franken became senator al franken and davis continued in comedy, wrote books, and famously experimented with and enjoyed to the fullest a slew of drugs from opium to lsd. lauren michaels discovered the duo doing stand up in l.a. they worked on "snl" for 13 years on and off and shared three emmys for their work. tom davis dead of cancer at the age of 59. >>> you might call the following the sound of freedom. ♪ o say can you see >> let me explain this. william dillon was convicted of murder and sent to prison when he was 21 years old. he spent 27 years behind bars before he was cleared of the charges with the help of the innocence project. once he was freed, he had a wish -- to sing the national anthem at a tampa bay rays baseball game. the team granted his wish, and he nailed it. when we come back here tonight, good or bad, here it comes. is the biggest blockbuster of the summer going to be worth all the hype? >>> finally tonight it is easily the most anticipated movie of the summer, for the most part getting stellar reviews and heading for a huge opening weekend. in fact as demand for "

[laughter] chris: al franken was in that. the senator from minnesota. when we come back, this supreme court is the oldest in many decades. several members of the court could retire in the next presidential term. so mitt romney could make this court even more conservative. and that could last for decades. plus scoops and predictions right from the notebooks of these top reporters. be right back. chris: welcome back. supreme court historians say that if mitt romney wins this election, the fact that he'll have nearly certain vacancies, to fill, could make the supreme court the most conservative in all of american history. there are four justices in their mid to late 70's right now. making this the oldest court since the new deal. a study by the way show that the average retirement age. justices over recent years has been 78. and mitt romney is scompange for the chance to make it more -- campaigning for the chance to make it more conservative. >> browbeat the supreme court. in the second term, he would remake it. our freedoms would be in the hands of an oba

hundred and forty four dollars per hour harry reid raised two thousand and sixty eight per hour al franken took in a thousand eight hundred seventy five for our john mccain when he grabbed an hour early one thousand eight hundred twenty three dollars and it's also don't forget marco rubio his hourly fund raising haul equals to one thousand eight hundred twelve now even the least prolific senate fundraiser mike lee he raised one hundred forty three dollars an hour which is two hundred eighty six thousand dollars on an annual basis that's a lot of money so let's move on to the house here tea party favorite michele bachmann she topped the list raising the equivalent of three thousand three hundred and ninety one dollars for our speaker john boehner raised two thousand four hundred forty nine allen west took in one thousand six hundred and thirty six and house majority leader eric cantor one thousand four hundred eighty nine and let's not forget about joe wilson he's a south carolina representative who accused obama of lying during the state of the union in two thousand and ten and he reaped a

. >> here's what it boils down to, al franken and i put in a bill several month ago. on the financial disclosure forms for all members of congress, for all candidates for president and vice president, you have to specifically disclose whether or not you or anyone in your family is invested in foreign tax havens to avoid taxes in the united states. i think that's a very basic question that should be asked not just of mitt romney but of all members of congress. all candidates for president. >> do you think mitt romney is abusing the american tax system and not paying his fair share? >> i don't know. i wouldn't draw that conclusion. i would say to him, present theeds. show us what you have done. have you paid your fair share of taxes. have you handled your financial affairs as a businessman and a person of wealth in a way that is responsible? >> thanks so much. >>> coming up, the republicans are coming unhinged. find out why they're rampin up the attack on president obama when we come back. >> and the 1% came out in droves this weekend to support mitt romney. we'll weigh

the chairman of a senate subcommittee, al franken, says it raises serious questions about privacy andendment garon what tees against unlawful searches. >> facial recognition already exists right here today, and we need to think about what that means for our society. unlike what we have in place for wiretaps and other surveillance devices, there is no law regulating law enforcement use of facial recognition technology. >> reporter: the fbi also has a pilot program in three states to gather facial images for its database, and some worry that data could be misused. but the agency says it's not gathering random images in public places, only data from mug shots to better identify people already connected to criminal activity. and as for facebook, the company feels privacy concerns are being met. >> with regard to the features specifically, it's turned on by default, and we give people the opportunity to go in and disable it if they don't want to use it. >> reporter: senator franken says legislation may be required to lay ground rules for who can use the technology and what they can do with

that's why i am happy to cosponsor the amendment of my colleague of minnesota, al franken. he's become an expert on trying to figure out how we can preserve the dynamism, the effectiveness, the efficiency of the internet but at the same time preserve our privacy. and as more and more of our economic lifeblood is shifted into the cyber world, we have an obligation to ensure the infrastructure that validates credit card purchases and directs planes and electricity is well-protected against a cyber attack. it is not a secret that people want to disrupt our way of life much it is easy to imagine a world where terrorists attempt to take control of railroad switches, traffic lights, to cause incredible disruption in our everyday lives. however, we must make sure that in protecting what we have, we don't stifle innovation, we don't trample on people's privacy rights. we have to leave room for the creation, from the next steve jobs, bill gates or whomever while protecting the security the average middle-class father the baileys feel when they go online to buy birthday presents for

group that senator schumer organized himself, senator michael bennet, senator tom udall, senator al franken, senator jeanne shaheen, senator jeff merkley and myself, who worked together to redraft this legislation, trim it down, and to organize today's vote and events and tomorrow's vote, and i want to thank all of them for their enormously hard work. i want to thank the pages who've had to stay very late and the floor staff who've had to stay very late, and i appreciate the fact that we have put a burden on them and on their families and we would not be doing that if we did not consider this to be a very, very important issue, and i want to thank the entire democratic caucus for their support of this. our colleague bill nelson has had a unique experience. he has actually ridden a rocket up into space. he has been up with the nasa program as an astronaut. in some respects, i feel that i and others who were leading this were only riding a rocket of the enthusiasm of our caucus to get it done for the sake of our country. i want to thank the american people, who went out of the their way to he

after the vote, minnesota senator al franken came to the senate floor to talk about his i friend andformer "saturday: wit night live" writing partner, tom davis who died last week. >> i rise today to talk about lost. i know i keep fromans when minn. when i talk about out to the families and friends of those who died and for those who were wounded in that massacre. anyone who has lost before can only feel outrage, horror and profound sadness. so many of those who died were so young. a number died heroically shielding a loved one from the mad man's bullet. so much grief, so much suffering is just unspeakable. the one hopeful lesson we can draw from this tragedy comes from the stories of courage and selflessness we've heard about those who were in the theater and the first responders and the outpouring from the community of aurora and the rest of the nation. minnesota unfortunately has also seen its share of senseless violence, something no state is immune to. hopefully out of this tragedy we can draw lessons that will make this, these kinds of tragedies far less common. but today i've

i'd like to open with thanks to senators chuck schumer, mike bennet, al franken, jeff merkley, jeanne shaheen and tom udall for their hard work in our task force that developed this legislation, and i look forward to continuing to work with them through this debate. on thursday, majority leader reid moved to proceed to had this vital piece of legislation, and we will vote on it this evening. i thank the leader. i and many of my colleagues are looking forward to the opportunity to make the case for this important measure. but in a sense for the american public, the case has already been made. as anyone who watches television knows, our airwaves are filled with political attack ads. the organizations paying for many of these ads have patriotic and benign-sounding names with words like prosperity and freedom and future frequently to be found. these names sound harmless, but all too often, the ads are actually paid for by secret special interests. billionaires and wealthy corporations seeking secret special influence in our democracy, and in the process drowning out the voices of regular

franken and cynthia tucker. thanks to you both for being here. >> good to be here, al. >> good to be here. >> now, bob, you see allhese reports of shakeups within romney's staff. is this just another example of him conceding to conservative critics or is this really a course to change his campaign? >> well, i think it might also be finally his realizing that his staff has not always served him well. we know about the famous etch a sketch comment and we know about what you characterize as the flip-flop on mandates. he's been doing somersaults on that for some time. to some degree, his campaign has been defined by back stepping, moon walking as i like to call it on occasion. but in the case of the staff, let us not forget these are the same people who put him in a 66,000 seat stadium with about 300 people there to watch a speech of his. i mean, that is just really a bone head blender. the realization he needs to put professionals in didn't come necessarily from rupert murdoch or those people. it's something that should have occurred to him a long time ago. >> now, when you look at the fact that there are really vari

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i'd like to start with particular thanks to senators chuck schumer, michael bennet, al franken, jeff merkley, jeanne shaheen and tom udall for their hard work on developing the legislation, and i look forward to joining them as this debate goes forward. the majority leader this morning moved to proceed to this vital piece of legislation. i thank him. i and many of my colleagues are looking forward to the opportunity to make the case in this chamber for this important piece of legislation. but in a sense, that case has already been made. as anyone who watches television knows, our airwaves are filled with negative political attack ads. the organizations that pay for these negative political attack ads all have patriotic sounding names dotted with words like "prosperity," and "freedom" and "future." the names sound harmless but they're phony. all too often the ads are paid for by secret special interest interests -- billionaires and wealthy corporations seeking special secret influence in our democracy and drowning out the voices of middle-class american families. as "usa today" put it