we met blair in january. he said one of the perks of the job is eating free. anyone over 350 pounds doesn't have to pay. >> i'm big. you know what i mean? and so, why not? i don't eat here every day. why not have fun with it. >> reporter: sadly, we now know how long that was? blair died last week at the age of 29. his family says the cause of death was pneumonia. the cdc says every year, 112,000 deaths with be linked to obesity. when your spokesperson drops dead at the age of 29 and he's morbidly obese, don't you have a problem? >> absolutely. who wouldn't? >> reporter: john basso owns the heart attack grill. he draszs dresses up like a doctor. >> every one of us cared about blair. >> reporter: there's an argument to be made that you used this guy in his life. now you're morbidly using his death to promote your restaurant. >> i agree. his death has gotten the message out further. >> reporter: his death has not given you pause? >> zero pause. >> reporter: he has a most unusual justification. that america needs shock therapy to cure its obesity epidemic. he says

he and his good buddy berlusconi you know this or tony blair the new wax museum. all right stay here with thanks so much for being on the prize report thank you much and i want to come back i'll be talking with everybody should be this is an interview that i did a few days ago so stay right there will be right back. the official like a should. be pulled from the. video . she's smiling. now with the palm of your. machine. to. welcome back to the kaiser report time now to go to cairo it talk with two time pulitzer prize winning journalist anthony said deed he's a foreign correspondent for the new york times he divided time between baghdad and beirut but today he's in cairo and the welcome of the kaiser report raises more closure for things like all of these revolutions that are going on now across the region have changed the narrative from muslims are bad to arabs or good and now saying that there is a total shift in the perception of the arab world as now they are on the forefront the cutting edge of democracy is that there's a tremendous pride in the hearts of peo

and george bush who's no longer in office but obama now well i mean where is tony blair is the kind of square london things that go. why sure ray i mean if he is insane as gadhafi they all insane is bush insane is dick cheney as of the same day birds of a feather flock together i was i would imagine these guys are all pathologically and same just a bit off they seem to have a more extravagant wardrobe is also down so has emerged from libya which is the benghazi down oh the benghazi down fantastic this is more of a trance music apparently of the crowd is all waving their hands and they've slowed it down really slow so everybody does the big. stick it's freedom i can smell. but i bring up benghazi and i wanted to show you this little screen grab i took from the television where we're watching here and it was you know the crowds in benghazi and this sign in particular this placard really stood out for me no autocracy no despotism no nepotism no cronyism and that is universal and that is what you are calling the global insurrection against banker occupation it's the same thing it's. run

morgan and tony blair and cash out the white house just to resume burnishing exercise for obama he's working for j.p. morgan right now scott walker of wisconsin governor he's working for the koch brothers right now he's a time right now they're working right now with the enemy they're selling the people out all over the world and this is intolerable and the people in cairo have to go now to stand up to. the people with consummate illinois are still so you know wondering huge should we do a larry fink says to live in a concentration camp or larry fink to live in a reservation for larry fink they don't know what the problem so speaking of tony blair i have a headline here with tony blair kind of guy somebody would fit in right in connaught square where all the other arms dealers in mass murders of the world live and hide their wealth from their own nations the man who plowed into a group of bikers is a brazilian central banker and he's charged with attempted murder so you see this video here max this is a critical mass demonstration in porto alegre brazil and i see that a car barreling

am his good buddy berlusconi you know mr donny blair the new wax museum. all right stays there with thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thank you but i want to come back i'll be talking with anthony this is an interview that i did a few days ago so stay right there will be right back. for the. we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice ceased to face with the news makers. in the. welcome back to the kaiser report time now to go to cairo i found with two time pulitzer prize winning journalist anthony the deed he's a foreign correspondent for the new york times he divide the time between baghdad and beirut but today he's in cairo anthony welcome to the kaiser report raises my pleasure paul seems like all of these revolutions that are going on out across the region have changed the narrative from muslims or bad to arabs or good and now it seems that there's a total shift in the perception of the arab world as now they're on the forefront the cutting edge of democracy is that there's a tremendous pride in the in the hearts of people there now yo

morgan chase where he lives tony blair of course lies the lead up to the iraq war they cooked up the intelligence colin powell showed but little pile of cow from crowder instead we got to go kill a million iraqis blair was part of that he's got blood on us and he's part of the kleptocracy of j.p. morgan he kills people for money for blood and he and larry thing are in the same kind of corrupt both ok and he works for j.p. morgan chase the day he got out of office at ten downing street he jumped into j.p. morgan chase they hired him for two million dollars per year it was game which came first the chicken or the egg was blair working for j.p. morgan before he left turns out three left in downing street and that question applies to barack obama is he working for j.p. morgan now or is going to take his job when he leaves the white house and he doesn't want to stay for a second term because he'd rather jump right in there and work with j.p. morgan and tony blair cashed out the white house just to resume burnishing exercise for obama he's working for j.p. morgan right now scott walker wis

which came first the chicken or the egg was blair working for j.p. morgan before he left and that's true barry letts in downing street on that question. to barack obama is he working for j.p. morgan now or is going to take his job when he leaves the white house and he doesn't want to stay for a second term because you'd rather jump right in there and work with j.p. morgan and tony blair cashed out the white house just to resume burnishing exercise for obama he's working for j.p. morgan right now scott walker wisconsin governor he's working for the koch brothers right now he's a time right now they're working right now with the enemy they're selling people out all over the world and this is intolerable and the people in cairo have a going to have to stand up to it and people with concert ohio illinois are still so you know wondering should we do a larry thing says to live in a concentration camp or larry fink to live in a reservation for larry fink they don't know what the problem so speaking of tony blair i have a headline here with tony blair kind o

they love how embarrassing his speech was because it was mostly embarrassing for the likes of tony blair and george bush who's no longer in office but obama you know well i mean where is tony blair is he kind of square in london singings and goes into what is why sure ray i mean is he as insane as gadhafi they all insane as bush insane is dick cheney as the saying they birds of a feather flock together i was i would imagine these guys are all pathologically and same as just a gadhafi seems to have a more extravagant wardrobe there is also a downside has emerged from libya which is the benghazi dance oh the benghazi dance funtastic this is more of a trance music apparently of the crowd is all waving their hands and they've slowed it down really slowly so everybody does the benghazi downs fantastic it's freedom i can smell it. but i bring up benghazi and i wanted to show you this little screen grab from the television while we're watching here and it was you know the crowds in benghazi and this sign in particular this placard really stood out for me no autocracy no despotism no nepotism no

tavis: blair underwood next. stay with us. always pleased to welcome blair underwood in addition to his role in the nbc primtime drama "the event." he stars in "i will follow" from the african-american film festival releasing movement. here's a scene from the show than airs on nbc monday nights at 9:00 called "the event." >> unfortunately senator, all i can tell you is it's a matter of national security. >> those two words are so overused. and your government has been able to rid them of any meaning. and in the process this made the country less secure. >> senator, you've held public office for all of two weeks. you weren't even elected. you want to be outraged, your state has the highest unemployment in the country, the highest obesity. why don't you have the next 90 days to relieve those people and leave national security with those with actual credentials. the next time you question my authority i will eviscerate yours. tavis: what's up with all these negros playing a president? >> you know what, i was doing an interview th

countries and how much they sold weapons to khadafi since two thousand and four when tony blair wentto tripoli and camped in the tent with colonel gadhafi and you see italy france and germany and the top three countries in europe who export did eight hundred thirty four point five million worth of in the first five years after the arms embargo was lifted in october two thousand and four and then there's a breakdown of the chart of the details and you see that most of the weapons were with italy and france and they exported mostly military planes but germany supplied nearly eight million dollars in tear gas chemical weapons and radioactive materials well of course are no stranger of this kind. to be by law not participating in any kind of military budgets but of course what does a lot mean these days but the other thing is this october two thousand and four arms embargo was lifted because gadhafi said i'm going to give up my chemical weapons and nuclear program so then germany supplies them with new stuff so it's a racket that the u.s. and europe operate you're a bad guy unless you ta

jason blair, obviously a black eye. i think there's probably something in general to bill's sense of the paper's natural institutional biases. i want to be careful here about how i phrase this. i think one of the reasons i was asked to do this -- by the way, thank you, fred, for asking me and frank and thank you -- at it nice to see you, and thanks to st. francis college. one of the reasons i was asked to do this, while i'm certain lay liberal -- no question about that, and if you read my stuff you know i'm a liberal -- but i'm a critic to some extent of liberalism over the years. i have been critical to some extent of multiculturalism, identity politics on left. my first book was -- there it is. can we just show it? it's an old book now. i actually -- i don't really agree with 100% of it anymore. >> played a role in helping him shape his ideas. >> i'm sure he's going to quote me against me in his rebuttal. that's fine. i have been somewhat critical of multiculturalism from a liberal perspective and that perspective bei

the libyan government steel that's right that's right tony blair made it possible for a good thing to steal incredible amounts of assets now the protesters are squatting . held property in london and they want their money back of course and we should see this all over the world to people should scott scott walker's house and demand that back because that was stolen with public taxpayer money they're seizing the house. they squatted in and told the assets are sold and given back to the libyan people it's ten million pounds but in the meantime we're going with this theme of the gorilla running through their room their own economy has been taken they're paying austerity measures and order to finance the banker heist lord how public sector reforms who will lose out so lord hutton remember who whitewash the whole tony blair regime. put the b.b.c. totally on the back foot during the hutton inquiry that's correct but he's come up with these new public sector reforms in which workers in the public sector will face a radical overhaul of their pension schemes but here is a paragraph that stood

tony blair. his nose gets big. tony blair. rock, paper, scissors. velociraptor! come on!en, can you just please...? it's paper, it's rock, or it's scissors. that's it. three things in the repertoire-- rock, paper, scissors. ...paper, scissors. nuclear bomb! right. karen wins. no! please, both of you, stop. okay, shall we play something else? so, what's this game you want to play? it's called dinosaur-teddy-robot. dad: what do we do? mum: what are the rules? well... robot kills dinosaur, dinosaur kills teddy, and teddy kills robot, because the dinosaur can eat the teddy, the teddy can deactivate the robot, and the robot can laser the dinosaur. sounds so complicated. but it's good. good, mind. you hide them under the table, and then we say, "teddy, robot, dino," and then you lift up either a teddy, a dinosaur, or a robot. quite an exciting game, isn't it? okay, dinosaur, teddy, robot! um... zambia? is the right answer. well done, jake. can i be the question-asker? please, please? mum: go ahead. how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? it's a st

lord hutton public sector reforms who will lose out so lord remember who whitewash the whole tony blair regime and put the b.b.c. totally on the back foot during the hutton inquiry that's correct but he's come up with these new public sector reforms in which workers in the public sector will face a radical overhaul of their pension schemes but here is a paragraph that stood out to me more public sector employees who are now living and drawing a pension for longer has created an estimated thirty billion pound black hole in the plug in the public finances so thirty billion pound black hole and people are outraged at the public sector spongers you know who's stealing all our money from us did you see any outreach for these two have lines one from two thousand and nine bank bailout to add up to one point five trillion to public debt that's from two thousand and nine years from the end of two thousand and ten ireland bail out u.k. taxpayers could face seven billion pound bill for some bondholders and bank that didn't even have deposit. so there's thirty billion dollars black all the point is

prominence i guess in the last few weeks so now he's he's no longer buddies and cronies with tony blair isn't george bush isn't obama's of the world the dictators joe astonishing wealth of khadafi and it's family reveal the astonishing wealth of libyan tyrant moammar gadhafi and his family has been laid bare as countries around the world begin freezing billions of dollars worth of their assets the u.s. alone has seized thirty billion dollars while canada has frozen two point four billion austria one point seven billion in the u.k. one billion and that money came in after the break a lot of it all of it you know during a period of supposedly these new anti money laundering money for dictators a lot so here you have selective prosecution and it suits your legal system if you're a dictator like could be will take your money we don't care who you kill the name of america's donor franchises but if you're a hard working american we treat you like garbage we treat you like scum because we think you're just should be working as slaves are wall street plantations of course we should result what

what i would boil is clearly a factor and oil and business was the reason that tony blair did bring it up again from the cold so you have to be perhaps careful in life which friends you choose it may be that it's oil but look if they're worried about that what would happen if there was a serious insurgency in somewhere like saudi arabia that produces far more by now if you were just take us by for a moment here when when british m.p.'s voted on u.k. intervention in libya only thirteen of them voted against the measure why why so few of course well of course we saw that with afghanistan we also saw that with iraq where with the exception of the liberal democrats virtually everybody in parliament voted for the iraq war and it seems that what we have in parliament are a political class they all go to the same schools they go to the same universities they get the same jobs and research offices and they spend their careers in politics having never had jobs in the real world how they operate speak and vote like sheep we don't have independent enough independent thinkers sitting in the house

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of thousands of people taking to the streets just to support the workers in wisconsin well harriet blair rohan is one of the organizers of the union protests there in madison and she's joining us over the phone or along with a bill fletcher co-author of this book right here fallon very divided the crisis in organized labor and a new path towards social justice thank you both so much for being here but i'm going to start with you a lot of folks are saying that that what is happening in madison wisconsin is just a microcosm of the bigger issue which is this awakening in the labor movement would you agree with that assessment or absolutely it's it's an awakening it's resistance it's actually inspired by the arab revolt the elite so no question about it how in the arab world people are incredibly adverse conditions challenge to very backward regimes and they had an immense amount of courage and masses of people turned out i think that. from discussions that i've had with people that have been on the ground there in wisconsin they've said time and again that they were inspired by the arab peo

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lane open by tomorrow and the city of newark and saying equipment failure and residents awoke to a blairing in the plant. the fire melted a containing acid. teams came in to clean it up. this is the second fire in less than a year. >> i'm scared. i don't know. because one day we can be sleeping and our house is going to explode! >> there is operators say the equipment is stable. >> the first athlete called to testify in the barry bonds trial took the stand today. former a's slugger was asked about steroids and bonds' personal trainer. and. >> we moved on today from testimony about shumpken sexual organs to details about how major league baseball urine spence minute collector had to watch the sample being produced to avoid substitutions, then this, afternoon on to former baseball player who's have admitted to using illegal steroids. >> and jason giambe and former giant marvin bernard were on the stand today telling the jury with b.how they received annabolic steroids from greg anderson. the giambes saying anderson told them the designer steroids had only steroid-like properties and bernard t

. >> in recent years you have had important western leaders like tony blair coming here. and now there are western leers leaders saying you should go. >> of course it's betrayal, they have no morals, besides if they want me to step down, what do i step down from? i am not a monarch or king. >> but you can step down even if you don't have a formal title. >> it's honor, he said, nothing to do with exercising power or authority. in britain who has the power, queen elisabeth or david cameron. he said that we didn't understand the system. >> i understand the system you have here. >> no, you don't understand. and the war, don't understand the system here. the system here. you don't understand it. >> but how do the people show their authority then? some who have gone on the street to protest said that your people have shot at them. >> no, no demonstration at all. >> did you see the demonstration? >> yes, i have, i saw some tomorrow. >> where? >> yesterday i saw demonstration. they are not supporting you. some are against you and some for. >> no, against me for what? they love me

blair was happy with that kind of arrangement. the recessed door, i am not sure when that was done. >> you cannot tell from that list? >> it does not say a remodeled front entrance or anything. it is possible that it was done as part as -- part of accessibility upgrades, which is typical for a commercial building that has been altered in san francisco. >> i do not mean to ask you to come in on something that mr. sanchez says. there is a permit in the way. you have not seen that permit? >> i find out tonight that that permit is with the planning department. the building department has approved the stage. >> i thought i heard mr. sanchez says something about that particular permit addresses the idea of an exterior door. i am assuming this is the exterior door we are talking about at 731. is that a false assumption? >> there are a few doors on the front of this property. >> it would be a different door. >> echoes from 731 to 739 is the actual address. >> what president garcia is talking about a permit that has not yet been issued. we

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enough people out there are speaking out about the issue and that was blair griffith a homeless young lady in colorado also miss colorado twenty eleven i want to thank you so much for watching i'm christine will be back in a half hour. c . h i'm arriving here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture of. the world this is a russian city on the brilliance sitting of ukrainian border in the country's southwest it's a regional capital with a thriving business community and students. population. nearly one million people it's a place of innovation research and procession. in the last few years an influx of cash has completely made noise the city center and there are plenty of fashionable mutex and cafes standing alongside british is grendel a box. telling of the moves the stunning enunciation cathedral the third largest church in russia finally reopened in two thousand and knowing the culture eleven years of rebuilding with a brand new six ton bell calling the city to worship and that was a pretty good advertisement for one local company. oh really slow you

you have had leaders like tony blair come here. now leaders are queuing up to say you should go. do you feel a sense of the trail about that? -- of the trail about that. >> of course it is a trail. they have no motives. what do a step down from? i am not a monarch or king. >> you make speeches with the un and are identified with libya even if you do not have a formal title. >> it is honorary, nothing to do with exercising power or authority. in britain, who has the power? is it queen elizabeth r. david cameron? >> if he said we did not understand the libyan system. i understand the situation you have, but you are regarded as the leader. >> do not say, "i understand." you do not understand the system here. the authority of the people -- you do not understand it. >> how do the people shall their authority? some have gone on to the streets to protest and say you're people who shot of them. -- your people shot at them. did you see them as solutions? i saw some today. i saw demonstrators yesterday. >> that are supporting me. >> that are

and commended by both bill clinton and tony blair for the constructive and positive role he played. in 2005, he called for the abolition of -- after a bank robbery in northern ireland. >> if this is a problem -- and certainly homegrown radicalization is -- i am not sure how big, but we do not want it to get to be a big problem. the people that you call are not the people that they called in this hearing, and you do not build a hearing, as it was -- the second half of the building was an attack on the muslim community for not doing enough. >> it started with 13 dead at fort hood. that was an army captain. >> we need to know how to do something about it. this is not the way. this is more of an attack. >> the governor is playing hardball >> this is the pearl harbor workers' rights issues. it was a sneak attack. >> if you do not pass major reforms in collective bargaining, local governments were not able to balance their budget. >> all hell broke loose at the capitol in wisconsin after lawmakers passed a bill that strict many rights from state workers. protesters thought that they had s

joining us now is william blair from the massachusetts institute of technology -- leher from the massachusetts institute of technology. what is the communications futures program? >> we work together with industry partners both internationally and domestically to look at issues affecting the internet. the idea is to try to think about technologically aware policy, business strategy, and strategy where technology -- strategy-up where technology. >> what are you thinking about most these days? >> i could spend a lot of time thinking about wireless issues. i come from a regulatory economic research background, so i am especially interested in all of the non-technical sides of policies and how they interact with the internet. how do we ensure a healthy climate for the internet? how might we manage spectrum? these sorts of issues are ones i have been thinking about recently. >> when you graduated from your first college, the university of graduated withou floppy disks, computer labs, and dial-up modems. what did you see in the future in 1979? >> the notion that we would be getting to something more

well known to british officials and was crucial to arranging the meeting in the desert between tony blair and muammar gaddafi which seemed part of a process of bringing him and libya in from the code. -- in from the cold. he is -- what about this issue -- >> what about this issue of farming of the rebels? they seem to have opened the door to it but have not walked through yet. what is the position in london? >> i think it's exactly as you described. the british prime minister, up until recently, was saying the libyan arms embargo passed in the first of two security council resolutions applied to the whole of libya. in other words, it was not possible to argue their side. today, he has taken a slightly different position, saying the second resolution does allow all necessary means, all necessary measures, notwithstanding the earlier arms embargo, if it can be shown to be necessary to protect civilians. what he has made clear today is that he's prepared to think about it. there are certain circumstances in which it would be legal, but no decision has been taken. i have talked to ministers o

today, investment bank william blair cut its opinion over worries about monster losing market share. alcatel-lucent continues its recent climb. shares have really ignited in the past month, moving from $3.50 in early february, when it announced strong fourth quarter results to over $5.60 tonight. volume was very strong as well. and on the heels of strong factory orders in january for manufacturers and it's own big jump in profits. check out this pop in l.s.b. industries. ticker l.x.u. shares shot up 13% to a new high. it makes fertilizer and industrial heating and cooling machines. and that's tonight's market focus. >> susie: on tuesday, the trial starts for the man at the center of the largest crackdown on hedge-fund insider trading in u.s. history. the feds say galleon group's raj rajaratnam conspired with a former goldman sachs director for inside tips on the bank. prosecutors plan to play audio- tapes of conversations between the two men. they may also call goldman c.e.o. lloyd blankfein to testify. rajaratnam is accused of illegal trading and conspiring to get inside information

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