. >> we had a long conversation with jack smith concerning all. this let's hit on this. you are again surprised he wasn't arrested, as well? is but she's had the conversations with elizabeth johnson in jail. >> exactly. >> that's the difference here, right? >> that is the big difference here. that's i didn't think even if she doesn't know, you know, the -- they make -- lead them closer but the bottom line is where is the baby? you know, they still don't know. and, you know, they were looking at a landfill, they haven't said whether or not they are going to search the landfill in san antonio, looking at one last week, though, but law enforcement has yet to say whether they are going to search this area they are cordoned off in the landfill. but we've seen too many of these cases, mike lead us to landfills, not a good thing. >> he hasn't been seen since roughly around christmas. >> right. >> over a month now. so, that's a month they could have searched this landfill that authorities have not does that tell you maybe se alive? can we take a piece of good news out of this or

. >> host: isn't there a direct parallel in the book you quote jack quote smith, who pulled back some of those more extreme than those from john yoo claiming absolute power for the president over detainee's, and i remind i think gold smith is the one who said george w. bush could have gotten 80-90% of the power he sought had he gone to congress, but the congress, made the case to the public, brought the court and provide limited court review he could have gotten 80 or 90% but the net result of the overreach, this is galt smith's term is to leave the presidency weaker today than when he came in. >> guest: that is true a lot of the presidential power. various things they took on backfired over and over and over. for instance, now because of the bomb power there's the attitude we've got to have friendly governments we can rely on to launch an house and protect our nuclear outposts in the strategic air command or they can buy and over field and all that kind of thing, and submarines and missiles, and so when president eisenhower came in, they said mossadegh in iran has taken over the gove

smith smoke openly to the press. >> i think there's a l of people to investigate, and i haven't heard that they're investigating the few people that need to be investigated as deeply as jackrter: her attorney tells nbc news smith never intended to interfere with anyone's custodial rights and had only tried to convince johnson to bring baby gabriel back. late tuesday night, her husband spoke out. >> she will walk out of that jail. she will be completely exonerated from this. she will be apologized to and this will all be behind us. >> reporter: police say they're no closer to finding baby gabriel. >> we're less and less optimistic that gabriel is still alive. >> reporter: nbc news. >> as she was leaving jail today, smith told reporters the charges levelled against her won't stick. >>> michael jackson's family wants harsher charges brought against the doctor stemming from the singer's death. investigators say prosecutors expect to charge dr. conrad murray with involuntary m manslaught manslaughter. officials say the charge would carry a maximum four-year jail sentence. the king of pop died back in june from an anesthetic overdose. dr. murray maintains that he didn't give ja

smith spoke openly to the press. >> i think there's a lot of people to investigate and i haven't heard that they're investigating the few people that need to be investigated as deeply as jack and i have been. >> reporter: her attorney tells nbc news, smith never intended to interfere with anyone's custodial rights and had only tried to convince johnson to bring baby gabriel back. late tuesday night, her husband spoke out. >> she will walk out of that jail. she will be completely exonerated from this. she will be apologized and this will all be behind us. >> reporter: but now both smith and johnson are in county jail and police say they're no closer to finding baby gabriel. >> we are less and less optimistic that gabriel is still alive. >> reporter: for "today," miguel almaguer, nbc news. >> according to court documents, tammi smith went to elaborate lengths trying to adopt gabriel. they included repeated phone calls and text messages to the boy's father, trying to pressure him to give up his parental rights. >>> and we have more questions today for a group of american missionaries arrested while trying to leave haiti with a busload of children. investigators met with the m

smith spoke openly to the press. >> i think there's a lot of people to investigate and i haven't heard that they're investigating the few people that need to be investigated as deeply as jack and i have been. >> reporter: her attorney tells nbc news smith never intended to interfere with anyone's custodial rights and had only tried to convince johnson to bring baby gabriel back. late tuesday night, her husband spoke out. >> she will walk out of that jail. she will be completely exonerated from this. she will be apologized, and this will all be behind us. >> reporter: but now, both smith and johnson are in county jail and police say they're no closer to finding baby gabriel. >> we are less and less optimistic that gabriel's still alive. >> reporter: for "today," miguel almaguer, nbc news. >>> it is now 7:33. once again, here's meredith. >> matt, thank you. it has been 22 days now since that powerful magnitude 7 earthquake rocked haiti. organizations, including the controversial search of scientology, have sent volunteers to the region, but what exactly are they doing there? we had nbc's kerry sanders check it out. kerry, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning, meredi

. >> guest: jack, i like that point about smith's worries about claiming to be serving the public good. it brings to mind the ceo of goldman sachs recently quoted as saying he does god's work as an investment banker making sure flows to the highest values. that is a wonderful lady. unfortunately, the system now that is more crony capitalism he serves goldman sachs and masquerades to be serving the public interest and i think -- >> guest: he wouldn't even think it so lovely. he would consider it quite typical. [laughter] but yes. >> guest: but smith understood temptation on the part of the merchant or business person to quote himself interest in the public interest, and how dangerous it was. >> host: samuel fleischacker, give a brief biography of adam smith. where was he raised, where did he go to school, etc.? >> guest: okay. i hope your viewers don't fall asleep in this. he has one of those boring lives of any important human being. his father died before he was born. he was born in a small town in scotland called kirkcaldy. he supposedly was kidnapped by gypsies when he is about 7-ye

smith and her husband, jack, again, who you saw there, have been considered persons of interest for weeks in this investigation, into the disappearance of gabriel johnson. gabriel's mother 23-year-old elizabeth johnson was arrested in december. she's charged with kidnapping, child abuse, and custodial interference. but again, an arrest now being made in that case. we're going to try to get the latest as it comes in from arizona and bring it to you. >>> meanwhile, miami police have just released a sketch of a man seen with a model hours before her body was found in a trash bin. please take a good look at this. 26-year-old paula sladewski was last seen in late january at a nightclub in miami. she was seen leaving the club with a man following behind her. they hope someone will recognize that man from this sketch. sladews sladewski's charred body was found in a dumpster hours later. there's a $15,000 reward for information leading to an arrest there. >>> florida police say a 43-year-old lottery winner who disappeared nine months ago was indeed the victim of a homicide. abraham shack spear's

jack london, henry miller, oddly enough. >> host: thomas payne. >> guest: absolutely. british born. for orwell, america was -- it didn't have the things he was attached to and that are the things winston smith in 1984 is clinging to for sanity, the odd traditions, the things passed on from one generation to another, like the lyrics or a nursery rhyme or a song, old books and book stores that trade in old books. of course, some of these things are available here. >> host: little country churches war brass rubbings. >> guest: you got it. the tree in the country churchyard. those things were the bulwark against the month alightic paving over of everything by not just to tall tearannism but modern life. he hated concrete, central heating, mechanical entertainment, advertising, and all these things seemed to be coming not just from the east but from the west and the united states, and his -- in this sense there was something parochial about him. >> host: he disliked antiamericannism very much, which was beginning to become a disease on the left. >> guest: he understood it to be a kind of antiliberalism, and a refuge of a particular kind of snobbery you fine on the left, which sees america as the

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