and i ran into this guy right here to my left, michael maddox, who was all of seven years old. so since my experience as a mentor is why i'm here on this panel, i want to tell you about three of the ten guys i have worked with over the last 25 years and the very different trajectories that resulted from their varying access to the kinds of programs, the very programs that this youth promise act would be supporting. first story i want to tell you is about nacere. he was the biological brother of one of my boys. from a very young age though, he had an explosive temper and was constantly in trouble in school and in his neighborhood. there were no programs that addressed the kind of needs he had, and after i moved away from philly to africa and then down to d.c., he slowly transitioned from the formal system to the streets. he dropped out of school. no one followed up on it. he entered the juvenile justice and cycled through that until he was tragically shot to death on the very street i used to pick him up when he was a little boy with a brilliant smile. the second story i want to

let's bring in michael here our political corresponder.ree with experts that this is a bad piece of legislation, why do you think it. >> i think it's bad legislation but it's obvious why the white house is going for it. it has to do with the titling. there are provisions in the violence against women act that don't please republicans but how do you vote against something called the violence against women act. the same thing is happening here to a certain extent, this is called the jobs act. how would you like to be a candidate campaigning in the fall having opponents say you voted against the jobs act even if they don't know as the white house said in that statement protect investors. as a matter of fact it rolls back protecting investors. >> i love how as nine is politics is. because what if i wanted to raise taxes on the rich and i act. are you going to vote against america is awesome? >> no, you are not going to vote against it, this is the remember inn -- the democrats calling the republicansrepublicans bluff, this is call their bluff

for you know the governor of iowa is so rabid about so's we haven't we have michael in new york here michael yo yo is watching you listening to both of them ok and i kind of feel a little bit of rumpole when you thinking there you go again if i'm wrong. no i mean i first want to correct a slur here that ron paul just wants people to die in the street. that goes quite against his career as a physician where he didn't accept medicare or medicaid he would treat patients for free or accept whatever they could give him and that he would give them health care and that's what happens in a free society people cooperate with each other rather than assuming that the government is going to take care of everyone when in fact sometimes the government can't take care of everyone or there's a bureaucratic snafu or there's no money or there has to be rationing rumpole actually provided for people himself and that's another reason why people are attracted to and i would say this that you know economic policy as as a matter of freedom ron paul would say we need to be free to have our own currency if w

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. >> actually make it so i said that before michael. >> here is my thing. , but i do think it is fair to say there is a double standard going on here. he has written hateful things. he used the b-word. he has do rided other professionals for the way they look. no one has ever said let's boycott rolling stone. jay it is not to say that he doesn't have critics. he definitely has liberal critics in the way he writes and portrays things. he is full of craze he rhetoric and that is rec recognized. >> agreed. and nobody is calling for the sponsors to pull out. there is no campaign to get sponsors to pull out of rolling stone. >> there is no argument that there is something fashionable about momentarily pulling away from rush. i don't think these advertisers will be gone for the long-term. if people stop paying attention they will be back. there is something fashionable about it. >> or that you done tieses should protest him. the guy as harass mouth. those teeth are more gnarled than the 21st century. get braces. >> as always, bill, adding nothing. >> google image

here. we had michael -- 69 in illinois, but 54 at steak here.omney has already taken 19 and put it in his back pocket. how does this play out go? >> you were just saying exact i will how it played out. this is about changing perception for mitt romney. it's changing perception that this is the next go point of his campaign, then he did quite well tonight. louisiana is four days away and he has an uphill climb right away. >> david before we go to the clips of the speeches here. any chance that illinois is a turning point? romney did so great in illinois and gave him momentum or no the usual up and down yo-yo movement here? >> i think it's in the usual up and down. keep in mind in order for mitt romney to win the delegate outright, he needs 48 to 50% of the delegates from here on out. and he may not get that in illinois. we have to wait and see how the conservative delegates play out. but again, whether it's louisiana coming up or pennsylvania in five weeks or texas and on and on there are still some states out there that santorum could do well an

that's the bottom line. >> michael, i think you would agree -- >> we're beating a dead horse here. >>h, we are. >> let me go to michael on this. you called rush limbaugh entertainment. here's what i do for entertainment. i try to keep up with mitt romney. i try to keep up with this guy. he's my entertainment. here he was yesterday. on ohio news network yesterday. he was asked a direct question. where do you stand on this blunt amendment? the amendment was voted down today on a party line vote basically that said you shouldn't apply the health care bill of barack obama to coverage of birth control. he said very directly he was against the bill. and laid out why. let's listen to the presidential front-runner yesterday. >> it's being debated later this week that deals with banning or allowing employers to ban providing female contraception. have you taken a position? he said he was for that. we'll talk about personhood in a second. but he's for that, are you for that? >> i'm not for the bill. but the idea of presidential candidates getting into questions about contraception within a rela

>> we've got michael finney here.t's right. >> there is more still ahead. >> local owl defying odds. >> wiser than his years. >>> coming up a update on megamillions mania. tonight the amount of money californians are spending for a shot at that dream. also, michael fin gee back and going to look at tax breaks few people take advantage of. and major mile sforn a job training program with remarkable results. that success story hope to see you tonight at 6:00. >> and now, some cool pictures a long-time resident of san francisco zoo going to turn 50 this weekend. and this great horned owl will celebrate sunday. >> it's a female hatched in 1962. and she grew up in a san francisco home before coming to the zoo. >> the owner fed the owl hamburger and balogna. so king richard, a female. but will live to 50 now. >> it's the secret. balogna and hamburger. >> that is going to do it for us.

you can't see this, michael. here's romney doing his local shaking hands. he reminds me of prince charles in new guinea. you have the elite britt going out to meet the people from a totally different culture. he's talking in their language and using some of the slang. it doesn't seem like he's connecting to these people. frankly, newt gingrich has never been goot at this either. as awkward as romney looks campaigning in the south, i haven't been all that impressed with santorum doing this. >> you're saying none of them connect? >> newt gingrich, he's the southerner in the race. he was born and raised in pennsylvania. >> let's stick with romney. i think romney is uniquely unqualified to connect with regular folk. here he is. here are a few reasons why. let's watch him in action. prince charles in new guinea. >> i'm learning to say y'all. i like grits and strange things are happening to me. >> morning, y'all. good to be with ya. i got started right this morning with a biscuit and some cheesy grits. >> southern girls, from 12 to -- well, a lot more than 12. >>

let me start with michael here and the gop problem, if you will, regarding this war in afghanistan. explosive moment on "morning show" let me play what joe had to say and get your thoughts on the other side. >> for all republicans and democrats that want to continue this fight this car, we won the war. it was an anti-terror campaign. we went in to get bin laden. we went in to break up al qaeda in afghanistan where they launched the 9/11 attacks. we killed them. we destroyed them. >> michael, how does romney and santorum counter that point from a con seservative op their own party? >> i think they will have a problem come the fall. it's the same old issue. i apologize if i'm repetitive on it when i say they are trying to out muscle flex one another in a beauty pageant for conservatives, which will then put them out of mainstream in a general election. 57% of americans said they want us out of that country. they're trying to cultivate support among a small base. they are doing themselves harm in the long run. >> steve, let me bring you in. mitt romney says things are not going well on

michael steel. mr. steel, here'sush limbaugh that started off his show yesterday, he's the spiritual leader you guys are afraid to defend. let's go. >> what does it say about the college co-ed susan fluke who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex? what does that make her? it makes her a slut, right? it makes her a prostitute. she wants to be paid to have sex. >> you know, this cost don imus a lot of career, this kind of talk. i just wonder about this guy who you guys all bow before as the great alexa hente. are you going to take him on or leave him out there alone? >> i've already gotten in trouble on that front point. remember, i tried to put in context when asked as chairman, you know, what does rush limbaugh mean to the party? he means different things to people. in this instance, a lot of people have a problem with it. i'm sure his lawyers are having a conversation with him about the fact this young woman may have something about what he called her on nationa

we got a bunch of regulars here. michaelre our epics politics man and jimmy dur from the jimmy dor show. the jobs numbers are good, 227,000 jobs created. 8.3% unemployment, holding steady on that count. i want to show you the most famous jobs creation chart of all time. bush and obama and the red lines are bush. the blue lines are obama. so gee, i wonder where the jobs wills started and where it got better. i can't quite tell. let me tell you one other startling fact. in eight years that george w. bush served he created 1 million jobs. in 2010 a2010 alone obama created 227 jobs. >> does he have the greatest plan. >> no, he doesn't have the greatest plan over all. i don't know how these jobs are being created because he's not proposing measures to fix our problems. by the way it's good news that we created those jobs but that's fought even half of what we need to keep up, right? so where he's not proposing before he's not proposing solutions to our problems. he's still not. i've heard a lot of people a lot of economists sayin

when that refrigerator ships out the door, it's us that work out here. [ michael ] we're on the forefront of revitalizing manufacturing. we're proving that it can be done here, and it can be done well. [ ilona ] i came to ge after the plant i was working at closed after 33 years. ge's giving me the chance to start back over. [ cindy ] there's construction workers everywhere. so what does that mean? it means work. it means work for more people. [ brian ] there's a bright future here, and there's a chance to get on the ground floor of something big, something that will bring us back. not only this company, but this country. ♪ >>> roundtable >>> my main message is to the parents of trayvon martin, you know, if i had a son, he would look like my son. >> district attorney looking into this. >> it's horrible. stand your ground is not doing what this man did. >> national conversation kicked off on the case of trayvon martin. we're going to talk about it now on our roundtable. i'm joined by george will, donna brazile, cokie roberts, terry moran and matthew dowd. what lesson if any do you draw fro

. >> and michael finney is taking your questions through his facebook and twitter pages and will answer them here live a little bit later, you can contact him on michael finney/abc 7. >> sky 7 is live above richmond where there has been an officer-involved shooting. there is a chevy's on lock down now. we're getting details for you. as soon as we have them we'll pass them along. the news at 4:00 continues. >>> a new small study shows a supplement made of green coffee beans appears to help people lose weight. the research followed 16 overweight people more than 22 weeks and they lost an average of 17 pounds, though they were consuming about 2400 calories per day. researchers expect it's because of acids found in green coffee beans. that is a plant compound may blot glucose absorbing. >> men surviving a heart attack may want to consider drinking in moderation. harvard researchers monitored health of 1800 first-time patients for 20 years and found men who drank up to two drinks per day have a 42% lower risk of death from heart disease and a 14% lower risk of death from all causes then men who did no

. >> we've been talking with georgetown university professor and author michael kazin. here is his most recent book, "american dreamers: how the left changed a nation." >> coming up next book tv talks with thomas about his book will cease and freedom we international religious liberty is vital to american national security. this conduct to the georgetown university is part of book tv college series. it's about a half-hour. >> professor thomas, his book is world coffee and freedom by international religious liberty is vital to american national security. professor, why is it vital? >> for two reasons. one is that religious freedom is a fundamental human right. most people would accept that and it's under siege around the world. the pure form recently published a comprehensive study in which they said 70% of the world's population lives in countries in which religious freedom is certainly restricted that's almost three out of for people in the planet and what is necessary to is on unjust execution so it is a humanitarian crisis, and the united states has traditionally stood wi

we will have melissa rodgers and ellen alvira, and marty lederman, and michael mcconnell here. we invite you to come and you can sign up for the event on our web page. today, we are going to address a timely and important topic, religious freedom and religious extremism, lessons from the arab spring, we will hear from some of the nation's top pexperts on the topic. as always, we want you to be encouraged to be involved in the conversation. both today and in the future. let us hear from you. the over arching question is what role if any ought religious freedom to play in the struggle for self governance. can it play a role in rooting demauk r demauk rassy in these -- democracy. -- open to the use of violence. can religious freedom in fact limit religious extremists, how should american policy seek to best counter religious extremism in practice. our first panel will discuss a growing body of work, some of it produced, of much of it producen their own about how the forms of religious political engagement, and second the conditions under which greater religious freedom might under

when that refrigerator ships out the door, it's us that work out here. [ michael ] we're on the forefrontng manufacturing. we're proving that it can be done here, and it can be done well. [ ilona ] i came to ge after the plant i was working at closed after 33 years. ge's giving me the chance to start back over. [ cindy ] there's construction workers everywhere. so what does that mean? it means work. it means work for more people. [ brian ] there's a bright future here, and there's a chance to get on the ground floor of something big, something that will bring us back. not only this company, but this country. ♪ >>> welcome back to "the ed show." president obama is speaking here in manhattan tonight at a fund-raiser. let's listen in. >> -- it is because of your commitments to each other. it's not a vision of america where everybody is left to fend for themselves. it's a vision of america where everybody works together. and everybody who works hard has a chance to get ahead. not just those at the very top. that's the vision we share. that's the change we believed in. that no matter who you a

michael fin gee here with a free service i guess that can help people. >> yes. it's the law.he money is sitting there and we've got a way for to you get to it. millions of families earning less than $50,000 per year may, it's may, qualify for the earned income tax credit z estimated $1.2 billion goes unclaimed every year. and what is more, those families are paying to have taxes prepared when they can get help for free. it's the middle of the day. the room is barely filled at this free tax clinic in san francisco. mom with kids, singles on fixed income. >> i found out i was free i was thinking wow. might as well give this a try. >> alfreddo is struggling to get by and expecting his first client. he is glad and learned he might get a nice tax refund. >> i could use some of the money. >> the clinics here at the homeless prenatal center is one of 200 set up around the bay area. a quarter kblinl workers here qualify for help but only about 5% have used it. >> so rest of the people paid somehow. >> kelly from united way says 60% of the earners wind up paying up to $300 for tax pre

. >> michael finney is taking your questions through his facebook and twitter pages and will answer them here in just minutes, you can contact michael on twit jer z.on facebook.com. >> taking a look at traffic now on the san francisco skyway. this isn't too bad for a monday but things are moving slowly. that is a traffic on the left side of the screen. folks head together peninsula going smoother now. stay with us. the news at 4:00 continues right after this. [ male announcer ] at green giant we know nature gives us the most nutritious of gifts. but only when they are ready to be given. that's why green giant picks vegetables at their peak. ...and freezes them fast, locking in nutrients ...for you to unwrap. ♪ ho, h ho. green giant those five food groups sound a whole lot better when you put them in a taco shell instead of a pyramid. old el paso. when you gotta have mexican. >>> it's not every day you get to tell a corporation how you want them to spend their money. >> state farm is asking people to do just that when it comes to its chairitable donations. >> there is a new approach. >> put on

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when that refrigerator ships out the door, it's us that work out here. [ michael ] we're on the forefrontvitalizing manufacturing. we're proving that it can be done here, and it can be done well. [ ilona ] i came to ge after the plant i was working at closed after 33 years. ge's giving me the chance to start back over. [ cindy ] there's construction workers everywhere. so what does that mean? it means work. it means work for more people. [ brian ] there's a bright future here, and there's a chance to get on the ground floor of something big, something that will bring us back. not only this company, but this country. ♪ >>> back to "hardball," and the side show. first up, the luck of the irish. they were hosting edna kenny this week. president obama joked about a gift from his irish counter part. the topic? think birth certificate. >> on your behalf of your historic homecoming mr. president, it's my honor to present to you this formal certificate of irish heritage. >> thank you, first of all, this will have a special place of honor. alongside my birth certificate. >> back in 2007, the presi

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