i think is interesting also is that you know, the club gets portrayed as this old boy's club but hootie, the former chairman and billy payne the current chairman of the club are actually have great records as progressives in the south. hootie johnson who took a lot of heat ten years ago over the all-male policy was responsible for helping to integrate public schools in south carolina, campaigned to have the confederate flag removed from the state capitol. was a board member of the urban league. he was nobody's good old boy. and so you know, the club is very fascinating that way. again, the members there seem willing to take the public hit for remaining, you know, in this very private club. >> thank you so much, sally jenkins. we should point out the other thing that billy payne said to knowing laughter from the press corps, the sports writers is they did have some damage from the tornadic activity and that by the end of day today, it will all be cleaned up. which is another aspect of the masters. they certainly keep ta course picture perfect. thank you very much. it's always great to se

to get them spend more time in learning your trips to europe and those people who watch the soccer hootie and the years yes for instance one year i don't. get to work because i don't travel a lot of them because when i belong to the second quarter category because. now soccer games start late but some people say it's very convenient for them people who live in the country. live in smaller towns they have no problem. it's just a matter of choice in a matter of convenience so if a majority of people the muslims that want to change it back there will be no problem with that i won't be offended because i see all the pros and cons. well we were wondering perhaps shall we have a referendum because we have an hundred friends for a long time on the referendums i agree that we should have referendums from time to time and actually we should introduce new forms of referendums because what we had in the past with all those ballot papers eventually we should replace old it with electronics electronics. on this matter of daylight saving time we can have. the whole. on the go it should be representativ

and you know, they still have separatist impulses in the south, they have the hooties in the north. they face challenges but the transition that is under way now shows some promise. it needs the kind of support and the fact is, sala in the end did leave. and it came after an enormous effort of a lot of players including the administration and a repeated way, the number of conversations with him i can tell you were of high frequency and high levels including the president. and you know, you're also striking a balance in these cases between what's the right balance between what you say in private and what you do in public. as someone who has worked in the middle east for a long time what i can tell with you a high degree of confidence and i say this at a time when the truth is humility should be the order of the day, since none of us predicted what's happened because we're not the authors of what is unfolding there, we should in the first instance have a lot of humility. so when i say the following i'm saying this not only with humility but also with some sense of experience, you can'

. >> now it's not as much fun without martha burk and hootie johnson. do we have hootie?ere? >> we have billy. he looked uncomfortable, i thought. we are having -- are we having some technical difficulties here? okay. all right. we got billy payne. here at his news conference when he was asked about is this going to put a black cloud on the club. >> a man who discovered the eiffel tower. >> you are a woman with a small brain, with a brain the third the size of us. science. >> no. peter. >> hily appropriate. >> billy's thinking but here is what he said. >> all issues of membership are now and have been historically subject to the private deliberations of the members. >> yeah. that's the secret, we keep it a secret. they don't reveal the list of the members or how many there are or what they pay or who they are. but we know. >> if it was a poker club and a bunch of guys got together to play poker together in a private club, i don't think anybody would care. so you get to have whoever you want come show up at your poker party. but if you are having a major national/internati

at that time hootie johnson and asked right out of journalism 101, do you have any women members?t's a club matter, those are private. i wrote a column in "usa today" talking about it's absolutely unacceptable to discriminate against african-american men anymore in golf but fine to discriminate against women. martha burke, i did not know, read my column and started on a very correct protest against augusta national. the difference now, it's not an outsider like me or martha burke, but it is one of their own. ginni romety, ceo of gm. do they want to discriminate against one of their own in 2012? and it's a fascinating conversation. >> why are they treating this differently, when blacks weren't admitted and now extended membership. why is it different when the argument comes to female membership? >> reporter: they're not saying. that's the fallback position here at augusta always, a private club and all club matters of private. billy said that several times. it shows the change in the nine years since '02 and '03, but i think that, yeah, they're going to have have to deal with this.

you know, back in 2003, hootie johnson, then the chairman famously said the club would not be forcedo the idea that the club will be pressured into doing something doesn't seem fathomable. but in the last few weeks, the pressure as been ratcheted up so much, it's become such a distraction. i imagine it's become very uncomfortable for the membership. if i had to make a bet, i would guess that a woman member will be let in in the next year. it may have already happened. it wouldn't surprise me. it's not the kind of thing the club's going to announce if it does happen. it will trickle out through the press. i don't foresee the club making a big announcement. >> that takes nothing away from that fabulous finish for bubba watson. it was an incredible win and for all of the fans in watch. alan, thanks for joining us today. >> thanks, andrea. >>> out of pl where state attorney angela corey says there will not be a grand jury in the trayvon martin shooting death investigation. joining us from tallahassee, benjamin crump. what is your interpretation of this? because corey said this should not

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. ♪ >> you're listing to hootie and the blowfish. we'll talk about jobs and the economy. team of people who think very carefully. i would think so, don't you think? >> i would think so too. everything else they do in life. >> william cain is on our panel. john fugelsang, a political comedian, radio personalilty and ali velshi. that rounds out our panel this morning. got to get to headlines before we do anything else. >> good morning. another embarrassment for the general services administration, the agency in charge of buying the government's big ticket items. the head of the gsa resigned this week after details came out about a lavish conference she held in las vegas, a conference that featured among other things a clown, mind reader and $7,000 in sushi. a new web video has surfaced that shows another gsa employee joking about excessive government spending. ♪ >> oh, yes, oyg investigation. the video mentions an awards program, top hat program. you heard him rap. the awards program for gsa employees that gave out $200,000 worth of taxpayer funded ipods, electronics, gift

and hooty johnson, then the head of the club and the membership there, said well, that's fine. we'll just pay for the broadcast ourselves. so they reached into their own pockets and do it. you have to understand about augusta national, they view america as visitors for one week and one week only, and they don't care what you think of them. if you're a member of the working press, the minute that last press conference is over, the gate is locked and you are not welcome back in. if you want to do a live shot monday morning, you cannot. the place is closed. now, that doesn't mean they shouldn't have women. they should. it's ridiculous in this day and age. the most visible golf tournament in the world should have women at that club. but i'm telling you, they simply do not care what the world thinks of them. >> well, yeah. and the think is, too, you grew up in the south. i grew up in the south. they're different. >> i grew up in augusta. >> not that far from augusta. and of course, your experience is far different than my experience. but i can tell you as a very middle class white g