to make sure that taxes are appropriate collected so that we do have an even playing field now mr mitchell do you believe that the states should have the power to collect taxes across our borders what i have a problem with is the notion that a state can force an out of state merchant to be a deputy tax collector this gets into technical issues about origin based sales tax systems versus destination a sales tax system but and my son. who have thinking it's simply a notion that a government shouldn't have the power to enforce laws outside their borders a much better approach is to rely and use taxes although they are difficult to enforce but most importantly just keep sales tax rates low and then people won't have an incentive to go online in hopes of trying to protect their pocketbook mr us you think that's reasonable. well i agree with him believe me i agree with him very much like you think sales taxes low and this presents a quite a crowd under a bite frankly is is how do you extend the long arm jurisdiction of a state into another state's jurisdiction to collect that state believes as d

mrs. mitchell and thank you for the attention you gave us in oklahoma. >> you bet, we'll stay on it.lso decision day for the boy scouts on the hotly-debated issue of gay rights. more than 1,000 local scout leaders are now gathering in texas. they're meeting today to decide whether or not they're going to end the boy scouts of america's ban on gay scouting. joining me now is nbc news justice correspondent, pete williams. pete, we've heard a lot of reports over the last couple of months that they were moving in this direction. but that there was some push-back. what are you hearing out of texas today? >> i don't know how the vote is going to come out, andrea. but we will know in a couple of hours, members are voting now of the national council, 1400-member strong. this is not the same proposal that the scouts first floated in january. back then they signaled that after decades of fighting to preserve their ban on gay scouts and scout leaders, they were willing to accept a change in which local scout units could decide the issue for themselves. well that didn't go over very well. becaus

mr. jones. >> bill mitchell, a 30-year news veteran, has covered many rock slides during his career.ut none this big. >> and then she came back over and she said, why don't you guys move back a little ways. i'm hearing things up on that mountain that really unnerve me. and i said, what are you hearing? and she said, i'm hearing pops and snaps and things that make me believe that some more debris may come down. so we moved back about 20 yards. about that time. >> i heard a sound that sounded almost like a car door slamming. it was a sharp report. i talked to steve, the county maintenance supervisor, have you heard that sound before. and he said yes, we've heard this sound before. and that point we need all this construction equipment to stop so we can hear. >> sensing danger, they stopped the jackhammer and moved the news crews farther back. >> vanessa takes a look at the mountain and she walks back and she's talking to some of the tdot personnel and all of a sudden they start walking back. she jumped in her car and drives to the other end of the road. and they're walking backwards, t

interestingly james rosen wrote a book, a biography of john mitchell, one of mr. holder's predecessors who was prosecuted for perjury, lying before congress and was convicted and went to federal prison for it. in this case i think he will be politically undermined as members of the president's own party decide we don't want to have anything to do with this. whether he lied, told the truth or misled he clearly gave the impression he knew nothing about this. that was awful thing they did calling james a criminal when there was no basis to justify getting a search warrant for his private e-mails. democrats will wash their hand of it and the president's hand will be forced. >> look what eric holder said, may 15th, two weeks ago today. this is what he told congress. listen. >> with regard to the potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material that is not something that i've ever been involved in. jon: that is not something i've ever been involved with and yet we know that he personally signed off on the search warrant for james rosen's personal record

mitchell, welcome. i'll let you take it away. >> thank you very much. mr. secretary, great to see you just off the air, and now in the hot seat, thank you all so much. thanks for being here. what an exciting program. i can't wait, as excited as i am about interviewing you, mr. secretary, chris paul and the students -- >> p better than me. >> much better than you. >> yeah. >> but congratulations, first of all, on this summit to all of you involved in reimagining high school. let me ask you, in a perfect world, from what you've seen, what would you as a policymaker want to see as the new form of high school? >> we're spending a lot of time thinking about this and talking about it, talking to high school students themselves, talking to teachers and schools. the president talked about it in the state of the union. he's asking congress for $3hundred million to invest in this. it's sort of cliche, but for me, it's how do you get students much more engaged in their own learning? we talked about it in an earlier panel. i'm convinced the vast majority of young peopl

mr. clean magic eraser extra power. >>> a busy day here in washington. a bidsy hour on "andrea mitchelle out of time so that does it for this hour of "andrea mitchell reports." i'm chuck todd. andrea will be back soon. tamron hall has a look at what's next on "news nation." >> now that she's been found guilty, will jodi arias be sentenced to die for murdering her boyfriend? she is back in court in a couple of hours. arias told a tv station shortly after being convicted that she would prefer to die sooner than later. nbc legal analyst star jones will join us. plus, bail set at $8 million for accused kidnapper ariel castro will we're learning more about an alleged suicide note he wrote in 2004. clint van zandt will join us and major developments in the boston terror case. a conclusion on the battle over what to do with tamerlan tsarnaev's remains. plus his wife makes a huge legal news. all coming up next on "news nation." conservative. very logical thinker. (laughs) i'm telling you right now, the girl back at home would absolutely not have taken a zip line in the jungle. (screams) i'm rea

mr. president, you can't express the emotion of the american people and do what gephardt and mitchell sayce on the wall?" look. this is going very well with the russians. and for me to stick my finger bloating and -- gloating and making an ass out of myself and sticking my hand in the wall, sticking my cross in gorbachev's eyes would have been a terrible thing to do. it would have been terrible. i'm glad we showed restraint. we didn't know how the russian allegiance would react. they had troops in the hungary area and in poland. we didn't know whether the military was going to say enough is enough. we'll show these gloating americans. and maybe depose gorbachev, in any event stand up and use force. the cold war ended without a shot being fired and some of that is because we showed restraint. and that was -- that wasn't even a close call for me, but in this emotional climate, i could just hear the voices -- i'll spare you who they were -- were saying this stuff to me through the media, part of the media, through the media. "why don't you go do this?" i mean, you know, sometimes you have to

mitchell reports. i will let you take it away. >> thank you mr. secretary. great to see you. now in the hot seat.thank you so much. what an exciting program. as excited as i am interviewing you -- congratulations, first of all on the summit to all of you involved in every imagining high school. let me ask you in the perfect world from what you've seen, what would you as a policymaker want to see younce the new form of high school? >> we are spending a lot of time and thinking about this and talking to high school students themselves and talking -- the president talked about $300 million to invest in this. it is a sort of clich how do you get students much more engaged in their own learning. we talked about it in the year earlier panel. i am convinced that is a young majority of people the job out not because high school is too hard but because it is too easy and they don't see the relevance between what is going on in the real world. the more students are not in the classroom but have internships, doing a job shadowing, are engaged in the communities. then they start to understand how importa