in studio, as a "friend of bill" this hour, very pleased to welcome back daniel stone from the daily will be joined by paul shapiro, the number two guy at the humane society of america in the next segment. dan stone here's -- you and i have to cover a lot -- not just politics but a lot of politics. this story caught my attention this morning down in webster texas. they had an election for the city council. and the two candidates got -- each got 111 votes each. >> uh-oh. >> bill: so it is a tie. how do you settle a tie in texas? >> there's no tiebreaker? you a gun duel. >> bill: they rolled the dice. one rolled a 5. the other rolled a 4. that's the winner. don't you think -- we could learn something from that, don't you think? jamie diamond comes to town yesterday. here's the guy the number one guy on wall street who is saying we don't need any stinking regulations. jpmorgan loses $2 billion. he comes in yesterday and you think this is going to be the -- they're really going to say now we've got you. you're the guy who almost brought this economy to its knees. instead, the republicans

fact grant asylum to us i know you signed a letter also filmmakers oliver stone michael moore noam chomsky's name is on there daniel ellsberg glenn greenwald's i want to put a little bit of that letter up on the screen for people to see you know their concerns and i know you're concerned to have and it says we believe mr assad has good reason to fear extradition to sweden as there is a strong likelihood that once in sweden he would be imprisoned and then likely extradited to the united states as u.s. legal expert and commentator glenn greenwald recently noted were assigned to be charged in sweden he would be imprisoned under very oppressive conditions where he would be held incommunicado rather than released on bail just briefly having because we're almost at a time why do you think that ecuador should in fact take a stand. well i think the key here is that people are suggesting there is a lot of paranoia on the part of the sign supporters to another just beating the narcissism of julius and i think the response to this sort of petulant argument is that there is this why grand jury investigation that is being carri