i'm joined by celeste, i want to talk about this grimm case.ur viewers who may not be caught up on to it, it's a pretty interesting case. he's a former fbi agent and he's alleged to have had business dealings from a foreign national from israel. but there have been thousands of dollars passed from this foreign national to grimm in envelopes in car drops, right? >> supposedly, that's one of the things that went on. there were allegations that they were actually handoffs of envelopes full of money that were supposed to be used for the xha campaign, that people were strongly encouraged to make donations over the legal limits of what's permitted in a congressal race, that people were otherwise asked to do things that would conceal the amount of their donations, so a lot of big parts here and of course, michael grimm says this is per postrouse, but a multifaceted story. >> what's it been sort t of behind the scenes in new york? the cover of "new york times" has sort of dissipated. are his republicans rallying around him? >> i think everyone to the e

and similar views from dorothy grimm.xual orientation should have nothing to do with being a parent. there are parents on out there that are being abused every day. these children could be given a safe and loving environment to grow up in. who cares if it is with two moms or dads. you know what, ladies, i'm with you. but there are obviously those on out there that do not see it that way. that's why we have the mail bag. let's fire up the debate. the address is mailbag@wusa9.com. >>> all right, anny, a quick look at the seven day? >> yeah, a little bit of the milder weather for tomorrow, derek -- derek. then we have temperatures that are plummeting on through. a chance of rain and snow showers. no major concerns there. then you'll see the windy conditions for the weekend and the temperatures are only in the mid-30s. watch out for the windchill. >> all right, thank you for that. that is our report. i'll be right back here alongside of anita brikman. tonight, don't forget, you can always log on to wusa9.com. we'll see you a

"grimm sayy: " for me it's not about convincing america, it's about convincing myself, you have to be it they take it but they''e not going to take it &pif your not going to give it. besides singing in front of millions and the pressure to give a flawless performance...there'' always that pesky problem of picking the right song. fraker says: "i think there's so mmny variables you can't control you have to focuu on the few you ccn, so you have your song choice here's what i'm going to sing, then it's like how am i going to iiterpret the song. "rosado says: "i'm really nervous, i'm going to pick the right song god willing, i'm just going to connect with them, i want the american public to feel everytime i sing to them. feel a sense of happiness, just like me please 3 like me please. " a fee finalists say they're happy the judges are now joined by a live ssudio audience.brackensick says: "crowds are so much more instead of three peopll nt of - starring you down. " franckkwitz says: "i love being in front of eople like big rrwds that's what i love to do and i'm so pump but 3 superstars 20

grimm, is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, chairman. thank you, chairman bernanke, for being with us today. if i could switch gears and skrks obviously the volcker rule rule is the topic of discussion. in section 619 becomes effective this july. but just last month the federal reserve government mentioned that it probably wouldn't be implemented, completed until january 2013. when do you expect the volcker rule to be finalized and do you expect that there will be a reproposal for public comment? >> well, i don't think it will be ready for july. we have closed just a few weeks ago we closed the comment period. we have about 17,000 comments. we have a lot of very difficult issues to go through. so i don't know the exact date. obviously working on it as fast as we can. as i understand it, the volcker rule includes a two-year transition period starting in july. and as we did for example with the interchange fee where we were also late relative to the statute we will make sure that firms have an adequate period of time to adjust their system

grimm: thank you, mr. speaker. i appreciate the opportunity to speak in my -- on my bill, h.r. 2606, the new york city natural gas supply enhancement act. it will have natural gas pipeline facilities in the new york portion of the gateway national recreation area. i would like to especially thank my colleague and co-sponsor and friend, congressman gregory meeks, for all of his efforts. it was a pleasure to work with him in a bipartisan manner, and we appreciate his staff as well. we'd like to thank the resources chairman hastings, ranking member markey, subcommittee chair bishop, and ranking member grijalva and their staffs for helping move our bill through the committee and on a bipartisan basis for their work with the national park service in strengthening the bill as it moved to the house floor. the park service deserves our appreciation as well for all of its efforts over the years for improving the gateway national recreation area and in particular reviving the flood bennett field for future generations. this

if you look at america before columbus the entire east coast was one dense grimm brothers forest. it was dense. dense. slipped from the east coast about the 98th meridian. right through the middle of texas right from san antonio in dallas and essentially it was bazaar's you have a culture in the east was the culture of the woods based on timber, land, water. when you got past the tree-lined this is a terrifying moment. no trees to build houses. no water. all of that happened right there so it was asked that edge of that physical geographical.org geological moment where the land changed and that was there. that is where they built the house. we have that captivity of cynthia parker she bore three children, refused to come back. famous as the white squall who would not return. that story played out. her oldest son in the greatest comanche warrior of his age, not going into great detail here but wind great story of quanah parker i. a. consider quanah parker one of the most extraordinary of the 14th century one of the most ford -- formidable warriors that is saying something. our bril

and then i believe that congresswoman hayworth, congressman gibson, congressman grimm and certainly congresswoman berkle -- buerkle will find themselves in very competitive environments and there will be others that we didn't anticipate now that get on the boards later. >> congressman steve israel hegged up the dccc. thank you very much for your time. >> thanks. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> and we're back with our reporter round table. with an overall assessment of whether or not democrats take back the house in 2012. do they do it? >> it's certainly an uphill battle for them. the math that congressman israel's talking about right now where he's got 75 on the board is a lot bigger than most folks who do it as an independent vocation would look at and he talked about winning possibly 25 or 30 seats but he's got to do that as a net. and there are democratic seats that are vulnerable, particularly as a result of redistricting. right now it's not there. whether that changes over the next nine months or not is another issue because a lot of times it takes a while. if you'

ryan grimm, washington bureau chief for the "huffington post"ing, dalia lithwick, senior editor for "e"; ari berman, contributor for "the nation." god i love these power panels. it's great toe see all of you again and great to have you on the show again. our topic today is are republicans restarting the southern strategy. one is redirecting, another is disenfranchising felons. tell us why you think that might be disenfranchising minority voters. >> in though south they have concentrated the democratic vote in these heavily majority/minority districts as a way to maximize the republican vote elsewhere. so they have ghetto-ized the counties, and this is an intensely racial strategy that definitely has echos of the kind of strategy that nixon and atwater were so effective at putting forward. it's meant to make the republican party, the, quote unquote, white party, and the democratic party, the, quote unquote, black party. >> it worked well for nixon, and i asked about this to pat buchanan once and he said yeah we had a nice ride. and here they are again doing it in different unique ways

. >> reporter: in a news conference, attorney david grimm announced his own tiheory of th crime.ntz went to the home to collect money he was owed by bob. >> i can see this joe, look at the nice car you're driving. look at the nice home you're living in. why can't you pay me? an argument ensues. the next thing you know, a wonderful woman has a broken neck. >> reporter: in a rather extraordinary 90-minute q & a session, the attorney swore -- >> [ bleep ]. even if he -- can you -- [ bleep ]. >> reporter: criticized people and gave details about his multiple divorces. he also defended his client over the avalanche of leaks and lurid tales about him having a mistress, running a secret s & m club, and having contact with this dominatrix. >> he had called me out of the blue and asked me if i would be interested in promoting the club and being a premier dominatrix. >> i'm not sure that an alternative lifestyle counts for much in this case. >> clearly a lot to talk about. for more, let's turn to jean casares. who is the correspondent for "in session" on tru tv. so joe gentz. why would the

defense attorney bernie grimm thinks the theft of the computer which huguely admitted taking may not ultimately harm him in the eyes of the jury. >> for me putting aside what he did to her inside that room, throwing the computer away is evidence to me that he wasn't intending to steal it in the traditional fashion somebody steals things, you steal, something you sell it, you use it for yourself. he threw it away. >> reporter: prosecutors presented evidence from the medical examiner and two experts showing love died from cardiac arrhythmia due to blunt force trauma to the head, testimony they may wrestle with after hearing two defense experts tell the court love had no significant trauma to the head and likely suffocated to death. but what may sway this jury one way or the other is the videotaped interview george huguely gave police the morning after the murder. both the defense and prosecution have implored the jury to watch that tape as much as they wanted, play it over and over again both of them said. the defense believes it shows a distraught huguely learning for the first time h

i prefer classic children's literature, a greater sense of the realities of life from the brothers grimmfrom the cookie monster. i may yet do a children's anthology. >> host: i finished broadway babies and wonder if you could say some words about the state of broadway in the years since your book especially i am interested in what you think of a more irreverent shows like book of mormon and avenue q, and what it is like to be a conservative who enjoys broadway. >> guest: i am very grateful to my show-biz friends because there will be a point they are at a dinner party in new york or beverly hills where the rest of the crowd will say you are a friend of mark steyn? i am grateful for their support. i love the heyday of the fear. when you see the book of mormon or the producers, mel brooks's highly skilled broadway version of his film, in a sense -- would you have gone there is in a sense a skilled mimicry of the form but it is not actually -- it is not as satisfying if you read the first night of showboat in 1927, december 26th and you are sitting in the front row and you are hearing old m

. >> reporter: according to attorney david grimm, this is the man who should be blamed, joe gentz, whorces, has confessed. he claims bashara paid him less than two grand to do it. the attorney says gentz is not credible. >> by last count, he's told six different stories. each of them contradicts the other. >> reporter: meantime, the killing has knocked one of america's wealthiest communities back on its legals. and unleashed a river of allegations about bob bah shall ra's extraordinary extracurricular love life. reportedly in the weeks before she was murdered, jane bashara learned that her husband had a mistress. >> i thought they were friends at first. he would take her dog for a walk during the day. >> reporter: bashara's extramarital activities apparently didn't end there. seen here in a youtube video promoting a local bar, the hard luck lounge, he was, according to reports, involved in an s & m den, a secret sex club located down these stairs beneath that bar in a building he owned. >> bl or not bob has an alternative lifestyle, that doesn't make him a criminal, a wife killer. it m

michael grimm. >> i want to see two parades. bill: thank you for your time on the hill.e newsroom and find out from jenna lee what is coming up next at the top of the hour on "happening now." jenna: this is a big story today, religious freedom becoming a major campaign issue at this hour. we have chris wallace, amy stoddard weighing in on all of this. the u.s. killed a major militant tied to al-qaida. [no audio] martha: a new race to space, while heading to the heavens could be pretty much like sticking your finger out to hail a taxicab here in new york city, hello. bill: while you're watching your screen they are watching you. why walking and texting at the same time to get you a hefty find. martha: probably not a good idea. bill: don't do it. [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition? ♪ [ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smoothie. could've had a v8. bill: i feel like we should be going over the brooklyn bridge right now. nasa is working on a space taxi. it plans to

republican michael grimm has proposed an legislation, which has been adopted by a house subcommittee,. no more financial reward, workers have to go first internally to the company. if they go to the s.e.c. and the s.e.c. then does an enforcement action, they have to tip off the company about this enforcement action. so how does that square with individual rights, individual accountable and all these things that we thought we support? >> can i zoom out for one second? because there's a story you tell in the beginning of the book that's really haunted me and stuck with me. it's something that maybe people know about and i didn't know about. there's a famous massacre you talk about during the nazi era, i believe it happened in poland, right? >> mm-hmm. >> tell that story, because it's really shaken me, actually, to hear this story. >> it's an extraordinary story of one of the most brutal massacre in a very, very brutal war. and it took place in poland. it was an italian that was taken to a village and ordered to round up every jew in the village, approximately 1,800 people, and take them

literature in terms of just you'll get far greater sense of the realities of life from the brothers grimmu will from the cookie monster. so i may yet do a children's anthology. >> host: stephanie e-mails in: i just finished broadway babies, and i was wondering if you could say some words about the state of broadway in the years since your book, especially i am interest inside what you thought of the morer irreverent shows le the book of mormon and avenue q and, further, what's it like to be a conservative who enjoys broadway? [laughter] >> guest: well, you -- what's it -- just to answer that last one quickly, i'm always very grateful to my show biz friends because there always comes a point where they'll be at a dinner party in london or new york or beverly hills where the rest of the crowd will reel back and say, wow, you're not a -- you're a friend of that mark steyn guy? [laughter] and i'm grateful for their support. um, i, i love, i love the heydey of the broadway theater, and i think when you see "the book of mormon" or even "the producers," mel brooks' highly-skilled broadway versio

grimm: religious liberty has been son -- sown into the fib rick of our -- it's the first right mentioned in the bill of rights. they challenge the conscious and reproductive lights of the catholic church or any other religion will not and should not be tolerated and i urge the president to reconsider this rule and restore the church's religious freedom. with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california rise. >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. sanchez: madam speaker, i rise today to urge my republican colleagues to end the games and to give certainty back to the american people. right before the holidays my republican colleagues threatened to raise taxes on the middle class because the small but very loud minority in their conference wanted to prove a point. now we are back at it again. they want to prevent a $1,500 from being in the hands of the middle class. my fellow democrats and i want to keep

grimm: just three years ago, new yorkers were blessed when the pope appointed him the 10th archbishop of new york. he has warmed our hearts with his quick personality and quick wit an strengthened our faith with his guidance. on a national level, his leadership has shed positive light on the catholic church and continued to raise its profile. we are truly blessed to have archbishop dolan in new york. once again, i offer my warm congratulations to cardinal-designate dolan and wish him god speed in his new role. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one min. >> on monday president obama released his 2013 budget proposal. for western new york we are pleased it includes measures to benefit the niagara falls air reserve station, the buffalo coast guard, jamestown airport and our great lakes. mr. higgins: we need only look at japan in the 1990's and europe other the last couple of years to understand the dire consequences of government pulling back at a