i think that part of that is helping you work through that morass of procedural minutia. just trying to make a success on what is going on back there. we said we were going to do a bunch of stuff, and knowing how to interpret that with what is real is a part of the role that we play. one of the things that we have done through the years, months of delegation numbers and key committee staff, if they have been raising your hecche fees, we know that we can deal with the issue. it allows your supporters in the congress to follow. >> ok, commissioners. most of these matters come to us without warning. >> it is nice to see wall. >> other comment? or next item? >> i was going to take the general managers' report as a whole. >> we have an update from ms. laponte. her parents are here today as well. welcome. >> they should be up front with her. [laughter] >> good afternoon, commissioners. >> for the benefit of your parents, for one i would like to say how badly they should know we are indebted to you. >> thank you very much. very kind of you. the timing was such that we were not a

a lot of it is the mile per hour usualia of having to -- minutia of having to put a lot of facts together. was a woman often referred to as a a stripper from las vegas who worked in a social club and they exchanged phone numbers and -- that was the person on the call list on the day that michael jackson died, whether they talked about not clear and the point is that he made a number of calls to people who were either patient as we learned, an office worker, and even some of the women in his life and all of this again being put together to build the timeline of what exactly happened when. >> all right. halizeer in, thank you as -- hal eisner as always, thank you. >> stay on top of the trial with the smart phone app. it streams live video from the courtroom and provides expert analysis and commentary. live you want information on it g to www.myfoxdc.com for continuing information on the trial. >>> it's official, apple's i-4- s is coming. i said 4-s and offers new features and stopped short of the complete leave haul everyone was expecting. -- overhaul everyone was expecting and has a whole

we were able to dig up some interesting minutia on you. >> that's okay. >> can we start, what is your 307. >> that's incorrect, sir. how many male anchors were here before you at the "today" show? >> five. >> i have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. that's also incorrect. what soap opera did you appear on in 1982? >> this is the soap opera i appear on every single day. i don't think i -- did i appear on a soap opera? >> i have here "another world." >> no, i don't think so. maybe i did. it was another life, too. >> how many olympic games have you hosted? >> hosted? four. >> i have five. wow. you're really screwing this up. how many where in the world destinations have you ever been to? >> 46. >> that's correct. >> thank you. >> wallahat is the zip code her 30 rock? >> 10012. >> 10112 i have here. the judges say you're also incorrect. >> so who wins? >> what was the first halloween costume you wore here on the "today" show as host? >> j-lo. >> gilligan from gilligan's island. well, matt -- >> okay. did i get any right? >> not as good as i thought you were going to do. >> when are

for the country and the debate if we continue to follow the religion debate like we follow other minutialection of barack obama told -- told the country, the press, about diversity. that america is much more diverse and accepting than we may have been 10, four, five years ago. >> first of a different kind. before we go, you mentioned rick perry. is the story about the rock now over? i'm talking here, of course, about the texas hunting camp, associated with his family, the "washington post" story last sunday saying that a racially offensive name for the camp with the "n" word appeared there. perry himself said that, a, he didn't have anything to do with it. b, his father painted it over some 30 or 25 years ago. the "post" found seven people, most of whom were not on the record, saying they saw it more recently. how important is a story was that, and is it over? >> i think it was an important story for much of last week. will be -- we'll see if it carries on. he addressed it again, like you said, and said it was something that his family took care of. there's a debate on tuesday sponsored

and they're talking about such minutia because they have to fill so much time.excessive. >> well, cnn obviously, which covered every minute of the o.j. trial in the '90s, is devoting a substantial amount of attention i would say. cnbc's sister network -- cnn's sister network, hln, is going wall to wall. is this more about ratings and entertainment when you get down to it? >> well, with cnn, with all due respect, i think it's about the media. cnn is able to outsource the tabloid end of news coverage to hln. hln provides all this continuous coverage, and then cnn can kind of dip into it as it decides to display it on its main channel. i think that's what we're seeing overall. >> cnn did carry, just to clarify, the opening statements, and they've had regular updates. not just hln. you talk good cable networks. as we say, diane sawyer led on abc "world news." brian williams led on "mightily news." and cbs is playing it down. what accounts for the differing news judgments? >> again, you know, it's the approach of each channel, the approach of each news program. scott

so, i think the minutia of what he says or doesn't say, is going to be that significant. >> it did paintstating portrait of a very distracted doctor. >> that's why you have witness after witness coming in to say there was this phone call, and that phone call. i think jim's right. this is not that significant in the context of the case. but it just makes dr. murray look terrible. and i think you're seeing more and more evidence that comes in about dr. murray's focus on dollars. his e-mailing, making sure he gets his contract for $150,000. and then, all of these witnesses. he's talking to this one. he's talking to that one. at that very moment when prosecutors hope, that jurors believe, he should have been focused on michael jackson. >> what about jim's reporting that there were no fingerprints from michael jackson found on the bottles of propofol? >> it could be relevant. part of the defense here is that michael jackson may have administered that final dose of propofol himself. and that's a really important point because, remember, dr. murray has to have been the cause of death. and the d

they're going toob little bit skeptical at this point because they really want to see the little minutiathe little details. you know, this plan that european leaders came up with overnight is right now a broad outline and now they have to deal with the fine print and actually implement it an move forward. also there are questions will it be enough. the bailout fund was boosted do $1 trillion but the fact remains that italy has a $2.5 trillion in outstanding debt. so the question is will that bailout fund be enough to mop up italy's debt if it gets into more trouble. but at this point you're seeing this plan that everybody has been waiting for for 21 months finally, at least, being signed on the dotted line. randi? >> besides the stocks, the u.s. and european economies are pretty intertwined. >> oh, yeah. you've heard that old saying where if one country has a cold, another country starts to sneeze. and we are all interconnected and when you think of us and europe, we do an awful lot of trading with europe. the brookings institute says $400 billion of u.s. exports last year went there so

so who is sponsoring it, the legislative minutia of this, the details of this are not, i think, particularly important. the broader principle here is, and the need to pass it is. and i think the american people are not particularly concerned about which congressmen or congresswomen are signed up to it, but when washington is going to take action to help the economy and create jobs. >> but, jay, senator durbin is not just any rank-and-file senator. he's the number two in the senate. >> sure. >> he's a close ally of the president. when he says the president doesn't have the votes for the jobs bill right now, is the president going to stop saying pass the bill right now, since even his fellow democrats are saying they can't pass it now? >> well, i'm not sure that's quite what he said. and again, the vote is not tomorrow or today -- >> i asked him if he had the votes -- he said, "not at the moment. i don't think we do. but we can work on it." >> right. >> we don't have the votes. he said. >> you can name a post office without 60 votes these days. that was meant to be an exaggeration. the preside