let me start with maria and lenny.t is or maybe what will be the political headline of the week for you? maria, you start. >> i think it's going to be, t.j., of all of the republican contenders, who can be the most extreme conservative, please stand up. >> all right. always the good democrat, isn't he, lenny? lenny, you tell me what the highlight was already or maybe could still be to come? >> i'm going to quote a fellow native pittsburgher from thursday night, paraphrase, showmanship or leadership. who's going to be the best showman and who's going to show to be the best leader coming out of this weekend. that's the main headline coming out of ames. >> all right, lenny, first to you, give me one name, lenny, who has the most riding on this ames straw poll today. >> it's absolutely tim pawlenty. there's another governor jumping into the race. michele bachmann went after him and called him a big government republican, which is the worst thing you can call somebody here, at ames today. he has a lot riding on this. he has

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. -- lennie. lennie, who was with us in beijing. because of your extraordinary work, violence against women as part of the beijing platform. because of your work in coalition with other groups around this country, over 15,000 battered and sexually abused in the court woman -- and the. women are here and free of their abusive spouses. thank you very much, lennie. and sarah. is your mom here? she is also related to someone on the school board. sarah, who runs and it works on signature products, coaching boys into men. i encourage you to look at that's not cool.com, which is about stopping dating violence. this is an organizational award, i get to do this. and for rachel, who has been at the organization and who has been my partner as we build in the federal part of global clhu to challenge the notion that violence does not have to be part of the human experience. i thank you, rachel, and i think all of you for this award and for the work that we will do together in this city, and are presidio, to create a future without violence for o

and republican strategist, lenny mcallister in chicago. hi, lenny. joining me. you know, i want to ask, governor perry has made a lot of news in the one week that he jumped into the race, you know, and in that time, he has made some controversial statements. one, that he made that caught hi attention was that he said, if the fed decides to implement quantitative easing, which means putting more money into circulation, that chairman ben bernanke, if he comes down to texas, that it would get pretty ugly down in texas. now, lenny, is this what we want to be hearing from a man who's running for president? >> no, not necessarily, but, again, we have to remember what phase of the campaign season we're in. we're talking to the hard-line conservatives, just like president obama's going to try to shore up his base before going to the general election. this is going to the play well with governor perry. you have to remember, this is the same guy that talked and flirted with secession for texas. and who was we speaking to? the tea party base at that time. is he

lenny, do you think that the republican response was appropriate?e bachmann -- is blame where we have to go right now? >> yes, it was an appropriate response. listen, the lack of leadership does not come from the tea party folks that responded in response to the democrats not passing a budget for years, to the democrats worrying more about health care reform than they're worried about jobs or the economy or the debt ceiling at the time. listen, even with the faa situation, again, we had democrats doing piecemeal type of agreements from 2007 when they controlled the house of representatives on forward. if there's a lack of leadership, it goes back to the democrats, and who's the top of the democratic party right now? it's president obama. so with these republican presidential candidates coming out and saying, listen, we need real leadership in washington, d.c., you know, let's look at what the tea party did. they brought the spending issue to the table. this is something that democrats were not looking to do. the stimulus failed, cash for clunkers wa

>> is that fair to say, though, lenny, that she wants attention necessarily? it there as she's there to steal the attention or ruin it for the rest of them. is that necessarily fair to say? >> she is not a politician at this time. she is television pundit that has a lot of insider information. if you're going to be a republican insider why wouldn't you be in iowa at this time? i don't think she's going to run for the presidency which means as a media hit she should be here this weekend. it makes perfect sense for her to be here. people coming with expectations that she's going to run because she's here, i think is a little misguided though. >> last thing here and i need you all to give me 30 seconds each on this last question. yes, it has to do with the president right now. certainly a rough number of days with economic news, on wall street, whether it's the credit rating going down, whether it's the number of americans killed on that helicopter in afghanistan. the president making a midwest swing now. maria, what does the president need to do, what is he tryi

i got back up here. >> not with lenny calf vits.lenny kravitz. >> rick perry, dana you said republicans were always thought to be dumb which, yes, is true. doesn't the stuff with perry go beyond the policy stuff? it goes to his entire -- it is this advice rail --viceral dislike by many people on the left. >> right. i think that most people on the left think that anybody with an accent is dumb. >> yes. >> there you go. >> and that stupidity translates into this notion of being anti-science. >> or anti-science and religious. >> he is a little anti-science. >> not really. it is not that he doesn't believe in evolution. he just likes to wrap the roll -- the wrath of god into. it. >> not buying it. >> and the emerging technology fund that he did that attracts scientists to the state, that's not anti-science. kahn keep doing that, and it is not going to -- you can keep doing that, but it is not going to work. >> i am not buying it. >> why? >> it is not true. >> he is a little anti-science. >> no, he's not. it is from the emerging technolo

they have cows and lenny goats every day husband and wife italian makes. a traditional abkhazian cheese a secret to this produce is in the fermentation. make. cheese making begins with a fundamental process. they will use the x. tracks from the stomach of a car. space is how we do it. the foot quickly brings occurred in the vats to the right temperature once it's thoroughly needed a cheese can be served today look at people like the patchy chefs and again plan for the future vitali is going to set up a tourist camp in the courtyard of his house he will treat the guests to homemade cheese and take them on guided toulon's. cheese is a form of income for us it's like our national currency. that people always need to eat and cheese is always in demand here so the. i. there is a three hour drive from the farm to some people in the ad cause cops will say the city has taken on a different look in the past several years ruined homes and hotels have been restored. the waterfront has been so being transformed it's a traditional rallying point for tourists and locals

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republic of the caucasus is repairing for early elections the following the death of its president lenny future leader will take on a region still recovering from coffee with neighboring georgia well next we'll talk to the country's acting president about the challenges his country faces. we are in the republic of across the aisle preparations are underway for the august presidential election alexander and is the country's acting president and also one of the candidates and he's here with us today the upcoming election will be the second presidential election center kasi again recognition just how hard it is for a cause here to live as an independent state of course there are many difficulties with the company a lot already but there's still an enormous amount of work to be done we optimistic about our future one of the most important things that following our country's recognition we've had its security ensured now all we need to do is get down to work as there are a lot of things to be done for the country and people many of causey and currently reside abroad there are also georgian re

there is a possibility of presumption of six party talks with news from moscow's perspective all right lenny thanks very much indeed for sharing your views with us here in the program being trafficked or injury in studies university city with a sneer at progress. well you're watching our t.v. if you log on to r.t. dot com our web sites find out how the north korean leader has been spending time in russia ahead of the key meeting this includes paralyzing day out of the world's deepest made by car and take you did in its waters so more on this can be found on our web site that is r t dot com. after months of scandalous headlines and slanderous whispers criminal charges against dominique strauss kahn have been dropped the former half of the i.m.f. was accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid in new york our brings us the latest a manhattan supreme court judge delivered that ruling on tuesday after prosecutors in the case say that the accuser now facade to diyala has not been truthful on all matters a great and small now however this morning delivered by the judge is on hold pending an appeal

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the big question will be how, i think people will parce tim paw lenny dumpily.i placed third and michelle bachmann and ron paul beat me. how does that keep you going? but it may well be enough to keep him going because third is presentable. and on down the line rick santorum said fifth. he placed fourth. herman cain. all of these folks, you have to igmore the rick perry and mitt romney ones because they didn't involve themselves in the straw poll. so it doesn't mean much. newt gingrich also didn't involve himself here. jon huntsman not good. >> michelle bachmann 4823 votes. ron paul 4671 not a bad showing. tim pawlenty 2293. rick santorum 1657. one, two, three, four, rick santorum was fourth. if he came in fourth or fifth? >> fifth was his cutoff. >> coming in after that 14556 herman cain and then perry and romney. you shouldn't concern yourself with that because they didn't involve themselves in the process. our viewers -- we're learning -- they showed up on stage and we're sitting here hey there they are and as soon as we went to them that's what happened. her

but the citizen civil of paw lenny all along is that he doesn't have a lot of energy and consequentlynot a lot of energy for him. he is a tremendously nice guy. i genuinely like him but the energy is not panning out for him in the field. you hear it across the board. in our red state gathering, a lot of the folks said they weren't in it for rick perry but they weren't excited by anyone else, including tim pawlenty as the kind of anti-romney candidate. >> all right. erick erickson. don't go anywhere. candy is not going anywhere either except the guy sitting next to her just bolted and left. i'm sure he has to go do something for someone else. that's okay. we'll survive without him. when we come back, we'll take a look at the rest of the gop field. michele bachmann comes out on top. who else stands to gain and who else had the most to lose? >>> and later, which hopefuls might pose the biggest political threat to president obama? [ martin luther king jr. ] i still have a dream that one day on the red hills of georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be

how they are making lenny is increasing some of that home. >> in vallejo, a man was shot.e and found a ford explorer that had rolled over the center median, when they went into the car they saw the 28 year-old driver her head, he had been shot in the upper body and was pronounced dead at the scene. this marks the twelfth homicide in vallejo this year. >> an elderly woman in her care giver suffered severe burns or at her home in san francisco. but the winnefeld were unconscious. one woman was in her 80s, the other woman in her 60s, there were taken to a hospital. : sustained significant damage to the bedroom into their rooms. because of the fire is still under investigation but could be linked into a cigarette. >> new this morning, san francisco interim mayor and we will run for mayor of san francisco. he will file today to be a candidate in the november election. lee took over as interim mayor several months ago when gavin newsome was elected lieutenant governor. at that time lee said he was not going to run for mayor let's go to the traffic center is for the latest >> . >

them black comics, but lenny bruce, mort saul and be dick gregory were very important in establishing that kind of critical social humor in this country, and then after they did it, other people came along, and black humorists, particularly richard pryor, combined the rawness with the social commentary. made huge strides. opened it up entirely for people. and the writing is kind of interesting also because they're, blacks have been kept away from writing satirical books. if you look at the literature of african-americans, there were only a few books that even touched on satire up until the 1900s. i think charles chestnut used humor first, and then you have james wheldon johnson, i guess, with the autobiography of an ex-colored man. you don't get anything again until the renaissance, langston hughes, and, um, hurston, those people come along. but they opened up the stage for the kind of writing that you people are doing when you're actually dealing with humorous writing because it's very difficult to do. >> well, you know, i'm glad you bring up dick gregory because dick gregory, to me,

radar imagery does to look at some of those things, some of those images and we get the tool radar lennisee the vertical profiles that is really and i know there's a tornado or severe storm there and then the of the third strand is if people can learn how to use scientific reasoning, then they are a part of the science and that is what this technology is doing we are able to show the people and they can look at some of these images now and understand what he is showing that when he talks about this is a major severe storm, and this is the one we really have to watch so it is that visualization that every door and the satellite give and have given in the past and have the capability in the near future to give us much, much more. >> tying together what actually happens because of the observation systems that are in place in the satellites, a full six days in advance we started talking about the potential for severe weather. this started coming out of the noaa center as dr. sullivan said the national center. the information that gets passed on to us and what is called the weather forecastin

>> lenny dykstra. pulled a hamstring.his wallet, obviously. >> ever since then, things have not looked good for mr. dykstra. >> can't break into the mets line-up. >> beware. headlines for you on this tuesday, that horrifying stage collapse at the indiana state fair claiming its seventh victim. the family of megan toothman made the painful decision to take her off life support. her family kept the 24-year-old cheerleading coach on life support so her organs could be donated. that's a tragedy. >> a story that broke here on "fox & friends" yesterday morning. a police officer shot in california. we have the dramatic video of his heroic action after he was hit. look at this. the shootout played out between two cops and a guy inside his home. the officer standing behind the white truck there, there he is, shot in the neck. holding his neck. look at that. he runs for safety. later, his partner drags him out of the lun of fire. -- line of fire. he is in stable condition. wow, the suspect is believed to have killed his 14-month-ol

radar imagery does to look at some of those things, some of those images and we get the tool radar lennisee the vertical profiles that is really and i know there's a tornado or severe storm there and then the of the third strand is if people can learn how to use scientific reasoning, then they are a part of the science and that is what this technology is doing we are able to show the people and they can look at some of these images now and understand what he is showing that when he talks about this is a major severe storm, and this is the one we really have to watch so it is that visualization that every door and the satellite give and have given in the past and have the capability in the near future to give us much, much more. >> tying together what actually happens because of the observation systems that are in place in the satellites, a full six days in advance we started talking about the potential for severe weather. this started coming out of the noaa center as dr. sullivan said the national center. the information that gets passed on to us and what is called the weather forecastin

radar imagery does to look at some of those things, some of those images and we get the tool radar lennisee the vertical profiles that is really and i know there's a tornado or severe storm there and then the of the third strand is if people can learn how to use scientific reasoning, then they are a part of the science and that is what this technology is doing we are able to show the people and they can look at some of these imaes now and understand what he is showing that when he talks about this s a major severe storm, and this is the one we really have to watch so it is that vislization that every door and the satellite give and have given in the past and have the capability in the near future to give us much, muc more. >> tying together what actually happens because of the obseation systems that are in place in the satellites, a full six days in advance we started talking about the potential for severe weather. this started coming out of the noaa center as dr. sullivan said the national center. the information that gets passed on to us and what is called the weather forecasting offic

new orleans, lenny from new orleans. >> all right. >> and what was your special personal story?ne katrina, right? >> i was there all throughout katrina and like other new orleans firemen, i lost my house. like most firemen. none of us left our posts. and used our training and a lot of improvising to do a lot of good. >> ok, and here next to me, hey, hello, you got a great smile. >> thanks, gretchen. >> and you are? >> mr. st. louis, garren mosby. >> i like this guy. >> your personal story, are you the one who rescued or your 2-year-old sister? >> actually we had a basement fire so we experienced some tragedy. the smoke forced us out and the courageous st. louis firefighters came in and they rescued my sisters from a second floor window. >> right. that inspired you to become a firefighter? >> absolutely. they seemed invincible. >> now, i have to have kind of special homage to this guy because he's from my home state. i'm from minnesota. this is mr. minneapolis, right? your name is? >> justin reed. >> all right. and i know that you were there when the bridge collapsed a couple of

. >>> former baseball great lenny dykstra charged with two counts of indecent exposure toward women heaigslist. police say he placed ads for housekeeping or personal assistant services and when those women arrived at his home, they allege dykstra exposed himself. dykstra will appear in court in september. >>> second time this morning all i can say is, weird. >>> coming up next on "american morning," how is this city, new york city, preparing for hurricane irene. how devastating could it be if irene makes a direct hit on new york city. very interesting. we'll tell you about it on the other side. >> this is the statute of liberty. it's a bus. it's the statute of liberty. we can still see it. it's 40 minutes past the hour. they're two of a kind. and, just like toddlers, puppies need food made for them. that's why there's purina puppy chow... with all the essential nutrients your growing puppy needs. purina puppy chow. but not in my neighborhood. ♪ [ female announcer ] we're throwing away misperceptions about natural gas vehicles. more of the vehicles that fuel our lives use clean american

radar imagery does to look at some of those things, some of those images and we get the tool radar lennisee the vertical profiles that is really and i know there's a tornado or severe storm there and then the of the third strand is if people can learn how to use scientific reasoning, then they are a part of the science and that is what this technology is doing we are able to show the people and they can lo at some of these images now and understand what he is showing that when he talks about this is a major severe storm, and this is the one we really have to watch so it is that visualization that every door and the satellite give and have given in the past and have the capability in the near future to give us much, much more. >> tying together what actually happens because of the observation systems that are in place in the satellites, a full six days in advance we started talking about the potential for severe weather. this started coming out of the noaa center as dr. sullivan said the national center. the information that gets passed on to us and what is called the weather forecasting