answers. >> liz: we continue with our great american panel.ing has expressed interest being on the ticket with mitt romney. patricia, rand paul said he would be honored to be considered as vice president. maybe he doesn't have a lot of faith in his dad's chances. >> i don't think he is ruling out a paul ticket, but it fuels the conspiracy theory there is something that ron paul has cooked up with mitt romney. there has not been a drop between those two camps. silence has been deafening between those two. then to see rand paul, i guess i would love to be vice president. it would help somebody like mitt romney. he needs a tea party sort of knighthood and say yes you are okay. >> liz: but romney has to pick somebody that could possibly be president and think it's a stretch. >> it's good for egos and makes for interesting stories but in the end, i don't think it's going to happen. i think it does say, okay, i would consider someone of that ilk, someone that has that belief system but not to bring him on as my ticket. >> there are a lot of good fol

only at one of our 400 sleep number stores. >> liz: welcome back.he crisis in middle east fueled by iran as nuclear ambitions, continues to escalate but despite their behavior, obama administration continues to tiptoe around the issue. earlier this week, a general said it's much too soon to discuss military zblax do you think they are moving for nuclear technology but whether they choose to make a nuclear weapon is unclear? >> it is. i believe it is unclear and on that basis, i think it would be premature to exclusively decide that the time for military action was upon us. we are of the opinion that the iranian regime is a ration actor and for that reason we think current path we or is the most prudent. >> liz: joining me is four-star general, jack king. thank you for being with us this evening. >> great to see you and in particular the chair asking the questions. >> go easy on me, okay? >> in response what we heard general dem si say, do you think there is a any question they are pursuing a nuclear weapon? >> i don't think there is much doubt about

you're a writer, liz.er pointer that i point at nerds' crotches in the park. oh, wait. all we have is this kick-ass laser pointer. - come on, baby. let's go find a pen. - okay. - oh, no. - let me introduce myself. i am-- - future jack, obviously. is that what we're wearing in ten years? - more like 35 years. - you're 87 years old? my god, i'm outstanding. - i like to think so. i've come all the way from the future-- which is a lot harder than coming from the past-- - whatever, pops. - to warn you not to listen to the other jacks. in the future, you're happier than you ever imagined. you have grandchildren and a gorgeous polyblasian wife. that's a new race that emerges in 2030. they're incredible. - what happened to avery? - oh, you'll see. it's hilarious. - yeah, but what about his your, our career? don't we wanna be this dude? - younger mes, business is only a part of life. real happiness-- - ah, shut up. don't listen to his crap, jack. if you choose my path, you'll be plenty happy. you'll spearhead ge's

, liz, liz. >> fund insurance and things that they don't believe is is critically important.to me, chris. i want to get my point in. >> chris: see, i'm tough on her, too. nevertheless, we don't run through red lights around here. let me put up facts on planned parenthood. they are the leading provider of abortions in the country. over 300,000 performed in 2010. but abortions are just 3% of the services they provide and over the last five years planned parenthood has been responsible for 4 million breast exams. so, should liz marlantes, komen get involved in the controversy over planned parenthood or not? >> i'm sure they wish they had not. most of us don't even know they were providing money to planned parenthood and i think they will lose funding over this. it is unclear that they completely back tracked. that point has been lost in some of this. the statement kind of said well, we will restore the funding for now and they still have the right to apply for future grants. anybody has a right to apply for grants. i think, you know, in terms of why they did this, they were -- i

liz cheney, komen is the nation's breast cancer advasy research.ng and then reversing and fund planned parent hood for screening of breast cancer. how much was caught up in politics. >> i think in the end of the day they mishandled. there is a lot of prolife conservative women who had no idea if you contributed to the komen found adings that may end up with planned parent hood. i think it is an issue if komen was going to do it they should have been up front about the reasons why. there is no reason why the pressure ought to be applied so that money for breast research. >> chris: but the pressure in the first position. both times they were under pressure. >> i think the most important story in terps of the presidential campaign and issues was the obama decision. i want to speak on it. >> chris: all right. we'll move on. >> the obama administration is insisting that the catholic church fund insurance and that is crit beingal important. you may not get back to me, chris. >> chris: i am tough to her; too. we done run through red lights around here. th

, liz, liz. >> fund insurance and things that they don't believe is is critically important.ou may not get back to me, chris. i want to get my point in. >> chris: see, i'm tough on her, too. nevertheless, we don't run through red lights around here. let me put up facts on planned parenthood. they are the leading provider of abortions in the country. over 300,000 performed in 2010. but abortions are just 3% of the services they provide and over the last five years planned parenthood has been responsible for 4 million breast exams. so, should liz marlantes, komen get involved in the controversy over planned parenthood or not? >> i'm sure they wish they had not. most of us don't even know they were providing money to planned parenthood and i think they will lose funding over this. it is unclear that they completely back tracked. that point has been lost in some of this. the statement kind of said well, we will restore the funding for now and they still have the right to apply for future grants. anybody has a right to apply for grants. i think, you know, in terms of why they did

just search liz crenshaw. and on facebook by searching liz crenshaw's consumer watch.liz on news 4 at 5:00 tonight how do you keep the super bowl parties safe? why does michael's require you to show a photo i.d. when you're making a return? and can you use energy efficient light bulbs in your electric oven? >> wow. >> find out at 5:00. >> my goodness. >> it is a good question, right? didn't know the answer to that one. >> thanks, liz. jim? >> thank you both. >>> coming up on news 4 at 4:00 the super bowl of eating. a chicken wing competition. plus why queen elizabeth began a long process of planting trees today. >>> and i'm wenldy rieger. coming up on news 4 at 5:00 school officials are warning about a game that sent several students to the hospital. this game is so dangerous it could have killed them. before the super bowl there is the puppy bowl. we'll tell you the puppy's predictions about the big game on sunday. tonight at 6:00 a new twist in that mystery illness that's left dozens of teenage girls suffering from symptoms of what seem to be like >>> does this happe

remember when i chased down liz cheney at cpac?lose as i ever get to interviewing liz and dick cheney. hi, rachel maddow. >> hi, rachel. >> i think that was it. >> i don't know what she said. she smiled at me. >> at cpac that year, 2010, after giving me that very nice smile and shaking my hand and never ever returning my calls, liz cheney went on at that conference to give a speech about how horribly dangerous and wrong it was for the obama administration to try the underwear bomber, the kid who tried to blow up a u.s.-bound play on christmas day in 2009, how dangerous it would be to try him in a civilian court. >> he wants to give terrorists constitutional rights, including the right to remain silent. >> liz cheney sort of made a little cottage industry for a while after -- out of telling everybody when a disaster and danger it would be to what she described as essentially setting the underwear bomber free by trying him in civilian court. because she implied that is what civilian courts do. they look at people and set them free. >

, liz, liz -- we are going to get to that. >> i want to make sure i get that in. >> see.er, too. nevertheless, we don't run through red lights around here. let me put up a few facts in this fight against planned parenthood. planned parenthood is the leading provider of abortions in this country over 300 thousand performed in 2010. but abortions are just 3 percent of the services it provide and over the last five years planned parenthood has been responsible for 4 million breast exams. should komen get involved in the controversy over planned parenthood or not? >> i am sure if i point they wish they had not. most of us didn't know they were providing money to planned parenthood. they are probably going to end up losing funding over this. it is unclear actually that they completely backtracked. i think that point has been lost in some of this. the statement they put out at the end of all of this that said we are going to restore their funding for now. we had the right to apply for future grants. anybody could apply for grants. in terms of why they did this it was a case stu

i'm liz wall and you're watching r t. well we begin this hour with the crisis in syria the death toll in syria has surpassed five thousand as the violence rages on between government forces and rebel fighters and so day a debate at the u.n. security council continues over what to do about the conflict the west calling on syria president bashar al assad. not to step down but russia and china say they will veto the resolution because they say it paves the way for the west to intervene militarily russia and china says regime change is not their business artie's on the stasi joins us live now from our studio in new york hi there on the stasi i understand that there are some new developments are they any closer to coming to an agreement. well liz i have to see quite a bit of a guessing game really is continuing to come out of the security council a lot of contradictory statements being made by certain delegates so it's hard to tell exactly what stages the developments at the u.n. are out what we do know for certain is that som

. >> let's call me liz money. >> i love it. got some nice weather coming in for tomorrow. and then i really think we're going to start to see a little bit more winter. it does look like mother nature may at least give us a little bit of a taste. take a look out there right now, the national archives, a beautiful evening tonight. it is just gorgeous across the area. almost a full moon. the full moon will be tomorrow. but you step outside tonight, you get a very good shot of it. high temperature, we got up to 52 degrees again. your low this morning was 29 degrees. that is the coldest morning we have seen in just about two weeks. and we're not going to get anywhere near that number as we make our way through the night tonight. some of you may, but look at the temperature right now. 42 degrees at 11:00. currently, 32 in martinsburg, 34 in culpepper. just about everyone last night at this time were already in the 20s. i think some areas make it around the upper 20s. aened in washington, going down to a low of 36. radar, no rain to t

just search liz crenshaw and on facebook by searching liz crenshaw's consumer watch. on news 4 at 5:00 tonight what happens to the sports gear made for the sports team that loses the championship? do child safety seats every expire? how do you get liquid paper whiteout out of your clothes? find out at 5:00 tonight. >>> that could be ugly. >> let's hope we don't get too much of that. >> thanks. >>> jim? >>> up next why firefighters turn their hoses on police. plus, an investigation under way after a >>> instead of flowers maybe cup cakes are your valentine's day choice. >> they would work for me. wendy rieger joins us now with her app of the day. >> this is such a beautiful app from the crumbs bake shop. there are three crumbs locations here in the washington area. one in arlington, one over in trinidad and one in pin quarter. oh, my oh, my. wouldn't you rather have this than flowers? this cupcake will be on your stomach and hips and thighs for a long, long time. you can actually send these cupcakes. you go to the -- you want to send a card with some cupcake greetings

it's friday and liz crenshaw joins us with ask liz. hi there. >> hi there. nice to see you. >> i didn't know -- >> you know how when you play automatically the guys have the hat that says they're the winner? what about the other guy? >> what happens -- i mean, they have created all of this gear. >> right. for both teams. >> then they lose. what happened to all the patriots gear? >> what happened to all that stuff -- okay. so the humanitarian organization world vision helped us with this answer. it says that for more than 15 years the nfl has donated its preprinted championship merchandise bearing the name of the team that does not win the title to world vision. world vision identifies countries in need overseas that will benefit from the gear and the clothing is shipped to those communities in need. is that not the best? >> okay. william sent that question. thanks, william. >>> the next comes from janet in fairfax station. she has heard you should not hand down child safety seats because they have an expiration date. is that true? >> we talked to the nationa

liz crenshaw? >> it was so annoying. >>> an iowa woman is hoping this chicken nugget shaped like george washington, you see it, wendy? >> no. >> will bring her big bucks. >> looks like a chicken nugget. >> rebecca spike found the piece of chicken at a mcdonald's three years ago. >> what? >> there is the nose. now i see it. over the weekend she put it up for sale on ebay to raise money for her church. bids exceeded $10,000. however, ebay shut down the auction saying the company couldn't authorize the sale of expired food. three years is a long time. she says she is still interested in selling the nugget so she is looking at other ways to make money off it. i think she needs to let that go. >> it looks like grandpa on "the simps simpsons." >> that could fetch 20,000. >> our director said it does. okay. >> that's all we need. >>> is it friday or what? a new restaurant in woodly park doesn't have the most exotic sounding menu but "the washington post" food critic tom sietsema says you should check it o

just search liz crenshaw. on facebook by searching liz crenshaw's consumer watch. coming up at 5:00 tonight what are the rules for taxes on those restaurant to go bags in montgomery county? do you pay that five cent tax? where does that whole leap year thing come from? what is the best way to wash your blue jeans? we have the answers at 5:00. >> 30 rock had a whole episode about it. >> leap year, leap year. >> thank you, liz. pat, back over to you. >> thank you both. >>> coming up on news 4, a car hit by a freight train and it's all caught on tape. if you suffer from arachno phobia you're probably seeing bigger spiders than everyone else. >>> coming up at 5:00 a 19-year-old working for papa john's pizza gunned down on the job. police say it's what the gunman did to him that has them surprised. >>> hundreds of people waited in long lines for the midnight release of the popular sneaker but there were plenty of people [ male announcer ] are you paying more and more for cable and enjoying it less and less? stop paying for second best. upgrade to verizon fios and get tv

donna brazile, liz cheney and "washington post" columnist david ignatius.rge, starting out with that rick santorum sweep on tuesday, a bit of a surprise, especially the result in colorado, every week it seems like mitt romney is on a roll ready to wrap up this nomination, voters say not so fast. >> the narrative is, the strongest republican candidate has the last name romney and the first name not. this week, the not romney is rick santorum, in missouri, five times more people voted than in ko oand mb minnesota combined romney loses to 2 to 1 to santorum. it looks like a binary choice has emerged. two years attached to it, inevitable and electable. they're deflating words. just as these words are being used by romney, a rasmussen poll comes out from ohio, and it shows romney losing to obama by four points. santorum tied with obama. >> at the same time, liz cheney, he's been a weak front-runner all year long, hard to see how one candidate puts together enough delegates to stop him? >> it will be interesting to watch rick santorum the rest of this month. he c

i'm liz wall and you're watching r.t. . well the west now calling on syria president bashar al assad to step down a draft resolution formed by the arab league and backed by the u.s. and the european union calls for assad to hand power over to his deputy the west says the move is aimed at bringing peace and stability to syria or violence between government forces and rebel fighters rages on now the u.s. and e.u. stand behind this resolution but russia does not moscow says it will block the u.n. resolution over fears the move will allow the west to militarily intervene in the country and russia is one of the five council members with the power to veto the resolution artie's on associate turk turkana joining me from new york just a short while ago and gave me the latest take a listen to what liz after an entire year over three hours of sitting around talking around a round table there certainly not any steps closer to a unified position at the security council today as we've been reporting top notch diplomats spearheaded by th

so he will carry on until the football season starts again. >> bret: liz?> and i was just going to add to that, it's been nice that basketball has had something to bring it back. because basketball has been kind of gone by the wayside for a while, the nba was not holding up the high standards. i think it's great that the support is popular. it's the president's favorite sport. >> bret: politically, does vit an impact? >> the question 12 to 16 years from now is it tebow-lin or lin-tebow? i don't know. i can argue it either way. >> considering lin's career, previous career, ups and downs, his revival. watch out. newt is coming back. [ laughter ] >> bret: so the rubio-ryan thing didn't work for you yet. so maybe tebow-lin will. >> i have such a great track record. in this respect. >> bret: that is it for panel. thank you. but stay tuned to see why appearances matter on the campaign trail. >>> senator rick santorum is the latest republican to surge in the polls. but many are still wondering if he has the organization and the finances to go the distance. here is

i'm liz wahl and you're watching r.t. . well the whistle blowing website wiki leaks has started releasing over five million e-mails from stress for stratfor is a private intelligence gathering firm based in texas and their clients range from big corporations to government agencies wiki leaks reportedly obtained the e-mails from the hacktivist group anonymous and while there hasn't been anything particularly groundbreaking it released yet the documents to reveal several huge corporations working with the intelligence far regardless of what details come out of the e-mails they do reveal yet another layer of something we bring much attention to here at r.t. the massive and profitable military industrial complex to talk more about this charlie mcgrath of wide awake news dot com joins us now live hi there charlie so big companies turning to stratfor for intelligence for information so obviously there is quite a demand for their services so is intelligence another layer of the military industrial complex yes i would actually labe

. >> my only priority here is justice for my aunt liz.r: his aunt liz was a fiesty former schoolteacher famous for chasing drops off her family farm with a shot -- developers off her family farm with a shotgun. >> she never married and didn't have children, so this farm was her life. it was everything to her and she spent the '60s through the '80s fighting off development as it surrounded her. reporter: instead of selling her 74-acre property to the highest bidder, in 1989 she sold it to johns hopkins university for just 5 million. her nephew tim says she only agreed because she thought it would be turned into a satellite campus. the bell word catch us of the johns hopkins university -- campus of the johns hopkins university. >> they described it as a small college academic campus of. reporter: 23 years later these are the development signs now surrounding her old property. they mention a campus but not the kind aunt liz would have wanted. if the university gets its way, this will become a high rise commercial science park. >> the worst p

i'm liz wall and you're watching our team. well we begin tonight with the deadly conflict in syria the u.n. estimates the death toll now what over six thousand russia and china facing condemnation from the west an arab states for their decision to veto a u.n. resolution on syria as diplomatic efforts fail a list is growing of countries pulling their basters out of syria yesterday the u.s. shut down their own busy the u.k. called its ambassador or recalled its ambassador to damascus and today france spain italy all called their ambassadors home the united arab emirates bahrain saudi arabia oman qatar and kuwait did the same it's all aimed at putting pressure on the assad regime and while they want president assad to step down russia and china refuse to choose sides are going to pour in i joined us just a short while ago from new york and gave me the latest on the conflict after getting heavy criticism for not backing the resolution for assad to step down i asked her just why isn't russia and china caving into pressure from the

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i'm liz wall and you're watching r t. well we begin today with syria where deadly violence is escalating the u.n. estimates the death toll now at over six thousand and as the world watches clashing opinions about what to do about the rising tension that's ripping the country apart russia and china facing condemnation from the west an arab states for their decision to veto a u.n. resolution on syria and as diplomatic efforts fail the list is growing of countries pulling their ambassadors out of syria yesterday the u.s. shut down their embassy the u.k. recalled its ambassador to damascus and today spain france italy all polled and called their ambassadors home the united arab emirates bahrain saudi arabia oman qatar and kuwait also took the measure it's all aimed at putting pressure on the assad regime. and while they want president assad to step down russia and china refuse to choose sides as the international community fails to come to a consensus on syria what's next for the country artie's marine corps in iowa joins us

. >> si todo evoluciona de acuerdo con el diagnÓstico, liz podrÍa estar regresando a la escuela en treso y aquÍ otro. a dos dÉcadas, le contamos quÉ pasÓ con el pequeÑo isaac. en el salvador, ernesto rivas se dio la tarea de encontrarlo. >> nunca olvidarÉ la dolorosa peticiÓn de ayuda de aquel niÑo. pedÍa casi un imposible. despuÉs que el tren le cercenara las piernas en un final que quedÓ impune ya que el sujeto que lo lanzÓ a los rieles se dio a la fuga. cuando su historia saliÓ por primera vez de nuestro programa, impactÓ tanto que un buen samaritano volÓ desde puerto rico a el salvador. >> para ayudarlo, ver en quÉ podÍa mejorar su condiciÓn de vida. >> fiuel comienzo de toda una cadena de favores porque a los pocos dÍas apareciÓ laureano. fue Él quien se lo llevÓ a los estados unidos para que recibiera tratamiento en el hospital. ahÍ captamos otra imagen imborrable. eran los primeros pasos de isaac. >> gracias a dios porque me ayudÓ y voy a volver a jugar con mis hermanos. >> 18 aÑos despuÉs, lo visitamos. ¿y saben? lo encontramos viendo su programa favorito. >> ¡primer impacto por

i'm liz wall and you're watching r t. well the man accused of the biggest leak of classified information in u.s. history had his day in court today twenty four year old army private bradley manning was a reigned in a military court in fort meade maryland he faces a slew of charges including aiding the enemy today manning deferred his plea he allegedly gave hundreds of thousands of secret documents and cables to the whistle blowing website wiki leaks some celebrate manning as a hero for exposing the truth behind military operations his critics say he put lives at risk by making the secret information public but as he faces a military judge some question if manning stands a chance at a fair trial especially when you have the president of the united states saying this. so at this point is a fair trial even possible for the whistleblower joining me now is kevin zeese organizer of the october two thousand and eleven movement hi there kevin nice to see you so this issue is so we just heard it from president obama himself mannin

now with what this means for consumers, a lot of people talking about this today, liz. >> both got it >> both have our lipstick. you don't have your lipstick. >> not today. >> reports about leaded lipstick are not new and the food and drug administration still does not set limits for lead in cosmetic bus what the agency did this time around is taken a expanded look at lipsticks. the fda tested 400 lipsticks. it found traces of lead at an average of 1.1 part per million. close to an average recorded during the fda's previous testing in years past. the top five worst offenders on the list are mabel lean's color sensational pink petal, lore yale's color rich volcanic, nars semimatte red lizard. ruby remix from hughes and rounding up the top five, nars semimatte funny face. lead in lipstick is not new. the campaign for safe cosmetics has long asked the fda to set lead limits for lipstick. the fda says it does not consider the lead levels found in lipsticks to be a safety concern. for a list of all 400 lipsticks that it did test, go to our website, nbcwashington.com and search lipsticks. s

if you've got a question you'd like us to consider for ask liz send it to ask liz@washington.com. also on twitter and on facebook. >> all right. thank you. >> have a good super bowl weekend. >> you too. we'll see you monday. >> yep. >> wendy, back over to you. >>> still ahead before the super bowl there is the puppy bowl. the predictions these animals are making ahead of the big game on sunday. you think you've seen a lot of metro delays just wait until you hear how long all this track work is supposed to last. a man learns his sentence for driving drunk and killing a nun. >>> fast 4 ward through the headlines. after a firestorm of controversy and criticism, the susan g. komen breast cancer charity is dropping its decision to cut grants for planned parenthood. last tuesday komen said it could not fund organizations that are under investigation but today it changed course and also issued an apology to supporters. >>> d.c. police have identified the transgender woman stabbed to death at a bus stop in northeast. the victim is japarker jones. police are looking for the killer. >> the

i'm liz wall and you're watching our t.v. . well the u.s. department of defense is calling it the fifth domain of warfare last week r.t. took up the issue of cyber war looking into how defense firms and former u.s. officials are cashing in on security contracts aimed at combat ing this new fear now u.s. lawmakers are pushing for more power over the internet in the name of cyber security and just today the national security agency warned that the hacktivist group anonymous could have the ability to attack the u.s. power grid in a year or two at a time when political hackers have joined forces with the occupy wall street movement artie's loosely caffein off shows us how protecting free speech and the internet are growing increasingly at odds. cyber war is the next pearl harbor some dismiss it as hype but in congress it's a clear and present danger we will suffer a catastrophic cyber attack the clock is ticking and in the pentagon will keystrokes could now be met with real weapons the pentagon now considers cyber attacks acts of war a cyber att

i'm liz wall and you're watching r t. well the end of an era on the horizon in afghanistan u.s. secretary of defense leon panetta has announced that america's longest war is coming to an end by next year the u.s. and nato anges to draw down troops and end all combat in afghanistan with this pull out in the official end of the war we want to take a look at what a look back at what this means and what has actually been accomplished well the last time the u.s. entered a war without a decisive victory was in vietnam for many of the fall of saigon left a bitter taste in their mouths it was in many ways an end to an extremely unpopular war and the early hours of april thirtieth one thousand nine hundred eighty five the capital of south vietnam fell to the communist north two americans were killed and thousands fled the u.s. embassy and were evacuated it was the single largest helicopter evacuation in history well this may be exactly what the u.s. is trying to avoid as they plan their departure from afghanistan the way the u.s. leaves the country has the potential to define the entire