this is bob dylan's boy, jakob dylan. i want to phrase this differently. and contrast for me what it was like when you were first getting started, with all of these bob dylan questions, to your comfort or discomfort, you tell me, at age of 40 with the bob dylan comparisons? can you compare it then and now? >> it is a good comparison that any singer-songwriter would not mind. it was different starting out younger. i was not that comfortable, only because there was not a lot of material to talk about. when i was starting out, a lot of people were aware of the back story was going to take precedent. i was always aware of that and i never had great issue with it. i never felt it was anything to prove. i never suggested, i think ever, that people look at me and my own context. you cannot really -- he did not think of a tight rope walker and think of the circus. you cannot think of cattle and not think of farmland. i know it is nearly impossible to think of me without the backdrop behind it. for the most part, it has never been that big an issue. i always knew i

i'm dylan ratigan.s "hardball" with chris matthews right now. >>> senator gordon gecko, let's play "hardball." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in new york. leading off tonight, the public interest versus a wall street mouthpiece, what are the republicans really saying about wall street reform? just as mitch mcconnell seemed to dial back the rhetoric that the democrat bill is nothing more than a recipe for end also bank bailouts, house minority leader, john boehner dialled it right back up. we'll try to get to the bottom of the debate with real english and what the bill actually does right at the top of the show. also, republican purge, arlen specter is out, john mccain, charlie crist and robert bennett is all being threatened on the right. is this any way to run a party or run it into the ground. >>> next, where's the credit. the top two leader of al qaeda were killed over the weekend. does president obama get enough credit for being tough on terrorism? that's my question for former counterterroris

>> well, i don't know, dylan. report years ago, and we did a study on safe and profitable mines. and what we found out was that the most profitable mines in the united states were the most productive mines and they were the safest mines and those were energy west out west. formally utah power and light. some console mines and an ohio valley -- and a mine that's now closed in ohio. but -- because they ran out of coal reserves. but you know basically your theory is not really true. it doesn't hold up. that you've got workers comp goes up, insurance goes up, you've got legal fees. i mean i'm surprised that the stockholders aren't screaming about this. i mean, why is massey paying all of these penalties? that's right. because these profits could go into the stockholder's pocketings and they're not. they're going to pay civil penalties to the government or criminal fines and sanctions. so it really does surprise me that the stockholders themselves are not holding the directors more responsible as well. >> yeah at the e

all of a sudden, his spotter mike dylan says use more brake and charge the corners. >> larry: 20 laps to go. and i just don't know about dylan's advice sometimes. [ laughter ] >> darrell: use more brake and charge the corner. >> larry you have to know mike to know that. >> mike: he's a former driver. >> darrell: that's what he would do. >> mike: that's why he is a former driver. >> there you go, nice and smooth. >> darrell: that is him there. full of good news. >> mike: kyle busch has led twice as many laps tonight as he has led so far in this entire season coming in to phoenix. >> larry: we talked about it earlier, only one top ten finish this year, came in here outside the top 12 in points. >> the guys watch he drive by them, why don't they come get me? >> because you're kyle busch. [ laughter ] >> mike: toyota has never gone to victory lane at phoenix since we started racing here in 1988. they weren't part of the series then but they are still looking for their first victory in the desert. >> larry: his teammate right now joey logano well inside the top ten. back in seventh positio

dylan ratigan, we'll be watching.ork city mayor michael bloomberg says he was out of the loop and no one told him the president was coming to new york tomorrow. he said he learned about the visit from some blogs and seemed upset he wasn't told. he suggested the real worry for new yorkers should be rebuilding new york's financial sector. >>> a group of retired military officers say america's youth are so overweight that they would not qualify for military service. according to their study, approximately 9 million young people are too obese to serve their country. that now has military leaders calling for schools to clean up their cafeterias with healthier, leaner food. here with me now is current secretary of agriculture, tom vilsack. thank you for joining us. >> happy to be with you today. >> how are school lunches now a national security threat? >> well, mission readyness, 130 retired generals and admirables put a wake-up call today by suggesting that there are too few youngsters fit for military service in part beca

let's bring in msnbc dylan ratigan, host of the dylan ratigan show.fect guest for this segment. i'm going to start by what both of us have talked about, a lot of great, smart people work at goldman sachs, whoever sent these, this is disgusting. how damaging is it? >> here is the big question. it's not about the banks. it's not about the reform. the question, monica, will our government give the american people, the unemployed, the underwater in their homes, the retirees deprived of their pensions to this day an appropriate investigation into the e-mail trail that is the banking system over the past 10 yea years. all i can conclude from these e-mails is what goldman sachs says in public is not always what they are saying in private. i know there is meaningful inconsistency in the public representations of bank executives. what is being said privately by those same executives or associates of those executives. i know the american taxpayer has delivered and continues to deliver trillions of dollars in support to these institutions. i know the treasury de

>> hey, dylan.hat was not in the speech was probably more news worthy and noteworthy and disappointsing than what was in the president's speech. i didn't get to hear all of it. but the fact that the president really didn't address the issue of too big to fail, which is really at the core here, whether we're going to make permanent the bailout policies of the t.a.r.p. whether we're going to create this implicit guarantee of certain organizations that are too big to fail. and also i just have to tell you, the fact that the president has not spoken at all about gse reform, fanny mae and freddie mac, at the core of the housing financial crisis recently. i think it's very disappointing. but beyond that, there is some word on capitol hill, some movement on capitol hill, and you know, i hope that the rumblings that we're hearing that there may be a willingness, not only to abandon the bailout fund, the $50 billion fund, but even consider abandoning some of the bailout authority in the bill. it might, it mi

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already smirking, dylan ratigan, host of dylan ratigan show on msnbc, is this another example of how the white house or the people in the beltway are in some ways tied to wall street, the people they're tight ifight >> i mean, yes. i think the only people that don't understand that at this point are the people in washington who take the money from the bankers and then make it legal for the bankers to gamble wildly with other people's money and then use the tax money to pay them off. i think everybody else in this country understands that. i think that the biggest issue right now that needs to be addressed is the investigation that we have not yet been given. we have control over those aig e-mails. we own 80% of that company. the treasury department controls that group. there are five trustees that work for our treasury secretary. we don't need a subpoena. you don't need a court order. you just need a decision from the president and from the treasury secretary to reveal to the american people all of the e-mail traffic between aig and goldman sachs so that we can actually see how much

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there will be hundreds of university press books on bob dylan. when your very close to it, is more like something you would read in the tabloids. there is a lot of serious work doing -- being done on marlon brando's acting. and the warhol, for example, there are now museums ports and the warhol. we have a lot of geniuses in our midst in america. we just do not pay that much academic scholarly attention to them because they seem to close bouras. >> are you as interested in pop culture? >> no, i am not as interested. i have great regard. i think that pop culture is a legitimate source of history in the making. it is a mirror that is held up to was. i would be more nostalgic. remember the day that elvis died was the day that journalism changed in america. that evening, famously, walter cronkite did not lead the evening news with the death of elvis presley. i think that the other networks did. cronkite was the only one. a purist that the traditional view that this is not news. clearly the trend cents. >> back then, you had a magic bus that went aroun

i am dylan ratigan, happy friday to you. the democratic party of this country finds itself, yes, at the crossroads, will they fight for real financial reform and resurrect lending in this country? or will they give in to the banks pushing the bogus casino system that leaves the root problems unsolved and all of us destined to bail them out as they extract our money for decades to come. >>> plus in half an hour, arizona's governor reveals whether she'll sign the controversial immigration bill that could jump-start a national debate that we all know is coming on america's relationship with illegal immigrants. >>> plus, a mystery mission to space -- what exactly is the air force doing with the secret x-37 b? show starts right now. >>> well in america today, we find ourselves amid a battle for the soul of our democratic party. the one that is in power in this country. will that party succomb to the influence and money from wall street? or will they actually work for the american people and deliver a bill that fixes the fundament

i am dylan ratigan. we begin today with the great con job.about how wall street and our government were conning us out of our money during the financial meltdown and how they are still conning us out of our money to this day by the trillion. meanwhile, they want to raise taxes and interest rates, right? anyway, plus, news today of a -- from the mideast. can he succeeds where past presidents have failed? and also the debate over celebrating confederate history month. it's happening just steps away from our nation's capitol, and the show starts right now. >>> well, in america today we are getting closer to fully exposing the greatest con and cover-up in this history, it involves our banks, the federal reserve, our congress, and, of course, you and me. first, though, think of the fed as the godfather in this con. >> i'm going to make him an offer you can't refuse. >> the role of "the godfather" played by former

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dylan ratigan, thank you so much. catch the dylan ratigan show weekdays at 4:00 pm eastern on msnbc. it is now 7:19. once again, here is matt. >> ann, thank you. >>> an appeal has been filed against the murder conviction and 26-year prison sentence of american college student amanda knox. keith miller has the details. >> reporter: amanda knox, the 22-year-old student from is going back to court. an appeal for her conviction of murder and violent sexual assault. at almost the same time, the prosecutor in the case announced he will also file an appeal, to increase knox's prison sentence from 26 years to life behind bars. knox's former boyfriend, sentenced to 25 years in prison, is also appealing. the two were convicted by two judges and a six-member jury last year for the killing of kno x's roommate, meredith kucher, an exchange student from england. knox's lawyer says they will introduce new evidence and request an independent review of the forensic evidence. >> in the room where meredith lost her life, there was not o

books about dylan's lyrics and what they mean. but when you're very close to it it seems like something that you read in the tabloids more. you know, an actor like marlon brando, today there's a lot of serious work being done on his method acting. you know, painters who are considered, you know, a sign of frivolous in the 60s somewhat, andy warhol for example. there's now museums towards andy warhol. we have a lot of geniuses in our midst right now in america that we just don't pay that much kind of academic scholarly attention to because they seem too close for us. >> mr. smith -- >> yes, what today is popular culture is tomorrow's history. >> are you as interested in pop culture as -- >> no. no, i'm not as interested. i mean i have -- i have great regard for doug's work and i think he's right, that pop culture is a legitimate, you know, source of history in the making. in many ways it's a mirror in a lot of ways held up to us. i would be, i suppose, more nostalgic in the sense that i was going to say remember the day elvis died

. >> i'm corporal dylan manion. hi to everybody at rick's sports bar., crystal. >> geraldo: he doesn't go to rick's sports barney more, crystal. >> i do. >> geraldo: i got to protect these guys against themselves. tomorrow we will be with the marine air squadrons down in camp leatherneck. i want to thank the third battalion sixth marines. wonderful, wonderful, fighting men and they are doing a complicated mission helping rebuild this nation. thank you on behalf of kimberly also and craig. we'll be back tomorrow. thanks a lot for watching. from camp hansen in afghanistan, we'll see you captioned by closed captioning services, inc. ?(p-p@s

i do think, look, as i heard dylan ratigan say, if jpmorgan chase is going down, we're not going to watchsink. we'll come in and save it and maybe break it apart. >> it doesn't mean it's in the legislation. >>, no it doesn't. and let me say i think the president on the politics of this, no doubt he's in front of us, he's going to win it. he's got the republicans signing up. i thought he handled it well in his speech. it was clear and simple. i don't know the real nitty-gritty of the bill, whether it's going to be good or bad when you geet gete into the regulations and things like that, but clearly the president is on the right road. this is a winner for him. and i think his sort of magnanimousness, if you will, or magnanimity, if you will, is a wise policy thereupon. once you've won the battle there's no reason to start yelling. >> patrick buchanan. >> you've won it. >> you've moderated your whole approach. used to be going off the cliff. >> well, when ronald reagan won a battle, he would say come on over to rostenkowski, let's have a drink, danny. it's all over. >> listen to -- >> are yo

>> i don't even know if it's a benefit to the giant bank, dylan, to be honest to you. but you're absolutely right, it's a benefit to absolutely nobody other. i'm not even sure it's good for the big banks. one of the things reported in the bank of england, they all have the same kind of portfolios, that's very dangerous. >>> thank you, senator ted kaufmann of delaware. >>> senate majority leader harry reid, scheduling a vote. it would clear the way for a full debate of financial reform. we'll have special coverage of that event. and next thursday, we're taking this show downtown, broadcasting live from the march on wall street at city hall. that next week. that will do it for today. "hardball" up right now. >>> nasty business, let's play "hardball." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. leading off tonight, going negative. senator arlen specter has attacked democratic congressman joe sestic's military record. a new commercial opens by saying that he was relieved of duty by a 31-year naval career. with just four weeks to go before the primary, why is he doi

if there is such a thing, get angry when you perform with wynton marsalis and julio iglesias, bob dylangg, sinead o'connor, mishka, and so on? do the country people say is willie leaving us? >> well, i don't think any of them really get angry. the ones that get angry, that makes it all worthwhile. but i don't think there's any of them out that really think i don't know what i'm doing because -- >> larry: you're beyond that. do you still play nashville? >> sure. absolutely. i enjoy playing nashville. and the band that we used on this new record, these are all nashville pickers. and we played in nashville at the ryeland with all these songs and this band a few weeks ago. >> larry: are they the best, the -- always talk about the nashville sound. >> these are the cream of the crop. this is ronnie mccoury and his family, del mccoury, a great group of bluegrass pickers and chris sharp, and dennis crouch, a great upright bass player. these guys, the fiddle player, these are the real pickers. and it's always comfortable to be able to look at anybody in the room and nod at them and know they're

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got hundreds of thousands of hits on their myspace page when we should be looking for the next bob dylan writing amazing songs in his bedroom and no one has ever heard of him? that's a bit of the price we are paying now. but nonetheless, i still feel that kind of artist development has become a do-it-yourself thing in a way. also the light industry is helping with that a little bit, too. yes, sir, over here. >> so it's pretty easy to understand how the jonas brothers and even early stage britney spears kind of artists would be able to generate revenue from their recordings, for the most part those recordings are funded at the early stage by parents who are actually paying for their children. when you hit the age of 16 or 17 or 18 you've pretty much figured out how to download free songs and are probably doing it at that point which is the same time you're starting to listen to more indy contant so the money drops out right at that point. my question is whether that 16 year old and up audience, whether you see them getting to the point they are trained again and start to pay. [laughter] >

speak can dylan, cnc press. i wonder in your scheme what is the place for scientific theory and scientific theorists? was einstein and his ideas, his theories before they were tested and proven, was he doing science should he be of knowledge as a scientist, and let me just mention that this has some very practical sorts because one of the favorite moves of scientific rejectionists is to say to a theorists, well we don't like that very so we are not going to fund any test of that theory and therefore the theorists can spends decades in limbo. >> which is pretty much what happened in the soviet union. you had brilliant astrophysicist who had to stay really in theory because there weren't, not much in the way of tools to test it. einstein was certainly a scientist. i think there is an interesting element to your question and that it is sort of more popular in history to have a scientist who is purely doing theory and a lot of scientists are push that way because our intellectual history associates great achievement

. >> reporter: and dylan says he has proof. >> i've been hospitalized by abuse from my father.ports for. >> reporter: his father has never been charged with child abuse. instead, he claims, his son has been brainwashed by his mentally unstable ex-wife. >> his mom's influence. built up in ten years of emotional kidnapping. threats of her disappearing, killing herself. abandoning the kids. my two sons -- the whole thing that i love the most in my life. >> reporter: now, it's up to the argentinean courts to sort through the heartache and the drama. one family court's psychological evaluation of kathleen found her to have, quote, psychopathic tendencies. but another granted her custody of the boys in 2008. their father has barely seen them since. >> this court has taken my childhood and really destroyed it. this is my childhood. i don't remember a time when this hasn't been an issue in my life. >> there's clearly no easy resolution in sight. there's at least two family courts with jurisdiction over this in argentina. and they act as tribunals, with three judges overseeing a case as

gunmen eric harris and dylan klebold killed 12 students and teachers after turning the guns on themselvesbly get a lot of visitors today. it was dedicated to the victims three years ago and is open to the public. >>> in tennessee police say they opened fire. the man took a taxi to the hospital yesterday and gave the driver $20 and told him to wait. here's what the knoxville police chief said about 20 minutes ago. >> the suspect, through the note left in his residence, indicated he was upset with the doctor thinking a chip had been placed inside of him during his appendectomy. the suspect believed he was being tracked due to this chip. family members of the suspect were concerned for his mental well-being and had requested help from mental health experts. the family had him committed to a local mental health facility in february of this year. >>> two women were injured during the attack yesterday in knoxville and said to be in stable condition. >>> the father of murdered teenager amber dubois speaking out about the killer's surprising courtroom confession. the 14-year-old amber dubois vani

were going to church sunday when she had a seizure driving almost 70 miles an hour, but 8-year-old dylannew what to do. >> i reached over, and then i was steering the wheel. and then when i got to the side of the road, i put on the brakes. >> dillon said he learned how to steer the car from his dad and grandpa just in case anything like this ever happened. he's so tiny. >>> bret michaels said his brain hemorrhage felt like getting hit by a baseball bat over and over. that's what a source close to the singer and reality star said. more tests are planned to find out what caused the bleeding. doctors say the pain is excruciate wheng blood hits the covering of the brain. >>> steelers quarterback ben roethlisberger took a step toward trying to repair his fractured image. he apologized for his actions, which led to his six-game suspension. joe carter is in for rafer. what i think is interesting is he apologized for his actions but pointed out, but, oh, i didn't get charged with a crime. >> he so eloquently points it out, more or lels taking a page out of the tiger woods book of redemption here

try follow up on my number one youtube hit with dylan ratigan. thank you for being here. the tea party express, we started the search in nevada on march 27 where 35,000 people joined us to wish harry reid a happy retirement. [applause] and moments ago at the national press club we announced our endorsement and in time to elect former state legislature sharon angles to replace harry reid. [applause] and yesterday even though i live in the california my hometown is boston. we were in boston yesterday with sara palin. [applause] >> and 10,000-plus of my base staters to joining us to take and reclaim the peel's republic of mastercard for america. republic of massachusetts for america. you're doing all the hard work, though, the only way this country gets fixed is if you do the work in the trenches. we can get you reved up but at the end of the day it's walking precincts and keeping the hammer down to restore a constitutional republic to the united states of america. >> and don't you dare ever let anybody tell you you're a racist, you're angry or you're a mob. wear human right

and dylan radigan. a good day to have dylan on because a lot of talk about financial reform.s an incredible peace that pairs down what happened at goldman. >> also, mayor bloomberg, it will be a face nighting discussion. he can talk about the financial services bill, but also the rubber room. >> oh, yes. >> he highlighted it here a couple weeks ago. two or three days later, it got shut down. and they struck a deal, but it is fascinang

books about dylan's lyrics and what they mean.y close to it it seems like something that you read in the tabloids more. you know, an actor like marlon brando, today there's a lot of serious work being done on his method acting. you know, painters who are considered, you know, a sign of frivolous in the 60s somewhat, andy warhol for example. there's now museums towards andy warhol. we have a lot of geniuses in our midst right now in america that we just don't pay that much kind of academic scholarly attention to because they seem too close for us. >> mr. smith -- >> yes, what today is popular culture is tomorrow's history. >> are you as interested in pop culture as -- >> no. no, i'm not as interested. i mean i have -- i have great regard for doug's work and i think he's right, that pop culture is a legitimate, you know, source of history in the making. in many ways it's a mirror in a lot of ways held up to us. i would be, i suppose, more nostalgic in the sense that i was going to say remember the day elvis died was the day journali