. >> john: they have done that. now the feds demand that every store must admit, now hotels must spend millions on devices that may never be used. >> they are scrambling to comply. >> do you know you could be fined thousands of dollars if you sell one of these things? regulated to death. that is our show tonight. >> john: americans want us to protect us, protect us from foreign enemies and people that might hurt us, physically or financially. so politicians pass laws that claim to do that. and then because they can't keep up with the constant changes in life they create whole agencies to write and enforce additional regulations. this is the result. 160,000 pages of rules, some contradict each other. no one understands all of them and yet bureaucracy add more. thousands of new pages every month. regulations might be worth it if they make us safer but they don't. cliff assets has growing to a fund of $50 billion. so i assume you are smart but explain, you say the financial regulations meant to protect the poor investo

i'm the first one. >> john: it's better? >> it works. >> john: this does work. it works. not everybody is willing to take the risk of top of it even if it's the right thing to do. >> john: next, we take to government buildings paid for by you that just sit empty. >> every year they lose $6 million? >> yes. this part has been vacant for 15 years, i know it's unbelievable years, i know it's unbelievable [ male announcer ] what can you do with plain white rice? when you pour chunky beef with country vegetables soup over it... you can do dinner. four minutes, around four bucks. campbels chunky. it's amazing what soup can do. droid does. and does it launch apps by voice while learning your voice ? launch cab4me. droid does. keep left at the fork. does it do turn-by-turn navigation ? droid does. with verizon, america's largest 4glte network and motorola, whatever you want to do... droidoes. >> john: america is on the road to serfdom not just because government spends too much but because bureaucrats miss opportunities to make money. it's not their money, it's your money. why bo

>> john: no, twa about 10, 12 years ago. >> it's a very foolish and it's a silly statement. >> john: are you bitter? >> i 0 lot of friends atness ms nbc and i regret it's over. it's like john, it's all business. >> john: you and i are members of the american overclass. >> i didn't think i grow up -- >> but do minorities have more license to criticize studios. >> if a white person says something against me i have major problems. >> john: what do you think about that? >> i'm afraid there is some reality in what is being said there. there is a lot of african-american books that use the "n" word against each other. that is prerogative and i don't think we sudden should use those kinds of terms. >> john: but white men had power for years. >> i don't know when you grew up. i grew up in catholic ghetto in washington, d.c. where we were outnumbered ten to one. they were wonderful schools. we were not the power elite. i grew up in the goldwater campaign. >> john: white men have more power and more money. i'm not say we got it. >> what do you want to equalize it taking away from one group and

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. >> john: but many say something else. >> i think it should be a law against it. >> john: bad speech and what to do about it. that is our show tonight. [ applause ] >> john: i have a weird job. i get to say things some people don't like. some might call it bad speech. i have a studio audience and who knows what nasty stuff some may say. any of us may say things that may hurt your feelings but my bosses let me do that. it's one of the jiogs of living in an open society but not every commentator gets to keep his job. bat buchanan lost his, what hoe wrote in this book was not appropriate and he wased the so what did you write. >> it at as titled the end of white america that had theth can nts sounds the? >> it was of are an go magazine. so why would it be racist to change the ethnic composition of a nation. >> john: there was european descent is what i'm talking about. eno core of the country. countries are being torn. >> and this is most powerful force on earth. it's far more powerful for the desire for dempsey. >> you have been saying stuff for like this for years. you have been on ms

>> john: no, twa about 10, 12 years ago. >> it's a very foolish and it's a silly statement. >> john: are you bitter? >> i 0 lot of friends atness ms nbc and i regret it's over. it's like john, it's all business. >> john: you and i are members of the american overclass. >> i didn't think i grow up -- >> but do minorities have more license to criticize studios. >> if a white person says something against me i have major problems. >> john: what do you think about that? >> i'm afraid there is some reality in what is being said there. there is a lot of african-american books that use the "n" word against each other. that is prerogative and i don't think we sudden should use those kinds of terms. >> john: but white men had power for years. >> i don't know when you grew up. i grew up in catholic ghetto in washington, d.c. where we were outnumbered ten to one. they were wonderful schools. we were not the power elite. i grew up in the goldwater campaign. >> john: white men have more power and more money. i'm not say we got it. >> what do you want to equalize it taking away from one group and

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i'm the first one. >> john: it's better? >> it works. >> john: this does work. it works.verybody is willing to take the risk of top of it even if it's the right thing to do. >> john: next, we take to government buildings paid for by you that just sit empty. >> every year they lose $6 million? >> yes. this part has been vacant for 15 years, i know it's unbelievable years, i know it's unbelievable i'm really going to miss you. my new place isn't that far away. it's 15 miles away ! with this droid razr by motorola on verizon 4g lte, we can video chat on skype. you're gonna get lost ! this has gps. well, that makes me feel better. me too. i'll go get two from the back. the droid razr by motorola now only $99.99. hurry in, offer ends may 13th. verizon. >> john: america is on the road to serfdom not just because government spends too much but because bureaucrats miss opportunities to make money. it's not their money, it's your money. why bother to keep track of most of it. government is the biggest landowner in america. it owns 81% of nevada, most of utah, idaho, alaska. they c

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ha ha. ♪ >>. >> john: regulated to death!, even i assume the regulators don't want death, they don't want to kill prosperity but they do kill prosperity. here is part of a new web video that took a clear stand on that. >> if i wanted america to fail, i would do certain things. if i wanted america to fail i would never teach children the free market is the only force in human history. if i wanted america to fail, i would create countless new regulations and federal agents to raid guitar factories for the wood and make it easier to stop commerce to start it. if i wanted america to fail, i suppose i wouldn't change a thing. >> john: that video was made by free market america. as of this week it has been viewed about two million times on youtube. the guy speaking is executive director of free market america, what is it? >> free market america is a group of true believers. we begin as a florida organization. >> john: is that what made you a free market believe? >> you know, partly, yes. we had a preview of occupy wall street movem

. >> john: but many say something else. >> i think it should be a law against it. >> john: bad speech and what to do about it. that is our show tonight. [ applause ] >> john: i have a weird job. i get to say things some people don't like. some might call it bad speech. i have a studio audience and who knows what nasty stuff some may say. any of us may say things that may hurt your feelings but my bosses let me do that. it's one of the jiogs of living in an open society but not every commentator gets to keep his job. bat buchanan lost his, what hoe wrote in this book was not appropriate and he wased the so what did you write. >> it at as titled the end of white america that had theth can nts sounds the? >> it was of are an go magazine. so why would it be racist to change the ethnic composition of a nation. >> john: there was european descent is what i'm talking about. eno core of the country. countries are being torn. >> and this is most powerful force on earth. it's far more powerful for the desire for dempsey. >> you have been saying stuff for like this for years. you have been on ms

john edwards didn't testify.gure in this trial who actually took the stand was andrew young, who essentially served the bag man role. that's a very unusual situation where you have so many of the key flavors offstage. now, as for what the jury thinks about that, you know, there really is no way to know at this point, except that it's been eight days and there's no verdict. and every day that passes without a conviction is good for the defense. now, that could change if there is a conviction, but days passing, jury deadlocks are good for the defense. you can be sure that abbe lowell and company, the defense lawyer, are feeling better about today's developments than the prosecutors are, but this thing is not over. >> and real quick, jeff, does this fit into, this has gone shockingly long in terms of jury deliberation? or is it not surprising? >> no. i mean, this is certainly a long jury deliberation, but this is not unprecedented, even in north carolina. i was hearing about a less celebrated fraud case not too long

>> they want to spend less. >> john: i hope that is true. >> it will come. >> john: up next, my takeersus poor. ♪ [ engine turns over ] [ male announcer ] we began with the rx. [ tires squeal ] then we turned the page, creating the rx hybrid. ♪ now we've turned the page again with the all-new rx f sport. ♪ this is the next chapter for the rx and the next chapter for lexus. see your lexus dealer. i think we should see other people. in fact, i'm already seeing your best friend, justin. ♪ i would've appreciated a proactive update on the status of our relationship. who do you think i am, tim? quicken loans? at quicken loans, we provide you with proactive updates on the status ofour home loan. and our innovative online tools ensure that you're always in the loop. one more way quicken loans is engineered to amaze. >>> we can see your greedy. hey -- >> those union protestors see the greedy side. they are upset that the rich get richer and poor get poorer, except that is not through. the rich do get richer, especially when markets go up, that is true but the poor got richer, too. not every y

they have less job growth. >> john: one last point.e us back to that moment when you were home for the weekend and you checked the youtube score? >> it was incredible. we were blown away. when i left was 265 views, by saturday it was few thousand, by sunday it had exploded and we had hundreds of thousands. you are talking to a guy a couple hundred people would watch the video. >> john: thank you ryan. >> next my take on the regulators. do they really want america to fail? >>. >> john: that popular web video we showed parts of suggest that some regulators want america to fail. now, i don't believe that. except, maybe some do, after all the environmental group earth first used to use the slogan back to the pleissene and they believe only pure nature is normal. some won't be happy until they reduce our carbon foots print to zero. think about who becomes a government regulatory. who wants to create these rules. do you want to work at the epa? i don't either. i don't want to work in a dreary burr okay krags. who is more likely to be a burea

. >> john: they have done that. now the feds demand that every store must admit, now hotels must spend millions on devices that may never be used. >> they are scrambling to comply. >> do you know you could be fined thousands of dollars if you sell one of these things? regulated to death. that is our show tonight. >> john: americans want us to protect us, protect us from foreign enemies and people that might hurt us, physically or financially. so politicians pass laws that claim to do that. and then because they can't keep up with the constant changes in life they create whole agencies to write and enforce additional regulations. this is the result. 160,000 pages of rules, some contradict each other. no one understands all of them and yet bureaucracy add more. thousands of new pages every month. regulations might be worth it if they make us safer but they don't. cliff assets has growing to a fund of $50 billion. so i assume you are smart but explain, you say the financial regulations meant to protect the poor investo

>> they want to spend less. >> john: i hope that is true. >> it will come. >> john: up next, my takeersus poor. ♪ [ engine turns over ] [ male announcer ] we began with the rx. [ tires squeal ] then we turned the page, creating the rx hybrid. ♪ now we've turned the page again with the all-new rx f sport. ♪ this is the next chapter for the rx and the next chapter for lexus. see your lexus dealer. i think we should see other people. in fact, i'm already seeing your best friend, justin. ♪ i would've appreciated a proactive update on the status of our relationship. who do you think i am, tim? quicken loans? at quicken loans, we provide you with proactive updates on the status ofour home loan. and our innovative online tools ensure that you're always in the loop. one more way quicken loans is engineered to amaze. >>> we can see your greedy. hey -- >> those union protestors see the greedy side. they are upset that the rich get richer and poor get poorer, except that is not through. the rich do get richer, especially when markets go up, that is true but the poor got richer, too. not every y

and it just came to me, godspeed john glenn. and i think the fact that he -- his name is two short syllables made it ring a little better. anyway, somewhere in the count between ten and zero i said, godspeed john glenn, and it was a salute to him, but there was a feeling, i think, in me at the time that it could be viewed as a plea to whatever higher power to, you know, to make this flight a success. and i would suggest that nobody can tell me that that plea didn't work. because the flight did. >> worked not once, but twice, because nasa made special arrangements when you and john flew the second time. can you tell us about that? >> well, yeah, but i will also tell you that both of these pleas, godspeed john glenn, he didn't hear. and i just recently learned this. until after the launch. i thought he heard them both. when i said them. but that wasn't the way it happened. couldn't say the same thing on the shuttle flight because it's not a solo flight. so i thought it appropriate to add a good luck to the commander and crew of th

john edwards was too cute by an inch.ound it with the bunny money which is obviously okay. >> staying with money and politics is obviously just super pac transparency. obviously we have our opinions about public financing, about ach amending the constitution, about all these complex laws on the books, and i believe all merit significant debate, but while we await the expanded debate on money and politics, i'm still surprised at the audacity of both republican and democratic leadership to simply not concede. we're going to at least show you whose money it is. >> but i don't think any of that is going to happen unless we, the people, continue to put pressure on the politicians to make it happen, because it's not -- i mean, you know, it is sort of in their interest on a political level with a small p, but again, that's the way you impact change. one point i would make in the bigger scheme of things, pete's observation was really right on which was think about where we were when this case was initially brought forward and whe

i'm john king. tonight, a bizarre twist in the john edwards trial.deliberations, the jury finds the former senator and presidential candidate, not guilty on one count and deadlocks on the other five. a mistrial. an in your face day on presidential politics. president obama's top strategist visits the massachusetts mass state house to liable sh label mitt romney a failure. mitt romney visits a green energy company as proof that the president's stimulus package are disaster. george w. bush returns to the white house, or as he put it, his hanging. a portrait unveiling that was moving and very funny. >>> we begin with this afternoon's messy and emotional ending in

but in the final twist is at john brown's hanging, one of the guards is john wilkes booth, who later writes about being quite inspired by brown or talks to his sister about it. she writes about it. he calls him the great man of the century. here's a man who took an act that changed the course of american history, and that's ultimately what john wilkes booth then does in assassinating lincoln. >> chill bumps. i got 'em. i hope you all do, too. >> yeah. >> when you read this book, you're going to get more, because i'm going to tell you something that you do so remarkably well, and that is these names, they're names on history book pages for most people. but you actually open up their hearts, their lives, their thoughts, their fears to us. there are stories in here that are just astonishingly powerful, one of which is the story of african-american dangerfield newby, who was a freed black man who had his wife and six children? >> yeah, five or six. >> five or six children who were still enslaved, and he had raised $750 to buy their freedom. the master reneged. he was fed up. he was conti

john was the chairman. we all took orders from john.m so glad that so many of our friends are here. the head of the san francisco labor council, thank you. [applause] let me say that some of you know -- again, i could name every one of you in reference to the issues that have been discussed, and you probably think that i will, but i told you that story. here is the thing, let's go back 25 and a half years ago. i had no thought in the world of running for congress. i did care very much about the city. i had the position that john is now holds but without all of his credentials as chair of the california democratic party. but i never thought in terms of running for congress. it was because of a woman who decided that a woman was going to follow in her footsteps that i decided to run. at the time the issues were, what you think about health care? i would say, tell me what you think about health care for all americans as a right, not a privilege, and i told them. they wanted to know what we do to fight for more funding for hiv and aids, and

john lewis is, to me, just one of the heroes. john lewis, i think, is the single best american citizen i've ever known. i mean, he is so steadfast. here we are, 40 years later, and he's still doing ten times more things than he should. he's a congressman, he's generous-hearted, he's not a separatist. he treats everybody the way they would like to be treated. he reaches out to everyone. he still talks about the good community, the noble community. the beloved community. the beloved community that jim lawson first mentioned to him. and he was a person who could have had a wasted life that we would never reach. i joined the new york times that year, the day after john kennedy's election. and one of my last images of nashville, right before i left: the sit-ins are over, they've won, everybody's sort of gone back to their normal lives. i'm downtown on a saturday picking up something, and there on a street corner, absolutely by himself, is john lewis. nobody else, just doing this on his own. and he's trying to register black people to

so john edwards is not guilty.t's where we stand right now, looking for a little bit more color in the courtroom. the long and short of it, after a long trial, huge expense by the federal government, and now the ninth day of deliberation here in greensboro, north carolina, john edwards found not guilty on one count, the jury deadlocked on the other five charges. >> and joe, that count, count three, was illegal campaign contributions from bunny mellon in the year of 2008, because she'd also given him some contributions in 2007. >> reporter: that's right. >> so the does that tell us anything about the way this jury is thinking? because, of course, bunny mellon has not testified herself. >> reporter: well, as my understanding is that the jury has, the jury's been dismissed. so on these other counts, it seems very much as if they're deadlocked on it and the judge has decided they're not going to be able to reach a decision. of course, the question would be, whether the united states government would want to retry on th

or just john edwards' family?osecution's first witness today was able to speak to that and the interior decorator helped his racial friend funnel hundreds of thousands to andrew young claiming young never told them of the affair or the coverup until just hours before news appeared in the press, and the prosecution asked huffman how she reacted when she found out about the affair. and huffman reasonablied "she thought he should pay for your girlfriend yourself." trace? >>trace: thank you, jonathan, outside the courthouse and now our legal panel, former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney. jeffrey, the question in this, is it fair game as he was talking for the prosecution to bring up the affair again and again to prosecute john edwards? >>guest: absolutely. in a murder case the defendant doesn't want the prosecutor to show you the gory pictures of the scene but that is part of the prosecution case and no matter how much the defense wants to stipulate and say, we agree, we don't need to have the testimony, the

a very humbling ending to the political career of john edwards. >> sorry, john.g we are being told right now in my ear that the jury is entering the room which we would assume means that we will be getting this verdict very soon, but you said this fall, it is really, really amazing as well as how public it was. the "national enquirer" and how salacious the details were. i want to move to jeff toobin, our senior legal analyst. he's with me in new york. jeff, i want you to help me break this down. a lot of our viewers have not been following this from the very day-to-day -- from the beginning of this on the day-to-day. this is actually a pretty complex trial in terms of campaign finance law. where do you land on where you think the verdict is going to be and kind of what this argument and this verdict really is hinging on? >> well, the facts of this case, what's unusual about this case is that the facts, the core facts of this case, are not really in dispute. everybody knows that bunny mellon, the virginia heiress, and ted barron, the texas lawyer, give hundreds of

the stakes for john edwards? >>arthur: life-or-death. really. because my understanding of what happened was the jury sent out a note that said we reached a verdict. so, i was giving the judge a hard time before, but, she may have been given this information by the jury itself. that all they said was we reached a verdict they come in and the first question a judge or clerk, depending on how the judge runs the courtroom, has the jury reached a unanimous verdict and then for the first time the judge hears, oh, no, we have a verdict on one thing but we don't know what we are doing on everything else, which, i will tell you, again, this just happened to me a couple of months ago, and the defendant would i was representing who was facing similar amounts of time in jail, prison, was the only time he lost his composure in two years and he said i don't care, take the verdict. i need to get this out of my life. take the verdict. take the verdict. of course, he her not guilty and was very happy about that. >>megyn: because he had you. >>arthur: the other w

he is a developer, former john edwards supporter, friend, and former john edwards aide andrew young. he told the court that he warned then senator president obama's campaign back in date -- 2008 about the affair and told an obama staffer "you have seen the fab lloyd reports and usually they get these wrong but in this case i don't think they did." >> of court, the prosecution says john edwards knew he was using campaign money to hide his affair from voters and his dying wife and john edwards' lawyers say he did not know of the cash and his aide, andrew young, spent the money on his dream home. if convicted john edwards faces up to 30 years in prison and $1.5 million in fines. and now, down to north carolina. what is the prosecution doing to try to prove john edwards did, indeed, know about the cash? >>jonathan: they have the former speech writer who helped john edwards come up with this draft of how he was going to admit his affair to the american public, she, just before a break, was describing how he apologized to staff. at that point, john edwards was visibly upset and during the

what does it mean for john edwards?it should never be brought. editorial director for the "washington post" and attorney and former general counsel for the election commission. let me start with this. why are we trying a case that would require making new law part of the process of a verdict? >> you got me. i just don't understand why this case was brought in the first place. it needs to meet a clear standard. there was no clear standard here. we have unlimited campaign contributions in the super pac door. they changed the drinking age in jersey from 20 to 18 and they got you for drinking at 20. the whole thing is out of date. >> it's impossible to know, at least, until we talk to the jurors, but i think the fact that there is such a huge flood of money, secret and open, now going into politics partly as a result of citizens united and super pacs, as pete said, they made the money here look like pikers change, and it made the whole thing more puzzling, perhaps, to the jury. there was a lack of perspective on the part of

john and his crew are on a boosting spree. they knock off a cvs and then a walgreens across the street. back in the car, across the freeway, they zero in on another walgreens. a getaway driver stays with the car and keeps the motor running while john and a woman head inside and make a bee line for the back of the store. >> they walked in, just like any other customer. you would never suspect them. >> store manager john gonzales is busy helping another customer while the customer is busy helping themselves to more than $1,400 worth of merchandise. >> they were in and out of here within a couple of minutes. they knew exactly what they were going to get. >> the target? high-priced, over-the-counter medications, like prilosec, zantac, pepcid. her bag overflowing with stolen merchandise, the woman heads for the exit and sets off the store's alarm. >> at that moment, she took off running and i came right around the counter and myself and another employee, i was running out the door. at that time i pulled out my cell phone and called