harold ford jr.ot running for senate. >> and harold ford jr. will be here today. will be here today to talk about that decision. good morning, everybody. >> he's not running for senate. he's going to be here at 8:00. let's go to mika with the news. >> actually, i want to say good morning to everyone. hi. okay, good morning. >> now let's go to mika with the news. >> actually, first i need to give barnicle his frosted flakes. >> thank you very much. i love frosted flakes. tony the tiger, man. whoo hoo. you can pour your own milk. and joan walsh is here. welcome. good to have you. >>> all right. let's get to the news. we've got a lot to talk about this morning. and don't eat with your mouth open. we're going to start with chile. the second largest city remains under curfew this morning as the government forces struggle to contain the chaos following saturday's massive earthquake. at least 723 people confirmed dead. scientists say the sheer strength of the quake actually knocked the earth from its axis a

so harold really sort of took me apart at that point.y question for you, harold -- [laughter] -- is you've been working hard now on many of the same issues, just as i did as the legal advisor. and i think you and i share a number of the same concerns. the problem is, is the legal advisor is not a solo operator inside an administration, or even inside the federal government. there are bureaucratic politics at play, where the defense department and the cia and the justice department and the white house may not agree with the views of the legal advisor. as harold rightly said, to get a treaty through the senate you have to get 67 votes through the center. it's also and a lecture near this year. although at any are, unfortunately there is just not strong support for international law and international institutions inside the united states. many of our senators tend to believe that treaties are things that we do to be nice to other countries, to be part of the international club, and fail to see that the reason that we enter into treaties is

i agree with what harold was saying. the very worst thing for a politician or for political party is to -- the appearance that they are not listening. i think that's the risk now to democrats on health care, because they are going ahead no matter what. i think it's the risk on the economy because they haven't really pivoted the jobs as president obama put it at the beginning of the year. and on the ethics, you know, it's beginning to look a lot like 2006 and i think nancy pelosi came in talking about the most ethical congress but had no commitment to taking on the old bold in her party. there is the late john murtha who personified the practice around ear marks and charlie rangel a sad case of someone who thinks he deserved a lifestyle beyond his income and began to cut corners. >> we're talking about performance as well among democrats and the president. and senator hatch, the republican national committee, the finance director, did a power point presentation t donors and the like. i'll put it up on the screen. this is

he says on october 19th, harold allegedly made contact with summer as she walked home from school. then, killed her in his house. a house she passed by every day. cause of death, asphyxiation. >> we have evidence that will show that harold assaulted summer and killed her and dumped her body in a dumpster which ultimately ended up in a landfill in georgia. >> reporter: what's their case against harold? evidence law enforcement found in his house, dna and even admissions from harold himself. >> so i would like to take this opportunity to say to jared harold, we got you and you ain't getting away. >> reporter: in a separate news conference, summer's mother did not hold back. at one point, summer's aunt was so overwhelmed she fainted. summer's mother paused and explained how she will tell her children. >> i am just going to tell them that the monster is caught and locked up and he will never get out. >> that was michelle meredith reporting. bee sides premedicated murder, the other charges are lewd and lascivious and sexual battery. the case qualifies for the death penalty. >>> it all s

he comes up without a bit of evidence and lisa's mudball ads thrown up against harold c. in the final week of the campaign that was so egregious and so over-the-top that after the election cbs says that while the trash we saw this year, this is the most egregious. >> host: you are a student of history. are there other political consultants who have kind of tag your reputation in some circles? >> guest: jeanneau, lee atwater was on the receiving end. tictac was a democratic assault on training consultant. there were allegations of jim farley under franklin roosevelt. the look, you can't compare what went before with what we have today because we have cable tv. we have c-span, we of the internet, with a plethora of channels and politics that tightly polarized. somebody will print it. for example, there's one story that every count in the book about an attack made on me by jake tapper who suggested that i had taken the bush campaign debate materials in some done to the gore campaign in 2000. we later found out that it was a disgruntled employee of a media adviser who got her

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with the idea being they would be widely spread around and would generate a wave of sympathy for harold, and again their right to question a little bit global because again there is no such flyer and the idea again you're going to affect millions of people by taking as he describes garbage bags full of the flyers and throwing them out on people's lawns is absurd but there isn't a single story that appears in the entire campaign about this and nobody, i call people in alabama that said have you ever this before and nobody that i ever talked to was avert familiar with the charge and then what he missed was in this particular campaign the democratic candidate runs an ad attacking harold that cbs news after the election picked out as the worst multiple end of the entire campaign and the writer for the atlantic while he comes up with the duty scheme of rove concocted a flyer that would generate positive wave of sympathy and response and affect millions of people around the state while he comes up for that which there isn't a bit of evidence leaves out entirely the sluve ball had thrown up ag

harold evans. [applause] >> i can't be elevated so i have to lower this. and thank you so much for those excellent words. it is always good to come back to britain which is where we are. the british territory you understand. [laughter] and not to go to the formality of proving who i am which is what happens, of course, when you go through any security. in this -- he is so lucky because this is true. the juliet lived very close to been and he's lucky because we never matched. [laughter] because who knows, tina, what would have happened if i met the gorgeous julia became as scientists and like me ended up in the united states. tonight really should be a celebration, not of me frankly, but of reporting. when that's what my book is about. it's about what newspapers can achieve a, not what an editor can achieve. but of what the reporters on the ground can achieve. that's what i am particularly honored tonight to have been bradley here who represents journalism at its best in many other excellent reporters here. and also glad, of course, that we're here with a s

he also bit on the theory in a campaign involving 1996 campaign involving harold c., who's running for the supreme court in alabama, one tactic i got involved with was top print up large numbers of fliers attacking him with the idea that these would be widely spread around and generate a wave of sympathy for harold c. the writer in question is gullible. there's no supplier. and idea that you're going to effect untiles of people by taking as he -- effect millions of people as taking the fliers and throwing them out on people's lawn is absurd. there's not a single story in the entire gain. nobody, i called people in alabama said have you heard of this before? nobody that i talked to was ever familiar with the charge. then what he missed was that in this particular campaign the democrat candidate runs an ad attacking harold c. that cbs news after the election picked out as the worst mud ball out of the entire campaign. and this writer for the atlantic, while he comes up the scheme of rove con conducted a flier that attacked harold c. but generate sympathy and response and effect millions

today investigators charged 24-year-old jarrett harold with murder.estigators say he was living at his parent's home in a suburb of jacksonville when summer went missing back in october. she had to walky the house on the way home from school two days after she disappeared her body was found in a nearby land fill. police say they're confident they now have the right man. >> i can tell you that in order to get to this point investigators have relied on statements from witnesses, admissions from the defendant, dna technology results, and evidence that harold was at the location when summer disappeared along with other evidence. >> jared harold has been in police custody since february 11th when he was arrested in mississippi on child pornography charges. he since has been extradited to florida. >>> just ahead on news 4 at 4:00, changing course. the u.s. army says it is going to do basic training a little bit differently. >> a warning aboutome new social networking websites and how they could be putting you in danger. >>> the rumored report about singing

court of alabama, one tactic i got involved with was to print up large numbers of flyers attacking harold c. with the idea being that these would be widely spread around and would generate a wave of sympathy. again, the writer in question was a little bit gullible because again there was no such fire and the idea you are going to affect millions of people by taking as he describes in there, garbage bags full of these flyers and throwing them out on people's lawns is absurd that again there is not a single story that appeared in the entire campaign about this and i call people in alabama and said have you ever heard this before? nobody that i talked to us ever familiar with this charge. then what he missed was in this particular campaign, the democratic candidate runs an ad attacking harold see that cbs news after the election picked out is the worst mud ball out of the entire campaign and this writer for the atlantic comes up with this goofy scheme of rove concocted a flyer that attacked harold sieg but would generate positive sympathy in and response and affect millions of people around

this group of law enforcement professionals that we all team somer, to announce to you, that jared haroldas been formerly charged with the murder of somer thompson. the filing of these charges would not have been possible without the dedicated and tireless work done by these individuals that you see here today and countless others who have worked behind the scenes. before i go any further with the details in the case, i'd like to recognize my colleagues who join me here today making this announcement. first, state attorney from the state attorney's office. special agent in charge, jim casey of the fbi. special agent in charge, dominic paint with the florida department of law enforcement. assistant chief deputy mike bunk of the u.s. marshal service. assistant special agent in charge, norm kelly. director steve nelson of the state attorney's office. major jimmy wilson of the clay county sheriff's office. captain david centers, chief of detectives with the clay county sheriff's office. lieutenant joe boochi, robbery homicide division. dan ma, robbery homicide and detective ken west, the lead

>>> gerald harold has now been formally charged with the murder of somer thompson. >> breaking news that announcement made a short time a ago. the family of a 7-year-old girl in florida closer to finding justice. little somer was kidnapped and killed in october, her body found two days later in a landfill. this hour, i will talk to her grieving father, samuel thompson. >>> what a nightmare, mom and husband go on vacation to paris, come home to find their house destroyed. we're talking $45,000 in damages. the son's classmates crashed a party he threw. totally trashed the place, blood, food, urine all over the house. mom said this did not just destroy our house. it destroyed our lives. taking your calls, as always, 1-877-tell-hln. you can e-mail us cnn.com/primenews or join us on facebook or text us at hln tv. start your message with the word "prime." it's your chance to be heard! welcome. this is "prime news." i'm mike galanos. breaking news, emotions pouring out again for the family of somer thompson. an arrest made in the murder of this beautiful 7-year-old little girl. jared harold cha

in harold ford's case obviously a strong democrat. i think with a great future in the democratic party. my sense is, you know, he went around and surveyed and found that while people felt strongly about him, senator gillibrand had a very, very dedicated group of supporters within the state party and, you know, i think he made the decision that discretion was the better part of valor in that instance, but i think he's going to continue to be a real strong voice within the democratic party. i just learned within the last couple hours about the situation in arkansas and haven't really dug into that one very much. i do know that today at the white house robert gibbs talked about the president's support for senator lincoln, that she's worked closely with him, and, you know, given that statement from the white house i'm sure we're going to be taking the same tack. but that's just one that i learned about shortly before i came on the show. >> prepare to hear from the left on blanche lincoln, mr. chairman. they've made their feelings about th

harold keller was an uncommon heroes that nobody knew anything about after he came home. but he was the second marine to reach the summit. he slept that night under the flag that was erected on top. and while he and his buddy chick robison, buzz bombs and mortars came in toward that flag, because it was the subject of great debate and competition between the americans and the japanese. . harold keller was remarkable for other things that happened in an island that was so small it was less than 10 square miles and yet 30,000 japanese soldiers and 70,000 marines and navy corpsmen occupied that tiny isles during this incredibly intense struggle. when harold keller first landed on the beach on d-day, february 19, -- or excuse me, 1945, the first thing he did was save his commander officer, lieutenant harold wells, who stuck his head up above the sandy beach and would have had his head blown off had it not been for harold keller who pulled him down as a large piece of shrapnel soared right over where he had been. he also was friends with earnest "boots" thomas who was the mari

what's his name, harold ford? black guy from tennessee. host: harold ford.er: key have voted for harold ford and he didn't. when you look at opensecrets.org a year later stupak took money from nancy pelosi. i don't know -- a lot of people are calling him a hero, but believe me, you know, god knows who he voted for. host: we'll leave it there. guest: well, i'd like to address the cost issue in the caller's comments earlier on. i think it's crucial in the debate. the best estimate of the cost impact that we have, sort of the official estimate from the congressional budget office is that in the individual market premiums would go up as a result of this bill. they'd go up between 11% and 13%. advocates of the bill say after you take into account the subsidy, the fact you can get a taxpayer subsidy to buy insurance if you're below 400% of the poverty level it will actually cost you less out of pocket. while it's true for some folks who qualify for the subsidy, it's also irrelevant. as a society we have to pay for the cost of that subsidy. pay for it as taxpayers.

please join me in welcoming harold evans. [applause] >> i can't be elevated.nk you so much for those excellent words. it is always good to come back to britain where we are because this is a british television you understand. not to go through the formalities of proving who i am which happens when you go through any security. nigel is so lucky. juliet lived very close to me and he is lucky because we never met. because the knows what might have happened if i had met the gorgeous juliet which became a scientist and like me ended up in the united states. tonight should be a celebration. reporting -- that is what my book is about. it is about what newspapers could achieve, not what an editor can achieve but what the reporters on the ground can achieve. i am here to have ben bradlee here who represents journalism at its best and many other excellent reporters here. i am glad we are here with a synthesis of remarkable quality about what is going on at the moment because few people apart from me can read every newspaper every day and so it provides that synthesis as

i don't know if any of you are familiar with harold nicolson. he was a british mp during the war.he premier diarist, i think, in britain. he was an mp. he helped bring churchill to power. their son wrote a book called portrait of a marriage. wonderfully colorful guy. his real value is that he left this first hand account of history in his diary. he brings everything to live. if you have access to diaries like this or letters like this and it makes it much easier to write in the style where you feel like you hope your readers feel like they are there when you are describing it. he and many, many others did that. and so if you have access to their papers then you are halfway home. with the americans that i am writing about that was also true. ed murrow wrote wonderful letters. the one who really wrote wonderful letters was his wife, janet. she wrote to her parents virtually every week. so when they were caught in an air raid she wrote this very long letter back to parents in which there is a chapter in the book. it begins with this air raid and having this wonderful dinner in london

and so without further ado, i offer you louis armstrong's 1933 recording of harold arlens, i've got aes, which tells his story better than anything. better even than "pops." : ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> i will see you in line. please help me think once again. [applause] >> fold up the chairs and start the line on both sides because of the wires on the other side. hold up the chair or something. we are going to get started right now. ♪ >> terry teachout is the chief culture critic and commentary magazine. he is the author of the skeptics:a life of each element in. visit kerriteachhow.com. >> this weekend on booktv, former education secretaryill bennett examines america at the end of the 20th-century and the beginning of the 21. he is interviewed by a former managing editor at time magazine. from new york, this year's awards ceremony and throughout the weekend look for highlights from the virginia festival of the book. find the entire schedule online at booktv.org. military heritage magazine editor roy morris recalls samuel clemens's transformation from a riverboat captain to celebted writer

harold ford that the hour has announced he will not challenge the democrat in new york.are the politics of the way those two incumbent senators have played this situation, what does it tell incumbent democrats about how to handle challenges in primaries? >> i think the primary challenge in arkansas, which has been the result of a lot of very excellent grass roots organizing, accountability now, move on is doing fund raising, a lot of the net roots, is really smart. the fact is blanche lincoln is essentially a dead woman walking at this point. her re-elect numbers look terrible. her approval ratings are very low. at this point removing her from the ticket is probably a net benefit to democrats there. she's also just not represented the will of the people of arkansas on things like the public option. in the case of harold ford it was one of the most laughably inept candidate rollouts in recent memory and i think finally at some point he got the message this was not going anywhere. >> thanks, chris hayes of "the nation." >>> coming up, the devastation in chile. ann curry tr

justice harold burton, who served in congress before georgia -- serving the court, said, if you have ever gone to the length of a circus into a monastery? burton overstated the matter. but that congress and the court are certainly engaged in very different activities. the supreme court building is full of symbolism and expresses that difference, rich with images that could fill all lengthy book. consider the symbols in the court room that the justices see from the bench when they sit at their places. our intentions are on the advocates before us and their arguments. it can include in the jump -- some distinguished guests. we always welcome these visitors to our home with respect, but cass gilbert has created above the crowd, a vivid reminder of our obligation as judges. along the north and south sailing, carved by someone in spanish marble, the positive virtues of the law. a progression of lawgivers such as lincoln and confucius, blackstone, and john marshall. they remind us that an exercise in judgment, not deciding disputes with litigants, but the long view that will sustain future

washington, harold was chicago's reform mayor.sured twice by the illinois war and the anti-washington bloc. and in 1987 when it was obvious that a washington was a reform candidate you chose instead to work as a campaign aid in the run for mayor against harold. my question, please, give these students here a little career advice and tell them how you an nu grad and fresh out of law school pepperdine came to make the choice to associate yourself with verdoliac who was even was part of corruption would be a better mayor than washington? >> that's a great question. when you have the perspective of hindsight and again, more when you're older and you have experience to learn more about how government works, you know, obviously if i was given that choice today, i would support these are the things harold washington would have applaud it. i don't know vrdolyak would have agreed to it. he probably wouldn't have supported it. let me explain the vrdolyak. his name is fast eddy. >> still is. >> my mother was a ticket agent and my dad was a f

i want to go to mark harold, former police officer, joining us out of washington. mark, i don't know if this is international waters or how far it is off the coast, but if it's aruban water territory, i don't know if the fbi would be welcome. >> yeah. i mean, they're going to have to invite them in. when you go other places pretty much under the jurisdiction of that country. i don't know how far out they are either. but pretty much the fbi's going to have to be invited in to go in those waters against the wishes of the authorities. >> but mark, if tourists can go in those waters freely, why can't the fbi? >> well, that's a good question. the problem is it's a law enforcement activity. so the rules are a little different. the best bet is probably just to say, look, a lot of americans come over here, they're tourists, they bring in money, and use that indirect approach. but as far as directly, they probably don't have jurisdiction. >> van der sloot describes calling a friend he says was never questioned by police, who had a boat nearby. he says they carried natalee h

i've spoken with the original trial attorney, his name was harold comber. he's still practicing in texas. what he said was having additional dna tested at that time would further implicate skinner in this case, so he didn't ask for the testing on the evidence that skinner is now asking to be tested. >> larry: then that's the crux of the case, right? why didn't skinner, since he's the client, why didn't he tell his lawyer i want the dna introduced? >> there's some dispute there about whether or not he did ask for the testing at the time. skinner says that he did. his attorneys have a different answer. they say that he agreed with him at the time that that testing shouldn't be done, so there's some dispute there about whether or not that testing was asked for at the time of the trial. >> larry: jason, this is probably a simpleton question, why didn't they just let him introduce it and see what happens? >> you know, we're not -- as tdcj, we don't get into the specifics of the case. that's handled through the attorney general's office. so i really couldn't answ

this is from harold proctor and want to put this picture up. he says i recently received and paid for a parking ticket in a no parking zone and he said i don't have any trouble paying the fine. but i do have an issue with the signs along the stretch of road, that's the 1300 block of 23rd street near the p. street bridge in georgetown. he said the street has parking signs on one post in zone parking, street cleaning hours and at the very bottom it says no parking. if this is truly a no parking zone why can't the city move the least restricted signs which cause confusion. are you confused? >> well i think the gentleman makes a great point and it's my understanding that this has been changed now. do you have the after shot? >> we should have an after picture too. >> so this is much better. just one way you don't park and one way you do park. so if anyone else has any signs in their neighborhood that are as confusing as that one, please e-mail us to fenty on fox or at dr.gov. and we apologize. we'll check and make sure we got the rest of them. >> t

we're going to listen now to that horrific 911 call that was made by travis' owner, sandra harold.. >> 911, where is your emergency? >> can the police -- the chimp killed my friend! >> who is killing your friend? >> my chimpanzee. >> your chimpanzee is killing your friend. hurry up. what is the monkey doing. >> he ripped her face off. she's dead. he ripped her apart. >> he ripped what apart, her face? >> everything. >> he ripped her apart? >> i think i'm going to faint. >> just breathe, okay? hang on until they get there. >> please hurry. >> michael, this was a mauling. she lost both her hands. she lost an eyelid, she lost her nose. she's now had her eyes removed so she can no longer see. how is she doing today? >> she's doing real good. she's happy. she even called me up to tell me this was coming on tonight. and i told her to listen to me. >> so she seems to be doing all right. you know, your sister and saundra, the owner of the pet, they were very close friends. >> they weren't close. >> they weren't close friends. >> not close. >> they were friends enough that she was over ther

while often harolded as a reversal of longstanding jurisprudence, the supreme court's decision in the cases gathered as brown versus board of education, was in fact an extension of the court's earlier decisions. brown expanded existing law and the ship launched by charles houston 20 years earlier had last reached unchartered shores. in 1935, however, the wind blew steadily in the opposite direction. separate but equal schools and buildings were permissible under the supreme court's plessy versus ferguson decision. to challenge plessy to set sail into the wind would be the mission of a doomed fool. so walter roy asked houston to present a plan under which the naacp could launch a sustained -- houston chartered a novel course to defeat the law of separate but equal, he would argue for the enforcement of separate but equal. in southern states he would argue that segregations mandates needed to be met. he would seek to end segregation skourj by arguing for its promise. so he was the strategist. if you were a state, say they were segregating black and white citizens. houston said, that's f

according to "the new york times," former tennessee congressman harold ford jr.ecided not to challenge new york's democratic senator kiersten jill brand for her seat. he has been under intense pressure from democratic party officials. they're worried that a primary race would drain campaign funds and leave the winner vulnerable to a well-financed challenger. >>> meantime, gerry brown is expected to campaign for a third term more than a quarter century after leaving office. >>> general motors is recall mortgage than a million compact cars after over 1100 complaints about steering failures. >>> and jay leno reclaimed his old job as host of the tonight show nine months after giving it up to conan o'brien. for his first show he was joined by jamie foxx and olympic gold medal skier lindsey vonn. now back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." president obama is expected to make an announcement. in fact, he will this wednesday about the next stones health care reform. he is going to define where he stands, as it gets closer. former dramatic chairman and former

the economics of keeping that harold wear running are less than buying new ones now.you could set yourself up fair fairly optimistic view of unit growth this year. i think competition will continue to be strong. pricing will continue to be tough. but unit growth will happen. >> rose: some predict we are looking at, in terms of the u.s. economy, a kind of new normal, that unemployment will not get down to the levels it was earlier before the prices, and secondly, economic growth will not reach the level that it did before. so we may be going along at 3%, 4%, and china will be going along at nine or 10 or more. >> we saw some of that in the 90s, you know. i do think that job recovery will lag, and i think that every time-- i've seen a number of recessions in my career. people use it as an opportunity to try to be much more productive coming out of it and try to let revenue grow and grow profitaise bit while you absorb the existing expense base the companies have. we're certainly one of those companies. we happen to have had the fortune to resiss the company prior to the

to talk about this welcome back diana moskovitz covering this since the beginning from the "miami harold" also mary some j jo rapini, starting with what the sheriff is saying. this is about a texting rage. i think he's right. i mean, if you think about this kid, it's happened with other cases we've covered, some kid is typing on this screen, texting away. and this rage is fueling onto the screen. by the time he's done typing, he's not thinking about josie as a person, a potential victim. it's a nameless, faceless thing that is now the object of his rage. >> that's right. you know, what's happening right now is these kids aren't well parented at home. many times, these kids are exposed, boys in partular, to their models are abusive, they are hurting their moms, 51% of all kids are raised in a single-parent home now and i think this child was one that had a step-dad. but there's so many boyfriends raising boys that don't know how to raise them and the schools have no idea how to handle texting and bullying. they understand the concept of bullying, but they are not able to talk about textin

gerald harold already in custody on child porn charges is now accused with her murder. adam lan dou in wkxt in jacks jacksonville is standing by with the latest. >> reporter: gerald harold goes from the person of interest to now being the suspect. he has been charged with little sommer thompson's murder. we did get details from clay county sheriff's today about how this investigation was pieced together. remember, she disappeared and was killed back in october so it's taken a little bit of time to get to where we are today, but investigators say they had jared harrell kind of in their eyes because he was one of the 4,000 tips they got at the very beginning. and then later on as the investigation started to move forward they say he became a person of interest. they tracked him down in mississippi. they arrested him and brought him back in february. he was called a person of interest then and just this morning he was charged with sommer thompson's murder. investigators say they realize the community watched all this happen and maybe thought it took a long time, but they s

harold chromier who danced with duke ellington and will be performing here. >> for moment who want towhat is the best thing for them to do. there are a lot of different things. >> this try, we ki off feival right here at duke ellington school of the arts at 8:00 p.m. with our all-star concert. saturday and sunday, we have classes for all levels, all ages, beginners, please come on. we have history talks, panel discussions a jam session and a cutting contest which is a tap battle. it gets pretty intense. >> you guys say when civilization arts fleuranges under, souls flourish. what do you mean by that? >> i can say for us, we grew up here in washington, d.c. artists came here and inspired us and enabled us to have a life that wave been able to share this art form globallily. just got back from shanghai and brazil. we have cancer coming here from tokyo, the netherlands. >> you are going to posm with live musicians here. we are rying to do our best to hoe it all off this morning. >> we have aaron clay from the mesa school and ben williams who is a world reknowned bass player and just got

host: harold geisel, thank you very much for being with us and talking about your report. guest: a great pleasure. host: next we will talk with william cohen about his new book, "house of cards." timely as it is. we will be back with that discussion. first, an update from c-span radio. >> economic numbers are back in, the commerce department reports that housing construction fell in february as a result of winter storms. january activity was revised upwards. the rebound is seen as critical to overseeing the overall economic recovery. following the president -- vice president's trip to the middle east, dozens of palestinians are setting fires in east jerusalem, protesting israeli plans to build 1600 apartments there. george mitchell has postponed a trip aimed at wrapping up preparations for launching peace talks again. the army has decided to change its basic training regimen. instead of 5 mile runs and bayonet drills, stretching, body twists, and races will be the focus. this is to follow the advice iraqi war veterans, saying that modern combat has more to do with bursts o

harold on the republican line from the jersey. caller: i would like to respond to the first caller, and if you let me, the last caller. the first caller, what we have really is defensive medicine and the large costs of the defensive medicine is our costs are ever so much higher than what they should be. i think it is far better to kill a very, very bad bill such as this one than to pass a good bill. this is a bad bill because of many reasons, but particularly because it permits abortion to be paid by the taxpayers of consider it to be wrong how could -- really, how could anybody do to a baby what they would never, ever do to a kitten or a puppy? for the convenience of the abortionists, they rip the feet -- host: let us go to the democrats' line from sheboygan, wisconsin. what do you think about the president's four gop ideas. caller: i think that is great. he has been the wind at all along but the republicans keep accusing -- he has been doing that all along but the republicans keep accusing him. he has been giving them every oppo

the nation, meanwhile, is news hundred. çó many of you heard this morning that harold ford has decidedllibrand in new york for that primary. he has an op ed in today's "new york times" on why he is not running for the senate. try have examined this race in every possible way and if i run, the likely result will be a cruel and how the-democratic primary. pennsylvania, laura on the verge republican line -- on the republican line. caller: your guest is no longer there from the naacp? host: that is right. what is your question? caller: i think democrats and republicans agree on some basic things, but the objections from the house are those brave pro- life democrats who refuse to give up the stupak amendment language. they do not want reproductive rights and abortion, killing unborn babies, in this health bill. over 40% of americans are pro- life. that is the gallup poll -- over 50% of americans are pro-life. that is the gallup poll from last year. the obama white house wants this agenda to be radical left and they want to give up health care for all because they want that to be part of the

those of you that declared you want them with harold change your tax status to not withholding that we increased the federal government will be able to get their hands on your money immediately. the other issue, too, is if you want, go to your bank, get as much money out as you can to protect your assets and would never be possible. i don't know what they could really do if a large number of people flat out right refused to comply with this mandate to buy insurance. thank you for c-span2 we will take my answer of the air. >> host: professor? >> guest: okay, with respect to your first question, again, i think these are political statements and not legal statements, and attorneys general and legislatures, many of them are lawyers, attorneys general's obviously are. but they are also politicians. and they are making political statements. they are making the political statement we are republicans and we don't like health care reform. i don't think that this is necessarily that they are applying and their legal expertise with the london law school but rather they are making a political stat

harold ford, former tennessee congressman, he thought about it and he dropped out. so she might get a pass. host: is new york a one-party state? guest: was looking like it for the last couple of years. democrats had the state senate, the governorship, and the number of house democrats jumped way up from a majority to a super strong majority. but there are plenty of republicans in new york, including upstate, where republicans traditionally have been strong. mayor bloomberg from new york city, he used to be a republican but now he -- host: and he used to be a democrat. guest: sure did. the republican party is also reeling in new york as nationally. host: what about governor pataki? guest: he could jump in the mix. he has not declared he wants to challenge gillibrand but he could potentially be a strong challenger. right now the only guy around is rick/0 -- lazio, former congressman, who ran not such a great race begins hillary clinton. host: what about rudy guiliani? guest: he is someone who also had a steep fall in new york politics. he ran for president, and his ca