baseball hall of famer steve carlton and ken griffey senior and chris cooper is also there. collin peterson is hosting the event in honor of hotdog month. obama'st barack approval rating among americans a standing at 42% this noon according to a new cnn poll. it has been basically unchanged since march despite a variety of challenges faced by the president. the president numbers edged down last year after controversies involving intelligence leaks and allegations about the irs targeting conservative groups. >> coming up -- >> even if you say something like i'm in the middle of dinner, that means i shouldn't call. >> seven is on your side with consumer tips on how to stop telemarketers from bugging you. >> and a teenager being honored for her heroic deed. >> a 7 on your side health alert of out of the spreading mosquito virus. >> and taking a live look outside this noon, it is hot and muggy but that m >> we want to check some headlines from around the world. secretary of state john kerry is in israel on a diplomatic mission to push forward a cease-fire in gaza. he's meeting with isr

the inspiration for the 8-year-old chris to write this book someday was sitting in a classroom at lake collinselementary school and hearing martin luther king's "i have a dream" speech for the first ti time. he says i have a dream one day on the red hills of georgia the sons of slaves and the sons of slaveholders come together and brotherhood. >> host: we talked about that last night. >> guest: yesterday you and i stood at the lincoln memorial at that same spot that he gave that speech. you know, and to be frank i don't want to put words in your mouth and maybe you'll disagree with me but could we have done that if i had not written this book and been honest about our history? >> host: we could have but it would not have happened so soon. i believe we would have maybe a year or so from now because like i said, there is not a racist bone in your body. >> guest: and not in yours either for that matter. >> host: so it's easy to talk. we could sit down have a beer and talk about just about anything and not be offended by what the other is saying. so yeah man, we could have stayed up there a year f

joining me for our daily fix, chris cillizza, managing editor of postpolitics.com and "new york times" white house reporter jackie collins. we don't often have a soap opera like this. and the defense is, it was a marriage problem, not a bribery problem. >> we have a live blog at "the post" going on on the bob mcdonnell trophy. when i read that crush defense, i seriously read it twice because i thought i misread it. now look, bob mcdonnell's political career probably ended the moment that they started writing about these gifts from jonnie williams. it just showed you the legal machinations are different than the political ones. you could never imagine this going on in politics. but legally, what they are trying to do here is say, this was not a coordinated attempt to sort of offer jonnie williams and his company extra access, that he bought his way into the governor's mansion but rather this was the story, essentially, of a marriage that was dissolving and another man who also happened to be giving lots of money to the mcdonnell's daughters for their wedding presents and to the mcdonnells themselves. another man entering

chris kyle. he said he's not finished trying to clear his name. >> i plan to visit harper collins.ished the book and did no due diligence. harper collins says future editions of the book will not include the passage. >>> there may be a drug sitting in your cabinet right now. every day people die from illegal pain pills. deputy editor lisa gill joins us at the table. hey, lisa gill. >> good morning. >> what made you look into it to begin with and what did you find? >> we started taking a close look at things that came out from the cdc. we were astounded at the stalgerring figures of who was gets sent to the e.r. 500,000 people a year go to the e.r. because of overdoses because of these very dangerous pain drugs, drugs like vicodin, percocet, oxycontin. 7,000 people died e'er year. >> right. >> you get it from your doctor. >> right. >> you think the dodge tore knows best. >> we think the doing tors are well intentioned. the reason people show up to a doctor's office is to relief pain. >> these are commonly prescribed medication. you get them after childbirth, a root canal, but is it

collins. i am pleased to have the opportunity to introduce dr. robert stern and chris nowinski. dr.stern is director of boston university of school of medicine. he is director of the clinical corps of the boston university alzheimer's disease center. he received undergraduate from welllynn university. he served on the faculty of brown medical school and the university of north carolina school of medicine. dr. stern's research has led to more than 250 peer review publications and helped us to better understand the effects of trauma and aging on the human brain. he's here today with m r. nowinski who is the cofounder and director of sports institute. it is focused on addressing the issue of brain trauma through education, through policy and through research. he received his undergraduate degree from harvard university where he played defensive tackle for the football team. after college, he became a professional wrestler. in his own experience in that sport with head trauma, led him to cofound the sport's legacy institute. he currently serves as an advisor on the nfl players associati

. >> columnist and author chris collins -- tomlinson in his family's lake holdings legacy and how muchegacy of slavery affects today's society. he talked to lydian tomlinson's brother about this on c-span2's after words. >> i have trouble picking on one part of the war. it is the conference of causes and timing. things happened in particular sequence and what you had by 1914 was certainly pressure building up. you also have a growing acceptance of the possibility of war which is very dangerous. whenever there's a crisis people didn't say if there is a war but when there is a war and there was real expectation that at some point there would be a general european war. even some people think it might be a relief. one of the image is often used at the time, very oppressive, heavy, it would be a relief to get it over with and we will feel better and have a quick short war and have peace. what you also had was a dangerous sense by 1914 that we could get through these crises. ac your ease of crises getting closer together, the two crises, one of bosnia and a series of crises in the balkans in