we're talking about captain michael roberts, part of the initial search and rescue. nd captain roberts is on the phone with us right now. thank you so much for sharing your story with us. i want to ask you first and foremost. as i understand it, you got the distress call initially that went out. tell us again what you saw and what that was like. >> caller: yeah, sure. we received the distress message over our gmdss, which is the global marine distress satellite system. shortly thereafter, the coast guard was given a message over at channel 16. once we plotted exactly where this emergency was, contacted a coast guard station in venice and made them aware that i was in the vicinity and would head over. >> i'm sorry, captain. what did you see when you got there? >> well, it was -- we arrived on scene about 2:30 in the morning, so it was still dark. but for more than 20 miles away, i mean, at night, you would have thought the sun was coming up on the horizon. >> wow. >> caller: the blaze was just that intense, my mean, it was a big orange glow. as you got closer and close

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. >> line of the day, robert gibbs, quote, i think michael steele's problem isn't the race card, it'sredit card. >>> the florida urologist who puts politics ahead of patients. who says if you voted for obama you should go see a different doctor. >> it was just fun for me. it's like a provocative billboard. >> not fun for a would-be patient who complains to the authorities. congressman alan grayson facilitates. he's our special guest. >>> beck compares what he's doing to what rosa parks did. seriously. >>> and the tiger woods apology tour, stop number two.

. >> line of the day, robert gibbs, quote, i think michael steele's problem isn't the race card, it'sida urologist who puts politics ahead of patients. who says if you voted for obama you should go see a different doctor. >> it was just fun for me. it's like a provocative billboard. >> not fun for a would-be patient who complains to the authorities. congressman alan grayson facilitates. he's our special guest. >>> beck compares what he's doing to what rosa parks did. seriously. >>> and the tiger woods apology tour stop number two.

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robert walker. luther trainer. michael thompson. charlotte thomas. amelio tapia. julie mitchell. irwin miller. mcgraven. rev. gilbert martinez. >> i remember my grandparents from the first floor. >> dr. charles hubert. raymond johnson. my mother, ms. levy. >> thomas hawthorne. robert vernon. sheryl mannon. ethel griffin. margaret gibson. >> laura -- >> ashley eckel. >> catherine kragen. >>>> my mother-in-law, carroll bowers. cassandra booker. alita bitty. towson battel. sandy avery. pamela argo. richard allen. teresa alexander. >> thank you, all. thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for being with us today. your presence means a locked on this 15th anniversary. -- means a lot on this 50th anniversary. admission to the museum is complementary provided five -- provided by our friends at cox to medications. but iran, secretary hippolyta llano -- secretary the awill hol on the media's role on terrorism. thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> in a few moments, the chairman of the house ways and means comm

my name is terry michael from the center of politics and journalism which is a very pleased to co-sponsor this event tonight. i have the honor of having brought robert pierre to washington under the politics and journalism semester program he was in the inaugural class and fall of 1989. we are now in the 22nd year with about 500 alumni and robert represents all of the alumni on the board of directors. he joined judy woodruff and mike mccurry and juan williams and a number of others who run why have to answer to the board of directors of the center. robert king to the program from louisiana state university. he was a junior and he went back to school and entered the school paper and then for a while he thought about getting a master's in business education, but the "washington post" saved him from the fate of personal wealth by recruiting him as a reporter for the post and now she labors under the slave wages of journalism. what's left of journalism. thank goodness the "washington post" owns caplin testing or there might be more problems here in washington, d.c. with journalism. on the model lee am pleased to introduced robert and jon jeter but i am

michael steele survive? that and the rest of the week's politics on our roundtable with george will, matthew dowd, democratic strategist karen finney and robert reich of the american prospect and as always "the sunday funnies." >> republicans spent more than $2,000 on a sex club. now there's your stimulus package. >>> good morning, everyone and happy easter and passover. you have to go back three years to march 2007 to find the last time the u.s. economy created as many jobs as were created last month, 3 years. and yet the 162,000 new jobs did not put a dent in the unemployment rate which remains at 9.7%. 15 million americans were still looking for work in march and of those, 6.5 million have been unemployed for more than 27 weeks and the broadest measure of unemployment, those who have given up looking for a job or cannot find a full time job bumped up do 16.9%. joining me now the president's top economic adviser, dr. larry summers. dr. summers, thanks so much for joining us. >> good to be with you, jake. >> if you remove the temporary census worker job, 48,000 you're left with 114,000 new jobs. big businesses have retained earnings. they ar

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robert gibbs, the white house press secretary, reacted thusly, i think that is a very silly comment to make. i think michael steele's problem isn't the race card, it's the credit card. that point that mr. steele hired a former lobbyist, his former fund-raising aide, misusing substantial amounts of funds at his previous group. a political action committee, another a non-profit, was ordered by the city government to repay nearly $70,000 in unauthorized expenses and unaccounted funds as well as fined $4,000. on the heels of his arrival comes the resignation of two key rnc players, ron maccay and sam fox. a republican source telling politico mr. fox had lost confidence in mr. steele and was deeply troubled by the pattern of self-inflicted wounds and missteps. joining me now, melissa harris-lacewell, professor at princeton university. professor, good evening. >> thanks. good to be here. >> let me start, big, big picture here. in a weird way, has michael steele become good for the republican party because the more time its critics spend talking about him the less time they're talking about the more substantive pr

michael henry. thanks, ed, for your insight as well. we are going to head out to john roberts in west virginia where today we could get more news as the rescue attempts start up again this morning. hi, john. >> reporter: good morning, kiran. it looks like they are a little ways away from the signing ceremony. >> we are expecting a press conference in the next 20 minutes here at the marsh fork element stare school. if things went as scheduled, four teams of eight rescuers should be in the mile a little more than an hour and a half. they have to get down five miles to where the miners are believed to be trapped. they have spent the last 18, almost 24 hours clearing the mine of toxic levels of methane. they have it down to a level where it is nonexplosive but not nondangerous. they hope to have some word if things can progreg and they don't run into unforeseen circumstances in the mine probably somewhere in the next couple of hours or so, we may know the fate of those four miners. it is such a tragedy that happened on monday afternoon, 25 lives taken. three of the lives were from

chief justice roberts and justice alito supplemented their questionnaire several times after returning them, including with 75,000, and 36,000 pages of documents respectively. judge -- michaelmcconnell has been covered, appointed to the 10th circuit. the constitutional law professor from 1985 to 2001. he did not list a single speech or talk on constitutional law or legal policy. he was confirmed. judge jeffrey sutton, appointed by the president to the sixth circuit, submitted a questionnaire that simply stated i have given numerous speeches to local bar associations, ohio judges, through the ohio judicial college, the federalist society, and continuing legal education seminars regarding the ohio state supreme court and the ohio -- the united states supreme court and the ohio supreme court. he was confirmed. george brett cavanaugh, as has been stated, appointed by -- a judge brian cavanagh, as has been city, appointed by president bush to the d.c. circuit, said, i have given remarks on occasions, etc.. he was concerned. the judge katherine hay is appointed by president bush to the fifth circuit -- s. fifth circuit, submitted a questionnaire that said i have been to dozens, m

chief justice roberts and justice alito supplemented their questionnaire several times after returning them, including with 75,000, and 36,000 pages of documents respectively. judge -- michaelmcconnell has been covered, appointed to the 10th circuit. the constitutional law professor from 1985 to 2001. he did not list a single speech or talk on constitutional law or legal policy. he was confirmed. judge jeffrey sutton, appointed by the president to the sixth circuit, submitted a questionnaire that simply stated i have given numerous speeches to local bar associations, ohio judges, through the ohio judicial college, the federalist society, and continuing legal education seminars regarding the ohio state supreme court and the ohio -- the united states supreme court and the ohio supreme court. he was confirmed. george brett cavanaugh, as has been stated, appointed by -- a judge brian cavanagh, as has been city, appointed by president bush to the d.c. circuit, said, i have given remarks on occasions, etc.. he was concerned. the judge katherine hay is appointed by president bush to the fifth circuit -- s. fifth circuit, submitted a questionnaire that said i have been to dozens, m

chief justice roberts and justice alito supplemented their questionnaire several times after returning them, including with 75,000, and 36,000 pages of documents respectively. judge -- michaelmcconnell has been covered, appointed to the 10th circuit. the constitutional law professor from 1985 to 2001. he did not list a single speech or talk on constitutional law or legal policy. he was confirmed. judge jeffrey sutton, appointed by the president to the sixth circuit, submitted a questionnaire that simply stated i have given numerous speeches to local bar associations, ohio judges, through the ohio judicial college, the federalist society, and continuing legal education seminars regarding the ohio state supreme court and the ohio -- the united states supreme court and the ohio supreme court. he was confirmed. george brett cavanaugh, as has been stated, appointed by@@@@@@ submitted a questionnaire that said the low in a judicial candidate, i have been to hundreds events where each candidate is best to introduce himself or herself. no way to check accurately the dates and locations. she was confirmed. judge diana sikes was appointed the seventh circuit by president bush. she su

chief justice roberts and justice alito supplemented their questionnaire several times after returning them, including with 75,000, and 36,000 pages of documents respectively. judge -- michaelcconnell has been covered, appointed to the 10th circuit. the constitutional law professor from 1985 to 2001. he did not list a single speech or talk on constitutional law or legal policy. he was confirmed. judge jeffrey sutton, appointed by the president to the sixth circuit, submitted a questionnaire that simply stated i have given numerous speeches to local bar associations, ohio judges, through the ohio judicial college, the federalist society, and continuing legal education seminars regarding the ohio state supreme court and the ohio -- the united states supreme court and the ohio supreme court. he was confirmed. george brett cavanaugh, as has been stated, appointed by -- a judge brian cavanagh, as has been city, appointed by president bush to the d.c. circuit, said, i have given remarks on occasions, etc.. he was concerned. the judge katherine hay is appointed by president bush to the fifth circuit -- s. fifth circuit, submitted a questionnaire that said i have been to dozens, ma

my name is terry michael from the center of politics and journalism which is a very pleased to co-sponsor this event tonight. i have the honor of having brought robert pierre to washington under the politics and journalism semester program he was in the inaugural class and fall of 1989. we are now in the 22nd year with about 500