. >> reporter: big byrd took to the high road on "saturday night live." >> before you go, do you havey political statements you'd like to make? >> no, i don't want to ruffle any feathers. >> reporter: but many ruffles were feathered as he was mentioned in the campaign. >> i'm going to stop the subsidy to pbs. i love pbs. i love big bird. i look you too. >> somebody's getting tough on big bird. elmo, you'd better make a run for it. >> reporter: campaign surrogates keeping it alive in the fight over big government spending. >> he's taken the battle straight to "sesame street" and let wall street run hog wild. >> reporter: so was it a mistake targeting america's favorite yellow bird? >> he wasn't targeting. he was just pointing to one example. big byrd is pretty successful. >> reporter: but the truth is the show relies on less than 0.1% of federal funding from federal particulars. after the debate, some 17,000 tweets per minute came in about #bigbird. >> welcome to the middle class, big bird. despite or because of it big bird has helped the romney campaign to raise $12 million the $48 af

. >> i guess you can put byrd gang down. >> byrd gang. is that what you are?didn't you tell us in the first place? >> little bit of cooperation is better than none. >> during the search, knight and demerey also found a lighter hidden in the mattress of sandier's cell mate, alfredo roca moreno. knowing he has a lengthy history, correctional officers now want to take a closer look at the mattress. >> what have we got here? >> i need this mattress checked for contraband, please. >> we have to break this whole mattress down. regulations require that security check mattresses when they're brought in like this. lieutenant? this was the area that was concerned, right? >> yes. >> roca moreno is a known member of a puerto rican prison gang called the nietas. he joined during an earlier prison sentence he served in puerto rico, but he insists the nietas are not a gang. but a fellowship of sorts. >> it was a word from the warriors. they used to send it to the gods three times. that's why it means the birth of a new warrior. >> roca moreno says puerto rico inmates simply

my husband byrd is six very much like like he did and my oldest daughter lizbeth and says she's in prison and by everything that's happened to us plus service asperger's and the alcohol and drug abuse as a result of his p.t.s.d. and other illnesses in this is all came about because of daniel's mind problems you access to that vertebrates putting apart the u.s. air force can't detailed records of the spray missions that began in one thousand nine hundred sixty one and continued for ten years these voluminous records were used to create maps and calculate the extent of the spring thirty years after the war ended. well one of the things that we did when we created the street graphic information system was to create a way in which you could take these tens of thousands of flight legs of a of a plane and translate them into what happened on the ground and we can tell you in any one grid had much was sprayed had many direct hits we also got files from the national archives of where people lived where the hamlets were that i could actually put him many people lived in each of those squares of gr

the mayor and the orioles byrd unveiled a large banner wishing luck for the team. it is in 15 years since playoff baseball was in the air in october. game 4, the clincher, skadden for tomorrow night. -- scheduled for tomorrow night. game 5 is needed is slated for friday night. -- if needed, is slated for friday night. tonight we play -- pay tribute to jr. fans. we want you to show us your orange. tap u local in our mobile app or go to wbaltv.com to share your pictures. >> the controversial ballot question called the dream act is -- has the support of a clergyman in the state, urging people to vote yes and invest in the next generation. sheldon joins us live from the newsroom with details. >> question for focuses on the maryland team act. it has been a hot-button issue. as the election nears, the controversial referendum has got some well-known clergyman supporting it. including the catholic archbishop. she was granted political asylum during the country's civil war. >> for me it was a breakthrough. >> when she was a teenager, she and your family moved to baltimore

turkey animation, keep checking in with the byrd land faithful. team coverage of the post-season magic, we begin tonight with pete gilbert and a look back to a vitoria's day in orioles history. >> outside of yankee stadium, no workouts today. the teams are getting arrested for game 3 on wednesday. where we're standing is just a ball park right here. this is where the old yankee stadium was, and a 12-year-old named jeffrey mayer reached down into the field of play, and took away what was going to be a catch and he got a home run, one of the most infamous plays in major-league baseball playoff history. the 28-year-old will not be in attendance of this series at all. she is living in new hampshire and married to a red sox fans that he has to deal with. >> well put. it reaching postseason play is nothing new with the exception of 2008. the yankees have made the playoffs every non-strike season had the extraordinary legacy isn't adding much height -- i in new york. we have more from yankee stadium. >> of the call before the storm here at yankee stadium

. >> reporter: injury biomechanics expert cindy byrd says the crash dummies tell the story.r impact can save your life. you put your head -- >> your head down. hands over. and just hold it. >> reporter: and that works? >> yeah. it does. >> reporter: the results show that passengers near the front took the brunt of it. rows seven and forward were considered fatal. the force was less in the middle. and much less in the rear of the plane. >> that was a severe impact. >> reporter: she showed us something else in her lab. a simulated mother holding an infant on her lap, a familiar money saver for parents everywhere. after a relatively minor impact, the mother can't hold on. another critical tip, generally sitting within five rows of an exit gives the passenger the best odds because getting out fast is key. neal karlinsky, abc news,

. >>> well, if franken-storm comes to this area and wipes out byrd stadium randy edsel would probably tell you, i'm not surprised. what else could go wrong? what's happening in college park might not be unprecedented but it's darn close. devon burns lost for the season with an injury, misplaced bone in the foot. you're probably saying to yourself, haven't the terps lost other quarterbacks? well, yes, they have. take a look. maryland lost their original starting quarterback in the preseason, torn acl, so perry hills took over. he tore his acl, so burns took over, and he injures his foot in that game. that leaves a freshman as the only scholarship quarterback on the roster. by the way, wide receiver marcus lee broke his toe as well. what's up with guys' feet in this town? wow, all right. to the pro game. pierre garcon told reporters he has a torn legment in his foot and he's not sure when he will be back. mike shanahan says it's a matter of pain tolerance. there ain't much he can do about this one. >> i can't really run. i can't really, you know, explode, be fast, because that's the onl

chosen from all over the globe is russian curial lots of the man who made it from zero to hero robert byrd the neon has the story. everyone is given a chance some take it others wasted and that's what separates winners and losers. he's the one who won the young russians relaunched his football career here in jones program seen tons of youngsters from all over the globe with professional contracts early after a serious injury the eighteen year old had almost lost hope to return. i try to come back and join sparked talk look on what steve said to schools but they weren't interested when i was told i was too small they said to gain some weight and grow some muscles and then try again if they like my skills but fitness has always been a priority for them. not jones gave love another shot but he had to get through the local selection of just one hundred hopefuls out of four thousand from across russia met up in moscow deaths and games watched and assessed by pro coaches only four of them would be chosen to represent their country at the world finals in barcelona. i went there for nothing less b

as a as a follower of byrd but you think they both themselves out of office that's why i said you would probably have a grandfather and i i think you could get it through if you were a grandfather and i are at least let it start by giving them if it was a. given point more yes and that would get it for the government what's your constant. term limits. the root of all evil are politicians that beat their chests and in the name of electing me or reelecting me we're going to end the war on terror we're going to take care of the legal immigrant we're going to take care of health care we're going to have free education for everybody we're in and the drug wars you name it elect me reelect me i'm going to save the world and congress gets elected we need to balance i hear congressional ads running all the time we need to balance the federal budget the next ad that runs is here's the bacon that i've brought home to my state amounting to billions of dollars and if you want the bacon to continue to be brought home vote for me i think i'm living proof the term limits work look i really enjoyed bein

american union for example in ninety six paul martin the former prime minister of canada was bill byrd meeting john chretien and alan gottlieb all these guys were instrumental in their always putting together stepping stones towards an any you. alan gottlieb was instrumental in the key a john christian was involved with now have. paul martin was involved with the s.p.p. of course stephen harper is also built a bird member and he is involved with the north american leaders summit so a lot of these time a lot of the times. these guys might not even necessarily understand how they're connected with one another but they're certainly carrying out the bidding of the steering committee right where you see madeleine albright colin powell henry kissinger on the steering committee said these think tanks i mean a lot of neo con has a lot of people who've been out of politics par still definitely directly influence and policy really quick to wrap it up though dan and the trainer were reminded that this is something that the mainstream media of course has doesn't touch and i'm guessing they see fox

at south shore international high school the new ceo barbara byrd said that replaced seann card brizard after teachers returned to the classroom following a bitter strike. bird then it will receive $250,000.10 year for three years. unsustainable expenses along with inevitable tax hikes and budget cuts. >> became very easy for the political system to kick it down the road thousands of dollars of they were pretending to solve a problem when in fact they were putting off playing for several generations ahead a bar when money to spend money. >> regional transportation authority chairman john gage jr. apologized today to members of the disabled community in chicago after calling the ada paratransit service a federally mandated limousine service in his apology he called the remark off the cuff and faultless. certifiedcoming up controversial comments from an indiana senate candidate makes its way to the race for president and also donald trump reveals his so- called october surprise what he is asking the president to do and for what to and organic food is supposed to be the healthier option an

the laws are right now in congress there is a lot proposed law that was drawn up by the late senator byrd of west virginia it's been buttressed and expanded by jay rockefeller senator from west virginia and this law would address those issues about making sure there's some kind of coverage for directors for c.e.o.'s and the like some sort of liability of liability or possibly criminal actions so and so are they. is the difference between the banks and the mines that the banks have. have rules that make people vulnerable or that the mines have rules that make people invulnerable anywhere where is the outlaw piece of ice that's preventing i'm not sure that the point of the legislation i'm discussing it's nowhere it's been defeated in two thousand and ten when the rip republicans gain the house so there is no one right so there is no law right now and so they've not been able to piers piers their corporate veil and go after blankenship or anybody like him why i mean this is. you know these are twenty nine lives these are these are human beings this is. why. is it even possible that in the un

is also the first school board meeting presided over by new chicago public schools c-e- o, barbara byrd-bennett. a suspect in the september 11th attack on the u-s consulate in libya is in custody in tunisia. "ali al-harzi" reportedly posted an update about the attack on social media as it happened. sources close to the investigation say that post was one of the first clues about who was behind the attack that killed ambassador chris stephens and three others. u-s intelligence agencies are working with tunisian authorities, but have not questioned al-harzi directly. newly released emails show the obama administration knew within hours of the deadly attack that it was linked to terrorists. for weeks, officials said it was a spontaneous protest against an anti-muslim film. now c-n-n reports the white house received emails during the attack that an islamic militant group was claiming responsibility. president obama has since confirmed the attack was planned by militants with suspected links to al qaeda. officials have not commented on the emails. indiana's republican nominee for the u-s senate says

allover byrd land looking for a win tonight. share your pictures with us as well. >> not one but two n.c.a.a. division wins. >> after weeks of discussion, making a surprising suggestion to reconfigure their department. details straight ahead. >> it's a learning difference that's often overlooked. >> dyslexia. >> dyslexia. number of students that we have. resources. materials. things that the children need... on a day-to-day basis. anncr: question seven will help. the department of legislative services says question seven... will mean hundreds of millions of dollars... for schools...from gaming revenues that would have... gone to other states. and independent audits will guarantee the money... goes where it's supposed to. krystal conwell: i think people should vote for question... seven because i think it will be a great benefit to children. >> late breaking details from the opposite of the mayor stephanie rawlings blake. they will not plan on remaining open. they will stay in operation at the location. they're pointing to additi

seventy two that they were going to reach out to the racists the george wallace had left behind bobby byrd was a republican or democrat member former member of the klu klux klan and he was a republican at that time he changed parties and he left the klan. in any case actually he was a democrat when it was going to be you know your way another c.e.o. is warning his employees that there will be consequences of mitt romney loses mark white is the owner of the industrial equipment firm right height and he recently sent an e-mail to his fourteen hundred employees cautioning them that should barack obama win a second term that he will have to drop the company's contributions to employee retirement funds he also warned there's a good chance employees would lose their health care should president obama win ever since mitt romney was caught telling a national federation of independent businesses to tell their employees for whom they should vote several c.e.o.'s have done just that including the koch brothers or is a senate daylong seminars in the future they do this like with the union busting you

. >> orioles fans all over byrd land are trying to keep the imagine going. want to weigh this guy to, he is -- you don't want with this little guy out, he is waiting. >> health officials are urging doctors to avoid using products from the new england compounds center in framingham, mass. lead to an outbreak of a rare fund will form of meningitis. sheldon is outside the health department with the news. >> health officials think that came from the same manufacturer in new england. an official said that test found contamination at the new england compounds center and massachusetts with investigators trying to determine if it is the same fund is in the outbreak. -- fungus in the outbreak. another is being treated for meningitis. all the patients received steroid shots for back pain and they're asking people to remain vigilant. >> have people be aware of the possible symptoms, where they receive their injection, and if they are at risk. if they have any concerns, who talked to their doctor. >> some of the systems -- the symptoms include nausea and fatigue. contac

. >> the price for regular on byrd avenue was 4.33 tuesday night by friday night it hit 4.69, a difference of 36 cents in four days. >> i can't believe it. >> he filled up his tank two days ago. since then it gone up 26 cents a gallon. >> you have to cut back on little luxuries, whether it be buying something online or little extras they groceries restore. >> it's enough for me to pay the bills. >> he a student that delivers pizza for pizza my heart in san jose. he gets $1.50 for each one use can his own car and gas. he is wondering how it affects him. >> i'm not sure how much. i have to find out because i have to fill up my tank. >> terry: american airlines will be back in the air with all planes today. the airline cancelled 44 flights one from san francisco to miami. that was on top of 50 scrapped on thursday all because of seat problems. they are coming loose from the floor. maintenance crews are installing a locking mechanism. >>> lisa argen is here with the big story affecting at least a million people in san francisco. how good is viewing going to be for the blue angels? >> it should

the byrd center for legislative studies has the goal of fostering a support for the constitution and represent of democracy. we welcome the c-span here to record proceedings. and we welcome john splane as our experts on debates. he is a consultant with speak -- was a consultant with c-span from 1997 to 2007, during which he supervised and won a peabody award. he was also the console and for the lincoln does that -- a lincoln douglas debates, a c- span series. dr. spillane is the author of many works, including the road to the white house on television. he led a discussion in 1996 during the debates, one of which was televised on c-span. he has incurred many achievements. in 2003, he retired as the house better chair at the university of denver. he taught at the university of maryland from 1973 until 2001 and retired with emeritus status. currently, he teaches at the university of maryland as well as shepard university in a part- time capacity. he received his bachelor's in 1963 and his master's in 1965 in american history at the university of new hampshire. and his doctorate from bos

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did you kill your foster child, andrew byrd?> no. >> reporter: did you ever think about harming him in any way? >> no. >> reporter: but the jury found her guilty of capital murder. >> wow. what caused this story to kind of bubble up into national press? >> well, they had an evidentiary hearing in april now in the hands of the texas court of criminal appeals. they could rule any day now. but she is separated from her five children. she has absolutely no physical contact. they can see her once, twice a month. it's a ten-hour round trip for them to make the drive from prison to corpus christi where they live. the facts came out after the case that this child -- foster child may have had a bizarre eating disorder, peca. he would peel paint off the wall, eat crayons, glow sticks, cat food, hair balls, dig out of the trash. >> wow, wow, wow. >> the prosecution painted her as a mom that wanted a way out. though she was six months' pregnant, been in a car accident, just a couple weeks before he died, was bedridden and wearing a neck bra

even soccer byrd himself said no one is giving us enough credit for the opportunity we said -- had withvenues which is coming. should we have a little bit more patients with the stock? >> listen, if you own it you certainly have to. they kind of turned the corner. you are right. mobil ad revenue, when it looks as a company perspective is about 15% of business. a huge growth. the mobile users. the 70 percent of the second mobley every day. the ad revenues that will come from that, it's going to see beneficial to facebook because the ad revenue alone that you get on mobile trade, growing at about 10% year-over-year. tracy: the rise of the tablet market is only going to help facebook. no one knows how to get to the ads on their phone, but more and more people have tablets. much easier to click in. >> absolutely. that is where i think the benefit is to advertisers. gone are the desktop type ads off to the side of the screen that people don't click on. if you want to look at ancillary effects, some of the other stocks, kinda similar to facebook. some of the other companies that are out there

jeremy byrd, national field director for the obama campaign was on the ground in ohio joining the fightar. they did not leave the state in 2008 after obama won it last year. they didn't leave the state in '08 and plan to come back now. the obama campaign has been working in ohio all along. after their big win in the 2010 midterms, the republicans thought they had taken ohio back. they thought they could put their stamp on ohio starting with their historic rollback of union rights. and, boy, were they wrong. the local papers described republican governor john kasich as humbled by that experience. but after the union rights thing just got trounced in the polls in ohio, it actually got worse for him after that and for the ohio republican party. because it wasn't just that setback over trying to strip union rights. governor kasich also signed a law that cut the time for early voting in half. three months after that first truck rolled up with the petitions to repeal his union law, look, the second truck rolled in to the capitol. this one with petitions to overturn the other law. this one wit

byrd says that his father -- it says that his father is not an american citizen, that he was a citizenkenya. and when you go to the constitution, it says that in order to be able to be president, you have got to have a two appearance that our citizens of the united states. guest: it doesn't say that. that is not accurate. the birth certificate issue has been well litigated. it is interesting to know how much the republican candidates stay away from this period is a clear example of how a party wants to divert itself from the most extreme fringe elements of the debate. host: atlanta, georgia, carlos, independent. caller: to all the independent voters out there, i have one thing to say, if you care about your fellow citizens, a fellow americans, as a community, how can you support a candidate for president who basically belittles half the country? it is preposterous that people still will vote for a man who has pretty much does respected poll americans, half of the country. host: reid wilson? guest: mitt romney was right in the sense. there are 47 percent of americans that will not vote

small business is byrd jobs come from. -- is where jobs come from. two-thirds of our jobs come from small business. the new what businesses are at the lowest level in 30 years. >> we will talk about what we need to compete. governor romney talks about small businesses, but when you were in massachusetts, small business development ranked 46th out of 58 in small business development. the policies you are promoting do not help small business. that is not the kind of small business promotion that we need. let's take an example with the education policy. we did not have a lot of chance to talk about this in the last debate. under my leadership we have reformed education, working with governors of 46 states. we have seen progress and gains in schools that were having a terrible time. they are finally making progress. i want to hire more teachers, especially in math and science. we know we have fallen behind. those teachers make a difference. when you were asked by teachers whether or not this would help the economy grow, you said this would not help the e

robert byrd had 100% rating. do not believe the light they were conservative democrats. there was one of 18 liberal democratic segregationist who became a republican and that was strom thurmond. this line is pulled off by describing the entire south as if it was one state. republicans -secretly appealed the democratic segregationist and suddenly we swept the south. republicans took the south when the dixiecrats died out. republicans had been winning the outer southern states since the 1920's. warren harding did pretty well. eisenhower twice. this was before 1964. reagan lost the dixiecrat states. reagan did best with college students, the people that were not born when strom thurmond was running. we want the south when the democrats died out. host: here's a question on twitter. guest: it is not about black people. it is a book about white liberals and how they lie. even when advances are made, they are back to demagogy white people and patronizing black people. host: ricardo, good morning. caller: how can your that cross around your neck after euratom abortion as a teena

. >> senator byrd your response?erg: there are a lot of things we could get into but i certainly think a good example of the problem is you haven't had a budget in three years in the senate. we have a stonewall problem. house republicans leadership is -- on the farm bill. this is a challenge and i've worked with others in a bipartisan way. there is no question what needs to be done. i've had the word of the speaker is going to take it up at the end of the year. that is what we have to do. our challenge in agriculture is quite frankly one of the problems in washington. as i said with a senate with the same problem no budget in three years, think the deficit is one of the biggest problems facing our country and not to even out low-budget? you know this is a problem. >> final response and we will move onto health care. heitkamp: i want to say the senate farm bill cut $23 billion. in fact it was in excess of what they would have been required to do under sequestration. it was there and it was real reform. to say bet on m

and just final question, your greatest rival in college, and then in the pros, larry byrd.e. best buddies. just between us, magic, who would win in a one on one game today? you think you could still sink a the -- he could still sink a three? >> everything from the outside, larry would win. but anything going to the basket i would win. >> magic johnson. i love your smile. i love your optimism. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, brooke, for having me. >>> now this, here we go, continuing on hour two. i'm brooke baldwin. we have to begin with this. jerry sandusky convicted child molester, former penn state assistant football coach, now heading to prison for at least 30 years. at age 68, that sentence means sandusky will most likely die in prison. jason carol was inside the courtroom this morning for that sentencing. he joins me live where jason, i know, there was just this outpouring of emotion from sandusky, from some of his victims. what did you hear in the courtroom today? >> reporter: i think what affected a number of people in the courtroom was w

robert byrd had 100% rating. do not believe the light they were conservative democrats. there was one of 18 liberal democratic segregationist who became a republican and that was strom thurmond. robert byrd had 100% rating. this line is pulled off by describing the entire south as if it was one state. republicans secretly appealed the democratic segregationist and suddenly we swept the south. republicans took the south when the dixiecrats died out. republicans had been winning the outer southern states since the 1920's. warren harding did pretty well. eisenhower twice. this was before 1964. reagan lost the dixiecrat states. reagan did best with college students, the people that were not born when strom thurmond was running. we want the south when the democrats died out. host: here's a question on twitter. guest: it is not about black people. it is a book about white liberals and how they lie. even when advances are made, they are back to demagogy white people and patronizing black people. host: ricardo, good morn

know what a hate crime statute pending at the national level is all about in the aftermath of james byrd'sath. i'm for that proposed law, the governor is against it. i know what it means to have a commitment to diversity. i am part of an administration that has the finest record on diversity. and incidentally, an excellent -- i mean, i think our success over the last eight years has not been in spite of diversity but because of it. because we're able to draw on the wisdom and experience from different parts of the society that hadn't been tapped in the same way before. and incidentally, mel carnahan in missouri had the finest record on diversity in any governor in the entire history of the state of missouri. and i want to honor that among his other achievements here. now, i just believe that what we have to do is enforce the civil rights laws. i'm against quotas. this is, with all due respect, governor, that's a red herring. affirmative action isn't quotas. i'm against quotas, they're illegal. they're against the american way. affirmative action means that you take extra steps to acknowled

and the longest -- and robert byrd had 100% rating from naral pro-choice america.onservative democrats who were waiting for a wink from nixon to become republicans. it was only one in 18 liberal democratic segregationists who became republican. that was strom thurmond and he's the only one whose name you know. just one more point on the southern strategy. this is -- this lie is pulled off by describing the entire south as if it were one state. no, the outer southern states and the dixiecrat states in the middle. republicans -- and the southern strategy is this idea that republicans had a secretly appealed to the democratic segregationists and the dixiecrats and suddenly we swept the south. no. republicans swept the south when the dixiecrats died out. something that's provable by looking at the history. republicans had been winning the outer southern states. texas. tennessee. kentucky. west virginia. virginia. north carolina. and florida. since the 1920's. warren harding did pretty well there. her better hoover won most of those states. eisenhower twice. nixon in 19

virginia was one of those places that we called the byrd machine states.hat led a very conservative state representative. and even representatives beijing the virginia democrats, especially in southwestern virginia tend to be very conservative and fiscally. you will still see some vestiges of them. host: you are on the air every morning from 5:00-9:00. guest: 5 years ago we launched the show and what had been called a liberal area. if you drive around the area today, for the most part all you see our mitt romney yard signs. host: why? guest: i think people realize that at the end of the day many of the independent voters in virginia, and it is about 30% of us -- even when asked will tell us we vote independently. we do not choose just one party affiliation. they went with the president to give him a shot. at the end of it, a lot of this with the president is from the fact that he turned out to be just another politician just like everyone else. they went looking for somebody really spoke to some of the real problems in our country, like underemployment, un

know what a hate crime statute pending at the national level is all about in the aftermath of james byrd'sath. i'm for that proposed law, the governor is against it. i know what it means to have a commitment to diversity. i am part of an administration that has the finest record on diversity. and incidentally, an excellent -- i mean, i think our success over the last eight years has not been in spite of diversity but because of it. because we're able to draw on the wisdom and experience from different parts of the society that hadn't been tapped in the same way before. and incidentally, mel carnahan in missouri had the finest record on diversity in any governor in the entire history of the state of missouri. and i want to honor that among his other achievements here. now, i just believe that what we have to do is enforce the civil rights laws. i'm against quotas. this is, with all due respect, governor, that's a red herring. affirmative action isn't quotas. i'm against quotas, they're illegal. they're against themerican way. affirmative action means that you take extra steps to acknowledge

then we lost senator byrd. that was another vote that we lost. so the president only had a senate for about eight months. in that eight months he was dealing with the worst recession since the great depression. so people need to educate themselves and stop going with these party lines of the democrats controlled congress two years and so on. there's only so much you can do. host: thanks for calling. this on twitter -- on facebook -- gary johnson will be on this program to take your calls in about an hour, 8:30 eastern time. the last call from texas reminds us of the interview with ross belprospero. -- with ross perot. richard spoke with him down in plano, texas. the headline, the u.s. is headed for disaster. the full interview with richard wolfe of "usa today" talking with perot, 9:00 p.m. eastern time. [video clip] >> do you think if we had had a administration from 1993 it through 2001, that things would be different today in terms of our fiscal picture? >> i would make every effort. i would have had to deal with the two parties. i would've gon

byrd is a big deal. it is tough to point a finger and three are pointing right back at you. >> moderator: representative rehberg, 30 seconds to close. rehberg: can make my decisions for me. everyone of us are misrepresented by some in washington d.c. that provides information. i am not so arrogant to believe that i know everything. but i'd have to travel 36 counties and get around the country about a little bit about nuclear waste and refinement. i went to france and traveled across france to learn the entire process because i'm on the committee that has something to do with that. i traveled around america. i went to georgia and alabama to learn about coal-fired generating plants from their perspective. so i've done everything i possibly can to educate myself, around america and around the world to ultimately make your decisions rather than going back to my farm of her weekend. >> moderator: thank you, congressman. and now i question from mike dennis into senator tester. >> senator tester, we talked abou

we will now take you to byrd park in richmond, virginia. this is just getting started here live on c-span. ♪ >> helloo, virginia. are you fired up? are you ready to go? i'm sorry, are you fired up? are you ready to go? it up forn by giving your outstanding united states senator mark warner. and the man who is going to join him in the united states senate, tim kaine. these guys are great friends of mine. they were great governors of this great commonwealth, and they will be an extraordinary team fighting for you in washington. you also have a great congressman coming out of virginia, bobby scott, in the house. your mayor dwight jones is here. and all of you are here. could i just say this is a nice- looking crowd here. [cheers] now, you may notice that my voice sounds just a little hoarse. we're right in the middle of our 48-hour flight-around campaign extravaganza. we pulled an all-schneider last night. we just came from florida. we were in iowa and colorado and nevada before that. we are heading up to ohio later today. and i am going to st

with respect to senator byrd and senator bennett i cannot overstate how committed they are to findingehicle. i know you've probably talked to them, too, john just recently as the last few weeks the first available vehicle we are going after it. now whether that's going to be available in the latter half of november, december, i don't know. but i know there will be one available pretty early on in 2013. they are not going to let go of this. we are not going to let go of this. the coalition only gets better, and hopefully some of the recalcitrant participants in the negotiations in june will also take the of the mission that i shared with everybody. let's not let the perfect be the enemy of the dead, and let's pass something that will do so much good with respect to protecting the security and the supply chain all around the country and all around the world. >> as usual, right on this. just a couple of their perspectives to add to this. our job as a coalition is to work to be ready to resolve the differences so whenever the vehicle comes along, when it comes along, it can be used. the o

know what a hate crime statute pending at the national level is all about in the aftermath of james byrd'sdeath. i'm for that proposed law, the governor is against it. i know what it means to have a commitment to diversity. i am part of an administration that has the finest record on diversity. and incidentally, an excellent -- i mean, i think our success over the last eight years has not been in spite of diversity but because of it. because we're able to draw on the wisdom and experience from different parts of the society that hadn't been tapped in the same way before. and incidentally, mel carnahan in missouri had the finest record on diversity in any governor in the entire history of the state of missouri. and i want to honor that among his other achievements here. now, i just believe that what we have to do is enforce the civil rights laws. i'm against quotas. this is, with all due respect, governor, that's a red herring. affirmative action isn't quotas. i'm against quotas, they're illegal. they're against the american way. affirmative action means that you take extra steps to acknowl

robert byrd had 100% rating from pro choice america.ervative democrats waiting for a wink from nixon to become republicans. there was only one of about 18 liberal democratic segregationists that eventually became a republican. that was strom thurmond. he's the only one whose name you know. just one more point on the southern strategy this lie is pulled off by describing the entire south as if it were one state. no, there are the outer southern states and the dixie craft states in the middle. i guess i should say the southern strategy is this idea that republicans secretly appealed the democratic segregation for the dixie kratz and suddenly we swept the south. republicans of the south when the dixiecrats died out, something that's proveable by looking at the history, republicans were winning the outer southern states, texas, tennessee, kentucky, west virginia, virginia, north carolina and florida since the 1920's. warren harding did pretty well there. herbert hoover won most of those states. eisenhower twice. in this case snon 1960 all o