but the images that tell us that, the buckled pavement, in oklahoma, firemen getting wet in ks kansas kansas. >> it's very hot. very humid today. >> reporter: the chorus of the hot weather laments. >> i can't stand it. i just can't stand it. >> reporter: it's actually a time honored summer ritual. because we've had hot weather before. >> the pattern that we're seeing right now is very similar to the 1930s and '40s. we've been here before but we have a lot more people, a lot of requirements now and a lot more exposure to it the number of people with have. >> reporter: still this is now. and, it does have consequences, economic ones, for example. this heat can be hard on crops. that was evident at this farmer's market. >> we had three tomatoes off of one vine. that's all. before they just fried. >> reporter: the heat can hit the nation's corn crop. and corn needs cool nights. >> really holt weather can stress the corn crops in the midwest, for example. we're concerned about the warm conditions in the overnight periods that strain the growth of the corn crop. we could see corn that's coming in

kansas? >> i have been dealing with the abortion issues in kansas since i was a little girl. we had picketers at our house every sunday. i am immensely proud of my father for what he does. i'm sorry i'm crying. >> it's ok. >> however, he's amazing, and i wanted to be able to take care of patients like he does. >> is the mention -- you mentioned there the environment in terms of created by the anti-abortion protesters in kansas. kansas often has really been the bull's-eye in terms of the anti-abortion movement. do you feel that the state has taken steps to protect you from the excesses of the extremists, i guess, on the edge of that movement? obviously, we have seen and we all know too well the violent edge of extremism in that movement. do you feel protected by the state? either of you? >> of course not. you know that they could care less. we have had to hire our own security firms at times. fortunately, our office is located in a large parking area that is private property, so we do not have picturkets. we are not a clinic. we take care of the patient one-on-one. they can have a family member or a loved one or a parent with them if they're having a termination. if they are in the office for a termination for a fetus with abnormalities, it's a wanted pregnancy, they don't have to be in group counseling with 20 other women. they don't have to stay in a mass recovery room with 20 other women. they can recover

around the rest of the country, we have thunderstorms out in central kansas and kansas city today, even. louis. there will be a slight chance of afternoon thunderstorms. we'll see a greater coverage in atlanta and alabama and mississippi and along the gulf. you're in your wet season with o dust video pictures, more haboobs. >> word of the day. all right, bill, thanks so much. who is the highest paid actress in hollywood? it's a tie. >>> plus, a high paid hollywood actor risks life and limb in iceland on an adventure show. your first look at entertainment is straight ahead. ever wish ves didn't taste so vegetably? well, v8 v-fusion juice gives you a full serving of vegetables, plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. and try our deliciously refreshing v8 v-fusion + tea. inside all of us is a compass and it always points true north. toward mountains of sand. toward new sights and sensations. toward the true bounty of nature so let's set our compass for traverse city and find ourselves. in the magic, and the moments of pure michigan. your trip begins at michigan.org. di

kansas, the war in kansas, the kansas/nebraska act of -- you had a civil war, you had murder going on. people of kansas and missouri were murdering each other over slavery. if you think we're living through tough times now, i mean, nothing compared -- i mean, you had bands of guerrilla fighters including john brown. and john brown, who's insane, but not insane enough to commit murder, gets together with his crazy family and a bunch of other anti-slavery nut cases, and they're out there with a guerrilla army in kansas murdering people for no reason other than they are pro-slavery or that they owned slaves. murdering people. his most vicious act, the massacre at potowatomie, i don't know if i pronounced that right, creek in 1856 with four of his sons and three other men, they abducted five men -- i don't even think they were slave owners -- and got a broad sword and cut, you know, cut their skulls in half. and, i mean, it was murder. so when you read all these lovely things about john brown and all this politically correct stuff, fine. maybe he was a great man. i don't know, he strikes

kansas. i know kansas city, you're dry now, but we've got rain heading your way. tampa, we're dry by i-95 all the way to georgia and maine. it will be later today we'll have to deal with some of the storms. here's a look at the radar in kansas. you've got about a hundred miles here. in wichita, the rain is beginning to topi ta. and in wichita it looks like scattered showers also starting. give it another hour or two and the rain looks like it's going to head your way. it shouldn't be thunderstorms. light cool rain. actually refreshing earlier today. here's your forecast. i had to put a disclaimer on the top of my weather map. if you look at the icon it looks a lot worse than it is, these are the typical afternoon thunderstorms. they're going to be isolated. not everyone's going to get hit. in philly and new york and d.c., all areas down in florida, again, we showed you that rain for kansas city later today you'll have a chance for another storm or two. oklahoma and also texas and as we go into friday, more or less the same thing but i think the concentration is greater here in the mid-atlantic. also florida, we're watching the forecast closely, very on kachlt it does not look great for "atlantis's" launch. only a 70% chance

kansas, i'd like to talk about the coal industry. you might say, well, kansas and the coal industry, what's that have to do with kansas? i'm a farmer by trade and we produce a lot of corn and wheat and soy bones and many other things -- soybeans and many other things, but in order to produce those, we need a lot of electricity. we built a coal-fired electrical power plant in western kansas. it yen rates electricity that covers six or seven states. a few years ago western said, we need more electricity, our economy continues to grow. and we begin the process in western kansas to expand our electrical production. we need more electricity. if the economy is going to grow, and i'm sorry to say now the economy is not growing very quickly urn this administration and let me tell you why, it's called overregulation. it's called litigation. it's call the attempt by this administration and others outside that are working together with this administration to stop the generation of more electricity, more energy of various types. we need more energy. we need more american energy and we can produce that. we're trying to do that right

kansas morning." ♪ i long for kansas morning." >> her dreadful line. ♪ i see you now ♪ you're flying high ♪ kansas on my brain ♪ i'm trapped in maineficult one. i'm very fond of "sunset boulevard." >> that's my favorite. >> but it's in one sense one of the most complete ones i've done. "phantom of the opera" i'm very fond of. >> i love that moment when norman comes down the stairs. to me it's one of the most powerful of any musical i've seen. yeah. ♪ >> wonderful moment, it's a gift. when the guy says turning the lights on. the lights come together. that is a genuine over active moment. >> she was fantastic. >> wonderful thing. superb actress. the fact that she wouldn't really consider her self to be a great singer but it didn't matter because she -- he held the the agency like nobody else. >> michael jackson wanted to play the phantom. >> yeah. he wanted to play the movie. i thought carefully about talking about this especially after his death. it sounded like i was jumping on the band wagon. it is true. he came to see it several times. he came to see it here in new york. >> did you speak to him about it seriously? >> yes. but the

since june, there have been 13 heat-related deaths in kansas alone, in kansas city alone. the national weather service has issued heat watches, warnings and advisories in more than 30 states. more than 140 million americans are now trapped under what experts call a heat dome. it's high pressure that compresses air, cooks it, holds it in place over more than one million square miles, basically just turns this whole area into a convection oven. let's bring in the weather channel's carl parker. when might we see some relief? >> we will get hotter initially in the northeast and then cooler. the middle of the country is not really going to change any time soon. that big area of high pressure anchored right here is going to expand farther eastward, so 98, 99 degrees in d.c. today, then tomorrow, we look for 101 in new york city. it will feel even hotter than that, 100 in raleigh. still very hot along the eastern seaboard on saturday, 101 in d.c. again, nothing really changes in the middle of the country. so very hot through the weekend for a lot of the midatlantic region but the

kansas between 1997 and 2010. seven of which yielded convictions. that's the evidence. 13 years, 7 convictions. convictions? detailed in a report from mr. coback's office in kansas. they consist of the following. one instance of electioneering, so campaigning too close to a polling place and six incidents of double voting, people voting in kansasr another state or two different counties in kansas. again, the seven convictions that are evidence to make voting harder is one case of electioneering and six cases of double voting. here's the thing, whether or not those seven cases seem like a reign of voter terror to you, none of the things for which those people were convicted would be prevented by kansas' new voter i.d. law. making somebody show a photo i.d. before they vote does not prevent them from campaigning too close to a polling place, doesn't prevent them from voting in two different places. if they had to show photo i.d., show it in both places. none of those issues would be prevented or solved by the remedy that has been instituted in kansas and across the country to address this supposed problem. so congratulations, you have made it harder to vote and harder to register to vote and still not solved the problem you claim to have your hair on fire about. one way to get booze was getting it prescribed to you by a doctor,

kansas, yeah, bleeding kansas as it was known was really sort of a place where americans learned to kill other americans. it was where the bloodshed began. and i do think it's fair to say in some ways that the civil war began there. that battle, literally a battle of slavery began there. and, you know, in our country one of the reasons i believe that we're so fascinated in the civil war is that in a democratic system we are always doing battles against each other. we even used the metaphor the battles to talk about our politics. political campaigns, you know, and so it is like we're on the verge of warfare, but the civil war was the one time that actually turned into real shoot them up warfare. and something happened at that moment that guns start to fire. a line is crossed, and especially as we've seen in our own times when people start to turn guns on their own fellow citizens. i do believe that kansas in 1856 was where that became a sort of a credible reality, and without that moment the war couldn't eventually happen. >> as a constitutional historian i can't resist this one, 1857, dred scott. >> dred scott. >> but i think dred scott, it's important not where the ballots become bullets. that's a pretty big turning point. >> yes, sir. >> my question is about britain's response to the beginning of the civil war. i understand in the early stages of conflict that britain was sympathetic, if not supported, to the confederacy. and i would imagine because of the importance, vital importance of the british economy of the 19th century. can you tell me when that attitude changed and how and why britain changed later on? >> yeah, i think, you know, when we talk about the british, again, it was a place and they were people as competent and divide as americans are, so there were many individual britain's -- their individual britons were in favor of the confederacy. i think particularly within t

kansas morning." ♪ i long for kansas morning her dreadful line. ♪ i see you now ♪ you're flying high ♪ kansas on my which is your favorite child. which of all the musicals is your personal favorite of yours? >> oh, difficult one. i'm very fond of "sunset boulevard." >> that's my favorite. >> but in one sense i think it's one of the most complete ones i've done. "phantom of the opera" i'm very fond of. i genuinely think -- when the guy says "turn the lights on." i mean, the lights come together, and that is a genuine ope operatic movement. >> she was fantastic. >> wonderful thing. superb actress. the fact that she wouldn't really consider herself to be a great singer but it didn't matter because she -- he held the stage like nobody else. >> it is true that michael jackson wanted to play the phantom? >> yeah. he wanted to play the movie. i mean, i thought carefully about talking about this especially after his death, and i sounded like i was jumping on the bandwagon a bit to talk about it then. it is true. he came to see it several times. he came to see it here in new york. >> did you speak to him ab

kansas-nebraska act. by letting people decide for themselves, he feared as did most of that kansas would choose to become a slave state and nebraska would be a free state. turnon after great deal of violence and bloodshed that kansas became a free state but benton had no way of knowing that and 1854. california had been admitted to the union as a single great big state that did not have slavery but the had been debated becoming too states and there was a movement afoot to divide california into two states. someone prominent in that movement by the way was james. the mexican territory had not yet been decided, but there was in the wind the idea that it needed to fight horizontally, and as we mentioned a moment back during the civil war that effort was made. so that bentsen had the fear that there was a whole thing going on in the west regarding the slave states and free states. this is the nightmare number three. cuba. he mentioned the ambassador trying to buy it from spain which turned out didn't work out. but there was a movement, a secret plan what they discussed in the newspapers to raise a private army and invade cuba and in sleaved those who were colored either black or mixed blood and offer cuba to the unite

host: kansas city, kansas. lane, an independent is up next. can you mute your tv? i can hear it in the background. caller: i don't think we need any type of brand marketing whatsoever. i agree with the united states treasury department, which is, if everyone in the united states would pay their fair share of taxes we would not be in this position today. and i suggest we all americans pay a fair share in the future. host: firstprimary -- and house rejects bids to halt funding of libyan mission. the house rejected a measure that would have withdrawn funding for military operations in libya. hot that is from "the washington post" this morning. at the next topic of on the legacy of the space shuttle on this, the final launch day. stopped pace from george washington university and scott matthews from "the orlando sentinel" and has been covering this. michigan, stephen is a republican. caller: good morning. i just wanted to say that this grand bargaining sounds like some kind of a -- i don't know -- deal made somewhere, i don't know. i am tired of this president giving u

kansas city, kansas, ronnie on our independent line. caller: good morning. host: is the constitution still relevant? caller: why really don't think so. if you go back to the time when it was written, it did not really matter to everyone who was in america. it did not matter to the black man because of the things that were written did not pertain to a black person. i guess it depends on what point of view you are coming from. i really think it is irrelevant right now. host: do you think the amendments and changed how will the constitution is, the changes over the last 200 years? caller: yes, it has made it better and it has a much longer way to go. these politicians are just looking for their own constituents and themselves. it has a long way to go, i believe. host: albany, new york, ken, democratic collar. -- caller. caller: i believe july 4 is the holiday to celebrate, not the constitution. this country was created by freemasons not to be a christian country but to be a country that separated religion and the state. some people out there running for office

kansas. it's a good drenching rainfall. nothing too severe. it will cause delays on interstate 70 going across kansas or i-35. just a big complex of wet weather. we'll have to see how much of this holds together by the time it gets to kansas city. if you are in topeka, have your umbrella ready. wichita also, some wet weather early today. as far as the forecast goes, i have my disclaimer up here. isolated afternoon thunderstorms. it looks a lot worse than it is, but for the most part everyone will be warm and a chance of a storm late today. that's a look at your national forecast. now here's a look at the weather outside your window. once again, this looks a lot worse than it will be. most areas will only see a storm or two for maybe 20 or 30 minutes, but, again, the humidity is up. the temperatures are high. that's going to spark those afternoon showers and storms from the ohio valley to the mid-atlantic. the mid-atlantic is going to be the area of concern. looks like heavy rain. >> it looked like 75% of the map was covered. >> a lot of people with a chance of thunderstorms today. just a chance, though. >> all right. >>> a stock sinks on scandal and the politically correct company accused of not paying pc wages. your earl

kansas city, omaha, st. louis. how hot will it be? kansas city around 9, same for you in st. louis. when you add in oppressive humidity, it's not your typical humidity. ipts much more humid than it should be for this time of year. notice today how hot we'll be on the east coast. new york, 93. d.c., 94. it's not quite as humid yet in the east. later on today, just a heads up to everyone in new england through the great lakes, this area of yellow is slight risk of orange. this area will get cooled off by strong afternoon storms. the biggest threat will be damaging winds. i don't think we'll see tornadoes, hail won't be a problem but gusty winds through the big cities. airport delays are possible. as far as monday's forecast goes, the heat we've talked about, also down along the gulf we'll have thunderstorms, too. we'll take a closer look at some selected cities. you'll be in awe how hot it's going to be at the end of the week. d.c. could be in the 100s three days in a row. he details coming up. >> thanks, bill. >>> speaking of hot, wall street feels the debt ceiling heat. news corp. i

kansas? >> that's what they seem to be and what they've done. i heard word the third clinic has been denied a license as well, which mean as wom can no longer get an abortion in kansas because of these impossible regulations that they were given two weeks to comply with. >> give me example. >> recovery room twreen 70 and 57 75 degrees. a janitor's closet 50 feet or larger, a dressing room for patients and staff. there has to be -- the recovery ram has to be 150 square feet or larger. the size and temperature of the room -- >> this is like literally tests for the south. >> exactly. >> my question is are they admitting this is a game? a strategy to kill abortion rights in kansas? >> republicans are not admitting it. saying it's to protect women's health and safety that these clinics aren't safe doctors are saying these regulations aren't even used for hospitals in surgery centers and abortion procedures is much less inves vasive an so it raise as few questions. >> so they never break their game face? >> no. >> never come on, we know what we're doing here? >> no. >> are the people who backed the regulations really hard pro liars? >> they are. >> you can spot their background? >> can you. they passed a number of laws this year. they have a 20-week ban. they have been in private insurance. they've banned insurance providers from covering abortions and minors now have to get permission from parents to get abortions. it's already really difficult to get an abortion in kansas and this has made it effectively impossible. >> i know you report from here in washington. any way of getting a sense of what this does now. this argument. the supreme court is clear. no undue

kansas, a federal judge blocked sam brownback from instituting new regulations that nearly shut down every abortion provider in the state of kansas as of today. there are only three facilities providing abortion left in kansasce dr. george tiller was murdered there by an anti-abortion extremists two years ago. as we have reported on this show, the few remaining doctors providing abortions in the state of kansas say that sam brownback's new law was designed to put them all out of business as well. like the republican mitch daniels indiana law going after planned parenthood clinics, sam brownback's law to close the clinics, too, has now been stopped by a federal court, and for good measure, also in the last 24 hours a control court has stopped the law in south dakota. a law that would force women seeking an abortion in that state to wait three days and to sit through lecture by an anti-abortion activist at a so-called pregnancy health center before the state would allow them to have an abortion. the last came in with withering scorn from the judge. forcing a woman to divulge at a stranger the fact she's chosen to undergo an abortion humiliate and degrades her as a human being. the woman, it would suggest she'

kansas location. that's located in ove overland , kansas. there is a separate security officer who is responsible for that maintenance of those records, yes, ma'am. >> does gentiva have one server that would provide service to all of the locations either on the eastern seaboard or throughout the country? >> there are likely to be several servers for email but the clinical retention -- clinical management system that we have is maintained in kansasas400 and it's located in overland park, kansas. >> is that kept in the time zone in which the server, or the maintenance location exists? >> it is maintained on a central standard time zone so any records that are electronically time stamped will have a one hour behind eastern time and two hours ahead of pacific time. it's maintained on central standard time. >> as a result of company policy, or any applicable federal regular lace does gentiva in the regular course of business come file data such as emails received by employees? >> yes, ma'am, that's correct. >> how about emails deleted by employees? >> yes. when the emails are placed on the server, even if they are deleted they are retrievable, we have a script within our organization, this is not a manual process other than entering the date range if you wanted to retrieve any of these. the script is already set and it retrieves and pulls them back, whether they are deleted or not. >> and that would also include then emails sent by

kansas city. we now have a heat warning still in effect from kansas city to the st. louis area, but now advisories from memphis all through much of kentucky, indianapolis is under a heat advisory, too, and even areas around raleigh. so that's where the hot air is. the other story is a lot of heavy rain through the great lakes last night, and that will continue during the day today. we'll take an updated look for the forecast coming up later in the show. back to you. >> bill, thank you. >>> stocks tank, oil tumbles, and pristine italian sports cars discovered in texas. your first look at the business headlines is straight ahead. >>> coming up, a no-hitter, a big trade, and a wedding. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. i love that my daughter's part fish. but when she got asthma, all i could do was worry ! specialists, lots of doctors, lots of advice... and my hands were full. i couldn't sort through it all. with unitedhealthcare, it's different. we have access to great specialists, and our pediatrician gets all the information. everyone works as a team. and i only

kansas city, missouri. kansas city, missouri. caller: the public, is the public not the government? answer is no. host: the public has no role than the caller: apparently not -- of the public has no role? caller: apparently not. host: would you like to see them represented? caller: absolutely. every one that called in is right, but the government is functioning incorrectly. host: have you reached out to your representatives and senators about this? caller: why waste my time? host: in "the detroit free press" the lead story is -- "what would you do to balance the federal budget"? one man does not like to drive much at night, so he is willing to pay for investments in light rail. host: you can read more about that in "the detroit free press pure " -- "the detroit free press." honolulu, jeanne, hawaii. aloha. caller: thank you, thank you for having me answer your question. and host: what is the role of the public in answering these questions? caller: we need access to these debates and there should be a hearing of that. we should not be left wondering what president obama is going to d

kansas is of course tom wrote this book called "what's the matter with kansas" where me looked into the question of why, in his view, so many people in red states vote against their economic interests. and i think jim's answer is a provocative one, and bill mentioned that what divides us might be less class than cultural issues. i guess you could argue perhaps the political classes stir up other issues to get people riled up about those and of course people disagree about the right economic prescriptions too. >> a question over here to your right. >> i'm mark, i'm going to throw a bomb. the title of this whole session is, can the united states stay united. i'm from illinois, god morbid. we grew up on abe lincoln. i'm going to ask the question, given the division, should we stay united? >> gregory? mr. social cohesion. should this country stay united? >> i think we all assume that we agree, absolutely. that seems to be the general point. perhaps you believe otherwise. >> politics say we shouldn't. >> anyone else want to -- i mean, i suppose, bill, you, your work and jim, your work has suggested that people are opting to not stay united in many ways. we have a big tent in the united states but if you live in a community where 99% of people voted the way you did and have the same sensibilities, in a way we are kind of succeeding, right? from some common space? though we're keeping the country intact. >> but can we develop the new institutions that make diversity a strength? because the old institutions that made diversity a strength have lost their hold. and that's the political question that -- >> could you explain what the biggest -- >> the church. people used to belong to mainline churches and the churches were -- people belonged to rotary clubs and you know, and now people don't see themselves as members of groups, they see themselves as sovereign individuals. >> my name is bonney, i'm a teacher, i didn't hear anything about education. some of us did not come here as immigrants. my mother's native american my dad is black. some of our voices are being left out. but i think in social media, there's a way for people to input a little bit. the problem is, everybody doesn't have broadband. i didn't hear any discussion of the inequity of access to the conversations that are going on other than in the press. what do you think? how can we change for education, for teachers, for people working with kids, how can we use social media to change? i know sandra day o'connor has ideas, what about the rest of you? >> jim do you have any -- i know we talked a little bit about, michael alluded to the fact that we can't presuppose we're in a society where everybody has the right access to make the same type of choices when we're talking about gated communities, bringing in education i think is a valuable point and jim, do you have ideas? >> yes, literacy is -- across individuals and across communities, you can predict where political literacy is lowest. these are poor communities and immigrant communities, that's very clear. i think that it's probably helpful to think of other institutions aside from just schools, however, as educators. the political parties obviously play a role as educators, so do advocacy groups. therefore other institutions out there that can play a role in elevating the level of political knowledge than just public schools. because of course public schools, thee zivic literacy enterprise there is so highly politicized that possibly the way to approach the darkness in political knowledge is through other means. >> i actually like your point about, you know, raising broadband, because i think increasingly, where not long ago that felt like a luxury, the band width you had to access the information superhighway, to date myself, that's an important measure of how one can participate in zivic life and at new america, we have a team of people at the think tank thinking about, shouldn't this be a public right? and how do we transform thinking about that? because you're right, penetration of broadband is not uniform across the country. it remains inaccessible for a lot of people. >> another question to your right. >> my name is shelly weinstein, and i'd like to come back to what our professors are basing on the rationale and reason why we have this great divide at the local community where citizens are living and there was a statement made that i would like to challenge somewhat along which came first, the chicken or the egg. the statement was, people do not make a decision for where they live having anything to do with politics. in part that may be true but leaves out the entire supreme court decision about one man, one vote and since the 1970's, what we have seen happen in local communities at the state level, at the county level, one man, one vote, redistricting, the leadership of this country, that is there to represent the people, tends to redistrict where they think they're going to get the majority of votes so is it that people have moved into this community because of their culture or their job or the school, and then the leadership says, oh my goodness, we would like to win a state office or local office or the presidency, we're going to redistrict and gerrymander around where all these people that have the same view and same likes, even if it's personally, probably are not true, politically are the same. i'd like to ask how you can make the social decisions without looking at redistricting and the lack of leadership and what technology has played in their role about gerrymandering or redistricting. >> here's the short story on redistricting, which is, when we looked at stuff, we looked at the county level. congressional districts over time have gotten more partisan. they -- partisan. they did not become more partisan at the time of redistricting. they became more partisan between redistricting as people began to move or change their views. redistricting has not overall, please tell me if i'm wrong, but redistricting overall has not increased partisanship in congress. >> i have a slightly different take on her question. i'll try to answer it in some recent survey data. recent survey data from knowledge network suggests that as many as 30% of movers will take into account the partisan composition of the destination when they consider a move. now, it's not the primary consideration, it's not usually first on the list. first on the list has always been jobs and family an friends. but notice something about family and friends, maybe not jobs. many times family and friends are similar. so making a decision based on family and friends may sort you indirectly. that's interesting even if you do not explicitly take into account the partisan composition of a place in a move you can do it inadvertently based on family and friends or other cultural preferences. church, for example. if you mention church as an important destination cry tierian, you're not only more likely to be republican but you're more likely to settle near republicans when you relocate. [inaudible] >> then they are making decisions about this, so one man, one vote, whether that is minority or majority, whatever the culture is, and not deliberately gerrymandering to make sure that the voices of people are so separated and divided we have had the situation. >> ok, i have an answer for that too. i think that the kind of sorting that's occurring incrementally and that bill talks about in his book, makes one party and lopsided districts much more likely. i think the important obligation then, possibly, of the courts and the court system, would be to move toward mandating to the extent possible the drawing of political competitive districts. now that may involve, you know, moving the redistricting process into nonpartisan commissions the way iowa and a few other states have gone. perhaps it involves some other kinds of solutions. but that would be one thing that i would like to see or could advocate for. because we need competitive elections. >> there's a very rich, as i understand it, and very contentious literature on the discussion about the extent to which redistricting is exacerbating political division. there's strong disagreements. i think there's a lot of incumbent protection and unfortunate cases of minority packing, this has happened in texas and elsewhere. but i think the problem is broader. it's a rich subject that we could have a whole event around. jay? >> at this point, we'll have to take our last question. we ask that you join us for light refreshment back over there and we'll continue with the program shortly thereafter. >> my name is hugh. i'm interesting on pulling the string on that intriguing insight about lifestyle instead of class and applying it to the idea of the whites as a disgruntled minority. so we sort of arugula eating liberal -- liberals are not disgruntled but there's some steak and epotato eating high income professionals who are? >> are what? >> disgruntled. what do they have to be disgruntled about? >> i don't know who is disgruntled and who isn't. i just know they're different and those differences are extending across political boundies. -- boundaries. it's not just about different about using lawn chemicals or not, but what car they drive, all the things bush and obama use to identify people. demographics becomes less of an issue. >> do you want to talk more about that? >> ok, well this has been a terrific panel. thank you so much. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> thank you all. we're very, very pleased to have profess joran dal kennedy with us today. he'll be giving a keynote address entitled what is america's deepest fault line. randall kennedy is michael r. klein professor at the harvard law school where he teaches on contract, criminal law and race relations he served under thurgood marshall of the united states supreme court. his most recent books are "nigger: the strange career of a trouble spsm word," "intelligence, marriage, identity" and "sellout. the american academy of arts and sciences, the american academy of philosophy, he holds degrees from princeton, oxford university, and yale law school. please welcome mr. randall kennedy. [applause] >> there are policies dictated by dictatorial social cohesion. that's not the sort the center wishes to foster through research, study and debate. the cohesion that the center seeks to foster is a democratic, pluralistic cohesion that frames a decent society. there are now, there have long been a number of fault lines in america that me nass the prospect of an attractive social cohesion. i think here of religious bias, particularly nowadays, prejudice against muslims. gender bias, particularly mistreatment of women. sexual bias, particularly discriminations against gays an lesbians. what, though, is america's deepest fault line? it is the boundary that separates those with sufficient resources to undergird the enjoyment of a relatively secure, dig fied, hopeful, skill-enhanced existence from those, the impoverished, who are consigned to insecurity, humiliation, isolation, and other baleful conditions. the resources to which i refer are manifold. they include parents, nutrition, health care, housing, education and employment. but in the background of each of these resources, nourishing them inconspicuously just like water, is money. that's why the boundary between adequate financing and severe financial want marks the most far-reaching but mystified division in american life. those without a decent financial minimum are much more vulnerable than those with a decent minimum to the terrors of nature, bad luck, and communal failure. as the journalist david schiff ler puts it, being poor mens being unprotected. as i've used the term "the poor" -- as i use the term, "the poor" are those at or beneath the government's poverty line. the poverty threshold for an individual under 65 in 2009 was $11,161. for an adult with one child, it was $17,268. for two adults with three children it was $25,603. and so on and so forth. the formula for determining the poverty threshold has detractors. the formula has not been substantially revised in over half a century. it does not take into account regional differences. it does not take into account certain noncash forms of income and by the same token doesn't take into account certain expenses. some, mainly liberals, contend that the poverty line is too low and thus underinclusive, while others maintain it is too high and thus overinclusive. i agree with the former but my purpose here is not to explore, much less settle, a complicated method logical dispute. my purpose is to highlight a highly toxic condition that received all too little attention and empathy, the condition of severe financial deprivation. for that purpose, the federal poverty line works satisfactorily. my direct concern is not with inequality per se. rather my direct concern is with privation. i'm not so much alarmed by the state of the sose yo economic ceiling, more particularly its absence which favors the wealthy. rather i'm alarmed by the state of the sose yo economic floor, more particularly its sagging inadequacy. how many people in america are poor? the number is, or should be, arresting. according to bureau of the census in 2009, 14.3% of all persons in america lived in poverty. that represents some 43.5 million people. 10 million more than the entire population of canada. 35% of the population of the american impoverished are children. what does it mean concretely to be poor? poverty can have many meanings. the poor are by no means monolithic. most stay impoverishes only intermittently, but then already the hard core poor, the underclassed, the disadvantaged, who remain mired beneath the poverty line for long stretches of time. regardless of whether they are short-term or long-term inmates of poverty, the poor face perilous, painful and worst of all crippling circumstances. among the consolation of things poverty may mean are the following. being dependent upon financial institutions such as pay dei loan outlets that charge ewe injurious fee tosser vis those unable to afford bank accounts. living in housing that, with its mold, mice droppings, roaches and nearby toxic dumps, exacerbates your child's asthma. being unable to pay an ambulance or an emergency room bill and having one's credit downgraded on account of the delinquency. living in neighborhoods me nassed simultaneously by criminals and police, who when dealing with the poor, fail all too often to recall that their job is to protect and serb, not harass and intimidate. growing up in homes in which uneducated adults fail to prepare children for school in their most impressionable years. welcoming jail or even prison as a respite from the utter destitution of the street. for after all, in the joint, one at least received shelter, health care and meals, even if these items are delivered behind bars with the accompaniment of handcuffs and the debilitating effects of a criminal record. being unable to flee a flooding city for lack of transportation. or alternative housing. impoverishment means for many living apart from the so-called mainstream of american society. the sectors of society to which politicians pay some heed. it means being hidden in plain sight behind an odd curtain of invisibility. it means residing in what michael hearon termed "the other america." it means being unable to even enter bankruptcy. this puts me in mind of a case decided by the supreme court in 1973. the united states vs. cras. cras was an indigent who challenged the law that made him have to pay $50 to file bankruptcy. they upheld the constitutionality of the fee requirement. writing for the court, justice harry blackmon evidenced the skepticism that often greets protests about the predicament of the poor. quote, if the $50 are paid in installment, the average weekly payment is $1.28. this is a sum less than the payments cras makes on his couch of negligible value in storage and less than the price of a movie and little more than the cost after pack or two of cigarettes. if, as he alleges, a discharge in bankruptcy will afford him that new start he so desires, and if he really needs and desires that discharge, this much available revenue should be within his able bodied reach. end of quote. my old boss, justice thurgood marshall, had a different, better view. quote, i cannot agree with the majority, he declared in dissent, that it is so easy for the desperately poor to save each week -- that it is so easy for the desperately poor to save each week over the course of six months. the 1970 census found that over 800,000 families in the nation had annual incomes of less than $1,000. or $19.23 a week. i see no reason to require that families in such straits sacrifice over 5% of their annual income as a prerequisite to getting a discharge in bankruptcy. it may be easy for some people to think that weekly savings of less than $2 are no burden. but no one who has had close contact with poor people can fail to understand how close to the margin of survival many of them are. a pack or two of cigarettes may be for them not a routine purchase but a luxury indulged in only rarely. the desperately poor almost never go to see a movie, which the majority seems to believe is an almost weekly activity. they have more important things to do with what little money they have. like attempting to provide some comforts to a gravely ill child as cras must do. it is perfectly proper for judges to disagree about what the constitution requires. but it is disgraceful for an interpretation of the constitution to be premised upon unfounded assumptions about how people live. poverty and its alleviation occupies a lowly standings among the priorities of the nation's most influential political leaders. for a brief moment after hurricane katrina, the higher circles paid some attention to the plight of the impoverished. on september 15, 2005, in jackson square in new orleans, president george w. bush recognized, quote, deep persistence poverty in the gulf region, and that we have a duty to confront this poverty with bold action. that sympathetic attentiveness, however, was evanescent. in a cover story for "newsweek," john that will jalter remarks, it takes a catastrophe like katrina to strip away the old evasions, hypocrisies and not so benign neglect. it takes the sight of the united states with a big black eye, seen around the world, to help us see again. does this mean a new war on poverty? no, he answered. but it may offer a chance to start a skirmish or at least make washington think harder about why part of the richest country on earth looks like the third world. a year later, alter complained, justifiably, that president bush had dropped the ball entirely. that congress had failed to perform much better. and that the american public as a whole seemed disinclined to grapple with poverty seriously. to the extent that the poor do make it onto center stage, they typically do so as targets of vilification. as was recently shown when florida enacted the temporary assistance for needy families act, which requires citizens of the sunshine state to pass a drug test in order to be eligible for state welfare payments. absence of personal responsibility has long been seen in some quarters as the principal cause of impoverishment. proponents of this view include herbert spencer and william grant sumner in the early part of the 20th century and george gilder and charles maury in the latter part of the century. this perspective attributes poverty mainly to the defects of the poor. their supposed lazyness, stupidity, improv dense, promiscuity, lack of foresight, lack of discipline, and penchant for exploiting the generosity of others. this moralistic hectoring of the poor which absolves governing arrangements is profoundly erroneous. poverty should be seen as a communal problem. do personal failings play a role in the predicament of the poor? of course they do, just like personal failings afflict all humans, no matter what their class. bad decisions to drop out of school, to have unprotected sex, to indulge addictive drugs often tighten the bonds of the poor. but there are multitudes of poor people who conduct themselves with exemplary discipline, fortitude and pluck who nonetheless find themselves stuck in the cage of impoverishment, unable to earn their way out. one of the many virtues of barbara ironwright's classic "nickel and dimed: on not getting by in america" is its vivid portrayal of how hard poor people work only to remain poor through no fault of their own. our leading politicians, including our current president, tell us incessantly that america is a magical place where anything is possible for those who work hard and play by the rules. left unsaid but stated implicitly is the notion that financial distress must be an indication that one failed to work hard enough or play by the rules sufficiently. this belief occupy assail yent place on the emotional landscape of america. many poor people embrace it as they lacerate themselves. it is, however, an idea that's deeply misleading. what we think of as personal failings are typically more than merely personal. they usually derive from sources outside of what can reasonably be considered a person's self-control. for instance, a depressed economy. and what is one to say about that 35% of the poor who are children? is their situation their fault? no, it is not. unless it is one's fault to be born to certain mothers. or fathers. thus far, i have said nothing about an important chapter of the poverty story. the chapter that involves race relations. i shall conclude with three points about that subject. first, racial minorities, particularly blacks and latinos are disproportionately present in the ranks of the impoverished. in 2009, the poverty rate for white americans was 9.4%, for asian americans, 12.5%, latino americans, 25.3%, and for black americans, 25.8%. second, although blacks and latinos are disproportionately represented in the ranks of the poor, they remain minorities among the impoverished. most poor people in the united states are white. yet the portrayal of poverty in popular culture nourishes the misperception that most poor people in the united states are people of color. several carefulage cease of photographs in news magazines, film footage of television news shows and depictions in textbooks reveal that african-americans in particular are pictured in stories about poverty far in excess of their actual representation amongst the impoverished. this is a point well made by professor marleau tib guillens. when the face of poverty is black and brown, two things happen. blackness and brownness is stigmatized with poverty and poverty is stigmatized with blackness and brownness. the latter is a likely factor in the stingyness and punitiveness of the american welfare regime. thirdness, racial -- race is a deciding factor in the poverty. many whites who once supported the new deal coalition defected from it in part because of fears that its leaders had begun to give away too much to colored people. a consequence has been a political environment that over the past several decades has become increasingly, indeed dramatically, indifferent if not hostile to the poor. this is a baleful trajectory to which, alas, both of the major parties has contributed. a decent social cohesion requires protecting the most vulnerable amongst us. from the cruel, miserable and remediable circumstances that grip millions of americans who fine themselves mired beneath the poverty line. the united states is often lauded for what some see as its positive exceptionalism. distinctive commitments to traditions such as civilian rule, checks and balances, constitutionalism, private enterprise and individualism. in its treatment of the poor, the united states can rightly be criticized for negative exceptionalism. as timothy kneading and others have observed, nowhere is the united states more exceptional than in its policy toward the impoverished. america's child poverty rate is higher than that of any other wealthy industrialized country. that should not be surprising. american anti-poverty policy, such as it is, does less to compensate low-wage workers and assist them in escaping impoverishment than any other advanced nation. president george w. bush was correct when he asserted that we have a duty to respond to the redickment of the poor, especially that 35% who are children. sadly, it is a duty that america as a whole is failing to honor. thank you very much for your attention. [applause] >> and now i'm pleased to introduce the moderator for the next panel, entitled "what are we loyal to?" his research and writing focus on immigration, assimilation, social mobility and ethnic and racial identity. he's the author of "replenished ethnicity: mexican american identity." his current writing focus is how the u.s. society is changing the way children immigrate. he holds a ph.d. in sociology from harvard university. please welcome mr. tomas jimenez. >> thank you, gregory. thank you for being here for the second panel, which is exciteled "what are we loyal to?" for all the risks among americans, most of us still identify with certain places, certain beliefs and communities. these groupings may not have amicable relations among one another but within these groups bonds are often strong. americans are finding community and political action, religious faith, ethnicity, neighborhood, but there's a paradox here. the notion that we are bound together, that we see each other as one of us, almost necessarily entails that we see some other group of people as not one of us. as one of them. in many respects, the things that unite us are also the things that divide us. what are the primary entities today calling upon the loyalty of americans and how do these subloyalties affect the way we view our relationship to the nation as a whole? here to help us answer that and other questions is a distinguished grup of panelists, and i'd like to introduce them to you now. to my right, general fer lee, an associate professor of sociology at the university of california at irvine, author of "the diversity paradox: imgrigs on the color line in 21st century america." she received her b.a. and ph.d. degrees from columbia university. she's received numerous awards for her scholarship including the american sose yo logical association for her recent book "the diversity paradox." this coming here, she'll be a visiting scholar at the russell sage foundation in new york city. next, margie scofee. she's a nationally known journalist and author, her articles have appeared in just about every major newspaper and she's a regular guest on national television and radio. she's author of "someone else's house: america's unfinish strd struggle for immigration" and the editor of "reinventing the melting pot." i use her chapter of that book in my classes. she's a senior writer for "newsweek." she was also the deputy editor of "the new york times" op-ed page. finally, luis lugo, director of the pew research center's forum on religion and public life. prior to that, he served as director of the religion program at the pew charitable trust in philadelphia. before that, he was a professor of political science for more than 12 years, teaching courses on international relations, latin american politics, religion and politics, he holds a b.a. from the university of memphis, a m.a. from villanova and a ph.d. from the university of chicago. please join me in welcoming our panel. we'll proceed much like the first panel did, we'll spend the better part of an hour talking amongst ourselves and then we'll invite all of you to weigh in with questions and comments and so i'd like to quick it off by asking our panelists to respond very briefly to the question that headlines our panel, and to do so from the perspective of your own work. let me restate the question once again, what are the primary entities today calling upon the loyalties of americans and how do these subloyalties affect the way we -- affect the way we view our relationship to the nation as a whole? why don't we ask jennifer to start us off. >> i think it's really terrific that we have this opportunity to discuss what is uniting us, what is dividing us and what thomas said earlier, i think is quite thought provoking. the same things that seem to be dividing us, also seem to be uniting us. so what i wanted to talk about today were three things that i thought were important which is immigration, language, and race. and these things are inextricably tied. for many of you who may not know. immigrants an their children account for 23% of the u.s. population and about 85% are coming from latin america and asia. if you think about how that immigrant stream is very different from the european immigrant stream, clearly the united states is more racially and ethnically diverse than at any point in our history. it's also more diverse in terms of class origins than at any point in our history. one of the fears that i think a lot of americans have is given the diversity of the new immigrants, are we becoming a more fragmented society along the lines of language? are we becoming a a society with multiple languages or as samuel t. huntington has noted, are we becoming a society of spanish and english? there are a lot of americans that are irate because they have to push one to speak english when you make a telephone call. but if you look at the figures for the children of immigrants, what's remarkable is a pattern of english mono lingualism. the children of immigrants uniformly speak english well or very well. what's actually sad is the fact that they are not, many of them are not maintaining their parents' language, that we're becoming an english monolingual society at the cost of bilingualism. the other thing i wanted to talk about was identity and i think a lot of people are -- believe we are identifying along racial lines, along ethnic lines and one of the things we're finding with the adult children of immigrants is that people identify as mexican and people identify as chinese, as korean, as vietnamese but that doesn't mean that they don't also feel and claim an american identity. so we have to be careful about how we think about that when we think about people who are of irish descent or german descent or italian descent, they're claiming an ethic identity but that doesn't mean that they done also claim an american identity. so to be cognizant of that. the other thing i wanted to talk about a little bit was race. we see each other as distinct racial groups. and a lot of people fear that the united states is becoming an increasingly minority country, fragmented along the lines of race. one of the things that that presupposed is that the category of whiteness will remain fixed and will remain static and as some of the panelists noted in the earlier panel, groups that were not white at the turn of the 20th century are now considered white, irish, italians, jews, were not considered white by anglo saxsons. today i don't think that anyone would argue that someone of irish descent or italian descent or of polish deaccident is not white. so the boundaries, these racial categories, are continuing to change and shift. it's not clear yet how that will chidgechemming -- will change. i think what people see as dividing lines aren't as divisive if we look at the children of immigrants. >> luis, what about you? >> you know about multiple alieges. you're look -- the first thing i think to keep in mind on the issue of religion is how unique the united states is. compared to countries that are also part of the advanced industrial world. we have a country in which 60% of the population tell us religion is very important in their lives. and an additional 25% who say it is somewhat important. so you're talking about 85% of americans who take religion pretty seriously. you've got a country in which nine out of 10 people identify with one religious tradition or another. again, i would challenge you to look at the statistics on any other country, including our neighbors to the north, to see if you find anything like that. so one. we are the most religious country within the most advanced industrialized world. secondly, we are also a very diverse country from the standpoint of religion. i am glad i'm flanked by two immigration experts because immigration is always driven american religious diversity and is doing so even more now with the latest wave of migration. the question, of course, is, given that recipe, high degree of religious its, why don't we see the conflict in this country that we see elsewhere? if you doubt that proposition, go to our website. we publish a report on religious tensions and restrictions around the world. indeed, the united states is not by any means normal in terms of religious tensions. why was that the case? we can put a marker down, we can return to, thomas. but i think i have to deal with in fact diversity. those two are related. europe has become very, very secular. at the same time have not had conflict. the founders faced a very practical problem and that is how to accommodate at the national level the kind of diversity within protestantism that they confronted, and for reasons of principle and practicing matism they settled on what we now is the first amendment of the u.s. constitution which first of all said there will be no established church at the national level. this was very un-european. that was the typical european model. in fact, it's still present in some highly secularized european countries. with you the second part of that is a commitment to the free exercise of religion, to the free expression of religion in the public sphere. to that seemed to me in europe a countermodel to establishment, that is the model embodded in the american revolution. we see places as diverse as turkey or mexico. the american revolution was very anti-clerical. so we avoided both of those models and settled on something very different. and my sense is looking at our data is that the american public of religious groups across the spectrum have really internalized the norms embodied in the free exercise. strong aversion to institutional unity of church and state. so very much support of separation but on the very hand very much supported by in large of religious expression in public life. somehow that combination has meant for religious americans that they became even more connected to the country and to its legal norms precisely because it allowed that public space where all religious traditions, including their own, could play themselves out freely and without, you know, government putting its finger as it from on the scales. if i could have one minute for the examples, to give you some impeercal data. after all we call ourselves at the pew research center data. take a look at our surveys. we do these every year. they're around presidential years. you will see consistently seven out of 10 americans tell us they want a president with strong religious beliefs. even after several cycles of religion saturated presidential elections vast jorts tell us -- majorities tell us they think it's the right amount or not enough mention of religion in the campaign so they want even more. so that's on the one hand. that's on the free exercise. then we ask some questions. i'll give you one about endorsing candidates from the pulpit. whether they're priests or iman or rabbi. the balance of position shifts in the other direction. what's interesting is when you break it down, the respondents by those who are most religious and those who are most secular, they're right in line. it's virtually identical. strong consensus on that score. so it's an interesting way to think about this, how religious diversity and the need to accommodate it legally in our system of government has actually resulted in a religious people being more deeply committed to the country as a whole and to democratic norms. precisely because the way that diversity has been handled. >> thank you, luis. tamar, how do you see things? >> i want to pick up the things that jennifer said. i have been thinking a lot about the mid years of the past century. about the 1940's, 1950's, 1960's. there's no question that the new diversity has made it harder to have the kind of cohesion that we had in those days. i have been looking at that cohesion and asking, why is it and why has it been oeasy? the african-american was outside the bodied politics those days and there was anaheim grants. gregory mentioned the numbers earlier today. in 1970 at least 5% of the population was foreign bosh. we are now back up toward in the 12, 13 range. that's close to what it was in the ellis island days. because the gates have been shut basically from 1925 to 1965 very few immigrants came in those days. we got to a low point in our history of foreign-born population of immigrants. the fact of the matter it is it made social cohesion easier. the numbers are pretty startling. we are at a high point in our history of -- at our highest point in the ellis island wave of people coming in. in the 1950's, 1960's, a couple hundred thousand came in. now we are 1.5 million immigrants coming in every year. it's true as the fear mongers and the naysayers say, we're hearing a lot of foreign languages we didn't hear in the 1940's, 1950's and one language that's particularly spanish and whole industries and marketing, just the whole marketing sector in america devoted to marketing in languages and marketing ethnic products and marketing to cars and beers and you name it, tens of millions of dollars that go to marketing to these sectors. obviously spanish tv and spanish radio, there were always german newspapers but there's a kind of prebt to it now that doesn't -- here's where we get to a divide, a cleavage we haven't been talking that much about but kind of cosmopolitan east coast and west coast. people who live in new york and l.a. take this for granted but i spend a lot of time out in the heartland. if you live in a town in the midwest that didn't have any immigrants until about 20 years ago and now is one-third immigrant because they built a meatpacking plant there and now a third of the time is immigrant or you live somewhere in georgia where there were no immigrants and suddenly for -- because there is' a carpet plant or for agriculture or whatever there's now up ward to a third immigrant, those places are -- people's heads will exploding. we don't like it or we think it's backward, but it's true. it's happening. i think it's -- we have to even though that's an old-fashioned problem in a way, you know, many light years before we're worrying about white minority consciousness, you know, we're still worried about the threatened -- whites feel they are a majority but they're threatened by the change and the cultural difference. on the other hand, putting next to that a different set of numbers that have to be laid out on the table, and here i'm really channeling some of took place's good new work, if you look at how well today's immigrants are integrating, they're integrating very, very well. people have the concept in the head, my grandma learned english over time and today it's press two for english or spanish and they're not integrating. that's just not true. they're integrating faster now than they were in the past. took places that a great set of numbers in his new study of the view of the literature, i guess it wasn't your number originally, but if you look at today compared to back in the ellis island days, how people -- how quickly people learned english, back in the day in the first five years about half had learned some level of proficient, useable english. today 2/3 have learned some level of usage proficient english. they are learning faster today than in the past. by every other measure can you look at it, whether it's language, whether it's education, whether it's your level of your job, whether you're above or below the poverty line, immigrants do much better than their parents and in many cases are catching up to the native born. again, one great set of numbers, you know, if you look at first generation latinos, only about 40% have high school degrees. well, by the time the second generation, their kids at the same age, 85% of them have high school degrees. and in many cases on many measures immigrants are catching up to the native born. so, you know, there's the fear out there and then there's the reality of what the integration numbers are that i think people don't know much and one of our jobs ought to be, people like me, jobs ought to be getting that information out to the majority. but the other piece of it i think is -- complicates our interesting discussion here, picking up on i think what's kind have been the description of the panel and what jennifer said, oftentimes what seems to divide us are things that ultimately unite us. this has been true all through the history of u.s. immigration that basically the ethnic group, the immigrant group, the immigrant organizations, the church, the parish, the voluntary organizations in your ethnic neighborhood become your vehicle into the mainstream. and that's been true, you know, since the old immigrant neighborhoods in boston and new york and chicago and it's true again today. and you know in the old neighborhoods it was you came to a big -- you came to a place where all your -- people from your hometown and your cousins and whatever had moved in chicago or new york and you found there. you know, all kinds of clubs and settlement houses and insurance companies and schools and saturday schools and you name it, you took part in those programs and they helped us just first of all function and survive, learn the language, get to work where you met native born people and mingled with native born people but they also became your way of learning the ways in the u.s. you probably -- if you came from a backward country somewhere in southern europe you probably weren't very politically active. you didn't think your voice mattered in politics. you didn't think you could influence how your church was organized and you came to the u.s. and you had a huge say. from my ethnic political group or tamany hall or parish were in fact my small business that caters to the ethnic community to the mainstream. so you first played in your -- what where he call in the day -- ghetto, but the rules thaw learned or the skills thaw learned you later took into the mainstream. we're just seeing that play out exactly again today. you know, people -- latinos get involved in politics because they care about immigration and they go to demonstrations but the next thing you know they're registering to vote. or people go to their hometown associations or the associations that come out of mexicans ban together to have a home town association to send money back to their village. before you know it, if you're playing in your home town association, one study looked in chicago, you belong to four other organizations rf some kind in chicago that doesn't have to do with mexicans or mexican americans. you can play in politics in the u.s. home foun associations also lead to voth. again, the most interesting of these analogies is how you start your own ethnic business in the neighborhood, a mexican restaurant for mexicans or a shop where people can buy the things they miss from home and the next thing you know you're edging over into a more mainstream market and to u.s. business. so, you know, i think -- i want to end on the notion of the hyphen that has been the notion that defines kinds of how ethnicity works in arkansas and how it bridges to the mainstream. you know, t.r., teddy roosevelt, he raged against the hyphen. we don't want any hyphenated americas. it's how american social cohesion has worked when it comes to imgrabts because we don't ask you -- immigrants because we don't ask you to choose, am i loyal to america or your old thing? in the u.s. said, hold on to the old thing. be part of those organizations but the hyphen can help you bridge into the mainstream. it's not an either or choice. it's an add on choice. >> so the panel so far is painting a very rosey picture in contrast -- rosie picture in contrast to the -- rosy picture in contrast to the panel we had earlier. i want to pull us back a part a little bit. let me do that by asking a very broad question and it's a question that's motivated by a bumper sticker i see in the very liberal neighborhood i live in. it says unity through diversity. is that the tired slogan left over from the days of hyperself-conscious diversity talk or is there something to it? luis lugo, why don't we start with you? >> well, i gave you a very broad picture of what's happened in terms of religion and public life in this country. that's not to say that it's been a smooth curve. there's been a lot of bumps, some pretty big bumps along the way. and it has to do with new entrants into the u.s. as a country, as a political system. again, primarily through immigration. pushing the envelope, as it were, certainly from the standpoint of the majority established community. i'll tabling one example and that's the experience of roman catholics in this country. again, because of major migrations from europe, but in that wave primarily from roman catholics countries such as ireland and italy and poland and so forth, this was profoundly unsettling to the mainstream protestant establishment and there were indeed not only tensions and conflicts but violence in places like philadelphia, for instance, where the main campus -- the original campus of my alma mater, villanova, was torched to the ground. it was in the parish in villanova -- in philadelphia. one of the reasons -- the real reason, the precipitating reason had to do with bible reading in the public schools and whether, you know, catholic kids would be allowed to read the new age version rather than the king james version. it was such an affront to the protestant establishments that the governor had to pull out the guard to put down the rebellion. so it's not by any means been a smooth evolution but it has been an evolution, nevertheless, and now catholics basically are considered the mainstream in the united states. obviously post-1965 immigration, jennifer mentioned, it's predominantly from platin america and asia. about 75 hrs%, 80% -- 75%, 80% from those areas. the main demographic impact they're having is really putting more members into the roman catholic church. unlike the native born who are 2-1 protestant. immigrants coming into this nation are 2-1 catholic. so they are overwhelmingly christian unlike in europe, but they're overwhelmingly catholic as opposed to protestant. but the rest of the immigrants coming in, a large percentage of them look at the percentage of muslim americans who are foreign born. it's 2/3. you know, the percentage of hindus, 82%. the percentage of buddhists. the platest wave of immigration is pushing us not only to, you know, the christian and jewish, that's another story we could talk about. even to the abram hamic inclusion of muslims, it's in the abrahamic, it's buddhists and so forth. i think there is a continuing challenge. again, it just seems to me it's how the government and we as a society respond to that diversity and choose to accommodate that will determine those religious identities. >> religious through diversity, just a bump remember sticker? >> the first panel and second panel, could it be that immigrants and really new comers are going to make for a more cohesive country while the white people living in kansas or whatever are going to be the ones and the difference between the people the white people living in kansas versus l.a., for example, are going to fragment into two cultures, it's two questions. it's feeling like they belong here. the kansas people and l.a. people are having a similar war. it's a really, really interesting kind of notion. i think unity through diversity, it's a nice slogan but the problem with it leaves out what's the there there that we do all belong to together? i think it's the sort of -- if you kind of want to contrast basically canadian or multiculturalist model the ideas that we have lots of different groups and what ties them together is not more than tolerance, i don't think that's the american model. there was something we all bought into it. i think it wasn't about, you know, do you -- cultural conformity as defined in europe. it's not like being german or french. there's a lot of difference in culture but there was a set of ideas that people bought into th

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>> absolutely. if your goal is to give them political cover to raise the debt limit and this is politically brilliant. if your goal is to actually reduce the debt. it's a complete sellout. what happens is they vote to hand over, temporarily hand over their power to the president over the debt limit and he has to submit three tranches of debt limit increase and they get to vote to disapprove itten. they've voted to give the president carte blanche. and then get to vote no three times. brilliant politically and they can go on the campaign ads and say we voted against the debt limit, but gave him the power and hand over the power to do it. >> ainsley: economically how is it? >> terrible. nothing to reduce the debt and might attach spending cuts agreed to it, but still more than a trillion dollars more in raising the debt than it would be in reduction. >> ainsley: who can stop it, can anyone stop it? >> the guy people haven't been talking about, who could stop this is jim demint. if you recall. he supported a lot of challenges to sitting republicans and roiled the party in the election and pledged not to do it. if the mcconnell plan goes through. anyone could have a well funded conservative challenger in our race. >> a sound bite or full of what he had to say. the idea that republicans will not vote to increase the debt limit by approving the mcconnell plan. republicans were elected to get control of borrowing and debt the last thing we should do is make it easier to borrow and spend money. >> he says he's going to filibuster the mcconnell plan and what will scare them not to have republicans frightened to vote for the plan is if demint says if you vote for this, you will have a well funded conservative challenger in your republican primary for anyone who votes on the plan. >> to get your interest on the the story, this week we're seeing the space shuttle and the final launch and the president made the phone call up to the astronauts the other day. it's kind of sad because you don't hear much of a plan. don't hear much leadership coming to washington as to the future of the country and not only the shuttle program ending, we don't have, the decision to invade libya, whether or not it give the liby libyan government authority there and seemgs as if this white house is in a way leading from behind. what's your sense of it. >> remember in the president's state of the union address, saying we need a sputnik moment, the realize we were losing the space race to rush is a. the here is the sputnik moment, we're depending on russ russia get to us space. and gaddafi, a sign of weakness and foreign intelligence service, 24,000 secrets and wikileaks post these on the web, weakness, we're sending signals of american weakness. reiterated by david ignatius in the washington post, an interesting piece about president obama not looking at american exceptionalism and leading from behind. >> the afghan withdrawal. the military commanders say keep the surge troops in place, he's more interested in ending the war. my old boss donald rumsfeld said weakness is provocative. if you keep sending these signals, it will come back to bite us. >> thank you for being in the studio. coming up on show. imagine sleeping in a tent and a bear breaks in. >> ainsley: no thanks. >> clayton: it happened to a 13-year-old. >> ainsley: wow. >> clayton: everyone's fear of camping. >> ainsley: and everything is on the table now. brings tal palin sits down on our curvy couch. what she nis about john mccain and her mom sarah palin potentially running for president. >> she's up next. @ ♪ sing polly wolly doodle all the day ♪ ♪ hah @ >> she was living life as a typical american high school student when all of a sudden, this happened. >> governor sarah palin of the great state of alaska. >> dave: her mom, as you all know, sarah palin, went from governor of alaska to vp nominee, thrusting their entire family in the national spotlight. and bristol palin is opening up about the last three years and setting the record straight. her new book is "not afraid of life" my journey so far. good morning, bristol. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> dave: did you ever go back and say could i go back to a time when i was a typical student and no one knew my business. >> of course, but i look at it kind of as a blessing, i have been given a platform to talk about a the lot of things that are important to me. >> dave: if there's one reason to write a book, what is it? what do you want, whether it's a 17-year-old girl, a 35-year-old man. what do you want people to read the book and come away with? >> you know, i think there's a lot of different audience that is my book can reach and i hope that people just leave reading it, with a better understand who i am and what our family stands for. >> kind of those battles that you went through. >> yes. >> now everything of course is scrutinized by the media, everything you do, whether it's the surgery or your mom's e-mails or "dancing with the stars." is it all fair? now that you've become, i guess, sort of a reality personality, is it all fair to criticize and to talk about and to look into your life? is it all okay with you? >> yeah, i feel like no matter what my family is going to be doing, whether we're out, you know, in wasilla or out in the middle of nowhere, people are still going to talk about my family and we might as well being doing good things. hopefully with my new book and new show coming up, good, positive things. >> dave: you talked about the new show, i don't know that people know. >> with chris and kyle massey and we're going to be doing a reality show and it's charity based out of california. >> dave: and trip is going to be on the show. >> yes, he is. >> dave: and you have said before that you are a very protective, but maybe even overprotective parent. why then put trip on tv and in front of a national audience. >> i think that this, this show is going to be good. it's going to teach him to give back and it's going to be really positive. >> dave: he's going to already learn how to give back at his age, too. >> yes, he will. >> dave: and i asked some folks on twitter and facebook some questions and what had to do with your now reality shows. and it has a bit of a satirical edge. at what point did you morph into a kardashian. but is this where you go into a reality star. >> i want to do what's right for trip and my family and stay true to myself and god. >> dave: how about politics, does your mother's experience inspires or dissuade you from politics. >> i think it inspires me, but, but. >> dave: nothing in politics. >> not anyfinal soon. >> dave: what bothers you when people look up at your family's life? >> when they talk poorly about my little brother, i get defensive. >> dave: and that's the only part. >> trigg is a innocence part of our family. >> dave: and your mother. >> you know the clause would come out and more intent into her life, yourself e-life and your dad's life. why do you think she had be a good president and when you look look into her eyes and something she wants. >> you know, i've talked about it before and she would be great for our country, she's smart, she's a mom and ran her own business before a wonderful politician. >> dave: you brought this home in arizona where senator mccain lifls. i'm told it's now for rent. >> yes. >> dave: are you looking for a future in arizona, will you go to college there or is arizona not a part of our plains. >> arizona that was an investment property that home there, i'm renting it out while i do the show in california. >> dave: and we can see at that when? >> that's going to be airing in november. >> dave: on the biography channel. >> yes. >> dave: what's it called. >> don't have a title yet. >> dave: kyle massey looks like an interesting co-star. the book is "not afraid of life" my journey so far, thank you for being here. great to me you. >> thank you. >> ainsley: the unemployment rate is 9.2%, and get this, it might be that way for a long time coming. a new report that says 5% unemployment is a decade away. and the hero that worked the at ground zero. force today he retire because of pa disability. when he was later deemed fit for duty his union bosses told him to stay home and take home the pay. and team usa, could take home the cup the first time in 12 years, but male fans have a problem. ne doesn't make teen jerseys for the men to wear. what do we do about it? 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right now we're caught up in the debt ceiling debate. can you get past it if the unemployment rate is 8.75% and downgraded the growth numbers for the future of this country in terms of gdp. it's bleak, i wish we had better news for you. >> i know. >> dave: but there's not. >> ainsley: a lot of people out of work out there. >> dave: 14 million in june. >> ainsley: now for the rest of your headlines, relatives of a missing denver woman want detectives to search for a man on craigslist who they think might be linked to her disappearance. she went missing on july 8th when her unlocked jeep was found abandoned and her sister says a man contacted her after she posted an ad on craigslist for a roommate and she reportedly took down the ad after she says a man scared her. quit or be fired, nearly 200 teachers implicated in a cheating scandal in atlanta have until this wednesday to be resigned or terminated by the superintendent. this comes weeks after it was revealed they were correct willing wrong answers on their students standardized to make the theirs look better. even though he's fit to return to work, he was he refired because of health problems relate today long days working at ground zero. years later he was teamed fit to work again. no firefighter has ever been medically to cleared to to be fit to work after being retired. and he says he'd rather go back to work. >> a 13-year-old boy is speaking the first time. he awake to a bearing his leg. other campers fought off the bear and he he made it out alive. >> he tried to pull me out at one point. luckily, in my pajamas, broken, so, he just took my pajamas. >> the bear was eventually caught and put down by park and wild life officials. and here is a love story decades in the making. 60 years after she refused his marriage proposal she finally married joe inno they parted when joe went in the service and married other people. thanks to a relative they reconnected in 2009 when they were both single again. >> i tell myself that the lord brought us back together again and gave us a second chance. >> oh, my gosh, my mother is getting married. >> it's a fairy tale, and it's exciting. >> the newlyweds say they're excite today begin their lives together as husband and wife and congratulations to that happy couple. those are your head lines. >> and take their honeymoon about 40 years from now. >> this time. and a big day in sports, folks, sit by the tv. plenty of to store. one year ago, american dustin johnson, a golfer in position to win the pga championship until he misidentified a deep down patch of dirt as bunker. that will not happen at the british opens because bunkers at the british open, about as actual as dustin johnson, 6 foot 4. today royal st. georges the final round. he made his move and squandered two chances at the open and the championship last year, but he was two under saturday and rough conditions. he trails northern ireland's darren clarke who is the favorite by all the locals there. 42-year-old who could please the fans, other noteables in the hunt, mickleson, fowler who made a run on saturday. martin timer, five strokes separate the top 12 players there, really, anyone can win i'm taking johnson though. to nascar, kyle busch looking to hit the century mark, the nationwide series in new hampshire. before an early crash, involving wallace and leafler, he would make a move. 100th, the third driver in nascar history to reach the century mark. how about that, and today, soccer frenzy, u.s. women take on japan at 2:45 eastern time for the u.s. world cup. it should be a highly anticipated match. the u.s. women are looking to win their first world cup since 1999 the. japan in this thing for the first time. there's a problem going on, folks, guys, all of you guys out there that support this team and in fact, more male fans than women. they can't find jerseys that fit them if they want to wear the jerseys and support their team. they're tailored for the ladies this year. >> ainsley: what gets me about the story, if we want to wear the men's jersey, they make the ladies version. they don't make the men's jerseys. >> dave: this year in particular, he's now a tv analyst, he can pull it off because he's very trim. >> ainsley: arts are cut. >> dave: the sleeves. >> clayton: higher. >> dave: tailored for the waist in and out. an awkward fit and big guys cannot wear these. >> clayton: could you pull that off? here is my outfit. i went out and picked up, i wanted to wear the hope solo shirt. this is me in goal. >> dave: and you want it because it's solo and hans sole other and guys say they buy the double, double xl and doesn't fit and tailored. >> clayton: whose arms are those. >> dave: those are the guns, baby. >> ainsley: look good. >> dave: it's interesting, the match against brazil 2.7 million men watching versus 1.2 million women. so, more men are watching this team than women. what are guys doing? they're buying men's jerseys and having them custom-made with the women's names on the back. the wives club they call them, all the husbands of the players, that's what they're doing, buying men's jerseys and putting the men's name on the back. >> ainsley: a good business idea. someone watching create the tv's. >> clayton: here is a guy, another example of one of the tight fitting shirts. >> dave: yeah, this is one of die-hard new york fans, and that's what he did, bought the men's jersey and had the women's name across the back. a company in manhattan. >> clayton: rick, i know you're out there in the throngs of people and people hold up signs, it looks when you look around the soccer audience, when they hold up signs they want to marry the people on the field. >> that's true like the people who want to marry dave briggs. >> dave: look at them all, out there. >> ainsley: in droves. >> there's a dude. there's a guy. >> sorry, dave. let's take a look at the weather maps, a couple of things are brewing, one is the heat. look at high temperatures for today. 100 degrees in rapid city, 93 in minneapolis, and all the temps into the upper 90's across the plains, it's going to be humid as well. and one of the things is the length of the heatwave. areas across the south not catching any break at all and take a look at what we're dealing with today. dodge city, kansases above your average. tulsa, above your average. it's not just todayment move forward and see how long it's been going on. since june 1st, 46 days, 45 of the days in tulsa, above your average temperature, every day in lubbock, temperature. places hot in the summer. you're expecting a hot summer, but get this length and duration of a heatwave. and of course, the drought is the other big story. today we have excessive heat warnings farther to the north and that's what we'll be dealing with. highest temperatures, places like minneapolis, parts of north and south dakota and the heat indices, extremely high, 110 to 115. guys, a very long week ahead of heat is going to be with us at least until friday and saturday and probably talking about this again next weekend. >> the return of the monsoon. >> dave: why you got to pick on me? 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record breaking tops reported in the kansas -- temperatures reported in kansas all the way across to new york city. and it is not just unpleasant, it is dangerous in many places. at least 22 people have died related to this heat, and can there are new warnings that that number could be rising today. trace gallagher's following all this from our west coast newsroom, and he's got the very latest for us. hi there, trace. >> reporter: hey there, martha, we're talking about more than a million scare miles of the united states -- square miles of the united states, 27 states under extreme heat advisories, and man, this thing is getting bigger. waves move out, this is more of a heat dome where that heat bubble is just kind of sitting over much of the united states. the biggest danger, of course, is a lack of power. hard to stay cool when there's no ice or air-conditioning. most of the hot states are now breaking records for electricity usage. the midwest is planning some rolling blackouts, intermittent interruptions of power. but the northeast could get unschedule r scheduled brownouts, and

kansas. >> well, thank you very much. peter brownlie for your part of the story and the president of the planned parenthood in kansas and mid-missouri and we will keep the audience updated of what happens in a few hours. >>> and a judge has put on hold a new abortion law in south dakota to force women to have a three-day waiting period, and the judge says that the law is unconstitutional and it is ruled invalid while it is challenged in the state court, and the attorney general must decide whether to appeal the injunction or do nothing at all. >>> and still, the casey anthony trial comes to a grinding halt. >>> we will be in recess indefinitely. >> and the proceedings are underway, but why did the judge make that an announcement earlier? >>> plus -- >> for a long, long time i wait for this day. >> the greatest day of my life. >> that is a clip from the new hbo documentary called "citizen usa" and i will talk to the filmmaker alexander pelosi who shows us the faces and those immigrating into this great country. >>> and a new study from harvard claims to show that the fourth of july parades could increase the chances of your children

in fact, black kettle's band was chased across kansas so often, hero of the land of goodland kansas. but we ended up in the area around southeastern oklahoma and we are still there. we survive a civil war, and land graft and corruption and the dog act which was giving us allotments, what happened on the white earth reservation in minnesota and numerous other places. so we lost our reservations system. in that way lost our land. we survived -- i always wonder why all of our guys really like the suitors. doesn't anyone think about what the word means? >> host: what does it mean? >> guest: they assumed the oklahoma land rush into the country of oklahoma. >> host: early 20th century? >> guest: i am trying to think of the year. it would have been around just before that, the end of the nineteenth century. i always feel i grew up in the nineteenth century. i also get 1900s and 2,000s. when i talk about the 1700s i call it the seventeenth century. i have to be careful. we went from poverty, especially when i was a girl that poverty was really intense. we had a difficult life as a tribal nat

kansas if perhaps that might have been the way they went about dealing with their fiscal crisis in the past? mr. moran: mr. president, i thank the gentleman from south dakota and would indicate that, yes, kansas is one of those states, one of those 49 states, in our constitution we are prohibited in almost always living beyond our means. and it's been something that kansas legislature and governor has lived with you throughout the history of our state. the solution to the problem in kansas is not a cry for more revenue. it's a recognition that spending in difficult times has to be reduced. it's the restraint that we desperately need in washington, d.c. that's so common in state capitals and families and businesses across the country. and so, while i've always indicateed to kansans, while we have this debate every year about how to balance the revenues with expenditures and it's not an enjoyable debate, we are fortunate in kansas that we have to reach that conclusion, and it's something that we need in washington, d.c. for a long time the politics, the political talk in washington is that we're too likely to spend and tax. well, there's also a problem with spending and borrowing. and we are now suffering the consequence, and we are not immune from what we see in greece and italy and portugal and ireland. if we do not solve this problem that we face today

kansas if perhaps that might have been the way they went about dealing with their fiscal crisis in the past? mr. moran: mr. president, i thank the gentleman from south dakota and would indicate that, yes, kansas is one of those states, one of those 49 states, in our constitution we are prohibited in almost always living beyond our means. and it's been something that kansasegislature and governor has lived with you throughout the history of our state. the solution to the problem in kansas is not a cry for more revenue. it's a recognition that spending in difficult times has to be reduced. it's the restraint that we desperately need in washington, d.c. that's so common in state capitals and families and businesses across the country. and so, while i've always indicateed to kansans, while we have this debate every year about how to balance the revenues with expenditures and it's not an enjoyable debate, we are fortunate in kansas that we have to reach that conclusion, and it's something that we need in washington, d.c. for a long time the politics, the political talk in washington is that we're too likely to spend and tax. well, there's also a problem with spending and borrowing. and we are now suffering the consequence, and we are not immune from what we see in greece and italy and portugal and ireland. if we do not solve this problem that we face today i

kansas if perhaps that might have been the way they went about dealing with their fiscal crisis in the past? mr. moran: mr. president, i thank the gentleman from south dakota and would indicate that, yes, kansas is one of those states, one of those 49 states, in our constitution we are prohibited in almost always living beyond our means. and it's been something that kansas legislature and governor has lived with you throughout the history of our state. the solution to the problem in kansas is not a cry for more revenue. it's a recognition that spending in difficult times has to be reduced. it's the restraint that we desperately need in washington, d.c. that's so common in state capitals and families and businesses across the country. and so, while i've always indicateed to kansans, while we have this debate every year about how to balance the revenues with expenditures and it's not an enjoyable debate, we are fortunate in kansas that we have to reach that conclusion, and it's something that we need in washington, d.c. for a long time the politics, the political talk in washington is that we're too likely to spend and tax. well, there's also a problem with spending and borrowing. and we are now suffering the consequence, and we are not immune from what we see in greece and italy and portugal and ireland. if we do not solve this problem that we face today

kansas city, is it fact louis, look at the temperature. your body is feeling 110 in kansas city at this time and 96 in minneapolis. more about the heat in a half an hour. right now we're going to leave the weather center and head to the chat room right after this break. >>> take a look at this. what would you do if you saw one of these. a high eer than normal amount o snow in high elevations is causing bears to spend time in lower elevations. one hiker was killed by a grizzly last week. and a person just got very frightened when they saw that black bear this weekend. >>> now to new orleans where we find a twist on the whole running with the bulls concept. who needs to run the risk of getting gored by a real bull in spain when you can do this? pretend to be a bull? i don't know. get back at the people who generally run? >> it's new orleans. >> they call this bull session. this is the fifth running of the nola bull. that's funny. >>> now to a baseball milestone this weekend. we witnessed derek jeter become the first new york yankee to hit 3,000. and guess what? that one was a homer. what you may not know is the fan who caught the ball returned it to jeter saying, quote, he earned it. oh, my gosh. how nice. that ball may be worth thousands. >> maybe not worth anything like that anymore. >> congra congrats to jederek jeter. >> we're in the chat room now, looking at lighter things. we've got some fun stuff. some fun and a little frightening. >> have you ever done anything in your past where you said to yourself, you just feel guilty about it? when we're young we all do stupid stuff, right, every now and then? some guy is trying to make up for it in grand rapids, michigan. >> they decided to send a note and five $20 bill. minor vandalism. may have involved a street sign or something like that. can't really remember. but there may have been some damage done. here's 100 bucks. >> i know. he says he doesn't even remember if he was the one that maybe stole the sign or just one of his buddies. but he knew it wasn't quite right. >> imagine, an envelope shows up at city hall with five $20 bill. there you go. >> now that person feels like they are at peace. the city says they will actually use the money to repair or replace a street sign. >> that was. >> reporter: very honest. very nice. cue the music nobody wants to hear. especially when you're going to the beach. i thought we were really going to cue the music. >> we can all do it. the "jaws" music. the great white sharks. they've been spotted again. happens every year. it's not a big shocker. >> people don't feel like they're spotting a great white every year. >> yeah. they see great whites every year up there. only a handful, though. last year i think there were six of them. >> all it takes is one. i'm out of there. if you see something like that. but it is happening, apparently, with some frequency up there in cape cod. apparently there are quite a few seals. that's the yummy delicacy of many great whites. if you see a seal somewhere in the water, don't get in there. >> sometimes they'll close the beach. they haven't done that yet this year. actually it's kind of good for tourism. people want to come out to the beach and see if they can see a great white. >> really? >> yeah. scientists are toing research, too. they're putting tracking devices on the great whites. last year six of them like i've mentioned. they've been able to track them down all the way to the coast of georgia and all the way down into the gulf of mexico. it's interesting. they're learning the tracking methods of great whites a little better by doing that. >> i'm still not trying to be in the water at the beach when there's a great white. >> you're more likely to get hit by lightning than get eaten by a shark. >> thank you, jacqui. let's talk about something else that's rather bizarre but a lot of fun. in all places boca raton. >> i guess folks have decided to get a little fancy in the area of toilet tissue. we've seen stuff out of duct tape before. i've never seen toilet paper. look at how beautiful that is, though. >> we should keep tags. we've actually done stories or talks in the chat room about people who have made wedding dresses and prom dresses out of duct tape. also the candy wrappers. remember that? >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> now add toilet paper into the mix. >> how do you do that? that's great. nice. i'd take one of those. wouldn't you? just don't throw water on the bride. >> in the end it's all about some prize money. in this case i think it was $1,000. >> they've been doing it for a couple of years, i guess. >> fun stuff. we had a nice little variety of chatty stuff. repurposing. >> got it. >> all right, jacqui, appreciate that. thanks so much. >>> the answer to the question i'm about to ask you, do you feel a little overworked? >> i'm back from vacation. i feel good. >> you feel refreshed. >> i'm ready to go for a while. >> for those of you who do feel a little overworked, try working less. we'll tell you how in today's reclaim your career. >>> a look at our top stories right now. americans will have two chances to say good-bye to betty ford. a service for the former first lady will be held tuesday in palm desert, california. a second in grand rapids, michigan, on thursday. she will then be laid to rest next to her husband at the ford presidential library there. >>> and in just about a half an hour from now, president obama will hold deficit talks with republican and democratic leaders at the white house. live pictures now. republicans broke off talks last night saying they will not consider tax hikes as part of any plan. the deficit deal is tied to a proposal to raise federal debt caps. the issue is fueling debate on the sunday morning talk shows. >> we reduced the budget in four months. the democrat controlled senate, it's been -- we laid out a reform to social security and medicare to save them. the president has not. from the premise that where republicans have been in the short time they've been in the majority, we've laid out a framework to put us on a new path. >> at the end of the tay what we're seeing the priority of our republican colleagues is not to get a deficit reduction deal. it's to protect special interest tax breaks for big corporations. we had the corporate jet loob hole. we have big oil and gas companies. then we have folks at the very top of the income ladder. i listened to my friend kevin say these are all small businesses. as you pointed out just isn't true. >> a surprising development out of washington today. the white house confirmed the u.s. is withholding $800 million in aid to pakistan. let's bring in our senior state department producer. pakistan is a major u.s. ally. this relationship is very tense right now. what's behind the move right now to withhold aid? >> that's right, fred. there's a couple of things at play here. part retaliation for basically not cooperating on terrorism. putting pressure on the pakistani government to do more. also pakistckistan threw out ab 100 army trainers after the u.s. raid on the bin laden compound. white house chief of staff bill daley on the talk shows this morning spoke about this. let's take a listen to what he had to say. >> they have been an important ally in the fight on terrorism. they've been victim of enormous amounts of terrorism. but right now they have taken some steps that have given us reason to pause on some of the aid which we were giving to their military. and we're trying to work through that. it's a complicated relationship and a very difficult complicated part of the world. >> now, fred, that $800 million is about one-third of all u.s. security assistance to pakistan. where is it going? a couple hundred million of that, about $300 million, is to reimburse the pakistanis for some of the troops they sent to the border to combat al qaeda and the taliban. then there's also a lot of equipment that the u.s. can't get to pakistan if pakistan won't allow its personnel on the ground. because that aid and the personnel come as a package deal. >> okay. now you know there's less aid going to pakistan. you have to wonder what kind of trust or eroded trust might there be now between pakistan and the u.s. to work together from here on out? >> it's really bad. there's been a lot of tit for tat after that raid on bin laden. then the pakistanis threw out the american trainers denying the visas. now the u.s. is withholding aid. you've got to wonder, as you said, what is this going to mean, this continued tit for tat? in the past in previous years when the u.s. has withheld aid, it's been very bad. you've seen a lot of drone strikes against pakistan without pakistani cooperation. sometimes they do cooperate. but now i think you're going to see a lot of the u.s. kind of going it alone as it sends a message to pakistan as it did after 9/11. you're either with us or against us and you have to play if we're going to pay, basically. >> thanks so much from washington. appreciate that. >>> all right. how do you work less without falling behind on the job in i'll have some tips. >>> plus, i'll give you the big winners at the box office this weekend. all that right after this. what is that? oh, we call it the bundler. let's say you need home and auto insurance. you give us your information once, online... 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>> yes. a lot of it is restructuring. it's about -- a lot of people work hard but they don't work smart. you want to make sure that -- you have to break some of those bad habits. think about corporate america. people have so many meetings. maybe you need to rethink a meeting for everything. do we have a purpose for this meeting? to we know how long it's going to be? if you find yourself overworking but not necessarily more productive than your coworkers, first one in, last one out, that's a problem. >> that means you have to stand up and say we have too many meetings and you have to introduce an alternative so nobody thinks you're just somebody putting a poopoo on everything. technical term. >> yeah. real technical. one of the ways you can restruck your your day is to find a way to create appointments around whatever it is you're trying to do. if you've got a 5:30 workout session, you're more likely to leave work at 5:00. create structure that forces us out of the workplace. >> to be more productive. >> that's right. >> perhaps your company has a mantra where the more you work, the more rewards you get. >> you have to know your company. if you want to work less, one, know your company. know you might be at a company where that means no promotions or slow promotions. if you are okay with that because, for example, you want to focus on family right now, that may be fine. but there are a lot of companies right now, fred, that would welcome the opportunity for an employee to work less if they're able to pay them less and still have that impact. if you're able to downsize a bit or able to still pay your bills and you want to work less, you might be able to work something out with your employer to do that. >> that seems like there has to be some real strategy on how you talk to your boss. sfwl. >> yes. there has to be some strategy. think about it ahead. one of the questions you have to ask is can i afford to work less? you may make that a goal. know your number. how much do you need to have saved? how much is it that you would need to be bringing in every single month in order to work less. >> does it also mean asking yourself a question or two about whether this is the job for me or does it mean that it's time to switch careers because i want to be able to have more of a life outside of work? >> yes. that's the big question a lot of people find themselves at a crossroads. if you've had a layoff or things are happening at your job, sometimes that's a perfect time to re-evaluate your options. another great thing is to say, do i want to prepare myself for a career that's going to pay me more even if i work less? that might be a long-term solution that takes you a couple of years to get to because it requires training. sometimes switching careers is that best option to have more work life balance. >> valorie burton. >>> transformers dark of the moon is still number one at the box office. now it is the highest grossing myvy of the year. so far it's brought in an estimated $261 million. the r-rated comedy horrible bosses opened this weekend in second place taking in more than $28 million. yesterday i talked to movie critic gray drake of movies.com. she told us why she likes "horrible bosses." >> to me this movie was about a bunch of people who were punished for excelling in the workplace and had to manage a group of ungrateful workers who even plot to kill them. i'm sorry. i got all tea party there for a second. hot in the studio. no. the three main stars of the movie have such great chemistry that they're a lot of fun to watch. but collin ferrell looks hot with a tocomb over and pot bell. and jennifer aniston is putting the sexy back in sexual harassment. >> she's a brunette. >> she's like anthony wiener dbs. jamie foxx plays a character i can't even say without getting the sec all up in my business. >> what was your grade on this one? 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[♪...] >> male announcer: now, for a limited time, your companion flies free, plus save up to 65%. call 1-800-sandals. conditions apply. >>> okay. so before the break we asked for a little trivia, space trivia. how many launches have there been to the international space station? the answer, 103 launches. 67 of those were russian vehicles. 34 were american space shuttles. and there was one japanese and one european vehicle. >>> the final rendezvous in space. the shuttle "atlantis" docked with the international space station. for the crew a big welcome aboard. here now is cnn's john zarrella. >> reporter: sunday was another historic day in space. the space shuttle "atlantis" docking with the international space station early sunday afternoon. and the astronauts were so far ahead of the time line in this docking maneuver that they were actually able to open the hatch about 30 minutes ahead of schedule. of course, another historic moment there. the last time that the space shuttle visiting the space station. the hatch opening, the six members of the international space station greeting the four astronauts as they got onboard the space station. so ten in all now onboard the space station and for the next several days, a lot of work to do. they will be transferring more than 7,000 pounds of equipment and supplies to stock up literally the pantry and the refrigerator on the space station so there'll be enough supplies to last the crews up there for a good year. now, what also happened earlier on sunday as the space shuttle "atlantis" was approaching and rendezvousing with the international space station, commander ferguson pitched over, literally pitched his space shuttle "at lant tis" over, flipped it over on its back so that the crew members onboard the station could use their cameras and image the belly of the space shuttle. the reason they wanted to do this was to make sure that there was no damage to any of the sensitive thermal tiles on the belly of the space shuttle as it was lifting off a couple of days ago from the kennedy space center. so, again, the space shuttle "atlantis" now firmly docked to the space station. the last time a shuttle will ever dock at the space station. john zarrella, cnn, at the kennedy space center in florida. >>> now to the race for the white house. presidential candidates are on the move this week. here's cnn deputy political director paul steinhauser. >> a bunch of the presidential candidates will campaign this week in some of those crucial early voting states on the road to the white house. herman cain tomorrow kicks off his come pain in iowa. democrats are likely to hold on to that seat. the spotlight is also constant on tuesday. it was just a few months ago the protest over a controversial plan to strip public workers of rights rocked the capitol. we'll learn this week how much money president barack obama's re-election campaign has brought him since it started up in early april. sources say that number could be $60 million. friday is the deadline for all of the presidential campaigns to report their fundraising figures. fred? >> thanks so much, paul. appreciate that. >>> for the latest political news you know exactly where to go. cnnpolitics.com. in case you need a little reminder there. >>> another little reminder, a few minutes from now more of the newsroom with my colleague don lemon. what's ahead. >> on cnn. don't forget. watch it here on cnn. a lot coming up. we are really getting down to the wire and all eyes are going to be on the white house where president obama is meeting with congressional leaders at 6:00 p.m. republicans say no tax hikes. democrats say leave social security and medicare alone. we're talking about an august 2nd deadline here, fred, which is looming. coming up quickly. the best political team on television is going to weigh in on that including will cane and lz granderson. >>> also, fred, more on the tragic story we have been reporting. out of arlington, texas. a baseball fan falls to his death. i talked to the man -- you see that white baseball cap? >> trying to grab him? >> the man sitting next to him who tried to grab him. >> the first instinct is reach out and grab him. i tried to grab him. i couldn't catch him. as he went by me i tried to it looked like in slow motion as he was going to the ground. nothing i could do but watch him fall. >> his son was right there, too. >> his 6-year-old son. i talk eed to him about that, t. we'll also talk to a sports anchor who lives in the area and he's going to discuss the safety implications of this, what, if anything, are the rangers doing or planning to do or major league baseball. people who are in charge of stadiums. we'll get to the bottom of that. >>> also, you have to see this interview with this special person. do you understand that some people say things about that, they may be jealous. >> well, i feel that way, too. i feel the same way you speak in that way because some people are jealous of that kind of stuff. but, you can't be jealous of what god got for you. >> a legend in the art world wasn't discovered until he was 60 years old. you'll see the interview at 7:00. >> thanks so much, don lemon. >>> a british tabloid folds after charges that it had the phones of politicians, celebrities and even a missing teenage girl. it is easier than you may think. we'll talk with an expert on hacking. so, at our company, we pay about the same, even though i'm a great driver, and he's... not so much. well, for a driver like you, i would recommend our new snapshot discount. this little baby keeps track of your great driving habits, so you can save money. 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[ cackling ] he's my ride home. how much can the snapshot discount save you? call or click today. >>> stod's final edition of "news of the world" sold out quickly at many london newsstands. it has ended publication after 168 years amid public outrage over a phone hacking scandal. the owner, international media barren rupert murdoch arrived in london today to deal with the fallout. police are investigating charges that the "news of the world" hacked the phone of a missing teenager who later died. >>> michael is a former computer hacker and a security expert. earlier today i asked him about phone hacking, a process known to insiders as freaking. >> well, there's a lot of tools that basically surround this industry. the freaking industry is a subdivision of hacking and they have various tools that will enable them to tap phones and receive messages. as phones become more sophisticated it is easier because of the blue tooth and various technologies that basically enable these phreakers to gain access to your phone. >> listen to the messages on a missing teenager's telephone and erase some of the calls on the phone to make room for new calls that would come in. can you kind of explain for us how they were able to do that. you say now it is much easier, but do you have to be, i guess, professional or really proficient at being able to do this? >> well, you need some expertise in phreaking. i am more on the hacking side where phreaking is a subdivision of hacking. they have a few various tools. all they need is the phone number and some tools that will basically grant them some access. some are sophisticated tools that aren't easy to obtain. it's not as hard as some people might think. you have to know which tools to use. >> let's talk about some very bizarre weather we're experiencing across the country as we get ready to go back to work, jacqui. we're talking about extremities. >> it's hot there and dangerous heat. brutal all weekend long and, unfortunately, this will just build the next couple days. excessive heat warnings are covering many states across the plains from des moines, iowa, stretching all the way down to shreveport, louisiana. this is many metropolitan areas that are going to be dealing with temperatures, according to your body, they're going to be feeling like 100 to 110 degrees. our affiliates, of course, are covering this big time. oklahoma city, you guys have had 100 degrees plus every single day in the month of july so far. people have been sending in their pictures to local affiliate. take a look at that. that is the cracked ground. they're saying it's 8 to 12 inches deep it's so dry and people are also sending in their pictures of their car thermometers. there's one that's 103 degrees. let's show you what's going on in kansasity under heat advisories here. that big warning on there and the salvation operation opening cooling centers. eight of them in kansas city to help people stay safe in these kind of conditions. we also have severe weather going on across parts of the upper midwest. we have been tracking a couple really nasty thunderstorms right along the north dakota and south dakota state lines. dickey county is under a tornado warning right now and storm spotters have seen a tornado near the town of oaks moving southeast at 40 miles per hour and also some spotty damage earlier into the ashley area and also a couple thunderstorms i might want to mention, fredricka in the las vegas area. i know, four corners getting kind of busy this time of year, too. one person injured from flying debris. be aware of that, as well, too. >> busy week and busy day ahead. >>> i'm fredricka whitfield. much more of the "newsroom" straight ahead with don lemon. have a great week. can i have some ice cream, please ? no, it'

kansas for decades in a safe way. i hope this administration will reconsider. we cannot continue to drive costs. we cannot continue to regulate the kansas agriculture community. we cannot harass it into its leaving our country. we know this is important. if we drive up the cost of food we'll drive up inflation. this is good for no one. i hope this administration will reconsider, that they'll use some common sense. our farmers, our agriculture producers want clean air. they make it happen. they want clean water. they ensure it happens every day. we do not need this administration to harass them into leaving the very profession that is so important to our country. and with that i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlelady from california, ms. woolsey, for five minutes. ms. woolsey: mr. speaker, i'm here catching my breath after the debate over the extreme tea party legislation that we considered yesterday. it's easily one of the worst bills i can remember in nearly 20 years of service here in this body. every time i think they can't possibly go any farther, the majority blows me away with the audacity

applause] [applause] >> this book is part of the university press of kansas modern first lady series. for more information visit kansas pressed that case you got edu. >> what are you reading this summer? book tv wants to know. >> i have a long list of books. some are unfinished and some are new. the first book i am working on is monsoon which is a book by robert kaplan about the whole issue of central asia. quite think most of the politics and the next 25 years will occur there. i have read chapters of this and traveled to various parts of indonesia, but i want to read the whole book. i haven't finished it. i started in february. another book given to me by a fellow in my office and the american academy of mechanical engineers who worked with me on the question of water. i said to him, what problems of water are going to be over the next 20 or 30 years. in this book he said, what you to read it. i was never able to write a perfect report. a good book to read about the whole question. and it is an issue that in congress we need to think about in the future. judge freedman wrote a book called the next hundred years whic

kansas and toward the mid-atlantic and the eastern seaboard. the heat index from kansas is 106 in wichita and 109 in st. louis and creeping across the northern planes and 92 in minute appear police but the bull's eye is the eastern seaboard and now up to 121 is what it feels like in washington, dc, incredible, and i am sure that is record. and dover, 119, and 116 in newark. a day to stay indoors. at night the temperatures only dropping into the mid 80's. so the house does not cool down and not catching any break from the heat. >> i look forward to the next ice age. when will it end? rick: we are mid-july so the hottest, anyway, so well not see a huge relief but a relief across the north. tomorrow, 94 in chicago and hot across the eastern seaboard at 10- to 15-degrees below today's heat index but the dark colors it heats back up and folks across the south, especially kansas and oklahoma have been dealing with the heat for two months. they will not get any break. >> thank you, rick. rick: you bet. >> and now, twin terror attacks in norway killing 15 people and police now saying the investigators believe they are linked. first a bomb ripped open buildings in oslo including the prime minister's office and a man dressed as a police officer opened fire at a youth camp on an island outside the city. this was the scene in oslo after the bombing. police have not said who might be responsible. and look at this: video of the youth camp reportedly owned by the labor political party, a party spokesman says that gunmen hit several people. and now greg has the news. what do we know of the developing story? >>greg: well, we are lending new development to the story every minute and it is getting ugly. first the bombing in the step of what is normally a peaceful european capital, oslo, norway. the bomb set off in front the main government building, a 20-story office buil

tonight, they're going to take on the kansas city explorers, they're the defending champs in team tennis. even though they're playing kansas city, what everyone is talking about is the return of venus williams. venus -- venus williams looked cool. the singles champ is playing for the castle for the second straight season. prior to the lope appearance in the nation's capitol, she hosted a youth clinic. >> a lot of kids are here and i get to know them a few times a year. of course, i'm going to try to win for washington and that is not easy. i will try to win today. >> reporter: to say venus has an impact on kids is a monumental statement. >> i love your volley. >> we're shaking right now. that is really, really good. i'm excited. she said she him play a few more, so, it's really exciting and it's like really surreal. my idol is calling and -- oh! that is a lot of motivation. these kids are motivating for me. i was in their situation once and in the 80s and i remember really wanting to impress her and shower her whattic do. it's funny it's full circle and i'm in that position and that is showing how much team tennis gives ba

kansas may not be aware of this because it affects our oceans. kansas is in the middle of our country. the oceans are now a sink for carbon dioxide. as we get more and more co-2 in the ocean it creates acidity, the so-called p.h. factor, which at normal range is at 8.1 and when it goes down -- we have places in hood canal in my area that's down to 7.3. at that level it starts to take apart coral. it starts to take apart oyster shells. and it starts to take away the food for salmon. this is a very important condition, so the more we can learn about our greenhouse gases and what their effect is not only on our climate but also on the ocean and we are poisoning the ocean. again, there's this not let's take time to work on this issue because somehow it's going to cut away jobs. it may end civilization. think about that. your grandchildren, my grandchildren, your children, maybe you're younger, i worry about them. i worry about what's going to happen if we don't deal with this climate change issue, and we should take this seriously. the best scientists in the world say this is something that needs to be dealt with. so, again, i think this idea of taking out the money for the greenhouse gas registry so that we'll have a scientific underpinning to know whether -- what these problems are and how much various sources produce is just -- is the ignorance is bliss amendment. let's defeat this amendment and let the e.p.a. do their job. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from washington yields back his time. the question's on the amendment offered by the gentleman from kansas, mr. pompeo. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. for what purpose does the gentleman from kansas rise? mr. pompeo: mr. chairman, i request a recorded vote. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from kansas, mr. pompeo, will be postponed. the clerk will read. the clerk: page 66, line 1, office of inspector general, $41,099,000 to remain available until september 30, 2013. building of office -- the chair: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california rise? >> mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 23 printed in the congressional record offered by ms. richardson of california. the chair: the gentlewoman from california is recognized for five minutes. ms. richardson: thank you, mr. chairman, for allowing me to speak on the richardson amendment. this amendment adds an addition

kansas city and i-80 from cheyenne to omaha. >> if you're taking to the air, airport delays arereossible in atlanta, kansas city, denver, salt lake city and phoenix. >>> and recapping our top story now, casey anthony could walk free as soon as tomorrow after jurors found her not guilty of murder. she was convicted of only four minor charges and considered time served she could be released from jail. >> jurors in the case refused to speak with reporters about their deliberations and their identities are being kept secret. >> n towell, their decision to acquit her sent off shock waves around the nation. >> that was true outside the orlando courtroom where hundreds gathered day after day during the trial. some could not believe the verdict. >> i think they did improve their case and i think for the first time in a long time we saw justice whether it was justice people wanted or not. if they can't prove their case the constitution of the united states with no evidence, you have to set them free. >> you do realize you're greatly outnumbered. >> i don't care. i don't care. i'm a patriotic american and if they would have found her guilty they might as well stopped celebrating the fourth of july because they throw the constitution out the window. i've got kids myself. i love children but unless you can prove it, you cannot convict someone. >> as a mother who's lost a chchd, my 2-year-old, for one minute in target years ago, now 15, for her to display and do what she's done and say it was an accident or whatever i think is just unbelievable. for the jurors to disregard everything they heard and not be able to connect the dots is a joke. probably she'll do it again in ten years and she'll be right back here. >> reporter: what makes you say that?d theor one second there's mothers out there they freak out when they don't see their kid. 31 case and you go caught calling the police. that's neglect. that's abuse. something that should be reported. >> emotions running very high and, again, lots more on the casey anthony murder trial coming up on "good morning america." >>> in other news, a scathing new investigation shows nearly 200 t tchers and principals in the atlanta school system have been cheating. investigators found that some of them changed test answers on weekends at so-called eraserase parties and many of them could soon face criminal charges. >>> well, major advertisers have been begun pulling their business from the british tabloid "news of the world" this morning. the paper is facing claims that in 2002 one of its private detectives hacked into a missing 13-year-old cell phone messages, even deleting some of those to make room for possible new ones. milly dowling was found murdered. and the messages gave her parents and police some hope she was still alive. >>> in our royals update william and kate's tour s sps in alberta, canada where they meet victims of a springtime wildfire. >> they took part in a tree planting ceremony and also prince william tried his hand at field hockey but failed to land the puck in the net. hard to do in a suit. >> it is. >>> first lady michelle obama hit the baseball diamond to drum up support for military families. >> she took to the mound ahead of last night's nationals/cubs game accompanied by nine children who have parents serving in the armed forces. mrs. obama cheered as one of the kids threw out the ceremonial first pitch. and with that let's take a look at some of the highlights from the world of sports last night and for that here's will selva at espn news. >> good morning. yankees' shortstop derek jeter continuing his pursuit of 3,000 hits. sitting on 2,994 in cleveland. yankees up 1-0. runners on the corners. jeter brings home two run, went 2 for 6. four shy of 3k. later, two out. grandy man, curtis granderson, one of two home runs, cc sabathia, 12th win of the season. >>> the red sox, there's jon lester as the red sox took on blue jays. lester strikes out adam lipid. he left with a no-no ink tact. blue jays down 3-0. jose bautista, deep into the night, 28th home run of the season. blue jays are down now. later in the inning john mcdonald and heads to home, mcdonald, the throw, nicely done. he may have beaten the tab but the red sox win it, 3-2. >>> albert pujols expected to miss up to six weeks with a small fracture had his left wrist, back after 15 days. activated tuesday but not in the lineup. holliday was. that leaves in a early. 16th multihome run game of his career. lance berkman gets every bit of that pitch, 350th career home run as the cards win it, 8-1. that'll do it for this espn news update. i'm will selva. >>> all right. well, police in the bay area are trying to track down a stolen picasso and the man would swiped it from the san francisco art gallery. >> a well-dressed man in dark glasses grabbed the pencil drawing and hopped into a waiting taxi. the 1965 work titled "head of a woman" is the size of a standard sheet of paper but experts say it will be a 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kansas in order to do a post-viable abortion, you have to have a second kansas physician who evaluates the patient and agrees that the pregnancy represents a threat to her health. >> and that physician could not be legally or financially tied to dr. tiller. dr. tiller was accused of having a financial relationship with her. >> reporter: in 2009 he stands trial in a wichita courtroom. operation rescue is confident it is just a step away from accomplishing its mission. getting dr. tiller's medical license revoked. >> that's correct. >> the legislature was closing in and tightening the laws, the kansasoard of healing arts had filed indictments. i think it was clear that george tiller was very close to retirement. his abortion clinic was closing very soon. >> reporter: on march 27, 2009, the jury in the case of the state of kansas versus george tiller leaves the courtroom to deliberate. they quickly return with a verdict. >> we the jury unanimously find the defendant not guilty of illegal abortion as alleged in count one. >> and he was acquitted as somebody said in less time than it takes to eat a ham sandwich. the jury came right back and said, not guilty on all charges. >> it was a big load off of his shoulders. oh, yeah. >> i think for the anti-abortion people, it was a huge disappointment. >> we were so close to having tiller lose his license. i wanted to beat him. >> reporter: scott roeder is not a member of operation rescue, but he attends the trial nearly every day. here he's seen sitting beside operation rescue president troy newman. when the trial concludes, roeder is devast

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kansas. mr. huelskamp: would the gentleman restate his question? mr. polis: i'm sorry, has the gentleman from kansas read the training manual he's seeking to defund in this case? mr. huelskamp: thank you, madam chairman. that's an excellent question, we tried to obtain a copy of that from department of defense today and they refused to provide a copy. what i do have is an online three-page summary of the manual. mr. polis: i think the straight answer is no. in fact, our ranking member an others have been unable to get that from the navy liaison's office. i think it's an offense to the military to second-guess their training for chaplains. no doubt those documents could eventually come our way and should for oversight activities, but for us to somehow defund the training of chaplains makes no sense. catholic chaplains will be worried to advise their followers that homosexuality is a sin if that's not included in the training. those that -- for whom homo sexuality is not a sign will likewise be worried about avoiding the troops. there will be a void, a huge void. to not train the spiritual advisors to members of our military about the implementation of don't ask, done tell, why not try to not train any troops? there's a whole, whether you supported it or not, i think most of us believe that it was better that there was a training process, than let's say a court had ordered, which has now happened. and instantaneous change. with regard to the chaplaincy, to second-guess a military training document which they have indicated they will revise accordingly is to show a huge lack of judgment of the men and women who run the military. an enormous lack of confidence in the institution of the chaplaincy, an offense of the chaplaincy to somehow deing that congress is expressing they should not be trained regarding a major military policy that they should take the risk on their own that they should worry about advising members of their faith, with regard to whether homo sexuality is a sin or not, regarding whether members can be married or not. this is a diverse country religiously. and likewise, the institution of our military renects that diversity. to somehow, again, second-guess a military training document that hasn't even been read by the prime sponsor of this amendment shows a tremendous lack of faith and it's a very dangerous precedence for congress in terms of interfering with the training procedures of the military. we could, of course, as a body or as individual members go through every single training manual, find things we like, find things we don't like. but again, to micromanage the military to that extent, particularly in light of a policy change that has ramifications of the chaplaincy. the chaplaincy is where the rubber meets the road with regard to how members are advised about sexual orientation and what behavors are moral or immoral. to say that congress will tell the chaplaincy not to train anybody on implementing this policy change leave ours soldiers in a spiritual lurch. it leave ours christian soldiers in a spiritual lurch. it leaves our jewish soldiers in a spiritual lurch. all of those who take advantage of the good offices of the chaplaincy in the military just as of course we have a chaplain in this fine institution, the united states congress. so again, this is a change that perhaps many members of the chaplaincy were not in favor of, some were, depends on their faith position and political opinions but they need to be trained in accordance with military protocols and this amendment would gut that. i trongly urge a no vote and yield back the balance of my time. the chair: does anyone seek recognition on this amendment? the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from kansas. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. the amendment is not agreed to. for what purpose does the gentleman from kansas rise? mr. huelskamp: i ask for the yeas and nays. i ask for a recorded vote. the chair: does the gentleman ask for a recorded vote. mr. huelskamp: i do. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from kansas will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? >> i rise to offer an amendment to h.r. 2219. the chair: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. tonko of new york. at the end of the bill, before the short title, insert the following, section, none of the funds made available by this act may be used to pay a contractor under a contract with the department of defense for costs of any amount paid by the contractor or subcontractor to an employee performing work under the contract for compensatio