emerson, what do you know about this and how seriously should we all be taking this? >> as an intelligence official just said to me, this has major teeth to it. so they're taking it quite seriously. they're using triage here. they're using materials they collected in the bin laden raid, they're using signal intelligence that is intercepts and they have some other sources. bottom line is, it results -- it resulted in taking this very seriously 48 hours ago. i knew about it yesterday. the issue is where and when and what type. the belief is that it would be some type of truck bomb or car bomb. it would be in a major city like new york, chicago, los angeles, and it would involve probably mass communication -- mass transportation system, railways, aviation, buses or subways. there is a secondary threat to government icons like military bases or federal buildings. as far as the probability here, obviously no one can tell. the heightened awareness is definitely very good for the u.s. government, because it makes carrying out such a thing a little bit more difficult since pe

that seems like an exception to the dogma, but what did emerson say? a speech of consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. >> i was just thinking that. [laughter] going the other direction, as fast as possible, one of the things -- a pattern that has arisen over the years -- a lot of the leading engineers in the technology industry tend to meet with each other at an burning man, recognize kindred spirits, something like that. the most recent case would be eric schmidt meeting with the founders of google up there. that would reportedly one of the big factors. what is it that makes burning man such a haven for that kind of connection? >> several factors. you think about the culture of silicon valley. eric schmidt had been some interesting papers. he had been making the point that so much of the tech industry is project-based learning. google gives people time off to do what they want. they give them time to explore and hang out with other people, outside of the framework of this more structured enterprise. burning man, from the very beginning is proj

questions on immigration like this one from tim emerson. this is a text question. tim emerson of california wrote this "would you support each state enforcing the immigration laws since the federal government is not"? congress woman, could you answer the question and if your answer is, yes, how do you u square that with the constitution which says that congress has the power to establish a uniform rule of naturalization? >> the reason he is asking the question is because the federal government has failed the american people and has failed the state. it is reprehensible that president obama has sued the state of arizona and the governor of arizona for trying to protect the people in arizona. that is wrong. as president of the united states i would do what my job would demand of me. that is to uphold the sovereignty of the united states of america. to do that i would build a fence on the southern border on every mile, on every yard, on every foot, on every inch of the southern border. i think that is what we have to do. not only build it, but then also have sufficien

the days of emerson lake and palmer. yes. you know those bands well. keith emerson was my hero. thought i was always raised to follow your dreams, go for it, go for the roses, be the best that you can be and i thought that we could make it in the music business. >> i wouldn't say that the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, governor, isn't necessarily compatible with a mormon lifestyle. did you see potential conflict arising? >> donny and marie did okay. >> there was an allegation -- this is pretty damaging to you i think for any presidential hope -- that your real hero musically was captain beefheart. now is that true? >> if you can tell me anything about captain beefheart, i'll give you an answer. but you can't. >> you're the expert. to me he was always a bit of a joke but perhaps you can give me another -- >> let's just say he was avant garde. he was discovered by frank zappa. but there was a period maybe between 1968 and 1978, maybe the early '80s where he was probably the most cutting-edge avant garde -- hey, not for everybody's taste. >> you're the same kind of age as president obama

emerson of california. would you support each state enforcing the immigration laws since the federal government is not? congresswoman, could you answer tim's question? if your answer is yes, how do you square that with the constitution which says congress has the power to establish a uniform rule of naturalization? >> the reason why he's asking this question is because the federal government has failed the american people and failed the states. it is reprehensible that president obama has sued the state of arizona and the governor of arizona, for trying to protect the people in arizona. that's wrong. as president of the united states, i would do what my job would demand of me. that's to uphold the sovereignty of the united states of america. to do that, i would build a fence on america's southern border on every mile, on every yard, on every foot, on every inch of the southern border that's what we have to do. not only build it, also have sufficient border security and enforce the laws that are on the books

emerson of california.ld you support each state enforcing the immigration laws since the federal government is not? congresswoman, could you answer tim's question? if your answer is yes, how do you square that with the constitution which says congress has the power to establish a uniform rule of naturalization? >> the reason why he's asking this question is because the federal government has failed the american people and failed the states. it is reprehensible that esident obama has sued the state of arizona and the governor of arizona, for trying to protect the people in arizona. that's wrong. as president of the united states, i would do what my job would demand of me. that's to uphold the sovereignty of the united states of america. to do that, i would build a fence on america's southern border on every mile, on every yard, on every foot, on every inch of the southern border that's what we have to do. not only build it, also have sufficient border security and enforce the laws that are on the books with

questions on immigration like this one from tim emerson. this is a text question. this "would you support each state enforcing the immigration laws since the federal government is not"? congress woman, could you answer the question and if your answer is, yes, how do you u square that with the constitution which says that congress has the power to establish a uniform rule of naturalization? >> the reason he is asking the question is because the federal government has failed the american people and has failed the state. it is reprehensible that president obama has sued the state of arizona and the governor of arizona for trying to protect the people in arizona. that is wrong. as president of the united states i would do what my job would demand of me. that is to uphold the sovereignty of the united states of america. to do that i would build a fence on the southern border on every mile, on every yard, on every foot, on every inch of the southern border. i think that is what we have to do. not only build it, but then also have sufficient border security and enforce th

so-called experts these would be frank gaffney daniel pipes david your shelby robert spencer and steven emerson so these are the people in the report are accused of taking the foundations money spreading islamophobia on air online and a number of events as you can imagine this report both kind of pissed off right wing land here in america including eric bolling take a look and see the point this out i'm reading this directly from from this report the obama center for american progress has released a report that blames islamophobia in america on a small group of jews in israel supporters in america whose views are being backed by billions of dollars so eric says there's a lot of this one for the blames islamophobia in america on a small group of jews in israel supporters in america whose views are backed by millions of dollars actually erick that is a flat out lie the center for american progress called out eric bolling on the comment they even offered to send fox news a copy of the report just in case they were confused we have wonder why eric bolling would make a claim like this on air. or the

major scholarship at emerson, what was that for? >> glass blowing. i found out when i got there, not a sport. >> what did you do when you got there? >> i thought i would show my skills and say come on in full ride. i am for this. it took me awhile to figure out if i was undecisive. then i realized my daughter david an excellent, excellent synchronized swimmer. and i am even better at stealing from my i will legitimate daughter, david. yes, yes, and more yes. >> i probably don't care now, but if i were in college i would not want this to happen. these guys are already jerks. imagine jerks with money. these are guys that get all of the women. they are big, handsome blokes. it is going kill everybody else. >> let them be pros. >> i dropped out of college and i am on tv. >> there is a lot of people. i am not going to tell you. >> to be fair, i didn't go to college. and i don't even own a tv. >> you can't be on an olympic team if you are commercial. what would happen to our olympic team. >> is that true? >> the dream team is all professional. i think ther

emerson. ♪ >> fox news alert, i'm rick folbaum, at the assignment desk, this is where the news comes we bring it to you. here we are, taking a look into the courtroom, the trial where conrad murray, michael jackson's doctor, is underway, and questioned are the concert promoters. >> we're moments away from a town hall meeting in new hampshire, site of the primary in the presidential contest and this is where mitt romney is going to be talking to people, the slogan, cut the spending, just part of the message from the former governor of massachusetts who will be holding a town hall. we have more politics and other news straight ahead. the second hour of "happening now" starts right now. jenna: we start this hour with a new threat with iran, right here our border. i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. iran's navy, get this, is announcing it will send war ships to patrol off the u.s. coast. our national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. the iranians are trying to show off their navy, i guess. tell us about this new capability. >> reporter: today, jon, the defen

steve emerson, thank you so very much for the latest information.e appreciate it. >> you're welcome. megyn: well, president obama's asking lawmakers 17 times last night to pass his jobs bill promising it will create new jobs and jump-start the economy. we've got new reaction to that. >>> plus, sarah palin will be joining us live in three minutes. i'll ask her about the president's jobs speech, and i will ask her what she thought of how the gop candidates did at the debate the other night. >>> and this is the nightmare facing thousands in the northeast. a weather system -- look at this -- carrying the remnants of tropical storm lee leaving homes literally underwater. we'll have the latest from one of the hardest-hit areas. >>> plus, new and incredible images from apollo's missions to the moon. you're not going to believe this. >> it's a rock composed of many fragments, of many sizes and many shapes. when we return this rock or so many like it to houston, we'd like to share a piece of this rock with so many of the countries throughout the world. [ mal

another tweet from jared emerson.sin. >> uh-huh. >> how do you feel about that? >> it's true. it's true. i think that's the challenge of faith and grace. >> do you have any plans to remarry? >> we'll see.

emerson: mr. speaker, i rise in support of the resolution. it is a responsible measure. it makes good on the promises we must keep to members of our military, to our veterans and to americans who rely upon the essential functions of the federal government. it cares for the needs of millions of americans who have suffered from the effects of drafmentic natural disasters, including the folks in my state of missouri who live in joplin and live along the mississippi, who live along the missouri river in the northern part of our state. these folks can't wait another day for help because people are playing politics with this bill. the house and the appropriations committee are dedicated to a responsible process and this bill reflects the amount of time needed to complete that work. i think we've realized this year on both sides of the aisle that we have to bring the size and spending of the federal government into line with reality. in hearings and markups that we have conducted in the house and in the negotiations to make specific and significant spending cuts not only this y

another tweet from jared emerson.think that's the challenge of faith and grace. >> do you have any plans to remarry? >>

emerson myself in a book. does this sound familiar? a lengthy article used to be easy. my mind would get caught up in the narrative and i would spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. not what i did last weekend. now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. i get fidgety, lose the thread and began looking for something else to do. i feel i am dragging my way word brain back to the task. the deep reading that is to come naturally has become a struggle. i didn't write that but i could have. nicholas carthy in the atlantic is google making me stupid which would be the basis of a book on the cultural remapping given the fact that he bothered to write about it is safe to say he believes the struggle is worth it. my evidence is where as i used to go into my brain to remember facts i now google to find them. as it happens i have been to a number of funerals in the last few months. funerals can be great celebrations of one's life that was well lived. probably no news to you that frequently sermons and eulogies were from writers who had gon

. >> with the tenure anniversary approaching we sat down with her twin sister sandra to emerson and hern of state but some was meant swanson. >> this is for and this is me. >> it is hard, but i'm adjusting. >> we grow up together. we knew wanda and her sister sondra's as the twins. we would have the other may gatherings and alameda and cook everything you could think up. it was a wonderful time. >> the thing that i missed the most is the camaraderie that we had between the family. she would come out here and bring her kids. >> this is one of my favorite pictures. heard with the kids. >> that is one of my favorites. >> i want them to remember that she was a mother. she loved her children and she was just like you and i. everyday people doing everyday jobs. it just so happens that particular day, she was doing her job and she was caught up in this terrorist attack. >> it is believed that the crew and passengers are forced the plane to the ground before could arrive at its intended target. that is a memory that will always be with them. >> no longer will people just sit by, doss file and a

. >> i am from emerson college. nice to meet both of you. i want to talk about how the media framed the debate. it was framed in a win or lose scenario and i am wondering from your experience if you could speak to that, if it is the same old song and dance and we keep repeating the same stake? >> the media reports almost everything that is in the news as who is ahead in the backstretch, they continue to report which side is going to win rather than the meat and the substance. c-span is extraordinary. let me give you a comment. i think c-span is one of the great places where the american people get an unvarnished view of what both sides believe and how they feel about issues in some detail. go to headline news or fox business or whatever you want to watch and you see snapshots and most is about who is winning. that is not very thoughtful. has it changed? it has changed dramatically. we don't even know what journalism is any more. anyone can call themselves a journalist if they have a microphone and a note pad and a pen. doesn't make you a jou

. >> i am from emerson college in boston. i wanted to talk about how the media frames the debate. often frames in a win/lose scenario. is it worse now than has been, or is it the same old song and dance? >> i think the media reports almost everything that is in the news as a horse race, who is ahead in the backstretch, and they just continue to report which side is going to win, rather than the real meat and substance of most issues. c-span is extraordinary. i think c-span is one of the great places where the american people get an on varnish view of what both sides believe and how they feel about issues in some detail. go to headline news or fox business or whatever you want to watch, and what you see as little snapshot, and most of it is about who is winning. it has changed dramatically. first of all, we don't even know what journalism is anymore. anybody can call himself a journalist if he has a microphone and a note pad. this fact checking all of that? the answer is nobody. with the internet and the 24/7 news hour and things going viral, massive amounts of misinformation can m

. >> i am from emerson college in boston. i wanted to talk about how the media frames the debate. we see that it is framed in a win-lose scenario. i'm wondering if you could speak to that. is it worse now or the same song and dance? >> i think the media reports almost everything that is in the news as a course trade. who is ahead, they continue to report which side is going to win rather than the real substance of the issues. c-span is extraordinary. i think c-span is one of the great places where the american people get an unvarnished view of what both sides believe and how they feel about issues. " to headline news or fox business or whatever you want to watch and what you see are these snapshots. most of it is about who is winning. that is not thoughtful. it has changed dramatically. we do not know what journalism is anymore. anybody can call themselves a journalist as they have a microphone and a note pad. but does not make you a journalist. who is fact checking all of that? nobody. with the internet and the 24-7 news hour and things going viral, massive amounts of misinformat

but madam speaker, those changes that were proposed by my late colleague bill emerson were not made in order, were not addressed, were not implemented, so we are where we are. and while i'd love to see those changes down the road, today we need to address the very pressing needs that our fellow americans have for some kind of resolution to this issue. so we have this same day rule so we can today pass with what i hope will be strong bipartisan support, a continuing resolution that will simply carry us from now until november 18, during which time we will see, madam speaker, you and the other members of the appropriations committee, work to come up with some kind of resolution to this issue. so i'm going to urge my colleagues to support this measure, in the name of bipartisanship and in the name of our effort to try and resolve this pressing issue and with that, reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from massachusetts . mr. mcgovern: thank you, madam speaker. i want to thank chairman dreier for yielding me

publishing emerson, thoreau, longfellow.while working as an editor, olmstead taught the editor a couple of short stories. while working he also decided that he wanted to become much more deeply involved in abolitionism. given the fact that he traveled through the south on assignment for the new york times, this was a cause that he certainly wanted to become involved in. and so 1855 demean @booktv man named james abbott travel east from kansas. the head of the militia. the melissa was devoted to making sure that if they enter the union as a state it would enter as a free state, rather than a slave state. he was headed east to give money to raise money to purchase weapons for his melissa. first he went to connecticut and rhode island committee raise enough money to buy about 100, what were nicknamed sharp rivals. they went down to new york, and naturally the person he wanted to connect with was olmstead, involved in abolitionism, deep well of contacts in the literary community. readily agrees. stuttered reaching out to the var

he and ralph waldo emerson, a great writer himself, said this president of ours just seems to be intersectinghimself come intersect in this country to the point of disaster. paul twomey, linking and writing this document, which is not gotten as much attention of the lincoln documents, he was fighting the war intellectually within himself. he was society and he was articulating what it was that was wrong about secession, howard was that secession was an existential threat to the united states and how the threats needed to be countered. as you said, the legacy of the american revolution was contested at this moment. i love discovering the moment when in virginia at the sport was speaking about deep in frederick territory. they recapitulate for completing to celebrate the holiday by firing off salutes and getting wildly turn. of course the great american tradition. and they start firing off artillery salutes and very quickly start hearing from the other side of the confederate artillery firing and say it's a sneak attack. they are opening fire on us. they realize very quickly the confederacy is

. >> emerson said that consistency was the hobgoblin of small minds. >> clay was not consistent all of his life. he was one time opposed and later on he favored. he changed different positions overtime. his enemies used that against him and said he was not consistent. he would compromise and as long as he was getting votes. i do not think that was the case. he was willing to make a change and say he had been wrong. that sometimes would cost politicians. it cost him. >> we had an earlier caller reference the treaty. -- the treaty of ghent. we talked about henry clay and the british. what was the treaty of all against? >> it ended the war of 1812, which americans were not winning at the time. it was worse because they thought the british would still be fighting napoleon. napoleon was out of the way by the time the deliberations started. america had not negotiated from a place of strength. in a sense, it was the best treaty they could get. they did the best they could. it is one of our best delegations ever. henry clay and three other people of importance. it takes a long time to come abo