one are winning their cases exactly the way that this is judith judicial activism on steroids john roberts and sam alito both in their hearings said roberts famously said he's not going to be an at. activist he's not going to make the wife going to be like an umpire he's going to call balls and strikes nonsense these guys with citizens united and now this case making it basically impossible for there to be cries of action lawsuits are completely rewriting the lawful land and doing so in a way that only benefits corporations theory rich people and the republican party. president obama gave into the bertha's today and released his long form birth certificate you know the one the donald trump and fox news been trying to convince us doesn't exist here's what the president had to say in the nation's morning. as many of you have been briefed. we provided additional information today about the site of my birth i know that there's going to be a segment of people for which no matter what we put out this issue will not be put to rest but i'm speaking to the vast majority of the american people as we

in atlanta, john roberts, fox news. >> recent heavy rain led to an above average snow survey for california. the department of water resources looked at 96 stations for yesterday's survey. the results showed that the statewide average is 163% of normal for april 1st. as we reported earlier this week, governor brown declared california's three-year drought over. >>> facebook has a new hurdle to jump in the bid to take over the sun microsystem campus. the social networking giant wants to move more than 3600 employees to the site that is located at bay front road. right now they have a cap of 2,000 workers for the 57 acre site. according to the daily news the city officials say facebook must prepare a environmentaliment pact report on their proposal. >>> california recreational salmon fishermen kicked off their first season in four years. at half-moon bay fish and game officials say choppy seas put a damper on opening day. one boat went out and did catch one fish but was driven back by the rough water. in recent years the season was cut short because of low salmon populations. now they say mor

reagan stopped in force in the sherman act in one thousand nine hundred two and george bush put john roberts on the supreme court because of these two guys we've entered another gilded age in america and with this latest move by tennessee to legalize the wholesale purchase of our call of our politicians by corporations but for other states to follow suit just to prove that they can be more favorable to big business the irony he'll of corporate power has descended once again under the throats of the working class unless we wake up and do something about it soon we're all going to be screwed. as the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we've covered check out our website the tom hartman dark on our t.v. entire series available for free podcast on i tunes you also check out our youtube page youtube dot com slash the big picture are two t. are as left over and over yet the modesty begins when you show up when you get active tag your it will see a mother. to be official like a show. called touch from the. video . feeds with the palm of your. question.

john roberts takes a look at whether this is another energy solution. >> reporter: right now we're atabout 6500 feet. >> reporter: on farmland across appalachia, hundreds of drilling rigs are working 24/7 to fan a vast new resource. crack it open the right way b and this prehistoric seabed become and important source of natural gas, probably the second largest reserve in the world. >> everybody thought we were running out of natural gas. today we think we have got somewhere between 100 and 200 years' of natural gas. >> reporter: it sounds like a great idea, decades of cheap gases to heat homes and even power fleets of vehicles. but the process to extract the gas, hydraulic fracturing has drawn heated protests. water wells have been contaminated with methane and then, there is what happened to don and carol johnson. in may of last year a huge pond built by the resources leaked into their pasture, forcing their entire herd to be quarantined. would you be comfortable eating the meat from these cows? >> no. >> not really. >> reporter: no? >> i wouldn't want to take the chance. >> pennsylv

my cohost today is john seigenthaler, a highly respected journalist who also served as special assistant to attorney general robert f. kennedy during the civil rights movement. after retiring from newspapers, john went on to found the first amendment center. john and i are delighted to welcome a pulitzer prize-winning author and journalist whose recent book, called the children, focuses on the work of courageous young people in the civil rights movement, and whose earlier book, the best and the brightest, was the definitive study of american policy in vietnam. david halberstam. [applause] i have to ask the first and most basic question. you graduate from harvard in 1956. five. '55. with great distinction. no, i was a terrible student. [laughter] i was in the bottom third of my class. that was the heart of my question. how badly did you do at harvard? [laughs] i think i had-- i mean, i think it's true of a lot of people in journalism. i had in those days what we didn't know was attention deficit disorder. i did not focus well on schoolwork, but i was good at something called journalism. i was on the undergraduate n

they are the parents of fredrick and twins robert and john. her education continued with a master's degree in early childhood literature, and programming in 1975 from webster university. patricia has a successful career as a teacher and children's book editor. she changed careers to become a full time writer of children and young adult books. her goal is to create books for and about african-americans. i write because there is a need to have books for, by and about the african-american experience and how we helped to develop this country. i present to you patricia makinsik heart of literacy. >> i am from st. louis, missouri. a lot of you think i have said it in correctly when i said missouri. you think i got it slid into my southern dialect, right? no. i was not born in st. louis. i was born in nashville, tennessee, a little town side of nashville. that is where i grew up, went to high school, met and married my husband. moved back to st. louis where i lived part of my life. i heard people saying missouri and missouri. what is the correct pron

teachers, including john cheever, robert frost, robert penn warren and, currently, pulitzer winning novelistilynne robinson. all passing through a university town that goes out of its way to honor its writers, including special plaques along a downtown avenue. but, what exactly do they teach and learn at the workshop? samantha chang was herself once a student here, so has seen it from both sides. >> i think i go into the classroom with a general sense that every piece has something good or not good in it, because i think that by someone really working on their strength, they can become extraordinary. >> do you get a sense of why she's telling the story? >> reporter: the heart of the iowa experience is the workshop where poems and stories are critiqued by teachers and fellow students. >> after the dialogue started, i was riveted. >> reporter: but, for as long as iowa has existed and no doubt a lot longer than that, the question has been asked, "can writing be taught?" suprisingly, perhaps, the official answer from iowa is: not really. its website makes clear the "conviction that writing canno

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after bolden was because bolden would have exposed operation amworld, and this was a plot by john and robert kennedy to assassinate cassrol in december 1963, and this information has come out because under the presidential document assassination papers release act of a few years ago, they finally started releasing papers on the kennedy assassination, and in those papers were detailed descriptions of operation amworld. >> [inaudible] >> no, this happened after the bay of pigs, but it was a clear plan by kennedys with individuals, in fact, individuals high up in the cuban government, to carry out this assassination, and bolden would have exposed that if he had started talking about the other plots and moved the investigation in that direction. >> [inaudible] >> yeah, bolden wrote a book, has a long, long, long title, and he's been trying to basically get vindication, and, again, with the new papers that have come out, they basically support his story now. he's not going to get the three years that he went to jail for, he was railroaded. when he went to trial, the judge's instructions to the ju

robert weber. anna heath. john williams. joan tetter. antonio morgan. jazzy collins. >> thank you, supervisors. i can only relate to you my personal experiences. as a community activist, i have heard many stories. there are two samaras and i could tell you about. both get city and county funding. they have a plethora of rooms at a bunch of different hotel sites, but they do not have tseo have a clear conscience about checking for bedbugs. some of their units are being responded to by property owners better than others. some property owners are doing all they can. some do not want to spend the money. some have their own past control canister in their office and want to come up and spray their own stuff, like they are the experts. that was my experience at one of the hot team rooms. because of a lack of education, i ended up moving bedbugs into a unit that was run by an agency. this agency is very aggressive and has a good control -- could pest control service, but there are tenants in the building that do not have the capacity to do their laundry every two weeks. this agency is not providing tho

to fulfill that promise, like his brothers john and robert before him, he chose a career in politics.he chose for his political service was a senate of the united states whose place in our democracy and whose role in our history he truly breviary. in his memoir, "true compass," he wrote the following: to say that i love the senate does not begin to convey what that institution needs to me. let me put it this way, after nearly half a century, i still cannot get a car headed for the capitol, especially in the evening and clemson in the distance without the hair in my arms stand in a period i've told vicky if ever that site does not move me, i will know it is time to step aside. that elting symbolizes to meet the benevolent power and the majesty of our government. it is awesome to me. not awesome in the reflective way to young people use the word, but in its real sense, its older sense of the broken reference. being a senator changes a person he said. something fundamental and profound happens to you when you arrive there. and it stays with you all the time when your privilege to serve.

to fulfill that promise, like his brothers john and robert before him, he chose a career in politics. [applause] the institution he chose for his political service was a senate of the united states whose place in our democracy and whose role in our history he truly breviary. in his memoir, "true compass," he wrote the following: to say that i love the senate does not begin to convey what that institution needs to me. let me put it this way, after nearly half a century, i still cannot get a car headed for the capitol, especially in the evening and clemson in the distance without the hair in my arms stand in a period i've told vicky if ever that site does not move me, i will know it is time to step aside. that elting symbolizes to meet the benevolent power and the majesty of our government. it is awesome to me. not awesome in the reflective way to young people use the word, but in its real sense, its older sense of the broken reference. being a senator changes a person he said. something fundamental and profound happens to you when you arrive there. and it stays with you all the time wh

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roberts. we are going to come back. we have youth performances. be back here. we are going to celebrate john osaki. >> thank you so this is the second part. i hope you're ready. we have a performance lined up today from the students from back va ck. they are going to go 3 songs for you. we have performance, nunu, t-mack, sticky and smt. give them a round of applause. >> okay. >> hey. check him out. >> i tray to break away. >> people always see what that want to see, i see you. but they don't know how hard it is to be me. >> to be me. i only got so much to give. caught in this lonely live i live. but it ain't going to get me down. cause it's my business don't make it true of you don't want to bring me round. >> from this space that i portray. >> i can only take it one step day-by-day. people only see what they want to see. >> yeah. i see you. >> they don't know how hard it is to be me. >> i keep on putting the clothes from my kicks. i keep on, i really don't care. that's not going to make me mean. i have some dreams, i need to achieve. >> i don't believe. >> i will be down on my knees. >> i o

and we found this 1962 letter from robert moses to assistant attorney general john doar alleging theame thing-- "they're after him in amite county," it says, and makes reference to "a plot by the sheriff and seven other men." he was afraid of the sheriff's department. >> deitle: i think he was, yes. >> kroft: and i think he was afraid of the klan, although they seemed to be sort of the same thing in liberty at this time. >> deitle: i'm not sure i can say that. >> kroft: julian bond was less circumspect. >> bond: the law enforcement, you suspected they were members. if you wanted to be a mayor, a city councilman, a county commissioner, the sheriff, if you wanted to be on the legislature, you had to have some connection with the klan. >> kroft: and in the amite county sheriff's department, the person with the best connection was deputy sheriff daniel jones. his father was the "exalted cyclops" of the local klan, and jones himself, according to this f.b.i. document we found, was suspected of being a klan member. jones, who is alive and still resides in liberty, was recently visited by f

roberts leading off. check out who is hitting 8, matt ieders. you can hear the game on wbal radio 1090. johnsopkins takes the show to just off-broadway sunday in the big city classic. pete gilbert takes a look at a guy who takes a shot and likes it. >> you have to be a little bit crazy. these guys barely where any pads and the ball comes in at 95 miles an hour. you are going to get hit and is going to hurt. you have to embrace that. >> good luck. he has become comfortable out there. >> regardless, the sophomore goalie puts up the second-best percentage in the nation. the kind that lets the legend grow, but bassett would assume -- would as soon let his actions show. >> his comfort level, not just with the guys but within his own skin, is much different. >> skin tough enough to make an iguana blush as hopkins makes its way back to the top of n.c.a.a. lacrosse. >> i think i am not paid to see an iguana blush. >> i am out of it. >> a look at the seven-day forecast, right after this. >> we are following the help of william donald schaefer, the former mayor and governor who was hospitalized today.

the potters thrashed goals and goals from matthew robert and kenwyne jones within the first half an hour given the chance of a mountain to climb for john walters late second half brace with nice in on the cake the potters will need to match the city in the final on may the fourteenth over emulate. tennis and rush hour through to the clyde cup final after white washing italy five nil in the best of five series here in moscow but victory sets up a final against the czech republic back in the russian capital you know i mean they are going by the host nation needed good morning wins on the remaining three matches and there is one a robot led them to victory to take straights that win. but look that's even changed one of the three had problems taking the class at six four and the second sixteen rushes placed in the final and she said it was one of the most the most things like facebook and career. here definitely in was a very emotional in for me because i knew this would give my great humor third point and we're all going to be fine also it certainly was a tough match and robert is a tough opponent to play trigger pointed and i knew that w

john gage. from new jersey, robert. good morning. caller: good morning, gentlemen. i have a couple of comments and questions. the government is now involved in so many different issues that it does not seem to be the government's responsibility in like housing, food stamps, farming. where does the government get the authority to deal with those kinds of issues, be involved, and spend taxpayer money dealing with that, first of all? number two, when the government- employee union negotiates a contract, they are negotiating against taxpayers which, in essence, are the management. the management should never have to pay the employees more than they earn. i would like you to talk on that. guest: i think the management of the public sector and organizations have done very well in bargaining against the unions. the public sector salaries and federal sector salaries, people are not getting richer being federal employees. the salaries for education, the experience, the responsibility of federal workers is much lower than that of the private sector. some of these activities,

john allen will replace petraeus and ryan crocker will be named u.s. ambassador to afghanistan. robert gates who started the job under george w. bush wanted to retire. he has been on a farewell tour. but this is not going to be without controversy. i spoked to a former top military intelligence officer who says panetta does not have the military experience for the job and has done a questionable job as cia director. he will have to be confirmed by the senate. >>> we are also following developing news from afghanis thunderstorm warning. an afghan military pilot killed eight nato troops and a contractor during a meeting. cnn is reporting at least six of the troops are americans. reportedly the afghan pilot opened fire after an argument. >>> a uc berkeley graduate is wanted back in iran now. the iranian foreign ministry issued a subpoena for sarah shourd. she was arrested along with shane bower and josh fattal during a hike in 2009. both bower and fattal remain in jail. >>> funding for some after school programs in san francisco will be reduced because of declining attendance rates. the e

. >>> it is time for the help desk, john ults himer consumer education at smart credit.com. robertt cards but i find it hard to save money. where do i start. what's your word for him? >> he's in a great position to start saving baugsz he doesn't have debt. i recommend starting with an emergency savings funds. that's where you want to save and put away six months of savings to cover any expenses that you have, things you're not sure you might -- if you lose your job or have an unexpected repair come up, great if he has a 401(k) in his job. any contributions would be matched. it can be really difficult to save. my advice there is make it automatic, like the 401(k) is, try to take the savings out of injure paycheck before you hit it then you'll be much more successful. >> ought mated savings is a great advice. brent in missouri, he says my current job pays in cash. how much can i deposit before those taxes start coming out? o john? >> he can deposit as much as he wants before taxes come out but that is not a good idea because the irs will penalize you. he needs to go to irs.gov and do

the potters thrashed bolton goals from matthew robert hayes and kenwyne jones within the first half an hour and given the chance of a mountain to climb for john walters late second half brace with nice in on the cake the potus will meet match the city in the final the may the fourteenth when great. tennis and russia are through to the third cup final after white washing italy five nil in the best of five series here in moscow the victory sets up a final against the czech republic back in the russian capital going back to host nation needed just long wins on the remaining three matches and here is gonna lead them to victory with a straight sets win. of the robots i mean change the world number three hundred few problems taking the first set six ball and the second six to russia's place in the finals and she said kate was one of the most emotional wreck trace of her career. definitely in a very emotional in for me because i knew that this would give my third point and will go into the finals would have only was a tough match in. tough opponent to play trigger point and i knew when i was going into the merge i think i did well because i could we

robert gate saying the creditors will limit the role but will provide help. sen. johnne of the strongest proponents in congress of the u.s. military intervention in libya, is heading to the rebel stronghold of benghazi for a meeting with forces fighting to overthrow moammar gadhafi. mccain was scheduled to arrive in benghazi on friday. the visit by mccain was shrouded in secrecy due to heightened security for the top republican on the senate armed services committee in a country fiercely divided by the 2-month- old anti-gadhafi rebellion. >> darya: japan's parliament is passing the bulletin. they work all locate a quarter of the budget to fix roads and ports of damage. the cost of the tsunami disaster could be $309 billion the world's most expensive natural disaster travises global car car production won't return to normal until november or december. it is running its spot of the top selling motor maker. it has caused a loss of 260,000 cars. earlier this way it resumed production in japan for the first time since the quake. >> mark: we will be right back as the morning