joan walsh is the editor at large with "salon" and matt cooper with "the national journal." nd matt, we're all three professionals. we watch these things come and go. >> right. >> it seems like if you have a column that's nobody has read lately and you want somebody to read it, this certainly worked for laura washington today. i shouldn't say that. i don't know her column, but let me say we're talking about it so it worked. is this the way to get a column read, to bring up this proposition? >> sure. it's a great way. >> i've known laura for a long time. i don't think that's what she was doing, chris. she finds it interesting. people find it perennially interesting, but it's just not going to happen. you know, i'm a huge, huge admirer of hillary clinton. i don't think it's a good idea. i don't think it really adds what people think it would add. the groups that she did well with, certainly women, latinos, the white working class in particular, i don't know that hillary as vp necessarily lures them back. she's not running her own candidacy. she becomes part of a team and i don'

well, matt cooper is managing editor of "national journal daily" and michelle goldberg reports for "newsweek" and "the daily beast." michelle and matt, look at these numbers. i saw them in "the new york times" yesterday. they blew me away. charles blow ran through some of the numbers and it's just amazing. look at this number here. 86% of the american people say the wall street people and lobbyists have too much influence in america's national capital in washington. 86% say they have too much clout. those wall street guys. 79% say the income gap in this country is just too big between the wealthy and the other americans. 71% think bank ceos should face prosecution for the role in the 2008 crisis. and 68% want the rich to pay higher taxes. let me start with you, matt, my friend. it just seemed to strike me as gold for the elizabeth warrens of this world who's up there running for congress up against scott brown, in the senate up there in massachusetts. the idea that the consumer needs protection against the power of wall street lobbyists, the big shots, highly paid people down in washington,

cooperation stopped. listen to what lisa's parents told matt lauer today. >> we tell everybody that we're -- you know, we're the police. we're doing everything we can to try to find lisa and bring her back home. >> our number one focus is her. >> i want to bring in kansas city missouri police captain, steve young, in charge of the investigation since it started. you just heard lisa's parents there speaking to matt lauer. are they cooperating or not? have you talked to them today? >> reporter: it's been a little while since i had an update and the last conversation i had, they're not talking to the parents. >> and still there are no suspects? >> reporter: we don't have any suspects at this time. >> let me ask you about the 10-month-old baby tragically missing and two older children at home at the time the baby disappeared. i believe they're 6 and 8. have you been able to talk to them or learn anything from them? >> i can't comment on the details of the investigation or map out everything the detectives have done. i can assure you the detectives have done everything we can think of. >> we're 5 days out at thi

cooperation stopped. so listen to what lisa's parents told matt lauer about that this morning on "today." >> we tell everybodywe're, you know, we're still cooperating. we're still talking to the police. we're doing everything we can to try to find lisa and bring her back home. >> our number one focus is her. >> we want to bring in kansas city, missouri, police captain steve young. he's been in charge of the investigation since it started. you just heard lisa's parents talking to matt lauer. are they cooperating or not? have you talked to them today? >> reporter: well, it's been a little while since i've had an update. the last bit of information i had is we still have not talked to the parents. >> and still there is an abduction? they're not suspects? >> you know, we don't have any suspects at this time. >> and let me ask you, one of the things about the story is the 10-month-old baby which is tragically missing. there was an older -- two older children who were home at the time that the baby disappeared. i believe they were 6 and 8. have you been able to talk to them or learn anything from them? >> you know,

cooperation stopped. so listen to what lisa's parents told matt lauer about that this morning on "today." >> we tell everybodynow, we're still cooperating. we're still talking to the police. we're doing everything we can to try to find lisa and bring her back home. >> our number one focus is her. >> we want to bring in kansas city, missouri, police captain steve young. he's been in charge of the investigation since it started. you just heard lisa's parents talking to matt lauer. are they cooperating or not? have you talked to them today? >> reporter: well, it's been a little while since i've had an update. the last bit of information i had is we still have not talked to the parents. >> and still there is an abduction? they're not suspects? >> you know, we don't have any suspects at this time. >> and let me ask you, one of the things about the story is the 10-month-old baby which is tragically missing. there was an older -- two older children who were home at the time that the baby disappeared. i believe they were 6 and 8. have you been able to talk to them or learn anything from them? >> you know, i can't com

cooper stone throwing out the first pish to his favorite player, josh hamilton. his father died earlier after a fall from the bleachers. >> matt moore making his second career start and so much for rooky jitters. he gives out seven strikes. kelly only hit one '76 this reason. but he has to wapture two homers and the ray. yankees and tigers on the lasted an inning and a half before being suspended. bots bottom of the 2nd inning, justin verlander will not pitch. and finally, terri francona will not return as boston's manager next season. led the red sox to two titles. their only titles in the last nine years. whoever gets him is going to get a good manager.

cooperating with police. >>> for more, we're joined by the attorney for baby lisa's parents, joe tacopina. you heard mattrating. police seem to have a different story. can you tell us what your clients are doing with the police right now? >> anything they ask. and it's maddening to hear the police spokesperson come out there, instead of informing the public and the family about leads and the status of the investigation and leads, he comes out and makes this statement. frankly, they've done everything they've been asked to do. they've consented to every search they've been asked to consent for. they sat down to 16 hours of interviews. they let their 6 and 8-year-old children be interviewed. they've got nothing to hide. they want answers. when they ask for something, they've gotten it. >> to be clear on this right now, they're agreeing to questioning right now? no restrictions on the questioning right now? >> there's a restriction i'm imposing. that the question will be in good faith and fair. and not the question that was done within an hour of this baby's disappearance. listen to this, george. the mother

thanks matt president measurement of area has called on the e.u. not to impede energy cooperation between russia and europe with internal directives the push came following is talks with dutch prime minister mark in moscow medvedev says the a use so-called third energy package hinders gas link ups package demand the separation of production transportation and sales of energy it could affect russia's gas giant gazprom which is producing and selling gas into rivera says its business considerations that should be guiding decision making in brussels to mitigate coolness your commercial in the energy field everything is good it will be good that you certainly do is do not interfere with the development of full scale cooperation we hope that when taking such a decision business will be a priority to brussels you should. the russian government aims to invest up to two hundred twenty billion dollars to develop energy in the country's continental shelf chama san daily says the investment is planned to cover the next twenty years with one seventh to be provided by the federal budget the gov

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cooper stone throwing out the first pish to his favorite player, josh hamilton. his father died earlier after a fall from the bleachers. >> matt making his second career start and so much for rooky jitters. he gives out seven strikes. kelly only hit one '76 this reason. but he has to wapture two homers and the ray. yankees and tigers on the lasted an inning and a half before being suspended. bots bottom of the 2nd inning, justin verlander will not pitch. and finally, terri francona will not return as boston's manager next season. led the red sox to two titles. their only titles in the last nine years. whoever gets him is going to get a good manager. >> took his garage door opener away. >> he couldn't get in. he came back three tames today. pretty interesting. >> they are blaming him and some reports that some of the veteran players weren't on the same page. so, who knows. >> i think the forward organization owns that one. gh we'll see you on cbs 5 at 11:00. i am a throat untickler. i am a human cough suppressant. and i am the sniffles worst nightmare. i am a target pharmacist. ask me about cold and flu remedies. [ zapping ] th

cooper stone throwing out the first pitch to his favorite player, josh hamilton. his father died after a fall from the bleachers. >>> 22-year-old mattking his second career start and so much for rookie jitters. he gives up two hits in seven shutout innings and strikes out six. kelly only hit .176 this season, but turned into johnny bench today. shot two homers and drove in five runs as the rays blow out the rangers 9-0. and like any good catcher, he made sure to keep the spotlight on his pitcher. >> i was like, who is matt moore? i no one is going to forget his name now. but you know, we have been hearing about him for years. i was confused on his name. >> the yankees and tigers only lasted an inning and a half. game one tomorrow in the bottom of the 2nd inning, but tonight's starters and justin verlander will not pitch. meanwhile, the fallout is just beginning in boston after their collapse down the stretch. manager terri will not return to the team next season. he spent eight seasons with the red sox and led them to two world series titles. >> certainly aged me. when i came here, i thought i was kind of weathered, now that i look

would make her one year older than american bessie cooper, who was just named by "guinness" as the oldest living human being. it's now 9:06, back to matt, ann and tamron. >> that's a fight i want to be in someday. >> it would be nice to get that far. savannah thank you very much. mr. roker? >> just put him in a big jar of smuckers and let them fight it out. where are you guys from? >> memphis! >> memphis, all right, memphis good to see you. let's check your weather and see what's going on. we've got a new storm coming into the west, that's going to bring a lot of heavy rain and mountain snows over the next 24 hours. 6 to 12 inches in the sierra, 12 to 18 inches in the high country or more, and you can see we've got a lot of rain to talk about as well from seattle all the way down to san francisco. snow back through just to the east of salt lake city, and here in the east, we've got some rain hanging out, not going to be all that horrible as that low moves >> it will be a pretty nice day. a mixture of clouds and >>> and that's your latest weather. ♪ and i'll be taking care of business every day ♪ >>>. >> time for a second round of "toda

matt, karen, let's listen to what perry said. the question, did he go too far? he even seemed to get in moderator anderson cooper's face when he said this. >> the 14th amendment allows anybody be a a child of an illegal immigrant, born here, is a citizen. should that change? >> let's get to herman's -- >> i would rather you ask the questions. >> well, i understand that. you get to ask the questions, i get to answer like i want to. herman -- >> that's actually a response, not an answer. >> well, you hate to hear that when you are a moderator. karen be you have done plenty of those before. he does need it reign it in a bit or will this play well with another debate? >> yes. a lot of testosterone. always hard to tell how voters actually take that. i remember when hillary clinton ran for senate and rick lazio similarly felt he had to show he was tough and take the fight to her. there is a tipping point where voters get turned off. remember at some point, i'm all for having a good fight, but have you to be presidential. people have to be able to look at you and say, i can see a president there. the other thing in the e

cooperative since day one. let's get right to nbc's peter alexander, in kansas city for the latest on the investigation. peter, good morning. >> reporter: matt, good morning to you. it is day four of this investigation and a lot has changed as you noted overnight. police now say that the parents of little lisa irwin are no longer cooperating with authorities, but the parents say they are cooperating, that they are available to talk with police, but they say authorities told lisa's mom that she failed a polygraph test, that police are trying to pit mother and father against one another and even accuse lisa's mother of trying to kill her daughter. just hours after lisa irwin's parents made yet another desperate plea for their daughter's safe return -- >> please bring her home. we need her. we are not a family without her. she's everything to us. >> reporter: this announcement from kansas city police. >> they've been cooperating, its eight been very helpful. tonight they decided to stop talking to detectives and i don't have to illustrate how that, you know, affects the investigation. it speaks for itself. >> reporter: police would not offer de

matt ackland, fox 5 news. >> joining me now is the man himself, d.c. mayor sprig >>> thanks for joining us. >> thank -- mayor vincent gray. >> thank you, brian. >> we've got to have regionwide collaboration and cooperation on this because when you go back to the snowstorm, some of the traffic issues actually went out into the counties, into virginia and maryland. people got backed up in the district, but the problems actually were on the other side of the district line. >> a couple things i want to ask you tonight, in the news lately is this whole situation where d.c. police are arresting people with expired license plate tags. i think that's one of those are you kidding me kind of stories. have you put an end to this? >> that's what the law says. it really is -- hearkens back to an era when -- hearkens back to an era when we had drug dealers in the area and were trying to stop that kind of behavior. we're looking to propose legislation that will stop the arrests and look at the possibility of seizure of the vehicle, if that's warranted, or just issuing a ticket. >> how long will this legislation? is a mom out there who doesn't know her tacks are expired going to the grobe -- tags are expired going to t

>> matt, i think it is important to point out that we have a capacity to maintain trainers. in fact, the office of security cooperation in iraq will have a capacity to train iraqis on the new kinds of weapons and weapons systems that the iraqis are going to buy importantly like the f-16s they just purchased about a month ago. we will have a training capacity there. we'll have the kind of normal training we have with countries all over the world. you'll see for example central command looking for opportunities to vin creased naval cooperation. you'll see opportunities and naval exercises. opportunities to have increased air force training and exercise opportunities. so we're going to have the kind of robust security cooperation with the iraqis that we have with important allies all around the world. so the suggestion of your question that somehow there's not going to be training is just not accurate. the main purpose of the effort that we undertook, matt, over the course of not only the last several months and intensively tony and i but also over the last several years was the establishment of a normal relationship wit

matt and va savannah. >>> hillary clinton called for pakistan to have greater cooperation with afghanistan then cautioned that militants had been allowed to operate in pakistan for too long. >>> the senate has reject eed president obama's job bill. the latest legislation was a slimmed-down remnant of the president's larger $450 billion jobs bill that was rejected last week. >>> now to the search of lisa irwin. peter alexander has the latest. good morning. >> reporter: natalie, good morning to you. this morning the "kansas city star" is reporting that the local lawyers for baby lisa's parents says police are trying to unreasonably push for a confession from the parents. police deny that claim, but the tense back-and-forth comes as the search for lisa reaches day 18. with no word on what investigators found on x-rays carried out of baby lisa's home, her parents, deborah bradley and jeremy irwin, were briefly spotted thursday, jeremy taking the couple's other two children to school. for more than 15 hours this week, crime scene technicians collected potential evidence, testing and analyzing it inside bomb a

matt. the show was supposed to focus on teenage minds and risky behavior. things went terribly wrong when a teenager on a skateboard was badly injured. just three weeks into anderson cooper'snew show "anderson" a terrible tragedy. a source close to the show tells nbc news a teenager now lays in a coma after the producer asked the boy to record video of himself for a segment on the science of the teenage brain. >> our source says one of anderson's producer encouraged one of the teenagers to film all of the "crazy stuff" he does, and shortly before the teenager was to appear on the show he was injured in a skateboarding accident. >> reporter: the teenager whose identity remains undisclosed reportedly sustained a head injury after doing a trick and falling from his skateboard. the accident has many asking did the producer encourage dangerous behavior? >> the principle "do no harm" applies not to physicians and nurses but to tv producers, too. >> reporter: a representative from the anderson show released the following statement. "as part of our routine process, we ask guests for video footage and photos. we did not provide the family with a camera. we're very concerned about h

would make her one year older than american bessie cooper, who was just named by "guinness" as the oldest living human being. it's now 9:06, back to mattat far. savannah thank you very much. mr. roker? >> just put him in a big jar of smuckers and let them fight it out. where are you guys from? >> memphis! >> memphis, all right, memphis good to see you. >> memphis. >> all right, memphis. good to see you. let's check your weather, shall we, and see what is going on. we have a new storm come into the west. that will bring a lot of rain and heavy mountain snows over the next 24 hours. 6 to 12 inches in the sierra. 12 to 18 inches in the high country or more. and you can see, we have a lot of rain to talk about as well, from seattle all the way down to san francisco, and snow back through just the east of salt lake city, and here in the east, we have rain hanging out, not going to be all that horrible as the low moves away. that's what is going on around the country, and here is what is happening in your neck of the woods. >> around here, we are waiting for the big king in the sky to return, the sunshine to come back. still fighting with cl

cooperating with police. they're accusing the police now of not sharing information with them. robin. >> it goes on and on. we'll bring in legal analyst dan abrams now. so many more twists and turns. matt'sver dog picking up a hit on the bedroom. what do you make of that? >> it's indicative of what they say it was which is a deceased body. it's not infallible. doesn't mean they have the proof they need to move forward. they can be used in investigative phases and the trial itself. this is far from the end of the question. and i think it's just leading to more questions. >> is it a little odd for the family's lawyer to allow a camera crew into the family's home like that? >> it's a little odd. they have to balance now not antagonizing the police too much with trying to respond to what the public is seeing. when the grounds for a search warrant are the fact that these dogs detected a dead body, that's not good for your client. and i think that it's smart of the attorneys to have some sort of public response. does that public response need to be showing the entire house? no. i think it's dangerous for the family attorneys to say, look, they only took six items. this is not like a shopping t