can harold ford be a viable new york candidate? >> i know harold. and see him quite a bit, different things. yeah, you know, new york is a place where we have a history like that. if we were talking about some other state, i would say that's a tough -- that's a tough thing to do. that's a tough thing to come in and at least immediately run for the senate. you can't run for governor in new york. you have to have a five year residency. you can run for the senate. i guess in new york, anything is possible. >> larry: why didn't you run for governor? >> i wasn't -- i didn't want to leave my business and law firm right now. i took a lot of time off to run for president, a lot of things got disorganized. i put them back together. we're in the middle of and on the verge of doing a lot of

harold brown jr. was laid to rest in massachusetts yesterday. the 37-year-old was one of seven agents killed in the attack. brown lived in northern virginia for the past several years. he leaves behind his wife and three young children. >>> a handful of protesters marched in northwest washington yesterday taking a stand against violence. the group, in-put hosted the event in front of the d.c. superior court. their goal is to bring awareness of violence spreading in communities due to stress brought on by the economic downturn. an oregon man faces federal charges after disrupting a hawaiian islands flight. joe johnson is accused of interfering with the performance and duties of a flight crew. investigators say before the maui bound flight took off johnson refused to store his carry on bag and then later in the flight the 56-year-old handed a comment card to a

in massachusetts for 37-year- old harold brown, jr. brown and his family lived in fairfax station. he was one of 7 victims of a suicide bombing in afghanistan on a c.i.a. base. his wife and three children stood together at the service along with massachusetts governor deval patrick. brown was killed in a patrick carried out by a suicide bomber. there is new video of the bomber moments before he struck. as caroline shively reports, the man said american intelligence officials tried to get him to spy for them. >> reporter: in a just-released videotape before his death, a doctor says revenge is why he killed the c.i.a. operatives in afghanistan because the c.i.a. had killed a pakistani leader with a missile strike in august. he said he turned down millions of dollars for the u.s. and jordan who wanted him to spy. he taped the video shortly before he went on a u.s. base and blew up 7 c.i.a. employees and himself in

. >> have you ever reviewed harold evans books? >> we extracted harold evans book and i don't get that i negotiated him down. >> so much of your professional life has been involved with the written word, and with books. why? >> i'm a passionate reader myself. our house is just wall-to-wall books. i mean, wall to wall. you can't believe how may books in our house. but my husband is a passionate reader and writer. i am a passionate reader and writer. and we're just a family of bookworms. >> have you gotten a candle or a sony player or any kind of electronic? >> i have a kindle. i still am kind of a candidate user, that's all because i'm actually a slow adopter. it was a long time before i took my blackberry to heart. now i live -- can't live without my blackberry. of course, i do like the feel, touch, smell, physicality of a book. and always have the. and in fact, now we're back with the davies will start our own little electronic book company which we will start online, and an accomplished as paperback. so i'm becoming sort of a min

that's harold washington's city.harold washington was the first black mayor of chicago elected in 1983. against the conservative back drop of ronald reagan's america in 1980 there are really rays of light in harold washington's chicago which inspires jesse jkson to run for president in 1984 and '88. so chicago and jesse jackson really impact the country's evolution from black power to barack obama. the jackson campaign is a very interesting one because it's those campaigns that change the democratic party's primary rules to proportional representation from a winner- take-all system. without the jackson campaign, hillary clinton would have been the democratic party's nominee in 2008. >> suarez: the chicago that schools barack obama in politics is not only harold washington's chicago, it's also jesse jackson's chicago and louis fair kahn's chicago, the johnson family of ebony and jet magazine. aren't a lot of different ways of being black in america proposed during this era? >> absolutely. another person in chicago tha

can harold ford be a viable new york candidate? >> i know harold.see him quite a bit, different things. yeah, you know, new york is a place where we have a history like that. if we were talking about some other state, i would say that's a tough -- that's a tough thing to do. that's a tough thing to come in and at least immediately run for the senate. you can't run for governor in new york. you have to have a five year residency. you can run for the senate. i guess in new york, anything is possible. >> larry: why didn't you run for governor? >> i wasn't -- i didn't want to leave my business and law firm right now. i took a lot of time off to run for president, a lot of things got disorganized. i put them back together. we're in the middle of and on the verge of doing a lot of exciting things like that thing in brazil. my firm has grown. i started the new york office of bracewell giuliani four years ago. it's gone from three lawyers to 70. we're continuing to grow. so this wasn't the right time to do it. it creates a tremendous amount of disruption in

so ladies and gentlemen please join me in welcoming sir harold evans.[applause] >> i just got to adjust -- i can't be elevated so i have to lower this. thank you so much for those excellent words. it's always good to come back to britain which is where we are. and not to go through the formalities of proving who i am which happens is when you go through any security. the lucky -- nigel is so lucky because he's lived very close to me. and he's lucky because we never met. [laughter] >> because who knows, tina, what might have happened if i met the gorgeous julia who became a scientist and like me, ended up in the united states. tonight really it should be a celebration. not of me, frankly, but of reporting. that's what my book is about. it's about what newspapers could achieve. not what an editor can achieve. but what the reporters on the ground can achieve. that's why i'm particularly honored tonight to have ben bradley here who represents journalism at his best. and many other excellent reporters here. i'm also glad, of course, that we are here with the

[laughter] >> harold evans is 14 year tenure as the editor of the sunday times, and then a year as theeditor of the daily times of london. produced work of really extraordinary high standard. in 2001, journalist named him the greatest british newspaper editor of all time. [laughter] >> and he championed what yesterday's review of the book in the "new york times" called a crusading style of journalism in which he and his paper afflicted the guilty and championed the innocent. and people of my generation who got interested in national and international politics, very often did so because of the sunday times because of its flare, its cultural leadership and its investigative zeal. but this is also a transatlantic store. harold evans' first encounter with americans, i regularly, was during the second world war in manchester. and his fellowship in 1956 began a lifelong association. and he and tina have lived here for nearly 30 years. although tina doesn't remember, we were her contemporary's at oxford, and she had a knack of stopping the traffic they're just as she's done here and since. ha

. -- harold brown, jr. he lived in fairfax station with his beautiful family here. he was one of seven victims killed in a suicide bombing in afghanistan. his wife and three children stood together at the service along with asrick. >> the kids will miss him. but i think in the years they had him, they did more than manpeople ever do in their whole lives. >> the attack is considered one ever the worst attacks on u.s. intelligence per knell in more than 20 years. >>> the coast of northern california rattled by an earthquake. we're everywhere at 11:00 tonight. the u.s. geological survey says a 6.5 magnitude earthquake hit 27 miles from the coastal city of eureka this evening shaking buildings and knocking out power. four after shocks followed within minutes, the biggest registering 3.8. officials say there is no threat of the quake generating a tsunami. the san francisco bay area was struck by two light earthquakes on thursday and friday. parking in d.c. is going to cost you more. the city is extending nighttime hours for pay parking to 10:00 p.m. and enforcing saturda

can harold ford be a vilible candidate? >> i know harold. new york is a place where we have a history like that. if we were talking about some other state, i would say that is a tough thing to do. it's a tough thing to come in and at least immediately run for the senate. you can't run for governor. but you can run for the senate. gosh, in new york, anything is possible. >> larry: why didn't you run for governor? >> i didn't want to leave my business and law firm now. i took aloft time off to run for president. a lot of things got disorganized. i put them together. we are in the middle of and on the verge of doing a lot of exciting thing. the thing in brazil. i started the new york office of giuliani, and it's gone from three lawyers to 70. we are continuing to groi. it was not the right time to do it. and that does not mean i'm not tremendously interested, i'm not going to help the republicans and i'm not going to be involved in the issues. because they are part of me. >> larry: republicans are constantly accused of being negative. tell me w

. >> harold ford, tennesseeian. pursuing a new york seat. >> democrats don't want him to do this. would be a challenge to senator kristen julibrand from the right. the senator from there has said they don't want harold ford to run. >> andy barr, chuck, thanks so much. we appreciate that. a very busy rest of the year as well. >>> 100-mile-an-hour winds plus one reporter equals a big story and a big fall. ouch, and caught on tape. >>> jacks jacqui jeras joining he now. has this ever happened to you? it did this to her with 100-mile-an-hour winds. it did this to her. ouch. that hurts. >> it does. and, now, everybody in america knows. >> i am feeling for her. >> he was trying to hold ter down t still didn't work. no match for those winds, sorry, girlfriend. >>> it's that fine line right between telling people to not go out in it and trying to stay safe yourself. >> so don't go out there if you don't have to. >> i know, i know. >> find a protective. >> a little reporter involvement. taken to the extreme. >> it was very demonstrative. she let everybody know, you don't want to go out her

i worked at the dallas -- times harold at one point. may be that engendered some confusion. was really known as more progressive, she said the dallas morning news -- she just -- the editors -- i worked there. they did not like molly ivins. i was offered a job at the dallas times herald. i mentioned in the book -- i don't mention myself by name but use it as an illustration. i was offered her job to go to the dallas times herald. the editor had figured me out. he said you don't want to work for that fascist newspaper the dallas morning news. he was trying to mind meld with me. that is where they came from. they saw themselves as a liberal progressive paper. molly ivins was much happier but even within that long leash they said write whatever you want. it was a competitive newspaper. more advertisers -- she began disturbing advertisers. the one line where she said -- this really got her in trouble. a certain congressman from that area, this guy's iq got any lower we will have to start watering him twice the day. she is up there doing that. if you put ronald reagan's brain -- i

harold brown jr. was remembered during a service in massachusetts. the father of three lived in fairfax county. >> i will love you now and forever. >> flags were lowered to half staff at the cia and the seven new stars joined the others on a wall of honor at the cia office in langley. >>> a man with suspected ties to terrorism pled not guilty today on charges he was training for al qaeda. he was accused of lying to pakistan to get military training. he is one of two men arrested yesterday in connection with the investigation. the colorado airport driver pled not guilty last year to supporting terrorism. >>> president barack obama accepted an apology tonight. one of his chief allies in the senate, -- accepted an apology tonight from one of his chief allies in the senate, senator harry reid. harry reid had said america was ready to elect a light skinned african-american. today, harry reid issued a statement, saying he sincerely apologize for offending any and all americans, especially african-americans. it >>> people in northern california are a bit sh

. >>> one of the victims of the bombing was 37-year-old harold brown, jr., of fairfax station. he worked or the state department and had three children. >>> the senate majority leader is apologizing tonight for a controversial comments he made about president obama during the campaign n. a private consideration senator senator reid commented that president obama was a light skinned african-american with no negro dialect unless he wanted to have one. senator reid said he's sincerely responding for offending any and all americans, especially african- americans for my improper comment. the. has accepted the apology. >>> what's the best way to give an underprivileged child an edge? i'm going to introduce you to a young man who comes from nearly nothing and show you how he's making something of his life. >>> plus, the trouble with traffic lights, energy saving bulbs causing problems in the winter weather. what you need to know to stay safe. >>> and what's up with the big -- [ indiscernible ] stick around. we're coming back in just 90 seconds.  >>> every year t

but even an old ford -- even harold ford is considering running, and that is good news for republicans. david paterson, at the democratic governor, is by most accounts unelectable. in massachusetts, there is a good chance that a republican could defeat deval patrick, the governor. in delaware, a longtime former governor and congressman at large -- there is a lot of places where there is encouraging news for republicans. >> in massachusetts, the numbers are narrowing -- >> for ted kennedy apostasy. -- ted kennedy's sea. >> the pennsylvania seat held by all inspector could be in jeopardy, to -- heldy arlen specter could be in jeopardy, too. >> we have republicans -- have a bunch of republicans leaving. >> chris van hollen, you had on, democratic chairman of the house campaign committee -- when republicans had a big year in 1994, picked up 52 house seats, 30 of those seats were open seats -- that is, they were retired in spirit 95% of incumbents still get reelected, and in bad times were good times. the good chance for the party to take over a seat is when there is open -- when it is open

harold brown jr., a father of three young children, killed in that suicide bombing in afghanistan. >> a wonderful life. i love you now and forever. >> reporter: even brown's parents never knew their son was a spy. this attack has been exception. we have learned some of their names. elizabeth hanson. scott roberson. david's wife said good-bye near >> i love you with all my heart. >> reporter: flags are at half-staff at the cia. here 90 stars mark the 90 officers lost in the agency's history. but 35 of their names aren't even listed. it will be harder for the agency to keep its losses secret. in fact, we learned about these officers from family members who posted pictures on social media sites. >> in the old days, it could deny history. they could not do that in the world today. there's simply too many eyes and cameras and lenses and websites. >> reporter: this spring, more stars will be chiseled into the rock at the cia's headquarters. in a letter to be printed tomorrow the cia director says, we honor them in part by pushing forward the work they did. work to which, they were absolutel

. >> reporter: family and friends gathered in massachusetts today to remember harold brown, one of seven cia employees killed by a suicide bombing in afghanistan on december 30th. with rare openness, the central intelligence agency has allowed five of the victims to be mourned publicly, a decision that angered some former officers like michael sawyer, i always think it is better not to tell a very intelligent, very observant enemy much of anything. >> others identified include security contractor dane bressy, agent employee elizabeth hanson, security officer and former policeman scott roberson and cia security officer and former navy seal, jeremy weiss. they have been gathered at forward operating base chapman on the afghan border to meet a spy. they thought he would provide information on top al qaeda and taliban leaders, today the taliban released video of the alleged bomber jordanian dr. umar farouk abdulmutallab with the head of the pakistan taliban. >> in a letter to the washington post today cia director leon panetta defended the agents for letting the man in, he said the individua

as far as harold folder's can't dassey.is interesting to see somebody who just a few years ago to the people of tennessee saying that he deserved six years in the senate now making the case to the people of new york. make the same case in new york to the people. he has stumbled out of the gate because in "the new york times" profile, he talked about new york as if it were only the five boroughs. i suggested this to my hometown into yonkers and he will find out who will become increasingly lesser known all the way up to places like clinton and erie counties. guest: that reflects her strength. she was a congressman from the upper, middle part of new york state. one of the things i find a little offensive about some of the characterizations of her as a puppet is a they are little sexist. it undermines her records and things she accomplished on her own. she is popular upstate which is a key to winning new york. you have to show strength -- rochester, buffalo, some of those other counties upstate. she has been popular. she came

harold watkins.e has served the township volunteer fire company and his community in many capacities. he has held the positions of president, vice president, second assistance chief and first assistant chief. for the past 15 years he has been fire chief and in 2004 he was named firefighter of the year. in other words, harold has done it all in his 29 year of -- years of protecting and saving lives but he has decided it's time to step down. fire fighting is a family affair for the watkins family. harold's wife serves as secretary for the company and helped organize fund raisers. the chief calls vivian his personal here o'for all her hard work. his son mathee was firefighter of the year and serves as the vice president and second assistant chief following in his father's footsteps. i commend chief watkins for his years of dedication and service, saving lives and property. and i know the community joins me in wishing him all the best in retirement. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro te

who has been tireless, for its outstanding leadership, harold. the terrific staff of the foundation and my fellow board members, especially the board vice chairman who is really inspiring us with his vision and energy, morgan, thank you. [applause] special thanks ovittore board member lananess bet. thank you one, who along with markon-- [applause] is the co-chair of the event, the dinner tonight into our other dinner cochairs. [applause] i thank you for coming coming being part of this great tradition. remind you that the finalists books that form the centerpieces of your table are yours to take it the end of the evening. good luck to our 20 finalists and let me introduce the vice chairman of the national book foundation, morgan entrekin. [applause] >> thank you david. my job tonight is to announce the winner of the best of the national book awards. you have heard this is the 60th national book awards, so we came up with this idea, actually we still live from the booker and what we would do is we would look at all the books that had won the ficti

it is a remarkable story so ladies and gentlemen, please help me in welcoming sir harold evans. [applause] >> i can't be elevated so i have to do this. thank you so much for the excellent words. it is always good to come back to britain, which is where we are. of course it is a british territory you understand and not to go to the full malices approving who i am which is what happens of course when you go through any security. julia lived very close to me and he is likely because we never met. [laughter] because he knows tino what might happen if i had met the gorgeous julia coop became a scientist and like me ended up in the united states. tonight really should be a celebration, not only me but of reporting. that is what my book is about. it is about what newspapers can achieve, not what an editor can achieve but what the reporters on the ground can achieve. that is why i am particularly honored tonight to have been bradley here who represents journalism at its best and many other excellent reporter's here. i am also glad of course that we are here which is a synthesis i think

are in the heyday, harold cracks spy cases.e discovered -- had a more remarkable career with the times of london and it is a great book. and i am reading a couple of other books, william which i go through line by line every few years, and also another book by historian, british historian called seven ages of paris, which is a great history of paris. it is about his enjoyable of a history book i've ever read. >> you're looking out earlier this year. when is your next one? >> well i don't know. adis -- we got in the top ten for two or three weeks and that was great, but it is kind of tough writing political books in this environment unless you want to write a polemic and that's not really my style so i don't know. actually the best part of writing the book was the

before going solo, he was a member of harold melvin and the blue notes. >>> there are possible new developments in the gilbert arenas gun case. coming up next, is a plea deal in the work? we have details on the possible court hearing. >>> we now know the likely date that same-sex couples in the district could begin applying for marrge licenses. >>> another look at this massive fire burning on montrose road on the 270 overpass. it is a tanker truck that is on fire. fuel running down street. they are trying to contain this but you can see the flame are still pouring out of that truck right now as rescue vehicles continue to arrive on te scene. we'll get a closer look at this. coming up as fox 5 morning news continues.  >>> welcome back. we are keeping an eye on this truckfire, tanker truck fire. this is at montrose road where i-270 passes under. this is a tanker truck on fire. the fuel has spilled out on the road. there are rescue crews on the scene. not quite sure whether # 70 will be impacted. montrose road is shut down in both directions. >>> wizards star gilbert arenas co

harold brown's parents thought their son worked for the state department, not cia. >> he was, by all accounts, an american hero. >> reporter: near portland, one of the contract security guards was mourned. >> those left behind are forbidden from speaking about the mission, the sacrifice. >> reporter: at cia headquarters, 90 stars represent officers killed. more stars will be carved this spring. this time, we know some of their names and their sacrifice. the director of the cia promises that the fight will continue. in that letter this morning, he writes, we honor them by pushing forward the work they did, the work to which they were absolutely devoted. kate? >> let's get the bottom line on that story and more. the host of "this week" and the cohost of "good morning america" george stephanopoulos is with us. good morning, george. let's start with leon panetta. he's defending the agency. the cia is under fire for this and lapses of intelligence leading for the christmas bomber as well. how tough is it for him right now? >> pretty tough. some of calling this bombing in afghanistan the m

harold brown jr. was laido rest in massachusetts yesterday.ar-old lived in northern virginia for the past several years. he leaves behind his wife and three young children. >>> bitter cold continues to grip our area but the freezing conditionsid not stop people from hitting the streets. people braved the cold to jog, ride their segways or play a game of football. >>> welcome back to "viewpoint." again our guest this morning, d.c. congresswoman eleanor holmes norton. let's move on to this battle that continues. we fought it last year and been fighting it for years in the district for d.c. voting rights and home rule. where do we stand now, of course, we've got a democratic house, a democratic senate, and a white house, president obama all on board. some said if we didn't get it done last year what has changed. why would we get it done this year >> we're on point where we want to be. last year was the year of one set of big three and next year is to be the year of the second set. we got for the first time in history or at least in memory all of

harold brown jr. lived in northern virginia for the past several years. the 37-year-old leaves behind his wife and threeoung children. >>> this new year has been a challenging one for president obama. he's prodding congressional democrats to finish up a health care bill. his first state of the union address is weeks away and he's been forced to address sho shortcomings in national security. all of this comes as his majority party fights to stay that way in this year's midterm elections. brian mooar reports from capitol hill. >> reporter: a day after getting more bad news on jobs and the economy, president obama is touting health care reform as a way to help struggling americans. >> we're fixing our broken health insurance system that's crushing families, eating away at workers' take-home pay, and nailing small businesses with double digit premium increases. >> reporter: he's hoping to sign a bill in a few weeks before his state of the union address, but house democrats say they won't just rubber stamp the bill passed by the senate. if they demand too many

. >>> a memorial service held today in massachusetts for 37- year-old harold brown, jr. brown and his family lived in fairfax station. he was one of sevevictims of a suicide bombing in afghanistan on a c.i.a. base. his wife and three children stood together at the service along with massachusetts governor duval patrick. brown was killed in an attack carried out by suicide bomber. tonight there is new video of the bomber just moments before he struck. the man said american intelligence officials tried to get them to spy for him. >> reporter: a jordanian doctor says revenge is why he killed the c.i.a. operatives in afghanistan because the c.i.a. had killed a pakistani taliban lead we are a missile strike in us a. he also said he turned down millions of dollars from the u.s. and jordan who wanted him to spy on militants. the father of the bomber said it is his son. he stated the video shortly before he went on base. he says on the tape, we will never forget the blood of our ramir referring to the dead taliban leader. he tells other jihaddists it's their duty to go after oth

by the young nigerian on christmas day and also the purported audio message from osama bin laden harold that attack and assuming responsibility for it, i'm curious to hear your thoughts regarding the connection between islammist organizations and young muslims in western africa, specifically nigeria, i'm curious to hear what your opinion is behind the driving factors of the youth accepting and embracing the islammist i'd ologies. >> well volumes have been written on that but let me say briefly that there is a connection between young people and the efforts to radicalize them that are promoted, sponsored, financed by al qaeda and other extreme ordinary cares. with a very narrow definition of islam, and they have been quite effective on the internet, as you know. we can track connections between not just the christmas day bomber, but the fort hood shooter, the shooter at the little rock military recruitment station, and can see that they were at least listening to and interacting with very extreme voices on the side of of islammist ideology. nigeria, which is, as you know, evenly divided

in a certain -- in a certain context we could say he leapfrogged over certain people like harold ford jr. was considered an of and comer. cresco who was considering running for the senate race. >> guest: what is interesting about the party is that in 2000 and in 2004, back-to-back they gave these bright up-and-coming african-american man the keynote address. the first black person to do a keynote address was barbara jordan 1976 but back to back in 2000 and los angeles and this was a convention by the way barack obama could not attend. he couldn't even get credentials by 2004 his fortunes changed and he gave an extraordinary speech -- >> host: catapulted three >> guest: -- the catapulted him to the senate because you wasn't a senator even when he gave the speech and then to the white house. i would say yes he was the only person in that context who could have won. >> host: colin powell who declined to run in 1996 was someone who pulled really well. was someone who could have been elected president of this country? >> guest: i think that colin powell would have had a tough time getting

the victims have not been released by the cia, but family members have identified 3. 37-year old haroldtter and safer place for everyone who lived here. i think that fueled his own commitment to the military and to our country and indeed to the people that he was trying to help. >> ifill: jeremy wise was a 35- year-old former navy seal who worked as a security contractor. friends have already set up a memorial on facebook, including this entry: "he was doing what he wanted to do." and 39-year-old scott michael roberson was working as a security officer. he leaves a wife who was eight months pregnant. they will each receive a star here on the agency's memorial wall at the headquarters in langley, virginia, commemorating those who have died in the line of service. an eighth victim identified as a jordanian spy was also killed in the attack. captain sharif ali bin zeid was a member of the royal family, and received a state funeral on saturday. he reportedly recruited a top informant, humam khalil abu- mulal al-balawi, the alleged double agent working for al- qaeda. the 32-year old was a do

one of those kled has been idenfied by his father as harold brown junior of frfax, virginia. cia spokesman orge little said day, "there is much about th attack that isn'yet known, but th much is clear: the cia's resolve to pursue agessive counterterrism operations is greater than ever". for the cia and the u.s. military, the dual claims of involvement in wedsday's attack higight the complexity of a war in which insuent groupsre able to operate along the afghan-pakistan bord and easi move back and forth between the countries. for more on the creasing taliban olence in pakistan and ghanistan, we go to: thomasohnson, a research profesr at the naval postgraduate school in montey, california, whe he focuses on afghistan and central asia. d christine fair, an associate professor at gegetown university. both have traved and written tensively about the region. profsor fair, let me start with you. the attack on the amican base in av gabtand and now on the sporting evenin pakist are just to either side of troubled border, nothat far away from each other. are they this anyw relate >> th

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services for harold brown were held in massachusetts, the security contractor in washington state and in ohio for scott robertson. president obama says he has accepted senator harry reid's apology for remarks the majority leader made about him. in a new book from authors mark halpern and john hilman reed is quoted as saying, quote, obama was able to become the first african- american president because he's light-skinned and, quote, has no negro dialect. the authors are interviewed tonight on "60 minutes." the inventor of the gumby, that green pop culture artifact of the 1950s has died. animateor's creation made its way into toy shops and on to tv. he was 88 years old. last night tennessee's wild card game the cowboys dominated the eagles 34-14. it was the first play-off victory for the cowboys since 1996. earlier in the afc match-up rookie quarterback mark sanchez led the new york jets to a 24-14 win over the cincinatti bengals. play-off action continues later today when the baltimore rains tangle with the new england patriots here on cbs. in a later game the green bay packers will ta

what is the white house's position of having a candidate like harold ford room for the senate seat?>> look, i think the white house is quite happy with the leadership and the representation of senator jalabert and in new york, and as many or in the

first state to adopt a state holiday in honor of martin luther king, and this movement was led by haroldashington. he would later become the first african-american mayor of the city of chicago. in 1974, massachusetts and connecticut adopted state holidays in honor of king. new jersey followed in 1975. by the time the legislation passed at the federal level, there were a number of states that already had state holidays in honor of dr. king. what were some of the arguments made in opposition of the holiday? one of the first argument was that no other american other than george washington had received such an honor, so why did we have the audacity to think that he was on the same level as george washington? i do not need to spend a lot of time thinking why people felt that. many people felt like he was as an important figure in history as washington biggin king helped to save the country by bringing us together across racial lines. his contribution was beyond saying we will honor the birthday of a man. it was the idea of values that he brought forth as part of the movement. senator jesse he

so is my uncle harold, by the way. mr. bernanke is an economist. my uncle harold isn't. mr. bernanke has now been the chair of the fed for a while. before that he was part of the economics team in the previous administration that turned, by the way, a big budget surplus in the year 2000, the first budget surplus for the federal government in a long, long, long time -- the new administration came in and turned that into the biggest deficits in history, up until now. and so i -- you know, i'm not impressed with the whole scheme of a fiscal policy that turns the country from big budget surpluses to big budget deficits. but with respect to the federal reserve board itself, the federal reserve board has had responsibilities. those responsibilities, first by alan greenspan at the fed -- and, by the way, while alan greenspan was at the fed, mr. bernanke was at the fed at the same time during that period of time. the responsibilities are to supervise the banks, to deal with predatory lending, to address some of the scandalous behavior of some of the brokers in the subprime market, a

this was led by harold washington. he would labiate lead -- later become the first mayor of the city of chicago. the states of massachusetts adopted the legislation. new jersey followed in 1975. by the time the legislation passed at the federal level, there were a number of states that already had state holidays in honor of dr. king. what were some of the arguments made in opposition by senators and representatives and others? one of the first documents was that no other american besides george washington had ever received such an honor. why did we have the audacity to think that king was on the same level as george washington. i would need to spend a lot of time talking about what people felt like he deserved that honor, many people felt that king was as important a figure in history as george washington. he helped to save this country by bringing us together across racial lines. his contribution was beyond saying that we were going to honor the birthday of a man. senator jesse helms, the senator from north carolina,

>> scott harold, rand corporation. two questions, one for dr. change and dr. fennigan. first, with respect to climate change, environmental stresses, i wonder if you could say something about how those are going to pose a greater challenge, if you believe they are, in the future to the dprk. going forward as the climate changes around the peninsula, are we going see greater famine, greater drought, greater deforest asian than we've already seen, and how might that stress pyongyang? and conversely, if we do see a transition away from authoritarian rule in the north and toward reunification, presumably that will come with tremendous investment by the south in the north, leading to new reindustrialization, potentially leading to greater output of carbon in the north. currently the north is pretty -- certainly less production in an industrial sense than the south. therefore, you might anticipate that actually reunion fakes might lead to a worsening of carbon emissions. i wonder if you could comment on that. dr. finnegan, you know that the rock is currently undertaking an ef

really starts the beginning of the coalition building that ultimately would lead to the election of haroldwashington in the city of chicago. any number of relationships were forged in that period. jeff was very good in bringing some of that out. i think of a group like rising up angry, white resistance group on the north side. young lords. the appellation people's movement. all of the forces that started working together that had not been working together before. my final point is a sad point. i don't think i have seen since that time effort at the point of unity and pride and strength that there was. the vicious role of drugs and drug distribution starts to tear apart the bonds, party it created and bringing together -- it was a moment of tremendous unity in that moment of sorrow. there was a tremendous unity. >> in a moment about the murder. >> a solid ally at the time at that point additional that represented a major breach. this culminated -- a very adversarial, the black unity -- the unity was often -- the mainstream was passing by the black community as the media mainstream and black

. >> booktv at candidate but ready for newspaper editor and publisher harold evans for the publicationr chase: true stories of vanished times." the party was held at the british ambassador's residence in washington d.c. "the new york times," the economist, financial times, and the new yorkers that the dead "my paper chase: true stories of vanished times" as one other notable nonfiction books of 2009. some mac. >> thank you. >> the book was written and then the paperback was done and then contemporary systems got a grant to turn it into a teaching college. and it has taken us two years to get it ready, but we have been teaching right now for the academic year of 2010. and the website is interactive, television voices, books, references. and i didn't create it. somebody else created it but i do all the speaking for it. he is a remarkable man. i was so pleased about being involved with him. he is certainly told the story. and he told me that he didn't read the book when it came out. but somebody arty bought it and stuck it on himself and then just saw this book and said what the hell is t

host: harold ford has his picture in the pages of "the new york post" this morning.is side kick out swinging at top democrats, who are trying to pull out of a primary as the campaign efforts by recording a spokesman and advisers pulled from mayor bloomberg's atop a desperate what are they afraid of? the senate democratic majority leader, harry reid, called bloomberg and asasked him not to back the candidate. union, missouri, good morning, republican line. caller: i agree with your last caller. he is absolutely right when obama takes money from a.i.g. campaign funds and the fact that bankers, he took campaign funds from them. he also bailed them out. he says he had to build about. keep in mind, it will get worse as time goes on. inflation will increase. this campaign stuff does not mean nothing. they put that out as a campaign to run for office. thank you, cspan, also keep in mind that when obama says cspan should be going over our healthcare bill, it has not happened. he has said it sometimes. it is a lie. host: many papers are reporting for job losses, 85,000 jobs l

host: new jersey, republican line, harold. caller: good morning. very, very interesting. have been reading a book called "the end of poverty" by geoffrey = -- jeffrey sachs. i agree with the last caller, this is a man-made problem, also a moral problem, also deterioration of the family. the book i got came from americorps. if we had over 100,000 people on americorps, they are counted as being poor, and they give them food stamps, they give them a medicaid, and they give them this book. essentially, it is fiction, and nevertheless, what the government is doing, it seems to me, is they are using americorps for political purposes like acorn and all the rest of it. it is very, very sad. obviously, we should do is eliminate poverty. this guy came from the same place as obama, i think columbia and harvard. these are fictional schools -- they teach fiction. objective truth -- truth is obviously in the eyes of the holder -- host: 10 i jump in and ask you to ask a question? guest: the other thing -- caller: the other thing is why is the government cooking the books? guest: one. to

meanwhile a former democratic house member, harold ford, previous of tennessee, said he will announcet -- announced in the debts month ago whether he will challenge new york democratic senator chris d'angelo brand who replaced now secretary of state tell bricklin -- a report that two suspected u.s. drunk strikes killed -- the first attack killed seven and the second killed five. the identities of those killed are unknown according to officials speaking on condition of anonymity. some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> admiral michael mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, talks this morning about the role of the u.s. military. his audience, high-school students at the washington center for in turns. live coverage at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. at noon, in discussion on access to and availability of water in the developing world and how it is key for further development, hosted by the wilson center and a catholic relief services. the photo on your screen of president richard nixon and elvis presley taken in 1970 is the most requested photo in the national archiv

difference this will make in people's lives if you wouldn't mind what he once again give speaker harold and letterman a round of applause and for all of you in the senate and house instrumental passing that change to people's pocketbooks and wallets, would you give yourself a round of applause on that one. [applause] thank you for passing the first toward reform bill of its kind. that bill took us off the list of judicial hellholes and it's the kind of chance instrumental to better link the state's business climate and prospect for jobs so i would ask that you recognize senator larry barton and keto, where are you all? would you stand up, please be recognized. thank you. [applause] thank you for passing the first reforms of workers' compensation system a change like that one is also just the kind of thing a business from the far looking at south carolina takes into consideration. in addition to thinking larry and harry i know scott richardson was a senator back then, scott, would you be stand it to be recognized on that one along with harriet larry? come on, there you are. [applause] th