it's very similar to my central character, chet. as this went on in contemporary news it fed on where my central character became bolstered. that's what happens when you are writing a play. over a period of 3 1/2, 4 years things happen in your personal life and in the world around you that continue to sort of feed into the play. so the no no boy aspect, i just gave him a speech a couple days ago where he says, because i really want to bring up the issue and make it relevant to contemporary times. he says, doesn't anybody care what happened? they took away our rights. doesn't anybody care? is the constitution just a piece of paper that means nothing that the president can sign another piece of paper and then we lose our citizenship and they can do whatever the hell they wanted to us? it's wrong, it was wrong then, it was wrong now and i don't care what kind of questionnaire it is, i'll sign it no no and i'll yell it at the president, i'll yell it at roosevelt, i'll yell it at general dewitt and it matters. it has to matter. and to me

chet comes back and he is literally spit on by his own community. so my protagonist is someone who is an ex-jazz musician, who spent his adult years playing with black groups, he comes back to san francisco at a time when japan town is still sort of unraveling from this sort of who lives here, who doesn't live here, and he wants to find japan town again, find his own sort of home while at the same time around him his own community is looking at him as if he is a traitor. so as he says and used to say in the play, i'm on the outside of the outside. my country thinks i'm a criminal, my own community thinks i'm a traitor. how does he sort of find home for himself in america given that kind of a set up? so that's where the stories all kind of converged and my central character, where he came from and his journey and his -- his journey, what he has to go through during the course of the play. >> this central character, chet, is a very interesting one. i gather during

. >> when president obama and nancy pelosi pressured chet edwards, chet stood up to them and voted no bill. and no to cap and trade. chet votes with the conservative chamber of commerce 67% of the time. >> what, no picture of nancy pelosi morphing into saddam hussein? congressman chet edwards campaigning for re-election as a democrat by running against the democratic party. as sam stein pointed out on this show last night it was only two years ago chet edwards' name was being floated by nancy pelosi as a potential vice presidential running mate for president obama. and now chet edwards is campaigning for re-election as a democrat by campaigning against how evil the democratic party is and how awful its leaders are. so it's fine if you want there to be a little, you know, who feels enthused? who feels disappointed? who feels resentful how you feeling fight between the administration and the left, fine. but the conservative side of the democratic party is waging full on electoral war against the democratic party. in effect, working to get more republicans elected this year. so why isn't

not sure if you are aware of, but one of the story lines in the play is about the character called chet monkawa and he was what was known as a no no boy. at some point everyone in the internment camp was asked to do this questionnaire and there

chet edwards voted against health care and the energy bill. chet didn't.they have to defend the votes and stave off the challenges and hold on to their seats. >> if you are on politics, you have to have tough skin. that thick skin. pelosi granted candidates to say whatever they need to about her to survive. on thursday, she told reporters i don't have the time to pay attention to what they are saying about me. this is what campaigns are about. i thrive on them. i have been curious about the postmortem. is it forgive and forget once elections are over? >> there's one important thing here. nancy pelosi wants to be speaker. the only way she can be speaker is if democrats hold the house. if she has to be a punching bag to get there, she doesn't care. she's going to hold on to her seat in san francisco for as long as she wants it. she knows this is part of the game. she's smart. she knows how they have to perform at home. she doesn't take it personally. frankly, anybody who is in politics today can't take it personally. >> thanks so much. appreciate your time.

to chet williams.t said no to their trillion dollar health bill and no to cap and trade. >> how do you support them when everybody is going different directions and the speaker of the house himself is becoming a big issue among democrats? >> i have no doubt anthony weiner can get reelected, but that's why chet edwards would get reelected. it seems to shift more times in a 24-hour cycle than you might imagine, but there are a lot of things i think democrats might agree upon. i'm confident we'll be in the a majori majority. we're the party talking about doing things, they're the party talking about turning things back. i don't think people want to go back to the bush years. >> thank you very much. good to see you. >>> christine o'donnell was not lacking in controversial comments when the tea party propelled her to one of the biggest political upsets in the year, but now she has done herself one better. can she survive this? >> i dabbled in witchcraft, i never joined a covenant. >> you were a witch? >> i

we have chet edwards.look at the commercial because that tells the story. >> when president obama and nancy pelosi pressured chet edwards, chet stood up to them and voted no against their trillion-dollar health care bill and no to cap and trade. >> the facts. joe donnelly is indiana's most independent congressman. joe opposed president bush's attempts to privatize social security and voted against nancy pelosi's energy tax on hoosier families. but jackie what lorecy blindly follows the party lines. >> joe donnelly, chet edwards, you've got a growing number of democrats who are saying, you know, i'm not one of them. i'm not like nancy pelosi. what do you do with that? >> well, you know, there's a reason my hair is graying a little faster than it used to. i'll tell you, the good news is i travel all the time and i'm with democrats everywhere who go out and talk with pride about the accomplishments of this congress. you know, women entitled to equal pay for equal work, health insurance reform bill that's prot

eating contest champion joey chet nut was defeated over the weekend in a chicken wing eating contestman. [ cheers ] >> they went at it but joey chet nut came in second place in the event in buffalo, new york. he was defeated bison athomas, she calls herself the black widow because she always frequently beats her mail competitor in eating competitions. by the way she eat 181 chicken wings in 12 minutes. >>> venders at the san francisco ferry building are not working in harmony with the street musicians they have been cracking down on where where you situations can play during saturday farmer's markets some of them have complained they are too loud and actually driving away customers. building managers have been asking the musicians to relocate. those performers say the crack down is effecting the amount of money they make in tips. >> well, a public art project in san jose will continue despite being the tar guest of vandals. ♪ [ music ] >> 20 decorated pianos have been placed across the city as part of the street pianos project. even though the taggers have defaced several of them org

it can't afford it. >> when washington liberals wanted to take away our guns, chet said no. >> holy [ bleep ]. those were the ads that democrats are running? what ads are the republicans running? >> vote for me, and i'll punch president obama in the balls. >> jimmy donn for congress. in the balls. >> that was a good -- >> those were funny. >> welcome back. 20 past the hour. >> they're bragging about voting against the party. >> the ultimate insider is the ultimate outsider. >> that's amazing. >> you just wait. >> swing district democrats who have voted with the president and congress are struggling even if they're now asserting their independence. >> and the "wall street journal," the house by a wide margin passed legislation to penalize china's foreign exchange practices send ag powerful warning to beijing. the measure would allow but not require the u.s. to levy tariffs on countries that undervalue their currencies. >>> "usa today," fund-raising reports show that powerful interests are banking on republican john boehner to be the next speaker of the house. the ohio lawmaker collecte

not sure if you are aware of, but one of the story lines in the play is about the character called chet monkawa and he was what was known as a no

. >> when president obama and nancy pelosi pressured chet edwards, chet stood up to them and voted no against their trillion dollar health care bill. >> also roiling democrats, soon-to-expire bush tax cuts. the president thinks only middle class tax cuts should be extended, but there are rumblings of democratic opposition in the senate and 31 house democrats echoing the republican position, called for an extension of tax cuts for everyone. is that a door we hear opening? >> the only thing i can tell you is that the tax cuts for the middle class will be extended this congress. >> joining me now from richmond, virginia, is former governor tim kaine, who is now chairman of the democratic national committee. thank you, governor -- thank you, mr. chairman, for joining us. i want to start out talking about health care reform. you think democrats should be out there bragging about it. so what do you make of the democrats who are putting out those ads, bragging that they voted against it? >> well, candy, i travel all over the country. i guess i've been in about 42 states. and most democrats i

>>> coming up in sports, is it going to be chet williams or stefan hire starting with the redskins?e're talking high school football. they try to etend their winning streak to 13 games. and should the nats finally have their hey, ove, i'm gonna need a bank. any ideas? capital one bank. they're everyere. ♪ yeah, you're right! [ horns honking ] hey, ere's one right up the street. [ male announcer ] capital oneank. the most branches and atms in the dc area. what's in your wallet? ove, go long! >>> the d.c. police have arrest aid man in connection with a murder last saturday of a 21-year-old woman in southeast d.c. today police arrested a guy named damon samms. he is an aspiring rapper. tonight dozens of people gather to remember mccray. she was shot and die of her injurs. police say they hope the arrest brings so closures. >> it was awful the way she left here. she shouldn't have left here that way, and i hestly hope and pray that we not only pray for her family but we pray for that young man's family that he gets some help. >> samms has been chared with second degree murder. >>> the f

but zito is in the midst of a wretch chet stretch -- wretched stretch. the pitcher with a single.o goes four inning. he wasn't -- he hasn't won on the road in like four months. he went 8 and struck out seven. the giants fall 4-2. they are four back of the pads and two of philly. the raiders tore up the outfield. the a's and angels at the coliseum. gonzalez and it doesn't matter. if the ball is not in play you don't have to worry about the outfield. k's for -- six k's for geo. cocoa crisp leading in the 6th. it is 2-0 and carson scores in the seventh. look out. kouzmanoff and the kouz goes yard. late offense blanked the angels 8-0. the 49ers cut their roster down to 53 players. the surprise was seeing michael robinson's name on the list of cuts along with jason hill. robinson was excellent on special teams. th guy was a pro bowl alternate the past two seasons. robinson's versatility as a quarterback at penn state figured to work in his favor, doing a lot of things. but singletary didn't feel they were getting a lot of value. you want to talk value, anthony dixon, the 6th round pick

it rach chets up the danger and works for everyone. thanks blindfolded cliff diving. >>> welcome back. let's find out if we have gotten anything wrong so far. for that we go to andy levy. what will do you have planned besides your pottery class? >> that's it. we are doing glazing. it is a big weekend. >> wear a smoke. >> -- smock. >> always. and it has nothing to do with pottery. >> smock and nothing else, that's my motto. >> terry. it could have been worse. greg could have called you a rasberry beret. >> we cleared that up though. >> you know what a red beret is? >> the paratoper before that -- let's move on. >> andy was in the military. >> were you really? >> yeah. >> where were you? what unit? what did you do? >> i don't think that's any of your business. >> that's obviously something. let's move on. >> he was in the military because he was a groupie. >> he dressed as a soldier at a bar. >> 520 infantry in korea and in fort luis. >> all right, man, god bless. >> new logo for the democratic party. terry, you think it looks like a sup

it is true, i am outside chet's window every night. and bill shultz, he stinks of sausage and pornography. and next to me, mike baker, former cia operative and the president of diligence. he is so tough leather jackets wear him to look cool. and his op-ed page is filled with rage. it is our new york times cory spawnent did. good to see you, pinch. >> check out the op-ed. shut up, let me finish. discussing how madonna is the ultimate feminist. personally i think she is a harlet with a side order of tramp. >> good job there, champ. mahmoud was rude and didn't even get booed. he was reportedly greeted with some applause when he entered the u.n general assembly on thursday, and applauded again even after claiming most people believe the u.s. government was behind the attack on 9/11. we weren't, right? president obama responded calling the crack pote comments hateful and inexcusable, and then adding his beard is ugly and he smells like fish. so on friday the harry hump defended his logic in an interview. >> you punished americans well, but

but chet dettlinger, an investigator for the defense, said wayne told him long ago this was a lie. >>e told me he had the car. his dad didn't have the car. wayne says, but i had the vehicle. and i didn't want to corrupt my dad's testimony in the eyes of the jury, so i lied about it and said i didn't have it on the stand. >> what makes this important is what time robert henry says he saw wayne and nathaniel cater together. >> it was about 9:15 to 9:30. it was on luckie and forsyth street in downtown atlanta. >> so at the trial you said that you were in bed until 10:00 p.m. you were so sick that your mother said she had to help lie your body on the bed when you were sick. >> this is where the confusion with all of us came in. i got back from hotlanta records probably about 9:00, 9:30. >> but there's no one to corroborate that, even if his mother were still alive. wayne said she probably didn't see him come in. prosecutor jack mallard. >> he was out that night, no question in my mind. he was not at home. he was out and about. >> less than six hours after henry said he saw williams and ca

. >> greta: there's a list includes chet edwards of texas, ohio congressman and others who will not commitwas surprised to read that. speaker pelosi whether you are for her or against her in policy she was able to herd those cats like nobody else to get that health care. i lot of people don't like health care but she seemed to accomplish the impossible to get everybody onboard to vote for it within the congress. >> i think if you measure sheer power, as the ability to drive something through against the will of the american people, then you have to give president obama and speaker pelosi and majority leader reid very high marks. because they rammed through things, 878 billion dollar spending bill, that nobody had read. -- 787 billion dollar spending bill that nobody read. these are remarkable achievements, they may be negative. they may lead them to lose the election decisively this fall. it is not because they are weak many they may be wrong but not weak. the challenge for them is, the american people are going fine, i got it, if that's what you want to do, i'm going to defeat you and the

as you see with people like representative chet edwards who is floated to be obama's vice president by nancy pelosi during the campaign and is now up with an advertisement in which he touts his work against president obama and nancy pelosi herself. with people like russ feingold, i don't think there's any meaningful distance trying to create there. >> a vigorous democratic party would punish that sort of thing instead of rewarding it by catering to it, but then we wouldn't have jobs. sam stein, thanks so much. >> thanks, rachel. take care. >>> so senator james warren demint of south carolina is threatening all by himself without even apparently the approval of his fellow republicans. he's threatening all by himself to shut down the legislature of the united states. at least to shut down the united states senate. if i use that senator's middle name when i talk about this, does that bring home just how scary this prospect is? senator james warren hussein demint? i am willing to do that if i need to. i'm willing to pull out all the stops to make the importance of this sink in. that's next

like, she thinks -- the director's like "oh, chet gaspin." >> jimmy: fire this man!are proud of you. >> exactly, yeah. >> jimmy: that's awesome tha they got to see you do what you do. congratulations. welcome to the nbc family, buddy. [ cheers and applause ] congratulations. "outsourced" premieres tomorrow night. thursday at 9:00 p.m. right here on nbc. ben rappaport, everody! stick around. up next, we're cooking with kerry simon! munchies! come on back! ♪ words alone aren't enough. my job is to listen to the needs and frustrations of the shrimpers and fishermen, hotel or restaurant workers who lost their jobs to the spill. i'm iris cross. bp has taken full responsibility for the clean up in the gulf and that includeskeeping yo. r job is to listen and find ways to help.e gulf that means working with communities. restoring the jobs,tourisbe, and businees impacted by the spill. we've paid over $400 million in claims and t up a $20 billion independently-run claims fund to cover lost incomeon until people impacted can get back to work. and our efforts aren't coming at ta

like, she thinks -- the director's like "oh, chet gaspin." >> jimmy: fire this man!are proud of you. >> exactly, yeah. >> jimmy: that's awesome that they got to see you do what you do. congratulations. welcome to the nbc family, buddy. [ cheers and applause ] congratulations. "outsourced" premieres tomorrow night. thursday at 9:00 p.m. right here on nbc. ben rappaport, everybody! stick around. up next, we're cooking with kerry simon! munchies! come on back! ♪ ah, focus group. so what are we testing here? that's our new pastrami grilled sandwich. oh, great. hey, are they happy we got rid of the rye bread? totally. they love our grilled artisan bread. they say it's the perfect compliment to the classic hot pastrami, melting cheese, deli mustard and pickles. awesome. hey, um what are we testing in that room? oh! nothing we were just hazin' the intern. from his frere jacques... [ speaking french ] [ mom ] ...so he decided to study in paris. ♪ to see french masterpieces with his very own eyes. we even linked our citibank account to his so when his account ran low we just

like, she thinks -- the director's like "oh, chet gaspin." >> jimmy: fire this man!d are proud of you. >> exactly, yeah. >> jimmy: that's awesome that they got to see you do what you do. congratulations. welcome to the nbc family, buddy. [ cheers and applause ] congratulations. "outsourced" premieres tomorrow night. thursday at 9:00 p.m. right here on nbc. ben rappaport, everybody! stick around. up next, we're cooking with kerry simon! munchies! come on back! ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: our next guest is a celebrated chef with a ton of restaurants in las vegas and l.a. this summer, he brought his talents to the east coast with the opening of the simon prime in atlantic city. please welcome my friend kerry simon, everybody, right here. [ cheers and applause ] kerry, good to see you, buddy. nice to see you, pal. >> great to be here. >> jimmy: you brought a little beer for me. >> a little guinness for you to start it off. >> jimmy: cheers, that's awesome. thank you for doing that. [ cheers and applause ] that's delicious. you really are the rock 'n' roll chef.

governor chet culver is the incumbent and democrat nominee. [applause] >> and before serving as governor, he was iowa's secretary of state. >> republican nominee terry branstad. [applause] he was most recently the president of in university, governor of iowa from 1983 to 1999. >> now, we have determined that governor branstad will get the first queson of tonight's debate. that first question coming from mike of "the sioux city journal." mike? >> thank you. welcome. >> thank you, mike. >> governor branstad, under your watch as governor, the number of state workers increased by 8,000, spending increased by $390 million and the conservative cato institute gave yourerformance as a grade of d citing overspending and lack of tax reform. why should voters believe your campaign rhetoric of governor culver is anything more than the pot calling the kettle black. >> first of all, if you look totality of my record, you can see that we not only made iowa more competitive, we took iowa from being one of the high-tech states to below average in terms of taxe

i want to make sure that everybody also acknowledges your outstanding governor, chet culver, who's here. the mayor of des moines, frank cownie, who is here. and state representative janet petersen is here. all of whom are doing great work, and i had a chance to work with and get to know when i spent a few months here in iowa a couple years ago. it is wonderful to be back, and i thank all of you for coming. i am not going to give a long speech on the front end here. what i really want to do is hear from you. so what i'm going to do is just speak a little bit at the front end about where i think the country is at, how we move forward. it's relevant because there is an election coming up, although i'm going to try to avoid making just a straight political speech here. when i started running for president back in 2008 -- 2007, 2008 -- the reason i was willing to go into the race, even though michelle was not crazy about politics and i had two young daughters who are the center of my world and i was going to be away from for quite a bit, was a feeling that the country was at a crossroads, th

governor chet culver is the incumbent and mocratic nominee. [applause] >> and before serving as governor, he was iowa's secretary of state. >> republican nominee terry branstad. [applause] he was most recently the president of in university, governor of iowa from 1983 to 1999. >> now, we have determined that governor branstad will get the first queson of tonight's debate. that first question coming from mike of "the sioux city journal." mike? >> thank you. welcome. >> thank you, mike. >> governor branstad, under your watch as governor, the number of state workers increased by 8,000, spending increased by $390 million and the conservative cato institute gave yourerformance as a grade of d citing overspending and lack of tax reform. why should voters believe your campaign rhetoric of governor culver is anything more than the pot calling the kettle black. >> first of all, if you look totality of my record, you can see that we not only made iowa more competitive, we took iowa from being one of the high-tech states to below average in terms of taxe

huse but for the home cook you're not going to use prime i would first suggest usin top sirloin or a chetwe're going to do is fold our plastic wrap over. >> the fun part. >> well, let me show you one, what we're aiming for. you can do the rest. >> i can destroy them. >> just gently. see? now, if it's a little bit thicker, a little firmer meat, you want to pound a little bit more. >> okay. just kind of whack it with the mallet. i've heard chefs say if you don't have this kind of mallet you can other stuff. >> yeah, you can use the back of a pan or whatever you have. anything that's flat. >> just picturing -- >> i wouldn't use a ball-peen ammepet ythi pexa like wo there's a lot oigs life that aren't working out. this is youcanc >> doing the overnight -- pounded and ready to go. now we're going to make the marinade. we just start with a little bit of oyster sauce. okay. we're just going to start that in the bottom. then we have a little bit of lime juice. a little rice wine vinegar. this is a little sweet and sour going. and a little bit of soy sauce. i use straight soy sauce. now you can th

chet edwards was instrumental on this special legislation.if a service person dies, the opportunity still exists. david frye has three children who will be able to go to college because of their father's service and sacrifice. so will the children of so many who lost a parent in the war. we pass this legislation with the american legion by our side. take pride in all of this. it could not have happened without you. you are our strongest voice on behalf of patriotism and honor. you understand the need to continue devotion to those who are so devoted to our nation that they served in the military. i can never repay their sacrifice. we as a country cannot repay their sacrifice. but we can and must honor the patriotism, courage, and service of all of our men and women in uniform. because of view, because of you we honor the land of the free and the home of the brave. just as our troops pledged to leave no one behind on the battlefield, we say we will leave no veteran behind when they come home. [applause] god bless the american legion. god bless

. >> gene taylor and chet edwards. i will say this -- at any type of event i go to whether it's military oriented he seems to get a lot of respect from the soldiers in the military. >> right, he's been the chairman of the house armed services committee for a very, very long time. interesting thing about him is he's already declined the offer. i'm flattered but he is in a race against the republican out there in the fourth district of missouri. he might not return to congress anyway. >> here the big story we should have led with. >> exactly right. at the national press club today, there's going to be a number of retired military -- air force personnel who are going to say that they have witnessed with their own two eyes u.f.o.'s, unidentified flying something's over america's nuclear sites when they were posted there. and they did something and they can't explain what to the missile systems down below. >> yes, you'll have six retired members of the military now at the national press club in d.c. and they'll say these in

. >> when you look at this gentlemen here, his name is chet.iversary collection from head to toe. it's a two-button jacket. we did a navy blue tie with a modern twist with a european edge. the bravest of men can do it. >> thank you very much. next up, we will move on to a retro glam look. this is alexis and hugo. >> we are so excited about this dress. it's a fun piece. >> 20s inspired. it's slim and beautiful beading. this is by lazaro and has these chiffon ruffles. this is a hot trend. easy to dance in. >> three pieces is a way to go if you want to be totally retro. you want to leave it sharp. i love the cuff links and the contrast. >> thank you, guys. we are going to bring in the third choice. classic elegance modelled by dante. >> here you see we went with a very classic look and lace. the champagne lace is really beautiful. and the thing about this is the satin bow it gives it a modern look. it goes around and it's sexy in the back. >> very pretty. it's great. >> why not have the groom wear something pale to have it be really dreamy. we did