joining me now is melissa and libby.couple that have been together for ten years and have a 4-year-old daughter. thank you both for joining me. melissa, i'd like to start with you. your daughter will lose her medical benefits if amendment 1 passes on tuesday. is that how you understand it? >> yes, that is my understanding, because she's not on my health insurance, she's on libby's. >> and libby, you work for the government s that why that would be a problem? >> that's right. this particular version of the amendment, there is a portion of it that allows private contracts to keep coverage but with public entities allowing those types of domestic partnerships. >> libby, what is your biggest fear, both short term and long term if this passes? >> my biggest fear is we just don't know where it will stop. we've put in legal protection. we've had a lot of legal documents to try to protect our family from bad things happening and i don't know if it means losing health insurance or if i won't be able to visit her or melissa if som

finally, i wanted to congratulate brenda and libby, the owners of this fine establishment. you are such a shining example of small business success. i was just talking to brenda and she told me, since she received a loan from working solutions, she has doubled her number of employees, 24. the restaurant is truly a cornerstone of this neighborhood, and personally, it is one of my favorite restaurants. this is where i come to celebrate birthdays, family occasions, and working solutions even came here to celebrate the holidays. when you come here, everything is top notch, from the broiled oysters appetizer, grew to the deserts, which are amazing. there is no describing how delicious it is. just wonderful. brenda and libby, your hard work and dedication and the entrepreneurial spirit are just so inspiring to myself and everyone. with that, i wanted to introduce brenda, who has a few special items she would like to bring up to have the mayor try. >> i just want to say thank you, in particular, to the mayor, mayor's office, wells fargo, working solutions. without you guys, we wou

he indicted, tried and convicted republican white house adviser scooter libby. the title as one of people magazine's sexiest men alive. his troops who know him back at the office said none of its ever went to his head. >> behind the press conferences in the office this is a person who really cares about the troops and cares about the people who work in that office, who care for what's going on in their personal lives and when there are issues or problems he cares about people. >> reporter: with the libby conviction, came criticism. it would been the last time he was accused of being overzealous. just ask robert blagoyovich. >> he was in his position way too long and accrued so much power that peopleo[s challenged him. i think only from my experience in how i believe he overreached in his prosecution of me to get at my brother. >> at what cost do we allow a prosecutor to be that zellous? i think sometimes he went too far. blagoyovich was one of those i.n.s.ncident incidents. >> reporter: betty lauren maltee said she kind of liked the u.s. attorney. said he kept h

. >> melissa and libby are a lesbian couple who have been together for ten years.couver and have a 4-year-old daughter. since libby works for the government, melissa says their daughter will lose her health insurance if amendment one passes, but the amendment supporters say there's a way around that. >> the vast majority of governmental insurance would not cover her child anyway, and those handful of cities and counties that have been of that nature, if they reformat it so that they want to cover the unmarried household members and all the children, they could do that if they want to. >> i think it's wrong to ask me to be untruthful in order to get coverage, and i don't understand why an amendment that is intended to protect families would request that our family lie about who we are and lie about being a family in order to get protection. >> reporter: recent polling shows the amendment is likely to pass tuesday, but critics warn that if voters approve the measure, it will set a dangerous precedent. >> how people feel about same-sex marriage religiously or purposel

so for many years, you had one or more of the libyans promulgating basic doctrine, and libby who has since deceased. so they get their time in the air, and then they get their time with the drones. and then somebody else steps in. so that's kind of where we hear and see. so we have seen the tacting change here. we have seen them want to reach out and aspire to what i call owe opt, others call franchise, but to co opt some of these local level niche knife groups. and i would argue to you that's important both ways. for the local level groups, it's been important, although we need to watch carefully to see if the importance still resonates after bin laden's death. it's important for the same way the common turn was important for people like the revolutionaries in vietnam, or the revolutionaries in other parts of the world, because it was a signal for fund-raising, okay? a signal to these very places sha reason is talking about that tend to give the charities, and the charities are underregulated or overfocused on liberating law, and then those funds and charity information pieces tend

. >> i remember the first prize that we gave, or one of the first was to libby rosenthal of the "new york times," who had been amazing reporting about aids in china early on. and her reports had been translated into chinese and read by -- in the internal party better information newsletter kind of thing and had had an effect on the chinese leadership and helped to inform them because reporting in china was not so good and they didn't have as good information as they could get from libby rosenthal. but things are more quickly translated on google. you can know more or less what's being said in an article even if your chinese characters are really, really rusty. right, marcus? i think the drama in china, it's a chinese drama. i mean, the struggles over the country's future. as i said, the chen guangcheng story is the story about thousands and thousands of activists and civil society people and journalists. and they're all over china really demanding their rights and demanding that their government respect its own law. that china respect its own constitution and that it be a truly law-b

thank you so much for coming in and talking with us. >> libby, it's been a pleasure. thank you. >>> global markets are weighing the chances that greece will leave the eurozone. following the recent elections in that country. next on c-span3, the chief economist for citigroup talks about greece and the global economy. on friday and saturday, president obama welcomes world leaders from the largest economies to the g8 conference at camp david in maryland. and the next day, the u.s. hosts nato heads of state in chicago. we'll get previews of both those meetings later. ♪ >> this memorial day weekend on c-span we'll take you to colleges and universities around the country to hear commencement addresses from members of congress and the president's cabinet, state and local leaders, and business executives. and we also want to hear from you about your commencement experience. did you graduate from college this year or attend a ceremony for a friend or family member? or maybe something about a past commencement sticks with you. we want to hear from you. call us and tell us your

>> you know, libby, this is really a test case for citizens united. i think that the country is watching wisconsin. and it's hard to watch a story unfold for 16 months, but this is a state that has been through protests, been through recalls, nine recall elections. the democrats have won five. they have met every benchmark to get to this point. and walker has done what he has had to do. and he has developed a war chest to defend his office. and he has dunn it under the guise of citizens united. he has outspent the democrats 20-1. so we're going to find out if it's corporate money or the people who are going to win out. this is now a battle to get out the vote. and i think the democrats are a little frustrated right now about some national help that they could use, and that will all work itself out. but i really believe that this is a test case for citizens united. can money win over the people's choice? i mean, can money influence people to the point where a guy who is involved in a john doe investigation, a guy who has the worst job record in the cou

. >> caller: good morning, libby. >> bomb. >> caller: morning, ed. >> good morning. >> i'm your biggest fan. i'd trade for a fishing week in minnesota with you. >> i appreciate that. >> caller: i love the walleye. listen. i'm a wealth creating union machinist. everybody that i have ever worked for, i guarantee you, while they paid me a living wage, they walked away with millions, and that's a fact. and, you know, the lexicon has been hijacked and mauled by the frank luntzs of the world. you know, it just slays me when anything that the government does to benefit the middle class, the poor, the elderly, the weak, that's a government handout. but yet these same republicans and democrats -- i'm a ralph nader supporter -- they both go around asking these same people that they accuse of taking handouts, asking them to write a check. now what kind of nonsense is this? oh, there was one other thing that i wanted to comment on. oh, yeah. you mark my words. this is a prediction. i don't know when exactly the peak year is going to be when all the baby boomers, when the vast majority of them are g

. >> i remember the first author prize that was given to libby rosenthal from "the new york times" who had done amazing news about aids in china early on. her reports had been transmitted in chinese and read by the internal party information news type of thing. it had an effect on the people in china, because reporting in china was not as good and they did not have as good of information as they could get from libby rosenthal. so i think people are more aware of what people are writing. more things are being translated on google. you can know what is being said, even if your chinese characters are really, really rusty. i think the drama, though, in china -- it's a chinese drama. the struggles over the country's future. as i said, the chen guangcheng story is a story about, you know, thousands and thousands of activists and civil society people all over demanding that their government respect its own law, that china respect its own constitution. that i think is really the drama in china today. it is being played out by chinese on the chinese stage. we're bystanders. we can affect it and

. >> reporter: melissa and libby are a lesbian couple who have been together 10 years. they were married in vancouver and have a 4-year-old daughter. since libby works for the government melissa says their daughter will lose her health insurance if amendment 1 passes, but the amendment supporters say there's a way around this. >> the vast majority of governmental insurance would not cover her child anyway and those handful of cities and counties that have it in that -- of that nature, if they reformat it so that they want to cover the unmarried household members and all the children at the -- they could do that if they want to. >> i think it's wrong to ask me to be untruthful in order to get coverage and i couldn't understand why an amendment that is intended to protect -- don't understand why an amendment that is intended to protect families require our family lie about who we are and lie about being a family in order to get protection. >> reporter: recent polling shows the amendment is likely to pass tuesday, but critics warn that if voters approve the measure, it wil

libby, he's using one ever those good tennessee terms, anyhoo. the thing is we all know what that means. mike's talking about something that was hopping during the bailouts where some of the banks you would hear from some of the banks, our regional banks, different banks where they didn't -- they didn't have problems but the money was there and there was the pressure o take some of this money. it reminded me of the thing that we often hear as we are doing oversight where, oh, we have an appropriation and we haven't spent all of our appropriation. we need to hurry up and spend this money by the end of the year. and i think that that's what mike is referring to with some of our financial institutions that felt like there was a push to get this money out and get it into circulation. but here again you go back and you look at what happened. when you have too big to fail, what do you generally end up with? you end up with too big to manage. you end up with increased regulation which is exactly what is happening now. it takes us back to that first call

i am margaret libby, of the financial center. i am here to talk about the resolution before you, introduced by supervisor -- introduced by supervisor campos, and co-sponsored by many of you. in a moment you will hear from a couple of the youth leaders who have worked hard on this issue. we are grateful that this group is taking on the issue. this is something we have cared deeply about for the last handful of years. we launched the first ever alternative payday loan product in 2008, which served as a blueprint for the program. the same year we decided to create an avenue for young people to have voices with community awareness across financial services access. we created the new economic rights for all, which is the youth advocacy group supported by the city to bring the voices of young people into this, to raise awareness about the french financial services, and the effect they have on communities and young people, as they live out their lives and make the transition into adulthood. we are grateful that you are taking this issue

libby is the president-elect of the medical society of virginia.hat and say congratulations to you. >> thank you. it's an honor to be here. >> still finding time to help us out, so we appreciate it. doctor, this is the cover, and it shows a real mom. she's a los angeles mom, and she's still nursing her child who has to stand up on a school. but still can reach the breast effectively, because he's three and a half years old. when you see that, weighs your first reaction? >> it's time's swim suit cover. they have a great opportunity to sell a magazine based upon an interesting picture. attractive mom, an interesting child, looks mature, has a sparkle in his eye. makes you wonder what he's going to be like as a teenager. it is something that you use to sell a story, a magazine. it's a very specific niche. >> very specific niche and in reading more about this, i realize it comes from a book called "the baby book." he has three tenants of attachment parenting and they are this nursing on demand, basically, regard of his of the age of a child. and also w

in: a three year- old daughter libby after the friendly skies about once a month she admits she doesn't travel light. snacks at tuesday's madison's band-aids games to waves strollers. >>> travel per cent few and far between and it was super. it was really helpful. united has now taken away the preboarding option for passengers with kids. they'll have to wait in line like everyone else. travel expert chris mcginnis says it's only fair. >>> especially in the summer how the plane can be families with children sell you have a business travel that is paid significantly more than a vacation traveler and then get on the plane and oliver has basis taken these days travelers pay for everything from the luggage to their in-flight food there is a new hierarchy been traded by the airlines and those that pay more denmark shootings by not letting her get on first and will only slow the boarding process it's a bit unfair but it doesn't deserve a seven thirty line when you have kids waiting. did we see a united airlines isn't the only airline to end its preboarding option for families with young childr

he high profile cases against scooter libby and conrad black.it to him for taking himself out of the position where he can do more harm. >> thank you. i agree with that one. all right, ma mary. >> a hit to space x which launched an unmanned space craft into orbit this week to dock with the international space station. this isn't just good news because we needing is to replace the space shuttle. it is good news because washington is slowly warming to the idea of private space travel and for poll texs with taxpayer dollars to spend that is the feal frontier. >> do you think we will see a private space launch that goes to the moon? >> i hope we do. space x is h heavily subsidized by nasa but again we are moving in the right direction. >> if you have your own hit or miss send it to us. and join us on the web at fox news .com/journal. that is it for this week. thanks for watching. i'll paul gigot. we hope to see you right here captioned by closed captioning services, inc. >>> on fox news watch. >> in the period from january to april of this year, the

libby albert then on they get here today, but i want to recognize her. she has been in the neighborhood, raised two kids, and she was a great fervor on this process. also cannot make it today, sally large, runs the friends of st. frances sudeikis and abbottabad have been a longtime user of this park. she'd tell me we cannot bring our kids to duboce park because it is too dangerous. now they bring their kids to duboce park. i want to acknowledge ekkatie wilcox, my partner, too. she has been involved in this from the very beginning, whether she likes it or not. she put in a lot of time. doug, come on up. with friends of duboce park, i got to know doug through this process as it came together. they run a monthly clean up park work day. this is the stuff that happens all the way through. this park is beautiful because of the work that people like doug do, and they continue to organize the community year after year after year. sia, come up here. she was very helpful on the youth play area. we wanted to make sure that duboce park, particularly the youth play a

sean shannon, jay moore, libby revat, edward towe, helen quong, giddy burrows, luke jillian, michael sward, steven curo, shelly er, sophie brian, catherine howard, patrick dowd, francisco ris. >> good evening, commissioners, thanks very much for hearing this tonight. this is my son, he wants to say a few words first. >> my name is lehman. i play on the travel team. 50% of my games are canceled because the fields are closed. when i was -- i would like the field to be turned into astro turf. >> so, commissioners, i coach liam's team with a couple of other parents. we've been very active and involved with kids soccer in the city. we've seen how successful crocker amazon has been. you go there, it's an incredible sight to see on a saturday morning. there are hundreds of kids that are there and i think beach chalet, i play there, played soccer there, played irish football there, it's a great facility. i think it could be used to its potential. we've got rugby and we've got lacrosse, we've got baseball, we've got so many sports that would benefit greatly to have the field astro turf'd. i k

knows that is counted for him the next emergency is to stop the killing in syria i'm innocent of libby's active role of convincing former fed president sarkozy to support the libyan intervention and should france take the interventionists route again some say it begs a new question what's going to we're not going to interview the humanitarian argument is used to lower the bar for foreign intervention. before that i mean some decades ago when you. intervene for me when the when there was a genocide you know it's a massacre the real one for you all to twitter been. in vain but where do we want to intervene in north korea while a larger started to sound a lot like sarkozy some analysts point out that there may be no real teeth to such rhetoric this time around telling that he will only act with un mandate. it is nothing nothing because. china and russia. we can be sure that he can he can do anything and as far as french people are concerned they don't care about foreign policy they'd rather their new president do something to put out the economic fire in their own backyard first and foremos

download free blog libby over for your media projects a free media oh god r t dot com. welcome back this is the headline a moving all right the thousands of protests that have flooded chicago ahead of the nato summit on sunday a huge showdown is expected later with police already on high alert at around a dozen ox of its who are arrested on the evil the gathering three what charged with conspiracy to cause tara. can reports. the windy city of chicago turned sunny turned paranoid the hometown of the u.s. president plays host to this year's nato summit nato is a u.s. commanded military alliance responsible for wars and war crimes on a global basis already the most watched city in the u.s. . as thousands of protesters begin to descend on chicago the city is in security overkill mode you got a bunch of peaceful protesters here they spent millions and millions of dollars for this week alone i mean by absolutely absurd police have reportedly preemptively raided the homes of protest organizers they battered down a door and made several arrests and we believe these are politica

guest: good morning, libby. how are you? host: good.ou have legislation called the mortgage finance act and it would get rid of fannie mae and freddie mac, why? guest: they are a tarnished brand and after the collapse of subprime mortgages, many of whom were guaranteed by freddie and fannie, they cost the taxpayers about $197 billion and they are a broken system and damaged system in terms of their brand but they are their key securitization mortgage is a key that we have robust capital flowing in the mortgage markets. so what this bill does it puts fannie and freddie in a receivership which is like a structured bankruptcy, creates a new entity called the mortgage finance agency whose job is to replace freddie and fannie in the securitizing and guaranteeing of mortgages but it has a 10-year developed plan to go out of business as a government sponsored entity and be privatized so the taxpayers are no longer on the hook for billions and billions of mortgages. host: let's look at some of those details that the senator just laid out that w

. >> the guy who made the wrong choice there was scooter libby for covering for this guy and taking ait so he could skip away free. if they had done the squob, they would not have to go through all of that. >> they invaded a country on false presences and waved the 9/11 flag over and over again. and then dick cheney continued to do that through the obama presidency. so if they want to talk about terrorism, if they want to talk about what is best to be done, in the bush years, people talked about al-qaeda and said the problem is saddam hussein. so they have been trying to cover up that past. >> just to pounce on the grave of this insanity, please watch this picture right now. this reminds us all of never using politics, never using war, never using the guts and sacrifice of our military men for gain. we did not catch him in the flight suit, that was an earlier portrait that day. and there he is using our tailers. thank you for joining us, and making it clear that both sides take credit for victory. there he is in his costume. i mean, unbelievable. there is the costume. he would never p

libby says one of the biggest positives about attachment parents is it does encourage parents to be responsiveo their baby. but it's really controversial. >> i think it's controversial because, you know, we're not just talking about babies here. we're talking about toddlers or beyond in some cases. >> right. >> three, four, five, six years old in some cases. because of the article, we'll be hearing more about it. >> and the question, are you mom enough, is sort of a challenge to the majority of moms that don't do that. it's a topic for conversation, which is what the magazine wants. >>> coming up, speaking of moms, celebrating mother's day, our facebook friends share messages for their moms coming up next. >> and we're taking an ask allison question today. a viewer thinks a trip to the hair salon caused her to lose hair. i'm asking a stylist for help on what she should do now coming up at 9:45. >> first, if you have a sweet tooth, treat it to a tree cupcake -- free cupcake today. georgetown cupcakes will give one to each customer to celebrate a new season of its reality tv show. you get to cho

prosecutions and high profile cases, including one offense former vice president top aide scooter libbyois governor rod blagojevich and george ryan, media mogul conrad black. and even participated in the prosecution of the gambino crime family. no word yet why he is leighing or what the future employment plans are. >>> is the u.s. economy about to take a nose dive off a fiscal cliff? the fox all-stars on the new cbo report next. [ male announcer ] this is genco services -- mcallen, texas. in here, heavy rental equipment in the middle of nowhere, is always headed somewhere. to give it a sense of direction, at&t created a mobile asset solution to protect and track everything. so every piece of equipment nows where it is, how it's doing or where it goes next. ♪ this is the bell on the cat. [ male announcer ] it's a network of possibilities -- helping you do what you do... even better. ♪ >>> late last year, we had a deal, right before they were ready to arrive at the result. i received a letter from the republican caucus sent to me under the supercommittee saying there could be no tax incre

russell libby. he will weigh what he believes are the pros and cons of attachment parenting.coming up in the 7:00 o'clock hour. >>> still ahead, celebrate chantilly. the city is getting ready for a first of its kind event. holly is there for a preview of the big party. big party. >> reporter: good morning, everybody. i'm holly morris. happy friday to you. you might want to consider a little time in chantilly, virginia this weekend. they're gearing up for the best event ever to happen in chan tilley. it's the first annual chantilly day festival. 100 plus businesses are coming together to celebrate all this community has to offer. they're not only saying thank you to those who come out, but they want other people to know to come out. we've got little simba there. simba is going to be in the pet parade, and there will be a pet adoption event, and there will be a bigger parade. we have the robotics program, which is at chantilly academy at chantilly high school. this is the tip of the iceberg. we'll show you all things chantilly this morning and why you need to come out on saturd

now in the libby lib show like this, you might wonder why is this an even a topic?at's because your host is a bit of neanderthal. one of our producers was so livid. >> even with liberals you see that they have conservative ideology when it comes to this issue. but this week there were two members of the army who filed a lawsuit against the military because it does not allow women to fight on the front line. according to their lawyer this limitation on the plaintiff's careers restricts their current and future earnings, their potential for promotion and advancement and their future retirement benefits. it turns out that the women talked about this a little bit and it turns out that technically women are fighting on the front lines already. let's watch. >> the issue here already, how often, is that the u.s. military, the meant gone is already moving in that direction. to lift ultimately lift the ban against women serving in combat roles. just here within the last month they lifted restrictions and opened up 14,000 new positions to women in the military in combat-relat

caller: good morning, libby and mr. steele. host: i will pass on your question to the chairman.aller: my question for him is regarding the republican plan to pay for eight years with bush. the republicans spent $11.50 trillion with two wars, with the military advantage, with tarp. and they blew clinton's surplus and gave me $0.50 trillion tax cut in 2003 for jobs. by 2008 we had millions of 99% percenters.-99- the republicans still have a lot to explain. guest: i agree with your premise and that's why you saw the emergence of tea party activism within the gop. those republicans were frustrated with big government republicanism, frustrated with spending money we did not have, and creating debt, which is a burden for future generations, and spending on medicare advantage, as well as not having the resources to pay for that at that time it. i give you all that. but that does not change where we are right now. it's part of the history of it. it's part of the scenario, but it does not change the fact that in the last four years our economy that has grown $5 trillion in a for your yea

. >> i remember the first prize's given, one was libby rosenthal from "the new york times." that did a wonderful report on aids in china early on. and her reports were translated in chinese and read to the internal party better information newsletter thing. and had an affect on the chinese leadership. and helped to report them. the reporting in china wasn't as good. i think that the world is smaller all the time. people are better aware of what everyone is writing. things are more quickly translated on google. you can know instantly what is said in the article, even if your chinese characters are really rusty, right, marcus. but the drama in china is a chinese drama. the struggles over the country's future. the chen guangcheng story is a story about activists and journalists. and those in china demanding their rights and that the government respect it's own constitution. and that it be truly a law-based society. that's really the drama in china today. it's being played out on a chinese stage. we are bystanders and we can affect it and participate at the margins. but it's a t

. >> caller: good morning libby and mr. shaw. libby i'm going to say something that is quite contrary to the most of the contents you have been getting so please keep your finger off the button until i finish. >> host: we are looking forward to hearing what you have to say. please go ahead. cocco parcel bomb is this efficiency is immoral imperative and we have heard mr. shaw say they are conditions for success and we need to create the conditions where aid is no longer needed and expand partnership of ripley actually do, what we did in iraq was first we starve the people and then they came in and we said, you must use only genitically-modified seed from our u.s. businesses, from unilever and monsanto. we are attempting to do the same thing to iran. will they say, i heard this on c-span in 2008 at the apec conference. we must cause iran's leaders to fear starvation. this is what is being done in gaza. this is what americans do. first we starve them and then we say, our companies will come in and sell you the seat so you will no lo

he was representing scooter libby at the time so going way back and he started to talk about his otherblack classmates and started to talk about for a -- father brooks. i was intrigued and i was partly intrigued because clarence thomas was one of those classmates and i had not read much about the interaction between a justice thomas and father brooks. so that just got me intrigued. i'm a business journalist. it was not a classic story, but i am always interested in leadership and i'm always interested in mentoring, and it took quite a wild to get justice thomas to speak with me. i think in part because he didn't necessarily trust the agenda that i had, which was i would like in fact to talk about 1968, 69, 70, those years and what amazed me was when i did go and see him, the depth of passion that he had for holy cross, the feelings and emotions he had about father brooks. i'm not sure who was at his presentation last week where he got an honorary degree, but i think when you can track how he feels about holy cross versus what he has said about his experiences at yale there is a profoun