that you were the guy who sued as a conservative activist with the with freedom works or the judicial watch or you're the guy who sued the cheney task force dick cheney had to task force he was in charge of the counterterrorism task force which didn't bother me until september of two thousand and eleven or two thousand one and the energy task force they were meeting in march and april what did you learn oh that's right tom we were very interested at the time to see how we were formulating energy policy because there cheney was stonewalling producing it producing any documents revealing what was going on behind closed doors with his energy task force and we filed document requests with the energy department and with various national security agencies and what pops up a document which showed that the american oil companies were meeting with the administration giving up the oil. fields in iraq they were again b.s. but those oil fields were being controlled by european companies we wanted control of those companies and i've always believed that one of the primary reasons we invaded iraq was to

author former federal prosecutor in the reagan administration and founder of the organization's judicial watch and freedom watch dot org colonel wilkerson larry i figure i'll come to welcome to both of you colonel you're on the record as saying that you believe that the war in iraq was in part at least driven by a desire to get oil to change famously said ten percent of the world's oil reserves are there it's cheap oil back in two thousand and one. can you elaborate on that what causes you to believe you know i i'm not sure it was to get a well i'm not sure that's the way to put it i think it was to ensure that one of the greatest reserves of oil known reserves of oil in the world was well protected and i wouldn't say it was to get it into the hands. of chevron royal dutch shell exxon mobil another private companies because they're a lot harder to deal with the national companies like the mexican but as oil and saudi and so it was to stabilize one of the greatest resources in the world in terms of nonrenewable thoughts of fuels incidentally iraq report last week came out saying one hundred bil

acquire those contentious images through freedom of information act requests cox news politico judicial watch citizens united and the associated press have all filed for requests to obtain at the photographs and that video now all fox news request was more awful when the associated press senior managing editor michael oren ski's makes a solid case for disclosing those images not only to the site the fact that the president vowed to make his administration more transparent than ever before but he also makes an important statement that this information is important for the historical record the risk of explained in an interview with the atlantic wire it's about us saying we would like to make our own news judgments about newsworthy material and as you probably remember the white house had a lot of trouble getting their original narrative straight as to how the operation in pakistan was carried out and the rescues it makes the point that if the videos and the images were released the public can see for themselves what really happened as of now we've only heard of politico not receiving any sort

judicial watch is the name and it is now asking the defense department to comply with its freedom ofmation requests. >>> also an imam from hawaii and four family members are charged with providing support to the taliban in pakistan. fbi agents say they are all under arrest and three others being sought in pakistan, including his daughter and grandson. an indictment alleges they all conspired to provide material support in a conspiracy to kill, injure and kidnap people abroad. >>> also just a few hours from now, the mississippi river's flood waters are expected to be pouring through the morganza spillway in louisiana. this would be the first time that's happened in some 40 years. u.s. army corps of engineers expected to open those flood gates to protect baton rouge and new orleans, but other areas in southeastern louisiana will have to get that water. reynolds, water has got to go somewhere and what they're trying to do here, divert that water, save baton rouge and new orleans, but trying to ease the pressure on those levees. >> right, exactly. what's weird about that is by sparing so

judicial nominee. >>> everyone watched linked in explode yesterday. scott mcgrew you are live at the maker fair. >> my favorite place in the world, the maker fair. let's talk linked in and prices. we closed at $94.25. it was up 109% in the first day of trading. the ceo is in the middle opening the opening bell thursday. the ceo made $250 million. the big question is what happens today after all the excitement? we kind of figure some of the investors are not in linked in for the long term. it's something we will watch carefully for the day. if you invested in apple a year ago, you would be up 40% today. it keeps rising fueled by these people. people so excited about owning apple products. it turns out a bbc study says the same region of your brain that gets excited about religion gets excited about apple products. i want to shout out to a second grader from san francisco. he is the google doodle. that's his picture. if you go to google today, his artwork will be there. it's going to hang in the whitney museum. >> very cool. >> he gets a college scholar

first was the success of the military campaign or be it as human rights watch documented a company considered by a number of judicial excuses in counterkillings in that part of the world, though local journalists and whom i spoke with did say if any consolation, the army is generally getting the right people, so it is shooting -- [laughter] at the taliban hard liners rather than shooting people at random which i'm afraid in that part of the world does happen fairly often. there has not been a serious terrorist attack there in more than six months. the activists of the taliban and the local party, the tsm is driven out and most leadership is in afghanistan actually casting an interesting light on our problem with pakistan and pakistan's problem with us. part of the leadership of the pakistani taliban is in afghanistan. anyway, the second thing more surprising, actually, and this indicates the success of the military campaign, that unlike the growing impression of a few years back up to the spring of 2009, the pakistani army is capable of defeating insurgency in some areas, con taping it, and at least to some extent r

albeit, of course, as human rights watch as accurately documented accompanied by a number of judicial executions, counterkillings as they're called in that part of the world. though local journalists and the lawyer with whom i spoke did say, if that's any consolation, that the army is generally getting the right people. so it is shooting -- [laughter] the taliban hard liners rather than shooting people at random which i'm afraid in that part of the world does happen fairly often. there hasn't been a serious terrorist attack now many swat for more than six months. the activists of the taliban and the local party, the tnsm, have been driven out. the leadership is most likely in afghanistan, actually, which casts an interesting light on our problems with pakistan and pakistan's problems with us. the leader of the pakistan taliban is in afghanistan, but part of a the leadership of the afghanistan taliban is in pakistan. anyway. the second thing, more surprising, actually, and this indicates -- the success of the military campaign -- that unlike the growing impression of a few year back up

judicial nominee. time to get a look at the weekend's forecast. looking good. >> good morning, marla. good morning to you at home. watch for the fog.g in. mostly cloudy conditions over the area. it's not going to last long. we don't have rain in the forecast for the weekend. that's the best news for this morning. 52 degrees in concord. 55 in hayward. it's more mild in the north bay and around the peninsula. you want to take it easy up in santa rosa and napa. less than a half mile of visibility in some spots. this is what we are expecting by 8:00 a.m. 54 degrees, mostly cloudy. take a look at what happens by noon. we see a lot of the cloud cover break apart. 64 degrees mild. by 4:00 p.m., a lot of sunshine over the bay. 69 degrees in the city. breezy conditions elsewhere. we are talking the upper 70s in some cases. 77 degrees in concord. 75 in fremont. 75 degrees in san jose. the south bay probably the warmest. we don't see as much fog down there. san francisco, if you are headed to the big game tonight, our boys are back in town taking on the as at 7:15. it will be on the cool side. bring a jacket with you. overall, we are looking

judicial system, and we may see amanda knox coming home. >> sunny hostin joins us every week at this time to discuss legal issues and you can watch her weekys during "in session" on trutv. >>> the taliban taking credit for another attack. that report next. plus restoring rinse.ing it's the only listerine® that gets teeth two shades whiter and makes tooth enamel two times stronger. get dual-action listerine® whitening rinse. building whiter, stronger teeth. >>> some of the top stories tonight, taliban militants say they deliberately targeted a high level meeting between nato and afghan officials in northern afghanistan today. seven people there were killed, nine others hurt when a suicide bomber blew himself up. among the injured, the head of nato's northern afghanistan command. he's said to be in stable condition. >>> a scary landing for passengers aboard a delta air lines flight. pittsburgh to atlanta was the route. the flight 2284, more than 40 passengers, 5 crew on board. caught fire shortly after touching down at hartsfield-jackson international airport in atlanta. fire crews calls and doused the plan. the passengers had to be evacuat

judicial system and we may see amanda knox coming home. >> sonny hostin joins us here on cnn every week at this time to discuss the legal issues. you can watch on trutv. there's been another attack on nato forces. the taliban taking credit. that report next. what's this option? that's new. personal pricing now on brakes. tell us what you want to pay. we do our best to make that work. deal! my money. my choice. my meineke. >>> some of the top stories tonight taliban militants say they deliberately target ad high level meeting between nato and afghan officials in northern afghanistan today. seven people there were killed, nine others hurt when a suicide bomber blew himself up. among the injured the head of nato's northern afghanistan command. he is said to be in stable condition. a scary landing for passengers aboard a delta airlines flight. pittsburgh to atlanta was the route. the flight 2284. more than 40 passengers, five crew on board caught fire shortly after touching down at hartsfield jackson international airport here in atlanta. fire crews called and doused the plane. the passengers had to be evacuated. on to the taxiway using the larg

tenns watching anotheree republican ts senator, the senior senator from tennessee who said this in 2005, and i quote, i pledged then and there i will never filibuster in the presnoident's judicial votea nominee, period. i might against them but i will always see them come to devotee. the senator from tennessee is here today never as annt unambiguous as it gets whether we are watching to see the see i public pledge the junior senator from georgia said this in 2005,t and i quote, i will vote to support a vote up or down on uen every nominee. understanding that william a minority party on the issues i s will take exactly the samedoes position because this document, our constitution, end of quote. the senator from georgia will be voting this afternoon.isin now as he predicted he is in ths minority and the issue is the reversed. we will see if as he promised hl will take the same position. four years ago anotheran of they republican senator as the senioe senator from , utah and chairman of the judiciary committee said" this on the floor and i quote, we may not use the word rule o advise we may not use our role ofun advicede and consent to undermie appoint judges. d it is wrong to us

watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> up next, we continue our first lady programming with jacqueline kennedy. barbara perry, former judicial fellow at the u.s. supreme court, recounts the transformative effect mrs. kennedy had on the white house. this is about an hour. >> thank you, don, so much for putting this series together, for that very nice introduction. thank you, too, to mary and felicia as well at the u.s. capitol historical society. don and i were chatting that it's especially appropriate to talk about jacqueline kennedy at a historical society such as this because it was mrs. kennedy who kicked off the movement to have historical societies for our branches of government. it was the white house that had the very first historical society founded by mrs. kennedy in 1961, and then the capitol historical society followed just one year later in 1962. and then a few years later, 1974, the supremes as we call them, the u.s. supreme court his to historical society was founded. we're dateful because these associations are helpful in keeping alive the history of these three very important branches of our government. so we

judicial nomination. that's four. there are more. that is precisely the vote before us now. we'll be watching to see if the senior senator from utah follows his own counsel or if he, in his own judgment, undermines the authority of 9 president of the united states -- authority of the president of the united states. these pledges were made publicly and plainly. in a court of law, this would be -- they would be considered pretty clear evidence. it doesn't take a great legal mind of a goodwin liu to recognize that simple principle. we've heard the promises. now we'll hear the votes. i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion. we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, heeb move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of goodwin liu of california to be united states circuit judge for the ninth circuit. signed by 17 senators. the presiding officer: by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waive