but thanks to four years of relentless reporting, david mariness has cost it in a whole new light. >> what obsessed me were two things to start with -- the world that made him. sort of the randomness of his existence, and the ability to write about the whole world through that story. and then how he remade himself. >> a conversation about his book on the president. i'm hurd kurt-- i'm howard kurt and this is "reliable sources." >>> i am starting to get the distinct impression that rules package isn-- that rupert murdo isn't a huge fan of mitt romney. mitt romney last week, tough o chicago pros will be hard to beat unless he drops old friends and hires real pros, doubtful. i'm sure it was a coincidence, but days later, the "wall street journal" which is owned by murdoch, spanked romney in an editorial saying the republican nominee is slowly squandering a historic opportunity to beat barack obama and letting the president paint hip as an out-of-touch rich man. other conservative pundits are piling on. >> the romney campaign squandering a big, fat gift. over the past week, the campaign h

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but thanks to four years of relentless reporting, david mariness has cost it in a whole new light. >>hings to start with -- the world that made him. sort of the randomness of his existence, and the ability to write about the whole world through that story. and then how he remade himself. >> a conversation about his book on the president. i'm hurd kurt-- i'm howard kurt and this is "reliable sources."

. >> next to chip is david mariness. now associate editor at the washington post, co-author of two books and author of the book, president barack obama, the story. and next to david is tim wendelly, author of nine books, including his most recent, summer of 68, the season when baseball in america changed forever. tonight's author, tim gay, is a former press secretary for senator jay rock feller and former congressmon, now senator, tomorrow carpin. he had unparalleled access to the papers and families of the five profiles in the book. he is current lay senior vice president at a washington government and public affairs firm. this is his third book. also the author of true speaker, the rough and tumble life of a baseball legend, and a saga about interracial baseball. the speakers will discuss the book and then we'll take questions from the audience for 20 minutes and then tim will sign copies of the book and i'll turn the panel over to tim. >> thank you. >> thank you, larry. much appreciated. it does this irish heart good t

. >> muriel bowser, david catania and mary cheh are all calling on mayor vincent gray to step down. this is after the revelation that more than $650,000 in e legal funds top elected and. >> when you have a $1.2 million reported campaign, you cannot miss the infusion of $600,000. >> i get up in the morning every day and i see somebody i respect. >> at a news conference, gray said he has no plans to resign. he said he could not answer all questions, but he did say this. >> this is not the campaign we intended to run. >> regardless of whether or not he knew, his campaign it -- did it. for him to say this is not the campaign we wanted to run, that does not cut it. >> some say the city has had the of scandal, and gray should save the city more. >> if you love this city, you'll do the right thing for the city. >> as of now most council members are not calling on him to quit, including former mayor marion barry. >> this matter is under federal investigation. it would be improper for me to say anything about any aspect. >> the council chairman phil mendelson is not calling on gray to resign

this morning, david maris addressing the birth certificate and also his religious upbringing, called audacity of doubt, conspiracy theorists about obama heed neither facts nor reason. guest: look, the facts are clear. it's really sort of silly when we get to talking about this question of citizenship when there's no doubt, every respected media outlet and frankly, every respected republican, agrees about this citizenship question. so the american public understands it. it's small fringe groups that has any questions at all about it. upfortly, some of them are republic candidates for congress. but by in large, there's no question about this and it's not a legitimate topic. host: steve on the democratic line, perrysville, indiana. caller: the republicans don't have anything. mitt romney, if he gets in this country will be in so much trouble, it's not funny, because he's going to be george bush times three or four. and the president has been doing his job. the house and senate are what is obstructing him with the filibusters in the senate and the house won't vote anything that's for the

council member david cantania and mary cheh here in our studios in the last hour called on the mayor to step down. let's first hear from cantania and then council member cheh. >> if i were vince gray, i would handled today differently. i would said regardless of whether or not i knew anything and i didn't, such a cloud has been placed over my government and my legitimacy as mayor that i believe it's in the best interest to end this distraction and i will resign effective tomorrow noon. that's what he should have done. but is he going to do it? no, it appears he's going to dig in. >> what did you know? how can you plausibly claim you didn't know. and if you didn't know, that's kind of damning of itself, isn't it? that people were acting in your name engaging in such fraud and you looked away? so i can't tell you how painful this is for me, but i do think as a matter of restoring the faith of the people of the city in the district, that this is what we have to do. >> you'll remember cantania told fox 5 the night chairman kwame brawn resigned from office that it was time for the mayor t

>> it's not a good david catania has been critical of the mayor, but mary cheh is a bit of a surprise? >> yes. she brother where her ward, war 3, she endorsed mayor gray, and she has been worried ever since this has happened. so for her to speak out was significant. >> i understand the mayor had a meeting are his staff this afternoon? >> that's right. doreen and jim, the mayor called in some of the key leaders, some of the deputy mayors, in which he said he's innocent, he's not resigning action and he told them to focus on the job, don't focus on this other stuff. it's important, because the mayor won't say i'm innocent publicly. his lawyer tells him not to speak publicly, but saying that privately, it sounds like he's trying to dig in his heels. >>> a man charged with igk killing his estranged wife and her 11-year-old son wants a judge to throw out some of the evidence. he wants hi cell phone records to be barred. he's charged in their deaths, their bodies were found about six days apart last october. the court hearing is scheduled for next week in montgomery county. >>> a potential

this morning, david mari navment s addressing the birth certificate and also his religious upbringing, called the audacity of doubt, conspiracy theorists about obama heed neither facts nor reason. guest: look, the facts are clear. it's really sort of silly when we get to talking about this question of citizenship when there's no doubt, every respected media outlet and frankly, every respected republican, agrees about this citizenship question. so the american public understands it. it's small fringe groups that has any questions at all about it. upfortly, some of them are republican candidates for congress. but by in large, there's no question about this and it's not a legitimate topic. host: steve on the democratic line, perriesville, indiana. caller: the republicans don't have anything. mitt romney, if he gets in this country will be in so much trouble, it's not funny, because he's going to be george bush times three or four. and the president has been doing his job. the house and senate are what is obstructing him with the filibusters in the senate and the house won't vote anything

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council members david catania, muriel bowser and mary cheh publicly called on him to step down saying it would be best for the city. the mayor still isn't speaking freely citing the ongoing investigation. he did say he governor knew about the illegal fundraising or that shadow campaign taking place behind the scenes. tuesday, long-time friend and campaign consultant jeannie clarke harris pleaded guilty to helping fund el more than $650,000 in secret don't is as, the money used for campaign staffer and yard signs arc all all it was off the books. scandal races doubts whether b. whether vincent gray should have ever taken office. >> his ledge its massey as mayor is finished. >> the ledge its massive his service is now deeply -- the legitimacy as mayor is finished. >> the legitimacy of his service is now deeply compromised. >> reporter: the mayor says he nor his administration are corrupt. we do understand that mayor gray had a conversation in his office with council chairman phil mendelsohn and shortly after that, mendelsohn issued a statement saying that calls for the mayor's resignati

bipartisan moment is about the blue dots, but on the other hand i'm represented in louisiana by david and mary lot of disagreements but i would vermont rather have her in that position. >> the bills that have passed, the monumental legislation passed under president obama were not bipartisan. the stimulus was not bipartisan. the health care bill got no republican votes so it is very different than it was. i don't think we have ever passed that type of legislation, that significant monumental life-changing legislation in a unified way like that. >> so do you blame the guys run over, so to speak, for saying, bringing it up 33 times? uh-huh. that's what we were trying to say before. so they felt like they got sold a bill of goods and what happens? the congress gets turned over. so this is the environment that we live in now. >> but i wonder about that because i'm wondering therefore if we are not misidentifying what counts as moderate. yes, it passed only with democratic support but it was a bill that was basically what republicans wanted in the 1990s. >> it was from the heritage foundation and i

we can't have that anymore. >> reporter: council members mary cheh, muriel bowser and david cantania causing for his resignation. a spokesperson for the mayor says this is the kind of irresponsible talk we've come to expect from council member cantania. cheh says this is not about the law. this is simply about what's best for the district of columbia residents. it is all the talk on twitter this morning. the noise for his resignation is getting louder and louder. the last tweet i read was from a constituent anna greenberg and she said it's time to rip the band aid off. we'll see what happens if here. >> here we go. we'll be following this all day. thanks, delia live outside the wilson building this morning. >>> we did some research and found out the city council isn't simply censure a mayor for his actions. it can only censure other members of the council for actions they may have done. >>> later today penn state is expected to release the findings of its internal investigation into the jerry sandusky sex abuse scandal. the report is expected to shed light on how late head football c

they include david catania as well as mary cheh and muriel bowser.side of things, several council members, however, caution against jumping to conclusions. they include jack evans, marion barry and chairman phil mendelson. mendelson said that they would not call for the mayor to step down. >> i'm concerned that calls for the resignation of an elected official or the mayor at this point are destabilizing to the government. we're going through a lot of turmoil and i understand and i respect that citizens want their government to be honest and a government that they can rely on. >> that leaves six members who have not taken sides, and no doubt, a lot of questions still left to be answered. >> angie, thank you. and this is not what we signed up for. that's what two senior advisers for gray's campaign are saying this morning in an op ed in "the washington post." mo elafi and steve mcmahon are democratic strategists who say they knew nothing about the shadow campaign and neither did most of the campaign's senior leadership. they write in part "gray's messa

they include david catania as well as mary cheh and muriel bowser.he other side of things, several council members, however, also caution against jumping to conclusions. they include jack evans, marion barry and chairman phil mendelson. mendelson said that they would not call for the mayor to step down. >> i'm concerned that calls for the resignation of an elected official or the mayor at this point are destabilizing to the government. we're going through a lot of turmoil, and i understand and i respect that citizens want their government to be honest and a government that they can rely on. >> that leaves six members who have not taken sides. and no doubt, a lot of questions still left, eun, to be answered. >>> two senior advisers for gray's campaign are coming to his defense this morning. in an op ed in "the washington post," mo elapi and steven mcmahon are democratic strategists who say they knew nothing about the shadow campaign and neither did most of the campaign's senior leadership. they write in part, "gray's message and our campaign were abou

mary. another he signs, with all my love, david.y's life which reads, life has definitely gotten more complicated. i want to be with you but can't change this mess any time soon. why not divorce? because a prenup prevented either from getting money if they parted ways. but swain saw another way. >> under the will, if she died, he'd benefitted from her entire estate. >> in fact, with shelley gone, david would get the dive shop, the money, and the girl. just two months after his wife's death, he and mary basler started dating. >> in fact, they became a couple following shelley tyre's death? >> yes, they did, for about a year and a bit and then she broke it off. >> lastly, williams also brought to the stand a trio of witnesses critical to the prosecution's case. christian, who said swain hardly attempted cpr on shelley even though cpr training mandates never stop until help arrives. >> by all accounts, there was brief cpr. >> brief meaning a few minutes? >> a few minutes. >> keith royal testified when he pulled his boat up to the carib

mary. whose husband, joseph, was of the lineage of david. and this according to the writers of those two gospels was in fulfillment of the hebrew prophesies. so despite very clear and seemingly troubling contradictions in some of the details the more important thing is, i think, the points on which they disagree. >> on the physical -- on the physical details was it an inn or was it a two-story house? >> an inn or a two-story house. that's an interesting question. there certainly is a theory now that it was a two-story house. that the word that is oftentimes translated "inn" is a word that really should be translated "house" and that the couple were not turned away by a mean, old innkeeper but rather were let into the guest room of a typical two-story palestinian house. >> or was it the guest room was filled and they were told that they could rest with and sleep with the animals who were, where downstairs? >> the first story, the first floor is typically a place where the animals were kept. consequently, there would be a manger there. >> paul

council member david catania, muriel bowser, but it was mary cheh, a long time supporter whose commented appeared to bother gray the most. >> i am going to join council member catania in asking the mayor to resign. >> yeah, i was very surprised at that. >> reporter: these calls for resignation came after jeanne clarke harris, a close friend of mayor gray's, admitted in court this week to helping run a shadow campaign, over a half million dollars to help gray beat former mayor adrian fenty. meanwhile gray spent wednesday evening trying to shore up support on the council. >> these are people i've worked with. >> reporter: first calling chairman mendelson to his office and then other council members on the phone. >> he called me to discuss the situation. >> reporter: council member jim graham told the mayor the situation is urgent and urged him to answer questions about illegal activity within his campaign immediately. >> what type of time frame are you giving him? >> it's got to be within a matter of a couple days. then i'm going to have to evaluate how i feel about this. >> reporter: but

>> where's been going after them the last 24 hours or so and mary chay, he was disappointed with her and thought she was his supporter, david katania, not surprised at all. today, he mentioned murrual bowser and said he believed the reason she called on him to resign is she wants to run for mayor. bowser was asked the other night if she does and she avoided the question saying she wants the city to move in the right direction. >> matt, you have been following the mayor for awhile. especially since this whole controversy broke. are you getting any sense he's going to talk at all? answering questions about the latest scandal? >> i get a sense he wants to talk. the mayor has been up front and he likes to talk. i get the impression the attorney told him to shut up on and not to say anything at all. people surrounding the mayor hope that that u.s. attorney will get done with the investigation, will come up with some kind of a resolutions and so the city can now o. so, from what i am being told, the mayor wants to talk about this. he wants to move on but his attorney is simply not allowing him to do so. >> matt ackland with new i

>>> i'm david gregory and this is "press pass," your all-access pass to an extra "meet the press" conversation. this week, i'm talking to anne-marie slaughter. a state department official, professor now at a princeton university. where she was once the dean of the woodrow wilson school. she has written an aert kel for "the atlantic" about whether women can have it all. it kick off a national debate this summer and is still getting people talking and is here to continue the conversation this morning. great to have you. >> it's a pleasure. >> here we are? the news this week, perhaps the best rebuttal to your piece about women can quote-unquote have it all. we can define what that means. but you have it googled, marissa mayer, who has left google to become the ceo of yahoo, and here she is getting on a track that in your mind is very difficult to achieve success. >> it's very difficult and applaud her, any more women who make it to the top, i want more women at the top. i think she confirms what i was saying. i say women who are superhuman, rich, and in charge of their own time, can do it. it's just that that's kind of a very high ba

. >> joining me now, david corn, the washington bureau chief for mother jones and an msnbc political analyst and ana marieent for guardian u.s. ana marie, you may have figured out that that is my favorite, favorite rick santorum clip ever. >> it's a good one! >> i can't remember a candidate, a major party candidate within a major party primary actually saying that the front-runner in his field, in his part, was the single worst, in the country, of any republican, anywhere, and today, at least the democrats tried to use mitt romney in every way they could to help frame that so-called health care debate in the house of representatives. but this is -- this is one of the strains now between the house of representatives and mitt romney. it seems mitt romney would love the house of representatives to just drop this kind of voting so the discussion of romney care could stop right now. >> well, he's not the only one who would like them to drop it. the american people would like them to drop it. polls are showing that everyone who is not a committed republican or leaning republican would really like congress to ju

now you heard from david can a tanya there the other two council members that want the mayor to step down, maryorning "the washington post" is reporting the mayor did know about the scam and in fact held a meeting about it here at the wilson building earlier this year and he reminded reporters if you will that he's the one who called for an investigation of his campaign last we're year. reporting live at the wilson building john gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> thank you. at 9:00 a.m. this morning we're expecting answers to pressing questions. an internal report being released today could answer who knew what and when? jerry sand dusky's case. brianne carter has more. >> many waited to see exactly what this independent investigation would reveal. back in november when abuse allegations began growing about gerry sandusky, penn state trustees hired an f.b.i. person to look into the case. the late head coach admitted to learning about an incident in 2001 involving sandusky and a boy in the shower, but he didn't tell police. he reportedly got that information from former grad assistant, mike mcqueary. that

mary jay. supposed to be a constitutional law professor. shame on you, davidwith the prestigious local law firm. >> reporter: federal prosecutors in court have laid out a $650,000 shadow campaign that helped elect gray in 2010. but gray has not been charged, despite media reports of possible charges soon. no elected leaders attended the rally in the blazing sun, but former councilmember harold brazil said he wanted to show up to show support for due process. >> there should be a counter balance. there are a number of people in this city that say give this man a chance. >> mayor gray wasn't at the rally but he told us yesterday he appreciates all the support. wendy. >> all right, tom sherwood, thanks, tom. >>> right now this northern virginia man is behind bars without bond accused of stabbing his wife to death. it happened yesterday at their home on old triangle road. derrick wilson called police to report that his wife stabbed herself. the wife was taken to the hospital where she later died. investigators found out it was not a suicide and police say wilson s

. >> same on you, mary jane, supposed to be a constitutional law professor. shame on you, david prestigious local law firm. >>> federal prosecutors in court have laid out a $650,000 shadow campaign that helped elect gray in 2010, but gray has not been charged despite media reports of possible charges soon. no elected leaders attended the rally in the blazing sun, but former councilmember harold brazil said he wanted to show up to show support for due process. >> there should be a counterbalance. there are a number of people in this city that say give this man a chance. >> mayor gray was not at the rally today. he told us yesterday he appreciates the support. jim, tonight the "washington post" is coming out with a new poll and early numbers say 45% of the people think the city is moving in the wrong direction. >> that's not good news. >> not good. the mayor will be answering questions about that poll tomorrow. >> thank you, tom. >>> police identified the man killed in last night's freak accident on georgetown pike. they say 64-year-old albert roth iii died instantly when a massiv

mary at wjz with incredible pictures of damage sent by viewers. >> yeah, lots of viewers are sending in photos of damage in their neighbourhoods. viewer david block sent this in from skyline road, towel son, a huge tree on top of the wires, he wrote us this morning said it is still like that as they continue to call bge. debbie in cumberland, tree crashing down on one room cabin used by george washington during the revolutionary war. >> huge tree toppled on to a house, so much damage there, they say they lost so much in that house, and the whole neighbourhood and that area, thanks to all the viewer who is sent those in helps us get a feel how widespread the storm was. if you want to send a photo, just come here to wjz.com click on the link at the top of our home page back to you vic. >>> thank you stay with wjz for first warning weather coverage, the latest on damage, repairoutage numbers, log on to wjz.com. >>> in another day of extreme heat across maryland, wjz has weather and traffic together bob is here with updated numbers, bob. >> more 90s today, but the break today was from humidity we didn't have the humidity, we had last week which

mary matalin still going strong until the end. they'll be on the show in a couple of weeks. >>> that's all for us tonight. check out "world news" with davidr tonight. and thank you for sharing part of your sunday with us. and have a fantastic fourth.

mary chay, a longtime supporter, whose commented appears to to bother him more. >> i am going to ask the mayor to resign. >> i was. i am surprised with that. david catannia, i'm not surprised at that. >> reporter: the call for the resignation came after jeannie clark harris, a close friend of mayor gray's admitted in court this week to helping run a shadow campaign. over a half million to help gray beat fenty. meanwhile, gray spent wednesday evening trying to shore up support on the council. >> and these are people i worked w. >> reporter: first calling chairman mendelson to the office and others on the phone. >> he called me to discuss the situation. >> reporter: council member jim graham told the mayor that the situation is urgent and urged him to answer questions of illegal activity. >> and what type of timeframe are you giving him in. >> has to be within a couple of days. >> and you will ask for -- . >> i will then have to evaluate how i feel about this. >> reporter: will the mayor do what many people have been asking? explain what he knows about illegal activity carried out by thomas gore, howard brookes and jeannie harris. at this point, i

mary poppins, lots of them. other well known faces like author j.k. rowling popped up throughout the night. comedian rowan atkinson joined the london symphony ark stra. -- orchestra. soccer star davidraveled by boat with the olympic torch. muhammed ali took part in the olympic flag bearing ceremony. ♪ hey jude >> reporter: sir paul mccartney ended the evening singing the beatles classic "hey jude." there were other stars as well, the athletes, including our own team usa cheered on by first lady michelle obama. and, of course, the olympic flame, lit by members of britain's next generation of athletes. it was a night full of powerful sounds and images, a all of which signalled that the games had begun. there is another person in the opening ceremony getting a lot of attention. a woman wearing a red shirt and blue pants marching alongside india's flag bearer. the only problem, she wasn't part of the delegation. the crasher is believed to be a volunteer from an earlier part of the ceremony. organizers say the woman was never a security threat. but indian officials are demanding an investigation. >> i guess she got caught up in the spirit. >> she did, for sure. very good and windy here.

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