david axelrod, white house adviser and strategist of the 2012 bid, and also bob mcdonnell. welcome to all of you. i want to start with mayor bloomberg to talk about some crucial matters that are really determining the reelection fight, but also the debate here in washington, and that is the economy. here is the cover of "the economist" magazine that caught my eye this week with the statue of liberty on the cover. here's what they say. the economy is recovering, yet american confidence remines mired at levels more commonly seen in recessions. for that blame unemployment, petrol prices and a deeper, nagging feeling that america is in decline. a gal, up poll in february asked americans to name the world's leading power, and they said china. this is obama's presidency from 2009, high point in october, 10.1%, now we're at 8%. what kind of recovery is this, mayor? >> when you come out of a recession, the first thing people do is tighten their belt and try to do more with less. it's not surprising that corporate prices are going up and governments are finding ways to provide servi

governor mcdonnell, the tornado damage has been horrific through the south. we have a map here that shows just how devastating it has been throughout alabama, georgia, tennessee, mississippi and virginia as well, had significant damage. 342 deaths, 288 tornadoes. this kind of outbreak has not been seen in this country. as much as $5 billion in insured losses. the president and the first lady were touring the damage in alabama on friday getting down with folks. both in terms of what you've gone through in virginia and assessing the president's response, how would you rate it? >> well, it's been heartbreaking. we've had three weeks in a row with catastrophic damage, loss of life in virginia. over 25 tornadoes reported. i've been to three locations as recently as friday to view the damage. and we're not used to that in virginia. but i'll tell you what i see is the plans from the first responders, if it works like it's supposed to. the american people, even though we disagree on some things, when we're attacked or have a catastrophe like this, we bind together an

vice president of the governors association, bob mcdonnell. welcome to all of you. i want to start with mayor bloomberg to talk about some crucial matters that are really redetermining the reelection fight but also the debate here in washington, and that is the economy. here is a cover of the economist magazine that caught my eye this week with the statue of liberty on the cover. "what's wrong with america's economy"? here's what the lead said. the economy is recovering, yet american confidence remines mired at levels more commonly seen in recessions. for that blame unemployment, petrol prices and a deeper, nagging feeling that america is in decline. a gallup poll said to look at china. a high point in october, 10.1%, now at 8.1%. what kind of economic recovery is this, mayor? it seems like a tough one. >> when you come out of a recession, the first thing people do is tighten their belt and try to do more with less. so it's not surprising that corporate profits are going up and governments are finding ways to provide services with fewer people. it is only a little f

mcdonnell. bob mcdonnell was sworn in as the 71st governor of the commonwealth of virginia on genuine 16th, 2010. in that campaign for office he received almost 60% of the come and the most votes than any candidate for governor in virginia's history. and since taking the oath of office, governor mcdonnell has reduced state spending to th 2006 levels. is cut $6 billion out of two budgets, and he has defeated attempt to raise taxes by $2 billion. as february of 2010, the state unemployment rate has fallen from 7.2%, 6.5%, at the ninth lowest unemployment rate in the nation. the latest poll in virginia has his approval rating at 66%, even and maybe because of cutting spending to the 2006 levels. he has fought for pension reforms and many other things that we'll get into. bob mcdonnell is one of the country's most successful and for minded governors. we wanted to hear from him in the venue w chose to have a conversation with one of america's finest political reportersbyron york, the chief political

meanwhile, a governor, bob mcdonnell of virginia, newly install installed, talked about the 2012 race and what he would like to see in a republican field that frankly some folks are finding a bit lacking. let's have a listen. >> i'd like to see a governor, because governors have to balance a budget, they have to be decisive. we had knee pro-growth policies, keep taxes in check, and that's what i governor brings to the table. i'm not at all pessimistic. i think we have good candidates. they'll get stronger and for the crucible of these debates. >> bob mcdonnell is a governor, but he's not running. a former governor of massachusetts, mitt romney, he has some baggage on the side because of the universal health care he passed. tim pawlenty, a former governor of minnesota. the question mike huckabee of arkansas, mitch daniels of indiana, currently the governor there, will they get in, and of course haley barbour, the current governor of mississippi, announced he was not going to run. >> mike viqueira, see you next hour. >> reporter: okay. >>> sunday church services are filling with those m

bob mcdonnell says the man has denied disaster -- fema deny disaster relief. virginia was hit by more than two dozen twisters in april. he is considering whether to appeal. >>> we began the day with clear, sunny skies but things should be changing. steve rudin is live in the weather center with more. >> clouds are beginning to increase. temperatures outside are beginning to cool just a little bit. temperatures are in the upper 60's to lower 70's. 69 and the quantico. dulles airport at 66. a few showers mainly to the north and west of us which will eventually work their way into our area over the next couple of hours or so. do not be surprised if you hear a few rumbles of thunder but do not expect anything to become severe. what can we expect for mother's day and beyond? a poll look in just a few minutes. >>> greater than 24 hours after the basketball coach resigns new reports that they are already looking at big names to take over the team. we now have the very latest. britt, we could be getting big news on monday. >> it cannot fill the shoes of gary williams.

and now we have 300 criminal brains try to squeeze money from the cabdrivers and i think it's not mcdonnell-douglas and i don't understand about this thing. the last thing which i am saying, if we cry, it hurt you, please do not let us cry. thank you. [applause] >> [reading names] >> i made cabdriver. i think you could describe this as mission creep gone wild. we have a lot of stuff thrown at us all in one year. selling medallions and everything, we are not able to catch our breath and you are putting in waybills an ongoing to try to confine this to waybills. i always heard waybills were from the police so if you pick up somebody, you have a record of it. now, it is biometrics. its following your around all the time and makes me nervous and combined with the rest of the changes in that industry, it is kind of oppressive. for 10 years, we had the taxi commission and one well-known politician said it was the best entertainment on television, but i found it embarrassing many times. i would like to go back to honorably driving a cab and not being followed around or worry about whether embarking hard en

governor bock mcdonnell says he's considering appealing the decision. >>> sony is now offering identityheft insurance to millions of its customers after hackers got their hands on personal information. in a letter sony's chairman and ceo apologized for the recent security breach and said the company will offer customers up to $1 million in identity theft insurance. last week sony revealed more than 100 million user accounts may have been affected by the breach. sony's live services have been shut down since the breach. >>> like father, like daughter. still to come tonight, au's class of 2011 includes two members of the same family. >>> plus, he became a star overnight. now the man with the golden voice says the time is right to do some personal healing. we'll tell you all about that and the obamas hit the town for date night. we'll tell i where they went. >>> coming up in sports, maryland not wasting time to replace garry williams. >> we got finally the return of a little sunshine just in time for a mother's day. f[ male announcer ] want to achieve more with your money? pnc virtual wall

house senior adviser david axelrod, new york city mayor michael bloomberg, and virginia governor bob mcdonnellat's on "meet the press" tomorrow on nbc. >>> up next, making a difference. bitter rivals reaching out during hard times here in the south. >>> finally, from tuscaloosa, a story of two famous rivals. the university of alabama and auburn university. putting that rivalry aside in this time of great need. nbc's thanh truong on how they are making a difference. >> reporter: help is rolling into tornado-ravaged alabama. sporting a university of alabama cap and an auburn university shirt, many would say warren tidwell has an identity issue. but there's no confusion in his mission today. >> going to be a lot of sorting today. >> it's -- it's bad here. it's bad all over the place. >> reporter: through facebook the 32-year-old auburn diehard started toomer's for tuscaloosa. delivering truckloads of supplies to communities hit hard by this week's tornadoes, including tuscaloosa, home to auburn's nemesis the alabama crimson tide. the rivalry between the schools is legendary. it literally turned t

that we refused to deal with these large long term pressures that we need to face all right graham mcdonnell thanks so much for being once again on the kaiser report great to be with you max and afternoon all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert are thank my guests gregory macdonald of gregor thought you ass if you want to send me an email please this so it ties a reported r t t v that are you until next time this is nice guys are saying. them.

that we refuse to deal with these large long term pressures that we need to face all right great a mcdonnell thanks so much for being once again on the cars the report creature be with you max and have a good afternoon all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert our thank my guests gregory macdonald of gregor you ass if you want to send me an email please this so it kaiser reported r t t v that are you until next time this is nice guys are saying by al. great for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. it. can. be.

globish claims to be a capable of achieving ok david i mean well it's a very good point you know the mcdonnell ization of english but that's the trend in the world that everything's getting it done alive i think john paul's point is that you know if you want to be able to communicate in communicate is better here and i think if i'm i should we make it clear i should make it clear to my audience here. this is a this is a kind of close the language of non-native speakers speaking to each other like dean speaking to japanese japanese speaking to koreans and things like that it's not really actually doesn't have anything to do with needed speakers of english i actually agree partly with both robert cone john paul here and i think this is not really so much a question of mcdonald eyes ocean as the struggle to communicate in the real world by people who actually have a lot of english but i think it's quite right john paul is actually on to something here and saying that people need some guidance as to how to best ploy the limited resources of the language they have to communicate clearly and this is

of charles policy you should put a picture of chalabi and also remember you interviewed gregory mcdonnell the energy analyst recently and one of the things you brought up is that at the tipping point will come when a certain wrong certain class of americans start spending more and more up to thirty forty fifty percent of their income on energy costs and we're starting to see that in the numbers this study shows that in mississippi residents are paying up to five seventeen percent of their just posable household incomes for energy that includes household heating and costs and gasoline but gasoline makes up the most percentage of it that's right that's what makes the third world the third world you put fifty sixty seventy percent of your income on buying you know getting acquiring food energy cooking oil and of course the first world or the first world because those people want to spend more than ten or fifteen percent of their income on stuff to keep him alive but now it's changing and the people who are in the first world are really now in the second world i think the first world's occupi

it chronicles the victim struggling to get away from >> we have a customer having a seizure at mcdonnell'snt > -- mcdonald's started >> at oe point, it was too much to bear. >> are you with the person? >> i cannot handle all of that. >> it is still not clear what provoked this vicious attack, but a restaurant and -- employ it captured. punches were thrown, here was pulled, and the victim was kicked. the victim has been identified as a trans jeff pash -- trans- gendered woman. >> and 18-year-old has been charged with one count of first- degree assault. the 14-year-old girl has been charged as a juvenile. baltimore county police say they received 3911 calls, -- 3 911 calls. >> the girls beat him up. >> he was a salted? >> lastly, more than 200 people peer rallied. -- people rallied. baltimore county investigator reviewing the crime to see that qualifies as a hate crime. >> a 30-year-old man is behind bars. daniel sullivan is charged in the shooting death of keenya jordan, who was gunned down last month on lennox street. there was a history of abuse. detectives believe sullivan still a gun fr

is mcdonnells is spenting $1 billion. the red roof, fiberglass tables will be replaced with wooden chairs. mcdownside says it wants to invite customers to spend more time in their restaurants. they are called mccafe i believe. >>> major flooding fears at this moment along the mississippi river. a lot of people are evacuating. they may not have much time. the new timetable just announced for when the river could crest. >>> also shark fans will fill the tank hoping to take part in a clinching celebration. >>> good morning, right now traffic on 680 is looking good heading to the south bay. we'll tell you more about the morning commute straight ahead. knudsen. the fresh tasting california sour cream your other food loves. >>> good morning, partly cloudy skies. low clouds coming down. they will clear. it's a little cool out there. a rot of 40s. you will end up with mostly sunny conditions. >>> time now 5:25. we have developing news from tennessee. forecasters predict the mississippi river may crest later today. near memphis. t

. >>> virginia governor bob mcdonnell will get to ring the closing bell for the nasdaq stock market todayinvestors are noting his efforts to reduce state spending since taking office a year ago. >>> and training is a year away on wall street. investors will be looking for reports on auto sales and factory orders. good morning. >> hi, barbara. also looks like the earnings rally from last week is losing a bit of its momentum. we see the nasdaq down 14, the s&p down 1. good news on auto sales. general motors, the first of the major american auto workers to report monthly sales in april say those sales jumped 26%, much higher than analysts expected. gm, the biggest seller of american autos, say the sale of its compact cars and compact autos are just as strong. pfizer was up 10% due to a smaller tax bill. wup from just over 2 billion or 25 cents a share a year ago. excluding one-time items total income would have topped 1.58 billion or 60 cents a share. factory orders surging in march. new orders from manufactured goods rose 3%, according to the commerce department. it's the fifth straight mon

. >> doug mcdonnell from bay area backroads is now here with us at nbc bay area. he's going to be doing a series of environmental reports for us over the next few months. so we're very excited to have doug mcconnell here with us. now let's go to jeff ranieri. hey, jeff. >> reporter: hey, you guys. we're out here in san mateo where the wheels keep turning. this fair happening this weekend, saturday and sunday is the maker fair. it's all about design, innovation and doing it yourself. and tonight there's a lot of buzz because all the inventers and designers are out here. joining us is dale doherty with the maker fair. i've been scratching my head all night. i keep seeing these crazy and unusual things whizzing on by me here. this is not your average fair. >> no, it's actually an alternate universe created by makers. this is something that exists in our community. it's in people's garages and basements and backyards and they bring it here to maker fair. we see something very different. we've kind of reinvented the fair. we brought in the rockets and robots. it's the

bob mcdonnell is asking them to reconsider since it would cost about $300 million more than an above-ground station. mayor gray said the board has made a very strong case for the project. virginia is absorbing some of the costs of the project but mayor gray said he hasn't considered helping pay for it. >>> financial consultants to the board that oversee the d.c.'s region's two major airport said the dull toll road could raise the money needed by the year 2040. that rise in costs for the toll would pay for the extension to dulles but the rates could be lower if the project can get a special federal loan that has a lower interest rate. officials have always planned to raise tolls to pay for the project. >> a $20 toll? >> yes. >>> 20 years ago today d.c. saw unrest that lasted for three days that erupted after police officers shot a man. the riots led to reform in the district. last night at 10:00 we spoke with sharon pot who was mayor at the time. >> we took advantage of the situation to encourage the entire city to recognize the concerns. we quickly began to have bilingual messages in the co

governor bob mcdonnell joined company executives for the 180,000 square foot facility.he plant will manufacture disks used in some of the newist civil aerospace engines. the north american headquarters is in reston. >> that is good news. >>> where can you get original art work from over 25 artists? holly is up next with the details. we are talking about paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, small, cute children, all kinds of things. you don't want to miss it. that's coming up next. >>> and he is the creator of a new stage play called i'll always love my momma. jd lauren is in studio and talk about play in our area for the mother's day weekend. we'll tell you how you can see it and talk with jd in a moment. [ mom ] can a little bowl of cereal change your life? i think it can. one of the challenges for kayla being gluten-free is actually finding choices the whole family will love. then we discovered chex cereals. five flavors of chex are gluten-free, including the honey nut flavor, and that's amazing to a mom like me. as a parent you don't want to have to tell your ki

mcdonnell appealed to d.c. vincent gray to support the above-ground station, but today mayor gray seemed to side with the three district representatives on the airport authority who backed the underground option. >> i would continue to make the case and i think a fairly compelling one for doing this under ground. when you think about the fact that it's going to be there for decades and decades, i realize that the costs are substantial up front, but when you start to amortize that over the period of time that this station will be there you start to see that it probably even makes good economic sense. >> the mayor says there haven't been any discussions yet with the other jurisdiction about the point of sharing the additional cost of this project. >> speak of costs we share every day, gas prices continue to climb. the national average tonight, $3.98. gas will cost you a whole lot more than that at this exxon station by the watergate. yep. take a good look. gas is going for $5.09. according to aaa that's more than

. >> of mcdonnell's is under pressure to fire ronald mcdonald.to run in several newspapers they are asking it them not to advertise to children, that requires firing ron macdonald. they say that he is not retired and he is at the heart and soul of the ronald mcdonald house charities. we will be right back. [music] the >> now at 630, tonight's big stories. >> pictures of arnold schwarzenegger and his mistress are flooding the internet. will thises and photo of arnold schwarzenegger and his mistress patty beaeena-- people believe that this is maria shriver's son, birth records show that he was born the same week as patty's son. oprah-on oprah she said you have shown love, support and most of all the truth. >> here in san francisco, the doctors and other special news conference updating the condition of brian stowe he is the giants' fan that was critically beaten, since this transport year, they have reduced the number of medicines that he is on, they are the crossing his medications a day-by-day basis, they said they are optimistic. in san francisc

it is a case called mcdonnell verses the city of chicago -- vs. the city of chicago. this also involves the right to keep and bear arms. heller involved the district of columbia, so it did not have the question of the issue for the states. for the few non-lawyers, let me back up and provide some constitutional background. the provision for the bill of rights was originally to apply only to the federal government, not to the states. it was not until after the ratification of post-civil war amendments that the question arose, that type of question was presented a new about the application of the bill of rights provisions to the states. in the macdonald case, the provisions of those post-civil war amendments, which it fundamentally alter the relationship between the federal government and the states, were at issue. one was the privileges or immunities clause of the 14th amendment prohibiting a state from of bridging the privileges or immunities of a citizen of the united states. the other provision was the due process clause, for having a person from being deprived of li

was a dissent and if i were confirmed by would follow not only the holding of the supreme court in mcdonnell versus the city of chicago but follow the reasoning of the case and their reasoning -- >> i submit two rounds of questions following our other hearing. on many you failed to give me an answer and i am going to run out of time to be able to do that so i look forward to meeting with you in my office to try to get to those answers. the other question i want to go back to is your statement about justice alito. you said today that you -- knowing what you know today and experience you have seen today that you would not have included the last paragraph in your critique. is that a case of poor judgment, do you think? or just a case of lack of knowledge and insight? >> it was poor judgment. >> i have seven seconds left and a multitude of questions so i will try to accomplish that with the nominee in my office. >> thank you for meeting with him. it is very much appreciated. senator blumenthal? >> thank you, madam chairman. at thank you, professor liu and most particularly to your family for bei

stephen dennis wrote senator majority leader mcdonnell said won't vote along side a vote on the houseudget written by paul lion. the remember tu can i republican announcement comes a day after harry reid announced plans to vote on the budget written by budget committee chair ryan for the expressed purpose of killing it. explain how this is going to happen? guest: now you got to think about it politically. we know that it's really unlikely that either plan will pass the senate. senate right now has a slight democratic majority. few seats ahead. you need 60 votes to pass things in the senate. unusual. not a simple majority. it's tough to get things passed. the ryan budget is republican budget. there won't be enough despite moderate democrats. and republicans feel that this will put them on the spot politically because some of the members will have to vote whether they support cuts to medicare or the raising of the eligibility raise that's a tough thing for some people. why pick up a bill that's not going to pass. why put up that painful political exercise. on the other side the obama bu

. >>> virginia governor bob mcdonnell again pushing for oil and gas exploration off the waters of virginia. the obama administration pulled the plug on a plan to off shore lease sale along the east coast following last year's oil spill in the gulf. the u.s. house of representatives just passed a bill that would reopen off shore virginia waters to gas and oil leases but it may not have enough votes to pass the senate. >>> well the big story for this weekend, traveling this mother's day is certainly going to cost you. gas prices are up and whether it's a road trip or airfare, travelers are shelling out some serious cash. question is, how long will it last? is there finally some light at the end of the tunnel? joining us now, phil flynn, senior market analyst and fox business contributor. and we need to talk to you sometime when we have good news about gas prices. we always talk to you when they are going up and up. >> right. it now -- now i have great news for you. i think our long-term gasoline gas price nightmare is over. i think we've hit the top for gas and diesel prices and jet fuel and

this of meet this as well as the lead attorney representing the petitioners in mcdonnell, the citizensf chicago who wanted to overturn a chicago fire arms ordinance, argued that we should use the privileges or immunities clause and not the due process clause. you might think that this based on solida scholarship would have received a sympathetic hearing in our court. because the current court is the most academic in the history of the country. four of my colleagues or former law professors, very distinguished law professors, before they took the bench. three of those justices were sitting on the macdonald case when it was argued. but when one of the lawyers raise the privileges or immunities point in oral argument, professor scalia took the wind out of his sails when he said the following -- "what you argue is the darling to be sure, but it is contrary to 140 years of our jurisprudence. why you undertake that burden?" and when the decision was announced, only one member of the court relied on the privileges or immunities clause. everyone else up by the established framework. ok, four #

yolie as does is at the scene and mcdonnell's this morning able to obtain the surveillance tape. >> i with the manager, there is the surveillance video, you can see the passenger helping out his friends, they cross over and as they walk into the mcdonald's, you see him collapsed right there at the the manager said that she was proud of her staff, let's hear which she had to say. >> one employee called 911, my cashier is a medical assistant, she chose to help the bleeding. the ambulance came here. >> what luck to have a medical system mining and mcdonalds. a lot of customers said that they thought he was a hero, that he saved that victim's life. as far as the victim, he is 20, he presides and benicia. he was airlifted to john deere hospital, in critical condition and of the latest is he is in stable condition and expected to survive those gunshots. >> yolie, thanks for the update. a >> the time is 9 03 a m, new details, a sonoma state university student that was testing while driving is " charged with killing a young girl and injuring her mother. the driver is 18 year-old caitlin dunaw

stephen dennis wrote senator majority leader mcdonnell said won't vote along side a vote on the houseget written by paul lion. the remember tu can i republican announcement comes a day after harry reid announced plans to vote on the budget written by budget committee chair ryan for the expressed purpose of killing it. explain how this is going to happen? guest: now you got to think about it politically. we know that it's really unlikely that either plan will pass the senate. senate right now has a slight democratic majority. few seats ahead. you need 60 votes to pass things in the senate. unusual. not a simple majority. it's tough to get things passed. the ryan budget is republican budget. there won't be enough despite moderate democrats. and republicans feel that this will put them on the spot politically because some of the members will have to vote whether they support cuts to medicare or the raising of the eligibility raise that's a tough thing for some people. why pick up a bill that's not going to pass. why put up that painful political exercise. on the other side the obama budg

people like to talk about rubio and mcdonnell, but that's not the roster right now. they will coalesce behind someone they like or at least like enough. for right now, they're very much searching and i think they're disappointed by the size of the field. they're looking for eight to attend candidates -- eight to ten candidates. right now, it is 3. host: was the time line? hearing michele bachmann in june. sarah palin will wait until july. we keep hearing christie. if the field remains as it is, you could see someone getting in later this summer, but it is like building a business or anything else. it takes time to hire people. get people on the ground. start a payroll and all the other stuff. they have to start getting some of this stuff done. tot: let's take a listen michele bachmann, congresswoman of minnesota. >> thank you for standing with me today and working with me to make barack obama a one-term president. your support means so very much, especially now. i know money is tight. it enables us, together, to reach millions of americans. you are busy spreading the

people like to talk about rubio and mcdonnell, but that's not the roster right now.y will coalesce behind someone they like or at least like enough. for right now, they're very much searching and i think they're disappointed by the size of the field. they're looking for eight to attend candidates -- eight to ten candidates. right now, it is 3. host: was the time line? hearing michele bachmann in june. sarah palin will wait until july. we keep hearing christie. if the field remains as it is, you could see someone getting in later this summer, but it is like building a business or anything else. it takes time to hire people. get people on the ground. start a payroll and all the other stuff. they have to start getting some of this stuff done. tot: let's take a listen michele bachmann, congresswoman of minnesota. >> thank you for standing with me today and working with me to make barack obama a one-term president. your support means so very much, especially now. i know money is tight. it enables us, together, to reach millions of americans. you are busy spreading the tru