they were both connally charges. when reached by phone, he had no comment. all eyes will be on wall street tomorrow after stocks plummeted in trading today. a late for this evening involving a shocker. they downgraded the ratings of major banks including bank of america, j.p. morgan chase, city grew, and goldman sacks. they made the move because the long-term prospects are shrinking. >> it is more costly for banks to raise money. the downgrades came after today's closing bell. stocks ended on a sour note ended tumbled nearly 251 points, the second worst drop this year. juries will return tomorrow morning to continue deliberating in the sex abuse trial of the jury sandusky. a shocker this evening, away from the courtroom, the adopted son of jerry sandusky claimed that he was abused by his adoptive father and said he was ready to testify. they never heard this latest acquisition. in closing arguments, the former penn state assistant football coach was portrayed by his defense as a victim. and they said, that is what this case is all about. the drawing from her

doing great work and we're going to lift up their work but we're also stopping at congress offices, connal offices especially of congress people who voted for the house budget proposed by congressman ryan. and that budget undermines the whole fabric of our society. and people don't know it. we want to education people about what is going on in congress, and make sure that they push back against hijacking our nation. >> well now dow-- you do realize -- >> it's its least we request do for people who are suffering in this economy that are left out that are pushed to the margins. >> if we're just concentrating on the poor, helping the poor that leaves the rich out. >> that's what the rich should be doing. >> no, listen, we need more help. the poor shall inherit the kingdom, right, of heaven. campbell can get through. a have a needle more than the rich man can get into heaven. i need help more than a poor person does. >> you need help to respond, to be generous. you know there is enough to go around if we would only share. it's this american ideal that we should just horde and hold on to the in

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politicking around this selection of the vice president by president knicks son and the fact john connally was his first choice? >> mm-hmm. >> what -- >> and then -- you know, a lot of the conversation was -- had to filter out. a lot of conversation we picked president ford because -- who would want him as president. that was a very common sort of thought at the time. it was irrelevant to us. i remember rodino, he liked ford. he thought he was a fine, decent man. he knew him for years. but that was sort of the -- that was sort of the common wisdom at the time that it was a political move on the part. that would prevent the -- our process in moving forward because we had never -- never moved forward with the idea gerry ford would be president. >> did the chairman like the final report of his committee? >> mm-hmm. i think -- again, i think he was relieved this was oar. that he felt -- fulfilled his obligation. i think he felt -- i think he felt -- i think he felt honored by the whole process. he was honored to do it but thought he did -- he thought he gave it his best. >> do you think that -

formed to earlier this week after two elections in greece produced no i'll try to wind up but he connally's blood. says it's too early to celebrate. it really says oh yes solve the situation and then five minutes later it was like oh are back in the doldrums and we're going to go just hi this sugar i'm sure a rush of kong for the next couple of it is all right you know. and you know that on thursday friday the reason i started thinking well you know i did mousavi thing and wished on the same hole only for him because you're trying to do two things are you see on the one hand bro and on the other hand back on there are there are civil list and on there are government in order to comply with the detroit does call for us dirty tricks are you going to you can do the same thing you can do lots of things at the same time it's either one of you i mean if you squeeze the people all the people are going to scream and when the screen governments fall and that's what we're really seeing in the near term future if this government pursues these austerity measures which are a bit ineffective over the las

around the selection of the vice president by the president by president nixon and the fact that john connally was his first choice? >> mm-hmm. >> what do you -- >> it's all in the -- and you know a lot of the conversation was which we had to sort of filter out. a lot of conversation he picked president ford because who'd want him as president? it was a very common sort of thought at the time. it was irrelevant to us. but i remember rodino, he liked gerald ford. he thought he was a fine, decent man, he knew him for years. but that was sort of the -- that was sort of the common wisdom p? did they have more respect for him afterwards? >> oh, yeah. he had a very wonderful rest of his career. he was honored. he loved it. you know, as a congressman in new jersey. lovered the attention. he'd go to speak. yeah, he was deeply -- you know there was an aura about him that he carried for the rest of his career. again all the members then honored him. i remember i went to his funeral, and there was charlie rangel, people who had long gone, you know, in their own -- had all their own distinguished careers,

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with fearful connal clouds and the major damage this morning. good morning. and welcome to eyewitness news, i'm don scott, filling in for gigi barnett. we is severe weather in maryland. the national weather service confirms that one tornado touched down last night. this is a look at the twitter at bwi. a worker saw the tornado touch the ground and tear up grass. there is no major damage the, but the powerful line of cells that dumped heavy rain. many areas are dealing with flooding. including the expressway. the lanes covered in water. in hartford county two people are hurt. several structures suffered damage and crews are cleaning up debris. we are going to go straight to meteorologist tim williams with more on last night's storms. good morning. >> well, good morning, don and everyone. today it is a gorgeous day after the weather chaos last night. first, first warning weather right now, to give you an idea of what we're dealing with right now, the calm after the storm. right now, the storms that came through rolled through the area. they are now well-off sho

i wrote a letter to my representative, gerald connally of virginia, and i told him if he voted for the law, we were not going to -- we were going to vote him out of office. and he said he would let her back and vote for it only because it would lower the rates, that we could keep what we already had if we wanted to, that it would lower the deficit, better quality care. and i said every one of those are going to prove to be a lie. and if it is. every one of those has been -- my premiums have went up. everybody's premiums have went up. the deficit is now projected to go higher. the cost. healthcare law is projected now to be twice what he said it would be. it will be a good thing if it's rejected. host: one more item that we want to mention in regards to activity on the campaign trail and the coverage of said activity by c-span, we're talking about road to the white house, and in the upcoming he addition of "road to the white house," we're going to talk with president obama's political and media strategist, david axelrod. we'll have a look at the obama for campaign with the campaign's da