as it stopped for us to get off, the doors open, and an unbounded jack ford. still trying to put his shirt together. jack stared in total disbelief and embarrassment. queen elisabeth just looked at me and she smiled and she said, do w

so we will check in with jack ford on that a little while later. jeff glor is standing by with a check of some of the other headlines on this wednesday morning. >>> good morning. >>> president obama wants congressional leaders at the white house tomorrow to work on a budget cutting deal that would raise the nation's debt limit potentially. cbs news senior white house correspondent bill plante has more from the white house this morning. bil bill. >> reporter: good morning, jeff. the president is trying to raise the heat on congress to get a deal done in the next two weeks. the main point of his briefing yesterday was to voice his opposition to the idea of a short-term deal that is gaining a lot of support on capitol hill. >> i've heard reports that there may be some in congress who want to do just enough to make sure that america avoids defaulting on our debt in the short term, but then wants to kick the can down the road when it comes to solving the larger problem of our deficit. i don't share that view. i don't think the american people here sent

wyatt andrews, cbs news washington. >>> joining us is cbs news legal analyst, jack ford.ning. >> chris, good to see you. >> it didn't take long all right. like a rocket fastball. >> very good news i guess for roger clem epps at this point? >> at least for this moment it is. a mistrial is an unusual thing to take place inside of a courtroom. essentially it happens if a judge believes that something has -- has played out in front of the jury that could have an impact on the integrity of the trial. we have seen things such as jurors talk with other people during the midst of a trial and seen jurors going out and doing their own research or a witness blurts out something that they shouldn't say. more often than not judge is able to instruct jurors ignore it and make believe it didn't happen here. the judge here said this is way too big and way too prejudice. the judge said i can't ring the bell here so i don't have that as a remedy. as a consequence, this trial is over. >> it was actually a piece of video. like you saw with wyatt's piece saying a first-year law student wouldn

. >>> joining us is cbs news legal analyst jack ford. good morning. this case is a stunner, obviously, right from the start today. but even more so because this information is coming from loaw enforcement and not the defense side. >> very good point. it's not at all unusual for defense attorneys to attack the credibility of alleged witnesses in a case. you see it all the time. it is very unusual to see the prosecution questioning the credibility of their own witness, especially their own witness, especially in a case as high profile as this. so when you have that coming from the prosecution side, as reportedly it is here, that means there's some possibility for some seismic changes in this case. >> you talk about seismic. this 32-year-old woman supposedly connections to money laundering and drug dealers. this is not petty stuff when you're talking about credibility. >> yeah. there are a couple of things that the prosecution can be questioning here. they could be questioning whether the facts that she has given them are, in fact, true. or they could be

. >>> joining us is cbs news legal analyst jack ford. she is not going home just yet. >> interesting things in the courtroom. first the defense said to the judge four separate counts but she should be sentenced on a single count. their argument was that it was over a long conversation with police officers that she delivered these four different lies. one of them had to do with this nonexistent nanny. and as a consequence, the defense said one count. should be one count, one sentence. the judge agreed with the prosecution and said, no. four separate counts here. we are going to view them as four separate counts and as karen said i'm going to impose four separate one-year sentences for each of them and stacked them on top of each other consecutively. >> they will compute the actual time she is going to still remain in jail? >> you would think this would be simple. it's not. you get a day for day credit for 990 some days she has already spent but sit down and say what about the good time in the jail what they call gain time in the jail? the

. >> joining us now, jack ford. i hope abigail is watching. an important answer in a second. first you look at this in l.a., legality, whether or not they could legally enforce it. what kind of criteria do they need? >> we've seen some courts around the country who have thrown these out, the highest court for instance in minnesota said it's unconstitutional. they said the reason is this. the way it works right now, you're looking at a light there. if you get a picture in the mail of a car that has your license plate on it and it says you violated the law, bang, here's the picture, essentially we're saying you're guilty and some courts have said that's not the way our system works. our system is such you're innocent until proven >>> welcomeve registered to me? you've seen some courts who said it doesn't work. unless you can prove who the driver is. some states have come rahs that will take a shot of the driver and in that situation the courts have said that's fine. other states said it's not enough to throw the photograph on the table and say b

as it stopped for us to get off, the doors open, and an unbounded jack ford. still trying to put his church together. i will loop -- his shirt together. jack stared in total disbelief and embarrassment. queen elisabeth just looked at me and she smiled and she said, do not worry. i have one just like him at home. [laughter] immediately, i felt very comfortable with her and then i had up to that point. we got on there -- we got off on the right foot and had a great time talking about our families. i've always felt that somehow, things happen to me that never happened to any other first lady. all of us have had -- i did a few things that no other first lady had done. i had to address each new episode in my life in my own way. i had never planned on such a role. after a few -- they decided they liked my openness. some of you may remember that just short-lived after we moved into the white house, i entered the hospital for a mastectomy. it was just six days after jerry had been sworn into office. i was terribly frightened about having breast cancer, of course. the o

the doors opened, and in bounded jack ford, startled and jack it -- jacketless. still trying to put his shirt together. i will never forget it. jacks said there in total disbelief and embarrassment. queen elizabeth just looked at me and smiled and said, "don't worry, my dear, i have one just like it at home." [laughter] [applause] well, immediately, i felt very comfortable, much more comfortable with here that i had up to that point, so we started back off on the right foot and had a great time talking about our family. i have always fell that somehow things happen to me that never happened to any other first lady, and i guess all of us in that role have had our waterloos in one way or the other. certainly i said and did things that no other first lady had done, but i had to address each episode in my life in my own way. after all, i had never planned on such a role. and thank goodness after a few gasps from the press and the public, they decided they liked my openness -- after a few gaps with the press and the public. some of you may remember that shortly after

ford was the feminist next door, a free spirit with a dress code. above all, she was a wife and mother. if you have any doubt on that score, ask mike, jack, steve or susan. during his years on capitol hill, it was congressman's ford's habit to work saturdays at the capitol. often he brought one or more of his children. before they were at least to play hide and seek in statuary hall, the congressman directed them to a nearby battery of manual typewriters. write your mother a letter, he told them. tell her what a wonderful mother she is and how much you love her. all this week, americans have been sending their own expressions of love and gratitude to mrs. ford. the technology may be different, but the emotions are timeless. millions who never met her felt as if they knew betty ford. millions more wished they could. they identified with her struggles and from her courage in the face of adversity, they took inspiration to confront their own demons. little of this could have been predicted in summer of 1974, when the fords many assumed them to be a family cut from the cloth of a 1950s sitcom. after all, hadn't an early "washington post" pro

ford. to mike, jack, steve, and susan, we commend your mother is dear soul to our lord who knows her woundsnd her home as well because he dared to touch god's own life and poured out for others, to command herrmann's opening the gates of heaven long and wide to admit countless throngs of angels she carries in tow. living and waiting, who found their way through cold darkness but the life of christ, she took to herself and shared so generously. think of that easter day when they were s bustone away and -- when they rolled the stone away. her heart was. she'syeah, sure and that is what betty ford was the grooviest first lady of all. in the assurance of the eternal life given at baptism, let us stand and proclaim our own fate and say together -- -- are on faith and say together -- i believe in one god, the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth and in jesus christ, his only son our lord, who was conceived by the holy ghost, born of the virgin mary, suffered under pontus pilots, was crucified and died and was buried and descended into hell the third day he rose again from the debt. he ascen

the gospel of the lord. >> honored guests, reverend, mike, jack, steve, susan, and all of mrs. ford'ss, so much has been written about betty ford, and the words have been wonderful and true. yet they are still set to hear, because they are also meant as a goodbye to one of the finest, dearest people in any of us has ever known. for each one of us, what a joy it was that betty ford was a part of our lives. the last time the nation saw mrs. ford, she was here in grand rapids on that long day when we laid her husband to rest. from then on, she was content to go her way and live out her days in the company of a few friends and her loving children and grandchildren. but she remained among the most admired women in the world. public life was behind her, but mrs. board's reputation was not the kind that needed cultivating. just the mention of her name rings good and hopefully brings to mind. i got to know mrs. ford about the same time the whole nation did. she was the first lady who, less than a year before, had been a stay at home mom in alexandria, virginia. what had started out as the nix

ford. to mike, jack, steve, and susan, we commend your mother's dear soul to our lord who knows her wounds home as well because she dared to touch god's own life and poured out for others, to command opening the gates of heaven long and wide to admit countless throngs of angels she carries in tow, living and waiting, who found their way through cold darkness by the life of christ, she took to herself and shared so generously. think of that easter day when they rolled the stone away. her heart was there. she said yeah, sure and that is what betty ford was the grooviest first lady of all. in the assurance of the eternal life given at baptism, let us stand and proclaim our own faith and say together -- i believe in one god, the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth and in jesus christ, his only son our lord, who was conceived by the holy ghost, born of the virgin mary, suffered under pontius pilate, was crucified and died and was buried and descended into hell the third day he rose again from the death. he ascended into heaven and sits on the right hand of god the father almighty. from t

ford was the feminist next door, a free spirit with a dress code. above all, she was a wife and mother. if you have any doubt on that score, ask mike, jack. often he brought one or more of his children. before they were at least to play hide and seek in statuary hall, the congressman directed them to a nearby battery of manual typewriters. write your mother a letter, he told them. tell her what a wonderful mother she is and how much you love her. all this week, americans have been sending their own expressions of love and gratitude to mrs. ford. the technology may be different, but the emotions are timeless. millions who never met her felt as if they knew betty ford. millions more wished they could. they identified with her struggles and from her courage in the face of adversity, they took inspiration to confront their own demons. little of this could have been predicted in summer of 1974, when the fords many assumed them to be a family cut from the cloth of a 1950s sitcom. after all, hadn't an early "washington post" profile of then congressman ford's wife singled out this one time cub scout den mother for her face in, quote, quiet suit

ford. mike, jack, steve and suzanne.s own life and pour out for others to come into her means opening the gates of heaven long and wide to admit countless songs of angels she carries in tow. living in a waiting who fired their way through dark coldness she took to herself and shared so generously. easter day when they ruled this done away and the apostles said they have seen jesus by the city wall curbing heart was pure, and she said right, yeah, sure. and that's why did he was the grooviest first lady of all. >> and the assurance of eternal life given at baptism, let us stand and proclaim hour own face and say together i believe in one god called the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth and in jesus christ, his only son, our lord, who was conceived by the holy ghost, born of the virgin mary, suffered under conscious pilot, was crucified, died and was buried. he descended into hell. he rose again from the dead. he ascended into heaven and sits on the right hand of god, the father almighty. from then he shall come t

again, we continue to pray for the ford children, susan, jack, mike, and steve and the entire family as we pay tribute to their mother and the legacy she leaves behind. rest well, mrs. ford. rest well. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. mcgovern. mr. mcgovern: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, six days ago on friday, july 1, armed men assassinated a candidate for city council of a town just outside of colombia. he was the ninth local candidate murdered over the past few months. last thursday, june 30, luis eduardo, investigating links between paramilitary groups was shot down in an area i first visited in 2001. he was 70 years old. he was returning home at night with his wife when he was gunned down. he was murdered a few days after another witness was killed. and investigators for the attorney general have said several other witnesses have disappeared. antonio mendoza morales was a councilman in the caribbean town , the 34-year-old mendo

a first lady like eddie ford and so do mike, jack, steve and susan, today we commend your mothers toers. to commend her means opening the gates of heaven long and wide to admit countless throngs of angels she carries in toto, living, waving, who found their way through cold darkness by the light of christ, she took to her self and shared so generously. so think of that yesterday when they rolled the stone away india path is that they need jesus by the city while. well, her giving heart was pure when she said right, yeah, sure. and that is why patty was the first lady of all. in the assurance of eternal life given a baptism, let us stand and proclaimed around faith and stay together. i believe in one god, the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth and in jesus christ, his only son our lord, who was conceived by the holy ghost, born of the virgin mary, suffered under pontius pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. he descended into. the third day he rose again from the dead. he ascended into heaven and said it on the right hand of god the father almighty. from thence he shall c

ford dealer. you're a doctor. you're a car doctor. maybe a car doctor. >>> jack cafferty is here with "the cafferty file." members of the so-called tea party have taken a very hard line and they're not budging from it. deep spending cuts, no new taxes or no deal. their inwillingness to compromise has not only hurt the chances on a deal, but damaged the negotiating power of their own party. boehner and mcconnell, who have grown more open to compromise as the clock continues to tick. it's a tough place to be for the republicans who aren't buying the tea party message and there are some, particularly those in the senate who have shown indeed in the gang of six bipartisan compromise. in the passage of the so-called cut cap and balance bill proves that. it requires steep ser spending cuts. of course, the bill has little or no chance in the senate and the president says he'll zito it. meanwhile, that clock is still ticking. in the end house republicans may be forced in order to avote a government default, and to save face with constituents. either way, if a deal is reached on the debt ceiling by august 2nd, wel

ford factory and shook hands. thank you for your help. we'll be back again next time. next to the same thing happened. it would sure he could beat jack plant. he said he knew he really had a chance until the republican primary. jimmy carter was really getting ahead. he knew it was going to be a tough race. we're in georgia again. jimmy carter had a great race. worked really hard. dad said he thought he had a chance until election day when he stood in front of the library, our polling place, and he saw the buses pulled up. you realize that the buses or in their to vote for newt gingrich. there were there for somebody else. so, again, that night he added up again and again and again. again he lost. 48 percent of the vote. so what do we do the next morning? we get up again, go to the ford factory. thank you very much for your help rebuild the back again. now, great story. i heard this recently. we are talking about the history and the family and what we went through. at this point there lost twice. decided not to run again. mom says she can run going and running into a friend and saying, you not going to let him run again, are you? he j

jack, steve, or susan. during his years on capitol hill, it was congressman ford's have it to work saturdays at the capitol. often, he brought along one or more of his children. the congressman directed them to a nearby battery of manual typewriters. write your mother a letter, he told them. tell her what a wonderful mother she is and how much you love her. all this week, americans have been sending their own expressions of love and gratitude to mrs. ford. the technology may be different, but the emotions are timeless. millions who never met her felt as if they knew that before. millions more wished they could. -- if they knew betty ford. millions more wish they could they took inspiration from her to confront their own demons. in 1974, the fords of grand rapids and alexandria first attracted the public's interest. many assumed the family to be cut from the cost of the 1950's sitcom. after all, hadn't and early profile of then congressman for's wife singled out this one time cubs scout den mother for her taste in "quiet suits and slightly more talkative hats. of more labels. more limits. bible forrd's livin