and party to the defense, john robinson. >> excuse me. >> what kind of man are you?ldren of your own. >> atticus finch. >> this ring that belonged to your mother. you want to tell us what really happened? >> i got nothing to say. do nothing about it. you coward! >> gentlemen, i shall be brief but i would like to use the remaining time i have with you to remind you that this case is not a difficult one. it requires no minute sifting of complicated facts, but it does require you to be sure beyond a reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the defendant. to begin with, this case should never have come to trial. this case is as simple as black and white. the state has produced not one iota of medical evidence to the effect that the crime tom robinson is charged with ever took place. it has relied instead on the testimony of two witnesses whose evidence is not only been called into serious question on cross-examination but has been flatly contradicted by the defendant. the defendant is not guilty. but somebody in this courtroom is. i have nothing but pity in my heart for the c

and party to the defense, john robinson. >> excuse me. >> what kind of man are you? you got children of your own. >> atticus finch. >> this ring that belonged to your mother. you want to tell us what really happened? >> i got nothing to say. do nothing about it. you coward!

and party to the defense, john robinson. >> excuse me.

these seeds were planted in their heart by their pastor john robinson.elf, was standing on the shoulders of great mean down through the ages that have passed it on. when you get to the end of this journey that i took in plymouth, massachusetts after visiting holland and washington, d.c., you arrive on to of a hill overlooking plymouth rock and the atlantic ocean, and you see a monument that is the largest granite statue in america, 180 tons of granite and her name is faith. she expresses herself by transforming people internally at the heart level producing morality and liberty rather than what the pilgrims came from and what i think our society would head without faith and that's a pop town moralizing, imposing religion and law on people from an all powerful state. that's what our pilgrims ancestors were getting away from and sacrifice to free themselves from. >> you sound as though you're saying this not from a political position. you don't see to be the view of democrat or a republican. you're really pointing at the essence of personal faith, is that

she's just the third woman to ever run in the daytona 500 and the first since john robinson did it exactly 20 years ago. >>> here's a rundown of some of the stories that we're working on. a close call on a florida interstate for one state trooper, and it's all caught on tape. we'll show you what happened. >>> plus, one of robert f. kennedy's sons is facing charges for a hospital confrontation involving his newborn, and spra tuesday right around the corner, we're looking at how social media will impact the race. and finders keepers, not so fast says a u.s. court. a florida salvage company ordered to hand over an estimated half a billion dollars in treasure to another country. we'll explain. and now i can sg more clearly. ♪ i can organize the analysis. sort through all the data. maybe even rattle some cages. i predict that i'm going to like the future. because the future is where i'll be serving up humble pie. with a little side of crow. [ male announcer ] at&t introduces the samsung galaxy note. a smartphone and tablet in one. ♪ sure. what flavor? mm, one of each. lemon burst, hm, cherry or

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you know, it's funny, these johns go out and think wow, what a great deal on robinson. buy just about any sex act for $20. i'm here to tell you, $20 can also cost you your job. it can get you a disease. it can cost you your marriage. it can cost you your reputation in the community. and if i post the video online, it's a life sentence. so i guess it's quite a deal for 20 bucks. so this is your ride. i was just stalling till the cops got here. >> i'm going to jail? >> we called lowe's, and they tell us that the incident concerns them. they have this to say -- "the behavior we observed on the video is clearly a violation of lowe's policy, and we have taken corrective measures to address this matter." as for the john, police arrest him, tow away the truck, just another day in the life of a video vigilante. >> if i was just some psychologist out there talking about how bad prostitution is, nobody would pay attention. but if i've got these over-the-top videos, people caught in the act, literally with their pants down, it becomes the water cooler talk the next day and people

thank you eugene robinson and john feehery. all they'll talk about next fall is the unemployment rate. >>> coming up, that fight between the obama administration and the catholic church over with control. well, we'll see where that goes. it's certainly changed directions. liberal catholics are now on board with the president. both sides, republicans and democrats, think it's a winner. it's a battle between the left and the right. the center seems to be going with the president. you're watching "hardball" on msnbc. laces? really? slip-on's the way to go. more people do that, security would be like -- there's no charge for the bag. thanks. i know a quiet little place where we can get some work done. there's a three-prong plug. i have club passes. [ male announcer ] now there's a mileage card that offers special perks on united, like a free checked bag, united club passes, and priority boarding. thanks. ♪ okay. what's your secret? ♪ [ male announcer ] the new united mileageplus explorer card. get it and you're in. >>> in the repub

james brown, aretha franklin, gladys knight, stevie wonder, smokey robinson, elton john, david bowie,sic, for black entertainment, but really across the country and people of all races who loved that show. >> loved that show. >> it was a cultural launching pad. you can't tell me you haven't been to at least one party or one wedding where they've busted out a "soul train" line. don, you did a lot of good for a lot of people. rest in peace, my friend. whatever led you to what you did, that's between you and wherever you are right now. what you did here on earth, we thank you. >> mm-hmm. >>> well, gwyneth paltrow, she's got legs. that's for sure. in the recent edition of "harper's bazaar" she's showing off her little -- her gams. and she also reveals a little bit about her marriage to coldplay front man chris martin. of course lots of rumors, years past, that they've been on the rocks. but she says he's very communicative. she doesn't -- they don't plan on getting divorced anytime soon. she's like, i do think you fall in and out of love and you just keep going and every time you go throu

john fooerer for the defense. and eugene robinson, who is an analyst. yesterday rick santorum explained why kennedy's speech makes him want to throw up. let's watch what he actually said. >> i don't believe in an america of a separation of church and state. the idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country. to see that people of faith have no role in the public square? you bet that makes you throw up. >> wow. in september of 1960, many of us remember john kennedy travelled to houston to speak to the greater houston association. he argued that the catholic church would not dictate his presidency. let's watch a bit of that historic speech. >> it is apparently necessary for me to state once again. not what kind of church i believe in, for that should be important only to me, but what kind of america i believe in. i believe in an america where the separation of church and state is absolute. where no catholic could tell the president to be cath

robinson. our top stories in just a moment. first john is here with a look outside. >> we've made the adjustment. we've gotten temperatures back to sane for this time of year. >> i like the insane. >> unusual weather. we are back. we have adjusted the temperatures. now do we get a storm to come into this colder situation. yes, there has been one out there. now, we're not going to get the bad part of the storm, which was blizzard conditions in nebraska and colorado yesterday. a couple feet of snow. no, this thing will be weakened by the time it gets here. you can see just to our west out in the lower great lakes there is a little rain-snow mix. and in the lie high river valley, there is rain coming in. stronger storms moving in. western kentucky right now. this will be moving east during the day. the thin clouds this morning get thinner today. maybe rain comes in. details on the forecast coming up. >> a clash between two leaders in women's health have apparently been smoothed over. >> the susan g. komen foundation will not cut funding to p

eugene robinson is a political analyst and john fury. it looks like the president laid it out today. a political document and a budget. he's making clear he wants to create jobs. down the road, he'll get the debt are yreduction. he wants to lower taxes on payroll taxes. down the road, deficit reduction. >> also to put down a marker saying this is what i believe. this is what i think we should do, which is by the way, what most economists say. stimulate the economy now and do the deficit reduction a couple years out. but clearly he's done with trying to engineer a budget and spending proposal in order to take into account republican priorities. because he's tried it before and he never gets anywhere. >> it seems to me, john, that starting around august when the republican candidates rejected even in concept a ten for one deal, $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue increase, he realized he wasn't going to make a deal with your side. he said why don't i do what i do best? let's create jobs. he started with the american jobs bill. laugh at

robinson drives the lane. passes to klay thompson. this game would go into overtime. that's when it was all sacramento. three pointer by john salmon.nto out scored golden state 12-4 in the second period. kings win, 114-106. how about the nets and knicks. jeremy lynn. he scored a career high. he also added seven assists. it was crazy at madison square garden. knicks win, 99-92. sharks and coyotes. after a scoreless first period, five goals scored in the second. under a minute left in the second period, it was time for martin. throws the puck on the net. goes off. burns gets it. third period now. boyd gordon throws the puck on that. this one would be deflected. sharks are now 1-2 against phoenix. 5-3 is your final. jim harbaugh took an average team and turned it into the a super bowl contender in his first year as the niners head coach. he's been name coach of the year by the "associated press". their first playoff victory since 2002. he's the first coach to win the award in his rookie season since 2008. over to the hall of the fame. no good news for local bay area fans. tim brown and charles haley are not entering the nfl hall of fa

howard fineman, and you gene robinson and john harwood. this is rick santorum speaking in grand rapids earlier this evening. >> wow. [ applause ] >> a month ago they didn't know who we were, but they do now. what an absolutely great night. i am so thankful, so thankful to so many people here tonight. first and foremost, i just have to say to the people of michigan, you know, we came into the backyard of one of my opponents in a race that everyone said, well, just ignore, because you have no chance here. and the people of michigan looked into the hearts of the candidates and all i have to say is i love you back. thank you. i also -- thank you. i also -- [ laughter ] as i said -- >> we love you baby. >> and not exactly through the mediums that i want you to get to know me, but we have an opportunity tonight to tell you more about who rick santorum is. i want to thank the folks up here on this stage behind me. my wife, karen, and my family represented here by elizabeth and john and at home the rest of the family. daniel and sarah maria and pe

robinson. >> and i'm jennifer franciotti. we'll get to our top stories in just a minute. first a look outside with john collins. it is chilly. >> it is chilly, but a nice morning. no rain or anything like that. yesterday was a nice day. things will be changing. if anybody has seen the news recently, they heard about this big storm that has been out in the central part of the u.s. parts of the eastern colorado, foothills. that storm is coming our way. it won't come with that kind of intensity. a wide-ranging radar. first we get clouds, and then the storm comes in because we're not quite as cold. maybe a little snow mixed in. right now the snow is producing most of its snow out in nebraska and parts of western iowa. a little bit of snow-rain mix in northern indiana and northeast-northwest ohio at this stage. that's temperature-related. farther south along our latitude out in parts of the ohio river valley it is rain. some thunderstorms moving through in parts of arkansas overnight as well. we'll talk about how this storm will affect our weather this weekend coming up. >> our big story this morning. the clash betw

robinson. >> and i'm jennifer franciotti. we'll get to our top stories in just a minute, but first we're going to check outside with john collins. >> nothing extreme temperature-wise. a lot of readings have gotten above the freezing point. we have picked up some clouds, and those clouds are coming off a storm. if you've been watching the news, there is a lot of snow in the plains states. in fact, it is still snowing in nebraska. some of the snow is over two feet. near the denver area in the foothills, in the rockies. part of that storm coming our way is evident on our radar this morning. not locally. local radar showing a couple sprinkles toward frederick county or beyond. on the other side of the mountains, west of the mountains, sthr a rain-snow mix, and just plain rain in kentucky and tennessee beginning to move into southern west virginia now. so the wet part of this storm is coming our way. so we'll talk about a chance for rain, and maybe some snow in the insta-weather plus forecast coming up. >> our big story this morning is the clash between two leaders and women's health. it has apparently been smoothed over. >> the sus

robinson. >> and i'm jennifer franciotti. rob daniels will bring us a live report in just a few minutes. but first -- >> let's check in now with john collins for the latest. >> there is a big storm developing down in the dex gulf coast region -- in the texas gulf coast region. rain and a little snow in kansas. the storm will be along the north carolina coast just south of cape hatteras by tomorrow evening. that's when temperature have its greatest impact on our weather. the key to this storm is we will be on the very north edge of all the precipitation. so that puts some question as to exactly how much 0 snow can fall in our area. it looks like we may get robbed of anything significant. that will make some people happy and other people not so happy. i will talk about how much snow we get or do not get coming up. >> and when the skies will clear is at our web site. go to wbaltv.com and click on "weather." ♪ >> our big story this morning is the elevation of baltimore's cardinal edwin o'brien. baltimore news brought it to you as edwin o'brien became cardinal o'brien. >> 11 news is the only news station in town for the ordination. quit

gene robinson that seems to be a damage assessment by a loyal republican right there. >> well, you know, johning about intraparty peace and lovgs i mean, he hasn't always been about that. he has been a maverick at times always been about that. he has been a maverick at times. o he has a point, this has gotten personal and the underlying fact that is going to continue giving the party problems, i think, is the majority of the party isn't yet sold on mitt romney, still isn't sold on mitt romney and until the party accepts him as a nominee or rejects him in favor of somebody else there is going to be this uncertainty this continuing rancor and the party's prospects are going to look somewhat dimmer. >> howard, i want you to come in here after you hear romney not willing to go as low as the other candidates, wouldn't play to their erogenous zones. here is rush talking about that today. romney said he wasn't willing to light his hair on fire for the base. here's rush on that. >> so romney's not willing to say incendiary things, quote, about owe bam in to excite the base. well, what does he say? ni

john: danica patrick only the third woman to start the daytona 500. janet guthrie had two top 15 finishes. ran the great race. as did shawna robinson. pitstop. steve? same for dale earnhardt, jr. dale earnhardt, jr. saying his car is handling very well. described it as neutral. regan smith in as well. >> mike: a lot of gas and go stops here. tony stewart. matt kenseth coming into the first pit sal. >> darrell: oops. want go over the line right there. got to bo goldman sachs. see the inspector telling him -- got to go back. >> looks like a little overheating there on kenseth's car. ♪ ♪ [ buzz aldrin ] we landed on the surface of the moon. ♪ [ al michaels ] do you believe in miracles? yes! ♪ ♪ ♪ all your favorites all in one place. a medium one-topping pizza... freshly baked breadsticks... and cinnamon sticks. plus marinara and sweet icing for dipping. best of all, the 10 dollar dinner box is only 10 bucks. and only at your pizza hut. email, talk... directions, applications... my phone's dead, uh, my business is dead. my phone battery starts blinking... -beep, beep, beep... -no, no, don't run out... boom phone dies. really? really?? [ man ] so this p

travel here near robinson terminal leaving springfield up towards 66. 66 running incident-free as are 95 and 395. your hov restricts lifted everywhere except for route other, the johnn highway. no delays to speak of there. metro on the saturday schedule but the red and orange line, we do have some works. >>> drivers continue to feel the pain at the pump. gas prices are going up almost on a daily basis. >> much of this is due to some of the turmoil overseas. fox 5's melanie alnwick is live at a gas station in bethesda with more on the winter price spike. >> reporter: good morning. there is actually no holiday to driver whose are out here on the roads today. let's take a look at what the national gas prices are right now. the national average is about $3.55 a gallon. a gallon. you know, the u.s. just wrapped up the most expensive january ever when it comes to retail gasoline prices and it certainly look like february is headed that way too. there are several factor at play. we have some refineries offline. and this is the time when refine fineries should be switching over to the more expensive summer blends. they have to be formulated to meet some of those environmen

robinson. >> and i'm jennifer franciotti. our top stories in just a minute. first, we did bust john earlier about the fact that it never did

john heilemann. and joining the table, nbc news chief political director chuck todd. and "washington post" editor eugene robinsonb. >> i hear he went to college. >> are you educated? my goodness, apparently that's a bad thing. >> i bet he encouraged his kids to go to school, too. >> i don't get it, he blames the recession on gas prices. he thinks the president is a snob for wanting kids to go to college. so we need to go down the list of why rick santorum is spinning out. >> jfk makes him throw up? where did he come from? >> jfk, him saying that makes him want to throw up. can you imagine a democrat -- the right wing blogosphere, can you imagine if a democrat, chuck todd, said ronald reagan makes me want to throw up? there would be such a hue and cry. this is just, this is just not how you appeal to voters that help you win presidential elections in the fall. >> especially because the reagan democrats, the kennedy catholics? this is the same voting group. it's the same group of older, of older, sometimes democratic voting catholics. >> i think this is what drives him. you see the, he gets animated this is, this

john heilemann. gillian tett, along with michael steele and joining us from d.c., pulitzer prize-winning columnist and associate editor of the "washington post" and msnbc political analyst, eugene robinson the bat -- ♪ a story of a lovely lady ♪ >> fox news has the five, fox, we see your five and raise you eight. eight people on television right now. >> let's start talking at once. >> thanksgiving at the barnicle house. >> this is an awful lot of punditry this morning. good to see all you guys. gene, he want to start with you to set off our conversation. we were just listening to rick santorum. you're conveniently writing about senator santorum this morning. saying santorum could take republicans down with him. gene rights in gop circles there is more than a whiff of panic in the air, unemployment still painfully high. americans remain dissatisfied with the country's direction. even the most favorable polls show president obama's approval at barely 50%. and yet -- there is a sense that the republicans' odds of winning back the white house grow longer day by day. the issue for republicans is not just that santorum would lose in november, it's that he could be a drag on house and senate c