stated time and time again, my concern, and i think john probably articulated it best and more artfully, i'd like to see a full growth agenda put on the table. no doubt the fairness argument around who should be taxed and how much should be a part of it. but the country wants more than anything for high wage jobs t

republican strategist for "time" magazine mike murphy and harold ford jr.it translate, how long does it live? >> i think they want to see the economy work. >> each sideline to destroy the other's biography. saying he's done with warren buffett, he shut down factories, he's bad on jobs, what recovery were the promise of jobs legacy of failure. >> savannah guthrie, president obama wasted no time running for cover on those issues, saying i know seeing michelle, the first lady how hard it is to work at home, to raise our children, he wants no part of this. >> i think we can all agree that stay-at-home moms are wonderful, i'm the product of one, i like to think i was easy to raise, she may not agree. but i was surprised at how quickly the obama campaign motivated themselves to outdo each other on twitter. they worked so hard to disown hillary rosen that you almost felt like they must owner, they must be aligned with her. it didn't betray a lot of confidence about their position with women. they weren't acting like a campaign that has a 19 point lead in the depen

can you summarize for us what you learned about the way harold simmons has used campaign donations to influence politics in the state of texas. what his aims have been. >> he's given huge sums of money and poured more than $2 million into lobbying. the result has been that he's managed to push this waste dump through. he's cleared all kinds of hurdles. in almost every instance the body that was making the decision had received many of the representatives received money directly from him or appointed by people that received huge sums of money from him. >> mr. simmons has indicated, he doesn't go do a lot of interviews but when he's talked about his politics he's indicated dislike for barack obama. he's called him the most dangerous man in america. >> that is correct. >> is it clear to you from your reporting what he would want from a republican administration in terms of policy? is there any way to extrapolate for what he's expected from his campaign donations in texas to what he wants at the federal level? >> it's clear. his top priority is pushing through this nuclear dump. the dump

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our guest is harold holzer.ying is there any connection between the slavery crisis and why washington, d.c. continues to be refused statehood by congress? guest: well, there is somewhat of a connection and that is in 1830 or so, congress had been given the authority to manage d.c. affairs and that's why congress had the unique opportunity to free slaves in washington, d.c. which they could not have done for the rest of the country including the border states unless they passed a resolution by 2/3 vote that they ultimately did to send a new amendment to the constitution so that's why congress struggled and took a six or seven months to do this -- to create this bill. there were only 3100 slaves in washington, only. and i'm not minimizing their suffering. 3100 slaves in washington when this act was signed by abraham lincoln. most of them were freed, not all of them by the act because owners had to petition for their freedom. they had to be judged by a panel, one really ugly irony, they needed a judge for the claim

harold will think. i need to get closer and closer to the herring and call to him in this way. hello mr. herring. the herring will think. that is strange, if you want to catch me, why is he getting further away. i don't understand. do you under stand? actually i'm going to be getting closer and closer to the herring and i make my voice smaller and smaller, so the herring will think i'm going away. it's very interesting and what will happen next. i sneak up just behind the herring and i say, what. what will you say? i can't hear anything. >> that's idea i make my voice smaller until i make no sound at alright. so the herring will think, he's gone. well, no fun today i guess but any way i am safe. and at that moment i capture him. what do you think of my wonderful idea. great. very good. very interesting. i'd like to see you try it. thank you and can you suggest a good place to catch and find many snow herrings. sure. into the temple. why don't you go there. thank you. i go now. going into the temple, the temple gate is closed for the night and the temple wall is too high for me

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however, of those, 13.8% are in the latest harold -- payroll period and active in the headcount. in gives you a better picture, and what we found is that 7.3% of the total hours worked as needed. it is not necessarily indicative of widespread abuse. full-time employees are about when house and 93 hours. at the average as needed employee is 395. some of them might be working every day. because it is certainly not equivalent to the hours overall of full time. this is a great interest to the union bargaining. about 10% of the people in sciu are in the jobs now program. it is kind of a trading program that is entirely in horne's for those individuals to be in contemporary exempt position. it is appropriate to be temporary. >> so that the people watching in the audience that may not know what an as-needed employee is, is there a definition of what it means to be an as-needed employee? hand in terms of comparing that employee to a permanent employee, what are the differences in terms of the benefits or protections that the employee has? >> the charter has several categories of exemptio

we've established harold. and we have not yet met susan.ion i have was, basically: whose point of view should we be looking at as the audience when we come into this scene? whose scene is it? mine. it's got to be mine. it's got to be my scene. it has to be my scene. i pop open the door. i'm screaming like a maniac. hey, i'm there talking to my plants. it's my scene. then i convince him -- i stand there till the last moment -- no, i convince him. (overlapping voices) okay, okay. now, wait a minute. whose scene? i mean, whose scene is it? (man) maybe we'll discover that. i think part of discovery is whose it going to be? but it's as much susan's because she's the one who's up on the stage. it's susan that we're coming to. it's her universe that's being invaded, first by you, but quietly. you, aggressively -- you know, lenny, aggressively. but she's also the one who's controlling the scene. oh, my god. sorry i haven't been here. time for watering. all right. howard! what the hell are you doing up here? i'm thinking? "thinking"? as far as this

republican strategist and columnist for "time" magazine mike murphy and harold ford.e to all of you. mike murphy, let's take this gender gap debate and put it into the course of the campaign. how does it translate? how long does it live? >> i think it lives as long as either campaign gives the media any conflict they love, identity con flicks. out in the real world, they want to see the economy work. now, this is a big top litigation on the economy with each side trying to destroy the other's biography. they're attack romney with ads, saying he's shut down factories, he's bad on jobs. they'll attack obama saying what recovery? where are the promised jobs, legacy of failure. it's going to get rough and loud starting very soon. >> savannah guthrie, president obama wasted no time running for cover on this issue once hilary rosen made those remarks saying i know seeing michelle, the first lady, how hard it is to work at home, to be home with our children. he wanted no part of this. >> i was struck by even more than the initial shock of what hilary rosen said, i think we c

the final member of our panel, your foirs speaker, former secretary of defense harold brown. at the age of 21, phd in fist friction columbia university. he served as research scientist and then as senior science and research manager for the government. in 1965, he became secretary of the air force where he worked closely with mcnamara. leaving government in 1969, returned in 1977 as president jimmy carter's secretary of defense. since 1981, he has been deeply involved in researching, speaking, writing on national security policy. we are grateful to have him leading off our panel today and look forward to hearing his personal perspective of secretary mcnamara's tenure. >> thank you very much. it is good to be with you this afternoon. i look forward to reading the current volume in the history of the office of the secretary of defense series. it may prepare me for what the third and future says about me. if i live long enough to read that. when mcnamara left office in january of 1969, the members of his staff and service secretaries presented him with a large globe, and during

harold varmus: human cancer is a genetic disease in an unusual way. some altered genes are inherited but that's an uncommon event. much more commonly our genes undergo changes in only a few cells during the course of our lifetime. and certain constellations of changes predispose a cell to becoming a runaway-- a maverick cell that we know is a cancer cell. this is the way that we look at people's dna. dna is much too small to actually see, even under a high powered microscope. but, we can use biochemical reactions to amplify the dna. successive mutations to the hereditary material of certain cells produce oncogenes-- "on" switches that accelerate cell growth. tumor suppressor genes, "off" switches that restrict growth, may also mutate or... become lost from the hereditary makeup of a cell. when this happens, a cell can make billions of copies of its abnormal self. the excess tissue forms a mass-- a tumor. some tumors are benign... they don't invade nearby tissue or spread to other parts of the body. but a malignant tumor is cancer. its cells can invade

. >> you are watching "good morning harold as we head -- maryland. as we head to break, a live look to atlanta, georgia, the busiest airport in the world. we will be right back. >>> now eye good morning maryland "-- now "good morning maryland ." >>> the republican presidential field is smaller. >> rick san tore many announced he is -- santorum announced he is dropping out of the race and giving mitt romney his support. linda so has the latest. >> reporter: this clears the way for mitt romney to get a clear shot at president obama. he is presupped nominee for the repub -- presumed nominee for the republican party. rick santorum says the decision watt not solely based on the -- was not solely based on the delegate count. his daughter has been hospitalized since santorum launched his campaign. he says this past weekend was time of prayer and thought as the family cared for bella in the hospital. he announced tuesday he is suspending his campaign and called romney to offer his help. recent polls show santorum was slipping in the numbers no longer added u