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. >> ifill: as well as pollster andy kohut and historians michael beschloss and richard norton smith. >> woodruff: and with us in the skybox again tonight for insight and analysis are newshour regulars mark shields and david brooks. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: as the republican national convention draws to a close, the centerpiece of tonight's agenda is the appearance by the candidate himself. the delegates, the campaign officials and mitt romney spent the day getting ready. jeffrey brown begins our coverage. >> brown: at the "tampa bay times" forum this morning, a different kind of racket as carpenters set up a new podium, designed to offer a mor

syria i'm not saying all the kurdish groups in norton syria are against turkey as far as i know there are more than twenty five independent kurdish groups well some of them are seriously and by turkish mainly the p y d. is you know branch ignore to iraq war in iraq so it's not in syria so of course they resent to the favor of a situation in syria i don't equally creates a huge field of manoa for g.t.t. lead kurdish organizations and there is an expectation in told to many kurdish groups are moving from north in europe to north in syria. turkey's involvement in the syrian conflict may be more than just rhetoric president assad's forces say they've captured turkish officers in the flashpoint city of aleppo acid himself meanwhile has made his first t.v. appearance in almost three weeks vowing to cleanse the country of terrorists the statement came on the heels of a visit to damascus by the secretary of iran supreme national security council during the visit to the two states pledged mutual support saying their alliance is an axis of resistance against western influence he also condemned the recent kidnapping of forty seven iranians in damascus

norton publication. >> thank you very much. >> he was a very shy child doodling in his family house. his father wanted him to be a lawyer. he felt it wasn't a stable profession. well, as soon as a calamity have been had a severe economic reversal they lose the mansion and give them the forced to drop out, and he basically says if it wasn't for the fact my father -- if my father hadn't gone bankrupt, i wouldn't have had the drive they have today. working his way to colombia he got his law degree. practiced law for 1 degree and he did it and the famous admiral felt that his kid had a talent. he taught him what he needed to learn and they start a very successful practice in naval ships. he designed 70% of all of the naval vessels in world war ii, which is an incredible achievement. destroyers, cruisers, a key designs in the normandy aircraft he is also the man responsible for the liberty ship, the iconic liberty ship which is the mass-produced cargo ship that helped win a war. basically faster than they think. that is basically the way to build his mind set.

norton next year has in store for you. will you be here in d.c. at all? >> i will be making my platform platform to a platform. >> you are well-deserving of the crown. thank you for stopping by. it is 6:40 right now. was it a check on traffic and weather. e are watching a few showers right now. thunderstorms on the doppler radar. heavy activity at this hour located to the north. germantown, clarksburg, damascus looking at moderate showers at the time. moving into old town alexandria. you will definitely want to grab your umbrella as you head out the door. a better chance of some stronger storms later this afternoon. a look at the extended outlook few minutes.a first, traffic. will be a little bit slower than you like this morning. that should not not to off your feet this morning. we had delays southbound to get out of frederick. we take you live to the guy could traffic center pictures. this is 270 southbound. how to frederick to get past 109. all but when pittman is looking not too complicated. we will give you travel times in your favor. 66 and 95. no accidents through the rain. back to you. it is 6:41 and 71 degrees. they

norton, bound, bound to be excellent. i think we have a little bit of sound. >> do you know what it is? well that's what we are.e the sin eaters the we take the moral excrement that we find in this equation, we bury it deep inside of us so our cause will remain pure. that is the job. we are morally indefensible and absolutely necessary. >> can it get better than that? see it.enner, ed norton. those that have seen it, good grades. "usa today," three of four stars. ""l.a. times" "says it is impeccably cast. "wall street journal" says a solid success. rotten tomatoes, 60% favorable rating. good movie. >> there you go. let's talk about something relevant, will ferrell, "the campaign." talk about relevant, right? basically the plot, long-time congressman, cam brady, will ferrell, put up against somebody who is -- election gets closer, back slapping, back biting, home wrecking. let's listen to a sound bite. >> i went to the petting zoo and i let the goat lick my weiner. >> what? >> honey, you promise you'd wouldn't get mad, okay. they're being honest. >> one time i put a firefly in my butt. >> why? >> to make my fart

norton's "please be offended." congratulations on that. >> thank you very much. >> jimmy: it was a big success. >> it did very well, yeah. [ cheers and applausehat ozzy osbourne should do the opening of it. >> yeah, the way it happened was, i e-mailed sharon and i'm like, "would ozzy be in my opening?" i wanted him to introduce me. and from his sitting on the toilet, i wanted ozzy osbourne to say "please welcome jim norton." and we actually -- she said yes, and she's like "would you nd shting in our house?" and i'm like "no, i wouldn't." [ laughter ] i kind of creeped them out, because i showed up three ys early d just sat on the lawn. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you're a giant black sabbath fan, or ozzy fan? >> i love -- they're both the same to me. it's funny, i went to chicago recently to lollapalooza. which was fun, i just wanted to go see black sabbath. and ozzy came out and they were i guess 30 seconds into the first song, and this girl comes up to me and she goes "jim norton!" and she seemed really, really drunk. so i'm like "all right, i got to talk to her." [ laughter ] nothing turns me on more than when i see a woman trying to focus. [ l

norton schwartz. >> -- if the honor guard and the color guard, why don't you go to ceremonial as well. i still have that power. [applause] >> thank you. secretary leon panetta, thank you for those kind remarks and your extraordinary leadership of the department of defense. thank you. for your exceptional leadership of our magnificent military people. you remain at the helm at a critical time in our history addressing the nation's rebalancing for the asia pacific and fiscal predicaments. and profoundly important matters. as i leave my post a remains supremely confident in the future of the department of defense under the very able leadership of secretary leon panetta, chairman dempsey and especially my fellow joint chiefs. bonnie raitt and when the, john and darlene and craig and cheryl, extraordinary, extraordinary all. i have the privilege, singular privilege of being your wing man these last four years. also wholeheartedly cherish the friendship that susie and i have developed with you. your leadership of the nation's air force of turbulent change and uncertainty has been nothing sho

norton, always great to see you. this is a republican controlled house. it seems like on other issue, whatever the republicans push through, they want to get through. what was the difference here? >> well, the difference here and how sweet it is to say, we won and we won big. we won by not one, not two, but 30 votes. and we won because they needed 2/3 and can't get 2/3 of the house on an extreme bill like that. and we were able to convince the congress that we were winning not only for the women of the district of columbia, for their positions, for the residents who are being trampled. we are winning for the united states of america, because we will bring used and abused as cover for a bill that really targeted row versus wade, coming at reproductive choice for women all over this country. we were being used because they thought we were the kid on the block that didn't have anybody to fight for themselves, for herself and couldn't find others to fight for us. in fact, we found women all over the country, this thing was pleaded nationwide, facebook, and we won because we had the women of the country behind us and frankly, because this is still pro-choice america. >> and you know as well

well, him comi to gsa, prompted by the resignation of the previous administrator. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. miller, i had intended to ask ab these 486 referrals that miss norton got into. i'm still curious about those. that does seem like an awfully high number. over a six-month period, that comes to over 80 referrals a month. is that much higher than has been done in the past and i know you said, many of these or most of these were not referrals of that gsa employe. but more front pas to the gsa contractors or something. would you tell me a little bit more about that? >> it's a mix of referrals. my point was that a referral can either be against someone doing business with gsa, or it can be about a gsa official. so i wouldn't want to quantify it off the top of my head as to which one is more, rather there are more referrals regarding contracts or more referrals regarding gsa employees. i would be happy to furnish the committee wth the precise breakdown of the referral. we do a lot of referrals with credit cards to go with the leased vehicles. gsa leases vehicles called the fleet to other agencies. any time another agency uses one of these cards a credit card

well, we've never had a woman walk her own story. rachel plays a very -- it's a three-hander in a way. it's edward nortonerfect date movie. you have the romance and love story. >> there you go. >> tony gilroy. thank you for joining us. the series is so great. and you're right, you can do iterations. >> we will see. >>> still ahead this morning on "starting point," we're focusing on that big jobs july report added jobs unemployment rate also went up, though. what does that mean? we're going to talk to austan goolsbee up next. stay with us. here's -- are we playing "eye of the tiger" again? what is this? i can't tell what that is. that's midnight oil. that's because they told me. i don't recognize that. we're back in a moment. not in this economy. we also have zero free time, and my dad moving in. so we went to fidelity. we looked at our family's goals and some ways to help us get there. they helped me fix my economy, the one in my house. now they're managing my investments for me. and with fidelity, getting back on track was easier than i thought. call or come in today to take control of your personal eco

norton smith and michael, you heard her use the word authentic more than once. michael how important is that when you are trying to define someone like a presidential candidate? >> welly important in the case of romney because as has been published a lot of the polls when they ask people what adjective they think of some they authentic and this goes right after that. but could i say one other word, and that is that there is a historical to this tonight. remember there used to be a show called this is your life when they would bring out people from your past and say how great you are. this has been a staple at most conventions since 1972 when there was a movie about president richard nixon beingqad saying what a wonderful person he was. that was the first really scripted convention. >> michael before you asked the question, i want to make for the record i'm too young to remember. >> and that is exactly what i was going to say. gwen does not have a clue what are you talking about. there maybe others at the table who have a memory of this. so while we have your attention, what about it, richard? i think at this point in the night, i think it's ordinary citizens who are

well, him coming to gsa, prompted by the resignation of the previous administrator. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. miller, i had intended to ask ab these 486 referrals that miss norton got into. i'm still curious about those. that does seem like an awfully high number. over a six-month period, that comes to over 80 referrals a month. is that much higher than has been done in the past and i know you said, many of these or most of these were not referrals of that gsa employees. but more front panls to the gsa contractors or something. would you tell me a little bit more about that? >> it's a mix of referrals. my point was that a referral can either be against someone doing business with gsa, or it can be about a gsa official. so i wouldn't want to quantify it off the top of my head as to which one is more, rather there are more referrals regarding contracts or more referrals regarding gsa employees. i would be happy to furnish the committee with the precise breakdown of the referral. we do a lot of referrals with credit cards to go with the leased vehicles. gsa leases vehicles called the fleet to other agencies. any time another agency uses one of these cards a credit

well, him coming to gsa, prompted by the resignation of the previous administrator. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. miller, i had intended to ask ab these 486 referrals that miss norton got into. i'm still curious about those. that does seem like an awfully high number. over a six-month period, that comes to over 80 referrals a month. is that much higher than has been done in the past and i know you said, many of these or most of these were not referrals of that gsa employees. but more front panls to the gsa contractors or something. would you tell me a little bit more about that? >> it's a mix of referrals. my point was that a referral can either be against someone doing business with gsa, or it can be about a gsa official. so i wouldn't want to quantify it off the top of my head as to which one is more, rather there are more referrals regarding contracts or more referrals regarding gsa employees. i would be happy to furnish the committee with the precise breakdown of the referral. we do a lot of referrals with credit cards to go with the leased vehicles. gsa leases vehicles called the fleet to other agencies. any time another agency uses one of these cards a credit