bill rothstein, marjorie diehl-armstrong. even another suspect, a crack dealer named kenneth barnes. barnes claimed brian wells was in on the plot from the beginning and that he was duped. >> wells was essentially told he would be robbing the bank but the device being put around his neck would be fake so he would not be putting himself in harm's way. as it turns out he was double crossed. >> criminologist, jim fisher, believes it was rothstein who wanted to pull off the perfect i do bol -- diabolical crime that would baffle investigators. the scavenger hunt would send them to a dead-end. the confusing yet meticulously collar bomb, even the white t-shirt brian wells wore into the bank spray painted with the word "guess," to fisher, all hatched in the mind of a madman. >> the kind of motive we can understand, like a standard bank robbery, someone needs the money. then we have a catory of crime involving motive a normal person can't really understand. >> you're describing bill rothstein. >> that would be bill rothstein in my min

. >> that would be bill rothstein in my mind. to me he fits too a t the profile of someone who commits such a bizarre and pathological crime. >> now four years after the original crime the government had to prove in court its theory was correct. and there were two big problems. rothstein, the alleged master mind died before being officially linked to the crime. and the other main suspect had doled so many lies she was showing evidence of mental problems and a personality disorder. >> the mental illness was a 30-year history. the personality disorders were a 30-year history. >> over many delays and many more years the government finally obtained convictions on charges of bank robbery and murder. life plus 30 years for margery armstrong. a lesser sentence for kenneth barns because he testified on behalf of prosecutors. brian wells who died with that bomb around his neck, well, the federal government says he, too, was in on the crime. >> when brian delivered the pizza he was accosted on gun point by a group of strangers whom he did

rothstein draws his gun, which he had a permit for. shoots three times, and shoots -- really wings -- miraculously doesn't hurt them but literally shoots three cops through the door. you would think one would go to jail for this. cops don't like that even if you mistakenly shoot them. but he has enough clout to get away with that, not be indicted, not have his permit yank, and the cop who makes a big stink is harassed and virtually thrown off the force for years. >> host: was he a known figure in american culture at that point in his life. >> guest: well, we see in the great gatsby, a character who is modeled on arnold rothstein. we also see in "guys and dolls" which comes later, damon runnion supposedly models nathan detroit on him. and there's a movie which stars spencer tracy which seems to go against casting. but, yes, he is well known, and the interesting thing about when he dies. you would thick the headlines would say, arnold rothstein, shot, and it's like none of that. that is way, way, way down, if at all in the stories becaus

who was arnold rothstein? >> guest: arnold rothstein was the father of modern organized crime. gangland figure. a mobster figure. but he is not one of those dees, dem, and does guys. he doesn't have a scar on his cheek or brass knuckles or commanding as part of his main business an army of thugs. although he will employ the muscle guys to collect debts and such. but he is, as one of his earlier biographers called him, the big bankroll, and he is a gambler when gambling is big and farcable and semi legal in new york and moves into so many things from there, as his big bank roll, where he is putting together the money for rum-running and bootlegging and financing both side of organized labor disputes, even financing at one point the folks from the communist party. i guess the shipment of cash had not come in fro moscow that month. but he is lending money to build broadway theaters and put broadway shows on and financing the modern drug trade so he is involved install -- involved in all of these things, no to mention fixing the 1919 world series, fixing a few high-stakes horse rac

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rothstein is involved with protecting the crooked bucket shops.bucket shops were a phenomenon of, a pre-crash phenomenon. and, you know, it's one thing to gin up sales with, you know, just churning accounts. but what they would do at bucket shops is they'd say you should buy anaconda copper or something. and it was designed that it was going to crash. it was going to go down. but they would never buy the stock. and then they would, they would pretend to buy it and then sell it back or just give you part of the proceeds. and rothstein would be involved in protecting these things which were protected, also, by tammany hall, which were protected by tom foley who was the patron of al smith and one of the big ball club owners, horace stoneham's father was a big bucket shop operator. >> host: roger, you had a follow up? >> caller: yes, if i may. i wonder, also, what role did organized crime play in the '60s election? my sense has been they really backed both sides to protect their cuban interests. >> guest: i haven't heard of organized crime being invol

>> guest: rothstein is often not in favor of anyone. [laughter] [talkingver each other] >> guest: there's a great divide between conservatives and libertarian. i do know that there was some issue as to whether reagan should have had a little more control over the federal reserve, and in that case, rothbard. unless they had completely messed up, he would ask for them -- they would ask for their head. up until that point, he was kind enough to let them have their head. >> host: marine from san rafael, california, yuan with david pietrusza. >>aller: good morning for the day. my question is about the provenance baseball team in providence, rhode island. do you have any history could talk about as this version history of that team. 1898 through 1902, i know from postcards, there was not a lot from one of the players sent. >> guest: why your personal interest in this? >> caller: i had a great uncle who was a player and he wrote my great aunt and he was from the providence braves. that is all i know about him. there is a picture of him in a ba

paul rothstein? guest: there's a point to that. be careful secessionists, you may get what you want. and that might be bad for you. the hurricane example. that is one. if it did happen, there would have to be, and there would be agreement between the new country and the united states that might provide for economic aid in situations like that. it would be enacted state interest to keep that country friendly to prevent foreign invasions and things like that. they had that trouble in england with ireland. host: many cite the declaration of independence and their reasoning or in their process for declaring that they want to secede from the united states. how does that work? guest: the declaration of independence was a secession from england. so they say, what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. he said that it showed that there was a union of these states, strong in the salvable union that they all get together to sign a declaration of independents and the united states eventually, the artic

stockton, who investigators say was living in bill rothstein on the day of the bank robbery. by the name jay. >> jay stockton is a convicted rapist, serial sexual battery of his wife, and he's out there, he's out there, people. >> he is the only one left alive and sane enough to tell the truth she believes. yet the federal government has allowed him to go free. >> they know that my brother's innocent, 100%. and they know that bill rothstein, jay stockton are the co-conspirators in this crime that killed brian. the case say floyd stockton was deeply involved in the plot, barnes saying the day of the crime, he went in and got the bomb and handed it to rothstein. when the u.s. district attorney was asked buy -- after our initial phone call, buchanan never talked to us again and at a news conference in erie, the current u.s. attorney, david hickston wasn't talking either. >> marjorie deal armstrong's attorney says there's good reason why the u.s. attorney and the fbi want to keep quite by james stockton. >> he got immunity from the government, absolutely, clear, convicted sex off

paul rothstein, thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate your analysis. tonight at 11:00 you can hear what the attorneys generals of maryland and virginia have to say about the healthcare reform. doug gansler and ken cuccinelli join us tonight at 11:00. >>> outrage over the trayvon martin shooting has taken a scary turn for a florida family. elaine and david mclean say director spike lee mistakenly tweeted their address and said it was george zimmerman's. zimmerman is the neighborhood watch captain who shot and killed the 17-year-old martin last month. lee is not responding to this report tonight. >>> prince george's county council member karen toles going to court despite her citation for reckless driving. toles was caught going more than 100 miles per hour on the beltway in a county owned vehicle last month. she was initially cited for unsafe lane change and given a warning for speed, put police reviewed the case and cited toles for reckless driving. her trial is set for next month. >>> coming up later on 9 news now at 7:00 a former tsa agent is grounde

stockton, who investigators say was living in bill rothstein on the day of the bank robbery.es by the name jay. >> jay stockton is a convicted rapist, serial sexual battery of his wife, and he's out there, he's out there, people. >> he is the only one left alive and sane enough to tell the truth she believes. yet the federal government has allowed him to go free. >> they know that my brother's innocent, 100%. and they know that bill rothstein, jay stockton are the co-conspirators in this crime that killed brian. >> according to this fbi affidavit, investigators learn of stockton's knowledge to the crime when stockton talked about it in a monitored phone call from jail. stockton was released then given immunity to testify for the government in the pizza bomb case. investigators say they compared stockton's handwriting to this handwriting, on those scavenger notes found in brian's car, there was a perfect match. >> the authorities believe there were at least two people who wrote the notes and jay stockton is definitely one of them. >> my name is kenneth eugene barnes. >> there

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rothstein and mr. grounded for having the indecency of taking the word unlimited seriously. the incidents are very isolated. of course they are. i wouldn't presume to argue the legalities in these cases. if you are an airline named american wouldn't you know that to dream big is the american way? what bigger way to dream if you like air travel. flying a combined 57 million miles. mr. rothstein and mr. vroom i salute you tonight. i raise my tray table in your honor. that's all for us tonight. ac 360 starts now. >>> we begin with breaking news. u.s. officials say they have foiled a terrorist plot to blow up an airliner. they have not say where or when it happened. here is what we do know. according to the fbi, an improvised explosive deviceas

ron rothstein >>mark: a freshman senator attacked a senior in the hallway as a group watched his and prevented others from breaking up the fight. this comes on the heels of a bullying incidents in vallejo and concord. the officials said they are alarmed at what happened at the hospital -- high- school and then to review their policies. >> we really want to take a look at what we're doing in our schools that allows for students to learn how to solve problems in ways other than using violence. >>mark: a muni train to towns and power lines yesterday around 4:00 p.m. on market street. a train passing by knocked down live power lines. incredibly, only minor injuries were reported. service was disrupted for several hours. >>james: of the skies and sunshine furious see some even have some clouds out there. partly cloudy skies as the week of air and get out the door. temperatures are also on the mild side. cool in the north bay with upper forties. more temperatures this afternoon. take a look at how the temperatures should play out. >>george: a potential hot spot along the doe will drive a b

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and the most interesting from paul rothstein professor of law and georgetown, and teacher. and went on the radio in washington, talking about everything influenced by roberts other than the constitution. he didn't want to see him being uncaring or unresponsive to health care. and he had good health care, he was in business for a while and to do with the constitution-- >> the media did little coverage of, for example, only the l.a. times covered the two justices, scalia and thomas were fetted at a conference all we hear is impugning roberts-- >> it's not impugning, it's observing as cal says, on roberts come our way, come our way and howard kirsch summed it up. the media's man crush on roberts. and what about that, judy, because prior to the issuing of this ruling in much of the media, onroberts was a conservative patsy and then all of a sudden, he becomes a man of the hour when he votes to uphold obama care with the majority. >> and talk about flip-flop, i mean, this was the media almost on that, flipping on this man who had been satan incarnate just before the decision. i

thank you, paul rothstein and joe madison. >> thank you. >> might be my next stop. thank you all for your time. >>> coming up -- rush limbaugh's sorry excuse for an apology has some republicans circling the wagons. but it hasn't changed my mind. rush has got to go. >>> and some dramatic new proof that the gop primary is hurting mitt romney. and helping president obama. "politics nation" is here in montgomery, alabama, all week long. we're marching for voting rights, immigration rights, for education rights and for our civil rights. we're here to talk about what's going on in this country. 47 years ago, people were beaten with clubs, attacked with teargas and murdered fighting for the try to vote. they were just asking for the right to vote. today, we find ourselves under attack again. voter i.d. laws, suppressed voters. so we're marching here. all the sacrifices and the people that gave their lives for equality. it's not about the past. it's about the future. we're not in the promised land yet, but the same god that brought us across the red sea of selma 47 years ag

and rothstein, about the fixing of the 1916 world series. join us live with your calls, e-mails and tweets for david petruza sunday on book tv's in depth on c-span2. >> this is c-span 3. every week 48 hours of people and events telling the american story on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs on our websites. and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. house oversight committee republicans continued their criticism of the energy department's loan guarantee program, releasing e-mails between an energy department contractor, and executives from one of the companies that received government funds. the co-ceo of the company testified before the government sub committee. he and three other executives said the government backing was instrumental in moving forward on a number of large scale renewable projects. the program was administered by the energy department, and is the same department that gave loans no solyndra. this is about two hours and ten minutes. >> you had to listen to us talk for a few minutes

rothstein and mr. vroom are still grounded for having the indecency of taking the word unlimited seriously. the incidents are very isolated. of course they are. i wouldn't presume to argue the legalities in these cases. if you are an airline named american wouldn't you know that to dream big is the american way? what bigger way to dream if you like air travel. flying a combined 57 million miles. mr. rothstein and mr. vroom i salute you tonight. i raise my tray table in your honor. that's all for us tonight. ac 360 starts now. >>> piers, thanks, good evening, everyone, it's 10:00 here on the east coast. they have foiled a terrorist plot to blow up an airliner, they're not saying where, oar when it happened. here's what we know, according to the fbi an improvised explosive device was seized and fbi officials are investigating it. it's a nonmetallic explosive similar to the one the underwear bomber used in his failed attempt in 2009. similar but not the same. the plot has the hallmarks of al qaeda in the

she chose the brian rothstein to do the interview. she sat down for two hours earlier this week, and she had been under the belief that it was going to run after the primary, but when drudge report got ahold of it last night, abc decided they couldn't hold it and they are putting it on tv this evening. >> let me go to you, dick. will this stop newt's surge? let me show you why i'm asking. today, two very well known far right republicans are -- or conservatives, i should say, say this won't matter at all. rush limbaugh and sarah palin. let me show you. >> i got a great note from a friend of mine. so newt wanted an open marriage. bfd, at least he asked his wife for permission instead of just cheating on her. that's a mark of character in my book. newt is a victim. >> the thinking that by trotting out this old gingrich divorce interview that's old news and it does feature a disgruntled ex, claiming that it would destroy a campaign, all this does, sean is incentivize conservatives and independents who are so sick of the politics of person

professor rothstein, your reaction. guest: and natalie, natalie's talking about a notification which is closely allied to secession. he refused to follow the federal law but used a part of the union. the constitution forbids that. there is a supremacy clause that says a federal law has to be followed, it is supreme. that would be punishable. i do not think it is possible to stay in the union and have nullification. abraham lincoln argued from the supremacy clause that there can be no secession because federal law is supreme. there are some flaws with that argument. i saw the new abraham lincoln movie. it is absolutely terrific. but it does show you that he bent the law very much in order to get, accomplish the vision he had. every once in awhile and history somebody comes along with that kind of vision. and it does show that some of these things are not subtle -- settleable by law. host: other than the fact that secession did not work for those states that wanted to do that in the 1860's, what other lessons can be taken

it was american that advised me to use the name rothstein for the second seat and said you are entitledin it or put newspapers in it, whatever you want to do, it's yours, whether you have a companion or not. >> all right. so i take it they didn't have any disagreement with you flying under your name, it was this second seat that you would book as bag rothstein. and sometimes you would have a friend in it and sometimes your bag would be in it, sometimes a relative or someone you just found whatever, right? >> i think that's correct. but the point would be that i flew this way for over 20 years, well before i even purchased the air pass. i would buy an empty seat next to me. so this was just sort of a peremptory decision on american's part. they showed up. >> you know what it looks like to me in reading this letter, it looks like they made a deal with you, you had a contract, they asked you to pay an awful lot of money, you paid an awful lot of money, you spent an awful lot of money for your companion and fast forward 18 years later they decided it's not such a good deal and decided to ch

joining us now to discuss a rap of all those arguments georgetown university law professor paul rothstein. paul, let's lay out can they leave part of the law and take out the individual mandate which many people consider the core? >> yes. that's right. the liberals on the court, the extreme liberals, said leave everything else alone. just take out the individual mandate that requires people to buy insurance. leave everything else in. the extreme conservatives on the court said well, no. strike everything down completely if you strike down the i have mandate, but there's -- the individual mandate, but there's an in between position which some of them aired which was some of the provisions do have a lot to do with the individual mandate. that's how they're funded like getting rid of preexisting conditions. got to have the money come from somewhere, but some of the provisions of this law, it's a very big, 1,700 pages, it's got a lot of things, got something in there trying to encourage doctors to go to underserved areas, subsidies to small business for offering health insurance. those may ha

bob rothstein works in bethesda. the first heat wave of the season carries an increased wave of heatstrokes. >> but you also see people who have any other underlying disease which is exacerbated by the heat. >> reporter: the small children and elderly need to be careful. >> stay cool and hydrated with something with electrolytes. >> reporter: lane you have to take care of your car. you don't want to be stranded. mike works in bethesda. >> we will see blown radiator hoses. >> reporter: make sure your hoses are clamped down. >> and they are not swelling. >> reporter: and don't forget to wear light colored loose fitting closes. rei are selling styles to fight the heat. >> they absorb moisture so it can evaporate. >> reporter: now health experts say people who work outside like folks at this construction site behind me need to stay hydrates. it's important to point out that pepco beefed up its crews. they are ready to respond to equipment issues. but make sure you conserve your energy. live in d.c. i'm shomari stone, new

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books, including "1920, the year of the six presidents," "1960, lbj versus jfk versus nixon" and "rothstein" about the fixing of the 1919 world series. join us live with your calls, e-mails and tweets for david pietrusza on sunday, july 1st for "in-depth" on c-span 2. >>> now a discussion on wind energy development and the production tax credit or ptc which gives wind farms a credit of 2.2 cents per kilowatt hour of energy produced. et credit expires at the end of the year. the atlantic hosted this one-hour forum. >> martin clemper, co-head of the infrastructure project, and then we have will est kempton, of carbon-free and steve clemons, senior vice president of development of nextera energy resources. maybe i should have put that, too. i know he's out there looking at what works and what doesn't. we're going to talk for just a little bit ourselves and then open to all of you for a broader set of questions. and i come at this as a lay person, but i did -- i do have some images. wind part of this. whenever i'm discussing this subject, i wonder why i'm discussing it. am i discussing it becau

rothstein and mr. grounded for having the indecency of taking the word unlimited seriously. the incidents are very isolated. of course they are. i wouldn't presume to argue the legalities in these cases. if you are an airline named american wouldn't you know that to dream big is the american way? what bigger way to dream if you

rothstein and mr. vroom i salute you tonight. i raise my tray table in your honor. that's all for us tonight. ac 360 starts now. >>> we begin with breaking news. u.s. officials say they have foiled a terrorist plot to blow up an airliner. they have not say where or when it happened. here is what we do know. according to the fbi, an improvised explosive device was seized. officials say the device was meant for use by a suicide bomber. they say it's a nonmetallic explosive similar to the one the underwear bomber used in his failed attempt to blow up a destroyed bound airliner in 2009. similar but not the same. officials also say the blot has the looks of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. congressman peter king in new york is chairman of the homeland security committee. he's been briefed on the plot and joins us on the phone. what are the latest you can tell us? >> i got briefed by secretary napolitano and john brennan. basically it's a nonmetallic deaf vits, intended to be put on an american-bound airline. it never made to it the airline. it's right now as you said b

paul rothstein from the jorntown university law center. and jonathan turley.thank you for being here. i want your thoughts on the ruling overall. >> extraordinary line-up. most predicted 5-4. but not that 5-4. what is astonishing to me is damage done to federalism. roberts builds up federalism and then proceeds to destroy it. he says this is not something you can do under the commerce clause. >> bret: semantic decision. for insurance. >> right. for people like myself who believes in federalism, that is excellent thing to say. but then he show house the taxing authority can result in vir come vention of federalism. it's hard to see what is left. it's hard to see the limiting principles. roberts is the one saying what is the limiting principals to do it under the commerce clause? you were left reading the agreement what is the limiting principle? it's a tax. now with oral arguments can i have a law to require people to buy cell phones? he clearly thought that was no. but you are left reading the opinion saying can i have a tax if you don't buy a cell phone? >> b