>> between matthew and lucas, for argued and defensible reasons scholars think that matthew and luke were probably written just before the turn of the first century. >> i thought it was closer to 47 years. >> after what? >> after his death. >> well, he died around -- no, mark is the earliest one and mark seems to have been written around the destruction of the temple. >> i guess what she's saying is a lot of this is hand me down, verbal accounts, which of course are subject to considerable alteration in the pass, we certainly know that, correct? >> well, today it certainly is not like the-mile-per-hour dame -- the children's parlor game of telephone where you pass a saying around the circle and by the time it gets to the end it's been corrupted. go back to the historical context, it was a very oral culture. and we're only talking, here, maybe 40 or 50 years. i can certainly remember things 40 years ago. and 30 years ago quite cereal. and something of this monumental importance i probably would remember it quite vividly. but in that culture where member morization and oral transmissio

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i'm chris matthews. with me today, john heilemann, erin burnett, kelly o'donnell and howard fineman. democrats say they will take up the bush tax cuts right after labet. but that gay marriage ruling this week could be a wild card. will it distract? >> we don't take more from the private sec and grow government with it and that's exactly what obama has in mind. it's idiotic t othink about increasing taxes at a time like this. chris: for his part president ob a ishitting the familiar democratic line, that republicans cater to the rich. >> they want to extend the bush tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. i don't understand. how do you get up here and talk about how you care so deeply about the deficit and yet you want to perpetuate a tax cut that cost $700 billion. chris: is the president right? is it good policy to raise taxes on the rich to fight the deficit? >> i don't know that they're going to use it to fight the deficit. last year the number of m ears and billionaire in america up 13%, average

we put it on the matthews meter. the meter is split. i haywood them, 6-6. gloria, you are a member and you voted no. >> i think it's a long way between now and twelve. let's see they do in elections. independent voters are beginning to criticize the tea party more and more. i believe you can have a presidential nominee in the republican party that doesn't have to have every part of the tea party. chris: dan, do you think they have enough power to demand that at least one of the two team on the ticket is a tea party hero? >> yes. we have to see what happens in november. if the tea party makes the kind of impact in this november's election that is widely perceived here and now, i think they will have in effect veto power. they will say if we don't, we will run an independent party campaign. >> sarah palin, the leader of the tea party is campaigning for all kinds of people as probable winners. she goes around like nixon did in 1966 and say i picked all these winners. i have clout. won't she have a veto? >> she will have a lot of power. people are listening to

his guidelines urging soldiers to avoid civilian casualties as well so here to talk about this is matthew hoh former state department appointee who served in afghanistan and former marine corps captain as well matthew thanks for joining us now first of all we've heard reports of both of these codes of conduct issue in this battle of the codes it seems at the same time that you hear reports on both sides that you know just after that after this comes up the taliban kill is killed forty three afghan civilians injured sixty five you also hear reports of the same on the u.s. side i mean a report just came out showing that thirty nine civilians were killed in an airstrike last month you have wiki leaks coming out showing that the western forces hid civilian casualties so my question is do these codes of conduct even work or mean anything what purpose do they serve in the counterinsurgency. the population of the prize so both sides are trying to show that they are the protectors of the populace both sides are trying to show that we're here to support you and we're here to protect you from the e

. >>> we're joined by alexis glick, and political contributor, matthew dowd. good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> i wanted to start with what jake just reported. republicans calling for the economic team to be kicked out of the white house. look at the numbers this morning. a new poll out by the associated press, shows that 56% of americans disapprove of the president's handling of the economy. not terribly surprising. but what is the next set of numbers. the republicans haven't gained anything with the economy. 45% still trust democrats on the economy. 43% trust republicans. why haven't they been able to gain ground here with the president in trouble? >> the interesting thing, when republicans are relatively even, they will usually have a good day at the polls on election day. this is why i think what boehner did was a little dicey. you don't want to get in a washington republican fight versus the president. you want to get in an economic fight versus the president. and the more you bring washington republicans in it, who have lower ratings than the

we took this question to the matthews meter. 12 of our regular panelists. will democrats in congress maintain their support for president obama's afghanistan policy? 10 said yes, they will. he'll keep their support. as long as the popular support nationwide sticks with him at the current level. democrats will be there for him. only two say the democrats are going to peel off. helene, i know you cover this hard reality. but underneath the president's thinking, is there a worry about all those people from the liberal areas like san francisco, the liberal areas of the democratic party, who are going to peel off? >> absolutely. and it's not just the liberals. he's very worried about this. and he's going into -- 2012 is not that far away. that's a very real fear. and i think a question to ask is where president obama is on his own support for the afghan war and just whether or not he wants to narrow its focus. chris: it was interesting that speaker pelosi, i know it often happens like this, but said nothing on this issue this week. her friends all voted against

i'm chris matthews. welcome to the show. we have john heilemann, norah o'donnell and kelly o'donnell and "newsweek"'s howard fineman. barack obama has past his 49 birthday and he is president and he is one lucky guy. remember obama won his first race in the u.s. senate just six years ago. republicans ended up with alan keyes. mccain who had been a strong candidate faded in defending the bush record. and this year, while the numbers don't look good for the democrats. the g.o.p. could be split between the tea party candidates and the regular party. and that obama luck may hold when he runs again in 2012. modren persidents have one strike in terms unless they face a commanding opponent. john, he has been lucky? >> he has been lucky, but one exception, hillary clinton, who is a rival when he ran for the nomination. right now, it's fascinating. you think of obama's approval rating has fallen and yet over the course of the first 18 months, unlike in past presidential elections, you don't see republicans out there. there have been

i'm chris matthews. welcome to the show. with us joe klein and katty kay and kelly o'donnell. and reihan salam. quho is driving the -- who is driving the division in the country. what is the motive on the march on washington? what is the up roar about the mosque near ground zero? the critics are unaccountably worked up. >> the people that want to build this mosque. they're maybing a case about supremacy, the nazis don't have a right to put up a sign in the holocaust museum. we wouldn't have japanese putting up a site next to pearl harbour. chris: wh wins from a talk like this? >> this is about restoring honor in our ownselfs. we will never fix or country, ssunle george washington and abraham linken. >> no more rights can they take away with us. what is wrong with us, america? why are people not in the streets? your republic is over. chris: joe klein, do you feel this? the question is the motive behind this. you and i have groanp u in american politician. this language, even from newt gingrich. tier -- they're talking like this. >> newt should be embarrassed. glenn beck is diff

. >> this is the chris matthews show. >> ask not what your country can do for you. >> i can hear you. >> the time for change has come. >> no obama, who is behind the war of anger about the mosque. who is exploiting a washington august to ignite more anti-government fury. who are the winners on the assault of islam? is this about obama? if all this noise is about the economy and the deficit, why so much hea onlyhe mosque? if it is a partisan divide, why do they bring it back to race? and finally, the call of the wild, could the g.o.p. win too many election this is fall and land too many from the far right in congress? could they bring themselves down and reelect obama, just by flying wild with zany candidates? i'm chris matthews. welcome to the show. with us joe klein and katty kay and kelly o'donnell. and reihan salam. quho is driving the -- who is driving the division in the country. what is the motive on the march on washington? what is the up roar about the mosque near ground zero? the critics are unaccountably worked up. >> the people that want to build this mosque. they're maybin

. >> matthew newell says he was sick about six weeks from salmonela poisoning. the health department determined it was an egg-based dessert served over memorial day weekend. >> said it was from dessert we ate z was pretty bad. fever was bad. lost almost 25 pounds. >> lab results from people sickened in three states helped track bacteria to an egg company in iowa. public health departments interviewed patients looking for a common food culprit led to a recall. >> this is routine surveillance, routine public health surveillance that picked this up. and launched this investigation. >> and the eggs were sold under 13 brands including those packaged by safeway and ravels. all recalled cartons have a four-digit number starting with the letter p. they're 1026, 1413, and 1946. the sell by dates run from may 16th to august 13th. saveway says it's pulled all eggs from store shelves, and they were not used in any stores other baked goods or food products. >> these were eggs for fresh egg sale only. so there were not products in other parts for consummation. >> a number of

. >> reporter: sergeant matthew jackson is another bomb disposal expert who worked closely with the team. he's asked to do the post-blast analysis. >> there was just something they didn't see, you know, it's nobody's fault. it just-- that's how it happens. >> reporter: the marines will continue to press forward. that's what they do. they are gaining ground in helmund, but the human costs are mounting. on the outside, they'll hang tough. on the inside, the hurt is growing. terry mccarthy, cbs news, safar bazaar, southern afghanistan. >> couric: one thing afghanistan needs is a clean government, but it is riddled with corruption, some of it tie to the drug trade. 90% of the world's heroine comes from afghanistan, much of it from the poppies grown in kandahar province, where the unofficial ruler is the president's brother. mandy clark spoke exclusively with ahmed walli karzai. >> reporter: they call him the king of kandahar. at a meeting of provincial elders, he takes the seat of honor but is accused of massing his power through dishonorable means including under the table deals with tribal

so it san important tool to build a network brand. >> brown: matthew, expand on that. some of these shows get very small audiences even if they get a lot of acclaim. some are doing pretty well but they're not mass audiences. so how do you see the economic model? >> well, they don't need a mass audience to be successful on these networks. like tim was saying, you can sell advertising on these shows there are multiple revenue streaming for cable revenue. they get paid a fee by cable systems when they carry the show, carry the network. so you get two revenue streams coming in and you really just need a brand that people know. and they say you know what, i really like the a m.c. channel. i like that channel. i want to have it on my cable system and that's really valuable for those networks. >> brown: so matthew staying with you. last night we see some of the cable show does very well but some of the old broadcast shows doing well, modern family, glee, the good wife we mentioned a few of them. what's been the response to, from broadcast to the rise of cable? >> well, i thin

willie and i and neal and dave matthews. we work from the neck down because this is really -- really a project. willie has helped so many people. he raised so much money. it makes all the -- he makes all the major decisions of farm aid. the guy deserves to be recognized. i don't think there's any other charity event that has lasted 25 years. particularly that was born in the 1980's out of a rock and roll type of thing. because back, you remember back then. all of these big corporations were having these charity things. they were all -- you know in my estimation, phony baloney stuff. i shouldn't say that. but that's how i felt about them. willie's farm aid i thought was real. it was a real effort. tavis: i better pack my bags for milwaukee. october 2nd. here we come. dave matthews and neal and john mellencamp, and travis. i'll be at milwaukee october 2nd. right quick here, i got the book in my hand. i hear the opening act for your tour this summer is tutly -- actually a documentary. not a group or performance. your opening ac

mark matthews tells us how the cafornia watch site works. >> reporter: pick a statement by meg whitman on a particula issue. say the budget. then compare that statement with what jerry brown has said on the same issue and you've got a big part of what political reporting is all about. if you take every quote or promise statement made by both candidates and run them through a whole batch of search tools, now you got the basic idea behind politics verbatim. >> it's a way voters can use it as a voter guide. it sortsy issue, like abortion, the budget, welfare, environment. >> reporter: mash is editorial direor of california watch. he showed off the site which also sorts candidates' statents by geography. are they telling voters in ange county the same things that they are saying in san francisco? >> there will be a way for people to do a search and sort for inconsistencies with this site, definitely. >> he says his staff is scouring political coverage of the ndidates's speeche on their campaign sites. >> on top of that, what we're trying to do in our next implementation is make it easy for

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from new york, matthew price reports. >> it's a year now since libya celebrated the release of the man convicted of the lockerbie bombing. today he's still alive. so too are the questions surrounding his freedom. scottish officials say abdel bass was treated by any other prisoner. his records were resued by the head of the prison medical service who gave him three months to live. but critics such as this leading expert in the field say no prognosis can be given with any certainty. >> i was quoted in the glasgow herald saying about a week or so after he was released. and here we are a year on and he's still alive and this is embarrassing for the scottish government and causing all sorts of problems in the u.s. and elsewhere. >> he has terminal prostate cancer. he will die from that terminal prostate cancer. the decision stands. everybody knows somebody who has given that prognosis of short life expectancy, who then outlived that prognosis. that happens in these cases. >> it's more than two decades since flight 103 was blown up on its way to new york's jfk airport. the grief may be less

matthew chance in moscow. >>> the f.d.a.as given a men lo park company the first to test an embryo cell therapy on humans that may give paralyzed people to walk. it's hoped that the stem cells will stimulate damaged nerve cells to produce a substance called myelon which insulates nerves enabling them to carry electrical impulses from the brain. the f.d.a. had delayed human trial for a year while it delays animal side effects. >>> an event called sand by the ton featuring 300 tons of sand, fire art, eight swimming pool, nine stages of live music, sand sculptures and a carnival all taking place in a warehouse in west oakland. >> we just want to have fun and if we can raise a little money while doing it, that's good, too. >> the fun began this afternoon with water slides, dancing and music and other outdooring a tiforts and events. about 80 artists and businesses are located in the warehouse, including sculptors, bio diesel developers and chocolate makers. >>> kites, some as big as houses are flying high today over berkeley. th

matthew lee, warren strubele. i think you're going to start us off. >> thank. we have a busy week up ahead. i think the first thing on the agenda is president obama's speech to the american people at 8:00 p.m. on tuesday, nt change in the mission in iraq from combat to advise and assist. if i could, two questions. do you think we're pulling out too early? is the country ready to take security and other matters in its own hands? and as the military presence goes down, the state department is going to expand. i'm curious whether congress is ready to fund billions of dollars in civilian efforts in iraq. >> well, congress is probably not ready to fund the billions that are going to be asked for. i would just say that the president's speech comes, it seems to me, as a response to those in the democratty party who some time ago questioned why we were staying in iraq this long. i remember a meeting at the white house shortly after the president came into office, and he had people, bipartisan around, and announced that we would be leaving iraq in mid 2010. without nami

i think matthew is also correct. i don't think much will change between now and november, unfortunately. it's not going to be some huge 800,000 jobs number coming out in one of these future reports and i think they do have a good case to make they've done some really good and important things here and that they have good things if we stick with these thing, things could work better, but right now, it does not look all that optimistic to be honest with you. >> george, i think one of the bigger fears for the administration, if this continues it becomes a broader competency of government question so they pass this huge stimulus package. they do financial reform. they do health care reform but the economy still struggles along the way so i think people begin and have begun as we've talked about before with their frustration that it just becomes an overall washington can't do anything right and if that locks in, it's a big problem. >> if there are questions about the competency of the administration it could put 2012 at r

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vincent matthews joins us from outside trace elementary school. thanks for joining us. we understand you are riding a bus to school today? >> yes, i'll be riding the bus back here to trace with students who will be arriving in approximately two hours. >> listen, let's start off with trace elementary school and the fire there. your district is taking a bit of heat for opting out of a sprinkler system in new buildings and fire alarms in some of the remodeled ones like trace, the ones that burned. how will the district move forward past this criticism? we will be convening a task force that will look at all the systems throughout the district to ensure that we are having the safest campus as possible. they will make recommendations to us. >> this is not the only challenge your district faces. we know you are dealing with financial cuts. in your opinion, what is the biggest challenge and how do you face it as a new superintendent? >> it's a challenge not only for us but for dripistrict througho the state, it's budget cuts. the lack of funding from the state is putting -- hu

matthew fox will be here with josh hutcherson, and music from the swell season.st tonight has braved screaming young fans and played through heated basketball games that break out into full blown dance numbers. his new movie is called "charlie st. cloud," it opens in theaters friday. please say hello to zac efron. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: how are you? >> i'm good. how are you? >> jimmy: i'm doing well. [ cheers and applause ] a lot of excitement here. >> thank you, thank you. >> jimmy: you are used to it, i'm sure. is this -- is this what they did when you walked in the strip club? >> it wasn't quite that nice. >> jimmy: were you there or not? >> yes, i was in fact. yeah. >> jimmy: i don't know why it's a big deal. because you -- we think of you as from "high school musical," whatever. but you're 22. >> i guess so, yeah. >> jimmy: it's legal. >> i know, it is legal. >> jimmy: was it your first time? >> yeah, no -- well, i'm cutting back right now. trying to keep it between three, four nights a week. >> jimmy: is that right? >> no, i'm not really the type

charlotte, matthew, the protocol team. getting you all here on the balcony in city hall. i want to welcome my friends from spain. thank you. thank you for your leadership. i want to pay particular note and complement to supervise a david campos for his hard work and tenacity and commitment to this sister city. he has been talking about this for months. i want to congratulate him on a job well done in helping to organize this and being a good steward in the process. i also want to thank --where is he? but they acknowledged supervisor bevan dufty. there is jose cisneros. we thank him for his strong support. as well come a department head, commissioners assembled. this is our 18th sister city. formally, our relationships go back to 1957. the idea behind sister cities began when then-president dwight eisenhower recognized we need to reconcile that there were agreed -- disagreement between nations coming out of world war ii and the best way to reconcile the disagreement was people to people that love to say. people, representing cities, perhaps could get it right. that is when

matthew's family locked themselves out as they were preparing to move into the home, so matthew decided115-pound frame down the chute to unlock the door. >> as you can see, it took a whole lot of firefighters about an hour and a half to blow out the back of the chimney and then pry him head downward first. >> leave it to santa, matthew. >> parents say, we told him not to do it, in their defense. we'll be right back. hew. >> parents say, we told him not to do it, in their defense. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back. if you fight to sleep in the middle of the night why go one more round ? you don't need a rematch but a rethink. with lunesta. lunesta is thought to interact with gaba receptors associated with sleep. lunesta helps you get the restful sleep you need. lunesta has some risk of dependency. when taking lunesta, don't drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving or engaging in other activities while asleep without remembering it the next day have been reported. abnormal behaviors may include aggressiveness agitation, hallucinations, or confusi

vincent matthews, the new superintendent of the san jose unified school district. reporting live in san jose, bob redell, nbc bay area news. >> thank you very much. >>> a dip in the pool is just what the doctor order. pediatricians now prescribing swimming lessons for young kids. the american academy of pediatrics announced in may that swimming lessons are beneficial for kids ages 1 to 4. >> it's like you have an ear infection, you need to buy amoxacillin, and they do it. giving them a prescription, even though you don't bring it to the pharmacy, it's i'm being told to do this, i'm given a prescription this must be important. >> experts say teaching young children to swim is a must but it does not mean they are drowned-proof. there is no substitution for adult supervision. >>> a new study shows childhood obesity rates in california have fallen over the past decade for some children, not all of them. researchers at uc san francisco reviewed the medical records of more than 8 million students in middle school in california. they found that obesity rates peaked in 200

is something completely unique and very proud he and matthew and others worked so hard on and i thinke will be an outstanding addition. this is an artist in residence program that is an international model. we know jim and ellen and may, their work here in the preservation of san francisco city hall and everything you see around us, the civic center. they appropriately were reappointed by the board and had to be confirmed first and all are outstanding leaders and stewards in their own right. ellen is in my office every day doing tours and jim outside the office every day doing his part to advocate on behalf of city hall and the civic center. and may is everywhere else in the community. ubiquitous and out front and a true later. al perez, i thank you for serving on the entertainment. i have been beating up the entertainment commission lately. maybe i should have taken mayor brown's advice in not supporting it to begin with but we have it and we are working through some of the issues and you demonstrated real leadership this last week on some of the issues down at the port with one of t

. >> these are cell phone images taken by matthew how farman sitting in back of the couple. coughman and other told us they were handcuffed and taken off by federal agents. saying the agents came through the back doors of the plane. >> they came in and this is rather quickly and went straight to the individual on the other side of the plane. >> the plane taxied to a remote area of the airport after the phone threat was reported. san francisco police and agents surrounded the plane. passengers were wondering why. >> the pimt came on and said there was a security threat they felt was credible. >> that is it. there is no other information from the cockpit. >> just a weird thinking feeling. and no control, not having information. >> randy cohen live add cross from the world trade center. >> i was there that day. i was like, woah this, can't happen again that. was the feeling. >> reporter: hours went by. passengers said everyone appeared calm but these were anxious moments. >> we weren't sure fit was someone on the plane or something in the plane. >> this plane sat for hours. and

what's happening here is very interesting and it will be very tough to do i think. >> woodruff: matthew rosenberg, what would you add to that? who owns these companies? most of the employees are of a began nationals. who owns these companies. >> a variety of owners from american companies that are based here to afghans who have close tie s with the presidential palace. you have a whole range of owners. and how this affects all them is unclear. is president karzai going to crack down on members of his own family who own private security companies or crack down only on the foreign ones? he has the time to complain about foreign security companies. does this cover every single one. >> woodruff: a lot of people may not realize the close connections that exist between president karzai and these companies and others in afghanistan. how well trained , doug books, are these individuals? >> that's a great question. i think if you're the u.s. or if you're a good client essentially hiring these companies and they can request certain levels of training you can have fairly well trained companies. un