in 1977, the unionist politician john taylor tell me the ira was on the run. five years earlier, he had been machine gun by the official ira. how do protestants regard the visits of the queen? >> of course they were delighted that she has come because for several years, they have been complaining that there appeared to be little interest by the royal family on the bigger problems we are having in our land. we are thrilled. and it comes at a time when changes are taking place in our land when it does appear that the ira are in retreat. >> the predictions proved premature. two years later, the ira blew up the boat of the queen's cousin. the bomb also killed two family relatives and a member of the crew. the ira followed up the attack by killing 18 soldiers on the same day in a double bombing, and it was to be almost another 20 bloody years before the ira ended its campaign and finally signed up to the good friday agreement. i reminded john taylor of what he told me 35 years ago. >> why did you say that -- why was that the feeling at the time? >> morel was under

i really liked an article john taylor wrote, the rules to the road for the american recovery.quite a tradition being involved in so many administrations. maybe you could give us a quick summary how you were so enamored talking about austrian economics, 1944 works, road to serfdome. give us an idea how to get the country back on its feet. >> more predictable. a lot of uncertainty about fiscal policy, cliff. we don't know what's going to happen on the rules side. policies that are predictable, businesses can make plans on. i think there's a lot to be learned from that work. >> now, if we take some of the negatives that face the economy, what is more important? if there are issues that need mending like tax policy, let's take that, for instance, even if the progress is slow, even if you avoid the band-aids, isn't it your opinion based on high austrian economics, predictable is more important than taking shortcuts to fix the ails of something like taxes. >> it is more important. the shortcuts by definition aren't predictable. you want anything you put in place, by the way tax refo

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. >> i'm not sure if john taylor is in this group. if he was, i would guess he would be in the 4%. >> here's what i think he's getting at. what was the plumultiplier -- i think it was the bernstein, i don't remember who came up with the multiplier to generate those stimulus projections? was it 2 point something? >> i don't know what they did. what we did -- >> i know. but what he's getting at is, how did they get it so wrong off their projections. and my question is, what was the multiplier that they used? and was that multiplier not outside of the realm of what most economists thought it would have been? >> i just don't know what they used. i know what we did. we went through the literature, we looked at a set of multipliers from the evidence the economists generated. we reported what the multipliers are. >> yours is one point something? >> for every sort of provision, the multiplier is different. i think for the recovery act as a whole, and part of the recovery act was tax cuts. >> temporary. >> i think in the end we thought the mul

newcomers alison silverberg and john taylor chapman were the other winners. >>> gabrielle giffords' formerwill be replacing her. barber defeated jessie kelly who defeated giffords. but he will have to run for re-election later this year. >>> we're following a developing story out of iraq. multiple coordinated car bombs attacks across the country killed at least 63 people and injured dozens more. there are reports that at least ten bombings, including multiple apacks in baghdad. the bombings occurred on one of the holiest days on the calendar. so far no group has claimed responsibility for these bombings. >>> and president obama will talk about the ongoing middle east peace process with israel's president. he will meet at the white house. he will present him with a medal. vice president biden and hillary clinton will also be attending. >>> and mitt romney is also in d.c. today. he's going to be speaking to the business roundtable at his quarterly meeting being held at the museum and happens in about half an hour from now. the nominee will address 100 ceos. president obama spoke to this meet

newcomers allison silverburg and john taylor chapman were the other winners. >>> in just a few hoursll vote on an interim chairman. this comes after last week's nomination of kwame brown. melissa is live with more on today's vote. melissa, good morning. >> that's right, good morning. seems the council will have to decide between vincent orange for the top spot on the council. under council rules only the four at-large members who are elected by the entire city and not just one board will take over as interim chair. and now, just yesterday mary cha, the acting council chair right now, actually circulated a resolution that would make mendelson chair. 11 votes from colleagues to take the top spot. orange plans to present amendments. now, middleson plans to run in a special election this fall to serve the remainder of brown's term. that person will not only run the d.c. council until the city holds the election for brown's seat, also next in line if something should happen to the current mayor. now, he will run today's meeting starts here at the wilson building at 10:00 a.m. back to you.

taylor swift, john mayer. encounter in hollywood. >> we'll get to all that. >>> we begin with that live exclusive. adam kaufman was facing a life sentence after prosecutors accused i'm-murdering his wife. today, he's a free man, found not guilty by a florida jury. he's here to speak to us live. first, matt gutman reviews his dramatic case. >> not guilty. >> reporter: those are the words adam kaufman ached to here for nine years. not guilty of strangling his wife in their family bathroom in 2007. >> can't be happier to be able to go home to my two children. >> reporter: he had been stone-faced and silent throughout the trial. not taking the stand. barely flinching until this. >> i know what happened. she's on the floor dying. she's not breathing. >> reporter: those desperate 911 calls, as he tried to revive his wife lying naked on the floor. it took 18 months for the medical examiner to rule her death homicide, second-degree murder charges followed. say suggesting kaufman strangled her. and the defense suggeste

we're turning to another squawk market master for insight, stanford professor john taylor is a treasurycretary. when you watched the testimony of chairman bernanke, do you feel like you're in the real world or are there times where it just has become to the point where you're saying i can't believe what i'm hearing at some point? >> sometimes i'm more like the latter because we've gotten into a situation where policy which is so unprecedented, the gigantic balance sheet, the zero rates for so long and operation twist. last fiscal year they purchased 77% of the new debt issued by the federal government. so it's very unusual in that sense. i'm hoping there's some kind of renormalization before too long. >> the reason i said that is we can kind of be lulled into a sense of, yeah, this all makes sense. you talk about enough fed heads in yellen and whom ever all sort of saying the same thing and it like, yeah, with the dual mandate and 8% unemployment and with the idea that some of these other things, qe1 and qe2, maybe it did help temporarily and we aren't seeing any inflation so we haven't

read john taylor's op-ed today.lity are rules, the rule of law or in general, things like, well, dodd frank, that's a rule. but dodd frank, health care, those programs came about at a time when we had crisis. now, when we had crisis, and anything could get done because people are nervous. the people that are being governed are nervous. they'll do anything. they worked on thing that is were indirectly, at best, tied to jobs. and once more, why do you think that none of the blanks were filled in on dot frank or health care? because while that window is open where the government can get away with anything, they wanted to put as much in there as possible because they are not going to get a chance again. it was all quite intentional. but in the end, if you want to create jobs, the reason congress is enactive, the labor secretary, action by congress, they took action. and what did they do? they mall managed, they took money, trillions of dollars. and the results are questionable, do they get a second chance? if you want m

john taylor would do exactly the same thing.mmittee were to extend the guidance, he would go along with it as well. >> diane, quickly, your thoughts on that. very good point. >> i agree with them. john would have to square what he said with what they are communicating and how long would that be in place. do i agree that the institution of the fed, and this is a really important point for financial markets, institution of the fed is important for any fed chairman who enters. that said we can see it change a lot over time depending who the fed chairman is. >> going to leave it there, guys. thanks so much for your time, diane and steven. >>> coming up next, board of trade weighs in on regulation and more, coming down to the closing in europe. we have only nine minutes to go so we'll be right back. [ creaking ] [ male announcer ] trophies and awards lift you up. but they can also hold you back. unless you ask, what's next? [ zapping ] [ clang ] this is the next level of performance. the next level of innovation. the next rx. the all

john mayer. he said the taylor shift song "dear john j has humiliated him. ♪ you'll add your name to a long listho don't understand ♪ ♪ and i'll look back and regretd how i ignored when they said run as you can ♪ ♪ dear john >> so bill, what do you think? does he have a right to be angry there? >> it's amazing how sensitive a jerk can be. i don't think he should be angry. he got off easy. she's known for writing a song for everyone that she breaks up with. i would date her just to hear what kind of a song she would write about me. ♪ you thought you were such a pill ♪ ♪ but i didn't think it was funny ♪ >> i think you should stick to comedy. maybe not your singing career. >> it's not my forte, you're right. >> please don't give taylor any more material. >> big santiago, always fun to see you. >> it's a pleasure, we'll do it again next time. hopefully not on skype. >>> a dog puts his nose where it probably should not have been, we'll tell you about a facing book posting that led to this guy's rescue. on the status of our relationship. who do you think i am, tim? quicken loans? at quicken loans, we

simon lebron, john taylor, nick rhodes, roger taylor, in the house.s in 15 countries. >> simultaneously. you have to take the screen shot now. >> terrific. 30 years after we fell in love with "rio." you recaptured that magic. is that something you were wanting to do? >> i think working with mark martin had a lot to do with it. he had a vision for the band. for this album. he wanted to go back to the "rio" vibe. and we were, for a little bit of rhettspection. >> how did it feel to get in that groove again? >> i think when you're writing music, if you can achieve something, you come up with a song and say, right. today, we've got it. and you -- >> does the album, new dvd, also coming out in july. also, we heard, just a little concert tour. how does that feel 30 years later, to be back together touring the world? you start in august? >> it's been great, actually. simon had a little problem with his voice last year. but we came back stronger than ever. and made this dvd of the concert. it's called "a diamond in the mind." and it comes out on july -- in au

>> john mayer is not happy with taylor swift over her song "dear john" he told "rolling stone" he didn't deserve it and it was humiliated by it and quote a lousy thing for her to do. >> charlie sheen admitted to rolling stone during his "winning" phase when he walked away from ""two and a half men"" he quick sanded and was in denial. he makes no apologies for still drinking, saying he favors straight vodka "because i've always said that ice is for injuries" only charlie sheen. >>> from wfla, newschannel 8 in tampa, florida in lakeland high school, graduation is a big deal for one family. that is because seven adopted siblings are all getting their diplomas this week. they were born in places like china, ethiopia, viet nam, never thought graduating would be possible in their homeland, they are part of a family of 18 kids including 14 adoptees and their parents plan to welcome two new additions from china later this year. wow. i'm lynn berry this is "early today" just your first stop of the day, today on your nbc station. >>> coyotes aren't a favorite animal of humans unless they are prope

. >>> singer/songwriter john mare says taylor swift humiliated him with her song "dear john."ft released the song as part of her defendant-selling 2010 album using, don't you think 19 is too young to be played by your dark, twisted games. many speculated it refers to a romance between swift and mare who recently told rolling stone magazine the song completely caught him off garden and he said he didn't deserve it calling it cheap songwriting. he wowed the judging and audience on monday night's "america's got talent" now his audition is scumming under scrutiny. news report say country singer sargent timoney michael poe wasn't telling the truth about his military service. he claimed to have suffered a brain injury during a near deadly blast in afghanistan but the minnesota national guard said there no record of that injury. nbc has not commented. >>> there is more to come on news 4 at 4:00. athlete role models. how some olympians and other famous athletes are inspiring a younger generation. >>> and a one-time favorite of local tourists arriv [ mosquitoes buzzing ] ♪ [ female ann

. >> and john taylor used to work for you. he's a lead editorial in the wall street journal.talks about the federal reserve, qe 1, qe2, twist and now, i'll ask you, qe3 may be more likely, dodd-frank, are all of those things hurting the long term? >> i don't want to go through the list as such but the fact is clearly clear at this stage that whatever it is, and there's lots of reasons -- >> government activism? >> there's more to it than that. but the problem basically is what we have got a system at this particular stage which is best measured, as far as i can see, by -- if you want to learn what the degree of uncertainty is and the level is what i've been using for quite a long period of time is to watch what corporate executives do, what proportion of their cash flow they choose to invest in long-term assets. that number in early part of 2010 was at the lowest ratio since 1935. there were equivalent things in the non-corporate area, there's a significant type of contraction, very much for the same in the same reasons in residential building. in short there is a fear of the

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. >>> john mayer is not happy with former girlfriend taylor swift over the song "dear john."ated by it and it was a really lousy thing of her to do. i didn't even know they dated her. >> she's teflon. she can do whatever she wants. >>> charlie sheen, just when you thought you couldn't get enough. he admits to "rolling stone" during his winning period when he walked away from "two and a half men" he quicksanded and was obviously in denial. he said he favors straight vodka because i've always said that ice is for injuries. and you can take that to the bank. >> i thought it was because no one can smell the vodka. >> maybe that, too. >>> i'm lynn berry. stay tuned. "way too early with willie geist" starts right now. >>> the failed recall of wisconsin governor scott walker has emboldened republicans across the country with jeb bush saying the, quote, spanking shows conservativism is stronger today than liberalism. the question is was the recall fight just a wisconsin event or will it really have an impact nationally? >>> defense secretary leon panetta in afghanistan this morning s

john travolta. >> blake, aaron johnson and taylor are great looking young people and the older people are not so bad. >> savages opens nationwide july 6th. >>> charlie sheen returns to television tonight with his new comedy series anger management. sheen prison a therapist who realizes he had issues controlling his own temper. >> we can't find any contact. >> two more big names are joining the hit cbs drama the good wife. nathan lane has signed on for a recurring role. >>> and justin bieber's latest album, believe. had the biggest debut this year. that is your eye on answer r -- on entertainment. manuel gallegos, cbs news. >>> good morning happy thursday, i'm andrea roane. >>> and i'm jessica doyle. mike haiduk is out gog

taylor swift. we found a few reason to make some "long stories short." you just heard the song "why you got to be so mean" which is what john. he tell "rolling stone" he was hue minuted by the song "dear john." he called it a cheap song writing when swift talks about playing dark, twisted games. he said it makes him feel terrible, he does not deserve. that could be ironic because some say john kisses and tells. >> i guess if you're going to dish it out, as he allegedly did, have you to take it. the daily news says a young giant football fan broke his piggy bank to help his favorite player. he couldn't understand why brandon jacobs left the giant to sign with san francisco. joe's mom told him it was because of money. so, he sent yea cob $3.36, trying to get him to stay. jacob said he almost cried and he's going to visit joe and repay him. >>> the l.a. times says twitter is flipping it's bird logo. the redesigned bird, by the way's name is larry, is centered and upward. see, even larry wants to be slimmer. don't we all? >>> next one is for you, charlie rose. "usa today" tells us about a dog who waited two whole days at a truc

. >> john kennedy directed maxwell taylor not to testify about what happened at the bay of pigs. >> aboutand his cabinet. is this president -- >> no, no. vin, you understand that executive privilege -- >> and the cabinet. >> executive privilege is not just about the president. it's about the separatiadminist >> the whole administration, i understand. >> it's about issues in which they are not involved at all. you guys have to get it right. >> this is his watergate. >> you keep dreaming, buddy. >> watergate with a body count. >> yeah, i know. that's another outrageous and irresponsible statement. it's a lot like the disrespect that's been shown to holder all through this. >> bob, holder has already admitted giving inaccurate information to the congress more than once on the topic. >> he volunteered it when he discovered the information was inaccurate. >> cbs outed him on that. >> we'll come back and do this tomorrow night. thanks, bob and vin. we didn't settle it. we'll get to the veepstakes tomorrow. just to let you know, larry had surgery. it was successful and he's resting well. we hope

stars selma hayek, blake lively, taylor kitsch and john travolta.here's touches of all sorts of other movies. a lot of sex. >> that scene you just showed is a crucial moment because the two women, very strong in the movie, blake and selma, having a bit of a -- in the movie, blake is living with two men. >> yes. >> who she says as a young california beach girl, southern california, she says, i love both men. that's what selma's calling into question. this is an answer that you find in the end of the movie. where you know we deal with the issue of can people -- can three people live together equally. >> what do you think? >> i'm not going to give away the ending because that's a spoiler. >> what do you think? >> i think it's hard. >> impossible? >> have you tried it lately, piers? >> i've never been tempted by blake lively. >> the book is very graphic on that issue. >> it is graphic. what is your -- i mean, you found what seems to be true love. haven't you? >> how do you know? >> just from what you said about it. you talk in such a loving way about yo

taylor swift wrote a song called dear john. in it she bashed her ex-boyfriend john mayer.humiliated when the song came out. mayer describes the tune as cheap song writing. while we hate to take sides between two of music greats. "america live" has to be on the signed of the brilliant john mayer because of this. >> i'm john mayer and i'm the world's biggest megyn kelly fan. with her incredible legal knowledge i have no objection to -- a play on words -- to her. i could make puns about side bars and benches and gastles, but i won't. just megyn kelly. you know what's sexy about that? the why. megyn. that's -- she is a whip smart lady. she'll, you know, she is probably going to find something wrong i just said and nail me to the wall about it. megyn: just sayin ... moving on. we promised yesterday to bring you the story behind what is a new and aggressive expired. a new species of tarantula and blamed it in part for two deaths so far. but now there are questions about these attacks and trace gallagher is with us on that one. >> reporter: you have spiders. the experts are gathe

. >>> singer/song writer john mayer tells rollingstone.com he was humiliated by taylor swift's song dearseverely dresses down a former lover. swift and mayer were romantically linked before the release. he said it caught him off guard when he was down. he also called dear john an example of cheap songwriting. >>> and as we mentioned earlier people.com is reporting that miley cyrus is engaged. the 19-year-old former hannah montana star has been dating hunger games star liam hemsworth for three years. people says he popped the question last week. cyrus tweeted this morning that life is beautiful. it is 8:04 right now. you're up to date. let's go back outside to stephanie. she's got a check of our weather for us. >> "today's weather" is brought to you by the american cancer society. the official sponsor of birthdays. >> ironically, a couple here dating since eighth grade, just graduated high school. no engagement here that we know of. >> yes, that's right. >> good. you guys are from houston. pretty cool up here for you. >> yeah. >> what's been the favorite thing you've seen in new york. >>

there's john doe and other chapters and we have to work together. >> senator taylor, we just took oreard from scott walker. his call for unity here in wisconsin. what's your response to that? >> i will roll up my sleeves and work. governor as long as he's our governor. i will still speak truth to power. and i hope that he'll embrace honesty and truth as he moves forward and i'll be there ready to work with him. >> you were -- >> and if not, i'll be calling him out. >> okay. well you called him out on the robocalls and you're going to continue to follow-up on that investigations? how big a story is that, in your opinion? >> i think that's a huge issue. this goes to the integrity of our campaigns. the senate campaign is not over yet either. we don't know whether or not john lehman does or does not win. with only less than 30% of the votes in. so we'll have to see what that is. i hope that when the investigation gets done we'll know whether or not people did something illegal, campaigning in this election. and let's not forget, there is a john doe investigation that our governor's peopl

john jenkins, 23rd of the hawks and festus ezeli and the bobcats took jeff taylor in the first pick of second round. >>> rafael nadal facing unseated lukas rosol. nadal is gone and done at the hands of the 100th ranked player in the world, a 26-year-old from the czech republic. nadal took issue with the officiating, umpiring and bumping into rosol during a changeover in a break during the third set. that's about as physical as tennis will get. >>> to baseball, yankees hosting the white sox. top of the ninth, yankees up two runs to close this thing out, dave robertson. deon advice see a go crushes it over the wall offoj robertson. a three-run home run puts the white sox up 4-3. where is mariano when you need him. last chance for the yankees. derek jeter at the plate comes close with a man aboard. that would have been a came-running home run. the white sox put it away. yankees winning streak wins at five games as dave robertson blows the save. >>> giants host the reds. scoreless in the firstç buster posey going to try to score from second. he slides in safely. pigan out trying to take t

speaker, on wednesday's washington examiner, columnist john stossel quoted economist john b. taylor of the hoover institution who stated unpredictable economic policy, massive fiscal stimulus, and ballooning debt, the federal reserve's quantitative easing of the multiyear interest rates, in regulatory uncertainty due to obamacare and the dodd-frank financial reforms is the main cause of persistent high unploument and our feeble recovery, end of quote. over the last three years our economy has not improved. our unemployment rate is -- remains above 8%. our small business owners have been faced -- forced to pay higher taxes and the government spending continues to spiral out of control. the president and his liberal allies in the senate continue to support legislation that creates more barriers resulting in job loss. the president and the senate should work with house republicans and pass over 30 house bills that are aimed to create jobs through private sector growth. in conclusion, god bless our troops and we will never forget september 11 and the global war on terrorism. best wishes

here is the buzz bin singer song writer, taylor swift had an uncomfortable face to face with her exin los angeles, she and johnaher unexpectedly confronted each other at the tower bar in west hollywood her 2010 song dear john was about their break up but maher said writing about him was a quote lousy thing to do. taylor demanded a new table when she noticed he was sitting near her. >>> former disney star miley cyrus is getting married. she is engaged to australian actor, liam hemsword. she is 19, he is 22. he proposed to her with a 3.5 carat diamond ring. people magazine has the picture of that no wedding -- there it is. no wedding date has been set, miley tweeted thank you for all the love i feel like all my dreams are coming true. they should be married for three years or so. >>> coming up next just saying the name of the event is fund, the huggy low down, comedy throw down. here in studio, huggy low down and chris paul are here to entertain us, tell us what is going on with the show what is going on with them. you can hear them on the tom joiner show they will talk live in just a few moments. also, -- no, o

for mcgovern and taylor branch, who would eventually be the direst kind of sort of has to flip a coin about which one of them accompanies mcgovern and people tend to the ranch to see john'seen. clinton loses the coin toss. and so taylor brings back from the meeting, which did not go well, by the way, a signed picture for clinton and lbj. so that is as close as clinton got to meeting a bj. but is great about the american presidency as we all remember, even if it's a motorcade going by her first president. ron reagan remembers he saw fdr in the back of the train somewhere in iowa. i think it was des moines. he said a german event as i mentioned before. everyone has creation stories. clinton never meant lbj. he told us he thought as all presidents or their successors, history will be kinder to him. that is what they hoped for. right over here. >> said the implications of the president's cloud is are there similar models and prime ministers of written? >> i think what is amazing about the presidents cup -- let me answer it this way. i read a story in "the new york times" that it was inevitable this circus would be defeated because he wasn't a typically french president. the