jefferson than mentor monroe. john marshall, at that time, his students with keep notebooks and most of the notebooks were about 30 or 35 pages. john marshall's and notebook was 240 pages of notes on things that he listened to from george wythe. in the margins of many of these pages, he would write the name of his girlfriend. he would have all these notes and then he would write i love polly ambler. >> this is a lik like your to sh book? >> my son was a fan when he was eight or nine. he was very interested in baseball. he started collecting baseball cards and sports memorabilia. i began writing a column for the new york daily news. somebody read my column and ask if we wrote a book on baseball cards. we did. that started a series of books on baseball history that i did. there are about 50 or 16 of them. in 1994, the baseball strike came in that was the end of baseball and that was the end of may. >> did you do a book on john madden? >> i did a young adult book on john madden. i did not get to talk to him. i talk t

then he got very close to jefferson. had a wonderful correspondence with jefferson. when adams got elected president and jefferson as vice president, when the rift develops between adams and jefferson, you know, over a number of things, but largely over france, priestly decides to pretty much throw his lot in with jefferson. and he starts writing, having come to a mac you try and stay out of trouble, and he wasn't quite able to do. he starts writing some pamphlet kind of in support of jefferson and more specifically very critical of adams. he had a colleague at his pennsylvania named thomas cooper who wrote even more attacks on adams. so when the alien acts are passed, thomas cooper is actually a restive. is one of the few people arrested. priestly is put on the hit list of people who should be deported for their criticism of the adams administrations. is an extraordinary turning point in this country's history because right there you have this very important question about what kind of country are we going to be building here. what do we do with our dissenting intel

in 2005, the fbi found $90,000 hidden in jefferson's freezer, money prosecutors say jefferson plannedvice president of nigeria. one disgruntled business associate agreed to wear a wire. the surveillance video shows her handing jefferson a suitcase filled with $100,000. >> would you like to take a peek at it or whatever? >> no, i would not. >> reporter: jefferson served in the house for 18 years. his lawyers argue he was acting as a private citizen brokering deals. they raid the jefferson's private office in 2006, the first time the bureau searched a public office. in the end, the jury agreed the 62-year-old former congressman used his influence to enrich himself and his family. >> this case, i think, once again shows us that we're a nation of laws and no person, not even a congressman, is above the law. >> reporter: now, it took the jury five days to convict jefferson on 11 of the 16 counts against him. he does remain free on bail. he will be sentenced on october 30th and faces more than 20 years behind bars. karen, back to you. >> susan roberts in washington, thank you. >>> this morn

go down to the jefferson memorial, you'll see that jefferson is also portrayed wearing this fur coatit was not just blacks, jews and peasants kosciuszko stood up on for. but it was the natives americans he stood up when the americans started pushing them west. this is chief little turtle who showed up in kosciuszko's room in philadelphia with a present. it was a combination tomahawk and he said i hear you're this righteous man to stand up for everybody and we want to show you we appreciate this. well, kosciuszko saw that chief little turtle was consistent -- squinting and he gave him his glasses and he said, my god he gave me new eyes and he gave him his jacket and then he gave him two pistols and he said these pistols i have carried and used on many hard-fought field in defense of the oppressed, the weak, the wronged of my own race. i now present them to you with the injunction with them you shoot dead the first man who ever comes to subjugate you or despoil you of your country. eventually in this room kosciuszko was visited quite often by thomas jefferson and they had very long dis

jefferson mentored monroe. john marshall, at that time his students would keep notebooks and most of the notebooks were about 30 or 35 pages. john marshall's notebook was 240 pages of notes on things that he listen to. in the margins of many of these pages he would write the name of his girlfriend. it is funny to look at pensio. >> so this is number 28 that you have written. >> i started out writing baseball. i was a baseball fan all of my life. my son was a fan when he was about eight or nine. he got very interested in baseball. he started collecting baseball's as sports memorabilia. i began writing a column on that for the new york daily news. someone read my columns and said what we write a book on baseball cards. we did. that started a series of books on baseball history that i did. there are about 15 or 16 of them. in 1994 the baseball strike came. that is in the baseball and the end of me. i did a young adult book on john madden pension. i did not get to talk to them and i was always disappointed. >> how

most of that money was later found stashed in jefferson's freezer. >> congressman jefferson had a compactth the citizens of louisiana and the people of the united states. and he owed them his honest services. and he violated that trust. the citizens were owed honesty and integrity. and he used his influence and power to enrich himself and his family. >> this case was about power, greed and money. and the jury agreed with that. it showed congressman jefferson that he sold his office. and now, he will face the price of that. >> lawyers for william jefferson say they will appeal the conviction. jefferson is free until his sentencing, tentatively set for october 30th. >>> congress is supposed to be swinging the budget act. so people are wondering why some controversial jets are not on the chopping block. in fact, members of congress have actually requested the posh planes that are costing taxpayers millions of dollars. abc's jonathan karl explains. >> reporter: call it jets for junkets. congress is poised to spend nearly $200 million to buy three of the highest-performing passenger jets the i

the evidence against jefferson is convincing.iviana hurtado joins us with the details. >> reporter: jurors returned to the courthouse in the morning to consider whether jefferson has to turn overs more than $450,000 in bribes he allegedly received. federal prosecutors used audio and this surveillance video as evidence to convict former congressman william jefferson on bribery, racketeering and money laundering charges. >> probably somewhere in the vicinity of a thousand. >> reporter: the louisiana democrat, whose districts include parts of katrina-ravaged new orleans was accused of accepting more than $400,000 in bribes to help broker business deals in africa. prosecutors say he also tried to hide the money. he faces up to 150 years in prison. the video shows jefferson in some of the most exclusive hotels and restaurants in washington. >> can you keep it in there if you like. >> reporter: this video is from a july 2005 meeting with where jefferson is seen accepting a brief case from business woman laurie mody, $100,000 of marked

jefferson county spent money off the taxes that were illegal.the bond issues was downgraded and in a cash crisis. now, the republican governor and the blue dog democrats are scrambling to raise taxes for to pay for it. nothing has to do with stimulus. >> so it's totally unrelated to the stimulus. >> i agree with concern tin. spending money on sewer and bond thing that they can't afford. the numbers are slightly better now, 9.4% it's still not good. >> they are getting a fraction of what they are supposed to get. going under now prove the stimulus doesn't work? >> i tend to agree with quentin. we got it mixed up. reagan supply side of economics, obama has tax cuts in the stimulus plan and 40% are tax cuts. will that work? i don't know. that the issue that needs to be talked about with the stimulus plan. in other words, we do a marginal tax cut or something else. >> everybody is for these marge al tax cuts. but what about jefferson county? >> i think people should pay attentions to this. always here we come. ten trillion dollars worth of treasury

the latest on jefferson. and keep in mind that the smallest bit of information can make a big difference. we know people out there know the whereabouts of these people. we are just asking you to pick up the phone, and give us a call and let us know there whereabouts. these calls are strictly confidential. these detectives don't want to know your name, your address, any personal information. what they are after is the details on where they can find these men tonight. again, (410)637-8970. is the number to call. i am joy lepola. , live at the warrant apprehension task force tonight. check back in with you later. >> talk to you in a few minutes. thank you. >> also tonight baltimore city police arrest a suspect in the murder of jair regard reed. gunned down july 19th. police arrested brandon brown. police are looking into whether he was the gunman at the cookout shooting this past weekend. 12 people were shot at that incident. no one was killed. >> police charge a columbia man in a shooting earlier today. about 1

jefferson curks give us your reaction to the news today? >> a lot of people in new orleans said there will be an honorable explanation for the money in the freezer. >> address mr. trout. >> yeah, they obviously did not accept the government's view that count, and we always thought that that was the evidence, we always thought it was innocent of that charge. and we're disappointed that they didn't seep our way, see it our way on the other counts. >> the prosecution has long tried to paint mr. jefferson has a greed sexie corrupt politician who tried to sell his influence as a congressman. i know you argued -- you even called his actions stupid at one point, but not illegal. explain what you felt the central crux of this argument was for the defense. >> well, we've always contended that they did not prove the crimes that they charged. and are as i say, we're very disappointed that the jury disagreed with us on the counts where they found him guilty. >> question back here, please. >> can you show your hand at all tooze where the weak spots are

about me and the baby, not just me. >> reporter: jefferson has decided not to get the vaccine. like other expectant moms, she's heard the new government recommendation, but decided to rely on old fashioned mother's intuition, instead. sharyn alfonsi, abc news, new york. >>> and when we come back, the public and private sides of ted kennedy. attack caused by a completely blocked artery, another heart attack could be lurking waiting to strike. a heart attack caused by a clot, one that could be fatal. but plavix helps save lives. plavix taken with other heart medicines, goes beyond what other heart medicines do alone, to provide greater protection against heart attack or stroke and even death by helping to keep blood platelets from sticking together and forming clots. ask your doctor about plavix, protection that helps save lives. if you have a stomach ulcer or other condition that causes bleeding you should not use plavix. taking plavix alone or with some other medicines including aspirin may increase bleeding risk, tell your doctor before planning surgery or taking aspirin or ot

jefferson believed that american read a book will watch a dvd. we believe partly what we're trying to do it is picking up physically wherever you are in america and transfer you too washington and say too you, here is the lincoln memorial. the second inaugur by lincoln is 703 words, 14 references to god, to quote in the bible. how are you going to describe lincoln in a modern secular school in which you can't explain, it is crazy. our current academic institutions are not. they are intellectually dishonest, there are fundamentally try to propagandize america and we need a large national dialogue about this. it is fundamentally wrong to rewrite america as a secular society and it is historic week false. the purpose every discovering god in america i about a gingrich as a conservative or theology. it is about historical fact. is it a fact that jefferson used to go and worst warship in the house of representatives which it is church until the 1860's, is it a fact that george washington in his farewell address talked about the importance of religion

a federal jury has found former louisiana democratic congressman william jefferson guilty of bribery. this case is best known, you may remember, with the $90,000 federal agents found in his freezer. national correspondent catherine herridge joins us live with details. >> according to reports we are receiving from the federal courthouse in alex an dree ya, the former congressman has been found guilty of 11 of the charges against him, including bribery, in one of the most notorious trials in the beltway within years. he was accused of accepting $400,000 in bribes and $90,000 was found stashed in the freezer of his d.c. home and in addition he was accused of seeking millions more in exchange for putting together business deals in africa. he was indicted in june of 2007, two years after f.b.i. agents began amassing the bulk of the case against him. the evidence came from an f.b.i. informant. jefferson, who has represented louisiana's second congressional district, which includes most of new orleans, lost his seat in the last election after nine terms. now, jefferson, as you remember, had

his lawyers say congressman jefferson was acting as a private business consultant. we're told they plan to appeal. and on this day in 1962, america lost one of its biggest stars when marilyn monroe's doctor found her dead in her bed. her room littered with empty pill bottles. she was born norma jean mortensen. she spent much of her childhood in foster homes. she married a factory work only to divorce a few years later. she hit the fast track as an actress and model and later changed her name. in her prime, monroe was an international bombshell and sex symbol, even singing "happy birthday" to j.f.k. after failed marriages to joe dimaggio and playwright arthur miller, she battled depression and apparently lost. her death at age 36 ruled a probable suicide. an icon's life was cut short 47 years ago today. and now you know the news. for this wednesday, august 5, 2009. i'm shepard smith. thanks for having us in your home tonight. i saw bill o'reilly in the

convicting the now former louisiana representative william jefferson of taking bribes. during the trial, prosecutors played this f.b.i. surveillance tape, tape the rest of us are only seeing now for the first time this hour. it shows jefferson brokering deals which were allegedly worth more than $400,000. $90,000 of which was later found wrapped in foil and hidden inside food packaging in his freezer. congressman jefferson's lawyer claimed he was acting as a private business consultant and that this cash was legally obtained. it took jurors five days to reach the verdict. the former congressman faces up to 150 years in prison. sentencing phase begins tomorrow. president obama making a promise today. health care reform will be a done deal by the end of the year. he says he will do it without the republicans if that's what it takes. the president is pushing for a plan that includes a so-called public option, a government insurance program to compete with private companies. the president says it will help keep those companies honest. but republicans claim that will put the

in august of '05, fbi agents found 90,000 in cash hidden in jefferson's freezer. now the story the world was watching today. home at last. two american journalists back on u.s. soil following months of cabtivity in north korea. >> we walked through the door. we saw standing before us president bill clinton. >> a tear-filled reunion as laura ling and euna lee reunited with their families. they touched down in california this morning along with man who won their release, former president clinton. with the women home, there is controversy. some worry about how far the .s. went to secure their release. >> reporter: it was the happy ending to a story that could have turned out much differently. >> at any moment we could be sent to a hard labor camp. >> reporter: the official story, that euna lee and laura ling captured by the north korean government sentenced to hard labor but released after a mission of private diplomacy by president bill clinton. >> we want to thank president bill clinton. >> reporter: the real story r- behind the mission is more complicated. in rece

he represents jefferson county which includes birmingham and he joins us live from birmingham. is the sheriff on this? he wants to call in the national guard? what do you think about that idea? >> well, if it gets to that point where we need protection, of course we need the national guard and anybody else we can bring in to help police this city, county and state. >> let me cut you off there with all due respect. how did this county get into this mess? there are counties and municipalities all over the country dealing with this recession and financial crisis. how did you guys get into this mess if. >> you got to go back to the bond swaps, the economy, the whole shooting match. bad business deals. you got a county commission who can't find its way out of a paper bag. one gets out the top they're pulled back down. they don't want any help. they don't know where the credit cards are. they don't know who owes them. they missed collecting taxes about $20 million of taxes. they have an $84 million reserve. they don't have to do this. they have $84 million in reserve. i think they're

and philip jefferson of swarthmore college.e served as an economist to the fed's board of governors. philip jefferson, start with ben bernanke he assessment of the economy. is there a good case for optimism. >> i think there a good case for optimism. in addition to the housing data that you mentioned in the lead in, we >> over the banks, bernanke, ben bernanke say they still face additional losses. >> well, it continues to be large losses. we know foreclosures are still running at near record levels. that is to the going change soon. also they will take big hits from commercial real estate because there is a huge amount of debt in commercial real estate that going to be coming due over the rest of this year, incomes year, 2011. much will be very difficult to refinance because there is a huge overcapacity in commercial real estate so that is going to be a big hit. but also we have to keep in mind what we're talking about when we say optimism. because it's true, the economy was falling very rapidly in the fourth quarter. the firs

he cited alexander the great, joan of arc, reminding them the time thomas jefferson wrote the declaration of independence at the age of 32. he said the future does not belong to those who are content with today. those were the words of robert kennedy, cited by edward m.

unbelievable stuff with jefferson.nded a treaty to send missionaries to go through jefferson has the least religious founder but is way out further than most religious right today would be. >> mike: have a document by john adams is a john adams later. >> mike: the real deal practices his signature on the inside here. that is his signature at the bottom. this is a letter he wrote to his friend, benjamin rush, go sign of the declaration, and he goes into pure christian theology the holy spirit carries on the whole system. baptism sacrament and it goes on through and none of this made hbo. >> mike: i wasn't on the hbo special about john adams. >> you cannot study john adams writings and not see his face throughout. as a matter of fact, abigail is the real bible cover in this deal and you can see that on hbo. we managed to exclude what the -- to the skies relatively. >> mike: how come we haven't been told the real truth about our founders to cute. >> eagle back to a textbook printed before 1920 as is common stuff. from 193

calendarwell field campgrounds inside jefferson national forest. now, the forest is a popular hiking area for tech students. investigators say it appears both of these individuals were shot, one was found notice a car and the other outside the vehicle. investigators have not released any information on possible suspect or motives in the case. >>> in this week's "hero central" segment, a little girl trapped inside a burning car has officer keith oiler to thank for saving her. saray ch s tainthtolke ceoffi about s his he aronsctic >>io this morning on west rugby is m road in monasis stunned residents.he was going ov was going over 100 miles r.anou h >> reporter: it wasn't so much the crash but who was inside the car that took folks by surprise, including officer heath oiler. >> he was shouti bywabaou bywabas in the car. >> reporter: an 8-h-ntmod ol baby girl was trapped inside this banged up car. officer oiler was doing radar when he clocked the driver of the crashed car going 45 miles

. >>> william jefferson has been found guilty. he's the former congressman from louisiana who was accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. a federal jury convicted him on 11 of 16 counts, including bribery, racket earring, and money laundering. prosecutors we leased this surveillance video showing, among other things, jefferson taking a briefcase from the trunk of a car. fbi agents raided his house here in washington bk in 2005. they found $90,000 in cash in his freezer. jefferson has denied claims that the cash was bribe money. he'll be sentenced in october. and he could face up to 20 years in prison. >>> the district will expand an std testing program to all of its public high schools. that means all of the roughly 12,000 d.c. high school students will be able to get tested for sexually transmitted disease without parental consent. the voluntary program was conducted last year at eight schools. officials say 13% of the 3,000 or so students who were tested tested positive for a disease. a 2007 study by the d.

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companies in which jefferson's family had an interest. $90,000 of the money was found in his kitchen in his freezer wrapped in foil packets hidden in frozen food containers. the jury also found him guilty today of taking bribes from other companies to help them do business in africa. he could face a long prison term and will be sentenced in october, brian. >>> pete williams in virginia for us tonight. pete, thanks. >>> one of the most e-mailed stories on the entire "the new york times" website tonight has to do with a hot topic, wherever two people sleep together, and that is should the bedroom be warm or cold for sleeping? it turns out the ideal temperature, this is science here, for sleep is actually pretty cool, between 60 and 68 degrees. hope we're watching at home. people who have a hard time falling asleep, might benefit from turning the ac up or the heat down. it's what the experts are saying. i'm just saying. when "nightly news" continues in a moment -- it's not quite "the russians are coming" but are the russian subs off the east coast? the cold war is over after a and then

. >>> william jefferson has been convicted on bribery charges. prosecutors said jefferson accepted more than $400,000 in bribes and millions more in exchange for broken business deals in africa. back in august 2005, when fbi agents searched jefferson's washington home, they found $90,000 in cash in the freezer. >>> they were held for nearly five months in north korea, but right now those two american journasts are finally home with their families in south california. laura ling and euna lee were reunited with their loved ones this morning. they had been sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for entering that country illegally, but they were freed after a sudden diplomatic visit biom formeenprurllesidbit clinton. >> we saw standing before us president bill clinton. [ applause ] >> we knew instantly in our hearts that the nightmare of our lives was finally coming to an end. >> an emotional moment. the families say the women are exhausted, and after some rest, they will tell their stories. >>> annandale's koreatown is reacting tonight to the freed jou

the judge gives jefferson a seven year sentence. >> it was fair because he could have done more. gave them more time. >> the sentence will never deliver the level of satisfaction that prosecutors want to see in a case with this level of violence. >> for jefferson's father, he hopes the two will spend their time behind bars getting their lives together. >> when they come out hopefully productive citizens. >> i know, stuff happens. >> and for marvin edmunds it remains a ordeal that was anything but funny. he is now forced to walk with a limp. because of the shooting. in downtown baltimore, joy lepola, fox 45 news at 10:00. >> edmonds was not at the sentencing. >> well emotion is filed to have dna evidence in the ken harris murder case thrown out. charles mcganey attorney said the dna will unfairly sway the jury. ken harris murdered one year ago outside of northeast baltimore jazz club. three men are behind bars in connection with that case. the state's attorney's office is not commenting tonight. >> two men suspected but never charged in the death of a baltimore woman have been ind

philip jefferson, start with ben beanke he assessment of the ecomy.s there a good case for timism. >> i thi there a good case for optism. in addition the housing data thatoumentioned in the lead in, we >> ovr the banks, rnanke, ben bernank s they still face additional losses. >> well it continues tobe large loss. weknow foreclosuresre still running at nearecord levels. that is to the goi change soon. also they will take big hits from commeial real estate because there is a huge amount of debt in commercial real estatehat going to be coming due ove the rest of this year, inces year, 2011. much will be verdifficult to refinance because there is a huge overcapacity in commercial reaestate so tt is going to be a big hit. t also we have to keep in mind what we're talkg about wh we say optimis because it's tr, the economy was falling ve pidly in the fourth quarter. the first quarter of this year. now it's probably even growing mewhat. but there is really not mu dispute. we're going to contue to lose jobs. we're likely to lose another 3 or 400,000 jobs in th

i am a great fan of thomas jefferson in many ways.he declaration of independence with a great deal of enthusiasm. but let's be careful about using the language of a man that held dozens of people in intergenerational chatle of bondage in a statement about liberty and freedom. come on, americans. we are capable of using both our history and our contemporary understanding of what is right and wrong to have a civil discourse about things that we disagree about. this level of implied or possible violence should be making all of us, no matter what our political ideologies, absolutely sick. >> and specially since jefferson was talk become shea's rebellion and the government used violence, or at least the threat of it to sublimate the rebel-on. it's a two-way street and people seem to be forgetting that. melissa harris-lacewell of princeton. thanks for your insight, as always. >>> she is saying, if south carolina can take him back, she should take him back, too. it appears now she's not taking him back. how can abc news take him back after a

, in which he built the character of jefferson, and is so unknowable.they could never have had an affair with his wife, sally having. there was an affair. the hole assessment of jefferson's character, and particularly you spend this time in the archives, getting the evidence, your invoices of these, in motion. everything seemed to be coming together, it actually felt a little bit like i imagined it would. everything is coming together, the story is right. it was nagging at me, this question, does it feel this way because i have invented these people, how true to life are they at this point? i have taken my 20 years, finished the book, it was in production, and someone that i see only in the summertime, i saw her in the summer as it was going to press, did you really finish the book as you said you would? yes, i did. i said i didn't want to tell you this because i knew you were trying to finish, but i found some letters in my attic, mary peabody, would you like to see them? i said yes, with trepidation. they turned out to be 80 letters, not just written

from a line that i read a long time ago by thomas jefferson "question with boldness." i don't know how many answers i can give to you this week, but i will flood, as george washington called it, the battlefield of ideas with questions, honest questions. i want you to get a notepad. i want you to take notes on every show this week, and then, please, do your homework, ask these questions of yourself and then demand answers from washington, because america is at stake. we're not talking about my america or my vision of america. it's your vision of america. what do you think america should look like? and by the way, questioning your government is not only important, but in a democratic republic, it is required of each of us, so, if you're somebody who watches television, scratch your head and say, that doesn't make any sense. this week, i ask you, sit down. write some notes. call a friend right now and say watch the program on fox right now. then, stand up and come follow me. hello, america. this week i'm doing a special series of shows. it's called "a new republic: americ

prosecutors say william jefferson sought out hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from companies involved in projects in africa. he then used his position in congress to promote those businesses without disclosing his personal stake in the deals. surveillance video showed jefferson moving briefcases in and out of the trunk of his car before federal agents raided his home. that's where they found $90,000 wrapped in his freezer. >>> american journalist laura ling and euna lee received a very emotional homecoming yesterday thanks to the former u.s. president who traveled halfway around the world to rescue them. after spending months in north korean captivity, wondering if they would ever see their families again, the two finally got to sleep in their own beds last night. nbc's jay gray has the story. >> reporter: as euna lee and laura ling stepped off the plane and back into freedom, they carried with them the emotions of nearly five months in captivity. >> the past 140 days have been the most difficult, heart-wrenching time in our lives. >> reporter: her voice quivering, ling talke

but let's talk about jefferson. what do you suppose the jury may do or think? >> well, jefferson's history, he's not like a rock star in california going to trial in one of these cases. he's a congressman, a corrupt congressman. his family members benefited. he shook down people, it's on tape, on video. >> in virginia. >> it wasn't -- he's in virginia, right. it's not a mistake. it's not recklessness, carelessness, it's a criminal act. he's going down. >> we're going to have you back, because we must talk about the $54 million pants. >> we've got to do it. >> it's too interesting. it seems like we've been talking about it for years. and finally, possibly we're going to button it up, so to speak. thank you very much. talk to you in minutes. >>> what is fact and what's fiction as it pertains to health care reform. we'll show you where you can actually find answers. get some clarity on all this. >>> 31 minutes after the hour right now. a bomb hoax, that's what new york police call the incident that forced passengers at laguardia airport to evacuated for several ho

it closed jefferson davis highway for three hours. >>> we now know the name of a man hit and killed by a car yesterday in bethesda. 47-year-old dwayne an drumpt he was struck around 3:30 on river road at wilson lane. police say the driver was not hurt. and did remain on the scene. >>> it was a massive devastating fire. last week it destroyed the home of the former president of the d.c. school board. firefighters struggled to get water to get the blaze out. now authorities say they know why. megan mcgrath has that story. >> reporter: a 75-year-old corroded pipe. that was servicing the high drapts in the neighborhood and that landed inability to get water to the area is one of the major things that thwarted efforts to get the fire out. >> not only were homes of a much different size but it is also probably significant corrosion to have a tremendous impact on the amount of gallons that can be pumped through the pipes. >>> according to a preliminary report released by the city, the two hydrants closed to the home pumped 323 and 296 per minute respectively. that is significantly less water

to fund jefferson county law enforcement. look, they've cut my budget over $4 million. that's over 40% for the remaining two months of this year. and they had -- they didn't -- they cut it. it's up to me to have a plan, and my plan is this. our first responsibility is to keep neighborhoods and communities safe, and i'm going to do it by any means possible, that's why i called the governor for some financial help. and if he can't do that, then i need the force multipliers by having the national guard come in to partner with my deputy sheriffs. >> and tell me -- just to make full disclosure. we tried to get the governor to come on, and he wasn't able to make time for us in his schedule to today. i don't know how to take that. but he didn't give us an interview, because we wanted to ask him why he's doing this. but put it in perspective for me, if you lose all the deputies, does that mean less detectives to solve crimes? does it mean less guys and gals on the streets to prevent robberies, rapists, murderers, tell me how bad this

he's acting like thomas jefferson. have to sprinkle the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants. be people talking -- this guy is questioning the president's birth in america. are we back on square one in what kind of a country we want? governor rendell? >> well, i think it's incumbent, chris, on the vast majority of americans who are still good, honest, decent people who believe in american democracy, who believe in real discourse to step up and say no to these crazies. they've got to make it clear that we, the american majority, don't want any part of people who are destructive and want to destroy this country for their own reasons. i think if the majority speaks up loud and clear, and i think they are beginning to, they're getting fed up with this. you saw what happened to claire mccaskill, you saw what happened to arlen specter, you saw the breakdown of any rational political discourse in this country, and i think the majority of americans will get turned off by it and i think they will step up and they will be h

jefferson, seen here accepting a suitcase of soon-to-be genuinely cold cash, was also found guilty of ten other charges including bribery, racketeering and money laundering. prosecutors say he was using his office to broker telecom deals in nigeria, oil concessions in guinea and satellite transmission contracts in botswana among other things. the jury spared mr. jefferson on five of the 16 counts but he still faces up to 150 years in prison and forfeiture payments of nearly $500,000. sentencing is scheduled for october when we will all surely break out with the appropriate puns about freezers and cash and pie crusts once again. ♪ take me home ♪ to my family ♪ ♪ i need to be surrounded by ♪ the ones who care for me [ female announcer ] clean you can see. softness you can feel. tide wit♪ >>> i've been unfaithful to my wife and as a consequence i hurt her. i hurt you all. i hurt my wife. i hurt the boys. i hurt friends like tom davis. i hurt a lot of good folks. and all i can say is that i apologize. >> six weeks ago south carolina governor mark sanford came home after a mysterious six-d

anything, but what this show is truly all about, from a line that i read a long time ago by thomas jefferson. he wrote that party carr, his nephew, he said "question with boldness." i don't know how many answers i'm going to be able to give you this week, but i will flood, as george washington called it, the battlefields of ideas with questions. i want you to go and get a note pad. i want you to take some notes this week. do your own homework, because it's not my america we're talking about. it's all of our america. it's your america. it's your children's america, and questioning your government is not only important, but in a democratic republic, it is required! so, if you're like me, and you see people on television, and they tell you the things that are happening, and it doesn't make sense, this week, sit down, grab a note pad and a pencil and come on! follow me. hello, america. this week, i am doing a special series of shows. we have called it a new republic, america's future, but for those of you who didn't have a problem with the old republic, i think this special is more aptly titled

representative william jefferson of louisiana. may recall that a federal grand jury indicted jefferson under corruption scharges charges in june 2007 when federal agents found $90,000 in cash in his freezer. bewe now understand there is a verdict and we'll be bringing more of that to you on the other side of the break. also, the psychological impact of being a prisoner. we'll explore what being detained for months or years can do to the minds. also, seven donors and seven patients. (announcer) this is nine generations of the world's most revered luxury sedan. this is a history of over 50,000 crash-tested cars... this is the world record for longevity and endurance. and one of the most technologically advanced automobiles on the planet. this is the 9th generation e-class. this is mercedes-benz. >>> we want now want to bring in elaine quijano out of washington who has breaking news on the trial of former u.s. representative william jefferson of louisiana. elaine, what can you tell us? >> reporter: we know moments ago the jury did re