mr. bolton. >> good afternoon supervisors. i am lori leaderman and i came to speak on item six so i will be sticking around but i wanted to talk about auto and pedestrian safety. i am a alarmed at one of the unintentional consequences in greening medians. they're beautiful but they grow. they create barriers to vision. two areas are viz diro when plants are growing and extend into the lane in the median in a number of locations. at intersections this is a hazard for legal left turns and block the on coming traffic. also if a pedestrian is in the middle of the crosswalk they are less visible to the driver and difficult to see the vehicles. another location this is occurring is on kirkham where a strategy to traffic calm and this creates a vision barrier hiding pedestrians from drivers so my request is in planning these median strips please plan ahead and we are focused on costs and there are maintenance cost and less of a focus. keeping this in mind if plants are part of pedestrian safety or other improvements maintain them so

bill: thank you, john bolton. mr. ambassador, appreciate your time. >> thank you, bill.e'll watch this. here's martha what is coming up next. >> all right. so here's a question this morning. are supporters losing faith in president obama's health care law and the way that it's being carried out? some stunning new criticism from a formerly supportive, very popular columnist who is now saying that the administration has been incompetent on carrying out this plan. bill: also take a close look here. this is a school taking down a picture of jesus. it has been hanging there on the wall since harry truman was in the white house. why the administrators say that decision to remove it was strictly based on money. >> it is still violating the united states constitution and must be removed immediately!. [shouting] [ male announcer ] in blind taste tests, even ragu users chose prego. prego?! but i've been buying ragu for years. [ thinking ] i wonderhat other questionable choices i've made? [ club scene music ] [ sigh of relief ] [ male announcer ] choose taste. choose prego. martha:

bolton joins us. nice to see you. >> nice to be here. >> that letter was a surprise to you? >> it was. it was certainly unsolicited and showed that mrs was not at all afraid to interfere in the internal politics of the united states. >> that was in a heated debate when people were trying to keep you from assuming that post. >> yes. it didn't affect joe biden and john kerry. >> how did you know her? >> i met her as a junior official in the reagan and bush administrations. i got to know her better after the first bush administration, after she had left the office of prime minister. as she became very interested in debates in the european union about the future of the euro, the common currency, which she kept britain out of. she saw the risk to british currency in the sovereign euro and was wise in doing so. >> what do you think she'd think about the chaos going on around the world, iran, north korea and china? >> she was the first person to see in mikhail gorbachev the possibility there was a different kind of soviet leader, as he turned out to be. not willing to use force to keep eastern europe under control, not willing to use force

bolton, the hawk's hawk, and president bush's former u.n. ambassador echoed or wrote, for example, those lines in a "wall street journal" column today. an op-ped, he wrote "if mr. he wrote "if mr. obama allows this red line to be crossed unanswered, is that his latest act of foreign policy fecklessness? provided further proof to iran, north korea and other adversaries, whether states or terrorists, that he's not a force to be reckoned with." you're a student of this. >> unfortunately, yes. >> who passes out the song sheet? they all say the same thing. unless we go to this war, we can't go to the next war. we will go to the next war. day want all these wars. >> it's a neocon, hawkish. they're all part of the same unit here. i don't think they need to be cued. they're at this point already. they've never met a foreign policy crisis where a military intervention and more of it wasn't the right answer. and the thing that gets me about this particular line of argument is, if you talk to anyone who knows anything about any of this, all the military options are really difficult. they may not even be effective. i ran into a congress -- a democrat -- >> they don't care

bolton, thank you. >> thank you, bill. bill: 55 minutes away. we'll see what explanation we get then. thank you, mr. ambassador. here's martha. martha: congressman tray gowdy is promising explosive hearings on benghazi. fox news is now confirming new details in that terror attack. we'll talk to the congressman what he expects to hear from the new witnesses coming forward. bill: there is frantic search underway for this woman in michigan who vanished from her work place. listen. >> i'm concerned nobody is here. i just walked inside. there is nobody. there is a car here. there is another car out front but it just, very suspicious why there's nobody here. bill: so don't bring a paint ball gun to a real gunfight. watch what police in washington state are calling a meth deal gone bad. guy popping out the blue truck firing shots, they're paint balls. the dpir firing at him has two real guns. two bullets hitting a guy in blue truck. later airlifted to hospital in serious condition. they're facing felony assault charges. eyewitnesses say it is lucky thing no innocent bystanders were hurt. martha: west michigan police a

bolton. so i thank the president. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. mr. durbin: mr. president, i thank my colleague from tennessee for coming to the floor. he's been here with some frequency together with the republican senator from wyoming to discuss the matter that's pending before the senate. what's pending before the senate is what's known as the marketplace fairness act. it is a measure which senator enzi of wyoming has been working on for 12 years and one that i've worked with him on for several years. it is an interesting issue because it's one where the supreme court 20 years ago challenged congress. you see, the states went to the supreme court and said we want those who are not physically present in our state but sell into our state to collect sales tax. and at that time the supreme court in the quill decision said, no, that's up to the congress. the congress has to take action. well, here we are 20 years later, and the conversation's changed dramatically because what used to be sales by mail or catalog are now internet sales. and they're growing in volume