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doug williams on and then i find out we have a professor. >> oh, my goodness. john, i got to ask you, dick's sporting goods stance is that they will sell them if there is a demand. isn't that kind of conditional morality. it is like they are not for it until people want it. >> i want to go on the record saying i think that vick is innocent. >> greg: really? >> it is capitalism. this guy is cutting his nose to spite his face. there will be some store that will open down the street and sell nothing but vick merchandise. >> vick's vaporub. >> i'm boycotting that. >> really. >> greg: i know that has nothing to do with michael vick, i just can't stand the smell. vicks, itver boycott vision, reminds me of childhood. things that are seen as wrong often become popular. >> people like to wear rebellious shirts. i feel bad for the poor little dog that has to wear the customized vick t-shirt. can you imagine what you say to your doggie friends? they will customize them for dogs. the human being ones will sell. >> i'm from the most evil town in the history of sports. they threw

in oakland, california, gloom and doom economist john williams was so afraid of the buckling buck. >>uy gold coins as a hedge against inflation. >> these are called gold eagles. >> reporter: williams had taken us to his local gold dealer, charlie mammoser. a lot of people like him, chlie? >> yeah, there's - quite a lot of them actually, especially the way, you know, the economy's been going, and the dollars been down, and oils been up, and gold's been running crazy. >> reporter: what was gold at the time, per ounce? >> right now gold is seven-fifty and ten cents. >> reporter: the price had actually been higher, but williams was unfazed. >> whether you buy it at $750, $700, $1000, it's going to be a buy over the long-term, because long-term, we have a terrible inflation problem ahead of us. >> reporter: mind you at that very moment, the fear gripping government was of just the opposite: de-flation. in fact, within a week, we killed the inflation report which took us to new haven and oakland, because inflation just wasn't a story anymore. consumers had suddenly frozen their spending. so

massive stadium screen, a live orchestra, playing the famous john williams music and anthony daniels,c-3po, serves as the evening's emcee and narrator. playing to sold-out audiences in a few venues already, business should boom when it gets here. console wars. this is the new sony playstation slim. a $100 price break, and sony says this will drive the video games market this holiday shopping season. not to be outdone, mieshlth slashes xbox 360 elite by 100 bucks. and apple finally cracks the chinese market, striking a three-year deal with china unicom and now ready for its share of the 700 million new smartphone subscribers there. and each market share point worth about a billion dollars. that's your tech check. i'm jim goldman in the silicon valley. what do you think? hey, why don't we use our points from chase sapphire and take a break? we can't. sure, we can. the points don't expire... ♪ there is nothing for me... ♪ there's no travel restrictions... we could leave tomorrow. we can't use them for a vacation. you can use the points for just about anything. i know... ♪ the way you loo

. >> john stuart, 44%, brian williams, of charlie gibson, katie couric, man, only p%, and they've beenregular guests on the show and surprisingly love going on jon stewart's show. jim, he's been a part of the show. why do the conservatives love to go on jon stewart. >> because it's funny and people watch and stewart has something that makes him special. people know the news, know what happened in iraq, they want commentary and insight and stewart has the ratings show, up there with the best. >> i was a guest on the show, there were others, he was respectful and i didn't know what to expect. he was funny because he's not mean. is that the point? >> he's nice, that's what people like. and people are talking about him as a news person and confusing him with walter cronkite. >> jon stuart used to say, i'm not a news person, i'm a show. and i think we have to worry about that. >> he had incredible interviews with jim cramer on mad money and nailed cramer like mike wallace would have nailed cramer. >> like the financial press should have. >> and then stewart did it. what does it say. >> the

. >> john stewart's take on him, william jefferson airplane was hysterical. i'm sure you saw that. yeah. he's always going to be the late night joke. but i think it's done now with greater affection. chris: does this reawaken the notion that someday, in the distant future, the clintons will be back? politically? >> i think that the clintons are quite happy with the notion that she will never again run for president. but i think that there's still -- thinking that she might one day still run for president. and i think they have behaved -- they have behaved impeccably . and partly because they're honorable people who care about public service and their political interest is aligned with barack obama being successful. that's the best path for her, to line herself up for 2016 if she wants to run again. and it shows how brilliant obama's move here was. because bill clinton was always going to be a bigger problem than hillary clinton ever could have been. to get back in the senate. and he got two for the price of one. chris: and the economy stays stagnant he will have the clintons on his

started five beta kappa -- by the cap of -- phi beta kappa. >> it was started at the college of william and mary. john marshall was one of his first dance in it. >>what about moot court? >> he invented the new court -- the moot court. >> why? >> he thought it was a good way for people to do a lot. -- how to do law and to do politics. the new court was a setup where he was the judge. the jury and he would resolve the case as part of a classroom exercise. a very effective. he got a lot of students, just like today, there are a lot of smart people who are shy. the moot court makes them shine. they can see themselves being admired by people in need moot court. it helps them change their ways. >> of did he name it moot? >> he did. after he had success with it, they picked up the idea and every law school in the country today there is a moot court. >> how do you do that? >> i had done a number of works for source books. >> who are they? >> 8 commercial publishing house -- a public -- a commercial publishing house. i had done some history books for them. >> back to stumbling onto this by the book hitting you

william howard taft and generals john pershing, seven astronauts share a single grave.ler, whose plane disappeared on tour entertaining troops during world war ii. arlington also holds a whole new generation of war dead. senator kennedy often attended funerals for the service members from massachusetts killed in iraq or afghanistan. even onef today's military pallbearers was personally touched by ted kennedy. when his mother was short on money, he says, kennedy helped her get medical care. >> in my family, he's a huge -- he's an icon. he's a hero. >> senator kennedy's grave will be marked by a simple white cross and a small marble slab, like his brother's, robert. tom? >> thanks very much, nbc jim miklaszewski tonight. earlier in this special report we said that a number of families from the victims of iraq and afghanistan war, those who lost their lives there, have been asked to delay their burials at arlington national cemetery because they're so backed up, burying about 27 veterans a day there now, part of that, of course, is the result of the world war ii generation

on the -- in the christian science monitor today, clunker of a policy, yep, is the view of john allen williamsuston, texas, good morning to row da. hi there. caller: i think it's a very bad idea for the federal government to get involved in retail promotions or health or education or welfare. but since they did it, why did they limit it to american cars? host: lexington, alabama, good morning to malcolm on our democrats line. caller: i think it should just be made for the american cars. i don't think -- if these german companies want their cars subsidized, let them subsidized it. i don't think it should be our taxpayers money subsidizing other countries. host: some of the auto dealers have made the point, and our guest mentioned toyota, corolla, many of those toyota models and other japanese and foreign makers are made in the united states. caller: yeah, but the profits all go to japan. because it's japanese owned. host: thanks for call. we are joined by tammy davish. she was the vice president of the dark horse automotive group in the washington, d.c. area. thank you for joining us. guest: my

think about the quaker merchant who provided money andodging for william penn and john blmck when they needed to. or elizabeth katie stam, the housewife and mother who spent 50 years campaigning for women's rights. the great libeia

williams. we're coming to you from the john f. kennedy presidential library in boston where the body of j.f.k.'s yngest brother, senator edward kennedy now lies in repose. thousands have joined the line here to pay the respects to the senator who died late tuesday evening. many here can't remember a time when there wasn't a kennedy representing this state in washington. the senator's body accompanied by 85 members of the kennedy family arrived here late this afternoon. after a touching journey from his home in hyannis port. past waving crowds and through somef the places in the city that he cherished. to most of us, kennedy was an iconic, bigger-than-life political figure. but heret was something much more. nbs drea mitchell is here to start off oucoverage. it was an incredible outpouring today, andrea. this line, we should note is just the beginning of a very, very long crowd. >> exactly, lester. many more, thousands, lined up behind, well beyond. it is going to go all night. what we are seeing here tonight and what we have been

some backwoods yeoman farmers who are just as abolitionists in their own way as john brown or wendell phillips or william lloyd garrison. and third, hopefully, this story will highlight for people the way in which the traditional prevailing stories of the civil war have continued to be. [applause] >> so if you do have questions we just ask that you use the mic in the center aisle here. thank you. >> yes, what part of the state is graphically jones county located? >> what part is jones county located, southeastern mississippi, so it's actually very -- the nearest big city is mobile, alabama. and so it's southeastern. that's where the piney woods runs through. there's one county south of jones which is the southern-most southern county and then jones so it's very south, very east. whereas the wealthy planter counties were primarily along the mississippi river because the rich -- known as the black belt, the reason the soil was so rich is because of ther]c spillr from the mississippi river, which is why natchez was the wealthiest city in the county so the planters would live in natchez and they would have t

too, it's good because it reminds people about william ayers. [ laughter ] >> having trouble cutting through a tough piece of pork? not anymore. with johnmccain's complete set of pork knives, they cut the pork out. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> so instead of going to one of those elite department stores with their liberal agendas and over-priced items and their gotcha return policies that violate your first amendment rights, why not do your holiday shopping with us? okay, listen up, everybody, i'm going real great now so keep your voices down. available now we got a bunch of these "palin in 2012" t-shirts. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] just try and wait until after tuesday to wear them. okay? because i am not going anywhere. and i'm certainly not going back to alaska. [ laughter ] if i'm not going to the white house, i'm either running in four years or i'm gonna be a white oprah. so, you know -- [ laughter ] i'm good either way. >> what's going on over there, sarah? >> oh, just talking about taxes. [ laughter ] >> look, would i rather be on three major networks? of course. but i'm a true maverick, a republican without m

coach john harbaugh says recovery is ahead of schedule. to tennis, where serena williams shows off that rare combination of power and agility in her match. serena with a strong return on the baseline. she comes to a stop by doing the splits. and she won. take a look. the hit, the split, the point. she went on to win her match to move into the third round at the rogers company in toronto, where she won again today. >> impressive. whoo! >>> still to come tonight on wjz eyewitness news. breaking news. an emergency medical situation at an eastern shore high school. >>> sky eye chopper 13 is first on the scene and has an update next. >>> coming up right now. emergency crews respond to a medical situation at an eastern shore high school. a live update coming up next. >>> hate crimes. two more suspects in custody. more on the suspect's background. >>> dozens of workers evacuated, after they're poisoned with carbon monoxide. some even hospitalized. i'm jessica kartalija. the latest coming up in a live report. >>> the debate over speed cameras rolls on over baltimore county. and t

bed, bath and beyond, best buy, targets, those were the names today, williams sono sonoma, sears was strong as well. pedro and john got into it last night, but it's the cause of this wealth effect that consumers are feelings and it translates into consumer confidence. >> i like a lot of the transition we're seeing in many areas, and i think you nailed it. not every index -- sometimes you need to dig through to find out what's hot. >> i have an interesting retail trade for you. look at j. crew, the move that it's had since march. they report earnings this thursday after the bell, stock's had a big run-up into earnings, huge short interest. if you think the tape is going down and looking to short a retailer, j. crew mike into earnings, you might get rolled over if you get ahead of the earnings, look for the spike and short into it. >>> top the tapes today, transports, everything climbing on signs that the economy might be turning the corner. >> you look at the rails, the airline industry, and when you look at airlines, you immediately look to oil, but it really all came down to an upgrade today from a group out ther

> how did he get to know james monroe and henry clay and john marshall who was the longest serving chief justice? >> they were enrolled at william and mary as students and they saw him out -- they sought him out. he had stripped tutorials that he held at his house to teach a different language, arithmetic, geography, politics, everything you could think of. monroe was a student for a year when the revolution broke out. he came back after the war and was a student for about a semester. he became very close to thomas jefferson. jefferson was the governor of virginia and ask monroe to come with him to the state house. monroe was reluctant to leave george wythe. jefferson than mentor monroe. john marshall, at that time, his students with keep notebooks and most of the notebooks were about 30 or 35 pages. john marshall's and notebook was 240 pages of notes on things that he listened to from george wythe. in the margins of many of these pages, he would write the name of his girlfriend. he would have all these notes and then he would write i love polly ambler. >> this is a lik like your to sh book? >> my son was a fan when he was eight

we look at where the action is taking place right now with john cusick, senior market adjust with options express, along with williamtz. what can you tell us about the market right now? what are you expecting and what does the current activity tell you? >> right now the current activity has been, you know, pretty tame. you know, volumes have been light on the equity side. but actually, today right before i came on the show in the vix options we actually saw a pretty large print go up in the october 37 1/2 dollar calls. there was about 25,000 of these options that were coming out there. and we're seeing larger strategists coming in and start to put positions on september, october, and even further out, preparing for some potential volatility coming up. >> so william, what kind of volatility are you expecting? particularly if you look at the financial services sector, which has performed so well. what are the options telling you there? >> we think there is an incredible market to be involved with the options because monday people into their offices and they saw the market drop like that, they got very nervous, scared

to paraphrase william butler yates as senator kennedy did himself when he eulogized his nephew john f. kennedy jr. ten years ago, ted kennedy among the kennedy men of his generation alone would live to comb gray hair and we as a nation are better for it. our fifth story, senator kennedy's passing made no easier even with the foreknowledge it would be coming nor the praise it inspired. the death of senator kennedy leaving a gaping hole in the political life of this country and an equally large void in a political dynasty. that family issued a statement reading in part, quote, we've lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives but the inspiration of his faith, optimism, and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever. he loved this country and devoted his life to serving it. he always believed that our best days were still ahead, but it's hard to imagine any of them without him. the ninth and final child of joseph and rose fitzgerald kennedy born on february 22nd, 1932 precisely on the 200th anniversary of the birth of george washington. his brother jack

partner the baltimore sun william cardinal keeler is moving out of the home and edward o'brien is moving in. keeler served from 1989 until 2007. during that time he hosted both pope john paul ii and mother teresa at that home. >> what a move. >>> telling his side of the story, michael jackson's doctor the man at that time center of the pop star's death speaks out for the first time. what he wants everyone to hear. >>> police raid in the park. what investigators say a group of men were doing inside one state park. >>> shooting at the inner harbor. baltimore's police commissioner sounds off on criminals plaguing the city's biggest tourist attraction. >>> are more showers and storms headed our way? i'm bob turk. i'll have the complete forecast coming up next. >>> it is 75 degrees with light showers across central maryland. the complete first warning forecast is coming up but first the doctor at the center of michael jackson's manslaughter investigation speaks for the first time since the pop star's death. in an on-line video dr. conrad murray thanked his supporters and reaffirmed his innocence. >> i have done all i could do. i told the truth, and i have faith the truth w

william county police officer has been charged with murder. mike knolls senior is accused of shooting and killing his landlord. police found the body of 73- year-old john busto in his home in stafford county yesterday. the suspect rented the basement apartment from the victim. right now investigators are not saying what touched off the violence. >>> in what may be his highest profile diplomatic trip since leaving office, former president clinton is in north korea, trying to win the release of two jailed american journalists. drew levinson reports in clinton's office in harlem, new york. >> reporter: former president clinton arrived in north korea top secure the release of two american journalists. he received a warm welcome, and met with reclusive communist dictator kim jong-il. >> it will be a delicate diplomatic dance with president clinton on the ground. >> reporter: they report that clinton conveyed a message from president obama but the white house denies that insisting this is solely a private mission. still, if clinton can convince the north koreans to release euna lee and laura ling i want could clear the way for diplomatic talks. the women wer

williams. a one-handed grab in the end zone. and the guy that is known as spiderman shows his skills on the gel post. johnarbaugh perfectly okay with each side of the ball, making the other play better. >> i wouldn't categorize it. i think our guys are competing. and there is always going to be a little bit of talkback. it's good-natured. it's teammating getting after each other and competing. you want to bury the other side and you want to build them up at the same time. we got nowhere else to be, right? we might adds well have fun with what we're doing. >> unfortunately, terrell suggs did not practice, just a minor heel injury. he'll be back in a few days. bad do see him out of uniform. good do see him in an orioles had. >> i think the city willing to invest in my future and my kids' future, i better change what hats i'm wearing around these days. i found another o's hats to go with my, you know, with my wardrobe. >> basically what he is saying if you give hip $66 million. >> he'll wear an orioles hat. he usually wears yankees hats. >> you're going to be wearing a new hat soon. >> the hat of husband. >>

john f. kennedy and richard nixon in 1960. don hewitt was 86. >>> a soldier with maryland ties has been killed in afghanistan. 31-year-old sergeant first class william woods, junior lived in chesapeake bay peek, virginia, but he was a member of the 20th special forces group in glen arm in baltimore county. the department of defense announced today that woods was shot august 14th in ganzi. he died sunday at a medical center in germany. >>> and at least 95 people have been killed, and more than 400 wounded in a wave of baghdad bombings. it is the deadliest coordinated attack in iraq this year, and come amid fears that iraqi government troupes are not ready to provide security. >> we understand the foreign ministry in baghdad sustained serious damage with multiple deaths and injuries. an attack on a diplomatic facility, and all those working for peaceful relations through dialogue and diplomacy is an attack on the entire international community. >> reporter: officials say the attacks are most likely coordinated by al qaeda, but there is no hard evidence at this time there are no reports of american casualties in this morning's attack. >>> there is word

william shakespeare, the book may be a miniature but the soul was immense. ladies and gentlemen, you cannot go wrong with john stuart mill on liberty. notice, live by it. eat for breakfast, it will make you strong. ask my english body, john stuart mill. if you vote street party ticket, you are a sucker and patsy because sometimes republicans are red, sometimes democrats are right, and additionally the answer is in the middle with the american people and the politicians are ignoring. but again if i could only take one book, a political book worth preserving in that proverbial desert island, it's on liberty, john stuart mill. john stuart mill like darwin and freud, he's one of those guys people take on the little things for those viewers that haven't read john stuart mill, to give a sound bite he basically says that the individual should have the freedom to do anything he or she wants as long as it does not harm others or society. obviously and turn in different ways, but basically think about that. that is what america is about. you know, as long as i don't wreck the neighborhood i can do what i want in my hou

williams expected to start but it's goodson. dwayne jarrett and muhsin muhammad and ryan carill and jordan gross. that will back the panthers up 5 yards. >> stan: we talked to john harbaugh before the game, they ran right into pressures and they did the exact same thing on that one as landry was blitzing. they slipped it outside of him. >> gerry: firstt and 15 for the panthers. knocked down at the 25 yard- line. that time it was a little too much air and almost perfect for ed reed in the secondary. trevor pryce and, justin banon. tavarez trying to become a regular and paul kruger will start tonight. ed reed and landry and washington are the corners. mike goodson remains in the backfield. deangelo williams, the effective starters. on second and 15. goodson with the carry. no room and going down hard. ray lewis going out of his way to introduce himself. >> stan: that's playing control. they cut back to ray lewis. ray takes it. a lot of timeline backers will overpursue that instead of staying in your hole and counting on your teammates. >> the panthers third and 17 on the ravens defense. they have had two touchdowns in pre-season. delhomme will look for the screen

civil-rights and race relations with one williams live on sunday at noon eastern on booktv's in depth on c-span2. >> book expo america, yale university press book with john donatich. what do you have? >> number of great books starting with "the making of americans: democracy and our schools" by e. d. hirsch, jr.. e. d. hirsch, jr. wrote a best-selling novel called cultural literacy. he cares very much about what role education has in defining what it is to be american. this book is the capstone of his career. many bestsellers, many decades of activism and education to talk about the centrality of information and knowledge and what it means to have a shared base of knowledge and how important that is to the national identity and our is being threatened by the way education is limited across the country. it is a book that has a lot of arguments, advocacy, ways to look forward to what the new administration can do about education. >> the other book, "elephants on the edge: what animals teach us about humanity". >> this is a marvelous book, very moving, very touching. what she does here, she has quite a platform in doing this. what she tries to do is underst

john willms was so afid of the buckling buck. >> i bugold coins as a hedge against inflation. >> thesare called gold eagles. >> reporter: williamsaken us to his local goldealer, charlie mmoser. a lot ofeople like him, lie? >> yeah, there's - quite lot of them actually, eecially the way, you knowthe economy's be going, and the dollars been dow and oils been up, and gold's been running craz >> reporter: what was gold a the time, per oue? >> right now gold is ven-fifty d ten cents. >> reporter: the pre had actually bn higher, but wiiams was unfazed. >> whether you buyt at $750, $700, $1000, it's going to ba buy overhe long-term, because long-term, we have a terrib inflation probleahead of us. >> repter: mind you at that vermoment, the fear gripping govnment was of just the opposite: de-flation. in fac within a week, we lled the inflation report which took us to newaven and oakland,ecause inflation just wasn't a story anymore. conmers had suddenlfrozen their spenng. o had businesses. prces were plummeting; banks, failing. theconomic story in the interim has been governme aving the system from deflation, especially fed reserve chairm

john harwood. >> scott cohn. developments related to the bernie madoff case. >> the massachusetts secretary of state, william galvin, rejected a settlement, multimillion dollar proposed settlement, bin of the largest madoff feeder funds. the fairfield green itch group. the fairfield greenwich group was sued in an administrative group back in april saying that the -- feeder fund failed to protect madoff investors. this fund had offered a multimillion dollar settlement which we are told would have included full restitution for the massachusetts investors, direct and possibly indirect in that fund. which is roughly about $6 million or so from roughly ten individuals. the massachusetts secretary of state's office has shot that down. it is calling it a transparent attempt. thinly veiled attempt to circumvent the administrative process, pointing out the settlement would not have made any admissions of guilt. they take issue with that and it is all premature because there hasn't been a hearing. this proposed settlement with the fairfield greenwich group has been rejected by the massachusetts secretary of state. fairfield

the authors are james woolsey, william webster, michael hayden, john deutch, james wessinger of formerectors of the cia. >> thank you and i will also introduce he will keep the record open for this because of course there are equally impressive people who take an opposite view and those letters will also be placed in the record but to both pro and con the record will stay open for 24 hours. anyuch records and any such letters. >> mr. chairman, thank you for having this hearing. i am on record as saying that this, the idea of creating an independent, and then not sure how independent it wod actually be, unaccountable, a truth commission is a bad idea. with all due respect. the suggestion that this subject can be delve into somehow in a non-partisan fashion, to me, asked us to suspend our power of this belief on those who ha worked here and over the last six years in my case, and ignore the fact that we have already had 150 oversightearings on the subject. we have loved more than 320 hours of witness ttimony and unclassified settings, transcribe more than 3,200 pages of witness testimony

john hughes died suddenly of a heart attack while taking a walk in new york city this afternoon. among hughes' many credits, "the breakfast club," and "ferris buhler's day off" and "home alone." >>> prince william county pice respond to claims they used excessive force when they used a stun gun to subdue a man at a baptism. >>> maker renovations for the upcoming school year. >> surprising information about the effectiveness of a rapid swine flu test. controversy over the latest creation of a spanish toy >>> be real, learn to be emotional. >> video from youtube of the gunman who shot a dozen women before killing himself at a pittsburgh fitness center. george sodini wrote a rambling blog to vent his frustration of not being able to connect with women. it showed mounting anger over loneliness and detailed his deadly plan. three of the women shot tuesday night were killed. minutes before he opened fire he made a cell phone call to his mother. they won't reveal what he said during that conversation. >>> a hacker attacked a popular social networking service thursday morning and no one was able to tweet a thing about it. twitter experienced an outage at about 9:00 a.m. because of a denial of service a

there we see our former president, william jefferson clinton weaking off the plane. >> followed by his former chief of staff, john podesta. there are the two former colleagues embracing. >> this is all quite a surreal moment to watch unfold. there you see the president shaking hands with the family members. i'm sure they want to give him a big show of gratitude as well for his work in securing the release of the two journalists. >> absolutely. as the former secretary of defense william cohen was saying, president clinton wanted to go to north korea in the waning days of his presidency an the latter half of the year 2000, thought that an election year might be too much after symbol. so decided not to go on the trip. he's wanted to go back there for a long, long time, had the opportunity to here. what a tremendous premise under which to make that trip to pyongyang as well when you can bring back these two journalists. we talked about the dangers that you face as a journalist, particularly in that part of the world where you're dealing with potentially hostile borders. euna lee is a photographer and editor. and typi

john adams for instance didn't do that. >> what an irony that he created a dynasty that ended up being liberal. >> ends up being liberal, but, you know, he said to william o. d douglas, you're a huge rib lal and jack is a lot more liberal than i am, but you two guys are the two i love most in public life in the 1950s, so could figure. >> thank you so much for being up there and being with nbc at this important time in our history. it's great to have a great historian aboard. >>> up next, a preview of our documentary "the kennedy brothers." it puts together robert, jack, and teddy and the way they worked together and the way they honored each other in a way almost making each other bigger than they were separately. what a story of brotherhood, of sibling possibilities. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. time to change my tires. when it comes to shaving i know when to change my blade. (announcer) gillette fusion's indicator strip fades to white when it may be time to change. fresh blade. better shave. - oh, come on. - enough! you get half and you get half. ( chirp ) team three, boathouse? ( chirp ) oh yeah-- his and hers. - ( crowd gasping ) - ( ch

john f. kennedy. she died today at the age of 88. she was surrounded by her husband, the five children, her 19 grandchildren. let's assess, let's remember eunice kennedy shriver with vanessa williams the grammy-nominated recording artist, the star of tv's "ugly betty," a board member of special olympics, and scott hamilton. he earned the gold medal in figure skating. he's a board member of special olympics as well. vanessa, without her, eunice kennedy shriver, there would be no special olympics, would there? >> absolutely not. she was a remarkable woman filled with hope and faith and she touched every person's lives she came across, and people all over the world. special olympics is truly a movement, and once you join the family, you never leave. i started out as an artist singing on the very special christmas album back in '92, and i have not only been a fan but signed on as a board member for the international olympics and have traveled the world, been able to speak, dine and be part of an amazing organization where eunice kennedy shriver was the leader. >> scott, what struck you most about her and her passion for the special olympics? >> she was a force. anyone in her presence

john roberts. but we won't actually hear from her until a white house ceremony next week. ann? >> all right, pete williams this morning. pete, thanks. >>> today, new figures from the labor department on the nation's unemployment rate and analysts say that nearly 15 million americans are looking for jobs. and that the numbers are likely to keep growing into next year. >>> last night the senate approved an additional $2 billion to extend the cash for clunkers program. the president hailed the vote saying the program is giving the economy a much-needed boost. >>> dramatic rescues in the philippines where flooding has killed at least ten people and triggered landslides. three villages are under water, and cut off. >>> twitter is tweeting again this morning, after hackers disrupted it for hours on thursday. hackers also slowed down facebook for a time. >>> and boxing great mohammed ali was on hand to help give an award to the new york yankees last night. but it was ali who ended up being honored by the crowd that began chanting his name as he neared home plate. one yankee player said seeing ali there was givin

williams. >> good morning and welcome to the court. >> reporter: nearly everything about this ceremony made history. as her mother selena held the bible and her brother juan stood by, chief justice john roberts led her through the oath. >> i, sonia sotomayor do solemnly swear -- >> reporter: formally making her the nation's first hispanic preme court justice. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations, and welcome to the court. >> reporter: friends and family members applauded and she hugged her mother who raised her as a single parent after her father died when she was 9. for the first time, cameras were allowed in to record the event. just before in a private ceremony, roberts led her through another oath, federal law requires a special one for judges. the event was a big change from past swearing-in ceremonies for supreme court justices held at the white house. white house and supreme court officials all say it was president obama's desire to have sonia sotomayor's swearing-in at the supreme court and on camera. >> the president, somebody who studied the supreme court, believes it is simply best for independence to have the new justice sworn in where she'll do her wo

johns hopkins university school of advanced international studies. for more information visit sais-jhu.edu. >> today, join the conversation on race relations with juan williamsr of eyes on the prize and npr and fox news analyst. live today noon eastern on booktv's in depth on c-span2. >> this summer booktv is asking, what are you reading? >> hi, i'm nick yesless by, i'm the editor in chief of reason.tv and reason.com, the web supplement to reason magazine, the nation's only monthly magazine of free minds and free markets. we've been around since 1968, we're a small libertarian magazine that's interested in things like free minds and free markets, open borders, drug legalization, economic deregulation, basically letting it rip. laissez-faire across the board. i read a lot. for this summer my favorite book so far which is hitting bookstores in august is peter bags' everybody is stupid except for me and other astute observations. peter is reason's official cartoonists, he does long form reported comic essays for about the past ten years, and everybody's stupid except for me has already gotten rave reviews from places like esquire. it's a great read. other books

kenny williams has been after jake peavy for a year and finally got him. >> bob: swing and a miss on a pitch upstairs. johnn has retired 5-6 last batters. and that's a pop-up out intoleft center. nyjer morgan is caught -- has caught hundreds of those here and that will do it for the pirates in the fifth. lannan is due to lead off. does he bat or is he done? stay tuned. pa announcer: final boarding call... all passengers... each with an average speed of 590 mph... almost as fast as you. nothing's gonna hold you down. grab your bag . it's on™west so our low fares stay low. ( ding ) book now at southwest.com.  >> bob: ladies and gentleme there was been an assassination attempt in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. a president versus perogi's replay. watch teddy roosevelt may be running, rob, better than he ever has before. >> rob: teddy looked like he was going to bring home the victory for the nationals and the perogy took him out. he just -- >> bob: you just can't trust a perogy in pittsburgh. >> rob: that was one of the best cross-body blocks i've ever seen of a president ever. >> bob: here is john lannan lea

william errors which i considered a possibility under obama. i will say one thing that surprised me since the election that john mccain oddly enough seems to have been won over to tax-cutting because he voted against both of bush's tax cuts. he was a big proponent of amnesty. he wanted to shut down gitmo if we are going to get the democratic party i would rather than and it is just something about republicans they go for the next guy in line. it's been a disaster there will not learn. i think michael steele needs to punish the early primary states or any states that allow democrats and independents to vote in the primaries but with john mccain as a nominee and this was before he chose sarah palin who was the one i ended up voting for, but that was for sarah -- between hillary clinton and john mccain i will take hillary. they would be about the same and we wouldn't get blamed for it and also republicans would notify back. that is something a lot of us learned during the bush administration like with amnesty you want to support your president, your party is in the white house and a lot of the spending goes up, a lot of the things that hurt republ

that's below truman and below john kennedy overall but ahead of both of them in his relations with congress. and the reason for that was summarized by the journalist william s. white, who said it was clear within a few months of eisenhower becoming president to "every adult observer in washington" that the president had struck a tacit understanding with the democratic leadership in congress that he would not try to undo roosevelt's new deal and truman's fair deal if the democrats protected him from the far right wing of his own party that were attacking things of his foreign policy at that time and so the democrats supported eisenhower on foreign policy and eisenhower did not disrupt the policies that were already in effect on the domestic side. bryce harlow used to regularly arrange for leaders of congress to come down for drinks with eisenhower at the white house, but they never publicized these meetings because these were not the republican leaders of the congress, these were the democratic leaders of congress, speaker sam rayburn and senate majority leader lyndon johnson. when eisenhower left office he was replaced by united states senator john f. ken

williams, noon eastern on c-span 2. >> "washington journal" continues. host: 202-737-0001 for republicans, 202-737-0002 for democrats, and independent viewers, 202-628-0205. john burns writes out of london for the "new york times." he writes, gary mackinnon has admitted he has tapped into dozens of military computers in 2001, 2002, saying he was looking for ufo information. the latest ruling denied his request for judicial review approving a request for his extradition. a court order also rejected his bid to be tried in britain. he and knowledge packing into 97 computers pulling to the defense department, navy, army, air force, and nasa in the months before september 11. his actions were influenced, says his family, by a form of autism that he has. there's also a story in the hartford paper that reflects off an announcement made by christopher dodd yesterday, reporting that he has prostate cancer and will get surgery for that. current.com is where you find the story. he says that the cancer diagnosis -- the surgery will take place at memorial sloan- kettering test cancer center in new york city, the second week of the month, after the senate adjourns. he expec

that's below truman and below john kennedy overall but ahead of both of them in his relations with congress. and the reason for that was summarized by the journalist william. white, who said it was clear within a few months of eisenhower becoming president to "every adult observer in washington" that the president had struck a tacit understanding with the democratic leadership in congress that he would not try to undo roosevelt's new deal and truman's fair deal if the democrats protected him from the far right wing of his own party that were attacking things of his foreign policy at that time and so the democrats supported eisenhower on foreign policy and eisenhower did not disrupt the policies that were already in effect on the domestic side. bryce harlow used to regularly arrange for leaders of congress to come down for drinks with eisenhower at the white house, but they never publicized these meetings because these were not the republican leaders of the congress, these were the democratic leaders of congress, speaker sam rayburn and senate majority leader lyndon johnson. when eisenhower left office he was replaced by united states senator john f. kenne

with his nephew, william kennedy smith, and then vickie reggie, daughter of a political family herself, her father, a former judge ed reggie, was a delegate to the 1960 convention for john f. kennedy. an early supporter of robert f. kennedy for the presidency. they get married and she brought a healing process to him that he had not had in his life. i think for many, many years. and she has been such strength alongside him especially over 0 the last two years and it was her -- we can say this now -- it was her goal early this year to get ted kennedy through this summer because he loved being where he was when he died. he loved being home. he was home with history. the world knew him. he was known around the globe. but he was home when he died. and that's what she wanted. that's what he wanted. >> he was home. you're right, this morning when he passed away. we're remembering ted kennedy this morning. we'll have more on our special coverage from the passing of senator kennedy with brian williams. also senator bob kerrey has come into our studio. we'll talk to him and mike barnicle's own personal remembrances. we also have nbc white house correspondent savannah guthrie wit

john f. kennedy -- of harvard. dr. edwards has appeared on many tv and radio programs and has had many articles in national newspapers. his upcoming book is a biography of william f. buckley. he currently resides in virginia with his wife. >> thank you. good morning, ladies and judgment. it is a beautiful day in washington, and a great day to be alive. especially if you are a young c books made a profound difference in the life of ronald reagan. in mid october of 1965, my wife and i spent a today's traveling with reagan in southern california when he was considering whether to run for governor of that state. at the end of the second day, reagan took us up the steep road to his home in pacific palisades, overlooking los angeles. while he and nancy were in the kitchen, i walked over to the bookcase and there -- in their den and began examining the titles. there were almost without exception works of history, economics, and politics. they included conservative classics. whitaker chambers, and a book i had never heard of. the law. that wasn't good enough for me, so i began taking up the books from the shelves and looking at them. my wife said don't do that and i sa