george thomas found japanese christians working non-stop to bring help to survivors. >> if it hadn't been for christians this man would have abandoned the factory that has been in his family for years. his company sits 500 yards from the ocean. multiple tsunamis swept through his factory. thanks to christians they have helped him rebuild. churches and individual christians moved quickly and still working to help the displaced and hurts. on march 11th a few met to pray for a revival and then the earthquake happened. >> they watched the drama unfold on television screens. >> we went to the subway and train stations. we served coffee and tea and tried to share hope. >> yoko left tokyo and moved here away from the fukushima dai-ichi plant. >> people are coming to the lord and they are touched. >> this man is one of them, a former gang member. he got an invitation to attend the church. >> tremendous progress has been made, realities are tens of thousands are homeless. the government has set up temp shelters like this one. so many are looking for a place to call home. >> these are lonely p

george thomas brings us the story from cannen nigeria. >> it was a beautiful day, we came to celebrate the birth of jesus christ. people started coming as early as 6:00 a.m. it was going to be a joyous occasion. but it never turned out that way. a vehicle packed with explosives drove up this busy street and stopped in front of the street. this man and 17 month old son had just walked out. >> within minutes husband widowers, wives widows, children orphans and parents were childless. >> suicide bomber knew precisely went to strike shortly after 8:00 that christmas morning, one service just concluding and the next just about to begin. >> 26 of the 44 people that died attended the church. >> the people that carried out this attack are under the influence of the devil and want to divide us. >> the radical muslim group boko haram claimed the attack and other attacks. boko haram's goal is to turn this country into an islamic country. >> i will not respond out of anger. >> he and his son spent several weeks in the hospital. today you'll find him and his family praying for their attackers. >> i

unlike george washington and thomas jefferson, theirs are not household names. nevertheless, their lives provide a window on the larger collective experience of women during the revolution and will help show us how and in what ways women can legitimately considered along with men as the founders of our nation. the first woman i'd like to talk about is a woman named esther debert reed. reed was born in london in 1747, the daughter of a wealthy merchant who traded with -- whose daughter of a wealthy merchant who had extensive training relationships with the american colonies. in 1763, joseph reed of new jersey, also the child of a merchant, went to london to study the law at the ends of court, a very common thing for american gentry to do in the pre-revolutionary period. there through a common circle of social friends, he met esther debert. and esther and joseph were immediately enamored of one another. unfortunately, family circumstances forced joseph reed to return to america in 1765 just as britain and the colonies were beginning their own pitched battle over t

but to look at the calendar 2012 and then my previous book of george washington of thomas jefferson there is a logic to writing about the federal arrow. and the chronology fit. and to know about dolly madison and all of these great white guys we could talk about slaves, architecture, and then that could make history little interesting. >> so of the buildings were burned except the old brick building inhabited and the, daunt the rumor has said the royal marine spirited to four burning out of respect for our marines but nobody knows the truth. can you shed light on that? >> one building that was scared was the patent office executed from the kappa all stood in front of the building and said you cannot do this it is worth -- worse than destroying the ice and geo library it is not about politics. i never heard the story of the marine building. thank you for coming. i appreciate your time and listening. good evening. [applause] >> the morality of capitalism is the name of the book. the subtitle is what the professors will not tell you. megan robins is the communications director for the group

george h.w. bush did, he gave us clarence thomas, who will keep on giving for a number of decades. >> exit question george bush is angling to become romney's vice presidential running mate, yes or no? >> i think he would certainly like to be. but he mentioned -- >> he would like to be? >> certainly he would be like to be. put him on a fast track. but i think he's mentioned rubio's and the party should pick rubio, and that's being sort of semi-gracious. >> are you sure jeb bush or was it jeb bush, jr. who said -- likes the idea of rubio being the vice presidential candidate. >> he doesn't have a son's name. it's george p bush, and it's jeb bush himself recommended -- >> rubio is basically bush's protege. and but to put bush on the ticket would really be back to the future. bush didn't run because he didn't think it was time for another bush. so i think adding himself to the ticket would be another anchor on mitt romney. >> what he has just done has excluded him from being on the ticket. [overlapping speakers] >> he's not angling to get on the tick the he believes it's too early for bush. if he didn'

george washington. a very precarious time for the country. thomas jefferson runs into alexander hamilton who was usually very polished, very well dressed, clean shaven, looking none of those things in front of his house. and jefferson says, what's wrong? i'm going nuts over this -- my board of public credit is going to fail and what thomas jefferson did was he brokered a deal over wine and food at his house between james madison, the leader of the opposition of this plan and alexander hamilton. madison wasn't going to vote for the plan but he would not be too strenuous nbc opposition there's speculation that he and jefferson found the vote to put him over the top. hamilton would turn over and use his influence, his leverage with the northern states who badly needed this bill to select the potomac site for the nation's capital. this is referred to as the first great compromise, the first of three before the civil war. and this kept the piece and this kept the country together. so what would have been different than monroe instead of madison. number 1

with a certain segment of society, war less popular, and secondarily any role at all of thomas jefferson and george washington, to begin in the age. >> as a great questions. to the first, that is a great question. what is some people fall on the federalist and some people on the anti federalist. well, to generalize federalist for people who ran days and the mercantile trade, the police said, hey, i can see the benefit of having the same currency when i gusty miles north into maryland. i concede the benefit of having a fair judicial system when i have a sour deal in delaware and the benefit of having our government with national trade policies. i can open up a worldwide market. people who are not engaged in interstate trade, some of those folks, you know, they said, i don't know about this new government. he is going to invade my liberty, and it does any consequence of confederacy standing in the wake. so to generalize, why they fall in one place or another, and sometimes it's just the conclusions the people drew. totally uncharted territory, our government on like a world that ever seen amanda came

george washington averaged three public speeches at year. john adams, one. thomas jefferson, he was positively verbose i guess i speeches a year as president. james madison, zero. george will has a great joke about this. the british side washing, burn down the white house and he still didn't give a speech last night even andrew jackson who was out with good reason to introduce an element of type living with the presidency, even he didn't make a lot of speeches on a public speeches. he gave one a year. then the third point, answer point is this idea that our president should be leaders with a capital l., taking americans to new and undefined places they didn't even know they want to go. that was the explicit teaching of woodrow wilson. before very long to start getting a premium being placed on charisma and our president, right? most famously kennedy of course. so now the presidency is this institution we think of the apex of american politics even though i think the presidency should be thought of as a branch of government. one store, some controversy, if you go ba

george washington averaged three public speeches a year. john adams one. thomas jefferson, he was positively the ghost of giving five speeches a year as president. james madison, zero. george will has a great book about this he says the british sacked washington board on the white house and he still didn't give a speech. [laughter] and even andrew jackson who was fought with good reason to introduce an element of populism to the presidency, even he didn't make a lot of speeches, a lot of public speeches, he gave one a year. so, and then the third point is this idea that our presidents should be leaders with a capital l taking americans to new and undefined places they didn't even know they wanted to go. that was the teaching of what will wilson. the president as a leader with a capital l ought to anticipate and think ahead of the people and pull them along and steer them to where the future would take us. and for very long you start getting the premium placed on charisma and our presidents, right, most famously with kennedy of course some of the presidency is thi

thomas, and his masters and doctoral degrees from george mason university. dr. magness specializes in the history of trade and taxation in the united states, and is the author of several scholarly works in 19th and early 20th century tariff policy. long civil war buff, his attention turned to the presidency of abraham lincoln after a discovery of the library of congress. it marked a four-year hunt for other documents culminating in his book, co-authored with sebastien page, lincoln and the movement for black resettlement. in addition to writing, dr. magness has programs at george mason university. he's also taught in public administration at american university. and international trade at gmu. also in his biography is something i find fascinating. he's an avid scuba diver, and plays underwater hockey. for the washington, d.c., and i love this name, beltway bottom feeders. [ laughter ] there's probably no end of applicants for that team. after dr. magness makes his presentation, rodney ross will come to read a poem of john willis menard that is very appropria app

>> he put hit his political power behind it and, ven the senate president, thomas mike miller, who represents prince georges and parts of charles county, said he voted against it and that he knew he was on the wrong side of history. it took a lot of work on the governor's part and that is why this is such a significant thing for him personally, to sign this, and there were enough people in the house convinced this was the time. and we're about to see history in a moment, we believe. >> as soon as the governor takes to the podium, we'll go back live to share that ceremony with you and he's signing a law to make gay marriage legal in maryland. >>> and meanwhile, a controversial part of president obama's healthcare law dealing with birth control will stand. republicans today tried but failed to roll back a provision to allow employers and entires to opt out of the portions of the law they find morally objectionable. at issue is the large requirement that insurers cover the cost of birth control. some religious groups reject that to that provision. >>> the man known as the aspen hill rapist will locally die in

i guess he hates thomas jefferson and george washington and aristotle. >> do i hate thomas jeffersona where my family lives, the birth place of presidents, i maybe wish we could bring the guys back. >> so brian, let me ask you quickly. this ipad 3 -- >> impress us. >> you know what, it's called the new ipad. they dropped the number. the market was a yawn. it has a high def display. it was kind of a snoozer. >> okay, brian, thank you so much. we greatly appreciate it. >> see you tomorrow. morning "morning joe" in a minute. hey, did you ever finish last month's invoices? sadly, no. oh. but i did pick up your dry cleaning and had your shoes shined. well, i made you a reservation at the sushi place around the corner. well, in that case, i better get back to these invoices... which i'll do right after making your favorite pancakes. you know what? i'm going to tidy up your side of the office. i can't hear you because i'm also making you a smoothie. [ male announcer ] marriott hotels & resorts knows it's better for xerox to automate their global invoice process so they can focus on serving

and also my previous books, last book i wrote was about george washington, one prior to that was about thomasjefferson. so there's a kind of logic to writing about the federal america, so i was kind of in this general vicinity. and the chronology fit. and i did also know all of it about dolley madison which also attracted me to the subject because it makes all the more interesting. traditional history in the past has always been sort of great white guys doing all these things, now we can talk about spouses, talk about children, talk about art, talk about architecture. and i think that taking the sort of more broad-based approach i thought maybe could make the history a little more interesting. so that is what i hope to bring to it. thank you. well, oh, another question. >> of all the public, the public buildings in washington were burned except for the old brick building which was inhabited by the u.s. marines. and the, that at the time, rumor has it that the royal spared it from burning out of respect for our marines but nobody knows the absolute truth. can you shed any light on that? >> you

it shows you then that even a slave owner like george washington was willing to recognize merit he saw it. not so another american political leader, thomas jefferson, who dismissed phyllis bheet wheatley's poetry as inferior and not worth the label of litera literary. nevertheless, i think what this whole episode shows us is that for phyllis wheatley and for the americans who witnessed the flourishing of her career, it was possible to see that black people were capable of much more than anyone had given them credit for. surely most of the leaders sitting in philadelphia in 1776 would not have anticipated this as part of the revolutionary legacy. but as exceptional as wheatley's abilities were, she was not the only enslaved person to believe that the rhetoric of the american revolution applied to them. in many states, north and south, enslaved people took the ideas of liberty, equality, rights, freedom and started applying them to themselves. in some states, enslaved people petitioned their state legislatures for their liberty. sometimes they appropriated the very words of the declaration of independence in asking for their freedom. in ma

thomas. good morning. what's going on here george zimmerman claimed he shot martin in self-defense. the family is questioning that, asking how could he claim self-defense when he was the one to pursue martin? and another one of those 911 calls when the shooter called 911 he ignores police request to stay put and wait for an officer to arrive. once he reported a suspicious look i looking guy, he ignored that. he followed martin and while the two got into an altercation and, of course, we know the outcome. now the family says that zimmerman targeted him for his race. they want him arrested and prosecuted for murder. this is what his mother told matt lauer on the "today" show. >> he was reacting to the chore of his skin. he committed no crime. my son wasn't doing anything but walking on the sidewalk and i just don't understand why this situation got out of control. >> reporter: police say they couldn't find enough evidence to charge zimmerman with a crime and have since handed over the case to the state department office. today students are rallying from various universities outside th

to not do this assumes that the government can make people do things that thomas jefferson and georgeashington and others specifically said were among the rights that we should defend the most vigorously, that we should hold the most dear, that we should not let a government interfere in these basic rights of conscience -- a term of thomas jefferson when he wrote the new london methodist in 18 1809. these rights of conscience are an area that we should not let the government get between the american people and their religious beliefs. and our laws since then, whether it's for hiring or in the case of any health care discussion have always anticipated the protection of this first amendment right. not a specific thing but, again, if you're not offended by the things that some people are concerned about today, it's important to think of what you would be offended by. what your rehe lijous belief leads -- religious belief leads you believe to be wrong and how you would feel if the government says now you have to be part of that activity. and i'd like to turn to my good friend from nebrask

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host: clarence thomas, nominated by george h.w. bush, took the seat in 1991. his wife is active in conservative cases. ses.au detroit, don, democratic caller. go ahead. caller: looking at this, i wonder if i've awakened to some orwellian government. -- nightmare. it's hard to believe the government will force me to buy insurance or else. insurance companies, who in my opinion are kind of criminal, because they deny health care at every opportunity and they raise premiums every chance they get. so i will be forced to do business with companies whose practices i disagree with in principle. this is really amazing to me. there's going to be trouble. i can promise you that. host: you are calling on the line for democrats. caller: i am a democrat. i voted for obama. four years ago, i supported hillary, which raise a lot of eyebrows. i still supported her. i'm not one to vote for obama. i'm going to sit out or vote for a republican in spite of what's going on. host: will this issue bring you to the polls to vote for someone other than president obama? caller: what wi

thomas. >>> we'll show you what's taking place on capitol hill. actor georgetestifying before the senate foreign relations committee about the crisis in sudan. he gave riveting testimony about arriving in a rocket ravagedville anl during a recent trip there. >> three days ago, 15 bombs were dropped on a neighboring village. when we got there, we found children filled with shrapnel, including a nine-year-old boy who had both of his hands blown off. >> george clooney will be on hardball with chris matthews here on msnbc. tune in for that. >>> on a different note, the united nations estimates that 5,000 women each year are the victims of honor kills, murdered by members of their own families for being disobedient. a remarkable woman was nearly among that number. i first heard her story at laos week's women in the world summit here in new york city. she was threatened with death by her own parents for seeking to escape an arranged marriage in her native pakistan. an ordeal she documented she titled my fight for faith and freedom. it's nice to have you here. your s

that's being put on this now, ron, what are the chances that george zimmerman will be arrested because of police pressure? >> it's hard to say, thomas. but i think those 911 tapes are the key to this case. they were just released over the weekend. and remember this incident happened some three weeks ago. and nobody was really paying attention to it back then. the tapes really reveal a lot about what happened. the last part of the tape that you played where the dispatcher tells zimmerman not to follow the guy, that we can take care of this, essentially, that for many people is the most damning thing. zimmerman claims self-defense. people ask, how can you claim self-defense if you pursue someone and apparently initiate the contact because by every account, the young man was trying to get away, he was trying to go home to where his father and his father's fiancee were living, about 70 feet from where he died. that's the heart ft of the case. because those tapes are public, that's why there's so much anger and so much pain here. i have to believe that law enforcement has to respond to that in some way. >> ron allen and joy ann reed, tha

friend of shooter george zimmerman is making the rounds on tv shows defended his relationship with zimmerman and here is what happened a short time ago when he spoke with my colleague thomas roberts. >> one thing that we want to play is charles blow tacking to you last night about -- >> again, again, that interview had nothing to do with george and trayvon martin. >> it has everything to do about what you know about the man you're trying to defend because you weren't there at the shooting. >> neither was anyone else, and that's the problem. >> we talk about who george zimmerman is and you're trying to defend a man that no one else is showing up to defend, not even his own parents have come out for an interview. >> a major twist in the case, the report the lead investigator wanted manslaughter charges filed came as i mentioned last night and now there is word the call was made by higher ups the very night of the shooting not to file any charges. joining me from sanford is joanne reed, contributor, managing etd tore of the rio got come. you have this exclusive information. give us more details, please. >> tamron, what we already knew is the state attorney's office advised t

thomas, by now most of us have heard portions of the 911 call george zimmerman made describing trevanuspicious. did he go farther than that? after listening to the tapes more closely, some believe they can hear zimmerman referring to the florida teen with a racial slur. we're not comfortable using that word, but it's a derogatory term for african-americans. we normally wouldn't air this offensive language either, but we wanted to make sure that you could hear it and you can form your own opinion about what was said. let's take a listen to that now. >> he is running. on. >> he is running. which way is he running? >> down towards the entrance to the neighborhood. >> okay. which entrance is that that he is heading towards? >> the back entrance. [ bleep ]. >> now, we know that went by pretty fast. what we're going to do is rerack that audio and play it for you one more time so you can listen to it again. let's take a second listen to that. >> he is running. >> which way is he running? >> down towards the entrance of the neighborhood. >> okay. which entrance is that that is he heading towa

in january of this year michael thomas and mildred freeman were struck and killed while crossing oxon hill road in prince george's county. the driver didn't stop and has never been found. >> we don't have any answers at all. >> how hard is that? >> it's kind of hard because you always want to bring closure to at least see justice being done or have the person arrested. >> reporter: the couple who were walking hand in hand on their way to a bus stop are part of a troubling statistic. the county has the highest number of pedestrian fatalities in the state and like many victims the couple were not in a crosswalk. >> you know, when you are going to get a bus stop and you're going to work you're really not thinking about a crosswalk but the quickest way to get to the bus stop so you can be off to work. but, again, if they were in the crosswalk it may not have happened. >> waiting for the white sign that says it's okay to walk. >> reporter: for the first time in a decade the county has joined the metro area's street smart campaign. on wednesday officers were in langley park and other areas in the county providing infor

thomas sanderson at the think tank csis. phil, is this threat any greater than it was when george tenet talked about it ten years ago or is it now that everyone is talking about iran and hezbollah, so it's more rhetoric than anything else? >> well, first, i think you have to differianceuate between iran and hezbollah. we focus on hezbollah as a terrorist organization. they own lebanese politics in a way they didn't 30 years ago. and how they might respond to an iranian order might have changed. hezbollah is a different adversary than they were when george tenet spoke. iran is different as well. what we have seen in the past year is that attempt on the ambassador to the -- the saudi ambassador in washington and also attempts across the world in places like thailand and azerbaijan. so they're showing capabilities one thing. the real difference is they're showing the intent to go after people in ways they weren't five, ten years ago. >> thomas, would you agree with that, that they are showing the intent and if so, what would be the potential risks or types of attacks that they might try in the united states? >> well, i agree wi

thomas. >>> now to an abc news exclusive. the first video of georgefter the trayvon martin shooting. as you can see here, you see zimmerman entering the police department, hands cuffed behind his back. the images show no apparent signs of blood. it would seem to contradict his allegations that martin slammed his head on the ground. zimmerman's father spoke out for the first time. he didn't want to go on camera. in an overnight interview, he staunchly defended his son, insisting he's color-blind when it comes to race. >>> this morning the massive wildfire outside of denver is only 15% contained. also claimed two homea dozen ho and two people are dead. listen to the video here shot by one family trying to escape. >> where's mom? what's she stopping for? daddy. >> there it is. right here, right here. >> that family of five made it to safety by following a neighbor. >>> eye-opening new research on cancer. even though death rates slowly declining, doctors say smoking is still responsible for one-third of all cancer cases. the most troubling number, obesity

thomas joyce did not have satisfactory documentation at national archives. i also looked at library of congress. and the daughters of the american revolutionary library which has a lot of genealogical findings. george littlefield, there are several people named george littlefield who may or may not be him from saco, maine. there's always the wild card of the use of an alias. so that continues to -- in the process of trying to find these people. so here are a selection of gleanings from what i was able to determine. the widow offenwick was mary duffy fenwick. she was said to be pregnant in her pension application. she was living with her cyster in 1865 with a child named james. james died in 1870. and mary fenwick unfortunately died from cholera in 1871. we see there the marriage record -- her name was mary duffy at the time. and here are some hospital records. she went on to become a domestic. she died at boston city hospital in 1871. she was indigent at the time. you'll see there were four cholera victims the week she died. here's her sister -- her sister was katherine brown, at the end of her life. george fredrickson's family. george fredrickson was a border and where he met his life, magdalana.

and because, thomas, this whole thing, all of this, the one common denominator, the common denominator because of why georgealled in that first night, of why trayvon and george met together, of why george's family and friends won't come out and speak, of why we can't about where we work is fear. it's become a denominator. there is security around my workplace right now. >> i thought you weren't working now. i thought you left work. that's something you said last night on lawrence o'donnell. you've taken time off from work. >> i have taken time off. >> i went to work monday morning and i've had conversations with my employers and it was agreed that it would be best for the security of my co-workers that i take some time and i address this until i'm no longer a part of the story. >> are you -- are you worried for your own safety? >> yes. >> why? >> because of the threats out there. there would vail there have been veiled threats coming to my employer for me. i know we're seeing this that more and more and more facts about the case are coming out and they're going to be revealed and the motive and what happene

thomas sanderson. let me start with you, phil. is this threat any greater than it was when george tenet talked about it ten years ago or is it just now everyone is talking about iran and hezbollah, so it's just more rhetoric than anything else? >> first i think you have to differentiate between iran and hezbollah, two very different organizations. not the same partnership we might have seen in the early '80s when hezbollah was bombing embassies and killing marines. we focus on hezbollah as a terrorist organization. they own lebanese politics now in a way they didn't 30 years ago. in that sense, hezbollah is a different adversary than they were when george tenet spoke. the second and final thing is irans different as well. what we've seen in the past year is that attempt on the saudi ambassador in washington and also attempts across the world in places like thailand, so they're showing capability is one thing. the real difference is they're showing the intent to go after people in ways they weren't five, ten years ago. >> thomas, would you agree with that, that they are showing the intent? and if so, what would be the potential ri

george washington. she noticed the resemblance and put it up on ebay. she is donating the money to charity. call that mcwashington. now we'll drive to carve thomasnd of looks like you. >> i thought of ben franklin. >> i know my founding fathers. that does not. [ laughter ] >> peyton manning gets ready to say goodbye. i know my history and the giants say hello to him. he sends the dodgers a couple of okay, people, let's get started. pete, did you forget yours? me pete, me use pen! (laughter) sorry i'm late, i was in the 16th century looking for pete's pen. (laughter) guys, guys. take it easy, ok? pete's mom is videochatting me, and she wants her pen back! ok, alright, well. i just got one. so... yeah, you've got a little... yep, i can feel the wet patch. don't look at it. when it's on your mind, it's on ebay. >> dan: coming up tonight at 11:00, latest super primary results. mitt romney declared the winner in ohio. latest numbers and what bay area experts have to say about romney's big night and santorum's strong showing. >> what a homeowner did right before a river of lava went right through his home. those stories coming up on channel 7. layer.

george's county. county exec ty baker supports plans to build the plan. the measure would still need approval by voters in a referendum statewide. >>> former councilman thomas jr. is having a tough time repaying the city the $300,000. the office of the attorney general says thomas made a $20,000 payment earlier this week. he's paid a total of $70,000 so far. authorities say his most recent payment will cover part of the bills which was due at the end of last year. >>> the time right now is 6:56. and i am watching your money. the gas pump isn't the only place you'll feel the steady rise in fuel prices. expect to pay more to travel the skies too. but there are some ways to find lower airfares this spring. and summer. you're feeling it on the road and if you're booking a flight soon, you'll feel it in the skies too. jet fuel is the airline's biggest expense when the cost of oil climbs higher. it doesn't take long to be passed along to consumers. you might want to adjust expectations when it comes to spring and summer airfares. >> i think consumers really have to rethink what a low airfare is. for years now, the airlines have been basically lowering airfares, c