harry reid and lindsey graham so lindsey feels a separation from immigration reform which will enableim to come back and be where he wants to be for this energy npd climate change bill. >> you know how to do the math. do you think there is any chance in this tough election year of passing immigration reform? >> i happen to be for immigration reform -- >> that's a separate question. >> yes, i'm going to say that as a precondition to say that i am, therefore, disappointed to tell you that i don't see a reasonable prospect of passing immigration reform this year. and i think that one of the reasons for it is that the only republican who's come forward to say he'll work with democrats in immigration reform, lindsey graham, says, i won't do it this year. >> a lot of democrats don't want to take this tough vote in this election year. if there's not unanimous support on the democratic side and you know that raising the issue will cost you your only republican on another important issue, why do it now? the president is suddenly talking more about it, leader reid is pushing it more. many do co

lesli. >> all right lindsey, thank you for that. virginia governor, bob mcdon got a threatening letter. governors at offices across the country are on alert. at least 30 governors received the threat. they were sent by a group called guardians of the free republics. the fbi and virginia state police are investigating. >>> apparently, there is a family connection between the suspects in the mass shootings on south capital street. 9news now has learned the 14- year-old suspected of driving the get away van is the younger brother of suspect, orlando carter. he is now in protective custody. but questions remain about why orlando carter wasn't in custody before the shooting. dc police say they tried to get an arrest warrant back in march, but the u.s. attorney's office would not take it to a judge. >> i would expect that if the police department can present a case with as much information as they did in this one, that the next time this happens, an arrest warrant would be issued. >> in a statement, u.s. attorney, ron said there was not s

lindsey graham, he is a rhino, public -- pond come on. he's ambitious but also in vicious to get things done. and so in a sense, the very person who was -- would have been the potential strong member of the club in the 1950's is now seem as a great exception. and i think that tells a lot about the differences in serving today and 50 years ago. so -- >> maybe you should briefly think the speakers. [applause] >> welcome so i think the theme of today and tomorrow is certainly change. i think eric did a good job telling us where we started as to where we are today and any one that follows the senate today seedier are vast differences but the change is slow and as each speaker today and each speaker to marlo talks about a particular area of change i think will become clear the changes are interrelated. any of the individual changes we talk about through the elections or different motivations and career paths of senators, the way that change can't be viewed alone we have to look at the norms and how those changes systematically as well and that

this coming to us from kusa 9 news in denver where in nearby vale fans came out to hail olympian lindsey vonn. this is her first trip since winning the gold and the bronze at the vancouver games. she posed for pictures and signed autographs. she said it meant all the world to her and she found out she's getting a guest role in the season fi naly of her favorite show, "law and order." >> even better she's got a trail named after her called lindsey's. >> i don't blame her. she's a golden girl. i'm lynn berry, and this is "early today," just your first stop of the day, today on your nbc station. >> a very good thursday morning and we welcome to month of april today and we welcome it in nice style. we're going to be up in the mid 70's today. 181 potential on saturday. let's look at our current temperatures. already 53 downtown last night. that's indicative how mild we already are. we actually ended yesterday at 71. sunny skies. light winds. it is going to be a gorgeous one and i think you're going to like the weekend forecast as well. more on that coming up in our full hour. >> i saw snowfla

lindsey is at the title basin with more on their impact on our area. hi lindsey. >> hey, lesli. it has been a picture perfect day out here. it's very warm, very, very nice, and that means that people are spending money. when we talk about visitors, they are expecting 1 million visitors down here for the festival and that will bring in $80 million to the district. >> they are pretty. they are really pretty. >> it means more people on the national mall. >> we are hitting all the sites. the first time the kids have been in dc. >> more people visiting museums. >> i got some souvenirs. >> and more people booking hotel rooms. >> we are anticipating that our hotels will completely sell out over this weekend, which is fantastic. >> elliot says even restaurants are capitalizing on the cherry blossoms. >> 70 of our restaurants are doing cherry themed meals during the festival itself. >> ping-pong is offering three cherry inspired creations. the restaurant just opened in december, but the manager says people are already abuzzed about their cherry bubbly. >> the restaurants that participate

lindsey graham's flip-flop. he bailed out of a deal on energy reform, because the white house is prioritizing immigration reform, a month after he called out the white house for not prioritizing immigration reform. while his fellow republicans try to filibuster wall street reform with an unclear conscience. the democrats lose this evening's test vote. >> what's the point of having 100 seats here coming from 50 states, when a major issue cannot even be the subject of a debate? >> perjury? palin testifies she never used her hacked e-mail account for business, but the e-mails from that account suggest quite the opposite. talking some smack at the white house. >>> and stephen hawkings said aliens from space would probably try to hurt us. all the news and commentary next on "countdown." >>> good evening from new york. protests continuing at this hour at the state capitol of phoenix, arizona. while calls for and outlines of boycotts of the various and extremely vulnerable aspects of one of that state's primary exports

lindsey graham and john kerry and joe lieberman were together going to come out on monday morning and plan to deal with climate change. lindsey graham pulls out and says that because the administration looks like it's focusing on immigration reform, the climate thing's not going to get done and theoretically it's doing it in protest. >> right. he's got some legitimate facts on the point that immigration has vaulted up. it's a controversial issue. >> yep. >> hard to deal with, and once you put that on plate, getting energy reform, which is also tough, dealing with climate change. >> yeah. >> to get a deal, you sort of muck up the works maybe and it's hard to get something done. you talk to democrats and they say, wait a second, it was lindsey graham urging the president to get immigration reform on the docket. he and chuck schumer, the democrat, got a bill. and they got a meeting with the president a few weeks back and they kind of feel that lindsey graham is protecting john mccain, for example, his mentor who back in arizona does want want to deal with the immigration issue, pretty co

here is lindsey mastis. >> reporter: these are the six men facing robbery charges. police, they say that they wore masks, barged into a home along clover dale and berk, during a late-night car date. the brandish guns, tieing up the victims and fled with cash, jewelry, and credit cards. many neighbors here along the area said that they didn't know about the home invasion. they said that crime just doesn't happen along the street very often. >> i have been in this neighborhood for about 30 years. most of us are federal employees. >> the fairfax county police say that the men committed the same crimes at another home in centerville. she believes that victims have not come forward because they are afraid of being in trouble for gambling. >> they don't want to be associated, perhaps, with the card game. they are afraid that the people, they will come after them. >> the six men were arrested up in rockville, during the traffic stop. and he says that the men face the drug charges there. >> they contacted the fairfax county police. because they found what they felt was evid

lindsey is at the title basin. and a lot of businesses are booming now. >> a lot of businesses are booming. they expect a lot of people to come down and people are opening up their wallets on days like this, it's easy to do. restaurants are trying to attract customers. they are offering cherry inspired dishes and drinks. vendors are selling souvenirs and of course, tour buses are making the rounds. elliot ferguson says hotels are doing extremely well. >> hotels will sell out over this weekend, which is fantastic. because easter is a great time to be in washington, d.c., but not necessarily a very busy time for our hotels. so, the fact that the festival is falling over the easter holiday is good for us, plus great weather. we are anticipating record attendance. >> and of course, they are expecting $80 million to be brought into businesses around the dc area and another $44 million that is going to be brought to businesses in maryland and virginia. so it's very, very widespread and of course, people are out here visi

and lindsey graham, he is a rino , republican in name only. he is ambitious, but he also is ambitious to get things done. and so in a sense, the very person who would have been the potential strong member of the inner club in the 1950s is now seen as a great exception, and i think that tells us a lot about the differences in serving today and 50 years ago. >> maybe we should briefly thank every one. [applause] i think a theme today and tomorrow is certainly change. i think eric did a good job telling us where we started as to where we are today and anyone that follows the senate today sees there are mass differences. but that change is slow and as each speaker today in the speaker tomorrow talks about a particular area of change i think it will become clear that the changes in a related. any of the individual changes we talk about through elections or different motivations and career paths of senators, the way that changes can't be viewed along. we have to look at the norms and how those changes dramatically as well, and none of this can be is

lindsey graham has been talking to the white house chief of staff rahm emanuel about a deal he would help them get the money to close-- graham would, close guantanamo will the administration would let khalid shaikh mohammed and others terrorists be tried not in u.s. civilian trials, but in military commissions, is that going anywhere. >> i don't think it's going anywhere much paul. guantanamo remember we used to talk about social security as the third rail of politics, a toxic issue no one would touch. virtually all of these are third rails because of the glare and publicity they get from the media these days. we went through health care and ended up with reconciliation, the most arcane in the congress and 75% of americans can talk in depth about reconciliation, right? >> unfortune turn to the country. >> to do what we have to do for a living, poor america. >> i don't think gitmo has a problem like that. they may on another national security issue be able to pass this treaty that the president just signed with the russians, the strategic arms reduction treaty start. i think that the

but senator kerry, longtime advocate of cleaning up the environment, lindsey graham, national security, energy independent, senator lieberman, similarly sees it as a security issue as much as it's a climate issue. they share these -- these priorities. each one is motivated a little bit differently by one or the other. but what it did was it got them all together. and what we are likely to see is legislation, somewhat like health care, in that it is a true compromise, so you can't peel it apart. you can't just say, well, we'll do the easy stuff and the popular stuff and not do the other. and what it involves is the democrats at its heart. the democrats get their tax on carbon, which will make alternative fuels instantly more valuable. if there is a tax or fee on carbon. they finally get that. and then the conservatives, the republicans, the coal state folks, they get billions and billions of dollars to try to develop new technology to make coal viable in the future, to make it cleaner. and the nuclear sector has a rebirth. gwen: but you said this is like the health care bill in some res

so what's lindsey graham's excuse now? i think he's being batted around between the moderate republicans and the far right republicans, that's been true of him from the beginning and it's true of him now. >> howard fineman, very eloquent tonight. thank you, howard. seriously. thank you. >> thank you. >>> the republicans going from opposing financial reform to claiming bipartisan strides had been made to effect it. to today starting the process of filibustering it. senator sherrod brown next on "countdown." number go up... and help this one go down. number go up... v8. what's your number? so, at national, i go right past the counter... and you get to choose any car in the aisle. choose any car? you cannot be serious! okay. seriously, you choose. go national. go like a pro. i thought you said carl was our best presentation guy. [ worker ] well, he is. last week he told my team about fedex office print online for our presentations. we upload it to fedex office, then they print, bind, and ship it. the presentation looks good,

republicans like lindsey graham. it will cover rogaine, jarrett hall and others. -- a jarrett all -- geritol others. we must keep -- i am going to make a personal trip myself to beverly hills. in closing, on a serious note, what is ahead of us is tough and not everyone agrees with my choices, however, by the end of my term, i promise that americans will have banded together for the first time and degree that once you got black, you do not go back. -- what should go black, you do not go back. -- wants hugo black, you do not go back. -- once you go black, you do not go back. >> our headliner tonight is a self titled all-american immigrant. he has come a long way from a rosie i add new immigrant to one of the hottest properties in the world economy -- world of comedy. since 2001, he has been a favorite among comedians and audiences alike. ladies and gentlemen, i give you joe wong. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. my name is joe wong. to most people, i had known as, "who?" that is actually my mother's maiden name. [

lindsey graham, probably the closest to a republican ally that the president has, had been working with democrats for months on a range of issues including climate change. graham was supposed to be at a bipartisan news conferences tomorrow to talk about the proposal. he's not going now. he's furious. moving forward on immigration in this hurry panic manner is nothing more than a cynical ploy. harry reid sniffed at that accusation saying i understand the tremendous prehe's under from members of his own party not to work with us on either measure. senator menendez and saxby chambliss from georgia. let me speak with you. i spoke with democrats last night, a couple of them said to me, we don't want immigration to come out. is it this particular issue that's helpful to me in my district or in my state? are you onboard with this changeover? >> well, first of all, candy, harry reid said we're going to get to both issues in this session. >> is that possible, senator? >> i think it is, and he noted more work had been done on climate change than on immigration. which ever is going to come up will

it's being propod by senators joe lieberman, lindsey graham and john kerry, that's an independent, a republican, and a democrat, bipartisan group. they're going to propose this as part of the new climate bill. a, it would raise an awful lot of money for the federal government, which is indidoo it can't pay its bills, and number two, it would finance some of the needed changes to control emissions. so it's a bipartisan group of senators, it's a proposal for up to 15 cents a gallon, and really, what it's all about is another proposed consumption tax, like the vat you've been hearing about, a tax on what you buy as opposed to what you earn. martha: my first question, does it have the votes to pass. >> that's a very good question. if you put it up for a vote right now, the flat answer is no. you've got the elections coming up in november. but after the elections, you will have this decifit reduction commission reporting on december 1st. maybe they'll say yes, a consumption tax like a gas tax is what is required. so after the election, it might be a different story from now, when the vote

because lindsey graham got very mad. he scuttled his own climate legislation because he says he's angry that the obama administration might bring up the issue of immigration reform first. quote, this comes out of left field. we haven't done anything to prepare the body or the country for immigration. senator graham's anger has been seconded now by the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell who said, quote, this isn't the right time to do immigration reform. republicans bending over backwards doing everything they can, skcuttling their own announcements to make sure immigration reform does not come up. remember when george bush wanted to do immigration reform in 2007, his own party bent over backwards and delivered their own president a huge political defeat on this issue because they were so desperate to not do immigration reformat the federal level. the fact that it continues to not happen at the federal level is ought the justification that some states need right now to deal with immigration on their own. which

it will take months if not years to get the immigration done and lindsey graham knows. there was supposed to be action tomorrow. >> a background pomp and circumstance, we've got the lectern, the-- >> we've got the dj. >> cancel the giant sub. >> they're going to have a dj. >> no, they have to cancel that. pennsylvania governor, i know that state well, he's under fire for coming at the tea party and first of all, play this and make your own judgments and we'll talk about it after this. >> what's happened, the mainstream media, i'm not blaming the conservative media, i think the mainstream medias had a sort of fallen for this, hook, line and sinker, there's no clout behind this movement and reflects what people feel, but the actual movement itself, has no infrastructure, has no ability to bring a lot of people to key sites at key moments in time. give the tea partyoochlt tes credit for the ones who brought this to the fore, is totally misguided. >> no infrastructure. no infrastructure and he went on to say probably the most controversial thing that struck me, anyway was t

we have a report narrated by lindsey hilsum of independent television news. >> reporter: driving into the earthquake zone-- the survivors, local tibetan people, gathered at the roadside, next to what used to be their homes. old fashioned mud and wooden houses came tumbling down. people scrabbled with their bare hands, trying to dig out those who had been trapped in the debris. concrete structures cracked and tilted. no one can live in them now. the government says 85% of houses in jiegu, the main town in yushu county, collapsed. the first pictures to emerge were from a surveillance camera mounted on a police car. the security services watch the area closely, because the tibetans there are fierce followers of the dalai lama, and suspicious of the chinese government. but police and soldiers were desperately needed today, immediately after the quake 700 locally-based people's armed police started to dig people out children are thought to have died in collapsed schools as they did in sichuan in 2008. nearly 4,000 injured people are reported to have been rescued by hand. hospitals are full

now lindsey graham-- . >> woodruff: facing a challenge. >> on the issue, in the very state that the cald ron, arizona. lindsay graham who became the successor for reasons that he expresses and i think also for internal pressure within the party is not joining chuck schumer in this effort. and i don't think there's any question, judy, that john cornyn the republican senate campaign committee said yesterday are you to the going to pass immigration reform when there is 9.7% unemployment. it requires a certain confidence and optimism on the part of voters to take a step this large. and i don't think it's there. i think there's a hunkering down. i think there is a defensiveness. and a agree with david that just the atmosphere and the pood are not there. >> and just to flesh out the lindsey graham point, he was promised that by harry reid, that he was going to really stick his neck out on energy and climate in that stuff. and that the democrats would not throw him gration on top of that. because it's too heavy a lift. he didn't think you could ask the country or the senate, especially republic

but in the end you heard people like lindsey graham voting for her saying maybe he wouldn't pick her but she was clearly qualified and he was happy to vote for her. she got confirmed and the hearings were difficult but fair and that's what we want to see again. all this garbage and comments and what really matters the president puts someone on there who is qualified and someone who had a record of excellence and someone who is independent thinker. >> among my favorite senators the senator from california and the senator from missouri. you're one of them. i would hate to see you leave the united states senate, but would you be interested in being a member of the supreme court. >> no, chris y couldn't wear black every day. >> that's a rather facile response. >> i will not abandon the people of minnesota in the middle of these economic times. >> that's what a sherman escstatement from you. >> as i said the other day on rachel's show y couldn't do it because of my past speeches. all the times remember sotomayor the wise latino women you can't imagine how many times i referred to myself.

we're going to have that happen here, there's a price on the carbon pollution that even somebody like lindseyraham, the republican senator from south carolina, says is an absolutely necessary thing for this country. now, i would-- he didn't make a deal, there's no quid pro quo, none that i'm aware of. >> come on, man. >> all i'm saying, he was placing a bet. he was hoping that frankly he could entice republicans to see that he was taking the middle ground on nuclear, on off shore drilling. >> a very nice way of saying it. gary b, we're not getting much new oil though and if cap and trade passes, what happens to the economy then? >> well, richard hit it right in one respect, brenda, there is no quid pro quo because there's no qid in this thing. it was made a big deal around here the off shore drilling in virginia. that deal was already in the work. in fact the department. intear i don't remember pushed that back in 2012 and canceled leases in alaska, the most productive in alaska, the area that you talked about off the gulf of mexico that is going to be allowed leases, that's subject to congre

. >> there is a chance that they can shake loose enough republicans like judd gregg, lindsey graham, and some other people. and the liberal democrats, some of them are furious, but i suspect they will get over if they can get an actual crime bill. >> that is the point -- if they can get an actual climate bill. >> that is the point, this is a political move. they could get some conservative or republican support on cap- and-trade -- >> shocking. >> but the logic of the proposal is -- and the president himself made the case -- if we put our own oil, we will not be importing it and sending dollars into the treasury of saudi arabia, venezuela, russia, to be a, other unfriendlies. we will be keeping it at home. it will help our economy, creating jobs, and in terms of the environment, they will consume oil one way or the other. it is safer for the planet it is done under our strict control and high-technology in america as opposed to in nigeria. the niger delta is polluted, the amazon basin off the coast of ecuador real new guinea -- a equatorial new guinea. in every argument, we ought to

. >> and some sense billing on burdett's point on lindsey graham is, you could argue that today that one form of maverick behavior is to be disloyal to your party or nonstick with a message consistently whereas in the 1940s and 50s, these mavericks if you look at their voting behavior and positions on key issues, on the core issues for their party they were lying with their party's majority position. so in this partisan and polarized senate, one way to be a maverick is to try to work with the other side. now that exposes you to a much different problem than a maverick in the 1950s face which is you have to go and get in the primary and the primary especially is where the folks alan is talking about are the most active. so then if you are maverick today you had better inoculate yourself like john mccain is seriously trying to do today by adopting a least the essential issues now and not being too much of a maverick. so, i think that is one change. i think within the parties, to be a maverick you also need different things in the minority and majority party today whereas if they used t

if you believe the climate change is the crisis that lindsey believes it is -- >> it's nonsequitur. > i don't understand these things. i'm just a simple -- >> country boy? >> -- caveman lawyer. >> moving on -- >> the warren buffett of politics. the equivalent of nebraska -- >> i just fell off a turnip truck on the way in. in fact, that's why i'm dressed like this. >> that would explain it. >> i was shoveling turnips. >>> >>> astro physicist stephen hawking shares his belief there really is intelligent life out there. the show gives viewers a glimpse hawking's imagination where alien existence is, quote, perfectly rationale. hawking warns against seeking out extraterrestrial life -- >> don't do that. >> we should ask them for their papers. >> hold on. stay off the roof of the building with your telescope. >> i had that penciled in at 1:35. >> don't try to talk to them because -- >> anyhow, apparently, it can be dangerous. >> what do we have? >> i feel weird reporting on that. i don't believe it. >>> coming up next, it's called the toughest antiimmigration law ever. we'll go inside the

it is interesting to me that lindsey graham is the one to pull the plug. he said after the health care vote that there could be no further bipartisan work if the house moved the senate bill through the way they did. i think this is an act ii -- he has become the key person for moving anything in a bipartisan way through congress. host: here it says there will be more protest in phoenix today. a court fight is looming on the new law. here are a number of profiles on the new governor. guest: that is right. the truth is the white house about six weeks ago, president obama met with reform leaders. and the key senators on the energy. it looked like a lot of activity around two major issues on his agenda. behind the scenes, truthfully, the white house said we are now ready to do either this year. we will get financial regulatory reform done. we will try to pass legislation addressing concerns by the citizens united supreme court ruling that allows corporations to spend on behalf of candidates for the first time. it was a public act of looking busy on important i

host: what do you say about the fact that lindsey graham has been at the table on this? caller: lindsey graham has had positive rhetoric in the past especially regarding the health care bill, for a long time be pledged he would work with us and do that and then you have the various other senators like our side like evan by -- evan bayh, against the public option, which did not surprise me because his wife is in the corporate structure with health insurance industry. so, republicans promised cooperation in the past before. i am not too optimistic on the following three. they have seemed to tap into this and they will revive their contract with america in 2010. host: milton, independent line. arnot -- vernon dean of beach, florida -- fernandina beach, florida. caller: thank you for taking my call. i think the democrat or republican or the independence or however, if they had just a few seconds to think about this, they will know that the reason this is coming about now -- democrats -- i am talking about kerry, talking about lieberman, and even the republican senator lindse

when i leave here i'm going to go by lindsey's and get them pictures for you. >> yeah. >> of haleigh and junior. >> yeah. i want one of haleigh and junior and one of ronald. >> all right. i'll get them all to you. >> i mean, i still love him, mama. >> huh? >> i still love him. >> i know you do, baby. i'm sure he still loves you. >> i know he does. >> i know. that's what teresa was talking about. that she don't even get to see junior. that was part of her letter. >> speaking of junior, that is haleigh's little brother, ronald cummings jr. where is he, jean casarez? >> well, he's with crystal sheffield, his birth mother. she has temporary custody right now. she got it after all of them were arrested and put into jail. >> art harris, what's happening with the drug charges? what's become of them? >> the drug charges -- you mean against the mother -- >> misty croslin, yes. >> they are going forward. there's going to be a hearing at the end of the month where she is going to plead not guilty and then she will have to face how she's going to proceed. if she is convicted, nancy, you're talki

south carolina republican gram g lindsey graham is considering a gasoline tax and it would provide alternativergy sources. graham's idea which he insists is not a straight gasoline tax would add 15 cents to each gallon of gas. the goal: reduce consumption and greenhouse gas emission. the 15 cent fee would by a complicated formula fall as the pollution generated by industry and utilities also fell. he says it's better than the new regulation by the environmental protection agency or across-the-board taxes on carbon. opponents call it a raw deal for recession-battered consumers. >> the government action that raises the price. it's tax no matter what it's called. it will hurt consumers and that's the last thing we need in a struggling economy. people are struggling to make ends meet. >> reporter: the idea turned the gas tax debate on its head. oil and gas industry long opposed higher gasoline taxes is warming to graham's plan. why? the industry sees it as a potentially less costly alternative to taxes applied directly to oil and gas production. >> some in the industries might support this because

john kerry, lindsey graham and joe lieberman saying, wait a second, you can't start working on immigrationwe can't walk and chew gum at the same time. it seems like the politics of this are that they're going to be told you're making a choice. it's either immigration reform or climate change. >> well, it's not that we're starting all over or starting anything. this has been an ongoing priority for the country for several years now and in fact, president obama, at our conference two years ago, when he was a candidate, said this would be a priority in his administration. obviously, a lot of other events have intervened, but it still remains a priority. it should have bipartisan support. there's no question this bill will have ramifications, not just on immigrants, but on the latino population and other minority communities. this is the fastest growing segment of the electoral community in this country. there will be economic ramifications, political ramifications. it calls for comprehensive immigration reform to be done with a sense of urgency, so to the members in congress, i would say that

. >>> i'm lindsey muffate redskinnings park.cnabb can rest easy knowing his blind side will be covered. a word with the new left tackle is coming up.  >> new developments tonight in a deadly drive-by shooting in d.c. last month. the two new suspects arrested by police yesterday are appearing in front after judge right now -- maureen umeh is live with the latest outside of d.c. superior court. >> reporter: the two suspects went before a judge and plead not get. they're being held without bond and they were -- their rush overshadowed by a bomb news that a 14-year-old suspect thought to be the getaway drive her nothing to do with the case and let's show you video of the crime. two-year-old lamar williams and 22 -- 22-year-old lamar williams and another are charged with first-degree murder and felony murder while armed and join two other men in connect with the march 30th shooting that left four people dead and six people wounded on south capital industrial street. the shooting stemmed from a missing bracelet. seve

>>s it was instructive to me all the while you have lindsey graham and joe lieberman saying they'd likeise and one of the most liberal members of the senate was saying wait' minute and i don't know they'll bring along potentially vulnerable midwestern senators, and house members, to endorse a new compromise, in the wake of legislation, that, for their states could be job killers and economy wreckers. bill: justin, one last word before we wrap it up. justin? >> no, absolutely i'll agree. look, here's the other risk. jobs is the number one priority of the american voters, they want to see congress and the president focusing on growth and jobs and for senators with tough re-election battles this is a nonstarter because of the impact it could have on jobs in their state. bill: doug, thanks for coming in and justin, welcome to our program, "america's newsroom." come on again. >> thanks. bill: have a good weekend. martha. martha: police officers accused of a brutal beating caught on video by the cruiser dashboard camera. a warning, some of you may find it difficult to look at. prosecutors cha

lindsey graham, he is a rhino, public -- pond come on.he's ambitious but also in vicious to get things done. and so in a sense, the very person who was -- would have been the potential strong member of the club in the 1950's is now seem as a great exception. and i think that tells a lot about the differences in serving today and 50 years ago. so -- >> maybe you should briefly think the speakers. [applause] >> welcome so i think the theme of today and tomorrow is certainly change. i think eric did a good job telling us where we started as to where we are today and any one that follows the senate today seedier are vast differences but the change is slow and as each speaker today and each speaker to marlo talks about a particular area of change i think will become clear the changes are interrelated. any of the individual changes we talk about through the elections or different motivations and career paths of senators, the way that change can't be viewed alone we have to look at the norms and how those changes systematically as well and that

lindsey graham, major player pulled back from climate change this week saying that immigration reformht up. he said at the hearing that the administration would crash and burn if you guys take on immigration reform. and your position on that, you countered him. >> well, the president believe that is the congress needs to take up immigration reform and he looks to forging a bipartisan consensus with which to do it. that's the big hole here. >> political dynamite. >> it is and it isn't. i've dealt with immigration politics a long time and the plain fact of the matter is that the system needs reform. we need updated enforcement tools. we need to deal realistically with those already in the country and we need to have some way to deal with the worker issues that are involved. congress knows that. actually major parts of a bill have been drafted. the lodgistics worked through, but now, it's a matter of political will. >> what is your position on the record about the arizona bill? you know as a governor and a prosecutor, all the pressures being brought to bear. but now, your successor has s

republican senator lindsey graham has threatened to withhold support for the climate change bill supposed to be introduced this week and capitol hill -- it is in there in that fog. he made the threat after harry reid said is he considering action on immigration bill first. >>> the u.s. senate could take up -- we just told you about that. >> with that fog, chuck bell still insists it's a gorgeous day outside. >> it is for somebody. somebody appreciates the fog. >> it's a good day. but i wouldn't say it's gorgeous. come on now, chuck. >> jason campbell's time with the redskins is over and now he's heading out west. >> here's lindsay czarniak with your sports minute. >> good morning. your sports on this sunday morning we begins with former redskins quarterback jason campbell turned quarterback for the raiders for a fourth round pick in the 2012 drift. it will be his ninth different offensive system in his five years in washington, campbell threw 55 touch downstairs, 38 intercepti interceptions. here's a look who the redskins selected. in the fourth round, the skins take perry riley, a lineba

their kids and news that jon gosselin's former girlfriend is so the to become the step mother of lindsey llohan. >>> i was devastated. i was shocked. i want to see him get help. he obviously needs help because no one in their right mind should do that. i don't know how they would do that. >> straight out to marc klaas, president and founder of klaaskids foundation. the children stated they were in the car 48 hours. that's where we got that information. go ahead. >> well, yeah, that information, as i understand it, is probably true. i think what we have to understand is that little children need sober adult supervision, they don't need to be locked in a car while their drunken father engages in a drinking binge bar hopping. they are subject not only to the normal victimizations of drunk driving, but they can be kidnapped, they can be carjacked, they can be hit by another car. the victimizations are just absolutely unbelievable. this is intolerable behavior by this man. >> you know what i thought about when i heard about this marc klaas? i'm about to two to brad lamb. don't go anywhere, br

last week her dad, michael lohan persuaded a sheriff's deputy to help him enter lindsey's los angelesome. he says he wanted to check on the welfare of lindsay's 16-year-old sister who was staying with her. listen to what heed that to say to our jane velez-mitchell on "issues." >> what problem do you feel your daughter lindsay has? let's talk about the big elephant in the room, and what are you afraid of? >> what i'm afraid of -- listen, i'm not knocking the treatment that she says she went to already. but when people with addiction problems go into a treatment center, i don't think they should go in without being on prescription drugs and come out being on prescription drugs. every time lindsay went to a rehab, they put her on more and more prescription drugs. she's got a major problem with prescription drugs now. and we know that when you mix it with alcohol and other elicit drugs or illegal drugs you have a toxic combination there. >> lindsay has said that she has abused substances in the past but says she has since learned to embrace life instead of drugs. >>> it has been 40 years

representative -- republican senator lindsey graham, he supports a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants warns this is not the time for democrats to try to push this reform through. what do you think in terms of timing? >> he's a very valuable person because he reaches out. i think what we need to do, the congress has eight months before the end of the year. if we go ahead and move with climate change legislation, there's no reason why when more of a consensus might be developed. i think this bill spurs it on. for comprehensive immigration reform with more border enforcement, with legalization, with verification of people working, i think this kind of bill can be put together on a comprehensive basis. president bush tried it. it didn't happen. i think president obama has the momentum. the congress has to act. i think the president is leading on this. >> governor bill richardson, great to have you weighing in on this this morning. thank you for your time. >>> a bullfight ends badly for one of mexico's top matadors. these pictures are disturbing. star bullfighter was gored saturday during

remember yesterday lindsey graham, republican from south carolina, backed out of his effort to negotiateoe lieberman, the independent, and john kerry, the democrat, from massachusetts. well, i'm told that john kerry went to majority leader, her reid, and said can you please put off immigration until after the election, that's the only way to get lindsey graham to continue his negotiations with us on the energy and climate bill. they wanted to do it first and the immigration after the election and i'm told the majority leader said no, thank you, i'm going to bring immigration reform to the floor in the next couple weeks. they're still working on a piece of negotiation. even those close to harry reid says he does not have 60 votes to bring it forward and many think it's politically motivated because of his troubles back in nevada. you heard the president, the dwhows is on his side. they say they should at least make an effort even if they can't pass it. >> the charge against harry reid, the majority leader, he's trying to get some support from hispanics in nevada which he desperately needs

i think, you know, one of the reasons lindsey graham, a leading republican, is supporting this efforthas been engaged in this effort because he believes it's a national security issue. we certainly believe it's a national security issue. i meet regularly with individuals working on these issues, retired generals who all believe there's a national security imperative. we need to start breaking our dependence on foreign oil. the best way to do that is to pass this legislation, to give us the tools so that we can put in place the right incentives for renewables, for clean energy, for new technologies, battery technologies. the administration has made an unprecedented investment in battery technologies for our cars. we want to continue to do that, and we want to be at the forefront of that opportunity. >> the president has had this huge political battle on health care and the polling is still not coming back after that. maybe it will. but not so far. financial regulation, the next big battle. does he have the political clout, any clout left in the bank account to come up with enough to ma

lindsey. you refer to buyers of securitized subprime mortgages as unsophisticated. that is quite interesting to me. these are buyers, people who are in this business all the time. why do you regard them as unsophisticated? >> they were sophisticated in putting financial details together. the reason i used the word unsophisticated, they didn't know the risk of the underlying product. these were all very high-risk loans. underlying product. these are all very high risk loans. >> and then they didn't know that. you thought of them as putting together the pools very well and negotiating i suppose about how these tools would be eventually marketed. but you didn't think they really understood the underlying loans. why would that be too? why do you think that is what i mean. >> my personal opinion is because what i have learned growing up in working in finance and working for hard money lenders and other subprime lenders who actually had a stake in the game, who had an interest in whether the loan performed or not. these were extremely risky loans. so if they would look ba

that the president could nominate, who clearly would be democratic nominees, but when you look at a lindsey with what he said at sotomayor, he said i wouldn't have picked her, but my job is to look at who's qualified. do they have the qualifications, and i'm proud to vote for her. and i'll never forget that moment. that's what i'm hopeful will happen here as well. >> i think it's not an accident that it was senator jon kyl this weekend who floated the idea of again, filibustering a nonexistent nominee for a vacancy that doesn't exist. he's already outraged by the prospect of this nonexistent person. but jon kyl made those same comment within a week of the election in 2008. he was already talking about filibustering a supreme court nominee. >> right. >> on the other side of the aisle they see some political advantage to mounting a filibuster campaign here. as historic as it would be. >> they do. but in the end on the sotomayor case, as you know, they backed down. there were a lot of people within their own party who had different feelings about her. they didn't want to piss off every hispani

the back story is that they just have one republican right now, lindsey graham who is now on this.ut he says, look, i'm walking unless you can get another republican. in the next two or three weeks, the white house is going to be fishing for another republican. if they can't find that, they're going to move on and try to do this with just democrats because of that promise that gerutierre was talking about. nobody i talked to thinks it will happen. >>> the next story is "on my radar" including what a source is telling cnn about the search for a new supreme court justice. typical midwestern farm. r the reason lies 6000 miles away in japan. where a producer of specialty eggs needed corn for feed grown to precise standards. cargill identified the producer's needs then introduced an illinois farmer to grow the exact corn needed. and developed a system to ship it separately, connecting the farmer with a japanese customer who was very appreciative. this is how cargill works with customers. >>> this is the part of the show we bring in smart political players to talk about stories on our ra

senator cantwell went to leader reid and said please don't bring up immigration because then we lufz lindseyon climate change and not get it done and senator reid said, no, he plans to bring up immigration reform this year. do you want to debate immigration reform this year? will republicans vote to get it to the floor, a bill that includes status for the millions here illegally and also does things on the border? are you prepared to have that debate this year or republicans say no way, mr. leader? >> john, i think republicans and democrats alike have great reservations because of the climate right now. people want to see controlling the border. and right now the violence that's coming across the border, people say, oh, no it's not coming -- it is coming across the border. we see it in our border states. and that is not the right climate. nor has the president nor the members of congress on both sides had the chance to sit down and work on a bill. i was part of the negotiations the last time we tried to pass a comprehensive immigration reform. and we met for probably a whole year because it'

there was a walk off from lindsey graham of south carolina, insisting the move -- to move on climate and energy before immigration. then we move on to "roll call" senate democrats did it for strategy for moving ahead without gop support. finally, "politico," democrat seeks new republican on immigration. the effort is an attempt by majority leader harry reid to get around the road block caused by lindsey graham. they are looking for an advocate and hopes to attract the republicans wanted to replace him. three aspects of a story about how both bills will move forward. from twitter, gary duncan says -- and miami, this is neal, independent line. caller: for the last eight years, the republican party got us in the mess we are in. i live right here in miami and in miami -- they have the money to put in this no child left behind. they had problems and all kinds of things because -- no doctor or lawyer. for no child left behind, for people to be educated that is the biggest crop i heard in my life. my wife worked in the office. me and you don't think the same. how will you take a test saying

miss lindsey. if you can pull those mikes towards you and put them on, thank you. >> good afternoon. thank you inviting me to participate this afternoon. my hope for today's session is that i can bring a unique perspective to the, into subprime lending. i have a unique background. i grew up in the subprime industry. my father was a hard mon lender. i learned what fannie mae was 6 years old don't want to tell you how old i am but freddie mac wasn't around yet. my father would show me how to vail eight a loan. i learned how to service loans, look at loans. look at properties. in biggest thing with hard money lending these were borrowers who didn't have good credit histories. so to offset that poor credit history they would the have a lot of equity in the property. we had three cs we looked at credit, collateral capacity. borrowers didn't have credit. later on in subprime they didn't have the credit but yet they didn't have collateral either. then we found out they didn't have the capacity. they would

guest: senator lindsey graham sent a letter to majority leader harry reid saying he felt that the debate on immigration was being rushed for political reasons and so he essentially he was saying he is stopping progress on anything -- not on anything, but on the issues for which he has been out of the most recently, which was climate change. that was expected to be introduced today with senator kerry and lieberman and as far as things go right now, it is not going to happen. host: do we have a sense how it will go this way? is it political posturing or sort of a derailment? guest: we will have to get some numbers back and see -- there is going to be a vote at 5:30 p.m.. certainly this has been a major, major goal of senator kerry since last year to get something passed and certainly they are shot grambling to salvage it. senator reid put out a statement yesterday -- or i believe saturday, actually -- he saturday, actually -- he prioritizes both issues highly whether or not they can salvage anything remains to be seen. of course, parties are also debating the financial regulatory reform bi