it's always great to be mentioned same sentence as john glenn.day was a really difficult day for our country and especially those folks that live and work in boston and another "christian science monitor" is based in boston. someone from "the boston globe," so our heart, gabby and mind go at the of boston and everyone around the world who traveled to the race from a difficult day for our country. i also want to acknowledge today is the six-year anniversary of another horrific event and that was the shooting at virginia tech. six years ago today, over 30 people were murdered by a man who is clearly mentally ill and adjudicated as mentally ill. under the legislation that we are currently -- that is currently proposed here in the senate, that infinite may never have been. on january 8 of 2011, at his home in houston with my two daughters. gabby and i had one of those commuter marriages would go between washington and tucson in houston, sometimes clockwise, sometimes counterclockwise. on that day, gabby was meeting with constituents at a safeway, doi

. >> jimmy: he will be our generation's john glenn. he might have just given south america whooping cough. we need to take a break. i'm going to take a quick nap. but when we come back, "this week in unnecessary censorship." [ engine revving ] ♪ [ male announcer ] every car we build must make adrenaline pump and pulses quicken. ♪ to help you not just stay alive... but feel alive. the c-class is no exception. it's a mercedes-benz, through and through. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services. ♪ ♪ ♪ wow, i've been claritin when your allergies start, doctors recommend taking one non-drowsy claritin every day during your allergy season for continuous relief. 18 days! 17 days! 22 days of continuous relief. live claritin clear. every day. walgreens can help when you're at the corner of "allergies" and "even more allergies." come to walgreens for expert advice and the right products, like claritin bonus packs - now $18.99 with balance rewards card. at the corner of happy and heal

it is great for me to be mentioned in the same sentence with john glenn because he is certainly one of my heroes. last february 2012 i had the opportunity to speak can attend the 50th anniversary of his first flight into space to orbit the earth in during the dinner i got to sit between john glenn and neil armstrong which other than my four space flights was the highlight of my career as an astronaut so it is great to be mentioned in the same sentence. yesterday was a really difficult day for our country and especially those folks to living and working in boston. i know the "christian science monitor" is based in boston and we have someone here from "the boston globe" so our hearts go out to the citizens of boston and everybody from around the world it is a difficult day for our country. are also wanted knowledge today is the six year anniversary of another horrific event and that was the shooting at virginia tech just six years ago today that over 30 people were murdered by a man who was clearly mentally ill and adjudicated as mentally ill. under the legislation that is currently prop

human behavior of engaging in violence against those who are engaging in violence against you. >> john: glennfore we go, america is out of iraq, allegedly winding down the conflict in afghanistan, does this threat of blow back from these wars just go on forever now? >> well, i think they're going to go on forever as long as we engage in violence in that part of the world. and although you're right that the united states did withdraw from iraq pursuant to an agreement negotiated with president bush that president obama maintained after trying not to, and we're still in afghanistan, and we're still killing people. just last night there was a n.a.t.o. air attack that killed 11 children. as long as we continue to drone people as we continue to do continuously, and prop up bad leaders as we do all around the world, you have to expect a blow-back and what the c.i.a. calls blow-back will not only continue but escalate and we'll see more of boston than we already have. >> john: i certainly hope that does not come to mass. thank you for coming on "viewpoint." >> thanks for having me. >> john: of cours

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. >> john glenn was fined. >> as you noted earlier, for example, the sec wouldn't touch privately held if the issue, and i think this is a real issue, we need broader disclosure of money in politics, then the sec because it can only get publicly traded companies is actually a very limited solution to that. and i think that what -- i mean, when you look at people like art pope, the story, i think, is arguably more about high net worth individuals and privately held companies than it is about the publicly traded companies because republican traded companies are hemmed in in various ways in which they can engage in politics. they have to be more consensus institutions and play both sides. maybe the way they are spending money is more effective than the way privately held companies would spend money. i think that -- the -- we do want some sort of broader disclosure regime. it is for the public interests and not for shareholder minutes carl smith is in -- on the show and we -- we asked him this week about the issue. he raised an interesting point that gets to what you are saying where is if

john: progress. thank you. next, something very different. glenn beck now says he is a libertarian. how can that be true? he bank bailout. warrantless wiretaps. i will confront him about this plan next. ♪ ♪ john: and now for something completely different, this year glenn beck said he is a libertarian. he is popular. he has millions of followers. his success and radio and tv gave me hope. he talked about reading milton friedman. he opposed that gm bailout. then he supported tarp. he said $700 billion in stimulus money is not enough. he supported the patriot act, warrantless wiretapping. and at the republican primary, his candidate was the anti libertarian, rick santorum. so, glen cannon now you e-mail me and say, i have been moving closer to libertarianism with every day. that is good news. what do you mean? >> i have always considered myself a libertarian leading republican. as is completely give up hope on any kind of republican that what actually did it. the republican party is a waste of time. so i have not really changed a lot of the things that i believed in. you get a few things right. i was never

john: progress. thank you. next, something very different. glenn beck now says he is a libertarian. how can that be true? ank bailout. warrantless wiretaps. i will confront him about this plan next. ♪ @í ♪ john: and now for something completely different, this year glenn beck said he is a libertarian. he is popular. he has millions of followers. his success and radio and tv gave me hope. he talked about reading milton friedman. he opposed that gm bailout. then he supported tarp. he said $700 billion in stimulus money is not enough. he supported the patriot act, warrantless wetapping. and at the republican primary, his candidate was the anti libertarian, rick santorum. so, glen cannon now you e-mail me and say, i have been moving closer to libertarianism with every day. that is good news. what do you mean? >> i have always considered myself a libertarian leading republican. as is completely give up hope on any kind of republican that what actually did it. the republican party is a waste of time. so i have not really changed a lot of the things that i believed in. you get a few things right. i was never for

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john: i agree. thank you. later tonight, i will confront glenn beck.call himself a libertarian after supporting bank bailouts? the drug war, the patriot act. now he claims he is a libertarian. we will see. that is later. next, kennedy reports on the privileges of the chosen ones we call congress. john: travis kalanick. john: there are the chosen ones, and then there are those who choose to the chosen ones dark. in this congress often take care of themselves. special correspondent kennedy went to washington to check out some of their special privileges she felt some perks in the senate's. >> you can also get manicures, like saying. john: this set loses a third of a million dollars every year. it is what it did not want kennedy taking pictures. they kicked her out. at least the house part to the house barber shop was privatize a feedback. stop losing money. >> once again, even in the house and congress you can find a way for the free market to work. if we emulate this establishment and other operations of congress we can not only save taxpayers some mone

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security adviser to the president, jake sullivan, janet napolitano, secretary of state john kerry, john glenn is joining by video conference and again this meeting currently underway savannah. i read the names out because this is the first meeting we are hearing about of this magnitude in the situation room in response to the developing situation in boston. the president has been kept up to date throughout the night and morning. but right now, sitting down with his national security team, monitoring the situation. savannah. >> from the list you just read this is the comprehensive list of the entire national security apparatus of the government in the situation room right now being updated. thank you for that. we hope you standby. we want to get any breaking developments from you. >> absolutely. >> we will take a break as we watch these developments in b n boston but we want to turn to al and get the weather news, as well. >> the good news for the friends out west it hasn't been so bad and volatile as the east. you can see we have rain making its way to the pacific northwest. nothing too horri

. >> john, earlier we played sound of glenn beck linking what happened in boston disgracefully to auschwitzw everyone a picture of that. you can see beck. a picture of botthis new book a bottom, about the truth about gun control. in the end, this is about peddling books and advertising their brand, isn't it? >> of course. you know, eventually it got beck fired even from fox because they started to lose advertisers. in my book, which isn't out yet, but it's coming out in a month, i explain how at one point steve jobs, the late steve jobs, heard that glenn beck had called obama a racist and he ordered all apple ads off of fox and he said, no, it can't wait until monday. this was on a friday it happened. they had to go out to a transmission facility and pull out a digital file to make sure all apple ads were off fox. not long after that, beck was fired by fox. these kind of boycotts undertaken by other companies at the time of glenn beck, this is what needs to happen. otherwise as ryan indicated, it does leak into the mainstream media. the reason that the president released his birth certifica

glenn robinson, appreciate your help. let's head back to john berman at one of our other top stories, the boston marathon, the explosion there. helping us cover this other horrible situation this morning, john, as you talk to the people there and, you know, this is their community, this is where they've grown up. you know, they have to face such devastation at this hour, not even knowing how many people have died and hundreds injured and taken to the hospitals. >> that situation clearly so fluid in the town of west, texas. we are following the breaking news in this small town. it's north of waco, about 18 miles. as we saw, there was this massive explosion and this fire at a fertilizer plant that happened late wednesday night. at least two people are confirmed dead so far, but we're told town officials fear dozens more may have been killed. they confirm some firefighters who responded to the scene are currently unaccounted for at this hour. more than 150 people have been injured. they're being treated at area hospitals. the devastation said to be

us in glenn park are happy that the project is moving ahead, it would have been better for that appeal to have been heard early and clearly. finally -- >> thank you, mr. rice. mr. rizzo. >>> john rizzo speaking for the sierra club today. the sierra club is asking the committee to continue this item so that it may have a fair hearing of supervisor kim's legislation which we find has been carefully thought out, has some very appealing aspects to it. the california environmental quality act has been a very successful piece of legislation and it has made good projects better. and here locally cpmc is a prime example of that. it's a much better project now because of ceqa and the process. we've heard about the difficulty of building things in san francisco that is absolutely true. this initiative needs to be addressed. however, there are all kinds of reasons for that that don't have to do with ceqa. it is equally very difficult in this city to appeal a project through the ceqa process. the finding of information from the city is very difficult and the amount of time, shortening the amount of time and requirements make it even more difficult for people who are not professionals, for

something about john kerry and a saudian arabian man at the bomb site, something, something, are you that blind, literally, that's the quote at the end of the article, are you that blind? glenn beck, alex jones conspiratorial froth is not just boiling up in state legislatures, whose names aren't worth pronouncing on television. four republican members of the house, including the chair of the homeland security committee, they have written a letter now to the homeland security department demanding an investigation into glenn beck's conspiracy theory about the guy who glenn beck is pitching as the real bomber in boston who naturally is being protected and controlled by the u.s. government by janet napolitano, and by first lady michelle obama, oh, yes, the first lady is in on it, too. just like sandy hook and aurora and oklahoma city and the moon landing, it's all the government coming to get you. the right has always had this to contend with, the alex jones of the world and glenn becks of the world have always been out there on the fringe right eager to decode anything to make it very simple for you, to make it very simple so that every story in the world has the same implicati

john avalon. a few days after the boston bombings tremblay, we remember her, stella. stella tremblay -- >> is that who you are or what you do? >> stephanie: she's a new hampshire state legislator. she went to glenness her conviction that it was -- the terror attack was in fact orchestrated by the u.s. government. echoing conspiracy theorists from glenn beck and alex jones this is what he's saying -- writing about. it is becoming what they're forming policy on. it is not just -- she's an actual republican legislator. she's not -- tremblay part of a disturbing trend of legislators entertaining conspiracy theories that are unseemly coming from an average citizen. this is starting to infect the halls of congress. they mention the gohmert who is really a -- >> a gomer. >> stephanie: do you think other congresspeople mutter under their breaths when he -- >> what a gohmert! >> stephanie: shut up, gohmert. he mentioned that. the remark came just a day after republican jim jordan of ohio and jason of utah held a hearing to examine the procurement of ammunition of social security administration office. the hearing represented a pittulation if not an outright endorsement of alex jones and info wars, mainly