the former editor for the chattanooga free press joins america live. and does the white house have a war? it is not just coa l that the white white is gunning for. the policys that will cost jobs and cost us to pay more for energy. >> the officer who pulled zimmerman over. what he did is now in question. no where in particular? why do you say that? >> there are new questions over george zimmerman's traffic spot in texas. and listen to the exchanges when zimmerman mentioned he has a gun in his glove box. >> the texas police department wants to talk to the officer over the claim that he took a picture of zimmerman's license. the sound of an iphone camera click can be heard and the officer could face disciplinary action if he violated department rules. turning now to what white house critics are calling president obama's war on coal. a bipartisan group of law makers from virginia meeting with the epa this weekend over tough new regulations could cost the mountain state thousands of jobs and livelihood and culture that goes back generation. steve forbes jo

chattanooga is it rate example. can you describe the model and what's happening there? >> guest: in chattanooga that electrical utility there decided to upgrade to use their connection to every home the electrical utility to provide a string of fiber into their home and they are doing that. they are selling services to residents. they don't have this retail competition that i've just explained that the utility is in the business of making reasonably priced fiber available to everybody so as result businesses are moving from knoxville to chattanooga and they are very excited. every part of chattanooga's excited because they are getting reasonably priced internet access. >> host: how to the cable companies feel about that? >> guest: they have fought tooth and nail. actually more than 19 states in america is either legal -- illegal or difficult or cities to do this because the existing operators that cable and telephone companies go to the statehouses and say city shouldn't be allowed to compete with us is how they put put it and they tried to make it difficult for cities

chattanooga, we debut in birmingham. r.o.h. returns home to philadelphia september 20 and 21 in two huge shows in death before dishonor weekend. we head to minnesota on september 28ingth. this is action. this >> unbelievable! the strength of michael elgin! >> you'll understand, when you're upside down like that as well, you end up on your head. >> the strength of michael elgin! that's a human being. rich richards, unable to do anything, it must seem like an eternity. will he ever decide to let him go! >> it's up the count. oh, my word! sno now with one arm. >> oh! >> b.j., not even letting him get a one-count. now let's break him down. going to try the same thing? looks like it! >> [ crowd counting ] 12, 13, 14, 15... >> eddie edwards, doing the same thing! >> what did elgin get to? >> hold on! >> he got edwards hooked. oh! >> ha, ha! eddie says "no way!" to the floor! that was complete. >> out of the way, richards. >> knew exactly where he was, and he continues. >> edwards now flies in. elgin, down, center of the ring. elgin w

president obama delivered a major speech on jobs at an amazon warehouse in chattanooga, tennessee.bama offered to cut corporate taxes in exchange for creating new jobs. >> here is the bottom line. if the folks in washington really want a grand bargain, how about a grand bargain for middle-class jobs? how about a grand bargain for middle-class jobs? i am willing to work with republicans on reforming our corporate tax code as long as we use the money from transitioning to a simpler tax system for a significant investment in creating a middle class jobs. president >> obama's comments were part of an effort to take on widening u.s. inequality, but critics say creating more jobs like those at the amazon warehouse where he spoke would do little to achieve the goal. >> for more, we are joined by reporter mac mcclelland, who went undercover and was hired by amazon. her article was titled "i was a warehouse wage slave: my brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the online-shipping machine "i was a warehouse wage slave: my brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing,

he is in the center and what his people accomplish in chattanooga really wins chattanooga really winsthe day. underneath them you have heard of. the young division commander, his star is definitely on the rise and there are a few others but this is a very interesting story. and then of course you have got the grounds. i love the. i love the 20-year-old kid who is now a veteran. he is now seen the worst that man could do to each other and live through it and now he's a part of it paid and how his personality changes and how dutch power changes and sandy willis and what happens to them is a big part of the story. i am very excited. i'm in the middle of this right now. hopefully it will be back right here. want to end this because i very much want to hear from you and i love questions. i just want to tell you a story. first of all i'm very involved with the sub award trust. i'm on the board of the civil war trust. if you don't know what the civil war trust is the largest battlefield preservation organization in the country. we buy lots of dirt. thousands of acres. we haveaved battlefield

now, that controversial headline appeared in a chattanooga times free press. editor who wrote it himself is looking for a new job. >> thanks for having me. >> what provoked that headline? >> well, what provoked the headline was the fact that president obama was speaking in chattanooga on tuesday and his policies failed americans. when it came time to write a headline for it, i thought of the johnny paycheck song "take that job and shove it." since his speech was about jobs plan, i thought it was a hats title. >> who fired you? >> i was fired by the editor of the paper. >> and had he not seen what was being put into the paper? is there any sort of review process? >> well, the way it works is it's very common for us to change headlines at the last second before something goes to publication. in this circumstance, i had a place holder headline, something that wasn't intended to be the actual headline for the piece. and so at the last second before it went to publication, i thought of that johnny paycheck song, threw that in there. the next day i had a meeting wit

this is in chattanooga, tennessee. this is shot by cole shirley. he does a lot of these events.till not getting quite the traction he needs. tries it a couple of different times. tries to get up this hill. can't quite make it. >> that's part of the event like this, right? you don't get up on the first try. >> that's the whole challenge. that's the whole fun of events like this. bubba gets himself a little further up. this time -- >> oh, no! >> oh! >> he's stuck up against a tree? >> yeah. >> that's one way to flip bacon. he gives it a big goose on the throttle. gets the front end up in the air. up against the tree. you see the fire coming out now. bubba unhooking himself from the harness. jumps out. that car is is stuck up against the tree. it's all on top of him. very precarious and dangerous situation. the fire extinguishers, pretty quickly. bubba got out safely. he's okay. what a crazy, kra ycrazy way to your run. >> now the bacon is crispy. >> yeah. crispy bacon. >> ever wanted to be in a video like this? see how, next "right this minute." >>> and still to come, it's a video

so as a result, the businesses are moving to chattanooga, and they are very excited. devotee part is excited about this because they are getting the reasonably priced access which to them feels like a utility. >> host: how to the cable companies feel about it? >> guest: there is a lot of litigation about the system. and more than the 19 states in america it's either difficult for the cities to do this because the excessing operators the cable companies and that telephone companies build in the statehouses and say the cities shouldn't be allowed to compete with us and they tried to make it very difficult for cities to do this. so we see that pattern over and over and again and i'm hopeful in the next few years some of these will roll back because it doesn't make sense. we removed the power of self-determination. >> host: what is the logic for it all? it is bad for american hunton consumers to not have a choice of cable or fiber. is it purely their power of the lobby or is there the business argument that they have to invest in their network? is that what it is? >> host

chattanooga free press editor drew johnson was fired after writing a headline telling the president to take his job plan and, quote, shove it. the paper said it fell outside normal editing procedures. that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> all right. so we want you to take a look at this video that we're about to show you from northern georgia. heavy rain causing some major flooding there. more than a half foot of rain fell. >> fore. >> people are playing golf in the front yard. >> why not? >> firefighters spent much of the day rescuing trapped residents. talk about this nasty weather -- >> typically we show people canoing down their street. why not take the golf club out. >> in the middle of your yard where it's flooding. >> it's been rough in the south. this has not been a pretty summer. a lot of rain. too much rain. very cloudy. we're getting a break. even the northeast has a soggy june. portions of july and the rain from yesterday just about gone. a little bit left in providence and portsmouth, bangor will be exiting and gone. heavy rain and thunderstorms this morning

but then again in chattanooga, tennessee on tuesday, the president said the same thing. on, 50 jobs, right? >> which is, again, i would think if he was going to approve it, he wouldn't want to be giving talking points to the opposite. see, the other thing is that you know, he has this challenge between the labor group, support the pipeline, environmental groups certainly oppose the creation and the connection of the pipeline. so it is a balance within the democratic party. >> bill: even within the democratic party. by the way, we're going to be talking at the top of the next hour with bob dean who is with the natural resources defense counsel. they've been leading the opposition to the keystone pipeline. we'll find out more about it from him. the other thing the president got questions about yesterday, apparently in the house, particularly was hammered over rumors that he might be considering larry summers as the next head of the fed. you know, josh, you and i have been around this town a long time. i never remember hearing or seeing any public campaign for who was going

it's so popular, it will be sold at 100 more taco bells, fresno, omaha and chattanooga. >> looking good to me. what do you think? >> i don't know. i like my waffles. and i like my sausage. you're right. not together. >> i'll have one. >>> when we come back, singer usher, nearly suffering another giant loss after a serious swimming mishap. we'll have the dramatic 911 call. >>> also, granny vigilante. burglars pick the wrong woman to mess with. she did something many would not consider after finding someone in her house. the boys used double miles from their capital one venture card to fly home for the big family reunion. you must be garth's father? hello. mother. mother! traveling is easy with the venture card because you can fly any airline anytime. two words. double miles! this guy can act. wanna play dodge rock? oh, you guys! and with double miles you can actually use, you never miss the fun. beard growing contest and go! ♪ i win! what's in your wallet? i win! the moment my moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasiss. started getting in the way, that was it... it was time for a serio

president oba headed to an amazon distribution center in chattanooga, tennessee. there he delivered a wide range of speech on jobs, the economy, obamacare, just a little spin on the sequestered in the keystone pipeline. take a listen to this gem today from president obama. >> this same group has kept in place this meat cleaver called the sequester that is just splashing all kinds of important investments in education and research. if public-sector employees were like the last two sessions cme in the unemployment would be 6.5% instead of 7.5%. our economy would be much better off. we are now as president obama using two hypotheticals, slamming the sequester and the incipient cause of all of our unemplment problems. he did not ention that that is the ve same sequestered in his white house proposed. the same sequter that he signed into law. ed henry will have more on the president's speech speech in moments. we will get into the reaction to those presidential style hypotheticals as well.esidentiae hypotheticals as well. and the call fo a grnd bargain from senato roge

president, your policies have harled chattanooga enough. h. >> when i first heard about this, it's such an major reaction to fire him. what he was trying to do is get people to read. that's what you want in a good headline writer. but i'm surprised, but as a former magazine editor, and you actually thought that because he had no followed procedures, that he should get fired. can you get. >> i think he was playing off a song. >> right. >> i bet you his boss didn't know the song. he was completely angry about it. it's not really a mean -- it's a joke. and the -- now we have to say they have a procedure, it's an overreaction. >> or maybe they meant to say you're fired up for the weekend. who knows, dana. >> that was fantastic. dana, as always, a pleasure. we would like you to vote in the bill o'reilly.com poll. thank god you don't do that. do you foresee as emerging to lead the republican party. rand paul, chris christie, marco rubio. directly ahead, excuses, excuses, how some of the famous and infamous are trying to rationalize their terrible

chattanooga, tennessee, has seen more than 4 inches of rain this month. first two weeks of august than they usually see in the entire month. philadelphia is having its soggiest summer yet. last month they set an all-time record for rainfall in a single day when storms dumped 8 inches in just six hours. the northeast is reeling from severe thunderstorms from just this week. in newark, delaware, torrential rain shut down roads while high winds downed power lines and snapped treeses. we're still talking about rain. heavy rain expected this weekend in the southeast. this is the current radar right now. i want to show you a couple things going on. we're looking at development into the tropics. the reason this is so important, all that tropical moisture could combine with a stationary front already in place. it's bringing 2 to 5 inches of rain. you combine the moisture with that, which is what we're expecting this weekend. look at the moisture extending into the carolinas. so with that, we're talking ant heavy rainfall and the threat of flooding. anywhere pr 5

president obama headed to an amazon distribution center in chattanooga, tennessee. speech on jobs, the economy, obamacare, just a little spin on e

your team reached out to one of them, one small business owner in chattanooga, tennessee.e said yes, he did get the letter and he was told he underreport his income to the government. then he was asked to justify it based on what he is seeing in his cash and credit card receipts versus the irs information and only had a month. this is a scary letter that people are getting. >> neil: so it's intimidating and at the very least, bad optics. small business guys say you're assuming the worst with us and you have done nothing to help us, so bad timing. >> yeah, bad timing. the other thing is it doesn't say the dollar amount of what they're supposedly underreporting so they have to go through records. some small businesses feel it's a fishing expedition. >> was it random? >> a 2008 piece of legislation a housing bill, said the irs could get access to credit card and debit card information so the irs is matching information with the small business tax returns and at the same time with all the government spending going on, the irs is under pressure to do more to close the $300 bill

. >> the emergency response folks from chattanooga were there. a construction company had been called to bring in equipment needed to break up the rocks. there was one larger rock, and there was a news crew. >> we saw somebody from tdot show up. this young lady got out, and she walked up and looked at me and walked on past, and she glanced at the boulder and then she went over and talked to mr. jones. >> bill mitchell, a 30-year news veteran has covered many rock slides during his career, but none this big. >> and then she came back over and she said, why don't you guys move back a little ways. she said, i'm hearing things up on that mountain that really unnerve me. i said, what are you hearing? she said, i'm hearing pops and snaps and things that make me believe some more debris may come down. so we moved back about 20 yards at that time. >> i heard a sound that sounded like a car door slam. a really sharp rapport. i talked to steve, the county maintenance supervisor and said, have you heard this sound before? he said, yeah, we did indeed hear t

chattanooga, tennessee has already seen more than 4 inches of rain this month.entire month. philadelphia is having its s soggiest summer yet. last month they set an entire record for rainfall in a single day when it dumped eight inches in just six hours. and the northwest is still reeling from severe thunderstorms just this week. in delaware, torrential rains shut down roads while high winds downed power lines and snapped trees. >> don't put those umbrellas away just yet. let's go to hayward, california where they did a little demolition this morning. that was the cal state east campus building. workers brought the building down because it was built too close to a fault line and considered vulnerable to earthquakes. >>> not to be outdone, demolition experts in dayton, ohio brought down a 12-story building sandwiched between two others. whoa. that was a delicate takedown there. the 100-year-old building was demolished to make way for a condo development. >>> all right, that's going to do it for now. i'll see you right back here 3:00 eastern time. here's what's co

in just recent weeks we've had reports that made the news about dogs shot in buffalo, chattanooga, louisianace shoot hundreds of dogs in this country every year. the question is should we be providing training about this and how to deal with these dogs? every time you do more training you're talking about more money. but this is not--i'm surprised this particular case has drawn so much attention without seeing the bigger picture. a writer has done a terrific job oon the militarization of the place, disrespecting civil rights. the woman who was arrested for filming the police while standing on the porch of her own home. that's the larger problem. i agree with you and ana, cenk, that the guy was haranguing the cops and behaving in a way that would likely get him in trouble, he had aer right to film what was going on, but the larger question is how often these incidents happen and why? >> cenk: in that case, look, i saw the video. the reason they shot the dog because the dog was jumping towards the cop. it's a rot we'ller. >> i'm not sure they needed to shoot the dog. >> cenk: if i have a rottw

conservative editorial page for a tennessee newspaper has been fired over this headline in the chattanooga times free press tuesday. take your jobs plan and shove it, mr. president. drew johnson says his boss told him she had gotten complaints, was starting a new policy he had to get his headlines cleared. a short time later, he says he was fired when that new policy applied rest row actively. the paper says the headline was inappropriate. he says i was the first person in the history of newspapers to be fired for writing a paper's most-read article. seattle city employees are now prohibited, prohibited from using the term citizen and brown bag. a recent city memo says those words can be considered offensive. citizen should be replaced by resident. not all seattleites are u.s. citizens. brownback has racial connotations. city workers can use the term sack lunch or lunch and learn instead. >>> finally, playboy, penthouse and similar magazines won't be sold on army bases but not for the reason you think. earlier, the defense department ruled it should be removed for moral reasons, saying the

as a result businesses are moving from natural to chattanooga and very excited, every part of society in china is excited because they are getting recently priced and chad access. >> out of the cable embrace feel? >> they fought tooth and nail. a lot. and the more than 19 states in america, it is either legal or difficult for cities to do this. the cities should not be allowed to compete with us is how they put it, and they try to make it difficult. we see that pattern over and over again, and i am hopeful that in the next few years some of those laws will rollback because it does not make sense, remove the power of self-determination. >> clearly bad for american consumers to not have the choice of cable or fiber. is it purely the power of the lobby? the business arguments that they have made an investment in the network? >> it gets a lot of traction. we are serving the community perfectly well. cities will waste money by going into the business, and it is social some help. this error of not letting cities get into this business. we went through exactly the same battle with electricit

got to go to chattanooga or omaha, california. a look at wednesday weather.rthern oklahoma. in parts of the rockies. scattered showers, thunderstorms, much of the east coast. also heat up in the southern plains. >> 104 in dallas. 94, new orleans. 80s, kansas city, detroit. 70s in the northeast. 80s in the pacific northwest. >> amazing family, from michigan. we'll start with mom and dad, terry and jay schwat. three days ago welcomed their 12th child to the family little boy, tucker. >> here's the amazing thing. tucker has 11 big brothers. yes, 12 children in all. they're all boys. can you imagine. the oldest 21. dad admits he was rooting for a girl. some family friends telling him to think pink. >> obviously the thinking didn't do anything. dad is overjoyed with another healthy son as mom is as well. >> boy maker. all about the dude. all the wives tales about women who determine the sex. >> man determines sex. >> made 12 boys in a row. fair to say you cannot make a girl. i would stop trying. >> 13 is the charm. lucky number. keep going. >> i feel for that woma

this is what we are looking for adros parts of nashville, atlanta, huntsville, maybe chattanooga.t's wrong with the storms today and the past couple days is their speed. we just got warned from the national weather service here in atlanta that these storms will move at 5 miles per hour today. so when it rains, and it starts to rain hard, it is going to rain for a long time. all the way from gwinnett county to alabama, that's where the line of weather is right now. it isn't going to move. if it is raining where you are, it will be raining. here is a live shot outside the studios, not raining here and you go three miles to the north, there is already water in the streets. so that's what you have to watch out for, storms that will not move. >> thank you, chad. want to go to stephanie out of southern california. opposite problem we're having here, a wildfire threatening several communities, so tell us what people are dealing with here. >> we have some updates for you, suzanne. we can tell you that this fire is now burned 10,000 acres. keep in mind this started at 2 p.m. local time yes

the animals have seen a resurgents in recent years with paris using chattanooga sheep to gardens.s around their headquarters. back at vanderbilt mansion, the landscapers have become just another part of the allure. >> they are pretty easy to care for. they are friendly. they are not a threat to visitors. visitors love them. they're most popular rangerrers are are the goats right here. >> that makes sense. now to the first family of football which has just become the first family of wrapping. brothers eli and peyton manning started in what may be the best or well, you decide, video of all time, look. ♪ football on your phone ♪ that's what i say ♪ there is football on your phone ♪ you can watch it in bed ♪ take it with you wherever you go ♪ show your friends and watch them all go ♪ whoa. >> shepard: let's hope they got paid a lot for that their famous football dad, archie, my hero, also making his hip hop debut. in case you could not tell the ach is for direct tv feature that let's users watch games on their smart phone. >> who cares. >> shepard: who cares, eli. lottery officials sa

florida, a 35-year-old man from chattanooga tennessee just completed a trip from cuba all the way torida keys. >> the season never died down. >> big free bird 28 six minutes he says it was tough but nothing beats the pain. >> >> you can stop and enjoy the beauty of it, too. the color of the water. things that you, you know, that mother nature has placed in the water that you pass along the way. >> harris: that's a fox watch across america. >> harris: americans love a come back, and if this one works, it could be big. the new york does mows. i don't know if you remember them. they were once one the best soccer teams in the world, boasting a lineup included the best player that ever hit the field pay pelee. >> brian? >> the new york cosmos have drawn a huge crowd tonight against the fort lauderdale strikers. first time fans are able to cheer for this iconic franchise since the 1980s. we were the rock stars of the serves. >> new york cosmos the most famous name in the history of american soccer. from hay day in the mid 1970s, the team fielded some the greatest players on the road. inclu

president oba headed to an amazon distribution center in chattanooga, tennessee. there he delivered a wide range of speech on jobs, the economy, obamacare, just a little spin on the seques

the bottling began in 89 denying in of big way when these two chattanooga lawyers went and said we want to bottle it and i don't want it bottles, it is not a good product, the top keeps blowing off, bottles blow up. i will give you guys the rights to bottle it across the united states, and you have to use my syrup. that created this incredible franchise bottling system and also created tension between the bottlers and the company forever more. numerous lawsuits came out of that and you need to read the book to find out what they were. during the depression era robert woodruff worked with an ad man named archie lee and between them they came up with some of the best and most classic coca-cola advertising ever. robert woodruff said no more defensive and the. we won't say it is not bad for you. and we are not going to worry about the fact that the government sued us and the army banned it from army bases in 1907. we just say it is a wholesome product and the wonderful affordable luxury and during the depression, this was a great thing. for only $0.05 give yourself a little pause that refre

fresno, omaha and chattanooga. taco bell is coming in late to the early menu but making the most of it. their marquee menu item, a waffle shaped like a taco with sausage and egg in the middle. add syrup and salsa and you're good to go. what could be better? you could also get a breakfast drink. that's a little bit of orange juice and a lot of mountain dew. >>> coming up on "the lead," our political panel joins me. but wait. they're not here. they're in washington. they refuse to fly up. my question, ross, are you going to break up any fights that might start there? >> listen, you've made a terrible mistake. you've got two "new york times" people right here. don is going to have to break up the fight. it's going to get ugly. >> fantastic. the one thing we know, you're not for sale. we will see you guys in just a bit. stay with us. when i got the call from adt, my heart starting racing. i honestly never thought that someone would try to enter into my home without my permission. when i arrived at the residence, to my

when he was in chattanooga, they told him we flat out don't hire n-words. he walks through a door, asks for a job, he says what time do you close? 8:30, 5, my dad sat there the next day 59 8:30 til 5. lady calls him up and says, sir, i've got a job. my dad says what is it? she says it's a job cleaning toilets. my dad worked at that job for ten years, took a second job for ten years also as a janitor, cooked for a family on the weekend, went tonight school to get his ged that he never got. i never saw a human being work that hard. so you add his work ethic, how much time he spent working, how little sleep he had, plus he comes home and is greeted by three rambunctious boys, okay, he wasn't ward cleaver, i give him a mulligan. my dad hit me with a belt. when i was having a book tour with somebody, i mentioned it, and the interviewer says, he didn't hit you with the telephone cord? and that was in the next chapter. this is how people disciplined people in those days, especially if you were from the south, especially if you came from a background where you had

cavanaugh and horoscope or let's get back to it during a speech at amazon dot com shipping center in chattanooga tennessee yesterday president obama offered congressional republicans a deal if they agree to. a new surge in infrastructure spending to rebuild our country's crumbling bridges and roads and put a few americans back to work he'll ask congress to slice the corporate tax rate from thirty five percent down to twenty eight percent the president explained that that cut to the corporate tax rate will come along with a proposal to close a number of tax loopholes that allow big corporations to cheat the system and use foreign tax havens to avoid paying their fair share of taxes to help the american economy here is. right now everybody knows this our tax code assume riddled with loopholes and special interest tax breaks that a lot of companies who are doing the right thing and investing in america pay thirty five percent in their taxes corporations who got fancy accountants and stashed their money overseas they paid little or nothing in texas. that's not fair is not good for the economy here s

i'm having difficulty here. >> my god, he's not in chattanooga. he's in the pashtun highlands.hink a response is imminent. i talked last evening in the situation room and we're building support with nato allies. our assets are in place. i don't think there's any question in our administration's mind that chemical warfare has been used and so i hope an authorization, i hope they come to congress for an authorization at some point. i think you're going to see a surgical proportional strike against the assad regime for what they have done and i support that. i do not want us, though, to move into a situation where we're moving beyond supporting the moderate opposition on the ground. i think syrians need to be the ones to deal with this issue but certainly with the use of chemical warfare i think we have to act and i think we'll do so again in a very surgical proportional way. >> richard haas, we have breaking news. one minute ago posted by ap. united nations vehicle used by syria chemical weapons experts shot at by snipers. the team's replacing that vehicle. >> that will reinforce

bill: from last month in chattanooga, tennessee, he addressed this. >> gutting our environmental protection that's not a jobs plan. gutting investments in education, that's not a jabs plan. they keep on talking about the oil pipeline coming down from canada. that's estimated to create 50 permanent jobs. that's not a jabs plan. >> 50 permanent? or is the key word permanent? >> there are widely varying estimates how many jobs this will create. and how many directly and indirectly. but the president is obviously using the low end of that estimate. the republicans point out one shouldn't sneeze at a time of high unemployment at the creation of any jobs. and this would create some jobs and probably create other indirectly. bill: you have got the middle east, that's a mess. you have got fracking that's never been better in the united states. we are producing more energy than ever in our history. you want middle east independence. you have got the issues with iran and syria. doesn't it strike you as making sense? one would think that the longer the white house delays this, the more the context arg

president, your hole sees have harmed chattanooga enough."self fired. drew johnson was fired due to a policy that he says didn't exist until after he wrote the policy. >> thanks for having me. >> you write this piece. you had been writing a column for some time, conservative in nature. you write this piece about obama directly and what happened? >> well, ultimately i was fired. the claim was that i changed the headline inappropriately, but i followed a very standard procedure. they changed the policy about how our headlines were written after i wrote the piece. i was fired for violating the policy that wasn't if place. when it comes down to it, it was all really the content of the headline and the fact i wrote an anti-obama headline on the day the president was in town. >> so the editor who fired you, did you get any indication from this person of the response? did this person say we received complaints, i'm firing you? >> they said that they did receive complaints about the headline which was based on a johnny paycheck song that everybody ce

speaking from chattanooga, tennessee, the president offered republicans a simple quid pro quo. >> here'sottom line. i'm willing to work with republicans on reforming our corporate tax code, as long as we use the money from transitioning to a simpler tax system for a significant investment in creating middle class jobs. that's the deal. >> but before the president ever said those words, laying out his modest grand bargain proposal, congressional republicans had already said, no, no, no, no. no deal, no grand bargain, not even a far-fetched moon to the mars alternative plan to save the economy from doom. leaving us looking at our economic future with the same hopes as when we looked to the asteroids in the skies, doing nothing and praying that we're just going to survive the hits. christine bellantoni is joining us now, and still with us, former republican congressman bob nay, jamal simmons, and david cay johnston, author of "the fine print." okay, they can't even decide on space. bob, is this the worst -- i mean, you were there when you guys shut it down. is this actually worse than then?

>> guest: in chattanooga the utility there decided a great side as this would be to use their connections to every home the electrical utility to provide fiber to every home. they are doing that. they are selling services to residents. they don't have this retail competition that i have just explained that the utility is in the business of making reasonably priced fiber available to everybody so as a result business are moving from knoxville to chat megaand they are very excited. they are getting reasonably priced internet access. >> host: how do the cable companies feel about that? >> guest: they have fought tooth and nail and there's a lot of litigation about that and actually more than 19 states in america it's either legal or very difficult for cities to do this because the existing operators the cable companies and the telephone companies go to statehouses and say they shouldn't be allowed to compete with this is how they put it may try to make it difficult for cities. we see that pattern over and over and i'm hopeful that in the next few years some of those laws will be rolled back

he was down in chattanooga just not so long ago, down in jacksonville. is this working?ng his economic plan on the road? >> well, i think it is a smart move on the white house's part because clearly, the town is empty. he does lead the news. he does get to talk about stuff more not in a dit for at that time but more of let's remind -- >> bill: laying out his vision during this period where you know, the republicans are out of town so there's not this back and forth. i think it is a smart political strategy to get on the road and take the message out. but he's put -- housing on the docket, the economy. things that aren't naturally in a boxing match kind of format. >> bill: as long as he can cut through the a-rod noise, you know, then there may be some -- >> i think a lot of yankee fans would like to do that. >> bill: michael, thank you so much for coming in today. have a great summer. the rest of it. i'll come back and tell you what the president's doing on the west coast today. current tv is the place for true stories. with award winning documentaries that take you insid

chattanooga business owner says obama care costing workers pay raises and benefits. consumers could see 25% premium increases under obama care. half of affordable care act call center jobs will be part time. obama care to impact franklin workers. white castle on obama care, we may only hire part-time workers. well point sees small employers dropping health coverage. growing worries forces out of state markets. full-time versus part-time workers obama. obama forces work hour limits for students. obama care delays relief for family business. texas business owner facing a million dollars in obama care costs. and i have pages and pages and pages and i'll be reading these on the floor of the house tonight. but the point is these aren't manufactured concerns, these aren't opinions. these are real news articles. so in a serious way, i'm trying to convey that a lot of our objections and concern reflect the concerns of our constituents. i hear it every day. i got a text on the way -- i was over doing a one minute and i got a text from a constituent who has my cell phone numbe