with us, jeffrey goldberg of the "atlantic's" magazine, jeffrey goldberg, paul gigot, and katty kay. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning. the president and his family are on day four of their ten-day vacation. before leaving for martha's vineyard, he made the case for democrats in tough races this november. here this morning, the current minority leader, the leader of the republicans, mitch mcconnell of kentucky. leader mcconnell, welcome back to "meet the press." >> good morning. >> we will talk politics but i also want to talk about the controversy surrounding plans for build a mosque and a community center in lower manhattan near the site of ground zero. here is "time" magazine out on newsstands now, is america islamaphobic? we know that it is their right to build a community center and mosque near ground zero. my question for you is, is it the wise thing to do? >> obviously this is not about freedom of religion in america. typically these kinds of decisions are made by local officials. what's been different about this one is you have the president of th

in stockholm thanks very much indeed dr goldberg for joining us as you can imagine it's pretty grim for us here in moscow and plenty of other parts of russia and not only are we concerned about the effects of these fires but also really perplexed why this country should be experiencing such abnormal heat this summer what's your reasoning. very heavy high pressure. positions. in two thousand three. hundred pressure pushed up a lot of hot air from. creating the loss of many lives and. quickly i know you're talking about high pressure and various reasons but we actually seeing a very very big change in global climate. change from climate is a weather phenomenon. the high pressure. bringing up from the tropics to your area and we've got some of the more weather to in scandinavia. so many scientists. many scientists is saying that this is a result of c o two emissions this is global warming caused by man and. there are a group of scientists who are living in sea and politicians who want. to . provide the politicians. to get a lot of research money to play with climate. if you think if yo

joining us, jeffrey goldberg, a republican candidate for governor of new york, former congressman rick, the bbc's katty kay and from "the wall street journal," paul gigot. welcome to all of you. i want to explore this mosque debate in greater depth. it's striking one of the more powerful republican figures in the country, mitch mcconnell, does not want to take a stand on it. rick lazio you are running for governor of new york and you have taken a stand. you have made a point of politicizing this issue. you have a web ad that i want to pay a portion of on the screen here. >> it just hit me in the gut. it doesn't have to be right here. it doesn't have to be at this site. >> you've been criticized by firefighting unions for using those images of 9/11. why is it that the mosque does not belong where they say it should go? >> i would say, david, there are millions of peace loving good muslims in america. this imam is not one of them. he's not a bridge builder. this is a man who in the same month people were burying their loved ones lost in 9/11 he said america was an accessory to the crime

i love whoopi goldberg. she's fun to party with. this last one is great. i love this one.a local news anchor from -- where are they from? do you know? we got to find out where exactly they're from. >> steve: america. >> jimmy: america. thank you, higgins. [ cheers and applause ] some town. it's hilarious. a local news anchor is introducing a story, and she gets one very important detail wrong. just watch. >> right after the break, we're gonna interview erik weihenmayer, who climbed the highest mountain in the world, mt. everest, but -- he's gay -- i mean, he's gay, excuse me -- he's blind. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: he's gay. no, no. sorry. almost. no, he's not gay. he's blind. [ laughter ] he's a blind man, he's not a gay man. anyways, all right, those are the clips we have today. questlove, let's see what you can do, buddy. [ cheers and applause ] [ record scratching ] >> they have power in their words. ♪ they could refudiate what it is that this -- they could refudiate what it is that this -- they could -- ♪ they could refudiate what it is that this -- they could -- they co

a heated exchange between white house party crasher mick kale salahi and talk show host whoopie goldberg. ♪ [ female announcer ] wake up to black silk from folgers. bold flavor. exceptionally smooth. >>> it's 5:21. accounts of what happened yesterday backstage between white house party crasher mick kale salahi and talk show host whoopie goldberg. whoopie after an interview apparently she was not a part of that interview but wanted salahi to talk about the night of the white house state dinner. after the show backstage, the two got into a heated exchange. salahi had accused whoopie of actually hitting her. if you want to catch "the view" today, it airs at 10:00 this morning. >> people want to see what happened backstage. no video on that. the fire station that responded to last month's blaze at trace elementary is going beyond the call of duty to help the students there. firefighters yesterday presented district officials with an american flag they found in the rubble of the burned building. they handed over a $5,000 check to help resupply that school. arson investigators are still trying

and whoopi goldberg? white house party crasher michaele salahi claims she hit her on the set. did she? >> you've been abusing me. >> excuse me. to the white house, please? >> jimmy: you know what, she didn't, but she did gently touch the crap out of her. we'll have the full story, and some stuff we made up, tonight. "jimmy kimmel live" -- back in two minutes. well, how far away is it? okay, we take a train 40 miles to a dude ranch where we pick up a couple of horses that we ride to a nearby river. then we canoe upstream to a helicopter that takes us to the conference. or we could book with hotels.com and stay closer. see, with welcomerewards, no matter where you accumulate 10 nights, you get a free one. huh. smarter. [ male announcer ] accumulate 10 nights and get a night free. welcomerewards from hotels.com. smart. so smart. challenge the need for such heavy measures with olay. new regenerist micro-sculpting serum for firmer skin in 5 days. pretty heavy lifting for such a lightweight. [ female announcer ] olay regenerist. patience, son. ah! [ female announcer ] sometimes, you

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. >> today whoopie goldberg hosted abc talk show "thview" respontdz -- responded to white house saladdy'slaim that she hit her. >> okay? salahi appeared on "the view" yesterday. the show released a statement showing the vid proved sal lan hi's accusations are erroneous and coletely unfounded. things got heated after the taping. >> so i went up to her and i told her that she knew i didn't hit her. and, yes, you know how i said it. choice words. (laughte >> whoopie said she's not sorry for what she said. salahi and her husband made headlines after showing up unyou invited on a white house state dinner. she maintains that her clients are not party crashs but victims of a communication error. >> meteorologist mike nicco has the forecast. >> a little communication error. somebody forgot to tell mother natu, hello! take a look outside, show you what's going on. clouds thick over sfo. we have an hour for flight arrival delays there. we'll talk about how some parts won't ev see the sun around the bay and how that could lead to record cold temperatures. >> we have new security concerns for apple's

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. >> today whoopie goldberg hosted abc talk show "the view" respontdz -- responded to white house saladdy'sthat she hit her. >> okay? salahi appeared on "the view" yesterday. the show released a statement showing the video proved sal lan hi's accusations are erroneous and completely unfounded. things got heated after the taping. >> so i went up to her and i told her that she knew i didn't hit her. and, yes, you know how i said it. choice words. (laughter) >> whoopie said she's not sorry for what she said. salahi and her husband made headlines after showing up unyou invited on a white house state dinner. she maintains that her clients are not party crashers but victims of a communication error. >> meteorologist mike nicco has the forecast. >> a little communication error. somebody forgot to tell mother nature, hello! take a look outside, show you what's going on. clouds thick over sfo. we have an hour for flight arrival delays there. we'll talk about how some parts won't even see the sun around the bay and how that could lead to record cold temperatures. >> we have new security concerns for

jeffrey goldberg is a national correspondent for "the atlantic" and has covered the imam extensively. he has actually walked the walk. he goes to churches. he goes to synagogues. he talks about the commonalties. he condemns terrorism. fundamentalism. in all forms. including islamic fundamentalism. i've seen this. >> reporter: still, some don't buy it. they say the imam is a sympathi sympathizer, pointing to this interview with "60 minutes. ". >> i wouldn't say the united states deserved what happened but the united states policies were an accessory to the crime that happened. >> reporter: his wife came to his defense on abc's "this week." >> it was a longer interview. and in the longer interview, he talked about the cia support specifically to osama bin laden and the taliban. >> reporter: in fact be a spokesman for the imam reiterated that, telling us the comments were, quote, taken out of context. he went on to describe the mistakes the cia made in the 1980s by financing osama bin laden and strengthening the taliban. and what about claims that the imam sympathizes with hamas? asked i

and dr fred goldberg a climate alice from the royal institute of technology in stockholm believes there is nothing abnormal about the high temperatures in russia the summer. on the very heavy high pressure locates itself in various positions. in two thousand and three it happened off the coast of france and is heavy with high pressure pushed up a lot of hot air from. the creating of the loss of many lives in france and central europe you know it's not a change of climate is a weather phenomenon so my point is that this year you had this heavy high pressure over central asia bringing up there from the tropics into your area. to time but to read the entire of television fifty years ago so we never heard about it in the same way we're hearing about it today. now the fires have destroyed crops in russia but other countries are having their own issues with the food supply. in burma but hopes that such as this would fix roofs the green sleeve but when green a store template it would be like this with just a plastic cover to people at the rain it can last only one year. we have reformed by tho

and hundreds like him would flood to russia to quash the flames you are at it essex and dr fred goldberg a climate analyst from the royal institute of technology in stockholm believes there is nothing abnormal about the high temperatures in russia of the summer. no longer going to have the high pressure locates itself in various positions. in two thousand and three it happened off the coast of france and is heavy a high pressure pushed up a lot of hot air from the so horrid the creating of the loss of many lives in france and central europe you know it's not the change of climate is the weather phenomenon so my point is that this year you had this heavy high pressure over central asia bring enough air from the tropics to your area beyond this all stars all the time to read the entire of television fifty years ago so we never thought about that then the same way we are hearing about it today. russia's unprecedented heat hasn't just brought misery it's bearing fruit as well literally in the central russian city of a far the locals are enjoying an unprecedented harvest of tropical fruits st

talk to fred goldberg a climate analyst from the roll institute of technology in stockholm thinks there is nothing abnormal in the high temperatures in russia this summer which can be explained by the laws of nature. on the. high pressure located in various positions not to change our climate as a weather phenomenon. my point is that this year you had this heavy high pressure over central asia bringing up from the tropics to your area to be in the floods. all the time but to really into of television fifty years ago so we never heard about it in the same way we are hearing about it today the climate is controlled by some activity and ocean currents right now we have the same conditions as we had in the early one nine hundred forty s. which were very cold winters predicted that this last cold winter in may last year and i'm predicting another even maybe even colder winter next year coming in the winter. and also predicted a warm summer which seems to be correct. here with much more coming your way later this including nuclear brinkmanship and you can watch as iran is taking the next step

when i was trying to introduce adam goldberg, i made myself laugh so much that i couldn't introduce him, what is probably not the most professional piece of television late night that you'll ever see and i will admit that we are not probably not maybe not the most professional show on television but i will dell you this. -- tell you this. we are enthusiastic and -- that's about it. [applause] and we're not always -- [applause] please, you'll move the nitrous oxide around. i would also like to apologize to french canada. i called you evil canada and of course you're not evil. it is just a comedy construct i was trying to put together nourd to try and in order to try and cover up the fact that we have no material. but you're not easterly, french canadians. you're just french canadians. [applause] what? good night, everybody!,,,,, our real national pastime? saving money. and like baseball people love their stats. i started bringing my lunch to work -- 50 bucks a week in my pocket. here's a good one: state farm insures 40 million drivers. more than geico and progressive combined. i saved be

them or even go so far as to take photos and just tell the story of what i witnessed and dr fred goldberg a climate analyst from the royal institute of technology in stockholm believes there is nothing abnormal about the high temperatures in russia of the summer. they're going to have the high pressure located in various positions. in two thousand and three it happened off the coast of france and it's had be high pressure pushed up a lot of hot air from the so horrid the creating of the loss of many lives in france and central europe you know it's not a change of climate is a weather phenomenon so my point is that this year you had this heavy high pressure over central asia bringing up there from the tropics into your area it's almost beyond the soul stirrers all the time to read the entire of television fifty years ago so we never heard about that then the same way we're hearing about it today the blazes are raging and so is the debate about what's behind the situation and russia so have your say at our web site r t dot com and today we are asking what is to blame for russia's devastatin

. >> and today whoopi goldberg host of "the view" reresponded to white house party crasher's claim whoopi hit her. >> oh. >> okay. okay. >> and salahi appeared on "the view" and the show released say statement that shows her accusations are unfounded. things became heated after the taping. >> i went up to her and i told her that she knew i didn't hit her. and yeah. you know how i said it. choice words. >> whoopi says she's not sorry for what she said. salah skpismt her husband made headlines after showing up uninvited to a state dinner. the lawyer calls her client's appearance on the show degrading and demeaning and maintains her clients are not party crashers but victims of a communications error. >> and don't get whoopi angry. you won't like her when she's angry. >> u tube's life in a day project, a film documentary experiment aimed at capturing live around the fwhorld a single day july 24th. video submissions in 45 languages submitted from 197 countries. they've got 4600 hours of footage. submitted now reducing to 100 hours. there is a final film that will premier in january in sundanc

this up is because lately we've just been hearing too much from the john bolton's and the jeffrey goldberg of the world and now you know there's a new article by robert kaplan in the atlantic those reverting back to henry kissinger's book from one nine hundred fifty seven in which he talks about limited nuclear war as the best deterrence. do you think of these guys are a little too bomb happy. yeah but to put it in a word yes absolutely there are there are always going to be elements within every society who gravitate toward the u.s. or terror and toward the violence and for whom violence is the easiest solution and and there are going to be always intellectual snobbery society who are going to route violence the easy solution of violence which frankly typically isn't actually is a solution going to wrap it in an intellectual mystique and justification kissinger did that with it nom so i frankly i think unsuccessfully he's a i think most of the world judges him as a war criminal and and suggested that we should even consider nuclear as you point out back in the fifty's suggested that we sh

. >>> reporter: jonathan goldberg came to golden gate park's rose garden to enjoy, what else, the roses. but in recent days, someone else is doing more than just taking a quick sniff. >> whoever took them probably took them to sell them or to grow more cuttings or -- >> reporter: what would you say if i told you that they clipped them and left them right here? [ pause ] >> quite sad. >> reporter: that's right. roses plucked not for their beauty or even to give to a sweetheart but only for the sheer act of vandalism. >> take years to recover. >> reporter: that's michael, who put a lot of hard work into taking care of these roses for the past two years. his reaction? >> it was like wow, you know, that was -- that wasn't the way it was the day before when i got off of work. this is the last of the blooms. so it's kind of a shame. >> reporter: but this is not the first time or first planned beheaded by the razor's edge just one one month ago 16 eucalyptus trees were cut down in similar fashion. >> a cereal horticulturalist. >> reporter: that's leading park official to step up patrols and ov

. >> reporter: jonathan goldberg came to golden gate park's rose garden to enjoy, what else, the rosesin recent days, someone else is doing more than just taking a quick sniff. >> whoever took them probably took them to sell them or grow more cuttings or-- >> what would you say if i told you that they clipped them and left them right here? >> um -- that's quite sad. >> reporter: that's right. roses plucked not for their beauty or even to give to a sweetheart, but only for the sheer act of vandalism. >> it will take years to recover. >> reporter: he's put a lot of hard work into taking care of these roses for the past two years. his reaction? >> wow, that was, that wasn't the way it was the day before when i got off of work. this is the last of the blooms, so it's, it's kind of a shame. >> reporter: but this is not the first time or first plants beheaded by the razor's edge. just one month ago, 16 eucalyptus trees were cut down in similar fashion. >> serial horticulturist? >> we don't noa. >> reporter: parks have offered a reward, little comfort to those who stopped to smell the roses.

. >> someone else who speaks her mind, whoopi goldberg. >> what she's talking about is this.an see the lady, michaele i think was her name, i don't know, she was talking and whoopi comes up and touches her on the back, she's talking about some fight on "the real housewives of d.c." whoopi says, get back to the white house. according to michaele, a lot of things happened backstage. she says when things got really heated, when tariq, the husband, started pulling out his cell camera and taking pictures of them exchanging those choice words. >> no wonder she kind of went nuts. two things to clear. one, whoopi did not hit that woman. doesn't seem to be the case. it was a little weird she would take it upon herself to play the producer and come onstage and tap her to change the topic. >> she said, that's how i do the show. too bad. made no apologies either. information and free scooter guarantee. imagine... one scooter or power chair that could improve your may entitle you to pay little to nothing to own it. one company that can make it all happen ... your power chair will be paid

i want to go forward. >> that was whoopi goldberg, and she leaves when she's passionate about someonebackstage, and you can tell puts her hand on her arm. she wants to get back on track. >> i think what she was saying to her, let's get back to washington and the white house conversation about the party crashing business. then after that apparently it was a very emotional time to be had. >> yes. what we don't see is what happened, obviously, afterwards. we've always told you all that. if you could see what goes on before and during commercials and after the show, we'd be a hit. >> we'd be on fire, but we're going to hear what happened after the show, we're going to hear from the housewives of d.c. by the way, they're show is debuting tonight. >> it debuts tonight. >> it all bodes well for the opening. >> is everyone here? we have some. >> they're dribbling in. >> they're all here. the gang is all here. >> but phoenfireworks will ensua little bit. >> i wonder if her husband is here. >> i haven't seen him. it's frustrating because we're observers on the whole thing. you know how i feel a

. >>> we're talking about whoopi goldberg before we went to break and what exactly happened on "the viewand controversy. take a look at what happened. the ladies on "the view" are up there. they're doing their group thing. michaele or michaele, i don't know how you say it. the gate-crasher from the white house is there. did you see what happened? you're going to see it again. she is talking about something completely different. and whoopi comes up and touches her. two very different interpretations. >> why is whoopi not on the touch with the rest of them? >> they were talking about "the real housewives of d.c." that this lady is going to be on. and whoopi came up and said along the lines of get to what happened at the white house. now, what she was -- >> the state dinner. >> right. >> she was obviously referencing that. now, michaele or however you say her name. i don't want to learn. she took it as startling and threatening. immediately after this played out, whoopi and the lady had some harsh words exchanged. >> backstage? >> with michaele or whatever her name is, with her attorney she

justice goldberg, the conservative, saying the constitution is not a suicide pact. it cannot be our protections of first amendment and liberties are so strong that we can allow a virus to take -- take down the entire american electric grid in fear of restraining free speech. on the other hand, as jeff has outlined, the mechanisms by which we allow that need to be very carefully thought through. or we are going to run the risk of shutdown -- shutting down people who just disagree with us. one more question, from this gentleman here in the front. and then we will move on. >> thank you. students in cyber security at university of american university college. we know that most of the problems -- actually under cyberspace, related to lack of proof -- most security implementation. is there a way the focus should be shifted to the security of those software, principally the software targeting the critical infrastructure? thank you. >> i think that is exactly right. a vast amount of the problem is insecure software. it is badly designed software. software written by people

august 6, there was an interview posted at his home that has been circulated and in it, jeff are ry goldberg asked him how he was doing. "i'm dying, he said. i would be lucky to live five years. he dismissed the notion that his cancer would leave him to make a tardy confession of faith and if it did, if such a confession would be valid. here is an excerpt from earlier this month. >> part of the battle, because there is supposed to be a struggle with cancer, is the one which people must battle. your don't read that they die from a long battle of old aim. they battle with cancer. are you realistic, fatalistic? guest: i'm a realist. age something depressing. i would be optimistic to say another five years. host: the entire 8-minute interview is available on the atlantic website and the piece in "the new york times." back to your calls from the bush blame game, the focus, the bush tax cuts, but the extension of the bush tax cuts is the opening salvo of a generation defining fight with medicare and social security spending set to balloon as baby boomers retire and grow old. what do americans expe

. >> whoopi goldberg?h. >> she livens up everything. she's known for animated characters. and even if you don't get who she is, there's something special about her voice that just makes you happy. >> i like hearing her. >> where are you from, odessa, texas. >> let's watch a clip from our next commercial from budweiser, okay? >> these days, it's out with the old, in with the new. true, it didn't have a water dispenser or an ice-maker. but it does have is plenty of room for what's really important. >> got any ideas, i can give you a hint. want a hint? >> he played roles ranging from batman to bank robber. >> i see his face, but i don't know his name. >> glover? >> ladies,is an hour show. >> i don't know. >> you're going to love my record. >> the answer is the sexiest man alive most years, george clooney. >> george clooney. even if you don't get that it's george clooney, there's something special and majestic in his voice, so that you know the commercial is more important and it will give you a kick to figure