the week ended with another brazen robber, this time, in new york city, a lightbulb-eating magician, turned to the dark side. >> you get this rush or adrenaline flow. they get addicted to that. >> reporter: fictional robbers in movies like "the town." >> rock 'n' roll. >> reporter: and "point break" have used masks. but some are taking it a step further. back in december, surveillance video from a california bank caught the geezer bandit disguised as an old man, pulling off more than a dozen heists. >> people believe if they alter their appearance a little bit, they're not going to get caught. and ultimately, that fails, as far as logic is concerned. >> reporter: and then, there's gumby. the only thing more comical than the outfit is the criminal inside the suit. >> the clerk, thinking it was a joke said, i don't have time for this. i'm cleaning. >> many times these people who dress up don't wear gloves. they leave fingerprints. and they don't disguise their face sufficiently. someone could still recognize them. >> reporter: gumby and the lightbulb-eating magician were caught. but al

now, this week, the house republicans, just this week, forced another vote on lightbulb efficiency standards. now, hold it right there. now, larry, if you're talking to harry over the garden, you know, after work, you run into your neighbor, do you talk about lightbulbs? i mean, where is the government?! why is -- and now, of course, you've got mitt romney out there campaigning, saying, well, president obama hasn't done anything. there's three positives right there that were shot down by the republicans because of the political divide in the country. how do we tone this frustration down as americans? the republicans will vote on anything but jobs. this isn't the first time mitt romney claimed the president's job-growing policies just don't work. here's mitt romney on the stimulus package in 2009. >> you have to recognize that the stimulus that the president and congress passed is not what's helped this economy. >> but yesterday, just yesterday, the president of the nonpartisan congressional budget office testified at a house hearing about the stimulus package. he said a vast majority of the

and transformative technologies we can imagine since the creation of the automobile, telephone, lightbulb, newspaper. just about anything we can imagine. just a few short years it's become impossible to think of life without these technologies that become utilities in our lives. what lies ahead? where is this all taking us? where will we end up? i'm here with three guests who have studied this topic and committed this topic from just about every angle from communication, journalism, security safety, commerce, innovation and on and on it goes. we'll get started. it's great to see you all. i thought maybe we'd start with our audience. it's a good place to start. for those in the television audience or those following us online, you can play this game too. how many of you in the audience own and use a smart phone? raise your hands. how many own and use a smart tablet of some sort? how many of you get news, information, weather, the stocks online? how many of you don't do anything online but subscribe to newspapers and that's how you live? the subject of this, revolutions in the 21st century.

they've seen the amount of junk quadruple since the end of february, including instant soup wrappers, lightbulbs, plastic bottles all with japanese writing. >>> we are following developing news in the east bay. bart engineers are inspecting damage by fire to ensure a smooth morning commute. live team coverage of that as well as the investigation into the fire that caused the nightmare. >>> reaching a deal on the state budget the vote expected today that could give california its first on-time spending plan in years. c c

we are free markets have created lightbulbs, televisions, come puters -- the personal computer, the iphone, the ipad and googsle. and we can do this. we can balance our budget. we can restore our economy and we can make sure that the government gets out of the way so that free markets work again. thank you. [ applause ] >> if anyone has any announcements, feel free to make them now. >> anyone? >> yeah. >> i want to yield to ashley? >> hi, everybody. i'm ashley. and i wanted to invite all of you this afternoon at 6:00 by south capitol metro stop. campaign for the govt. so we'll propose -- or have you work i working with the gop convention in august in tampa. so we hope to see you tomorrow. >> anybody else? okay. well, see you next week. >> fed chair ben bernanke wraps up tomorrow. watch live coverage at 2:15 eastern, here on cspan-3. >> how do you approach book interviews dimpbtly than news reporting interviews? >> i think of the book that interviews as gathering history. i think of interviewing when i'm working for the news side as gathering contemporary information. >> how difficult is it

we -- our free markets have created lightbulbs, televisions, the personal computer, the iphone, the ipadand google. and we can do this. we can balance our budget, we can restore our economy, and we can make sure that the government gets out of the way so that free markets work again. thank you. [ applause ] >> if anyone has any announcements, feel free to make them now. anyone? yeah? >> i want to yield to the campaign for limited government. >> hi, everybody, i'm ashley. i wanted to invite all of you to happy hour tomorrow, the one by the south capital entrance lot. campaign for limited government. we want to empower young people to hold the government responsible. so right now we're working on three projects. our first is to have the stays to force congress to propose a balanced budget amendment. and going to the gop convention august in tampa. so see you tomorrow. >> anybody else? announcements? okay. well, see you next week. >>> author peter edelman's latest book, "so rich, so poor," talks about why our economy produces great wealth and great poverty statement. the book also offers su

the system may be great for buying cinder blocks and lightbulbs, but is certainly not appropriate for providing timely and appropriate medical care. equally troubling this change offers no promise of improving service to the warrior. instead it would mean greater delays. the change could realize modest savings, but at what cost. a warrior needing a new leg or wheelchair should not have to wait longer than is absolutely necessary. i know warriors who have stayed from school, from work, can't play ball with their kids, live in chronic pain, while they wait for a new prosthesis. e know firsthand what it's like to not put my son into the crib when waiting for a prosthetic, my daughter asking once again, why can't daddy walk with us? on va moving ahead on changing procurement practice, wounded war wrors near the committee's help. prosthetics are specialized medical equipment that should be prescribed by a clinician and promptly delivered to the veteran. we urge this committee to direct va to stop implementation of this change in prosthetic procurement. beyond this immediate concern, our wa

i put a lightbulb outside and on the front. it is getting bad to live here. >> in another neighborhood, 91- year-old alex yost logo to find a man standing over her, shining a flashlight in her eyes. [unintelligible] >> he went out and i did not hear anything for a couple of minutes so i came out and call the kids. >> the suspect has been taking /-- taking cash and rifling through wallets and purses. >> will have an increased presence in the area. >> for now, neighbors remain on high alert. >> those early morning home invasion took place in the 200 block on both streets. it with information is urged to call metro crimestoppers. live in anne arundel county, kai reed, wbal-tv 11 news pickaxes 16-year-old baltimore county student is recovering tonight after being stabbed near milford mill academy. school officials say he was walking when a group of individuals tried to rob him. that is when he was allegedly stabbed in the leg. the boy left school without permission. there is no word on a suspect or possible motive. >> the sister-in

what did bill maher say when he told the doctor he had lightbulb in the jasper?piano. >> that is it for "the five." >>> welcome to "red eye." st's like franklin and bash without franklin or bash. let's go to andy levy for a pre game report. what is coming up on tonight's show old sport? >> close your eyes and bow your head, america. new york state senate stops an attempt to de criminalize small amounts of marijuana. what are they, high? and an intern admits she has only paid for a few of the 11,000 songs she has in her i tunes library. and whether or not she should be executed straight ahead. and can living alone increase your risk of premature death? the story i won't be paying attention to coming up. greg this. >> i am looking forward to that last story. >> why is that? >> i will watch it surrounded by my loving family. >> i guess that is nice. >> yes, it is. we will make popcorn and wear pajamas. >> who are you talking about? >> my dolls, they are my family. >> i don't know how to talk to you anymore. >> i dress them up as the cast of pippin. >> why is that? >

what did bill maher say when he told the doctor he had lightbulb in the jasper? piano. >> that is it for "the five." we'll see you tomorrow. sorry, jasper. >> bret: president obama claims exective privilege as a house panel votes to hold his attorney general in contempt. this is "special report." ♪ ♪ et ceter♪ >> bret: good evening. on the, the obama administration invokeed executive privilege in the showdown between the top cop and the house oversight committee, over operation "fast and furious." republicans on the panel voted in favor of contempt of congress resolution against eric holder. resolution that goes to the full house. we have fox team coverage tonight. mike emanuel looks at the elminute of surprise on capitol hill. we begin with chief white house correspondent ed henry and the president's last-minute entry in this dispute. good evening. >> good evening. this case lates the state to tie the president to fast and furious for the first time and sparked charges among republicans a

. >> the crew suspects nothing more than a faulty lightbulb. he can't get the new bulb to go in. >> they fought with this thing for several minutes. the captain instructed the flight engineer to go down and see if he could manually see an alignment stripe that is on the nose geq) that you can see from a small view port down under the flight deck. >> but it's just too dark to see. the captain and co-pilot are still struggling with the light bulb. >> this is where the insidious nature of human error begins to show itself. ideally someone does nothing but monitor the autopilot. but with the difficulty that the first officer was having with the bulb, the captain understandably wanted to try to help him. no one was concentrating on monitoring the autopilot. >> the crew is unaware that the airplane is slowly descending from 2,000 to 900 feet. then from the control tower they hear -- >> how's it going out there eastern? the first officer looks up and realizes something is wrong with the altitude. he said we are still at 2,000, right? the captain begin

it seems the lightbulb will go off in everybody's head when you say that. isn't it? >> this is why they are in such a total mess. mitt romney left office at 4.7% unemployment. at 4.7% unemployment you'd have 5.5 million more americans working tonight than are working under barack obama. how do they get into a job fight with a guy who was at 4.7% unemployment and suggest that he's the guy you can't trust when the president is consistently above 8% unemployment? >> many thanks, mr. speaker, for coming on tonight. >> glad to be with you. >> the speaker's newest book is available now. >>> coming up, ben bernanke does the twist. i don't like the image. laying the groundwork for more easy money pump priming. isn't the summer stall tied to obama care? we'll ask barry. it could be decided tomorrow. unlikely. probably next week. later, romney blurts out that he's looking at marco rubeo for vp while obama has a constitutional crisis on his hands. don't forget. larry's mantra, free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. "the kudlow report" will be back. [ tires squea

some people say it's like a hedge fund that makes lightbulbs. should ge spin-off ge capital?'s funny. i think people really want to be able to shoe horn ge into a certain box. ge capital, remember, has a huge business in vertical financing. they're financing jet engines. they're in the business of turbines and renewables. it's not just a consumer financial business or commercial business. they really span a broad area of lending middle market. what they have that the others don't have is domain expertise in those particular areas. on the consumer side, they don't really in my view need to be in that business. over time they're a fantastic tax benefit. but i think over time what you'll see is the company moving towards shrinking ge capital as a part of their portfolio and they will exit certain of those businesses. >> steven, thank you very much. >> thanks very much. >> and the 12th stock we've mentioned since the beginning of the hour, netflix. not exactly having a banner year. so far this month it's up about 4%. jason, senior analyst at oppenheimer joins us now. also an outp

lightbulb, that's really funny. >> guest: that is her charm. >> guest: he doesn't know what to do. >>uest: i find the title term in. >> host: what is the goal, ian black, what is the goal of this book? >> guest: it's about getting people who aren't interested into politics to indeed starting up a conversation. what do i care about, what do i believe in, and get people to start asking the questions. it's not for wonks. it's not for people who read politico. it's for people who just may be feel uncommitted or people who care about their country but don't even have a way to start talking about it. it mirrors my own i think political education. meg and i think was really fortunate to come from a family that got heavily involved in this. i didn't. i was sort of born into it but i've never really spent any time thinking about it until i was older. once i started doing that and started thinking about why i believe what i believe or even if i believe what i think i believe that is one questions lead to question so all this book is really about is having a good time and having people start to

just two examples, incandescent lightbulbs, the ban on the light bull be bs has resulted in the closure of those factories and the new cfls, the new flores sents are all made in china, so there are green jobs, but green jobs for china. many solar panels, wind turbines that are required by law are made overseas and in places such as china. coal is produced here, but we are increasingly not being allowed to use it. china is using our coal and produces less than 1% of its electricity from renewables. so it makes these products with coal and then sends them to us which reduces our jobs. so bls decides which jobs are green, and sometimes these jobs qualify as tax subsidies. 20% of the highway trust fund is reserved for mass transit. tax subsidies are given to electric vehicles both for companies to produce them and for americans to buy them. bls has defined green jobs as, quote: jobs and businesses that produce goods or provide services that benefit the environment or conserve natural resources, unquote. or a in, quote: jobs in which workers' duties involve making their establishment's produ

on incandescent light bulbs was resolved in the closure of the factories and the new florescent lightbulbs, which are all made in china. their green jobs for china. many solar panels, wind turbines, required by law, are made overseas in places such as china. coal is produced here, but we are increasingly not allowed to use it. china is using our cool and producing less than 1% electricity that makes these products and send them to us, which we use as our jobs. the government decides which jobs are green. transportation policies, based on green jobs, with 20% of the highway trust fund reserved for mass transit. tax subsidies are given to electric vehicles. for companies to produce them and americans to buy them. the els have to find green jobs as jobs and businesses that produce goods or provide services that benefit the environment or conserve natural resources. order, jobs in which workers duties involve making their establishments production processes more environmentally friendly or use natural resources. in order for us to be considered green, we have to meet one of five goals. namely