also, larry david will be here on the set. we are excited about that. up next, politico's top stories of the morning. pretty, pretty good. >> pretty exciting. >> i love that one. michele bachmann unveiling the first tv ad. we'll look at it. first, let's go to bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill. >> good morning, mika. i like the one with larry and he picks on the weather man. the weatherman always went golf when he predicted rain. today, if you are going to do anything outdoors, do it early this afternoon. showers and storms. it's a warm morning. temperatures 74 from new york to d.c., already. not everyone is going to get hit by the storms. they will be scattered. worst spot, kansas city. rain is about to move in. it will be with you for much of the morning commute. hot in oklahoma and texas. what else is new? down in florida, showers and thunderstorms today. tomorrow, we are watching the atlantis launch. it does not look good. 70% chance rain and thunderstorms will delay the launch. it's scheduled for 7:26 a.m. ♪ ♪ hey, dad, you think i coul

larry david couldn't make this stuff up. i was four term limits and they had four term limits and they were tore out. i'm all for it. i'm all for it. >> my man. see, compromise. >> if that can happen? no. pat, it comes back to dozens and i'm not going to try to sound super liberal, but they have to give. you know they have to. >> you can defeat them. if i'm in a marginal district and i may lose, i told my folks this is what i believe and i'm going to go vote that way. if you want to take me out in november, you take me out in november. i don't think so because i'm standing up. >> the country is better for it? they are not doing history because of it. >> wait for the bone fire, which is coming soon. >> you overestimate the steal and time of your man in the white house. he's always moved back and compromised. >> it's a fantasy in some ways. it would be great to see him take these strong traditions. >> i think in this instance, he is more than they are. >> you want him to bring the country down, veto the thing. i don't understa

joined by owen wilson, adam levine, eva mendes, jim florentine, molly shannon, rosario dawson, larry david join us for that all next week. father's day is on sunday and if you haven't found a gift for your dad yet, we're here to help. we have a team of researchers spending every waking moment coming through craigslist to try to fininthe best father's day gifts. and tonight, we invited some of the sellers on the show to sell their treasures. it's time for craigslist father's day gift ideas. and -- let's meet our first seller, whose name is mike, from pasadena. mike, come on out. hi, mike. how are you? mike, you have an item available for -- stop doing that, mike. stop it. >> sorry, my -- >> jimmy: don't do it again. it's a gameboy, an old game boy. you're selling it for $10. >> yes, sir. >> jimmy: it's missing the battery cover. >> no, not missing, just -- somewhere. >> jimmy: okay, all right. it's somewhere. but you don't have it. >> i don't have it. >> jimmy: and you think this is a good father's day gift? >> it's cheap, it's fun. it doesn't come with the battery, though. >> jimmy: so, th

larry and columbia prefer dr. davidyesen back, "one nation under sex", how the presidents, first ladies and their lovers changed history. come along. larry, sex lives make that much difference? >> ironically they did and they used the information to campaign against one another and one another damage so nothing has really changed. >> john: and it's reported about much because in those days, people liked to hush that up. >> i'm astonishing took us almost 200 years to find out that thomas jefferson fathered six children by his slave girl, sally hemmings. we weren't able to establish that until dna in 1998. so, there's a lo the of history out there, which historians looked the other way and just didn't get reported. >> john: all right. you two aren't looking the other way. what are some examples? you say sex shaped history? that's a big claim. >> that's right. it's a claim that has been ignored by historians traditionally, they never sort of want to touch the personal lives of the presidents. >> john: tawdry. >> presidenti

larry and columbia professor david wrote in book, one nation under sex, called the private lives of presidentsfirst ladies and their lovers changed history. come on. larry, sex lives make that much difference. >> ironically they did. they used the information to campaign against one another and so nothing has really changed. >> john: it's reported about much but in those days, people liked to hush that up? >> i'm astonished it took 200 years that thomas jefferson fathered six children by a slave girl. we weren't able to establish that until dna until 1998. there is a lot of history out there which historians look the other way and didn't get reported. >> john: you aren't looking the other way. you say sex shaped history? >> that's right. it's a claim that has been ignored because they never wanted to touch the personal lives of the president. the problem is historians missed a major component of the story of america. the private lives of presidents and first ladies did shape how things went. civil war. you think james buchanan gay love affair caused the civil war? >> that's right. he arrived i

evander holyfield trying to hold on, larry bird became an owner and a coach. david beckham? page and if so, have you figured out what would be next? >> i'm not ready to finish yet. i love the game too much to stop playing. >> would you like to come back here and finish? sign another contract to play in mls? >> i'm happy here. so i don't see any reason why that won't happen but i think at the end of the -- end of the year, i kind of need to look at myself and look at my body and how i feel after obviously the injury that i had last year and just see how i feel and if i feel like i do right now, then i'll continue to play. >> last question, pepsi. is that you? did you hit those shots into that barrel? >> of course, i was on the beach for four or five hours. i had a lot of time to spare. >> it's true. >> yeah. >> no way. >> it's the real thing. >> he says it is anyway. >> that makes him too good to be true, ok? >> next hour, he had a daughter and he'll talk about -- and we do know this, his ex-team manchester united was in town last night to play the red bulls in newark, new je

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and for every anthony weiner and david wu, you know, the republicans have, and this was mentioned before, vitter, ensign, schwarzenegger, larryto their head. no pun intended. they think they can do what they want. >> pete, you see why i started with you on that one? the two ladies are taking it out on you talking about men in power. >> i agree. don't ever put me in that office. >> i'm sticking up for the men. i think it's women too. >> oh, okay. this could be a whole nother debate. all right. the buzzer beater. ten seconds each on this one. mayor michael bloomberg presides over one of the first same sex marriages in new york so what do you think, future career path for the billionaire mayor? dana? >> possibly. maybe he could be more successful at that than he is in politics. stop putting ice in your beer! >> maria? i think he should set up a consulting service, kyra, that walks gay couples through how to get married and which state and set up a flagship shop in minnesota next to bachmann & associates. >> oh, pete? >> listen, i think if mike bloomberg needs a new career path we're all in a lot of trouble. this guy is putting h

larry summers was there. did you guys get it wrong? did you not tell him how bad it was? >> i think he's being too hard on himself, david. i think everybody understood, and we were very careful to make sure everybody understood how grave this was and how difficult it would be to fix. you know, this took a long time to build up, the problems that caused the crisis. it's going to take time to fix. think of it this way -- this was a crisis caused in part because americans borrowed too much, banks took on too much risk, we built too many homes, more than we could afford. we were living beyond our means for a long period of time. and part of what makes this so hard, part of what makes the recovery slower is because people are going back to living within their means. they're spending less of their share of income, they're saving more, and we don't have the ability, because of the overhang in housing and the problems in the financial system, to engineer artificially a shorter recovery. >> so, to demand accountability for this president and this administration, for the fate of the economy? >> no, no, of course. ultimately, presi

larry smith later. >>> the casey anthony murder trial is winding down. the prosecution was expected to call rebuttal witnesses but the judge recessed the trial indefinitely. what's going on, davidecution just had a couple of witnesses to call for rebuttal. we expected that to wrap up pretty quick today, but everything is sort of on hold at the moment. when the judge declared a recess, the defense wants to depose one of the witnesses that the prosecution is bringing up. when he did that, he warned the defense and everyone else involved with this case, we've been at this a long time, you've got a jury essentially on hold with their lives right now. they've been sequestered and they're ready to get back on with their lives. let's get things going here. listen to what he said. >> they are real problems and there are imaginary problems. i hope this is a real problem. and not an imaginary problem. >> reporter: if they are able to wrap things up today with this rebuttal that the prosecution's trying to put on, they will continue. they will have their closing arguments all in one day tomorrow, and then the jury will begin its deliberations in this long and very detailed and very painfu

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