you'll remember thomas frank because he wrote "what's the matter with kansas." omas, you are a liberal who blames liberals for the sake of the country. why? what's the case? >> we have a very liberal president in the white house right now and when he first came in, he came in faced with this sort of 1930s, 1932, '33 style situation. we all thought he was my generation's franklin roosevelt and look what happened. inequality has grown worse and worse under his watch as it grew worse under bill clinton's watch back in the 1990s. so a lot of people -- >> wait a minute. barack obama, to his critics, is a socialist. that's what the republicans have been saying for eight years. and you're saying what? >> it's highly ironic. >> you're saying he's not liberal enough and bill clinton wasn't liberal enough? >> that's right. there's liberals and then there's liberals. the kind of liberals i'm talking about is a very different animal. you know, it's been extinct in democratic party councils for a long time, since the 1970s, 1980s. >> bill clinton was in philadelphia this week

was challenged by some protesters in the audience and when the subject came to welfare reform, thomas franktened to what he had to say. >> they say the welfare reform bill increased poverty then why do we have the largest drop in african american poverty in history when i was president? the largest in history? >> doesn't he make a good point? isn't that the effect and isn't he deserving of credit for that? >> for the nasdaq bubble? yeah, that was awesome. maybe we can get that back. look, if bill clinton was really good on economic issues, if that's what we credit him for and look back and say he was a great president because the economy was doing so well, then the greatest president of all time was calvin who had the greatest stock market bubble of them all and left office just before it exploded, the same with clinton. look, clinton said something else when he was confronting protesters talking about the 1994 crime bill and this is a subject i researched in some detail. people have not really grasped exactly what happened back then. it's much uglier than people think. >> you heard bill cl

here's a look at what's on prime time tonight: >> thomas frank is next on booktv. he looks at the impact of liberalism on government policies in his book, "listen, liberal." >> welcome, everyone. my name's rick mcarthur, i'm the publisher of harper's magazine and the proud part owner of this beautiful independent bookstore on -- [applause] manhattan's beautiful upper west side. one reason i invested in this store was to help harper's magazine but also 'cuz i couldn't stand to see another cash machine open on columbus avenue. and -- i'm serious. and i am going to make an appeal to you before i introduce tom. because we're involved in a culture war here in this space that is worth fighting, the real culture war. and that is the fight against amazon's domination of the book market which is becoming worse and worse and worse. and this is fortuitous tonight because tom not only is the former easy chair columnist of harper's magazine and a longtime contributor, but he also in the book was kind enough to give me a laugh line about amazon which i'm going to use right now.

brook thomas, cbs3 eyewitness news. >>> well, train and christina celebrated their anniversary and franksoday will tonight. and they got to go backstage. >>> are you ready for something new and exsite tipping in the morning starting tomorrow wake up with official, brook and jim donovan will be joined by katie and johnson to start your day off right with the right mix of information you need and stories that will make you smile and feel great about living here. watch the new eyewitness news this morning starting tomorrow at 4:30. exciting times there. so i'm kind of excited about the weather it's going to get warmer. what's happening? >> it's all over the place. >>> its a season of transition, spring she doesn't know what she wants just yet. those winds. storms, rolled in, severe winds. and then we had the winds on top of that after the storms rolled out a potent clipper system rolled in. severe weather last night and winds were whipping even after that all through the night and through the first half of the day today check out some of these peak wind gusts. gusting at 63 miles per hour in

brook thomas, cbs3 eyewitness news. >>> well, train and christina celebrated their anniversary and franksthday today will tonight. and they got to go backstage. >>> are you ready for something new and exsite tipping in the morning starting tomorrow wake up with official, brook and jim donovan will be joined by katie and johnson to start your day off right with the right mix of information you need and stories that will make you smile and feel great about living here. watch the new eyewitness news this morning starting tomorrow at 4:30. exciting times there. so i'm kind of excited about the weather it's going to get warmer. what's happening? >> it's all over the place. >>> its a season of transition, spring she doesn't know what she wants just yet. those winds. storms, rolled in, severe winds. and then we had the winds on top of that after the storms rolled out a potent clipper system rolled in. severe weather last night and winds were whipping even after that all through the night and through the first half of the day today check out some of these peak wind gusts. gusting at 63 miles per

chevy chase has performed there, frank sinatra, denny thomas, bob hope, several times.y kimmel, seth meyers, stephen colbert, got a little notoriety from his appearance there. wolf blitzer. wolf blitzer is sitting with rice previous -- priebus. [indiscriminate chatter] [indiscriminate chatter] [indiscriminate chatter] >> youriminate chatter] are watching c-span's live coverage of the correspondents dinner. now.are eating the entrÉe was just served. so, they program, the second 9:45.s due to begin at they may be on time once they get to the program. -- people sending out are sending out tweets. bill nye the science guy sent out this picture with karlie kloss. and this photo of bernie and jane sanders. finally, rachel mcadams sent .his photo of her at the dinner she got a reception prior to the dinner. and bernie and jane sanders are there. bernie sanders is not wearing a tux. he is a guest of cbs. you can see the different lighting in the room. the stage is a list for television. the room, not so much. 200 people are back in the kitchens. 200 people are working serving.

thomas explains the personal route in tonight's bay area proud. >> henry and todd matheson take a stroll in santa clara's natural area. these women grab a cup of coffee.x%m%qm frank as he reco from a stroke. three different pairs, three different activities, more than one thing in common. the first is that each of these people battles a type of mental illness. the second is that they have all found each other thanks to a suggestion made a decade ago by a south bay artist with his own troubled past. >> not how you should do it but my experience and how it worked for me. >> for 20 years after serving vietnam war, he suffered deeply with ptsd. it cost him jobs, relationship, at times it cost him almost everything. >> anger, tears, on your release. you just carry that around. >> reporter: michael says painting is one of the things that helped turn thins around for him. >> it gives me purpose, meaning and fulfillment. >> reporter: but what also worked was a buddy system a veterans group he used to support each other. it is why he suggested a similar group while working with santa clara chapter of nami, national alliance on mental illness. it matches someone currently

thomas explains the group with the very personal roots. >> henry and todd take a stroll in santa clara's natural area. for cindy and stephanie, grab a cup of coffee and ray visits frank as he recovers from a stroke. three different pairs. three different activities. more than one thing in common. the first is that each of these people battles a type of mental illness. the second, is that they have all found each other thanks to a suggestion made a decade ago by a south bay artist with his own troubled past. >> not this is how you should do it but this has been my experience and my, what's worked for me. >> for 20 years after coming home from serving in the vietnam war, michael rogen struggled deeply with ptsd. it cost him jobs, relationships, at times cost him almost everything. >> anger, and fear. you just carry that around. >> michael says paint something one of the things that helped turn things around for him. >> it gives me purpose. meaning and fulfillment. >> but what also worked, was a buddy system, a veterans group he knew would use 0 to help support each other. it is why he suggested a similar group while working with the santa clara county chapter of nami,

frank gilbert, his grandson, is here with us as well. the book argues that brandeis was the greatest critic of bigness in business and government since his hero, thomas jefferson. finally, i'm starting a new book on william howard taft, which argues that marshall was taft's hero, and that taft was one of the most successful chiefs since marshall himself. that is why i'm eager to compare the clashes and compromises of these two great teams of constitutional rivals. marshall and jefferson on the one hand, and taft and brandeis on the other. comparison of these two teams of rivals has led me to the following thesis. marshall and jefferson were personal and ideological opponents who privately derided each other in colorful terms and jefferson accused marshall of twisted occasions and marshall reciprocated by calling jefferson the great mama of the mountain. mountain.f the not sure what it means. something to do with being in charlottesville and looking down and people from the top of the mountain. nevertheless, marshall became the most successful chief justice in american history because of his ability to win over jeffersonian justices who were his ideol

frank sinatra and howard hughes. >> and hot howard hughes. not like leonardo dicaprio. >> well said! >>> this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. >> good morning, i'm brooke thomasut three hours away. the parade starts at 20th and market, it mars to dilworth park, across from city hall. we'll bring you the parade live on cbs-3 right after a special hour-long edition of "eyewitness news" at noon, and if you won't be near a tv, check it out live on line at cbsphilly.com. now the eyewitness weather forecast, meteorologist, katie fehlinger live with that. katie, good afternoon? >> good morning, brooke, yes, looking here at some beautiful weather for the parade, little chilly, and definately little breezy out there. >> residual moisture on the back side of the system as it pulls away, might finds quick spring old back through say travel west on the pa turnpike for example, but this is all trying to fizzle with time. so, don't worry too much about that having any kind of damper on the parade plans, 44 the current temperature, probably be right around 50, or so, as we step-off at 20th street. but that wind, take a look, 20 miles per hour, so you will notice that, and t