and my advisor, matthew dowd >> stephen: welcome back everybody. my guest tonight the former democratic governor of the louisiana who is now a republican candidate for president, i better get to the interview table before he becomes a federalist. please welcome buddy roemer. (cheers and applause) governor, good to see you, please, sit down. >> a federalist, huh. >> stephen: well, i don't know. you were a democrat then you became a republican. >> i can see like lincoln, a wig, dinner republican. you have to be flexible, steve. >> stephen: all right, speaking of flexible we have a couple issues to deal with before we start the interview. >> all right. >> stephen: i have a federal superpac. and my lawyer trevor potter who turns out is also your lawyer trevor potter has warned us that i can in no way coordinate with you. i can't discuss your campaign plans prorx swrekts, activities or feeds so no one can accuse us of working together. i may be a high priced call girl but i'm not offering my services. got it? >> the deeper the plot the more he lash rate

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jay dowd reports. >>> nfl owners approved a tentative deal to end the lockout that began in march. now the players have to vote. >> it's time to get back to football. that is what everybody here has to do. >> the new agreement settled several issues, including how owners and players will split $9 billion in annual league profits. it also resolves disagreements about the salary cap, rookie pay, and retirement benefits. >> at the end of the day, we were able to compromise, both sides, on a lot of different positions and that's why we're able to stand here today. >> reporter: but before the players could formally accept the collective bargaining agreement, they have to establish their union. that could take time. >> every time an employee makes that decision about whether he wants to be a part of a union, it's something that's serious, significant, and should be done in a very sober way. >> reporter: it's going to take a lot of work to get the league back up and running. teams still have to sign rookies and free agents to fill their rosters. fans just want to see players back on the f

support the war or if you don't support it need to keep your mouth shut about it yeah don't need it dowd just get be quiet if you can't. support it like it be quiet and a message from the president of the united states george w. bush good morning the generals are trying to divide americans break our will and we must not go in other just succeed we will defeat the jurors everywhere they may go straight in and we will leave a more hopeful world for our children and our grandchildren are going wrong a clear unchanging our goal is victory. veterans for peace a chance to win eighteen salt lake city and peace justice organization we basically . work with all soldiers and all veterans to bring about peace some of us all even actually march with him all the way today. and this one guy who has it down or protested he was is an army ranger. it started out pretty tense and actually if you guys got it right it's you know what this is a u.s. ranger man telling us it would seem to say look we're not. going to. go the country. but he can't walk that's too is credit so. you're not for reading and writin

. >> we were also joined by the donald, "the new york times" maureen dowd, brian williams got out ofed for us, if you can imagine that, and bill maher, if you can imagine that. not a bad way to start the show. let's huddle around the water cooler as we talk with a viewer who's been with us from the very beginning, e-mailed her thoughts in these wee hours of the morning and a viewer who's a good friend, ms. gayle king is on the phone in her pajamas. gayle, good morning. >> happy anniversary to you, willie geist. actually i just got out of the tub. i'm ready to go. >> you've got your robe on? i don't want to get too personal here. >> willie, it's a big bath sheet, but this is the thing about your show. there's no other show on tv that would start with luke russert quoting biggy and puffy in the morning, nobody else can do that. >> nobody else can pull that off. luke russert with his confirmation photo talking about biggy small. >> i know. i loved it. >> gayle, you've been so great. i wanted to brick you on because you've been there from the beginning, e-mailing me about the show. what

with regards to leave here both russia and the us have the view that colonel could up the dowd and that leaves should be able to choose their future leader it's the path towards those aims that moscow and washington disagree on the world russia criticizes the scope of the into the foreign intervention in libya moscow sees the actions of the allied forces the forces there as a violation of the un mandate minister lavrov said the resolution is being wrongly interpreted as anyone can do whatever they want for minister laugh it off was also asked about why russia is blocking a u. and they should have to condemn the syrian president assad he said the attitude of the west is exclusively about exerting pressure on one of the parties namely the syrian government and present our side of moscow sees it as sees it as the wrong attitude russia says it says the wrong message to the syrian opposition party them to believe that if they were the main insistent in the situation kids getting critical of the west will come to help them the way it is happening in libya mr lavrov said it's unacceptable that

. >> reporter: it is not a proud moment for american politics, as abc news analyst, matthew dowd, who has consulted both republicans and democrats and now sees votering looking for a solution and, instead, seeing incompetence. >> basically, the country thinks, washington has become a cesspool of dysfunction. and there seems to be a great inability of anybody to sit down in a room and solve the problems. >> reporter: americans are paying attention, and seem to know what's at stake. a just released gallup poll asked, why do you want this solved? the top three reasons were avoiding economic catastrophe, avoid default on dead and because we have no choice. and few we heard from today felt it's a problem too big to fix. >> make it happen. you are going to effect americans. bread and butter americans. >> reporter: a plea from americans to put aside the politics and find a way to pay the bills, before the nation is publicly humiliated, as a country that just doesn't work. >> all right, jim, thank you. and this afternoon, as you know, the meeting lasted one hour and 19 minutes. so, was anythi

second one i was shocked the republic of dagestan late at night it was a roadside bomb two policemen dowd's in three others one said now it is the bomb detonated when the patrol car was driving through the city of car speeds which is situated in the republic of dagestan now the explosion was a quick like quibbling two four kilograms also t.n.t. and these two blasts happened in the wake of the recent and. tower rate now was a launched in the republic of dagestan two days ago since the start of of this yeah there has been a number off and tourist it's not full on tea towel raids and according to russia's in terra ministry the number of terrorist attacks declined since the start off in two thousand and eleven compounded to the same period as the year before but still i just find this number as this is a big number of anti terror raids and the fact that dozens of terrorists were killed this is the start of this yeah still the potential terrorist threats remains high in the region and there are two regions where gangs mostly out here for these are the bugs in of all time a republic and the repub

matthew dowd, former strategist for george w. bush and abc correspondent, jonathan karl. you heard what we plpled from mitch mcconnell. do you take his warning? is it bad for the republicans right now? >> i do. i think the president would like -- let's go back, for months, he has clear and emphatic on what he wanted, a clean lifting on the ceiling which is no restraint on the spending merry-go-round. now he wants $4 trillion in dedecit reduction. what he would do is have the republicans sign on to tax increases which demoralizes the republican base and fractures the party and enable him to run as a born-again deficit producer. my feeling the house will have its say and the sesete will reject it. the senate has its say and house rejects it and the last standing will be mcconnell-reed, something like that will be passed. >> let me go straight you to. you said you would not vote toto raise the debt ceiling under any circumstances. you heard what senator kyl said, there will not be a default. are you willing to push it that far? >> i never said i would not raise it under any

he was facing a pile of citations for repairs he dowd don't.red to help by providing free home repairs to veteran home owners. volunteers said they were more than happy to give back to a man that served the country. >> i couldn't believe it. they are doing a fine job. an excellent job. and i don't know h

he's put ideological reporters and editors in their places and now what you have, you have maureen dowdjust bashing the catholic church in her spare time. and you have, again, this jill abramson coming on as executive editor who is by all reports and by her own track record a very liberal activist. if you look at salsberger yourself, all you need to too go back to his speech a couple of years ago where he was just histronic in telling the graduates, you poor children, we grown-ups are supposed to be leaving you a world not riddled with global warming and war and dissemination. it's playing out in "the times." >> what you mentioned earlier about the catholics, apparently "the new york times" has a problem with catholics. here's timothy dolan says the common casual way that "the new york times" offends catholic sensitivity is something they wouldn't do rightly so so the jewish, black and gay communities. >> that's right. if you look at the "new york times" track record, they are more eager to publish national secrets than they are, for example, to republish the danish cartoons making fun