. >> homegrown tourism i think all of weight -- always kept the bure of that night because you just don't know about the sometimes until about tapppan. unless you have that one wiretap or that one piece of information, these people can function below the radar for months. >> just last week a 26-year-old long island -- long island man accused of joining al qaeda and attacking american that can stand. that the n.c. some say they knew the family was muslim but the not suspect daniel being anything but dedicated family man. >> they were playing with neighborhood kids. >> ironically the county is home to two top training facilities for u.s. special forces and anti-terrorist teams. abc news, washington. >> we are learning new details about the alexandria police chief arrest for drunk driving. "the washington post was " discovered chief david baker failed four field sobriety test, blood out of level was four times the legal limit. baker said he had two beers 20 minutes before the accident in arlington >>> the capitol heights man will spend 20 years in prison for a brutal church beating. on monda

. >> not the right kind of spotlight because plaxico bure ss as in testifying in front of a grand juryn new york, a charge of the public -- possession of a gun after accidentally shooting himself in the leg while in a manhattan nightclub a few months ago. he pleaded not guilty. he is the man who caught the winning touchdown pass to win the super bowl in 2008. if he is found guilty he faces up to three and a half years in jail. major-league baseball, top of the national league central beat western -- st. louis cardinals were at home and beat l.a. dodgers 3-2. a great highlights from a 1-0 1/7 innings, some wanted men on base and then a ball hit the ball left field. a good catch for manny ramirez. but at the bottom of the night with two outs, the dodgers were facing defeat but he broke his back and still had a signal and then his teammates got to home base and the winning run did not come until the 15th inning. of it or playing until almost five hours. -- they were planning of almost five hours. that's it. >> thank you there much, indeed. a quick bit of breaking news out of iran, we hear

you're talking about added bure increase, as ben pointed out. and if you look at what we already have, medicare's broke. it is broken. the hospital fund is going to go bankrupt, out of money in 2017. so why do we think that more government with healthcare is going to be a good thing? nobody seems to be able to answer that. they're not even focused on fixing medicare in the first place. >> so ron, back to you. this is something that really has you heated. what do you think the chances are right now? you don't think healthcare is going to make it through? >> no, and i don't think we should have a czar either. >> you don't think they're going to tax the sexritch get the healthcare through? >> well, they're going to try. but, you know, you have to remember, when you talk about political power, that's where it lies, in the hands of the rich. >> it lies in the hands of the reich? >> i think so, yeah. >> really? >> sure. i contribute to your campaign, right? >> well, ben, you got to say this is different, because wasn't this the campaign of grass roots

>> if you don't have a bure cassie behind you and a massive budget behind you you have a nice title,zar, but you are, in effect, a eunich. >> still, presidential scholar catherine van te many mpra says that's not the case. >> most of their power is because of their ear with the president. >> henry kissinger often die passed the secretaries are of state and defense, and none of president obama's czars enjoy that kind of power but it may not take that much power for a czar to get in the way. president bush's aid czar and food safety czar often trotted on his turf. >> both of them did. these were different than the so-called czars inside the white house. they typically did not work in the white house. >> tax problems kept former senate majority leader tom daschle from becoming health secretary and director of health reform. he would have been mr. obama's most powerful czar. instead, the president named a secret health secretary and separate czar. some of the czars like the intelligence czar and drug czar are mandated by congress. some of the czars president obama created like his chief

united states, barack obama took time out from pushing health care reform to call and great laid mark bure as he pitched an extremely rare, perfect game today. >>> a solid rally sent the dow above 9,000 for the first time since january and the nasdaq lost its 12th straight gain. the industrials were up, and the nasdaq finished 47 points higher today. >>> now, back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." was president obama born in the usa? the answer is yes. the president's birth certificate says he was born in honolulu at 7:24 p.m. on august 4th, 1961. check out this these pictures of the birth certificate held by fact check writer joe miller. state officials in hawaii say they have seen the original birth certificate and verified its authenticity. that includes the governor of the state, who is a republican. the honolulu advertiser, which is a big newspaper there, has faxed to nbc news last night his birth announcement. which was back at the time of his birth in 1961. why are conservative radio talk show hosts fueling doubts about his citizenship, nine members of congress are doin

else is paying for their healthcare, we will never get cost control, so the nonsense about all these bure crass siz and how they will find efficiencies in the system is garbage, because we won't get that if the patients aren't on our side. glenn: wait a second. i forgot one thing. this is the majority right administration, and they just stay in that box and they're not connected to me at all. thank you very much. appreciate t >> thanks, glenn. glenn: as the government -- what word should i use -- progresses toward state healthcare, the state model that is working so well, romney care, you know, massachusetts, is showing some severe chinks in the armor. massachusetts has the lowest percentage of uninsured residents, 2.6% compared to 15% nationally. that is because of the three-year-old law that required almost nearly every resident to have insurance, but in the new state budget, an order has come out to save an estimated $130 million. it is eliminating the healthcare for 30,000 legal, not illegal, legal immigrants. hmm. now, we checked on it. it's still possible for the democratic governor

>> interms of t national bure of economic research recession dating, it is quite possiblehat we will be out of the ression technical this year. but i'mot soptimistic from that. becauswe can have a doubldip receion. we can have ry slow recovery. that has been the pattern for recent resections. given the amount o damage the economy, dage to the imal spiri, which george and i emphasize, not measured that people are lookin at thi recession just another i a stringof resections. i think underestimating the longer term damage. -- drlrmteagam e? term damage? >> il give you as anxample. what washe real surprise in the great depression? there were two aspects oft. i'm making a great depression parael aisedly. we'rnot liky to have as bad an experience as tt. >> charlie: 2 unemploent. >> rig. but i mean, there are a lot of ways in which the current experience resembles the depression. but let me just, in the great depression fro 18929 to 193 we had 43-month interaction. that was almost th longest history. but it did come up. we had a recery from 33 -- from '33 to he 37. people fget. that itstill

ada is bure were chanting, "nada is alive. ahmadinejad is dead." reza, contributing editor at "the daily beast" and thanks very much for joining us. nice to see you. >> thanks. welcome to los angeles or as we call it tehrangeles. >> part of the thing about being in l.a., you see, compared to the rest of the country, the disproportionate coverage of iranian events here. >> take it seriously here. there's actually about eight or nine iranian persian satellite stations coming out of l.a. more than network tv. yeah, we take it seriously. >> i am no expert on matters januaryian or shiia muslim tradition, but am i right in terms of the symbolic importance of this being day 40 since june 20th, the day nada and others were killed? >> right. in tradition, a cycle of mourning that takes make primarily on the 40th day after the death. this was the 40th day of the death of nada but an opportunity for all of the protesters who have died and who are still in prison, for all of them to be remembered in an active religious devotion, and in many ways this was reall

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all we have seen is dark of the night back deal rooms and more taxes, more regulations, more bure crass, and this -- bureaucracy, and this one threatens the lives and lively hoods of our constituents. mr. king: reclaiming my time. there's a philosophy here again, this twiding -- dividing philosophy between the people that are right on the right side of the political spectrum and the people wrong on the left side of the political spectrum. i remember when the wall went down in november 9, 1989. the iron curtain came crashing down. it came crashing down because free enterprise trumped central planning in the five-year plan. the difference is because we are in the business of seeking to enhance and improve the overall annual average productivity of every american, if we do that, our economy thrives. and when our economy thrives, our quality of life goes up in proportion to the way our economy thrives. that's the part of human nature that's at the core of the difference in this philosophy. and they, the people who don't show up down here to carry on this debate because they cannot carry out

gingrey is doing is remove all these federal bure ratth democrats away from the relationship so thattor and patient can choose what's best. instead of what canada does and england does. we've got those experiences. we see what they do. and i would be happy to yield to my friend and doctor. >> i thank the gentleman for yielding. i want to bring up a point regarding his point about the louisiana medical society not supporting this bill and their concerns over the public option. ly tell you that my state of georgia feels the same way, and is leading a coalition of about 16 other states that are all part of the american medical association that do not support this bill because of the government option. and so it -- you know, the chairman mentioned and others have mentioned the support of the ama. great organization, represents about a fourth of the physicians in the united states. so, you know, i don't think that speaks to all of the practices doctors. but let me just say this, as we come to, i think, near a conclusion of this debate, mr. chairman, on my amendment. the arguments that i h