staff writer charles cook. yay! >> a block. the lede. that's the first story. >> they are crying over brian. nbc news says brian williams has been suspended for six months without pay. as my racket ball partner lou holt fills in for the nightly news anchor the question now becomes is williams ever coming back? if not, who will take his place? that's two questions. whatever. one person siding with brian is piers morgan who writes the daily male, quote brian williams, i'm sure will never embellish a story again nor i suspect put himself in the middle of it. he will be a better reporter and anchor as a result. in fact brian williams is now the news anchor i would trust the most on american television. it is like an arsonist if an arsonist is busted. he probably won't do it again because he got caught. a slightly more successful cable news anchor had words of kindness for williams. >> every public person in this country is a target. with the internet -- and you know what it is. it is a sewer. these people delight in seeing famous people bein

next "red eye" we've got the great comedian joe devito and the delightful national review writer charles cook. he is british. >> e block. last story. that's the last story. the big banks said no thanks. in january officials from city dwrowp, goldman sachs and bank of america and morgan stanley met with federal officials to discuss what they say in a hidden flaw of a new proposal. it is aimed at forcing the biggest banks to add extra layers of financing to protect against losses. they may be forced to hold more capitol than rye will haves especially insurance since that's what the dollar expects. what does this mean for the rest of us? joining me to discuss former cia operative mike baker. we have the former president of "red eye" and fox news contributor john bolton and shepherd smith, fox newschannel and fox news sewn yes, sir correspondentgeraldo, rivera and joining me fox news correspondent and everyone's happy hour partner phil keatig. we have greg jarod and the host of "making pain" who you can see and we have new york trial attorney and fox news legal analyst arthur. so glad you can be

charles cook called it a slow and unseamly dissent into as far as oig. let's take a look. >> things must cover for our government. look at it. it isn't too big to fail. it's too big to succeed. it's too big to succeed so we can afford no retreads or nothing will change with the same people, same politics that got us into this status quo. another of that word status quo. and it stands for, man, the middle class, he have day americans are really getting taken for a ride. >> this isn't about one bad speech. this is places like national review that cheered on sarah palin in 2008 when she was the vp nominee now kind of cutting her loose. >> it's taken the conservative media a bit too long to realize the sarah palin problem quite frankly. she's been giving the same type of speeches for the last eight years which is go after the left media, go after obama, little on substance, little on solutions. and so i think that at that point when there was a time beforehand after the convention where she gave this wonderful speech and then youed had the libya media attack

charles cook is writer for the national review, and jimmy failla, the writer for jimmy failla. interesting and sad story. the guy is an antique collector, likes things from the 1800s, what happened? >> this is a normal story for new jersey, new jersey was the venue for the alan case, it's partly the law, they don't distinguish between weapons. the government doesn't think anything made before 1898 is classified as a gun. the law here is surly. typical in new jersey, no prosecutorial discretion used. they didn't have to arrest or charge him. they certainly shouldn't send it to a judge. this guy might go to prison for five years. >> i read that! this is an old gun. comedian norm mcdonald revealed on twitter "saturday night live" asked eddie murphy to appear and mock bill cosby, murphy refused to kick a man when he's down. is it an honorable position or just an opportunity to appear on celebrity jeopardy. >> it's not he didn't want to perform as bill cosby, he didn't want to perform as eddie murphy. he did 73 seconds of clap for me and i'll go. we've been waiting for 30 years to g

and charles cook is a writer for the national review.en, welcome. >> thanks. >> none of this surprises me, my senior english teacher in high school failed me, he was avowed socialist and i was a republican, and he took great glee in giving me a big fat f at the end of the school year, he can eat a bag of rancid sticks as far as i'm concerned. >> because you hated the poor? kennedy: because i hated the poor, and still do. >> just like me. answer to that question would be randians. i don't want them on my case. kennedy: libertarian wasn't a choice. >> it would be the logical position from somebody like this, libertarians who want to take the money away from the poor. the correct answer sdmrishgs was take the test in my head would be communists, wouldn't it? kennedy: that was one of the choices. >> yes, it was. i think of places like north korea and cuba and laos where there's a lot of poor people who have absolutely nothing, which would suggest they hate them. >> the we is important. it said we don't want to spend the money. the we in this

conservative commentators leading the charge "disjointed," "sad," "tragedy," a dissent into farce from charles cook. >> things must change for our government. look at it. it isn't too-big-to-fail. it too big to succeed. it's too big to succeed so we can aford no retreads or nothing will change with the same people the same policies that get us in the status quo, and i love that word, status quo and it stands for, man the middle-class every americans are getting taken for a ride. >> this isn't about one bad teach but places like "national review," that cheer her on in 2008 are cutting her loose. >> it is taking the conservative media too long to realize the sarah palin problem. she has been getting same type of speeches for eight years which is, go after the left media, little on substance little on solutions and at that point when there was a time before after the convention where she gave this wonderful speech and you had the liberal media attacking her saying the it comments about her and her family they defended her. when she comes out this past weekend or last weekend in iowa and they said, i a

. >> charles cook makes a good distinction. he said, like when people go after you as a mob as an opinion or a joke that's terrible. it's disgusting. but if they're going after you for an actual -- what you said, a factual discrepancy, that's different. >> you know the best example of the mob mentality of the last year were the women that came after the scientists was wearing the shirt that they thought was anti-feminine? >> yeah. >> that was a mob mentality. >> misremembered. >> just keep that in mind, bob. that might help you out in the future. >> shot right at the end. boom! >>> the surprise announcement by jon stewart on his departure from comedy central. >>> those screams of anguish you hear right now are coming from the dnc as their greatest mouthpiece ever is quitting. >> 17 years is the longest i have ever in my life held a job by 16 years and five mos. thank you. the upshot being i am a terrible employee. but in my heart i know it is time for someone else to have that opportunity. i'm going to have dinner on a school n

wheel of the minivan jessica leaseman gets out and confronts alexander followed by her boyfriend charles cooke in the passenger's seat. >> stop whoever, whether it was him or somebody else it's no thinking. it's just a reaction. >> when alexander tried to make a run for it a scuffle ensued. policemen grabbing the straps of the suspect's overalls. the pair finally wrestling him to the ground as police arrive on the scene. >> right up against the mama bear. >> leaseman on the way to pick up her daughter with her 13-year-old son in the back seat said the crash set off her maternal instinct. her swift response even surprising her boyfriend. >> i knew she had it in her. i'm surprised she got out. >> this morning, alexander is sitting behind bars facing charges of aggravated robbery and hit and run. after learning the wrong way not to mess with this mama bear. >> mama didn't raise no punk! >> brandy hicks, abc news los angeles. >> what a story. >> mama's getting for valentine's day whatever she wants. >> exactly. for the rest of her life. >> that's right. >> all right. back here at home drivers in n

. >> charles cook makes a good distinction. he said, like when people go after you as a mob as an opinion or a joke that's terrible. it's disgusting. but if they're going after you for an actual -- what you said, a factual discrepancy, that's different. >> you know the best example of the mob mentality of the last year were the women that came after the scientists was wearing the shirt that they thought was anti-feminine? >> yeah. >> that was a mob mentality. >> misremembered. >> just keep that in mind, bob. that might help you out in the future. >> shot right at the end. boom! >>> the surprise announcement by jon stewart on his departure from comedy central. know that chasing performance can mean lower returns and fewer choices in retirement. know that proper allocation could help increase returns so you can enjoy that second home sooner. know the right financial planning can help you save for college and retirement. know where you stand with pnc total insight. a new investing and banking experience with personalized guidance

followed by her boyfriend, charles cook in the passenger seat. >> i would use to stop whoever, whether it was him or somebody else it's no thinking just a reaction. >> reporter: when alexander tries to make a run a scuffle ensues. liesman grabbing the straps of the suspect's overalls and the pair wrestling him to the ground as police arrive on the scene. >> i think he ran up against a mama bear. >> reporter: lieman on her way to pick up her daughter with her son in the backseat. >> probably injure my son and wreck my car, you'll pay. >> reporter: her swift response even surprising her boyfriend. >> i knew she had it in her. >> reporter: this morning spdzer is behind bars facing charges of aggravated robbery and hit-and-run after learning the wrong way not to mess with this mama bear. >> mama didn't raise no punk. >> reporter: for "good morning america," brandi hitt abc news los angeles. >> she's tough. >> the mama didn't raise no punk and the mom said she was yelling all kinds of things that she may not remember. but she hoped that the carjacker does remember. >> something tells me he

some of the people that you can read there, rich lowery, jonah goldberg kevin williamson charlie cook charlesne lopez. brad? >> you don't know brad? you should check him out. >> maybe brad is on that site. national review.com, check it out. could be your new homepage, guy to it lots and i love it. greg you're next. >> oh greg's secret to happiness. all right. >> what a weirdo. >> life you often run into people and wondered if they real or plastic? one way to figure that out is when you're talking to them they kind of let do you all the talk like this young woman experienced when she mistook this person as a real person. >> a duck? a chicken? >> oh there he is. comes back and like, hey what's going on? trying to get her to go out for drinks, not biting answered just takes her, i do not condone that by the way, that's disgusting. >> oh, my gosh. >> have to go to tense sensitivity class. >> how do you find these i? >> i create them in my bedroom. >> eric? >> so facebook has 1.4 billion regular users. china has 1.4 billion people but china blocks facebook. so, here's founder -- facebook founder,

cooke was then a member of that parliament, which caused charles i to shut that parliament down and which caused 20,000 puritans, who believed in what lord cooke was saying, to leave england and come here. and that's where the settlement of america came from: from people who believed in that higher law, which was a religious doctrine that they inherited from the middle ages. c-span: you say your mom's 86. >> guest: eighty-six. c-span: classic scholar. >> guest: yes. c-span: did she teach a lot? >> guest: yes. she taught a lot of latin. c-span: where? >> guest: all over the country -- tennessee, mississippi, here, maryland. she's taught in many schools. c-span: what was her reaction to this when she read it? >> guest: she likes it, i'm pleased to say. and as i say, she had a lot of input to it. her knowledge of these things -- her latin is excellent, and mine is not so good, in fact, where i have latin phrases, i tend to give an idiomatic translation, just the english equivalent, as opposed to the classical word by word. and she corrected me on some of those, so ... c-span: what book is th

charles rangel of new york. you've been around a long time to know, what is boehner up to, cooking this deal in the first place toecretly bring netanyahu into your chamber without ever telling your president? >> well, it's embarrassing for the nonpartisanship that we have between the republicans and democrats but for the republicans to go behind our politics and bring it over to israel and to bring our friendship and our loyalty to that great country and to this type of thing over here, it just doesn't make any sense at all. you know, i couldn't have figured this out but, chris, when you look at this, it could be an old class b movie, something that woody allen would have had because i didn't find out until recently that israeli ambassador comes from florida. he's formerly a republican activist as his father was. so he goes over to israel and now he's coming back here playing friendship with his republican partners and either to help mitt romney or to help his buddy bibi over there but all of this is at the historic friendship of two democracies that are joined at the hip. it's not worth the little political adva

would be the first -- he was the brother of charles sumner who would be the first black man to argue a court. frederick douglass gave a speech in 1964 after john cook ended his tenure in 1855. seceding ministers that help the cause, william cato and john martin. following him, francis grimke. anecdotally, reverend grimke performed in second wedding of frederick douglass, not at the church but very close to the church. reverend grimke was pastor for 15 years from 1877 -- 50 years. the wanted a couple of years off for good behavior but basically -- there were a couple of years off for good behavior but basically for 50 years. reverend grimke was a charter member of the forerunner of the naacp. not all members of 15 street church were committed to a legal and nonviolent methods to obtain their freedom -- strictly legal and nonviolent methods to obtain their freedom. a printmaker was one of five blacks who participated in john brown's raid on harpers ferry. he was one who escaped with a white colleague. he later wrote an account of that called a voice from harper ferry. it was published in canada to set the record straight about the amount of support t

cooking. she's received countless awards and has been immortalized in song by ray charles and inspired disney's first african-american princess, but she remains rooted in her ministry and committed to service. so today mr. speaker, i rise to honor some of the people who have paved the way for my generation and some of the people whose shoulders i stand on. so today we congratulate and commemorate leah chase. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. thompson: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker small businesses, the backbone of our economy continue to be unfairly saddled by one-size-fits-all federal regulations. most small businesses do not have the capacity to retain in-house legal or compliance departments and unfortunately many agencies often neglect their duties of assessing how new regulations mayim pact small businesses