is a political look at james madison. why did you decide to write a book about james madison? guest: he was a little underdone of all the founding fathers. we have had a lot about washington. we always have a lot about jefferson. hamilton and even john adams. there seemed to be a bit of a hole with james madison. the one thing that tilted me was a morning in august, 1814 when the madison is president of united states in his second term and the war of 1812 has been going on for two years and were comes to the capital that the british are going to attack washington d.c.. they landed in maryland and have made a left turn marching north, they are coming to the capital. what president madison does that morning is saddled of course, his own horse, then his own horse goes lame, the soviets to borrow someone else's horse, borrow a set of pistols, and this short ailing man who has never heard a shot fired in anger, the least military person you can't imagine, he writes out with the rest of the cabinet for maryland where the british will have to come if they come to the district from th

i saw this fancy woman once madison said. he put his arm around her sister and guided her along the path. she took all the feeling from a man's toes. she gave him a foot rub. when she got to the toes she put them in her mouth. saddy squinted at her brother. it's true. one by one she sucked them and they were dirty. but when she was done you know what? the man started hollering he says, i cannot feel my toes. he jumps up and waddels like a turkey. he didn't know he didn't have any toes anymore. madison grinned the woman was a witch much the fields were soft to the touch. all the way home madison told his sister about the witches and the world. when the saudi came to view he stopped talking the door was open the inside shadowy. there was no one in sight but he could hear his sister in law kth rin talking to blue flies. madison tucked his chin as if against the weather. something about the air felt dense. something felt like pushing against water on a flooded plain. well, a lot happens between now and the next morning i will sum

[siren] is madison here? it's gonna be all right. ok. madison? nobody is mad at you.it's daddy. we just want to talk with you. she's here. you did this to bring them together, didn't you? i didn't. fate did. fate? you mean your accident? no, i mean, like, practically every day since. i don't understand. ever since he started coming to talk to me on that road, i noticed she'd go there, too. she'd come the anniversary of the crash, and he'd come the anniversary of when i died. so they missed each other. but i followed her, and i started noticing that she likes all the same stuff you like, daddy. and not just weird groups and mini golf, but you both hate snow skiing and people who take up 2 parking spaces, and people who say "supposebly." she followed you. you both have a lot in common, and not just music and movies and mini golf. but you both don't like snow skiing and people who take up 2 parking spaces and people who use the word "supposebly." supposebly is not a word. no. and people who take 2 parking spaces... should be beaten. [chuckles] plus, even the accident, it

james madison. but by gosh, robinson for all of the problems that he faced produces 600 pages of the virginia ratifying debates, and that marvelous event would be lost to history without his efforts. so i must say my heart goes out to him and i'm grateful to the man. okay, back to hudson. this is the problem with the stenographer's. maybe this go was up to this job. second, often they should speech is before the, you know, they would didn't transcribe it and he reprinted them in in newspapers or something. or the newspaper accounts of debates would be collected and published in book form. but before they saw print, sort in book form, this developers sometimes showed them to a speaker corrected him and hudson said that corrects the record. but the last reasons, and i think the reason which is probably the most damning is they were politically biased. and that is one side of these debates, the federalist one of the constitution ratified were often paid the shorthand meant to do the work, or own the ne

roberts street is closed at madison avenue because of fire department activity. this is 50 at ritchie highway. the left lane is getting by eastbound. 97 at 100 in good shape. north and southbound traffic looks just fine. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> thank you. good morning. it is drying out today. we are feeling the winds. the wind is picking up. 22 at the airport. 13-mile park wind gust at the inner harbor. the wind is ushering in colder weather and they will affect our temperatures today. as warm as it is right now is basically as warm as it will be this afternoon. we may drop another degree into sunrise. we will be basically staying into the low 40's. the wind will factor in with the wind chill. it could feel like it is in the upper 30's because of the wind out of the west's. ifts ntire storm system le north and east. there could be some light snow showers in the mountains in garrett county and western pennsylvania. the strong wind is coming from the strong high pressure cells. a strong pressure gradient means a drop in pressure as you head to th

james madison, franklin roosevelt was a politician.e hear a little bit of that in this oval office recording. >> there is probably never anyone in the white house who was more of a wily politician than franklin roosevelt. it is just superb. he had a skill and ability and success that has few if any rivals. willkie had the misfortune of running against that skillful politician. >> was wendell willkie consistent on the issues in the 1940 campaign? >> i do not think so. few politicians are consistent on the issues. the campaign started to go badly for willkie. the disorganization, the chaos, the difficulty of challenging roosevelt. in the last part of the campaign, he moved toward a position on the war and the new deal that he may not have happily agreed with. they were more harsh, more vituperative then the true wendell willkie. >> amity shlaes. >> he was inconsistent, but we cannot downplay his success. he won more votes in that election than any republican had ever won. electorally, roosevelt was that wily fox. he had that large number

. >>> when abc 7 news at noon continues, how a madison avenue executive died while boarding an elevator at work. the local school board votes today to keep tabs on students. santa claus spread some cheer. all that, plus  >>> we are following two developing stories. -- >>> we are following developing stories. the men and his wife were found shot to death. the officers fond decouple's suv -- the couple's suv 3 miles away. >>> wednesday morning, a woman into her elevator madison avenue. did, -- she did, the up and crashed her to death. two other workers who boarded elevator before her were not hurt. police evacuate the building. because of the accident is under investigation. >>> a local school board could vote to put surveillance cameras in schools. the vote comes after a rash of food fight that left students teachers entered. teachers proposed the campers -- the cameras after not being started thetify who fight. >>> christmas came early for some local children. santa claus stopped by to deliver presents at the hospital. -- santa had his police escort. it is such a great event. went to

when i had told amy [inaudible] madison that the first time i saw the statute of liberty i thought the statute was a huge white unbreakable doll. amy said her memory of the statute was of her little brother crying. what will happen to us now? if the people don't like us where will we go. we have nowhere to go. will they throw us back to the sea. we don't have a home anymore. anywhere. memory does have a home land. it appeared to me once in the memory of a phone call our mother's bright flame for amy. before i could say, how are you. amy said, a wonder thing happen indeed a conference in japan last month much i was walking with a japanese woman talking about literature when she stopped, turned to me and said, are we still college eyes to you for what we did to your mother in chien and i apologize to you. amy laughed when she said anger disappeared from my life from my very body when my new friend spoke to me. when she acknowledged my childhood grieve and offered hope in the form of an apology. thank you. [applause] >> our next reader is grace angel. she is painter, poet and photographer

some closures at madison with some fire department activity. we start to show the accident on 50 eastbound just past ritchie highway. you can see plenty of activity. watch for a delay. this is traffic in the area of 895, looking for that overturned a vehicle. watch for northbound 295 traffic to back down as you approach 895. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. now we want to get to our story this morning. paramedics respond to an accident in anne arundel county. this happened on northbound 295 tuesday night when a bthe bus struck a curb. >> today marks one year since the disappearance of a 16-year- old phylicia barnes. no arrest in her murder. kim dacey is live at state police headquarters with how the community is remembered phylicia barnes. >> maryland state police recently said they are making progress in the phylicia barnes murder investigation but not say if there will soon be any arrests. she was last seen last year in baltimore. she disappeared while visiting her sister in baltimore. her body turned up in the susquehanna river in apr

when i had told amy [inaudible] madison that the first time i saw the statute of liberty i thought the statute was a huge white unbreakable doll. amy said her memory of the statute was of her little brother crying. what will happen to us now? if the people don't like us where will we go. we have nowhere to go. will they throw us back to the sea. we don't have a home anymore.

are you -- do you still live in madison? >> i do live in madison, outside of madison. i'm in and out of washington, d.c., at this point. >> who has the call on your time? >> i still stay in touch with my civilian job, i have a blackberry from them, too, as well. i just, you know, whenever i have a moment, i'll check in with my office and see what's going on but i've got a great staff at the bankruptcy court. they know what's in their lane and they know unless it's a huge emergency that they need my involvement in, they're pretty capable of handing -- handling it themselves. >> so of the 200,000 in the army reserve, how many spend five days a month in the service work? >> i would say, depending on the level, and what your job is, i mean, this is just a wild guess, not knowing them personally, i'd say 25% of us probably could look at their schedule and say, yeah, i spend about that much time doing things over the course of a month for the army reserve. >> what's your job now in the army reserve? >> i'm the deputy chief army reserve and i'm an individual mobilization augm

while your government is in a large part of it actually is our government and according to james madison third president united states his first veto was a veto in you know the george washington illustration gave money for poor houses here in washington d.c. for medical services food and shelter for poor people. the john adams administration pick that up did the same thing sort of the thomas jefferson administration for president came along james madison and congress said hey let's give this money to the churches and let the churches administer the poor house instead of madison yet vetoed that saying that it would establish a precedent of government money going to churches that could corrupt churches and this is because madison was a religious guy. he didn't want his church corrupt of them and has no power over the church did the government money is going to corrupt if they take the tax money they start taxing the church then they're going to start on taxes our church was a subsidize who had to go to church and all of a sudden now we're going to be paying to go to church we're going to h

roberts street is closed at madison avenue because of fire activity. 11 minutes to get you over towards the harrisburg expressway. 11 minutes on the west side outer loop. this is the accident on eastbound 50 past ritchie highway. this is traffic of old court were the west side continues to run smoothly. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> thank you. police say a man they took into custody has admitted to the slaying of a 9-year-old from fort wayne. man said he killed the girl with a blow to the head with a brick and then dismembered her body, placing the parts in freezer bags. her body was found on monday and

john nickels and joe madison weigh in. we're right back. ♪ and just let me be [ male announcer ] this is your moment. ♪ your ticket home ♪ [ male announcer ] this is zales, the diamond store. tlnchts is breaking news out of south carolina to nonighttonigh. the department of justice rejected a new voter id law. minorities would be significantly burdened by the law. it would have required voters to show photo identification to cast their vote. the department of justice said the data provided by the state showed that minorities were nearly 20% more likely to lack a division of motor vehicle issued id and be disenfranchised. the same assault on democracy is going on in dozens of states across the country. and as i've said before, it seems like the republicans are spending as much money trying to stop people from getting out to the polls as they are spending money trying to turn them out. make no mistake, the justice department is standing up for democracy on this one. this is a big move tonight by eric holder. we talked a lot

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a man was shot in the chest on east madison street. his condition is not known. it highlights a very violent 40 hour period -- 48-hour period. violence began after a 32-year- old man died after he was gunned down in northeast baltimore. police say the victim was shot in the head just after 10:00 saturday night in the 4400 block of bel air road. he was rushed to hopkins where he later died. then a 27-year-old man was shot and killed in west baltimore. police believe dayon barnes was sitting inside a car in the 200 block of north smallwood street at around 12:30 sunday morning when someone opened fire. he was taken to shock trauma were he later died. and then an hour later, police say a cab driver was pulling into a parking lot in the 2700 block on sisson street. we're told one of two passengers in the taxi pulled a gun, demanded money, then shot the driver. the victim was treated for non- life-threatening injuries. >> this is one of the dangerous jobs in the country, being a cab driver. but when you get called to a resident -- that feels safe for us. but as you kn

i believe that our patients are interested in clean madison. i think that they are interested in legitimate access. finally, i believe that whatever regulations we propose should comply with the california medical association's recommendations. so, i thank you for considering me for seat 15 on the medical cannabis task force. >> actually, i have a question. i was hoping that you could speak more as a physician practicing in san francisco about how you and corporate medical marijuana in your practices and the challenges that you face working in one of our hospitals around this issue. >> i'm comfortable being a minority. i guess that is what cannabis as thought of in the medical community. i fell into it with my interest in the medicine and integrative medicine which are all sorts of traditional chinese medicine, chiropractors trying to integrate as many modalities' as possible to heal the patient. cannabis has proven to be a wonderful medicine. that is why i am outspoken. i believe that our medical association is very much behind what we do. the

versus vallejo and all the way back to santa clara i mean if we could take it back to marbury vs madison if you want that that the supreme court has repeatedly ruled that they have the right to make these rulings and that corporations are people and money is speech. how can any party no matter how noble it's beginning. insulate itself from the attack of the assault by big money i mean let's say you start this party and let's say that a lot of people get involved a lot of people get really enthusiastic and then you know income the billionaires or income karl rove in comes karl rove or in comes a you know a saudi corporation that decides that they like you are dealt like you you know how do you how do you prevent that and still win an election in the past money has called the shots we know that has been imposed on us has overcome that doesn't we've seen in the last few years governments overthrown because of the power of grassroots movements and social media we have the democratization now of communication like never before and people are watching their face books and their twitters and tu

call them out. >> joe madison, bill press. you guys are great. we could go all night long. that's why you're radio talkers. it's good to have you with us. remember to answer tonight's question there at the bottom of the screen. share your thoughts on twitter. @edshow. we want to know what you think. >>> a quick programming note. tomorrow night democratic leader nancy pelosi will be our special guest on this program, "the ed show." we'll be talking about the gop obstruction, the democrats' plan for 2012 and a whole lot more. join us tomorrow night. we look forward to it. >>> coming up, gingrich may be in big trouble with evangelical voters in iowa. which means he might lose the caucus despite this big surge in the national polls. we'll talk with reverend carey gordon out of iowa on that. >>> the fallout continues after home improvement giant lowe's pulls its ads from a reality show about muslim americans. the mayor of dearborn, michigan, jack o'reilly, will be here x a] multi-policy discount. paperless discount. paid-in-full discount. [yawning] homeowner's discount. safe dri

james madison ties the game at 7. thi first and goal, this time from six yards out. blocked extra point. bison lead 19-7 right now in the second half. >>> let's go to lorton, virginia. high school football play-offs. stallions playing hanover for a spot in the state championship. first drive of the game for south county. shane foley goes up top to his big receiver michael ferguson. makes a great catch. 7-0 stallions. later in the first, foley, pitches to anthony rector. breaks the tackle. he's in. 22-yard touchdown. 14-0 south county. second quarter, same score. foley hands it off to ryan taylor. he flips it to jake josephs. back to foley. and he airs it out to ferguson. makes another great grab. stallions down around the 10 yard line. they cap the drive with more trickeration. foley pitches to josephs. throws to ferguson. touchdown south county. right now they lead 38-22 in the fourth quarter. >>> hometown hockey, caps will try to snap a four-game losing streak at home against the senators tonight. hunter going for his first nhl victory as a head coach. you can see

bailee madison is here well. >> rickey: yeah!y song "blue christmas," the incredible chris isaak. chris isaak will be performing tonight. [ cheers and applause ] now, folks -- [ applause ] a lot of people like to go christmas caroling. some people are good at it. some really are not good at it. so, we thought we'd go to the americana at brand -- at brand, rather. that's a beautiful shopping mall here in glendale. and we just picked people, asked them a few questions, and then you, the audience, have to guess whether they're a good caroler or a bad caroler. it's very easy to play. [ light laughter ] here, take a look. ♪ >> jay: hi, what's your name? >> my name's chelsea. >> jay: chelsea, where you from? >> i'm from la canada. >> jay: la canada. and what do you do? >> i'm going to arizona state. i'm doing accounting and computer science. >> jay: accounting and computer science. [ snores ] i'm sorry. i must have dozed off. no, it sounds exciting. >> a little bit. >> jay: have you ever seen "the voice"? >> i have. >> jay: yes. >> 'ca

good idea and it's been a central part of the american political tradition after all it was james madison who said that a popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a tragedy or a farce or perhaps both and i'll remind you that james madison was not some hippie and arcus from one nine hundred sixty eighth he was the fourth president of the united states in the primary author of our constitution and you know the whistleblower protection enhancement act that is meant to protect whistleblowers so that they are said they do feel comfortable coming forward this seems to be being held up in congress to what extent do you think that the manning play if it's feeding this resistance. i think it's feeding it a great deal how much does that matter i don't really know i think this particular act is a very mild reform it's a cautious baby step forward it's a good thing but it's only when enough people in the united states are mobilized in the willing to be skeptical of the government's claims that every single whistle blowing revelation is somehow a

madison in the '70s, it was hard to get a knife.nife out of bone, out of a t-bone steak. we used to get steak back in the day. i sharpened it down and i was going to stab the guy with it. before i could stab the guy with it, they had busted me with it. they saw it in my hand. they took it. the name stuck. the guys in the penitentiary called me t-bone. >> but it was taylor's desire to rise to the top of the gang hierarchy on the outside what led him to conduct the cold-blooded murders. for which he will spend the rest of his life behind bars. it happened at a ruckus party in waterloo, iowa. when police arrived to shut it down, taylor grabbed one of the officer's pistols. >> i just shot the man three times, right? everybody broke and run. and the other police, he was still down, right? so i ran over there and i shot him three times. it wasn't because i was on no drugs or alcohol. i wasn't impaired, you know. >> and afterwards? >> trying to get away, it wasn't no remorse or nothing. i wasn't even thinking about turning myself in or not

prosecutors say the man sexually assaulted and murdered jason madison back in november of 2009.tors have never explained what prompted the family friend to allegedly attacked the teenager. >> the trial of paul schurick is in the home stretch. attorneys say the jury could get the case today to decide whether schurick is guilty of using illegal robocalls. kim dacey is live with a closer look at the trial. >> the defense plans to call two more witnesses before resting its case. as the trial enters what could be its last day, defense attorney wants to make sure the jury hears testimony from two more people. >> they have travel quite a distance to be here. i want to have them the ability to testify. >> one of those reached out to black voters in the t2010 election. schurick is accused of using robocalls. the key adviser for former governor ehrlich has been charged with conspiracy and election fraud. the defense attorneys will argue that the state has not met its burden of proof. >> we think that there's no evidence whatsoever of any type of conspiracy, no evidence of any criminal con

joining me now, syndicated columnist and joe madison, host of "mornings with madison," thank you bothg here. >> thank you. >> bob, is is willard in more trouble than he expected? >> yeah, certainly. he was sort of hoping that he could have and the circular thing and each of them has a little bit of time in the sun. in the case of gingrich, he's not a novice and he's gotten traction right now, in addition to which, the first election up is not an election but a caucus. it's the first result we care about as iowa, which is an extremely conservative state. mitt romney is not going to do well, which presumably will mean that gingrich will get even more traction. >> now, joe, tomorrow herman cain is going to announce whether he is going to be the next step or not in his campaign. whether he stays in or if he drops out, what will the impact of his eight or nine polling points be in terms of how to fix the outcome of this race, which is now a gingrich-romney race? >> well, it also could end up going, some of those votes, to perry. this favors newt gingrich because once again we can see what

they love them right now in madty son. >> i don't know if you can buy them in madison right now.k back on the game and it was a great and well played game but came down to one big play in the end, marcus which you hate to see happen, the roughing the kicker. >> marcus: what a shame. nulllyfyed a long point return by keshawn martin. you couldn't script a game better. all the stars in the game stepped up and played to the level that we expected them to. this was an outstanding game. drama back and forth and came down to roughing the kicker. special teams again. >> kevin: special teams already. talk about the game-winning drive and what wisconsin did to win the game. >> dhani: the person you really want to talk about is duckworth. how he was able to play this game. who would have thought he would have made as many plays as he did as far as russell wilson connecting to the passers and all of a sudden montee ball and what he is able to bring to the table. again, russell wilson out of the pocket. deep pass. and who goes up and gets it? jeff duckworth. in the midst of two defenders and

host of "morning with madison" on sirius xm radio.r being here. >> thank you, al. >> casey, doesn't newt's plan to help the rich seem at odds with a broad majority of the american public? >> well, one thing that is -- that you can note about newt's plan is that it's actually significantly different from one of his rivals, mitt romney. romney, of course, has fought off accusations or charges from critics that he's too moderate to win the republican nomination. romney's tax plan is actually different from gingrich's in that he would end capital gains taxes and taxes on dividends only for people who make $200,000 a year or less, whereas gingrich's plan essentially eliminates those taxes for everyone. >> yeah, but it's -- you're right. it's different, but it goes in the same direction. if you're going in the wrong direction does it matter if you're going 70 miles an hour or 20 miles an hour? you're still going in the wrong direction. >> that's certainly what president obama is going to argue. you start to see him lay out this broad philos

a big fight last night in madison square garden. >> we are looking forward to. that we have a plane that makes an emergency landing on a highway in florida. first the weather. boy, it was a beautiful december day as you get outside there? >> i did. >> it was definitely a great to get out and do holiday shopping. i did a little bit. >> i didn't. >> you didn't buy anything for me yet? >> we will do that secret santa exchange. here is a first check of weather. if you pull dave's name or he pulls yours, you out of luck there. >> you want to switch. >> first thing he will do is get me a certificate to play golf. no question about it and i don't play gulf so he will be in big trouble. >> yesterday was perfect golf day. a lot of sunshine and today is not looking too bad. our satellite radar composite a few clouds. but a ridge of high pressure in control. we have plenty of sunshine to offer up in the course of the afternoon. yesterday's high is right on the mark as far as seasonal concern. 5 is at national. 50 at dls and bwi. it's a chilly 39 degrees at national airport