to charlie brown, but he's not the only one. rick santorum's campaign on scraping the bottom of the barrel for cash, that won't stop the candidate from handing out free goodies. he told a group in iowa he and his family harvested 600 peaches from his home in pennsylvania and plan to hand out homemade jam at the upcoming straw vote calling it presidential peach preserves. with a name like santorum, it's got to be good. >>> the voice of reason. new jersey governor chris christie took initial heat after appointing a sohail mohammed to the new jersey state bench. christie fired back as only he can when it was suggested by someone the new appointment means that sharia law could be coming to his state. >> i nominated sohail mohammed because he's a good lawyer and outstanding human being. sharia has nothing to do with this. this is crazy. this law business is crap. it's just crazy and i'm tired of dealing with the crazies. >> tired of dealing with the crazies. i love it. how's that for putting the issue to rest this guy's a jersey guy.

surprise of everyone, he sat down at one of the keyboards in the music store and started playing the charlie brownar this. come on, sit down and hit a few. ♪ and he plays the piano. come on, america. after rocking out on the keyboard, huntsman stopped for an ice cream and gave out a shout out to the grateful dead. >> i got to pay tribute to jerry garcia and get the cherry garcia. i have the graetful dead running through my head. >>> mean what i will the chairman of the white house economic advisers best known for his online white board stopped by the daily show last night. he has only two days left on the job. jon stewart noticed austan goolsbee was a little giddy about that fact. >> your title was -- >> still is chairman of the council of economic advisers for two more days. >> look at you. can we get a shot of his face? you are giddy. >> i will admit to some small enjoyment that i'm getting out of town. once you get to washington, there's only so long you can go. there are a number of people theres who tray tables are pot in the full upright and locked position. eventually, you know, you got to

why the charlie brown theme? that is what i want to know.is the one question reporters didn't ask and i'm counting on you on find out! >> reporter: i'm just going to speculate. were you in band as a kid? >> actually, yes. you will laugh at the first song we learned how to play. is that what you learned? >> reporter: yes, this is one of the songs i learned on my clarinet in band. it's a crowd-pleaser. let's be clear. it's a crowd-pleaser. >> i played the clarinet too but it was "star wars" that i learned how to play! >> that's way better! >> maybe you and and i and huntsman with form a band after we finish our careers. >> reporter: yeah, next career. >> we will talk to you again. your next political update in an hour. and maybe a duo with me and briana as well maybe. always get all of the political news 24/7 at cnn/politics.com. >>> the persistence of a cold case duct leads to new evidence evidence from serial killer ted bundy and tell her how her work could unlock dozens and dozens of unsolved murders. >>> dallas could hit 34 days in a row o

he sounds like charlie brown's parents in the background. they sound more specific. don't know what they're talking about anymore. tim pawlentyy, last stand another guy who i don't think has chance. >> nice guy but not standing out. if i was him i would take stand tomorrow. come out, ask me may first question i would step out from behind the podium, drop trou and moon the rest of them. they would remember him the next day. >> bill: i'm sure the governor is watching tonight. that's a good idea drop trou. >> moon them and they will remember you. >> bill: pawlenty has to do something dramatic but i don't think it has anything to do with trousers. nothing to do with his attire. he has got to come out tomorrow and get people's attention. he will do that by bashing obama. biggest obama bash fest in the history of obama bash fest. >> it should be, billy. dow jones is like inner ear infection for god sake. we have got to do something. >> bill: michele bachmann is a person who helped herself dramatically by the first debate and cover of "newsweek," what do you think. >> tina

does he start to sound like charlie brown's teacher in the sense that he is basically talking about thelways talked about. investing in infrastructure, payroll tax cuts, and that's what he's been talking about for quite some time. but the question is does he have the political capital to get those things done. if you look at the debt ceiling fight, it doesn't seem like he has that political capital. >> and it's not just political capital, it's capital capital. because with the full pun intended, there's no money. you can't spend anything on discretionary spending. discretionary domestic spending is the first thing that's going to be hit along with defense if this new committee doesn't do its job in ten weeks. a huge challenge. and if that trigger is pulled. >> right. everything that the president says that he wants to do to help grow the economy and create jobs costs money. the faa fight, there's a spending battle in there too and he's going to have a real hard time getting anything like that through this congress. >> and you can't create jobs or grow the economy that quickly with small

. >> jon huntsman dazzled people with his "charlie brown" theme, "tickling of the ivory". >>> micheleowa campaign rally over the phone? if you want me to vote no over raising the debt ceiling, raise your hand. >> number two, the last pan bender. russian prime minister vladimir putin dropped in on summer camp where he did rock climbing, arm wrestling and frying pan bending. with putin's embarrassing public failure to bend the frying pan, critics suggest he stick to what he does best, martial arts, fly fishing and singing. the number one story of the week -- >> on the surface it looked like a satan sandwich. >> the august 2nd time bomb was diffused this week by a last-minute debt deal that tasted like satan to some and like a slice of heaven to others. the lone bright spot in a depressing process was the surprise appearance on capitol hill of gabby giffords. she helped pass a deal that brought calm and comfort to the market. >> the stocks fell off a cliff. down 512 points. >> 513 points. could you have seen this coming? >> the economy was vaporizing before our eyes but the president cel

>> those tea party folks the more they talk, independents are hearing them like the parents of charlie brown, wa, wa, wa, that's what they're sounding like right now. >> mike: thank you, larry gatlin and jehmu green. ♪ all the gold in california ♪ >> and we'll be talking to lou dobbs from the fox business network when we come back. [applaus [applause]. premiering the revolution by lg. the newest release with verizon 4g lte. the first phone pre-loaded with access to netflix's massive movie library. powered by verizon 4g lte for an unparalleled streaming experience. see how mobile entertainment was meant to be seen. only with verizon 4g lte. now get the revolution by lg for $199.99 and receive 3 months of netflix free. (applaus (applause) >> well, it's monday morning in asia where the stock market is starting to open already and they're watching the debt negotiations very closely. but how does a stock traded on the other side of the world affect you and your finances? let's get answers from fox business network's lou dobbs who is very comfortably at his farm and you look happier than we are ri

it's been like charlie brown and lucy with the football. we say okay fine, we trust you this time.eally i think a significant addition to the sanctions in all fairness. i don't know whether they'll work but it's certainly better than doing nothing. although i have to say on top of everything that we've seen today what i don't really understand from this administration is the insistence that we take force off the table right now. i think that is the one thing that could coerce the syrian regime, and for bashar al-assad to step down is military lee. i don't think we necessarily have to follow through on it. to say it's off the table i think any threat we put out there won't be taken seriously. rick: some of the criticism the administration has got even over libya, how long and drawn out that was may be behind it. thank you for helping us understand it. thanks. jenna: the israeli military saying a terror squad has infiltrated the country. israeli police say shots were fired at this passenger bus traveling near the border with the egypt sinai peninsula there have been a string of attac

an interesting op-ed piece in the "financial times" comparing the american government to charlie brownthe ball and lucy would put it out from underneath him so he would stumble that's not a good comparison. we don't want to see things like that. that's not funny anymore. we need to see the leaders of this country come back to the forefront. it's okay to deal with what is being called a great constrakkion. what people can't deal with is the loss of credibility on behalf of policy makers. >> from our opinion research poll, cnn polls, people feel like in general they want to throw the bums out except for i think correct me if i'm wrong, they're less critical of their own congress people, but seriously, voters may just look at this whole period and say forget it. >> yeah. >> absolutely. they're fed up. they're tired. they're exhausted. seen this going on for a couple years and, you know, when is -- when are things going to start to change? when will see policymakers actually say something and do something as opposed to just fighting with one another. it's okay to have a difference of opini

. >> charlie: blue car. >> that's greg brown, we were just talking about him. >> charlie: right, righte i missed the point. >> that's a jnny goodwin. >> charlie: slow boat. >> that's mine. >> charlie: the river is wide deeper than deep on one side they're crying and on the side they sleep. >> that's bull ramsey. >> charlie: bruceed by t-bone burnett. so when you set out to do this, obviously people are going to say he's an aor. not a musician. and you say i've been a musician longer in an i've been an actor. >> wouldn't go that far. >> charlie: because they put you out front quickly. >> my dad, both my parents were so gung-ho in business and acting, they want me to maria sue that. >> charlie: they loved the craft. >> i kind of dug it but like most kids you don't want to do what your parents want you to do. u want to do your own dream. i resisted it for a long time. my father, i'm glad i listened to him. he said what's so great about acting is you can include all of your interests and apply that to your actg. and that's what happened. >> charlie: can you include all of your interest in

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charlie sennott, thank you very much. >> thanks, margaret. >> brown: finally tonight: a real-life talee on the high seas, off the horn of africa. ray suarez has our book conversation. >> suarez: three years ago, somali pirates caught the world's attention, capturing large oil tankers and cargo ships as well as private yachts for hefty ransoms. a centuries old but forgotten practice of piracy was back in the news. in response, a group of maritime nations committed to fight piracy deployed their navys, over several thousand square miles of ocean. journalist jay bahadur spent three months in northeast somolia getting to know modern-day pirates and talking to government officials about their exploits. in "the pirates of somalia. >> inside their hidden world" he explores their tactics and why they've been able to flourish and jay bahadur, a young, relatively inexperienced reporter goes to one of the most dangerous places on the planet, self-assigned and was there a point at which you thought "this was a bad idea"? >> it was mostly on the plane over there that i had the most trepidation abou

charlie, an old friend of ours that i went to high school with. >> really. >> really, in high school. he does a lot of this in the city and he's come and given us one of these brown bag lunches with acoustical separation and talked about just what he's saying, using different thicknesses of material. the assembly has to go beyond the glazing, it has to be the building wall assembly that reduces outside noise. >> tempered glass is designed to take impact. that would have broken the window glass or the plate. i'm trying really hard. this doesn't want to break. let's give it a real... you know, so it's a good product. it's interesting. this center is the strongest part. the weakest part is at the edg edges. it takes quite a bit of impact, as you see. but -- in a quake, when they say don't leave the building, you know, there's a reason. you're probably better staying inside, under a desk or whatever else, because it's probably not going to be the glass that falls down but the cornice, some of the ornamental brickwork. who knows. we're likely to get hit by a power line. >> stay in the building. >> stay in the building, get under your desk. keep a bottle of scotch ther

brown & co., one of america's oldest publishers. among the authors he has edited our malcolm gladwell, james bradley, robert wright and the common geniuses onion. the d.c. area's authors include dana priest, jake tapper, charliesavage and garrett graff. his greatest moment in the publishing occur this last year when in his book, the fifth witness, michael connolly makes the law firm chandler massey and ortiz, which is just first and probably not as fast cameo appearance in the book. geoff, welcome. >> i am going to be quick because i think questions will be more interesting and there are many things that were said here that we differ on since we are a different kind of publisher. one thing quickly i want to make it clear as speaking for myself, not for little brown or the company that owns us. i want to talk about library furniture. there's a reason for that. this is actually a perfect base for it because of mark, the transit system here. there is another mark as well, which is a system introduced in the early 60s to automate the transfer and recording a video graphic information. so it came about in a time with the digital revolution was really starting in getting going and it was a great idea in a lot of wa