john thomas and certainly glad with those sick of those tough headlines tbilisi accuses three georgian photojournalists including of president saakashvili as a professional photographer of spying for russia it's alleged that the men possessed secret information and have now been charged with espionage after the affordably confessing on video. when officials remain tight lipped over reports that at least two hundred people have been killed in a blast of an arms at the depot in the city of i'll get on and when rights groups say electricity and water supplies and also been disrupted. and rupert murdoch heads to the u.k. to take charge of a phone hacking crisis that's plotting to engulf his media empire the scandal has reached the highest levels of government after a former editor who worked for prime minister david cameron was arrested on friday . my colleague carrie johnson to be here in thirty minutes with a full look at your news but coming up next one man's fight against america's decision to build a military base in the czech republic that's in our special report coming up next. yank

but even manny of those who survived are struggling with their own nuclear nightmare artist john thomas explains. a triple disaster on a scale the world has never known causing damage destruction and uncertainty forcing tens of thousands of japanese refugees to leave their lives behind and seek shelter anywhere they can some people do. the bucket but but the problem is the minority they be they have been accused. classmates or you know of course by offshore. causing. found that. if not. they'll primarily a move towards self-preservation this idea of desertion is defined by many as characteristically in japanese and has earned it those who have evacuated the dishonorable title of traitor. of course it's hard to hear that we have family members i think about our health but in other words we run away we escape because we're scared of ideation that there's no example in the world of something similar and the consequences are still ongoing. while those who have moved to shelters here in tokyo are facing that guilt and the pressure to move back home there are others who have lost everything c

certainly glad to have you with us i'm john thomas let's take a look at your top stories three georgian photojournalists including president saakashvili as a personal photographer have been charged with spying for russia after being arrested on thursday our correspondent peter oliver reports. initially there were four photojournalist arrested on thursday one of those has now been released without charge over the three that remain in custody are all pool reporters meaning that they had a very close quarters contact with the president of georgia mikheil saakashvili we are hearing this one of those who are is in custody has confessed on video to having been a spy to be sending information to moscow and in not video confession he is in the case it's one of those three that in custody now with regard to the third member of the team he's believed to be on a hunger strike denying any charges against him no the reason they would charge this comes after their personal hard drives were seized guns detailed maps of the presidential compound and presidential goings on the the the daily schedule of

and broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is our team i'm john thomas glad to have you with us. headlines a former news of the world a journalist who was the first to name names in the phone hacking scandal is found dead in his home near london a death police say is unexplained but not suspicious it's the latest twist in a spiraling a political crisis going as far up as the british prime minister david cameron. violence persists in afghanistan as three more nato soldiers are killed following the assassination of an aide and the half brother of the president hamid karzai last week the killings come as nato begins handing over control of some of the country's areas to local forces raising questions over their ability to cope. and russian security forces for a major terror attack on the moscow region's transportation system which could have resulted in a huge loss of life. russia's prisons are notoriously tough places but now the jail systems are facing calls for reform party's special report on that is coming up next. up up up. and complaints. oh. yes the church. also was

i'm john thomas glad to have you with us. russian emergency crews are to restart efforts to lift of the wreck of a sunken cruiser which went down in the river volga last week killing one hundred twenty nine people including many children a cable snapped during recovery efforts which have had to be restarted the cruiser bulgaria went down in minutes leaving most of the two hundred passengers with no chance of escape in one of russia's worst ever shipping disasters artie's tom barton reports from the site of the catastrophe as if to demonstrate just how difficult recovering the ball gary is going to be the cable holding it just snapped with a norm mighty buying the crane holding it rocked backwards and the cable whips up against the side of the ship that cable was there to try and support the ship to try and write it before they began lifting the ship with other straps the later to be put under it has served to demonstrate just how difficult and dangerous this operation is going to be if there were divers under there they could

japan's death toll to keep rising even though the initial disaster subsided months before in japan john thomas over to you. well for more on what's happening in japan i'm joined live now from hiroshima by nuclear energy expert dr robert jacobs. robert thanks so much for being here with us now why is the head of the i.a.e.a. difficult only now so what's expected to come out of his visit. once and what's largely coming out of the visit is an endorsement of the plan of the government of japan on the road forward the so-called road map and in essence sort of a saying to find more blessing that everything is proceeding according to plan. what. the a did come in march although amano was secretary model was not able to come to fukushima so because the danger is there but he's now toured the facility and been briefed and had discussions with the government but in essence what this is is just just trying to give a nice shine to a terrible terrible situation of policy and not really in any way dealing with the actual problems that are facing us here in japan while the tragedy that hit japan about four m

i'm john thomas let's take a look at your top headlines eight out of ninety one european banks have failed stress tests designed to ensure they could withstand another financial crisis five of those are in spain the country commonly seen as the next weakest link in the euro zone on friday italy passed seventy billion euro. as of public spending cuts to slash its whopping budget deficit and with the euro sinking this week sarah ferguson reports on why the future of the single currency doesn't look so bright anymore. as the clouds gather binns and the bad battle continues dark times could now lie ahead. everybody. is afraid for the future if you think countries like italy looking on increasingly unstable grounds can the year i write out this financial storm this is really something quite frightening if italy really goes into big trouble on the financial markets this is certainly a totally new phase of the euro crisis and you mention fear a fairy tale with all too appealing countries trip save themselves for a bite of the g.c. apple but now many are left with questioning taking the bait. not

in broadcasting live direct from the heart of russia's capital moscow this is r t i'm john thomas let's take a look at your top stories. russian emergency crews are to restart efforts to lift of the wreck of a sunken cruiser which went down in the river volga last week killing one hundred twenty nine people including many children. cable snapped during recovery efforts which have had to restart since the cruiser of all garia went down in minutes leaving most of the two hundred eight passengers no chance of escape in one of russia's worst ever shipping disasters dumbarton reports from the side of a catastrophe. as if to demonstrate just how difficult a covering the ball gary is going to be the cable holding it just now for the norm might see buying the crane holding it rocked backwards and the cable whipped up against the side of the ship that cable was there to try and support the ship to try and write it before they began lifting the ship with other straps that were later to be put under it is serves to demonstrate just how difficult and dangerous this operation is going to be if they

japan's death toll to keep rising even though the initial disaster subsided months before in japan john thomas over to. where the cleanup of the stricken fukushima nuclear plant has been praised by the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog he said that radiation could be contained by the end of the year yukiya amano is a visiting the facility to assess the progress in preventing the nuclear crisis from getting worse because she was reactors were heavily damaged by the earthquake and tsunami earlier this year because the core to melt the least dangerous amounts of radiation into the environment workers have since been trying to restore the cooling system and stop contaminated water from of the reactors into the sea but hiroshima based nuclear energy expert robert jacobs believes the i.a.e.a.'s visit is a fuss and the japanese government still isn't doing enough to protect people. in essence what this is is just just trying to give a nice shine to a terrible terrible situation and policy and not really in any way peeling with the actual problems that are facing us here and and least plans are still

but even mannie of those who survived are struggling with their own nuclear nightmare artist john thomas explains. a triple disaster on a scale the world has never known causing damage and destruction and uncertainty forcing tens of thousands of japanese refugees to leave their lives behind and seek shelter anywhere they can some people do. but the but the problem is they are a minority they be they have been accused by. their classmates or you know of course by offshore. causing. people. not. primarily a move towards self-preservation this idea of desertion is defined by many as characteristically in japanese and has earned as those who have evacuated the dishonorable title of traitor.

financial assistance traumatized survivors are also in desperate need of emotional support as artie's john thomas reports. as the waves crash against the damage to sea wall on the japanese coast volunteers who work tirelessly to clean up the debris and bring some sense of normalcy back to the area you know i want to tell people we need more help more supplies and things are still kind here beyond the physical destruction and there is a distressing psychological factor as well as city if you want he is right on the edge of the twenty kilometer exclusion zone for radiation contamination in fact in a recent study by japan's nuclear safety commission forty five percent of one thousand children tested anyone here in the neighboring cities have tested positive for thyroid radiation exposure a figure that has parents appalled that if one hundred people we have the government has researched the great era for safety and are not concerned with the consequences of their reaction is to help the government see face but they don't actually take care of the damage and the people here. first there was the earthq

four thirty in the morning here in moscow on john thomas this is our team let's take a look at your top headlines rupert murdoch agrees to face a grilling by the u.k. parliament over phone hacking allegations while in the u.s. the f.b.i. begins its investigation into claims that news corp and journalists tried to access them for mail of nine eleven families. this scandal is now threatening the rest of murdoch's media empire after he was forced to withdraw his bid to take over britain's biggest satellite broadcaster. heavy lifting equipment and bribes of the scene of the pleasure ship sinking on the river volga as prosecutors make the first arrests over the tragedy that's claimed more than one hundred lives divers continue to retrieve bodies from the sunken ship that includes the captain investigation the results so far suggest the fifty five year old vessel was in poor condition and was overloaded with passengers. and a credit downgrade hangs over the u.s. as leaving a rating agencies threaten to knock the glitter off the country's aaa position as the eurozone continues its slide with i

john adams, thomas jefferson and james monroe all died on july 4 july 4th. >>> all right. the fourth of july, you will probably want to find some place cool. pool, sprinkler, water balloons. >> water is definitely the big word there. it's going to be really warm, really, really warm. we do have the high pressure ridge that's holding steady and will suppress that air quality. so we will deal with that as well. as we take a look at what to expect outside, we see mostly clear skies. we will see some patchy fog due to an on shore flow, but not much tomorrow morning. we can see the high ridge building over the forecast region. temperatures, we're warm, but they're going to get warmer. napa, 93. santa rosa, 88 was your high. for today we saw clear skies all around. air quality alert, it's going to be hot, all due to this ridge that's going to make it over the forecast region. things will calm down by monday. we have dangerous temperatures tomorrow. up to 106 degrees. sunrise, 5:53 a.m. we have a smog alert. we do advice limited exercise as well as staying hydrated of course. let

that's why john adams and thomas jefferson our second and third presidents continued that policy without a second thought that's why the first veto of our fourth president james madison and main author of the constitution was to kill a piece of legislation that moved the responsibility for caring and pain for the poor from the federal government to a church in d.c. that essendon believe the government should ever give money to churches for any purpose and that one of the most important jobs of the federal government was to catch those who fell through the social safety net we just need a message he said he was vetoing the bill quote because the build vests and said incorporated church and also authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education of poor children of the same carrying into effect a public and civil duty not a religious duty that a sin was in fact he goes on at some length in his veto message i encourage you to check it out you can easily google it and i really just due to a civic a civic duty it's our duty we the people through our government a public and civ

well, i mean, you know, there are all thethe john adamses, thomas jeffersons, james madison, all of those are--would be parents or grandparents of the people that i am looking at. the political figures in my cohort are the presidents: john tyler, benjamin harrison, martin van buren, john calhoun, daniel webster, henry clay. these are the--the political stars of this generation. c-span: where did you write the book--what part of the country? >> guest: in los angeles--west los angeles. c-span: what do you do out there? >> guest: i teach history. c-span: at--at... >> guest: the university of california at los angeles. c-span: ucla. >> guest: ucla, yeah. c-span: how long have you done that? >> guest: i've taught history for 33 years and i've been at ucla since 1981. c-span: why history? >> guest: you know, i think--i have a theory about people and why they become what they become. i think there are about four basic ways to understand reality or understand the world. one of them is, obviously. through measuring and it, you know, it appeals to people who are--who be--who become scientists of ob

john: a return to civility. apparently civility is what people assumed use today govern campaigns. but that's nonsense. if they read history they know that politicians have always said horrible things about each other. thomas jefferson and john adams didn't have television, but what if they did? >> john adams is a blind, bald, crippled, toothless man who wants to start a war with friends. while he's not busy importing mistresses from europe, he's trying to mary i one of his sons to a daughter of king george. haven't we had enough monarchy in america? >> if thomas jefferson wins, murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will be openly taught and practiced. are you prepared to see your dwellings in flames? female chastity violated, children rising in a pipe. >> using that video, using actual statement made them. the editor in chief is nick gillespie, you made that because you were sick of hearing how much worse everything is now. >> yeah, every political election seems to be worse than the previous one. that's what we hear. when you crack a history book you find out it's prech status quo. >> covering your jackson, andrew jackson against john quincy adams. >> there were hand bills that accused jackson of ma

john chapman, felicia fugati, taylor brown. thomas darkweather. vanessa worry. >> ma'am, has your name been called? president olague: if your name's been called, please start coming up to the mic. >> hello. president olague: if you have a card, you should put the card on the thing and we'll eventually get to it. >> hello. my name is john chapman and i'm speaking on behalf of larkin street. this is for all the youth my age. i think you should give us a chance. as far as improving the housing, it would get the property off the street. you may not reach everybody, but you'll reach some, and that's the people who actually want to do something. you come as a person who -- i'm from the east coast and we don't have no problems like that up there. and to come out here and actually have a chance to better ourselves than to stay down, yeah. why not give us a chance and let us have a chance to make this nation wherever you need it to be back at. that's all i have to say. president olague: thank you. >> i'm felicia and i'm also with larkin. i'm a survivor of

thomas jefferson, john f. kennedy, ulysses s grant. okay? elvis presley.ven professional athletes, denver broncos runningback terrell days of and former nba star kareem abdul-jabbar. so long list all sorts of professions, folks do this and deal with it, move along. >> if you think about the job they do, it would cause anyone to have a headache. >> politics? >> something stressful? maybe. >> exactly. >> kim, thank you. >>> the netflix price hike certainly struck a nerve but not just because of the money. the growing number of customers threatening to quit the service. >> they don't want to listen. they tend to want to get really, i don't know, get really belligerent and want to have a fight. >> plus, spotting fake ids just isn't enough anymore. the new skills bar bouncers will have to learn in the name of national security. that's in two minutes. ,, ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,, bouncer in california. state law now requires bar and nightclub security guards go through 16 h >>> state law now requires bar and nightclub security guards go through 16 hours of professional tr

. >> in 1775, thomas jefferson and john quincey adams set sail across the delaware river to tell theing of england that they had had enough of his liberal agenda. king james called napoleon, and together decided to kill america. they sent the nina, the pinata, and the santa maria to fight. but then george washington and abraham lincoln gathered an army to turn back the big government dictators. they told paul revere to ride his horse to froto to tell him to cast the ring of fire into. then john wilkes booth showed up and killed lincoln, but there was hope because jesus' face appeared on the liberty bell. and the liberal homosexual sailed back to their gay countries, while americans claimed their land and drank beer. and that's how freedom was borned. >>> for those members of the media who are celebrating, i waited for a season. i know exactly where i'm going. and you will pray for the time when i was only on the air for one hour every day. >> that was glenn beck on the final episode of his fox news show today, doing his best to sound triumphant in a finale that fox news president rog

. >> in 1775, thomas jefferson and john quincey adams set sail across the delaware river to tell theng of england that they had had enough of his liberal agenda. king james called napoleon, and together decided to kill america. they sent the nina, the pinata, and the santa maria to fight. but then george washington and abraham lincoln gathered an army to turn back the big government dictators. they told paul revere to ride his horse to froto to tell him to cast the ring of fire into. then john wilkes booth showed up and killed lincoln, but there was hope because jesus' face appeared on the liberty bell. and the liberal homosexual sailed back to their gay countries, while americans claimed their land and drank beer. and that's how freedom was borned. anybody home? ♪ yes! ha ha! ♪ [ clicking ] dad, what happened? power went out, want a hot dog? [ female announcer ] oscar mayer selects are made with 100% pure beef and have no artificial preservatives. they're a great way to re-connect with your family. dad, how come the nelsons' lights are on? ♪ it doesn't get better than this ♪ >>> for

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sir, great to have you with us today. >> nice to be here, thomas. >> democrats are accusing speaker johnoehner of not having control of his own party this, split betweenç the republican party and the tea partiers. take a listen to what senator chuck schumer had to say earlier today. >> instead of leading the house, speaker boehner is being led by a fringe in his caucus that thinks default is okay. well, speaker boehner should not and we cannot let a small block of house republicans lead the whole nation off a cliff. >> sir, we spoke earlier about a letter that's been sent by tea party senators asking their house colleagues not to support boehner's plan. do you have faith in what speaker is putting together in the plan that he wants to present? >> well, you know, that's really up to the house to decide if they can pass that plan or not. i do know when i was the whip in the house, i would have been pretty upset if a bunch of senators sent a letter over saying don't do whatever it is the leadership is trying to work with you to get done. i don't know that that was helpful at all. i do know

. >> in 1775, thomas jefferson and john quincy adams set sail across the delaware river to tell the kingengland they had had enough of his libberal agenda. king james called napoleon and together, decided to kill america. they sent the nina, the pinata and the santa maria to fight. but then, george washington and abraham lincoln gathered an army to turn back the big government dictators. they told paul revere to ride his horse to frodo. to tell him to cast him into the fires. but then, john wilkes booth showed up and killed lincoln. but there was still hope, because jesus appeared on the face of the liberty bell and he froze john wilkes booth in carbonite. and the liberal homosexuals sailed back to their gay country, while americans claimed their land and drank beer. and that's how freedom was born. [ applause ] >> jimmy: i didn't know -- some of that i didn't know, i'll be honest. let's go back out to cousin sal. who do you have there? wow. >> i'm sandy. >> jimmy: where are you from? >> i'm from michigan. >> jimmy: michigan. and are you trying to look like kyle petty, or is it just a co

. >> will do discuss the relationship between thomas benton and john fremont in california and also may be brigham young in utah and the mormons? >> fremont i believe was a son-in-law so benton was the backer of fremont and a general in the united states army and a bit of a loose cannon and he probably wouldn't be -- the history books at all because there were efforts to court martial him. they don't ultimately affect the boundary. you asked about someone else crux brigham young was a mormon leader. he led the largest contingent from illinois to utah in 1847, 48 and envisioned the creation of a state which was headed been created it would have filled pretty much everything but california. congress wasn't going to let a state like that be created. they weren't happy about the size of california or texas, but texas and california created themselves. i don't have time to go into each one of those but they are in the books. but i will tell you interesting about brigham young and desert it he dispatched a mormon elder to form a port at the furthest navigable point on the colorado river. it e

justice clarence thomas last week called upon john locke as well as others to figure out what the constitutional basis for one of the cases is. thomas consulted john locke and rousseau and examined jefferson pose a demanding schedule for his own daughter. two justices looking to different parts of history to find what they believe to be m.iginal in sis let's go to an independent scholar in flint, michigan. good morning, leonard. caller: happy holiday. i don't pentecost titian matters anymore. the don't think constitution matters anymore. no matter what, they changed their minds. we are supposed to have the right to own land. that's all i have to say. host: juan writes the following on twitter -- but look at a story today about votes happening in the house or not happening. modesto, california on the democrat line, arlene. caller: i don't think the constitution matters. they do what they want and make changes to fit them. i'd think we need to rewrite the constitution. because blacks were not included. i think it needs to be written to say that "we the rich people get what we want and we don't wan

be the dirtiest ever, the most vile ever, the most reprehensible, and then we inter-cut thomas jefferson and johndams, using contemporary slurs against these guys. >> virginia postrel we used to see a lot on this network. >> yes. >> when she was editor of reason magazine. >> yes. >> before you? >> yes, that's right. she hired me. >> but here is a video that drew carey narrates. >> yes. >> and it's about the fact that virginia postrel gave her kidney. >> right. >> one of her kidneys to sally satel who is a doctor, but needed a kidney. >> right. >> and this is about that whole episode. >> yes. >> let's see what it looks like. >> there is one thing we can't try because it's illegal, paying people to donate their kidneys. it sounds really ghoulish. it sounds really icky, but they are your kidneys and it really helps people in need, so if you want to sell one, why not? >> the most straightforward approach would be simply to repeal the federal law that makes it a crime to sell organs. >> but danovitch says that would be a dreadful mistake. >> because they don't care about each other. >> he says money w

first take on our right lead with blubber being on the same putting him john in the leader forward to join first strong leader thomas bjorn the shots behind clark after carding a birdie at the second yesterday's yesterday i should say world of the long looked on the field to make the cuts. now for some news russian tennis player alisa clip bonobo has revealed she has cancer of the world number twenty eight choosing to make the announcement on her twenty second birthday to talk about hasn't played a match since may missing post the french open on wimbledon in a message on the w.t. website the muscovite said she's being treated for hodgkin's lymphoma put out and she was hopeful she may have a chance to return to the sport if treatment is successful over the next few months . princeton football where it's a blast from the past in champions league qualifying two time former russian champions routine has on set to meet ukrainian here for a place in the group stages the first match of the double header taking place later this month they're drawing on thank you with the headquarters in geneva puts together the clubs from t

john: i believe what they say about me. is this new? you should hear what the founders said about each other. >> if thomas jefferson, rape and incest will be openly practiced. >> and what about regulate regulate. >> mr. gorbachev tear down this wall. >> and this is more to end the cold war. ♪ >> john: finally we're all taught that politics changes history but larry flint says sex lives just as much. >> private lives of presidents and first ladies did shape you on how things went. >> a politically incorrect look at history. that is our show tonight. >> john: what built the middle-class? unions i'm told you about unions landlords tell me when i confronted them about it, we built the middle-class they say. the head of wisconsin firefighters union. >> the middle-class would not be where it is today without the union. >> john: and they claim they help minorities. here is the sample of my interview with new york city's 34,000 member transit union. >> you discount the extremely positive impact that the trade union movement has had in this country, launching people into the middle-class. particularly african-americans and latinos. >> john: but

know he was named after coolidge's two sons and i didn't know that cal thomas doesn't know why he calls himself cal instead of johnat's a wonderful example of what "behind the breaks" could be at its very best, trivia revelations about the cal thomases of the world. but then cal thomas made the mistake of thinking because they were off the air and just talking for the internet, it was safe to bring up the subject that no one at fox news could talk about. >> anybody want to bring up the subject we're not talking about today for the streamers? >> sure, go ahead, cal. >> i'm not going to touch it. >> don't worry, i'm going to let you see that again. it is too perfect a glimpse inside the collective mind of fox news. there's cal thomas saying, does anyone want to bring up the subject we're not talking about today, by which, of course, he means the single biggest story about the news media that's out there, the thing a show like this is supposed to spend all of its time on. this is a show about the news media, the scandal involving their boss, rupert murdoch. jim pinkerton then dares cal thomas to bring it up, thomas t

john mccain. "the rewrite" is next. [ thomas ] my sophomore year, i was pretty confused, didn't really know what i do. didn't like high school. and then i met my teacher, mr. mccooey, and that click happened. i would never have even thought about going into the engineering field if it wasn't for these ap classes, these teachers and them helping me realize that this is a major calling in my life. ♪ i didn't always know that i would like math, but now i think it'll change my life. >>> coming up -- hey, wait a minute. we're done with that. can we -- brian, can you get that thing off the screen? because this script here what we're going to do has nothing to do with any raging boehners. that's not -- we're -- can you -- has the murdoch gang hacked our monitor thing and they control it? all right. i'm just going to do what we have here, which has nothing to do with that. "new york post" headline. our favorite one of today. >>> the epic battle of john mccain versus sean hannity. that's in "the rewrite." it has nothing to do with that headline. and republican deficit proposals aren't really aimed at the d

tomorrow, republican senators john thune and mike crapo joining us on the show. my colleague thomasmron çhall. >> coming up in the next hour, speaker john boehner has a tough message for republicans telling them they need to get in line and get behind his debt bill. i'm going to get reaction from republican senator roy blunt, plus the very latest from the white house. >>> plus, we are just one year away from the kickoff to the 2012 summer games. we bring you a live report from london with peter alexander where the olympic countdown is just about to get under way. well-being. we're all striving for it. purina cat chow helps you nurture it in your cat with a full family of excellent nutrition and helpful resources. purina cat chow. share a better life. somewhere in america, a city comes to life. it moves effortlessly, breathes easily. it flows with clean water. it makes its skyline greener and its population healthier. all to become the kind of city people want to live and work in. somewhere in america, we've already answered some of the nation's toughest questions. and the over sixt

. >> you discuss your relationship with thomas benton and john fremont in california and also may be brigham young in utah and the mormons? >> ho i think it was his son-in-law, fremont, so benton was a backer of fremont was a general in the united states army and the mexican war ended a loose cannon and he probably wouldn't in history books at all because there were efforts to court martial him. i don't precede him deutsch in this book they don't affect the boundary. you asked about someone else? >> brigham young. >> brigham young was a mormon leader. he led the largest contingent from the illinois to utah in 184748. he envisioned a creation of the state which was headed in created it would have felt pretty much everything that california congress wasn't going to let a state like that be created. they were not happy about the size of california or texas. but texas and california creed themselves i don't have time to go into each of those but they are in the books. i will tell you an interesting thing about brigham young and desert. he dispatched a mormon elder to form a port at the f

john quincy adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country. >> so, it's not true. many of the founding fathers sought to preserve slavery. others like thomas jefferson were imbif lent. george washington owned hundreds of slaves. the one person she says is john quincy adams who did fight tirelessly to end slavery but he wasn't a founding father. when they signed the declaration of independence he was only 8 years old. >>> we have our panel here tonight. thank you for being here. what do you make of the pledge, in particular, the slavery part which is in the preamble. do you think it's possible that santorum or bachmann or their people didn't see that? how do you explain them agreeing with this? >> i have to assume that they're people read it and it's reprehensible. the underlying assertion here is that there's some redealing quality that went along with the institution of slavery. that's assanine. you can't play a double standard like we should shoot down anyone that said there's a redeeming quality associated with naziism. we can't play a double standard and we should shout these people down and look at them as what they are. >> eric, hist

you say of thomas durrant that he was a buffoon. john murray forbes was near money.silas see what was corrupt and largely incompetent. james harvey's stonebridge was a racist. randall dodge was a liar and an eclectic hated the way to do loudly and a monstrously. sam brandon was a buffoon, another one. folks and was belligerent and obtuse. and a gaggle of southern pacific executives were a divided course and petulant arrogant and inept men. that sounds a little bit like matthew joseph. you say in your introduction that you think the robert pear interpretation of history is likely to be, the most likely misinterpretation of what you try to argue. given that tone and the we do with individual robber barons, how i is that your account is distinguishable in his analytical court from matthew josephson's account and the whole robert pear three? >> one of things after 1012 years of reading the correspondence, much of that is paraphrasing what they said about each other. i gave you one quote. it was the golden age, so when i quote something i often think this is actually pret

i'm eric thomas. >> and i'm kristen sze. >> we've got a lot of news going on this morning. >> in washington this morning, house speaker johnill try to line up members behind his debt ceiling bill. a scheduled vote was put off when it became clear that gop support just wasn't there. amy hollyfield is live in the newsroom. we're talking about the gop but what are the democrats saying. >> reporter: they are saying republicans need to get their house in order. john boehner thought he would get his bill passed last night. it came as a shock he had to postpone his vote. boehner and other gop leaders spent hours trying to rein in conservatives in their party. the plan would cut more than $900 billion in spending and temporarily raise the debt ceiling to next spring. tea party members say they won't vote to raise the debt ceiling, even though republican leaders are trying to convince them to do so. >> republicans took advantage of the tea party express. tea party caucus when they seized control of the house. how do you translate anger against president obama into a government coalition. >> reporter: the white house communications

thomas, calling, again, for a bipartisan bill. they're looking at what's going on in congress. clearly john boehner has been wounded. certainly this legislation has been wounded, and as luke describes it, the way they've tweaked this to try to jam it through the house, after all the convulsions and all the historienihistory histrionics with members walking in and out, going into the chapel off the house rotunda to pray, ordering pizza and all-night arm-twisting is exes a sessions and so forth, it really removes any doubt right now about where this is going and it's going absolutely no where. the strategy on the part of republicans all along with the vote that's out of the house, count on senate inertia and then when we get to tuesday, that would be the only thing standing, and the president would be more or less forced to sign it. the senate would be more or less forced to bring it up. that was a long shot to begin with. that doesn't seem like lly righ now. so, really we're seeing the back-and-forth in the senate, we're seeing the arms being twisted. we'll probably see the bill come to the floor as luke has reported

you say have thomas durant that he was a will fund. john murray forbes was narrow minded. silas seymour was corrupt and largely incompetent. james harvey was a racist brew misanthrope. allied air and eclectic hater who hated loudly and demonstrably. a buffoon. ames was belligerent and up to us. and the gaggle of southern pacific executives were divided, arrogant, and inept. that sounds a little bit like matt do justice. did you say in your introduction you think the robber baron interpretation of history is likely to be the most likely misinterpretation of what you try to argue. said given that town and the way you deal with individual robber barons how is it that you are distinguishable from that the justice account of the whole robber baron theory? >> after ten or 12 years of reading correspondence, much of that is paraphrasing what they said about each other. i give you a taste, one ." the golden age of american vitriol. so when i quote something i have to think, well, this is actually pretty mild. but a a kaelin, san francisco businessman involved often on with the sou

john f. kennedy middle school. >> the u.s. post office is considering closing3600 locations across country because it's losing billions in revenue. at least ten of the officers are in the bay area. eric thomas has nor on how your neighborhood could be affected. >> the u.s. postal service lost $8 billion. to save money, they are studying 3700 retail offices across the country to see if they are worth keeping open. the list includes more than a dozen locations, five in san francisco. four in san mateo and santa clara counties and four in the east bay in alameda and contra costa counties. here are a couple. colonade post office in san jose. it's too close to other locations. or business fair is down significantly. the same goes from oakland east mall location. >> about 35% of our sales come from places outside the brick and mortar post office. places like atms, costco ad that sort of thing. >> it will take the postal service about five months which are vie ideological and which are not. employees would be eliminated through attrition but even with cuts like this, postal service stands to lose another $8.5 billion this year. if you would like the locations being considered for closure, log on t

thomas. what you've seen between these negotiations yesterday between eric cantor and john boehner, what will pass the united states house of representatives? there is a possible grand bargain between cantor, boehner and president obama, this reed-mcconnell compromise we heard about as well as this new thing getting a lot of steam, called the gang of six. an important development from steny hoyer when he said grover norquist essentially said extending the bush tax cuts, if there was a freeze on that wouldn't violate the pledge. grover norquist responded this morning to steny hoyer on our air. take a listen. >> hoyer is wrong. the answer is the people who made this commitment not to raise taxes made it clear they're not raising taxes and boehner and the other republicans have said that independent of the pledge. there's certain things you could do techniqcally and not violate the pledge but the americans would understand is a tax release. americans for tax reform reject any effort to reduce or not continue the 2001-2003 bush tax cuts. >> the question now becomes did grover norquist say unequiv

john f. kennedy middle school. >> the u.s. post office is considering closing 3600 locations across country because it's losing billions in revenue. at least ten of the officers are in the bay area. eric thomas has nor on how your neighborhood could be affected. >> the u.s. postal service lost $8 billion. to save money, they are studying 3700 retail offices across the country to see if they are worth keeping open. the list includes more than a dozen locations, five in san francisco. four in san mateo and santa clara counties and four in the east bay in alameda and contra costa counties. here are a couple. colonade post office in san jose. it's too close to other locations. or business fair is down significantly. the same goes from oakland east mall location. >> about 35% of our sales come from places outside the brick and mortar post office. places like atms, costco and that sort of thing. >> it will take the postal service about five months which are vie ideological and which are not. employees would be eliminated through attrition but even with cuts like this, postal service stands to lose another $8.5 billion this year. if you would like the locations being considered for closure, log on

john drake was one of the first governors in the early republican period much the same as thomas jefferson's notes on virginia. he drove all around south carolina by carriage surveying everything taking useful social statistics to come up with a scientific and geographic view of what south carolina really was. in a lot of ways he was fundamental to found in south carolina and a lot of this would be an argument that south carolina and needed a centralized capital. he would be one of the founders of columbia. this manuscript was his foundational document. there are mixed conditions. a whole handful of maps in here. there is his map of charleston which would have been 1802. this book is a survey of what the state of south carolina is and moving its capital. for a little bit of our 20th century collection the charleston renaissance of the 1920s which produced -- josephine pinckney, plenty of notable writers, foundation of poetry society. a lot of that took place at the library society. they all would have been members. the only library in town until the 1930s. this was their hangout and this is

>>> hi, great to have you with me, i'm thomas roberts and we begin with the showdown over the debt. house speaker john boehner thinks he can take control of the debt ceiling debate if he can get the tea party members of his caucus to get in line. house members will debate and vote on speaker boehner's revised debt bill later today, but we should get a sense of where president obama stands when his press secretary jay carney speaks moments from now. meanwhile, lawmakers are staring down a grim reality, five days, that's it, five, until the u.s. defaults on its debt and will send shock waves down the economy. the tea party contingent is creating a lot of uncertainty. >> this was an agreement between the bipartisan senate leaders and myself. it is what's doable. and i think we can get there. >> mr. speaker, is it fair to say you have a bit of a rebellion on your hands, or do you feel -- >> oh, i've got a little rebellion on my hands every day. it comes with the territory. >> you're not worried? >> never let them see you sweat. >> there you go. nbc's luke russert who never lets anyone of us see him sweat,

thomas. >> and i'm kristen sze. >> let's begin with they were talking about, funeral service for sheriff's deputy shot to death while helping a friend will bring thousands to san rafael with major traffic implications. john alston is live with a preview. >>> all is quiet now. but crowds are expected to build as the morning goes on. we're here at the veterans memorial auditorium, anywhere from 800 to 1200 people expected. the service begins at 11:00 a.m. it's open to the public and will go into the midafternoon. they will be honoring jim mathison. he was killed a week and of ago near petaluma. he had gone to a friend's how whose daughter was harassed by an ex-boyfriend. he shot the deputy and unarmed. when haloran tried to grab his ex-girlfriend's mother, a brother shot haloran to death. this will be remembering about jim mathsison. he went from the construction industry to pursuing his passion in law enforcement. he was 49 years old. on he had a wife and two sons, aged 18 and 21, one of them will be speaking at the service here later this morning. as you mention a memorial will be affecting traffic around the marin civic center, especially north san pedro road when things get going around 11:00 this morn