a bob franks fan.year-old guy who drove him around back in that campaign against jon corzine and his name is bill st stepien. back in 2000 he was fresh out of college and was the first time he was paid to work in politics. he was driving around bob franks to his speeches and meetings in that 2000 campaign. that got bill his foot in the door and got to manage a campaign of his own and hfs the campaign for barone in 2003. sadly bob franks passed away at 58, just a couple years ago. bob franks in that 2000 campaign is one of the threads that connects barony andsteppen. they are part of a core group of new jersey republicans whose roots can be traced to franks, who stayed in close contact with each other and ended up on chris christie's team. which brings us to this man, the man who ran the bob franks campaign in 2000, whose reputation as a strategist soared because of how close they came to pulling off what would have been a seismic upset. he was 26 years old and getting his first shot at managing a major

. >>> i'm joined by indicated column mist bob frank.ng. >> good morning. >> both president obama and former president bill clinton spoke out on protecting voting rights. even vice president biden said if i had to make a pitch for protecting voting rights today, i would say you have got to be kidding wichlt are these rights in such jeopardy? >> you have mainly republicans in several states bringing up the red herring issue, the straw man issue of voter fraud which is almost non-existent. but what they're trying to do is to stifle the constituencies that might vote for democrats, not only just minorities, but also the poor and the elderly and all this type of thing. so they've come up with what can be described adds onerous restrictions on voting. they're getting at one of the fundamental definitions of this country. it's fair to say these people are not just anti-democrat, they are anti democracy. >> some are arguing that democrats are using the voting rights pitch as a way to drive up mirm turnout among core voters. do you agree with th

many of his films were aimed at the troops to tell them what they were fighting forment when frank caper died, bob mackenzie look back at his life and career. >> ladies and gentlemen, frank capra. >> >> reporter: it was jimmy stewart being honored at this film institute tribute but the audience stood up for frank capra as if he was the honoree. and rightfully so, it was in capra's films where stewart became well known. >> the actors, if that front line collapses, the show is over. >> reporter: it was typical of capra to pass credit to his actors. but the solid performers like stewart it was his own idealism and essential sweetness that permeated his films and made him popular. jefferson smith and smith goes to washington believed in his fellow men and stood up for corruption. >> i guess this is just another lost cause mr. smith. all owe people don't know about lost causes. they are the only causes worth fighting for. the reasonable reason any man ever pays for them. because of just one plane and simple rule, love thy neighbor. >> love thy neighbor, stand for what's right. those were the messages i

mike, cnbc contributor carol roth, private investor evan n newmark and bob frank. sheila dharmarajan. mike, what is your take on what's happening in these markets? >> just a few hours ago the talk was, gee, look at all the nasdaq names, the momentum names down and the rest of the market doesn't seem to care. the market started to care. usually you don't have that happen when a leadership group goes hard and the rest of the market buck it is. heavy supply in names that were really based on kind of long-term future hopes and dreams not so much this quarter or the jobs number or anything like that. so i don't really see a lot of a theme to it aside from that, aside from the fact it took a lot of energy for this market to bounce off that correction and get back off to the highs and there was not a broad participation in that bounce and you definitely had more motivated sellers right here. it sounds trite. to me that's what it is. grong it i don't think it's tax season or the joshs number. there's not enough buying level. >> such an interesting point, sheila. there's be

bob orr. >> reporter: it started saturday morning when frank janssen answered a knock at his door.e 63-year-old janssen was zapped with a stun gun and kidnapped. the wake forest, north carolina, man was then stuffed in a car and driven some 400 miles to atlanta. sources say he was held captive by people linked to the violent blood street gang. on monday, janssen's wife began receiving threatening messages and a picture showing him tied up in a chair. "we will send mr. janssen back to you in six boxes," one text read. "and every chance we get, we will take someone in your family to italy and torture them and kill them." sources say the kidnappers were making demands on behalf of kelvin melton, a gang leader serving a life sentence in a north carolina prison. he was convicted in a case prosecuted by janssen's daughter, colleen, an assistant district attorney. court papers show the f.b.i. traced the messages to phones belonging to melton's crew and to a cell phone melt ofns using inside the prison. at 8:20 last night, the f.b.i. listened in on a call as a man identified as melton appa

bob orr has the details. >> reporter: it started saturday morning when frank jansen answered a knock at his door.with a taser and kidnapped and stuffed into a car and drove to atlanta where he was held captive by people with the violent blood street gang. on monday his wife began receiving threatening messages and a picture of his tied up in a chair. we will send him back in six boxes, one text read. and every chance we get, we will take someone in your family to italy and torture them and kill them. sources say the kidnappers were making demands on behalf of kelvin melton, a gang leader serving a life sentence in prison. he was prosecuted by the victim's daughter, an assistant district attorney. court records show the fbi traced the message to phones linked to his crew and to a cell phone melton was using inside the prison. at 8:00 p.m. friday night, a man gave orders to kill jansen. get a bag, put it over his head and stuff something in his mouth, the caller said. make sure to clean the area up. don't leave any dna behind. about three and a half hours later, the fbi's hostage rescue team raided

bob boston, kpix 5. >>> let's get a look hat weather for lawrence. frank isn't feeling well so brian stepped in today. >> glad to be here. >> glad to see you guys. >> i see you on television. >> at this time of the morning it's different. [ laughter ] >> we have a lot of fog out there right now. kind of a sea breeze kicking in so the cooldown is now under way. a few high clouds also drifting overhead. i think as we look toward the afternoon, we'll find plenty of sunshine inside the bay. out toward the coastline the fog is likely going to stick there. the temperatures going to come down especially near the coastline just inside the bay. 60s out toward the beaches, some 70s inside the bay still some warm 80s in the valleys. out the door we go. we have some cloudy skies over the bay bridge right now. temperatures are running in the 40s and the 50s. by the afternoon, still some pleasant weather numbers above average. you will find 80 degrees in concord, 81 san jose and 70 into san francisco. let's check the roads with elizabeth. >>> okay, thank you, lawrence.

[senator bob bennett] bill meadows of the wilderness society came in to see me. we were very frank with each other, and that was a breakthrough, because many of the times, earlier, when i've talked with representatives of the environmental community, they were not up front with me. [william meadows] congress has to pass the bills to designate wilderness, and we need to find support locally. so when i sit down with the local people i find that they love the land as much as i do. they're afraid of designations or something that is permanent. but once you sit down and talk about the natural values that need to be protected, and if you can do that in the context of what's necessary for economic development, how do you honor social and cultural values in those communities? you can find a way to come to common ground. [narrator] a resident of the red cliffs is getting special attention. the endangered desert tortoise is protected. biologist ann mcluckie conducts research on desert tortoises. a mirror is used to look inside a tortoise's den. [ann mcluckie] increasing recreation, increasin

frank back with you in headquarters. and back for more on today's market coverage is bob pisani.oward dean, who has just informed me that he's just returned from ukraine and that is certainly top of mind when it comes to the action today, spooking some of the traders. saw a flight to quality. >> it's going to be a spooky time and anybody with money in russia will have a rough ride. i think putin will probably invade. i think the sanctions -- i think obama will put the full bank sanctions that iran's got on them and i think that's going to give russians a very rough economic ride. >> that's a scary scenario. >> it is a scary scenario. >> talking about a u.s. tough response with the full sort of sanctions as they're known, targeting sectors. >> i think the biggest target will be the banking sector. that's what brought the iranians to the bargaining territory. when you can't do business with any bank who does business with the united states, you really can't do business with anybody. that forces the europeans' hand. doesn't matter what the europeans do. >> there's two scenarios here