from our perspective on this and the activist mission i'm joined by david harris executive director of the american jewish committee thanks very much for joining us here on r t so israel is gearing up for the arrival of these protestors and these activists what do you think is likely to happen when they reach the airport if any of them do well i think they're going to be stopped and they're going to be put back on planes and returned home but the fact the matter is that it's well known these are provocateurs whose goal is to deal with israel and to promote the agenda of hamas a terrorist group and guns are now israel claims the campaign is trying to tarnish its image on the world stage in stage and surely they have their perspective at the same time with the gaza blockade and the settlement expansion and the deaths of nine activists on the previous flotilla do you think they're not doing themselves perhaps many favors when it comes to their p.r. efforts well i think you're lumping together a lot of things that have no context and if we had time we could provide the context but the simp

. >> tennessee sentenced david harris to 20 years in prison for armed robbery. >> the cell door slams. what goes through your mind? is your life over? >> in the early stages, that is the mindset is that door closes and it probably will never open again. >> but the door did open, and she is just one of the ways his life has changed. >> there's definitely no hallmark card that says, "by the way, i was in prison for a long time." >> i love you. >> later on "sunday morning," a second chance for david harris. >> when you hear a hit song sung by famous singer and you know the singer didn't write that song but you can't for the life of you remember who did, that's familiar story to the man our russ mitchell will be taking us to visit this morning. >> you no doubt know his songs. ♪ by the time i get to phoenix ♪ >> but do you know the man who wrote the music? >> it went... ♪ oh my christmas tree isn't very big. ♪ in fact it's kind of small >> see, after all these years, i remember that. ♪ up, up and away >> later on sunday morning the stories behind the songs of jimmy webb. >> jason bateman i

i'm dan harris. david muir is on assignment tonight in africa. we'll go to him in just a moment. but we want to start in washington, where tonight, we're seeing something highly unusual. hope. there was a real change of tone today in the debt debate. now, we should say, the hope now, we should say, the hope we're seeing tonight is still very tentative and very fragile. but with the clock ticking down, and there it is, three days left. some of the major players in this game are starting to sound like they might finally be getting down to business to break the impasse. abc's senior political correspondent, jon karl, has been on this story every step of the way. and he leads us off, once again, tonight. jon, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening, dan. well, the house and the senate have spent the last 24 hours on a series of showboats on bills that have no chance of passing. but republican leaders say they're fully engaged with the white house. and have spoken with the president this afternoon to try to find a way to break the impasse. finally, signs of progress.. >> i'm co

theater minding my own business with my mom and dad and in front of us was the producer of "harry potter," david, steve kloves. i was unaware of why this man kept staring at me through the show and didn't know what to make of it. i remember my dad and mom getting quite flustered. eventually, that was the moment they said maybe this was meant to be. let's let him audition. >> how did they tell you you got it? >> i was in the bath and my dad got the phone call downstairs and came in and said, you've got the part. i was just very very happy. >> how old were you? >> i was 11. i think i just turned 11. i had no idea what the implications were but knew that probably meant i bought myself ab half hour extra before i had to go to bed that night. >> the implications were that radcliffe's life was about to change forever. >> did you have a normal boyhood? >> it's very hard to say. i guess no is the official answer. i certainly didn't have normal teenage years but equally, i don't really know what normal means. was i happy and healthy and surrounded by fun and love? yes. i was also surrounded by inspiratio

harry potter" began. and it's really just absorbed our lives. it's become such a ben if non. to david's point earlier, if you were trying to sell used furniture in england, the best thing that ever happened to you was "harry potter" because in this last film they have a 60,000 square foot room called the room of requirement that's entirely filled with used furniture th the collected for the movie. and i think much kind november that same way "harry potter" has just kind of built up through our lives. it's an amazing story that at once combines kind of very sort of trivial kind of banal teenage pursuits, discussions of popularity, of athletic which is we don't see in this movie with quiddich, of dating, love, everything. and at the same time with these boys and gir who essentially is the fate of the world resting on their shoulders. and so certainly for people who grew up kind of in th last couple decades, "harry potter" has been the defining cultural forc then the next question is will our children read harry poter? i think that's a trickier question to answer. i hopehey do but i don't

harris. >> reporter: harvard's dr. david one of america's premiere childadd obesity experts, says in in a prestigious medical journal some carefully selected situations some of the 2 million extremely obese children should be taken from their parents. >> taking a child away from their parents is a drastic action, but when we have a 400-pound child with life-threatening complications, there may y t be any great choices. >> reporter: abc news heard from two dozezeexperts, and all but three of them disagreed including art kaplan. if you were a child who was morbidly obese and there was a risk that your life would be drastically shortened wouldn't you want someone to come and save you and rescue you? >> can't you get someone in this house and make this a safe place for me. can't you help my parents? >> reporter: in fact, that's what dr. ludwig proposes, before removing an obese child from his or her home, state officials would provide the parents with counseling and education. >> the state has no incentive to take a child away f

under the previous order -- >> david gregory, we heard harry reid start to make the case for the deal, make the democratic case for the deal, talk about the things he feels like he got out of this, not talking about the issue of revenue, not talking about the things that they didn't get out of it. >> right. well, if you're watching all of this from outside washington, you still have to be shaking your head. there is a political problem that may in fact be about to be solved and that's very important. and the short-term financial problem facing default. but the underlying fiscal problem in washington, the reason why the debt is so out of control and the deficit continues to grow is something that now a bipartisan commission is going to look at, 17 months after the president appointed a bipartisan commission to look at these hard things, the reality is that washington, members of congress and administration don't they want to make the very hard choices in order to get the deficit under control. that's still where we are right now even if we can pass this up. >> to be a true cynic here,

control your foreign policy israel does that today and then he said american president david was there and there to eric harris is no shortage of israel conservatives who come on this program and said the same thing about you know muslims and muslim fanatics and we've got a way about this and that as they go you know my limbs control of the cradle right they control on. control how they would media they control the federal reserve right sure i hate i'm not i'm not stipulating the jews do you favor sleep brought this you can look i'm not saying that all jews who are not against all jewish people i definitely think you are the jewish extremist who control the jewish community also control these critical aspects of power called the jewish matrix of power and control massive international finance like the i.m.f. like the federal reserve like a lot of the international banking like goldman sachs who by which by the way was obama's biggest campaign contributor they also control the media which is and gave it another another with the anti-semitism and let's move on because and yet we've got your we've got your worldv

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the scandal could even be threatening prime minister david cameron's hold on power due to his close links to top murdoch executives british blogger harry call explains why what really gave the story legs was the fact that david cameron. the then disgraced. coast and into the conservative party fota made him is director of communications now i don't think without without that kind of. legs given to the story i think it probably wouldn't have been quite as big as it is now but the fact is there's been some errors of judgment times out there in the governing conservative policy but the prime minister david cameron yes again his chief of staff has been shown to be essentially instigating a cover up by the connections. to the phone hacking and making sure that the prime minister then leader of the opposition david cameron didn't know about it there's been a large amount of fingers in isn't just a kind of heads in the sand and that is lethal for a prime minister and he's now in a real fight he is in a really really bad situation he could well be looking at some serious consequences for himself at the very least stuff still around him. and yo

one is david cameron tries to explain his feelings with rupert murdoch's empire british blogger harry cole believes those ties could take their toll on both the pm and his government. what really gave the story legs was the fact that david cameron to be. disgraced. because and because of the quality for the main it was director of communications i don't think without without that kind of. legs given to the story i think it probably wouldn't have been quite so big as it is now but the fact is there's been some real errors of judgment it turns out. the governing conservative party but the department's david cameron yet again his chief of staff has been shown to be essentially instigating a cover up by the connections because you have to sort of phone hacking and making sure that the prime minister then leader of the opposition david cameron didn't know about it as being a large element of fingers it isn't just a kind of heads in the sand and that is lethal for a prime minister and he's now in a real fight he is in a real really bad situation he could well be looking at some serious cons

david in virginia writes, frighteningly yes, it was clear from his budget submission in february that he's absolutely out of touch with economic reality. his current preference for a smoke-and-mirrors deal from harry reid that will kick the can down the road and take him past the next election.

plus we get answers when i talk exclusively to congressman david dreier about why he introduced a carbon copy of the harry reid bill to the bill today. also the co-aah tore of cut, cap and balance. and charlie gasparino. we are live from new york in a special moment as we watch the unfolding of the debt crisis deal. the deficits presence between campaigning and governing is simple. you frame the entire message. you drive the points that you think are important. and you ignore things that you either don't care about or that, frankly, you don't understand. if the result of the campaign is that you are elected then you have to shift gears to governing mode and that is as big a shift as killing a deer in the woods and then having to cook it in the kitchen. the tools that you use to kill the deer are different than the ones you use to cook it and serve it. or at least they better be. we have folks that successfully campaigned but don't seem to have made the transition from the woods to the kitchen. in a campaign there is no compromise or negotiation. no recognitioning of the possibility that some of the other

harry. dark mark. if we have all 7 movies. >>reporter: davidbruiner is 45. >> i always wanted take the and putting it off and i thought there's probably one thing i totally adore and that's hair ports. >>reporter: he planned the nature three months ago and got 45 tickets for all of his friends. if all over san jose campbell, milpitas and mountain view the midnight showing is sold out. him if tickets at the i max theater sold out in 90 minutes and some fans lined up 15 hours before show time. and so to pass the time frjs they role play. all part of putting what they love in the spotlight. >> i was just the girl who memorized every detail. every part. every chapter. if someone start add sentence could i finish it. from the book. it was just it was my life. it was my life. >>reporter: him if as i mentioned midnight showing is sold out but fans have another chance to catch a movie here tonight. there will be 2:30 am blythe or not movie playing tonight but even that tl sold out just a few hours ago. live in san jose, abc 7 news. >> if plans foiled t

and the truth of the matter is, whether it was stories about prince harry and his drug taking, david of the other stories, max mosely of the formula one sensation, whatever it was, their stories always managed to have a certain truth about them. so they had a certain disgusting credibility about it. they were very sure about what they went to press with. as, indeed, all the tabloids are. you can't, you dare not with the british library laws, or what used to be, go to press with a story you're not pretty certain are true or you've got a defense. so you end up with this paper that spews out some of the most vitriolic sewage every week, but frankly, more often than not, gets away with it. >> so the question is, what next? i want to talk more about the specific examples here that led us here. one of the questions is what next. listen here to james murdoch, he, of course, the is the ceo, the deputy chief operating officer of the parent company, news corp. he's responding to now the prime minister says there will be inquiries, there will be other inquiries. mr. murray trying to make the ca

david's talking about. he had an incrippent rebelien on his hands. harry reid and the senate democrats were counting on that. boehner to his credit kept his ranks in line, and most of them actually rallied around him today. that was a big -- that was a big moment for him. i think right now we're at a point much like we were with -- before the government -- almost government shutdown a few months ago, where you have boehner and harry reid, who is a deal-maker, don't forget, and reid actually, despite that shot across the bow today by the 53 senators, harry reid is a deal-maker. he doesn't have taxes in that plan that he has. they both -- both those figures emerged pre-- you know, during the budget battle that led to the -- that forestalled the government shutdown. they emerged as the major figures there. i think that's what we'll see. we'll see those two emerge, a deal eventually go to the white house. if this white house really thinks this is a catastrophe waiting to happen, it's going to have to deal with it. >> bret: charles, they may say in this letter

dan harris has more on the startling proposal. >> reporter: harvarded's dr. davidg says today in a prestigious medical journal in certain carefully selected situations some of america's estimated 2 million extremely obese children should be taken from their parents. we spoke to him via satellite. >> taking a child away from their parents is a drastic action. should only be used as a last resort. but when we have a 400-pound child with life threatening complications, it may not be any great choices. >> reporter: abc news heard from two dozen experts and all but you three disagreed including art kaplan. >> if you were a child who was mored bily obese and there was a risk your life would be shortened. >> i would say can't you help my parents. >> that is exactly what dr. ludwig proposes, before removing an obese child state officials would provide the parents would counseling and education. >> is there any way to guarantee that state government officials will take the intermediated steps before they take the big step of removing a child from the home? >> the state has

david, thank you. the three debt plans, gang of six, speaker boehner and harry reid. each plan is different, y to fight about. president obama wants a long term deal through 2013. his critics say because he's worried about getting reelected and doesn't want the issue in 2012. he says it is because it is the right thing to do and we need to put the economic anxiety behind us. we spoke with republican arizona senator jon kyl. nice to see you. >> thanks greta. >> greta: big crisis this whole debt ceiling. let me take you back to february '09 and the stimulus bill. if the stimulus bill had been more effective in revving up the economy, i take it we would have more revenue and we would be not quite in this crisis or it would be a different crisis. >> this is a different kind of recession. not one in which consumer demand is driving recovery that's why the bush stimulus didn't work. the obama stimulus didn't work. when you take a trillion dollars and basically give it to people to spend and it doesn't move the numbers in fact now, we are at a 2% of growth -- under 2% of gro

harris. and -- >> look at him. >> it got us thinking, david, about other well-known interview exits.f our faves coming up. >> poor dan. we set him up again today. we'll check that out. >> we'll see. >>> but first, it's the latest on the mysterious death of the woman found bound and hanging in her millionaire boyfriend's california mansion. her bizarre death coming just days before his 6-year-old son died. now, police are rushing the taxology reports of both autopsies. and abc's abbie boudreau has the latest for us. good morning, abbie. >> reporter: good morning, robin. this tiny, little beach town is the last place you'd expect 15 detectives working overtime, trying to figure out exactly what happened in the mansion behind me. behind the walls of this landmark 27-room mansion, 2 mysterious deaths in less than a week. 6-year-old max shacknai died just a week after falling from the mansion's master staircase. 32-year-old rebecca zahau found days after max's fall, hanging from a noose from the second-floor balcony, unclothed. her limbs bound with what appeared to be electrical cord. bot

i'll be joined by chris matthews, howard fineman, and melissa harris-perry, as well as white house senior advisor davidplouffe and tea party freshman republican congressman joe walsh. president obama tonight will likely reiterate his positions that he has taken in these negotiations, including his politically sensitive offer, revealed last week, to make changes to medicare and social security in exchange for a republican compromise on an increase in government revenue. here now, the president of the united states. >>> good evening, tonight i want to talk about the debate we've been having in washington over the national debt. a debate that directly affects the lives of all americans. for the last decade, we've spent more money than we take in. in the year 2000, the government had a budget surplus, but instead of using it to pay off our debt, the money was spent on trillions of dollars in new tax cuts while two wars and an expensive prescription drug program were simply added to our nation's credit card. as a result, the deficit was on track to top $1 trillion the year i took office. to make matters wo

. >>> 21-year-old harry potter star daniel radcliffe says he has given up drinking completely. he says he's lucky paparazzi never caught him at his worst. >>> david beckham and his wife may not be american, but the fourth of july is very important for to them. they got married on the 4th and a spokesman announced they will be waiting a bit longer to have their daughter. and finally radar online reports that publishers are prepared to offer arnold schwarzenegger's soon to be ex, maria shriver, a record advance for a tell-all memoir. for a look into her life both as a kennedy and with the terminator, sources say shriver could earn more than the all-time record advance, bill clinton's $15 million. would you bet she would do it? do you think she would take it? i don't, she's classy, she doesn't air her dirty laundry. >> oh, like the president wasn't classy. >> i'm going to move on, bill. >>> and this comes to us from wvir, nbc 29 in charlottesville, virginia, where some end penicillin day celebrations had nothing to do with fireworks or barbecues. dozens of immigrants made the trek to thomas jefferson's home to mark america's 235th birthday and becom

david, thank you. the three debt plans, gang of six, speaker boehner and harry reid. each plan is different, y to fight about. president obama wants a long term deal through 2013. his critics say because he's worried about getting reelected and doesn't want the issue in 2012. he says it is because it is the right thing to do and we need to put the economic anxiety behind us. we spoke with republican arizona senator jon kyl. nice to see you. >> thanks greta. >> greta: big crisis this whole debt ceiling. let me take you back to february '09 and the stimulus bill. if the stimulus bill had been more effective in revving up the economy, i take it we would have more revenue and we would be not quite in this crisis or it would be a different crisis. >> this is a different kind of recession. not one in which consumer demand is driving recovery that's why the bush stimulus didn't work. the obama stimulus didn't work. when you take a trillion dollars and basically give it to people to spend and it doesn't move the numbers in fact now, we are at a 2% of growth -- under 2% of gro

david nokanora. what is the likelihood that mitch mcconnell gets a deal done with harry reid as the hours move forward think the message that you're hearing from the white house side is they're remaining confident that they trust harry reid to bring this home. right now, stakes are very high. it's deadlocked and there does not seem to be any movement toward that deal. but behind the scenes, we're being told the white house is working diligently to get their message across. their budget director is at capitol hill on a daily basis trying to hammer out some of the fine points of the legislation that could be passed. that's where we are, and the white house has made clear this is something that congress has to figure out and then deliver them something that the president could sign. >> looking at that 1:00 a.m. vote that we expect to happen in about 12 hours here in the senate, key to that is the gop senators. senators such as scott brown, bob corker, that might be important in cobbling together those 60 votes. what do you know about what they are saying? >> frankly i think the leadership that's being as

today harry reid announced the senate will meet every day until the debt ceiling is raised. yesterday, david rogers of politico discovered and reported that house speaker john boehner and eric cantor held a secret meeting with barack obama at the white house. a republican leadership aide said "the lines of communication are being kept open, but there's nothing to report in terms of an agreement or progress." tomorrow the house republicans will hold a vote on the tea party's preferred solution to deficit reduction, the cut, cap, and balance bill, a bill that would slash spending and make raising taxes even more impossible than it seems to be now. the head of the non-partisan center on budget and policy priorities, bob greenstein described the cut, cap, and balance bill as "one of the most id logically extreme pieces of major budget legislation to come before congress in years, if not decades. it would go a substantial way toward enshrining grover norquist's version of america into law. bob greenstein joins me later. barack obama recognizes it for what it is, nothing but a one-day stunt that h

harry at the age of 16 was one of the many to be exposed. then there was david an adulter, when they discovered the secret affair he was having with his personal assistant. in 2005, the paper published a seemingly mundane story about prince william injuring his knee. it was another exclusive for the news of the world that made its reputation getting scoops. royal officials realized that the story could only have been sourced by the illegal interception of prince william's mobile phone voicemail and right then began the chain of events, allegations and scandal that enveloped members of the royal family, celebrities, politicians and now murder and bomb victims. richard quest, cnn, london. >> and back in this country, the royal couple, the british royal couple on a whirl wind three-day visit to southern california, so what's on their to-do list? we're on the william and kate watch. >>> all right, we're just seven minutes away, hello don lemon, we have been giving you lots all day long, but you got it now. we're going to talk serious stuff but i'm going to make you

america has more than so, dan harris tells us about this startling new proposal and asks the question, if lives are at stake, what would you do? >> reporter: harvard's dr. david ludwig, one of america's premiere childhood obesity experts, says today, in a prestigious medical journal, that in certain situations, some of america's estimated 2 million extremely obese children should be taken from their parents. late today, we spoke to him via satellite. >> taking a child away from their parents is a drastic action. should only be used as a last resort. but when we have a 400-pound child with life-threatening complications, there may not be any great choices. >> reporter: abc news heard from two dozen experts and all but three of them disagreed, including the ethicist art caplan. if you are a child who was morbidly obese and there was a risk your life was going to be drastically shortened, wouldn't you want somebody to come and save you and rescue you? >> i'd say, you can't get someone in my house and make this a safe place for me? can't you help my parents? >> reporter: in fact, that is exactly what dr. ludwig proposes. that before removing an obese child from h

prince harry, age 16, was one of the many to be exposed. then there was david beckham.sed as an adulterer when they uncovered the secret affair he was having with his personal assistant. in 2005, the paper published a seemingly mundane story about prince william injuring his knee. it was another exclusive for the "news of the world" that made its reputation getting scoops. royal officials realized, that the story could only have been sought by the illegal interception of prince william's mobile phone voicemail. right there began the chain of events, allegations and scandals, that enveloped members of the royal family, celebrities, politicians, and now, murder and bomb victims. richard quest, cnn, london. >> it will print its final issue tomorrow. >>> the final film in the harry potter series "harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2" premiered in london. that doesn't mean fans will have to go without a hogwarts fix. we'll show you options out there. filmmakers have released fun facts. what do you think the largest animal ever brought on the harry potter set was? i'll

david mccollough. one of the world's most decorated historians, having won two pulitzer prizes for his biographies of harryohn adams. welcome. >> thank you very much. >> we have in the white house a president who clearly is interested in history, a writer himself. how do you think about him? >> i admire him very much, and i think that his time in office presented him with problems such as very few presidents have ever had to address. and given the complexity and the gravity of those problems, i think he's handled himself very well. my hat goes off to him, my heart goes out to him. who could possibly do that job? no human being is sufficient for that role. it's beyond human capacity. we all ought to want to help him. we all want to help everybody in elected office to do the job the way it ought to be done, to live up to the responsibility. in the old house of representatives chamber in the capitol, what's now statuary hall, there's a figure of cleo the goddess of history. she's riding in her chariot. on the side of the chariot is a clock, put there way back in the 1830s or earlier. still runs perfectly. she

david gergen. say it passes in the house and it goes to the senate. what are harry reid's options there? >> they're trying to figure that out right now. look, it's not going to pass the senate. but john boehner then has another decision to make. he quashed this revolt on the right. but if this measure goes to the senate and it doesn't pass, then there's another question if they go the legislative route this way. there's another question which is, can he possibly compromise and bring his troops along with him, or is he going to have to compromise and understand that in order to get something through the house he's now going to have to start looking for democratic votes? because once you start compromising with harry reid, you may just lose a lot of those tea party republicans and you're going to have to get some democrats in line to vote for this. so the whole dynamic really changes, anderson, once this passes the house tomorrow if it does as expected. >> and you're getting late details from your source on what's going on behind the scenes in negotiations. >> you know, there's an outside

the big question mark, what does harry reid do once the bill reaches the senate. with me white house senior adviser david plouffe. nice to see you. let me start with any -- let me start with this. the president's veto threat when it comes to the boehner plan specific to the boehner plan, is it clear that the president is going to -- he wants to veto any process that doesn't raise this debt ceiling past 2012, is that really the veto threat here that is the line in the sand for the white house? >> well, let me explain why that's important, chuck. what the house republican plan would do is have this whole debt ceiling spectacle, three-ring circus the president talked about monday, repeated again a few months from now over the holidays. you know, the debt ceiling debate would ruin christmas. it makes no sense. it's harming our economy now. you would have this hanging over the country at one of the most economically important periods of our country around the holiday season. that makes no sense. what we need to do over the next few days -- listen, the reid plan has twice the deficit reduction as the boehner p

harry reid says it's a wakeup call. >> we have just a few hours, maybe just a few days to work this out. >> reporter: there has been some chatter about moving the talks to camp david to create a relaxed and private environment to try to break this deadlock. that never gained any traction and my source tells me that the next time they will hold these talks will possibly, possibly be during the weekend. brian? >> kristen welker starting us off at the white house. kristen, thanks. >>> and now again, this deadline is august 2. it's been called the unthinkable, most people think they will somehow hammer out a deal, preventing the government from defaulting on its obligations, but it doesn't hurt to ask at this point, what if they don't? nbc's tom costello is with us from our d.c. newsroom tonight. tom, good evening. >> most financial analysts and economists are in agreement on this issue that if the u.s. were to default on its debt, the fragile economic recovery now underway could be seriously threatened. >> reporter: if the country needed another warning about the risks of not raising the debt ceiling, the nation's top banker today used very simple and direct language