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in for ali velshi today. i'm going to be with you for the next two hours taking every important topic a step further. i'll try to give you a level of detail to help you put your world into context. let's get started. >>> here's the run down. one of america's iconic cities, country music capital of the world swamped by an unprecedented flood. >>> also, how did the times square bombing suspect almost get away? now because of him every single airport in the country is on a new alert right now. >>> plus, is there a solution to the gulf oil mess? crews are down to their final options and a new strategy for any of this work in time? but first, but first, this is one for the history books. weekend storms spawn record flooding in the mid south killing 28 people. mostly in tennessee. flood waters are receding but the recovery is only just beginning. now we're starting to see the enormous scope of all of this damage. in nashville, pieces of american history might be washed away. the country music hall of fame is closed

. >> sonny versus muhammad ali. no one happier with the ali victory than this kid -- joe robert.ryland, a fan long before he had enough money to pay for a ticket to see a fight. >> i wanted to become muhammad ali. you know, fourth grade. >> reporter: the oldest of five children, joe was always a scrapper. >> my first fight, god, i was probably four, five years old. >> reporter: from an early age he fell he had to defends himself and his mother against an abusive father. >> i was afraid of him. >> reporter: a trashed box of kid-sized boxing gloves led to a new venture. >> i got the whole neighborhood, put them in my backyard. i thought that by virtue of the fact i owned the gloves, i would be the best guy out there. and this kid whipped up on me like there was no tomorrow. >> reporter: by then joe's father was gone most of the time. >> my father left home when -- were in seventh grade. >> reporter: make nothingly payments to keep her kids in catholic school, joe's mother was proud when show graduated from st. john's military academy. and went on to mt. st. mary's college in maryla

i don't know. >> you can't tell me that. >> no. >> ali, my love. >> ali fedotowsky has already tapedrd is it to keep it a secret? >> so hard. >> write down the name or names of a guy that you feel is not here for the right reason. >> do you have a sense of which guys are maybe not there for the right reason, probably get a little, you know, publicity, maybe have a girlfriend at home. >> i think i get a good sense of what guys were there for the right reasons and wrong reasons. someone who treats me with respect and who is good to me. that's all i need. >> ali was a contestant and staked jake pavelka. soon after she admitted leaving was a mistake but bachelor jake wouldn't take her back. >> i will forever regret this decision. >> some people thought that was a way to manipulate jake in getting him to make you stay. >> no, absolutely not. i just wanted jake's advice. even though i do believe it's much more important to put love first over a career, i think in that instance it was probably the right choice for me because he's engaged and happy now. you know, i've had my own journey. >>

ali joins us this morning. good morning. >> good morning. how are you? >> great.st be very excited. >> i am. the show premieres tonight at 9:00. i'm looking forward to it. >> there's trips to iceland and tahiti. it sounds kind of wild, something with a broadway competition. what can people expect? it seems different than any of the bachelorettes we've seen before. >> yeah. there's just -- there's so much to see i guess on this season. we went to these places and did extraordinary things. i think, even, subtract also the amazing places and things we did, i think just in terms of the guys and the things that went on there's going to be quite a little bit of drama and scandal this season. i think it's going to be really good. >> drama and scandal equals good tv. i know last season you said you made some tough decisions. everybody kind of fell in love with you because you were so excited about your job and you had to make a tough decision which you later said was a big mistake. do you think you learned something from that? to kind of pull into this new experience? >>

. >> thanks, tonight, ali, the new bachelor rhett is here.

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aly takes 45 minutes. >> 45 minutes? three hours. >> actually 15., you mean with hair and makeup. you're right, absolutely right. >> part of the uniform. >> absolutely true and i'm happy, we aren't paid by the hour, but it's part of the job as it is with police officers. i don't know if you've ever seen police officers get dressed, i have because i worked as a crime reporter for a long timement it takes them half an hour between putting on the bullet prove vest, the gun, they have to shine all of their medals and buttons and shoes, and i mean, it is a long, long procedure and now, 843 police officers in denver want to be paid for that time which they previously have not been. >> and the lawsuit is going forward and the city says this could cost us up to $200 million if we're going to pay policemen for the time to get ready and undressed at the end of the day. now, here is a quote from the police uniform is not clothing in any ordinary sense. it's a visible sign of authority and essential element of the officer's ability to command compliance with hi

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the population and we will have to go through the same process we are going through in marja and nad ali in order to get the population generally to believe that its government is connected and committed to it. so it will require patience. over. >> general, tom morgan with national public radio. i want to focus what you said on karzai. you emphasized that he has a constitutional function. as you know, there have been serious allegations of corruption and that he has too much power in relation to his position in the provincial council. and i just want to focus -- is your strategy to somehow dilute his power and make sure the governor has more power and tribal elders? is that true in essence your strategy here? >> the a complex strategy and it hugely depends on the expression i've used a lot which goes with connecting the population with government. and what is happening at the moment is that governor wiessa is conducting a good deal of shura with local residents and the population and out in the rural areas to connect to them. what he's seeking to do is build representative governance fro

good morning, ali. >> reporter: that's right, the mothers of the three hikers left unfortunately without their children late last night. two iranians were arrested by u.s. troops for illegally entering iraq had been released yesterday, so there was some hope that this might affect the case of the three americans. i spoke to their iranian lawyers today and he said that investigation into their case was almost over, but they would almost definitely be facing trial. so there's still a long road ahead to see what the future is for these three u.s. hikers. >>> back here at home, police have arrested the 18-year-old ex-boyfriend of a 12-year-old colorado girl whose remains were found earlier this week. police arrested robert montoya and charged him with having sex with a minor, but he has not been charged in the murder of 12-year-old kayleah wilson. >>> bret michaels plans to attend tomorrow night's finale of the "celebrity apprentice." michaels of course was hospitalized earlier this week after having a ministroke, last month the 47-year-old rocker suffered a brain hemorrhage, michaels is one

trinidad was 40-0 when he got knocked out, and muhammad ali. >> who wins tonighghghgh floyd e job done. >> i agree. hard to go against floyd mayweather. tonight is fight night in las vegas. we'll send it back to you. >> thanks, guys. dan rayfield will have round by round scoring of tonight's fight. john scully with post fight analysis. live reports, post fight interviews all here. we'll keep you current on who has the edge from the mgm grand in las vegas. >> tonight's nascar sprint cup race in richmond, virginia, is named after heath calhoun. he won a contest which gives him the honor of starting the race and handing out the winner's trophy. he loved to swim, golf, cycle and run. all the more amazing considering what happened to calhoun seven years ago. heath calhoun tells us story. t. heath calhoun tells his story. >> say hi. nobody coming hard. >> i just remember as a child, you know, my grandfather listening to the nascar races. >> inside on the 70. sitting out on the front porch of his house. >> just really gave me my love for nascar. the green flag is in the air. >> my name is sta

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leaders at that time were so honest that when maulana maudoodi taunted liaquat ali khan the prime ministerwed liz bill at the next gathering that he still had to pay the taylor. what a contrast now! our rulers and leaders own luxurious villas, extremely expensive cars, foreign properties, and foreign-currency accounts. their luxurious way of living would put many to shame. their motorcades bring city traffic to a halt, causing untold miseries to the public. the emperors and kings in our history were kind. what do you say about this? we are seeing this in our own country now. >> that's the way popular -- he's stating a very popular view. at the same time, he's become very much an islamist. he's holding fundamentalist views on almost everything. what his argument boils down to is that we are not following the presepts of islam. >> many young pakistanis believe this. of course, many of this is true. we still don't have a stable government. we have corrupt rule. the political leadership includes the military, both civilian and military. the united nations is trying to develop the nation. our e

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so to see them as aly wolf as sky cosis when it is ide ideaology t is a mistake. >> what do you see. >> i think that-- i'm fascinated and miss at this find by somebody-- mystified by somebody who apparently did buy into the american dream. came here, did all the things that one does as an aspiring american, new american. goes to school, gets. mba. married, family. and something clicked. i mean whether, in fact, this was the manchurian candidate three or four years later. the common denominator is the islamic cleric al -laki, i guess. but he had that connection and he was sort of the sponsor, the ideaological sponsor, if you would. and spiritual councillor to the doctor at ft. hood to the christmas bomber. and again to shahzad. >> yeah, but there is also a person, the french writer had it years ago which is a lot of these guys including some of the 9/11 guys,, very well educated. they are caught between modernity and a fantasy version of pure islam. and they choose that fachbt see version. >> but we still don't know quite why. >> it is a matter of individual circumstances. >> let me i

ideas they get beaten up for that but they don't deserve to be and so i don't think we are going to see ali -- eye-to-eye. my experience being part of a women's studies and american studies department history of medicine department i am on the grout faculty of all of those departments in my university and i can tell you that the range of opinions expressed in the classroom and range of teaching is very wide and there will always be an attack on the most extreme or what seems to be the most challenging and the most inappropriate perspective in the mainstream -- >> host: if you say someone is feministing -- >> guest: i say feministing because i want to get -- >> host: it is a very radical website -- the feministing has so many voices. >> guest: the thing about this website including many others but the feministing group, those are young people who are trying to keep the conversation of life and whoever writes on it and comes on to it -- there's a lot of voices on the internet. i spread the weblog and i got a lot of voices from a lot of places and, you know, i took the voices that were out the

an attached to it an open letter to another good friend of mine koshy ali his wonderful new book, nomads about to be published tuning her as a refugee from somalia and friend mutilation and forced marriage and secretary in warfare of the oppression that she was next. and i can't even tell you where anymore because she too, like so many of my friends now, in europe in the united states has to go around with a permanent polygraph. where's the people who put fear of van gogh's picture website and say to that makers of comedy central, this is going to happen to you, sign revolution was on.com. there wasn't any fear at all. they seem to fear is that they are the first amendment protects them to. zero if it doesn't exist. architectures bph, this constitutional roof were so probably is to mean anything, they were going to have to say revolution.com cannot close down an american cable channel at win by making a little bit of a threat. so the question comes right back to where i initiated it, which is it's no wonder a hypothetical one. where not been asked what would you do when the climate of f

it's the final mission for the shuttle atlantis, aly. >> tell us how you feel about the next story. school based on the claim that they'll get a better education if you're involved. that's what the san jose district is proposing, mandatory volunteering for all parents for 30 hours per school year. gustavo gonzalez is school board trustee in the district. good morning, mr. gonzalez. >> good morning, how are you? >> i'm well. i'm sure our viewers understand the intention of the rule that you're proposing, that is to get more parents involved in their kids' school. however, how can you make this mandatory? what if parents have to work during the school day? >> yes, that's a great, great question. well, let's start with the beginning here. this policy is really about a statement that we want to make in our district about the importance of parent participation. research is clear on this, 48% of students success has nothing to do with their teefs, the facilities or the curriculum, has to do with parents participating in their education. as a school board trustee our job is to advocate for

remnick is the author of "king of the world," about mohamed ali and linens tim, the last days of the soviet empire. for more information, visit new yorker.com. >> from the 2010 los angeles times festival of books, author and talk show host tammy bruce discusses her books books and takes the tv viewer phonecalls. the program is in our. >> joining us here on our steps from outside of haines hall on the campus of ucla is radio talk show host author, tammy bruce. tammy bruce have you ever been invited to do the "l.a. times" festival of books? >> interestingly no. i am a local. might books have done well and i've never been invited to be on a panel or. >> why do you think that is? >> it is par for course. with the president of los angeles through the '90s for the most part and i think that when there is a transition like i have made in this city, which is very liberal, you tend to become like an apostate if you will, but it is important i think as an author of course that there are a lot of venues in which we can talk about her books, but i have been here anyway, courtesy of c-span, also

but secondly, you know, themy cn difficulty in the polling industry is how you ask aly, yon question. i think it's fair to say thatol- people are frustrated and wan-t the immigration fix.>> what that means we've allnt imm discussed, but that takes leadership that takes courage that takes frankly and i was part of some of the extreme rhetoric and sensationalism tory put aside now that there is a ot big album and a silver lining i arizona for the arizona law that cut the nation focused, that we have to do something. l got thnation time for parties tn come together and do it americana, arizona and other sommunities have done in the past, which is to fix and move forward and it won't be perfectn but inaction was -- i think the but inacis clearly showing that people don't and haven't wanted to step on the civil rights.i tn number two, they want somethingt that works in the more the frustration goes on, the more that i think people are going to understand that, you know, the t whole is not the tool. pw having said that, i thinkhik i'm the only anglo or y non-collared elected official,, pers

nbc's ali eruzzi is tehran. is this going to be better than expected? >> reporter: this morning the three detained students get a chance to spend a little more time with their mothers in a tehran hotel room fueling hopes for a humanitarian release. the reunion was a dave long-awaited joy for the mothers of three u.s. students, shane bauer, jash fattal and sarah shourd, held in iran for over nine months. it is a moment to cherish for the families that have waited so long. >> it's just overwhelming joy. >> reporter: the three detainees have been accused of espionage after straining into iranian territory, but no charges have been filed yet. while some experts fear the three americans could be drawn deeper into iran's nuclear standoff with the west, the families are hoping the iranians will show clemency. >> what we're doing as families is appealing to iran as family, as people, as human beings, totally independent of the political situation. >> reporter: for now they have to live on hope. the families' iranian lawyers tells nbc news it is very unlikely th

darkness so you can + imagine yyur children walking around in compresseddtent to tent ccnstructiin wow aliesullure of tens of thousands of them roaming around at night totally vulnnrable to predatory behavior as well as disease as well as fire as well as acceptable level by acceptable i'm talking about what seems to be the case in haati accepttble level of massive maal nutrition and so these, ttis is a situation where now -- and it shoull be underrtood. these tent camps ddd not exist in haiti pre-quake. so whee people look at these things on the news, understand that these hundreds of thouuands of people throughout believe it is displaced throughout are in a brand-new 3 where we have then come as ngos kind of services into the middle of this. in most cases, lighting ii not part of that. most casss generattrs a not there for lights that are not there to illuminateethe areas so when we talk about camp manaaement, and you'll sum rise this now, we're talking about a situation where ioo has been largely dependent upon to recruit those people who would there are charitable agencies, thereeare ngos

and what will be -- that aly. and what will be instructive is to see what the first surea in marja is and how often it has to be refreshed as it goes forward in terms of delivering the connection to the population. and that's a bit i shall be watching with interest and my sense is that we'll know pretty soon how well that's going. but it could be another 90 days before we got to show that's more representative and you might be looking even further down stream. it's frustrating, it takes time, but it's about convincing people and that's a political problem. over. >> with that i'm going to turn it over to you, general carter, for any closing remarks you'd like to make. >> no, that's kind. thank you very much for your questions anddfor your interest. i think you're now better informed and i'm sure you'll be watching this space with interest during the next few months. a very good morning to you. >> sure. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >

very interesting at least it was a big head result last time around for george galloway, this time ali is the labour candidate. hopes to be the first female muslim labour m.p. and let's just say it doesn't really help to look at the swing, i suppose. she could unseat the respect candidate. there is a respect candidate but it's not george galloway. >> it wasn't george galloway. and indeed george galloway has done worse where he has fought. he'll be the fourth labour gain of the selection. and a train spotter, especially for train spotters people have been saying the swing to the conservatives in this election is greater than margaret thatcher achieved in 1979. at the moment, it isn't. i say at the moment because margaret thatcher achieved a 5.3% swing. at the moment with a few seats left it's a 5.2% swing. in 1979, what happened is the conservatives went up 8 points and labour went down a little. this time the tory has gone up 4 points and labour has gone down a lot. it's not strictly true to say this is a bigger swing than margaret thatcher swing. >> you see the math has arranged itsel

you need to alie the rules, firmly and fair my. these are the ruehl rules sets by parliament. let's deal with this issue. i talked to them tonight. what in fact has happened is that people were admitted to the polling station fromed queue, it is about 70 or 80 of them. they're issued with a ballot paper before the 10:00 deadline. and so that was within the law. and then they -- >> and they voted. and they were locked in so they couldn't hear what the exit poll was. >> sorry. >> they couldn't hear the exit poll, they were locked in the polling station with their ballot papers. they couldn't go out and say, hey you heard the news? what happened? i'll go vote this way or that way. >> i don't think that's accurate. the people i spoke to would say they acted quite properly they property the voters in, and it was very crowd add they were leaving after they cast their vote. and that is within the law. >> and nick robins, got a brief question. i hope it'll be brief, we got other things to move on to. and let's go quickly. >> how was it different at-bat election in the 90's which were

bulls of course, a close ali of gordon brown and somebody who is likely to be in tight cop tension for the labor leadership should mr. brown step depoup. and of course, if he was to lose the seat, and that would not be possible. >> michael, thank you so much indeed. we'll hang on to this and see what happens. we'll come back and two asian women, one for labor and one for the conservatives and mack mud. >> and i mean, the ladywood and witen. and -- a labor hold that wasn't birmingham. it is fascinating news about -- about ed bulls and i don't know what we maid make of that, we shall see and while we wait for it, let's go to the vote and join an true neil. >> thanks, and the party sitting out here and the bar is still a there's journalists around as you would expect, let's speak to a couple of them. let's talk about the story that never happened, and the surge and they had the debate and they were picked up by the journalists and they got support of guardian and nourp. what went wrong? >> i think what happened is working class left wing britains have just been terrified by the prospects

fifth host: felicia, thank you -- host: ali shah, thank you for calling in on that. "in arkansas, hit from both sides, pennsylvania veterans experienced the issue. here in kentucky there is a vital test of the strength of the tea party." they are talking about the senate race to replace jim bunting. "in kentucky the senate race has become a front amongst tea party activists. senator jim bunting is retiring. mr. grayson has never served in washington but his association with mr. mcconnell has made him a lightning rod in this anything but washington year." here is the picture from "the new york times" this morning. asheville, north carolina. joyce, go ahead. caller: everything that happens in washington is underhanded and crooked. i have no trust in our government. social security, they say that we think of it as entitlement. i do feel like i was entitled, it was given to us by the government to help the taxpayer the pace for the schools in the streets and kept the politicians rich all these years. that is what we live on. i feel like affirmative action was in thailand

these are ali essential. i know that a speech at the washington institute on terrorism would not be complete without some remarks regarding the other side of the caller:, which is the state sponsors of terrorism. we have talked about the nonstate sponsors. good morning. since the start of the financial crisis, we've done much work to understand its root causes and pass robust reform legislation initially in the house and yesterday in the senate that will nd the era of too big to fail finanal companies, reform credit rang agencies and operation and implement a broad array of sorely-needed measures that will better protect innocent main street investors from unscrupulous wall street operators. in debating these matters, accounting and auditing issues have surfaced more than once. as a result, the house passed wall street reform bill which includes my reforms aimed at esponding to the madoff fraud by better regulating the auditors for brokered dealers. this legislation also contains my provisions designed to enh

everybody in this body addresses and teals with and that is providing mental health services and that is ali spoke to. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new york. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. for what purpose does the gentleman from missouri seek recognition? mr. skelton: pursuant to h.res. 1404, i offer an en bloc amendment, number seven. chip the clerk will designate the amendments en bloc. the clerk: amendments en bloc number seven, offered by mr. skelton of missouri, consisting of amendments 38, 59, 53, 6 072, 73, and 75 printed in house report 111-498. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 1404, the gentleman from missouri, mr. skelton, and the gentleman from california, mr. mckeon, each will control 10 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from missouri. mr. skelton: i urge the committee to adopt the amendments en bloc, all of which have been examined by both the majority and the minority. mr. chairman, i yield fiv

she is the author of king of the world about muhammad ali and lance tomb the last days of the soviet empire. for more information, visit newyorker.com. up next, syndicated columnist and former three-time presidential candidate pat buchanan joins book tv for the three hour "in depth" interview. >> host: pat buchanan, in the 2007 book day of reckoning in the chapter entitled the gospel of george bush you write that ideologies is the golden calf. ideologies is the substitute for religious faith. as ideologies that? >> guest: i can't know that it's bad but it is a substitute for faith and political religion. it is a system when foot of which is rooted in morality and the other of which is rooted basically in this idea concept of what the world was all about and what ought to be, and i think it is the great rival to conservatism. conservatism is traditionalism and a system of belief that comes out of wisdom and experience. there's people and the human race and basically out of the natural law philosophy what mankind human nature is like. let me give you one example of that. woodrow wilson

we're going to have aly change of plan. we're going to take one more question from the audience because mr. cantor has to leave earlier than we thought. one more question from the audience, and then from the press, which was going to have a separate opportunity for questions. so one more. all right. back there. >> i want to thank you for coming today. i realize you come at a great cost. and i thank you for your enthusiasm and passion for this country. my question is -- and this is something i personally don't understand. if it's a naive question, then i apologize. in light of what obama has done to leave us vulnerable, to cut defense spending, to make us vulnerable to our outside enemies and to sleight our allies, how -- what would he have to do differently to be defined as a domestic enemy? [laughter] [applause] >> let me respond very forthright to that. no one thinks that the president is a domestic enemy. it is important -- it is important -- it is important for us to remember we have the freedom of discourse in this cou

sayid mohammed ali shah, was released from guantanamo. but because during his attempts to destroy american lives, he had lost his leg below his knee, well we fitted him with a prosthesis that cost between $50,000 and $75,000. so those who were worried about if we just are nicer to these folks, we were nice to mr. masud, gave him a prosthesis to help him, even though he last his leg trying to kill us. we tried to help him and did. and gave him that wonderful prosthesis, american ingenuity at its best, creating a prosthesis like that that would help him walk, help him be a participant in society and so knowing that he would surely have to love us after we had helped restore his leg that he lost trying to be violent against us, he was released and he, according to pakistani officials, directed a homicide attack that killed 31 people in pakistan and then two months later, when he was about to be captured by pakistani forces, he blew himself up, including the $75,000 prosthesis. apparently it didn't mean a whole lot how nice we were to him in

countless more where the court orkes action, disposes of the m case without hearing.actual so there'll be aly few. this, there's a case involving the government's lawsuit against the tobacco industry where, which is currently pending at the court. if the court agrees to hear thae case which would probably happeu endire the decision to hear the case would happen before her confirmation, she would probably have to step aside from that,o e amost certainly. >> host: but that's not problem overall then. >> guest: well, i think it's probably considered a short-term problem but nothing more than na that. >> host: talk a little bit,, then, about the preparation that's going to go leading up to the confirmation hearing. who's the handlers assigned tono her, and what's their job until confirmation? be >> guest: well, it's essentially the same team. the white house counsel itself has changed since last year, buu that office and that team along with the justice department's office of legal policy will beut heavily involved in getting her, ready for the confirmationice dd hearings. picy,rse; she was throu