los angeles. >> según una serie de documentos revelados en houston, texas el médico forense del condado de los angeles descrió un una gran cantidad de a anestésico. así lo reporta el periódico los angeles times el dr.h@h@ kmurray dijo que llevaba semanas tratando de por corte también revela que dos días antes de la muerte del cantante el dr. murray inyectó otros 2 sedantes a michael jackson en un esfuerzo por desintoxicación a su adicción al medicamento pero que no tuvieron efecto, el día que murió jackson el dr. le dio un medicamento a la 1:30 de la mañana y después a las 2 de la mañana otro y hospitales más tarde con otro sedante. el cantante no pudo conciliar el sueño con ninguna de las drogas y después de la insistencia de jackson a las 10:40 de la mañana murray, según el documento le inyectó 25 milímetros. el reporte dice que el dr. se retiró a la habitación hacer llamadas telefónicas a su oficina en hugoustonamiliares a su regresar al cuarto descubrió que jackson ya no respiraba y al ser transportado el rey del pop fue pronunciado muerto a la edad de 50 años. >> los resultados completos de la investigación aún se encuentran sellados bajo una orden de alta confiabilidad y lo tiene todav

. >> and the highlight of the 2009 los angeles times festival of books. a panel discussion featuring paula giddings, author of "ida: a sword among lions." richard reid, author of "a force of nature: the frontier genius of ernest rutherford." and robert roper, who wrote "now the drum of war: walt whitman and his brothers in the civil war." this program lasts an hour. >> to the matter at hand. our title today is at the gates of the 21st entry. and i have to admit that i at least am a little bit mystified by that as the authors that you have today don't really have works necessarily better at the gates of the 21st century. although paula's works century bridge the 21st 19 today. richard has written that he really spans the 20th century rather than standing at its gates. but with that, let me make -- a big gate. exactly. let me make a few introductions and then we will move to the panel. i will try to reserve time idea to take some questions from all of you. first to my immediate right, paula giddings. paul is the author of when and where i entered, also in s

i want to play exactly what his lawyer told the "los angeles times." when he accepted the job he was not aware of specific requirement of medications that michael jackson was taking. do you buy that? >> it's an unusual situation that michael jackson and some of his drug use, some of the drug use that wasn't alleged but he admitted to was pretty well defined. >> if you had googled michael jackson, you could have found out he himself said he had been addicted at one point. >> i would say two things. one is most doctors prior to taking on a patient do a pretty thorough history of the patient, not a physical exam, at least the history. who is this patient, what is their past history, including drug use. given that this was so much out in there the public and obviously conrad murray must have known about michael jackson, it just doesn't pass the sniff test, so to speak. >> jeff, why do you think dr. murray's lawyer is now saying this? >> i think it's clear. he's looking at a possibility of his client being charged with kaugz the death of michael jackson. to

years of my literary journalism of various newspapers and magazines in "the new york times" and los angeles times, the washington post, smithsonian, whenever. it's kind of fun and i ended it and spent a lot of time brigid up to date. this is my very latest book just published, i'm very proud of this. i was approached and commissioned to write a centennial history of the yale university press and i really enjoy doing this because and i say it kind of tongue-in-cheek but one of the actors that and try to me to doing it is that i that everybody has such low expectations on the service. you think that the history of a university press over 100 years would be very boring and tedious but they've had a very thrilling likely exciting history at yale in my view an outstanding university press in the united states and it was a lot of fun. i think a very worthwhile book because we are in a time in the early years of the 24 century when the whole future of scholarly publishing has really been discussed. 85 percent of the university presses in north america operate year after year in the red in. yale and oper

rethinking that zionism and going dutch one year the new york and washington post, "los angeles times" contributed to. the real state of the union essays on united states the angry american our commentary on social rage. hobbies, travel in the form of ussr, the mideast and europe. paul, jeffrey sarrabin. >> the statistics that i gave from this quite remarkable 5,500 were recapped. do you believe that the historical account as given by at least two of the gospel writers of the christmas the angels announcing to mary. >> no, i'm not a theologian. >> do you think it's not treating as historical jesus' true history? >> well, i'm a histo historian t know how much historical evidence there is for this. we don't know the historical evidence his yuns go by. >> well,, the row monocatholic church council said you don't have to accept it in it full littoral teerality. >> sure i do. these statistics are from your article. it's on the question of is religion very important to you. 60% of americans say religion is very important to them. 30% that of the irish, 30%, 27% of italians, 20% of germans,

. >> the los angeles times reports it may still be weeks before it completed toxicology report is released. they are waiting until l.a. county prosecutors have completed their investigation. it has spent nearly t monthwo since his death. the family -- two months since his death. the family says he will be buried on august 29 which would of been his 51st birthday. wbal tv 11 news. >> erupt afternoon as far as thunderstorms are concerned. -- a rough afternoon as far as thunderstorms are concerned. these are pictures of a spectacular lightning bolt. this is the most dangerous part of thunderstorm activity. lightning is a very serious problem. even garden variety. if you hear thunder, ducked for cover. that is the general. these pictures were taken over the harbor. here is what the weather system looks like right now. most of the stormy weather has moved out over the peninsula. it has not been very spectacular. rains in northeastern corner of the state and all down the peninsula. some shower activity south of baltimore around the d.c. and metro area around virginia. everything is moving to the

. >> reporter: at the time this los angeles time headline focused on the weather, the traffic, the drugpects of the festival that seemed significant. now after this, that all changed. >> after they realized they he could build an audience and attract young leaders and viewers, they were all over it. >> reporter: pop culture then saw increased coverage. >> woodstock transformed what constituted news. >> reporter: well it's the music that most treasure, the festival also made journalists sit up and listen. >> it was just unbelievable. i mean, you've never seen the mess of people, a half million people working together to help each other so much. it's going to do a lot for this country and our generation. >> reporter: i'm t.j. winick in washington. >>> well, for two women in han bell, missouri, the scene was terrifying. the driver of the car accidentally hit the gas pedal when she meant to brake sending the car over a 30 foot cliff. if it wasn't for a tree, the women would have plunged more than 200 feet to the bottom. it took a couple of minutes to pull them to safety. a 3 inch industry.

in 2004, the "los angeles times" broke the story that hundred million dollar sierra club donor davidlbaum told the group's top official the sierra club would never get money from him if it addressed the population-related immigration issue. >> what happened to the sierra l microcosm of what happens throughout all the environmental groups. but the sierra cluthe sis the -- sort of the most tragic, because they were the most out-front. the sierra club, bacthinkin 1970s, had a great, clear policy that they would worthinkr population stabilization. and then they got a potential funder who was willing to give $100 million. the wola. times reported years later that he said, "you can never deal with immigration." and so that's a hundred million reasons not to deal with isou >> bonnie: this change in perspective by u.s. environmental groups was evident at the 1994 ed ddea internationl conference on population and development in cairo, egypt. the long international docdavent way fom cairo made no mention of the connections between population growth and the environmental ills of countries with

i want to read e-mails from "the los angeles times." people living near the california wildfires. "i can see the flames, they are getting closer. we need more information. two or three orange helicopters are overhead, our cars are covered in ash. please, wind, help us. i have a 4-year-old who can't take smelling smoke much longer." how in the world are they going to stop this fire? john hen driven reports. >> reporter: the skies darkened over los angeles as rural wildfires turned deadly raining ash on the city. >> near mount gleason in the angeles national forest two of our firefighters were in a vehicle and went over the side. both of them suffered fatality, life-ending injuries. >> reporter: the fire consumed more than 71 square miles, destroyed at least 18 structures and is threatening some 12,000 homes. fire officials say it's now endangering emergency communications facilities on nearby mount wilson. the air quality around pasadena was so thick it grounded dc 10 tankers that were dousing the fires with flame retardants. >> the emergency declaration will help to cut through th

covering these stories this week, janet hook of the "los angeles times." michael duffy of "time" magazine. janine zacharia of bloomberg news. and james kitfield of national journal. >> celebrating 40 years of journalistic excellence, live from our nation's capital, this is "washington week with gwen ifill" produced in association with "national journal." corporate funding for washington week is provided by -- >> they shape our world. create new wonders and new conveniences. america's minerals. they're the stuff our dreams are made of. there's more information at nma.org. >> corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by boeing. major funding for "washington week" is also provided by the annenberg foundation. the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, sitting in for gwen ifill this week, pete williams of nbc news. pete: good evening. when members of congress head home for the summer, their meetings with constituents are seldom a hot ticket. they

editor-in-chief at publishers weekly and currently a freelance journalist, contributing to the rap, the "los angeles times" and many others, the author of so many books, so little time, a year of passionate reading and i didn't add for lizzie, the title of her book, "shelf discovery, the teen classics we never stopped reading." so i'm going to start as this festival of books celebrates readers and writers, in this panel we get to address the basic premise of the relationship between writing and reading and perhaps between living and reading which is a tall order for 45 minutes and we wanted to open it to you. why and what and how do w read and what draws is to a particular book at a particular time in our lives and how do books that are really important to us change our identity and change who we are and do they and what books do we reread and what is that appearance about and what kind of intimacy is possible between a book and its reader. ralph waldo emerson said, there is creative reading as well as creative writing and the panel celebrates creative reading. as i said these are very ambitious topics fo

. >> also joining us in the questioning, nole of the los angeles times and david with mclatchy newspaper. he is their national reporter. >> mr. armstrong, if i'm sitting in wherever, charlotte, north carolina, sacramento, et cetera, and i'm being told that your model is the one that congress may adopt, what does that mean in english? what does that mean to me, the consumer who is so baffled by all this health care news? >> i can describe how it works. basic like cooperative, it's not for profit. our board of trustees is elected by the patients themselves from among the patients. we contract with or we employee an integrated medical group which is really a critical part of what you would experience anywhere if you saw a cooperative like group health because it's a way in which we have a real impact and our view is that ultimately that's the way you change health care. and then finally you would experience an organization that brings together through its business model the financing, the up-front insurance functions, full, along with this integrated care delivery system or group practice.

john mashek who used to write for the "boston globe" and stuart loory who was with "the los angeles times. guest: i would like to ask if in 1936 when your brother was elected to the congress, if you have any feeling at that time, or can you tell us about his feelings about whether or not he might someday become president of the interstates? guest: i think not. i was 16 years old. -- if he might become president of united states. guest: he was mainly interested in doing the best he could for the country, a country we all loved and still do. the idea of a higher office was perhaps in my grandmother's mind come millhouse. if you read the story in my book -- obviously, you two gentlemen have never read it obviously, but it does clear up some things. guest: well, i applaud your family loyalty. i dispute the were hate there. -- the word hate. when he was the running mate of eisenhower and the speech came up, could you give us a little background on that? it solidified his place on the ticket when eisenhower was advised by some backers to dump richard nixon. guest: harold was foremost among them

we have a report from the "los angeles times," that dr. conrad murray, michael jackson's personal doctor, gave him administered propofol, then left the room to make some phone calls, and when he came back, michael jackson had stopped breathing. rene is with us from pennsylvania. rene, go ahead. >> caller: i just have a question. unless i missed something, the gentleman that made the 911 call, have they ever interviewed him? or does he know like what all happened? >> leslie, do we have that 911 call? let's refresh everybody's memory. let's listen to that. >> did anybody witness what happened? >> no, just the doctor, sir. the doctor's been the only one here. >> so the doctor see what happened? >> doctor, did you see what happened, sir? sir, please -- >> we're on our way. we're on our way. i'm just asking these questions while the paramedics are on their way, sir. >> he's pumping his chest, he's not responding to anything. please. >> we're less than a mile away. we'll be there shortly. >> that's the 911 call. russell, what do we know about th

it's that moment the minute is gone and it's a moment she says newspapers especially "los angeles times" because of its hollywood beat simply cannot resist because everyone loves a beautiful woman. they are simply gorgeous. she looks at them with appreciation and there's something melancholy about them, too. her works are striking and from a slight distance it is impossible to read the colors as pieces of butterflies. they appear to be to the untrained eye as leered paint. the artist walks me with an interest and points out how she makes reflections in the eyes and lips with pieces of what she calls a great white butterfly and close up to the pictures, the wing scales aren't clear to identify her eyelashes are fabricated with pieces of butterfly antenna as an classic portraits the pros and in time actresses are framed an oval. it was remarkable, and to find this unexpected just one more example of the experiences i had on this quest to come and before i encourage questions if you have some i just want to tell you about janet johnson, another one of the characters in the book i think at

when you look back, there was an article in "the los angeles times," and it unveidee a global çinitiativee law enforcement forests. but then, you had a congressman tell our magazine -- it would not be law enforcement first. ççthey had met with interrogas off from the cia in afghanistan when they said they had been told to read the miranda rights to terrorists. the obama administration pushed çon monday, you had the announcement of this high-value intelligence detainee group, which the fbi is running. it isç run!óut of the fbi. laura: they say there is going to be people plucked from the different intelligence agencies. they are going to work together to, with a more comprehensive çapproach asç to what can be de in these high-level interrogations -- they are going to work together to come up with a more comprehensive approach. >> the fbiçç director and oths said since changed their story a little bit. i think they're trying to find out what this group is going to do. garko you are asked to head up the cia,ç and youç are going o take the cia into a new direction -- more crohn's you

los angeles times is reporting the voice of london policy ae dooshg took off.he illegal permission tore put his -- michael believed he was following his doctor's ardz but can the insurer wrav drug problems is in jep arred ge -- jeopardy. you had to have blood taken physically examined a doctor and had to fill out the rapcation. which will be a twu of them will be one dime. let's get me say without rez station denies absolutely are a spott spotter. valium, ambian, ox cotton can be obtained by a doctor for a prescription. >> you can take those drugs and die from those drugs? >> that is an accidental overdose. >> when we come back our panel terrific panel best in the business after this. d@ >> okay. welcome back live everybody. our wonderful panel over here on the left jay randy the best michael jackson buyer by far updated his seminole work. calls it michael jackson the magic madness and the whole story. defense attorney and sitting to my left ken baker of e news. he's the senior news editor. let me start with you. do you believe what appears likely that michael

when you look back, there was an article in "the los angeles times," and it unveidee a global çinitiative would not be law enforcement forests. but then, you had a congressman tell our magazine -- it would not be law enforcement first. ççthey had met with interrogas off from the cia in afghanistan when they said they had been told to read the miranda rights to terrorists. the obama administration pushed çon monday, you had the announcement of this high-value intelligence detainee group, which the fbi is running. it isç run!óut of the fbi. laura: they say there is going to be people plucked from the different intelligence agencies. they are going to work together to, with a more comprehensive çapproach asç to what can be de in these high-level interrogations -- they are going to work together to come up with a more comprehensive approach. >> the fbiçç director and oths said since changed their story a little bit. i think they're trying to find out what this group is going to do. garko you are asked to head up the cia,ç and youç are going o take the cia into a new direction -- more

sources tell the los angeles times two women may have helped ryan jenkins while he was still on the run. then this, another model, once engaged to jenkins, is giving us all new insights into this guy. she calls him a ladies' man, charming, a real sweetheart. she nearly married the guy. here she is on the "today" show. >> this is what is so surprising. i was with him for 2 1/2 years. we fought, just like any normal relationship. there was no signs of violence, or anything that would potentially say, well, at some point that person might commit a murder. >> all right. joining me to talk about this, clinical psychologist, karen stark. also with us, defense attorney, john patrick dolan. our hln law enforcement analyst, mike brooks. i want to get to what the ex-fiancee had to say. she dated the guy for 2 1/2 years. we'll get to that in a sec. just coming in to us now, the 911 call when the man found jasmine fiore's body inside the dumpster. let's listen to that call. >> the back building is empty, okay? and you guys, the police have been out here a couple of times for people who were evicted

. >> dean kuipers is an editor at the editor of "los angeles times."he's also author of "burning rainbow farm" for more information visit deankuipersonline.com. >> rick pearlstine, who lives in nixonland? >> in my book i say we all live in nixonland, the whole idea is that we have two mutually groups of americans who hate each other, left and right, red and blue. that one side barely considers the other side american at all. and a big part of barack obama's appeal or at least his attempted appeal was to transcend just that sort of thing. now, whether that will work or not is really the open question of his administration. i mean, he did, you know, pass a stimulus bill with zero republican votes and he's still being called socialist. so, you know, it's a way to think about our history going forward. are we still living in that radically bifurcated, mutual mode of recrimination that we saw evolve with richard nixon in the 1960s. >> so did -- how did it evolve during richard nixon and was he partially responsible in your view? >> well, he was both -- he d

when you look back, there was an article in "the los angeles times," and it unveidee a global çinitiative it would not be law enforcement forests. but then, you had a congressman tell our magazine -- it would not be law enforcement first. ççthey had met with interrogas off from the cia in afghanistan when they said they had been told to read the miranda rights to terrorists. the obama administration pushed çon monday, you had the announcement of this high-value intelligence detainee group, which the fbi is running. it isç run!óut of the fbi. laura: they say there is going to be people plucked from the different intelligence agencies. they are going to work together to, with a more comprehensive çapproach asç to what can be de in these high-level interrogations -- they are going to work together to come up with a more comprehensive approach. >> the fbiçç director and oths said since changed their story a little bit. i think they're trying to find out what this group is going to do. garko you are asked to head up the cia,ç and youç are going o take the cia into a new direction -- m

los angeles times is reporting the voice of london policy ae dooshg took off. not cover any lostses -- resulting from the illegal permission tore put his -- michael believed he was following his doctor's ardz but can the insurer wrav drug problems is in jep arred ge -- jeopardy. you had to have blood taken physically examined a doctor and had to fill out the rapcation. which will be a twu of them will be one dime. let's get me say without rez station denies absolutely are a spott spotter. valium, ambian, ox cotton can be obtained by a doctor for a prescription. >> you can take those drugs and die from those drugs? >> that is an accidental overdose. >> when we come back our panel terrific panel best in the business after this. will everyone with constipation please report to gate 17? thank you so much. constipation's uncomfortable enough, so why take a harsh laxative? phillips' caplets work naturally with your colon... for overnight relief without cramps. phillips' caplets. it hard to breathe. but now that i'm breathing better with advair... i can enjoy the zoo

>> guest: i got this idea--i was with the sunday magazine of the los angeles times and i had written a number of pieces about the conservative movement. in fact, i'd written about bill kristol and bill bennett and charles murray at one point, sort of the early stream, really, of the compassionate conservatism we hear so much today. they were using a lot of those same ideas in the welfare reform debate. but i--i wrote about libertarians, and i wrote--wrote about pieces of the movement. and i found, brian, that it wasn't being covered in depth. it was fresh territory. and i found it quite interesting. i think there is a lot of working press--there is--does tend to be a liberal bias. and there does--and certainly among liberal political people there's ignorance, frankly, of--they know far less about conservatives than conservatives know about them. so i found it fresh territory. i call it a hidden history of american politics because the influence and the rise to influence of this particular generation of conservatives has tremendously infl--influenced the political debate when you look

. >>> "los angeles times" talked with iraqi refugees finding it difficult to pursue the american tre dream. many cannot find jobs or pay rent in the united states. >>> "the new york times" welcomes julia childs back to the best seller list. they say renewed interest in the 48-year-old classic comes from the new meryl streep movie "julie and julia." >>> let's go to bob van dillon right now. a lot are heads out for business meetings. he's looking at air travel and any delays we might have right now. >> it's monday morning and early for everybody. richard, not just you. let me show you what it looks like right now. a lot of thunderstorm action around the carolinas coming out of charlotte into norfolk, virginia, too. the planes are out there. how about the delays for the day. you know, i think it's going to be a decent morning and decent afternoon, too. charlotte, a couple thunderstorms and 30 minutes and one hour delays there. miami and orlando, some showers pulling in. nothing more than an hour delay there. for denver, watch for the wind to set up. you get showers and a few thunderstorm

hattie kauffman, cbs news, los angeles. >>> time for this morning's early line. a break? that's the question we will try to answer in this week's early line. joining us this morning from boston, doris kearns goodwin, presidential historian, in washington, mark amateur, political editor at the atlantic. and cbs news political consultant. and dick morris, he's the author of "catastrophe," a new book on the obama administration. dick, i want to start with you. as a former adviser, let's say you're advising president obama now, everything going on in the country, poll numbers are slipping, health care as we know is on the table. is it a smart time for him to go on vacation? >> no, no, it is a terrible time. he needs to be rebuilding those poll numbers. i used to work for hurricane bill. not this one, but bill clinton. >> the other one. >> right. and i conducted a poll for him as to where he should go on vacation. he wanted to go to the vineyard like he always did and hang out with the starlets but the polling said it was better to go to the rocky mountains and go camp

>> nancy, the "los angeles times" is reporting from three different sources that cardiologist doctor murray claims that he spoke to investigators. he told them that he had been regularly administering propofol, that powerful anesthetic to jackson to help him sleep. that night in question, jackson was under the influence of propofol. this doctor, reportedly told investigators in an interview that because there had never been problems in the past, he felt he could leave the room and make several phone calls. when he returned, jackson was not breathing. now, we spoke to the spokesperson for the doctor, they wouldn't -- or the doctor's attorney, rather. they wouldn't confirm all of the articles, details, but they would confirm the comments of that the attorney made. he said he was not going to dispute what these investigators said. but he says they are not telling the whole story. >> but that doesn't jive, allen duke, entertainment editor with the cnn wire with the earlier story that jackson fell dramatically. fell down, cardiac arrest, in front of his son, prince, michael jackson. and t

the los angeles times or thes a government program to buy toxic securities contains a little loophole that might cost you, the little people, some money, but good news, benefit the wall street fat cats. the value of tox irk securities -- toxic securities owned by banks tanked during the credit crisis. now they're virtually impossible to sell. again, who would have seen that coming? in the government's plan, nine investment firms will use $40 billion to buy the securities. traders will then create a market and trade them openly. the investment firms could make a lot of money, but the taxpayers are going to take most of the risk. critics say traders in the program could influence the market, then, you know, make some profit on their own side deals. one solution to the problem? a wall between traders and the program and the rest of the firms. the treasury says they can't, because veteran traders won't take part in the program if you do that, but don't worry. the treasury department says they're going to monitor the program, you know, to prevent insider trading, and don't forget, the guy

the "los angeles times" calls this month's presidential election in afghanistan "an election in peril." the key concern is violence and there could be large-scale voting irregularities. the local firm, democracy international is the only small business of its kind to tap to monitor the elections. with me now is the firm's president. eric, thank you for being with us. you are leaving tonight for afghanistan. what are you taking with you? >> we have had a team in afghanistan for several weeks now, since july, trying to engage in the process and a larger group of so-called short- term observers are leaving on the and over the next day or so and will be in afghanistan for the polling and the accounting of the election there. >> reporter: as i said, you are one of the smaller firms going over to monitor the election. which means there are others going. are your missions the say? do you have a specific mission your firm will be performing there. >> a relatively small number of organizations in the world that do this, only a hand nfl the united states and most of them, about three of them wi

an advisor calls it an innovative idea but a democratic state senator tells the los angeles times he schwarzneggar still resorts to these antics that are reflective of a person that is larger than life. in news around the world, pakistan is being warned by intelligence officials that the new boss of the pakistani taliban may stage high-profile attacks to show the group is still in business. national security correspond engine fer griffin is at the pefnts gone with details. >> the question being asked by western intelligence agents is who is the new boss of pakistan's taliban? yesterday, for the first time, since an attack by a u.s. predator on august 5, the taliban spokesman finally confirmed that masoud, the man who ordered benazir bhutto assassinated was killed in that predator strike on august 5. they were buying time to choose a successor. two rival commanders were chosen. one of them is shown here, haka masoud, a hot headed 29-year-old responsible for manning to attack the australian high commission in islamabad last year. pakistani intelligence services say they believe he was

one that really hit me today in the los angeles times. i didn't know this. it is said that through his legislation for seniors, no less than six billion meals were provided to seniors because of teddy kennedy. >> as you read this and you go back, you forget. guys like you and i, david, we covered the news from day to day. sometimes it's cyclical. it's a 24-hour cycle. we forget the stuff that's come before. it is moments like this when you get to be a little more intro peck spif. maybe we should do this more often. >> i agree. something else that struck me too. we often talk about the young and up and coming and people that are going to make it, 35 years old. they really break through. they have the big achievement. what you see in teddy kennedy's life is a result of more than 40 years at the task. the long, hard work of more than 40 years putting his name up over 500 pieces of legislation. working on more than 2,500 bills. there is something to be said about people who sort of work at the task. over a full lifetime. the accomplishments that come not just in

think families are waiting for them to arrive in los angeles. >>> time for another "living $mart" report of the morning. some traders in asia may wish they were on vacation, as well. most of the markets there took a nose dive by the end of the day. the nikkei closed down 122. the good news so far, markets in europe appear to be holding steady. and this comes after a positive day for u.s. markets. the dow gained 33 points to close at 9320. the nasdaq rose two and the s&p 500 jumped 3 points. >>> there's good news if you are hoping to take advantage of the cash for clunkers incentive. the senate is expect todd greene light another $2 billion for the program by the end of the week before they break for the august recess. earlier some republicans had threatened to block in the vote. >>> a cash for clunkers for real estate plan. five deals were closed on tuesday as part of a program called down payment on your dream. portions county is kicking in as much as $20,000 to help buyers snatch up think the large inventory of homes. >> we went to close and we have our keys. it has been a journey but

. >> anderson: his attorney just gave an interview to "the los angeles times," a new argument that dr. murray did not know that michael jackson -- did not know, what, if any drugs michael jackson was taking before signing on and once he got involved in michael jackson's care, he realized he had a number of unusual issues. >> am i supposed to be impressed by that? because i can look at michael jackson, and all of his friends, all of his family, apparently knew something was wrong. tried to stage an intervention to help him. he resisted, like any dope addict would do. >> anderson: the jackson family now denies that ever happened. >> right. but here's one last point on him, anderson. i had the same problem when i would, for instance, have a dope murder. juries would be thrilled a dope dealer had been murdered. it would be very difficult to get a conviction on that killing, all right? but if you look at this case, whether jackson did or did not commit child molestation and i for one did believe the boy victims, whether he did that or not, is irrelevant. because in this case somebody enabl

the los angeles times. we now know that newspapers are in big trouble and something is going to happen. there be an alternative of some kind. we don't know what yet. nobody knows which way the cat will jump. the same thing is true in book publishing. >>guest: absolutely. . >>host: there are a few outstanding usually media-driven people and get on because of their radio shows. but is there a conservative publisher? >>guest: well, the kind of powerhouse, 800-pound gorilla, conservative house. and they have innumerable the solace. because of the success. i have a chapter in the book. three of the mainstream houses have created their own conservative . penguin and crown. they have also to varying degrees done very well. >>host: we know that most of those books will not be reviewed. how do they survive without the customary organs? >>guest: they survive. there is now a conservative media. thank god for it. their authors don't have to get on the today show or oprah. in fact, i interviewed a publicist for a conser

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this is a story from the los angeles times where they said they go to ikea toes cape the smog. looks like those guys weren't being disturbed at all. we go the a lot of e-mails on larry smerz, none we could air. merrill wrote this in on the issue of compensation. there are many things americans should copy the french. i'm not sure this particular pay package is one of them, not that a prove of u.s. pay. time for the "closing bell." >> a new report from the american cancer society says tobacco use now drains about $500 billion a year from the economy. toyota will reportedly cut global production capacity by 1 million vehicles or about 10% according to japan's nikkei business daily. >>> a judge has dismissed a class action lawsuit against citigroup. >>> that's the cnbc news now. i'm julia boorstin. >>> and it's another tug of war on wall street today. the floor of the new york stock exchange. the market off the best levels of the session but nonetheless that, summer rally holds on. welcome to the close bell. i'm maria bartiromo along with scott wapner on the floor of the nyse wher

he was previously editorial page editor of the "los angeles times." denise dresser, professor of political science at the technological autonomous institute of mexico in mexico city. she's a mexican citizen. and andrew selee, director of the mexico program at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars here in washington. andre martinez cooperation here, attention there. in general terms what is the state of the u.s.-mexico relations? >> the state of the relationship is a bit like a tired marriage in need of counseling. we're at a stage with both parties have agreed to undergo counseling. we have these opportunities whenever you have a new administration. clearly there's an additional timely pattern. i think there's a receptiveness in mexico to the fact that u.s. said the drug car is a shared responsibility. what we need to do now is a commitment that matches us that responsibility. >> so far what we're seeing in terms of actual collaboration falls short. >> reporter: denise dresser, how do you see the general state? >> i think that the clima

john mashek who used to write for the "boston globe" and stuart loory who was with "the los angeles timeswould like to ask if in 1936 when your brother was elected to the congress, if you have any feeling at that time, or can you tell us about his feelings about whether or not he might someday become president of the interstates? guest: i think not. i was 16 years old. -- if he might become president of united states. guest: he was mainly interested in doing the best he could for the country, a country we all loved and still do. the idea of a higher office was perhaps in my grandmother's mind come millhouse. if you read the story in my book -- obviously, you two gentlemen have never read it obviously, but it does clear up some things. guest: well, i applaud your family loyalty. i dispute the were hate there. -- the word hate. when he was the running mate of eisenhower and the speech came up, could you give us a little background on that? it solidified his place on the ticket when eisenhower was advised by some backers to dump richard nixon. guest: harold was foremost among them because he

we are joined first by a reporter from "the los angeles time." -- "the los angeles times."hat is a co-op and why are they coming up now in health care debate? >> it is a group of people that bands together and negotiate, essentially providing insurance to its members by negotiating rates with hospitals and other health-care providers. it has come up now because apparently a public option, some sort of public land for health insurance is not politically salable. lawmakers are casting about for some form of competition for regular for-profit insurance companies. co-ops are non-profit, owned in theory by the members that band together. there is some thought they would be able to negotiate good prices if they were big enough and well enough run to inform some kind of private competition against insurance companies. host: who is supporting them amongst congress? guest: kent conrad has a tradition of agriculture cooperatives in the dakotas, so that might be something that confirms his thinking. he is also a very pragmatic politician. he said, flatly, that there is not support for

. >> moyers: now look at this recent story in the "los angeles times."the election, the pharmaceutical industry's $2 million dollars a year superstar lobbyist billy tauzin has morphed into president obama's pal. tauzin says the president has promised not to pressure the drug companies to negotiate with the government for lower drug prices and has agreed not to allow cheaper drugs to be imported from canada or europe contrary to the position taken by candidate obama. each of these stories illuminates the scarlet thread that runs through maggie mahar's book- the story of how today's market-driven medical system gives wall street investors life and death control over our health care, turning medicine into a profit machine instead of a social service to meet human need. that's the conflict at the heart of next month's showdown in washington. i'm bill moyers. see you next time. captioning sponsored by public affairs television captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

so he cents an e-mail to the los angeles times in 2005, where i was a washington investigative editor and it was forwarded to me. we joined forces then to investigate the origins of the records, the fate of them, to track down scores of veterans and officials, to visit viet he nam, and to enter the data from the files and the spreadsheets. what we found was that the army's own investigations had substantiated cases with more than 300 allegations. torture, massacre, rape, murder, coverups. another 500 allegations had been closed as unfounded or closed due to insufficient evidence. but a closer look, i discovered that many of them in fact had been with confirmed, a quarter had actually been confirmed, but were classified otherwise. the confirmed cases included an account by jamie henry of what happened when his company entered a small hamlet in central vietnam. on february 8, 1968, now this is a months before the milei massacre, here is what he told investigators in this one statement happened next. this is a statement that -- 10-page statement that appears in the files. i sat down in a