i want to start with you, sally. should the government ever tell private companies who they can and can't hire. >> government can't tell private companies to do anything and i'm sure apple and ceo tim cook are actually giggling behind their ipads as they listen to this because they have created company that's the best in the world not because what have the government had to say to them. and for the government to actually think they could select employees is just as laughable. >> well, they are paying big bucks. apple could go to austin, texas. they could get an 830% tax rebate over ten years. that's a huge chunk of change for apples. >> once you let the feds in, they will dictate to you what they want to. that's up to apple. if you are getting the tax breaks and people getting the tax breaks say you have to do something to get them, you are not going to throw out the bathwater with the baby. are you going to accept it or not do it? what they ought to do is say we don't need any of that, we are going to go down there

. >> let me triangulate between sally and andrew here. i lean more towards sally's side in thinking that the country has not become more religion in the last half century. a half century ago, john f. kennedy had to prove his bona fides as an american because there was something darkly not quite american about catholics in the eyes of many protestant leaders in this country, and his speech to the houston baptist ministers was his breakthrough that might have been decisive in that election, but there is a tradition of criticism of kennedy's speech going back even to john courtney murray at the time. you know, wondering if kennedy hadn't been too defensive, too distancing from his faith, and, you know, essentially promising to be uninfluenced by his religious upbringing as president. he declared himself -- i just reread the speech yesterday. he declared himself against an ambassador to the vatican, for instance. he declared that it would be somehow improper for pastors or prolats to try to influence the votes of the people or the -- or the a

>>> we are back with andrew sullivan, john meecham, sally quinn, and matt frank.general, sally, it seems as though the argument goes from loofr liberal groups that by bringing up this contraception issue the republicans have kind of waged a war on women that every woman looks upon this and says why are these men telling us what we should do? do you think the feeling is as widespread that the republicans now have a serious problem with the women -- the woman vote if there is such a thing? >> i definitely do. i think that they have made a terrible mistake, and i don't know how they can rectify it. as i was saying earlier about the primary versus the general election, it may play well during the primary. i mean, look after rick santorum started talking about women should basically stay at home and women should not be in comb combat. i don't think that that will be true in a general election. i think that the republicans have really hurt themselves. not just with democratic women, but if you look at 98% of catholic women who use contraception and 99% of women use cont

sally ross? >> good morning, again. my name is sally roth. i live in district eight. i am speaking in support of keeping the sunny side as i have been doing. people in district eight have worked long and hard from the beginning to help save it from destruction. and some of us who are friends of the conservatory have worked many hours recently as the last three years photographing the plants and making plant lists for it, that sort of thing. it really would be lovely if you could find a way to do that. once upon a time when back earlier in this process the population was nicely balanced between the two, between the district sene and district eight i realized district eight has bulged out on the top and now it has been shrunken on the bottom, i find this some what problematic and i do indeed wish there was some way for you to find the ability to include the sunny side conservatory in glen park. which is an area of strong support. just because the name is not the same as the sunny side conservatory does not mean that the association does not support the sunny side conser

good morning sally happy you are here. let me start with asking you, pardon me just for a moment where are you in your personal journey right now? is it safe to say survivor? we will say that. >> absolutely we will say that. i just finished chemo therapy march 2 social security, i will have -- 21st, i will have a lumpectomy done a week from today and 7 weeks radiation coming up this summer, so, but after that,. >> survivor >> absolutely. >> we are sending you all that good stuff because we are so happy you are here talking with us today i appreciate that. let's talk about the walk. it is the tenth year, and i am sure you are hoping to raise more money than before can you tell us about it. >> absolutely well t walk this year is going to be on may 5th and 6th, participants walk 39.3 miles in 2 days all to raise that much needed money for research and cancer care, here in the dc metro area, which is pretty fantastic,. >> right. >> that cancer cure piece is so important, it effects everybody regardless of socio-economic status

this is sallie.resting and controversial comments on too big to fail, the too big to fail continues to exist and big banks should essentially be broken up. tell me if i've misunderstood or misrepresented. has the moment passed for that? if you want do that, have we wasted a good crisis? >> i don't think so because we've gone from -- you have to remember what happened during the crisis. liquidity disappeared. central bank, the federal reserve stepped in, did what it had to do. this is classic central bank, your lender of last resort. we've gone from a situation where during the panic there was not liquidity, no confidence in counterparty risk, et cetera, et cetera, to the opposite extreme right now. and i would say the time is now. the time is now because we have corporations that have restructured their balance sheets, they're flush with liquidity. i'm not just talking about publicly traded corporations but private companies as well. large, medium, smaller businesses a little bit different but it's r

>> our guest on "this is america" is sally bedell smith, former cultural reporter for "time" and "the new york times ," contributing editor for "vanity fair" and author of the new york times best seller, "elizabeith the queen." it is good to be with you. thank you for coming. >> thank you, dennis. >> is it fair to say that queen elizabeth is the most famous woman in the world? am i would say so. particularly since she has been clean for 60 years now, long this serving world leader for sure. >> longest serving world leader. >> absolutely. >> when they say 60 years, why should americans -- although i know we are invested and will see -- but why should we know, why should we care this is her 60th anniversary of sitting on the from? >> she is only the second british monarch to get that milestone in 1000 years. the first e was her great great grandmother queen victoria, who celebrated her diamond jubilee in 1897 when she was 78 years old. she remained on the throne almost 64 years, just shy of 64 years. if this queen, who is now 85, is still queen in september 2015, she will surpass her gr

sally, is that possible? >> oh, my gosh, yes, it is. i mean, the president, you know, look, this is a guy who usually doesn't mince his words. >> jon: a constitutional law professor. >> that's the larger point, sort of. i think that the media coverage, you know, this is what the media does right now. we're highly sensationalistic and like the drama of it and miss the fact. the fact. situation, he was a constitutional law professor of course he understands marbury versus madison and the media has not done a good job about the fact that the republican have their hair on fire about this, made the exact comments for judicial activism in the less. >> no, no, you're misinterpreting what judicial activism is. the president this is a narrative who he is. it's not the first time he's waged war on the supreme court and 2010 state of the union address we have an unreal spectacle the head of the executive branch egging on the legislative branch to diss the judicial branch as they sat there. the question should be after the decades of the left accus

sally kidd, wbal-tv 11 news. >> still ahead, now the perfect time to get rid of some paper work you do not need any more. how to do it safely. >> bring is in the air. the three-day event this weekend. -- spring is in the iar. >> and iconic comedian and his wife received a special honor today. >> breaking down white a late first-round pick may turn into a perfect fit for the ravens in next week's nfl draft. >> hd doppler showing rain headed this way. the insta-weather plus we can forecast coming out. 71 at the airport, 71 dow >> st. francis held a ceremony naming their new community center after doctors at bill and camille cosby. nadia joins us with the story. quite an honor for them. >> quite an honor for us because it felt like we were watching "the cosby show." because these have made generous -- the cosby's have a history of fenerous donations. a community is unveiled. [applause] st. francis academy dedicated their community center in honor of a doctor's bill and camille cosby, the two most generous donors in the 184-year history. they have donated for scholarships through the years

. >> i'm sally kidd at dulles international. the space shuttle discovery makes its final journey. we shari the spectacular fly over the nation's capital and its permanent home. -- we show you the spectacular fly over. >> we give you a sneak preview of some of the ravens prime time games this season later in sports. >> a lot of rain on hd doppler to the south. will any of that get into the baltimore area? we check the seven-day forecast. still mild in the but heavy rain and a hot summer did damage to the chesapeake bay's health. the bay was given a d + in its latest report card. this is the second lowest since it began in 1986. the worst year for the bay was back in 2003. heavy rains washed pollution and sentiment in the bay and it spurred algae blooms that lowered oxygen levels which are especially damaging to oysters which cannot move to better areas. >> unusual sequence of events starting with a very wet spring followed by a hot, dry summer. then at breaking into two did -- big storms. >> ago 42 out of 100 possible points and it is the first drop in four years. >> the space shut

sally kidd has tonight's commitment 2012 update. >> mitt romney says there is no short list just yet. the process of selecting a running mate is just getting under way, but that has not stop the speculation. >> mitt romney, the next president of the united states. >> romney and rubio campaign together ahead of tuesday's primary. romney says his campaign is just beginning to get the criteria for presidential pick through cracks we've not had a discussion at a putting together a list were evaluating various candidates. >> i am not talking about the process any more. >> rubio said he was not interested in the prospect several weeks ago, but seem to leave the door open to the possibility. >> another name getting a lot of buzz is ohio's senator rob portman. >> he has budget experience, he is the top fiscal executive in the bush and administration. >> several others are being considered. other big names include indiana governor midge daniels, paul ryan, tim pawlenty and louisiana governor of bobby jindal. no doubt the speculation will continue. we may not have an answer until sometime in au

sally i will give you the last word on this. look, you have to understand that it's the same management, the same people that are shuttling in and out. and while you maybe can see the difference, the professor is intelligent man. he teaches at a fine university. he sees ms. mitchell's comments in a completely different way than you do. it is a legitimate topic of discussion. i will give you the last word. >> it's a legitimate topic. in this case andrea does her reports on nbc nightly news. they are news, there is no question that they are news when she is on nbc as a guest as you would on meet the press. you come out with a different position. >> our guys don't do that our political reporters and our foreign correspondents do not do that. >> i have seen some fox news people cross the line, too. >> bill: you have to show me when and where on that one. i have got cammeron and rosen. they never disparage any political party. >> i don't think that's what she was doing. >> bill: okay. but the professor does, see, so it's in question.

i had to hand back sally.he was getting too up close and personal with me. >> no way, that's totally not going to happen, the hebe gee bees looking a at the bug on your jacket. >> reporter: i have a bug on my jacket? >> i will be at maryland day from 11:00 to 4:00 as well. >>> 26 children on the bus on their way home from school are forced to duck for safety, after someone on the street started shooting at them. what police say may have started it all. you are hopefully going to be thankful to have the man in your life after seeing the prank one guy pull on his girlfriend. it's funny, now. >>> students on this bus duck and move after someone fires shots at them. it happened in houston. 26 students were heading home from school when students on the bus flashed a gang sign to somebody on the street, that person pulled out a gun and fired. >> it's sad, because it was a group of teenagers, right, are walking around like this is the wild, wild west. >> one student had minor cuts. police hope releasing the video wil

sally i will give you the last word on this.ou have to understand that it's the same management, the same people that are shuttling in and out. and while you maybe can see the difference, the professor is intelligent man. he teaches at a fine university. he sees ms. mitchell's comments in a completely different way than you do. it is a legitimate topic of discussion. i will give you the last word. >> it's a legitimate topic. in this case andrea does her reports on nbc nightly news. they are news, there is no question that they are news when she is on nbc as a guest as you would on meet the press. you come out with a different position. >> our guys don't do that our political reporters and our foreign correspondents do not do that. >> i have seen some fox news people cross the line, too. >> bill: you have to show me when and where on that one. i have got cammeron and rosen. they never disparage any political party. >> i don't think that's what she was doing. >> bill: okay. but the professor does, see, so it's in question. good di

sally, you have been monitoring this with your own faith, blog and a phage in the western post. sum up what we just heard here and what this is all about. >> i think that separation of church and state is in the eye of the beholder. and i think if you look at not only what is going on in politics, you will get cardinal dolan to say one thing about his view of separation of church and state and we have several different views at this table. we say we have separation of church and state, and yet on our coin it says on god we trust, the pledge of allegiance is one nation under god. we have ministers and pastors and senate chaplains who say prayers in the senate. the academy and military academies are very religious and have prayer groups and sometimes mandatory prayer groups. and so those are all not separation of church and state, and yet everyone accepts them. so i think that what i have seen in the last five years and what i see every single day is that whatever your point of view, you might -- i mean there are plenty of people, i don't know whether you all think that we are a c

. >> in her top deck cabin, sally showed me the pictures. the little boy is jack, a cousin, 11 years old when he was taken on titanic. >> the camera case on his shoulder. >> very proud. >> today, it will stop just as the titanic did, at cove, as it is now known. as they got off, they took this photograph looking up at the ship. >> i think this is my favorite of all of them. it just gives a great idea the size of that ship. >> it looks enormous. >> as the ship sailed away from ireland, sally's ancestors took one last picture. titanic is never photographed again. >> they did not know, did they? nobody on land do. >> the family then drove off on holiday. they would hear about the titanic's fate a few days later. >> the tragic anniversary of the titanic. that's all for the moment. stay with us on "bbc world news." i am naga munchetty. goodbye -- i am zeinab badawi. goodbye. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by -- the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundat

union troops or the union navy can sally up the james. and lee, you know, connects these dominos. you lose norfolk. you lose the "virginia." the james is open. and here come five union ships with the "monitor," another ironclad and some wooden ships and they're steaming up the james. lee it was who sent his son, custas, to command some troops at a place called drury's bluff about seven miles downriver from richmond. there is a bluff there. it's not that high, but it's high. high enough so that the "monitor's" guns wouldn't reach, couldn't elevate to fire on the confederates and indeed some of those guns were manned by a crew from the "css virginia." so, these guys got a chance to shoot at the "monitor" again and stop it along with sunken vessels and obstructions in the river keep it on may 15th from shelling richmond from, you know, the richmond port, rockets. so, all lee has done thus far is write this legislation that became the first draft law passed in april. and then in may he saved richmond by sending some people down with guns to drury's bluff. but he's still got to confron

they had no intention of wanting to talk about polices as sally knows.bout they started with class division, then they went to race division, and obama is winning, single women, by dujt dives and losing married women by the same amount. i think this is a deliberate strategy to try to divide women at this point. clearly it backfired. they feel that they've had some success on the other two issues, but i think americans are tired of it. and here's the issue when it comes to rhetoric and strategy. the obamas really feel that this is something that they can't talk about the record, that this is going to help them be another distraction. but the romneys clearly, this is a boon for them. it's like a little black swan. they've needed americans to be able to see them, and ann romney on this program yesterday said it perfectly, she was pitch perfect, she noted that americans haven't gotten to know us yet. so for them, it is a terrific benefit, and look, let's favor the prepared, the romney campaign was prepared and they're doing a good job with this. heather: sal

stef gray took on student lender sallie mae. >> my issue is that sallie mae. if you are unemployed or underemployed and can't make your student loan payments, they charge a fee to prove you can't pay. they want me to pay $150 every three months to put my loans in forbearance. >> reporter: the petition went up in january and already it has 164,000 supporters. >> so far we've had a partial victory. before my campaign, the fee that they were charging was just an arbitrary fee-- it didn't go towards the student's debt whatsoever. now, they will apply the fee to your debt, but after they hold money in limbo, and require you to jump through a number of hoops. >> reporter: more than 15- thousand new campaigns are started on change.org every month. there are more than ten million active members. the organization has a staff of one hundred, which brings up the business model. >> you don't have to pay to sign a petition, so how does your site make money? we enable non profits to pay for sponsor petitions on the site. and then when people come on to the site to take acti

sally cone, fox news contributor sitting in for sally beckel. sally, good morning. andrea, good morning. you guys are an elected panel. we chose both of you to appear. andrea, what do you make of this comment? >> at least is consistent progressive. progress serves, always bill have a disdain for the constitution and separation of powers. president obama is looking at the scenario and looking at the way the media played it last week. look huy the arguments went down monday, tuesday, wednesday and he is saying this mandate might fail. there could be some truth to the fact that this administration wants to lawn of a full-throated attack on the court. number one would rally the base certainly. could you imagine the talking points already only thing standing between universal health care are a couple of george bush nominees and on and on. bill: the base would love that, would they not, sally. >> no. >> the base would love that, also more than that, bill, this is what progressives really believe. they have not, they have ignored marbury versus madison for a long time whic

wife and sally hemings were half sisters.half sisters and they couldn't have known it. if there were six kids running around the house i'm going to guess you know who the father is. but then the most interesting thing that happened next, thomas jefferson's relation with sally is the second generation in this family of man of english ancestry to have a relationship, intimate relationship with children with a hemings woman, so sally hemings had one african grandparent and three english grandparents. her children with thomas jefferson then are moved down into mostly english ancestry in a very fast way than what happens is her niece devotee hemings, after thomas jefferson's daughter died, he takes up with john wilson there's yet a third generation in this family comes to a moral and possibility, certainly not. what we have is an interracial family, house divided, to shadow families that live together and i found the question that intrigued me the most, the thing that really got me going was the question of how did they deal with

wife and sally hemings were half sisters. half sisters and they couldn't have known it. if there were six kids running around the house i'm going to guess you know who the father is. but then the most interesting thing that happened next, thomas jefferson's relation with sally is the second generation in this family of man of english ancestry to have a relationship, intimate relationship with children with a hemings woman, so sally hemings had one african grandparent and three english grandparents. her children with thomas jefferson then are moved down into mostly english ancestry in a very fast way than what happens is her niece devotee hemings, after thomas jefferson's daughter died, he takes up with john wilson there's yet a third generation in this family comes to a moral and possibility, certainly not. what we have is an interracial family, house divided, to shadow families that live together and i found the question that intrigued me the most, the thing that really got me going was the question of how did they deal with

thank you so much, sally.he phones now, we've got karelin from winter garden, florida, calling in. good morning karelin. >> good morning. thank you for taking my question. >> pleasure. what's your question? >> my mortgage is upside down with a 6.75% rate. i have an "a" credit rating and never missed a mortgage payment. wells fargo is stating that i'm not eligible for the a.g. settlement refi due to investor code of wxalt-2007-pa2. what exactly does this mean and what are my options? >> carolyn, could you be a little more specific? just kidding! >> clarify for everybody. the a.g. settlement refi was added to the new $25 billion settlement program between the state attorneys general and five of the biggest banks in this country, including wells fargo, which is her bank. what this letter is telling you, carolyn and i contacted wells fargo on your behalf and i learned the following. in order to qualify for this particular settlement refi, one of the criteria, among many, is that your loan must not only be serviced

of employers that check credit when hiring but what it comes down to what i want to know is that sallie mae it all comes back to selling me america's largest student lender think of them as how bank of america was for the for closure crisis now it's house speaker john boehner his daughter works for sallie mae and he's very close friends with their c.e.o. albert lord so really it's about nepotism as well john boehner is just helping out his friends and his child he's not thinking about america's youth we certainly see a lot of that here in washington the revolving door between lobbyists and politics and a lot of them are friends and relatives. we put some of the numbers up before but if you look at this timeline of what's going on here it's not just about this threat of the interest rate doubling we've got about a quarter of you know we've got about twenty five years of state funding decreasing that means of course that we've seen over the last few decades and schools raise or to wish and and then in many cases the federal government steps in to fill those holes with more loan money and

one of the biggest problems is the exploitation of the predatory student loan industry sallie mae america's largest private investor assigns low income students interest rates about twenty five percent let's take a look at some of the stats. to issue an costs have risen six hundred percent over the last thirty years average in-state tuition has risen by eight percent just last year and in two thousand and ten graduates have an average of twenty five thousand two hundred fifty dollars in student debt well it's a hot topic on the campaign trail with obama and romney agreeing that student loan interest rates congress and stated to freeze in two thousand and seven college cost for you. action access act should stay at three point four percent without intervention this year they'll jump to six point eight percent when the act expires which was another thousand dollar burden of debt per student loan and with this mounting debt on the shoulders of those entering the workplace it's almost impossible to going to job or actually own a home in response of this crisis today the occupy the student debt

wife and sally hemings were half sisters.alf sisters and they couldn't have known it. if there were six kids running around the house i'm going to guess you know who the father is. but then the most interesting thing that happened next, thomas jefferson's relation with sally is the second generation in this family of man of english ancestry to have a relationship, intimate relationship with children with a hemings woman, so sally hemings had one african grandparent and three english grandparents. her children with thomas jefferson then are moved down into mostly english ancestry in a very fast way than what happens is her niece devotee hemings, after thomas jefferson's daughter died, he takes up with john wilson there's yet a third generation in this family comes to a moral and possibility, certainly not. what we have is an interracial family, house divided, to shadow families that live together and i found the question that intrigued me the most, the thing that really got me going was the question of how did they deal with e

i am at lawn tall sally.t to look awesome. let's talk to some of these women. >> what are some of the things that tall women go through that women of the shorter size would never understand? >> well, there is two big challenges i think. first is to be tall is to be public which means you are always on a stage. people are always looking at you. >> i also feel like i am always on a stage just for the cabaret show i host in chelsea. and that is pretty much five nights a week. it is called "i am bill" five exclamation points and you are welcome to come by anytime you wants. tell me, have you ever been tom cruised where you date a guy and he says wear flats or don't wear anything. >> no. >> you dated better men than nicole kidman has? >> yes. >> and also men that like women. >> here is the pros of being 5 foot 9, nothing. here are the cons, everything. this is about you, and not about me. these are my issues that i need to deal with. >> do you need a couch? >> i need a couch because i am freaking out. i have a sug