jim michaels from "usa today." also, jim wolf, correspondent with readers. jim wolf, go ahead. >> there have been reports that israel asked the united states for arms that could help with an attack on iran's nuclear sites. can you confirm there were such requests? >> i cannot. i would not be surprised but i do not know that there was such a request. >> would you think of that as a possible quid pro quo to of leverage to the request to israel to hold off? united states would fire the weapons in exchange for israeli willingness to hold off on a strike? >> i think the best way to formulate this is to say what the president has said and what the israelis have said is what all options are on the table. the israelis say they may be exercised earlier than the united states. as for the. " ", i would not even know how to get into that kind of redress for the quid pro quo, i would not even know how to get into that. i think there is more time to put pressure on iran then israel thinks. >> would you find it appropriate for the human states in the united states to provi

. >> jim michaels, jim wolf, thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. captain john kirby is a spokesman for the pentagon and joins us by phone in washington. captain kirby, what happened? >> well, thank you for having me. we have investigators on the ground in kandahar province. and investigating the scene of what appears to have been a mass murder. perpetrated allegedly by an american soldier in the very early morning hours there on sunday. details are still coming in. and you can imagine there's much that we don't have necessarily all nailed down right now. but it does appear to be more than 10 afghans shot by this one gunman. and several of them are being treated by u.s. doctors in kandahar and again, where watching this very, very closely. and as i said, investigators are on the scene. i will add that the gunman, the alleged gunman is in u.s. cust did i -- is in u.s. custody at this time. >> where did the shootings take place? >> in a village outside one of our bases in kandahar. so i don't have a whole lot more specifics on the exact location. but

he's interviewed by jim wolf of reuters and jim michaels of u.s.a. today. >> congratulations to all this year's winners of c-span's student cam video documentary video competition. a record number entered a video on the theme the constitution and you. showing which part of the constitution is important to them and why. watch all the winning videos at our website and join us mornings in april when we show the top 27 videos on c-span and we'll talk with the winners. >> earlier this week, china's commerce minister discussed the trade administration. last thursday, the u.s. house approved a measure allowing the commerce department to impose higher duties on goods from chinas. this portion is a little more than an hour. i would like to consult the minister for your views as well as the views of the ministry of commerce. if that's going to be the case will the ministry employ any counter measures? the second question is there are some opinions according to which the economic reform here in china is not deep enough. i want to know your comments minister of

jim. and the return of henson to the lineup with the improving play of james michael mcadoo. tough time outdoing this front line. jim: there are a lot of parts to this team. a team that made it all the way to a regional final last year and lost to kentucky. we were there to see it, clark. up in newark, new jersey. been waiting for march to come around. some people thought they were in the regular season, maybe a little bit bored waiting to get to march. of course they had that game late in the regular season. blocked by echinique. under 10 on the shot clock. blew out duke in their first half at cameron. that's a foul. just three on the shot clock. it will be a 1-1 at the line. this year, enjoy more madness with coke zero. text "camp" to 2653 for a chance to attend an ultimate basketball camp with three of your friends. third foul on manigat. 1-1 for marshall. seven minutes to go. if creighton is going to make a run, it's got to begin right now. clark: and it has to happen with three-point shooting, i think. jim: mcdermott. clark: working his way inside. jim: did a good job wi

michael? >> caller: yes, jim, greetings. >> greetings. >> caller: bank of america, i've got to ask you. >> no,ly on it. i think it's important on a day when you've got to continue the humility we've tried to had. i blew bank of america. i thought it was a good stock, i got that completely and utterly wrong and you know what? i can't look back. i think there's so many other better banks. u.s. bancorp, jpmorgan, and bank of america, what can i say? i didn't get it right. and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the conclusion of the "lightning round." >> the "lightning round" is sponsored by td ameritrade. >>> coming up -- goldman sachs, cramer sounds off on the goldman bombshell and wall street's newest black eye. [singing] hoveround takes me where i wanna go... where will it send me... one call to hoveround and you'll be singing too! pick up the phone and call hoveround, the premier power chair. hoveround makes it easier than any other power chair. hoveround is more maneuverable to get you through the tightest doors and hallways. more reliable. hoveround employees build your chair, deliver your chai

michael? >> caller: yes, jim, greetings. >> greetings. >> caller: bank of america, i've got to ask you. >> no,did terribly on it. i think it's important on a day when you've got to continue the humility we've learned. i thought it was a good stock, i got that completely and utterly wrong and you know what? i can't look back. i think there's so many other better banks. u.s. bancorp, jpmorgan, they are all better, and bank of america, what can i say? i didn't get it right. and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the conclusion of the "lightning round." >> the "lightning round" is sponsored by td ameritrade. >>> coming up, goldman sacked, cramer sounds off on the goldman bombshell and wall street's newest black eye. like in a special ops mission? you'd spot movement, gather intelligence with minimal collateral damage. but rather than neutralizing enemies in their sleep, you'd be targeting stocks to trade. well, that's what trade architect's heat maps do. they make you a trading assassin. trade architect. td ameritrade's empowering web-based trading platform. trade commission-free for 60 days, and we'l

michael hash is out of prison a freeman. good evening, i'm barbara harrison in for jim handly. news4's chris gorden has the story from culpepper, virginia. >> reporter: michael hash arrived in handcuffs and shackles, seeking his release from prison after serving 12 years for the murder of 74-year-old thelma trackens, he was convicted in 2001 but weeks ago, a federal court judge vacated his murder conviction, citing misconduct by the prosecutor and police. after a brief hearing, hash was ordered released on conditions that he doesn't leave virginia, that he resides with his parents, reports to a caseworker weekly and posted a $10,000 bond. his restraints were removed and he was transported back to be ale natural county where he will be released. lawyers with the mid-atlantic innocence project worked for years to get hash released from prison. >> we are very happy that mike's going to be home with his family tonight and we are really looking forward to working with the special prosecutor as he decides whether or not he is going to retry the case. >> reporter: michael hash will ret

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i think that michael johnson answered a question that was posed to him by jim cramer. he specifically used the word in herb's column "development" not "research." that's a key distinction. >> when i look at -- there was another point here that was kind of interesting. i went back and forth with the company on this. this is the issue of what they are. are they a multilevel marketing company or are they something else? they say they're something else. and the street values them sort of as something else, not as an llm company. what do you think? >> well, i think it is a multilevel marketing company. i follow three of them and they are by far the premier example of multilevel marketing. but i think it's fair to comp them to other high-quality growth companies, whether you're talking about lululemon. they're not in the same business but they're a high-quality growth company and they ought to be comped against that group tooshgs. >> i'm on their website and they have a big thing -- it's glossy. it says, 5 billion and we're just getting started. they can't be referring to re

> i'd like to follow up now on what michael steele said, given wounded party that comes together eventually, what they're going to do to beat the democrats? i know jim has a good question along those lines. >> i think a lot of it is going to depend on the arguments that are made. we -- as a party, a national party, we are way off message right now. we are talking about stuff we have no business talking about because it is -- it reminds me so much of the terry schiavo conversation during the bush administration years. and beyond the pale and outside the purview of a national party to inject itself into personal decisions. we cannot on the one hand rail against democrats for, you know, wanting to take control through government auspices of our lives and our businesses and the like, but then in the same, you know in the next breath, you know have the kind of conversation we have and see the kind of legislation proposed that people interpret as doing that very same thing. so we've got to get off of that. and i think focus in on the strength of the argument which is at the end, jobs, economy, growth, small business, entrepreneurism. the backbone of this

then-transportation secretary norma net a, department secretary michael jackson who bill a deputy secretary at homeland security. ralph bashol, and jimand then kip halley, the next three administrators, and also on that list is our current deputyied administrator, gail, o is here, and was there at the start, one of a handful of public servants given the urgent task of setting up a knew security agency whose sweeping mission has always been to protect the nation's transportation systems to ensure the freedom of movement for people and commerce and also note that gail served for 18 months as the acting administrator before my arrival and the american people are more secure because of her outstanding service. so at its core, the concept of risk-based security demonstrates a progression of work tsa has been doing throughout its first decade of service to the american people. it's an understanding, really an acknowledgment, we're not in the business of eliminating all risk associated with traveling from opinion a to point b. risk is inherent in virtually everything we do. our objective is to mitigate risk to reduce it as much as possible,

michael hash spent more than 12 years in prison after a jury convicted him for a 1996 murder other of a 74-year-old woman but recent lakers jim overturned that conviction what ied on what he called misconduct by police and the prosecutor. >> after a brief hearing today, hash was ordered released. >>> new developments in the d.c. ethics scandal, council chairman kwame brown says he is looking into the flurry of subpoena he is to grand jury members disclosed yesterday and the d.c. ethics office confirm it had is doing a separate routine audit of campaign spending by at-large member vincent orange. >> because of the mild weather, the national park service is revising the cherry blossom forecast, the trees on the tidal basin in the mall bloom this sunday earlier than predicted, peak bloom between march 20th and 23rd. the blooms will be there went festival opens but gone when it ends. >>> heather lynn mcgwire told the court she feared for her life a few days later, she was dead. >> police say she was shot by her estranged husband in kensington yesterday, just hours after he got out of jail for violating a protective order. as pat

pollster michael linsaki is here, former prosecutor is here and comedian jim norton also here.e performance last night and you can analyze his performance because he's at caroline's this week end. >> next weekend. >> this weekend, i'll be at an adult bookstore. >> reason we didn't promo that. let's talk about mitt romney. what changed today? do you think he's more likable now, michael? >> i think the numbers suggest he's more likable. he's getting a bigger percentage of the people that think he can relate to average americans than he has before. the conservatives seem to be coalescing to a greater extent than in the past around him. he won among conservatives and tea party voters. this is a really good story for romney and tougher sell for santorum to get up there and say he's making progress even in this kind of admittedly moderate state. >> but liz, he has actually done well, as usual, where people make over $100,000. college graduates seem to like him. he won the catholic vote again. moderate vote is not a surprise but tea party support is significant. he basically went to a

it sells me that michael might be a little away from the rest of the people we're talking to. >> jim,e backlog stretching out for several years. questioning are starting to arise in terms of whether or not that backlog holds up. you have a number of airlines, and people are saying, do we expect these orders to come through? do you have some holds that potentially means it's not 3,400 when it's all said and done, but substantially less? >> actually, phil, the backlog is over 4,000 airplanes right now, and over $300 billion. yeah, we don't know what's going to happen to the economy. when you have the economy soften, you have people that defer orders, push them to the right. we build our skyline, assuming some of that will happen, but a backlog of seven years is too long. i would like to burn the backlog down. if things soften a bit, it will give us a chance to get the backlog down to a more manageable left. >> jim al baugh, thank you. when they came out it with it people said it's a great plea, but i'm not sure it has extended life. it's been a solid deliverer. >> and it comes on a week

jim said, if disney were making a movie about the fed, it would be honey i shrunk the dollar. and fantasia 2, and one more, michaeluse i can't say the real word on tv. >> i'm too busy talking and looking at the rails. >> that's a tough one. >> yeah, it is. >> what specifically nine lives here, i am convinced that this fundamental story of natural gas being so low and coal staying up there is just a major undercurrent in this economy. we have way too much coal given the facts that natural gas is so cheap. the big coal shipper, that is just killing the rails and then the transports which bothers me. because the transports, i need to see them confirm the rally. >> how about this report that u.s. airways is beginning to procure domain names with american airlines? >> you know t. may be that this happens often times and we don't see it and why they fail potentially to protect some of these names. but they are trying to extend the period for the bankruptcy and there is going to be a battle there. u.s. airlines up its advisers. we'll see. there is no doubt that they can create a carrier together that will be a viable com

michael dukakis and his infinite wisdom. his first move as a presidential candidate was to spend most of the month of august out in springfield, massachusetts. and jimh 41 put together a game plan and won that election. now, think about what happened four years later. that's also applicable to where we are now. george bush 41 presides over the winning war in iraq, he puts together the most impressive alliance we have seen in the last 40 or 50 years, his numbers go from 75% to 80% -- >> the soviet union collapses christmas day 1981. >> berlin wall comes down, he manages it so well that he later got tears in his eyes as he on a public stage thanked george bush for how he managed the berlin wall collapse and the reunification of germany. that's how he goes into his reelection campaign and loses to a guy who has a girlfriend who appears in the middle of that summer talking about her long-time affair with the governor of arkansas. so got to keep all of this stuff in mind. >> it ain't over. >> so, nicolle, i want to get -- >> and then the guy says, thanks for saving me from the draft right before the new hampshire primary on top of it all. >> nicolle -- >

secretary michael jackson who became later deputy secretary at the newly created department of homeland security. john mack gau the first administrator of tsa and ralph bash some who worked closely and jimst guard and dhs and david stone and kip hawley, the next three administrators. also on the list is our current deputy administrator who is seated here who was also there at the start. just one of a handful of public servants give the urgent task of standing up a new security agency whose sweeping mission has always been to protect our nation's transportation systems, to insure the freedom of movement for people and commerce. i would also note that gail served for 18 months as the acting administrator before my arrival and the american people are more secure because of her outstanding service. so at its core, the concept of risk-based security demonstrates a progress of work tsa has been doing throughout its first decade of service to the american people. it's an understanding, really an acknowledgement, that we are not in the business of eliminating all risk associated with traveling from point a to point b. risk is inhernlt in virtually everything we do. our objective is to mitigate