that's what john brown's trial meant to john brown himself. in all four days of court time were devoted to the trial. two days after the verdict was announced, brown was brought back into court and asked if he had anything to say before sentence was passed on him. even delivered his famous last statement, and the judge sentenced him to death by hanging, the sentence was carried out on december 2, 1859, in a field just five blocks from this courthouse. it was 30 days after the trial was concluded and just short of five weeks after it began. vessel happen in a remarkably short time, given the circumstances of the case. the indictment presented complicated issues. it took 20 minutes alone for the court clerk to read the indictment in open court. difficulty issues were raised by the trial, some not previously dealt with in any american court. such as, for example, whether treason could be committed against a state, whether a person who was not a resident of the state, and thus owed no allegiance to the state, could be tried for treason against tha

john bennett and another wrote for a magazine sink the catholic church has change and john kennedy would make it better president than richard nixon would. they caught a lot of heat and a lot of flack for that. and i spent some time early in the book tracing the argument back and forth that they put forward saint kennedy is okay, as a christian you can vote, as a protestant christian you can vote for him. and certainly they were the two probably most public voices on that side. there were a lot of protestant leaders working behind the scenes supporting kennedy but not taking quite as public a view of. one of the more interesting characters and all that was the methodist bishop of baltimore-washington, who was a classic social gospel liberal picketing of a thing about the methodist tradition they tend to be progressive politically on social justice issues. but he was very strong anti-catholic. and kennedy reached out to pick one of the things kerry did, he did a listening tour of leading protestant anti-catholics in the country and met with them one on one. he met with him on a couple of

i want to show you john mccain's best line because john mccain's focus was on spending. john mccain was not a great communicator. i use a line stevie wonder reads teleprompter better than john mccain. john mccain was an incredible war hero but did not run an incredible campaign. this one that he used against hillary clinton was incredibly effective and helped propel him to the republican nomination. >> against out of control disgraceful spending that has been going on and i have saved the american people $2 billion in one stroke. in case you missed a few days ago, senator clinton tried to spend $1 million on the woodstock concert museum. my friends, i wasn't there. i am sure it was a cultural and pharmaceutical event. i was tied up at the time. but the fact is -- but the fact is -- >> what you can't see is that they gave him a standing ovation. because he was able to remind them of what he had been through of his record, of being genuinely a war hero. if i may in the limited time that i have i want to show you two add, two best adds of the campaign because they illustrat

with john kennedy. and i was the first scholar to use that, i was the first scholar to read that. so it goes into amazing detail about their relationship and really opened up a window on the sort of wise political counsel, frankly, he got from this churchman. and that in itself was really quite interesting. the other piece was a memo from an informant inside the nixon campaign. and, again, the memo just says memo from informant r., and it's about a 9-page memo that lays out for the kennedys all of the contours of nixon's strategy. now, you know, it's one of these things, i actually began my research, i found an oral history from one of kennedy's religion guys, and he said, we had incontrovertible proof that nixon was doing this stuff. oh, my goodness, the holy grail is here somewhere. well, it took me about three years to find that memo. when i did, it was like, eureka. and i think i know who the informant was. i identify my guess in the book, but because -- i found the person who was involved, and i ca

and how many of you in this room voted for john mccain john mccain. the back of the room voted for barack obama, these people right here voted for john mccain. this is why we voted the way that we did in 2008. if you've seen this before. i do something called instant response. which test the power of language word for word. i did these moves. and i say this to anyone who's a critic of fox news. i hosted three debates, three of the town hall panels. all three of mine had obama beating mccain in the debates. i say this to those that claim that fox news isn't fair in balance. which each debit they gave me more time to talk, and they thought why obama won. on fox news, the three voter panels picked obama over mccain. do you really believe they would have had that on msnbc? do you think they had that kind of opportunity? i respect that employer very much. knowing what the results were, they still put it on the air, and they highlighted it, and they let me do my job. this is barack obama versus hillary clinton. obama worked harder than any other candidate t

he painted -- he paid the painter to put his foot over john adams ft. they hated each other, despise each other. as they moved toward retirement, jefferson and adams tried to figure out how could to people that love this country so much hate each other so much? misunderstand each other so much? so what did they start doing? they started writing letters. they began understanding each other. as they moved towards death, they begin respecting and loving each other. the night before the fiftieth anniversary of that magnificent event that is captured so brilliantly in that painting,

up there with john mayer. same thing. you know what you're getting with john mayer, he's a player. but he looks like a lot of fun. so you walk into it knowing what you're getting. >> you have to be very careful. >> john mayer, if listening, you can call me. >> you will be prepared. >> sherry m. writes on the "showbiz tonight" facebook wall. chris brown, he's oozing toxins. amen, i agree with you. after admitting to beating up rihanna, i think it's safe to say chris brown is a toxic bachelor. what do you say? >> you know what's annoying about him. rihanna releases information about her album, excited, chris brown comes out, stamps on her parade, starts promoting his album. this is a guy who issued this faux apology and is just trying to rebuild his public image. and it just really isn't working. >> you know, i agree with you. time will tell with that one. interestingly, many people wrote on our "showbiz tonight" facebook wall that george clooney should be on the toxic. >> mary j. isn't having any of it. george clooney, not toxic, jon gosselin toxic. >> george clooney, a little bit o

john allen events. john allen muhammad‘s life ended events. john allen muhammad‘s life ended here.nemployment today. the latest the latest figures and sonali has got the latest figures and sonali has got them. got them. the number of people out the number of people out of work has the number of people out of work has gone up again, has gone up again, but the worst may be has gone up again, but the worst may be over. has gone up again, but the worst may be over. the may be over. the latest unemployment may be over. the latest unemployment figures show unemployment figures show an extra 30,000 lost unemployment figures show an extra 30,000 lost theirjobs betweenjuly 30,000 lost theirjobs betweenjuly and september. but and september. but that was the smallest and september. but that was the smallest increase since may of last smallest increase since may of last year. smallest increase since may of last year. the smallest increase since may of last year. the stats for year. the stats for under 255 still look year. the stats for under 255 still look grim. one in five look grim. one in f

if anything, i think that she helped john mccain close the gap. i think that many people voted for john mccain who would not have if sarah palin was not on the ticket. she excited the grass roots. i think she is trying to put her story out there, rather than picking out anyone. the caller makes a good point on the per diem issue. i do not exonerate her of everything. like all political figures, she has pluses and minuses. on the troopergate issue, while one report tried to blame her for not taking stops -- not taking steps from stopping or husband from contacting public safety, the other report by judicial council exoneratied host: her. -- exaggerated heard. host: "emerging as a nemesis in the excerpt, charges were made out." if you go the other publications, john mccain calls her book a good account. then he acknowledged tension and a lot of back-and-forth, as well as contradiction, but he said it was a ghraib. what to believe? guest: -- but he said it was a good book. what to believe? guest: it takes us back to the mccain campaign, a ramshackle

john adams went to war, declared a naval war on the french. he stripped americans of their first amendment rights to free speech and freedom of the press. thomas jefferson imposed a trade in bordeaux that bankrupted the nation. and james madison declared war on necessarily on britain which had just signed a peace treaty. those three presidents left the nation still threatened on the north by british troops, threatened on the south and threatened in the west as indian tribes slaughtered farmers. it took monroe to end those threats and leave the still small, still poor, still undeveloped nation to greatness. it took monroe to transform that little nation into an entire. along the way to greet miss monroe fell in love with and married a beautiful elizabeth kortright, a new york eris who unlike most women every day had received a magnificent education in the arts, history and literature. she could hold her own with the best educated men of her era. theirs was perhaps the greatest wealth affair in white house history. you talk about passion let me

john. i looked down at my notes. john what? gilkey. right way to the moment and looked up. he did not take his eyes off us. gilkey informed me about the additional authors. he commented. crichton stared a moment and then asked me, and who are you? i sat there. so i'll answer any questions as long as it's not is this a novel or what era did it take place in. please step up to the mic if you have a question. [laughter] okay. [inaudible question] >> good question. he is in san francisco now as far as i know. whenever people have asked me this question unless i have spoken with them five minutes earlier i don't know. occasionally he doesn't respond, which means he's back in prison. last i heard he was in san francisco. he has been studying. he has a degree in economics already, but he enjoys going to college. studies business, philosophy and literature. as far as how he supports himself, that's always kind of a puzzle. he will work part-time jobs occasionally and make some money and then live very frugally. the only times i've known him is selling a book if needs to raise money

it seems likely that lewis and john were planning for lewis to try to escape his pursuers by having johnact as a decoy. there is yet one other separate account called the russell statement made in 1811. in this account, lewis not only shoot himself twice, once in the head and once in the chest, but he is down cutting himself from head to foot with razors before he died. historians have generally mixed up these accounts together, picking and choosing as they like, because of the documents have never been published before in their entirety, it was not possible to compare them. but now they are in this book, and you can read them for yourself. the suicide stories on the face of it don't make any sense. how can a career army officer, an expert marksman, not managed to kill himself with a first shot? the bullets were about the size of $0.^025 coins. 69 calbert. what if instead he was shot in the back of the head while trying to escape his assassins? the exhumation will provide the answer. other evidence in the document section points to a wider conspiracy and cover-up. and assembling the hist

with john kennedy. i was the first scholar to be backed and it went to in amazing detail about their relationship and really opened up a window on the sort of wide political counsel he got from this church. and that itself was really quite interesting. the other piece was a memo from an informant inside the nixon campaign. and again the memo just says memo from informants are, and it's about a nine page memo that lays out for the kennedys all of the contours of the nixon strategy. now, is one of the things i actually began my research, i found an oral history from one of the religions guys and he said with incontrovertible proof that nixon was doing this stuff. so in archives you think zero my goodness the holy grail is this huge archive somewhere. it took me about three years to find it. but when i did, it was like eureka. and i think i know who the informant was. i identify my guess in the book, but because i found the person who was involved and i can show he was unhappy and wyckoff begins with r. an

area john allen muhammad is scheduled to die tonight.hard lui joins us now with a look back at the d.c. sniper shootings. seven years already. >> that's right. seven years ago, october 2nd, 2002, robin. one man was gunned down that night. five more the following day. all people just going about their daily personal business. over the next few weeks, there were several more shootings, including a 13-year-old boy. he survived. but the final death toll was ten people. people in the d.c. area were panicked until police finally caught john muhammad and his accomplice on october 24th, almost three weeks later. >> i remember the horror of people. bystanders just getting shot at. >> perplexing. >> then when the child was hit, that's when people were really just agast. most of these murders happened in maryland. the attorney general tried muhammad in virginia because a death sentence was more likely there. there's some who think he should not die tonight. >> reverend al archer is one of them. he met muhammad and his kids in 2001 when he stayed in

earlier this week i spoke with a criminal defense attorney elizabeth kelly and, john, let's start with the charges. we've got three teens, three of the five charged as adults facing attempted murder charges. how did the prosecution lay this out that they should be charged as adults? >> well, actually they went through some psychological counseling, a couple of them, and based on the results of some of that psychological counseling as well as the, you know, interviews with the defendants in the case three of the five were charged late yesterday with attempted murder in the second degree. they appeared in bond court. you can see that there today. the three that appeared in bond court, that's mike, matthew bent, jason mendez, and denver jarvis there on the right. so those three in court today. and the judge saying that given the horrific nature of what they had allegedly done that there would be no bond in the case. now, there is some good news today to report. we had a long, extensive interview with the doctor at the jackson memorial hospital burn center yesterday afternoon. he was sayin

lyndon johnson and john f. kennedy came to a similar agreement but there is one of little pause the had to be running around lyndon johnson's mind. kennedy said that he not only had to seek the support of half of the cabinet. he had to consult with the attorney general of the united states. attorney general of the united states is the president's brother, robert f. kennedy and lyndon johnson's arch enemy and the white house. you have to think again, you know a lot of this is speculative. we don't know what is going through people's mind but lyndon johnson being the political creature that he is new every word in the document and every punk chelation point and he knew what was he thinking? was he thinking this was going to be able for willson situation? and his paranoid mind did he believe that somehow the kennedys were going to try to hide the fact that president kennedy was disabled? mabey if he left. his query is first of all if he leaves the hospital and kennedy lives will the public believe that he abandone

john allen muhammad's execution is set for tonight. the supreme court rejected his final appeal but virginia's governor could step in. ten people died. muhammad's accomplice, malvo got life. we'll have what his son says. >>> former president bill clinton will try to get senate democrats to support health care reform. two democratic sources say that he'll meet with senators during their weekly caucus tomorrow. democratic leaders have said if democrats fail on health care they'll pay for it on election day. that happened when clinton failed in 1994, and republicans took congress. >>> you may have growing doubts about the government's ability to ward off an h1n1 epidemic. that's according to a new survey that's out this morning. the poll finds since august 8% more americans have lost confidence that h1n1 prevention will happen. but 53% are actually hopeful the government and private companies can produce enough of the vaccine. come here and look at this tape, would you? a woman fell on the train tracks moments before the train arrives. he

john, as always thanks forrier expertise. coming up this will get your attention african-american students told to pretend to be slaves bags gathered to use cotton while white classmates washed at a field trip at a plantation and the tour guide said he was trying to be historically correct not politically correct. we'll take your calls on this one, 1-877-tell-hln. >>> welcome back to "prime news" on hln. this story got our attention fifth grade kids in charlotte, north carolina went on a field trip to a plantation the historic plata plantation. here is their website and the tour guide chose three african-american kids to portray slaves. i know what you're thinking, how are they doing this? this could be hurtful to the kids. more facts, the tour guide, african-american himself. the plantation says it has chosen black and white kids to play these roles in the past. that's what we have. we'll get more details here coming up and take your calls, 1-877-tell-hln. joining us to talk about it -- president for the naacp in charlotte a

well, as soon as she became john mccain's remy, that democrat support evaporated. so when she returned to juneau chagrined editor into the legislator. she touchdown frank murkowski and go up against a state party chair. the democrats hated her for it being sarah palin. and then thirdly, her new political persona. here she is with the most famous republican woman in the rotunda national follower. every time she left alaska to communicate to visit with them, she beat hillary for it. i think she saw those three things and said you know it, it's time to move on. time to tell my side. on the feminism, actually have a whole chapter devoted to feminism and the persecution of sarah palin. one of the points i make is i think the caller is right. i think there is a narrative that many women you have to trade off a successful personal life for her professional success. and if their appeal in shows what is not necessarily the case. i think that dr. a demeaning and criticizing with what made fun of in some cases and ridiculed by the feminist. >> host: linda on the independent l

[applause] >> thank you, john.is great to have howard dean here especially now since we are in the middle of the health-care debate. there are a lot of republicans that say that this health care plan is socialism, that it creates a great threat to free enterprise and capitalism. i look forward to a discussion of that and your opening comments right now. >> thank you could i am going to go off topic a little bit because i want to set the stage for this discussion. this past election in 2008 is the most extraordinary election since 1960 because it is an election that shifted control of the country to a new generation. this is the first time in the lifetime of anyone in this room where more people voted to work under the age of 35 in the presidential election that were over the age of 65, and they voted 63% for barack obama for president. this is also the first multi- cultural generation in the history of america that a new generation has grown up with a lot of different kinds of people. we all knew that racism and so

there's this great story about when john f. kennedy was thinking about running for president, he sent robert to lyndon johnson and he said lyndon johnson is a big mover and shaker in washingtwashington. he goes to lyndon johnson to see if he is going to oppose him, going to run against him. f. johnson is going to try to stop it by supporting humphrey. so he goes to the lbj ranch. rfk is a very slightly built man. johnson takes him dear hunting. and instead of giving him, and i don't know much about rifles, instead of giving him a regular deer rifle he gives them a high powered shotgun. so robert kennedy pulls the trader, and it knocks him down about 3 feet and cut into his 40. lyndon johnson make some comment about that's not the way a real manchus again, or something along those lines that robert kennedy hated him from the very beginning. johnson was convinced, the whole time he is vice president and his convinced robert kennedy is trying to remove him. johnson is convinced that robert is conniving. all the bad stories, every

let's bring in john lucich. you have to at this point, you have to tear that house completely apart? and besides that are investigators opening up cold cases in the cleveland area now over the last five-year period since he was let out of prison? >> oh, they are going to have to because these women are missing from someplace and if they have been identified through missing records right now they have to start going back. a lot of this will depend on, you know, this guy i believe will be cooperative in his interview somewhere down the road. and i believe that, when we start pulling stuff apart, pulling off the walls and going in the basements and even digging in the basement they may find other clues, you will find earrings you may find additional bodies but something the cops cannot -- this guy has had 11 bodies in his house now probably one of the worst crimes in a long time. >> kevin with us in california, go ahead. >> caller: yeah, listen i've been watching your coverage and this is a travesty and injustice o

john petrosek. he will talk to us about the state of the party and election results looking at the 2008 election. thank you. >> thank you, david. also thanks to john greene. i was here in 2005 and i found this to be one of the better conferences on american politics that i ever attended. i was pleased to be invited back this year. the background of this paper is simply all the excitement that surrounded the barack obama election. it is what i took to be a lot of press commentary and outside the press that we had just gone through some kind of watershed, a signal of and. the election of barack obama was unquestionably a special event. it went beyond that pretty went to questions of a major transformation in the party system, people talked about an expected a large surge in the turnout of the election. many americans and academics and commentaries outside academia talked about a decline in the republican base. generally, there was a sense that existed out there that may still be there to some degree t

the column john and now it is ben, tim and hank on the phone, you have the three amigos. [laughter] this is tough stuff because if you know these three gentlemen they can play the heavy on the want to appear in the and they say to john, we need you. to sell your company right now. to jpmorgan for a dollar a share. mind you, the company -- it's a value as of friday was much higher than the value of a dollar a share and john him by the way when someone who i walked into this book not think it would even be a character in its, and clearly by the whitehead also made mistakes over the years in terms of putting on more risk. many of he should have and was himself staring at the economic abyss. he says i don't understand why this is good public policy. if we do this deal we are going to lose 45 -- 50,000 jobs in new york and have already lost 10, 20, 30,000 jobs before. and he stands up to them and, in fact, the response from tim is this isn't about public policy, this is about soundness of the system. and john says i won't do it, i want to to the firm, i won't do to the people,

i'd like to suggest a challenge to john muller's argument.e frame they're intentions with an eye towards they're capabilities so the only record we ha+e of soviet intentions is a record in what they face the capabilitys the raid against then. you describe a world in which exaggerates threats and the level of threat is the level of existing in a world which the united states exaggerates threats. we could not imagine a world in which they didn't in some way to make the argument you would have to argue the united states has been a terrible failure in international politics. we're constantly getting it wrong aren't we? i'm hard pressed to see a state with a better career than international politics than the united states. that creates question marks over your arguments. >> you want to answer? he wants more questions? we'll take you right here. >> hi. i'm kate singer in the politics department here is a a graduate student. i'm wondering, you talk about that technology is not the tool that many american policy americans think it is to accomplishing

i want to bring in john. the first of many disturbing notes, little baby shannon there, were allegations of abuse when she was two weeks old. >> yes. two weeks after this baby was born. you look at this woman's background going back to 1987, this is note first time she's done this. this is too many occasions where the government continues to let us down, process, judicial system. this woman received ten years in jail and suspended to 80 days. >> this is the baby-sit e not the momma. susan elizabeth baker. there are some horrific allegations and charges facing what she did with children in her midst in 1987. it begins with her 3-year-old stepson who vanished and we still don't know what happened to him, right? >> no, we don't. i pulled some information off a website called the charlie project. they cover a lot of missing kids. earlier today, when i was looking at it, they have information on paul leonard baker, who is in fact susan baker's stepson. back in 1987, she claims she put him to bed and that he simply

>> he was actually a good tipper. >> why is it that the johns never get into trouble. >> johns never get into trouble because in this country we promote inequality amongst the sexes so the women get in trouble and go the jail. >> what do you say to people that's the pot calling the kettle black in your case. >> hey, i served my time. >> what do you do now? >> i'm working on it's a nonprofit to promote legalization of prostitution. >> i love that, thanks kristen and thank you for watching. good night, everybody, good night, elliott. >>> breaking news tonight, live, north carolina. a 5-year-old little girl vanishes without a trace from the child's own home. mommy tells police she left the little girl on the sofa. 5:30 a.m. one hour later, the baby is gone. how does a 5-year-old girl go missing from her own sofa? the child wearing nothing but a t-shirt and underwear, her little blanket, shaniya's favorite blanket found, discarded. covered in feces in the neighbor's trash. bombshell tonight, an arrest goes down. who else? the mother's boyfriend. that's right, the live-in. but even with a

i take john's point, actually. the instinct to elevate this into a great huge world force that is al qaeda as the new marxist lennonist threat of the age is false and gratify's bin laden's wildest fantasies. but if i told you today a crazy man is running around in charlottesville with live ricin ready to pour it into the reservoir boy would this community be doing stuff. we would be reacting massively to that crazy man. so, it is a very big issue. a huge agenda comes out of that that i think developed in the year of 2001-2002 which has a whole series of things to tdo t improve the way we can go after al qaeda and its affiliates and this is a very complicated story spanning a number of agencies. second, a huge effort to change american domestic preparedness culminating in the development of the department of homeland security, even before d.h.s. is decided on in march of 2002, then secretly planned the next three months. the administration has decided to double spending on domestic preparedness adding an additional

sniper john allen muhammad is scheduled to die tonight. ten people died in the 2002 shooting spree but his second wife believes she was his ultimate target, his real target here. wilma muhammad said john allen threatened to kill her when she divorced him. so she took her three children to florida to hide. and said she felt guilty when she heard her ex was the suspect. >> i felt that way nshlly because i had done everything i knew how to do in order to bring attention to how dangerous john was for me. i had no idea that his anger would extend beyond me to include other people in his killings. >> all right. she says she does not believe he is mentally ill, as his attorneys are arguing. >>> nasa is telling us not to worry. december 21, 2012, is not the end of the world. the movie "2012" opens friday and fueled internet rumors. it's based on the mayan belief that 2012 is the earth's end date. that's like thinking the world will end when your wall calendar runs out. >> the movie started the speculation? >> based on the calendar. >> wait a minut

susan moss, renee rockwell, john burris.an moss, now i understand the more i hear about this case why the girl was a no show in court today. how dare they go to a judge to even ask that she goes back to the home where she allegedly lured a 9-year-old little girl to her death. walk free. back in the same neighborhood. >> let her go, oh, heck no. i have to tell you something. lured back by a criminal? any type of juvenile punishment is too minimal. this girl is going to be tried as an adult. she's going to get an adult sentence. i don't care how many psychological tests you throw at that judge. it will be in an adult court. >> that hearing is scheduled in the next weeks. will this 15-year-old girl face up to adult trial on an adult crime? that crime? allegedly premeditated, planned malice murder of this 9-year-old little girl. her little sister's playmate. >>> we are switching gears. more out of the balloon boy story. you know, you think you've seen it all. take a look. >> bradford. >> oh, no. >> hi, baby. bradford. hey. hey,

you had john thompson and you had john cheney.ou had to have somebody strong enough -- first of all, they will come after you, the media. >> they were worried about his well-being and, you know, really, his safety because when they came up to visit me, there was an interesting thing that happened. i was not showing as much interest, obviously, as she would have liked me -- mrs. iverson -- would have liked me to have shown and asked the other people to get out of the room. they asked them would they leave. i would like to talk with coach. when they left, she said that, you know, they're gonna hurt my kid. i don't think she meant in the literal sense somebody would shoot or attack him in that matter but i think she meant it was her life saving thing she was trying to pursue for her son and was in tears. >> my mom came up here to d.c. and met with them and -- you know, after that, you know, i had another opportunity in life. i think god put him into my life. >> people deserve a chance, as long as they take advantage of it. that's one

the sarah palin levi john son smack down. levi's unbelievable sarah slam caught on tape. >> what does she think about you posing nude? >> who knows. i ain't thinking about her. >> just in today, "showbiz tonight" with the first look at levi's naked "playgirl" photo shoot and who do you think is winning the sarah-levi war of words. the startling results from a "showbiz tonight" poll. >>> the michael jackson suicide shocker. a development as a major figure who caused big trouble for jackson kills himself. what really happened? >> the brand-new explosive carrie prejean porn war. tonight carrie's threat over her solo sex tape. will she stop it from getting out? tv's most provocative entertainment news show starts right now. >> i'm a.j. hammer from new york city. >> this is brooke anderson from hollywood and we have remarkable developments in the sarah palin-levi johnston smack down. >> sarah palin would have never imagined this when she went up to the republican national convention with her pregnant teenage daughter. this will be

>> that is not what sir john -- that is not what sir john has said. the issues -- the issues -- the issues affecting the inquiry that would cause people to be careful are national security and international relations. as i understand it, these are the issues that are referred to there. and i believe that sir john and his team are happy with the way that they're being asked to conduct the inquiry. >> mrs. madeline moon. >> thank you, mr. speaker. britain's top bankers rewarded their own financial greed and incompetence with large bonus while imposing huge banking charges on those who because of need not greed often went into the red. i'm sure many members were dismayed at today's supreme court judgment. what will this government be doing to ensure fairness for ordinary people, ordinary customers within the banking system? >> she's absolutely right to raise the anxieties that people have had about the system of bank charges in our country. and while the court judgment has not upheld the case of the office of fair trading it is right how to examine all c

i said as i recall so was john kennedy's paygo to buy law. he agreed to work for a dollar a year. is president obama going to make the same contribution back to the government? i see that he has a few best-selling books. i don't think that he's lacking for money. so, the globalist never intend for them to lose people like george soros or henry kissinger orszag new brzezinski or david rockefeller, who i point out as a globalist. they are advisers like robert mondell or like joseph stieglitz, who identified. they always assumed they are going to be the winners. they are going to make millions and billions promoting globalism by reduced it to your wealth of the middle class to others with the idea we can build a worldwide global underclass dependent on the benefits. that is a formula for slavery. it's not a formula for individual the advancement, for the opportunity to live a free life, for those principles we have to return to the constitution. i would like to see a constitutional challenge of the obama administration's determined takeover of the private economy. through utilizing c

did you have a beautiful portrait of john marshall -- then you have a beautiful portrait of john marshallu have a chance to let people know their story, and that carries over to the west conference room where you have the two instrumental justices in this building. william howard taft on one wall. >> i like to go sometimes on a quiet night to the conference rooms because the portraits on the walls are all of my predecessors as chief justice. to some extent, you look up to them whereby with the degree of appreciation for what they have gone through. they are probably looking down on me with bemusement or amazement each of them has a special took story to tell. you look up at john marshall and appreciate the importance as a court, moving it from a situation where each of justice wrote an opinion. right next to the most unfortunate predecessor, the author of the dread scott decision, he saw a problem that he was going to solve. tremendously misguided and injure the court for generations to come. that is how you look at your own job. the job does not give you a prominent role or historical si

not bill clinton not harry truman not john off kennedy. if we go back further on fdr, lbj, carter, and obama have received the 50% mark. i think the real majority that unyoung, unpoor, unblack it works well for the republican party. it worked well because democrats succeeded. think about for a moment. the new deal was geared towards a nation that was one third joe clark, ill housed, ill marist as roosevelt told us in 1937. in short, there was work to do and that work was successful. so that by 1980, we had a relatively prosperous middle-class suburban country that wasn't worried about what government ought to be doing for them, but saw themselves as the proprietors of government that taxed too much, spent too much, put on the green eye shades of government. and of course ronald reagan is such a good example of that journey, if you will, from new deal democrats as he was to expounding a reagan revolution. well, the real majority is over. it's over. three big revolutions are happening in the united states today. first, we've got a new demogr

let me tackle lyndon johnson and john kennedy. the relationship asymmetrical in 1960 when kennedy gets the nod nation -- gets the nomination. lyndon johnson is the majority leader, probably the most powerful senate majority leader we had up to that point. johnson thinks that he can leverage that position in the senate to the nomination for the presidency. johnson has a sense of urgency about trying to get to the presidency, which had been his goal billy since he entered congress in the 1930's. his urgency stems from the fact that all of the men in his family died very young. he had a serious heart attack in the 1950's. he sees 1960 as his last shot at the presidency. john kennedy in the senate was not a powerful senator alt all. he commented on how ironic that he was president and lyndon johnson was vice president, whereas when he was in the senate, when he wanted consideration of the bill, he had to go begging lyndon johnson to get it considered. that is not lost on kennedy. johnson, as you know, did not get the nomination. kenne

up there with john mayer. same thing. you know what you're getting with john mayer, he's a player. but he looks like a lot of fun. so you walk into it knowing what you're getting. >> you have to be very careful. >> john mayer, if listening, you can call me. >> you will be prepared. >> sherry m. writes on the "showbiz tonight" facebook wall. chris brown, he's oozing toxins. amen, i agree with you. after admitting to beating up rihanna, i think it's safe to say chris brown is a toxic bachelor. what do you say? >> you know what's annoying about him. rihanna releases information about her album, excited, chris brown comes out, stamps on her parade, starts promoting his album. this is a guy who issued this faux apology and is just trying to rebuild his public image. and it just really isn't working. >> you know, i agree with you. time will tell with that one. interestingly, many people wrote on our "showbiz tonight" facebook wall that george clooney should be on the toxic. >> mary j. isn't having any of it. george clooney, not toxic, jon gosselin toxic. >> george clooney, a little bit o

let's bring in john lucich. john, you can relate to that, the mad, frantic search for a little girl. you're hoping against hope she's okay, and what we have at this point have, the news is not good. >> no, absolutely, mike. in fact, that's got to be one of the most heartbreaking parts of being an investigator on a case like this, having to face what you didn't want to have to face in the first place. this investigation is going to move on and they've got a new -- they're inspired to find out who did this and get every piece of garbage that was involved in this and bring them to justice. inside that room they're going to be looking at, there's going to be a lot of physical evidence, dna evidence, fingerprints on a lot of different types of surfaces. they're going to hopefully be able to identify everyone who came in contact with that little girl in that room. it's something that there's no doubt in my mind that's on the hearts of all these investigators to bring to justice anybody who may have harmed this little

i'm going back to the 2004 election with john kerry. i'm saying kanye has been taylor swift boated away. bam. >> let's move on to another story making news. levi johnston for once is not slapping sarah palin. i don't know that this is any better, but she defending jon gosselin and feeling a personal connection. one train wreck to another. he said he met jon gosselin. he's a good guy. kind of in the same situation i am. he's a good dad and gets a lot of bad press. he has the same bad image i am and it ain't true. i can relate to that. is levi the last guy jon gosselin needs relating to him in public? >> relating to him right now? >> i can see jon gosselin today somebody told him that somebody is defending him and he is like really, who? levi johnston? great. and today was the first day of the playgirl photo shoot. more good news. >> good timing all around. thanks, guys. >> tonight, oprah's big interview with sarah palin. wait until you hear what oprah asks palin about levi. this is "showbiz tonight" on hln. >>> it is time now for the "sh

more with taylor branch and john harrison a moment after words with taylor branch ended john harris continues. >> host: we're back with booktv after words with taylor branch, the author of a "the clinton tapes", the story of his eight years of conversations with bill clinton. tell me about the timing of this book. it's 10 years after some of the first memoir started coming out while the presidency was still under way, five years after bill clinton's book. why this book now? >> guest: well, of course i finished my talking trilogy which took 24 years and was my major life's work in 2006 and pretty soon after that i started thinking what the next book and i thought that the timing was not ideal and in no way a would have wished a little more time had gone by but i thought it was enough. after all when i started picking a project in 198214 years after he died in 2006 party 13 years since the beginning of the clinton administration so i wanted to be fresh and have a little bit of perspective and then also said it, look, this is not for the same reason i didn't want to be arthur schlesinger and pre

i'm back with olivia newton-john and the man she's hopelessly devoted to. john easterling.nk you. >> you're a gorgeous couple. >> we fell in love in the amazon but we knew etch other for 17 years before that. did you have a best man or a sherpa. >> we had a man do the services at an extraordinary archaeological site. in p rks ru. >> it must have been beautiful. >> it was us and musicians. >> you kept your relationship secret from the family. >> no, not the relationship, just the wedding. we were together a year when we got married. >> you were dating. i don't get that. i'm dating a guy for 27 years. how long were you dating, actually? doing the -- the dirty. how long? >> a year. >> dating for a year. >> we knew each other for 17 years as friends. i met him many, many years ago. a few years after i knew him, this is stully interesting. my dog had puppies and skron had met my dog, liked my dog. i shipd a puppy to him in florida. 2 the 1/2 years ago, i did a show in florida, i invisited him to come with his girlfriend and he brought the dog. >> don't call her a dog. >> i remem

john chafee from rhode island and john danforth from missouri where good examples of people you could talk to and reason but today instead of 33 i doubt there are 15 and that category and most of the movement is into the end zone. and things of happen in the institution with the advent of what i would call reapportionment on steroids we ended up with a system where 90% of the members of the house of representatives are vulnerable to attack in a general election. the only way they could be deposed is if they are far enough to the left of the democrat or republican and to avoid an opponent in the primary purpose of that condition does not encourage people to seek out ways to be more compatible and compromising in trying to find a reasonable center. those are all contributors to what clearly is a system that is in distress. >> [applause] one of the things that you said would help the bill of citizenship and create more participatory is journalist i happen one for many years and it is frustrating for us as much as it is 4v spectators and cynics among us because i feel very adamant about t

>> well, we honestly believed as john said and as mr.deh said that they were going to make reparations with the shah and that then the hostages would be let loose. the people in the embassy had been taken in february and released shortly thereafter. that's what we expected. when it changed was when the son of the ayatollah khomeini came to the embassy, climbed the walls himself with his turbin falling off and pronounced himself in favor of what the students were doing. at that point it became a government process, not a student process. >> it took on a life of its own. >> it that way actually became an act of the iranian government rather than a group of students who were acting potentially outside the law. even if people liked what they were doing, they were acting on their own. after that moment, it was then a government process, and the whole rest of the hostage crisis revolved around trying to get the iranian government to take responsibility for its own actions and end the process, and john is absolutely correct that this, the fact

i thought john carlson was more physical than i thought he would be. he had a high panic threshold.

[applause] >> next question is for john. dick and i wore on cnbc and about two months ago discussing the bailout. you can correct me if i'm wrong, but i think i'm right -- we had a discussion about whether aig and citi should have been bailed out. my position was that they should not have. i think the economy would have collapsed without it. you work for lehman brothers for nine years. do you agree with dick? >> we were not bailed out. in those days, you remember there was a panic. what we were concerned about in the country, what congress was concerned about, anybody that understood a little bit about the financial markets was this was not about citibank, this was about whether americans have confidence whether their own banks were going to shut down. they increased the fdic insurance so people did not do a run on the banks. i do not think the bill that passed was great, i don't think they did it in inappropriate. of time, and we ought to let the banks pay the money back and let them pay it back as quickly as they can and f

i think both joe louis and john walker smith, leader sugar ray robinson, looked for father figures, and i think both of them found father figures in the jazzman who were flowing in and out of harlem. >> host: and harlem itself almost becomes a father figure to sugar ray. >> guest: and because harlem was that one place and america at that time where there was black political muscle, there was a great pride left over from the harlem renaissance, and that