. >> thanks, lawrence. it's my pleasure. >> mr. cain, in the president's news conference today the president came out in support of the senate democrats' idea of paying for his jobs bill with a 5% surtax on income over $1 million. and a recent nbc/"wall street journal" poll showed overwhelming bipartisan support for increasing taxes on incomes over $1 million. that's 81% support for increasing taxes for incomes over $1 million. has the democratic party somehow managed to brainwash 81% of the american people into supporting that idea? >> the answer is yes. the democrats have succeeded at brainwashing a lot of the american people. first of all, taxing people more that make over $1 million isn't going to solve the problem. secondly, they have just taken class warfare to another level. when for decades you are telling the american people that we ought to take more from the rich in order to help pay off our debts but yet the debts don't get paid off, they're just playing the class warfare card. i would counter that, lawrence, with 50% o

lawrence, do me a favor. if a white candidate said blacks were brainwashed, ask them where they were at during the civil rights movement if they were old enough. >> please do. >> i'll do that. i want to specify that melissa harris-perry is not the only friend of mine who had exactly that uncomfortable reaction to what they were watching. >> she's my teacher. i'll have to read what she writes about me. >> reverend al sharpton, melissa harris-perry, goldie taylor, i can't thank you enough for coming in tonight and having this discussion. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> the occupy wall street protests continue to spread nationwide. and politicians in washington are taking notice. robert reich, former labor secretary to bill clinton joins me later. >>> and stay tuned for a special rewrite by a republican congressman who is fed up with the way grover norquist controls washington. for fastidious libran emily skinner, each day was fueled by thorough preparation for events to come. well somewhere

thanks for joining me. >> lawrence, thanks for having me. on truly sad day and obviously for the jobs family and the people around him and also as was just said, i mean, for an entire industry that's been so innovative and mr. jobs has been behind so many of these innovations, it's a staggering loss for i think really many people who have either as i've had, had the pleasure to chat with him or interview him or those who worked with him or lived with him. >> i've known this little less than a half an hour. the second i knew it, i knew we had to completely rearrange our show and lead with this. this is very important news. it is also history. i've been sitting trying to think of where we will put steve jobs in american history. when we are listing the great entrepreneurial innovators who changed our lives. who changed the way our day goes, from thomas edison forward. this -- in that list, this name, steve jobs, will be in bold print. >> oh, absolutely. i think you're right to identify edison as one and henry ford being another. as was just sa

>> they're half right, lawrence. you ought to take that tax code written by lobbyists and special interests and throw it out the window. it doesn't work for america. when the average working guy pays more taxes than ge, something's wrong with america. we need it simple, simple, simple, fair, progressive and adequate at about 18% of gdp. i love the steve forbes idea of the first $40,000 of income being tax free, you can cover your costs then a flat tax and nobody escapes. look, we need to rebuild america. not afghanistan. america. and the way we do it is to pull together, lawrence. that's the way we do it. >> republican presidential candidate buddy roemer. thank you very much for joining me tonight. those republican debates need your voice. good luck getting in there. >> thanks, lawrence. i hope to make it. >>> coming up, the real voter fraud in america perpetuated by republican-led state legislatures across the country. >>> and tomorrow the senate will take up the president's jobs bill. ezra klein joins me. [ male an

>> there's definitely that potential, lawrence.hat's interesting is the trajectory to this point in recent months, even as the left has really trained their sights on the koch brothers and suggested they were in some ways emblematic of the corrupting influence of corporate money and politics after the 2010 citizens united decision, even with that, they continue to become more powerful, more influential in conservative politics, attracting more big donors to donor summits where they collected tens of millions of dollars to distribute to favorite conservative causes. however, you have to think that these revelations about dealings with the rant might force some of those donors who started to see them as perhaps the pull in the sort of right pull in conservative politics as opposed to karl rove's more centrist pull that they might start questioning whether these are the right guys to be associating with. >> do super pacs allow the koch brothers to hide in such a way it would be difficult for a democratic opponent of a republican to ac

but today he has that job back because lawrence, massachusetts got a safer grant. the exact same grant of programs that will be supported and provided today. so please welcome wayne ledue. [cheers and applause] vice president biden, members of the senate, brothers and sisters good afternoon. it's an honor to be with you today. i want to thank all of you for giving me the opportunity to speak and stand here. it's a privilege to speak on behalf of my brothers and sister firefighters with lawrence local 146 and to firefighters across the country. the reason i amiable to stand here today as a firefighter with the lawrence fire department is directly attributed to the grant program. in 2004 as the president said i was lucky enough to fulfill my life long dream to be hired by the lawrence fire department and serve the city i love so dearly. but after six and a half wonderful years i was laid off. i was fortunate enough to land a temporary assignment with another department, the impact of the recession made it impossible for me to return to my lawrence. they then received

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"the last word with lawrence o'donnell" starts right now. >>> the president decides that twice as long as world war ii is long enough for the iraq war. >> after nearly nine years, america's war in iraq will be over. >> our nation enters this conflict reluctantly. major combat operations in iraq have ended. the united states and our allies have prevailed. united states military forces captured saddam hussein. we thought he had weapons of mass destruction. turns out he did. he didn't. he didn't. >> remember during the 2008 campaign -- >> i will finally finish the fight against bin laden. >> it was certainly justified. >> when they come home, they get the care and benefits they have earned. >> this is mission accomplished without the banner. >> i announced a new strategy that would end our combat mission in iraq and remove all of our troops by the end of 2011. >> promises made. promises kept. >> he said what he would do and he did it. >> today we've removed more than 100,000 troops. >> as promised. the key word. >> his commitment to wind down the war in iraq. >> the last american soldier

thanks a lot, lawrence. it is 6:08. our other big story of the morning, the "occupy" movement here in the bay area, they waited all night for the cops to come. >> that they did but now we're hearing that the police are apparently not going to raid the "occupy" camp in san francisco this morning. anne makovec at justin herman plaza where there is a big sigh of relief i would imagine anne. good morning. >> reporter: yes, it is tentative relief though at this point. the camp still stands here at justin herman plaza even though there were some very strong warnings overnight that police were going to come in and raid the camp. as you can see, we still have an awful lot of tents here lined up and people, as well. protestors made the announcement within the last couple of hours that they are inside sources had told them that the planned police operation has been called off. they say it's because there were too many protestors and not enough police. here's some video from earlier this morning. police had been staging in the pot

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david lawrence in front of lawrence's own audience. my question to you is, can you see barack obama having the strength to do that today? >> he better learn. the best part of my book in terms of research was getting 64 audiotapes that nobody's ever had before of kenny o'donnell describing such scenes at each stage of his political life. jack kennedy played "hardball." he sent bobby in the back room to do it, to beat up these governors who were giving him a hard time. it's amazing how he did it with mike desal and david lawrence and people like pat brown. governor taas. they came out of that room endorsing him. he had a strong brother who was willing to do the tough work, the ruthless work. and jack kept his hands clean. but he got the job done. in that case, here was lawrence. jack kennedy had won the democratic primary in pennsylvania that spring, 70 plus percent. he had walked away in a write-in campaign. pennsylvania wanted him, the democrats -- and here's old david lawrence, the first catholic governor, nervous about a fellow catho

. >> thank you, lawrence. everything looks quiet heading into san francisco on the bay bridge. critical mass tonight. more coming up. >> happy friday. the weekend is here. >>> 4:31. shifting in a damage control that's what the mayor of oakland attempts but fails. the tents are back. she is waiting for the occupiers to call her. kristy seifkin in oakland with what protestors are planning next. >> reporter: good morning. yeah, mayor jean quan still has not spoken face to face to protestors. she had planned to come to the general assembly meeting that was going to be held inside the "occupy" camp. but she was told that she would have to come as a community member so she decided not to attend and instead held a press conference on her own. it was at that press conference that she was joined by the new chief of police. at that press conference, both turned down the opportunity earlier to attend the meeting. jordan said he thought he wouldn't be welcomed there. during the conference she apologized for tuesday night's events and that was of course when police raided the plaza and used

let's check on traffic with elizabeth. >> thank you, lawrence.oks a whole lot better than yesterday. by this time yesterday morning, a lot of incidents out there on our chp reports on the different spinouts across the bay area but the biggest difference is it's dry this morning so everything actually looks great including across the san mateo bridge. gosh, yesterday our drive time picked up to 30, even 40 minutes on westbound 92 but right now it's only 13 minutes between hayward and foster city. better news all lanes open. they had a full freeway closure eastbound 4 at loveridge. everything is picked up. we are starting to see slowing the usual stuff in the commute direction westbound 4 right there at hillcrest. elsewhere, planned protests, we have been talking about this, this morning in san francisco's financial district. the "occupy" movement planning to block streets right around market and spear near the federal reserve building expected to kick off around 7 a.m. so we'll be following had one for much of the morning commute. back to you. >>

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we also want to thank our students from lawrence, kansas. lawrence high school. there are a couple we did . be do >> either my first or second conference i was paying very close attention to the discussion as i remembered and i feel to hear the knock on the door. and delete print and on my left and bill lindquist on my right both got up and answered the door and it made me feel like i was about two feet high. i learned from that case there was one of the most important jobs of the junior justice is to remember you are a doorman. >> some people say that to succeed in this world, we need to be more like india or china or brazil. i say we need to be more like us. >> it's a story about topic of your choosing. every good story has a good he can income a solid and strong and dean. >> user or student camera competition. it merely a congress word, donna edwards called on progressives to take back the american dream at a conference of the campaign for america's future in washington d.c. on monday. she called on billionaires to pay a higher tax rate and criticized the noti

maybe we can bring lawrence in on the conversation.rence, you're a native here in northern california. you get three within a week. that's a little weird, isn't it? >> i like them when they're small like that but you begin to worry about a cluster of earthquakes and you can talk to some geologists about that and they will tell you that that could be a precursor to something bigger maybe not. but we just don't know. but, of course, what we do know is that the hayward fault is locked and loaded and ready to snap at any time. a big concern is the hayward would let go. we are expecting a large earthquake from the hayward fault. not saying that that's going to happen now, but boy it certainly gets you starting to think about things especially when you have had several earthquakes just in the past week located right just about in the same area. so there's some movement going on there. we are hoping it's releasing the tension along the fault. we don't know. >> my wife said we get for easters and snow but you guys get earthquakes. i'm not sure

gianna has traffic. >> thank you, lawrence. live to chopper chopper 5, accident northbound 880 at winton avenue chopper 5 over the scene. you can see all the activity to the right shoulder of. no lanes are blocked. debris was reported in the road. they managed to get that out of lanes, as well. elsewhere to our maps we are monitoring and accident over along the peninsula. 280 northbound right at 92. couple of cars involved in this wreck. i heard the left lane was blocked from chp. it's the noncommute direction so not a lot of delays. traffic very light still through there. both directions seeing lots of green so we'll keep you updated on that. 101 nice towards sfo northbound no delays, southbound looking good out of san francisco towards the airport. 73 miles per hour. also, if you are heading into the city, howard remains closed between 3rd and 4th streets. for oracle open world, that should be wrapping up today by 4:00. everything should be re- opening. in the meantime mass transit is your best choice. remember kcbs once you

. >>> hi, i'm meteorologist lawrence karnow in the cbs 5 weather center. we started out with more low although around the bay area. now just beginning to see a little more sunshine. just how warm it will get in your neighborhood coming up. ,, ,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> let's go leave to wall street. -- let's go live to wall street, down about 78 points at this hour, a lot of this with what's going on in europe. in greece today protestors against new measures and layoffs became violent outside parliament today. demonstrators hurled chunks of marble and gasoline bombs at riot police, who shot back with tear gas and stun grenades. the government deployed 3,000 officers in central athens to try to contain that violence. >>> they met for the fifth time in just six weeks and they are not playing nice. republican presidential hopefuls attacked each other on a slew of issues during the most raucous debate yet. in las vegas, front-runner mitt romney went head to head with texas governor rick perry, trading barbs on jobs, healthcare and illegal immigration. >> because yo