gillespie is off balance, bloodied.he gun is pointing directly at her face. >> i could feel god moving my hands and feet. i told people this before and some of them think i'm crazy but it was too perfect. i was there at the exact perfect second to do what i did. >> patrich dennis coughlan, a musician, a former monk, and the right man in the right place at the right time. >> when i pulled into the parking lot, i could see that the officer had pulled over a man and was checking his i.d. i didn't think anything about it. when i got to the front door, just as i was going in, i saw that he was slapping at her and grabbing for her gun. >> that's when coughlin makes a decision that could have deadly consequences. >> as soon as i got out there, i saw that they were struggling and any man who's struggling with a woman, i'm going to go help the woman, especially if he's two feet taller than she is. and whatever was going to happen, i was going to help her. >> coughlan deliberately walks into the line of fire, calmly, and almost s

gillespie is off balance, bloodied. gun is pointing directly at her face. >> i could feel god moving my hands and feet. i told people this before and some of them think i'm crazy but it was too perfect. i was there at the exact perfect second to do what i did. >> patrich dennis coughlan, a musician, a former monk, and the right man in the right place at the right time. >> when i pulled into the parking lot, i could see that the officer had pulled over a man and was checking his i.d. i didn't think anything about it. when i got to the front door, just as i was going in, i saw that he was slapping at her and grabbing for her gun. >> that's when coughlin makes a decision that could have deadly consequences. >> as soon as i got out there, i saw that they were struggling and any man who's struggling with a woman, i'm going to go help the woman, especially if he's two feet taller than she is. and whatever was going to happen, i was going to help her. >> coughlan deliberately walks into the line of fire, calmly, and almost ser

. >>> scott gillespie was accused of murdering a woman in october 2000 by. he was sentenced to life without parole in september 2006. his attorney says that he was wrongly accused and they say evidence points to the woman's husband. >> indicated that he was innocent and another individual, daniel horowitz, was likely the perpetrator. >> there was no question that scott gillespie bruli murdered the woman -- brutally murdered the woman. >>> a standard cisco man was convicted of second-degree murder -- san francisco man was convicted of second-degree murder. they say that it can shot 18- year-old michael price. sentencing is scheduled for july 8th. >>> obviously nature cannot read the calendar, especially when it comes to the weather. many out-of-town visitors try to put on a happy face. >> reporter: today's weather felt a lot more like march than the last day of may. >> it should be summer time. memorial day was yesterday and is freezing. >> reporter: some scrambled to buy umbrellas. >> i was hoping that someone would start but i guess not. >> reporter: the ge

field and president obama's re-election road map with former white house insiders anita dunn and ed gillespie. i'm candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." >>> the economy by the numbers. 54,000 jobs were added to the economy in may, well below what analysts expected and below what's needed to keep abreast of new people coming into the job market. unemployment, that rate rose to 9. %. and on wall street, the dow jones is on its longest weekly losing streak since july 2004. joining me the chairman of the council of economic advisors, austan goolsbee. so what do you have left to target that 9.1% unemployment? >> what you want to look at are what are the recent trends. because one month is not a trend. and the last six months we've added 1 million jobs in the economy. the last 15 months we've added 2 million jobs. now the president's the first to say that it's not enough and if the unemployment rate's 9%, we got a long way to go. i think the style of things that we've been trying to do are of the form, how do you help the private sector stand up and be the driver of recovery. the governm

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now tonight we'll speak with matt welch and nick gillespie about their new book the declaration of independence how libertarian politics can save america we'll get an update on the case of the newburgh four who received their sentencing today and will speak with advocates varying from the young turks about a new trend that affects women but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has decided to miss. while sarah palin has managed to make her way into the headlines again and this time because somebody else decided to make a movie about her because the media then used that movie as an excuse to follow her every single move and once again skip over anything that actually matters in this world sheryl paling brought her brand of celebrity to a movie premier attended by about three hundred it is a wonderful story about american values even if the reception you're getting here no no no it's no warm and literally no other way oh nice to get to office now even though i know that of course is the million dollar question is she going to run no answers to that here just a lot of speculation an

i have been on a few radio and tv shows or president clinton about the mike gillespie affair.eople have asked me how i think about that. i say that is the case of a leader line basically to save his own skin. that doesn't fit the category of lines. i'm looking at what i call strategic lines which are lines that leaders tell up for what they think is the national interest. >> host: one more example of a libel laws and national level. i think a good example of allied that backfired most would be a matt shock to know that the soviet union was the first country to put a ballistic missile in the air and the first country to put a satellite in aerospace. after launching the first entered continental ballistics metal -- missile, he lied to the american people, led to the american leaders and tried to give us the impression that it was a missile gap. they had this used to advantage in missiles over the next states. in fact among the did not have a huge a vantage missiles. we cannot tell what the boss was regarding this is because we did not have overhead satellites that the time that

axelrod who is now heading up president obama a re-election campaign and former rnc chairman ed gillespie. they spoke at the annual convention. cnn chief political correspondent leads this 20-minute discussion. we want to talk turkey and politics. >> some people think they're the same! >> how do you pick where you put your advertising dollars? >> look, it is a simple concept. we are all about targeting. we want to reach people who might vote for us or we need to mobilize at the most cost-effective way. i remember when i started off in this business a long time ago, the late bob squire was a media consultant. bob used to say all the media consultants should put together and put lawrence welk back on the air so we can target senior citizens, and you know, now we have more tools including cable television to target, but we spent the vast majority of our money last time on broadcast television, we spent about 12% or so on cable, and i think we will spend a little more now, but there is still some barriers on cable that we need to overcome. >> let me ask what the barriers are. >> well, the bar

people don't know exactly what it means a couple guests that have been on your show recently nick gillespie and matt we all should reason magazine are trying to define libertarian not as a as a noun but as sort of an adjective a pre-clinical instinct that sort of attitude that you bring to politics that i'm just skeptical of government in general and i'd rather just have my individual choices about the way i do business now if you define it that way broadly you can see or look much larger group of americans willing to identify themselves that way well since you brought up well actually there's a point that he made when also writing about this this poll today he said that basically americans have always been more radical than the people they actually elected to office we just never really see that manifest into any kind of action do you agree with that that's a very good point it almost seems like that radicalism even catches up two or three election cycles late so for instance libertarians have been complaining since the bush years about all this spending and now going to hold all the repub

congressman who might actually do the speaker of the job give you more on a leaner gate when nick gillespie editor in chief of reason c.v.s. reason dot com joins me in just a few minutes. into the we're making use of the doodle we're going to bring justice we're going to. write you know what might. government's true if you want to know why i pay taxes. i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story.

to our media culture and who the hell is really watching that here discuss this with me is nick gillespie and they're in chief of reason dot reason t.v. and reason thanks so much for being here thank you. just so i can you explain to me what's going on i wouldn't even be covering this honestly because i think it's so stupid i wasn't so taken aback last night when i was flipping through every single channel and all i saw was when are we in are we in are we are sometimes we all have days like that especially during puberty but you know part of it it's a slow news cycle right we've only got three wars and counting who knows. but secret wars were involved and we've got a debt ceiling crisis we've got an entitlement crisis we haven't had a budget for over a year and a half and probably won't have another one for two thousand and twelve so you know what are you going to talk about i do think though that this story which the new york post today called the battle of the bold choice was kind of clever you know this is the type of spectacle that fascinates people and it's you know it's somewhat lur

. >> it is mine curtilage to read "high-flying" by john gillespie, jr. sunward, i climbed enjoined the tumbling mirth of sun split clouds and done a hundred things you have not dreamed of, wheeled and sword and a strong high on the sunlit silence. i chased the shadow and flung my eager craft, the long delirious burning blue. whenever a lark or even eagle flew. and while with silent slipped in mind, the hyatt untruss past sent to the of space put out my hand and touched the face of god. ♪ okd>?fñz/i ♪ 9myop??ÑóÑÑ]óÑ7Ñ ♪ v=Ñççwñ ♪ ♪ >> scott, andrew, and jason, other members of the eagleburger family, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, some folks who come to washington are legends in their own mind, but not larry eagleburger. [laughter] he came to the capital filled with more than hopes for fame and glory. he had a higher purpose. that purpose was to serve his country. how long the way, he did such a wonderful job that he became a legend in the mind of everyone who knew him. this son of a wisconsin doctor and his schoolteacher wife,

ed gillespie not there anymore. gone, but quinn is still there.st important, you're there let's talk a little bit about the president's decision. biden rebuffed by eric cantor, jon kyl over the debt ceiling talks. monday the president has to roll up his sleeves. according to the treasury department, he had a month before the u.s. credit worthiness collapses. >> there's no doubt the president wants a deal. the question is the republicans. i have to say, it looks really bad that eric cantor stormed out of the bipartisan deficit talks. i don't think it helps mr. cantor or his party and doesn't help our country. we have a serious problem. it looked like serious people were making a serious effort to solve it. then eric cantor has a hissy fit and points and screams and cries for his -- >> he argued, eric cantor, the democrats kept saying, the president kept saying, you have to increase taxes as well. the republicans are saying under no circumstances in this economy will they increase taxes. >> four weeks they've been at this wall. they've been at this

presidential election with president obama's campaign strategist david axelrod and former rnc chairman ed gillespie. the convention coverage begins saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> your watch and cspan, bring you politics and public affairs every morning, "washington journal" connecting you with elected officials, policymakers, and journalists. watch live coverage of u.s. house of weekdays and weeknights, policy and supreme court oral arguments. on the weekends, you can see our signature interview programs. you can also watch our programming any time at c- span.org and it is searchable on our cspan video library. cspan, washington your way, a public service credit by america's cable companies. -- created by america's cable companies. >> remarks from the white house national economic council director gene sperling on the debt ceiling and the national debt. he spoke at the committee for responsible federal budget and a new america foundation conference yesterday. we will also hear from former republican senator alan simpson who cochaired the national commission on fiscal responsibili

presidential election with president obama's campaign strategist, david axelrod and former rnc chairman ed gillespie. coverage of the convention begins saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. here is presidential candidate newt gingrich at the republican leadership conference last night in new orleans. this is 40 minutes. >> i want to cut through the challenge we have over the next 80 months. i want to ask some of these questions. how many of you think america is currently on the wrong track? raise your hand if you agree. virtually all of you, right? how many of you believe that washington will fight very hard against to getting back on the right track? think about this. this is the key question about the 2012 campaign. i want to make his case to you. it is very important to defeat president obama but that is not enough. we need to pick up 12 u.s. senate seats -- [applause] and we need to pick up 30-40 seats in the u.s. house -- [applause] and we need to strengthen our position with state legislators and governors and local city councils and county commissions because if we are going to imple

. >> dizzy gillespie told me something he once asked louis armstrong: "pops, why you always looking up and armstrong said, "i don't know what i'm looking for, but i always find it." ( laughter ) ♪ >> reporter: the key for the nation, marsalis says, is education. and for these students: keep looking and keep playing. and that's just what the competition's ultimate winner, ft. lauderdale's dillard center for the arts, did. ♪ >> lehrer: and again, the major developments of the day. president obama talked about a debt reduction deal with congressional republicans at the white house today, but no deal was made. and a correction before we go. last night, we reported that gertrude stein bequeathed a famous picasso painting to the museum of modern art in new york. it was actually the metropolitan museum of art. and to kwame holman for what's on the newshour online. kwame? >> reporter: watch more of jeff's interview with wynton marsalis, and find video of a tornado tracking pod in action. plus, margaret warner has more on the lifting of the state of emergency in bahrain and what it may mean for

presidential election with david axelrod and former national committee chairman for the republicans, ed gillespie. >> the time ordered the world when i was growing up. >> page one producer andrew rossi looks at the newspaper industry. >> came into it without a grand sense of what the solutions are for traditional media. i came in with a desire to observe. >> will talk about his new documentary tonight on c-span "q &a." >> president obama's and personnel are reggie brown performed at the republican leadership conference in new orleans. he spoke for bad 18 minutes. -- for -- for about 80 minutes. -- 18 minutes. >> thank you all so much. i know that you are republicans but that wellcome is pretty weak. listen, i will go backstage and you will try that again. [laughter] [born in the usa] >> thank you so much, louisiana. that's what i'm talking about. that is a welcome. thank you. thank you all so much. yes weekend. -- yes we can. god bless you. well -- now, that's enough. it is my turn to speak. now -- it's great to be back in new orleans. is it hot outside or is it just al gore. ? let me be clear --

then a look ahead to next year's presidential election with david axelrod and ed gillespie. >> presidentbama and house speaker john boehner met today for a round of golf at andrews air force base in maryland. the so-called old, was reportedly a chance for both leaders to discuss some of their political differences. they were joined on the green by vice president biden and ohio governor john kasich. >> hi, everybody. this father's day weekend, i would like to spend a couple of minutes talking about what is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job, being a dad. i grew up without my father or brown. he left when i was 2 years old. even though my sister and i were lucky enough to have a wonderful mom, and caring grandparent's to raise us, i felt his absence. i wonder what my life would have been like had he been a greater presence. that is why i try to be a good dad to my own kids. i have not always succeed, of course. in the past, my job has kept me away from home more often than i would like. the burden of raising two young girls with sometimes all too heavily on michelle. bet

next year's presidential election with former obama white house senior adviser david axelrod and ed gillespiehe times ordered the world when i was growing up. >> "page one" producer and director andrew rossi takes an inside look at "the new york times" through the eyes of the staff. >> i came in

presidential election with a former obama presidential adviser and a former republican chairman ed gillespieordered the world when i was growing up. >> page one producer and director andrew ross it looks of the changing newspaper industry and looks at " the new york times"through the eyes of the staff. >> i came into it without a grand sense of what the solutions are for traditional. media i came in with a desire really to just observe. >> he will talk about his new documentary tonight on cspan's "q &a." >> "newsmakers" is coming up a lot. we will get a local perspective on how cities have been managing their budget in the current economy. there were in baltimore this weekend attending conference of mayors. here are some brief comments speaking at the meeting's opening news conference on friday. >> thank you and let me just say that i want to welcome all of our mayors who are here today. whether we come from the cities of new york, chicago, l.a., together, the metro economies of those three cities are larger than the 36 smallest states when you look at their economies. when you look at the f

axelrod who is now heading up the reelection campaign for president obama and former rnc chairman ed gillespieach people who might vote for us but we need to mobilize at the most -- in the most cost-effective way. when i started off in this business a long, long time ago, the late bob squire was a media consultant. he is to save that all the media should get together and put lawrence welk back and the air so we can target senior citizens. now we have more tools including cable television to target. we spent the vast majority of our money last time on broadcast television. we spent about 12% or so on cable. i think we will spend a little more now. there are still some barriers on cable that we need to overcome. >> let me ask what the barriers are. >> you often have to buy in a day parts and you cannot target programming to the degree that you can on broadcast television. there are fewer slots available. if you are buying local cable, in the past, you have not been able to get direct satellite television advertising. can do that at national level but not at the local level. sometimes it seems li

at 6:30, a look at the presidential election with david axelrod and ed gillespie.oming up live at 12:30 eastern, our coverage of the republican leadership on the conference, was speakers including buddy roemer, texas governor rick perry, and rnc chairman reince priebus. that is all day, live, starting a tall clock 30 eastern here, on c-span. >> c-span has lost a new easy-to navigate website. has twitter feeds and facebook updates from candidates and political reporters, and links to be partners in the early primary caucus stage. >> blackberry users, you can access our programming any time with the c-span radial application -- radio application. you can also listen to our signature and a deprograms each week, and it is available around the clock, were everywhere. download it free. >> next, a look at a bus safety and possible legislative responses. when mrs. include safety advocates, -- witnesses and could save the applicants, and the administration of the federal motor carrier safety and administration. this is almost till all hours. -- this is almost two hours. >>

then at 6:30 we will look ahead to next year's election with david axelrod and ed gillespie. >> from today's "washington journal," a discussion on the candidates for president on the republican side. this is a little over one not -- one hour. host: over here on the right is the national political reporter with politico. and the white house reporter. let's start with the baby important news of the weekend, the golf summit. any substance to that? guest: it was really more about the speaker and the president forming a bit of a relationship as they try to do business. most immediately the debt ceiling vote and the deficit reduction that the vice president has talked about. it was an interesting moment because barack obama is not someone who mixes business and pleasure, particularly on the weekend. this is something he has not done with any member of congress. there's a lot of intrigue from the press corps to see him and the speaker kicking back and having a couple drinks afterward. both of them had a good time. they won a bet. there was another funny thing they did which, we were wonderi