sometimes to wonder if life's going like it should♪ >> listening to in this video 19-year-old john thompson indiana, recording his first original song "you made me who i am" in studio. ♪ but i know that you died to save me on a cross made out of wood♪ >> he sounds like he's had year of experience but he's still pretty young. >> a very mature voice. >> what if i told you john doesn't know how to read music? what if i told you john is autistic. john didn't speak a word until he was 8 years old. get this, his dad, grant, bought a keyboard for himself, eventual said, i'm going to give this up, i can play this thing. john, at age 5, could listen to anything and figure out how to play it back. and then through his love of music and learning how to play music, john was able to speak at age 8. >> talk about power of music. >> we can find out all about this journey because we have john thompson joining us shelbyville, indiana. only ten years ago you weren't speaking. how did you goat hear? >> my dad always has music in the living room and i start to play the exact same music as he put it on a casset

john thompson, iii and hoyas entering the conference opener with a 10-1 record on the year. another low-scoring affair for the hoyas. first half, baseline three beats the buzzer. georgetown down 20-19 at the half. sparks with the big steal, takes it all the way for two of his game-high 18 points. this game was tied at 46-46. doesn't sit well with buzz williams. too bad. final seconds, georgetown down three. hoyas go to porter, drives, finds whittington on the baseline. the three-pointer to tie it does not go. but he fouled. whittington makes the first two free throws, gets frozen at his timeout, then misses the third that would have tied the game. marquette gets the rebound. georgetown falls 49-48 in their first big east game. >>> mark turgeon and maryland tipping off acc play at home against virginia tech. first half, check this out. every one of the five turps touches the ball. then point guard howard goes inside to lund for the dunk, 16 points and the terps had a 9-point lead. first half, dominated by the shooting display from the freshman lehman making his first start, s

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john thompson's hoyas come in with a 10-1 record before the big east.georgetown down 20-19 at the half. two-plus minutes left. the deficit is 2 as marquette starts with the steal. this game was tied at 46. that was not sitting well with buzz williams. final seconds, georgetown trail by 3. they go to otto porter who fines whitting ton on the baseline. the three-point tore tie is no good but he is fouled. he would make the first two free throws. marquette ices him. and he misses the second one. marquette wins. >>> a.c.c. play action against virginia tech. first half, check this out. everyone of the five terps touches the ball and then it's point guard p. shawn howard inside for the dunk. terms had a 9-point lead. but the first half was dominating by the shooting display from the freshman jake layman who was making his first start. maryland by 16 at the break and, of course, the crowd amped for this one. second half, another freshman took over. seth allen scores. he canals the 3 and that gives maryland an 18-point lead. later in the game. allen take advant

joining me now, chief market analyst for john thompson financial. welcome to the show. been looking at numbers on these funds all day long. let me tell you, it could not be less impressive. take a look at the returns on 2015 target funds last year. the sounds good. the s&p 500 index was up 16%. they're underperforming the broader market. and a lot of people out there say we were disappointed with the performance back in 2008 when the market was tanking. there were tanking even more, and now the market is up and they're not doing as well. what gives? >> the two dozen the performance caused a might think, the typical overreaction on the part of people who supervise these ts of things and manage them. but as you said, these funds shift the allocation from stocks to bonds as they get toward the target date which is supposed to coordinate with somebody's retirement date. on the face of it, that makes a lot of sense because you are supposed to be reducing your risk as you get older. gerri: reality. i mean, the reality is that the market is fluctuating, and you might want to m

. >>> john thompson 3 and the hoyas hosting fifth-ranked louisville. starks, watch this move and it's dirty. frees him and hits the j. hoyas up five, starting with 17 points. the game tied at 50. rivera misses and check out the acrobatic tip-in. pointing to the game and proved to be important. the hoyas up two. final secs, louisville trailed by one. the jumper, no good. the rebound and fouled -- fouled. defeating them,

73-45, as georgetown suffers its most lopsided loss at home since 1971, leaving for a very sour john thompsonafter the game. >> it's embarrassing. i mean, that was -- that -- this group has not responded -- not responded like we did today rkt. i don't think that is characteristic of who this group is but today was disappointed. we have things we know we need to address. like i said, i don't think this is -- i hope this suspect -- i know this suspect who we are. tonight, this is very disappointing. >> my guess is that will be fixed pretty soon. >>> after the worst start in franchise history, the wizards should be getting their best player become on saturday. john wall has been practicing since last week and he is going full speed, assuming his knee continues to respond well, wall will be making his season debut this weekend. wall has been recovering from a stress injury to his left kneecap. the wizards originally expected to miss the first month of the regular season but he has been out for almost two and a half months of the regular season. his return should you can a boone for this team that

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john ?avijoan davis >> : like to think mike thompson for having this hearing.the president of eagle forum. eagle forum has always stood for protection of property rights as well as protection of personhood. i would like to remind you how important it is to learn from history. my husband was born in germany during the second world war. his father was from switzerland. i would like to let you know the difference between the philosophy of guns from germany and switzerland. hitler had first made sure that all guns were registered before taking over germany. he said they had to be registered because the crime rate was so high. once the guns or registered, he knew where to go to take guns away from people -- were registered, he knew where to go to take guns away from people. switzerland, every family has to have a gun. it is given to them by the government. every adult is trained on how to use the gun. because other countries had been disarmed, hitler knew he could. switzerland has lowest crime rate in the world. they have not disarmed. an open we can learn from hist

under the leadership of congressman john -- congressman thompson, mike thompson, our gun violence prevention task force keeps growing in number. our colleagues are submitting recommendations for legislation, the task force is working with outside organizations and sharing the latest information on gun violence and steps we can take and must take to end it. today, to strengthen the efforts of this task force and our democratic caucus, we will hear from americans with personal and professional experiences with gun violence. and with critical expertise on how and why we must protect it. it's really an emotional occasion for many here. we thank them for sharing their grief to help other people be safe, to sharing their experience to help us all honor our oath of office. our witnesses hail from every walk of life. education, academia, law enforcement and public service. we are extraordinarily grateful to have with us dr. janet robinson, superintendent of schools of newtown, connecticut. dr. emily knottingham, mother of gabe zimmerman, who you know was a victim in tucson nearly two years ago. chie

. >> john harwood, thank you very much. to mary thompson now with breaking news. >> announcing charges against three alleged international cyber criminals. the three have been charged again in infiltrating computers around the world, about a million computers around the world, including 40 thousand here in the u.s. with a virus known as the gozi virus. the plot the cyber criminals wanted to actually access information including bank account information in an effort to steal money from those accounts. also, the virus infected the computers at nasa. again, the three alleged criminals have been taken into custody. one is a romanian citizen. one is a russian citizen. and one is lafian citizen. all spreading a computer virus. >> all right. the rally does continue right now with the dow jones industrial average up about 68 points. the dow and s&p hit fresh five-year highs. kenny is here with me to interpret what i trying to say down on the floor of the new york stock exchange. when we walked in, they called this the teflon market. they have basic

thompson iii looking for a spark. hoyas looking for more. three point shot. no good. the walk-on, john caprio gets the board. caprio played 50 minutes. and second half. automatic. the basket. georgetown wins, 74-62. georgetown's record. and at home they're 10-1. can i talk super bowl, harbaughs tomorrow? >> what we're looking forward to super bowl commercials. >> and a harbaugh is going to win. a 49ers team will win. or the ravens team will win. >>> remember the horse in maryland that ran down route 1 in laurel a few weeks back. he is going to run where hes say p supposed to, at the track. bullet catcher, the individually after he got loose at laurel racetrack. ran more than a mile with a jockey following him in the car. knob put a watch on him. thursday, bullet catcher will be running against horses in his day but at laurel. the odd on him to win, are 8:1. put your >> jay: hey, thanks for coming. you've been really charitable lately. i heard you gave lindsay lohan $100,000 to pay her taxes. isn't that kind of a waste, with her track record? >> well, c0me on, jay, it's not like i'm lighting cigars with $100

and the chair of the judiciary committee, john conyers, a dark and violence prevention task force, congressman mike thompson. i will yield to steny for a moment. you, madame leader. for scheduling this timely hearing. i look forward to hearing from the witnesses. all of us, as the president indicated today, we all feel the urgency of responding with the status of our mental health folks who should not have guns and who is getting weapons of great danger to our community. i appreciate the witnesses, i welcome them. it is obviously an extraordinary timely hearing. thank you very much for being here and thank you madame leader. >> thank you very much. it's a privilege for me to welcome all of you and i want to say a thank you for the leader for calling this hearing. i'm pleased to join my other colleagues here today. i want to say a thank you to the distinguished panel for joining us today. let me just for a moment i want to personally thank and acknowledge all of you but i want to welcome the superintendent of newtown. i know that janet has been working with family, students, teachers, first responders, and a

who frankly is looking at john dingell intently enough that it looks like he might set him on fire if he keeps that stare going on too long, that is congressman mike thompson. he is the overall chair of this task force for the congressional democrats. mike thompson is a rural california democrat. he is a wounded vietnam combat veteran. he is a gun owner himself. he says on the day of the newtown shootings last month, when he learned of the shootings, he had been out that morning duck hunting. >> first and foremost, i'm a >> first and foremost, i'm a gun owner, and i've been a gun owner as long as i can remember and hunted all my life. and a strong proponent of the second amendment. but i'm also a parent and a grandparent. and i know that we can own guns and use guns safely and properly. >> congressman mike thompson speaking today at an event with rahm emanuel, the former white house chief of staff and the former democratic congressman and the current mayor of chicago. mayor emanuel today announcing that chicago will seek to divest its pension funds, which are big investment vehicles, those are a lot of money, he will seek to divest them from all gun manufa

john kerry and sean penn. let's scan the audience. yeah, wait, how about that guy there? wait, no, yeah. that's pretty good. [ laughter ] that's pretty good. [ applause ] not bad. that's good. this one's from ed thompsonerious newsmen had high-pitched voices. do you have the technology to do that?" serious newsmen with high-pitched voices. yeah, i think we can do that. let's check this out. >> this is "nbc nightly news with brian williams." [ in high pitched voice ] >> good evening. well, as predicted last night -- [ laughter ] -- we have a very big winter storm we're watching. the timing couldn't be worse, and when this storm is bad, it's bad. [ laughter ] it's hardly news, but the newspaper business is on the ropes. some papers have folded completely, others have reduced the number of pages. conversations related to -- [ laughter ] -- we'll be back with our panel of new members of congress and our political roundtable, so stay with us. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, yeah. very interesting. [ cheers and applause ] interesting technology. >> steve: that's technology. it's called science. >> jimmy: oh, this is a good one. a good suggestion. jenna martin. "hey, jimmy, big fan of the show. first time suggestion.

by our chair of the judiciary committee, congressman john conyers and the chair of our gun violence prevention task force congressman mike thompson. we thank you, mike, for your leadership. we are also joined by our distinguished whip, steny hoyer. with that i'm going to yield to steny for a moment and then to our co-chairs. >> i thank you very much, madam leader, and chairman andrews on the steering committee for scheduling this. obviously critically and very timely hearing and look forward to hearing from the witnesses. clearly all of us as the president indicated in his talk today and presentation of his program and signing of executive orders, we all feel the urgency of responding to the dangers that our communities confront when the distribution of guns and large capacity magazines and with the status of our mental health observations of folks who ought not have guns and make sure we know who is getting weapons of great danger to our community. so i appreciate the witnesses. i welcome them. it is obviously an extraordinarily timely hearing. witness the attendance and interest of the media and the public. thank you very much

john engler in michigan. he would get great crime control ideas from tommy thompson in wisconsin. and newt gingrich, along with trent lott, along with connie mack, along with jack kemp, they were churning ideas out every single day. so in 93 and 94, when i ran, i just plugged my campaign into all the things that gingrich, i think a pretty severe critic but i'll tie you what, it was him doing the very things that ross is complaining about that this republican party and our house doesn't do right now that gave us the majority. i remember in 93 going into the rnc and they had a sign that said think majority. they just laughed but i was like are you kidding me? we have no chance. we have been in the majority in my lifetime. but guess what? we got it because we had ideas. we had ideas on the house level. we had ideas in the state legislatures. we had ideas coming from governors, and democrats didn't stand a chance. i was the first republican elected in my district since 1873. and they hung the last one they sent to washington. [laughter] so it's the wrong damn district. but i won becau

johns hopkins university in baltimore. it'll start again at about 1:35 eastern. california representative mike thompson chairs a task force that's examining ways to reduce and prevent gun violence. this comes in the aftermath of the mass shooting last month in newtown, connecticut. members of the public have been invited to forums to voice their opinions. one of them was held last week in santa rosa, california, and here's a portion of that now. >> and now i do have the pleasure of introducing congressman mike thompson. congressman thompson was first elected to the united states congress in 1998. mike serves on the subcommittee on health and subcommittee on select revenue measures within the committee on ways and means as well as being the ranking member of the subcommittee on terrorism, human intelligence analysis and counterintelligence and the subcommittee on oversight all within the permanent select committee on intelligence. congressman thompson is a combat veteran. he was a staff sergeant platoon leader in vietnam with the 173rd airborne of the united states army. he's also a purple heart recipie