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we have that and much more, back to you, liz. >> liz: thanks, greta.n more with our great american panel, right after the break. more with our great american panel, right after the break. are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule. the first technology of its kind... mom and dad, i have great news. is now providing answers families need. siemens. answers. >> liz: i think you will all be surprised -- or maybe you won't be surprised, doug, to hear what nancy pelosi had to say about the first amendment recently. let's listen to that. >> we have a clear agenda. disclose, research the system, reducing it is role of money in campaigns, and amend the constitution to rid of it this -- ability for special interests to use secret, unlimited, huge amounts of money, to go into campaigns. >> liz: so we are going to amend the constitution in order to limit freedom of speech. is that -- >> we are going do get rid of super pacs because they are rigging democracy. a few people, shelledong adelson are hijacking our system -- shel

thank you, liz., back to you. >>> coming up on news 4 a virginia teacher accused of rounding up students and shooting blanks at them. video you saw first on 4:00. a man takes after a thief who stole his ipad on metro but the man says he'll never try that again. >>> and veronica is back to tell us when we could see storms this weekend. >>> two words. get ready. >> and stay abreast of what is going on with the weather. it is going to be a wild weekend. we have storms to talk about and cooler temperatures, too coming our way. let's talk about how much rain we could get out of the system and what it's looking like now where the temperatures will be as we take a look at all the sunshine across the area. it's a tale of two seasons again for this upcoming weekend. we've got summer on one day with highs that'll be in the 70s and then we've got winter on another day where it's still going to be chilly, wet, and even a little windy around here. all right. let's talk about what's happening -- taking place right

if you have a question you'd like us to consider for ask liz send it to ask liz@nbc washington.com. on twitter and facebook by searching liz crenshaw and liz crenshaw's consumer watch. >> we want to know the direction the plane is going. >> what's on the left and what's on the right. is it going this way? >> have a great weekend. over to you. >> we take a look now at some of the stories trending online. doctors say too much coca-cola killed a new zealand mother of eight. 30-year-old natasha harris died in 2010. doctors say she regularly drank two gallons of coke every day. a hearing was held today in new zealand which is common for unexplained deaths. a doctor testified that she probably suffered from low potassium and toxic levels of caffeine. harris is also known for eating very little and for smoking 30 cigarettes a day. ♪ we have problems too we're just like except we're hot ♪ >> like it or not unfortunately this music video has gone viral getting nearly 2 million hits. the song is called hot problems and the two teenagers are singing about the trials and tribulations of being t

liz, how do you think it plays in the firestorm? >> this is a sparkleer at fourth of july. it starts and then it flames out with a twitter verse and blog out there. it's caught fire. you obviously have the president commenting. joe biden was commenting. carney was speaking. the press secretary. it becomes a huge thing and i wonder if it doesn't eventually die down as quickly as it's flamed up. >> bret: yeah. the interesting thing, steve, was that there was all this push back and reaction to it. the president in another interview said this. i think this was an ill-advised statement by somebody on television. it's not something i subscribe to, moreover my general rule is you don't talk about the spouses of elected officials. but that somebody on television according to the laws of the white house, has been to the white house 35 times, jay carney was asked about that today. here is what he said. >> hillary rosen, i know three personally women named hillary rosen. so i'm not sure that those present the person we're talking about necessa

i'm liz wall and you're watching artsy. well he has been the big merchant of death in the u.s. russian arms dealer viktor booth is set to be handed a sentence in federal court in new york at the moment the sentencing hearing began a poor thirty this afternoon still no word from the court but was found guilty back in november for selling millions of dollars worth of weapons to south american terrorists prosecutors call him quote a businessman of the most dangerous order and while he has become infamous in the u.s. his supporters say he's a victim of entrapment and never stood a chance at a fair trial i think correspond on a stasia churkin i give us an overview of the case. years spent by the u.s. to hunt down one russian and tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer cash forward into a sting operation snatched up from a third country alleged arms dealer victor boot was handcuffed flown to the u.s. and police in solitary confinement for months before trial found him guilty on all four charges one conspiring to kill united states nationals two conspiring to kill united states office

>> first of all, i love listening to liz -- i wish i want have to disagree with her.emember ronald reagan was off mic saying it's world war iii and he was having a about good time not realizing he was on mic. >> but to begin bombing in five minutes is not same thing, lenny. >> i think having been with senator clinton ton, we took advantage of that bitterness remark, and he didn't realize he was on. >> but it wasn't a joke. that was different. he wasn't trying to be funny. >> and a factor for barack obama that will be tough for mitt romney that isn't all that likable. it's what elected -- >> let me give you one more. >> you will find obama's high like ability equation right now going to be tough. >> threat me go to one more. if you dared to say the following, accuse the president, now he's accumulated $5 trillion in debt in less than four years. under the bush administration $4 trillion in new debt in eight years. this is what the president campaigning said about the debt then. >> the problem is is that the way bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out

-liz jackson-simpson and i am the -- my name is liz jackson- simpson. i has been in the social justice field for over 30 years. i have been blessed to lead a number of citywide national initiatives to support use development and workforce activities. -- youth development and workforce activities. those are some handouts for a number of initiatives i have been able to serve. many of them exist today. one of those initiatives is what is called jobs for youth. it was a large city-wide private sector-public sector initiative that helped place over 1500 young people in private-sector employment opportunities and courted over 60 community-based organizations. city college, private industry council, and the top 30 corporations in the city all contributed to it. it was a private sector funded initiatives. today, it is known as match bridge. it has won national acclaim. it led to the next initiative, the youth opportunity grant. this initiative was led by the department of labour. got to infuse -- thought to infuse resources into amenities. there is a flyer ther

lightning round. >> liz, could they have this backwards? depressed people eat more fast-food because it is so much more awesome? >> when i have eaten junk food, i love junk food it makes me want to stay home and watch history's ancient alien series. is that the one with joan rivers? >> everything but chootes -- cheat toes, that makes me happy. >> that's because the oranger your hands are the happier you are. from the institute of orange hands. don't you get depressed after eating fast-food because the fast-food is gone. >> and then are you like, that is the last bite. they should give aside order of xanax. you finish up the last fry and you pop the xanax and feeling good. when you were a kid and you would enjoy say a magazine like "playboy" and then you would feel horrible. jedediah, you never did that. >> i never did that. >> the second my drink is empty it is like, my drink is empty. oh it is half empty. >> i saved time, jedediah. most home cooked meals make you feel good. fast-food is not made that way. could that be a reason? >> maybe.

i'm liz wahl in you're watching our team. well he's been dubbed the merchant of death in the u.s. russian arms dealer viktor bood is set to be handed his sentence at federal court in new york within the hour he was found guilty back in november for selling millions of dollars worth of weapons to south american terrorists and while his the he has become enfamil send us his supporters say he is a victim of entrapment and never stood a chance at a fair trial or to correspond anastasio is in new york with more on the case anastasio so at this point how's it looking for. well you know liz it's definitely not looking too good for victor goot so the fifty to forty five year olds of russian air cargo business men is awaiting to hear and to learn his destiny and hot in federal court room we are expecting the sentencing hearing to come down in about half of our baby an hour and the main core of this problem of this case really is that seems to have lost his case in the court of public opinion a very long time ago for really a look at what his case is all about let's not turn to our record.

so to hear liz say that they see themselves as allies, i think that it is challenging.oung women who are sold lady on backpage, right, i don't see backpage who makes $22 million a year as an ally. i see them, right, as part of the problem. they are not the only problem obviously in addressing this issue, but when i go on line, and i see the girls, and kids and young women online being sold, right, then they are not an ally. they are providing a marketplace for the modern day slavery. >> mira, this question that rachel brought up of what counts as propaganda here. obviously, here in nerdland as we were putting together this segment, we were reading everything. you know, on one hand i was hearing that there are huge numbers and all of the young people being trafficked and then i was reading a lot of stuff that was saying, no, this is a moral panic, and very similar to what you have heard about other kinds of things turned out to the be not such a big deal later. how do we parse that out? how should the view iing public now sort of know how big is this problem, and how to

liz jackson-smith, ms. winnie yu, and ms. sheryl davis. we have one additional seat, and we have reticulate three different names. supervisor farrell both spoke of doug parrish and erris edgerly, and his book of matthew:. >> i thought mr. parish was very strong, and i would be happy to support him as well. either mr. poland or mr. parish would be terrific. supervisor kim: i think we have consensus on the fourth seed going to mr. parrish. i really do want to thank the applicants that came. i think there was fairly even support of all the applicants that came out today, and i think we would really benefit from all of your perspective being on the wicac. we encourage the applicants that do not live in san francisco to come back to our city and live here. we would love to consider you. we do encourage folks to apply again, and we really appreciate everyone's passion and commitment to workforce development, particularly in our communities where we are not employing folks, whether it is our youth community, our veterans, folks coming from out of

. >> liz, come back into this. i think the supreme court has been doing a pretty good job of keeping us free over the centuries and you say -- >> i agree, stuart. it has been doing a very good job. it is highly unusual for a sitting president to come out and criticize the supreme court before the supreme court has ruled. george w did criticize the supreme court in 2007, but that was on prior rulings. we've never seen this in modern history. >> last word bill. >> he didn't do that. >> i think the threat of the first the first amendment is not an idol one. steve, didn't the fcc go after you for running editorials? thank god we have that system. >> rick, i'll go to you for the last 20 seconds. go. >> there's way too much agreement breaking out here. i would love to be more controversial. let me just point out that president obama has not criticized the supreme court as he said. >> oh, yeah, he did. >> what? >> no, no, he did not. >> at the state of the union, baby. >> he criticized them and they haven't ruled yet so h

tem you au saturday, high of 57 news here is sunday, liz crenshaw is not happy, sunday, liz crenshaw,your house. >> oh, good, thank you. >> great. >> we'll look at some stories trending online. little boy crying foul last night at the rangers yankees game in texas, a player threw a foul ball in the stand. >> grown-ups grabbed it and the boy began crying, a lot of folks including the tv announcer thought the couple should have given the child the ball. >> well, there is a happy ending of course, the rangers organization got wind and gave the kid a ball of his own. >> that is the smile we wanted. >>> a new millionaire, a winning powerball ticket sold at congressional exxon on massachusetts avenue and northeast. >> dc lottery officials say the winner has come forward will be identified tomorrow. the winning ticket holder almost threw it away before checking it first. this is the second one million dollar powerball win d.c. in the past month. >>> decrowned miss dominican republic lost her title because she lied about her marital status. >> she relinquished the crown. only single women can

liz, is there any other anecdotes you'd like to oh preserve for the library? >> well, i'm sure more will come to mind but -- oh, yeah. the only other one i'd like to mention is -- you asked about my election and campaign for election to congress and i was very much opposed to the war and when i got to washington -- i think just before we were inaugurated or sworn in, i should say, the carpet bombing of hanoi took place. >> christmas party. >> and carpet bombing. >> and i decided that i would not go into the white house and shake the president's hand after that. and i didn't. >> you worked for john lindsay, did you? what did you do for john lindsay? >> i worked as one of his assistance. there was a job assistant to the mayor and my job was to bely ly ace son and then i worked on development for mayor lindsay. actually, when i was in congress, it was a very much more bipartisan endeavor than it has deteriorated into in subsequent decades. democrats and republicans tried to work together on many issues. i mean, of course you didn't have the hostility and the emni

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. >> pelley: liz palmer is joining us in damascus. liz, the foreign ministry spokesman said reconciliation and dialogue, but what are the chances that's going to happen now? >> reporter: well, this is a really divided country, scott. and there's a hard core... a growing hard core of people who say, "sure, we'll negotiate as long as the negotiations lead to president assad stepping down." now, the government is never going to agree to that condition going into talks, so let's say the prospects are not very bright. and that's if the cease fire holds, but i haven't met one person in damascus who believes it will. >> pelley: a volatile situation. liz, thanks very much. bomb scares are wrecking campus life at the university of pittsburgh. the campus has responded to dozens of them in just the last few days, and we sent jim axelrod there to find out what's going on. >> reporter: the bomb sniffing dogs were out again this morning at the university of pittsburgh after another bomb threat. this one made 70 in the last ten days. and just like e

liz crenshaw will tell us how it all works. liz?> reporter: your credit score allows lenders to figure out which bow owners are most likely to pay back a loan and which are at rise to be default. deciphering your credit score, how does it all add up, due do you know where you stand? >> everybody else is higher than mine. >> do you know what your credit score is or know what it's for? >> no. >> no idea? >> no idea. >> not sure what your credit score is or maybe you're confused by the number? >> you get it and why is it lower, i don't understand. they have too much credit, not enough. >> there are lots of numbers claiming to be your credit score the one most lenders look at is called a fico score. and ranges from 300 to 5850, a score above 750 is excellent. your score determines whether you get a car loan or mortgage, and your score determines your interest rate. >> so it's -- >> there are five factors that raise or lower your score. payment history makes up 35% of your score. >> simple, do you pay on time? and have you built a histor

. >> pelley: liz palmer is joininginous damascus. liz, the foreign ministry spokesman said reconciliation and dialogue, but what are the chances that's going to happen now? >> reporter: well, this is a really divided country, scott. and there's a hard kosh a growing hard core of people who say, sure, we'll negotiate as long as the negotiations lead to president assad stepping down. now, the government is never going to agree to that condition going into talks so let's say the prospects are not very bright and that's if the cease-fire holds but i haven't met one person in damascus who believes it will. >> pelley: a volatile situation. liz, thanks very much. there was a security scare in new york city today. workers were evacuated from a building right across the street from the world trade center memorial after a suspicious device was found. the device turned out to be a fake hand grenade. but bomb scares are wrecking campus life at the university of pittsburgh. the campus has responded to dozens of them in just the last few days, and

thank you liz. well another glow to the us is military strategy in afghanistan it turns out that the afghan military is too broke to sustain its current size so afghanistan has announced it will cut about thirty percent of its force and this will happen after nato mission ends there and two thousand and fourteen and when that happens afghans will be stripped of a huge amount of its funding and that's because the seven billion dollars a cost to cover salaries equipment and everything else is covered by foreign governments so in the west pulls out of the west pulls out afghanistan is out of luck and this announcement comes as the approval rating for the war is at an all time low let's take a look back at the ratings over the years back in two thousand and seven fifty six percent of americans polled said that the war in afghanistan was worth fighting for while forty one percent this agreed moving along although the number has been going up and down the longer we have stayed in the country its support f

. >> cheney was there with liz cheney in wyoming. boy, did he go after president obama.piesing to you? >> not really except in the context of his health. he's obviously been gravely ill, a heart transplant is among the most dramatic surgeries that anyone could have. if anyone thought the new heart was going to lead to a transformation of his views they're disappointed. he was very strong and forceful in his appearance. he's not out of it post surgery but the mess and was very consistent with one that we've associated with dick chainfully for more than a decade really while he was pressing his views within the bush administration and of course, he's been very vocal throughout the obama years. >> liz cheney has also been very vocal was tweeting recently the best answer to all the challenges we face is let's make barack obama a stay-at-home dad. she has been as tough on this administration as her dad. and i mean, there's even talk in wyoming of a political future for her. we don't note what comes next for liz cheney who has a lot of political experience and worked in the st

i'm liz wall and you're watching r t. well congress today set to debate a highly controversial cybersecurity bill known as sis but critics say the cyber intelligence sharing and protection act allows companies to give private customer information to the government and this includes the national security agency the f.b.i. and the department of homeland security and massachusetts congressman became worked up today over the proposed law. now let's talk about what this bill would do could companies share personal information about consumers with other companies even if information had nothing to do with cybersecurity yes would companies be free from liability if they share that personal information of every american you know could the government use personal information despoja on americans yes and while supporters say the legislation is needed to stop economic espionage the online community is outraged over what the bill could do to citizens online freedoms even the obama administration is now speaking out against it here's

i'm liz we're all here watching our team well the case has become known throughout the world. spent three decades on death row is now spending life behind bars without parole as he was accused of shooting a philadelphia police officer back in one nine hundred eighty one but questions still remain over how evidence in the case was handled and to this day he maintains his innocence his supporters believe he was mistakenly convicted because he was black and he recently lost his latest appeal to the pennsylvania supreme court and arts he got an exclusive interview with him it's his first interview with a television station since being being taken off death row archies on stasia churkin as the story. loved ones and friends it was like from the convention in. the subject to monitoring and recording this call and more than half of his life monitored and controlled watched by the f.b.i. since the age of fourteen revolutionary activist and journalist neil abu jamal spent three decades of his life on death row i'd like to tell myself that i've actually spent a lot of the time. on the ca

i'm liz wahl and you're watching artsy well it's no question that the world is changing socially politically and economically and with the u.s. and the u.s. economy is not as robust as they once were and emerging economies such as brazil russia india and china rapidly growing geopolitics will likely look much much different than it does today but what exactly will the new world look like many predict it will be a world where the west no longer dominates but one author takes it a step further author charles cup can predict a future very different than anything you've heard before well that's focused more on diversity than dominance and he tells it in his new book you see on your screen there no one's world and he joins us now to talk about it welcome to the show charles so you talk about this coming up global turn look direction is the world headed. well i think three or four hundred years ago the globe turned in a sense that its center of gravity moved from the mesopotamian valley and asia north and west to europe and north america that pendulum has started to swing again but i don't think i

bill kristol of the weekly standard liz marlantes and fox news political analyst juan williams. bill, what do you make of the trayvon martin case and the legs that it continues to have? are you surprised that more than a month after the shooting that zimmerman still has been charged with nothing or is this another duke lacrosse case where the public is rushing to judgment? >> i don't know if the public is rushing to judgment but a lot of people decided to make this into a national political matter when it should be i think a local or state law enforcement matter and we don't know what happened and i hope, i trust justice will be served and it is a terrible thing that this young man was killed obviously. but the idea that national politicians and commentators are rushing in to make judgments where they don't know what happened is distressing and the degree to which people are willing to play the race card, you know, without -- not in a constructive way and not in a way that helps race relations in this country and in a way that helps promote justice in this case is distressing i

bill kristol of the weekly standard liz marlantes and fox news political analyst juan williams. you make of the trayvon martin case and the legs that it continues to have? are you surprised that more than a month after the shooting that zimmerman still has been charged with nothing or is this another duke lacrosse case where the public is rushing to judgment? >> i don't know if the public is rushing to judgment but a lot of people decided to make this into a national political matter when it should be i think a local or state law enforcement matter and we don't know what happened and i hope, i trust justice will be served and it is a terrible thing that this young man was killed obviously. but the idea that national politicians and commentators are rushing in to make judgments where they don't know what happened is distressing and the degree to which people are willing to play the race card, you know, without -- not in a constructive way and not in a way that helps race relations in this country and in a way that helps promote justice in this case is distressing i think. >> chri

liz liz. liz. can you start. listening to the. live. hello and welcome to crossfire computer in pursuit of happiness as the time finally comes when we should value public aid of measurements of well being over industries such as g.d.p. and other government statistics can and should be more focused on what is known as a national happiness index for this money still make the world go round. live. you can see live. cross typing in the index of happiness i'm joined by mark and elsie in edmonton he's an economist and author of the economics of happiness building genuine wealthy is also an adjunct professor at the university of alberta in london we have some of dollar he has a researcher and data expert at the new economics foundation center for wellbeing and also in london we have christopher snowden he's a research fellow at the institute of economic affairs all right gentlemen this is cross-eyed it means you can jump in anytime you want mark do you believe in an index of happiness because we all know what g.d.p. is we can all follow the st