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h's instead listening to a lott of push- -- bush-h-er advisea isis basically c chance to regulation.n" and free trade. >> we wille back after a break. but first -- >> when the government business married technology, the offspring becacame a language based on acronyms. 1 akrom worth noting is iem -- acronym worth noting is iem. of the past seven years a long list of domestic and f foreign governments have adopted the protocol such as the amber alert and the european inititiative to combat organized crime. it represents the best returnrn on investment for our taxpayer dollars that i know of, according to one analyst. it stands for the innovation and improved efficiency of go >> we are back with our roundtable. that includes do fruehling and missy frederick from washington buness journal and peter morici. were just speakg wi destination d.c. about encouraging tourism here and showing them thihis is more than just about museums. w do we go about that? >> if you go out to maryland and virginia, it is a huge aspect of our tourism industry. there are four new winery's. two are on the white.

a pool company representative says that lott refused to pay his his company. while there, officers saw marijuana plants growing at the home. after the search, officers recovered more than $3,000 worth of pot. now lott is facing a number of charges. >>> charging too much for life- saving drugs. maryland congressman elijah cummings wants to make sure that doesn't happen. and today, me talked -- he talked about it on capitol hill. he said that brenda frese alerted him to the problem. >> reporter: 4-year-old tyler frese is alive today, thanks to chemotherapy drugs. he's the son of university of maryland women's basketball coach, brenda frese. after his treatment for leukemia, frese realized his miracle drug was in short supply and its skyrocketing price may be too expensive for other patients. >> these people are wanting to gain a profit. what would their life look like if their son or daughter was someone that needed this drug? >> reporter: in a recent investigation, pharmacists and doctors say drug shortages more than tripled in the last six years. so frese took

. >>> it to fill them in that instance says kristen holland to also says lott is a lot. >>> they do needmber that they need to keep track of what's on their cover card. basins along research he did on a per car doubt, that says " if your ferret siddur available cash balance you can complete your trip as long as you have listed penny undercard in and you'll add value before next trip you shouldn't stay together according to coopers web site. >>> summit to check with them on the. >>> and haven't heard that exploration before. to coin a phrase in use in the nickel and dimes that could be some change in the words six months after we calmed the symbol airplane hundreds of dollars for black market tells just to get some leave the center and was recalled in january over quality-control issues not only that but the drug maker stopped production and possibly two of its facilities and now people paying anywhere from 100 to $500 a bottle on amazon in the bay. for patients has signed their but willing to pay the extra amount of money to get had believed and still function daily. doctors still recomm

lott would be considered a centrist.wouldn't think he's conservative enough. what's happened in congress, things have gotten so polarized at this point seeing the likes of olympia snowe say i'm leaving. we saw that from a democrat from indiana that left congress. what's going on on capitol hill bipartisan is not a bad word, it's a good word. what's a bad word is punting and that's what you see from the leaders on capitol hill. keep punting the ball down. we'll deal with it later. and that's where we stand right now, ali. >> mark, norm, will, great to have a great conversation with all three of you. thanks so much. >> thanks. >> coming up next, intense partisanship and the my way or highway ideology in congress has left one of its strongest serving senators so frustrated she decided not to seek another term as promised, olympia snowe when we return. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] its lightweight construction makes it nimble... ♪ its road gripping performance makes it a cadillac. introducing the all-new cadillac xts. available wit

well, let's hear what trent lott who had voted with the president on the house judiciary committee, what he -- how he reacts to the transcript of the conversation we were just listening to, what became known as the smoking gun conversation. >> i remember, you know, i got a call, i'll never forget now, from a mississippian working at the white house. i was in destin, florida, on vacation with my family. he said, there's something i think you should read. and i think he may have even described it as -- as the smoking gun. and so i flew back in. he met me at the baltimore airport, only way i could get in late at night. and i actually read it by car light on the way back to washington. it's obvious to me now at that point that, you know, one article of impeachment for obstruction of just was going to be -- of justice was going to be unavoidable. >> so when the smoking gun transcript is released to the public on august 5, 1974, the last line of defense for the president crumbles. and the leadership, the republican leadership in the house and the senate come to the president and say to the pre

we'll see lotts of sunshine and warmth and high temperatures in the 90s to low 100's. it will sizzle with high temperatures in the mid-90s . inland locations can see 70s 80s around the bay. here's the 7 day forecast. inlands in the 90s for the next three days 70s around the bay. >> don't forget. abc 7 iphone app with the news and weather and traffic. you can find it under abc 7 news alarmm. >> sports isñ!ñcús good morning! wow. want to start the day with something heart healthy and delicious? you're a talking bee... honey nut cheerios has whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol. and it tastes good? sure does! right... ♪ wow. delicious, right? yeah. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... ♪ well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. be healthy. >> >> join me tonight at 9:00 . cable channel 133. buying fresh doesn't mean always buying local. the farmers far away supplies food close to home. and then on abc 7, something smelly coming out of the faucet and midnight edition of abc news after the olympics. it is all of the news of the day. >> rig

i don't know if that holds a lott of water. clearly, she chose new york for a reason.nd her were strategic. >> the pictures, notwithstanding. >>> time for the weather with sam champion. sam? >> we're going to start with pictures of funnel clouds dancing around tucson. kgun-tv, the only one watching in tucson. we're getting monsoon moisture as we begin to see cooling relief from clouds in the west, and a good amount of rain. no snow in the rockies. have had a dry, hot spring. you see an opportunity to get a little more than an inch of rain here, this is very good news all the way through new mexico. flash flooding. but also, some of the drier storms can pick up dust storms in those areas. you have to be watching out for that. how about cooling relief? hang on. we're about to bust this latest heat wave. it will take the weekend into the first of next week to do it. but here's the cooler shot of air. we see it pooling a little bit in canada. and it makes the move as we get into the weekend. it's not great. but it is better. minneapolis, sunday, 81 degrees. chicago, to 83

but a lott of people who love petes look down on star bucks and to add to the speculation and mystery officials say they have no comment on the rumors. just rumors rightt now and they are swirling this morning and people at pete's are pretty upset. >> thanks a lot. it is 5:03. six flaggs is conducting a test to figure out what caused a roller coaster to break down. park crews are testing the computer programs that help to run the ride. a dozen apparentlies got stuck 15 stories above groundd. the operator restarted it 90 minutes latest and bring passengers back to safety. some were upset that it was closed. >> not after what happened yesterday. >> that is sad. i was stoked to ride and everyone else was like no, no. come on. >> six million dollarr roller coaster opened one month ago and it would be closed indefinitely. >> two northerb soldiers serving in afghanistan lost their lives. sean jacobs was kill would by an iad. specialist benjamin platos died a day later in the northern region of afghanistan. officials have released no details about the 25 year old man's death. san francisco p

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warm air a lott, high temperatures in the 70s and it's not going to take long if you are going to startarming up. but there is some dense fog. thick fog coast and bay, sunny and warmer for many and again i think the biggest jump will be concord antioch, 60s by the coast, it will be 45 degrees between some of the highs and some well inland. fairfield 54 but mike in cordelia let me know there is a roaring sea breeze out there and there is a lot of signs pointing against it and i am leaning on one forecast model which warms things up away from the coast. the record was 109 but nowhere near record-setting territory. there is a northerly breeze for some, mostly calm for other locations, high pressure is just coming back for a couple of days starting friday and we will start a cool down over the upcoming weekend and 60s for some, to 100s and also towards clear lake as well. maybe ukiah. it slides back and will continue today, maybe thursday and then i think it is out of here. 60s and 70s for some, low mid- 90s for others, you should see some huge spreads or vice versa. 96 gilroy, 86 sunny vei

drink a lott of water and gate -- a lot of water and gatorade. >> reporter: for chimney repairmen, that means take a lot of breaks. >> he mr. come down and i from -- he will come down and i will go up. take breaks. it helps a lot. >> i get a slurpee when i have to to go sit in my car until it cools down. that's the only way i survive. >> reporter: city pools are open an extra hour today because of this code red heat alert. in fact, the city has open 11 different cooling stations where people can go in and get the free ice water and get the air conditioning. that sounds pretty good to me about right now. >> come on inside right now, derek. for a look at the doppler and the weather, go to wjz.com. >>> the headache continues for drivers in the area of that water main break downtown. wjz is live downtown. first, let's go to denise in the newsroom with the lateert -- latest on the repairs. >> well, kai, people are getting frustrated. major arteries in the heart of the city remain closed near light and longbart street. replacement pipes are lined upen the sides of the roads -- up on the sides

paula and others stood up and paul lott said my grandfather was a coal miner. my father with a coal miner. i buried both of them and here i am here to tell you they wouldn't stand for this. it wouldn't abide destruction of our mountains. they told the epa that in a public hearing and after consideration they used statutory authority to protect those streams and to block the mountain top removal. three weeks later, three weeks later the house of representatives voted to strip the epa of its authority to protect those streams and who supported it? a brand new freshman congressman from west virginia who has received more money from local industry than anybody else on capitol hill. connecting murdoch's is important for people to understand that. two years ago this month, 29 miners were killed in west virginia in a tragic mine accident. the worst in decades. we have yet to hear from the congress one single piece of legislation to make mining safer for the kind of workers who died in that mind. three weeks, three weeks it took the house to cut the legs out from under

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. >> trent lott's remark s set of a fire storm. >>> then led to his resignation as senate majority leader>>> and -- >> more than 15 million phoned in to choose 20-year-old kelly clarkson. >> american idol's first season took the nation by storm. ♪ a moment like this >> was it 2001, 2002 or 2003? we'll be right back with the answer. >>> now, we honor our fellow americans who serve and sacrifice. this week the pentagon released the names of 11 service members killed in afghanistan. >>> what year was it? when did congress authorize the use of force in iraq and was kelly clarkson crowned the first american idol? ten years ago. 2002. that's all for us today. thanks for sharing part of your sunday with us. check out "world news" with david muir tonight. george stephanopoulos will see you back here next week.

when i was negotiating with trent lott and working for bill clinton on the final version of the welfare reform bill, trent said i want an absolute lead guarantee, cinch guarantee that the health and human services administration cannot redefine the word work to include sleeping late or going to school or going to a truck driver school from the back of a match book, and we wrote language that was air tight about that. now obama's administration is totally disregarding the statute. no question it will be thrown out by the courts, but it will take a while, and they are defining work as including study or training. in the past they've even defined bed rest, training to become a hula dancer as work. it completely guts the purpose of the law. >> yeah. you've got to state the purpose was basically the federal government told the states listen, you've gotta keep track of anybody getting well far money to -- welfare money to see that they're actively trying to find work, or they get cut off, and now it seems -- >> no, it's not that. you have to keep track of them. they actually have to be doing

i suggested that the only way we know the president would be truly of trent lott than an average would be to pick him or her randomly come only from the subset who show no interest in the job. [laughter] interestingly, i look at that and i think that is kind of absurd. all right, only a few weeks ago, you have mitt romney, who went out into the world and he was in vegas. he was with donald trump. and he said they businessmen looked at me and i think it was a pretty good idea. let's consider for a moment. we have certain requirements, eligibility requirements. certainly age, nation of birth, citizenship. but this businessman businessmen said we should have a provision in the constitution -- we should add one a provision that all should have been required to have at least three years of experience. and i looked at him and i thought, that is kind of crazy, but kind of great too. mitt romney is starting to reduce the number of people eligible. why not? of course, it would also make ineligible many great presidents we have had. he also said that the executives that he might forgo a salary a

but it's about a not lott more than a number of hot dogs ingested. it's also about the money. >> reporter: the winners walk away with $10,000. that kind of cash attracts all kinds of characters. and a big crowd. many spectators are glad they are watching and not participating. >> do you want to be under contract? no. okay. why not? >> because they eat too much hot dogs. >> reporter: some may question whether this is actually a sport. but fans point out, most competitors do train. chestnut works out four days a week. and it seems to be working. in brooklyn, new york, randall pinkston, wjz eyewitness news. >> and nathan says the first hot dog eating contest was held in 1916. >> wow. >> think they do that in the olympics? >> there are no medals for that. >> wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have to eat the roll with it. >> you have to eat the whole thing. but mustard is optional. [ laughter ] >>> take a look at temperatures and conditions right now. hot afternoon. right now, we're looking at 95 degrees. west winds, 13. humidity at 41%. hotter than yester

. >> trent lott's remarks set off a firestorm. >> he apologized on four different occasions. >> then to his resignation as senate majority leader. >>> and -- >> more than 15 million phoned in to choose 20-year-old kelly clarkson. >> "american idol's" first season took the nation by storm. ♪ a moment like this >> was it 2001, 2002 or 2003? we'll be right back with the answer. >>> now, we honor our fellow americans who serve and sacrifice. this week, the pentagon released the names of 11 service members killed in afghanistan. >>> and what year was it? when did congress authorize the use of force in iraq and when was kelly clarkson crowned the first american idol? ten years ago. 2002. >>> that's all for us today. thanks for sharing part of your sunday with us. check out "world news" with david muir tonight. george stephanopoulos will see you back here next week. >>> developing news. a pit bull attacks a 2-year-old boy. >>> thousands of runners race through the streets of san francisco for the annual marathonthon. >> starting off cloudy, a warm-up is on the way, -- especially midweek. i'

i spent a lot of time with the likes of olympia snow, tom dach -- tom daschle and trent lott. what is happening is congress is so polarized at this point. you're seeing olympia snow say enough is enough. i'm leaving. we saw that with evan bayh. a democrat from indiana. he left congress. what is going on is bipartisanship is not a bad word. it's actually a very good word. what is a bad word is punting. that's what you see from leaders on capitol hill. keep punting the ball down. we'll deal with it later. that's where we stand now. >> mark, will, norm, great to have a conversation with all three of you. thanks so much. coming up next, partisanship and the may way or the highway ideology in congress has left one of its strongest serving senators so frustrated, she's decided not to seek another term. as promised, olympia snow when we return. [ male announcer ] count the number of buttons in your car. now count the number of buttons on your tablet. isn't it time the automobile advanced? introducing cue in the all-new cadillac xts. the simplicity of a tablet has come to your car. ♪

we have a lott of challenges to get in there safely. we decided this evening to postpone action on that until tomorrow sometime. all our folks were pretty well taxed and we needed a break and we also with the help of the federal government are bringing in extra resources to consult on exactly how to deal with that rob lem. we are hopeful that we will address and resolve that problem tomorrow. unfortunately, this means that the families that were evacuated have to spend an evening in the evacuation center. we are at this time allowing families one by one to go back into four of the five buildings to retrieve necessities like medication and those kinds of things. and again our hope is that we will resolve that tomorrow. with regard to the investigation i can tell you we know a little bit more are about our subject. he recently left the university of colorado medical school neuroscience program. was a voluntary separation. he hails originally from riverside california and attended uc california riverside campus. neighbors report to us that

we have given you lotts of information and you have taken that information and not reported it correctly of spca international. i can't answer any of your questions right now, believe me i would love to. >> drew griffin joining us now, she kept talking about the communications manager, and saying the same thing over and over again. she says she is an employee of spca international. we have been dealing with this manager of communications trying to set up communication with terry crisp. but she says she can't do it without the communications manager to give her the okay. so you have tried the communications manager time and time again, and even after that confrontation with terry crisp? >> they said since we were so rude, it's unlikely that terry crisp will ever respond to our viewers andrequest to talk about why -- >> to they're standing strong, the organization, saying this is a legitimate business, we are -- or are they at least saying that or reiterating that we are indeed reuniting puppies with troops? >> they are saying that they're taking troops pets, certainly not military dogs, b

host: lotts to -- lots to react to in his statement. and thus, not bending their decisions by the influence of money and on campaign advertising. so we'd like to talk to you this morning about the influence of money, about the effectiveness of political advertising and how much citizens in our country today actually do their own work before they go to the polls. we'd like to hear what you think about that. we thought we would start off by checking his comparison of campaign spending to how much the country spends on cosmetics. this is an estimate for this year from political citizens at federal elections will be about $8 billion in spending. that includes house and senate races in the presidential elections. and americans spent $33 million in cosmetics in 2010. also from the federal elections commission, just a look at this chart, if we can start over here in 1996, we're going to look at total expenditures and how that has changed. in 1996, $477 million, in 2000, $649 million. by 2004, $1.16 billion. and estimates this year on the presi

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john lott put it so eloquently in the second treaties, the end of law is not to abolish or to restrainot to preserve and enlarge freedom. where there is no law, there is no freedom. and he focuses on being free, means not to be subject to the arbitrary will of another. but freely follow his own. so to be subject to the law, that same law to which everyone else is subject is part of being a free person. as opposed to those other traditions calling themselves freedom, we can identify them with -- which she's freedom as a condition of personal spontaneity, doing anything you want. sometimes even things that may shock people, that may be harmful to other people. that's being free. it's just doing whatever you want to do. but that's not the expense of freedom to a free person, a free society is also respectful of other people. doesn't take other people's things. doesn't hit other people. doesn't defraud them, lie to them and she did them. that's part of a free society. all of those things subject to the same set of restrictive and being subject to equal restraints as how we can enjoy our eq

it's clark anter, the owner and tailor of lott, anter tailoring and cleaning and fixing these flags fore. happy fourth of july, sir. have a fantastic independence day, you and your family. >> thank you. thanks, guys. see you later! >> what a great story, right? what being an american is all about. next on the rundown, this lawnmower -- lawmaker, not a lawnmower . a lawmaker, sorry, man, absolutely legalized fracking because she pressed the wrong button. we'll tell you that story. we promise you won't see this anywhere else today. a real american hero. this guy is 91 years old and a world war ii vet showing how tough he really is pulling that car with his teeth. then the secret to the perfect fourth of july burger. one ingredient that you definitely don't want to leave out. [ male announcer ] this is the land of giants. ♪ home of the brave. ♪ it's where fear goes unwelcomed... ♪ and certain men... find a way to rise above. this is the land of giants. ♪ guts. glory. ram. mine was earned off vietnam in 1968. over the south pacific in 1943. i got mine in iraq, 2003. usaa auto insurance is o

i will mention, i think that john lott is one of the most important figures for understanding almost everything about liberty. i am not saying i agree with him on everything by no means but he really did think about his question about social order, about justice, about rights, about cooperation and so on in a systematic way and he tried in the two treaties, the first treaties were mainly a representation of absolutism particularly a argument for absolutism offered by sir robert filner which is that god gave the world to an englishman, gave it to his eldest son who gave it to his eldest son and so on. that was the current king of england who has absolute free power and locke as you can imagine beats this argument to death. the second treaties focus on his positive theory of the legitimate authority of government, what its authorized to do and what its limits are. i think it's an exceptionally rich book so i would highly recommend reading that very carefully and then going back and looking at some of the other debates and arguments of the time. is an extremely significant. not. the las

lott: well, there's a there. first of all, everybody is certainly entitled to their own opinion but not their own facts and i don't have them with me but in terms of what the caller said about the huge hike huge spike in rates, i have different facts and i can get them to to you so you can share them with your viewers, secretary of defensely, in terms of cost, the more people get covered there is a cost to it but there's a huge cost right now to people who are not covered because they're going to the emergency room and that's extraordinarily expensive, and it's a bad way of delivering health care, and we've got to change that. and i do agree with the caller with respect to the importance of people learning to take control of their own health and taking responsibility for their own health, whether it's what we feed our kids or whether it's how much exercise we get, there's no question about it, which is one reason i said at the very beginning of the show, one of the things that we'd be looking for is flexibility,

lott has served in afghanistan erved in has serv afghanistan. >> i don't know what additional tax breakshey get. it is a voluntary work force. >> probably more more hazard pay. >> i do not know on top of my head. for military -- correct. >> i was reading your bio. you are responsible for all matters of military personnel and so forth. our military personnel banned from attending political events in uniform? >> yes. >> there seem to be an exception to that policy this past couple of weeks where uniformed military personnel were allowed to march in a parade in california. did that decision come from your area? >> it did not come from my area. i'm not sure we characterize that as a political event. it was a unique event. i'm not sure it was a clear political. >> there must have been some concern that it was political because it was very quickly noticed -- this was a onetime exception. do you have any internal discussion on who authorized that? do you think it went through the proper chain of command? i would think that would not be a general counsel. >> the people that made it have the righ

we've seen that, much more extensive political bodies, and not only as empires but also as lott governance institutions subject to constitutions and so on. so i would like to discuss this with you further later on, to get the core of it, but the notion that greek institutions of democracy are the foundation of our modern political system are deeply flawed. because there's the historical discontinuity, the dark ages, if you will, the end of classical civilization. and it's only much later that people rediscovered the greek texts and begin to take the vocabulary for that context and apply to really a very different set of institutions and practices. and that's led to a little bit of historical confusion. though some of our political institutions were rooted in greek wines when there's discourse. but let's talk about that again later as well. yes, sir. we're going to wrap up. we are just a few more minutes spent my question is in regards to the narrative that you presented today. does that continue into the future? in other words, are we approaching some end up on as we approach more and more