not an exact start but they did say in november. >> larry: bill carter now joined us from eugene, oregon. he's there to be around for conan's opening night. he opens tonight, right? on his tour, bill? >> that's right. this is his first night, larry, here in sunny eugene. just started to rain. >> larry: and how many -- how much time are you going to spend on this tour? are you just doing a one-night coverage and then back to new york? >> i'll do this one. i'll probably do l.a. and then i'll probably do new york, but i thought that i should come to the first one and see the scene and everything. >> larry: all right. you're always in on the know. you are surprised by this? >> i was surprised it happened. there was no glimmer or hint this was going on. frankly, i thought the fox thing was really the best and only option it seemed for conan to be really competitive. but i think tbs came up with a very aggressive offer and fox was not really moving forward with their offer. so it happened really fast. but it does surprise me in a way. i didn't think he would jump to cable. i thought he would w

bill carter, he's with the "new york times" national needa reporter.ause tonight conan o'brien's tour starts. it is title legally prohibit frif being funny on television tour. the first time he's ever done standup in theaters. lynette rice is with entertainment weekly and lauren sanchez is with "extra". what about his lead in, lauren. his lead in is what on tbs? >> "family guy." it's the perfect lead in. it's a half hour. it's a perfect lead in for conan o'brien. i believe it's a half hour. it's that younger audience. it's comedy. it's funny. i mean it's a perfect lead for him. it has a huge audience. and another big thing about conan going to, as he said, basic cable, "extra" learned that his budget for the show is going to be the same as it was at nbc. so that is pretty good. that's pretty good for basic cable. not so bad. >> larry: what about where he's going to do the show from, lynette? >> they're saying he'll be in l.a. he'll be able to retain that staff he had before. the key is where. i mean there's a suite opening back at the universal lot whe

. >> bill carter from eugene, oregon, where he's going to be at the first conan o'brien comedy tour night. great thanks, bill, and enjoy the show. >> thanks a lot, keith. >>> that's "countdown" for this, the 2,538th day since the previous president declared mission accomplished in iraq. i'm keith olbermann, good night and good luck. and now, with the attorney general of virginia as scheduled to attend tea party rallies and faith healing sessions, ladies and gentlemen, here to don a protective tin foil hat on behalf of us all is rachel maddow. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, keith. i've had so many tin foil halts over the years i actually have them lined up by size. >> great idea. they matched which pair of glasses on a given day? >> that's exactly it. >> excellent. >> conspiracies i have known, hairstyles i have worn. thank you, keith. i appreciate it. and thanks to you at home for tuning in. tonight, nuclear news that is not just about treaties and diplomacy, but is about earthquakes and secret missions and cranes almost dropping huge containers of unstable radioactive material. g

we can do and work together to 17 there are pictures in your book of jimmy carter, george bush, george herbert walker bush, bill clinton, but unless i missed something i cannot find a picture of richard nixon. is there a reason? >>guest: there probably is. i had many pictures. there probably are some of those were selected by the publisher. but also, even at to the time that people place the monument, it was at the time president ford had taken toll so there might have been a picture with president ford because he was the person who excepted the first african-american of one of any race with the monument 21714 blocks from here lincoln park at the capitol. the national negro national council of negro women, what is and how long have you been associated with it? >>guest: i have been associated since that day in 1937. two years before that women said what we needed was not another organization about one to bring people together. she said because the negro woman stands outside of the american and mainstream of opportunity empower but we needed to harness our power, if we could do with the problems that have affecte

bill does not have bipartisan support. the white house has its own objections. supporters say it would prevent a meltdown of the one that crippled the nation's economy. brianne carter has details. >> good morning. the senate is expected to vote today on whether or not to make the financial reform bill go to the floor. 60 votes would be needed. some republicans say they may stall the start of debate. democrats are determined to create new rules for all street. >> 17 months after someone broke into our house, in effect, rob does, and change the locks. >> despite efforts by democrats to split the republican opposition, bipartisan support is not likely. weekend's negotiations failed to get backing from both sides. senator led print -- minority leader mitch mcconnell leader. but it's my expectation if we will not go forward with this partisan bill. it's not ready. >> tougher rules on the complex securities known as derivatives. that is drawing opposition from the obama administration. >> what regulators are trying to do is move some of this stuff into the open air, into the light of day, on the exchanges where we can see what happens. >> both sides say they want protect

bush, bill clinton, george h.w. bush, ronald reagan, carter, ford, nixon, going on back, i can't imagine the media ever allowing any governmental entity to stand up and say, we are going to save 1.-- $1.3 trillion with this bill starting 11 years from now. and going 20 years from now. obviously for the next 10 years we're going to cut medicare $500 billion and we're going to raise taxes by $500 billion. we're going to do this for 10 years and then that will pay for six years of health care and the mainstream media didn't utter a whimper. i just can't imagine the media letting that go without saying, excuse me, did you say it won't start saving money until 11 years from now? when you're gone and out of office. but this is what we've come to. the media just let it go. mr. akin: the thing that got me was, think of the logic, they have to come up with a bill and they want to come underneath $1 trillion. so how do they do it? what they do is they say, we're going to tax people over 10 years, but we're only going to start the benefits of the bill fo

carter and having a pailed presidency. the fact that they passed health care, even though it's not the world's most popular bill among the americanncy and gave him wind in his sails now. look at what he's done since then. he's been to afghanistan, signed a nonproliferation treaty with the russians. he's say, you know what? i'm bark i have a big agenda and i'm going to be ambitious about it and pursue it. >> his number one priority is the economy creating jobs, but is he going to be able to deal with some of these other issues that he's been talking about, whether energy, education, immigration reform, financial reform, does all of that sort of go to the sidelines or does he deal head on this year before the midterm elections with those issues? >> look, he's been a guy who seems to have a lot of things all at one time. i would agree with, i think there's one issue for him. that's the economy and jobs. he should focus like that on a laser like a laser, but he has been talking about an energy policy. he's been talking about bank reform. i think he really has to make the message that the economy is back, he prevented it from going do

carter: 23 million americans will have no health insurance coverage and 2019 after this bill is fully implemented. with all the big imposition on the privacy of american citizens and a big imposition by government of mandating them that they have to buy a product and if they do everything they are supposed to do and if the states can find the money to run that medicaid problem and get the agencies up and functioning and find the money to pay the salaries to run them and if we create this bigger job bureaucracy, we will have 23 million americans that won't have health care coverage. hmmm. if your goal is to cover everybody, you've failed. i don't think it is the goal to cover everybody. i think the goal is to put control of another part of the american economy and americans' lives in the hands of the federal government. that's what i think this is about. and that's why the american people are telling us, it's about cost. it costs too much. what can you do to get the cost down? there is no cost savings in this. there is cost impositions. so the one thing i think that we have a great sho

carter to remain in jail. the maryland general assembly still has a lot of work to do in the final day of its four-month legislative session. dozens of bills hang in the balance. some won't even come up for a vote late this evening. chris gordon has more now from the news room. >> good evening. according to their custom, they adjourn sine die, meaning there's no date for their return. there are still dozens of bills to consider. one of the most important was prompted by last year's killing of 11-year-old sara haley foxwell on the eastern shore. the suspect arrested in her death was a known sexual predator. the case raised questions about the way the justice system handles sex offenders. they continue monitoring to protect the community long after the offender is released from prison. it means individuals who commit serious sexual crimes will be subject to what's called lifetime supervision, even after they serve what will probably be a lengthy sentence, and on are on parole. even after parole they will be subject to supervision by parole and probation for an extended period of time. >> other important bills are pending before maryland's mi

with carter as president and democratic control of capitol hill it did not make it. the first couple of years of bill clinton's presidency, he said we would get to it after midterm elections. newt gingrich won those. and of that. the first year obama's new presidency, maybe there's enough support, but we will do health care first. whoops, lost mass., so forget about it. taking care of its own, labor does it contractually. politically it is appalling. they do not really go anywhere. in terms of expanding the union movement, there is one interesting program of doing this. it is a political program, the way they try to get swing working-class voters, mostly white, to vote democratic in states like ohio, pennsylvania, wisconsin. it is called the working american program. they knock on your door. would you like to join this union? it does not cost anything. you can voyager grievances and you will get union political material. that is the defacto impact. the organizing is going on with more than a million signed up in ohio. probably over 750,000 in pennsylvania. it is one reason why barack obama carried th

carter as a one-term presidents. [applause] and in that context, that we be prepared to commit the republican president in the republican congress in february and march of 2013 will repeal every radical billd by this machine. [applause] the former teacher in thme wants to give you three assignments because i can't help myself. i helped design the 1994 campaign. i ask you to take them very seriously. this represents the work we're doing in american solutions where we are trying to understand what has happened, not to the democrats, not to obama, but to america so that our children and grandchildren can even the most creative, most productive, most prosperous, and safest country in the world. the first thing i want to ask you to do will sound a little academic, but it is really important in setting up the arguments. i urge you in joining in talking about a secular socialist machine. it is important to be clear who these people are. on every front, they are increasing government. they are trying to micromanage our lives. they want to raise taxes, spend more, have politicians become more powerful and citizens become less powerful. this is not in normal series of elections, it is not to groups