eleanor. >> it will be a 5-4 decision one way or the other. but healthcare reform will survive even without the mandate if it is overturned in the court. >> how? >> how? because there are lots -- you have financial incentives for people. only the radical constitutionalists here are going to say we aren't going to buy insurance. there's going to be insurance made available through the exchanges that makes sense to people. >> eleanor is wrong because without requiring healthy people to buy insurance, the whole thing falls apart. right on the constitution, but he is going to lose in the supreme court 5-4. >> why? because kennedy. >> eleanor there and with sotomayor there, is that why? >> kennedy is going to go with the liberals and he is going to lose because the supreme court likes federal power. he generally likes federal power. >> oh. i agree and i think the governors will be quietly relieved because if the court doesn't swing that way, they are going to be stuck with a voter backlash. what people realize, hey you are taking away the healthcar

hold on, eleanor.ue three, first lady of spain. ♪ [ music ] >> she's a private citizen and is the mother of a daughter on a private trip and i think i'll leave it at that. >> first lady, michelle obama's vacation has drawn waves of criticism. the first lady's traveling party includes her youngest daughter, sasha. two close friends of michelle's, and the two friends daughters. they vacation together in the spanish resort town of estapon a. the area is a famous destination. the trip is the first of three scheduled beach vacations for the first lady this summer. michelle and her interage stayed in a hotel, where the average room price is $660 a night and the most lavish suite runs for $6,600 daily. mrs. obama is paying for her trip out of private funds. she has ignited controversy over whether it is appropriate to take what some see as a lavish european vacation at a time of prolonged and painful high unemployment. not all of course are reimbursed by the first lady. the christian science monitor report th

. >> let eleanor in. >> if there were a burlingtom factory and sex shop and otúer buildings all jammedaround, maybe it wouldn't be so different. new york real estate is not like out in peril harbor where that would probably -- >> it's two blocks from sacred ground. >> no one is implying to do that. they don't want to do that. >> there's a huge difference, okay. pearl harbor was an attack by a country. here, if you are concerned about radical islamists, this is not an attack by the whole muslim nation. >> the name of islam. >> some parts of islam. >> a clear preponderance of new yorkers don't like the mosque there. >> overwelmingly. >> do you think the international community, the media around the world. there's a billion and a half muslims in the world. you know it's a big story. do you think looking at the fact that he okay's it in a uense, do you think the very presence of a mosque there speaks well of the united states to let it go there? >> absolutely. i do. >> despite the fact of the horror and the pain and the suffering of ground zero? >> john, that's not my rational. although i

ladies and gentlemen, eleanor holmes norton. >> oh, thank you, my good friend the black eagle.0 residents of the district of columbia, i am pleased to welcome all of you to the nation's capital. where the residents will not rest until they get their voting rights, and until we are admitted to the union as the 51st state. i want to thank reverend al sharpton the leadership conference on civil rights, the national and local leaders who have worked to bring us together for an occasion appropriate to the dignity and memory and meaning of the 1963 march on washington. i appreciate that you have gathered at dun bar high school, the first public high school for black students in the united states. famed for its excellence, not withstanding segregation and for its acheevers such as dr. charles drew and senator edbrook. i was fortunate to attend dunbar and was sitting in one of those segregated classrooms when the principal announce that had the supreme court had just declared segregated schools unconstitutional. when the march on washington occurred in 1963, dunbar was not segregated b

i would like to commend eleanor norton for what she does. we need to look at that and do something about that. we need to enforce that particular law. >> thank you. the gentlemen here on the left. lot of companies and jobs. if you have a bad credit for, it seems stupid. degrees. somebody needs to start some legislation to make it illegal. it is the most insane thing you you have to get a job. how do we address that? >> i think the congress woman knows the answer. we just passed a piece of legislation. this issue of credit scores was taken up. one of the objectives was to do what you are talking about come to stop using credit scores for things like employment. i do not know if that actually got in the bill. ok, all right. that is on the radar screen. >> with the credit scores, it should not have anything to do with anything, insurance, anything that you do. why would it impact any of that? it is in the middle of everything. >> a great point. thank you for that. >> good evening. as i listen to you testify, i do not see a lot of it. i do not s

states, this school, which educated charles drew, edward brooks, judge williams hastings, as well as eleanor holmes norton, we gather on this, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the national urban league, the 47th anniversary of dr. king's historic march on washington in a week where we celebrate women's suffrage which happened 90 years ago we gather. we gather at a time when fourscore and seven years ago, dr. martin luther king and his colleagues whitney young and roy wilkins and james carter and john lewis a/ philip randolph and others gathered with 250,000 men, women, children of all races, creeds, colors, and religions to affirm a new vision for america in the 20th century. they gathered because they wanted to affirm those words embodied by the founding fathers of this nation that all men -- that all people are created equal. and all people, all people are endowed with certain inalienable rights, the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness. let the word go forth -- we are here today as the children and grandchildren of the generations of dr. marti

. >> reporter: eleanor is a one-year-old pit bull at humane society silicon valley and is up for adoption, healthy, friendly, calm, possibly because she is already neutered which tends to make any dog less aggressive. >> the humane society of silicon valley is always in favor of spaying and neutering of all pets, not necessarily singling out the american pit bull terrier or pit bull type dogs. but really all pets due to the health and behavioral, well-being of the animal. >> not all are done by pit bulls. so we won't be taking care of 100% of the problem but if it's the largest problem that we can begin to resolve, we should take that action i think. >> reporter: santa clara county's ordinance will be based on a law that was enacted in san francisco in 2006. that law is being called very successful credited with reducing the number of pit bulls in the san francisco animal shelter from one-third of the population to about a quarter of the population now. >> thank you, len ramirez. >>> he disappeared one year ago today. still no sign of 6-year-old hasanni campbell of fremont. but police are

host: eleanor lives in seattle. she's a democrat. please go ahead, eleanor. caller: yes, putting politics aside, i think we need to look at greed. we shouldn't reward people for outsourcing jobs. we should focus on education and hiring people here so we have more money, tax base, and we have more money. i want someone to comment on that and i'm going to hang up. thank you very much for taking my call. guest: well, i think those people would say, you know, we'd rather have a little less greed and a few more jobs in this country, although i'm not sure that those things are mutually exclusive. some have made the argument when it comes to the bush tax cuts that, you know, why would we want to extend the tax cuts for the top 2% of earners? we could be using the money we get from that to plow into job creation, stimulus projects, you know, ramping up hiring, preventing the layoffs of more teachers and police and fire workers and so forth. so i think that the question that congress, you know, has to juggle with in the months to come will be, you know, one of them is

congressional delegate eleanor holmes norton, this is just over two hours. >> good evening. hello.et me welcome you. i am pleased to so many of you here this evening. there are more people here than we expected, and that is good news. because of the seriousness of the subject could we have brought some extra chairs right at the beginning before we get started. let me watch a new to this unofficial hearing --, you to this unofficial a hearing on black men and boys. they are not officials of the district of columbia. the commission consists of african-american men who live in the district of columbia who have credibility with other african-american man. all right, so what am i doing here? well, i initiated the commission about 10 years ago. and what is very clear is that if we were to look at the dilemmas and the challenges that face black man, it cannot just be the congresswoman alone in her official capacity. we had to focus on black men themselves first and then our entire community, on what amounts to hidden issues, because they simply are not spoken about. the issues surrounding

but i'm sitting there with the senator and eleanor roosevelt is in the gallery.goes crazy. sure enough, the spotlight comes on and here comes at a lie stevenson -- and here comes the stevenson. i said, danny, i think he's going to want to sit here. he's not going to tell joe gill to give up or tom kean. he's not going to come down the string of command for a big bosses. danny, i think he is coming to you. i said, he does not have a place to sit. and he said, oh, yes he has. denny, and gone. those are things in politics that you do not read in the paper. but as i sit here, i do not have any inside information in washington. i have the to get it from the pundits. ÷ andts. these days. if you watch television metaat , they all&4f v9!kftdld:kñj help . come on my show and you can top íj5uad't for that? [laughter] every time i'd -- what i am getting at is every time i talk ed to daily confidentially, if he would say, i'm going to write a book. >> the transformation of rules xv1r!ñ [unintelligible] when you were a young man, the liberalism of roosevelt, big was redefined

additionally, we can include in our ranks eleanor norton homes, and of course, one of the greatest doctorsver practiced medicine, dr. charles troop. these are some of the great leaders in their field and have graduated from this great school. very quickly, throughout the world, we have many problems. it is our job as educators to ensure that we teach our young children and not only must we teach them, we must love them, care for them, and guide them so that they can become our next leaders. today, that is why we are to pass the torch to our children, to let them know that never again will we allow our history to be stolen. on that note, i want to introduce my friend george leonard, who is currently running at dunbar senior high school. george leonard. [applause] >> hello, my brothers and sisters. let's hear it for reclaiming the dream? . they say a black student cannot graduate from high school. we are going to prove that is not true. black children can learn as well as anybody. some of the best students in the world are the students who brought their dreams to dunbar. they are here today.

blue sky is one of the few contractors that hires residents of dc i would like to command eleanor holmes norton for black men and women who are coming out of jail. we need to look at that and do something about it. we need to talk to the city council and encouraged administrators to enforce that particular law. >> thank you. the gentleman here on the left the. >> i have a question about the new form of employment discrimination which involves credit reports. if you have a bad -- bad credit score, you cannot get a job. stupid for you can be qualified and have 10 degrees but if you have a bad credit score, you don't get the job. somebody needs to start legislation to make that illegal. that is the most insane thing you can do -- you can ever do. you can only get a good credit scored if you have a job. how do we address that? >> dr. walters? >> we just passed a financial services piece of legislation and this issue of credits course was taken up in the hearings. one of the object is what to do precisely what you were talking about, to stop using credit scores for things like employment. i d

host: eleanor homes norton, a non-voting member of congress, one of those speaking at the rally organizedy reverend al sharpton. here is what she had to say. >> when the march on washington occurred in 1963, dunbar was not segregated, but schools all over america were still segregated and public accommodations work and housing was segregated and blacks in the south did not have the right to vote. the march on washington change that. glenn beck's march will change nothing. but you cannot blame glenn beck for his march on washington envy. too bad he does not have a message to match the place or that is worthy of a march. honor and aleies for dream." glenn beck drew a sea of activists to the lincoln memorial, and called on the nation to recommit itself to traditional values. on the anniversary of martin luther king's speech, back and sarah palin stake in acclaim to king's legacy. pat joins us from new york city. democrat line. good morning. caller: i have two points. i think glenn beck is divisive and i think he is a repetition and a trickster -- and a rhetorician. he wants to trick poor and

. >> i am eleanor schwartz. i reckon, bridgette represent the california state lands commission. -- i. prefer represent the california state lands commission. they have oil and gas leases, onshore and offshore, and have responsibility for trying to prevent oil spills entering terminals. last friday on august 20, the state lands commission adopted a resolution based on a study of deepwater horizon oil spill in comparison with california practices, which i will be glad to leave with you. they have put a lot of thought into this. perhaps a little known fact is that they have 1000 to 1100 wells offshore. they have low incidence of oil spills. in the last 10 years it seems to be averaging less than half a barrel per year. maybe up to 12 spills, but they measure it in drops and ounces. i hope you will take some of their ideas into account as you put your thoughts together about dealing with oil spills. there are eight principles consistent with existing and proposed state law. the idea is to look at ways of strengthen

eleanor mcconkey, keeps busy researching her family tree. mormons will help you do that.'s all. now back to new york. >>> willard, thank you very much. coming up next, we'll put you to work planning melissa and jeremy's wedding and we'll check out the choices for wedding bands. >>> we are back and ready to get down to business on "today's wedding: modern love." let's put a ring on them. melissa and jeremy will get married live on our plaza in a couple of weeks, september 30th. now we start with our first vote, the wedding bands. admiral graham, the executive fashion and beauty he heditor i here. averil, good morning to you. melissa and jeremy joining us live from bagram air base in afghanistan which has to be a real kick for him, kind of surreal, i would imagine. anyway, before we talk about this, are you okay? have you come to terms with the idea that you're going to have basically no control over this process over the next several weeks? >> i'm excited about that. i'm excited to see what other people are going to choose for me. i don't really care. i'm just so happy. >>

as the state's eleanor -- senator in illinois, he worked to change laws in that state. they used funds to drive campaign cars, not just for your campaign, but just to drive around. somebody in the u.s. senate passed ethics reform in 2007. he has instituted here some of the toughest rules on closing the revolving door and ensuring that the people of this country know each and every month who comes in to meet with people and who they meet with. >> to clarify the earlier question on top kill vs static kill, yesterday, admiral palin said there was the possibility that there was more harm than good -- admiral allen said there was the possibility that there was more harm than good in trying to complete the relief well. are you implying that you will go ahead with the relief well? >> the powers vested in me are not the same as those of the national incident command. i will let them make the final announcement on that. i think what admiral allen might have -- i did not see what he said specifically. there has been, and i said this earlier, at the to the big points along the way

ladies and gentlemen, eleanor holmes norton. >> oh, thank you, my good friend the black eagle.ents will not rest until they get their voting rights, and until we are admitted to the union as the 51st state. i want to thank reverend al sharpton the leadership conference on civil rights, the national and local leaders who have worked to bring us together for an occasion appropriate to the dignity and memory and meaning of the 1963 march on washington. i appreciate that you have gathered at dun bar high school, the first public high school for black students in the united states. famed for its excellence, not withstanding segregation and for its acheevers such as dr. charles drew and senator edbrook. i was fortunate to attend dunbar and was sitting in one of those segregated classrooms when the principal announce that had the supreme court had just declared segregated schools unconstitutional. when the march on washington occurred in 1963, dunbar was not segregated but schools all over america still were segregated and public accommodations was segregated and housing was segregate

delegate eleanor holmes norton hosted a discussion on the unemployment rate among african-american men. speakers include a professor curt this is all over two hours. >> good evening. hello. let me welcome you. i am pleased to so many of you here this evening. there are more people here than we expected, and that is good news. because of the seriousness of the subject could we have brought some extra chairs right at the beginning before we get started. let me watch a new to this unofficial hearing --, you to this unofficial a hearing on black men and boys. they are not officials of the district of columbia. the commission consists of african-american men who live in the district of columbia who have credibility with other african-american man. all right, so what am i doing here? well, i initiated the commission about 10 years ago. and what is very clear is that if we were to look at the dilemmas and the challenges that face black man, it cannot just be the congresswoman alone in her official capacity. we had to focus on black men themselves first and then our entire community, on what a