and, you know, i auditioned beanie babies for the part. and the idea came up-- they're represented by little rubber ducks that i line up in a row. i'm not sure what it means. i have a lot of fun doing it. these are all matched ducks. they're matched ducks. they're in a little row. and it kind of-- it will recall for people, you know, kind of going to the county fair and seeing the little shooting gallery with the ducks going by. and i'm not entirely sure what it means. i mean, in some ways, i'm the sitting duck in the situation. but there's something about the fact that they are the same, they're kind of uniform, that i think is effective and people seem to really relate to. you seem a little ambivalent about being one of the n.e.a. four. more a blessing than a curse, or-- well, i think that i got, yes, all this publicity, but it was--people who say there's no such thing as bad publicity haven't really experienced it and experienced it when you become sort of a national joke. and most arts organizations wanted to put as much distance betwe

brief pause at 31 seconds just to take a look and make sure that everything was working on top as a beaniee off. they wanted to make sure it had cleared properly, i guess a sensor was wrong. so down for just a few seconds, and up atlantis went. in this orbit right now. the last launch of a space shut federal the kennedy space center. incredible. joining us now is senator bill nelson of florida. he spent time in space, he served as a payload specialist aboard challenger during its seventh mission. that was in january of 1986. i was a junior in college. >> 25 years ago. it was actually columbia, and it was the challenger that was ten days after us, shep -- shepard: oh, that's right. >> -- that then exploded. shepard: wow. senator, you have lived this space program, you have presided over it in many ways as a legislator and a senator. what are your thoughts today? is. >> well, as the previous astronaut just told you, garrett reeseman, that we now have a whole new chapter of nasa. we are developing two lines of rockets, one that will go to and from the space station, and garrett's company is g

i made this beanie, but i took the arms off my shirt.ind of big so you got to fold it up. >> while pret trovich is still waiting the start of his murder trial, weston kruger has already been convicted of murder the owner of a liquor store after being caught shoplifting. >> this is just the beginning of my struggle. this is still just the beginning. >> kruger is awaiting sentencing. he faces up to 25 years to life. >> it is almost torture, like chinese water torture, something like that. i don't know. until you know what's going to happen, you really just -- you can't move forward with your life. so you're basically just stuck in this nothing, you know? >> but now, he has another problem. >> hi, kruger. come on out. stand on the yellow line. go ahead and walk down to my partner. you're going to make a right-hand turn and go to number one. >> all right. >> orange county jail authorities want to question him about allegedly assaulting his cell mate, brandyn scotto. >> they told me to come down here. they rolled my cellie up, i don't know wh

a guy like this has connections and that is where these beanies and go that is the market.hy man from a third world country once it and will pay for it. they are stolen and moved it will go from collector to collector. for something to be in or someone to be caught red handed it is unusual. if he wants a lesser sentence he will have to start talking. this is like organized crime they will walk all the information they can from the sky it is a fascinating case. so this was a significant arrests made in san francisco. >> i let's talk about roger clemens the prosecution's those of video that judge ito barred with his wife talking about steroids >> prosecution made a mistake that judge in the second day did not want a ticket to paint dust did think the trial this could be a major mistake most of the time the judge it would admonish the the jury but in this day he felt it was so significant he declared the mistrial. the judge said that this is a mistake of first-year law student would not even make. you cannot let criminals go free. are we gonna let criminals go just because the

but we have to have that overarching message to the american public's and programs beanie set that can actually create the opportunity for this economy to turn. i like this. i really like what you have done here. hopefully, we can grasp it and say let's run with this. i would love to put this in the president's hand. he was in maryland talking with a bunch of students. he was here and there and everywhere, but not one mention about a job. how will we do that? you have given us an answer. >> from what we can tell, tom and john, within your congress, there are three places that there seems to be an inordinate sentiment to do something. buy american, we call it sometimes. you would have an incentive this as well. but the currency bill aimed at china is certainly the biggest of the several subsidies that are killing us. the 90% subsidy world that i described, roughly a third of it is currency. the rest we know to be taxes, environmental study, finance, and so on. john, i certainly detect within your members, almost in a bipartisan fashion, support for china's currency, national infrastruct