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. -- john harris. >> he will be in the anchor chair this sunday on abc this week.nt obama has put out a campaign commercial. he made a surprise trip to afghanistan this week. is he pushing the boundaries of politics or is he in the traditional boundaries? >> i think he is within the traditional bounds. the issue is those traditional bounds sat in the last administration by george the bush and his reelection committee. a lot of democrats protested at the time. in 2008, senator hillary clinton ran an ad against senator obama that had an image of osama bin laden. the obama campaign says they are not -- this is a policy debate and they are talking about whether or not mitt romney would have wanted, would have approved an extraordinary operation to go after bin laden within the boundaries of another country, pakistan. there are "to suggest he would not have. we will never know, of course. i do not think it crosses any lines, but generally speaking, i think all is fair in love, war and politics. >> you know the president pretty well. is he thinking, on -- they do the sam

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john harris was accused of helping blagojevich sell president obama's senate teat seat. >>> the sky tree opens in tokyo. it stand at 2,000 feet tall and cost almost a billion dollars to construct. >>> time for a check on your roads as well as the weather. finally the sun came out yesterday. >> i know. it was later in the evening. but we will take it when we can get it. >> we will indeed. and the road we want a good ride into work a. >> reporter: we are dealing with fog out there this morning. so you want to reduce your speeds because there's a lot of reduced visibility out there. but the mainline is look clear on the jfx. construction blocking one lane at 28th street. no problems to report traveling through the fort mchenry or harbor tunnel. and beltway will be nice and clear all the way around right now. so, it's just that little bit of rain we are dealing with. >> hopefully it will clear up. >> rain affects the road. more of the same just like yesterday. we could get a few peeks of sunshine going into the afternoon. but all that does is help fuel thunderstorms to pop up during afternoo

john harris moderates the panel and includes patricia murphy of the daily beast. this event was hosted by the peter peterson foundation. >> we'll plunge right into it. the first thing i would like our panelists to do, i propose that we go down the line, starting with senator portman here is to test the premise of this panel which as i take it is that substantively it might be challenging but not really that difficult to solve the mathematics equation of the deficit that people could sit down with a calculator and a legal pad and get it done. but that the dimension of this is the political one. and obviously this does take place in the context of a euro failure in 2011. there was a hope that as happened occasionally in the past in washington you get mature reasonable people in a room, throw the reporters out, they don't come back until you got it solved as was done in 1997 with president clinton and then speaker gingrich, was done in 1990 with republicans and the first president bush, in 1983 with social security. but if you can replicate that, get reasonable peopl

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john harris was found guilty of taking part in blagojevich's schemes to benefit personally from his official actions as governor. harris' sentence is believed to be the shortest ever for a corruption conviction in chicago. prosecutors say it reflects the help he gave them in convicting his boss. blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years. a century-old scholarship program that's been riddled with abuse is about to come to an end in illinois. the state house voted yesterday to end the program that allowed lawmakers to hand out college scholarship to students in their districts. the problem was .. some lawmakers were giving the scholarships to children and relatives of cronies and campaign contributors. supporters of the program say ending it will hurt high school students who might not be able to afford college. the senate previously vote to kill the program ... and now governor quinn is expected to sign the measure. an illinois lawmaker who's under indictment for bribery has given out nearly 185-thousand-dollars in college scholarships for next fall. state representative derrick smith was arreste

of staff of rod blagojevich turning himself and at mchenry county jail to serve 10 days sentence john harrisof taking part in rod blagojevich scheme to benefit personally from the actions as governor. believe to be shortest sentence for corruption conviction in chicago prosecutor said reflecting the help he gave. rod blagojevich sentenced 14 years. coming up the sex scandal involving government agency had a budget prostitute in colombia but this time not the secret service and how much will the widow of a joe paterno serve receive from his pension and not at all but facebook investors were expecting big stock flop major slide since the i if you're one of those folks who gets heartburn and then treats day after day... well, shoot, that's like checking on your burgers after they're burnt! [ male announcer ] treat your frequent heartburn by blocking the acid with prilosec otc. and don't get heartburn in the first place! [ male announcer ] one pill a day. 24 hours. zero heartburn. ♪ ♪ so every year my family throws this great reunion in austin. but this year i can only afford one trip and i've a

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i'm joined by john harris. >> good morning. >> this is the latest in a string of successful endorsementse a nod and backed indiana state treasurer richard mourdock. is the power of palin alive and well? >> you know, she is clearly on a hot streak. one question we always have with endorsements is to what extent is the endorser making a bet of who wins and to what extent it is driving the behavior of voters. it does seem clear that at least some voters do look to sarah palin. she gives sort of a good house keeping seal of approval. >> they love it. i mean, by all rights she should have faded into the background. her performance is basically viewed as a cautionary tale. how has she done it? >> well, coming off 2008 she built herself into a national and international brand that was controversial but certainly among conservative voters. it is clear that she is viewed favorably. it surprised some of us in the media in that sarah palin has not been as high profile for the past year since she made it clear that she wasn't going to seek the republican nomination which she has been able to demonst

after confronted about those, john harris said he was joking. said he was misunderstood.or is making headlines for comments he made. charles worley is the pastor's name. that's him making the sermon. in the sermon, he blasted president obama for supporting same-sex marriage. he didn't stop there. he told his parishioners what he would do to quote, get rid of anyone who isn't heterosexual in this country. >> our president getting up and saying, it's all right for two women to marry or two men to marry. i'll tell you right now, i was disappointed bad. i'll tell you right there. it's as sorry as you can get. the bible's against it. god's against it. if you got any sense, you're against it. i had a way -- i figured a way out -- a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers. but i couldn't get it past the congress. build a great, big, large fence. 150 or 100 miles long. put all the lesbians in there. fly over and drop food. do the same thing with the queers and homosexuals and have the fence electrified so they can't get out. feed 'em and you know what, in a few years they'l

pastor john harris said he was trying to communicate the word of god through marriage where dads should give their boys a punch if they showed effeminate behavior and, quote, crack their limp wrist. take a listen. >> so your little son acts girlish when he's 4 years old. instead of crushing is like a cockroach and saying, man up, son, get outside and dig a ditch because that's what boys do, you get out the camera, and you start taking pictures of johnny acting like a female, and then you upload it to youtube, and everybody laughs about it. and next thing you know, this dude, this kid is acting out childhood fantasies that should have been squashed. can i make it any clearer? dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. man up. give him a good punch. okay? you are not going to act like that. you were made by god to be a male, and you're going to be a male. >> dr. harris' sermon went viral online. he sort of apologized. here's what he had to say then. >> i should not have said what i said about cracking or punching and a particular b

well john boehner and harry reid are the heroes tonight.on, more heroes come in and then we can get a deal. outfront next. president obama called out for being a big spender. do mitt romney's attacks add up? >>> and new video of george zimmerman inside the sanford police station. what the video actually shows when he turns away from the camera. we've got it. >>> and an auction involving an item of ronald reagan's, an item is an interesting word. it sparked so much controversy that his family demand it be called off. we know what it is. c'mon dad! i'm here to unleash my inner cowboy. instead i got heartburn. [ horse neighs ] hold up partner. prilosec isn't for fast relief. try alka-seltzer. it kills heartburn fast. yeehaw! [ son ] mom, computer's broke! where's i.t. mom? she quit. [ male announcer ] even with technology -- it's all you. that's why you've got us. get up to $200 dollars off select computers. staples that was easy. [ male announcer ] aggressive styling. a more fuel-efficient turbocharged engine. and a completely redesigned inte

. >> so harris, john f. kennedy first had to get the presidency. and part of his kpieding to the presidency he had to deal with the issues of civil rights. some of this that has gone on after eisenhower's presidency, how did he do that and how did he view civil rights at that point as a candidate before he actually got into the chair as president? one day shortly after i was hired by kennedy, i'd been campaigning for him on foreign policy grounds. even though he had supported the jury trial amendment in 1957 of the first civil rights act since reconstruction. he was in trouble, but i was ardently for kennedy on foreign policy grounds. he picked me up on a corner in georgetown. knew i had joined the staff by then. and hadn't known anything about civil rights background i had had with doctor king and promoting civil disobedience. talkling about it in the least he said tick off the things that i ought to do as president to clean up the damn civil rights mess. so i had my moment. >> what'd you say? >> among other things i said with one stroke of a pen

moment of bipartisan cooperation in washington capped off by that "time" magazine cover that john boehner and harry reid posed for. dwra, try and sleep tonight. >> orange fanta. >> anyway, here is the best part to. make sure that the supercommittee succeeded in being able to cut, they put a poison pill in the debt ceiling deal. >> there is a provision in this bill, a trigger, if you will, that if this newly formed supercommittee can't come up with 1.5 trillion in cuts, it triggers very, very deep cuts in defense and medicare. >> jon: the ultimate incentive, each side taking deep cuts to something it does not want to cut. essentially joining a joint suicide pact. well, that's got to work. >> so the called supercommittee failed to reach a deal to reduce the country's deficit. >> jon: extraordinary. >> jon: so a deal is a deal, rules are you will roose, and now those mandatory cuts have to take effect, right john boehner? >> i'm not happy about the sequester. >> you think that's going to be undone. >> i think it's going to have be to replasd. you are just can't undo it, it needs to be replaced. >> jon

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harry and john are heading at high speed to america's great fiscal cliff.roblem is that we, the people, are in the backseat. outfront tonight, a man who has made this the cause of his life, david walker, ceo of comeback america initiative. and john avlon. good to have both of you with us. david walker, let me just start with you. you have some really terrifying numbers here. first of all, you have a number for our overall debt obligations which makes the $15.7 trillion formal debt number look like peanuts, and you note our financial hole in this country is growing at the mere rate of $10 million a minute. >> that's correct, erin. if you look at the financial statements, the u.s. government for september 30, 2011, our total liabilities of unfunded promises for social security, medicare, et cetera, were $65.5 trillion. in addition, if you look at the latest trustees report which came out two or three weeks ago, i expect that's going to rise to about $70 trillion by september 30, 2012. and when you do the numbers, the federal financial hole is growing by over

. >> so harris wofford, john f. kennedy first had to get the presidency, and part of his rack seeding to the presidency, he had to deal with some of the issues of civil rights, some of this that was going on, that kenneth mack had just described, that after eisenhower's presidency, how did he do that and how did he view civil rights at that point as a candidate before he actually got into the chair as president? >> one day, shortly after i was hired by kennedy, i had been campaigning for him on foreign policy grounds even though he had supported the jury trial amendment in 1957 of the first civil rights act since reconstruction. he was in trouble, but i was ardently for kennedy on foreign policy grounds. he picked me up on a corner in georgetown. he knew i had joined the staff by then and hadn't known anything about civil rights background i had had with dr. king in promoting civil disobedience, talking about it, at least, since writing a book with my wife on india and gandhi, et cetera. and he said now in ten minut

taylor gourmet, a shop that i'm sure many of you have sampled, met with senate majority leader, harry reid, john boehner and nancy pelosi. the president urged to strengthen the economic recovery including the five items on the president's to do list for congress like the tax cuts for small businesses that the president discussed with local entrepreneurs earlier today. the congress to do list includes items like helping veterans find jobs and assistance to responsible homeowners, the kinds of priorities that republicans and democrats should be able to work on. the president emphasized the need for congress to avoid refighting old political fights and act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling. the president made clear that he refuses to allow a replay on the self inflicted political crisis. the president reminded the leaders that he has sign into law over $2 trillion in deficit reduction bringing domestic spending to the lowest level as a share of the economy since the eisenhower administration. the president reiterated an approach must be a balanced approach and made clear his

--john harris. please welcome our panelists. [applause] >> good morning, we have 40 minutes to tackle a pretty big question. the first thing i like our panelists to do. i propose we go down the line starting with senator portman is to look at the premise of this panel, which is that it might be challenging substantively, but not really that difficult to solve the mathematics equation of the deficit that people could sit down with a calculator and a legal pad and get it done, but the difficult dimension of this is the political one. this does take place in the context of a year of failure in 2011. there was a hope that you get mature, reasonable people in their room, to throw out the reporters and say don't come back until you have it solved, as was done in 1997 with president clinton and than speaker gingrich and was done in 1990 with republicans and the press president bush. it was done in 1983 with social security. if we could replicate that process and get reasonable people in the room away from the clara of the lights, and i