no offense, mrs. berman. just kidding and comedian and author heather mcdonald. >> we haven't even started and i'm in trouble. it's tuesday, february 5th. "starting point" begins right now. >>> and our starting point this morning. new details behind the six-day or deal for a 5-year-old boy held captive in an underground bunker in alabama. little ethan back in the arms of his family this morning. >> his abductor, 65-year-old jimmy lee dykes is dead. killed in the raid that freed that little boy. they used secret cameras to watch dykes, noticed he was acting erratically and that time may had been running out. victor blackwell is live. what a relief for this family. victor, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, brooke. yes, not only for the family, but for the entire community. people across the country, even in other countries, were following this story, and commenting and praying that they were hoping ethan would be able to come home soon. two reasons why this happened when it did. first, we're told that co

mr. berman on this community -- this committee believing it could. >> you look at canada, canada has made the guest worker program work for a while. it is a good solution. you want the high skilled -- >> we want them here permanently. >> thank you. anyone else? >> thank you. >> the gentleman from washington is recognized for five minutes. >> i come from a district that has lots of technology in the southern part of the district. home of microsoft and a lot of biomedical device companies and rich agricultural industry of dairies and specialty crops. emigration is important from many different aspects. you talked -- we talked about h1b minute talk about a starter visa program. would you talk about how that would work in conjunction with the program? >> the starter visa would do wonderful -- wonders for seattle and new york and more for silicon valley. there are tens of thousands of companies that would be started almost overnight if we gave the entrepreneurs the ability to do that. it can start a company but you cannot work for a period that is brain dead. we would have a boom in entreprene

mr. berman. guest: good morning. it is very early morning for you. caller: yes, it is. my question or comment today starts with the fact that i am at bicoastal resident. i live half the year in lakewood, washington, and the other half of the year in alabama. living in these two places and seeing the vast differences in the educational levels and the way that people perceive the right to vote, and then asking them in the black community -- because i am an american negro, and i am not accepted in the black community because i like to be called a negro. that is part of the discrimination objective fighting the american people, period and point-blank. it took me a long time to learn that. i didn't understand being raised in illinois what the problem in the south was and their whole issue with the racism thing until i moved to alabama. i got there, and it was like the naacp, please do not copy off because i am very serious. i am looking at my notes. the naacp was very pressed to keep putting out how the white man was suppressing the black man. i posed the question, is anybod

mr. berman?nounce whether or not this battle scar skeleton belongs to a long lost king. what do you believe? >> can you can you tell. he's known as the last english monarch to die way back in the 1500. this is like 600 years ago. i can't wait. from beyonce to the lights going out, it was one straight, bizarre. some of the biggest are ones that pay millions and millions for their kpherblcommercials to. but when i started losing energy and became moody... that's when i had an honest conversation with my doctor. we discussed all the symptoms... then he gave me some blood tests. showed it was low t. that's it. it was a number -- not just me. [ male announcer ] today, men with low t have androgel 1.62% (testosterone gel). the #1 prescribed topical testosterone replacement therapy, increases testosterone when used daily. women and children should avoid contact with application sites. discontinue androgel and call your doctor if you see unexpected signs of early puberty in a child, or signs in a woman,

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mr. berman for a response. guest: you look for example at a town in mississippi, in 2001 it was a majority black town. but the governing board, the mayor and city council, was all white. and in 2001 when there was going to be elections and it was clear that black voters were going to be able to win seats in that election, the government canceled the election because they didn't want to cede power. the just disdepartment was able to step in and block that change, and they know you have to poll the election as a result that town for the first time elected a black mayor an three black city council members. that is exactly why section 5 is so needed. particularly in places like mississippi where this happens more often than places like ohio . host: comments on twitter. the person alleging the discrimination should always hold the burden of proof. why shouldn't the voting rights act be different? next caller is in birmingham, alabama, on our democrats line. good morning. caller: good morning. how are you? host: good

berman in beverly hil hills. >> we have the mayor of big bear lake, california. mr. mayor, thank you. can you give us a tense of the top topography, the community we're talking about, and the kind of line shacks -- are these summer cottages? what kind of homes are out there in that area? >> if you're talking about the area where all the activity is taking place and the suspect is holed up, it's an area called seven oaks, about eight miles to the south of big bear lake. it's an unincorporated area and it's very rural, not very many residents out there. >> and so how -- why would a person go out there? do you think a person would go out there just because it is so remote. it's a place to hide? >> my understanding was there was a home invasion and a carjacking up here in the city of big bear lake and then the suspect drove that vehicle down. >> and let me ask you about is that largely occupied year round or is it a summer resort area? >> well, that particular area i'm not 100% sure. the city of big bear lake and the surrounding communities, we have a community of full-time residents and

john berman takes a look at some of the most memorable moments from previous speeches. >> mr. states. >> reporter: from the moment the president walks down the aisle, it is a parade of people watching. former congressman denniss c kucinich, maybe the most famous senator joe lieberman once appeared to get a kiss from george w. bush. sometimes mr. freud seems to seep into a president's speech. in 1974, some inadvertent foreshadowing from president richard nixon. >> i urge the congress to join me in mounting a major new effort to disgrace the president -- present new welfare president. >> tonight i ask you to support new funding for the following things, to make american communities more liberal -- livable. >> there was always loud applause, but also head shaking, stony silence and the extreme disapproval and a full out yelling of not true from supreme court justice samuel al liee al. on the subject of dreams and nightmares, guess w

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