the organizations supported by harry thomas bought cars, golf -- hear thomas, bought cars, and. what about kwame brown, the automobile story? >> kwame brown wanted to have a bigger s.u.v. after he was elected as chairman of the council. that comes with the territory, a car. but he wanted a certain kind. he wanted a big black -- what was it called? was it the cadillac? >> no, it wasn't the cadillac. it was an s.u.v., but he wanted it fully loaded. when called, he said i didn't know it cost that much. i will pay the difference. >> it was like $2,000 a month. >> yes. but the problem was, and i thought about this a lot. i moderated one of his debates as well. the question was about his own personal finances. there had been some discussion earlier in the year about indebtedness that he had. i wondered whether shed ask a question of him from the audience. he said my financials are all in order now. i felt they were all up collusive, but i have taken care of it, but he hadn't. he really had champagne ideas with a soda water pocketbook. it turns out he bought a yacht, a big boat that he

he expressed disappointment that council member harry thomas committed crimes and is now serving time in jail. let me say, the vincent gray is probably one of the hardest- working mayor's we have had. he works hard. he comes in early and stays late. he works hard. that is not what is at issue. at issue, notwithstanding anything else that might happen from this point going forward, it is that he has been a poor judge of people and put -- in putting together his campaign, which in putting together his administration, he has had a number of problems in putting together a candidate. people say there is nepotism, is it because he is more concerned with the mechanics of government? i do not know. i do not think we see the end of this. i have talked to him directly about his involvement. he is -- he looked me in the face and told me he was unaware of any of these activities that took place. that he was not involved in any criminal activity. that he is just shocked and surprised and disappointed. three different times he has told me that. so we will have to see what happens over the next week

harry. in tennis thomas burdick has inspired the czech republic to victory over argentina to set up a davis cup final with spain the czechs went into sunday with a two one advantage and needed one more victory and burdick oblige with a straight sets win over the law when their ease the argentine standing in the injured one martin del potro and couldn't stay with burdick who won the first team set six three before going on to take the six for victory the czechs will host the final against defending champions spain in november i we made it to you know and it's good. we were you know bringing bringing here you know to argentina to try to try to make their almost impossible and win here about this all to you know have a belief for the team that they can make it you know it's not impossible to win here in the region to reprove so you know that's even better because you know doing the research or. you know really gives us it gives us so much for the future i'm really excited to be in the final again. well spangler three one win over the united states in the semifinal to have a fair coming from a

harry thomas was talking to the johnny carson producers and said, "we are thinking you're a boy to bring an hourglass and give it to johnny carson," and they said, no, johnny carson does that already, and that was part of the joke. >> asking robert gibbs about how he prepares for a speech like this, how does clinton do it? >> countless hours, reading everything he can, dredging up every arcane fat he can find come every point that is interesting to him, and then sort of sit it and we know it, and in this case, he is going to write most of his speeches. he is like most politicians, who consider themselves riders -- writers, and obama is the same. they like to write to the first draft and give it to the writers. he would say, "this is terrible. i hate it." and go back again. that is part of the process. he is known to have written nine, 12, 15 drabs. he gave a speech at a leadership conference in cleveland, where somebody had a draft where he erased every single line or drew a line through every single line of the speech. >> we are going to come back to david in a moment, but back to susan

selena and jeremiah's groups are en route to the top while a preacher thomas hillman and harry shedder in a group heading down. >> we were at a stop, on the ridge, and i saw a red flash. >> the red flash? harry's friend bill ward in a red jacket hurtling down the mountain. >> an incredible force literally ripped me from the mountain. i remember watching my ice ax just rip through the ice. >> it's all happening so fast. harry and his friend bill and several others are in one tangled mess heading right for selena. >> i put my head down because all the ice was coming down on us and just prayed that we didn't get hit. but i was fully expecting an impact. >> then the bodies just started sliding into the crevasse. you could hear them, you know, thump. >> selena is somehow spared from the fall, but her boyfriend, jeremiah, is not as lucky. cleve's son cole, too, gone with several others. >> there was just dead silence. and i remember just sitting there looking and a thousand things went through my mind. the very first one was, they're all dead. >> 911, what's the location of your emergency? >

polls on average getting it wrong unless you go back to 1948, when they predicted thomas dewey defeated president harry truman. cnn political contributor ari fleischer joins us. he's an occasional unpaid communications advisor for the romney campaign. also pollster 2012 cornell belcher and our own john king. so, ari, i do not hear republicans complaining, you know, a few months ago when mitt romney seemed up in these polls. >> well, anderson, here's what i think you have to do, and i don't think it's conspiracy, but i think you have to apply a commonsense test. here's what we know. the last time there was a major election in 2012, we had an exit poll in the state of wisconsin that was wrong. it showed the race was going to be neck and neck, the exit poll did, and of course governor walker won by seven percentage points. exit poll put together by the same consortium of many of these different groups that are doing the polls now. if you believe what the polls are saying right now, you've got to believe that there's something huge going on, and common sense would tell you there's a movement in america sim

harry truman. president thomas e. dooley. >> do you think these negative campaigns work?red to "morning in america" as an adman. my good friends boston bostonle bostonlety. >> i think there's we got to go. we're on a commercial. thank you for being here. appreciate it very much. >> anyway. >> when we come back we'll head down to the new york stock exchange for the latest buzz on wall street. stick around. at optionsxpress we're all about options trading. we create easy to use, powerful trading tools for all. look at these streaming charts! they're totally customizable and they let you visualize what might happen next. that's genius! strategies, chains, positions. we put 'em all on one screen! could we make placing a trade any easier? mmmm...could we? open an account today and get a free 13-month e ibd™ subscription when you call 1-888-280-0149 now. optionsxpress by charles schwab. ♪ i can do anything ♪ i can do anything today ♪ i can go anywhere ♪ i can go anywhere today ♪ la la la la la la la [ male announcer ] dow solutions help millions of people by helping to make glu

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harry were moved now. >>> a suburban teenager determined to set off a bomb in a downtown chicago bar will be in court today. abc's correspondent pierre thomas has details how the plot was foiled. >> reporter: the target, the heart of downtown chicago. the mission, to blow up a bar full of customers at one of the busiest times during happy hour. the fbi says adele daoud has been planning to kill as many people as possible before he parked his jeep cherokee. they said he got out in front of the bar, walked away from the bar and started squeezing the trigger of a bomb. but the bomb was a fake. daoud lived only a short distance away in this suburban neighborhood. his neighbors were stunned at the allegation. >> it's very scary. and it hurts my heart because i never would have thought, never, that this was the man was. >> reporter: fbi investigators say october he began posting. a few months later fbi agents posing as radicals contacted him online. in the summer, after daoud was put in contact posting as an agent in new york, he eventually looked at other targets. pierre thomas, abc news, washington. >>> and teachers in chicago are refusing to g

harry goody. teheran kumar. we said gordon stain. sebastian gorky karen garmin. thomas gorman. and douglas goal. eugene.odfather richard gabriel we love you. we miss you you're surrounded by family this year by your spirit lives on. >> my family member karen joseph gorman we list -- we miss you big guy. christopher brady. edwin graft iii. david grayson. of all by representative. winds 10. christopher graves. james graves. wade green. wanted green. elaine greenberg. donald green. miguel green. james greene they've, jr.. elizabeth straight. denise gregory. donald gregory. who florence gregory. john griffin. sherry griffin. joker fifth. and my husband, thain keogh for being in our lives. your beautiful smile look on our hearts and you're wonderful personality is missed and remembered by so, so many. >> and my father francis. you are my hero. happy birthday. >> joseph kelo. david kirschner. francis grogan. josip grave lack. wrote robert josip shot. jose guadalupe. cindy guam. douglas gerrian. phyllis the simpson. bar brad gerardo. andrea haber men. phillip had after. elizabeth hagerty. marylou hague. my fat

, everybody likes to point to the 1948 election when the polls said that thomas dewey would win the election and he didn't. harryd. that was 40 years ago when polling was in its infancy. polls are very good at telling you what the situation is at the time they're taken, not a week from thursday, not two months from tomorrow. they're good for then. >> that snapshot, right. some of the gop complain the pollsters are oversampling democrats in the swing states. are they overestimating democratic turnout for november? can you explain how this works? >> sure. the key is that we and most of the other major polls do not weight by party. that is, there is no standard when we start the poll to know that where any x number of republicans, x number of democrats. it is what it is. that's because party identification is a movable thing. people change their views and values over time. and we ask them when we poll them, do you consider yourself a republican, a democrat, an independent, or a member of some other party. now, there are characteristics we do wait for. because we raweight for age, ra and gender. that's because there

. >> reporter: thomas sanderson says there is a military need there for prince harry. a squad dron of apache helicopters, a feared weapon that engages in close combat with militants often providing cover for allied forces under attack. apache missions in afghanistan are dangerous no matter who's on board. does this put a bigger target on the backs of the soldiers and the forces around him -- >> i think there's a marginal increase in the brits. there are individuals in the taliban who are going to try to score this trophy. but it won't translate into a wholesale change to get prince harry. >> reporter: a source tells us they've thoroughly assessed the threat to prince harry and others around him. the source acknowledges with the prince's arrival, the taliban might have ratcheted up its intent to strike at british forces but says there's no intelligence to suggest they have any more capability of doing that than they normally have. prince harry will be stationed in southern helmand province, a taliban stronghold. but our source says apaches often deploy three or four at

harris-perry and joy ann reed. alex wagner is coming up next. she says everything she's big enough to say on cable tv. hey, alex. >>> i don't say everything, thomash, come on, now. commercial breaks. >> yes. that's true. coming up, get carter. team romney jumps in the way-back machine, recalling the 1980 race with the attack line "are you better off than you were four years ago" but is the killer rabbit critique fair? we will sort through the facts with former white house economic advisor, jared bernstein. >>> plus, ladies night at the democratic national convention. we preview the first lady's speech and examine her broader message and we take a look at one of the president's signature achievements, dodd-frank, and discuss who's still too big to fail. all that when "now" starts in a mere 180 seconds. [ female announcer ] how do you define your moment? the blissful pause just before that rich sweetness touches your lips. the delightful discovery, the mid-sweetening realization that you have the house all to yourself. well, almost. the sweet reward, making a delicious choice that's also a smart choice. splenda no-calorie sweetener. with the origin

harris saying it's opposite the way that the two would govern the nation. >> fascinating. thank you so much, richard. have a great weekend. that want does wrap up this weekend of "jansing and company." thomas> good morning. topping the agenda next hour the jobs battle, the presidential election entering the final 60 day sprint with a weak jobs report and on the heels of the president's big convention speech how does this impact president obama's case for four more years? we break down numbers. can the president get the unemployment rate below 8% by election day? then senator john kerry delivering some blistering zingers against mitt romney. did the democrats steal the republicans foreign policy thunder. general wesley clark will join me. plus from fist pumping to tears, some of the great moments from last night's convention that you might have missed. we got the round up four. that and much more coming your way next. you've reached the age where you don't back down from a challenge. this is the age of knowing how to make things happen. so, why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. 20 million men already have. ask your doctor if your heart is healthy en

thomas wolf. >> j.k. rolling is going the adult category. >> she has a new book coming out called "the casual vacancy." it's for adults. it's heavily embargoed as the harryus at amazon love this book called "sutton." the author collaborated on the biography of andre agassi. this is a novel but based very closely on the life of his last days of life after he got out of attica. >> robin hood type guy. >> and handsome and charming and very well read and reporters loved him and so it has overtones of today, who is doing what to whom between banks and regular people. it's a really wonderful novel. and the other novel that i love and is, i think will be sort of a sleeper hit is a book about a very dysfunctional jewish family in the suburbs of chicago, old joke. there's a lot of recognizable people. >>. nonfiction you like "mortality." >> "mortality." it's about esophageal cancer. it's not a happy book but surprising undepressing book. and "500 days" is about the 500 days, year and a half after 9/11, 2001 and what went on in the cia and white house and in places in europe and the middle east. it reads like a thriller and obviously a topic we're very interested

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harry reid said. now, grover norquist response here and only here. ally bank. why they have a raise your rate cd. tonight our guest, thomas sargent.reate in economics, and one of the most cited economists in the world. professor sargent, can you tell me what cd rates will be in two years? no. if he can't, no one can. that's why ally has a raise your rate cd. ally bank. your money needs an ally. >> we must stop the tea party before the united states senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise who don't recognize common ground even when they are standing on it. [applause] and if they will stand up to of rush limbaugh or grover norquist , what would make anyone think they would stand up for you? [applause] neil: well, you know you made when you come -- become the embodiment of evil. grover norquist on the phone with us. what did you think of that? >> well, harry reid is sort of my promoter, my pr agent. he certainly keeps my name out there. interestingly enough, i think the american people are focused on the fact that harry reid runs the senate, and they have not written or pass