charles schulz -- george and charlotte shultz. this afternoon, we are doing something that, frankly, should have been done a long time ago. in this city, when the concept of a memorial for veterans what spurs done, they said it would be right here. of course, we have finally, after many, many tries, got this right. in 1936, the construction produced it, and then there was six or seven additional times from the original time, and it does not to work, but finally, about two or three years ago, we got it right. the board of trustees decided in their wisdom to say thank-you to two incredible san franciscans in making the horseshoe circle named in their honor. all of you have come for this occasion. the man who presides over this city, for purposes of everything, is, of course, the mayor. directly across the street is where he journeys from on this occasion. ladies and gentlemen, let me present to you, the mayor of the city and county of san francisco, would just celebrated his 60th birthday, mayor ed lee. mayor lee: thank you, and the

liz, you watched beby wasserman shultz. time of bain capital. >> i didn't catch a lot of what she said because i was laughing when she said she couldn't say the priorities usa folks were democrats. that is a credible issue. we learned in the course of the last couple of weeks you had administration officials raising money for priorities usa. and david plouffe. runs. not plouffe but burton. there is no connection between the super pac and the white house havingaced that though. the american people are not going to cast a vote basod these kines of ugly ads. it hurts the president's credibility. and in the end of the day people want to know what mitt romney will do about jobs in the economy and they have seen what president obama have done. voters would like to see us get off of the debates about the adand they do a disservice to people. >> senator bayh. is it a win with the ugly win? >> with ads like this it would be. my own view is. if we retain ourability of democrats to condemn the other side to go too far. we need to disa

shultz has offered to take the stores private. the offer is 24 to $26 per share. ho the higher price, it values the company at $8.8 billion. erica miller in manhattan with what could be one of the biggest buyouts in recent years of an american retailer. >> best buy founder has made a generous offer for the stores but faces an uphill battle getting the board to approve it. in a public letter. addressed to best buy's board, richard schulze says quote, "bold and extensive changes are needed for best buy to return to market leadership." he is proposing to buy out the company, using his own money, private equity funds and some debt. so would going private be the right strategy for best buy? >> it may make sense for best buy to be a privately held company, especially if you have the backing of private equity. with retail and turnaround experience. frankly, this company has a lot of work ahead of them to stay competitive and stay relevant in the eyes of consumers. >> it's a moment of truth for the retail electronics chain schulze founded in 1966. >> reporter: part of bes

well, i'm breaking out my own board tonight with congresswoman debbie wasserman shultz. >>> plus, paul ryan may be the darling of the right wing, but he's certainly not helping with the female vote. >>> all that plus the wide world of sports. i'll introduce you to catfish noodling. and one of its biggest fans. you're watching "politicsnation" on msnbc. >>> still ahead, looks like the big ryan rollout didn't quite go as well as the romney folks expected. so they're trying to change the conversation. why it's not working. next. you'll inevitably find yourself on a desolate highway in your jeep grand cherokee. and when you do, you'll be grateful for the adaptive cruise control that automatically adjusts your speed when approaching slower traffic. and for the blind spot monitoring that helps remind you that the highway might not be as desolate... ...as you thought. ♪ >>> welcome back to "politicsnation." let's be honest, folks. ever since governor romney's big announcement on saturday, things haven't been going well for the campaign. suddenly paul ryan's budget is all anyone wants to talk

ann romney will join us and senator ron johnson and debbie wasserman shultz and joel stein. "starting point" begins right now. >> good morning, let me introduce you to our time, jason chaffetz, friend of the show, romney supporter, we always love having him and cathy, a democrat from right here, the state of florida, a ryan lizza, washington correspondent for the new yorker. nice to have you all. our starting point is going to be mitt romney's shining moment at the republican national convention in the biggest speech of his political career. and some people said the best speech of his political career. he attacked president obama's record saying his failed promises and time to turn the page. here's what he said. >> how many days have you woken up feeling that something really special was happening in america? many of you felt that way in election day four years ago, hope and change had a powerful appeal. if you felt that excitement when you voted for barack obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he's president obama? >> mr. romney also got very personal, opened up about

. >> republican shultz says he missed the mark. >> it was also a missed opportunity for him to say heeliefs that women deserve equal pay for equal wok. >> reporter: his wife says it shows how strong an advocate is. >> for me it was a great opportunity to be able to tell our side of the story. >> reporter: look for this trends to continue first lady, michelle obama will be speaking prime time at first night of the democratic national convention next week, speaking one week to the day from when ann was on stage talking about her husband, this makes clear both campaigns value the first lady or potential first lady and see them as invaluable assets as they move towards november. >> all about girl power in the race. for more on the republican convention, including perspective from the local politico's check out square off this sundaying the round table discussion show hosted is tackling the hot topics with panelists. square off airs he on abc 2 at 11:00 a.m. sunday morning. >>> i'm roosevelt leftwich, coming up, at 6:00, not trying to stat a new trend, john hopkins students are wearing yel

laboratory director steve shultz of the contra costa a mosquito and vector control district take samples from the latest dead bird recovered in the county. and just a few hours later the results were in and this bird tested positive for west mall virus. the same testing process takes place with mosquitos >> it is definitely more active than the last couple of years. this year the numbers are up quite a bit. >> so far more than 20 dead birds have been located in contra costa county alone and this year the west nile virus has been detected in more than half of california counties. in the bay area only san francisco and penryn county are so far reporting no cases. >> both species are pretty well adapted to living in residential areas. one of them likes underground locations like storm drains and sewers >> so tonight, for cost of vector control workers will be out in specially equipped trucks. the goal is to kill the carriers of the virus before they have a chance to transmit the virus to humans. >> the product we use is registered with the epa for you sweat of exactly what we're doing. ther

richard shultz who now owns 20% says he wants to buy all the shares he doesn't already own. $26 a share that's about $6 more than today's closing price. the deal values the company at more than $8 billion. >>> on wall street stocks moved higher the dow gained 21 points in the absence of any major economic news. the nasdaq rose 22. >>> protesters say the recently approved homeowners bill of rights does not go far enough to protect homeowners. >>> the syrian prime minister has fled to jordan with his family. the deflection comes two months after he was appointed to the post. >>> in manila, torrential rains from a monsoon overflowed rivers and dams triggering evacuations. meantime crews are cleaning up after typhoon create add storm surge that dumped thousands of pounds of garbage on to manila bay. 51 people in the philippines were killed by the typhoon. >>> in argen to the best -- argentina a train derailment injured dozens. >>> a south bay card club closes its doors hours before a new casino's grand opening. >> awesome, oh my gosh my bedroom that i've had probably since i goo

richard shultz who now owns 20% says he wants to buy all the shares he doesn't already own.lling to pay $26 a share that's about $6 more than today's closing price. the deal values the company at more than $8 billion. >>> on wall street stocks moved higher the dow gained 21 points in the absence of any major economic news. the nasdaq rose 22. >>> protesters say the recently approved homeowners bill of rights does not go far enough to protect homeowners. >>> the syrian prime minister has fled to jordan with his family. the deflection comes two months after he was appointed to the post. >>> in manila, torrential rains from a monsoon overflowed rivers and dams triggering evacuations. meantime crews are cleaning up after typhoon create add storm surge that dumped thousands of pounds of garbage on to manila bay. 51 people in the philippines were killed by the typhoon. >>> in argen to the best -- argentina a train derailment injured dozens. >>> a south bay card club closes its doors hours before a new casino's grand opening. >> awesome, oh my gosh my bedroom that i've had probably

top democrat debby wasser man shultz has her say. plus, gloria allred. she says akin is a national disgras. on the other side, a woman who says she's living proof that an abortion is the worst thing that can happen to a rape victim. the economy, the middle east, america's place in the world. i'll put all of that to one of my favorite guests, "the new york times's" tom freeman. also, all-american comic jeff fox worthy get serious on faith and family. >> unless somebody steps up and does something. >> this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. our big story tonight, congressman todd akin. he left me talking to an empty chair last night when he dropped out of our scheduled interview. tonight, he's decided drop out is a bad idea. at least when it comes to his senate race against missouri's claire mccaskill. saying, his fellow missourians urged him to step aside. i think he should accept their counsel and exit the senate race. the congressman has refused to back down. now it appears he's in the race for good or for bad depending on your viewpoint. when he

some say that state could no longer be called a tossup.ot ju the o there debbie wazerman shultz and eugeneobinson. congresswoman, i want to talk you about this race. it's tricky and bumpy. i read numbers here every night and i wonder if there's a continuing theory to them. your job is to win for the party. now here's the question. are these numbers indicative of where this election's headed or are they short-term? >> look, it's still -- you know, just the beginning of august. so we have 97 days until the election. so i know the obama campaign certainly isn't counting their chickens or ready to throw the victory party. but i think those numbers in the battle ground states are reflective of two things. one is that we are running a very effective significant grass roots campaign. and i think the numbers are also reflective of the fact president obama has laid out one vision and one path. and mitt romney and this is what i think is starting to sink in and why the battle ground states numbers are showing the way they are. look at the report that came out today the nonpartisan tax center came ou

joining me now is jack shultz, reporter for nbc affiliate wmtv in madison, wisconsin.hanks for coming on the show tonight. >> my pleasure. >> now, i want to show you a picture. it shows workers during the last day of suv production at janesville gm plant. the banner they're holding says december 23rd, 2008. this picture says it all. right? production was ended one month before president obama took office. am i right? >> well, i was there that day. media wasn't allowed on the floor of the plant when the last car came off. that was the last day for the major production at that factory. and the way the media covered it was that was the end of the plant. that's when the uaw workers walked off the line. now, the plant was idled after that and there were still some contract work that went into the following year. but from the local perspective, that was the end of the plant. >> now, there's a little confusion because the plant was idling until april of 2009. explain that. >> there was still a contract to make some other vehicles that weren't gm products. and a limited number

hey, shultz. jim, how much gold should i hold as a percent of my portfolio.r since i started the show, i felt that 10% to 20% should be your benchmark. when gold blew up all the way to 1,800 in 2011, i felt, you know what, let it pull back and you can even sell some. but you've got to keep that core position. why? because i don't regard gold as a stock. i guard it as a currency. it's an alternative currency to the fiat currency, the printed currency that we have in the united states and they have in europe. i've got to tell you, i trust gold, i don't trust paper. that's why between 10% to 20% makes sense. mel health low, mr. -- hello, mr. cramer. i'm a new investor and would love to make big gains. first of all, we're only going to have one speculative stock out of every five. two out of every ten. speculation keeps us interested, makes us pay attention, but it can be dangerous. i like to speculate in biotech. that's my chief one. i try to own biotech companies that have more than one drug so if they possibly have a failure, you're still in the game. those ha

you know, the democratic chair, debby washer man shultz sent out this tweet.republican party's message tells women, no choice, no exceptions. the polls already show mitt romney has a problem with women voters. will it make it only more difficult? >> first of all, i think for the democrats to imply that is insulting to women, that they only care about abortion. small business owners will be negatively impacted. we saw the pew report that showed middle-class families are struggling more than ever, so i don't think this race will come down to who do you agree on abortion or disagree with. i think people are much more sophisticated than that, and women certainly need to and will look at much more than just the abortion issue. >> is that the message from the democratic matter? >> no, john makes exactly the mistake that most men who don't understand women make. two things -- this is an economic issue for women. when you tell women that they are not the ones who will make the final decision with their doctor about what medicines they can take, about what procedures a

of those holier than todd akin republicans objected when alan west said this to debbie wasserman shultzu are the most vile, unprofessional and despicable member of the u.s. house of representatives. they did not object when alan west said, i must confess when i see anyone with an obama 2012 bumper sticker, i recognize them as a threat to the gene pool. there's alan west, deliberately trying to say, the craziest crap he can think of just to get attention and he has to spend this week watching another crazy republican congressman get all the attention for saying something that congressman didn't even intend to be controversial at all. poor alan west. the guy works really, really hard at being publicly crazy and then this akin guy comes along and just stumbles into the craziest congressman championship. patrick murphy who's running for the same seat must have felt sorry for alan west because he bought television time to remind voters what alan west crazy sounds like. he didn't write any of alan west's words, he just gave them to other people to recite, which is an ingenius way of helping t

health office shultzs have not said where that person lives. there have been 13 cases of west nile in maryland so far this year. mosquito spraying will begin in baltimore county next month. >>> the nfl is trying to shut down lawsuits from thousands of former players accusing the league of negligence when it comes to concussions. former redskins monk and griffin are two of the players filing lawsuits. they alleged league officials covered up medical links between concussions and problems later in life like dementia oral sooimers. they say safety was their number one concern and each team was in charge of its own players. >>> virginia tech researchers working with middle school football players to make helmets safer. they will each get sensors put inside their helmets to help designers to make better, safer helmets for younger players who need more protection than the pros. >> everything about the child is different than adult. children are not small adults. there's a lot of reasons for that. it gets into the neck size, the head size, how the hea

howard shultz who runs starbucks and jack dorsey, founder of my addiction, twitter. and h is new inveng, square hea. they're part of a partnership that may be taking the country by storm. show me. you and i were in a restaurant and you produced this out of your pocket like a weird magician. i was just on twitter then. i thought this guy is clearly a genius. what's the next thing? you said it's this. >> this is how we started. we started with a simple idea which is that everyone should be able to accept credit cards. we gave out these free credit card readers where people could swipe a card and the money would be put into their account the next day. ewith went up and up and up to larger merchants. it's a very simple idea. >> now we come to starbucks. the most successful coffee firm in the world. why have you gone from this? you're a smart guy. you clearly believe in this. why is this right for starbucks? >> over the past year or so when we introduced mobile payments at starbucks. we have never seen anything adopted so quickly. we're currently processing over a million

. >>> tonight, one of the most powerful ceos in the world howard shultz who runs starbucks and jack dorseyn, twitter. and his new invention, square head. they're part of a partnership that may be taking the country by storm. welcome, gentlemen. show me. you and i were in a restaurant and you produced this out of your pocket like a weird magician. i was just on twitter then. i thought this guy is clearly a genius. what's the next thing? you said it's this. >> this is how we started. we started with a simple idea which is that everyone should be able to accept credit cards. we gave out these free credit card readers where people could swipe a card and the money would be put into their account the next day. so we started with personal trainers, garage sales, taxi drivers, bake sales. and then we went up and up and up into larger and larger merchants. tried a very simple idea with very simple hardware. >> now we come to starbucks. the most successful coffee firm in the world. why have you gone from this? you're a smart guy. you don't suffer fools. you clearly believe in this. why is this right

of that tax reform, which is a major command in the whole cold war and the whole way that he and shultz dealt with the soviets seem like a major accomplishment. the second question even in this media age haven't we learned that we did not know what about how badly off he was at gw after he got shot and that the potential for manipulation closed the line, call it what you want, presidential health is about as bad now as it was when woodrow wilson was president. >> welcome the certainly try to keep it quiet. so, are you saying you think that reagan's second term might have been better than the first? >> i just think it was pretty substantial and i think that's why the historians are pushing him up. plus that other criterion of getting hw elected in his week. >> i think you need a very good point. i'm very high on reagan and i think that he is going to be included in the leaders of destiny as i say. he's heading in that direction, and i believe that he is very consequential president. the greatest presidents of the 20th century for franklin roosevelt and ronald reagan and one was probably

i would like to thank vicki shultz for her ground-breaking working investigating the cemetery lending lending practices and bringing justice. please come to the podium. [applause] >> thank you. it is indeed my honor and privilege to be with you today. i want to say too wide to the senator for american progress for being the forum in which we can have this conference, and to la raza, for keeping a focus on this housing crisis. we know there are many families struggling and until we address those issues we should not rest. i send regrets from the assistant attorney general tom perez, who was called the last minute to be part of a delegation to the dominican republic for the installation of a new president, but i'm thrilled to be here today because this is a critical issue and we are focused on this issue because we care about what is happening in our country. the promise of equal opportunity is at the core of american values and ideals, from the opportunity to learn, to the opportunity to gain fair access to credit, to earn, to live where one chooses, move up the economic ladder -- our

maryland health of the shultz confirmed the first west nile virus death. have been reported so far. the health department plans to spray for mosquitoes in the milford are here to of baltimore after 7:30 in the evening. let's check in the morning commute. >> we have a lot going on downtown and another crash and northern parkway. closures for the grand prix race. 395 is closed at mlk. if you don't have anywhere to get into the city, you are diverted into a m.l.k. downtown. 295, coming on that, closed at pratt street. pratt street is closed from paine street to calvert street. all week and the closures a going to be in effect. we will give you a look outside at the northwest corner of the beltway. 395, you can see that traffic is heavy moving into the city. all traffic is diverted onto mlk. >> this morning, lots of sun, a little hayes, patchy fog as well. humidity is beginning to drop a little bit, but still high this morning. it will be a lot drier this afternoon. it will be hot. plenty of sunshine. west winds at 6 to 12 miles per august 31st, 2012. perfect

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