kate white the editor in chief of "cosmopolitan" magazine. good morning to you both.ate, why was it important to include this article as part of september's issue of "cosmo"? >> honesty is something you ought to be able to count on in a relationship but sometimes guys fudge the facts because they want to avoid conflict or they don't want you to lower the boom in a way that they think isn't fair. so it's important to break that cycle if he is telling lies. >> because then it is the foundation of the whole relationship, if it's built on little white lies, how do you know when he's ever really telling the truth. >> that's right. lies like cheating and other things that spouses -- or others might be involved with. is there anything wrong though with guys telling little white lies or fudging the truth just a little bit every now an again if they're doing it not to hurt your feelings or put you in a compromising situation? >> i think that the issue is you really want to be kind and you want to be careful with someone's feelings. but the problem is -- you mentioned the word

cnn's kate bolduan live from the white house with details. and, kate, first of all, i want to get to the question you asked in the daily briefing a moment ago, because that was good. but, first, talk about this conference, this conversation the president had with former senator tom daschle. >> reporter: well, the latest we have from press secretary, robert gibbs, in the briefing that i just jumped out, the meeting started a little bit late, and we're still waiting for a read-out on that. but as we talked about this morning, tony, he's the former senate majority leader, senator tom daschle, he was obama's first choice to head up the department of health and human services and sois as an informal adviser to the president. and gibbs said he does listen to what daschle has to say on the issue. so, we're hoping to get a little more of a read-out a little later today, tony. >> kate, as i asked a moment ago, i thought you asked a really good question of robert gibbs during the daily briefing, you wanted to know if the president has learned anything d

bolduan is at the white house. katesome are saying the end of the recession is near. even the president has been celebrating some nice signs of a nearing of an end. >> hi there, fredricka. the president's top economic advisers, they say the economy is at least no longer on the brink of collapse and they are pointing to some encouraging signs of recovery. his top economic advisers really hit the sunday talk shows this morning, touting this week's positive economic news as evidence that their recovery efforts, the obama administration's recovery efforts, are really taking hold and turning around the economy. the gdp for one in the second quarter falling more slowly than anticipated. but the administration at the very same time is also being very careful, trying to manage expectations here on saying that the country is not out of the woods yet. secretary of -- treasury secretary timothy geithner says that americans have some tough choices ahead in trying to reduce the exploding federal deficit that we face, and he says he

our kate bolduan is at the white house, where the president returned earlier today from his weekend trip to camp david. kate? >> reporter: hi there frederica. administration officials say they are confident the economy is no longer on the brink of collapse but we are not out of the woods yet. president obama returns from wand at camp david, his administration touting the week's positive economic news as evidence their efforts are succeeding in turning around the economy. >> most private forecasters think real gdp growth will turn positive before the end of the year. >> people are talking about whether the recession is going to turn into a depression, they are talking about when it's gonna end that is the real accomplishment -- a real accomplishment. >> reporter: while republicans agree the economic signs are encouraging, many say it's no thanks to the obama administration or the stimulus package. >> but i really believe it is in spite of the prescriptions of washington, d.c. i think what we are seeing in the economy now is the inherent resilience of the american economy and the american

while kate said the white house is not concerned about the numbers, the president's team is certainly aware of them, and so a short time ago, we talked to george stephanopoulos, who joined us from the grand canyon, where he is interviewing john mccain this weekend. george, when you hear the numbers, 50% of americans oppose, the vast majority of whom strongly opposed what does the white house do? >> reporter: well, they have a lot to do. they're going to take a break, david, to give the white house and the president a chance to recharge. and to let this whole debate cool down before labor day. they know that with the public, they have to do a better job of convincing those who have health insurance that they're going to be helped by the president's plan, and that they're going to pay a price if it fails. and when with the congress, they're really focusing on unifying the democrats now, behind a single plan, but the problem with that was illustrated in the last 24 hours, speaker of the house nancy pelosi said there can't be a bill without a public health insurance option. her number two

kate? >> okay, marysol. >>> the white house officials say the obamas have delayed their deporcher from martha's vineyard for a few hours to make sure that hurricane bill has moved past massachusetts. while the first family will likely begin their vacation with clearer skies, the political storm is bound to be his on mind. rachel martin is in washington this morning. good morning, rachel. >> good morning, kate. there's never really a good time to go on vacation if you're president of the united states. and such is the case now. and while president obama will try to get some ro r&r, in martha's vineyard, the shadow of the health care debate is sure to loom large. the president leaves behind a leery public. divided democrats and republicans who continue to pound him on health care. >> the president's plan is a 1,000-page expression, supporting the notion that washington knows best when it comes to your family's health care. >> reporter: obama on saturday used his weekly address to again refute those charges. >> we've all heard the charge that reform will somehow bring about a government takeover o

white house hopes says joseph steiglich. >> i think it's too premature to be confident about a recovery and very premature to be confident about a robust recovery by early next year. >>> kate bolduan joins us from the white house. republicans and democrats are at odds about the economy, is there any common ground that they agree upon today? >> reporter: well, following reports that more than a million americans could lose their benefits by the end of the year, administration officials say they're carefully extending those benefits further, working with congress, and today republicans today seemed to signaling their report. so there's one point of agreement. >> that's a last resort for a lot of people. thank you, kate. >>> more on politics and the economy at the bottom of the hour poppy harlow and bill schneider will join me to talk about washington as response to this recession and where we go from here and if we're in a turnaround as the administration has been saying. we'll have the second 100 days of the obama administration been days of change or frustration? cast your vote at cnn.com/reportcard, and get the results at thursday night. >>> the man who allegedly sparked

kate guy? >> the white house after north korea. >> clinton can go over to kate's house, talk to her, bring themdle after eight kids. back on the air after the split. this is an ironic clip. listen to kate talk about the media exposure her kids are receiving. >> two and a half days we had about three to five paparazzi who stuck around outside of our house just like they did at home. what do you do? i'm living my life. if they have to be there to take pictures, great. but i'm not going to keep my kids inside and stifle their existence. >> did you follow that? she put kids on a reality show and now she's upset people are watching. >> you can go from putting them on tv to complaining about paparazzi. first thrust yourself into the cameras, then make a whole career out of complaining about media. >> not just yourself but your children as well. >> celebrities. i hate celebrities, i don't care whether they are sports stars, movie stars. >> you're a celebrity. >> that are in paparazzi and complaining about that. there's a good way to take care of that. go back home to kansas and work in an auto shop an

cnn's kate bolduan live from the white house. and the administration is appealing to both the left and the right, but is it working? >> reporter: that is a good question, betty. you can see from the white house's perspective, the president and the white house, they are trying, working to regain momentum in this debate. statement, the president is preparing to leave for vacation a little later this afternoon after he does have that meeting with former senate majority leader tom daschle on, of course, you can guess it talking about health care. but yesterday, take a look at yesterday, betty, a perfect example of the fine line that the president, that this administration is trying to walk, trying to appeal to both sides to really keep a coherent message out there. appealing to liberal supporters at a democratic national convention event yesterday afternoon and before that, really taking his message to conservatives. speaking to -- making an appearance on a conservative talk radio show, live at the white house. the host, he did throw

kate baldwin live from the white house this morning. what the heck does wee-wee'd up anyway, kate?her news though, kiran. the president you can see from the town hall to the other events. the president working hard to regain momentum in the health care debate as the president is preparing to leave for vacation a little later today. yesterday was the perfect example of the fine lines that the president is trying to walk. appealing to supporters in the town hall. but also taking the message and trying to appeal to conservatives on the talk show live from the white house. the host did throw his support behind president obama during the campaign. now, speaking of the campaign -- in most if not all of his appearances of recent, the president looks like he's back on the campaign trail himself. he's trying to correct what he calls the misinformation and the noise that is out there confusing the debate as they say on topics. such as health care for illegal immigrants and the death panels we heard so much about. but really, when it comes down to it, what of the calls we heard so long for a

kate? >> good morning. good morning, everyone. the whitese is calling president clinton's trip to north korea, solely private. mr. clinton is in pyongyang, trying to secure the release of american journalists laura ling and euna lee. white house officials refuse to comment further this morning, saying they don't want to jeopardize the success of that mission. >>> now, to the three americans that wandered into iran. they are being questioned near the iraq border, where they have been detained since friday. here's abc's jim sciutto. >> reporter: on iranian television, news this morning that the government is investigating whether the three americans, shane bauer, sarah shourd, and joshua fattal, were tourists or something more. and friends and colleagued back home, insist the americans took a break from reporting to go hiking along the iran/iraq border. shane bauer sent an e-mail before he left. i'm heading out the door and traveling to iraqi kurdistan. i want to get ideas for deeper stories. his editor said he had no intentions of going into

white house says it is safe to buy. the dealers may be a little gun shy. cnn's kate bolduan joins us live from one of the dealerships in gaithersburg, maryland. what are the dealers there saying, kate? do we have kate? >> reporter: dealers thought of the deal they couldn't and wouldn't pass up. >> what was reaction amongst you and your employees when the program really started moving? >> when we saw the influx of business, the people coming in, actually ready to buy, it was very exciting. i mean, we had a huge weekend. >> reporter: alex of coonce automotive says they have sold 290 cars at their 16 locations, thanks to the cash for clunkers program. and they've seen a 40% jump in sales compared to the same time last year, but then reports the $1 billion program was already running out of cash, leaving dealers as well as members of congress scrambling. >> to help our auto industry, to help consumers, to grow our economy, to do it in an environmentally sound way, i think it's a perfect message for us to take home for august. >> this is a godsend for the auto dealers in

kate, this was a working vacation for the president. yesterday, the first family toured yellowstone park. today, they're headed to the grand canyon. >> thus phoenix. >>> we turn to our senior white house correspondent jake tapper, he's in washington, he's sitting in for george stephanopoulos. good morning, jake. three town hall meetings. you have to say none of them were really full of fireworks. they were sort of calm compared to what we're seeing in the rest of the country. how does the white house feel about how those town halls went? >> well, they feel they went very well. as rachel just said. they feel it's more representative of the kind of the debates going on throughout the country. there are accusations from some conservative circles that there's screenings going on. people tend to become more p polite in the presence of the president. the president also is making a point of saying, in all of these town hall meetings, what people see on tv, and cable tv, is not represented. they're pushing back on the idea those town halls raucous affair. >> president obama has an op-ed in the new york times, he writes in the coming weeks -- is that the best argument he has right now, i

white check. >> good morning. welcome to "11 news sunday morning." i'm kateennifer franciotti in for lisa robinson. first a look outside with john collins. >> john? >> halfway through august. better than that now. we got a shot at the mid-atlantic mugies. >> you walked out and felt wet. >> everybody has had enough, i think. >> yep. >> i think we have humped over, and there is relief in sight. now that we have bill out of the way. i think that's been the key. bill has been tying us up. >> bill has been bogging us down. >> take a look now at the radar. yesterday there was a lot of rain at -- rain. south of us, they got soaked. over the average of the past week, there has been a lot of at least rain threat around. the last of the significant rain shower activity. a few showers on the delmarva peninsula. a rain chance wouldn't be out of the question today, but it is a lot lower today, but lots of humid air will be filtering in. forecast details coming up. >> remember, you can follow the storms on our web site using interactive radar. you can pin point wet weather

the first white american woman to do so was kate ernest lashley in 1893.and the press african-american male w.e.b. du bois to in the history of ph.d. earned it two years later in 1895. the introduction to telling history tells and middle of coopers history because her experience says some much about how black women keen to the historical profession and why they came behind white and black men in white women. in also coopers life and quest for a ph.d. exemplifies so much of what black women in the historical profession in any profession for that matter into word today. cooper received her ph.d. in history at the tender age of 66. getting a degree was no small matter. a widow, she had to work and go to school of the same time. although she had no children of her own she raised her nephews, five children, ages six months to 12. she raised them on her own, she took care of her brother's life when he fell ill and she became his mouthpiece when she was unable to fight for his pension. sounds familiar? particularly for women having competing familiar -- familial

white house has promised any deals made this weekend will be honored. and in the meantime, car sellers are working overtime, taking in the clunkers when they come and the cash when they can. kate? >>> while the car dealers are grateful for the new business, as we said, the program is bringing worries and concerns. th morning joining us from west roxbury, massachusetts is david rosenberg. he owns prime motor group, one of the largest dealerships here in the northeast part of the country. good morning, david. >> good morning, kate. >> let's touch on some of the things that rachel just mentioned. walk us through what this program has been like on the ground at your dealerships. how's it working? okay? >> well, the program's been working tremendously well, we just enjoyed a record month at several of our dealerships, so we're happy with the underlying theory of the program. >> the theory? how about the practice? >> well, in practice, it's very difficult to administer. the dealership that we're in right now, prime honda, we haven't even been able to register for the program yet, yet, we have 75 trade-ins, clunker trade-ins, that we need to process through the system. >> so what's t

and transcripts of closed-door congressional testimony kate karl rove played a key role in the firing of at least one u.s. attorney in 2006. then white house counsel harriet miers told investigators that rove was, quote, very agitated about a u.s. attorney in new mexico and wanted something done about it. rove denies politics played any role in those firings. >>> police in brazil are accusing the host of a reality tv crime show of ordering at least five murders to boost his ratings. police became suspicious when his show was always first at the scene of violent crime. >>> a new study finds that colon cancer patients who take aspirin cut the risk of dying from the disease by 30%. and that aspirin can help keep colon cancer from coming back. the study is in the journal of the american cancer association. >>> overseas markets are lower this morning. cnbc's melissa francis is at the new york stock exchange. all eyes today are on the fed. >> that's right. a fed meeting kicks off today with a decision and a statement tomorrow. almost no one expects the fed to raise rates right now but will be listening for language of an exit strategy and

kate? >> reporter: i think they're in a back room here. we haven't actually seen them yet. there are a number of whitep here, sort of an exclusive area, that looks like where the family will be. right behind me, the plane, i can hear it right outside diane. within moments, i think that big, sliding door will open up. the plane will pull in here. there's actually a staircase here that says welcome home, where they will disembark. bear with us a couple of minutes. i think we'll have the plane coming right in. and we suspect we'll be hearing from euna lee and laura ling themselves, as well as from former vice president al gore. >> but not former president clinton. wh happened to that decision? >> reporter: we'll see what happens. this is their day. this is about two journalists who were working for current tv, which as you say, is owned by al gore. he has very much demeanor al gore has been lobbying for months and months, trying to secure their release. he called on his former president, bill clinton, to come to the rescue. but i think bill clinton may want to have al gore do most of the speaking this mo

white house in cases of emergency. we are continuing our conversation with our college panel today. kate, let me start with you.ou like the idea of the fact that the president of the united states if this bill were to become law could say ok there is an emergency right now, so i'm not going to flip off the internet. i'm going to turn off google and all the internet service -- providers? >> i would want to know the specific cases under which that would be allowable or have some guidelines as to understand that i'm, at the same time, really, really concerned about cyber security. both about personal information that there may be on the internet and then the growing threat of cyber attack. so, for me, i would love -- i'm excited to see this. steve: the problem this particular bill, and it's gone back to committee and they have been working ton for half a year, is that it is so vague, you know, the language is so broad, it winds up giving the president broad powers in a lot of gray areas. >> bottom line is no one has greater insensitive to protect networks than private administrators. that's their livelihood and wh

. >>> the white house is making plans to end the cash for clunkers program as dealers complain they're not getting paid. we'll tell you why the program is stalling. >>> the jon and kate divorce continues to grab headlines as things get nasty between the two new women in jon's life. >> you know, she's cuckoo. >> all this as concern grows about the children. >>> and he changed the way america watched the news. a look back at the life and extraordinary career of cbs' news don hewitt. all this "early" thursday morning, august 20th, 2009. >>> a good thursday morning to everyone at home. i'm maggie rodriguez with jeff glor. harry and julie are off this morning. >> as we continue the healthy debate over healthcare coverage this morning, we'll be joined exclusively by former massachusetts governor mitt romney, who joins us from massachusetts. he says that, if the rest of the country followed the massachusetts model, there could be comprehensive reform and effective reform. he'll speak with us in just a few minutes. >> you mean he's for his own program? >> shocker, isn't it? >> we'll talk to governor romney ahead. morning, a presidential proposal that god broad support in con

white wine. >> we have about 30 seconds. >> if you want a copy of the recipe, go to wbaltv.com. >> gorgeous day today. gorgeous day again tomorrow. >> gorgeous. kateave anything to say? >> no. >> that looks wonderful. thanks everybody for watching! we'll see you back here in about 25 minutes. >> strong, determined, and compassionate are just a few of the words being used to describe eunice kennedy shriver. we have to look no fartherer than the field of towson university to see those words in action has maryland hosts its annual summer games. just a week after the assassination of her brother john kennedy eunice kennedy shriver opened her first special olympics. she wanted people to know the joy of hard work and camaraderie. originally held in her own back yard, miss shriver's goal was to change the world, and she did. her work is the largest for inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities. her work has changed the lives of participants as well as those who are involved. within hours of her passing, her family summed up her legacy in a simple statement. inspired by her love of god, her defegsvotion of family, and the relentless belief in the