back to what wayne graham has done here. they have been to seven college world series since 1997 was the last 13 years. seven trips to omaha. won the national championship. 0-2 pitch. & presley goes down swinging. taylor ball records his tz.c and steve back with you at houston park. so far a well pitched game. >> steve: goodnight has great stuff. wall looks like he is come swag great prove groove here. see what goodnight does this next inning. >> matt: this is game number one of the conference series and game two of the silver glove series as we move to the bottom of the fourth inning. five hits so far for the rice owls. only one hit for the cougars. abe gonzales batting for the second time. got a walk the first time. >> steve: for the fist three- hundredthings he's thrown 62 pitches. this is going to be a good inning. >> matt: gonzales a junior. out of houston. >> steve: you would love to see that starting pitcher in the first game of the three game series go deep. >> matt: 2-0 pitch to gonzales. popped up out of the play.

son, of course, of reverend billy graham, a watchdog group says that graham's past description of islam as an evil religion, he said that right after september 11th, could stir up muslim extremists and put u.s. troops in danger. graham defended his decision this morning. >> we're in war, and we need to pray for our military, we need to pray for our president and all those in authority. that's what the national day of prayer is all about. it's not about islam versus christianty or whatever, it's about a nation, coming together, and praying for its leadership, and that's what we're going to do on may sixth, national day of prayer, to focus this nation on praying to god, to ask for his help. martha: all right, that was franklin graham this morning, and joining me now is no relation, but he's michael graham, radio talk show host we all know from boston. good to have you with us today, welcome. >> you break my mother's heart every time you remind her that i'm not related to franklin graham! if i were looking for problems with riled up muslims at the pentagon, i wouldn't be worried about fran

coach graham seems dissatisfied in our talk with hem. he seems the offense is starting to click. he should see more pitches to hit. >> you mentioned anthony rendon the 2009 national freshman of the year. no sophomore slump for anthony in 2010. >> absolutely not. leading the nation in walks. definitely and the country. everybody knows what he did last year. he is picking up where he left off. >> 2-1 in conference usa. they are at the bottom or near the bottom in run, scores, hit or doubles. his third year starting. >> lake kelso is the ignition of this team. guys like this at the shortstop position tend to lead the guys on position. >> our two starting pitches tonight both are sophomores for the cougars. michael goodnight. the left hander for rice. all conference usa. he is 0-4 to start this season. it's the riow two game losing streak. game losing streak. first pitch is coming up next. fhe o. freci hit uy, at g [ nnou wir on ]tch tch fmalencerstar fth ws fu a boey-cn cr [ ] natie, in! >>> and we are back at reckling park in houston, texas for game one. for these conference town r

. >> steve: we'll see if graham keeps him in the game. if i'm wall i would be pleading my case to stay out there. he's only given up one hit. >> matt: bottom of the seventh and new pitcher out there for the houston cougars. and the new pitcher -- >> steve: tanner shiflett. >> matt: a sophomore out of texas. east junior college. his numbers his fifth appearance on this season. he has not been used that much. shiflett no record. 1.17 e.r.a.. five hits allowed. three walks. three strikeouts. hitting .192 against him. third pitcher used by the cougars tonight. >> steve: has diego going to the expects this from a guy you are looking for a specialist is awesome. >> matt: >> matt: s looks like he got a piece of his jersey. going to have a pinch runner for him right here. >> steve: he doesn't run well. >> matt: exactly the point. he does not run well. the tenth runner will be much anymore. usually the definition of a -- the pitcher has to show distance and direction on that kick off throw. >> matt: houston has six walks three overteem by foodnigh

bush meeting there with billie graham and also bill clinton meeting with billy graham.show you these three, 12 u.s. presidents dating back to harry truman met to the pastorst president as you call him. how important a cultural figure? >> he is an awfully important cultural figure and one i think we're going to miss as time goes on. and it hasn't been a partisan thing. you go there and you pay hommage. you listen to what he has to say. >> more importantly, he is a unifier. there are people from all ideological divides that can, you know, when we look to our faith we look to its history as a big part of how we became a country. i think a lot of people afford that certain level of respect. >> we could use a unifying figure at the moment. >> you're right. >> next, we go out with pete on the street. he is looking at how the immigration law is playing in new york city. ♪ i'm going to own my own restaurant. i want to be a volunteer firefighter. when i grow up, i want to write a novel. i want to go on a road trip. when i grow up, i'm going to go there. i'm going to work with ki

there are coaches that have been here awhile with graham. 1-0 pitch hit into right field. will be caught. final out of the inning. the cougars threaten here in the top half of the second but are unable to push anything across. played an inning and a half with no score. faye wh're yng? - musiing 'm nna nite eas hea, w whoa.. lafa ju to throe da do yp th ing o do somewitharet makeard g itut o if ie-le to goughrkda thourett - ea - n re any ww cigs. anno ree lif thourettee, ecomorg. w wahink abitti >> matt: bottom half of the second inning. houston and rice scoreless. game two of the silver glove series. it's the series they hold every year. they have doing it since 1998. the rice owls have won 11 of the last 12 in the series. this is also game one of the conference usa series at rathjen steps to the box. >> steve: that's hitting by rathjen. typically want to get that to the outside part of the plate. rathjen catches his inside the ball and shot it up middle. good piece of hitting right there. >> matt: so rathjen aboard with a lead off single the owls have been able to get the

coach graham gives all the singles. runner on first base looking in as well.ically you see the third base coach giving those. >> matt: patrick is the first base head coach for rice. mike taylor in his tenth is >> steve: he calls him the best defensive shortstop he ever coached. >> matt: got under it a little bit. morehouse camped for the first out. >> steve: like you said right there. one of the lefty lefty situations. ball comes from behind him. the front shoulder flies over. consequently he's out on the end of the bat. weak fly ball to right field. >> matt: it's interesting give us old pitchers perspective what you see. >> steve: that's coming from behind him. you think of a right hander. throwing that pitch to a lefty. that hitter can see the ball a lot longer. it's coming from behind you. it's natural instinct to flinch a little bit. as soon as that front shoulder leads that is when power source leads a little pit. >> matt: 2-00 fuda. 0-3 in this ball game and struck out twice. but the lefty, lefty matchup is a little bit more difficult than the right hand

graham points out the youth had absconded from a facility under the auspices of the dyrs and he had a record of offenses starting when he was 9 years old. >> there was no sense of consequence waiting for them. you know. so why not commit a crime? why not carry a weapon? >> reporter: in an opinion piece in "the washington post," graham says he introduced legislation last week that would set up a commission to make recommendations on how to make it easier to share information between police, courts, and juvenile and social services. >> we need to come up with actual proposals, you know, to make the whole system more track there. or keep these kids in detention until they're 21. >> reporter: graham also says serious substance abuse treatment is needed for juvenile offenders, as well. reporting live from northwest, darcy spencer, news 4. >> all right, darcy, thank you. >>> police leave a person of interest in the murder of a college student from virginia may be in the d.c. area. that shooting happened last weekend at an all-campus party near texas southern university in houston. police sa

reverend franklin graham, son of billy graham was disinvited as part of a group that was going to hold prayer day for the pentagon. he was disinvited because franklin graham has called islam and evil religion. he said he doesn't like the way -- he loves muslims but he doesn't like the way that the religion treats women, he doesn't like the way that it's encouraged violence. right or wrong? quick answers from both of you? right or wrong that he was disinvite? >> i think it's very unfortunate that he was disinvited. there's not a more spiritual family in america than the family of billy graham. and for this incident to happen because of a statement that was made years ago as well as months ago, i think it's truly unfortunate. >> senator mendez, he backed away from that. he believes that. was it right? >> we should invite all faiths to be able to join in that prayer. we are one country and ultimately i would hope when they make choices like that, they let choices know that we're all praying collectively to one god and we need his protection. >> senator robert menendez and saxby chambliss,

graham has been advising presidents for 50 years.but this time -- this is the first time he's met president obama. >>> coast guard crews are working around the clock to try and stop a massive oil leak in the gulf of mexico. the leak off the coast of new orleans stems from an oil rig that exploded last tuesday. 11 workers are still missing and presumed dead. crews discovered the leak over the weekend. oil is now leaking at a rate of 42,000 gallons a day. now crews are working to drill a relief well. the peer is that if the oil makes its way inland, it could threaten shores from louisiana to florida. >> the impact of drilling impacts more than just the marine environment, it puts coastal communities, beaches, industries such as commercial and recreational fishing at risk. >> the coast guard says the oil should stay about 30 miles off the coast for the next three days. >>> stay with us everyone. "news 4 today" continues right now at 5:00 a.m. >>> as soon as we opened the door and we run in, it was like a bomb went off. next thing you kn

give me an idea what took place in their meeting at the graham household? >> really fascinating.ned from reverend graham's office while he's known to the pastor to presidents, he's now met with 12 of them from truman to obama, barack obama is actually the first sitting president to ever visit the graham home in north carolina. richard nixon also visited, but while he was a sitting vice president. it shows you that, again, this president trying to show respect to reverend graham who's 91 years old. we're told when then candidate obama in 2008 visited asheville, about 20, 25 minutes away from reverend graham's home, he wanted to meet with him then. the schedules didn't come together. it finally did today. what i've learned from the meeting, from a spokesman for reverend graham, is that the president sort of opened up a little bit about his faith. talked a little bit about the loneliness of the job sometimes. and at the end they prayed together. the president praying for this 91-year-old spiritual leader who has been in difficult health in recent months and years, but then reverend

graham's visit was set for may 6th, the national day of prayer.day itself is now in the middle of a legal fight. just yesterday, the obama administration appealed a federal judge's ruling that the official observance of a national day of prayer is unconstitutional. and last week sarah palin jumped in to debate, pointing to the founding fathers as proof america is a christian nation. so are we? tom forman tonight with a look at those who think that god and the country is one and the same. >> reporter: in the beginning, there was a wall, a mighty barrier built by the founding fathers to separate church and state, block one from meddling in the affairs of the other. >> i pledge of allegiance to the flag -- >> reporter: in school, we're taught that that's what makes our country special. but what if that wall never existeded? what if it's a myth conjured up in our lifetime to mass act greater truth, that america was conceived as a christian nation. >> the bible is the central most important influence in the birth, growth, and development of the united

lindsey graham, he is a rhino, public -- pond come on. he's ambitious but also in vicious to get things done. and so in a sense, the very person who was -- would have been the potential strong member of the club in the 1950's is now seem as a great exception. and i think that tells a lot about the differences in serving today and 50 years ago. so -- >> maybe you should briefly think the speakers. [applause] >> welcome so i think the theme of today and tomorrow is certainly change. i think eric did a good job telling us where we started as to where we are today and any one that follows the senate today seedier are vast differences but the change is slow and as each speaker today and each speaker to marlo talks about a particular area of change i think will become clear the changes are interrelated. any of the individual changes we talk about through the elections or different motivations and career paths of senators, the way that change can't be viewed alone we have to look at the norms and how those changes systematically as well and that

lindsey graham has been talking to the white house chief of staff rahm emanuel about a deal he would help them get the money to close-- graham would, close guantanamo will the administration would let khalid shaikh mohammed and others terrorists be tried not in u.s. civilian trials, but in military commissions, is that going anywhere. >> i don't think it's going anywhere much paul. guantanamo remember we used to talk about social security as the third rail of politics, a toxic issue no one would touch. virtually all of these are third rails because of the glare and publicity they get from the media these days. we went through health care and ended up with reconciliation, the most arcane in the congress and 75% of americans can talk in depth about reconciliation, right? >> unfortune turn to the country. >> to do what we have to do for a living, poor america. >> i don't think gitmo has a problem like that. they may on another national security issue be able to pass this treaty that the president just signed with the russians, the strategic arms reduction treaty start. i think that the

so what's lindsey graham's excuse now? i think he's being batted around between the moderate republicans and the far right republicans, that's been true of him from the beginning and it's true of him now. >> howard fineman, very eloquent tonight. thank you, howard. seriously. thank you. >> thank you. >>> the republicans going from opposing financial reform to claiming bipartisan strides had been made to effect it. to today starting the process of filibustering it. senator sherrod brown next on "countdown." number go up... and help this one go down. number go up... v8. what's your number? so, at national, i go right past the counter... and you get to choose any car in the aisle. choose any car? you cannot be serious! okay. seriously, you choose. go national. go like a pro. i thought you said carl was our best presentation guy. [ worker ] well, he is. last week he told my team about fedex office print online for our presentations. we upload it to fedex office, then they print, bind, and ship it. the presentation looks good,

now 91, graham has met ever president since truman.oday, president obama became the first to visit graham at his home. from west virginia, the president heads back to washington where he's got a fight on his hands this week ov over financial reform. john harwood joins us tonight from the white house. republicans say they're going to try to block a reform measure. is there a chance, though, of salvaging a bipartisan deal? >> reporter: there will be a deal at the end. they're close, as richard shelby told david gregory on "meet the press" this morning, but it's probably not going to occur tomorrow and democrats don't mind that at all. democrats are enjoying this fight, they think they're winning it, they're not easy to close the deal with concessions and if the headlines on tuesday morning say that republicans block consideration of wall street reform, that's not a problem from the standpoint of the democratic leaders. >> republicans said they were hung up on this $50 billion resolution fund. it's something the banks would pay in themsel

oil and gas industry long opposed higher gasoline taxes is warming to graham's plan. why? industry sees it as a potentially less costly alternative to taxes applied directly to oil and gas production. >> some in the industries might support this because they think it would save off something more onerous. >> reporter: environmentalists who longer advocated this now oppose it. they want direct taxes on carbon-base pollution. >> the key is to have limits on carbon pollution that drive down emissions over time. that invest in clean energy technologies and energy efficiency that breaks our dependence on foreign oil. >> reporter: the white house opposes any new gasoline tax but said it will continue working with graham on alternatives. also on the tax front, the first family's 2009 returns show they made $5.5 million. and paid $1.8 million in federal taxes. they gave $329,000 to charities. how is the president making that money? two best selling books "dreams for my father" and "audacity of president" sold better as president than when he was candidate. the salary for last year

from what i understand today, plans are on track for senators kerry, graham and lieberman to releaseision and bill for climate change on monday and i don't think you have to have one or the other. the president is not afraid to say these are issues i said i was going to address and we're going to address them. we can walk and chew gum at the same time. i will say this on immigration. i grew up in south texas. this is something i've been around my whole life and i have deep respect for the consistency for which pat has addressed this issue, but this is not an issue we can continue to ignore. we came very close to addressing this recently and we shouldn't ignore it. we can in fact move kerry, graham, lieberman forward and address what we need to do on immigration. >> let me take with -- mention illegal aliens. somebody breaks into your home is not an illegal guest. he's an intruder. these folks have broken into the united states. there are police officers being killed in arizona by these folks driving cars. one police officer says he has 64 live chases. these are individuals killing ci

lindsey graham's flip-flop. he bailed out of a deal on energy reform, because the white house is prioritizing immigration reform, a month after he called out the white house for not prioritizing immigration reform. while his fellow republicans try to filibuster wall street reform with an unclear conscience. the democrats lose this evening's test vote. >> what's the point of having 100 seats here coming from 50 states, when a major issue cannot even be the subject of a debate? >> perjury? palin testifies she never used her hacked e-mail account for business, but the e-mails from that account suggest quite the opposite. talking some smack at the white house. >>> and stephen hawkings said aliens from space would probably try to hurt us. all the news and commentary next on "countdown." >>> good evening from new york. protests continuing at this hour at the state capitol of phoenix, arizona. while calls for and outlines of boycotts of the various and extremely vulnerable aspects of one of that state's primary exports

lindsey graham and john kerry and joe lieberman were together going to come out on monday morning and plan to deal with climate change. lindsey graham pulls out and says that because the administration looks like it's focusing on immigration reform, the climate thing's not going to get done and theoretically it's doing it in protest. >> right. he's got some legitimate facts on the point that immigration has vaulted up. it's a controversial issue. >> yep. >> hard to deal with, and once you put that on plate, getting energy reform, which is also tough, dealing with climate change. >> yeah. >> to get a deal, you sort of muck up the works maybe and it's hard to get something done. you talk to democrats and they say, wait a second, it was lindsey graham urging the president to get immigration reform on the docket. he and chuck schumer, the democrat, got a bill. and they got a meeting with the president a few weeks back and they kind of feel that lindsey graham is protecting john mccain, for example, his mentor who back in arizona does want want to deal with the immigration issue, pretty co

are there a few people who agree with franklin graham, his decision about islam.sinvite him from speaking at the national prayer breakfast, is that fair. when i talked to one of the producers, i think it's good they did not invite him or disinvited him because i was taking my information from big newspapers of what he had said. then i studied it a little bit more and i realized if you take a look at what franklin graham has said about islam, it's quite balanced. he said, yes, i don't believe-- i believe this is a false religion, i think parts of islam does horrible things against women, but he's also said he thinks there are many, very, very good muslims, very, very good faith-filled people who are following the muslim religion and therefore, i think we have to say yes, he should be allowed to speak at the pentagon without a doubt. >> allowed to speak at the pentagon. a lot of people said when he said a false religion the criticism, well, this is the largest religion in the world. how is it a false religion? are all of these people misled. >> well, if i say, jesus

to work with graham on climate change bills. so the politics of this are very exciting and unpredictable. >> glor: meanwhile, let's go back to these goldman e-mails for a second if we can. we know the senate begins debate on financial reform this coming week. how do these e-mails affect that debate? >> well, they help the white house. the white house has been trying to say republicans are in the pocket of wall street to the extent that these e-mails make goldman actions and wall street look bad, that puts pressure on republicans. but democratic leaders in the senate say they don't have the 60 votes they need. what's keeping republicans held together on this is that they think while wall street is unpopular, that government is also quite unpopular so the notion that government is here to help you is not necessarily a winning argument in this case. >> glor: john dickerson joining us, as always, from washington. john, thank you. >> reporter: thanks, jeff. >> glor: still ahead on tonight's cbs evening news, heartbreaking medical dec

and lindsey graham, he is a rino , republican in name only. he is ambitious, but he also is ambitious to get things done. and so in a sense, the very person who would have been the potential strong member of the inner club in the 1950s is now seen as a great exception, and i think that tells us a lot about the differences in serving today and 50 years ago. >> maybe we should briefly thank every one. [applause] i think a theme today and tomorrow is certainly change. i think eric did a good job telling us where we started as to where we are today and anyone that follows the senate today sees there are mass differences. but that change is slow and as each speaker today in the speaker tomorrow talks about a particular area of change i think it will become clear that the changes in a related. any of the individual changes we talk about through elections or different motivations and career paths of senators, the way that changes can't be viewed along. we have to look at the norms and how those changes dramatically as well, and none of this can be is

. >> and before attending the miners' memorial, the president visited with billy graham. according to graham's son, the two men chatted about golf and prayed with each other. >>> and now to the environmental threat off the gulf coast, oil is now gushing off that platform that sank last week. it could go from louisiana to florida. matt gutman reports. >> reporter: for the first time, we got a notion of how long this disaster could last. the coast guard says it could take anywhere from 45 to 90 days in order to secure that wellhead. that means 42,000 gallons of oil could keep pumping into the gulf every day. the coast guard says it's going to start sending out 32 skimmers back into the gulf to try to corral that oil as quickly as it can. that slick is still 400 square miles wide, very large to contain. the coast guard and british petroleum is using a three-prong strategy. containers to use skimmers to corral that. and also robots to try to plug the leaks in the pipeline that's leaking the oil. and last, by far, the most expensive endeavor, to bring down new rig down that pi

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graham son of billy graham was supposed to appear at the pentagon on may 6th, the national day of prayer but complaints about his description of islam as evil as the -- has the military questioning whether they should pull the invitation. the military freedom foundation says it would offend muslim employees at the pentagon and endanger troops by stirring up muslim extremists. >>> president obama says it is very important his next supreme court nominee takes women's ' rights in to account in interpreting the constitution but he said the nominee will not have to past a litmus test on abortion. yesterday president obama and vice president biden met with top senate leaders to discuss the next nominee. the president plans to nominate someone by the end of may at the latest. the coast guard continues to look for 11 workers after their oil platform exploded. survivors are being reunited with their families this morning. more than 120 workers were saved. it's not certain what caused yesterday's explosion off of the coast of louisiana. seven survivors were injured. >>> it is time for another "liv

why won't you take the stand that franklin graham is taking?i run an organization called honorfree.com defending to defending president bush's legacy. i don't think it is appropriate on national prayer day for the government to support or endorse this person. >> one day after the president said in his consideration for the supreme court choice that women's rights has to be one of the biggest issues involved. recently, the ayatollah said that -- by the way they stone women in saudi arabia who wear mini skirts. the ayatollah said women who dress i am modestly cause earthquakes and -- and volcanoes. >> i want to read the full quote i think you left something out. what he says is, i want them to know they don't have to die in a car bomb in some kind of holy war to be accepted by god it is fate through jesus christ and christ alone. i find that to be inappropriate. >> sean: agree not a christian nation? >> we are a nation of many religions. >> sean: america was founded on the judeo-christian ethic that's a fact. >> i think it was founded on religiou

but senator kerry, longtime advocate of cleaning up the environment, lindsey graham, national security, energy independent, senator lieberman, similarly sees it as a security issue as much as it's a climate issue. they share these -- these priorities. each one is motivated a little bit differently by one or the other. but what it did was it got them all together. and what we are likely to see is legislation, somewhat like health care, in that it is a true compromise, so you can't peel it apart. you can't just say, well, we'll do the easy stuff and the popular stuff and not do the other. and what it involves is the democrats at its heart. the democrats get their tax on carbon, which will make alternative fuels instantly more valuable. if there is a tax or fee on carbon. they finally get that. and then the conservatives, the republicans, the coal state folks, they get billions and billions of dollars to try to develop new technology to make coal viable in the future, to make it cleaner. and the nuclear sector has a rebirth. gwen: but you said this is like the health care bill in some res

senator graham. >> thank you mr.irman. thank you mr. attorney general for coming. this has been a good discussion about some difficult issues but one thing i would like to reiterate is president obama said the nation was at war with al qaeda. do you agree with that? >> yes. >> i would urge you to remain strong in that process because some people we don't-- don't believe we are at war. some people believe we should be using the law enforcement model exclusively and i think that is a formula for disaster and there are some people who say you can never use article iii courts and i disagree with them. quite frankly there could be times when the article iii courts would be a superior forum echo in my view a financier of al qaeda you might want to take them to an article iii trial because you have more charging possibilities. every al qaeda operative is not the same level as the next, so i agree with the idea of flexible, pragmatic and aggressive. that is your standard so i am one senator on the republican side who has not

what kerry, graham, and lieberman, this bipartisan group, have been doing is meeting with individualndustry second t sectors to understand what would be the best way to work with them to achieve reductions. it's not a one size fits all response but understanding what's right for the electric utilities, what's right for manufacturing and transportation and that's what they're weaving together and i think that's what we see on monday. >> so one system for the energy sector, one system for transportation, and different kinds of tradeoffs for industry, different kinds of trading incentives, if you will, within different industry sectors? >> right. i think what's important is they are working with these industries. that doesn't mean that they're doing exactly what the industry wants in every instance but they're understanding what's important so that we can get the kind of market certainty and predictability so that companies here in the united states will make the investments to create the jobs. you know, you talk to a manufacturer of wind turbines and what they'll tell you is i'm going

. >> laura: look, you know, franklin graham was going to come and address the pentagon, okay, and peopleh him, don't agree with him, if you are a christian, you believe there is one path to salvation. you are a reverend. >> absolutely. >> laura: you believe there is a one path to. >> no, i don't. >> laura: i would say that 0% of crifingses in this country believe the path to salvation is christian yant. >> national day of prayer at the pentagon. why is that about -- >> laura: let me finish. >> okay. >> laura: would lead to you believe that christians would believe that everybody would become christians that's not going to happen in an ideal world that's what christians believe you want to be fisher of men. >> yes. >> laura: why say that franklin graham can't come and give a prayer when they're basically saying he we all need prayers. we can have muslim prayers, jewish prayers, christian prayers. >> actually we can't have that because franklin graham is a person who went one step further. he, on the record, as recently as this week on this very network not only says all people who are mus

because lindsey graham got very mad. he scuttled his own climate legislation because he says he's angry that the obama administration might bring up the issue of immigration reform first. quote, this comes out of left field. we haven't done anything to prepare the body or the country for immigration. senator graham's anger has been seconded now by the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell who said, quote, this isn't the right time to do immigration reform. republicans bending over backwards doing everything they can, skcuttling their own announcements to make sure immigration reform does not come up. remember when george bush wanted to do immigration reform in 2007, his own party bent over backwards and delivered their own president a huge political defeat on this issue because they were so desperate to not do immigration reformat the federal level. the fact that it continues to not happen at the federal level is ought the justification that some states need right now to deal with immigration on their own. which

graham preached to the team enjoy yourself and embrace the pressure uncharacteristic start for rice.o you feel it might be a spring board type victory? >> the past two games we duoout and have fun. you're not having fun throwing the ball. go out there and have fun throwing the ball. that's what i was doing. it worked. >> matt: i'm guessing a one hit shutout is fun. thanks for being with us. enjoy tonight. >> i appreciate it. >> matt: a big victory for the rice owls. maybe this is a victory that gets them going. >> steve: offensively they looked pretty potent today. you get moussing go at the top of the order. protecting rendon. what a shot in the wall. >> matt: roger will be on the hill tomorrow. houston trying to even up the series tomorrow night. we will have game two of the series coming up tomorrow night for those on com cast sports southwest at 6:30 central time. that's going to do it for the rice owls win the opener of the series by a final score of 6-0. ten hits only one allowed at rice now 15-12 in the season. houston drops to 12-12. coming up next is spring training along th

before the president heads to west virginia, though, he'll be meeting with the reverend billy grahamme. this is going to be the first time the president will be meeting face to face with the reverend graham. they've spoken on the phone before. and back in november, when reverend graham turned 91, they decided they'd try to meet face to face as soon as possible. a little bit of news this morning. we don't expect to see any television coverage of that meeting but maybe we'll get a picture later on today. >> thank you very much, athena jones at the white house. >> reporter: thanks. >> speaking of television coverage, msnbc will air the president's remarks at the miners' memorial. our coverage begins at 3:00 p.m. eastern today. >>> we're going to keep you posted on our top story, the aftermath of a deadly tornado in mississippi. we'll go back live in just a moment for that. >>> also, he's back in the public eye, and there's even a new documentary about him. does that mean eliot spitzer is thinking about returning to politics? - is he in? - he's in copenhagen. - oh, well, that's nice. - b

now lindsey graham-- . >> woodruff: facing a challenge. >> on the issue, in the very state that the cald ron, arizona. lindsay graham who became the successor for reasons that he expresses and i think also for internal pressure within the party is not joining chuck schumer in this effort. and i don't think there's any question, judy, that john cornyn the republican senate campaign committee said yesterday are you to the going to pass immigration reform when there is 9.7% unemployment. it requires a certain confidence and optimism on the part of voters to take a step this large. and i don't think it's there. i think there's a hunkering down. i think there is a defensiveness. and a agree with david that just the atmosphere and the pood are not there. >> and just to flesh out the lindsey graham point, he was promised that by harry reid, that he was going to really stick his neck out on energy and climate in that stuff. and that the democrats would not throw him gration on top of that. because it's too heavy a lift. he didn't think you could ask the country or the senate, especially republic

it's being propod by senators joe lieberman, lindsey graham and john kerry, that's an independent, a republican, and a democrat, bipartisan group. they're going to propose this as part of the new climate bill. a, it would raise an awful lot of money for the federal government, which is indidoo it can't pay its bills, and number two, it would finance some of the needed changes to control emissions. so it's a bipartisan group of senators, it's a proposal for up to 15 cents a gallon, and really, what it's all about is another proposed consumption tax, like the vat you've been hearing about, a tax on what you buy as opposed to what you earn. martha: my first question, does it have the votes to pass. >> that's a very good question. if you put it up for a vote right now, the flat answer is no. you've got the elections coming up in november. but after the elections, you will have this decifit reduction commission reporting on december 1st. maybe they'll say yes, a consumption tax like a gas tax is what is required. so after the election, it might be a different story from now, when the vote

we called billy graham the late billy graham. he's alive and well. it's one of those days.ur apologies for that. just aheated world's most fame d just ahead, the world's most famous magician accused of assaulting a woman. now his problems have vanished into thin air. next on "kelly's court." take 2 extra strength tylenol every 4 to 6 hours?!? taking 8 pills a day... and if i take it for 10 days -- that's 80 pills! just 2 aleve can last all day... perfect. choose aleve and you could be taking four times... fewer pills than extra strength tylenol. just 2 aleve have the strength to relieve arthritis pain all day. megyn: "kelly's court" is back in session. on the docket today, a disappearing act for a woman who says she was sexually assaulted. 23-year-old lacey carroll dropping her lawsuit against the world's most famous magician saying he subjected her to intense scrutiny. copperfield pulled carroll out of a show in 2007, she says he then invited her to his private island in the bahamas, and that's where she claims he sexually assaulted her and threatened to kill her. what are

republicans like lindsey graham. it will cover rogaine, jarrett hall and others. -- a jarrett all -- geritol others. we must keep -- i am going to make a personal trip myself to beverly hills. in closing, on a serious note, what is ahead of us is tough and not everyone agrees with my choices, however, by the end of my term, i promise that americans will have banded together for the first time and degree that once you got black, you do not go back. -- what should go black, you do not go back. -- wants hugo black, you do not go back. -- once you go black, you do not go back. >> our headliner tonight is a self titled all-american immigrant. he has come a long way from a rosie i add new immigrant to one of the hottest properties in the world economy -- world of comedy. since 2001, he has been a favorite among comedians and audiences alike. ladies and gentlemen, i give you joe wong. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. my name is joe wong. to most people, i had known as, "who?" that is actually my mother's maiden name. [

frankly, working with senator graham as well.e would be that we would have something that we will be able to share and put in place, more importantly, in a relatively short period of time. but this is something that has been, has been focused -- >> well, let me just repeat the 9/11 commission's recommendation that the united states engage its friends in developing common coalition approach towards detention and humane treatment of captured terrorists. i guess my point is that it's fine for us internally to develop a review process, but if we don't put some light on it, if we don't open this process up, if the we don't engage the international community, and if we don't engage the international community how we're going to deal with detainees in the future, this war's not going to end anytime soon. we're apprehending people today, and we still yet have a real international accord as to how these detainees should be handled. should we have another geneva-type convention to deal with? i think we're looking forward to some broader re

reverend franklin graham. i guess reverend, always nice to see you. >> good to see you.ta: i imagine this is grim news for this judge to do this what is your thought? >> i don't know what was behind it. we see judges like this making rulings from the bench and it is unfortunate it hurts all americans. the national day of prayer started in 1775 with the continental congress. where they asked the 13 original colonies to pray as they put together the constitution for our country. from that day, until today, our government has participated with churches and people of faith across the country to pray for its elected leaders. harry truman set aside this -- made it is into law. in 1988, it was president reagan who cite side the first thursday in may as the day for the national day of prayer. i just don't understand where this lady is coming from. why it is unconstitutional to ask people to is people of all faiths, greta this is for jews, christians, catholics, hindus, buddhists, anybody can pray. to coming together and uniting all of us to support our president as a christian t

councilman jim graham is -- [ indiscernible ] >> it's such a great importance of getting drunk driverswheels of their cars and into our subway cars and buses. >> reporter: graham is asking metro officials to look at cutting back rail hours on any other nights than friday and saturday when the night life crowd relies on late service. the board is expected to take a vote next thursday. >> thank you. >>> a heads up now getting around downtown d.c. this weekend could be kind of tricky. all of these streets will be closed friday because of world bank imf meetings. the closures run from 7:30 friday to 7:00 p.m. sunday. ddot is posting signs alerting drivers about changes. >>> he is supposed to be protecting a country. find out why a local air marshal is under arrest tonight. one driver accused of killing a mother of four. the bizarre reason his attorney says he shouldn't be facing murder charges. >>> a bombshell in the church sex abuse scandal. find out what a new lawsuit says the pope knew about and when he knew it.  >>> the man accused of causing this deadly accident in sout

senator graham. >> thank you mr. chairman. thank you mr. attorney general for coming.s has been a good discussion about some difficult issues but one thing i would like to reiterate is president obama said the nation was at war with al qaeda. do you agree with that? >> yes. >> i would urge you to remain strong in that process because some people we don't-- don't believe we are at war. some people believe we should be using the law enforcement model exclusively and i think that is a formula for disaster and there are some people who say you can never use article iii courts and i disagree with them. quite frankly there could be times when the article iii courts would be a superior forum echo in my view a financier of al qaeda you might want to take them to an article iii trial because you have more charging possibilities. every al qaeda operative is not the same level as the next, so i agree with the idea of flexible, pragmatic and aggressive. that is your standard so i am one senator on the republican side who has not objected to article iii courts being used in a flexi

one of the things you said on page 1484 is a after graham leach bliley was passed there was a void in your language, the gray and liege bliley act created a void in the regulation of systemically important investment bank holding companies. neither the sec nor any other agency was given statutory authority to regulate. we are hopefully going to pass the reform bill that rains in wall street and these systemically large companies. mr. ruiz also was talking about enhanced bankruptcy of already. in connection with the lehman brothers case and i am not sure you were charged as an examiner but you said you could do no business anymore after september. just didn't have the liquidity. what do you mean by that? >> what caused the failure was the lack of liquidity. they didn't have the cash resources, the money necessary to continue their business. they couldn't open up in the morning and trade. >> they are financial services. >> in order for them to survive they need to gather cash against collateral. >> what kind of bankruptcy are they in? >> chapter 11. >> are they doing business? or are th

and councilman jim graham released a statement. he said i want to express my grief and sorrow for the family of constant holden. she is a resident of mount pleasant. we have spoke on the the family and i am making resources of my office available to them as they deal with this tragedy in such a public fashion. so while government's activity appears rather quiet here around the convention center, life has been, to some degree, disrupted. >> i'm feeling like a stranger in my own city. >> reporter: the neighborhood, where john boyle lives has transformed in to a top national security zone forcing the washingtonian to change up his daily routine. >> a lot of inconvenience. just getting back and forth to my house to the metro, metro back to my house and even just walking down the street, cars everywhere. people everywhere. and just been a mad house for the last two days. >> reporter: practically bullied off the roads by these commanding motorcades carrying dignitaries and diplomatic leaders he has made an assessment. >> more convenient

>> i couldn't count the number of republicans on one finger besides lindsay graham who has stood on upthis issue this year. there has been a second republican for a year to join lindsay graham and you know how many have showed up? none. >> he had 60 last year. >> what balm and the democrats are doing, they are moving forward and they're going to flush out the republicans, republicans republicans. >> there's an opening and you think the republican tone in arizona could be hurtful. and now you have a democratic president coming forward and saying we're going to do this, what do the republicans do. >> the onus is on president obama, he said he was going to do this a year ago, he didn't. organized labor has been the problem here, it's the open secret, organized labor, the labor union bosses do not want any sort of comprehensive reform, they don't want anything that makes it easy for small businessmen to function in this country, they won't let the democrat dos it. the democrats have the vote to take a look at immigration reform. the idea that the republicans should jump into the middle of

we did have a foot note on what the state can do, but [inaudible] so you cannot really go back to graham. >> justice sloviter, if we go back to what congress has done in these various areas, we see that in matthews, they spoke with crystalline clarity. the court embraced deferential listen. some justices would not disagree on this because it is so except in the canon of constitutional law that aliens deserve protection. they are lawfully here, and these particular individuals are refugees. she has satisfied arizona's requirement. hearst special case cries out for participation on an equal basis -- >> you would say we need to find a d.c. statute as unconstitutional? because that would follow from that proposition, would it not? >> not all. my suggestion is that any legislation acts perilously when it draws a line that sends individuals outside the city gates on grounds of alienage because of a component of the due process clause. it is an american constitutional law that aliens in particular are a note the hon. -- a vulnerable class who need the succor of the law. >> can we take into acco