and an instrumentalist taught me some things. i took a 33 rpm records of banjo songs and slow them down and lowered the attuning so would be note for note. so you learn the song that way. >tavis: you are self-taught. >> i guess so. tavis: you never took formal lessons. >> i never did. the farthest i got was in the book. here is the way your fingers roll and you memorize that. and you start combining them. as time goes on to become more relaxed. it is scary for someone who is an actor to put out a music record. it is the -- it could be the height of embarrassment. the worst album covers in history are celebrities. i love my album covers. tavis: explain what this album cover is. >> it was submitted as design -- as a design. it is one of the pastiche amusing covers that i fell in love with. they even -- to look in the upper right hand corner. there is a slight error to my head. tavis: to your point of the potential embarrassment that an actor or anyone else who was not known as a musician. the potential embarrassment that one can su

their median return described qun as an an intelligt - her as an intelligent, funn lady. we had an interview. >> us. secretary of state hillary clinton ha just dropped off new trip to iia and thailand. she came here to emphaze that the arican administration wants to coerate with countries in the region after which he aims we years of neglect by whington. she also warned iran against coinuing its nuclearrogram and spoke of the defense umbrella. before she got on thplane back to wasngton, i sat down with her. >> the escalation continues, y uld reach dangerous territory where there is a lot o tension. at some pnt, somewhat to back down,nd i assume it will have to be a rponsible adult, rather than adoscent with a tantm. >> there is no wayo resolve theanger of north korea is given a pass. soe do have to keep th pressure on, and sanctions are designed t do that. i have been quite amaze, actually, to the etent which other countries are willing to enforce the sanctions which ss to me that they are not equally concerned about this team and the implitions of north korea with nuclea

we take an oath of office said the federal level. it is an interesting oath. the first time i heard this oath, i was startled by this. i have it hanging in the wall to the office to remind me of my obligations. although i am a latino judge, i'm viewed as a latino judge. as i judge cases, try to judge them carefully. i tried to remain faithful to my oath. what this judge said has been the standard for 220 years. unfortunately, a very important person has decided it's time for a change. time for a new kind of judge. one who will apply a different standard of judging, including employment of his or her empathy. that person is president obama. the question before us is whether his first nominee to the supreme court follows his new model of judging or the traditional model of articulated by a judge paez. president obama, in opposing the nomination of chief justice roberts said that "will dispose of 95% of the cases that come before our court, but matters on the supreme court are those 5% that are truly difficult. the language of the statue will not be perfectly cle

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expedition or an escalade?i'm sorry. did i say expedition? >> yes. >> i'm corrected. blue metal flake or gold metal flake. >> you mentioned mastermind. >> that individual is in custody. >> one of the three folks already in custody -- >> that individual is in custody. >> you have identified the three black males and know who they are? >> we have photos we're currently working off of and are developing their names and locations at this time. i will tell you that we are very hopeful that at least one more arrest and possibly two will occur today. >> what about additional charges against the three you already have? >> the investigation is ongoing. as more information develops that determination will be made by the state attorney's office. >> on the escalade do you have a model number, not a model but a year number on that? >> we do not. that of course is information we would release immediately if we had that. >> when we look at the surveillance video how many people will we see entering the home? did this all occu

we were setting up an opinion an editorialist. we tried to avoid eric having an opinion.i say opinion column, i am stretching the idea. we used to make the point that he was an analyst not an editorialist and not a commentator. those three all were different. a commentator commented on the news. an editorialist suggested actions on the basis of their opinions. an analyst simply took the pieces out of the complex picture and try to show you how they fit together. that is what eric try to do most of the time. he would go over into editorializing, i must admit. but in the last couple minutes, i want to ask about this person right here. you mention are often in the book. you talk about her sense of humor. how long did you been married? >> we've been married 56 years. they have been 56 wonderful years. this was her maiden name. this woman was one of the great senses of humor of all time. there she is with her mother. her mother had a sense of humor as well. the whole family did. my wife had a new knee replacement not too long ago. i must say with all the pain of the hospital a

information, the people -- will give you an examp. tom has beewriting about the bay area forhe paper for cades. very well known,e writes a lot of books you will find in bookstor and supermarkets about fishinand so on. he wote a blog, one of those messy things in th messy media about a gentleman who fell inosemite and died. on tt blog, he received 500, 1000 -- lots of mments from people. so there you have the msiness you're taing about. a lot people commenting and commenting but if you look through the comments, people saidhey would have bn eyewitnesses to this. they were either climng above where heell or below, and you had in there a lot of discsion about what kind of things yosemite and e park syst could do to make us a safer route to climb. u have these comments where people can say anything, and you could as a reporter xtended store significantly, you would have first nd knowledge and eyewitness accounts, assuming you verify them, which we assume you did. you cod use your verified es and ears of people you wod not normally have ae

for example, what is an example of last resort? what is an example of limited?>> the answer is judges in the manner which that question was responded to was to the extend there has been a violation of the constitution in whatever manner the court identifies in a particular case. it has to try to remedy that situation in the most narrow way in order not to intrude on the functions of other branches or actors in the process. the case that i was discussed in my history has been the doe case, where i joined the panel decision where the district court invalidated a statute that the legislature had passed on national security letters. our panel reviewed that situation and attempted to disearn and disdiscern congresses intent and despite an isolated provision that might have to be narrowly construed to survive constitutional review, it held up the other provisions of the act, work constitution. the vast majority, contrary to what they did, i'm not saying they intended to violate, but the court took a different view and we upheld the statute in large measure to the exte

it is just an honor.eally grateful to be here. >> a man's landing on the moon 40 years ago, people want to be with people's during in turin -- important times. >> folks were morning michael jackson all over baltimore. >> adding that was 14 at the time. >> clarence caught covered on a table inside lexington market. he disappointed -- and this child was watching my cellular phone. >> there will never be another entertainer like michael. he was the best. there will never be another like him. >> merchandise is sold out of buttons, hats, and t-shirts. >> i'm not surprised people love him. we know him. we grew up with him. he has been singing to us for 40 years, so we know him and we love him. >> he media experts are trying to figure out if today's viewership will rival the inauguration. michael jackson merchandise is definitely selling better. reporting live downtown, wbal-tv 11 news wbal-tv 11 news. >>> we have continuing coverage on our website, wbaltv.com, where you will find a video of the tributes and a s

federal officials an metro officials got an earful to capitol hill. >> one the loudest pangs i've evereard in my life. >> reporter: chillingths of what happened when the two metro trains crashed into each other. >> i do remember being on the floor of the second car with a lot of dust, a lot of smoke. >> reporter: victim gave emotional testimony. tow na. da brown is still worried. her daughter nicky is one of nine people killed. >> there is something that needs t be done. we are still riding metro an we still don't know if everything is safe. >> reporter: during the congressional oversight hearings, federal officials say the cause of the crash is still unknown. they also reveal the circuit that failed to detect trains on the track is still not working. and so far, no fix has worked. >> we reced it witha brand new impede exbond and the old one that was in before. there are still intermittent failures. sometimes it is working. sometimes it is not even with those changes. >> i understand our customers are angry because of the delay. but this has to continue until we are able to determine w

flurry >>> fairfax county police continue to search for a suspect in the murder of an an nan detail, virginia woman. 53-year-old chung auh was found dead in her home friday afternoon. police say she suffered trauma to her upper body but refused to release more specific information about how she died. >>> alaska governor sarah palin just hours away from leaving office. she's revealed very little about her political future. but says she is heading to fair banks to resign in her words, in a camper full of kids and coffee. we have more on the story. >> we'll see. we're here to serve the people. >> reporter: today sarah palin becomes alaska's most famous ex- governor. >> god bless alaska, god bless america. >> reporter: all weekend, the former vice president ill candidate has been on a goodbye tour, serving hot dogs and flipping salmon burgers at town picnics. on july 3, the first term governor announced she was leaving office 16 months early. she felt the lawsuits and ethics probes against her had become a distraction to the office and she wanted to focus on her family. >> i have been ac

>> being an morman in the mid-west made me feel like an outsider. it allowed me, because there is no paid clergy, to do a lot of public speaking in sunday meetings. that experience sort of allowed me to hone -- i hesitate to say glibness that probably served me in good sted as i attempted to get into princeton and then survive. what does it look like in the morman church inside as opposed to us looking from the outside? >> the churches themselves are open to the public. it's the temple that are not. really what goes on are lessons on the book of mormans. they are rather peculiar skrip ters. it's important to realize that mormanism is not the same as fundamental christianity. it has a different history. morm morman. no one looks more establishment gashed than mit romney. they still cannot crack the main street barrier against hem. >> why did you leave them at 17? >> at that age, morman males are expected to go on missions and ee van gellize. i were more interested in getting an education. >> where did religion take you for the rest of your life? >> w

. >>> tonight city police are investigating an attempted rape. the baltimore sun reports it happened saturday morning in front of the baltimore convention center. according to the newspaper, the woman was walking in the 300 block of sharp street near pratt around 6:30 a.m. when she was approached by a man who grabbed her from behind and began choking her. she says the man pulled her underwear off and then called for someone to pick them up. she didn't see anyone else, but the suspect took off when a vehicle approached. police are investigating several church burglaries in baltimore county. the latest happened between monday night and tuesday morning. someone broke into st. thomas episcopal church on providence road an stole coins. st. stephens episcopal church was also hit. someone hit there and made off with five bottleles of wine. last weekend three cockeysville churches were burglarize. anyone with information is asked to call 410-887-1820. >>> efforts to keep towson catholic high school open have been shot down. a judge today rejected a motio

an attempt that clearly failed?all of the family members were very concerned about michael and they expressed their conce concern. as to their attempts, they kept that very private and i know that they made a great effort to try and take care of what they thought was an important aspect of their life. they just always were there to say that they were going to help and they kept their private business to themselves. >> to natisha lance, our producer there on the scene, what can you tell me about janet jackson trying to stage the intervention to try and save jackson's life and him refusing, having a fleet of bodyguards turning them away from the front door and even not taking his 79-year-old mother's telephone calls? >> you're absolutely right, nancy. this is february 2007. after a visit with michael jackson, janet became very concerned about his health. she wanted to stage this intervention and tried to get the help of her brothers to get on board with it. there our rumors about this intervention that was going to ha

so, they said isn't there an opportunity to find an african entrepreneur to produce these nets? we came in to help identify that entrepreneur as well as provide this patient capital, a loan back in 2003. and today, eight of the textile mills in arusha, tanzania, employ 7,000 women making 20 million bed nets per year which provides coverage for 40 million. there are opportunities for us to innovate around the aid establishment by recognizing what it's good at and finding ways to support entrepreneurship and private sector development, particularly for the poor, because the markets alone won't do it and traditional aid won't do it. >> you don't like the whole bed nets thing. somewhere in here you say -- tell us what your gripe with the the bed nets is. just to make sure people understand. bed nets is what helps people survive, prevents malaria particularly if they are sprayed and people sleep under them, incidents of malaria go down. but you don't like them? >> i don't like the fact that very often western, the western debate focus on making the donations of mosquito nets, bed net

phentermine is an upper, right? >> one brings you down, the other pill brings you up, correct. >> we are seeing an appetite expressant. michael jackson weighed 110 pounds. why would he need it? >> why is it an appetite suppressant? it up-regulates your metabolism. it can make your heart rate go faster. it gets your body running and revving. that's how these patients lose weight with this medication. >> before we go, we heard, you and i talked about it through the week there could be a possible third meeting with dr. conrad murray or his lawyers? it was supposed to possibly happen today. do we know anything about that? >> we heard nothing more about it. we put in requests to the lawyer for interviews and comments. we heard nothing. it's possible we know that authorities specifically the coroner wants to talk to dr. murray. we know now based on what was filed with the court that dr. murray is the focus of this criminal investigation. he may not be the only doctor. >> and his own lawyer saying authorities are looking f

achieving an effective mix of collective process and agency responsibility with an eye toward relevant institutional incentives will be critical to successful reform. thank you very much mr. chairman and i'd be happy to answer questions can i thank you very much. we appreciate your testimony and involvement with the committee as well here and i asked the clerk to put on six minutes and try to keep an eye on that, we have a lot of participation and want to make sure we get around to people and ask the staff to give a very accurate account of their arrival of members in terms of the order in which asks to address the questions to our panel. let me begin with you, mr. tarullo, if i can. i suspect a lot of the questions i will raise a you will hear variations of the same questions and i suspect there is a thing that will emerge here. you testified that the administration's proposal and to give a the fed supervision is incremental and bills omnibus authority and the bank holding ag in the till your plan for new surveillance program but you have mentioned here for a large complex organizatio

and a horror entry orphan about the adoption of an evil child. it will be hampered by an r rating. it is expected to make about 1 million. >>> this comes from kare 11 in minneapolis where in nearby ol' tan that, like everywhere else, times are tough. this is ridiculous. a minnesota woman who ran to the store to pick up milk and eggs discovered got home and saw her credit card receipt she had been charged over 2$23 quadrilillion. she even got hit with an overdraft fee. this woman's sense of humor has not. i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> our time is 4:54. 70 degrees as we look at a live picture of the united states capitol. the rain has stopped after some pretty interesting times overnight. good morning. welcome to "news4 today." i'm joe krebs. >> i'm eun yang in for barbara harrison. >>> breaking news this morning. i-70 remains closed in both directions after a helicopter crashed overnight killing four people. the chopper went down around 10:30 last night at mile marker 38. authorities say the helicopter hit power

that is an easy way to do it. you used about four times as many fresh herbs as drivers but that is an easy way to do it. >> my azalea bushes did not harm the plans but the like and are dying. what can i do? >> i don't know. i have seen lichen on benches but i have not noticed that on leaves. they are not quite parasitic but i don't know. i will check that out. e-mail me at work at carrie@ valley view farm's.com. >> i can't believe we stump you. my aloe plant appears healthy but when i cut the stalks, it is yellow and smells that. what is wrong with my plant? >> mauling that could be your opinion. -- smelling bad could be your opinion. it can be pretty strong. they don't like to be very wet. they don't like the full sun. they like bright light that they can actually get too much sun. watch that. generally, that is probably just the way it is. do not worry about it. everyone should have at least one aloe plant in their house. >> thank you, carrie. if you want to talk one-on-one, she is doing a web chat at two o'cloc

look for an east wind at 5-20 miles an hour.ittle bit more cloud cover there, however, and showers moving late in the day tomorrow for the western part of maryland. holding off here in the central part and the eastern shore for saturday night, probably holding off until then into sunday. 62 degrees tonight way mix of sun and clouds. no, it won't be sun at night, but there will be partly cloudy skies instead. heading to the beach this weekend incidentally should charge 88 degrees for the eastern shore just like it will be the case around here downtown. 87 degrees for saturday's high, 85 on sunday, with the thunderstorm possibility and then 85 degrees on monday, partly cloudy, 87 and 88 for your tuesday and wednesday. fox 45 sky watch weather is now at your finger tips. i-radar is available at fox 45.com. you can use. the interactive tools will let you see when the rain or thunderstorms will be over your house. to foxbaltimore.com and click on i-radar. now here is candace dold with the traffic edge. >>> thanks steve. we have been

him or her as an individual. this is achieved by blocking government efforts to treat people differently in both positive and negative ways, because of their membership in certain groups. membership-based, for example, on ones race or sexual orientation. at kennedy's confirmation hearing, pete wilson, former governor of california, and u.s. senator, said in support of ken dip's nomination, i think it strikes him, justice kennedy, as terribly unfair that anyone's individual potential should be in any way limited by there being classed as a member of a group and treated in accordance with their group membership rather than what they deserve to receive as individuals. that perfectly sums up the humane element of kennedy's jurisprudence. when the government treats people differently because of their race, even if this treatment is positive, kennedy says that only strict scrutiny will do. it is worth noting however, that this is strict scrutiny according to justice kennedy. because his formulation of this test is not

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i would look at it the other way, to take my taxpayer dollars and provide an abortion -- to pay for an abortion i disagree with is pretty extreme. so there's two ways of looking at that. you were a prosecutor but the organization argued to repeal the death penalty because it was discriminatory against minorities. your organization argued for quotas when it came to hiring. i just want my colleagues to understand that there can be no liberal group than the puerto rican legal defense fund than when it came to advocacy. i hope when we ever get a c conservative president, that we will not forget this moment. that you can be nra president and still be a good lawyer. my point is that i'm not going to criticize you for advocating a -- that makes america a special place. i would love to have been the cases on the other side that would disqualify me. now, when it comes to your speeches, that is the most troubling thing to me because that gives us an indication when you're able to get outside the courtroom and give an insight into how life works. if i had said anything remotely like that, my care

that is a seven-minneapolis ride with an -- seven-minute ride with an average speed of 27 miles per hour. here are the speeds. 21 minutes on the top side of the beltway with an average speed of 28 miles per hour. there's a live look at the top side at 83. that is where the delays begin. and it goes until 83 -- i mean, to 95, where that is a 21-minute ride as i mentioned. that is a look at the west side, slow there but not quite as bad as the top side. this traffic report brought to you by by the hunt valley outback steakhouse, on shawan road, open for lunch friday, saturday and sunday at noon. back to you. >>> most people agree a dog can teach us a lot about friendship and unconditional love. in tennessee one family's rottweiler is offering an astonishing lesson in patience and loyalty. jeff tang reports for wjz. >> reporter: ella is waiting for something. humans would say ella is lost but she'll say it's the other way around. her family has been missing ever since the accident. >> she slammed on the brakes and we went into a spin. >> reporter: july 1st, i-40 westbound, mile marker 159.

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it was not fulfilling its function as an instrument to diversify what have historically been an all whitee sick -- city has become 60% minority. political pressure was on. the supreme court paid attention to the preacher in the political pressures. she did not. she said that she is just about a lot. the consequence is sitting right there in the room. it would have been more dramatic. >bret: summary judgment, just one paragraph, and it would have slipped through if another judge on the panel had not spotted it because he read it in the paper. >> i am surprised that we have not seen more about the process. there was a big story yesterday from stewart taylor that went into the process, suggesting that this did not happen in the right way. she touched on it briefly and then skated by. megyn: she did try to explain that in the beginning. she said that oliver decisions are available to the second circuit, it is not like it was being kept secret. but the reason that this becomes relevant, the question is does this woman rule based on race and prejudice, or not? the democrats have said that she d

anytime you can put out a video of an american soldier held hostage giving an anti-western diatribe, they believe that helps their cause. >> reporter: bergdahl mysteriously diseye peered from a remote american base june 30th when he simply walked away without his weapon or body armor and was quick lly captured by t taliban. an intensive search and rescue operation is still under way. the taliban has made no demands for ransom or anything else for bergdahl's release, raising concerns in the military that the taliban may hang onto bergdahl a while longer for what they see as his propaganda value, carl. >> there are already so many concerns about escalating combat activities in that part of the world. what do pentagon officials believe americans should expect in the weeks and months to come? >> reporter: well, as both the u.s. marines and british forces in southern afghanistan launch new offenses and the u.s. military is pouring additional forces into afghanistan, you can expect the violence and the casualties to rise. military officials say it will, in fact, get worse before it gets be

didden suffered an injury, only an allegation that he might be injured in the future. >> the basis of mr. didden's lawsuit was the state can't take my property and give it to a private developer. because that is not consistent with the takings clause of the constitution. to the extent he knew the state, and there is no dispute about it, that the state has found the public use for his property. that it had a public purpose. that it had an argument with the private developer to let that developer take the property he knew that he was injured because his basic argument was the state can't do this. it can't tape my property and give it to a private developer. the supreme court in kelo addressed that question and said under certain circumstances the state can do that if it's for a public use and a public purpose. and so his lawsuit essentially addressing that question came time years after he knew what the state was doing. the issue of extortion was whether the private developer in settling a lawsuit was engaging in extortion and extortion is an unlawful asking of money with no basis. but

i'm an ibmer. a smarter planet. >>> president barack obama today designated nearly $2 billion to fight the h1n1 swine flu. the emergency funds he said required to address critical needs. it's been four months now since the first diagnosis in mexico and while for in the initial alarm over a global pandemic has subsided, the reality is that people continue to die and everyone is at risk. as nick watt now reports. >> brian and aubrey were mauried in florida. aubrey is now 27 weeks pregnant, everything was going well. >> she got a little bit of a sore throat on the 28th of june. and then she started to get a bit of a fever the next day. >> tonight, aubrey is in the hospital, fighting for her life. she has swine flu. aubrey a 27-year-old waitress is the third pregnant woman in florida to catch the virus. >> when they tell you, you know, your wife is the third, and the other two didn't make it, i mean, it's a bleak picture, you know what i mean? you wonder, you know? she's fighting, she's strong and she'

i board an airline that charges a $10 booking fee.car that quoted me a cost of $39 a day, but it's really 60 bucks, thanks tohe customer facility charge. i can't forget to call home. the phone company, that charges a regulatory recovery fee. i'm not making this up. that's what they charge to collect the other charges. just another day in america. land of the fee, home of the waiver. it's now a widely accepted business model in this country to sign you up and then trip you up with asterisks, and insidious charges. experts say that the average american is being nickelled and dimed to the tune of nearly $1,000 a year. well, it turns out there's a growing body of journalism on this very topic. led in part by a great book called "got you capitalism". written by bob. hi, bob. bob starts with what a columnist calls the tourist paradox. go on vacation, you don't speak the language or know the exchange rates so chances are you're charged more than the locals. not enough to make you call a cop, just enough to fatten their till. >> $5. >> but in

you don't have to be an astronaut or the daughter of an astronaut, just someone that can surf the webistin fisher is in the to tell us more. >> there is google sky, google sky and google moon. yesterday in honor of the 40th anniversary of the lunar landing, google launched a 3-d n ogmoon. if you go to gog. coin m.is thinwill pop up. if you look under pothis specia apollo 11 logo you will see this height right here. it reads new land on the moon f u yogh.rt ic ik clist on this what will pop up and you will find all of the otown to down load thiso ftrewad an really ta kertuad l 3-tour of the surface of the moon. so, basically what this new verge of google moon does is itlets you see what the apollo astronauts saw from the surface of the moon. the main feature is of course the 3-d atlas which is similar to the street view feature in google maps but instead of seeing car and buildings what you will see are crater and the apollo landing site. you can also folsom guided tour of the moon from afollow astronaut buzz aldrin and jack schmidt. and some presley unreleased footage captured from th

the suspension is pending an investigation for him inadvertently sending an inappropriate e-mail to the wbal newsroom. >> there was a great day for general motors as the struggling automaker emerged from bankruptcy. official declared it is ready to meet the need for car buyers and start making money, something it has not done since 2004. >> after just 40 days -- >> it is an exciting day for general motors. it marks the beginning of a new company. >> general motors emerges from bankruptcy, a new company with new owners. >> 330 million shareholders are the u.s. citizens. >> it is more than 60% owned by the u.s. government and a much smaller version of its former self, leaving many contracts behind in bankruptcy, and starting over with plans to shed plants, 20,000 jobs, and almost 2000 dealerships. they are also in the process of selling saturn, saab, and hummer, and stop producing pontiac. >> i am excited about getting back into the car business. >> but these are tough times in the car business. the company has already suffered decades of market share losses, and must now try to win back

if you're actually in a 30-mile-an-hour wind for an extended time, it will get difficult. >> reporter: recently a company asked a school for recommendations on when workers might be allowed to work on railroad tracks. that would be 25 miles per hour. after doing this for a few minutes, my ears were hurting and i didn't notice how much hard i was working because the wind when i came out constant sweat. it all came back then. >> i did this is a couple of years ago. i remember trying to talk in there to simulate what if i was in a hurricane and try to report the story. you open your mouth and no words would come out, just drools would come out. it was bad. >> reporter: it contours your face in ways that probably weren't meant to happen. >> not the prettiest, but it was fun. joel, thank you. >>> paula abdul's new manager says she may not be returning to american idol. david says he doesn't have a proposal for a new contract for abdul and it doesn't appear she will be back. he began representing her a few weeks ago. she had said recently that she had been invited to remain as an american i

that isn't my choice and yet i see this having an impact. ohio now is only left with three money-center banks. national city is disappearing and i see this power gravitating to the very people who caused this problem and the first place. one of my questions has to do with freddie mac's and i could continue on fannie mae and fha because what's happened is all the bad paper is being dumped on the tax payer as you've noted in your report in different ways putting it here and here in the federal government so it's not easily traceable but if one looks at freddie mac which is central in terms of being a dumpster else well as an enabler during the 1990's let me ask you why when i looked in your report i couldn't find the word freddie mac we have freddie mac and fannie mae been hidden behind the walls of all is at the federal reserve? to you have any role at all in on winding role of kody and all of this going back into the 90's? >> we don't have jurisdiction over freddie mac in any aspect other than the fact treasury has hired them as a financial

police say that it was an accident. and because police say that appears to be an accident no charges will be filed in this case at this time. craig, back to you. >> eun, thank you. >>> president barack obama is in italy for a summit of the g-8 leaders and discussing a variety of issues fromth the economyo t toanuc nlear n calibipa.ty. redaraesbaeny out t ma o eas lyta i tterha wtaed rkeoc ke bydlar d eakyeaquthequar eli e this year. chuck todd has our report. >> president obama arrived in italy early today. he had a couple of meetings. first met with the president of italy and presidential meeting in rome and then he made his way to the site of the g-8 meeting, the meeting of eight of the more powerful industrialized nations around the world. it was chosen, the place that had the massive earthquake that killed hundreds of italian as few months ago. berlusconi wanted to move the g-8 here to showcase the rebuilding efforts but also simply to serve as almost an economic stimulus to the area. >> i'm please aed the united st

i'm an ibmer. let's build a smarter planet. >>> welcome back to "squawk on the street," i'm hampton pearson reporting live on capitol hill where in just a few minutes, federal reserve chairman ben bernanke will tell the house financial services committee, quote, aggressive policy actions around the world last fall may have averted the collapse the financial system. the downturn appear tons abating. the pace of decline appears to slowed significantly however the labor market continued to weaken. job insecurity dedplins home values and tight credit are likely to limit consumer spending and the fed chairman says the current stabilization of consumer spending may prove france gent that is a possible down side risk. the fed envisions a grasp recovery in 2010, accelerating in 2011, however unemployment is expected to peak at the end of this year, remain high in 2010 and 2011 but uninflation will remain subdued for the next two years. and the fed says the highly accommodative monetary policy will be appro

there would be an attempt to launch an inauguration day attack to overturn the effects of an election we thought it was a nonbinding election and we in senator cornyn's office put this forth and came up with what we thought was a very creative name for the protocol. we called it the cornyn protocol. unfortunately, the cornyn protocol was never approved by the senate. and i know what some of you may be thinking. it must have been a partisan democrat who stopped senator cornyn his moment of glory. wrong. we learned it was senator ted stevens who placed the hold that prevented our fine resolution from being approved by the senate by unanimous consent. now, why would he do that? we never actually got an official response. they never returned my calls, frankly. but i later learned from a staffer that the office essentially feared that this was really step one in a larger ambition to remove the senate president pro tem from the line of succession. now, of course, we did have to plead guilty to that charge. i know we've had some very robust debate on this issue. i think it was our view that

but you have to say that it was a rare event were an american prison takes time off from an important news conference to expose an opinion -- to express an opinion that occurred 440 miles from the white house. >> it was probably stupid to use the word "stupidly." but apparently at the white house they anticipated the question. i don't quite know what he did that. i don't come to this day, having read the police report even, understand why the officer felt compelled to arrest professor dates, even if he was doing everything that the police report said he was doing. you have the right to act like a jerk in your own home if it is your own home. they found out he was not breaking into his house. why didn't they just leave? >> they did drop the charges. >> look, i read the police report, and i also read that statement issued by professor gates' lawyer, charles ogletree , and once they establish that professor gates was the occoquan of tomback -- the occupant of the home, that was the time for the police officer to say thank you and me. what happened? professor gates, in my view, committed

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this would be the day that we will have an opportunity for democrats -- there will be an opportunity for democrats to support her and for republicans to pick at the notion that subjective experience is valuable in judging. look particularly for tough questions from charles grassley and jeff sessions, they will be taking the charge. the supportive side from the democrats, pat leahy is the chairman, as well as chuck schumer from new york. bret: that is fantastic. i love the walk and talk perspective. we talked about judge sotomayor and a broken right ankle that she keeps propped up on the table behind you. any word on whether it has cramped up on her? lift it up for us. megyn:wow. >> that is the leg stand. a cushion, a notebook, and some sort of apparatus. we can expect about 4.5 hours for the first session, one hour for lunch, and if everything goes according to plan, they will be done by around 6:00. fantastic bret:. thank you, carl -- bret: fantastic. thank you, carl. megyn: south carolina senator, lindsey gramm, expressing concerns about this nominee. >> the drama created here is i

it is not the whole thing up, but i think it is an important step that we took, understanding that aneconomic recovery had to include individual state governments. we have taken important steps to cushion as much as possible that a blow. >> does it concern the administration that the larger state is about to start issuing ious and what kind of message that sends to international parties? >> we continue to watch the situation and we will see it as it develops. >> i know you do not like polls. any negative polls are typically dismissed. we actually like those. they are quite credible. it shows that there is some resistance among the public for the president's plan. the health care costs will go up under the president's plan. any concern at all that there is some resistance among the public to the president? >> you might have listed a different answer if the poll was 45-51. >> you are not concerned that the health care costs will go up? >> we have to continue to do the job of telling people what will happen if we change the rate of spending on health care. if we see greater efficiency, s

it was the sight of an extremely thin disheveled michael jackson. >> he said i wanted an virks, because i know that the first drop when i look it a and i see the first drop hit my veins, i'm asleep and i sleep very well. and i just need to sleep. >> same concentration, come in different vials. you can draw it up in a syringe and inject it into a vein. you have to place an intravenous catheter in a person through a vein. and then you can hook up an intravenous line. >> tonight, right to ohio. mommy leads a convict sex offender still in lockdown to take mommy on a camping trip. they took along water, provisions, and mommy's 4-year-old baby girl. that's right. the baby girl alone in the car with a sex predator. after leaving cops on a manhunt, they zero in on an isolated commune type retreat 2,000 mile away. san diego. there hidden amongst a peace loving group raising avocados, cops rescue baby haleigh. is the baby headed not to the arm of her own grandmother but to state foster care? why? >> little haleigh holding her teddy bear in one hand, she waves with the other. >> i know they would

prove that you really are an american. prove that this house belongs to you despite the fact the caller says that you have suitcases. you may live there. never having said to the police officer that they were black gentlemen or anything like that. that proven mentality i think is getting tiring for a lot of us who try to live by that but it's never enough. >> john ridley author of the blog that minority thing and contributor to the npr and huffington post. >>> some amazing tape from capitol hill you have to see to believe. up next, in "oddball" yet another tribute to the memory of michael jackson from his number one fans, the inmates of a filipino prison. ♪ change it up a bit... and you're sure to get a reaction. [ motorcycle engine growl ] ♪ don't let erectile dysfunction slow things down. ♪ viva viagra! viagra, america's most prescribed ed treatment, can help you enjoy a more satisfying sexual experience. to learn more, cruise on over to viagra.com. ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. don't take viag

we're missing an hispanic. bill: it might be true that sonia sotomayor is qualified to be a supreme court justice. it doesn't matter that she is a latina. look, she has done pretty well in the hearings today. i didn't see anything that would make me vote against her in the hearings, did you? >> here's the question. sonia sotomayor in the past based on her speeches and in her rulings -- bill: but just in the last couple of days. >> is a liberal judicial activist. what she is done in the hearings is cloak all of that to make it look like she is an originalist and a strict constructionist which she clearly is not. bill: colmes, you have to admit there is a race factor involved in the confirmation hearing of a potential supreme court justice. >> clarence thomas was chosen to fill thurgood marshall's seat, not because he was the most qualified person but because he was african-american. bill: how do you know that? >> do you think clarence thomas was the most qualified person at the time he was chosen by bush? >> cla

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to be an option. i think that is a factor into many states at this point. what we're talking about is having a policy in place where individuals will be able to have a fair shake before a parole board. host: we hear from chronic honor democrats line. -- veronica on our democrats line. guestcaller: good morning. can you hear me now? host: yes, go ahead. caller: faq for receiving my call. -- thank you for receiving my call. i have a question. my son has been sentenced to 40 years. he was involved in a crime in connecticut. it is known for a lot of credit politicians. -- crooked politicians. she had a public defender. he has 40 years for manslaughter. -- he had a public defender. he turned state witnesses against him in the case. i am trying to find out if there is anything he can be done? key will probably be like 50 when he gets out. -- he will probably be like 50 when he gets out. guest: i am sorry to hear the story of your son. fortunately, that is a situation where you need an attorney to sit down a

he was seen as an impartial newsman. more americans started to get their news from cronkite than from nbc's huntly brinkley report. he was a respected voice when covering the partisan politics of the nation. >> the united states information agency. >> reporter: he al broke some of the century's biggest stories. >> president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. 2:00 eastern standard time. some 38 minutes ago. >> reporter: when president kennedy was assassinated, the stoic anchor showed emotion for the first time. >> i'm not very cold blooded. i can cry over wounded animals as well as people, but that was the only time i think i really broke on the air. >> reporter: cronkite's focus on the watergate scandal during the nixon administration helped propel that story to the center of the nation's headlines. in 1981 he retired from the evening news. >> this is walter cronkite. good night. >> reporter: even in his retirement he was active in television. he continued hosting specials on cbs news. and during the 1976 p

really an intervention is a conversation starter., this is really important, and i think a lot of people can relate to this, if the kids are involved like in this case they are, you step in and you get the kids out of this situation, and oftentimes that will be the thing that will help break through the denial of addiction. >> it's just amazing to me that a doctor, can you just imagine -- >> but -- >> the image of a doctor there in a mobile unit, a van, shooting jackson up and keeping the -- >> unfortunately i can. >> overnight? >> i can. if you and i were to step out of the studio here at cnn and walk two blocks, we could get these drugs and other drugs within blocks of cnn here. it's just that easy. >> diprivan? >> absolutely. >> how? >> there are just that many -- >> i've never in all my years of prosecuting drug use, drug trafficking, i've never heard of a diprivan addict, ever. >> i think -- if you can equate a drug dealer with a doctor that's misprescribing, you've got a pretty good correlation there. >> have you ever seen a ca

he says he makes an average of $13 an hour. >> it varies. sometimes one, two hearings a week. sometimes no hearings. sometimes depending how big it is that month. >> reporter: seating at congressional hearings is first come, first served. for a popular hearing, the wait can last hours. lobbyists are willing to pay to try to secure a seat in the hearing room, but critics say that gives big special interest groups an edge over the little guy who can't afford to shell out money for professional line-stander. senator clair mccass skel says "i have no quote with lobbyists being in hearings but they shouldn't be able to buy a seat. an internet environmental group representative was shut out of that climate change hearing. >> it is very you have been the people who come to line stand always beat us here. >> reporter: for the line standers it is a job, but it also gives them a sense of importance, hanging out in the halls of capitol hill. >> it showed me i was taking some things for granted. i'm part of something today and i'm very happy. >> reporter: but there is an irony. their inte