>> blair house and lincoln had in his cabinet a blair and blairs from missouri. polk was afraid that if he kept blair in there at the globe that blair really was more in favor of thomas benton and martin van buren than polk and that was going to be a disaster for him. he had to maneuver to get the globe out of there so he could create the daily union. the problem was that his great mentor, the man that he revered andrew jackson loved blair. and jackson just could not understand why his two great proteges and friends and people that he loves so much couldn't get along. polk pulled it off and government blair out of there and created his own newspaper the daily union. >> so what's the difference between donald graham then and the blairs? >> i think that today's journalism is very, very different because there's at least a significant pretense and a desire to reach for objectivity in our newspapers. we don't always live up to that successfully, but that is the rule that we try to follow. and don graham is of that tradition not of the partisan press tradition. >> you

>> you know, blair, i think, he -- that's a really good question.ld say that blair -- >> he claimed to have conducted interviews for the "new york times". he never conducted. >> he said he was places he never was. daisey claimed to be places he never was. he did go to china, but he never intud anybody who had n-xe ane exposure. >> like jasonon blair, he actively covered up by trying to obscure, for example, by not giving the correct name of the translator. the program that he knew he was going to report this as journalism from finding out, and so i'm having a hard time with this. well, i'm an entertainer and it was just kind of taken out of context. >> that's one excuse jason blair didn't have. there does seem to be a fair amount of parallels between the two. i do think that gsh and, you know, the thing about jason blair ace thing is he is cribbing reports from a.p. and other places, so he was just trying to not be noticed. mike daisey was, like, look at me, look at me. jason blair just wasn't doing the work. he was trying to sort of slip under the

morgan in london where tony blair is the international advisor of course for j.p. morgan london well of course on the former senator and governor of new jersey prior to that the former c.e.o. of goldman sachs he ordered this transfer now just basically what happened is he just o'brian transferred the money from a segregated client account to the m.f. global account and then to j.p. morgan so thus the liver into her boss' plausible deniability plausible deniability they famous by oliver north during the iran contra scandal now just called the certainty principle finance well let's move on to another headline from j.p. morgan here j.p. morgan claims number one for government debt after jefferson county so j.p. morgan has emerged from the worst financial crisis since the one nine hundred thirty s. is the most profitable u.s. bank as parlayed crisis era loans to cities and states and a willingness to outbid other firms and local government bond auctions into becoming the top underwriter of municipal debt last year this is a turnaround they say for j.p. morgan's municip

blair was invited to address the assembled crew. >> i've been clear right from the very start.not here to trade policy for editorial support. what mr. murdoch's papers do is up to him. what the labour party does is up to us. >> bergman: despite denials, it had all the hallmarks of a pilgrimage. and it paid off. next election, murdoch changed sides. >> tony always took the view, you're better to fight in elections with the media on your side than against you. and i can understand the argument, but you pay one hell of a price for it. >> bergman: like what? what's the price? >> well, he buys influence, doesn't he? i mean, how did he get us to change our media laws to give him cross-media control? that requires government to agree. >> bergman: the blair government relaxed their media laws to murdoch's advantage. >> i remember it very well because it was the very last stages of the communications bill, and it was in the house of lords and suddenly an amendment was put in. it had come straight from number ten. we had a vote in the house of lords. it went down, because i have to say t

the son's name is jeremy blair. he is 26 years old. as soon as the father recognizes his son, he says, son, you've got to turn yourself in, and jeremy blair listened to his dad and turned himself in to cops later that day. >> i just think about those two guys sitting there eating cereal, and dad is, like, uh, i'm pretty sure that's you. dad, there is something i've been meaning to tell you. >> great thing of the video, owner of the store who is also a father said, look, this is tough love. but the dad did the right thing, because in the long run, the son is going to benefit from having to deal with the consequences of his actions. so people are praising the dad for doing the right thing. >> any word on what happened to the second guy? >> the second guy is still at large. >> the other guy has got to be quaking in his boots wondering when the long arm of the law is going to reach and grab him. >>> the south carolina highway patrol recently released dash cam video from an incident on march 3rd. officers were called to a portion of highway

. >> my bus driver when i was a kid would scream at the drivers, burglary the hor blair the blair theorn. >>> elsewhere we don't have too much fog around. the skies are clearing out. the rain has ended, and the water is receding and we have temperatures now at 59 at reagan national. we've got a west-southwesterly wind coming in at 10 miles an hour, but that wind is going to be increasing, coming up pretty soon. as we get into the middle of the morning, we'll have that wind starting to gust around 30 miles an hour. right now, not much wind around. we have cleared out. that's the latest view from space. we do have a clear sky now. we have a few clouds coming through the middle of the day. sunrise is at 6:40. cool morning. we'll stay in the 50s through mid-morning. fog should be gone by mid morning and during the noon hour, we ought to hit the low 60s and mid-a and upper 60s. overnight torchlnight. m mid-40s. during the afternoon, high only near 60 degrees on friday. we'll have a chance of some rain moving in with increasing clouds on friday afternoon. some rain friday evening, light rai

tony blair who served as prime minister for a decade. that's the speaker's wife and gordon brown who had three years at number 10 many years at number 11 as chancellor and sarah brown here too. and there's a busy man in the second row, george osbourne who tomorrow will be delivering his third budget to the house of commons. he is here with his wife. and they are sharing a joke but tomorrow i suspect we won't be seeing any of those smiles when the chancellor answers the budget speech. in his own time there is the formal response. so very good morning. welcome to the river room, we're just a few yards away from the river. it is a few feet away from the house of lords. this is where we'll be following the morning's events. i have two expert guides with me. delighted to welcome the royal commentator and author robert hardiman whose book "our queen" has been a best seller and kate williams. delighted to have you with us. >> good morning. >> thank you both very much. well, it's a formal event but it's marking a very formal thing, a very specia

ambassador to afghanistan, zalmay khalilzad and former director of national intelligence, dennis blair. >>> then, the push toward november with former white house communications director anita dunn and former republican national committee chairman, ed gillespie. i'm candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." >>> rick santorum understands he needs cochange the dynamic. >> the republicans are thinking about putting someone in the same positions as president obama up. if this election is about tweedle dee and tweedle dum, we will lose. >> as the focus changes to illinois where polls are close and romney is loaded for bear. >> santorum's real weakness is the economy. he's never run a business or a state. his plan, economic illiteracy, inexcusable, the worst idea of any gop candidate. >> joining me now, former senator rick santorum. thanks for being with us. i want to start out by asking about the new ad that mitt romney has up and running in illinois where you two will next meet after puerto rico. and in it he basically says, listen. you've never run a business, and you've never run

. >> blair remained close to the second president bush who invited the blairs to camp david to get toher and find out what they had in common. >> we both use coal gait toothpaste. >> blair stood by george w. bush as he invaded iraq, even as some in britain mocked blair as --? the comedy love actually. >> no one -- i would be prepared to be much stronger and the president should be prepared for that. >> the special relationship has had its share of up as and downs. >> in 1812, it was a british who burned the capital who burned the white house. >> forgiven them for burning the white house? >> almost. >> well, the torching of the white house won't be on the agenda today. but there are a number of major issues for the u.s. and britain. iran, syria, the pace of troop withdrawal from afghanistan, trade. it will be kwut a day. charlie, erica, gayle? >> you got us all. thank you bill. >>> george clooney is one of the biggest movie stars in the world. oil, genocide and civil war is -- >> george is back from the sudan testifying today for the senate foreign relations committee. first he's with

think about what happened with president clinton and he was really working very closely with tony blair the prime minister of great britain on this issue and what tony blair called this was muscular humanitarianism i mean that's what he was talking about in kosovo and bosnia and he's done this also in africa where the idea of coming in because of humanitarian crises the willingness to almost unilaterally come in and if you can't get an international agreement and you can't get everybody in the room you do sort of what we did in iraq where you get the leading countries of the world and those can sometimes be you know well salvageable you know where you can get three guys from here and so you send out a couple of dogs you can and you can have their flood running too are we going to see that i think we're starting to see an effort to sort of cobble together a large group of nations who could say this is an international consensus when in fact i don't think we have that now you know we don't have a consensus here in the united states let alone anywhere else in the world now as their way to

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we had bill clinton, who was a close personal friend of tony blair, and then tony blair become a friendf w's, and way back to churchill and roosevelt, a special relationship. how's going to hold now in afghanistan under the pressure of this horror that happened the other day? >> i don't think it's going to affect the game plan, the strategy. i think the british government is in lock step with ours in terms of the president's plan, out of lisbon where we'll have a mid-inflection point in 2013 and be out in 2014 with an enduring presence. i see no space at all between the british government's position and the united states' position. >> there couldn't be a hotter issue than a nuclear war, which we've been lucky enough not to have, haven't even used a weapon since hiroshima and nagasaki. what about iran, what about europe, what about us? >> again, we're in lock step with the brits on this thing. the president is clear, he's not going to let them have a nuclear weapon. as he said, this president doesn't bluff. he doesn't believe in a policy of containment. and i think that he strongly belie

one and the clinton-blair one. it's good for us, but there was a lot of criticism that president bush got when he did the state dinner for the president of china. >> it's also who you want to sit next to. i had one little -- >> could i make a point that this state dinner under -- going to the white house, it's like an oscar ceremony for progressive celebrities. if you play the right left wing role, the trophy that you get is a seat at the table. the only thing more left wing would be like a pool party at the pilot bureau. >> reagan was -- john wayne. >> john wayne is an american icon. >> clint eastwood was there. the one thing, the fighting in the white house as dana will confirm as who gets the cuts, if they put in 15 names and get three seats, they go ballistic. the state department goes ballistic if they don't get all their diplomats in. always national security advisor is there and always the -- it's about five or six givens and the press secretary. >> who invites the journalists? >> the press secretary's offic

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if tony blair is incapacitated. what would happen if the premise is incapacitated. >> i've been waiting for some time because i know that my honorable friend has asked this question to almost every single cabinet member, including the deputy prime minister who i think replied he seemed to have a morbid fascination with the end of the leader of the conservative party. all i can say is i've no plans to be incapacitated. >> we are very relieved to hear it. >> thank you very much, . speaker. further to the question to the answer that the prime minister gave to my right honorable friend on elevenths inquiry, he is of course absolutely right that we need a free press. the nation will not thank him however if he goes along with the suggestion from the chairman of the pcc. in his proposal to use the defamation bill to legislate new system. the defamation bill is coming forward in september. this would preempt -- this would preempt the inquiry. >> i'm glad the audible lady asked that queion because i've no intention of preep

general tom green from texas will try to catch the navy at a place called blairs lane, and they will fight an unusual battle, 2500 mounted texas cavalry against an ironclad monitor, the osage, and some support vessels. very few casualties. they disabled -- this was april 12, 1864. the first time a periscope was ever used in battle for the osage. it is just been invented a couple days before. and one of the few casualties was general tom green and the osage fires around from the 11-inch gun, a huge naval gun, and they fire high but one of the canister rounds takes off a part of his head, just the sight of it and he falls dead. his body is taken back to austin for a state funeral. it was a huge loss for the confederate cavalry, and for taylor, because tom green was a very fierce fighter. there was a lot of morning on both sides. taylor does not have enough men to capture banks' forces. banks does not have the will to go forward. goes back to alexandria. the navy links back in after losing for vessels to confederate artillery. and the water is so low that it's just barely puddles. porte

also, there is a problem that has -- that have been working with blair the -- where the restaurants are losing clients. because the telling start so early. they have to run out and get their car before being towed. there is always my favorite, the labor unrest. -- neighbor unrest. they are having people go in the area and using it for various purposes. imad the voice of broadway. they have been -- i met the voice of broadway. they have instrumental getting together and creating a dialogue and tackling some of these issues. and then i have a few of these recommendations from a community standpoint and through this research that i am going to spend the bulk of my time with now. community patrols. the community patrol, usa has offered to help start a community patrol in this area. there's a lot of complaints by neighbors but there is no neighborhood organization creating a community patrol to help empower themselves. and work toward a better solution. the neighborhood night out on broadway, i am working with kehl -- ggailail gimlin. i am creating a neighborhood night out. m.p. storefronts,

experts believe there is a high risk of an explosion with the burning blair less than 100 meters away from where the gas is leaking, but total, the french operator, insist there is no danger. >> it does not pose a risk because the flare, by design, is up wind of the prevailing wind, so any gas leaks are blown directly away from the fire. >> total says it believes it has found a source of the gas leak, located 4,000 meters beneath the seabed, directly above the main gas reservoir. questions still remain about the impact of the gas leak on the environment. >> methane is being emitted from this platform, and it is 25 times, roughly, more serious than carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. so the climate change impact is significant. >> total is flying in specialists who worked on the deep water horizon rig in the gulf of mexico two years ago. environmental experts, however, want to carry out their own surveys near the stricken oil platform. >> a cake, a fun story now and time for a different perspective on things -- okay, a fun story. that is the aim of the swiss artist, a pioneer of video

the iraq ward bush, may not have happened without blair's support.s could be a good or bad thing. but you see why these relationships are key. it is going to be at the forefront, it has been important in the past. >> we discuss this relationship between the u.s. and the u.k. on a night the white house is hosting a state dinner. if you live in the east or central time zones -- it is 202-737-0002. 202-eat britain,m i it is 628-0184. this is tempered from the discussions today. >> as well as the essential things -- it is based largely on military and intelligence cooperation when you put aside the history. if you want to understand the special relationship, look around you, with what this means to people in uniform. the fighting in afghanistan alongside american troops, since the beginning of the war, and now they want to bring this to an end. they wanted to hear from the president that he would not pull any stunts during the election year. they were surprised when the defense secretary, last month, said that the handover to the afghans would begin -- i

tony blair is set to speak at the conference this afternoon. >>> metal thieves are being blamed for the disappearance of two bronze ornaments from an oakland landmark. they were taken from the fountain at broadway and telegraph a month ago. the bronze pieces each way 200 pounds. they were bolted on to the statue. the city is asking recycling companies to keep an eye out. if the missing pieces are not returned, they will try to raise money to replicate them. >>> it's about to be closing time for a popular community gathering spot that has been around for 51 years. the landlord will not renew the lease. now the managers say they have has many as 3,000 customers a week and customers say they are losing a little bit of their history. >> it's sad we will lose another community hall in the bay area. it's a place where a lot of people to congregate. you get all sorts of people here. >> there is a petition circulating to try to convince the landlord to let serra bowl to stay put. >> if you're headed to the mountains you should expected plenty of company on interstate 80 through the sierra. high

, tony blair became a friend of w's, and way back to churchill and roosevelt.d in afghanistan under the pressure of this horror that happened the other day? >> i don't think it will affect the game plan, the strategy. i think the british government is in lock-step with ours in terms of the president's plan, out of lisbon, we'll have a reflection point in 2013, go in more supportive role, out by 2014 with enduring presence. i see no space at all between the british government's position and the united states position. >> the hottest thing we talked about it, couldn't be a hotter than nuclear war, which we have been lucky not to have, we haven't used them since her oh shi ma and nagasaki. >> what about iran? >> we're in lock step with the brits. the president won't let them have a nuclear weapon. as he said this president doesn't bluff, doesn't believe in a policy of containment and i think he strongly believes the sa san sh sanctions have a chance to work. there will be a meeting, it's clear we won't allow iran -- >> do you think as a political guy, do you think