worked for monsanto quit his job went to work for the government then went back to monsanto as their v.p. and now is back at the f.d.a. is u.s. food safety is are you kidding now. but it gets worse you see. what the lawsuit was filed against the f.d.a. they were forced to turn over their secret internal memos forty four thousand of them and it turns out that the statement the policy was a lie that it was actually overwhelming consensus among the scientists working at the f.d.a. the g m o's were. toxins allergens new diseases or nutritional problems and they complained about the proposed regulation that came out that's remarkable so and in fact you you have some examples here genetically modified potatoes this. the photo of g.m. potatoes number two damaged rats tell us about this well in this case the rats ate genetically engineered potatoes engineered to produce an insecticide that's not on the market it was an experiment so that the this is sort of like the corn that produces bacillus them very similar very similar but what they did was they found that the potatoes the natural the rats the n

senator problem portman in pennsylvania and senator pawlenty both considered top v.p. picks. sabato on the veep short list. larry, welcome. second, you have a -- five, is that right? >> you have the top two right there, tim pawlenty and rob portman. and governor jindal, and senator rubio of florida and wounding out the top five, congressman paul ryan from wisconsin. any of those five would do a lot of good. >>eric: a lot of people say, with about chris christie? >> he should run for president and will eventally. i don't think he is vice presidential material. i don't thin you would think so. he would be on the front page more than romney. i don't think you want that in a vice president candidate. >>eric: what is the most, governor romney is looking right now and going through the list. wh is the one thing he needs most? >>guest: no controversy. no problems. the vetting that the press will do and the opposition democrats will do, should in the turn up anything that will take this election off the track of the economy because the bad economy is the winning track for mitt romney

. >>> well, moving on, after dismissing the idea again and again, could condoleezza rice be up for mitt romney's v.p. slot? what do you think? we're going to talk about that next. and this -- >>> extreme drought. hatch the u.s. now in a state of emergency. with crop prices already spiking, how much more will it cost to put food on the table. >> we're really not going to know the full extent of all of this until the cot 0 on the's picks and the beans and the kernels are counted. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] what's the point of an epa estimated 42 miles per gallon if the miles aren't interesting? the lexus ct hybrid. this is the pursuit of perfection. the lexus ct hybrid. this is new york state. we built the first railway, the first trade route to the west, the greatest empires. then, some said, we lost our edge. well today, there's a new new york state. one that's working to attract businesses and create jobs. a place where innovation meets determination... and businesses lead the world. the new new york works for business. find out how it can work for yours at thenewny.com. just $14.99. start with soup,

and even brought with them a possible v.p. pick and her family.o releasing this note on this july 4th. he said, quote, today we celebrate 236 years of the world's greatest design for liberty and self-government. as we gather to enjoy food and fireworks, let us also take a moment to pay tribute to the patriots who signed the declaration of independence, and the brave men and women who have fought to protect our freedoms through every generation that has followed. romney going on to say, with so many around the world still consigned to tierney, the fourth of july is a time to appreciate the liberty and be thankful we are americans. enquote. there in new hampshire, garrett haake, our nbc imbed is following it. garrett, i know it's loud there. you're watching the parade. have you seen mitt romney yet? >> hey, richard. yes, we absolutery have. we are right in the middle of downtown right now. and romney along with all five of his sons, with his wife and with new hampshire senator kelly ayotte making their way down main street as we speak. >> and how bi

v.p. candidates, simply say nice things and don't comment upon their v.p. prospects.ith condi rice, many disclaim interest. i don't think they have interest at putting her atop the stage. i think this is matt drudge doing what matt drudge does brilliantly, create a story out of nothing. >> you say nothing, but that suggests that he made it up. i'm sure he spoke to somebody -- >> i'm sure there are donors who went to that event and were impressed by her speech and came whispering into romney's here saying i'm sure -- into drudge's ear saying i'm sure she's atop the list. >> to briefly summarize, she has said repeatedly that she doesn't like electoral politics and has no interest in being v.p. she is pro-choice, and she, of course, you know, was such -- close to george w. bush, she brings up the iraq war and weapons of mass destruction and all of that. so some of the journalists purport it to be fair by saying drudge reported it but there's not much time of it happening. they still gave it airtime. why is that? >> man, i was with my good conservative buddy, pat buchanan

v.p. pick. it's not rob portman and tim pawlenty., chris christie kelly iotte, any of them. it's who. >> it's senator jim demint the senator from the deep south. and it's a social conservative. is he a guy that is widely regarded by searches as a real stall worth of that part of the party. i think the reason why i was talking about him was a lot of respects mitt romney is going to need an attack dog. that's what the vice presidential candidate does. is a guy that goes out out there and not a policy wonk but take the fire to the campaign to president obama and joe biden. you know. if have you is -- if you have someone like rob portman wonderful senator but about as exciting as watching milk get cold. not a great choice that's going to ebner jiz the base. my thought was you are going to need to find somebody to energize the base going down to the fall. >> the question with demint is. far to the right of mitt romney. doesn't romney need to pick up hispanics, perhaps i were hads, secure the female vote with picking a woman or at least he

. >>> and we have other news to get to, as well. mitt romney may be closing in on a v.p. pick. and a surprising report surfacing overnight, that former secretary of state condoleezza rice, could be at the top of that list. >>> and kays from las vegas to bring you. two powerful, fully grown chimpanzees escaping from their cages. and going on a rampage that shut down parts of the strip. how they broke free and how they were finally caught. we'll have all of it for you in just a bit. >>> but we're going to begin with the scare in the sky. a plane heading for madrid from new york, forced to turn around shortly after takeoff after suspicious wires found in one of the bathrooms. and jim avila covering it for us. good morning, jim. >> reporter: good morning, josh. the s.w.a.t team stormed on, and the bomb squad looking for an explosive device that turned a jumbo jet around after takeoff from new york city. terror in the sky? or another case of airplane jitters? it was another white-knuckle moment in the sky. about an hour into the flight, the pilot told passengers he was turning the pl

v.p. that romney should pick and i think he is too modest to put t this way. k what he is trying to say is that romney needs a v.p. like dick cheney. he needs someone who is going to have instant credibility with conservatives and is going to be seen ann as one of their own but also somebody who has the gravitas and seen as ready to take on the presidency on the first day and first day in office o. the reason that's important is that obama is running a strategy of trashing mitt romney and trying to paint his ticket as unacceptable alternative. he will understands that millions of people have made the decision to make a change. and the only way he can stop them is by convincing them that the romney ticket with whoever he puts ton is unacceptable alternative. romney is going to pick somebody along dick cheney's advice energize conservatives cheney like gravitas and seen like somebody who could step into the presidency. >> who would that be? >> i think that the most likely pick is paul ryan. paul ryan. >> let me stop you there. you say you believe paul ryan will g

v.p. candidates tim pawlenty and bobby jindal have been crossing paths with the obama bus tour. after today there are only four jobs reports before the election. the last just four days before voters go to the polls. brian mooar, nbc news, washington. >> of course we'll bring you those numbers when they come t. the unemployment report sure to affect the wall street. for the rest of the news before the bell we turn to courtney reagan. good morning. >> good morning. futures are lower now ahead of that big economic report. the june jobs, hiring is expected to have ticked up in june after job growth slowed in may. we only added 69,000 in may and that was very, very disappointing. this time forecasts call for companies to have added 100,000 new jobs. the overall pace is still too sluggish to have made a serious dent in the unemployment rate which is seen holding at 8.2%. stocks slips on thursday after data showed a drop in the u.s. non-manufacturing or services sector last month. and as central banks in china, england and europe took action to stimulate growth. the dow lost 47 points

athletic director tim curley and former v.p.ary schultz are all accused of perjury in failing to report the action of jerry sandusky. >>> a status conference today happens for the man known as the fake rockefeller. christian gerhart is accused of murdering his landlord in 1995. he's currently being held on $10 million bail. >>> a university of florida band member who was kill inside a hazing incident, his family is filing a lawsuit today. he was beaten on a bus following a band performance in orlando, florida. >>> attorneys for a women's health clinic in jackson, mississippi are going to be in court today to continue to fight to keep that clinic open. it is the only abortion facility in operation in the state of mississippi. a new law now threatens to shut it down. >>> if you want to cut your calories, you start cutting your food into smaller pieces. that's according to a new study out of switzerland. researchers found people who cut up their food for one meal will eat 25% less of their second meal. so once again, cut it up and

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so we currently have a v.p. and we've chosen a vice presidential candidate whose name is sherry hunkela, who is -- she's a national coordinator for the poor peoples' economic human right s council and she is full-time full-time on it and i think we chose sherry because she is the person for the job and she's able to commit herself 100 percent to it. i would love to keep roseanne involved in the campaign to the extent that her other commitments allow her to do that. host: dr. jill stein is the green party presidential candidate and has been our guest on "the washington journal", thank you very much for being on the program. guest: thank you very much, rob and great talking with you. host: coming up, when may we see changes in the u.s. postal service? that's the discussion we'll be having with reporter rachael bade, but first, what's coming up on c-span radio. >> on the sunday shows the topics today include the presidential election, the economy, and tax reform, and you can hear replays of five network tv talk shows o

v.p. selection process. and doesn't think about it at all.n fact, it probably won't be until a few hours before it happens that even the most senior staff on the romney campaign even know who it is. >> it is extremely rare that a vice presidential pick gives a huge boost to a campaign. it won't happen. you can damage your campaign with the wrong choice. >> kelly ayotte, she's only been a senator for a short amount of time. same amount of time that sarah palin was governor of alaska. does she really have a chance. even though she's appearing with governor romney at the 4th of july parade. >> on paper she looks like sarah palin very conservative. limited experience. she was an attorney general also in new hampshire. from what i hear, she's sharper than governor palin was. but i don't know if she has the charisma. she doesn't bring a lot of actual -- she's not a great speaker from what we've seen. romney lacks a certain charisma himself. >> doesn't very to keep her in the pool. >> of course. it is no longer acceptable to have just -- the republi

howard dean and the republican governor of louisiana often mentioned as a potential romney v.p. bobby jindal and our political roundtab >> hundreds of thousands still without power hitting at the worst time ever as the heat wave continues all across the mid atlantic. and it was an unbelievably warm start to the day. we started off in the 70's and 80's and look where we are now. just past 9:00 a.m., 92 degrees downtown at the inner harbor and it's in the 80's across the lower eastern shore. also in the 80's and even in parts of western maryland, hagerstown hitting the 80 degree mark and slightly cooler as you head out west. 79 in frostburg. you have to factor in the dew point temperatures of what it feels like indoors. we have low 70's from baltimore down across the lower eastern shore. that's the humidity in the air. the higher the number, the more humid it feels. any number above 65 feels pretty sticky and that factors into the heat of what it feels like. that's what we do to figure out the heat index. currently feels like 100 degrees at the inner harbor because of the combinati

and timetable didn't get far. >> bret: carl on that front, condoleezza rice appeared to make a splash in this race who will be v.p, at least on the blogs and on the internet. what do we know about romney's potential v.p. picks? >> she said she is not interested in the job. i asked mr. romney if he reaffirmed his stat in the february of this year he will not pick a pro-choice runningmate but will pick a pro-life runningmate. the comment he stands by the earlier comments which for all intents and purposes would remove condoleezza rice from the list. she in 2006 called herself mildly pro-choice. >> bret: okay, carl. thank you. one follow up note to all of this. we did offer time on the show to the president's campaign today. they declined for now. but said they will come on soon. as carl cameron mentioned, the president is taking a couple of days to shore up support in the importance swing state of virginia. state that was good to him for years ago but won that is considered very much in play four years later. white house correspondent wendell goler is in the commonwealth tonight. >> as he launched a two-day strip t

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and be aggressive. i'm not sure he will go with the out of the box aggressive v.p.: i like that he is saying he would make a decision he likes. if he is comfortable with portman or pawlenty or even rice, he will make that choice. >> bob: in the final analysis, president needs to feel comfortable with the running mate. >> eric: another name you will like. mitch daniel. >> dana: yeah. he just took a job at purdue university. i think he did take himself out of the running. condi rice would be excellent chief of staff. she has been secretary of state. she is great. >> andrea: doesn't she want to be the n.f.l. commissioner? >> dana: one day she just may be. and then he will take over the hockey? hockey? is it the hockey season? we're going to not talk about hockey. we'll talk about basketball. because n.b.a. star kobe bryant took a shot at michael jordan and the olympic dream team. there's a feud. that's next on "the five." ♪ ♪ but centurylink is committed to being a different kind of communications company by continuing to help you do more and focus on the things that m

he calls the plan humane and a reasonable way to proceed. the next day v.p. hs in with an alleged e-mail to the president and athletic director cu curley. this is a more humane and up front way to handle this. we will inform his organization with or without his cooperation. we can play by ear to decide about the other organization. another reference to outside authorities. that never happened. authorities say records show suspicions about sandusky in 2001 were never reported to any outside agency. victim five was molested by sandusky in a penn state shower about six months after the mcquery incident and sandusky went on to be abuse at least three other boys. years later all testified at trial. they are already charged with perjury and failure to report suspected child abuse. they pleaded not guilty. his lawyer did not return repeated calls. lawyers provided this statement. as pennsylvania governor stated, if we were going to do this case, we hadded to have the best possible case to go against somebody like mr. sandusky who was loved by everybody. lawyers asked

so we currently have a v.p. ande've chosen a vice presidential candidate whose name is sherry hunkela, who is she's a national coordinator for the poor peoples' economic human rights council and she is full time full time on it and i think we chose sherry because she is the person for the job and she's able to commit herself 100 percent to it. i would love to keep roseanne involved in the campaign to the extent that her other commitments allow her to do that. host: dr. jill stein is the green party presidential candidate and has been our guest on "the washington journal", thank you very much for being on the program. guest: thank you very much, rob and great talking with you. and great talking with you.

and he will be. he will be a strong surrogate for the president, not necessarily as a v.p. pick. we're talking about who is following him on the campaign trail this week or the rest of this week, we have jobs numbers coming out friday, that at the end of the day is what the campaign is going to be about. it's not going to be about the veep. >> and we've got until august. when we look at that, karen, we do have some weeks ahead of us. >> yeah. >> who might be that palin? who might be that surprise? >> you know, i think susan would admit that the republican party is kind of -- they are the ghost of sarah palin has meant that we will not see that kind of surprise pick that we might have at one point. again, i think you're going to see mitt romney. look at the way he's run the campaign. he's run it very safe, very cautious. so between the sarah palin bad taste in everybody's mouth that's left over from that experience and just the nature of the way romney's run his campaign, i think you're more likely to see a safer pick which again is someone like a portman, or someone like a tim paw

center of a number of bush administration controversies and on social issues she may be left of the party's base. romney has been tight lipped about the v.p. selection process and it's not clear where the leak may have come from. the last person to go through this heard the news about rice last night. >> you journalists, you're always looking for something to talk about. >> reporter: there is a fair amount of truth to that. most v.p. candidates aren't selected until just before the party convention. that's still more than a month away. allison. >> we're just trying to get the word out, right, that's all. not a feeding frenzy. >> reporter: it's a parlor game we all love to play. >> thank you so much. >>> president obama in campaign in virginia today and tomorrow, stopping in virginia beach first, followed by hampton and roanoke. tomorrow he'll be in the richmond area and then clifton and fairfax county. >>> there is a lot of new information for metro riders this morning. we begin with the green line derailment that happened a week ago today. metro is advising its standards when heat restrictions should go into place. a heat kink on the tra

v.p. running mates, tim pawlenty and bobby jindal making the argument that president obama is a johnny come lately, a barack come lately as they say. laura, not good numbers for the president. he has explaining to do. >> no doubt we'll hear a lot about this on the campaign trail. >> still to come on "today in the bay," an update to the breaking news we're talking about this morning. >> a crash in alameda injure as carful of teenagers. >> scott peterson in the headlines again, he is appealing his death sentence. we'll tell you why thinks attorney says that peterson does not deserve it. >> and the investigation under way into the death of a toddler shot at a gilroy home. the boy's father is a san jose police officer. we'll update you on this one coming up in a live report. >> reporter: we're following breaking news in alameda. a brutal single car accident sends six teens to the hospital, all of them under the age of 16. i'm marla tellez with that story coming up. >> reporter: the 3-year-old son of a san jose police officer has been accidentally shot and killed here in gilroy. i'm bob redell.

there's a lot to do besides campaigning and rolling out a v.p.he wants to do that. >> right now, he's raising money, governor rendell, with governor bobby jindal in louisiana today. they've just released that picture. they are raising some money down there. so he's also presumably on a list. >> i think everybody's on the list these days. it's a nice thing to do. it's a nice thing to do. you raise another politician's credibility with their home state voters by saying they're on the list. it's a good thing to do, an easy thing to do, and it develops friendships just by the fact that you say that person's on the list. that's a help to their standing. but i do think the romney campaign needs an additional spokesman, a spokesman who can say things that the governor himself wouldn't be comfortable in saying. so i think if they've got a pick in mind, this wouldn't be a bad time to do it. they also need to change the dynamic. as bad a week as the president had two and a half weeks ago, this last ten days has been brutal for the romney campaign. >> let m

except for newt gingrich, which i'll just put in one category, and john mccain who has seen them, i believe, because he was vetting for v.pck, and so he's seen them, and these two prominent republicans are saying leave him alone. there are others stepping out and saying, he should release them. are there any prominent republicans who are defending his choice to keep them private except for newt gingrich and john mccain? >> i don't believe that anybody is and i think even -- there are some republicans who are defending him by implication sort of saying this is not an issue, we shouldn't talk about this but no one is making a principle defense, no one is trying to say here's why he should not be required to or should not do this because there is no principle defense for that position. even like mccain, he shouldn't do it, he doesn't have to do it, it's not required by law. >> you've seen them -- >> it's not an argument. >> you should hear what they're saying in private because i talked to some and so does john and they are horrified. listen to haley barbour publicly, and imagine what haley barbour and the former chairman of

v.p. search is so formal and so buttoned down that somebody's putting this out there to try to create a distraction. >> there's no question that you look at condoleezza rice and she's been very clear and she's not interested in politics, and she brings diversity and she might bring some electricity and she brings a lot of problems, too. she was at the center of bush's foreign policy. she's socially moderate which i don't think governor romney wants to spend time wanting to defend. i just don't see it. >> any more sense since the last time we talked about when romney made it? >> i was trying to get more on that today and we just don't know. >> my hunch is that he'll have to wait until after he does it in the olympics and he'll want to do it in august and more of a run-up. someone suggested to me that he has a number of surrogates right now who are out deploying and raising money and out on the stump and that works to his benefit, so i don't see a particular reason why he has to accelerate that for most campaigns. >> he's doing a round of these network television interviews. is this to counter the ba

and romney scurries to take care of it. it happened recently with the mark rubio v.p. vetting story. not going away. >> mark, guess what? you don't get to do any. we went very long. you can keep eating, though. >> i'll keep eating. >>> tomorrow on "starting point," live in new orleans as the essence music festival gets going. it celebrates black culture and music. we have an all-star lineup. comedian jay thomas is going to join us. vanessa williams will be with us, mitch landrieu will be with us and bill cassidy also talking with us and many more. "cnn newsroom" with don lemon begins now. hey, don, good morning. >> new orleans, you're going to love it, love, love it, soledad. >>> condition critical, powerless and starving. west virginia this morning without basic necessities, food, water, thousands of emergency meals on their way. we're going to speak with the red cross coming up. in court, george zimmerman and the money trail all in question this morning. should trayvon martin's shooter be set free before his trial? >>> plus this -- >> i'm not going to put my job over helping someone

. >> have to have some reason for people to watch the convention and the only reason is who is he going to pick for v.pma will have a hard time getting people to watch the convention. >> bill: i understand they gorgeous have j. lo. >> she would be a president president. >> bill: i know her and she would not be a better president. it will be a surprise. it will leak out, right? you are going to know? >> i believe that it has i'm going go out on the limb here. >> bill: out on the limb morris. >> i never do it. but i believe that mitt romney has known for are six months that he is going to choose marco rubio he. >> bill: you think so? i can't disagree with that. a frightening segment for me. >> what, no dinner? no dinner? >> bill: i think rubio if he is clean you vet these guys and there is all kinds of stuff does he spend this. >> no better vetting than takes place in a senate race in florida. forget the fbi, if you are vetted by the democratic negative researchers and you survive you are clean. >> bill: dick morris. buy his book, screwed. chicago mayor rahm emanuel says the chicago gang killers have val

executive who often wakes up at 4:45, pops a pill, prepares breakfast for the kids and also flies around the world as v.p. of a billion-dollar internet security firm. >> this can be the difference between "i'm just making through the day" to "i had the best day of my life." >> reporter: dave says he once flew 20 hours to australia with almost no sleep, got off the plane, took a provigil and delivered a series of speeches that were so good they made the local papers. as a kind of experiment, we asked dave to stop taking the drug for three days and undergo cognitive tests to measure his concentration and reaction time. during this whole 72-hour period, he said he just felt off. >> i've noticed that my speech is very slightly altered. >> reporter: after three days, i watched as he popped a provigil. all right. so, i guess, let's do it. >> let's see. >> reporter: it only took 17 minutes for him to snap back. the world suddenly seemed brighter, he said. dave compared it to the scene in "the wizard of oz" where it goes from black and white to color. and remember those cognitive tests? even we could see it on t

v.p. >> eric: later on in the blog, adopting a prevent defense. it's only the second quarter and're not especially ahead is dubious enough as a strategy. meaning that the football game, we're not winning. time to go on the offense. first, where is the offense for romney? >> dana: there is a lot of frustration built up across the country. okay, now we consolidated, we have our candidate. they are ready and waiting and they want something more. it could be the ebb and flow of the campaign. obama had had a terrible june. romney had a good june. not just in fund raising but in the overall press. july could end up being a decent month for president obama. then you get to august. you get to the conventions and boom, we have a race. that is when things will start to matter. >> greg: i think, you know, people might be tired of charisma. that is what you say when you are trying to make yourself feel good. maybe they don't want somebody with a huge personality. >> bob: that is a campaign slogan. dumpy guy and after lindsay screwed up not a word said but "tired of charisma?" >> greg: memora